The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1928, Page 2

> AT RALLIES HERE oy 4 man to support a family even on fave borr THE DAILY WORKER, NEW Y! TWELVE SPECIAL AGENTS NOW IN FIELD ON . Pittsburgh and District 6, Ohio; M. Powers, St. Paul, Minneapolis, yesterday for various parts of the country to start an intensive | Duluth, Rochester, Superior and Cleveland; S. Sklar and Minnie | Lurie, Grand Rapids, South Bend and Chicago; Leon Callow, | Albany, Utica, Schenectady, Syracuse, Rochester, the Mohawk Valley and Buffalo; J. Shaffer, Boston and vicinity; Roy Stephens, they will cover are: Anna Herbst, the Anthracite; L. Sisselman, | Massachusetts (Springfield, Worcester, Lowell, Lawrence, ete.); Twelve special DAILY WORKER subscription agents left eampaign that is expected to add many new subscriptions to The DAILY WORKER. The 12 workers who are already in the field and the districts Eis da ae oc “ TORE PR MEERA eR MONT © —— Y, MAY 15, 1928 New York State. George Saul and Eli Keller, New Jersey (Paterson, Passaic, Jer- sey City, Newark); Arthur Starr, Connecticut; and Arnold Zieg- eler, New Jersey (Trenton, Perth Amboy, Bayonne) and parts of The departure of these 12 special agents, several of whom are National Training School students, definitely inaugurates on NEW “DAILY WORKER” SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE | a broad scale the new drive for subscriptions to The DAILY WORKER. Each of the agents will make special efforts to reach unorganized workers in the industrial sections of the country. All workers and particularly members of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party are urged to give these agents all possible support in order that the subscription campaign may be a success. CLOAKMAKERS TQ MINE WOMEN WHOSE - | HEAR OF BOSTON Delegates Report Plan Ss For Building Union | (Continued frcm page one) the’ great numbers of young workers th chang- ing the compos needle trades industry. Gold Among Speakers. Ben Gold, milita I ler of the New York J the Fur- also engaged struggle against riers’ Union. in a life a the campaign the right wing and} the bosses to destroy the organiza-} tion, addresséd the conference at its closing session. After an enthusias- tie reception he urged the delegates to fight against the attempts of the; socialist bureauc of ‘the Sigmans. | and the A. F. of L. bureaucrats to} change militant workers’ organiza-| tions into company unions. * * * Sigman and Schlesinger Grapple. BOSTON, May 14.—While the first | } | | i } organizational steps are being out- lined into action by the returned pro- gressive delegates, the Sigman and} Schlesinger cliques continue to be; locked in a bitter struggle for con-/ trol, All efforts of William Green.} president of the A. F. of L., together| with such leaders of the socialist party as Jacob Panken, to patch up the differences between the two groups has met with utter failure | according to their own admissions The Sigman forces refuse to permit the Breslau-Schlesinger clique to take any strategic job in the International. Admit Demoralization. | Ninfo, in presenting the minority | report of the resolution committee on the Schlesinger demand for a refer- endum for the presidency, admitted that “almost complete demoralization” is the condition of their ranks. “The thousands of workers who have regis- tered with the International are fall- ing away from it,” is another sig- nificant admission made by Ninfo, a leader of Schlesinger forces, That the split among the reaction-’ #ries is extremely serious is evidenced | by the fact that after three days’ of| “peace-making” by William Green, et) al, the Schlesinger gang announced) that they will refuse renomination} for some of the vice-presidencies now! in their control. | The decision of the “convention” to| call a general stoppage in New York! and Toronto has been exposed as a! “blind” by the wrangling of the re-| * actionaries. It was plainly seen to be) another maneuver to compel the work-| ers to pay dues to their fake unions.| This belief was confirmed when they railroaded thru a resolution to tax the membership of the International aj} < Sum totaling about $2,000,000. | Folk Music Concert to || Be Given in Detroit! “DETROIT, Michigan—An interna- tional concert of folk songs and folk music in native costume ‘by various language groups will be presented here by the Detroit Council for the Protection of Foreign-Born Workers, Sunday at 8 m., at MeCollester Hall. Feature numbers wil! include] the Detroit Denishawn dancers, Ne- gro spirituals and the Lith South-Slovak Chorus of 100 v | cinnati AILING AR RE A new picture of principals in the recent jailing of 51 women at St. Clairsville, Ohio. At the left is M rs. Janet Guinn, leader of the women; next to her, above, is Paul V. Waddell, prosecutor, and, below, Oscar Guinn, Sheriff Clyde C. Hardesty is shown next to the right. In the group picture are a number of the women who were jailed and their children. The women were herded into the Belmont County jail through a ruse when they marched in‘protest at the arrest of Save-The-Union leaders, All so-called civil liberties were abrogated. “We have had to forget what we learned in school about rights,” prosecutor Waddell admitted when faced with the charge that the laws had been violated. ARGUE 7c FARE IN SUPREME COURT Lawyers Swap Gentle Words on Steal (Continued from page one) suggestion thrown out by attorneys of the city that riots would result from the attempt to collect an in- creased fare, Quackenbush replied that “such fears are self-conjured. They exist only in the minds of of- ficials.” He even hinted that the city officials had “long pursued a policy of incitement” and that to them “the wish for public resistance to judicial decree is father to the thought.” “Sound and Fury.” Both sides continued to paraphrase Shakespeare. but neither came to grips with the real fact, of course, which is that the whole “fight” is but a sham battle from which the workers and straphangers have noth- ing to gain. It was initiated under precisely these conditions which would ensure a decision favorable to the traction interests. Widespread sentiment against the imminent fare steal is under the di- rection of the Workers (Communist) Party which is arranging — protest meetings throughout all sections of the city of New York. Blacklist Cincinnati Scab Amusement Park CINCINNATI, May 14.—The Cin- Labor Council has declared the Chester Amusement Park unfair to organized labor, following the an- nouncement of the park’s manage- ment that it would not employ union workers. EXPLOSION KILLS 4 WORKERS KOKOMO, Ind., May 14.—Four wo men workers were killed, six othei workers seriously injured and 1 slightly hurt as the result of the ex plosion yesterday of a flat work stea mangle in the Fridlin Laundry. The Committee had protested against¢ thousands of workers and poor Bees jsants for being members of the| Hromada, the Russian Workers and| Peasants Party. Part of Protest. The Committee’s statement reads in part as follows: i “No doubt the minister of Poland, Mr. Ciechanowski, consulted Pil- sudski’s governthent at Warsaw be-; fore making his elaborate reply in justification of that government’s ar-! rest, persecution and even murder of! workers and peasants. The Fascist Polish government, through its United States Minister, tries to wipe its) bloody hands clean of its crimes) against the toiling masses of Poland. In its desperation, it talks of con-| spiratorial organizations, Soviet in-) trigue, Comintern activities, Mopr) actons, and tries to pass off its acts| of terror, and persecution by prattle) of foreign interference, and so on. “To all thinking and progressive- minded people, such unique excuses are not novel to explain away the rise and: development of workers’ or- ganizations. The fascist Mussolini, the Horthy government of Hungary, the Siguranza of Roumania, and other capitalist nations in 5urope try to ex- plain away their actions against the working peoples by talk of con- spiracies and what not. However, the facts speak for themselves and the government of Poland is indeed hard put for excuses. Had 98,000 Members. “The Hromada is a society of con- spirators, declares Pilsudski’s gov- ernment, and therefore must be de- stroyed and its supporters imprisoned or killed. A conspiratorial organiza- tion! Yet it had in March, 1927, no less than 98,000 members organized into 1720 branches. It has the sup- port of at least 8& per cent of the two and a half million white Russian population of Poland. Its “conspira- torial” aims are: “To fight for the liberation of the White Russian toiling masses; to POLISH TERRORISM IS RAPPED BY COMMITTEE The evasive reply of J. Ciechanowski, minister of Poland to the United States, to the protest, of the Committee Against Polish Fascism, brot a sharp rebuke yesterday from the committee, thru Robert W. Dunn, secretary. —__semmammarmmeeemectt the persecution and imprisonment of! fight for the right of self-determina- tion; for land to the peasants; for the right of existence of a national culture; against the terrific taxation ; of the poor peasantry and, for a free union of all the toilers of Poland and a workers’ and peasants’ government. Trials Now Starting. Today,‘in the City of Vilna, oecupied by the Polish militarists, the trial of the first.’6 of 490 arrested members of the White Russian Workers and Peasants Party, “Hromada,” is now taking place. Included among the de- fendants are all of the former Sejm deputies of the Party and its most ac- tive and best known members. The trial is of the sheerest mockery MEET DAWES OF THE OHIO. GANG Dawes Casts Glances At White House (Continued from page 1) nominated but it will take an Illi- nois man to carry Illinois. New York is expected to go for Smith in November and Pennsylvania will go republican. But Illinois and Ohio are doubtful. Ohio has a demo- eratic governor and Illinois may have one. With the Chicago Jour- nal of Commerce and midwest business generally hostile to Hoover, it will take a native favorite to stem the popular democratic tide. Frank “Pullman” Lowden is shop- worn in many respects—four years older than Dawes, smirched in the of “justice” of Pilsudski’s fascism, but is serious purpose is the crush- ing of the legitimate national, social, cultural and political aspirations of the White Russian minority whith has suffered so frightfully from the op- pression of Polish domination. The White Russian Workers and Peasants Party, Hromada, was the mass move- ment that had the confidence of the whole White Russian people. Whole People On Trial. Now the trial has begun, and a whole people is on the bench of the aceused. Already a series of similar trials are being prepared in Eastern Poland. 3 The insolence and terrorism of Po- lish fascism has been additionally strengthened by Anglo-American capi- tal, and it is thanks to the aid of Wall Street that gives millions to fascism in order the better to sup- press and enslave the toiling masses and prepare the war against the So- viet Union, that Pilsudski is still in power. It is the duty of every Amer- iean worker, of every liberal-think- ing person to answer the call of solidarity, to organize a campaign of a broad, political and material aid to prevent the fascist knife from sinking into the body of the White Russian and Ukrainian peasants, in- to the bodies of the toiling masses of all Poland. SEVENTEEN DOLLARS AND TEN CENTS ‘Textile Wage Before Ten Percent Cut Was Below Life Level By SCOTT NEARING, (Fed. Press, ~WEW BEDFORD textile workers | aré on strike against a 10 per | -eent wage cut. ‘The bosses insist ' there is no other way to meet com- | petition’and pay a reasonable return | on the money invested. The work- ers retort that it is impossible ior | the present level of earnings. Are the workers right? Will earnings in the New Bedford mills provide for family support? Average weekly earnings in New w cet according to the reports of chusetts department of labor ‘and industries were $19.79 for 1925, 119.05 for 1926, $19.95 for 1927 and 19 for the first 3 months of 1928, These averages cover a considerable variation. Nevertheless they indi- cate first, that earnings in New | Bedford have remained about the same during the past 4 years; “second, that they average in the neighborhood of $19 a week, or $1000 a year, and it might be ob- lower the first 8 months of 1928 than for any of the three preceding What does $19 a week mean in New Bedford? How much coal, f | years. served that earnings were slightly | will it buy? Most of the workers in the New Bedford mills are trying to sup- port families on their earnings. How much money does it cost in New bediord to buy those neces- saries with which a family would be able to maintain health and de- cency? 1 CUnY isp eec Mex’ standard-of-living studies | been made in recent One was made for Boston in 1923 when living costs were ap- proximately the same as now. 10 per cent has been cut from this Bos- ton minimum standard to allow ior lower rents and other lessened liv- ing costs in a smaller city. At the prices prevailing in 1925 a New Bedford family of 5 would have needed $2204.04 to maintain health and decency. In 1926 the cost was $2208.57; for 1927 $2184.63. Since average New Bedford earn- ings for 1927 were $1037.40 the mill workers received less than half enough to provide family health and decency, Put in another way, their deficit on the year’s budget was $1147.23. Some of the workers were better off, of course. The mother as well have electricity, bread, meat, clothing © as the father went into the mills. Children were sent to work as soon as the law allowed. Lodgers were kept. By various means the worker family pushed up its income toward the standard minimum, or forced down its expenditures toward the starvation level. But in any case the textile workers of New Bed- ford have been facing a tough struggle the past 4 years. * * * Now the bosses propose to cut weekly earnings 10 per cent. That means a subtraction of $1.90 from the average weekly earnings for January, February and March 1928. What remains is $17.10, of- fered by the bosses in'New Bedford to the makers of fine cotton fabrics, a wage in a town where the family minimum is officially set at $42.10 a week. It’s an old story in New England. Comfortable property income for the owners of capital; smug re- spectability in executive mansion, in legislative halls, on the Bench; masses of unpaid, exploited work- ers. And for the Saccos and Van- zettis who cry out in protest DEWEY TO STUDY SCHOOLS IN USSR A farewell dinner will be tendered || Dr. John Dewey, of Columbia Uni- versity, by the American Society for Cultural Relations with Russia, on Tuesday at the Town Hall. Dr. Dewey, who has been closely associated with the educational com- mittee of the society, will sail May 19 for Russia, under the auspices of the society to study the educational sys- tem and attempt. to draw together the’-educational interests of . Russia and America, according to Lucy Bran- hain, -Sécretary of the society. Dr Dewey has been invited by Lunachar- sk), commissar of education. He will announce his plans at the dinner, Miss Branham said. Other speakers at the dinner wil! include Dr, Lucy Wilson, principal of the South Philadelphia High School for Girls, who will describe the “Edu- cational Theory and Practice in Rus- sia”; Dr. Jacob Lipman, director of the Agricultural Experiment Station at New Brunswick, on “Russian Agri- cultural Education”; Dr. R, G. Tug- well, and Dr. Efim. London, noted against such iniquities, the electric chair. biochemist of the Russian Academy of Science are also scheduled to speak. 1920 preconvention corruption, a lawyer masquerading as a farmer. Dawes is the boy. , But not for labor. He recently participated in the purchase of the Evanston News-Index, his home | town paper, and transferred it from the union to the open-shop column. He denounces organized labor. He almost went crazy with jubilation when the Daugherty-Wilkerson in- junction against the railroad shop strike appeared in 1922. He helped in the open-shop drive of his neigh- bor James A. Patten against. the Chicago building trades. And in the Minute Men of the Constitution he laid the framework, now latent, of a Mussolini dictatorship, under banker encouragement, of young business and ex-service bloods over the United States. Transit Workers, Denied Scale, Threaten Action DETROIT, May 14.—Members of the Firemen and Oilers’ Union, Local 32, are threatening action as the re- sult of the Detroit ‘city car lines’ fail- ure to pay the men at the Coolidge Ave. plant the regular sate scale of 75 cents an hour. The Scale is paid in all other plants operated by. the transportation department, while firemen working in the Coolidge plant receive only 60 cents an hour. The superintendent of transportation, Rey- nolds, has disregarded the recom- mendation of the commission mem- bers to pay the Coolidge plant work- ers 75 cents. Single Ore Machine Displaces 500 Miners DULUTH, Minn. May 14—The introduction of labor-saving machin- ery in the iron ore mines in Northern Minnesota has reduced the number of metal miners in this state from over 20,000 to 10,000 in less than a year. Huge steam and electric labor- saving steam and electric shovels have been introduced. The largest shovel in operation weighs 3,350 tons, hand- ling from eight to nine. cubie yards of earth and ore at a time, doing the work of 500 men. GORDON WELCOME HERE THURSDAY Prominent Leaders of Party to Speak Prominent members of the Workers (Communist) Party and Young Work- ers League will speak at the recep- tion in honor of David Gordon, Com- munist poet, to be held Thursday evening at the Workers Center, 26- 28 Union Square. Gordon’s release from the New York Reformatory to whichshe was sentenced to a term of three years |for writing the poem “America” is expected today. He served only 30 days of the term, being paroled fol- lowing a protest movement in his behalf. Chicago to Hold Affair for Russian Colonists CHICAGO, May 14.—Moise Katz, member of the council’ of the Gezerd of Moscow, the impartia! organization sia, will speak at the Labor Lyceum, |Ogden and Kedzie Aves., Saturday at 8:30 p..m.. His subject will be “The Colonization of the Jews in. Biro- Bidjon.” The program will include the first public showing of the life of the Jew- ish Colonist in the Ukraine and Cri- mea in moving pictures; a vocal solo by Emma Lazaroff, soprano, und a violin recital by Leo Braverman. ‘The meeting is being conducted under the auspices of the ICOR of Chicago. Workers, 100,000 Miners on Strike 30,000 Textile Workers on Strike To Save the Union; For a Victorious Strike; For the Miners’ Control of Their Union; Against the Wage Cut; Against the Speed-up; Against Longer Hours Thousands of requests are being made in every mail for The DAILY WORKER from the Striking Miners. requests are already coming in from the striking Textile All expired subscriptions of strikers gre still being sent even tho the strikers can not afford to renew their subscriptions. Every day we are sending 4,000 papers to the mine strike area FREE OF CHARGE. We have begun to send The DAILY WORKER into the Textile strike area FREE OF CHARGE. Our Resources Are Limited—We Cannot Afford It Any Longer Help us keep up the work—Help us to increase the circulation Help the Striking Miners—Help the Striking Textile Workers Send to the Daily Worker a free subscription to the strikers. Send The DAILY WORKER into the strike areas. Thousands more WANT The DAILY WORKER. Thousands more LIKE The DAILY WORKER, Thousands more NEED The DAILY WORKER. Send a subscription to the Strikers. for the colonization of Jews in Rus-|’ OUSED WORKING.CLASS IN OHIO/WORKING CLASS caaensccenaanamner ne tccriermanie TIGKET NEEDED BY STEEL MEN Republicans, Democrats to Be Exposed (Continued from Page One) Laughlin and United States Steel, as high as $130 a month outside of their regular salaries, from the city of Pittsburgh. Needless to say they did willingly the bidding of the steel officials in breaking up meetings and driviug the workers off the streets and in every way they knew trying and using their influence to get the workers to enter the open shop mills. Need Labor Candidates. “It is high time that some such move as this nomination convention took up the very necessary work of putting up candidates and went out into the field and propagandized for a party of the workers and workers’ candidates. The United States has long been the outstanding wealth producing country of the world. It has also been the most outstanding country. in which the weakness of its organization of workers into in- dustrial unions was marked by its weakness in the numerical strength of its unionized workmen. Must Expose Socialists. “The part the political parties of the owners and the socialist party play in the class struggle must be ex- posed. It is up to the Nomination Convention to thus make clear and expose the part big business plays in the political arena. What better way can be used to do this than to place candidates of the working class rev- olutionary proletarian fighters up for the offices to be filled and use the occasion to promote the movemest for. independent working class poli- tical action. “We must also use the occasion to show the direct connection between the weakness of labor on the indus- trial field and the same conditions ‘on the political field as well. Now is the accepted time to begin this very necessary work. { Organization Work Lags. “The organization of the steel workers is now at its lowest ebb. So far as organization is concerned the Steel workers union is to all intent and purpose annihilated ahd wiped out. The part the political parties of the bosses played in this destruction must be shown and the steel worker made to see the necessity to begin to or- ganize on the industrial field and at the same time he must be shown that he can expect nothing from the republican and democratic parties and just as little from the socialist party. The way is open to do this thru this Nomination Convention. The time is ripe and rotten ripe. I do not at this time, I hope, have to show any steel worker or for that matter any miner or other worker that the time has’ come for an about face of labor. Let us once for all drop the leadership of the Greens, Wolls, Lewises. Let us recognize in the republican and democratic parties a real menace to the workers and begin right now to build the political power of labor!” = 153 POLICEMEN FINED. One hundred fifty-three members of the police department, including two lieutenants and two sergeants. have been fined from‘1 to 45 days’ pay for violations of departmental regulations. . TRAIN FIREMEN HURT. BOSTON, May 14.—The fireman of a narrow gauge railroad train was injured when the brakes of the train failed to work properly, resulting in it crashing through a terminal bump- i you Hundreds of City THE DAILY WORKER Enclosed find $.......... to help striking areas for .. RATES $3.50 . 6 months 162.00. + 8 months $1.50 «0. + 2 months $1.00 ... + 2 month Name see AdAreSS. cece cecececsscceccseteceee’ Secon deneversecoseseerecesen 83 FIRST STREET New York City send the Daily Worker to the + months, $6.00 ....+++4-. 12 months er and plunging into the harbor. waren WR aE em ) @ f e