The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1928, Page 2

‘eeelocal Union 1545. ead t * dey, presi Page Tro THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1928) SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE WILL BRING ‘DAILY WORKER’ CLOSER TO STRUGGLES OF WORKERS The departure of the 12 special) struggles of the American workers. DAILY WORKER subscription| agents for various parts of the coun- The | The new subscription drive that DAILY WORKER is starting try is looked upon as a significant} comes at a time when the working- Step on the part of the paper in the) class direction of closer contact with the! fron S. is being attacked With the progressive forces on many in the miners’ union now engaged in a bitter struggle to save their union from complete destruction at the hands of the coal barons and the Lewis machine, with the textile workers of New Bedford fighting for organiza- tion and against a wage cut, with the militant needle trades workers at-, spreading the influence of The DAILY tempting to save their once-powerful unions from the bureaucrats, the need of a fighting organ to represent this class-conscious rank and file is greater than ever. That need can be filled only by WORKER thru increasing subscrip- tions. The 12 special subscription agents now in the field must have the utmost cooperation of all the readers of The DAILY WORKER in their great task. Their feeling was well expressed by Louis Sisselman, sub- scription agent in the Pittsburgh and Ohio district, who declared just be- fore leaving: “All those who help to increase the circulation of The DAILY WORKER help to build a stronger and more militant labor movement in the United States. For the DAILY WORKER is the collective organizer of the work- ers and the chief fighter against the new offensive of the ruling class and their agents, the social traitors and labor bureaucrats.” LETTERS PROVE 'GANG 1S DOUBLE CROSSING MINERS Unseat Members; At- tack Daily Worker 15.—Fol- BARKE Yowing dire: the methods of the treacherous ppelini gang, the equally tr erous machine of the Brennan-McG forces at a final meeting of the General Body organ- ized pelin! machine, voted to unseat mem- bers fighting in the interests of the miners and carried through other measures which proved them to be} carrying out the policies of the arch-| traitor, Lewis. The Brennan forces in control of the meeting became enraged over the fact that the Save-the-Union Com- mittee exposed them by getting hold of a letter which they were trying to force Sam Bonita to sign. They were also very much wrought up when a letter from John L. Lewis was read which told the members of District 1 that no special district convention would be allowed. When a motion was made by a Save-the-Union delegate that the letter be exposed in the form of a letter to the local unions of District | 1, the Brennan forces were all up in the air and did not know what to do! next. tack Lewis and his letter. mobilizing their forces the chairman ruled the motion out of order; then After Frank McGarry, the so-called leader | of Pittston, got up highly incensed and read an article in The DAILY | WORKER in which he was exposed as a faker’ with Brennan and Harris| who are not really interested in the | miners, but merely after jobs. After reading the article, a motion} was made to exclude and unseat dele-| gate George Papcun from Local Union 1217 lowed the motion which was carried thru the steam roller tactics of the Brennan machine. Many miners took the floor and protested at what they called the| second Cappelini machine. This is the} second time that delegate Papcun has been unseated. At the meeting in Seranton a week ago Saturday the same thing was done. It is becoming evident also that Frank McGarry is using the Bonita issue for his own selfish interests and is also actually helping keep Bonita ‘in the Eastern Penitentiary. DENTAL WORKERS PLAN FOR STRIKE A strike of dental mechanics was planned last night at an enthusiastic meeting of the Dental Laboratory Workers’ Union held at .the Labor Temple, Second Ave. and 14th St. The workers demand a 44-hour week, time and a half for overtime and a minimum wage scale. The speakers at the meeting were George E. Powers of the Tos Workers’ Union and P. ion, presided. _ A meeting of the ers will be held at 10 a. m. today at the Labor Temple. Reading Gets “Record” for Child Labor - eemadahel Pa., May 15.—Reading, whose municipal government is lodged in the hands of socialists, ~~ holds the premier child slave record im the keystone state. Half of Read- ing’s children between the ages of 14 and 16 work in mills and shops. ' The socialist cooperative common- wealth has edged out Allentown, ' its neighbor, for first place in child exploitation. In the latter city “only” 40 per cent of the children “are wage slaves. They average $8.56 a week. Most of them toil in the textile mills, helping low-wage fathers and mothers to eke out a iserable existence. Recently the Reading socialist city fathers experienced slight em- ters engaged in construction of a ‘new school building. A vigorous on the part of the workers can them a speedy victory from the ‘0 oust the officials of the Cap-} Several speakers got up to at-| and Frank Vrataric of | A hot debate fol-| Brennan- McGarry- Harris. Forces Exposed as Treacherous Tools of Lewis | Where Boston Workers Had Narrow Escape | | | abit Trainmen on these cars of the narrow escape when the locomotive debris caused by the accident. Boston Terminal and went into the water. Boston Narrow Gauge Line had a erashed thru a bumper at the Hast The picture shows the TEXTILE STRIKE SPREAD IS SEEN Workers Maintain Solid| | Ranks (Continued from page 1) thruout New England where over 125,000 textile workers were forced to accept 10 and 20 per cent wage cuts. It took all the repressive power jof the mill barons, ably assisted by |the reactionary officialdom of the | American Federation of Textile Op- eratives and of the United Textile Workers to prevent spontaneous walkouts in many sections of New England. The militant leadership of the Tex- tile Mill Committees, rapidly gaining |recognition as the official union of the 23,000 unorganized workers on strike; the fact that in this one city are Bypass most of the coun- y’s mills producing fine cotton Sei and the increasing relief work of the Workers’ International Relief, are the three main factors that will keep the strike front as solid as it is, | expert opinion here declares. | pd Wea enlisting HILLMAN SLOGAN: (Continued from Page One) mittedly the only remedy for the in- creasing unemployment, it was only in the sense of endorsing it in prin- ciple only. That no steps for its at- tainment are even contemplated was evident from Hillman’s declaration that the New York delegation should go home from the convention and seek success in their coming negotiations with the bosses by obtaining the ‘‘un- employment and insurance” schemes. The line laid» down in- Hillman’s “Igeynote” speech will in all probabi jity be closely followed in the seven more days’ discussion. The success- ful poliey of cooperation with the s will be followed up by the new policy of loaning money to the em- ployers to tide them over a pinch Hillman declared. The recounting of great achieve- ments by the union was made by Hill- man despite the bitter unemployment in New York, the growing open-shop drive against the stagnant Joint Board in Milwaukee, the almost com- plete open-shop condition of the big Philadelphia market, and the virtual company-union condition of the or- ganization in Cincinnati, which de- pends for its existence on the good- will of the owners of the Nash Co. After a speech by Treasurer Schlossberg, and after the appoint- ment of a credential committee, the meeting adojurned to begin a series of nightly banquets, entertainments, sight-seeing tours for the 300 dele- gates and 700 invited “guests,” paid for out of the impoverished union treasury. ; “ASSIST BOSSES!” RADIUM VICTIMS FACE FURTHER COURT DELAYS NEWARK, May 15.—Not until Tuesday will the five women workers | for the presidential nomination of the | who are attempting to bring suit against the United States Radium Co. for | Party, Ben Gold leader of the New damages. know whether a preliminary hearing may be concluded this month | | York furriers; or postponed to September. The women, according to expert medical radium poison contracted when em- ‘ployed by the corporation, Thirteen women have already died | from the dreaded disease and it is| believed that all or some of the five | | will die before September. The attorney for the radium com-} pany, Edward A. Markley, maintains |that the statute of limitations bars them from suing. It was only after working for the company several years that the disease was diagnosed as radium poisoning. The five young | women were employed to paint lumi- nous letters on watch dials, using radium paint. They were instructed to wet the brush they used with their mouth and thus contracted the dis- ease. JAIL 58 NEW YORK FUR WORKERS (Continued from Page One) Recently the workers, whom the pol- ice, bosses and A. F. of L. compelled to register in the fake dual union, have begun an open revolt at the meetings of the right wing union. Fear Wrath of Workers. The local meetings held recently were the scene of so powerful a de- mand for a single united front that the reactionaries in control were com- pelled to break off their own meeting to prevent the passage of a severely |condemnatory measure. The decision which sends 58 work- ers to jail at this seemingly oppor- tune moment, for the reactionaries, has served as a boomerang to the right wing, if the deep resentment aroused among the workers in the fur manufacturing market is to be used as a guage. Sleeping Car Porters are toiling over tabulating machines counting a practically unanimous strike vote against the Pullman Co. Discharge, “discipline” and cor- ruption having failed to stem the porters’ demand for union recogni- tion, Pullman is using pulpit, press and college to undermine the union. Pullman’s powerful propaganda is penetrating into every corner of Dixie. College his leaders, lifelong friends, hemmed and hawed when | W. H. Des Verney, Negro organ- | izer, asked for the floor in student assemblies. Embarrassed, they ex- plained awkwardly that Pullman influences had indicated that Brotherhood speakers must be barred, if college students are to find employment,with the company in the future. Then they told Des Verney of Pullman’s three-year old policy of not hiring college men. So power- ful has been the union’s appeal to the imagination of Negro youth that the Brotherhood is known in ‘HOLD PITTSBURGH FOR NOMINATION | Ohio State Nominating | Convention Same Day (Continued from Page Qne) from a worker fresh from the firing line. % er ie | Convention Opening at Mecca Temple The greatest political meeting in New York this year will take place at Mecca Temple, 183 West 55th St. on Friday evening, May 25 when the New York workers will greet the delegates to the National Nominating Convention of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. A large number of speakers famous thruout.the country will be present to address the meeting. Among them will be, Scott Nearing, who has al- ready been nominated for the gover- norship of New Jersey; Lovett Fort Whiteman, one of the best known Negro édtéators in the country, will probably be the Party candidate for Senator from Alabama. Scott Wilkins is the probable @hoice of the Party for Governor of Ohio and Tom | Rushton for Governor of Michigan. William Z. Foster, leading candidate Senator Taylor of Montana, Robert. Patton, who will) probably run for Governor of Iowa, \testimony, are slowly dying from Anita C. Whitney of California, Ben |Gitlow, James P. Cannon, William | Weinstone and Stanley Clark of Oklahoma complete the list of speak- ers, with Jay Lovestone as chairman. The Mecca Temple meeting will be preliminary to the formal proceedings of the National Nominating Conven- tion, which will be continued Saturday morning, May 26 at Central Opera House, 67th Street and 8rd Avenue. The convention will devote itself to the adoption of a platform for the election campaign, the nomination of presidential candidates and the elec- tion of a National Campaign Commit- tee. A feature never yet witnessed at any convention will be the delegates coming from the workers of some of the largest factories in the country, such as the Westinghouse Co. of Pitts- burgh, the Ford Factories in Michigan and others, Wortis Will Address Women’s Conference (Continued from page one) tis est night. “Their, struggle has helped to set a new standard for workers in the five-day, forty-hour week. Their record of steady and courageous fighting has stirred ex- ploited women in many trades to un- derstand how helpless and futile the women workers are unless organized. “The militant dressmakers union has again demonstrated its ability to fight for the workers in the industry by repudiating the convention in Bos- ton controlled by the reactionaries. “The New York Working Women’s Federation which meets to organize next Saturday will support every ef- fort of working women in this and other trades to organize their forces. Militant workingclass women are de- termined to organize. The New York Working Women’s Federation is an answer and challenge to those who wish to keep working women divided.” champion of the rights of Negro workers. So Pullman is afraid to hire college men and is cutting out important avenues of employment for graduates, unless Negro col- leges and industrial schools see the light in the right way. * * * EITHER will Pullman hire north- ern Negro workers, as the result of the Brotherhood’s successful drive for membership and recogni- tion. And so their labor agents go into backward rural communities in Dixie to pick out young fellows to man the cars. Feariul that even these simple lads will be “infected” with unionism, labor agents warn them not to associate with northern Negro workers. They are “disloyal” and not to be trusted, these raw workers are told. Southern preachers are fed bun- combe, too. Pullman spreads wild tales about unionism’s attitude to- ward the church. Fingers are point- ed to Brotherhood leaders and the ‘MEETING SUNDAY: William J. Lougheed, who confessed that padded payrolls had resulted in more than $2,000,000 an- nually in graft .in the Street Cleaning Depart- ment of New York City, is shown in the picture standing by his wife. Bvery means is being used by Tammany politicians to deloy an investigation N.Y. WILL HEAR OF LABOR FRAME-UPS Cannon to Talk Here on Mooney Case “I have been fortified all thru these years of prison by my faith in the movement which I serve in this outpost of the class struggle and by the consciousness that, even, tho con- fined-here, I am an-instrument of the workers’ cause and a symbol of their struggle.” These were the words of Tom Mooney when James P. Cannon, na- tional secretary of the International Labor “Defense, visited him in San Quentin Prison, several weeks ago. The frame-up of Mooney and Billings will be one of the cases that Cannon will discuss in a lecture on the Amer- ican frame-up system Friday at 8 p. m. in Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irv- ing Place. The lecture was arranged by the New York Section of the I. L. D., 799 Broadway. In order to acquaint a larger num- ber of workers with the activities of the International Labor Defense, a three-months’ subscription to the La- bor Defender, organ of the I. L. D., will be given free to all those at- tending the lecture. HOTEL OWNER DIES IN FALL J. J. Lannin, wealthy hotel man and former Sox, was instantly killed today when he fell from a seven-story window of the Hotel Granada in Brooklyn. STRIKE! SAY SLEEDING CAR PORTERS Pullman Blac Blacklists College Trained Workers; Union 1 Is Hope LERKS of the Brotherhood of © every college as the outstanding © too, many Negro preachers swallow Pullman yarns and become tools of anti-union propaganda. * * * bo company is intensifying its drive to terrorize employes against the strike move. Loyal Pullman Porters’ Clubs have been formed in all parts of the country. In Washington, 12 men old in the service, were fired for union affilia- tion. Then they were invited back i! they would join the Loyal Club. One prominent unicnist ‘was given the choice of presiding at a Loyal Club dinner or quitting. Resolutions are passed expressing loyalty to the company. These are posted in the yards and all workers forced to sign them. The majority of the porters have voted for a strike to compel Pull- man to deal with the Brotherhood, despite every method known to in- dustrial tyranny. Porters are a unit in asserting that they too, like their white fellow-workers on the. rail- word “Bolshevik” is whispered into roads, want union protection and eredulous ears, In northern cities, | mean to get it, owner of the Boston Red| Street Cleaning Grafter Who toshs BIG CLOAK MEETS TODAY TO BEGIN FIGHT FOR UNION Sigman and Schlesinger Still Fighting (Continued from page one) Boston in an attempt to patch up the differences between the Sigman and Schlesinger-Breslau gangs. The referendum resolution, offered by Schlesinger in the hope of thus de- feating Sigman for the presidency was badly defeated by the Sigman forces after nine hours of wrangling on the convention floor, The vote National Biscuit Co. Redoubles Speed-Up (Continued from page one) same work hour after hour, it would be some relief. Many of the workers try to win the favor of the straw bosses so that they may some day become straw bosses themselves. And that is just what our bosses want. They want a big supply of sneaks and slave-drivers to do their dirty work for them. We must learn that by uniting ourselves into a union will we make the bosses give us better working conditions, fmore pay and shorter hours. COAL BOSS’ JUDGE JAILS 4 MINERS (Special to The Daily Worker) was 134 to 56. Conferences are still going on, how- ever, in the hopes of smoothing out the squabble for control of the In- ternational. Sigman in the negotia- tions, it was learned, refused to give to Schlesinger any of the strategic positions in the admiuistration of the International. Schlesinger on the other hand has as yet refused to ac- cept mere membership in the general executive board. In the 9 hour discussion it was frankly admitted by several of Sig- man’s opposition that the cloakmak- ers the bosses had compelled to regis- ter were rapidly openly fighting them. URGE PROMPT AID |FOR “RED CENTER” Weinstone Addressing All Party Units (Continued from page one) day, but we are,far behind the sum of $30,000, and within four weeks we must make another payment of $12,- 000 in order to take full possession of the building, and in order that the Workers Party and The DAILY WORKER should be able to move in. Proper alterations are necessary, which involves another expense of a few thousand dollars. Therefore, we urge every comrade to speed up col- lections and rush them to the Center as soon as possible. All the collection lists and lists of bricks must be re- turned within a week. “On Saturday, June 2, we will have a wind-up affair with a great concert and addresses by prominent leaders of this district. A large red silk ban- ner will be presented to the unit which will secure the most money for |the Center. “Every unit must secure tickets at once as the seating capacity of the hall is only 600. “Our office from now on will be on the sixth floor and will be open CADIZ, Ohio, May 12 (By Mail).— Two miners and two sympathizers yesterday began serving twenty-day jail sentences here for violations of injunctions issued by the notorious Judge Benson W. Hough who has been seeking through evictions and other means to break down the morale of the strikers. One of those sentenced is a woman. Andy Blahovec, Tony Cicagna, Mary Pospisil and Joe Horsky, the four sen- tenced workers, were arrested at Dil- Flonvale while picketing the Dillon No. 1 mine on March 13. When they were brought into court on May 8th before Judge Hough who issued the injunction which they were | charged with violating, the mere fact that they were Save-the-Union adher- | ents was. enough to send them to jail for a period of twenty days although no violence had been proved against them. Mrs. Pospisil, however, had bitten the finger of a guard. Joe Horsky, a railroader, was not even with the pickets at the time when they were arrested, having been pick- ed up later, was nevertheless remand- ed to jail. { The International Labor Defense defended the victims and althoug! their defense was equally as well pre pared as that of a number of Lewis supporters who came before the same | judge that day, still these pedple were “sent to prison while the Lewis mer got off with suspended sentences. At a mass meeting held on May tith, the day before they went to prison which was addressed by John Watt of the Save-the-Union Commit- tee and Carl Hacker of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, the workeré voiced their protest against this per- secution and 135 of them joined the International Labor Defense, OUT OF JOB, TAKES POISON Despondent through lack of work, Billie Forsythe, a trained nurse, took veronal tablets in her room at the Hotel Manger. She was removed to the Reception Hospital in a serious condition. Luring the war the nurse served with the Red Cross in France. daily from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. “Fraternally yours, “W. W. Weinstone, secretary. “P. S.—The exhibition of paintings sod sculpture by, proletarian artists will continue unui June 2. Come and bring your friends. Admission is 25 cents at the door.” All units are urged to make this letter and its instructions their chief order of business and to get to work immediately to raise their quotas. Naughty Smith Irntated Pal of God, Is Finding OHN S. SUMMER, the Mrs. Grundy; of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and the Rev. John Roach Straton, preacher at Calvary Baptist Church, enjoyed a victory at the hands of the Court of Special Sessions yesterday when - Justice Elsworth Healy found C. L Smith, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, guilty. He was released under $500 bail for sentence May 21. Smith was accused by the Rey, Straton of send- ing him propaganda which he claims he warned him not to do. Smith claims he sent the pastor of Calvary Baptist Church literature to “win him away from the woman- hating philosophy of the New Tes- tament” and denied that he ever intended to annoy the minister with sex, birth control and irreligious subjects. | One communication was. a copy of the “Truth Seeker,” published by the atheist association, with a marked paragraph on the Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary. The representative of God also objected to having the 14-year-old girl evan- gelist, Uldine Utley characterized as the tool of her “religious backers.”