The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1928, Page 2

AT ANE AR AERO, di aniebiaeXLe Amalgamated Convention Buries Resolution for Soviet Union Recognition HAYWOOD'S LIFE. a! sits SARAH VICTOR KEEPS UP EXCELLENT WORK; SENDS 35 NEW SUBS thru efforts, that 35 workers will have The DAILY e jsecured, her from) in their Reg against the bosses! sections of the country, devoting all F Sarah Victor, , DAILY WORKER ‘pennsylvania coal miners. Sarah} WORKER’ with them, fighting for |and the labor betrayers by reading their energies to increasing the in- p agent in Detroit, is keeping up her} Victor doesnot content herself with them, inspiring them, telling them The DAILY WORKER regularly. _| fluence of the paper among the work- | It is to reach these workers that] ers. aaah od work in the auto city. She has ‘her own territory, but tries to spread| what their féllow-workers in other All possible support should be The DAILY beerip ees WORKER Five 35 of these were in to the circulation department! ye DAILY WORKER wherever pos- neW ‘sible. Thess: 35 new paubecriDtions mean| Tooting of Goes M On Ti n Horns ithondiala Endangered i in Tndnaend Fire Traps| CINCINNA Tho is together, Rank is wo: oF and I ment, going over a list of tenement New York workers in ‘wretched tenements, fire traps of the worst sort. Margaret Sitzler Lee, a former actress, whose stage career was ruined by burns received in a fire, nas started another one of those philanthropic move- ments to rid New York City of fire traps. pretend to be very much concerned. Photo above shows Miss Sitzler with Walter C. Martin, commissioner of the’ Tenement House Depart- and their families are huddled The city officials, of course, houses, on- ‘NJ. OI STRKE “> CLOSES PLANTS 2.500 Workers Jeer the Company’s Terms ‘vention »th- ing Workers’ Union her virtually turned i n tinued one or another of-| y or-} Delegation m for the| New Yor (Continued from page one) t which the strikers were addressed y ard For chairman of the committee, the company’s and threats to forfeit certain on rights and sick benefits if {the strikers did not immediately re- turn to work were read. Shouts of dignation and unanimous condem- ation of the company’s message was voted, ration’ of af-{ vention had the New inaalel Vicious Conditions. he signal |i 9, o-s:. : - an was about| Conditions under which the Tide- The New York| Water Company and the other com- i to parade around |panies exploit their employes have at i: to the melodious | 28¢ forced these workers to strike can national an-|j2 4 mass body. The chief grievance Acd Ranier » {in addition to the fearful speed- -up 3 ’ |which the company has set up is the indirect wage-cut which the company has set in through a system of shift- to other departments in ir pay is reduced and then strai: then in- wh D g|employing other men at less pay. In ¢ [addition the workers are aroused over {the dismissal of John Rooney, on then began, | Pumpman by the company. >" | Discussions among the men indi- supplied with| cate that while there was at first histles, some doubt as to the need of extend- Ae ling the strike, the men are now be- ginning to see that this is'the only 'S|way to beat powerful bosses. Experience Shows. ed Experience with large scale strikes r ofthe Joint Board, | also proves that the workers in Bay- t of noise was later|onne in order to win must immedi- a ‘up and ran o Wemonst Miller, tre ately begin mass picketing at their eres Wolmar plant. This is of the greatest im- Bank, spoke « Hai hc t a Thirdly, they must immediately peomplishm among their trusted men a pick- mittee who will lead them x and take part on the ey must form a bona- organization absolutely in- t from the company. They mot trust any company represen- s or those who speak indirectly avor of the company. discuss tt eri @mployment in Tack of union aria counter a by g them} al fools, singling out one who won-| .“ deringly ned whethe the} ™ nalgamat ; a business organi-| , 4 Yation or a union. ‘Another’ resolution offered against ‘ x the piece Wor stem defeated Might. for the~ 44-hour —weelt; fe: ete a resolution was |™2ny Workers who have far less ‘onl - m ;..|dangerous work now work even less yoted ask the general ecutive . 1 Board to bring in the 40 hour week as |'R@™ 44 hours. oa as they found it practicable, a ight Speed-up. — 7. Fight against the infamous Viadeck, manager of pars r * Ugocialis mewn Daily Porward, |Speed-up system which is being in- ached the climax of his speech | |stalled co bathe aie biden Salt jen he declared that “one Amal-| °- Begin immediately mass dem- nk is worth more than all |/O"Sttations at the Standard Oil plant a Lenin have ever writ. 17 order to draw out these other eich ng this brilliant con- workers who are your brothers and @usion, the leader of the “socialist” without whom the bosses may ‘be able ~ te beat you. ee ee rors on the ominne | What is good for the bosses is not tia SPR atid enw |good for you! They will oppose ‘all of these points. The workers must Bomb Damages Home of (sieht for them! Extend the strike; mass picketing; ja real labor union; rank and file con- Elliott, Executioner 1; bett s. Fighti i The home of Robert G. Biliott, of. |r URN TARR, Ceecae wae jal execut < New York, ssachusetts lvania, oe Report Bubonic Plague wked by a bomb early yesterday | ning. His home is located in Dun- In Argentine Cities eas. 1, ‘© bombs exploded, one on the | BUENOS AYRES, May 18—One mt porch of the two-story stucco {man has died as the result of an epi- and the other somewhere at |demic of bubonic plague that has ap- peared in Rosario, according to re- lott Was executioner in the |ports from that city. Vanzetti case as well as in the; A number of cases are reported also ‘Snyder and ‘6a Gray. | in Buenos: Ayres, % ‘ Cooperative League Festival ‘Tomorrow Choral singing and band music as well as announcements and speeches will be broadcasted by loud speakers placed throughout the picnic grounds tomorrow, when 12,000 members of consumers’ cooperative societies hold their spring festival at Ulmer Park, Brooklyn. Three societies, united in the ern States Cooperative League, do an annual business of about $3,500,000. This is the first time loud speakers have been used te bring close together a large group of people scattered throughout an amusement park en- gaged in sports and other amuse- ments, KUN MEETING IN UNION-SQ. TODAY “Life of Leader Is in Danger,” Says I. L. D. (Continued from page one) United States. Every section of the New York working class is expected to be represented and many trade unions and other labor organizations will play an active part. “Prevent the Murder of Bela Kun!” “Today Bela Kun, Tomorrow Who?” “Down With Hungarian Fascism!” | These and other slogans will be raised by the workers during the demon- stration. Many Speakers on List. More than a score of prominent leaders of the working class will ad- dress the masses and demand the re- lease of Bela Kun in the name of the American workers. Among’ the speak- ers will be Jay Lovestone, James P. Cannon, William W. Weinstone, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Bert Miller, Richard Moore, Carlo Tresca, Martin Abern, D. Benjamin, Uicola Napoli, John L, Sherman, ert W. Dunn, Hugo Gellert, Emery Balint, Antonie Wechsler, Gustav Mayer, S. Biederman, Mailech Ep- stein, P. Pascal Cosgrove, M. E. Taft and Harold Brown. In case of rain the demonstration will be postponed until a date which will be announced later, according to the arrangement committee night. yy Louis Koves, Rob- | last parts of the world are doing every | week-day of the year. Thousands of other workers would be strengthened DAILY WORKER has been started. Twelve special DAILY WORKER agents are now in the field in various the new subscription campaign of The, given to these agents, who are active | fighters in the class struggle, bring- |ing to the workers the paper that is | essential to them in their struggle. wy {T STATES SEND DELEGATES FOR Farmers ‘in Delaware Dakota Are Eager (Continued from page one) the Workers’ Party and the Ameri- can Revolution!” Seventeen states have already elected their delegates to the Na- tional Nominating Convention of The Workers (Communist) Party which are loyal fighters in the class strug- gle in the United States. In the ex- treme northeast, the state of Maine is sending two fishermen, David} Jones and C, Thorwaldsen, to Tepre: | sent the workers of that state, many | of whom are engaged in the fishing | industry. From New Hampshire will come A. C. Iran, a militant worker in the old “socialist” party, who is at pres- ent active in the state Grange and a leading Communist in his section. The other delegate from New Hamp- shire will be Walter Pananen, a) granite worker and treasurer of his| local union. | The delegates from Vermont will be Leo. S. Ars, a farmer from Reeds- boro, M. P. Bales, very prominent in the labor movement of the state of Utah, has been elected from here. Texas is sending B. H. Lauderdale and J. Lawrence. Other delegates will be William F. O’Brien, a mine worker from Phoenix, Arizona. Wil- liam Detrich and George Saul from Colorado. E. Markeson,.and New- combe of Delaware, William Patten and Jay Silver of Iowa and Roy Stevens from Nebraska. South Carolina and Tennessee will be represented by Robert F. Small} and Oliver J. Golden, both. Negro workers. Oklahoma has elected Stan- ley Clar, famous thruout the middle west ‘as a champion of labor, while Paul Crouch, recently released from jail for anti-imperialist activities, has | been elected from North Carolina. The state of Washington is sending a party by auto with a delegation consisting of David Griffin, Negro lumber worker, Jean Sorenson, Al. Camp, Vivian Miller, and L. Denman. Baltimore, Md. sends a Workers Party delegation of five, and several fraternal delegates from sympathetic labor organizations. The Setam eon | consists of P. Stanton, paper hanger; |Joe Kress, carpenter; Philip Botkin, isteel worker; Gellant, shoe-maker, ‘and Louis Berger, tailor. ries anu 9 Ohio State Convention. | CLEVELAND, 0., May 18.—The State Nominating Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held in Cleveland at 10 a. m. May 20 at Jates Hall, 6006 St. Clair Ave. Leaders from all sections will be present to participate in the proceed- ings in a state which is torn by the miners’ struggle, by the general de- moralization of the labor movement, ‘the lowering of conditions, speed-up, and great unemployment. By a decision of the District Ex- ecutive Committee of District No. 2} jof the Workers (Communist) Party of America, arrangements have been made for a banguet to welcome the delegates to the National Nominating | Convention. The Banquet will be held at the Workers’ Center, 26-28 Union Square, jon Saturday evening, May 26. Tickets will be $1.50 each and reservations |will have to be made in advance. Tic- |kets are now on sale at 26-28 Union BIG CONVENTION will be held at Mecca Temple from | and Winthrop St., Brooklyn, were re- May 25 to 27. The delegates chosen | \ Union, Death and Disease Lurk i in City Sand Holes ~~ ERE a These sand holes at Clarkson Ave. sponsible for the death of Ruben Schreiber, 10 years old, who fell into a water-filled hole and was drowned. Tammany Hall, which gives fat con- tracts worth thousands of dollars to its favorite sons, has spent not a cent to remove these swamps, which breed disease and death. The drowning of Ruben Schreiber has started a move- ment among the residents of the dis- trict to have the swamps removed. Tammany Hall may give ear since this is election time. Photo at right shows Morris Schreiber, father of Ruben, and Frances, his sister, gaz- ing at a picture of the boy. Window Cleaners Union Continues Shop. Strike Picketing of the Beaver Window Cleaning Co., 76 Broad St., is being continued by the Window Cleaners’ officers of the union an- ‘nounced last night. It was also stated that the concern will soon have to agree to the workers’ demands as it has not been able to obtain sufficient strikebreakers, One conference has already been held with the employers. The workers demand $45 . weekly, 44-hour week and no discharge after two weeks’ employment without a satisfactory reason. More Pay,Shorter Hours Mill Committees Ask (Continued from Page One) per cent wage reduction and return to work in the mills. From the workers reporting this, it was learned that nearly the whole meeting marched out and immediately joined the Tex- tile Milk Committees, thus ending the attempt of the Council to rally the foreign-born workers. * 5 Pickets Arrested. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 18.— Four women pickets and one man, New Bedford mill strikers, are under arrest. International Labor Defense has taken charge of the defense of these strikers and Attorney Hoffman en- gaged. The cases come up on May 28rd. th CAR OVERTURNS IN DITCH. Four men were hurt, one seriously, in.an automobile accident at Central Ave, and Merrick Road, St. Albans, Queens, early today, when their car got out of control, went over a two- foot embankment and overturned in Square and at 108 East 14th Street. a sewer excavation. OWNERS TO ELIMINATE MINE LABORERS Miners Say Change in Method Would Cause se Slaughter By ED FALKOWSKI. (Federated Press). HENANDOAH, Pa., May 18.— Rumors are current that the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Co. operating a dozen col- | lieries the mines. Their jobs would go to contract miners. This step would make it neces- | sary for all who are now laborers in the anthracite to take the exam- ination for a miner’s certificate, as required by law. They must then | be re-hired as miners, although thousands of contract miners are unable to find work, as it is. Thou- | sands of laborers are up in arms against the proposal which is the most drastic yet planned in the an- thracite, t in this region, is taking | steps to eliminate all laborers from | The contract miner engages to % operate a certain section of a mine, and hires as many laborers as he needs to help him. These laborers | | are not legally permitted to enter | | dangerous places or handle dyna- mite. The contractor himself “makes the coal” at the face, leav- ing the loading and handling to his assistants, whom he pays $4.76 a day, to which the company adds $1.19 a day, making the total wage | $5.95. The company aims to save | this $1.19 a day per laborer by compelling them to become’ full- fledged miners. ROTEST is heard on all sides | from miners who claim this Cee house of mines and gangways by compelling incompetent and’ inex- | change would make a slaughter- | perienced men to take dangerous jobs. The general mine board, com- posed of delegates from the various sub-district locals, is determined to oppose this change to a finish. Miners are instructed to report changes to the mine committee, which will take them up with the conciliation board in an effort to combat this _ efficiency” measure, * . Cop eeey miners oppose the change. Contract miners are in reality piece-workers, paid for yard- age or by the car or set of timber, depending on the nature of the con- tract. The rumored change would in- volve more than 10,000 men and would be the greatest upheaval known of the old mining traditions. beg still etter the anthracite field. TEXTILE STRIKE DEMANDS ARE PUT a ACTION URGED IN. CENTER DRIVE |$2,800 Quota of Section 1 Almost Filled Leading all other sections in the | drive for $30,000 to establish the Workers Center, Section 1, Workers (Communist) Party, whose head- quarters are at 60 St. Marks Place, has almost raised its entire quota of $2,800 in the drive. Under the direction of Leo Hof- ‘bauer, section organizer, all the units of the section have been working at top speed and are confident that the next few days will not only see the entire quota raised, but surpassed by a considerable amount. The members of this section also feel certain that one of their units will receive the revolutionary banner that will be awarded to the unit raising the most money in the drive. This banner will |be awarded by William W. Weinstone, organizer of District 2, Workers | (Communist) Party and secretary of the Board of directors of the Work- ers Center, at the great concert and dance that will be held at the Center! Saturday evening, June 2. The concert and dance will mark the official wind-up of all activities in the Workers Center campaign. By that time all pledges should be col- lected and all the unit quotas ful- filled. Workers are urged, however, | not to wait until the concert to make their final contributions, but to bring in all funds at once to the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, as a payment of $12,000 must be made on }the building very shortly. Workers are also urged to buy their tickets for the affair as soon as possible as accomodations are limited. Tickets are 75 cents and are on sale at the Center. The art exhibition, which has evoked so much favorable comment, will also continue at the Workers Center until June 2. Hugo Gellert, famous revolutionary artist, has said of this exhibition: “We have little time to make the rounds of the art galleries, and here we have a chance to see the works of some of the most ed moderas +o that one can ,et a fair idea of what is happening in comemporary art. it is a ‘etter ex- hibtion than I've seen Pain Sa this season,” Dramatic Group to Give Play for Miners Relief “The Village Youth,”, a four act play, will be given in Yiddish by the members of the Dorhitcher Dramatic Group this evening, at the Ukrainian Theatre, on 6th St., between 2nd and 8rd Aves. The proceeds will be do- nated to the relief of the striking miners through the Youth Confer- enrce for Miners’ Relief, with which the Dorohitcher Dramatic Group is affiliated. The play is under the direction of A. Sandroff, who has diligently re- hearsed the cast for @ number of weeks, AMERICAN LABOR Led Militant Struggles Thruout U. §. (Continued from page one) instead of including all workers in its ranks. Haywood first became a national figure in the labor movement in 1907, when he was prosecuted with Moyer and Pettibone, two other offi- cers of the Western Federation of Miners, in one of the earlier Ameri- can “frame-up” cases, charged with the murder of ex-governor Steunen- berg of Idaho. William E. Borah brought himself into “liberal” prominence which he now has by acting as special prose- cutor in the case and demanding the death..penalty for Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone. The I. W. W. at its second conven- tion devoted almost half of its session to the case of the imprisoned leaders. The question of the general strike and other means of mass pressure to secure their release were con- sidered. After about fifteen months in prison, the three militants were acquitted in July 1907. Their release was definitely attributed to the agita- tion conducted by the labor movement. In 1908 Haywood visited Europe, and there met leaders of the Confed- eration Generale du Travail. In 1910 he was delegated from the socialist party to the international labor and socialist congress in Copenhagen, where he spoke also for the I. W. W., and met many of the European lead- ers. After this congress he visited the mining districts of Great Britain. Famous Lawrence Strike. Haywood was associated with Ettor and Giovannitti in the great Lawrence strike in 1912, During the silk weav-. ers’ strike in Paterson he served three weeks in jail after refusing bail while. other strikers were still imprisoned. He was sentenced to six months in jail for disorderly conduct in the Lowell strike. As the entry of the United States into the world war became imminent, Haywood inevitably became a center . of revolutionary opposition to the government. He was hounded at every step by department of justice agents and detectives. Early in 1920 he was arrested for violation of the espionage act and he, with ninety- one others, was convicted. Haywood, as the leader, was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. After his con- viction he left the United States for the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics. During the period of his trial and conviction, Haywood came to the conclusion that the only effective revolutionary struggle was through the Communist Party and the Com- munist International. He joined the Communist Party of America. In the Soviet Union Haywood be- came the head of a co-operative com- munity, the Kuzbas Colony, in Si- beria, but his health, already shat- tered before his escape from Amer- ica, broke down. He had been invalid during the last five years of his life in Soviet Russia, Just before his death he had finished writing the | story’of his life in the American class struggle, up to the point of his ar- rival in Russia, Shortly before his death Haywood completed writing the story of his life, which is soon to be published by the International Publishers. Haywood was one of the founders of the International Labor Defense, the organization for aiding the de~ fense of victims of capitalist courts in the class struggle. A Giant of Class Struggle. “Big Bill” Haywood, the great one- eyed giant of the American class struggle, was one of the first leaders of American stock to grasp the breadth of the labor movement. Crip- ple Creek and the great Pullman strike taught him the strength and the weakness of the labor movement, and until his death the internal warfare, the scabbing of unions upon each j{other, infuriated and grieved him. Too much a dreamer underneath his furious and continuous activity, yet he foresaw with a wider vision than most of his contemporaries the neces- sity of the solidarity of all labor, skilled and unskilled, against the on- slaughts of the capitalists, But his greatest skill and his greatest art was as an organizer of masses. He knew how to make every striker in a crowd speak through him. He knew how to make thrilling propaganda out of every incident in the struggle, from the “desecrated flag” at Crip- ple Creek, to the pregnant mothers of Paterson patiently marching in the picket line, beaten and martyred by the police. Haywood gave words to thousands who lacked words just as they lacked wages and food. He made their own thoughts live, and made their own action possible, History of West, His Life, Haywood saw the west change within his lifetime from simple Yan- kee pioneer conditions to the tongued, crowded competition of to- day; he saw the barriers of race and language develop to divide the work- ing class. wa ee as —-7