The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1928, Page 2

\ Page Two ae THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1928 ? ; New Bedford Textile Strike Enters Sixth Week With Workers Ranks Solid NOT ONE FACTORY STARVING ‘MOTHER OF 13 REFUSES MORE CHILDREN, SUES MATEWALK OUT OF §3 CAN OPEN GATES: ; her to have more children. be “wrong” not to have any more,whom died from malnutrition and, The authorities held the husband on BRIDGEPORT, Conn., May 21—| Cromwell, the husband, is a poor |children, despite. the fact that his} other ills because we are poor. John) a technical charge of breaking the vhen- |family is at present on the verge of; wants more children. He cannot] peace. He will be held until Thursday Faced with the possibility of increas-| worker, who earns $30 a w ing poverty and misery, Mrs. John] ever he gets a job. His wife is only | starvation. properly take care of the five we} when he will be examined in police Cromwell, who in 10 years of married| 29. Filled with the religious dope|- “I want my-husband arrested,” Mrs.| have. Please arrest him.” court as to his mental condition. life has become the mother of 18 chil-| that the capitalist class feeds the |Cromwell said when she appeared in| John came into headquarters a few ‘ ! F dren, appeared in police headquarters | workers, and kept in ignorance of the | police headquarters, two small chil-| minutes later, demanding that she Meanwhile, Bridgeport charity or- facts of scien birth limitation, |dren clinging to her skirts, “I am| return home. She declined and con-| ganizations are looking after the fam- AF at oh fy for Police Force band be | here today and asked that her am arrested because he wants Cannon Fodder Perfects Its Aim “WHOSE WHO" AT ily. Cromwell has insisted that it would!the mother of 13 children, eight of| tinued to demand his arrest. Where Bomb Nearly Exe cuted Executioner eS, 3 ee a Early Surrender of Bos- ses Expected By TOM O'CONNOR +e A walkout of the 68 dental me- TOM O’CONNOR. i Ke: A ‘ (S: rand y W san { ; f . chanics on Saturday has crippled the NEW 2 | Supply Dental Laboratory Co., one the ar | of the largest laboratories in the Bedford tex the strike e day. The I the struggle sharpened Saturday with the entrance of Albert Weisbord, militant left wing leader of the t FOR DAILY, CENTER |Well-Known Bards Will |; country. The workers went out in sympathy with the 1,000 dental me- chanics, members of the dental Lab- oratory Workers’ Union, for better conditions. This laboratory, according to the With the | ra x union, has been one of the strong- lie vote dave cb ttD | Read Verse Thursday hols’ of the opposition to the strike eas < nporte ae Bos- y in New York. icketing is contin- ot sale ‘ the cuteidé pots Nae ° Many poets of ablished nepu ually going on at the few laboratories Weisbord has been brought in by tion will be among those who will |that are still continuing operations. fills Committee, the} ation which forced the| w grappling with the| ganizing the 22,000 un- and securing relief | The strike was huge job of organized worke r their familie n April 16, when the progres- sive group led by Manuel Adao, swept aside Binns and Batty, the reactionary| leaders of the New Bedford Textile} Council and old Sam Ross, one-time| mule spinner and now member of the State Board of Conciliation and Ar-| bitration. Mill Committees Lead. SESEUS RS Ee: The picture shows the so-called Maryland at target practice. The crew recently receiv “crack” gun-crew of the U. S. S. 1 the praises of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur who considers them shining lights of mili- read from their own work at the sec- |at 8 o’clock at Labor Temple, Second Ave. and 14th St. Revolutionary poets writing in various languages will read at this event, which has been arranged for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER and the Workers |Center. A brief “Who’s Who” of some of those who will take part is as fol- lows: } Michael Gold, editor of the New Masses, is probably the best known ond annual international Red Poets}. Night, to be held Thursday evening |’ The top picture shows the crowds gathering around the debris of the home of Robert G. Elliott, Sing Sing executioner. The house was bombed by unknowns recently. Below are po- lice officers inspecting the ruins. The police raised the usual rumors of Sac- co and Vanzetti reprisals. No arrests have been made as yet, tho the danger A report from the union headquarters states that by tonight the entire in- dustry will be paralysed. At a meeting held last night at the Labor Temple, final tactics were dis- cussed in amticipation of an early surrender on the part of the "“labora- tory owners. Miller to Lecture on “Working Women” Bert Miller, New York District or- nr 8 te tarism. 4 i iy & ; See nization secretary of the _Work- With but a skeleton organization, - ——- ese al | Gee eee eer And ae of a frame-up is by no means past. aa e&. (Communist) Party, will give the the Textile Mill Committee has al- ready done great work. William T. Murdoch, secretary and organizer, is carrying the brunt of the work in or- ganizing and addressing huge meet- ings, lining up the workers into the new rank and file organization. Mur- doch is a young sandy-haired English- man, who worked for years before | coming to America in the Lancashire | cotton mills. | Fred Beale of Lawrence, another| organizer, although young, is already a veteran in the battles between the | textile slaves and the mill barons. A factor in the strike. ao, Portuguese striker, is a big} He is the leader | of thousands of Portuguese, who make| in the state. up the bulk of the unorganized work- | Carpenters Union. of Stamford. ers. Adao was a leader in the suc- | Gomboos; DISTRICTS ELECT Henry Ford in MORE DELEGATES "2 Row About Choose Representatives To Party Convention a GREE. | (Continued from page one) attorney general, Harry} | Wolfson. | The seven candidates will also serve | as electors. MacKenzie is well known | He is a member of the He | was sent with a credential from his cessful strike of 1912, which preceded| inion and the Central Labor Union of Lawrence strike of hough every other militant New Bedford has been that | Stamford as a member of the rank jand file delegation to the Soviet! ‘Mary and Lamb ENRY ORD, Detroit flivver manufacturer, who has already established himself as an expert on history and economics.by his con- tempt for these sciences, has now entered into a heated controversy in the realm of literature. The authorship of the tale “Mary Had a Little Lamb” is the latest topic to engross the auto magnate. Frenzied debate about the actual author of the famous rhyme which teaches the primary lesson of kind- ness to animals has waged fiercely famous as poet, playwright, short story writer and essayist. Joseph Freeman, poet and critic, is a former editor of the Liberator and the New Masses and is co-author with Scott Nearing of “Dollar Diplomacy.” Genevieve Taggard is the author of several volumes of verse and is one of the outstanding women poets and critics in this country, She is the editor of “May Days,” an anthology of Masses—Liberator verse. James Rorty, formerly an editor of the New Masses, is the author of a volume of verse and was the winner of the Nation’s poetry prize in 1921. Robert Wolf has published a vol- ume of poetry, “After Disillusion,” and. a novel, “Springboard,” and has contributed moving picture criticisms to The DAILY WORKER. He recent- ly returned from the Soviet Union. Adolf Wolff, poet and sculptor, is the autho rof two volumes of verse. Western Sages Place O. K. on ‘Elmer Gantry’ CLEVELAND, May 21. — After recommending a few, changes, in- cluding a suggestion that all refer- ences to denominations and sects be stricken out, Safety Director, Ed- win D. Barry today placed his offi- cial and omnipotent OK on “Elmer Gantry,” dramatized from the book of Sinclair Lewis, which had its premier here last night. Barry’s decision was reached af- ter a conference with Assistant Law Director H. S. Brainard and several BOSTON IGNORES HILLMAN EDICT Ramuglia Reinstated in Spite of Order (Continued from Page One) most active members in the union. He was assistant manager and then manager of the Boston Joint Board, and also served as a general organizer of the Amalgamated for five years ending last January. The officialdom of the Newark Lo- next session in the symposium course being conducted by the Workers’ School, 108 East 14th St., on Wed- nesday evenings at 8.30 p. m., on “Problems of Working Women.” This session tomorrow will deal with the question of “Leadership in work- ing women’s organizations.” Much interest is being shown in this late spring course being given in the Workers School. _ Over 25 women workers and housewives, act- ive in the working women’s move- ment, are attending the various lec- \tures which are followed by questions land discussion. The first two ses- jsions were given by Ray Ragozin, | while the last three will be given by William W. Weinstone, Juliet Stuart Poyntz and Rose Wortis. Communists Make Big q €N | Union, for a long time, but heretofore it has |In 1914 he was jailed several times police officials who attended the |¢al 24, of which he was a member Gains in German Polls the New Bedford textile| Kling is a member of the Machin-| “been limited to mere university |for agitating in favor of the strik-| first performance. after having left Boston, suspended led by Senator Butler, by a) ist Lodge of New Haven. He has been| scholars who get paid for that kind |ing Colorado miners. Wolff is a fre- Reverend E. R. Wright, Execu- | Ramuglia during a short period of (Continued from page one) nation of the notorious Sherman | active in the labor movement, and is| of work. quent contributor to The DAILY| tive Secretary of the Federated | absence, refusing not only to notify |lost forty seats, while the Center and Detective Service and the supine} especially known for his work during! Ford insists that it was Mary | WORKBR. Churches, who last week appealed | him of the charges, but also of his | People’s Parties also lost heavily. The leadership of the reactionaries in the} the Passaic strike. New Bedford Textile Council. has kept his militant group alive. It} was Adao acting as the Paul Revere of the strike, who warned the rank and file agai: Binns and Batty and forced the strike vote to defy the 10 per cent wage cut. Portuguese Are Fighters. The Portuguese and French-Canadian | kee and workers, comprising the great bulk| among women organizations. of the ted. These foreign- born workers, | among German Socialists. Kling has been a; Adao| member of the New Haven Trades | Council for years. \ Konrade Laske is an active Commu- | nist. He is very well known especially | Gertrude Duell is an American, who has run for office many times on the | “socialist” ticket. She is an old Yan-| is especially well known She is ed and unorganized | chairlady of the New Haven Women’s shown their mettle since | Miners’ Relief Conference which has to unions, have taken hold with a|the relief work. | will. Crews of collectors sent out for | money and food for relief. Ann W. Craton of New York is in} charge of the relief work for the| Workers’ International Relief, whose head is Fred Biedenkamp. While Biedenkamp is addressing meetings | Communist movement, a leader among | ski, and organizing collection crews, Miss | the Hungarians and well known in the | Seoy Edward Mraske is an American | well known militant of Bridgeport. He is a member of the Painters Union, Sawyer of Sterling, Mass., whom the lamb followed to school one day. Although not noted for arduous re- search, Ford declares that he has made a careful collection of docu- | ments to prove the correctness of his belief. William G. Hearing, President of the Central Labor Union of Stamford, Konrad Laske, McKenzie, fraternal \delegates from the Yale and Towne \factory, G. Siskind, Kling, Duell: Mit- Z | raised hundreds of dollars and draws | chell (Winchester) Collinburgh, Wo- although entirely new|in many women’s organizations into| men’s Councils; S. Bronin, Painters ;TUEL, secretary of the painters union, New Haven; Dan Gotkis, of | the Young Workers League; G. Pear- |son, leader of the Swedish workers or- Henry Reich, Jr., has contributed frequently to The DAILY WORKER and other newspapers and magazines. His volume of verse, “Minor Music,” was published last year. A. B. Magil is a member of the |staff of The DAILY WORKER. His |poetry is included in “America Ar- lraigned,” an anthology of Sacco- | Vanzetti verse, and in the “Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1927.” | David Gordon, 19-year-old author |of the poem “America,” has just been lveleased from the New York County reformatory and will read from his prison poems. | Edwin Rolfe, a member of The |DAILY WORKER staff, has contri- buted to the New Masses and other and has gained a reputation as a fear-| ganizations of Hartford; Dr. Per Nel- | P°woticals. less worker. John Gombos is an old-timer in the Craton handles the actual work at the | left wing movement. relief stations. In the south end, the| Harry Wolfson is a member of the relief station is at 80 Potomska St.,| Machinists Union of Hartford, leader near the meeting hall of the Textile| of the Upholstery workers, Mills Committee; and in the north] end it is at 31 Hathaway Street. Relief Work. and influ- ential in the local labor movement. The following are prepared dele. Nati |son, prominent leader of the Swedish | |workers fr ternal; Charles Crasni of Waterbury, brass worker in ille and Waterbury official of the New England Workers’ Association, | an organization of brass workers; Ed- | ward Mraske of Bridgeport and Will- iam Sacher, a railroad worker well| |known among Hungarian workers of Bridgeport; V. J. Valley, of New Brit- Abraham Raisin, poet and short |story writer, is the most popular and | best beloved living Yiddish writer. |His works are read by Jewish work- ers in every part of the globe and he has been translated into many languages. Raisin is a regular con- \tributor to the Freiheit. H. Leivick, Yiddish poet and drama- |tist, is also a writer of international |reputation, He took part in the rev- to Barry to prevent the staging of the production, was not present. Several New York critics were here to see the play. LRT, FARE STEAL IS POSTPONED (Continued from page one) they have had the full support of Mayor Jimmie Walker and others of the “old guard” Tammany Hall graft- ers. On the other hand Al Smith, the Transit Commission which is his im- mediate tool, Samuel Untermeyer, his spokesman, and others in the Board of Estimate, such as McKee, the pres- ident of the Board of Aldermen, have sought to stave off the increase until after election. There is no difference between them as to the question of granting the suspension. He was charged with be- ing a Communist. By this time Ramuglia was back in Boston, his home town, and im- mediately applied for a Boston union book. The membership committee here informed him that we would be taken in, but that they would first in- quire whether the General Office had any objections to him. Schlossberg, Hillman’s lieutenant, replied that he would first have to get a transfer from the New York Joint Board to which the Newark local is affiliated. Ramuglia applied by letter for a transfer, and received an answer from Joseph Gold, secretary of the New York Joint Board, which stated that he could get no transfer because he was under charges of “maligning and slandering the good name of the Amalgamated.” Ramuglia countered with the written demand for an im- mediate trial. This demand was ignored for several months. Finally the Boston Joint Board officially de- manded of the New York union a trial or transfer for Ramuglia. Suspend Militant. Several months later they received socialists gained 21 seats, according to late returns. More than ten persons were injured in Herne in the Ruhr district when fascists attacked a Communist Party demonstration. The revised list of returns show the following results: Communist Party 54;, Nationalists, 73; People’s Party, 44; Centrists, 62; Socialists, 152; Democrats, 25; Ba- varians, 25; Fascists, 12; Economic Party, 28; various Peasant Parties, 26; Popular Rights Party, 2. A coalition government that will be dominated by the socialists looms to- day as the result of the elections. The coalition will probably include the Socialists, Centrists, People’s Party and Democrats and will prob- ably be headed by Otto Braun, re- formist premier of Prussia, or pos- sibly the social-democrat Loebe, who headed the old Reichstag. The social- ists will probably urge Stresemann to retain his post as minister of for- eign affairs. Altho it was reported early in the day that the Marx government would resign, the cabinet decided to remain | C——— 2 a tn AR PORN a NNR DASE SSO UPDENTAL PLANT CREOLE OE Bake ie a gates to hi Na nal Conventioi ain, secretary of the state organiza- olutionary movement in Czarist Rus. traction interests an increase. The|a letter from the Newark local in-'j, power until the new Reichstag Heise” Ciawt ot fittcome | policemen’ arid’ challenged the crova| TOU! of Lichakaane Litsratate Suet. spent six years in jail, and was |My question is over the time, Aljforming them: that Ramuglia was| meets on the second day in June. ee s ° e a e ¢! Pasucars Nene cod : A, § six years i 4 Lolita eae a < * «“ ” : : ae en organized. Last week the|of peaceful picketers to “start some- | Meir Sarr ANA secretary of the | exiled for life to Siberia, from where | ane ve Jimmie Walker, in fact the| suspended for being a “red leader.” | The increase of the fascist vote in- Eevies went. out into Massschusetts| thing.” Moves axe being made by the! waborers nion. i : he escaped to the United States, |w ole 0. Tammany Hall, is sold out At a meeting of the porten oreat dicates a sharpening of the class com- | Bay and brought back 8,000 pounds|merchants and business men to end Wisconsin Elects Slate. | Rants Kurtz is one of the best of |) 0u rm tie Rae iil ae PS piers a bex isin fi he ' of cod. » strikers have shown a|the strike, which is costing the city) MILWAUKEE, Wis. May 21, —|the younger Yiddish poets and is a| “mye situati x H ‘ ‘ i > r Fast 2a, | » a Bo : | . rye eh sit ¢) af here-|animously endorsed the Board’s ac- ‘} wonderful spirit of initiative and self-|a million dollars a week. Stores are | Over forty regular and fraternal dele. |fequent contributor to the Freiheit dealty. The fare apie cay porters Lia espana aeaile aoe ee i reliance in the struggle. closing up every day and merchants |gates participated in the State Nom- |#"d The Hammer, f i Ree ten 4 m h | The children of the strikers are| quitting the town in despair as they filled with the militant spirit. are being organized Donneley, of the W. I. R. They | see the strike settle into a long strug- by Elizabeth | gle. The left-wing leaders, heartened Hundreds | by the entrance of Weisbord, are de- of them have gone on the picket lines, | termined to stick and to prevent the parading and singing strike songs. The new police chief, McLeod, ap- peared at the Page Mill Saturday reactionary labor leaders from quit- ting, until the strike is won and a inating Convention of the Workers} (Communist) Party here, A. J. Hayes was nominated for su- perior governor; Harry Koski, for su- perior lieutenant fovernor; Pete Or-| aces for secretary of state. | The Convention also nominated five | new union, comprising the entire |delegates to the National Nominating morning with two automobile loads of army of mill workers, is established. |Convention in New York City. GIRL WORKER, 15, SAYS WAR IS “ Arrested, Knocks I. W. W. Leaders and Attacks Smith tributing was, “The Packinghouse Worker,” a paper published by mili- tant workers. aed Ls ay EN interviewed by members of * the Denver press, she answered th keen understanding, all the ions which were fired at her x she has been working at a dry goods store and receiving $8 a week for her work. But the wages, she discovered, were too small to enable her to live, and so she left recently to seek better employment. Mean- while she went to the stockyards to assist in the distribution of pam- phlets, War?” one wise reporter asked. “It was a Wall Street conflict,” she answered. “All the talk about making the ‘world safe for ‘democ- racy’ was the bunk.” At present she is being held in the City Detention Home, pending the “investigation” of the “case.” i Lajos Egri, Hungarian poet and playwright, is the author of several books of verse. His play, “Rapid in New York two years ago. Olgin Chairman, Moissaye J. Olgin, who will be chairman of the evening, is editor of The Hammer and probably the best known Yiddish agitational writer and ‘speaker. He has written in several B NK” nesses and is an authority on rev- [ J olutionary literature. Margaret Larkin, well known sing- er of cowboy songs, will render a number of her songs to banjo accom- | paniment. ‘There will also be readings by Rus- War Department Orders 35 Bombing Planes WASHINGTON, May 21. — The Keystone Aircraft Company of Bris- tol, Pa., has been awarded a $1,002,000 contract for 36 army bombing planes. Deliveries will start in October. Transit,” was produced in translation upon. It will undoubtedly be put over with the consent of Tammany Hall) and the republican controlled legisla- ture. the convention was being held, this decision of the Board went to the membership meetings of six Boston locals for approval. All locals un- The Hillman machine, hearing of the Boston events, hurriedly sent the telegram, which was subsequently ignored. 30,000 — | Control of Their Union; Against | Speed-up; Against Send to the Daily Worker a free | Send a subscription 100,000 Miners on Strike extile Workers on Strike To Save the Union; For a Victorious Strike; For the Miners’ Thousands of requests are being made in every mail for The Help the Striking Miners—Help the Striking Textile Workers Send The DAILY WORKER into the strike areas. Thousands more WANT The DAILY WORKER. : Thousands more LIKE The DAILY WORKER. Thousands more NEED The DAILY WORKER. be the Wage Cut; Against the Longer Hours you ENVER, Colo., May ‘21.—Mildred ) in order to trip her up. Asked what ONCERNING ‘the _ presidential sere uneee, Ukrainian, German, DAILY WORKER from the Striking Miners. Hundreds of ry Gains, 15, graduate of the North | she thought of the I. W. 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