The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1928, Page 2

eatin Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1928 ea $15,000, 000 Yearly Graft from Liquor, Gambling is Chicago Election Prize WUICY BUILDING \SEAMEN'S a ENDANGERED AS BIG OCEAN th CRASH IN BAY|BOOKSHOP IS NOW GONTRACTS LURED POLITICIANS TOO Cause of Small mY y Show Deneen Battle CHICAGO, May 22 An investi- gation just completed shows control over hundreds of millions of dollars worth of builc contracts a was only the a ent stake for the Small-Thompson and Deneen tions of the republican he: he party nom weeks ago, with the Deneen men v torious. her pier. The Mohawk r Profits. and their protectors in public office share an annual pro- fit of about $15,000,000 from liquor, | prostitution and gambling prepared by pr ssional muck-r for the Hlinois Association for C inal Justi S. The spons the repor' ad with politica : 4 isfied with the | Huge | A Jew gan COMPANY UNION GOES ON STRIKE! \Bayonne Oil Workers groups Ww | division of ill other groups Tie Up Plant * who see midd! faith in democ- Sei eis racy being undermined by the blithe (Continued from page one) way in which * Thompson WSN} ad accumulated small. benefit funds. | s around bombs | and Deneen men t tai | and money. gener 1 Al Capone was named in the report | } | strike fund, a hall rented, entertaii as “chief of the ruling gang of today,” | hired, leaflets printed and relief given been ‘ike | These were tossed into the and was described as having rs with extra big families. trained with John Torrio, “now a re-| wd Hooper-Cooper Hall. tired millionaire.” Both were con- sy, leader of the 1921] nected with the late “big Jim” Colo- nany ultimatum | simo, and prior to that with the Five “Read that,” He shouts; | Point Gang of New York. jas he flings hundreds ‘of copies into The report is made up of two chap- Ithe crowd. Angry workers stamp | “The Rule of the Gang,” the other, “Who Killed McSwiggin?” The report says that Colosimo } shared with Van Bener the control of | the vice syndicates of 1908. Torrio | and Capone were brought from N ters, one | them underfoot. “Now you see why the company has sick and death bene- fits, i urance and old age pensions,” | he cri referring to the threat to| eet }revoke them all. “As soon as we \ walle out to get just demands, they York % become Colosimo’s lieuten- | threaten c cut co rare pe ot ger | these benefits.” “Thq reform movement succeeded | ‘ 3 in I in abolishing the First W ard | The strike committee confers with } kers’ representatives at neighbor- MH, a New Year’s orgy by which the | wor! cw poured money into the| ing Standard Oil plants. The com- olitical treasury of the ward,” the re- | mittee is promised that the men in Dae continues. “Michael (Hinky the other plants will not handle Tide- | Dink) Kenna and John (Bathhouse | Water oil. “If,they do,” says the head John) Coughlin were the Aldermen of |0f the Standard works council, “we'll the ward in which the levee was To- | Pull every man out, too.” cated. : | The striking dental laboratory | “Qstensible movements grew in po-| workers in New York send oyer a litieal strength, and im 1911 some of | re ntative, armed with a $10 the levee houses were closed by Mayor Carter Harrison. In 1912 John E. W.| water you're going to have a real or- Wayman, State’s attorney, found nization,” he advises them, and the politically expedient to send his own | 1,500 workers in the hall cheered and men to raid and close the district. The | cheered. levee was thrown into great confusion. The levee bosses and pimps sent their | Workers’ representatives report on| women by the hundreds into the resi-| strike progress. ~The company, they dential district. say, sent a Cadillac to bring them to By April, 1925, there had been aja conference with the management. wholesale migration of old-time levee| When they refused to call the men bosses to the suburbs | back on the job, the Cadillac chauf- Mayor Thompson was elected in the | feur was sent back to the garage and Spring of 1927 to succeed Dever on|the representatives walked back to a wide-open platform. | strike Mauss seas uaeane le TO TRY WOMEN MILL PICKETS SUIT PLEA FAILS I. L. D. Gives Legal Aid| Three More-} Victims of | to Textile Strikers Poison Discovered NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 22 The cases of the two women strike charged with carrying dangerou weapons, violating labor laws, and d turbing the peace, comes up for tri tomorrow in the Third District C: here. The womer e Stick it out and show Tide- NEWARK, May —The five s|women who are dying slowly from | the effects of -radium poison which they absorbed into their systems hen employed by the United States of Orange, N. | Radium Corporation than a week ago J., will have to wait until September Pemaquid Mill 56 te: for their eases to be brought to trial. mills shut dé strike of the! The vice-chancellor said that th postponement was due entirely to con. International Labor D » attorney.| gestion, which is ridiculous in view Harry Hoffman of on. The I. L.| of the fact that many others offered PD. recently announced that it will port ian ae Mills cone. x ale cases have preference. The vice which is leading the struggle again: Say ancellor made no reference to this. the wage slash, by providing legal aid) to all strikers arrested for picketing. | 'The United States Radium Corpora- A new conciliation committee has| tion is powerful enough, financially been formed. This time it is a com-| and politically, to keep his mouth mittee of pastors who are seeking to) shut, Hell in Church | yesterday for the wife of the Rev. WOMEN'S RADIUM 4p-| to step aside in order to let the wom- | rt Lives Bp scores of seamen on the liner Mohawk and the trans-Atlantic vessel, Veendam, were endangered when the big boats crashed-recently in the fog on the Lower Bay. The passengers were trans-shipped but the crew and freight-handlers had to stay aboard to remove cargo so that the Mohawk might be floated to shown in the picture at the left lying on the sands at Normandie Beach.: At the right is the Veendam, as she.sank at her pier. J. P. Morgan, |TOLERANCE GROUP : Pastor’s Wife and.Cat Raise ELLEVILLE, Kan., May 22. — The burning bush burned again Dr, Reese of the Methodist Episco- pal church here, tho the bush was the cat's. Someone set fire to, the tail of the parish cat, which had first been soaked in gasoline, and turned the animal loose under the church of “God.” It is believed that only a sermon could have driven an | atheist to this inhumanity. But “God” does not let his own be tampered with so lightly. Mrs. Reese heard a still, small voice tell- ing, telling, telling, her to go call the cat. Guided to the spot she per- ceived the devil’s hand at work and seized ‘the animal with force, hurl- ing it from the church, saving the building from destruction and just- ifying divine providence once more. “A clear act of divine interven- tion,” she stated, bandaging her scratches. The cat died. TEACHER IS FIRED FOR TALK ON USSR Auerbach .Advocated Recognition PHILADELPHIA, May 22.—Sol Auerbach, instructor in logic, ethics and esthetics aj the University of Pennsylvania has been dismissed from the teaching staff for advocating the recognition of the Soviet Union at a student meeting here. This is the second time fn recent years that the University of Pennsyl- vania has removed a member of its teaching staff. Scott Nearing was dismissed in 1925. Nearing is now a member of the staff of The DAILY WORKER. Auerbach, who is 2% years old, visited Soviet Russia last summer and spoke atthe invitation of the Ameri- can Student Delegation of which he is a member. Ten days after he had |delivered the address in Grand | Fraternity Hall he was summoned be- | fore the committee comprised of pro- | fessors Singer, Flaccus, Smith and Husik and asked to explain his utter- | ences. He admitted that he had sug- | gested that the progressive students of America should work in every way ble for the recognition of the t Union. He was given one week “to shut up { P Ss MINERS ROUSED OVER 200 DEATHS Facts Prove Company Is Guilty (Continued from page one) ing the explosion. are being put to- gether: Improper ventilating facili- ties, the failure to properly dust the coal pits, the employment of green, inexperienced men are the sources of this, the greatest mince tragedy in the history of western Pennsylvania. Rock Dust. Two survivors yesterday revealed the first news of what actually pre- ceded the blast, Cutting machines which have been introduced by the company without providing sufficient space in which to operate them have been permitted to give off showers of sparks to the dread and warning of the coal diggers. Late Saturday the inevitable happened. The gradual ac- cumulation of coal dust which the company has failed to remove in order to save the expense finally caught fire and went off in a tremendous blast. Frank Buscha, one of the 211 en- tombed when the explosion went off was rescued today by a squad from a hole in which he had crawled to escape the deadly gases. Buscha was found a’mile and a half from the entrance to the mine sitting, on a rail. patiently awaiting the rescue squad. His companion who had ven- tured out from the hole was found dead a short distance from him. While hundreds ,of miners, their wives and families stand about the pit entrance hoping against hope that the steady yield of dead may miss their own near ones, little encouragement is held out for the life of those en- tombed, Prompt Release of Bela Kun Demanded (Continued from page one) and assurance of a safe journey to the Soviet Union.” (Signed) Roger Baldwin, Victor Berger, Wm. Bouch, Bishop Wm. Montgomery Brown, Ralph Chaplin, Theodore Debs, H. W. L. Dana, Robert W. Dunn, Sara’ Bard Field, Ellen Hayes, Carl Haessler, Robert Morss kens, Scott Nearing, Upton Sinclair, Chas. Erskine Scott.Wood and Robert Whitaker, The International Labor Defense, the organization which is organizing ja mass movement throughout the country on behalf of the leader of the revolutionary masses of Hungary, has | or get out.” He decided to get out. By ESTHER LOWELL, (Federated Press). ANVILLE, Va., May 21.—“I don’t know what’s a-going to happen if the mill keeps on short time. Lots of folks have left town already make th ill owners relent. T js eeelaal daboape tis This final action of the court may other committee was formed severa!| days ago and is composed of retail} mean a saving of $1,500,000 for the Radium Corporation, because merchants. The complete shut-down of the only industry in town has par- alyzed nearly all retail trade. A crew of four strikers under the command of Manuel Viera out on a fishing expedition for several days docked their auxiliary sail boat and brought in 500 pounds of pollock and cod. These were brought to the Work- ers’ International Relief station, on » Patomska St., and were given out, to- gether with bread and other neces- sities to holders of the Textile Mill Committee relief cards. This haul is but one of the many brought in fegularly by crews of strikers and aided by the Portuguese and other fishermen in New Bedford. not live till the fall. are Katharine Schaub, Grace Fryer, United States Radium Corporation, With the news of the failure to | advance this case, comes the news that three other women have con- tracted the poisen, and have reached the stage where the deadly alpha rays have begun to impair their bones. PLANES LAND IN FOG. STONINGTON, Me., May 22.—Two xmy amphibian planes, which are re- ing from Greenley Island, were to descend here today on ac- { a heavy fog that made fur- “a impossible. Py WASHINGTON, May 22-Presi- dent Coolidge has not yet taken any action on the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill, which has been on his desk since last week, but he again inti- mated today that he would veto it. the! women say that they have been in-| formed by physicians that they may | The five women | Quinta McDonald, Albina Larice, and | Edna Hussman, who contracted the| poison while painting luminous dials | on watches while employed by the) Cal Says He Will Veto Farm “Relief” Measure, —some gone back to the farms.” | My guide through the Dan River & Riverside Cotton Mills at Dan- ville, Va., was very friendly. All his life until three years ago he had farmed, raised tobacco and a little corn and wheat. “But farm- | ing’s been mighty poor the last five years.” Too hard for the old man after his sons went off on their own. So he and his wife came into | the mill, where an old friend in the employment office found them work—the wife in the dormitory, the old farmer in the shipping room. Dan River mill managers are proud of their plant. It is called second largest cotton mill in Amer- ica—second to Amoskeag in New Hampshire. It is on the fringe of the Carolina Piedmont around which | most southern mills cluster. The | managers are local people and so are most of the stockholders, This $15,000,000 company boasts that it keeps its equipment modern and spends much on welfare. With its welfare goes the “industrial democ- racy” or company union vlan (con- already sent a cable of protest gress, cabinet and president, who heads the company too). cy “We know it’s no use bringing up anything about wages or hours,” said one worker about the industrial democracy scheme. * * * ITH the mill working only four days a week, the already low wages have been. considerably -re- < duced. Reading of northern mill wage cuts and the New Bedford strike, these southern workers are “mighty scared.” The day is 10 hours, the week 55. There are few 14-16 year olds in the mill because the law limits their day to eight hours. But there are many, young men and women in the mill—about hal the women married, Colored workers who truck cotton bales and do factory cleaning are about a tenth of the mill’s 6,000 workers in full seasons. Working conditions in the mill are supposed to be better than in other southern mills. The spinning ‘rooms are full of lint catching in the workers’ hair and going up their nostrils. Weave rooms. have hum- idifiers constantly spraying water into the air—making the atmos- phere oppressive in hot weather. Workers find more satisfactory a recent ventilating system installed in the new conerete weave shed, Steel Lovett; Duncan McDonald, Wm. Pic~ Expert, Will Judge Thieves HE grim realities of existence. will soon face J. Pierpont Mor- gan, billionaire banker and. broker in capitalist slaughters. “For yes- terday. he was sworn in as a mem- er of the May grand jury, and will be ‘paid only $4 a day for his ser- vices, Smiling happily over his new duties, Morgan was accompanied to the grand jury room by a county detective. Once before the banker was cal- led to serve on the county grand jury last February, but was-excused until May as he had arranged a jaunt to Eurdpe, The financier will not be’ called upon to consider any high problems of finance, as the most important case on the’ calender, according to the distriet attorney, involves the stealing of an automobile. 200 AT OFFICE WORKERS’ MEET Mass Meeting Scores Discharges Two hundred workers attended a mass protest Monday evening by the recently formed Office Teague against the discharge from the Ahialgamated Bank of one of its employés for urion activity. and fer his previous expulsion from the Book- keepers, Stenographers an! Account- ants Union. Speakers at the meeting brought out the fact that the Amwalsamated Bank working with the officials of the Bookkeepers’ Union, has estab- lished virtually a company union of the Amalgameted Clothing Work- owns the bark told the conditions in the Amal- Former employes of the gamated, bark gave a detailed picture of the non-union method of work in that in- stitution. John L. Sherman, an- cther speaker, showed how the metho of class-collaboration, adopted hy the officials of the A. F. of L. bureau- eracy, was breaking down the labor smovemert, A resolution was passed at’ the meeting condemning the action of the bank and demanding the reinstate- ment of the 2 expelled members: WELFARE WONT FILL WORKER'S, MOUTH Southern Mill Fires Cloth Checker for Talking Unionism rooms but in others workers hang theit coats and hats.on nails and hooks unshielded from the work- room. Visitors are not taken into the dye house “because there’s quite a bad smell in there,” as my guide said. * * * WELPARE work is well developed at Schoolfield, the. mill village at Danville’s edge. The downtown mill has less of it. The company pro- vides besides several hundred wood frame houses, a dormitory with gym and swimming pool shared by school girl sand mill women, a nur- sery, a kindergarten, grade schools, a junior high, a store, a Y. M.C, A. _with movies in the auditorium, ai “stall libraries. ‘Most of this welfare program was begun during the last 10 years. Loomfixers are the only organ- ized group. They have an independ- ent union with a measure of recog- nition from the company, although | what to pay when they do come.” all had to sign up undér industrial democracy to hold their jobs. Last year when a cloth checker began organizing weavers, he was soon discovered and fired, with most of the 40 he had reached. “The mills dominate the town in every way,” say the Danville peo- ple. “They keep out other firms when they want to, and tell them Werkers |+ Nelson, one of the expelled members } TO FIGHT SIGMAN Score Discharges at Protest (Continued from page one). Schlesinger groups, rejected our de- mands to end the war. Our hope that the convention would bring about a change in the situation did not ma- terialize. The so-called manifesto is- sued hy the convention does not solve the present problems of our union and does not offer a basis for the restoration of peace and unity in our organization. The manifesto is more in the nature of an edict issued by autocrats who maintain themselves in power regardless of the wishes and desires of the membership. It does not do. away- with the policy of dis-: crimination which has brought about the present deplorable situation in our union. It is by no means a de- cision of leaders who take into ac- count the will of the membership and therefore this manifesto cannot make an end to the ehaos and demoraliza- tion in our union. “The delegatas of the expelled lo- cals and Joint Boards of New York and Chicago, as well as the delegates elected by the Tolerance Group and other groups of our union, came to the convention with the demand. for unity—a demand which was backed by the thousands of workers of our trade throughout the entire country. The convention turned down this de- mand for unity and decided to con- tinue the policy which has ruined and demoralized our entire organization. Unity Is Aim. “In view of this action of the con- vention, we of the Tolerance Group, who have been working with all our might during the past few months for a basis of peace that will unite all the elements in our union, have reached the conclusion that we can expect nothing further from the pres- ent administration of the Interna- tional, and can therefore see only one way of working toward the attain- jment of our aim for a united union; |that is, to join with those elements who are in agreement with our pro- gram and have made a sincere effort to bring it into being. At a well at- tended meeting of our group, held on Saturday, May 19th, at Stuyvesant Casino, we gave thorough consideta- tion to the problems of our union and unanimously decided to affiliate with the National Organization Committee for the reestablishment of our union, which is the only body today that is sincerely striving to unite all the ele- «{ments for the purpose of rebuilding our shattered organization. Call For Action. “We call on all workers who want to unite for the purpose of rebuild- ing our union and restoring union con- ditions in the shops, we call on all workers who have been forced into the open shops and are working under |the most miserable conditions as a re- |sult of the internal struggle, to rally |together with us around the National Organization Committee so that with united forces we may once more re- build ouf union to serve as an instru- ment in defense of the workers’ in- terests, “Brothers and sisters! Cloak and dressmakers! Let there be an end to the destruction! The time has come when we, the workers, must take our destiny into our own hands. The time has come when we must build our weakened union. “Together, cloak and dressmakers, let us rally around the National Or- ganization Committee and build our union so that it may be the pride of the labor movement.” Worker-Peasant Army In: Drive on Nanking (Continued from page one) the Nanking regime, is steadily push-. ing to the official News Agency. Chiang is reported to have crossed the Yellow River. | * *” * (Special tv The Daily Worker) VANCOUVER, B. C., May 22.— Yung-chen, a district near Tientsin, is in the control of workers and pea- sants, according to information re- ceived here by the Canada Morning News, left wing Chinese newspaper. A large peasant army is reported to be marching toward Peking from ae? tte se ing his way toward Peking, accord- |, IN “RED"/GENTER ON UNION SQUARE Other Organizations Moving}in Soon The first organization to move in- to the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square; is the Workers Bookshop, which has established temporary quarters on the second floor of the building. The Workers Bookshop is under the direction of A. Gusakoff and is speci- alizing in workingclas literature. A full line of the publications of Inter- neional Publishers and Workers Library Publishers is carried, as wel! as books of English publication, cur- rent American and English maga- zines and general literature. Here can also be found practically all the classics of the Marxist literature of the world that have been translated into English. The permanent quarters of the Workers Bookshop will in a few weeks be established on the ground floor of the Workers Center together with the Proletcos Cooperative Restaurant. This floor is now undergoing altera- tions ard remodeling. Another organization that will soon move into the Workers Center, is District 2, Workers (Communist) Party. Plans for the removal are now being made. The ‘Workers’ School will also occupy the new build- ing shortly and be located on the fifth floor. Tho the organizations that will be housed in the Workers Center are preparing to occupy it, the $30,000 re- quired to make the building the prop- erty of the revolutionary movement has not yet been raised. This has given rise to serious financial diffi- culties in view of the fact that a pay- ment of $12,000 must be made on the building within a few days. In or- der that this sum may be paid, the board of directors of the Center ask that all collection lists be turned in at once together with the money col- lected. Concert June 2. All sections of District 2, Workers | Party are also asked to elect a special fepresentative to address the great concert and dance that will be held Saturday eve., June 2, and greet the Workers Center in the name of his section. INT'L RED AID LAUDS HAYWOOD Urges Workers to Join Labor Defense (Continued from page one) ism—against the frame-up system. This great loss can only be soothed by the further strengthening of our organization, by making it a veritable mass organization of the toilers. The best memorial of Haywood must be the joining of the ranks of the Inter- national Labor Defense by all class- conscious workers for the sake of continuing the work of revolutionary fraternal solidarity of the toilers which the deceased carried out all his life with great love.” Thes cable from the Soviet Union defense organization, Mopr, follows: ae “The central committee of the Mopr of the Union of the Socialist Soviet Republics, representing four million toilers, members of the Mopr, shares together with you and with the whole workingclass the grief for the great and painful loss of the eld- est revolutionary, the active fighter of the American workers’ movement, Comrade William Haywood. «Before the ashes of Comrade Haywood, the Central Committee of the Mopr de- clares its readiness to continue in the future its work of relief to and care for the political prisoners, the victims of bourgeois terror who fight for the cause of the international prole- tariat.” “ International Labor Defense will soon publish a pamphlet it received from Wm. D. Haywood, just pens to /his death. A letter from Wm. D. wood, probably the last of his to ig: 4 comrades in the United States, sent to James P. Cannon, executive secre- tary of International Labor Defense, is published in the June issue of the Labor Defender. Expect Hundreds at “Red Poets” Reading (Continued on Page Two) 5 on. by.Carl Sandburg in his “Ameri- can Song-Bag.” Only a few tickets for Red Poets Night are still unsold and those wish- ing to attend should secure these at once. They are on sale at 50 cents at the local office of The DAILY WORKER, 108 E. 14th St.; Workers Bookshop, 26-28 Union Square; Inter- national Labor Defense, 799 Broad- way, Room 422; and the New Masses, 89 Union Square, All the proceeds of ioe affair will go'to The DAILY Workers Center, — WORKER and the W