The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1928 Union Leader Endorses the Activities of National Miners’ Relief Committee “BED 6 CENTER” ART NEW JERSEY LAUNCHES “DAILY WORKER” SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE HEARING R REPORTS An SHOW IS POPULAR : WITH WORKERS Exhibition tio Continue Until June 2 Art for the worke s the aim of the art exhibition t conducted at th 26-28 Union which has evo from many ed th professi resented Wolff, M. Pass, 2 ciheit. Gel- mel mere of Ox and V: tie picture ‘of eoal n a mine. Lydia vivid pictu Children R Police at a P Striking ™ yania, Autumn o: Among the stern Adolf Wol usually su Tresea, editor of Il Max Harkavy, Amer ad of Carlo , by Mina amples of the ¥ w and Kunias artists, Kandinsky. Beaton, the American—exp Burliuk, Efroyim, Alexand - N. Weisman, Dorothea Dreier and| Max Weber, con: red by many the | outstanding American artist. i The exhibition, which is on the! sixth floor of the Workers Center, is | ily from 4 to 9 p. m. and from | m. on Saturdays and Sun-! ¥ Admission is 25 cents. All those bringing a dollar’s worth of| Workers Center “Bricks” .will be ad- mitted free. The exhibition will continue until | Saturday, June, 2, the day. when the | concert and dance will be held at the} Center, at which prominent working | class leaders will speak and the red, | revolutionary banner, on view at! the Center, will be awarded to the | unit collecting the most mon drive for $30,000 to es Workers Center. The aw made by William W. W trict organizer of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and secretary of the board of directors of the Center. Tickets for the affair are 75 cents and can be secured at 26-28 Union Square. ' In the time that remains until the | concert Workers Party units are | urged to devote all their energies to collecting campaign pledges and | raising their quotas. Camp The entire Trombinick Aids. | proceeds from Camp| Trombenick at Glenham, N. dur- | whieh is to be held in Brooklyn, is| ing the week of May 26 to June 4 being organized b ythe Associated will be devoted to the building fund Ii of the Workers Cdater ft is ipper Workers Union. nounced last Max M will ‘be held throughout | manager of the camp. k to diseuss conditions in the | programs are being acrenged deine tr: problems of organization and the entire riod. The New York zg union mat . Prom.| office of the camp is at 41 Union| : Square, Room 714. | ig ninaece abies Boston Furriers Ask Meet to Rebuild Union | (Continued from Page One) . the purpose of putting an end to the + fight in the union, which is breaking our locals, and for the purpose of bringing about a united Internation- | "al to make possible energetic organ- | ization work in every locality, which is the only thing that can safeguard | ~ the wages, conditions and local unions | _ of all fur workers, dressers and dy- ers, and “Be it further resolved, that this papers, to the International Sub-Com- mittee and to every local union, and ask the locals, in their own interest, to adopt the same resolution and send it to the International Sub- ¢ Committee.” a decthugasaghbaar secu ct Dance and Vaudeville DETROIT, May 16.—A dance and Vaudeville show will be given Satur: yy, at 8 p. m. at Martins’ Hall, 4959 | tin St., under the joint auspices the Workers (Communist) Party, Section 3, and the Young Workers (Communist) League, Branch 1, @ program will include a play written by Walter Trumbell, which expose the militaristic purposes i gs Citizens’ Bulitary, Training P | ment agents were busy with various In Detroit Saturday intensive DAILY WORKER ion drive was launched at an peer iastic meeting of the New Jer- sey subdistrict of the Workers (Com- munist) Party last night at the New- ark Labor Lyceum, 93 Mercer St., Newark, Two National Training School stu- 100% F 2 dents, George idressed the n |peal for an act new subscriptic WORKER in Saul and Kellogg, ad-j ‘gf and made an ap- mpaign to secure | N Jersey. A com- imrittee of four was immediately elect- | led to take charge of this work. They jare Irving Freiman, J. Gaal, subdis- mdamentalist Wins Battle For God Smith nt of f hikeiem, of $3,000 because rprencher, Dr. Head vanceme and John Roae d guilty of ion, center, thi piagy ‘ba. eotmpetiesd 40 sylend thead yours Ge tall of too persistent efforts to convert Straton. Straton brought ing annoyed god’s shep- his wife and son on their Dry Men Earn | Pin Money on| a, Trade ney N, Peleg 0, had aueeaned ials, all big ‘alo enforcement will probably get the gate or the gocd of the service” result. asa It hat they have been disco verting alcohol from the plant of the Illinois Alechol Company here: luminaries invol coe C. on Included among the ved are Judge Ros- Yew York, fo n strator of f ; Michael H. Stapleton, New York aan chief of the Buffalo dry office, and several others. They are charged with being the leaders of an organization including 38 men now r indictment. While other prohibition enforce- duties, the accused dry officials slipped away with 108 carloads of aleohol from the distillery. Bribes totalling half a million dollars were WEISBORD 10 TALK AT WOMEN’S MEET Federation Conference Here on Saturday A program which will take up every phase of the struggle of the workingclass women in, the United States has been announced for the | working women’s conference to be theld at Irving Plaza, Irving Place |and 15th St., next Saturday, May 19 at 2 p. m., under the auspices of the |New York Committee for a Working Women’s Federation. The conference |to which all members of all working | women’s organizations, unions, house- |wives and parents’ organizations have been invited, has been galled |for the purpose of forming a federa- tion of all workingelass women’s or- ;ganizations in New York City. | Among the speakers will be Albert Weisbord, leader of the Passaic tex- tile strike, who will discuss the New Bedford textile strike, in which thous- ands of women workers are taking part; Rose Wortis, of the Dressmak- ers’ Union, who will tell of the strug- gles of the millinery workers; Gladys ‘Schechter and Sylvia Blecher of the Millinery Union; Jeseca Smith, au- | thor of “The Working Women in So- viet Russia;” and Juliet Stuart paid,to lubricate the transaction, it is Soret ‘SHOE WORKERS TO HOLD FORUM, Brooklyn Meeting Will Discuss Union Matters | An open Lara for per. workers, shoe and slip-| the first meeting of | ment will lead the forums. The meating at will be the first of a series is called | for Sunday at 11 a. m. at the Youth | Center, 122 Osborne St. All organ- ized and unorganized workers .of the trade are urged to come to the forum, Discussions will be informal and free to all. Workers will be given an op- portunity to diseuss the pressing problems, conditions, organization, | wages, hours and other issues in the | trade. Workers Greet Gordon (Continued from page one) of his experiénces at the reformatory, | and was able to say but a few words in response to the ovation he received. He told of his experiences at the re- formatory, describing the miserable conditions which the young prisoners are forced to endure. On his last night Gordon related, his blanket was jtaken away from him while he was asleep. Among the speakers who welcomed | Gordon were Bertram D. Wolfe, na- | tional agitprop director of the Work- ers (Communist) Party; William W. Weinstoue, organizer of District 2, Workers Party; Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER, Alexander Bittelman. Herbert Zam and Philip Frankfeld, of the Young Workers League, and Michael Gold, editor of the New Masses, AE well as leaders of the union} Brooklyn ‘which | Poyntz, chairman of the Committee 'for a Working Women’s Federation. |A working women’s program will be | proposed by Ray Ragozin and Hariet i 8 lverman. The life and death struggle of the aa and the heroic part of the mine women will be set*forth in a [2 sport by Fannie Rudd, of the Na- tional Miners’ Relief ers’ Relief Committee. MINERS? RELIEF BECOMES URGENT (Special to The Daily Worker) | PITTSBURGH, May 16. — Re- | spon to the appeals by the National’ Min Relief Committee for assist-| nee to the striking miners, their} wives and families have multiplied! during the past week. Eut side by} ide with the spreadirg and intensi- |fication of relief activity, the wants of the striking coal diggers grow ;more numerous and more urgent’ | daily. From the Kiski Valley where thousands of non-union miners are on strike, comes a plea to the office of the committee for one hundred tents. | These tents, sixteen feet square, will house a family of seven or eight. Each tent, delivered from the factory, costs} $45. One hundred tents, cons@- quently, would cost $4,500. | COstREERD, improvement of the | economic conditions of the or- | ganized clowns, acrobats, and other cireus and vaudeville actors who be- long to the Federated Novelty Acts, was described yesterday by Jack Wilbur, organizer of that associa- tion, now six months old. “Our organization,” stated Wil- bur, “represents the ranks and file novelty artists.” One of the principal objects of the organization is the elimination of the booking agents, Altho legally the agents are not entitled to more \tzict organizer; Constantine and Al- |fred Steines, Newark DAILY WORK- ER agent. It was decided that- the to The D A I L Y }committee visit every workingclass or- | ganization in the. city, Following this meeting, the Newark Council of the United Council of Workingclass Women held, a meeting DISTRICTS PLAN CONVENTIONS 10 VOTE DELEGATES Workérs Party to Have Strong State Lists (Continued from page one)’ fries aré unemployed and the army of the jobless is daily recruiting its ranks from the workers of mills and factories which are shutting down Only the action of the working class under the lead of the Workers (Com- munist) Party can force the bosses to change these conditions. ee CHICAGO, Ill, May 16.—An en- thusiastic gathering of 65 regular and 15 fraternal delegates, with ta of spectators, filled North West H: last Sunday afternoon when the ine Convention of the Workers (Com- munist) Party of Illinois convened Max Bedacht, organizer of District 5 called the convention to order and outlined the issues of the campaign A delegation of 10 was elected tc represent the state organization at he National Nominating Convention on the 25th of May. A state committee was also elected with instructions to place the required 29 electors on the ballot and to work out a state platform on the basis of the national platform that will be adopted in New York on the 25th. - is Ge ane 4 PHILADELPHIA, May 16.—The State. Nominating Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party in Penn- sylvania will be held in the city of Philadelphia May 24th, at 8 p. m., ir the Grand Fraternity Hall, 1626 Arch St. All units of the Party in Pennsyl- vania are instructed to elect regular delegates to-this convention on th: basis of one. delegate for every 2° members or major fraction thereof. k° * * J WHEELING, W. Va, May 16.— The state convention of the Workers Party of West Virginia will be hel¢ at the Arion Hall, 2000 Main St. Wheeling, Saturday, May 19 at 2 p.m The convention will nominate can- didates for president and vice-presi- dent*of. the United States and wil! elect. a state committee to be in charge of..the. coming election campaign Delegates to the National Nominat- ing Convention to be held in New York on Maye 25-27 will also be elect- ed. +e Michigan Nominations. DETROIT, Mich. ‘May 16.—The state*-convention of the Workers (Communist) Party of Michigan which’ will-nominate a full slate of candidates and elect-delegates to the National Convention, will be held in Flint, Michigan, May 19th. The con-* vention will be held in the Knights of Pythias Hall in the very heart of the city and will be called to order at 10 o’clock in the morning. Labor Defense Branch Formed in Reading, Pa, READING, Pa., May 16.—A Berks’ county branch of the International Labor Defense was organized at a meeting held at Labor Lyceum Hall Jacob J. Dolla, of Hamburg, for- mer class-war prisoner and leader of the iron and steel workers of Le- banon, Pa., was elected county or- ganizer. Pearl G. John and Fred Vig- man were named county secretary and assistant county secretary, re- spectively. It is expected that the organization just formed will be the parent body to a number of branches, especially foreign language branches, to be formed thruout the county. * deals directly with the theatre and circuit managers, five per cent of the earnings going to the associa- tion for organization activity. * * * ILBUR told of several incidents of the activity of the booking agents. “One act,” said Wilbur “was en- . gaged for $150 a week by an agent, who in turn sold it to a circuit for $400 a week. The difference be- tween the $150 and the $400 went ‘into the pockets of the agent. In than five per cent of the earnings of any act, in most cases they keep the major portion for themselves, Wilbur said.” The F, N. A., have arranged a booking office of its which OA i eR AO REE ARON RAE -addition, the act was compelled to pay the usual commission to the agent out of its $150, _ “(NE agent made a profit of $5,- (000,000 during the last six years } from Mie acts alone, This shows © the extent of Bed profits that are J ie in the samd hall and discussed plans for the subscription drive. In address- ing the meeting, Gaal stressed the im- portance of foreign-language workers subseribing to The DAILY WORKER | for the sake of their children, who | would otherwise redd ‘the capitalist press. Twelve new subscriptions were’ se: cured at the meetings to start-the drive in New Jersey. Other New Jer- sey. cities will also be visited by the two National Training School stu- | heats, Saul and Kellogg, and all | Workers Party members will be mob- ilized-in ‘the drive. Taxi Driver: s MES Children Face Starvation Destitute, and facing the prob- lem of supply- ing food to her two small chil- dren, Sylvia, 4 and Lena, 2, Mrs. Fannie Morelli has ap- pealed to the Parole Commis- sion for the re- lease of her hus- band, Charles, sentenced to jail for crushing @ pedestrian with his cab. APPEAL MADE IN CENTRALIA CASE Campaign Begun for I. W. W. Prisoners (Continued frem page one) years for conviction of murder in the second degree. They were arrested 4 Nov. 11, 1919, Armistice Day, after | they had defended their hall from the murderous assault~ of American Legionnaires. After a mockery of a trial, during which every form of intimidation prejudice and threat. was invoked on witnesses and jurors by the lumber barons and their police agencies, these I. W. W. boys were convicted » and have been continuously in -custods sinee then. The charge against them was that they had “deliberately and with pre- meditated malice killed one Warren 0. Grimm,” an American legionnaire. In ruling upon the defendants’ motion ‘or a change of venue from Grays Harbor county, on the ground of local prejudice, Judge Wilson said: “This sase cannot and must not be tried in this county.” Notwithstanding this, he arbitrarily denied the motion for a change of venue. The attorney for the Centralia prisoners was George Vanderveer who is also participating in the cam- paign now initiated for their release Among the main forces driving for the release of these framed-up work- ers, formerly active in organizing the Iumber workers, are Elmer Smith, I, W. W. attorney, Carl Brannin, of the Federated Press, John Kennedy of the Seattle Labor College, and the International Labor Defense. “Seven Jurors Ask Release. It is declared realiably that seven members of the jury have personally called upon Goy. Hartley and stated that the defendants had not had a fair trial, and asked that the Cen- tralia men be pardoned. W. H. Abel who conducted the prosecution, made a similar request in’ writing. These workers have wives - and families who are suffering actual physical privations on account of their imprisonment. It is plain to thinking workers that these men were con- victed and are held in prison for their opinions and labor affiliations, anc not for the crime»charged agains them, Chicago Atheists Meet CHICAGO, May 1 16.—The Russian branch of the American‘ “Association for the Advancement of Atheism held a special meeting for 150 students of the Chicago University. The Russian Workers’ Singing Society, the Russian Mandolin Orchestra and the Young Pioneers participated. SOLIDARITY FOR CLOWNS AND JUGGLERS " resolution should be sent to the news-'at New Labor Center New Federation Builds Branches in Detroit and Points West being made at the expense of the workers in the’ novelty trade.” The association’s “headquarters are at 148 W. 46th Street. Meet- ings are held every Thursday at 11 p. m. at 268 W.-47th St. Bran- ches will soon be organized in Chi- cago, San Francisco, Cleveland, De- troit and other large cities throughs | out the country. Three organizers are now on the road signing up members. They are Toby Wells, who works out of Chi- cago, Ben Belleclair and Joe Jack- son, Wilbur stated that the organiza- tion was started on a street corner in the midst of the Rialto the first “ the year, but today is spreading and gaining power as a defender of the rights of the su hehe BAH al “Honest” John to Go Abroad As “Observer” (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Il., May 16.— “Honest” John H. Walker, president of the Illinois State Federation of La- Insul Traction interests, has been ap-} pointed by the executive council of | the American Federation of Labor as} its representative at the International | Labor Conference which opens at! Geneva’ May 30. The American Federation of Labor, which has been moving nearer a union with the reformist trade union move-} ment of Europe without definitely joining ‘it; has designated Walker to be an “observer” at the conference, in this respect. aping the jargon of the U.S, State Department which likewise sends its “observers” to European conferences. Announcement of the selection was made by Leifur Magnussen, Ameri- can representative of the Interna- tional Labor Office, who is sailing. for Europe Saturday. TALK ON AT MEET OF AMALCAMATED (Continued from Page One) resolutions were handed in to the resolutions committee calling for a labor party, reinstatement of the ex- pelled left wingers, recognition of the Soviet Union, condemning fascism, and calling for an immediate cam- paign to obtain the 40-hour week Nearly all the other resolutions called for organization work in various cen- ters with the exception of a few con- demning the, piece-work system. It is believed here that these resolutions will be opposed’ by some of the ad- ministration forces, * * Call Hillman’s Bluff. In answer to the speech of Presi- dent Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, which is holding its biennial cofvention now in Cin- cinnati, in which ‘he great strides have been made in the organization of many open-shop cen- ters, and that the union has won many organizational victories, state- ments made by union employers in a trade journal deny that this is so. . Their statements particularly dis- agree with. Hillman’s declaration that the New York market is completely under union control and that the union won a victory in the million- dollar strike against the big firm, of S. Finkelstein and Co. They point out that the Finkelstein Co. moved out of town with their open-shop. where they now produce clothing un- molested by further organizational attempts from the union officialdom. -Disagreeing with the first state- ment, the manufacturers, who have union agreements, declare that a large) number of New York firms are send-| ‘ing daily ‘truckloads of cut material to ‘opei’Shops outside city limits. ‘There ‘the garments are produced much: ¢heaper with a much cheaper labor cost,” the employers complain: adding that the union heads know f these’ ‘conditions. z si Xe) EXTEND AIR LINES | - ‘The transcontinental Air Transport, Fadl the proposed new combination and rail system between the Atlantic and Pacifie, will be extended event- ually to include most of the Lent cities'of the United States. bor, red baiter and beneficiary of the} declared that} . cases. MANY THOUSANDS HAVE BEEN AIDED Body Has Saved Union He Declares (Special to The Daily Worker) STAMFORD, Conn., May 16.—En- dorsement of the National Miners’ Re- lief. Committee’s efforts in behalf of striking miners and repudiation of the attacks made on the committee by the officials of the A. F. of L. Bureau- eracy was made by William G. Hear- ing, president of the General Labor Union of Stanford and a member of the recent rank and file trade union committee to the Soviet Union. Made Investigation. Hearing has just returned from a trip of investigation of conditions in the Pennsylvania mine districts in be- half of the Stamford Central Labor Union. His conclusions are given in the following statement: “As a result of my visit to Pittss burgh to investigate the relief situa- tion in behalf. of the Central Labor | Union, I found that all the accusations }and attacks upon the Pennsylvania- | Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee by cer- |tain labor officials of this state are ‘false and unfounded. The Pennsyl- | vania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee {is the only organization that feeds , tens of thousands of striking union miners. If not for this committee the i strike would have been lost and the union destroyed months ago.” The officials especially referred to in the statement by Hearing are be- lieved td be Eagan, Seeretary of the Connecticut State Federation and Murphy of the New Haven Trades } Council who have been circulating slander and lies against the miners’ jrank and file relief committee at the | behest of John L, Lewis and William | Green. Divide with Strikebreaker. Eagan brought into the state a cer- | tain worthy by the name of “Butch” James of Illinois who has been driven \out of the mining camps in Pennsyl- |vania for being a notorious strike- |breaker, an agent of the coal opera- tors. Eagan and James spent some time collecting money supposedly for relief of the miners. For this work James is reported to have taken a rake-off of $16 per day. It is believed doubtful whether any money what- ever was turned over by James and Eagan to the miners. MILL WORKERS TO _ HEAR WEISBORD | (Continued from Page One) \ference with the officials of the Tex- ‘tile Council. The first break in the lranks of the bosses had an excellent effect on the spirit of all the strikers, despite its being one of the silk mills. The union membership working in this mill, however, are demanding that the agreement reached with the bosses be made public and voted on by the workers. It is believed that the re- scinding of the wage cut was not un- conditional. Ann’ Washington Craton, organizer for the Workers’ International Relief, announced that a complete staff of eanvassers for relief funds is already functioning in Boston. They are con- j ducting: house to house collections -}there, in spite of an’ announcement made by the Boston Central Labor Union that the W. I. R. collectors should not be supported. It was shown, and has been generally ad- mitted since the beginning of the strike that the W.:I. R. is the only working class source of strikers’ aid. The other relief committee, composed of city politicians and local charities several times closed doors saying that it had no more funds. Members of the Mill Committees are organ- izing squads to work among the fish- ing fleets here which bring in thou- sands of pounds of fish over the weak FRAME-UPS IN U.S, TO BE DESCRIBED Back from a country-wide lecture tour during which he visited Tom Mooney, Warren K. Billings and many other class war prisoners, |James P. Cannon, national secretary of the International Labor Defense, will tell workers of New York tomor- row evening the significance of the American frame-up system and dis- cuss the history of many famous The lecture, under the aus- pices of the New York section of the International Labor Defense, will be lgiven at 8 p. m. at Irving Plaza, E. 15th St. and Irving Place. v7 | Among the frame-ups that Cannon will discuss are those of the Hay- market martyrs, of Moyer, Haywood and -Pettibone, of Mooney and Bill. '|itigs and Sacco and Vanzetti. A fe ture*of the lecture will be’ the pre- | 5{|sentation of a free three-months’ ‘|subscription to the Labor i; bie wed the aL Nie Labor RG \ —_ |