The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 25, 1928, Page 2

eR Iai. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1928 Bo hee Capmaker Meeting Condemns i s Conspiracy to MEMBERS EXPOSE 4RIGHT WING PLOT ON ae er Will Fi ‘Submission| ’ Policy ht y was denov the floo: voted a re the union held in Ca Place. In the d e g was Hayward ized by th used by their atter bers the ac taking away local from the e ministration, 2 henchmen and s clique upon the mem- of his the leadership of the e 2 it over to his ees. ordered on ing with the ing up trade q portance to Bostor At this 1 to the Gener: the membe: was forced to| ‘o consult mer ake any such Board. protested Z pat a epee al ae of ed a cl ng of his right | wingers to which he also decoyed a} small number of members. announced that he! to call the promised | he is not going to keep al,” he declared, “i He advised ii by the mem ht out how Zar- hops making m through } nvassed | ‘tings. itsky had o away w the | nd introduce t condem bis locais which | on; intention to | are resist to the be ion also ex- the four are fighting a destroy t right of and safeg ditions, TAMMANY HEADS IN STREET GRAFT; Disclose Bribery in City Contracts (Cont firm to nued from pag graft in the s ment after y weeks to stall off t now seen to 2 prepe ficial 4 this Sach ment during yes the head of the s partment, Commi Taylor, kn: to be gure in the 0,000, and who hearings, ¢ personal invita courtesy.” Higgi the head of the partment for his tion.” More Tammany Graft. that is | Al- | Me- Charges operating dermanic Presi Kee and Bor< nia Pr together with other ticians, are the leadin hurled in the teeth of } Walker at a meeting of ‘the Board of Estimate yesterday. Edwin Alexander, millionaire real estate operator of the Bronx, appear- ing before the board in support of a particular site for a new Court House, charged that no improvements could be made in the Bronx without the support of (and by implication) with- out bribing this ring. a political ion of} plan of | ing militant ad-/ ion of the de- | e right wing; u “| gested the test. iz he, he guided by the con-| i] he savage hatred of labor always | Defense, which has volunteered the Se hs iding legal Mail Fan Killed i § the dene of mail plane which went into a nose di in Crash i in Fog the Atlanta-Washington-New York ve over Richmond, Va., and crashed ward J. Morrissey, the pilot was killed outright. Gets Big Boost By Experiment: OSTON, Mass., May 24.—Scholar- ship in American universities hit the high-water mark yesterday when Fred Smith, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology won the intercollegiate ice cream eating championship. Smith, whose papa is a prosper- ous business man in Kansas City, claims to have accomplished the feat in the interests of the science of chemistry. The scholar was in a Back Bay drug store when companions sug- } By eating the three quarts and by the aid of a clinical thermometer, Smith found that the body tempera- ture gradually steps downward and that a raccoon coat and a hot water | bottle are great assets provided there is boiling water in the bottle MILL PICKETS GET 6 MO, SENTENCES |Jailing Angers 28,000 Textile Strikers NEW BEDFORD, ™ Mass., May 24.— | | manifested by the Massachusetts courts was again displayed Wednes- day when Judge Milliken sent two strikers, both mothers, to prison for x months. This act has succeeded in awakening the resentment of the |28,000 textile workers on_ strike against a wage cut here, to the high- lest pitch since the strike first began, | almost six weeks ago. They are Mrs. | Angelina Tsoupreas and Mrs, Chris- |tina Simores. Frank Cunha, another i striker was sentenced to 30 days, Struggle Becoming Keener. | Although the International Labor d of its organization to the Textile Mills Committee in the task of pro- aid and other defense | work, has succeeded in obtaining the | release of the three strikers on bonds £ $500 pending an appeal, a bitter- hitherto undeveloped is being splayed by the strikers. The lack of sharpness in the struggle till now jis mainly due to the fact that there has been practically no seabbing in the strike, the walkout being prac- tically 100 per cent effective. Picketing this morning had a great- er attendance than any of the last few ays, in spite of the ordon around the mills. dition to the prison sentences} the two women were fined} and $20 respectively. Two other women pickets arrested several days| x the first arrests were fined $60} a ou $40 each. ‘They are Mary Velente| W and Mary Silvia. Cops Maltreat- Women. The two women were arrested May} hile picketing the Pemaquid Mill. d defended themselves against | ng manhandled by the police, one A of whom subsequently testified that women had scratched’ him, andi t they had carried bricks. although| , admitting that the bricks were iad used. The Textile Mills Committee, whic is a national body, organizing textile | workers thruout the country, intends | |to announce that the New Bedford! section in charge of the strike, will }formally establish a New Bedford |union, which, will be part of the T. | M. C. by afiiliation, it was unofficial- ly learned yesterday. It is believed! that an official statement from the M. C. will be forthcoming in a few The merchants, clergymen, and | other interests depending for their | very existence on the steady expendi- ture of the workers’ wages, are con- tinuing to organize “mediation com- mittees” daily. The determination of the strikers, however, is such as to preclude the belief of an immediate | Charles E. T nereased police} ¢ | York. WORKERS PARTY MEET TONIGHT Delegates from All States Here (Continued from page one) corruption of the labor aristocracy. “By developing the class struggle you°are accelerating the growth of the Communist Party which fights against the capitalist offensive anc Imperialist aggression in Nicaragua, Cuba and the whole Caribbean region as well as in the suppression of the Chinese revolution. “Harmonious and strenuous wor! of all the Party forces, together with the most active elements of the work ingelass, will spell success. Long live the Workers (Communist) Party.” Mass Demonstration. Tonight Mecca Temple will witness one of the greatest workingclas: demonstrations against capitalisn and capitalist domination in govern | ment, that has ever taken place in thr | history of American labor. The mas demonstration, with thousands of workers as participants, will mark the formal opening of the National Nom- inating Convention of the Worker: (Communist) Party. The convention will mark a milestone in the struggte for workingclass independent politica! action in nominating candidates for the coming presidential election. A National Campaign Committee will also be selected. Hundreds of delegates, members of the Workers (Communist) Party and delegations of militants from the trade unions, from the mines, textiles and other industries, and from frater- nal organizations, who are to take part in the great opening demonstra- tion in Mecea Temple, have arrived in New York City for this event. The great auditorium of Mecca Temple has been hung with red ban- ners and bunting and the walls and platform have been decorated. Plans Completed. Final plans for the opening of the convention have been completed and arrangements for the disposition of the vast crowd which, it is expected will fill the large auditorium to over- flowing, have been made. The com- mittee in charge of the convention ha» issued an especially urgent appeal to all those participating in the conven- tion to be present at 7.30 p. m. sharp.! After the preliminary celebration which will consist of singing and music by’ the Hungarian Workers’ Symphony Orchestra of 50 musicians a number of leaders of national stand- ing in the revolutionary movement in the United States will address the convention. Among the speakers will be William Z. Foster, Ben Gitlow, B.| H. Lauderdale, Ben Gold, Senator James P. Cannon | Villiam F. Patton,| Anita C,| Weinstone, Tom Clark and Scott Lovett Whitney, Rushton, Wilkins. man. Following ‘the convention, a Red Velcome Fest will be held for the delegates on Saturday evening, The committee in charge of the welcome fest announces that i+ will be one of the livest receptions ever held in New Stanley Jay Lovestone will be chair- DELEGATES T0 CONVENTION ARE ARRIVING HERE O’Brien Of Arizona Visits Daily The first delegate to the Workers’ Party National Nominating Conven- tion to arrive in New York, William O’Brien of Phoenix, Arizona, visited the Daily Worker. office yesterday and discussed the labor situation in his state with the editors. Conditions Bad O’Brien, who is a member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, local 1089, spoke on the situation in his own state. “Conditions in general,” he said, “are pretty bad. Work in the mines is slow now. And the situation of the. farmers in the state is even worse. They are being bled right and Jeft by the Water-Users’ Asso- ciation, and by the other business in- terests which control the products of the farmers... Graft is evident every- where, * ; “Only recently the Chamber of Commerce of Phoenix created a fake hullaballoo about a building boom in the cit .yI the city, Immediately thousands of men, mostly migratory workers, flocked to the city. Upon their ar- vival, they discovered the ruse, to their own ‘loss. “There is some building going on, but not enough to accommodate even a third of the workers in the city. Misleaders Control. “The unions are weak. For the most part they are controlled by re- tionary officials, men under the ntrol of the American Federation of uabor.”” B. H. Lauderdale, of Texas, also ar- vived here. He will speak at the huge nass meeting to be held this evening in Mecea Temple. MINE BOSSES TO BE CLEARED State Ready to Apply “Whitewash” (Continued from page one) were taken out of the mine. The others are still buried under debris. Another explosion in the non-union mine of the Yukon Pocahontas Coal Company in West Virginia, cost 17 more lives, according to incomplete reports received at the office of the National Miners’ Relief Committee. {t is believed that many others are still buried in the pit. A cave-in at the old Alpha shaft of the Consolidated Copper Mines at Kimberly, Nevada, cost four more lives. According to reports received here, working conditions at this mine are highly dangerous. This million- dollar corporation has neglected all safety precautions. Officials at prac- tically all of these mines were quick to say that their mines had recently been “thoroughly” rock-dusted, “and the explosion, no doubt, was caused by gas and not by coal dust.” But the miners tell another story. “Sure they rock-dusted the mine— near the mouth,” one Mather miner declared. All Non-Union. All four mines are operated non- union. Throughout the strike fields, miners are talking about. the boys who lost their lives in the scab pits, principally. because there were no pit committees to insist upon safety pre- cautions. The National Miners’ Relief Com- mittee is standing behind the strikers in-their fight for safe working condi- tions,...a, strong .union and decent wages. Anthony P. Minerich, chair- man of the committee, urges that con- tributions be sent to the relief office at 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa,, so the work may be continued and ex- panded, and to save the coal diggers from returning to non-union mines. Wreck Union Whose Fault Will It Be If It Falls? The picture shows the giant plane, Jesus del gran poder, in which the Spanish captains, Iglesias and Jimenez, plan a record non-stop flight. Cardinal Ilduain is shown ordering “God” to keep the plane from falling. SHOP DELEGATES CALLED TO MEET Organize ‘Cloak Trade At Conference (Continued from page one) ed to elect immediately representa- tives to the conference which will be- gin Saturday morning, June 2 in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave. After relating how the National Or- ganizing Committee was formed at the conference of rank and file repre- sentatives and delegates locked out of the fake convention of the Sigmans and Schlesingers in Boston, and after announcing that all elements really wanting a union have already joined in the work to be carried out by the N. O. C., the call for the conference declares: “The workers in the cloak and dress industry now realize that they have no one but themselves to look to for aid in the struggle for living condi- tions. The time has come ‘when our ranks must be strengthened to con- duct the same spirited struggle with which they have been known to fight the bosses for bread and the right to live.” . * * Chicago Workers Meet. (Special to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO, May 24.:—A large mass meeting, attended for the first time by hundreds of workers formerly in- active because of the right wing ter- ror, was held here Wednesday night. The meeting was addressed by Louis Hyman, chairman of the national or- ganizing committee, Joint Board Manager .Levin and other leaders of. the left wing delegation barred from the fake right wing convention. After hearing a report of the plans of the N. 0. C. for re-building the union, and after listening to Hyman’s estimation of the Sigman convention which accomplished only the creation of two new vice presidents, and the unanimous voting of a tax of 3 days pay, the assembled workers unani- mously voted to join actively the fight led by the N. O. C. for the regaining of union conditions. Tolerance Group Calls Meet. A big mass meeting of registerad, workers has been called by the Toler- ance Group, which formerly was a part, of the right wing Sigman union and | is now affiliated with the National Organizing Committee. The meeting will be held in Cooper Union, Astor Place and Fourth ‘Ave., Monday eve- ning immediately after work. A rec- ord attendance is expected. Senate Passes Postal Pay Bill Despite Veto! WASHINGTON, May 24. — The} senate today passed the postal pay {| increase bill over President Coolidge’s veto by a vote of 70 to 9. The bill became a law by the sen- ate’s action, as the house yesterday enacted it over the veto by a vote of 319 to 42. The bill will increase the pay of night workers in the postal service, CORRUPTION UNDER THE GOLDEN DOME: “Leak’’ Traced to Booze Cellar in Gov. Fuller’s St State House Boston. (FP) May 24.—~The State House gang that danced in glee when Sacco and Vanzetti | were burned, are up to their necks | one of the biggest rum | now in graft mes: ss yet uncovered in 10 years of prohibition. Herman A, MacDonald, Gov. Fuller’s hard boiled se ry, and Gen. Alfred TF. Foote, commissioner of public safety, and in yesteryear an ad- mirer of booze, are implicated by four Boston parsons in allegations that seized liquor stored in the State House basement has trickled into thirsty legislative throats. Gen. Foote is the new head of the Massachusetts national guard and has charge of the state police patrol, the Bay State replica of the ending of the struggle, unless the wage slash order of 10 per cent is unconditionally rescinded: Pennsylvania cossackry. It was the state police patrol who did their stuff with a will on the day ef Sacco and Vanzetti’s electrocution, | clubbing and riding down the great | throngs demonstrating for the two | doomed workers. Later, on the day | of the funeral, they broke up the | procession at numerous places, | knocking mourners right and left | with billies, Foote will also have | charge of the New Bedford tex- | tile strike situation when manu- | facturers’ provocateurs begin stir- ring up trouble with the workers. * * ” LTHOUGH the rum scandal has been an open secret among State House newspapermen for months, MacDonald and Foote were held too powerful to be exposed. A state employe about to he disci- ‘plined for political waywardness spilled the beans finally in a letter. This boiler inspector. with many union firemen and engineers who worked in the basement as legisla- tors and their friends swilled near- by, have produced diaries and other formal evidence, naming names and dates. * * * ikea committee named to probe the seandal consists of those under attack and others known to be friendly to a bottle. Gen. Foote, one member, was wont to make a public display of the destruction of cases of poor Canadian beer, but choice stocks never ran down sewers. Foote and MacDonald are also knovn to have taken the state police boat out into the sacred waters of Massachusetts Bay, there to dis- port themselves to the accompani- mae of choice liquors and oe win- s. You a Patriot? Then Cough U; With 10 Bucks “ A cent demonstration of patrio- tism and an inflexible determina- tion to safeguard our institutions, was the May Day celebration held at the bandstand in Prospect Park.” This is the rapturous description applied by the secretary of the Brooklyn Citizens’ Patriotic May Day Committee in form letters just sent out, and which thru some curious accident found its way into ae office of The DAILY WORK- eth parade of the veterans of three great wars of the U. S.,” the letter continues, with the stars and stripes unfurled to the breeze, to the tune of our national an- thems by four bands, thru the streets of Brooklyn, was a ringing declaration of the loyalty and de- votion to all that America stands for. “No expense was spared in mak- ing this May Day meeting a mag- nificent patriotic demonstration. Your organization is accorded the privilege of. contributing to the cause by sending a contribution of $10.” Edwin P. Maynard of the Brook- lyn Trust’ Company is treasurer and Albert D. Schanzer is secre- tary. All open shop, labor hating bosses are invited to contribute to the worthy cause. Phila. Furriers Call For One Union Meet (Continued from page one) right wing heads to resort to mea- sures so frantic as to completely ex- pose their demoralization and impo- tence. At a meeting of the Joint Council! last Tuesday McGrady called on Ship- lacoff, socialist leader, to make speeches to those Joint Council dele- | gates endorsing the “One Union” de- mand of the workers. Several work- ers attending that mecting reported the scene as the most laughable they ever experienced. First the socialist chief made a threatening speech, then McGrady and Stetsky made speeches.- McGrady said that he “would not stand for any more demonstrations.” He declared that “anybody starting trouble would be thrown out, if a |dozen cops are necessary in the union | office every day.” Shiplacoff threatened the recalci- trant Joint Council members that a big drive will be begun against all the Communists by other union heads. To prove it he said, “I have just come from such a conference.” : McGrady’s lieutenant, Alex Fried, lat one time convicted for burglary, declared that he will stop local meet- jings.. He was met with the prompt retort, “You haven’t got the guts!” After all this speechmaking the fa | | surgent delegates continued their de-! fiant attitude till about three in the morning when the meeting ended, without the “one union group” being brought into line again. Arrest 5 Children for Distributing Leaflets, Five members of the Young Pion-) leers were arrested Wednesday at! Simpson Ave. and Southern Blvd. “while “distributing leaflets for an open air meeting. The Pioneers were taken to the ‘Children’s Court, the Bronx, where three were discharged and two re- ‘leased overnight to their parents. The jtwo children, Isidor Axelrod and [Adolph Searchin, appeared in the Children’s Court this morning, where they were defended by Jacques Buit- enkant, representing the Internation- al Labor Defense. The case was dis- missed. Young Pioneers’ Outing An outing for members of the Young Pioneers and other workers’ children will be held Saturday at Pel- ham Bay Park in celebration of In- ternational Children’s Week. i The Young Pioneers will meet out- side of Pelham Bay Park promptly ie 10 a, m. A large attendance is expected and all Young Pioneers are urged to help make the outing a suc- STARR GETS SUBS TO ‘DAILY WORKER’ IN NEW TERRITORY Workers in Two Jersey Cities Eager For Paper Having made inroads in territory never penetrated before, Arthur Starr, special DAILY WORKER sub- scription agent, arrived in the busi- ness office of the Daily yesterday with 26 new subscriptions. The 26 subscriptions were all the result of a few days’ work in Newark and Plainfield, N. J. Fifteen new readers were secured in Newark and 11 in Plainfield. The Plainfield sub- seriptions are particularly significant as there have never before been sub- seribers to The DAILY WORKER in this city. No unit of the Workers (Communist) Party exists in Plain- field and this was therefore virgin territory. Starr, who is a student in the Na- tional Training School, is one of the 12 special DAILY WORKER agents now covering various parts of the country in the: Daily’s new subscrip- tion drive. He reports that both in Newark and Plainfield, particularly the latter city, workers showed un- usual interest in the paper. Among the 11 subscriptions secured in Plain- ‘ield were three for striking miners, an evidence that the workers are fol- lowing the struggles of the striking miners and the efforts of The DAILY WORKER to provide them with the only English language newspaper that fights on their side. Starr has returned to his territory and promises to send many more sub- scriptions. He, as well as the other DAILY WORKER agents, should be aided in every possible way by all slass-conscious workers. SCHWAB’S POLICE EXTEND TERROR Clubs Respect Neither Women Nor Children (Special to The The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 22,—Coal and iron policemen, ‘attached to the Slickville. mine of the Bethlehem Mines Corporation, now roam the highways clubbing«strikers and strike sympathizers found on the public thoroughfares. At 3 o’clock in the afternoon of May 17, Mike Evanovich, a striking miner was driving in his car with ‘hree other men through Slickville, where one of Charlie Schwab’s mines ‘s located. Coal and iron police stopped his machine and peremptorily ordered him to let them get into his car. Evanovich refused. Beaten—Arrested. The “yellow dogs” then struck him on the face bringing blood from his nose. They pulled him out of his car and hit him with blackjacks. Then they compelled him. to drive his car to the company jail. There he was lodged in the cellar, heaten with fists and knocked down. Schwab’s thugs then brought him a book which he was asked to read. The coal and iron police boasted that they had more power than the state con- stabulary and had power of arrest on public highways as well as on com- pany property. “Arithmetic” Used. Evanovich was charged with dis- orderly conduct and resisting an of- ficer. On the first charge he was fined $5.000 by a company squire and the addition of costs brought the amount to $12.00. Tony Morelli, another striking min- ; ex, was stopped by coal and iron police while driving his car through Slicke ville, accompanied by three other min- ers. Morelli was hit in the arm with @. blackjack and dragged from his car, The four miners were taken to the office of the Bethlehem Mines Cor- poration, beaten and let go without having any charges preferred against them. There were four “yellow dogs” and one deputy sheriff in the gang. Morelli and his wife have beem beaten by coal and iron police several times recently. Also Dynamite, The operators, through thetr hired thugs, are trying to terrorize the min- ers. They do not stop even at at- tempted murder. On the morning of May 16, dynamite was exploded on a road between two strikers’ homes in Slickville. \ Discontent among thé miners in Slickville is growing. The bosses are going through the mines warning the coal diggers that they will drive every .|strike sympathizer and every member of the “Save-the-Union Committee” . out of Westmoreland county. The miners declare that their fight to or- ganize in Westmoreland county has only started. MUSCLE SHOALS BILL. WASHINGTON, May 24. A slightly modified Muscle Shoals bill was reported today by the house and senate conferees following a session to iron out differences in the “bill as it passed the two branches. — bad ; |