The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1928, Page 1

$$$ _——amstmeseerenrsirrseene enema NEW — STATE WORKERS PARTY CONVENTION JUNE 10 TBH DAILY WORKER FIGHTS, | DAILY WORKER FIGHTS, FCR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 127. THE DAILY WORKER. Eatered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The Nationa: Dally Worke: Publishing Association, Inc. 88 First 81: weet, New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1979. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 96.00 per year. FINAL cITy. EDITIO Price 3 Cents WHITE GUARDIST were PLOTTERS CONFESS GUILT CONGRESS CLOSE Three ‘Wise’ Men of Gotham; One ‘Seeks Rest AFTER DOING BIT FOR BIG BUSINESS Record One 61 of Blackest! in Recent Years WASHINGTON, May 29. — The first session of the 70th Congress, notable-for the efficient aid which it rendered the big business and bank- ing interests of the country, ended this afternoon at 3:30. Within an hour after the Senate had adopted a resolution to adjourn in order to pre- vent further discussion of the John- son-Swing Boulder Dam bill, the House approved adjournment by a vote of 175 to 9. Although defeated in his attempt to prolong the session for a yote on the Boulder Dam measure, Senator Johnson succeeded in making his bill the first order of business when Con- gress convenes again in December. The record of the session is one of complete subservience to the big in- dustrial and financial interests. Among the measures that were passed by Congress during the session were the revenue bill, which will cut taxes of big business corporations, the Jones-White merchant marine bill which provides for loans at low rates to the shipping interests; the public building bill which will grant fat sums tobig contractors. The appropriations made by Con- gress during the session are expected to exceed $4,500,000,000—appropria- tions which are larger than those made by any congress since 1919-20 when great fiscal appropriations were made o noni eae war. . FUR BOSS YIELDS” TO JOINT BOARD Serfize Defeated Right Wing Treachery Definite evidence ‘ib prove that the furriers are taking the offensive in their ten months struggle against the right wing officials of the fake Joint Council and the bosses, was given by the leaders of the Joint Board Furriers Union, when they an- nounced that an employer withdraw- ing recognition from the union was compelled to settle with the Joint Board after a two-day strike. Lederman and Sobelman, 146 W. 36th St. hitherto an independent union shop having a separate agree- ment with the Joint Board, was for the last few weeks regularly visited by agents of the right wing Joint Council. The boss could not resist the alluring offers made to him by the scab union. In the hope of secur- ing more intensified exploitation of his workers, the employers joined | the bosses’ association, thereby auto- matically breaking the agreement with the Joint Board and signing one with the Joint Council. The bos- ses’ association has “eontractural re- lations” with the fake union. They (Continued on Page Five) NEED FUNDS FOR ‘DAILY’ AT ONGE Delegate after delegates to the Na- tional Nominating Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party spoke Kenney, the Tammany contractor summer in Europe. 2. Satay one of those “oacations” abroad? The picture shows, from left to right, William F. Kenney, Governor Al Smith, and William Todd. whose generous donations to the Smith campaign fund were recently disclosed, is sailing to spend the RED FRONT FIGHTERS MARCH 100,000 STRONG (Spectal To The DAILY WORKER.) BERLIN, May 29.—The tremendous strength of the militant sections of the German working class was in clear evidence yesterday when 100,000; Red Front Fighters participated in a huge parade and demonstration that marked the . fourth birthday the organization. More than 700,000 working men, women and children turned out for the demonstration which «was one of the most enthusias- tic that Berlin ever witnessed. The workers’ quarter was a forest of red flags. Over a hundred thou- sand Red Front Fighters from all meeting points and joined a monster march toward the Lustgarten, Delegates from ‘similar working class organizations in Great Britain, France, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Switzerland attended to express their solidarity with their German com- rades. Cheer Marchers. Masses of workers lined the streets and lustily cheered the marchers. (Continued on Page Three) BROWN, KREMER of TO CHOOSE TICKET AT STATE MEETING ‘parts of Germany assembled at four | All Party Units to Elect Delegates” Following the successful conclusion of the National Nominating Conven- tion of the Workers (Communist) Party, which hundreds of delegates from all over the United States at- tended, the Executive Committee of District 2 yesterday announced that the New York State Convention will be held here on June 10 at the Work- ers Center. The convention will choose the workers’ candidates for the 1928 elections in New York state. The following is the full text of | the convention call: | To All Units of the Workers (Communist) Party in New York State. To All Workingclass Organizations In New York State. FOR TAMMANY Taxi Drivers to Form a Real Union Two hundred fifty taxi drivers and owners at a mass meeting at Bryant Hall, 42nd St. and Sixth Avenue, Mon- day night witnessed the exposure of two would-be betrayers of the cab- men, an attorney and a taxi editor, who in the past few weeks have been vying with each other for the oppor- tunity of turning the taxi vote over to Tammany Hall in the coming elec- tion. Admits Connection Irving I. Kremer, an attorney. with offices in the Paramount Building, ad- mitted before a meeting of his re- cently formed Taxicab Drivers Mu- tual Protective Association, Monday, that he has been holding conferences with Judge Olvany, leader of Tam- many Hall. Olvany, according to Kre- (Continued on Page Five) Dear Comrades: Call for State Nominating Convention. The New York State Nominating Convention of the Workers (Com- munist) Party to put forward state candidates in the 1928 elections, to adopt a state platform, to outline ways and means of conducting the election campaign in this state will be held Sunday, June 10, at 10 a. m. at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square. This convention follows the National Nominating Convention which has put forward William Z, Foster and Benjamin Gitlow as the standard bearers of the Party, which adopted a platform of class struggle against capitalism and which demonstrated that the Work- ers (Communist) Party is entering earnestly into the campaign to mo- bilize the masses behind a platform in the interests of the working class. The workers of New York state (Continued on Page Two) PIECE WORK in glowing terms of The DAILY WORKER: and emphasized its im- portance to the American workers. This is in corroboration-of numerous letters that the paper receives daily from workers in various parts of the country, telling how indispensable The DAILY WORKER is to them. ling the tens of thousands of workers) in the men’s clothing industry with} the chains of the degrading piece work system, was taken yesterday by A. Beckerman, boss of the New York Yet despite this faet the paper is in such gteat financial straits at present that it finds itself faced with the imminent possibility of suspen- sion, in addition to having no funds to move from its present quarters to its new home in the heart of revolu- tionary: activity at 26-28 Union Sq. Workers, this is a time when every cent counts. No matter how small your contribution, send it in at once. Solicit your friends, your shopmates. le unions, your élubs. Don't immediately _to| LY WOR: Joint Board of the Amalgamated, when he declared that he intended to grant this system of slavery to a dozen large manufacturers. — - The bosses in. question made this demand several days ago, with the threat that refusal meant the break- ing of negotiations with the union and their removal to suburban towns, The intended general granting of this demand to the bosses is made with the union about to enter nego- ane with sei paplarecs! associa- mn a renewal o! agreement. Beckerman’s decision to pie The first open Gckecieatiouat step, on a wholesale scale toward shack-/of this point to the whole industry | usual charge of “disturbing the Whenever he granted piece-work sie individual firms hitherto, he always! Boal, a Mills Committee organizer are FOR TAILORS Beckerman man Foists New System On On Men to be a forerunner to the concession when a new agreement is signed. | declared that it was done only be- | cause of peculiar necessities in the in- dividual case, About six of the largest bosses in the trade have already been allowed to instal this system, and are pointed to by the bosses and the right wing as very successful. These firms have admitted that their profit balances are much larger. Deliberate Decision. The decision of Beckerman to grant the piece work system is deliberate. The entire union membership has reg- istered its hatred against this method Haess iee Page Two) aaron coset SEX | | District 5 Miners Oust Lewis Officialdom RANK AND FILE WILL NAME OWN OFFICERS TODAY Tony Minerich Elected| Chairman (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, May 29.—Ousting the treacherous officials of the Lewis-Fagan machine in District 5 over two hundred delegates in a special convention here, representing over one hundred locals in the district voted this morning to take over the union once more for the miners. Rank and file delegates at the con- vention rose to cite proof after proof of strikebreaking activities on the part of the Lewis officialdom in this section, and unanimously declared their offices vacant. Grey haired dele- gates who have been militant fighters in the union for over thirty years de- nounced Pat Fagan, president of the district, and Lewis for expelling them together with thousands of others in es Wing Leaflets At ‘Kuomintang Par adi va i, 9 Vy Militant Chinese aprkae affiliated with the New! York Pranen of the Alliance to Support the Chinese Workers-Peasants’ Revolution, distributed leaflets denouncing the war lord at a parade arranged by Photo shows view of the parade. imperialist powers and the Chinese the Kuomintang in New York City, MILITARY CAN’T STOP HAYWOOD MEMORIAL their attempt to disrupt the organiza- tion. Minerich Chairman. Anthony Minerich elected ‘interne | and Tom Myerscough, secretary of the convention. Striking miners from Westmoreland county who have re- cently been organized, were seated as fraternal delegates. Mine women from auxiliaries also as fraternal delegates occupy the first few rows in thé hall, Resolutions demanding a complete change in the strike and union policy, and calling miners to disregard the illegal expulsions of progressive lo- eals and individuals, eliminating ap- pointive power of international presi- scale of wages, for nationalization of mines, one national agreement were unanimously passed. Special resolution calling for equal pay for young workers and their more active participation in union affairs precipitated wide spirited discussion. Charles Wilson from the New York City Children’s Relief Committee was given a great ovation when he pledged the children’s support to the strike, “Even the children are with us,” sixty-year-old Milke Harrington from Avella said. Organize Children. The convention endorsed the or- ganization of children and women and condemned the Boy Scouts and (Continued on Page Two) STRIKE LEADERS ARRESTED DAILY Mill Committees’ Power Irks Authorities and authority of the Textile Mills Committee as the real leaders of the 28,000 textile workers who have been on strike here more than six weeks, the police are daily increasing their attempts to damage the already strongly intrenched strike machinery by continued arrest of its leadership. After a strike meeting held yester- day afternoon in which over two thou- sand ‘strikers participated, William T. Murdoch, head of the New Bedford | Committees, and Lameras and Porter, two active figures in the strike were again arrested. This is the second | time Murdoch has been arrested after a meeting in the past few days. The was preferred against the jailed wen. Murdoch and Fred E. to come up'for trial Thursday for leading a large picket demonstration before the gates of the Nonquit Mills. Arrests Incentive. The sharpening police policy of making numerous arrests in order to discourage the picketing has not only been a complete failure, but on the contrary, has resulted in a heavy in- crease of the turnout of strikers to the picket line. Admission of the heaviest picketing since the strike be- gan is made even by the capitalist press, as well as the employers’ trade of work at numerous membership | journals. The opposition of the mem-| The enthusiastic participation ent ffontinwed on Page Two) BOUGHT USELESS . MACHINES FROM GERMAN FIRMS Worked With Czarists, Evidence Shows (Special Cable to the Daily Worker). MOSCOW, May 29.—More confes- | sions of guilt in the trial of techni- cians in the Donetz sabotage trial were made yesterday. The electrical engineer Niki#hin, | who was examined, pleaded guilty and ‘declared that the engineer Koester | had delivered two useless and anti- hauated machines from the German |firm, Knapp. Nikishin had pointed out that the machines were useless | while Kalganov and the German en- | Sineer Sebold had declared that the |machines were excellent and should | be used. Nikishjn, who promised to make no trouble, received 400 roubles thru the German representative of | Knapp, Badstieber, who is also ac- |cused of being participated in the In spite of the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ efforts to stop the memorial | plot. meeting in honor of the late William D. Haywood, which is scheduled for the | In answer to a number of questions put to him by Krylenko, prosecuting Central Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., Friday night, the New York ! attorney, Nikishin declared that the dent, for a fight for the Jacksonville! | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 29.— Enraged by the fast growing prestige | URGE WORKERS TO HONOR HAYWOOD Meet a Demonstration | for Class Struggle - Calling on the militant workers of New York to make the Haywood Me- morial Meeting on Friday a demon- stration for the class struggle, Wil- |liam W. Weinstone, organizer of Dis- trict 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party, yesterday issued the follow- ing statement: “Dear Comrades: Friday, June 1, 8 P. M. at the Cen- tral Opera House, the workers of New York will honor the memory of the! militant champion of American work- | ers—William D. Haywood. The New York workers will honor the services of that great leader of | the American revolutionary movement | who was a pioneer in the establish- | ment of the trade union movement | and who helped in the economic and} political development of the working} class of this country. Haywood stands out as a towering figure in American labor history. The battles in which he has been engaged | b ment of the toilers. He has been persecuted. He has been imprisoned. He has been hounded by the capitalist class because they saw in him a force | for the organization of the workers, for instilling the workers with class consciousness and determination for \the overthrow of the capitalist sys- \tem. Though Haywood has been the founder of the Industrial Workers of | (Continued on Page Five) ANOTHER AFFAIR FOR MINERS. | Council No. 12, United Councils of |Workingclass Women, will conduct a} \large concert and dance for miners’ relief next: Saturday evening at 3510 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn. The program will be rich and va- ried; many talented players and sin- gers will give solo renditions. have been milestones in the develop-/ district of the Workers (Communist) | Party is going on with its plans for} ‘the meeting, William W. Weinstone, district secretary, announced last} night. “Let Department Commander Jean A. Brunner, of the New York State ‘Veterans of Foreign Wars, attack us morning, noon and night, we shall still hold a mighty memorial meeting in honor of Comrade Haywood,” Weinstone declared. _ “The Veterans of Foreign’ Wars will meet with no more success in attempt- jing to block our Haywood ‘memorial ydid a few months ago in threatening {to interfere with the Lenin memorial meeting. Brunner’s attack will only induce more workers to throng to the Central Opera House.” ; Commenting on Brunner’s charac- jterization of the founder of the I, W. |W. as “a confessed criminal because (Continued on Seige eae Two) TAMMANY GRAFT FUND INCREASING \Higher-Ups 2 Are Being | Shielded { Disclosures in the Tammany street | cleaning graft investigations indi-j \cated the existence of additional forms |< of robbery when witnesses before ;Commissioner of Accounts Higgins | | yesterday at the hearing in his office in the municipal building testified that the city has paid $15 for the} use of dump scows for w Vibe concerns have hired for Street Cleaning Dep: other things has consistent | the civil service law and has |the list; that there is no check |emergency men employed and other \evidences of graft and inefficie ae | Graft Years Old. | At the same time further a ures at the trial of Charles A. Mc- Gee, assistant general superintendent | of the Street Cleaning ielamed } Se bngiegi at on Page pd a week from a recently discovered lung disease were made yesterday at a meeting of the Welfare Coun- cil held at the Russell Sage Founda- tion. The charges are that rock dust from the hammer drills used by the 1,500 men in the craft now in the city was congealing in their lungs as a rock-like coating, resulting in a disease known as silicosis, It was found that the lungs of 75 men re- cently examined had all been af- fected. Expert chemists of a large insur- ance company were at work ex- amining specimens of the dust, and \ reo ROCK DUST KILLS 1 A W EEK ms Subway y Workers Never Told of Danger operators ao ct the @ had discovered, among other harm Cock that rock drills which are boring | ful substances, traces of arsenic. into the rock bed of Manhattan for | Physicians were loath to make pub- subways and building sites are | lic the results of investigations, and dying off at the rate of one man | therefore classed the men who were dying from the disease as victims of tuberculosis. The disease was discovered four years ago, after the abandonment of the old type drill} in which water was used for keeping down the dust. But this drill, altho much safer than the one now in use, was discarded in favor of the new one, which, altho it is quicker in operation, permits dust from the rock to fly straight into the nasal passages of the men operating them. But even this had been known all these years, nothing had been done to acquaint the work- ers who operate them with their danger. jmeeting than the American Legion} | machines were not only useless for |the mines concerned, but were alto- gether useless. He declared that Gor- jetski has issued instructions that no machines made in the Soviet Union were to be purchased as he had or- dered useless foreign machines. Krylenko pointed out that Bad- | stieber had already admitted that the (Continued on Page Three) CLOAK CHAIRMEN RALLY TO PARLEY Saturday Conference to Open Offensive After the enthusiastic meeting of thousands of cloak and dressmakers in Cooper Union Monday night, the attention of the masses of workers in the ladies garment industry is turn- ing toward the coming conference of shop chairmen and representatives, which begins at 10 o’clock Saturday morning in Webster Hall, 11th St and Third Ave. While the workers in the cloak trade have had many conferences in the recent history of the -struggle against both the bosses and the right wing International Uni#én officialdom, the Saturday conference is assuming la role of extraordinary importance, in the di s at the workers’ |gathering places. Representative Meet Signs multiply rapidly that this }eonference will be genuinely repre- {sentative of the overwhelming major- 2 shops in the entire trade, n from credentials al- into the offices of the anizing Committee, ‘the industry will be the ma rk of the confer (Ce WORKER PLEDGES ONE DAY'S PAY response at wea workers to the ap- peal for funds for the relief of the striking soft-coal miners made by the National Miners Relief Committee of |799 Broadway, is exemplified by the jfollowing card received from a New | York worker by the relief committee: | “The last Tag Day I was fanable to go out to collect money be- \eause I was sick, and so I am pledg- jing a day’s wages as soon as I start | work.” |. The card is signed by G. Ninopol- |sky, of 779 Crotona Avenue, Bronx, If all New York workers could real- ize the extent of the destitution that prevails among the striking miners and their dependents, they would give their last dollar for relief, The Pitts- burgh office of the National Miners Relief Committee is in daily Pate of appeals for food, tents, aid and clothing from stricken mi i. miners’