The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1928, Page 1

HF DAILY WORKER FIGHTS, FCR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 114. Pobiiahise Ansociati bli daily ex e DELEGATES WILL ACT ON SERIOUS CRISIS IN UNION Meet At Bellaire, Ohio! May 22 (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) BELLAIRE, Ohio, May 14—De- claring that a serious crisis exists in the United Mine Workers’ Union which the dfficials of the union are progressively refusing to deal with, over forty locals of Sub-district 5 of District 6 in Ohio have united in a call to a special sub-district conven- tion to be held in Bellaire May 22. Steps will be taken to eliminate the evils threatening the union and to save the strike. A committee to ar- range for the special ‘convention has been appointed from among the lo- cals issuing the call. Second Demand. The demand sent out in accordance with the provisions of the constitu- tion of the ‘Mine Workers’ Union fol- lows the adoption by the various lo- | cals of a previous call for such a spe- cial convention which the officials fal the sub-district have ignored, | Among the locals which signed the message ars: 393, 430, 170, 8244, 2059, 5714, 4982, 2591, 848, 2262, 3502, 5560, 2159, 2138, 5122, 1297, | 2183 and 2112; many others have join- { ed in the movement for the conven- | tion. “Many factors contribute to the | need for the calling of such a conven- | tion,” the circular declares. Among | those given ‘are: * Cites Acts of Treachery. “(1) The vicious expulsion policy of the Lewis-Hall-Cinque machine whereby wholesale expulsions of the members is undertaken because these members dare exercise their right to differ with the machine. “(2) The vicious policy now being followed by the Lewis-Hall-Cinque machine of cutting thousands of loyal, fighting strikers and their families from the- relief list ‘because these members refuse to sign the yellow. dog pledge of allegiance to the ma- chine. ,“(8) The refusal of the Lewis- Hall-Cinque ‘to adopt the necessary policies to win the strike.” Numerous other abuses are cited among which are the vicious signing of separate agreements, the making of settlements with companies in some districts whose mines are on strike in others, and many other grievances, A Call To Struggle. “Brothers, we must fight bitterly,” the call reads. “We must win the strike. We must save the union. We must maintain our | scale and condi- tions,” In conformity with the constitu- tional provisions of Sub-District 5, each local is entitled to one vote for each 50 members. Local unions are requested in the call to fi out an attached credential and return the Kohesitia Ae on Page Five) MILLINERS FIGHT TO SAVE UNION Shops Strikes Reply to Disruption Scheme With the struggle for the existance of their organization switching from the necessary appeals to higher union bodies, to a struggle on the picket lines, the membership of the Millin- ery Local 43 is achieving results far more substantial than it knew it could be expected from the reaction- aries in control of the union machin- ery. The increasing number of employ- ers assisting President Zaritsky and his clisue-controlled general board in smashing the militant local of the women workers, is being met with a determined series of shop strikes which have already resulted tn sev- eral important employers retractihg their demand that the Local 43 mem- bers register in the right wing con- trolled Local 24. Registration was demanded by the officialdom after they announced that Local 43, with a membership of 4,000, is no longer in existence, and that all its members’ must register in Local 24 so that the left wing leadership at the head of the milliners’ union be deposed. Get Privileges. Rothschild and Herschenson, 63 W. 86th St., were granted in return for their union-wrecking activities, per- mission by the right wing union of- ficaildom to install the piece-work system. After being granted the pri- mae of speeding up the members ls ,working in their shop, Pontinbed Page Five) from: The picture shows some of the Taiping wall from the frightful bo perialist armies poured into the workers’ quarters at Tsinan. Thousands | of defenseless workers perished und railroad route, along which~the Japanese troops advanced, and Tsinan, the objective of the imperialists in 38 Firat igibeee. New York, by The Nations: Dally Worker Refugees Fleeing Before Japanese Armies ogee B+ s f » Xe NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1928 ow HE DAILY WORKER. Entered as wecond-ciann matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y.. under the act o¢ March 3, 187% a SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $3.00 per year. New York, by $6.00 per year. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 40 OHIO LOCALS CALL FOR FIGHT ON LEWIS MACHINE Chinese refugees fleeing along the ymbardment which the Japanese im- er the shell fire. The map shows the their seizure of Shantung Province. KUOMINTANG REACTION TO GET AMERICAN AID SHANGHAI, May 14.—With the to | Peking. If the Kuomintang troops ARGUE 7c FARE IN SUPREME COURT Lawyers ‘Swap . Gentle Words on Steal 3) (Special to The DAILY WORKER) WASHINGTON, May 14.—Destin- ed to strut and fret its hour upon the stage of the Supreme Court at Washington after which, if the poli- ticians have their way, it is to be heard no more, the New York nickel fare, issue of a dozen campaigns, ob- ject of passionately verbal allegiance and final betrayal yesterday was made to play in another eleventh hour scene for the benefit of the million voters of New York City. Arguing before the highest court Tientsin, foreign forces established an outpost line seven miles from Oe ee Kuomintang troops pushing their way take Tientsin, which is sixty miles | ‘from Peking, the fall of the northern | capital is almost certain. | | The Nanking General Council has sent an appeal to President Coolidge |ealling his attention to Japanese in- tervention in Shantung. The United States government has displayed marked friendliness toward the Nank- ; ing regime in the last few months, | “ pilin eh J (Pravda in an editorial several days ago pointed out the conflicting inter- ests of Japanese and American im- perialism in Shantung. Pravda pointed out that if Japan persists in her plans to annex Shantung, a clash between Japanese and American capi- talism is likely. The Nanking regime is virtually under the domination of American imperialism.) District Office Issues Call for Volunteer Aid The district office of the Workers of the land quite as if the issue had not already been helplessly lost by their own treachery, officials of the city and state today heldthat the Interborough Rapid Transit=Company did not need the increased fare to sustain its profits. Lawyers Spar. Counsel for the city, Charles L. Craig, himself. a traction attorney, and Samuel Untermyer, ‘for the tran- sit commission, one of the large own- ers of Interborough stock and spokes- men for the Morgan . “unification” plan by which the city would be loot- ed of hundreds of millions, argued that “to the great mass of the city’s inhabitants the sum to be taken by the Interborough in excess of five cents entails a serious hardship.” James L. Quackenbush, general counsel for the Interborough, in argu- ing for the increase declared that anything short of the suggested 8 per cent return on the three hundred millions of watered Interborough stock would be “confiscation.” To the (Continued on inued..0b Bake: Two) / 100 WORKERS IN BERLIN ARRESTED BERLIN, May 14.—One hundred workers, most of them Communists, were arrested here yesterday as part of the pre-election terrorism of the government in its fight against the rising power of the German Com- munist Party. The capitalist parties are showing considerable anxiety over the general apathy of the voters towards their slogans and campaign activities. All signs point toward a swing to the Communist Party on the part of large segtions of the: working class. ARMY PLANES DOWN. HALIFAX, N. S., May 14.—The two U. §. army planes, enroute to Greenley Island to arrange for the hop-off of the Bremen, trans-atlantic plane, to New York, were forced to (Communist) Party issued a call yes- terday for all members, especially those now. unemployed, to report for special. Party. work at the district of- fice, 108-E.- 14th St. tomorrow at fp. m. ‘Also those who volunteer should apply to Bert Miller, organ- izational secretary. erm Re eee nana HOLD 2 ARRESTED A number of mass meetings for the cloak and dressmakers here mark the} first step taken by the left wing and| progressive delegates who arrived from Boston after the National Conference of the delegation lockea out by the Sigman-controlled conven- tion of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, was adjourned The meetings which are to be held to- morrow evening at Cooper Union and other halls, are to be the first step in the struggle to rebuild the organiza- tion and regain union conditions over | the heads of the reactionary officials who are still bitterly wrangling for control of the International. The leaders of the delegation from the progressive locals will report to | the workers in detail on the plans/ and measures adopted by the Nation- al Conference of the locked out dele- gates for a nation-wide campaign to rebuild the union. All meetings are to be held immediately after work. The other halls designated/for mass meet-| ings will be anngup@ed in tomorrow’s issue of The DA WORKER. The closing sessions of the progres- sive delegates’ conference held in the Hotel Brewster while the right wing- ers were holding their,fake convention at the same time, was marked hy the greatest enthusiasm. Another series of resolutions detailing the steps to be taken by the National Organizing Committee in again building up a powerful cloakmakers’ union were adopted. One of the last of these calls for a special campaign among (Continued on Page Two) WORKING WOMEN TO UNITE. FORCES Shee. Office ‘a and Home Workers To Meet The struggle to maintain the Mil- linery Union Local 43 against the combined attack of the bosses and the right wing to destroy it, will be the subject of a report by Sylvia Bleecker at the conference to unite the forces of all working women, it was an- nounced last night by the New York | IN MINE TAG DAYS. Collect Over § $8,000 For} Strike Relief ; i The two workers still held follow- | ing the arrest of six volunteers who were participating in the Mine Relief Tag Days Saturday and Sunday, were arraigned today and held for fur- ther hearing on $500 bail. The case of Rose Markell was adjourned at West Farms Court until Friday, Til- lie Lakuner, who was tried at the Sixth Magistrate Court, 161st St. and Brook Aye., was hald in $500 bail until a hearing May 21. Four other workers arrested while aiding in the miners’ tag day were given suspended sentences, At least $8,000 was collected in the | | week end tag days in aid of striking miners held under the auspices of the ___ Continued on Page Five) (Special to The DAILY WORKER) Hees Bieta May 14 (FP).—Born in Ohio in 1865 and agent of the Ohio gang in Illinois since 1896, early protege of Mark Hanna and Standard Oil, representative of J. P. Morgan & Co. in Europe to put Jand near Maitland, N. S., on. the Shubencadie River, about 40. miles Pictou afternoon. over the Dawes’ reparations plan, erony of Billy Lorimer and Sam In- sull and founder of the first fascist in America, Vice | Working Women’s Federation, which lhas issued the call for the- meeting |Saturday, May 19, at Irving Plaza, lIrving Place and 15th St. at 2 p. m. The call urging women in shops, lfactories, stores, offices, as well as} women who are "housewives to act at | ‘once and send representatives to the | conference, draws attention to the | | great advance in the condition of girls | and women in the millinery trade who have won this by their own staunch struggle and effort. Five thousand women and girls have been unionized within the past three years. Unor- ganized, they suffered from seasonal work and nerve-racking speed-ups followed by slack time and no work. Sanitary conditions were outrageous- ly bad, rooms were overcrowded and dirty, ‘and wages among the lowest paid of any industry in the city, The 5,000 women now in the union have wiped out the old conditions, used |their power to gain union standards of wages and hours, and are today | engaged in a determined struggle against the new offensive of tot] bosses, MEET C. G. DAWES, OHIO GANG AGENT Protege of Hanna and Morgan, Dawes Looks at White House lothers arrested were- John Butter- President Charles Gates Dawes } looms as labor’s bitterest and most dangerous enemy in the field of re- publican presidential probabilities. In his Chicago ‘bank, the Central Trust ‘Co., where ‘the crooked Lor- imer banking deal was put across that cost many a _ worker his savings, the quiet wise talk is that _Daweg will nose out Hoover in the Kansas Gy, wirepullings next Will Render Report. i % MILITANTS WORK’ AS CONVENTION FAKERS WRANGLE Delegates Reg ort Plans| at Rallies/fomorrow nomination, has been called before sources of his campaign funds. a Tammany contractor, William F. was worth $50,000 to him. Forty th those “loans.” Governor Alfred E. Smith, candi idate for the Democratic presidential a senate committee to “explain” the He was not sure of them, he said. Later, however, it appeared that the heav iest contributor was, oddly enough, Kenny, who thought the nomination ousand of this, of course, was one of demonstrations organized by the Tex-® tile Mill Committees, the turnout was large and enthusiastic. the 58 fine cotton goods manufactur- ing mills are still as tightly shut as on the first day of the unanimous} walkout of 30,000 textile workers against a 10 per cent wage cut four weeks ago yesterday, Form Strike Committees.” While mill picketing was the most important phase of the strikers’ ac- tivities, another and novel form of picketing was also put into regular practice. This method consists of posting committees in the apartments of strikers who are neighbors to a/ handful of women who had not joined the strike. In this way the few strike | breakers were kept bottled up in their homes by the groups of women strik- ers on guard. The police have not as yet been able to cope with this form of picketing, whose effectiveness is at- tested to by a recent announcement of the mill owners, The bosses said that these women are employed only to weave sample designs, and should be permitted to go to work. Picket Leaders Cheered. Despite the fact that Mrs. Angelina Tsoupreas, and Mrs. Christina Sim- ones were scheduled to come up for (Continued on eee Siiable i Three) EXTEND WIND-UP OF CENTER DRIVE |To Award B Banner at) Affair June 2 Today marks the official conclusion of the drive to establish the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square. Many workers are preparing to make this last day the high point of collections for the campaign, Though the drive ends officially today, it has been de- cided to yield to the request of many! Workers Party units, as well as in- dividual workers, that they be given a little more time to collect pledges and fulfill their quotas, By this spe- because their members or other reasons, have | thus far fallen short of their quotas| (Continued on Page Five) month, Editorial gossip, not for publication, in the Chicago Tribune offices is convinced of Dawes’ nom- ination. This gossip dates as far Every one of | cial dispensation those units which,’ of unemployment among, IRANKS OF TEXTILE | WORKERS ARE SOLID NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 14.—Despite the threat of heavily aug- | the political life in the cities and mented police lines around the mills this morning, made by the city author- | towns is at this time particularl yim- ities for the purpose of discouraging strikers from participating in the picket perative,” said White. AMALGAMATED TO IGNORE 40-HR. WK, “Keynote of of Bienniel Ts “Help Bosses” CINCINNATI, May 14.—With the! principal slogan summed up in the sentence “Bigger and Better Cooper-) jation With the Bosses,” the biennial | convention of the Amalgamated| | Clothing Workers Union of America| opened here yesterday morning in the Emery Auditorium. After the elec-| tion of several temporary committees | the “most peaceful convention,” as it is termed, will adjourn to begin the rounds of a series of banquets, receptions, etc., which are to con- tinue thruout the week. That cooperation with the manu- and achievement of the convention lwas learned when the details of the report to be delivered by the general | executive board were made public. “Will Review the Past.” With the betrayal of the demand} of the membership of the union for| the 40-houy week safely accomplished by the recent signing of the mew agreements in the Chicago and Roch- | porter markets, the Hillman adminis-| tration announces that the convention} | will be mainly occupied with “review- | ing the past, rather than to broach new policies.” The spreading evil of the open shop, the continuous “reor-| ganizations” in all the big markets} |(which means the regular dismissal | lof workers not able to keep up with! the increasing demands of the speed-| up system), the displacement of hun-; dreds of workers by new machinery, which can only be relieved by the 40- hour week, are to receive no consider- PICKETS WIN CASE TRENTON, N, J., May 14.—Roger |N, Baldwin, secretary of the Civil | Liberties Union, and four Passaic tex- | tile workers, were today freed by the Court of Errors and Appeals of charges of unlawful assembly, grow- ing out of the Passaic textile strike in 1924 and 1925. Baldwin had been sentenced to..serve six months in prison and the, strikey for holding a strike meeting on Oc- tober 6, 1924. Besides Baldwin, the worth, George Cabrizza, Basil Effsa, and Davis Nitkin. vieted by the Common Pleas Court and the sentence upheld by the New Jersey Supreme Court. back as last January. _ * o® Sioa ae G. O. P. reasons point to Dawes rather than Hoover. California is pretty well cinched for the republicans, no matter who is (Continued on Page Two) we 15 FIREMEN OVERCOME. Fifteen firemen were overcome and facturers will be the main concern! ‘ined $50 each | William. W. Weinstone, organizer of {District 2, Workers (Coismanist) They were con- | P: Labor Candidates Needed by Steel Workers Hold C Cloak Mass Meets to Rebuild | Union IN BUILDING UP OF STEEL UNION White Is Pittsburgh Nominating Delegate The importance to the exploited steel workers of working class candi- dates for president and vice-president of the United States was voiced yes- terday by W. J. White, a steel work- E and*member of the Central Com, of the Workers (Communist) Party. White will attend the National Nom- inating Convention of the Workers; |Party which will open with a mass meeting at Mecca Temple, Friday eve- | ning, May 25. Delegates from almost | every ate in the union will be pres- |ent to select the Communist standard | bearers for the presidential campaign. “The need of a party which will en- ter the political field and build up a political power which will be represen- tative of and voice the interests of the workers in the steel field and in “In the years since the Homestead strike and especially since the organi- zation of the United States Steel Cor- poration, the towns and cities where steel is made have been almost com~ pletely captured, politically and other= wise by the steel corporations,” he continued, ‘ “The steel corporations while they \,were wiping out and annihilating the- organization of the iron and steel workers, learned the lesson very well — indeed how useful it was to them to | have control of the political offices of the Senators, Congressmen, and also the Burgesses, or Mayors in the towns where a strike was threatened or was ete carried on. They very well knew the use that they could make of j the policeman’s club and what values |lay in the power of breaking up the meetings called for organization pur- | poses. This lesson they have learned and they are ready to spend thous- ands of dollars in order to hold their power in the city councils where val- uable rights are to be given away and which the steel corporations want. In many towns in and around Pitts- burgh there is no right of assembly \trying to organize the workers. In the great steel strike of 1919 lled by Bill Foster the policemen who | had beats in and around the steel | districts received from the Steel Com porations, such as the Jones and | (Continued on saiorndlnde ian sh Two) ‘TO RALLY FOR __ KUN'S RELEASE Demonstralion Called in Union Square Twenty-five thousand leaflets are being distributed among the workers New York, calling upon them to rally to the great demonstration in Union Square on Saturday at 1 p. m., which | will demand the immediate release of Bela Kun, former leader of Soviet Hungary. The leaflets are being dis- |tributed thru the New York Section of the International Labor Defense, 799 Broadway, which is arranging Prominent leaders of the workings class will address the mass meet lin rotation from three platforms, Among those who will speak will be Jay Lovestone, executive of the Workers (Communist) Patty; James P. Cannon, national secretary of the International Labor berry: Party; Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER; Carlo Tresea, editor of Il Martello; Giovanni an, editor of Il Lavoratore; M. Olgin, editor of The Hammer; Rich- ard B. Moore, organizer, Americ Negro Labor Congress; Robert: Dunn; Louis Hyman, manager Board Cloak and Dressmakers U S. Leibowitz, assistant yee the demonstration. \ jor of free speech for those who are” atl ) $75,000 loss was caused. by a fire which burned 250 feet of the 2,250 foot pier of the New Point Comfort Board Furriers Union; Ant ba, editor of Laisve; president, and “ the Steamboat Comat HERG Keates