The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1928, Page 2

Page Two fHE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1928 3rennan-Harris Convention Acts to Betray Miners; Ousts George Papcun 'ANG EXPOSED BY TYPHOID FOLLOWS PNEUMONIA IN MINES: GRIND HUSKS FOR FLOUR | ROGRESSIVES AS OOLS OF LEWIS PITTSBURGH May 23.—Winter’s scourge of cold and pneumonia has given way to summer’s threat of typhoid in the barrack colonies of striking mine workers. the unseen enemy in every st r’s shack, draws sharper lines, all the Hunger, | while, about the faces of women and children. | In eastern Ohio the national guard has cut off food relief. | School children who in other years | hailed the advent of vacation time, | now wonder whence daily rations of will come. | * * | JNTO the office of the National | Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 | Penn Ave., come calls for help fren every mine field. In Iowa, food, | clothing and medical supplies are ; soup and bread * urgently needed: In Pennsylvania the strike spreads slowly into un- organized territory, calling for more tents and food. In Kansas 3,000 miners’ “families are reduced. to grinding up wheat husks and bran “shorts”—waste matter—to take the place of. flour. In Pennsylvania and Ohio the need for clothing is so acute that children are being kept away from school;:the-only place where many of them’can receive the thin trickle of food-that. keeps them alive. ALTERATIONS AT WORKERS CENTER ARE BEING MADE ; ime | sor ° ! . ‘ * j ‘ave-the-Union Forces| No More Children to Slave at Home Work iL AUNCH DRIVE FOR Will Seek Source of Toltec Culture 'Party Units Urged to Issue Warning 4 Se : oo Hasten Drive ; NR area UN, | 1 Alterations are proceeding rapidly cial To V orke | on - ont ig | FEDERAL JOBLESS E on the second floor of the Workers SCRANTON, May 23. — Expulsion | | | Center, 26-28 Union S , and this f Paaree Papcun, prominent progres- | i floor will soon Lope lari paneer ive delegate and a general attack on 1 ¥ cy. Two of the leading organizations ank and file measures marked the | | : that will be housed in the new build- econd day of th oes convention | | itig. will be located on this floor—Dis- if District 1 in ion here. . trict 2; Workers (Communist) Party A The convention started ite, meeting N.Y. Unemployed Coun-| and The DAILY WORKER. The edi- it the Regal Hall, Scranton, Pa., Mon- |} ° ° ° | torial; bust feulatl nit ‘i ieee 10 o'clock. ‘The Harris and| cil Starts National Drive} fosthigs dapartmantasot) thes Daily will 3rennan forces are in control. Forty- | I cas be on the second floor, while the press ‘ight local unions are represented to- (Continued from page one) ro8m will be in the basement. aling one hundred and eight sonidd ance because he is an alien or be- The, Young Workers League and rates. cause of race or nationality. the Young Pioneers of District 2 will * Only Talk. | Section.2. Amount of Compensa- be on this floor. District 2 is already # The Brennan forces have shown tion—Full wages for entire period of preparing to move in and the change heir weakness in the fact that the first day of the convention nothing »ecurred but talk.. Harris, chairman | of the resolutions committee, brought! in a resolution early Monday that the! convention be adjourned for the day| to bring in more delegates. The next | morning, there were 51 local unions} represented. Three more. The Bren- | nan-Harris forces have also shown| their treachery in trying to get Cap-} pellini or some of his Executive} Board to come to the meeting, failing in that they sent a wire to Secretary of Labor Davis, well known strike} breaker, and to the reactionary Presi-| dent Green of the A. F. of L. | On the second day of the cbnven-| tion in the afternoon a bomb-shell| was thrown into the convention when! Boe cs = ee 3 The picture shows Mrs. Edward Cromwell, mother of thirteen chil- dren, all but four of whom have died in the midst of poverty. The wo- man has had her husband jailed because he wanted more children. Cromwell earns from $18 to $30 when he can get a job. This does not happen very often. Her case comes up today. The children, shown with their mother, make 50 cents a gross folding elastic at home. BETRAY STRIKE OF OIL WORKERS 'Company Union Dele- Capper Finds Commerce in Soulful Mood ASHINGTON, May 23, — The unemployment, the maximum to be $30 per week. Payments shall be due from date of unemployment. Persons with incomes from sources other than manual, clerical or mental labor ex- eeeding $1500 in one year shall not be entitled to unemployment in- surance. Section 3. Who Shall Be Considered Unemployed and Eligible For Insur- ance—All persons capable of and available for employment regardless of whether they were residents of the particular locality where last em- ployed and unable to obtain suitable full employment. | No worker shall be disqualified jfrom receiving unemployment insur- | jance because he refuses work at | Captain A. Bartlett, in the inset, is cruising in the Arctic, aboard the schooner Effie M. Morrissey, shown in the picture. Captain Bart- of quarters will probably be effected next week. The Workers School will also move soon and occupy the entire fifth floor of the Center, The drive for $30,000 to establish the Workers Center is drawing to a close, with only a little more than a week left till the great concert and dance Saturday evening, June 2, which will wind up the drive. All units are urged to secure their final contributions and collect all pledges during this time, as there will be no hangover of the drive after June 2. Section 1 leads all other sections by a wide margin and has almost raised its entire quota of $2,800. In the time that remains all other sections must raise their assigned quotas and turn in all collection lists, whether filled or unfilled, by June 2. wages below what he was formerly | |receiving or below the prevailing trade union rate in that vicinity, nor lett believes that the cave sepulchres which natives report to exist on islands off northern Asia, may shed important light on the pre-Aztec civilization of the Toltecs. Latest reports state that discoveries have one of the rank and file distributed a\gates Throw Over Fight | W resolution earlier adopted by Local} Union 1217, calling upon the dele-| Plans are now being worked out to make the June 2 affair one of the most interesting proletarian events remarkable discovery that Amer- ican business “is developing a con- « gates to oust the treacherous Cappel-| lini machine officials from district 1./ | Brennan Alarmed. Immediately the Brennan machine} became alarmed, introduced a motion that George Papcun, the secretary of | the tri-district, Save-the-Union Com-| mittee be put out of.the hall on the| ground that he was responsible for the resolution. | The resolution is supported by the tri-district Save-the-Union Committee and knowing that the resolutions com- | mittee which is controlled by Harris- Brennan would not bring it into the convention despite that it was sent to the resolution committee by Local Union 1217, precautions were taken and the resolution distributed thruout the convention. Papcun was escorted by the sergeant at arms from the con- vention. The resolution was enthusi- | astically accepted by most of the rank | and file delegates of the convention. | The motion to exclude Papcun was not | passed but the convention broke up! in an uproar before a motion was made to adjourn. 1 At the afternoon session, some of | the delegates read the resolution and | demanded to know why the resolu-| tions committee had made no report} on the resolution. Many delegates de- clared themselves in favor of the res- | olution, stating that no matter where it came from it was the correct thing for the convention to adopt. MANY RED POETS TO READ TONIGHT Freeman, Gold, Gordon on Program (Continued from page one) Union, is looked upon as a forerun- ner of a closer relationship between! the revolutionary writers and their | workingclass readers. The poets who will read wili be of all ages, from 19-year old David Gor- don, who will read some of the poems he wrote while at the Tombs and the New York County reformatory, to $8-year old Abraham Raisin, who has (Continued from page one) | of the overflow crowd waited outside on the streets, the company union committee of 12 placed before the striking workers a recommendation to return to work on the basis of 5 so-called “concessions” made by the company. When the vote which would decide whether the workers would accept these five demands, came up, Edward Foerst, chairman of the meeting, ad- vised the men to return declaring that, ‘Being brave in this strike will not }pay for your board. Think it over.” Harping continually on the fact that if the workers voted to accept the 5 points out of 7, a victory would be assured, Forest continued the well- planned act of betrayal. Three times there were cries of “We want a union,” and “sell-out,” but these were immediately silenced by the company union delegates. Three votes were taken during which Foerst again and again advised the men to accept the company’s terms. Finally the workers becoming dis- couraged, voted blindly to accept the terms, altho at least 30% still dis- sented and many more did not vote at all. A fake congratulatory address was made by several of the delegates who “commended the good sense of the men.” Traitors Speak. In the evening another meeting was held. There the mayor, the chief of police and ail the petty bureaucrats of the city administration occupied the platform with the company hired workers’ council. One of the delegates in addressing the workers, spoke of a leaflet issued by the Progressive Oil Workers of New Jersey and vi- einity, the most militant group in the strike, and said that it had been is- sued by the “disgruntled element” and was “only misleading propaganda” and was “not to be taken seriously.” TOLERANCE GROUP CALLS MASS MEET (Continued from page one) ing the war on the membership that destroyed the workers’ organization, been writing for 35 years and is the ‘they officially broke away from the idol of the Jewish workers thruout | the world. Besides to these two, other noted | poets who will take part include: | Michael Gold, Joseph Freeman, Gene- | vieve Taggard, James Rorty, Adolf | Wolff, Henry Reich, Jr., Robert Wolf, | A. B. Magil, Martin Russak, Edwin! Rolfe, the well-known Yiddish poets, | H. Leivick, B. Fenster and Aron Kurtz, the distinguished Hungarian | poet and playwright, Lajos Egri, the | Ukrainian poet, Tarnowsky, as well as poets writing in the Russian, Chi-, nese, German, Italian and Spanish Janguages. M. J. Olgin, editor of ‘The Hammer, will be chairman of the evening. An interesting feature of the pro- gram will be a number of American cowboy songs, sung to banjo accom- paniment by Margaret Larkin. Tickets for Red Poets Night should be secured at once as only a limited number can be seated. They are on sale at 50 cents at the local office of The DAILYY WORKER, 108 E. 14th St.; the Workers Bookshop, 26- 28 Union Square; the International Labor Defense, 700 Broadway, Room 422, and the New Masses, 39 Union Square, reactionaries. Union the leaders of the group will state their reasons for aligning them- selves with the left wing leaders of the N. O. C. The announcement issued by them declares that this meeting | will be one of the turning points in the struggle of the workers against the boss-Sigman-Schlesinger combina- tion. The .decision of the group to af- |filiate with the membership was made at a membership meeting of their group last Saturday afternoon. Of over 150 in attendance at that time only three abstained from voting, all others voting in favor of affiliation. * * * T. U. E. L, Meet. A general membership meeting of the I, L. G. W. U. section of the Trade Union Educational League will be held tonight at 7 o’clock at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., accord- ing to announcement issued yester- day. The leaders of the Joint Board will present a report of vital significance at this moment, and all members are therefore instructed to attend with- Jout fail, the announcement says, At the mass meeting in Cooper} science” has just been unearthed by Sen. Capper, Republican, of Kan- Sas. Extreme mortification over the results of the oil investigations is cited by the senator for his feeling in the matter. Heading his statement “big busi- ness feels disgraced,” Capper, some- times humorously described as an “insurgent” referred to a resolution adopted by the United States Cham- ber of Commerce convention calling on the business profession to purge itself of “those who would deal dis- honestly with the Government.” The senator was further reas- sured by the fact ‘that a storm of applause followed the adoption of the resolution. Capper has not as yet officially announced his candi- dacy for the presidency. Begin Drive to | Start Strike in Fall River (Continued from page one) A previous strike vote held at the time of the wage cut was announced to be several votes short of a two- thirds majority by the union heads. “Organize!” Slogan. While Weisbord was telling the workers to begin the organization of mill committees in each factory to fight against the wage cuts, and to rally the Fall River workers to active support of the New Bedford strike, J. L. Campos, an official of the Tex- tile Council tried to halt him by heckling the speaker. Not only did Weisbord’s sharp attack on Campos and the other officials, effectively si- lence the heckler, but the growing| anger of the workers attending quick- ly convinced Campos that to subside into silence would be the healthiest thing for him to do. He did it. Nearly all the workers attending |the meeting took application blanks | for membership in the T, M. C. After | signing up themselves they will re- cruit workers in their particular mills to form committees in each mill. shall he or she be disqualified for re- fusing to work because of strikes or unsafe or unhealthful ‘working con- ditions. than the usual trade union standards in the particular trade and locality. Section 4. Creation of Unemploy-| ment Insurance Fund-—There shall be created an Unemployment Insurance Fund, fifty per cent to be contributed! by the employers and fifty per cent/ by the state. The amount contributed by the employers shall be made up of payments for each worker normally: employed by them on the basis of the average number of workers em- ployed in each establishment for the | past two years or legs, if the estab- lishment has been operating for a shorter period. Section 5. Administration of Act— There shall be created for the ad- ministration of this act, Federal, State and City Unemployment Insur- ance Commissions, composed of repre- sentatives of Trade Unions, Organiza- tions of the Unemployed and Factory, Mill, Shop and Mine Committees. New York Workers To Hold Haywood Meet (Continued from Page One) ed would follow the dying down of the ‘poisonous fever of war-frenzy.’ Expect Great Demonstration. “Speaking of this fever, Comrade Haywood wrote two years ago, ‘From this the workers are speedily recov- ering. “There will be strikes of metal workers, lumberjacks, oil’ workers, coal_miners, agricultural - workers, textile workers, the men on the range, the packing house workers and the women and children in the’ cotton mills.’ “We expect that the Haywood |memorial meeting will be one of the largest demonstrations of that nature dthat we have ever held.” already been made. REPORT NEW MINE TAG DAY PROCEEDS Total Goes Beyond the $8,000 Mark Since the itemized report of the tag days drive was made public by the National Miners’ Relief, Commit- tee of 799 Broadway, several addi- tional relief stations turned in their collection proceeds, bringing the total collected by the National Miners’ Re- lief Committee, the Youth Confer- ence for Miners’ Relief and: the Chil- dren’s Miners’ Relief Committee to above the $8,000 mark. The International Branch No, 1 of the Workers Party collected and turn- ed in $50.68, the station at 3451 Giles Place turned in an additional $25.56, the Unity House at 1800 Seventh Ave. accounted for another $32.44, the Workers Club at 101 West 27th Street reported $40.59 more, Women’s Council No. 2, at 1400 Boston Road, collected $68.71 more, and the Fur- riers’ Council No. 1, at 1668 Vyse Ave., turned in $136.01. The Negro Committee for Miners’ Relief collected $45.87, which the or- ganizer, Harold Williams, turned in to the Miners’ Relief Office The collection made by the station of the Ukrainian Miners’ Relief Com- mittee, at 17 East 38rd St., was $75.33; the reported collection of $775.33 made by that station, was due to a typographical error. YUDITCH LECTURE PUT OFF The lecture on “American Trade Unions” by B, Yuditch, scheduled for a meeting of the progressives of Lo- cal 38, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, has been postponed until Thursday, June 1, at 8 p. m. at 16 W. 21st St. By ART SHIELDS. ANVILLE, Va., (FP) May 23.— traveling thru the red clay foot- hills of the Blue Ridge mountains, from Charlottesville to Danville, 150 miles, the visitor finds the general complaint that times are harder than any that this region has seen in years, Low tobacco prices for the farmers, and unemployment and part time in the factories are rife, In Danville, near the North Caro- lina border, a cotton mill city of more than 30,000 if its industrial suburbs are included, the local charity agency, the community welfare association, admits that only a fraction of the local distress is being relieved. saved up, they were living from hand to mouth before the depres- sion,” a charity worker stated. “Now with so many laid off, and the rest on four days a week, there is much hunger. If the mill shuts summer, as we fear, I don’t know what the people will do.” The Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills, which employs 6,200 SE gett “The mill workers had nothing + down for two or three months this | workers in better times and dom- inates the town, is assuming no re- + sponsibility for the suffering of its people. It passes the buck for ad- ministering relief to the local charity agency supported by the Community Chest to which the workers have -to contribute. A by-product of the drop in em- ployment is the slump in the earn- ings of the local streetcar com- pany, which gets most of its fares by hauling the workers from home to mill and return. In an effort to get business from a different class of customers the cars now carry this slogan in big letters: “Park Your Car At Home and Ride the Street Cars.” In Lynchburg, 65 miles to the north, times are nearly as bad for the employes of the shoe and gar- ment factories, and the tobacco farmers who sell to the local ware- house owners. Of all the farmers in the United States, these Virginia tobacco growers, who raise what is known as the “dark-fired” variety, are al- most the worst off. The bright leaf WHITES AND NEGROES SUFFER IN SOUTH ‘Jobless Textile Workers and Poor Farmers Facing Hunger growers to the south, who produce for the cigarette plants, have their prices fixed by the trust, it is true, but at least their product is in de- mand. But the “dark-fired” weed is a back number, not wanted much any more though farmers continue to i it, not knowing what else to do, ( This “dark-fir ‘tobacco, so named for its color and curing, was formerly exported in quantity to Italy, where it went into the strong cheap cigars of that country. Now that the Italians are raising much of their own smoke material they buy less here. Little of this leat is used at home. “This whole country,” said one farmer, “is overridden with debt, both white and Negro.” The Negro tenants live in squalor in one or two-room log cabins, often with dirt floors. Many of the Negro farmers have given up the struggle on the soil and have gone into the northern industrial centers. There are more white than Negro grow- ers. The white men, subject to the same economic laws, are little if any \ better off. (Gin Raid May Halt Big Meet of Democrats OUSTON, Tex., May 23.—Gnash- ing of teeth, wringing of hands and other manifestations of great sorrow on the part of delegates to the forthcoming democratic conven- tion here followed the announcement that $75,000 worth of rich liquor has just been seized at Seabrook, near here. So hard is the blow considered that it is said that a clamor has arisen for the postponement of the convention or, as a mild alternative, its transfer to some other city known for its wet proclivities. The advance guard of the liquor fleet was heavily loaded. Booze was piled so high on the ships that the deck houses were hidden from view and gunwales were awash in a stiff southward breeze. The deck cargo was good, foamy beer, enuf to slake the thirst of the entire Tammany delegation. PARTY HOLDS 3 STATE MEETINGS Patterson To Run. on Ohio Ticket (Continued from page one) have enthusiastically endorsed the Party program for the coming elec- toral campaign and arranged ‘a vigor- ous state drive. The following candidates were placed on the state ticket: Chester W. Bixby, for governor; John Corbin for lieutenant governor; Harry J. Cantor for secretary of state; Eva Hoffman, for auditor; Albert Oddie for treasurer; Max Lerner for attor- ney general; and John Ballam for state senator. Lewis Marks was nominated from the twelfth congres- sional district. ¢ It is expected that Jackson W. Hunter of, Cambridge, a Negro Com- munist, will .be the candidate from’ The Convention also elected its full quota of 21 delegates to the National Nominating Convention in New York City. * *. * Qhio Holds Convention. CLEVELAND, May 23, — The Nominating Convention of the Work- ers (Communist) Party was held in Cleveland on May 20, and put up a full state ticket. It nominated Wil- liam Patterson, of Toledo, for gov- ernor; Carl Hacker, of Cleveland, for lieutenant-governor; Bruce T. Smith, of Toledo, for secretary of state; eph Coope, of Youngstown, for te auditor; and Edwin Blank of Lima, for attorney general. i The candidates for U. S. senators are Israel Amter, of Cleveland, and J. Willnecker of Toledo, J. Foley is the nominee for U. S. congressman for Cleveland, Frank Sepich, of Neffs for Eastern Qhio, C. V. Stephenson, for Toledo and Carl Guillod for Canton. Among the candidates for the state Senate are Sadie Van Veen and Milosh Boich. ° that have ever been held in this city. Arrangements for the concert and dance are in charge of Leo Hofbauer, organizer of Section 1, and B. Rosen- berg, of the same section. They an- jnounce that among those who will participate in the concert will be N. Nazaroff, famous tenor of the Lenin- grad Opera Co. A feature of the affair-will be the presentation of a red, revolutionary banner to the unit making the high- est totals in the drive. Tickets are now on sale at 26-28 Union Square, They are 50 cents in advance and 76 cents at the door, TRY TO SETTLE DENTAL STRIKE Labor Department Men Here for “Parley” Representatives of the Depart- ment of Labor both at Albany and Washington have come to New York to confer with the leaders of the Den- tal Mechanics strike, in an attempt to bring about a settlement between the striking workers and the Dental Owners Association. P. Pascal Cosgrove, organizer of the strike, informed them that the bosses have thus far refused to nego- tiate. The recent overwhelming walk-outs are almost certain indications, accord- ing to the union, that the Dental Own- ers’ Association will be broken. Sev- eral members of the association tried to effect individual settlement, but were repulsed by the union, which said that it would deal with no single boss, but with the entire association as a whole. f The fact that the Department of Labor has seen it necessary to send representatives to the union indicates that the employers’ are hard hit. At a meeting held yesterday at the Labor Temple, the strikers decided to hold a “Victory Ball” as soon as the association meets their demands, which they think will be soon. Shoe Workers to Hold Second Open Forum “Open forums recently begun by the the Negro district. Associated Shoe and Slipper Workers are being well reccived by the shoe workers of \greater New York. The first of these held last Sunday in Brownsville has convinced the or- ganization that that is what the shoe workers want. The second one of the series wili be held next Sunday at 11 a, m. at 29 Graham Ave., Brooklyn. All shoe workers are invited to at- tend. Active members of the union will discuss the conditions in the trade and report on the developments in the union. Admission free. David Gordon to Speak at City College Today David Gordon, young Communist poet, will talk on “The Youth Move- ment” before the Social Problems Club. of City College today at 12.15 Gordon was recently released from the New York Reformatory to which he was sentenced to serve a three- year term for writing a satirical poem, “America.” ‘