The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 14, 1928, Page 1

1 BB DALY WollmEn esenTA’ | DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FCR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR DRE incon anita miata OS | Vol. V. No, 113. WORKERS PARTY HOLDS MEETINGS THRUOUT CITY City Officials Make New Gestures” Mass seeetines a of. protest against the impending seven cent fare were being staged ‘in numerous parts of Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party over the week end while officials of the city and the transit commission continued the game of fighting the Interborough Rapid Transit Company by means of statements in the press and “appeals” to traction controlled ‘legislatures. Mass Indignation Rising. Considerable mass indignation has been aroused over the failure or re- fusal of the state authorities and the Tammany Hall city administration t take any action to protect the work ers against the moves of the Inter borough which have been enginee almost in the open. It is believe that the present rise of worker senti- ment will unseat any political party from control no matter how strongly | intrenched. Samuel Untermyer, special attor- ney for the transit commission Sat- urday sent a request to United States Senators Copeland and Wagner to take immediate steps to obtain from congress legislation limiting the power of the federal courts in rate} suits such as that in which the In-| terborough has obtained the right to the increased fare. Empty Gestures. This request followed on a similar | one which was in the form of a peti- tion to congress made last Friday by a reso Hop of the Board. of Estimate. Neither ‘of these: requests is consid- ered. to be of any significance so far as any effective religf is concerned because no one really believes that congress can or would take from the federal courts this much cherished power. The move on the part of Unter- myer is believed to be merely an at- tempt to commit democratic senators | ~ Wagner and Copeland to the apparent | fight against the traction interests | now being staged by Al. Smith and his spokesman, Untermyer, against the too ready sell-out to the traction companies which Mayor Walker and (Continued on Page Five) STUDENTS WILL AID “WORKER” Tour for Sbuscriptions Is Started A new drive to secure subscrip- tions for The DAILY WORKER will be conducted by 12 of the students of the National Training School of the Workers School, which ended here Saturday, A. Ravich, circulation man- ager, The DAILY WORKER, an-} nounced last night. ‘The students, most of whom have already left New York, will spend several weeks in the large industrial centers of the east addressing meet- ings which will be called especially to ! hear the message of The DAILY WORKER. The worker-students will also render reports on the .achieve- ments of the training school, at the meetings. The states that will be covered by the students include Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. os Vancouver Workers Get 50-Cent Day Raise ‘VANCOUVER, 8B. C., May 13. Carpenters in Vancouver won an in- erease of 50 cents a day, bringing their wages up to $8 a day on May 1. Dissatisfaction among the workers is rife because of the unions officials’ action in dropping the 5-day week demand, for which the carpenters struck a year ago. Publish = Annociation, Inc. $3 First Sireet, New York, N. ¥. Published daily except Sunday by The Nationa! Daily Worker PROTEST SENTIMENT AGAINST FARE STEAL SPREAD See rE rr eT 'DRIVI VE FOR "RED CENTER REACHES CLIMAX TODA Y, TUESDA¥® THE DAILY WORKER. : __Entered an second-class matter at the Post Oftice at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Coolidge Welcomes a Fascist Terrorist Nicola Sansenelli, president of the Fidac, and one of the chief aides of Mussolini, being officially welcomed by Calvin Coolidge at Washing- ton, D. C. Sansenellt is being royally welcomed by the American Legion which is affiliated to the Fidac, an organization of fascist ex-servicemen Coolidge apparently feels at home in the of the former allied countries. company of a bloody fascist. 16 Volunteers Jailed on were the city. Suspended sentences were handed out in two cases while two city with flowers, buttons and eollec- | approached*by collectors with the re- Two Soldiers Jailed Two United States soldiers have been arrested charged with stealing automobiles. The prisoners are: Allan Davis, alias-Cecil Clark, and Howard bbs, alias Hugh Davis. They have been arraigned before the United Se abet in the Federal ILLINOIS MINERS TO OUST OFFICIALDOM By ARNE SWABECK, (Special Cable ‘To The DAILY WORKER.) May 13.—Considerable among | the miners of all districts has been aroused by the recent call by ®the Save-the-Union Committee for a SPRINGFIELD, Iil., MINERS RELIEF BRINGS ARRESTS Tag Day volunteer workers inthe tag day drive being held here by the Na- tional Miners’. Relief Committee for the relief of striking coal diggers. erday- arrested and . ar-| ‘ore various ‘magistrates ‘tl others were held over for sentence today. From forty-two stations thruout New York, in every borough and sec- tion of the city, workers—men, wo- men, girls and boys—came pouring out in thousands and fine-combed the tion boxes. On the subways, on the} streets, in shops, young and old were quest: Help the striking miners!” Efforts were untiring, and up to Jate last night collectors were: still holding on to their boxes. Some of the workers intend to make use of them in their shops, and in their homes today. Others, bent on filling their boxes to capacity, were tenaci- ously holding on to them in order to tap the theatre crowds last night and early morning subway travellers. It is impossible to approximate the total amount of the collection. The National Miners’ Relief Committee. the Youth Conference for Miners’ Re- lief, and the Children’s Committee for Miners’ Relief, under whose joint aus- pices the tag day drive was conducted, repdrt that telephone inquiries to the various stations have brought. the re- sponse that large numbers of collec- tors have answered the call; the few boxes already opened indicated that the average money in the box is good. Jacob Kamiat, one of the four ar- rested at 3.30 in the afternoon on the 103rd Street Station of the Lexington Avenue Subway, was arraigned _be- fore Magistrate Gottlieb in the Night (Continued on Page teeta MILLINERS WIN. NEW VICTORIES The Baum and Margolis millinery shop which had locked out its em- ployes last week because they refused'| to register with reactionary Local 24 has settled with Local 43, The em- ployes will return to work today. Strikes have been declared in’ two shops which refused to settle with Local 43, The walkout occurred | when the employes refused to work on a piece work basis and the bosses threatened to hire workers affiliated with Local 24. Twenty girls who had submitted their books to Local 24 by mistake, have registered with Local 43. The strike at the Garber Hat Company hic still in Progress. — : hope and enthusiasm special convention of district 12 to be held next Saturday at Bellville at 10 a. m. The purpose of the convention will be to work out a program to meet the crisis, which has been brought upon the union by the incompetenc2 and coruption of the Fishwick ad- ministration, to place the union in| control of the rank and file member- | ship and reméve the corrupt officials. The miners’ union faces destruction at-the-hands of the operators. ‘Ihe Pennsylvania-Ohio miners have been on strike for 13 months to fight ofi the attempts of the operators to crush the union. They have been left ‘to. fight; this: battle alone. In Illinois separate, temporary (Continued on Page Two) SCORE MARINE — land will, no doubt, show considerable | lcain. The LaFollette movement sa Mass Meeting Protests) U. S. Imperialism A demand for the immediate with- | drawal of United States marines from Haiti was voiced at a mass meet- ing held at the New Harlem Casino, 90 W. 116th St., yesterday afternoon, under the joint auspices of the All- American Anti-Imperialist League. Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER; Manuel Gomez, secretary of the Anti-Imperialist League; Will- iam Pickens of the National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Col- ored People; Irving Potash of the Furriers’ Union; J. J. Adam of the Haitian Patriotic Union and Senator William H. .King of Utah, were} among the speakers. Senator King’s sosition that mar- | ines: be withdrawn from Haiti after | the elections was severely criticized | by Robert Minor, Milukoff Will Talk At Meet Here May 20 As ‘part of the monarchist im- perialist campaign against the Soviet Union, Paul Milukoff, minister in the Kerensky cabinet in Russia, will speak at Cooper Union, Sunday, May | 20.at 2:30 p.m. it was learned yester- day. When Milukoff spoke before the so- called International Peace Conference in Cleveland Tuesday, 20 workers were beaten and arrested for protest- NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1928 Outst SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. ge New York, by mail, 96.00 per year. My AL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Communists Plan Campaign in 40 States Chinese Worker-Pe Peasant Troops Near Canton ‘PARTY DISTRICTS MAKE READY FOR ELECTION DRIVE Attention Directed to May 25 Convention Following the stirring call Satur- day by the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party to a rallying of its membership for the national nominating conven- tion of the Party to be’ held here May 25, the launching of a campaign was yesterday announced for the placing of its candidates on the ballot in 40 states throughout’ the country, for the rallying of a record vote in sup- port of these candidates and for the advancement of the militant program of the Workers (Communist) Party. Already In Swing. The active campaign will begin with ~ |the national nominating convention on May 25. State nominating conven- tions will be held, including the state of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin state Progressive Leader and Reactionary The Progressive Fred E. Beal, who with William tile Mill Committees in New Bedford, Mass., is shown at the left above. ile workers Hundreds of striking te: Committees since their reactionary officials have refused to take militant the unorganized. il, who ordered the strikers to stay in bed and refrain from picketing the mills, is shown at the-right. action or to organ of the Textile Cow The Reactionary T. Murdoch, is organizing the Tez- have streamed into the Textile Mill William E. G. Batty, secretary executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party) of America has already decided to hold a state nom- inating convention on May 20. A call is being issued to all sympa- thetic organizations, groups and in- dividuals. to. be .reprosened at. this eonvéntion and to render support to the convention and to send fraternal | delegates. The Workers (Communist) Party| of America, which rallied over 4,000 votes in Wisconsin in 1924, when ve LaFollette movement was at height, is now in a favorable ee segal suffered a great decline. The social: ist | party has been transformed into a! party of business men and shopkeep-| ers. The appeal of the Workers (Com- munist) Party will keep in the fore- (Continued on Page Two) CONCERT FOR MINERS’ AID Williamsburg Women to A concert and mass meeting will be held tonight at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, 947 Willoughby Ave., Will- jiamsburg. Three well known enter- }tainers will provide a rich musical program, Esther Kronin will render several piano selections, J; Saphier will’ perform on .the violin, and J.| Daichman, wéll known radio artist, will ‘sing folk-songs and arias from} |popular operas. , The affair, held under the aus- pices of the Women’s Council for Min- ers’ Relief, will include a report of women’s past. activity in miners’ re- ilief. Pauline-Rogers, secretary of the ‘organization and speaker of the eve-! ning, will report on the present sit- | uation in the strike, giving special at-| tention to the unorganized fields, The doors of the Lyceum will be ing against his talk against the Sc-}urged to come early to make sure of | the council says it can’t find the $50,- | viet Union. THOUSANDS LIVE IN EAST SIDE HOLES Workers Families Tell Tales of P of Privation in Wretched Hovels 'HE East Side is still the East Side of dingy tenoments, fire- traps, poverty and squalor. Only the tenements and firetraps are getting older, more uninhabitable, and the poverty and squalor are eachsyear more deeply intrenched. And neither the promises and ges- tures of Tammany politicians nor the efforts, of benevolent old phil- anthropists have changed conditions in New York’s “slums.” Orchard Street is one of the worst of the East Side streets. For opened at, 7 o’clock and workers are a seat. many blocks peddlers of food, cloth- ing and household articles line both sides of the street, competing with each other in the feverish struggle for bread. Nearly el) the houses are of the tenement variety, with stores on the ground floor, A house typical of the rest and perhaps, on the whole, superior to many East Side tenements, is 174 Orchard St. About 30 families .oc- cupy' this five-story and basement house. On the fourth floor lives Angelo Droglia, an Italian baker, \ Present Fine Program | RED CENTER CAMPAIGN | |. 1O.GO OVER THE TOP, | \ 26-28 Union Square, reaches its c eneeen New York City and Vi HILLMIAN GIVES | “AIMS OF LABOR” “Ethics in “in Industry”| Are Urged CINCINNATI, 0., May 13.—Declar- ling that the aims of organized labor lare “to create ethics in industry and to eliminate cut-throat competition,” Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, ad- vanced a step further in the official class-collaboration policy of his or- ganization in a speech delivered here before the national conference of |Jewish Social Service Workers. “Our problem is to create conditions in industry so that it will support it- self decently,” and “the things labor stand for are the things the commu- nity stands: for,” were some other statements made by Hillman in his speech. He advocated that labor take over the task of social work now in the hands of philanthropic societies. | Fact finding bureaus to arrive at “the cause for the mal-adjustment of jthe individual” was another “solu- tion” of the labor struggle adyocated |by Leo Wolman, research director of ‘the Amalgamated Clothing’ Workers Union. RELIEF BILL KILLED. PHILADELPHIA, (FP) May 13.—| Buck passing between the mayor and city council is killing the bill appro- priating $50,000 relief for Phila-| }delphia’s 60,000 jobless. men. The | Mayor says it’s up to the council and 000 to appropriate. with his wife, Angelina, and their two children, the oldest 17 years old and the youngest 29 months. Dro- glia occupies one of the better |the campaign. =o Tomorrow the great drive for $30,000 to establish the “Workers Center, ax. Today and tomorrow workérs ty will be rallied in a final effort ———io9 send the drive over the top. Ali. Workers (Communist) Party units have been urged to make these last two days the most intensive of lists of Workers Center “bricks” are being widely circulated and are pro- ducing good results. These lists can be secured at the Center or 108 E. 14th St. These last two days will also de- cide which unit or other workingclass organization will receive the revolu-| tionary banner now on exhibition at the Workers Center. The banner will} be awarded to the unit or organiza- tion making the highest totals in the campaign. The art exhibition now being con- ducted at the Center will continue The new collection | beyond the conclusion of the drive. | The work of many famous painters | and sculptors of international repu-) tation is on view on the sixth floor! of the Center by courtesy of the! Societe Anonyme, Inc., the Daniel) Gallery, the New Gallery and the | New Art Center. The exhibition is| open every day from 4 to 9 p. m, and all day Saturdays and Sundays. During the last few days many units have increased their activity in the campaign. New contributions are: 6A, 314.50; 1AC 1F, $6; Section 1, Night Workers Unit 1, 1B 2F, re Section 4, Unit A, $25; Section Unit 2, $1; Section “4: Unit 1, $3; id ell Morning Branch, $35; Section 5, Branch 3, $17,25; Section 7, Branch 8, $20; 1AC 7F, $10; 1B 1F; $11; Section 5, Branch 1, $26.50; 2B 2F, 23; 2B 6F, $20.50; 2F 3S, $8; Section 7, Branch 4, $31; and Pater- son, N. ie $30. TO GREET GORDON HERE THURSDAY A reception for David Gordon, who is expected to be released from Hampton Road (N. Y.) Prison tomor- row, will be held Thursday at 8 p. m. at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union| Square, under the joint auspices of, the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers League, it was announced last night. Gordon has already served more than 30 days of an indeterminate sen. tence given to him for writing the! apartments in the house, consisting of four small rooms. In the winter the rooms are heated by a single coal stove—if there is money to buy coal. The community toilet is out in the cold hall. e 'HOUGH Angelo Droglia and his wife have been in this country (Continued on Page Two) 4) poem “America,” that appeared in The DAILY WORKER last year. Sev- eral patriotic societies caused the ar- rest of Gordon, William F. Dunne, as- sociate editor, and Bert Miller, for- mer business manager of the paper. The Daily was also fined $500. - Leading members of the Commun- ist movement will address the meet- ing Thursday. (Communist) | ‘DRIVE ON FROM SWATOW; CLASH WITH WAR LORDS Report Gains for Red Guards Near Shanghai (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) CANTON, May 13.—Worker-peas- ant troops who pushed their way | south from Swatow clashed with Li Chai-sum’s troops at Chilung, less | than fifty miles southeast from Can- | ton, | here. according to reports received No reports of the outcome of the battle have yet been received. Victories for worker-peasant troops are also reported in the province of Kiangsu. Worker-peasant armies have occupied several towns near the Shanghai-Nanking Railway. With most of the Kuomintang troops en- gaged in the northern campaign, and with sentiment against the Kuomin- tang growing rapidly, the Nanking regime fears to undertake a campaign against the worker-peasant troops in the district. Victories for worker-peasant troops in Chekiang are also Teported here. * * Workers and peasants are setting up Soviet governments in towns and villages thruout southern China, That worker-peasant troops were }launching @tew drive against Canton / ; was reported Saturday when a Chi- nese left wing newspaper in Van- couver received information that Red Guards had taken possession of the cities of Swatow and Chauyang two weeks ago and were pushing their way south toward Canton. * PEKING, May 13.—More. than 3800 shells were poured into the city of Tsinan by Japanese artillery on Thursday, according to reports re- ceived here. Whole sections of the city were completely destroyed by the Japanese fire. Feng Yu-hsiang’s troops have re sumed their drive against Peking. TO PROTEST KUN ARREST AT MEET [Demonstration Called in New York The release of Bela Kun, leader of |the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, now held a prisoner in Austria, will be d nded at a mass meeting to be held in Union Square next Sat 1 p. m., it was announced y by the International Labor which is arranging the meet ing. e Horthy fascist regime now in power in Hungary is demanding that Kun be turned over to it. This would result in his death, the de fense organization says. ¢ Many Speakers. The speakers at the meeting will include Jay -Lovestone, executive see- retary of the Workers (Communist) Party; Robert Minor, editor, The DAILY WORKER; Louis Koves, edi- tor of Uj Elore; James P. Cannon, national secretary, International La- bor Defense; William W. Weinstone, New York district organizer, Work- ers Party, and Hugo Gellert and Em- ory Baliant, president and secretary, respectively, of the Anti-Horthy League, An appeal to all workers and labor organizations to support the demon- \styation was issued yesterday by Rose Baron, secretary of the New York Section of the International Labor Defense. The appeal states: “The arrest of Bela Kun and his ,contemplated extradition to Hungary ye: Def |to be murdered by the bloody Horthy- Bethlen regime is another blow di-« rected at the working class of the (Continued on Page Two) Paper Strikers Win FITCHBERG, Mas: Mass, May 13.—A strike of 100 unorganized workers the finishing and coating dep: of the Falulah Paper Co. was with the firm agreeing to the ers’ demand for a bonus,