The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1928, Page 1

that only about os laboratories had 17 STATES SEND DELEGATES TO NOMINATING CONVENTION SHE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FCR THE ORGANiZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK EEE SR) eters aan ae alah | A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 118. SPENT LIFETIME IN STRUGGLES OF AMERICAN LABOR Was 66; Near Death for Many Years MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., May! 18.—William D. Haywood, Com- | munist and founder of the In- dustrial Workers of the World, | died in Moscow today. Death, caused by diabetes complicated by heart weakness, ended a lifetime spent in the revolutionary labor movement. He was 66 years old. For several weeks Haywood had been in a weakened condi- tion. The vitality with which he resisted his illness surprised the physicians which the gov- ernment of the Union of Social- ist Soviet Republics assigned t treat him. MILL BOSSES GET TERMS TO SETI MillCommitteésDema: | More Pay, Less, Hours NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 1° --- Answering to the loud cries of th mill owners and other business inter- , ests of the city that the city is suffer- | ing keenly the paralyzing influences | of the 5 week-old anti-wage-cut strike of 30,000 textile workers here, W. T. Murdoch, secretary of the Textile Mill Committees of New England, sent a letter to the head of the cotton manufacturers association, calling up- on the employers to reopen the mills on a schedule of a 40-hour week and a 20 per cent increase in wages. The | reopening of the mills-under such cir- cumstances will serve “as a means of assuring work for all and prosperity | to the city of New Bedford, its work- ers and merchants,” the letter further said. Opposes Compromise The letter was addressed to Andrew Raeburn, president of the New Bed-| ford Cotton Manufacturers’ Associa- tion and calls for an answer within two days of receipt of the letter. It also states specifically that the reopen- ing under these conditions takes place Monday, May 21. At a meeting called by the Textile Council for this purpose, the Polish organizer had openly declared that the Polish workers should accept a 5 (Continued on Page Two) DENTAL STRIKERS THE Published daily except Sunday by The N Publishing Association, Inc., 833 First Street, New York, N. ¥, ae ___Eatered a as second-class matter at the Pos Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 187, ations! Dal Dally we Woke) kr SADE Cc NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1928 { ) See ce | American Communist Leader Dead in Moscow WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD i | and his stepfather were both miners. W. D. HAYWOOD’S LIFE WAS ONE OF STRUGGLE William D. Haywood was born in 1869 in Salt Lake City. His father At the early age of nine he began his \tion of the International Ladies’ Gar- |ment Workers’ Union, finally ended| ‘life of wage slavery. From 1885 untilgl901 he worked underground in fhe mines of Nevada, Utah, other states, with one interruption, when he “homesteaded” on govern- ment land; but this farm was re- claimed without compensation by the government, and he went back to the mines. As a young lad at the time of the hanging of_the Haymarket martyrs, he followed the story of their trials avidly in the papers, and recognized the ferocity of the ruling class. From eagerly discussed the class struggle with an old miner who had been ac- tive in the Knights of Labor. In 1896 Haywood joined the Western Federation of Miners, one of the most militant and advanced organizations of the American working class, which later joined with other groups to |form the I, W. W. “We know the class struggle in the west,” Haywood said many years ON TRIAL MONDAY Employers Hit Workers, Union Charges The eight striking dental mechan- ies arrested Thursday face trial Mon- day morning in the Gates Ave. Magis- - trates Court, Brooklyn. They were arrested when picketing the den- tal laboratories of Benard Krasnoff, 1045 St. John’s Place, and the Ber- ger Laboratory, 1111. St. John’s Place, both in PR. Cosgrove Brooklyn. The Strike Leader. ‘workers are R. Sterenggseld, M. Poag, A. Scheinder, W. Boeppicher, H. Flynn, H. ‘Bordie, H. Wagner and K. Daub. The strike of more than 1,000 work- ers, being conducted by the Dental Laboratory Workers’ Union, has closed practically every dental lab- oratory in the city, according to P. Pascal Cosgrove, organier of the union, in a statement issued last night. He spoke at a mass meetingz of the strikers held at the Labor Tem- ple, Second Ave, and 14th St. It was announced at the meeting fected by the strike later. “The Western Federation of Miners is a fighting organization of the working class. It was born in jail and we are proud of our birth,” he explained, speaking of the strike in 1892 which led to the jailing of miners and the subsequent forming of the union. Haywood became the secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, and himself spent years in prison on its behalf. Later he came under the influence of Debs and the socialist philosophy, and, until 1913, when he was “re- called” from the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, was one of its leading figures. He then became a leader of the left wing which arose during the struggles over “direct action” and which led to the triumph of the opportunists in 1912. Haywood then left the Socialist Party. The I. W. W. geet its eventful career in 1905. “This is the Continental Congress of the working class . . .” were Hay- ‘ood’s opening words to the Chicago convention in June 1905. “There is no organization that has for its pur- pose the same object as that for which you are called together today... . The American Federation of Labor is not a workingelass organization.” He spoke of the A. F, of L. tendency to exclude all but the highly skilled (Continued on Page Two) Idaho and® this time he felt himself a rebel, and | from the ranks ct organized labor, th COMINTERN LAUDS Traces Life in Service of Revolution (Special tv The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 18.—The Commu- nist International joins the Workers (Communist) Party, of America in mourning the death of the valliant revolutionary fighter, William D. Haywood, who stood for years in the forefront of the class struggle. It is significant that during the closing years of his life he found refuge from the rage of American capitalism under the protection of the proletarian power in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Beginning his fight amongst the western miners, Haywood brought inspiration for courageous, undaunt- ed resistance that may well find echo today amongst the mine work- ers in their present struggle. Hay- wood’s brave efforts in the pre-war period helped to prepare the soil for the creation of the Communist Party of America. His memory in these days will help American labor build it into a mass Communist Party. Haywood is dead. Long live the American Communist Party. Long live the world revolution! EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL. HAYWOOD CAREER CLOAK RANK AND FILE RALLY TO STRUGGLE ANEW Hillquit, Lawyer, Acts) As Matchmaker BOSTON, Rac. “May, 18.—The}| convention of the Sigman and Schles- inger henchmen, ostensibly a conven-| Thursday night with expected re- sults. A peace was finally concluded between the two opposing cliques scrambling for the remains of the destroyed workers’ organization. Morris Hillquit, hired attorney,} played the role of peacemaker after| an earlier attempt by him had failed. Sigman was unanimously reelected president, as was Sigman’s Secretary- | Treasurer Baroff, and Schlesinger, who came to Boston as a contender cl Sigman’s presidential crown, — will lleave Boston as one of the dozen or so vice presidents. Manufacture Offices. | A further step taken by the Sig- |man gang to mollify the desires of \the Breslau-Schlesinger. followers was to enlarge the General Executive Board from 15 to 17, in order to per- mit Schlesinger to obtain vice presi- dencies. The new board is to be composed | of ten vice presidents from New York, and 7 from outside locals. Sigman) gets all 7 from out of town, and five.) from New York. To the five of Sig- | man’s New York hands is to be added | the votes of Sigman and Baroff thus outnumbering Schlesinger in his own stronghold, For this concession to the other gang, Sigman demanded a unanimous election of himself as president. This | was granted, one of the Schlesinger crowd moving the Sigman nomina- | tion. | Mobilize For Action. | While the sessions in Boston were being ended, the cloak and dressmak- ers in New York were mobilizing their forces to renew their struggle | for a real union. The statement of program and the call to action issued by the National Organizing Commit- tee of progressive delegates, which was published in yesterday’s DAILY WORKER, was rapidly being trans- formed into action by the formation of committees to carry the fight for union conditions and for the organiza- tion of the trade into all needle trades centers of the country. Rassian-Polish Branch. The Russian-Polish branch of the cloakmakers’ union will hold a mem- jbership meeting this afternoon at 315 E. 10th St. A report will be given by the branch’s delegates to the In- ternational convention, of events in Boston and their subsequent activi- ties, Shoe Workers to Hold Open Forum Tomorrow Considerable interest has been aroused by the plan of the Associated Shoe and Slipper Workers’ Union to hold a series of open forums for dis- cussion of problems in the trade. The first of these is to be held to- morrow, Sunday, at 11 a. m. at the ‘Youth Center, 122 Osborne St., Brook- lyn. All organized and unorganized workers of the trade are urged to icome to the forum. Discussion will SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. | HAYWOOD, FOUNDER OF 1. W.W., DIES IN MOSCOW FINAL CITY DAILY WORKER. ° EDITION Price 3 Cents The New Bedford textile bosses have been issuing piteous appeals against the “inhumanity” of the strikers’ children appearing on the picket line or in street demonstrations. But nothing could keep the chil- dren who have been feeling the pinch of hunger for months, from joining their parents’ fight against the wage cut. outside the closed mills. Picture by They are shown here singing New Bedford Evening Standard. BA YONNE OIL WORKERS WILL SPREAD STRIKE BAYONNE, N. threats of the 2,500 which the ranks of the workers stood. firm against their bosses. Spreading of the strike to the Standard Oil Company plants as the best single means of insuring victory was foreseen here: today as the next step. The thousands of workers which would then be out would compose one solid body to which even the oil trust would have to bow. Sentiment among the Standard Oil Company workers, it was learned is strong for such a movement particularly since these workers regret not having stood with the Tidewater workers in 1921. At a meeting held this afternoon (Continued on Page Two) WORKING WOMEN science nM TO MEET TODAY Expect Many Delegates at Conference The heroic role played by the wom- en in the coal fields during the pres- ent strike in Pennsylvania and Ohio will stimulate New York working women to come out of many shops and industries to attend the confer- ence of working women at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., at 2 p. m. today. The conference has been called to organize the New York Working Women’s Federation. The federation will have for its pur- pose, according to the Working Wom- en’s Conference Committee, which has called the meeting, “the defense of the interests set orn women everywhere.” It i8o be “a perman- (Continued on Page Seven) Volunteers Needed to Aid at “Red Center” Volunteer painters, carpenters, plasterers and electricians are wanted to help in the renovating at the new Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, tomorrow and Sunday. Those eager informal and free to all, to aid should ask for’ the manager, Workers Center. JAPANESE HA RTY CONVENTION Senator Katay Katayama Warns of War Danger in Endorsement MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., May 18.— Greetings to the National Nominating Convention of the Workers (Com- munist) Party from Sen Katayama and the Communist Party and revo- lutionary workers of Japan have been received by the National Office of the American Party. The text of the greetings follows: “Comrades, you are going to select ie bearer of the revolutionary ban- 2 Lhd the coming elections to lead ‘the American workers and farmers in their fight and contest against all bourgeois parties. “You alone are the leaders of the American proletariat and peasantry, and you alone represent their true interests. “Comrades! A world war is com- ing. Nay, it has already been begun by the Japanese imperialist action in China, Uncle Sam is looking for war- profits in China. Imperialist nations|_ intend to attack the Soviet Union, the only republic of workers and pea-|~ sants! “It will be your supreme oppor- tunity to inform the American pro- letriat of the absolute necessity of re- sistance and fight against the coming war and the preparations for it. “Long live the Workers’ Party Nominating Convention! Long live (C4ptinued on Page Two) ’ J., May 18.—Indignant rejection of Ahe te Tidewater Oil Company striking and underpaid employes back to third day of a spontaneous strike in@ and frighten its) k featured the SANDING BRANDS COOLIDGE PIRATE Sends Letter toe.2S: in its rt | former Hungarian |time {United States—is preparing to wreak lits vengeance and hatred on another Bela Kun Protest at Union Square Today Sigman ae Boss as Fakers Make Peace , LEADER'S RELEASE TO BE DEMANDED ‘ATMONSTER MEET “Kun’s Life Hangs in Balance,” Says LL.D. The immediate and unconditional release of Bela Kun, leader in the Soviet Republic, ; will be demanded at a demonstration in Union Square at 1 p. m. today! under the auspices of the Internation-/ al Labor Defense. Kun is now a} prisoner in Austria, the Hungarian government demanding that he | be turned over to them. This would’ mean certain death, aceording to the | defense organization. In a final appeal to the workers of | New York to rally to the demonstra- | tion, Rose Baron, secretary of the | New York section of the I. L. D., yes- terday declared: “Workers of New York! The life j of Bela Kun hangs in the balance. |'The life of our comrade, the life of the great leader of the Hungarian workers and peasants, symbolizing ‘the revolt of all of the world’s op- \pressed, may at any moment be tor [tured into extinction by the bloody fascist rulers of Hungary. In U.S. Footsteps. “Less than a year after the capi- talist class showed its contempt for the mass protest and power of the |workers by murdering Sacco and Van- zetti, the same capitalist class—this in Hungary instead of the Mine Manager lgreat fighter for PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua, |masses, May 18.—Following close upon news! «what will be the answer of of a battle between United States) American workers to this Ne ee marines and Nicaraguan nationalists|yerywhere, in every corner of the north of Matagalpa in which one ma-| globe, the workers are rising to de- the oppressed rine was killed, Harry Amphlett, | manager of the American-owned La} Lus and Los Angeles mine, announced | the receipt of a letter from General | Sandino, | Amphlett, who is on his way to| New York, made a trip to the Pis| Pis River district where he found that the letter’from Sandino which said, in part: “In case the government of the United States does not order the with- drawal of the pirates from our terri- tory there will be no guarantee in this country for the North Americans re- | siding in Nicaragua. At the begin-}| ning I believed that the people of North America were not in agreement with the abuse committed against | Nicaragua by the government of Cal-|} vin Coolidge, but I am now convinced that the people of North America ap- plaud the intervention of the Coolidge government in my country. “The losses you may have suffered from destruction of your mines you may collect from the United States (Continued on Page Three) Bunker Hill Closed To Socrates Sandino BOSTON, May 18.—Boston police who broke up Sacco-Vanzetti protest demonstrations last year again yes- terday swung into action by prevent- ing Socrates Sandino, brother of Gen- eral Augusto C. Sandino, commander of the Nicaraguan army of liberation from placing a wreath of red and black tulips at the base of Bunker Hill Monument in honor of his brother, The fact that Sandino did ai have a permit was used by the police as an excuse to prevent him from placing the flowers, Jugoslavy Workers Give) Miners’ Relief Concert An elaborate concert for the relief of the striking miners will be given tonight by the members of the Jugo- slay Workers’ Club this evening at their headquarters, 347 East 72th St. The entertainers will include a pian- ist, a violinist, baritone and tenor singers, and several interpretive dancers. jers lag behind? mand the release of their leader and comrade, Bela Kun, Everywhere: |workers are rising to the defense of their class. Will the American work~ Will the workers of; New York, who have seen some ef, the chief murderers of the Hungarian workers welcomed in this city by the flunkeys of Tammany Hall, who have witnessed official welcomes to the despotic hangmen of other countries —will the workers of New York stand by and allow the arrogance of the capitalist class to complete its triumph with the murder of Bela | Kun?” The demonstration is expected to be the largest of its kind in the (Continued on Page Two) DOCK WORKERS OF CANTON ON STRIKE Act Is Protest Against Japanese Imperialism CANTON, May 18.—Canton dock workers have gone on strike to pro- test against the attempt of the Jap- anese government to increase its in- fluence.in Shantung and Manchuria, Longshoremen and lightermen re fused to unload cargoes of Japanese ships. Efforts are being made by unions to persuade the Japanese men to join the strike. * * * TOKYO, May 18—Plans for the despatch of additional units of in- fantry, artillery and aviation forces to Tientsin are being made by the War Department, The Kuomintang troops are push- ing their way toward Peking, accord- ing to reports received here. Both gen- erals Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Shi- shan, war lord of Shensi provinces, are struggling to reach Peking first. SHOVELER MEN ARBITRATE — DAYTON, O. (FP) May 18,—Local 482 of the steam shovel and hoisting engineers has called off its Dai strike for higher wages and will bitrate an agreement to sueceed 1 one expired May Le