The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1928, Page 2

, Expected Momentarily WORKERS TE STIFY GINFERS AIDED THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928 American Engineer Involved in Sabotage Conspiracy to Wreck Donetz Mines MINE OFFICI Special to the Daily Worker) NEW LEXINGTON, Ohio, May 25. jon the picket line was the most seri-| Joe Reynolds, Powell’s assistant, ously injured, according to a report |faces charges of assault and battery. of the affair relayed to the National He attacked several strikers without Miners’ Relief Committee. The miners of Hocking Valley con- |tinue their fight to save their union | against tremendous odds. Oral Daugherty, former sub-district offi- _Skulls were cracked and shots| Chargs of shooting to kill have |Provocation after the superintendent| Gia] who was expelled from the mine fired when 5 scabs under the direction |been filed against Louis Powell, mine |had ordered the charge on the picket workers union when he advised the strikers to go back to work for what- AL IS LEADER OF ARMED SCABS AGAINST STRIKERS the Hocking Valley. Bread is at a pre- mium. Milk, even for infants, is a luxury no longer thought of by mothers. Coffee, canned milk at best, but usually not milk at all, and a little bread is the daily ration of children who are hardly old enough to walk. Uf Englishman, Koe extremely WHITE cuanoisTs Mechnician Admits He| Receives Bribes ¥ MOSCOW, U. s R trial of the conspir sabotage plot proceede _ day with the exar © described the sfineers to the Soviet G yp Foreign engir $.8 in the} yester-. amoilov f the en- ment. Greiling, , a Germ Murphy, an American, nov hostile spirit among the engineer was revealed. __ Samoilov te former mine-owr formed about the activity engineer. He referred to a mine whic sabotagers blew up. Often Struck Workers. | Witnesses among the Donetz work- ers, then examined later, testified that Beresovs Samoiloy and Ko- lodub, who had exploited workers be- fore the revolution, had often struck workers and had neglected the se- eurity measures which might have prevented accidents. During the occupation of the Don Basin by the counter-revolustionist, the engineers gave the White Guards a list of Communist workers who were then executed. Babenko, a renegade of peasant ex- traction, also a technician was then examined. He admitted that he had| participated in the sabotage plot and that he had personally received 13,-/ 600 roubles for flooding mines. Don- etz workers who were then examined testified that before the revolution Babenko, Kolodub and other were hos- tile to the workers. Babenko, they charged, abused and even beat work- ers, while Kolodub denounced work- ers to the czarist police and caused their arrest. Brutality Charged. The evidence of the two old Donetz miners which made a deep impression charged Babenko with brutality to workers before and after the revolu- tion. They charged that he had flood- ed the mine of Novosovsk. Faced with this testimony Babenko was compelled to admit his guilt. Another worker, Limarov, who as a d Guard had been taken prisoner White terrorists and forced to the mines, declared that Ba- had treated the workers bru- and had threatened to have rs shot by the White Guards. FLOOD THREATENS Ss, ity d further that the were ke the j here, Wednesday. A 14-year-old boy, _} son of a strik of pick their superintendent attacked ay line of striking miners who | the Mid-Hocking mine of | the Sunday Creek Coal Company near marched on who joined his father Victim of Tenement Fire and Rescuer produced a shot gun and fired on the pickets when they approached the group of scabs who were about to enter the mine. Powell was disarmed by the strikers. T harges against him are filed by Jones, John Gail and Pearl Brown. Victim of a fire-trap tene- ment at 261 Me- Dougal St., Hel- en Monghan is in the hospital today recover- ing from burns. She is shown here with the fireman who rescued her. He formed part of a human chain, risking his lifein the swing to the window where the trapped wo- man stood. NEEDED BY MINERS 400 Join Workers Party In Six Weeks The striking miners in the Pitts- burgh district are “strong” for The DAILY WORKER. This is the gist of the report of John Casper, DAILY WORKER agent in District 5 to the business office of the Daily. Casper arrived in New York yesterday te attend the National Nominating Con- vention of the Workers (Communist) Party. “Hundreds of striking miners have ;come to me and told me how much |The DAILY WORKER means to |them,” Casper said. “Most of them had never read the Daily before and |were eager to get it regularly. But! they had no money to subscribe. ‘As FLEEING WORKERS Collapse of Utah Dam is SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 23. —A repetition of the St. Francis dam break resulting in the death of over 400 is feared here. More than 3,000 men, women and children of three cen- tral Utah towns were encamped on mountain side here today as water rushed thru a break in the tip of the} sixty-foot Pleasant Valley Dam, near Gastlegate, threatening collapse of the structure. | soon as this strike is over, we’ll sub- | scribe to The DAILY WORKER out |of our first pay,’ many of them told ;me. ‘It’s the best paper in the world.’ | “During the past six weeks more | than 400 of these miners have joined the Workers Party. Every one of them needs The DAILY WORKER every day. If the readers of the Daily only realized this, I’m sure that many more would provide these striking coal diggers with free subscriptions.” Workers, the miners are fighting for all of us. Help their fight with a free sub. Send it in at once to the office of The DAILY WORKER, 33 First St., New York City. A force of five hundred men work- ed throughout the night plugging the| leaks and bolstering the dam with sand bags, cement and earth with the result that the e fect of the accumulated material was check The breakdown of the St. Franc Dam resulted from faulty construc-| tion approved by corrupt officials, it has been revealed. Britains Love the Queen But 4 OVE for the British Empire on ™ the part: of Englishmen in the United State low. “Empire Day,” ‘England and all its ‘Bessions” on the anniver ebirth of the portly Moria, and plans had ‘pleted for the annual Emp inner, scheduled for Thu Tight at the Waldorf. Spea rere to include Sir Esme Howard, ‘British ambassador and other mon- “ocled celebrities. © “Lack of interest,” however, ‘prompted the sponsors of the cele- ‘bration to call the dinner off, it has sjust been learned. For when the janxious Britons took inventory they ound to their great chagrin that fonly 103 out of more than 5,000 -necepted the invitation to honor the dead queen. com- Day mn ire Missourr FEDERATION MEETS & ST, LOUIS, May 25.—The 32nd an- - Need the Cash' » | to make SPEED-UP GROWS IN FORD PLANT (Continued from page one) cent of the men have been laid off. And in the hood painting depart- | ment of the same plant they used to turn out 16 jobs a day. Now 28 are required. And of course several men were fired.” | * * * | At the Ford plants, most famous | for their race track speed, the soldering department has increased production from 35 to 80 pieces per | hour in one year. At one of the | Fisher Body plants where they used 150 to 160 bodies a day, | they now finish from 235 to 240 with the same number of men on | the job. At the Hudson plant they more than doubled the output for the same number of men in one year, at the same time reducing the wage an average of 10 cents an hour. The worker is of course not per- mitted to organize to stop this in- creasing application of speed-up. * * * IF the worker cannot keep up with the pace, he is “recommended for a transfer,” writes a Detroit work- er. This means that he is sent to another department “where he or- dinarily cannot last a week.” Some workers contend that the bosses are really unnecessary, ex- cept to check on quality or perform- ance. Said one, “The machine I’m on goes at such a terrific speed that I can’t help stepping on it in order to keep up with It. The machine is my boss.” And the new machine may be the boss that fires him from FREE ‘DAILY’ SUBS\Frad Boys Get Spanking for Going to Dance Because they violated a rule of the college in attending a dance, 37 “young men students” of Upsala College were indefinitely suspended last Tuesday, it became known today. Three others, theological students, were let off with severe reprimands and told that they would have no more ice cream for the remainder of the semester. All the suspended stu- dents were members of a students’ organization called the Improved Or- der of Exalted Ululae. The dance was held in the Hotel Montclair, Montclair, N. J., and was given by the female progenitor of one of the naughty students. When interviewed by reporters, the sobbing mother said that the college was “do- ing my sen wrong” and that “none of the poor children deserved such cruel punishment.” Upsala College is a coeducational institution maintained by the New York and New England Conference of Evangelical Augustana Synod. The no-dancing rule was put into effect a year ago. : HAIL WORKERS PARTY SUCCESS French Communists » Greet Convention (Continued from page one) against class.’ Fight against the op- pression and exploitation of the whole world, especially on the American front at this time. “The s of the international pro- letariat are upon you, the hearts of workers everywhere are with you. Forward, bravely!” The following message, greeting the Workers (Communist) Party Convention has been received from the French Communist Party. “On the eve of the presidential elections, the. French Communist Party sends fraternal greetings to the American workingclass and its van- guard, the Workers (Communist) Party. The French Communist Party hopes that the masses of American workers will rally under the banner of the Comintern borne by the Work- ers (Cornmunist) Party. “To the American workers the presidential election ought to be only an epi 2 in the struggle against the imperialist plutocrats and their agents, the reformists in the labor movement. It should be one means of rallying the revolutionary proletarian forces for direct American capitalists, a battle in which the heroic Pennsyl- vania miners are taking such a splen- did lead. “Long live the Workers (Commun- ist) Party! Long live the proletarian struggle of the American workers against imperialism and the reform- ist traitors! Long live the Commun- ist International!” 150 Answers One Ad MINNEAPOLIS, May 25. — The Minneapolis Journal boasted recently that one of its ads was answered by 150 girls in a single day. One hun- dred and forty-nine of these job- hunters were turned down by the convention of the Misouri State leration of Labor will open at id Monday. the job altogether. Sheltering Arms, a charitable institu- tion, , |superintendent, who is said to have |line. | Overwhelmed when the union |miners turned on them, the attacking jscabs summoned Sheriff McNabb and eS deputies who beat back the 1 Jones, Paschal |strikers though he failed to make any! pearance of extreme famine in many arrests. GREED OF COAL BARONS CAUSES MINE MISHAPS Speedup Renders Safe- ty Devices Useless By LELAND OLDS, (Fed Press). The probable death of more than 190 coal miners in the explosion at the the non-union Mather mine near Waynesburg, Pa., emphasizes the criminal folly of leaving safety pre- cautions to the mercy of profiteering owners. Only when the miners’ union has a voice in every mine in the country will the hazards be reduced to the minimum. Inadequate Dusting. The U. S. Bureau of Mines reports that although 463 mines operated by 239 coal companies were being rock- dusted in 1927 it is improbable that even 50 of these mines were adequately rockdusted. Few of the mines were found employing adequate measures to ascertain whether their rockdusting would prevent or limit explosions. In all coal mines not decidedly wet, says the bureau, “all open accessible such an extent that any dust to be found on ribs, roof, floor or timbers will have an incombustible content of 65 per cent or over. There should be a systematic periodical sampling of dust from mine surfaces with prompt determination of the incom- bustible content and with subsequent redusting. where analytical work in- dicates incombustible below 65 per cent. In general surfaces should be sampled at least monthly, but samp- ling should be done more frequently where there is reason to suspect high combustible.” “Rockdusting to be effective,” says the bureau, “must be made an in- tegral part of everyday mining opera- tions; this means that mining com- panies must rockdust in. essentially the same manner that they timber, blast, ventilate and haul. Where rock- dusting becomes daily routine work its cost will be nominal and seldom should exceed 1 per cent per ton of coal produced. Until rockdusting be- comes a part of routine daily coal mine operation, it will remain more or ineffective and the coal mines will continue to be subject to wide- spread explosions.” No Safety Measures, One cent a ton to protect coal miners against such tragedies as that which just snuffed out 190 lives at Mather, Pa. And yet the profiteer- ing operators fail to carry out safety measures worked out years ago in the experimental mine of the government bureau. According to the bureau’s report rockdusting has been extended to mines employing 109,000 under- ground workers or only about 21 per cent’ of the U. S. total. These mines produce about 24 per cent of the country’s bituminous output. Early evidence Suggests that the Mather explosion was caused by sparks from an electrie cable whose insulation had been severed by a cutting machine used in modern machine mining. If so the tragedy was closely connected with the speed- ing up of production in this non- union mine, combustible rock dust which would otherwise have rendered the subse- quent explosion unlikely. parts should be kept rockdusted to} ; . _ The sparks ignited coal | dust insufficiently mixed with the in-| Undernourishment has sapped the vitality of many towns to the point where only an insuperable fighting spirit keeps mass picket lines going daily. Only relief sent by the Na- tional Miners’ Rélief Committee is keeping these miners alive. ever they could get, is attempting to smash the union by advocating a | separate union of Ohio coal diggers. Starvation Stalks Land. Scarcity of food is creating the ap- | coal digging communities on strike in | Father, Daughter, Victims Of “Prosperity” Be a The picture shows Edward Cromwell, of Bridgeport, Conn., recently released from the jail where his wife had him placed when he insisted on having more children. They had had 13, nine of whom had died. Crom- well’s wages never exceeded $30 a week when he could find work which was not often. The children who lived are employed folding elastics for which they make fifty cents a gross. The eldest girl is shown at the right. DEATH HOLDS STAKES IN GAME WITH MINERS By ED FALKOWSKI (Federated Press). SHENANDOAH, Pa., May 25.—Death seems to compete with the coal companies for increased output in the anthracite. It may come as the climax to an explosion, or simply in the pathetic and miserable form of crushing a man to death in some tight co: ‘ MARINE TERROR That is the way it come to sca Navitsky, a lifelong miner, who was caught between the cylinder of an air Tortured Civilians, Says Correspondent “lokey” and the timber as he was standing on the side of the gangway track to let the “lokey” pass. He was crushed, dying a few hours later at the Shenandoah City Colliery. A more dramatic death was that of Adam Evanovsky, 55, of Minersville, who was killed when caught in an ex- plosion in breast No. 3 of the Lytle Colliery. He was preparing the shot and had set fire to the fuse. A de- fect in the explosion caused it to backfire. The force of the explosion caught the man and hurled him down the face of the breast, killing him outright. Mining is a constant game with death, with the miner playing to out- wit it at every point. It becomes grimly humorous after a time. The miner whose head is fanned by a lump of rock that just missed crushing him, will let loose a few hot words, and laugh. “Missed me that time!” he says. But he knows that some day it won't miss him. “If it gets me, it'll be just too bad,” summarizes his at- titude. Day after day with heart-sickening regularity ambulance bells clang as some fellow is being hauled home from the colliery. Women grow hys- terical, fearing it may stop at their home. As it passes, their tears dry. and they resign themselves to the tragic recurrence of death. “It’s just a part of life,” they whisper, as they (Continued from page one) body was found shortly afterwards. | “In January John Bolton, an Amer- ican, was murdered near Bluefields. The marines brought in seven natives who were alleged to have confessed. Before a judge, one man, Escobar, said the confession was extracted! from him by torture. The proceed-| jings were immediately interrupted \and the prisoners were marched back to the barracks. Escobar refused to reenter his cell, made a dash for the gate and was shot and killed. Later it was proved that he had nothing to do with the murder. “In another instance a religious fes- tival was taking place in an Indian village north of Bluefields. Many of the Indians were drunk and marines appeared to restore order. They turn- ed on a machine gun, killing four and wounding five. The Nicaraguan mil- itary commander on refusing to sign the marines’ report was brought to | Bluefields and ill-treated until he con- sented to sign a dictated statement.” Workers Aid Sandino. Virtually every Nicaraguan worker and peasant is a Sandino sympathiz- er, the article says. In spite of the} shrug their shoulders and put pepper terroristic methods employed by the} in the soup for the men. marines, the writer declares that the = jaragua and China. MASSES CHEER 4 AUTONOMISTS AT COLMAR TRIAL Hundreds Burst Into Court Room PARIS, May 25.—Violent ‘scenes followed the sentencing of four of the Alsatian autonomists on trial at Colmar when thousands of men and women, who been massed around the court house four hours in expecta- tion, burst into the court room to shake the hands of the convicted men. Court guards and police attempted to break up the spontaneous demonstra- tion and blows ensued. The. four convicted men are Dr. Georges E. Ricklin, the reputed direc- tor of the autonomist movement, Paul J. Schall, former editor of the Zu- kunft, an autonomist paper, Joseph V. Rosse and Joseph Faschauer. “I implore you, Ricklin do not judge France by this verdict,’ some one eried over the heads of the throng. Andre Berthon, Communist deputy, sprang to the window of the court house and urged the masses to drape their houses in black as a protest against the “iniquitous verdict.” NOMINATING MEET IS OPENED HERE (Continued from page one) delphia, Baltimore, and Boston plan to attend all the sessions of the con- vention. The program of the Hungarian Workers Symphony Orchestra, con- sisting of 50 pieces, was received with tremendous enthusiasm, In addition to Lovestone and Fos- ter, the speakers were Ben Gitlow, member of the Secretariat of the party; B. H. Lauderdale, of Texas; Senator Charles E. Taylor, of Mon- tana; James P. Cannon, Scott Near- ing, Anita C. Whitney, William F. Patton, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, W. W. Weinstone, Tom Rushton, Stanley Clark and Scott Wilkins. Immediately after the conclusion of the convention a “Red Welcome Fest” will be held tonight im honor of the delegates. The affair, which has been arranged by the Party members of District 2, will be held at 8 0’clock at the new Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square. The sessions of the convention will be continued at Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave.,” today and Sunday. Making the World Safe For Democracy “The marines are stationed in var- ious navy yards and posts in the United States, and also in Haiti, Nic-. The location of the above units is in accordance with the government policy.” This was the reply of Allen C. Far- iquhar, of the navy, to a recent re- quest for information concerning the location of American marines. Fur- ther details given by Farquhar were: 25 ships of various sorts and sub- marines in Haiti, about the same number in Cuba and nearly a dozen in different parts of China. One of these navy units is 1,100 miles up the Yangtze River. most indefinitely. Nek) Bladder eakness or Kidney Pains of the Aged Relieved promptly with genuine | 4 Santal Midy Sandino nationalists can hold out al- Effective-Harmless May EAST 177th Baseball Soccer Games Swimming Schools. Jamboree and Carnival Saturday, June 9th at STARLIGHT PARK All proletarian sport clubs of New York will participate, Dances given by the children of the Nonpartisan Workers’ A d : irae” Joint Defense <isskmekers Ticket 50c. Including dancing and admission to games. Two busses are leaving ST., BRONX Mass Calisthenics Track and Field Evonts Exhibition Registration 1800—7th AVE. CAMP TELEPHONE, Opens Saturday, 1:30 P. M. from Unity Center, 1800—7th Ave. CHILDREN’S COLONY in Unity Camp For workers’ children from 5 to 9 years. DIRECTIONS: Busses leave Friday—6:30 P. M. Saturday—1:30 P. M. from 110th Street and 7th Avenue direct to the camp. By train from Grand Central Station or from 125th St. to Win- dale and from there take our automobile to the camp, For registration come to our main office TELEY@ONB, MONUMENT 0111,.- CAMP 26th Saturday, May 26th at Now Open. Corner 110th St, WINGDALE 12-F-10, Pr