The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY WO WORKERS, SEW NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1928 BISHOP WILLIAM MONTGOMERY BROWN REACHES HIS TENTH REVOLUTIONARY BIRTHDAY MSHOP William Montgomery Brown, expelled from the E pal church for telling the workers to the capitalists from the earth,” w unable to attend the National Nom- Mating Convention of the Workers » (Communist) Party. But “fortunate- ty can read all about it in “DAILY WORKER, the most thrillin; ly interesting and brilliantly illumi ating of all American newspapers. That is what he said in a letter of | greetings to the delegates at the con- vention. The letter follows in full: ‘Comrades: It would be great for 4 me if I could be with you in my place| “banish the gods from the skies and |as a delegate from Ohio to the great- est political convention that will be held in the United States this year.| Unfortunately I must be content to) remain at home, but fortunately I} The jcan read all about it in The DAILY|be young like us. |WORKER, the most-thrillingly inter- esting and brilliantly illuminating of | jall American newspapers, “It is great to be alive in this age | | when everything, everywhere is |changing so rapidly. Ten years is not | {a long time to stay in a cemetery or a dead world where things seem to {be standing still, but ten years like those through which we have just passed are different. They comprise a whole epoch in human history, “It is a wonderful time in which to Mrs. Brown and I jare among the youngest in the Com- munistic movement. We are only ten | years old, that is we have. had only {about ten years of real human life.: )All the sixty odd years which we | spent before were at best only a preparation for the life that we are now living. “Tt is true that during many of those years I was an orthodox bishop in an orthodox church, the Episcopal church, but that made no difference as to my deadness. Orthodox bishops jof orthodox. churches are about. the eye of all people, The only per- son on earth who is deader than an lorthodox Episcopalian bishop is a 100 per cent American patriot. “The world ten years ago was a world of radicals and conservatives. It now consists of revolutionists and reactionaries. That is a tremendous gain because both sides now want great changes to occur. The only argument is as to ‘what sort of changes they shall be. “The revolutionists see the great stream of life flowing into the in- finite sea. The thought that oc- curred to them-is to build a ship strong enough to ride the waves, to | embark on it and explore the infinite. “The. reactionists see the same great stream of life flowing into the same infinite sea. The thought that occurs to them is to organize a gal- lant bucket brigade and to lug water back up the mountain side and pour it into its original hole. Hard at Work. “Both sides are hard at work. The revolutionists with their ship build- ing and the reactionists with their bucket carrying. So far all the suc- cess has been with the revolutionists. If the reactionists succeed no better during the next ten years they must give up leaving the ocean as full as ever. “If the revolutionists succeed as well during the next ten years their whole international fleet will be ‘afloat following the greatest flag- ship which is already proudly riding the waves headed towards that delec- table country where poverty and slav- ery and war are unknown. “WILLIAM M. BROWN. “ELLA B. BROWN.” ~Co-Worker of Tom Mann Is Communist Candidate for Governor of Delaware GEORGE NEWCOMB SEES SPREAD OF ” RED INFLUENCE Give} oe ‘Bridgeport C Child piace Other Delegates | Views George Newey candidate for} governor of Delaware on the Com-} munist ticket and a delegate to the nominating convention of the Wor Party just closed, yesterday pressed his confidence on the pros pects of the Party in his state. comb is a veteran of the struggle not only of the States, BRurope. A score of years ago, it | was learned, Newcomb was an organ- izer in the British labor under Tom Mann. Predicts Great Fight. rs’ class United but also of England and of | “Many fore being unified to make the great ican working | class”; Newcomb declared, “this will} be one of the important campaigns | in labor history. Our Party will make | 2 record in Delaware.” The slogan which perhaps made the greatest impression on the con- | vention and which is destined to be- come a classic in the future of the Party is the one issued by James Reed, delegate from Rhode Island: “Our purpose is not to Americanize Communism; our task to Com- munize the American working class.” Harry J. Lawrence, veteran fighter | from Houston, Texas, created con- | siderable interest by his parable of| the Boll-weevil and the Banker: “The eevil bites the cotton crop when young; the banker takes in the cotton crop when it’s grown; which is the greater insect?” he asked. is Knew Lenin. Martin Henderson, one of the oldest veterans of the class struggle in American and Europe who knew and worked with Lenin, summed up in a word the central lesson of his experi- | ence: “Once a revolutionist, always | a revolutionist! Those who have de- serted the struggle, those who sold} out,” he declared, “were never really revolutionists in their heart; that is what my fifty years of experience| in the class struggle have taught me.” | William J. White, member of the| Central Executive Committee and a delegate from Pittsburgh, told of the conditions in the steel mills, the great tasks ahead for the Party and called| for energy and determination to caf-| ry on the political campaign. Deport Cuban Student! for Attacking Fascism| A Cuban university student, Bar-| eelo, has been deported from Cuba for having made an anti-government 1st, according to in-| ved here. | Barcelo, who was born of Spanish | parents, was declared a Spanish citi- | zen, even tho he had never been in| Spain. He was placed on a ship | bound for Spain, where he will be | taken care of by the fascist Rivera) regime. } New-| § movement | f ‘ Mrs. Edith Cromwell and her chil- dren are shown in the picture. Mrs.| Cromwell had her husband jailed re- cently because he insisted on having more children altho those now alive are compelled to fold elastics at 50} cents a@ gross in order to buy food.| The woman has borne 18 children. Capone, Gang Leader, Has a Partner Now' oes: AGO, May 28.—The ushering in of a new era in strikebreak- ing and intimidation of workers is seen in the announcement that Al- phonse Capone, gang boss and poli- tician known as “Scarface Al,” has become a partner in the Sanitary Cleaning Shops, Inc., owned by Morris Becker. Of course, the aim of the new partnership is entirely altruistic. In fact, it will be Capone’s job to act as a protecting shepherd to the workers of the Sanitary Cleaning Shops, this new alliance is to protect his place of business and his employes from the gunmen hired by unscru- pulous competitors. The cleaning and dyeing business, it seems, has been split up by an internal war, ; with gunmen playing the leading | roles in the fray. Workers in the cleaning and dye- ing trade are, however, said to be skeptical of the purity of this holy alliance and look upon a gangster on the premises as a step towards greater efficiency in mobilizing scabs and slugging workers in case of strikes. BOULDER DAM SURVEY. WASHINGTON, May 28.—Without |a record vote the senate today passed a resolution by Senator Pittman, (D) Nevada, to provide for a new survey of the Boulder Dam site in the Col- orado River. according to Becker, who | protests that the sole purpose of | DELEGATES FLOCK TO SPECIAL MEET OF DISTRICT FIVE. | Miners Will Oust Lewis) Machine (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, May 28, More than two hundred delegates are as-| sembled here for the special conven- | tion of District! 5 of the United Mine| Workers of America called by the} Emergency Committee of 100 repre-} senting as many local unions to take | jaction on the crisis in the union and} | | the treacherous conduct of the Lewis-| | Fagan machine. The Jarger percentage of the cre- dentials to the convention are formal- ly signed by local officers and sealed. The remainder, bearing the signatures | of presidents and secretaries, were} | accompanied by the explanation that | their seals had been confiscated when |they refused to sign pledges of al- legiance to the present policies of the John L. Lewis administration, Rank and File Acts. When requests for approximately 100 local unions for a special district convention failed to evoke any re- sponse from the district union office, the locals took matters into their own hands and issued a call for the spe-| ‘cial convention signed by miners from| |100 different locals. The district con-| | vention provides that special conven- tions shall be called when fifty locals | apply. | According to the Emergency Com- mittee, all district offices will be de- clared vacant and a new set of offi- cers, in agreement with progressive policies, will be elected to replace them. Warning that locals participating in the convention will be expelled. which were issued from Patrick Fa- gan’s office, have failed to stem the flow of credentials coming to the com- | mittee’s headquarters, Carboni said. Coal diggers who recently joined the strike and organized themselves into the Westmoreland County Min- |ers’ Union, will send fraternal dele- gates from each local. * * * | Delegates Assemble. j (Special to the Daily Worker) | PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 28.—De- spite the efforts of the District Exe-| eutive Board of District 5, United Mine Workers of America to se the Special Convention called by |“Emergency Committee of 100,” re }sending warnings in the form of | threats of expulsion to all local unions! \if they should attend, the credentials| are still arriving and a good represen- tative convention has assembled at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Pittsburgh, according to reports from the committee. Resolutions dealing with every phase of the miners struggle are also coming in and the various commit- tees are busy preparing their reports to the convention. These credentials cover such subjects as the crisis in the mining industry, the need for the re-| moval of the old officials, and the} election of new officials. PAPER AIDS HORTHY LOAN PROPAGANDA Fascist Delelgation of “Kossuth Pil Pilgrims”’ Is Fi urther Exposed nor many weeks ago a large dele- gation of Hungarian fascists | appointed by Horthy, the white- | terrorist regent of Hungary, toured the United States in the guise of “Kossuth pilgrims.” Their purpose was to use the un- veiling here of a monument to Louis | Kossuth, Hungarian patriot, as a pretext for spreading propaganda for a huge loan from Wall Street to Hungary to bolster the totter- ing fascist regime of Horthy, which has tortured, killed, exiled and im- | prisoned thousands of workers and farmers. The Workers (Communist) Party, | the International Labor Defense, the Anti-Horthy League and other working class organizations of this country exposéd the purposes of the fascist delegation in New York, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and other cities visited by the dele- gation, The heads of the delega- tion denied that they were here for any other reason than to honor Kos- suth, although they called either formally or informally not only on bankers but on President Coolidge and the mayors of cities, whose fa- vor is always sought in floating a huge foreign loan. There have been signs from time to time that the Hungarian fascist loan. propaganda was at work, maintained by agents and sympa- thizers in this country of the Hor- thy regime. * * * A NEW example of the assistance which the Horthy fascists are receiving from nominally neutral agencies in the United States is found in a story nearly a column long in yesterday’s issue of a lead- ing New York capitalist daily pa- per. The story is carefully designed to stimulate interest in the loan which the Horthy regime seeks here, to enable it to carry the heavy burden of its repressive uniformed and secret police force with which it perpetuates its power. The fol- lowing is the lead sentence in the story: “Bankers who have been study- ing the loan situation in various parts of Europe have been giving more attention to Hungary, which is said to offer considerable prom- ise. While Germany and some other countries of Central Europe have drawn rather heavily. on the sur- plus capital resources of the United ys States, and in the case of Germany there is prospect of further finan- cing of considerable proportion, conditions in Hungary indicate that the investor looking for new busi- ness abroad will probably find it in various Hungarian industries.” * - * TE22e follows material on cur- rent financial, industrial and agrarian history of Hungary in- ; tended to stimulate confidence in the industries and estates owned by the supporters and appointees of the Horthy government as well as in the Horthy regime itself. Militant American workers who faced police clubs and bullets to demonstrate against the Horthy delegation, notably in New York, understood these facts at that time. Their experience showed also the similarity between the Horthy ter- rorist police and the police force of Tammany Hall and that of the state department at Washington. The House of Morgan, yester- day’s New York newspaper story shows, will soon be slipping the fas- cist regent of Hungary a few mil- lion dollars to hire still more police and biuld still more jails for the workers, (have been in if they |. During Imperialist “Peace” Preparing Imperialist War Pup-tents of the 14th infantry in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, are shown in the picture. The militia are in summer camp learning how to make the most of every round of ammunition against the enemies of the Am rican p mareeratey or ageenths strikers in this country. SOVIET FILM TO OPEN WEDNESDAY 'Threat to "®ue Compels | Grant of Permit Fear that the legal action threat- | jened by, Arthur Hammerstein would} jexpose in open court the politics in censorskip, the New York State Board of Film Censors has finally granted |a permit for the opening of “The End of St. Petersburg,” a Soviet film, after compelling the Hammerstein Theater, Broadway and 53rd St., to | delay the premiere till tomorrow even- ing. The opening showing was to have taken place last. night. After reviewing the film, which tells a story of the November -revolu- tion of 1917 in Soviet Russia, the State Board of Censors told Hammer- stein that no permit would be forth- coming till sanction was obtained from the State Department in Wash- ington. Immediate inquiries made by} /the impresario in Washington, elici- |ted the information that the matter |was entirely up to the local censor. Hamnierstein’s threat to sue for the | release of the film, which has been | hailed by foreign critics as a master- | piece, finally resulted in a permit granted yesterday, according to in-) formation obtained from the -Ham- |merstein offices. It is generally con- ceded that the authorities realized the} embarrassing pealennens they would ad attempted to explain the reasons for refusing a permit in a a court. TEACHERS LOSE IN SEATTLE GOURTS SEATTLE, (FP) M May 28.—Though the court would not make permanent the union high school teachers’ tem- |porary injunction against the school board, the board has agreed not to enforce its yellow dog contract until the issue has been decided in the Washington state supreme court. Local 200 of the -American- Federa- tion of Teachers has wide labor and popular support, but the board has of commerce. The high school union which was only recently organized, now has almost 700 members. One school board member has stated that the board can and will fire any teacher it pleases on any ground. The stage is set for a desperate battle in- volving the right of ‘teachers to be- long to professional organizations of their own choice. Start Gush-Campaign to} Free Mrs. Knapp ALBANY, N. Y., May 28. — Mob- ilization of sentiment for Mrs. Flor- ence E. S. Knapp, former secretary of state, who on Saturday night was found guilty of stealing census funds, has been begun with the announce- ment that Mrs. Knapp is confined to her hotel in a state of nervous col- lapse. As the first step in the move to keep the wealthy woman who stole thousands of dollars from being | placed behind the bars, Supreme Court Justice Callaghan postponed sentence until Sept. 4. Friends of Mrs. Knapp confidently predicted today that she would neyer serve a jail term. They feel certain that if Justice Callaghan fails to release the aristocratic felon, Gov. Smith ean be relied on to pardon her. FUND HEARING TO OPEN. WASHINGTON, May 28. — The Reed slush fund committee will open its investigation of this year’s sena- torial primary in New Jersey as soon as congress adjourns, t the -baeking of the Seattle chamber]. | Juage Upholds Tossing Coin in $15,000 Suit | Caiwace. May 28.—Simply be- cause a jury flipped a coin to decide a $15,000 damage suit is no reason for setting such verdict aside. At least, such is the opinion of Cireuit Judge David Brothers, one of the upholders of America’s world-renowned “justice.” He so ruled yesterday in upholding the award of that sum to Mrs. Mary Dibbell in a suit against the Checker Cab Company. The verdict was protested on the ground that it was determined by the flipping of A coin. Mrs. Dib- bell’s counsel explained that the jury stood nine to three for the $15,000 award, with the minority favoring $12,000. The coin toss was reported to have ended an eight- hour deadlock. JUDGE PAROLES SCABS AND POLICE (Continued from page one) hearings grew, took place at the Cov- erdale, Mollenauer and Castle Shan- on mines of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company during the period from July, 1927, to the beginning of the present year. The riot in which the scabs were arrested took place at Coverdale last November. Three of the coal and iron police were charged with point- |ing firearms. . “The paroles will be as a club against us to keep us off the picket \line,” one of the strikers who ap- peared before the court confided to a representative of the National Min- ers’ Relief Committee following the trial. “The paroles don’t mean a thing to the coal and irons. They were just paroled so that the club could be used against us. And we can’t protest because the judge will say that he treated everybody alike.” METAL POLISHERS FIGHT CHICAGO, May 28.—Union metal polishers fighting the Chicago Flex- ible was the only exception. ible Shaft Co. the past year are show- ing renewed spirit in an outburst of mass picketing despite injunctions and heavy court penalties already as- sessed on them. The strike began a year ago last April when all the union shops employing metal polishers and grinders agreed to raise the scale from $1 to $1.10 an hour. The Flex- os Speed-up; Against Workers, WORKER into the Textile strike Help us keep up the work—Help Thousands more Send a subscription ‘100,000 Miners on Strike 30,000 Textile Workers on Strike Thousands of requests are being made in every mail for The DAILY WORKER from the Striking Miners, Hundreds of requests are already coming in from the striking Textile All expired subgcriptions of strikers are still being sent even tho the strikers can not afford to renew their subscriptions, Every day we are sending 4,000 papers to the mine strike * area FREE OF CHARGE. We have begun to send The, DAILY PICKET MILLS IN To Try Strike Leaders Thursday (Continued from page one) terday noon and is charged with dis- orderly conduct. See aaa | “Free Speech” in Fall River. FALL RIVER, Mass., May 28.— Alarmed at the rapid progress being made by the Textile Mills Committee in arousing a strike sentiment among the tens of thousands of workers in Fall River, who were prevented from going on strike by the union officials despite a 10 per cent wage cut, the mill-owned city authorities are trying to prevent the T. M. C. from holding another mass meeting here. An announcement to this effect was made yesterday by the chief of police following the arrest Saturday of the leaders of the New Bedford Mills Committee. The first mass meeting of textile workers held here last week, which had as the main speaker Albert Weisbord, the Passaic strike leader, has already resulted in the enrollment of hundreds of work- ers here into membership in the Tex- tile Mills Committee, with large num- bers increasing the enrollment daily. Despite the fact that the chief of police has notified the hall owners here not to rent any meeting places to the National Textile Mills Com- mittee, Peter Hegalias, speaking for the Fall River organization, declared that a meeting will be held regardless of whether they have a hall or not. Not only are the mill bgrons fearful of the speedily developiel steiie sen- timent, but the officialdom of the American Federation of Textile Op- eratives, at the head of which is a “labor leader” who is also one of the city’s police commissioners, are us- ing all the resources at their com- mand to stem the tide of feeling for strike action. Even among the Textile Council membership an increasingly strong movement is afoot to take another strike vote, over the heads of the ad- ministration if necessary. The coun- cil officials, at the first vote, taken when the wage cut was put into effect several months ago, announced that the strike vote was lost by several ballots short of a two-thirds majority. At that time the union membership openly charged faked vote counting. The announcement of Peter Hegel- ias for the T. M. C., also states that the second Fall River meeting will be held next week. To Save the Union; For @ Victorious Strike; For the Miners’ Control of Their Union; Against the Wage Cut; Against the Longer Hours you SPITE OF ARREST Enclosed find $ striking areas for .. RUSH SIGNATURE DRIVE FOR OHIO STATE ELECTION Militant Labor Leaders on Ticket CLEVELAND, 0., May 28.—Fol- lowing the National Nominating Con- vention of the Workers (Communist) Party’in New York City, enthusiastic reports of which have reached here by wire, the drive to collect 30,000 signatures to put the Party on the ballot in Ohio is being pushed with new vigor. The total of signatures j has. been placed at 30,000 in order to obviate any possible conflict with the | state authorities. Many In Drive. A score of labor and fraternal as- sociations, many of whom were repre- sented by delegates at the National Convention, are already actively! en- gaged in the signature collection. The societies will also organize mass meet- ings thruout Ohio to support the elec- tion campaign in the state financially. The petition lists for this work are obtainable at the headquarters of the Workers (Communist) Party at 2046 E. 4th St. The State Nominating Convention of the Workers Party at Cleveland nominated a full slate. Among the workers’ candidates are William Pat- terson, of Toledo, who will run for governor; Carl Hacker, of Cleveland, for lieutenant governor; Bruce Smith, of Toledo, for secretary of state; Sarah Vervin, of East Liverpool, for treasurer; Edwin Blank, of Lima, for attorney-general; Joseph Cooper, of Youngstown, for state auditor; Israel Amter and Joseph Wilnecker, of To- ledo, for senators. All of the candidates have militant records in the Jabot movement in Ohio. e Leaders on Ticket. Outstanding leaders of the Ohio workers’ struggles are on the county and district tickets, too, Frank Se- pich, of Neffs, one of the courageous leaders of the Eastern-Ohio miners and John Foley, of Cleveland, spokes- man of the Cleveland unemployed movement, are some of the candidates for U. S. congress; Sadie Van Veen. secretary of the Women’s Progres- sive League and leader of many po- litical campaigns, Milosch Boich, Cleveland, Christoph Kraven, also of Cleveland, Abraham Eleff, John Fromholz, Thomas Bradley and other prominent Communists are on the Cuyahaga county ticket for state sen- ate and assembly. SEEK TO GAIN NITRATE LINE BUENOS AYRES, May 28.—Offers have been made the Bolivian govern- ment by an American firm, operating chiefly in the Argentine, to purchase the Arica-La Paz Railroad for $20,- 000,000, according to reports from La Paz. The Bolivian section of this line was recently turned over to Bolivia by the Chilean government. 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