The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1928, Page 1

BLAST SURVIVORS COMMUNISTS MAKE LARGE GAINS IN GERMAN ELECTIONS THE DAILY Wo Hatered as second-cinas matter at the Post Office at New York, N.Y. THF DAILY WORKER FiGHTs, | DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FCR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK fe rete ARON, FARES ikl A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 120. under the act of March 3, 187. ed daily except Suuday by The Nationa! Daily Worker shing Association, Inc., 83 First Sireet, New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1928 aeich.. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Outsiee New Yerk, by mail, 96.00 per year. | FN AL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents OVER 200 IS DEATH TOLL IN SCAB MINE EXPLOSION ARE TRAPPED BY DEADLY GAS FLOW New Facts “Show Guilt of Scab Operators (Special To The Daily Worker) MATHER, Pa., May 21.—Two hun- | dred and eleven 4s the known toll of victims of the rock dust explosion which occurred here Saturday at the) open-shop Mather Collieries, scab coking coal company which supplies coal for the steel interests. Sixty; bodies have already been removed by government rescue workers but no hope is held out for the remaining ones in the mine, who may have sur- vived the explosion itself, because of the spread of gas to every crevice of the pit. Fearful Scene. Sixty mangled bodies of those taken} from the mine have been laid out in| a barrack hall of the company where | their grim, burnt, pitiful forms are) a silent yet awful condemnation of the murderous system which makes | tragedies like the present one but a| passing incident. ! Hundreds of miners and their fam-) iles have gathered about waiting for the fearful report brought up by each} new returning group of rescuers. Al- ways there is that same wild cry of| despair from the wife, the children, | the relatives of the victim as his! charred remains are recognized. Seek to Evade Guilt. Mine officials have made a desper- ate effort to deny that they are -re- sponsible for the explosion and the deaths which have resulted. Corre- spondents of the capitalist press are sending out their faked-up accounts of the beauty of the little village of “Mather, nestling among the foot- hills’; the mine they say has the most modern equipment. But gradu- ally details are coming to light. The full facts will undoubtedly reveal, as they have. already partially disclosed that rock dust due to failure to dust| was the cause of the explosion. No doubt other revelations will show that| inexperienced. miners have been em-| ployed, that excessive speed-up and| unbearable hours played their part in| the tragedy at the open-shop coal col- liery. COMMUNISTS GAIN IN GERMAN VOTE Elect 54 to Reichstag; Get 3 Million Votes (Special Cable to The Dally Worker.) BERLIN, May 21.—Germany’s gen- eral election resulted in a tremendous swing to the left that justified all of the expectations of the Communist Party. The Communist Party, according to late afternoon reports, succeeded in electing 54 deputies to the Reichstag and in securing more than three mil- lion votes. In the last elections, 45 Communists were returned to the Reichstag. The Party made especially large gains in the Ruhr, where the miners are facing a critical situation. Thael- mann was elected by a large majority. The conservative parties suffered a disastrous defeat. The Nationalists (Continued on nied Page: Two) TERRORISTS HERE FOR NANKING AID C.C. Wu Arrives to Seek Wall St. Support With the object of securing the more direct aid of the United States Gov- ernment for the reactionary Kvomin- tang, Dr. C. C. Wu, former Minister of Foreign Affairs in the terrorist Nanking regime, arrived in New York aboard the Leviathan yesterday. As Foreign Minister of the Nanking regime, ¢. C. Wu followed the dictates of the imperialist powers and_bit- tery atacked the Soviet Union. Many U.S. S. R. trade and diplomatic rep- resentatives were deportedgat his or- ders. C. C, Wu was one of the most re- actionary of the Nanking regime. Rescued Six Workers ‘ | at the} August Carnock, a collier Mather Colleries Company mine, res-| cued six of his fellow-workers by slid- ing down an iron pipe into the en-| closure in which they had been trapped) by the explosion at the Mather Collier-| ies ies Mine, which | which killed 211 workers. U. S$. JAPANESE EMPIRES CLASH Worker-Peasant Troops Near Hongkong TOKYO, May 21.—In spite of the declaration of Secretary of State Kellogg that the United States recognizes no special Japanese in- terests in Manchuria, the Japanese chief of general staff has instructed the commander of the Manchurian forces to concentrate every avail- able unit at Mukden. A brigade of troops, which had previously been ordered to proceed from Tsingtao to Dairen (near Port Arthur) were ordered to proceed directly to Muk- den, capital of Manchuria. * * = (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER.) CANTON, May 21.—Four thousand well-armed worker and peasant (Continued on Page Five) DONETZ PLOTTERS ADMIT SABOTAGE Charge Powers Aided Conspirators (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 21.—Sixteen of the fifty-three technicians who are charged with participating in a counter-revolutionary sabotage plot to hamper the development of the Don Basin pleaded completely guilty on Saturday after the reading of the in- dictment had been concluded while| thirteen admitted partial guilt. In response to the direct question levelled by the president of the court: “Are you guilty or not guilty?” a/ number of the accused admitted their’ guilt. Others denied the charges. A number of the accused stam- mered feeble excuses before the open! court after admitting their guilt.) Kolodub, accused engineer, declared | that his poor technical knowledge had/| been responsible for his approving the purchase of worthless machines. Others, including Matov, Beresovsky, Kalganov and Bratanoysky, hung their heads and admitted their guilt. The broken attitude of the conspira- tors compared unfavorably with the (Continued on Page Three) | National Office of the Party from all “Mechanics of Brain” | tomorrow night under the auspices ARPORTS P POUR IN FROM ENTIRE UNITED STATES Trucks, Busses, Autos’ Bring Nominators Reports of the departure of dele- gates and the enthusiasm with which) the National Nominating Convention | of the Workers (Communist) Party is| being hailed by the masses of indus- trial workers and farmers thruout the| United States, indicate that the New} York Convention is one of the great-| est political events in the history eel the Party in America. The convention is already ciphved | of over 200 delegates and an almost} equal number of fraternal delegates| from over 38 states have been so far| reported. The number is growing. | | Support Pledged. | Reports continue to pour into the sections of the country filled with as- surances that the utmost support will) be given by workers everywhere in conducting the election campaign i placing the Workers (Communist) | Party on the ballot. | At least thirty trucks, busses and | automobile loads of delegates are on the road to New York to participate | in the National Nominating Conven- tion. The vehicles are decorated with| signs and banners announcing the | coming Convention. - They advertise to the workers along their entire route that the militant workers are on their way to one of the great events; in their history. In New York the delegates will be | welcomed at the Red Welcome Fest,| which will be held at the Workers Cen- ter on the night of May 26. Speakers prominent in the militant labor move- ment in the United States will ad- dress the delegates, | mie Connecticut Convention. NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 21. — | The election campaign in Connecticut is on in full swing. The Party mem- bership has been prepared for the last | two months with special discussion on} the campaign and its importance to the Party. The following candidates have been nominated for the state ticket: Gov- ernor, William MacKenzie; lieutenant- | governor, Robert S. Kling; U, S. Sen-} ator, Konrad Laske; Secretary of | | state, Gertrude Duell; state treasur- | er, Edward Mraske; comptroller, John (Continued on Page Two) To Be Shown Tomorrow | The celebrated Sovkino film, “The Mechanics of the Brain” will be shown at the Town Hall, 113 West 43rd St., of the American Scciety for Cultural Relations with Soviet Russia. Dr. John B. Watson, American psychologist, will give an introduct- ory taik. |cision was reached to call a confer- The known dead in the expl s Company 7 n at the Mather Collier explosion is believed to have been caused by the failure of the scab mine to rock-dust its pits. mine explosion now number 211. The HILLMAN COMMAND IS IGNORED IN BOS TON (Special to The BOSTON, May 21.—Contradicting convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union in Cincinnati that | Daily Worker) the boasts made at the recently ended | there is no opposition to the administration in the union, comes the recent | CLOAK COMMITTEE BEGINS ACTIVITY To Hold Conference of Shop Representatives The National Organizing Commit- tee, elected by the national confer- ence of progressive delegates locked out of the Cloakmakers’ Union con- vention in Boston, has begun its task of rebuilding the union shattered by the right wing, and regaining union conditions for the cloak and dress- makers. Call Shop Conference. At a meeting held last night a de- | ence of shop chairmen and shop rep-| resentatives, delegated from union as} well as non-union shops, to be held | all day on. Saturday, May 2, at Web- | ster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave., and to be continued on Sunday for completion of work, if necessary. The purpose of this conference is | the carrying out in New York of the | resolutions adopted at the Boston a bp on Page Five) Call a Issued to All) 'Jobless Paity Members| Unemployed members of the Work- ers (Communist) Party are urged by William W. Weinstone, district or- ganizer, to report for important Party , activity at the district office, 108 E. decision of the Boston Joint Board| to disregard the express instructions issued by the Hillman machine that Anthony Ramuglia be denied member- ship in the union. After Joseph Potofsky, assistant secretary-treasurer of the Amalga- | mated, sent a telegram from the con- | vention, ordering the Boston Joint Board to withhold granting Ramuglia a union book, the Joint Board, by 14 to seven voted a book and full mem- bership privileges to Ramuglia, who was appealing against his suspension by the right wing controlled Newark Local 24. Anthony Ramuglia, one of the old- est members of the A.C. W., having joined in 1917, was also one of the (Continued on Hinued on Page Two) 1,000 MILITANTS MOSCOW, May 21.—An appeal is- sued by the Executive Committee of the Communist International declares that the Milan bombing, whether an act of individual despair or of police provocation, is being exploited by the fascist government to justify its bru- tal murders and the intensified terror jagainst the working class and its |Communist vanguard. In one week more than a thousand workers have been arrested, the appeal states. “Those who have been arrested have been subjected to brutal torture,” the appeal declares. “The Sozzi murder and the murder of five other militants shows that fascism is trying ‘to an- Mth St., this morning at 11 o’clock. (Continued on Page Three) JAILED IN ITALY TRY TO PREVENT Poisoned Women In spite of anticipated attempts of counsel for the United States Radium Corporation to seek further delay of the case of the five women victims of radium poisoning, it is believed that the force of aroused publicity will compel the courts to hear the appeal pany. The women are dying from the effects of radium poisoning contract- ed while in the employ of the United States Radium Corporation. The five women are: Mrs. Quinta | |McDonald, her sister, Mrs. Albina Lar-| ice; Mrs, Edna Hussman, Miss Grace | Fryer and Miss Katherine Schaub. Raymond H. Berry, counsel for the women, will ask that their case be heard on Wednesday, Thursday and | Friday. Lawyers with cases pending | on these days have volunteered to sur- | render their priority. | The present appeal of the women is \for the right to sue the United States Radium Corporation. Shielding itself behind the New Jersey statute of lim- itations, the corporation is attempt- ing to delay proceedings in an effort to escape payment of damages. The doctors testify, that the radium poison works so slowly that the effects are only noticeable after years. Dr. iner of Essex County, who made the autopsies on the four victims who died has asserted the slow nature of the radium poisoning. “Day by day, week after week, month after month, and year after year, the constant bombardment of the deadly alpha rays goes on,” he stated. The women were poisoned while painting luminous dials on watches. DYING VICTIMS OF RADIUM BOSSES’ GREED GET BOSS JUSTICE MISS KATHERINE SCHAUB M MISS GRACE FRYER MRS, ALBINA LARICE The picture shows five victims of the United States Radium Company who are vainly trying to obtain Justice from the New Jersey capitalist courts. From left to right in the picture are Katherine Schaub whose entire system has been undermined. The X-ray shows she is suffering from gradual decay of the spinal column. Next to her is Grace Fryer, who tried bravely to keep up her courage as the poison-ate into her system. Now she is hopelessly despondent. Next is Albina Larice. She is crippled and bed-ridden as a result of the poison, Her hips are paralyzed.and her left leg has shriveled four inches. She has lost all her teeth. Quinta McDonald, sister of Albina Larice, is shown neat. She is unable to move about. She had-to be carried on her weekly visits to the hospital. Last is Edna Hussman. She has lost all use of her left arm and has worn a cast on her legs for months, All her lower teeth are gone. . MRS. QUINTA McDONALD ‘) MRS. EDNA HUSSMAN RADIUM HEARING Courts May Get Case Of | of the women for right to sue the com- | Harrison S. Hartland, medical exam-| 400 ) Delegates Prepare for No minating Convention 1S SUE REMAINS UNCHANGED; PLAN INCREASE LATER City Need Not Post Bond (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 21.—The sev- | en-cent fare has been postponed until October 2. by an order of the U. S. Supreme court which today put off | until that date the argument over the claim by the Interborough that the five cent fare is confiscatory and il- legal. The court order at the same time | renders “inoperative” the order of the lower federal statutory court issued May 10 by which the city was restrain- ed from interfering with the Inter- borough’s attempt to collect a seven- cent fare and e “les the city to con- tinue its case » posting a bond to guarantee the increase in the event the issue finally goes in favor of the | company. | Does Not Change Issue, Chief Justice Taft, in announcing the decision, stated merely that the plea of the city and the Transit Com- mission was granted. No discussion of the case further was contained in \the decision and no comment on the |question of the increased fare itself |was made. The postponement. of the fare in- crease until October when the supreme court reconvenes means, in all prob- ability, that there will be no decision Jon the basic issue until after the No- lvember elections because the court wii, |undoubtedly require a month or more after the argument to decide the case. In this aim for immediate results (Continued on Page Two) STRIKERS SCORN OIL COS TERMS i\Tidewater Concedes 3 Of Workers’ Demands BAYONNE, N. J., May 21.—Fol- Tidewater Oil plant in this city by the strike of the 2,500 oil workers in protest against the speed-up system, officials of the company were today forced to make overtures to the strik- ers. Officials of the Tidewater, fol- lowing a conference with twelve mem- bers of the strike committee, offered to accede to the following three de- mands: that battery A operators have | nothing to do with stills 31 or 38; that | another still man be assigned to stills , and that jetmen be returned A. | 31 anc \ to batte The company offered to “sonsider the rest of the demands after the men went back to work,” it was re- ported at a mass meeting at Hooper- Cooper Hall by the strike commit- tee. When a speaker put it up to the workers whether they would ace cept these terms, the men answered with an enthusiastic “No.” While the conference between the officials and strikers’ representatives was going on, pickets at all entrances | to the plant and a water picket patrol showed that the strikers had agreed to no truce, and would agree to none | until all their demands were met, in- cluding the end of the inhuman speed« up at the Tidewater, and an end tol the dismissal of veterans nearly elig4 ible for pension. Workers in the Stan- dard Oil and Gul oil refineries in |Bayonne, and in the Standard | branches in Bayway and Jersey City, were ready to go out any moment, oe indicated. cs sae “Haywood Memorial To Be Held Soon: of Distriet 2, Workers (Commun- ist) Party, announced last night that a memorial for William D./ Haywood, Communist leader, who died in Moscow iast Friday, will be | held here on or about Friday, June | 1st. The precise date and place | will be announced later, Weinstone || William W. Weinstone, organizer |