The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1928, Page 1

esesmenar femnee ee 0 MILITARISTS FAIL: IN SCHEME TO STOP HA YWOOD MEMORIAL 18m DAILY WORKER FIGHT, | DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FCR THE ORGANiZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK HIRES corechec cid felts ee GA | A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 128. OVER LAND IN SOUTHERN ITALY More Militants Jailed in Rome (Special Cable to the Daily Worker). MOSCOW, May 30.—Peasant re- volts against the fascist regime have taken place in southern Italy, accord-| ing to reliable information received | here, The peasants of St. Agatha) have taken over the estates of large} landowners. | The arrest of Communists is still widespread, particularly in Rome,|— where in spite of the rigid censorship, the workers are aware of the trial of the leaders of the Communist Party of Italy. The trial has perhaps been postponed. No foreign journalists have been admitted. The fascist deputy Maggi declared that the Milan bombing had been caused by Gianpaolis. When ques- tioned Maggi declared that he ais) (Continued on ss has Three) DONETZ PLOTTERS AIDED CZARISTS Ordered 4,000 Workers Executed (Special Cable. to the Daily Worker). * MOSCOW, May 30.—Kladko, for- mer agent of the White Guards in the Donetz district testified that Kolodub, Beresovsky, Kalganov -and Eliadze, all of them accused of having par- ticipated in the Donetz sabotage plot, had reported revolutionists to the White Guards, who executed them. In reply toa question put to him by the court, Kladko declared that ap- proximately four thousand Donetz workers had been executed. Favina, a working woman, testified that Kolodub had handed a servant, Polya, to the White Guardists for ex- ecution because she was accused of | having stolen a dress. | In the evening the engineer Nashi- | votchnikov pleaded not guilty. The accused admitted that sabotage had | been performed but denied that he| himself had participated in it. Kal-| ganov and Beresovsky declared that | Nashivotchnikov had consciously par-| ticipated in the fs inca SOVIET SINGER AT Si." CENTER CONCERT To Award Red Banner on Saturday Tickets are selling fast for the great concert and dance to be held in the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, on Saturday evening. Work- ers thruout the city are preparing to make this affair a real proletarian celebration of the acquisition of the Workers Center as the home of the revolutionary movement. The finishing touches are. now be- ing put on the musical program which is under the direction of George - “All Workers Center collection lists, whether filled or unfilled, to gether with all contributions must be turned in to the Center, 26-28 Union Square, not later than Sat- urday evening. All pledges must also be completely paid up by that time. “WwW. W. WEINSTONE, “Secretary, Workers Center.” —————————————— Cookley. The two headliners on the program are N. Nazaroff, distin- guished Russian baritone, who has been widely acclaimed thruout the ' Soviet Union, and L. Newell, noted harpist and soloist of the Capitol Theatre Symphony Orchestra. Naza- roff will be assisted by his two gifted children, who have also received high praise from music critics. Following the concert a dance will (Continued on Page Five) Carpenters, Painters. Wanted at “Center” | Volunteer carpenters and paint- ars, as well as workers in other trades, who can devote full or part time are asked to report at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union | poisoned while Emtered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. Published daily except Sumday by The Nationa: Dally Worker hing Association, Inc., 83 First Sireet, New York, N. ¥. PEASANTS TAKE eee The picture shows Mrs. Albina Larice, one of the victims of the United States Radium Corporation whose case comes before the New Jersey courts on’ June 8, The Ra- dium Corporation is fighting to escape payment of damages to the women workers, all of whom were painting radium dials on watches. All the women will : eee ie SEEK SETTLEMENT IN RADIUM SUITS: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1928 under the act of March 3, 1979. THE DAILY WORKER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, $8.00 per year Outside New York, by mail, 96.00 per year. FINAL CITY EDITION | Price 3 Cents U.S. READY FOR WAR, COOLIDGE SAYS + LEADERS REFUSE TO STOP MARCH, TWO ARRESTED Murdoch Now Jailed Four Times NEW BEDFORD} Mass., May 30.— Organized police terror to break the solidarity of 28,000 textile strikers, fighting the New Bedford Cotton Newark Judge udge Offer to Act As Mediary A definite move for buying off the poration for a sum of $1,250,000 was | made yesterday by counsels for the |defense in an effort to save several |hundred thousands of dollars for the corporation. Federal Judge William Clark of | Newark announced that he would act as a “disinterested mediator” in an effort to bring about an agreement between attorneys for both sides and “settle the matter” out of court. This latest move toward outside set- tlement has greater significance than it appears to have on the surface, because Judge Clark was at one time associated with Raymond H. Berry, counsel for the five women, in the same law firm. MINERS FACING GREAT HARDSHIPS Evictions Make Need For Relief Acute (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, May 30.—At nearly half a dozen special district and sub-district mine conferences during the past week, the subject of relief for the striking miners became one of the |most important orders of business. \In all cases, it was recognized that j unless funds being received by the Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., of this city increased mmediately,,the most serious conse- quences to the mine strike would surely follow. Many Conferences. Save-the-Union conferences have been held in Indiana, in Ohio, in Il- linois, in the anthracite within a week, Another is now in session here. At each of these, mine delegates report- ed of the fearful suffering and need of the wives and children of the coal diggers. Delegates from the non- union fields of West Virginia report- ed that thousands of .miners would come out on strike if soma measure of relief could be assured them, Evictions which are continuing in the cases of hundreds and even thou- sands are making the necessity for tents literally a problem of life and death. Babies and -young children (Continued on Page Five) SCAB MINE OWNER ATTACKS PICKETS Coal Diggers Show They Are Not Pacifists PETERSBURG, Ind., May 30.—Ef- forts by William Johnson of Indian- apolis, superintendent of the Gibson Coal Company and president of sev- eral scab mines in West Virginia to force the dispersal of a mass mine picketing demonstration yesterday led to his injury. Johnson had brought eighteen scabs and thugs from the Vincennes coal fields, planning to force the opening of his mine under the 1917 wage scale of $5 per day. More than 400 miners |from Pike and Gibson counties had gathered at the shaft when Johnson and his seabs charged the pickets. In the disturbance, Johnson is said tu have been beaten up although not seriously, it is believed. : The Gibson Coal Company recently acquired the mine from the Neal Coal Company and immediately began vlans for scab onerations. Manufacturing Association to regain a ten per cent wage slash, was begun in earnest yesterday. For the first time since the strike began more than six weeks ago, a squadron of police charged a picket | suit of the five doomed women now|line of about 500 strikers patrolling suing the United States Radium Cor-|the mill gates at the south end, and after several efforts succeeded breaking it up. Leaders Arrested. Again the leaders of the Textile Mills Committee, which is organizing and leading the picket demonstra- tions, were arrested. William T. Murdoch, secretary of the T. M. C., A. Adao, Piser and Porter, tepdstie members of the strike committee, were arrested after they refused to obey the order of the police chief in charge to halt the picketing. All the above have been arrested several times already, this being the fourth time for the union leader Murdoch. Strikers Sing. The line of parading and singing strikers formed again and again in spite of the numerous. concerted at- tacks upon them.. - In court later, heavy bail bonds were demanded for all arrested, Mur- doch, already under bail for several charges of “disturbing the peace,” ete., was compelled to furnish three times the original amount of securi- ties for his release. The International Labor Defense, which volunteered its resources for legal aid to the strik- (Continued on Page Three) DOCTORED FOOD GIVEN NEGROES Pisgwright Sues For $5,000 Damages SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 30.— Claiming that they ware served food deliberately rendered unpalatable, Garland Anderson, Negro playwright, and Louis Fremont Baldwin, a Negro attornay, today joined in a suit ask- ing $5,000 damages from Charles Compton, proprietor of a local hotel chain. Anderson, former San Francisco bell-boy, whose play, “Appearance” in has been running here for more than a month, asserts that employees of one of Compton’s restaurants admit- ted loading the food served him with pepper and salt in order to force him not to patronize the place. Anderson and Baldwin charge violation of the Personal Liberties Act. Their complaint states that in ad- dition to the salt and pepper, they found a foreign substance that tasted i and in their opinion was epsom salts, Threaten Children who Attend Save-the-Union Meet | Children, of the striking coal Union meeting by Albert F. Meeks, DELEGATES READY TO LAUNCH DRIVE 7’ Communist Message | Heading for the far west, middle west, south and every section of the country, delegates to the National Nominating Convention of the Work- ers (Communist) Party are now on their way home, ready to launch the great presidential campaign of the} only working class party on a huge, | nation-wide scale. All the delegates, imbued with the and a half days of the historic con- vention, are determined to bring the names of William Z. Foster and Ben Gitlow, candidates for president and vice president, respectively, of the Workers Party, and the militant working class platform on which they stand to all sections of the American working class, both organized and un- organized. In addition to the national candi- dates, the delegates will also wage active campaigns for the state and leounty tickets of the Workers Party. |Communist candidates will seek the workers’ support in practically every state. Under the direction of Alexander Trachtenberg, chairman, the Ways and Means Committee is now making plans for the division of the country into election districts; When these jplans are finally worked out, all the election machinery of the Workers (Communist) Party will be set in mo- tion. For Miners’ Relief Council 1 of the United Council of | Workingclass Housewives will present | jthe film, “Polikushka,” Saturday, | a) |June 2, at the Burk Theatre, Burk | and White Plains Ave., Bronx. The proceeds will go for the relief of the | striking miners. } The play depicts | the life of a serf in Russia under the | rule of the czars, | CLOSE G. O. P. RESULT. CHARLESTON, W. Va., May 30.— Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Senator Guy\ D. Goff were in a see- saw race for the republican presiden- Se iy ich Ges Corp. To Show Russian Film jformea a huge “automobile “combine miners of Lansing, the school principal. OUSANDS O HONOR Ohio, were recently ordered away from a Save-the- The teacher used obscene language in threatening the children with punishment if they attended the meeting. The children are shown in the picture. OF WORKERS: DEAD LEADER All attempts by the 7 aR of Foreign Wars to stop the huge memorial | | meeting in honor of the Late William D. Haywood to be held at Central proved futile. No maiter what obstruction may be| thrown up the meeting will be held, according to William W. Weinstone, organizer of District 2, orkers (Communist) Party under whose aus- pices the meeting has been called. U. S. department of justice agents, who were asked by Commander Jean | A. Brunner, of the New York State Department of Foreign War Veterans, to bar the meeting have thus far chespaitinant’ Chet’ phereittted che -cwre tales fo,-apparent action...mamier asked action on the ground that Hay-| . wood died a fugitive from a federal ; court, ¥ederal authorities, in view of the coming fall elections, are believed to be afraid that any‘ action against the ‘meeting would be heralded, even by the least class conscious workers, as a gross attempt to bar free speech. Even in the beginning of his fight (Continued on Page Five) Chrysler-Dodge Merger Seen As Forerunner Announcement that the Chrysler and Dodge Bros., Inc., had with assets between $450,000,000 and }$500,000,000, is believed to be the forerunner of similar mergers aiming utomobile industry. The Chrysler- | in production and yearly sales. are among those mentioned as seeking to absorb smaller competitors, In addition to elimination of competition, the aim of this new trustification wave in the auto industry is more and more speed- tial nomination today as returns were tabulated from yesterday’s primary. | up and defense against attempts on the part of the workers to FS Slectaal | WORKERS ARE READERS OF BEST BOOKS Survey Shows Wage-Slaves ‘Outdistance Lawyers sand D Doctors west BADEN, Ind., May 30.—Thato the wage-slaves of capitalism, those who have to fight for their few precious spare moments of reading, are nevertheless the readers of the best literature, and that the lawyers, the doctors, t! the business men, the capitalist class, in other words, practically indifferent to good read- ing, is the testimony of Charles H. Compton, assistafit librarian of the St. Louis Public Library and first vice-president of the American’ Library Association, In an address delivered here yes- terday before the second general ses- sion of the American Library Associa- tion Convention, Compton gave the re- are|'was noted, militated against the work- Even the so-called Compton’s survey showed, is being outdistanced by the worker in the amount and quality of his reading. * * * ‘HE kind of books Compton chose as his “standard” of good reading, it ers, He chose the so-called classics, some of the more “advanced” of the modern fiction authors and some of the poets. Nevertheless, his survey proved what those who best know the working class movement have always maintained: That the workers, men- tally, morally and practically, are the constructive force of society even un- der the capitalist system. sults of a survey he had made of hundreds of readers in several libraries, “I took the records,” Compton re- ported, “of approximately 100 iy of William James, 100 iscnnaee of Carl | intellectual,@Sandburg, and 100 of Homer, Aeschy- lus,, Sophocles and Euripides in trans- lation. There was not a lawyer on the list of James or Sandburg or the Greek classics. There were a few doctors, a few ministers, But the bulk came from what we consider the uncultured and certainly the humble occupations.” TEST letter sent out to these readers by Compton indicated that they “really understood and appre- ciated these books,” Compton de- clared, It is believed that if Compton’s standard of good reading had been more nearly a general one, to include something of modern social problems, science, history and travel, the re- sults would have been even more on, NEW AUTO TRUSTS BELIEVED PENDING. Dodge trust will rank next to General | Motors Co. and the Ford Motor Co.| The Packard Co. and the Pierce-| |Arrow Motor Car Co. All Workers To Get) | Opera House, 67th Street and Third Avenue tomorrow y night have thus far ‘CLOAK WORKERS TO REBUILD UNION Conference e Saturday to Launch _ Drive BOSTON, Mass, 38, May 30.—Not only in New York, but in the out-of-town locals of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, some of the right wing elements are finally arriv- ing at the conclusion that the union smashed by the Sigman war on the membership cannot be rebuilt without the aid of the left wing forces. This was demonstrated at a joint meeting of all the executive boards of the | Boston locals held Tuesday. Sigman’s follower in the Boston union, vice-president Amdur, reported to the joint meeting that an “organi- zation campaign” will be started. In | the discussion that followed even some of the right wing members of the lexecutive boards declared that without | the participation of the pfogressive | union members no organization work could be done. They went so far as to openly announce that without the ‘election to leadership in the union of | the progressives, no real union work could be accomplished, adding that a number of functionaries necessary to fill places on the executive boards could not be obtained unless the pro- gressives participated. After this discussion the Sigman | vice-president declared that if pro- gressives were elected as functionaries at more effective trustification of the | the entire locals would be expelled, as| was done in New York and Chicago. | Business agent Posen, last week sent in his resignation to the Boston union administration. His resigna- | tion was turned over to the board of directors. Similar revolts against the union- breaking administration of the I. L. G. W. U. are developing nationally. In New York, the Tolerance Group, (Continued on Page I'wo) TO SOFT PEDAL HOOVER FUND : | Appoint Republican ‘Probe’ Committee WASHINGTON, May 30.—Efforts to soft-pedal the slush fund of Her- bert Hoover are seen in the unpre- cedented action of the house in nam- ing a campaign expenditures’ com- mittee when a senate committee is al- ready on the job. The committee is dominated by republicans known to be decidedly favorable to Hoover. Hoover’s slush fund has been mounting steadily and is now well past $300,000, a higher total than has thus far been admitted by any of the candidates. STRUCK BY GUARD, DIES. PROVIDENCE, R. I, May 380. Harry McCarthy, 43, died at the May- view home yesterday from septicemia which developed from a fractured jaw received when a guard of the home struck him, Police Charge 5¢ 500 New w Bedford | Textile Pickets RECORD - MILITARY BUDGETS INSURE NEW AGGRESSIONS Gettysburg Peace Talk Cloaks Threats GETTYSBURG, Pa., May 30.—In an address, remarkable for its frank and undisguised espousal of the role of dominant imperialism now played by the United States among the cap- italist world powers, President Cale vin Coolidge, speaking here at the fa- !mous battle ground of the Civil Wer, yesterday served notice on these world powers that the United States hereafter would use every means at its command to enforce its world su- |premacy, “Our Investments.” “The world-wide interest of the United States,” he warned, “make us |view with peculiar disfavor any dan- ger of war among other nations. Our investments and trade relations are such that it is almost impossible to conceive any conflict anywhelre on jearth which would not effect us in- juriously.” That the barely disguised threat of the United States to enforce its do- minion was no mere verbal warning was emphasized by the Wall Street {spokesman in the following words: ” “Our country is making outlays in excess of those ever before made in time of peace for the purpose of na- tional defense.” “Our naval force necessary for the protection of commerce,” Coolidge de- clared, “needs to be strengthened in cruisers and other auxiliary craft. Such constryction is already under way and plans are maturing for the necessary increases. Our air force is being steadily improved and eme larged.” “Peace and Stability.” Under a thin camouflage of seeking to “promote general peace end tran- | (Continued on Page Two) RED CROSS FIRM LAYS OFF MEN Johnson Fires All Who Ask for Raise (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. (By Mail). — A large number of the yard workers have been fired and:the rest jare waiting for the same. A major ity of the carpenters have been laid off and now they can take a long vacation for themselves. A majority of the painters have been laid off and now they can watch for their pay envelope. A number of the machin- ist were laid off some time ago, and another bunch will be laid off soon, The workers in the gauze depart- |ment have not had any work for weeks. The workers in the bandage | department are handled like footballs. | They are kicked around from one floor to the other. The work they get is so bad that they hardly make two dollars per day. And when any of the women workers in these depart ments dare to kick, the foreman is ,|Teady with his answer, “If you don’t like it you can go home. There are plenty of workers who are ready te take your job for even less wages.” The workers in the warehouse slave like mules for 45 cents per hour, and when they ask for an increase, they are fired out of the factory. The men workers in the glass de- partment have all been fired and wo- men have been hired to take theix (Continued on Page Three) 'Need Party Members for Work at “Daily” Twenty Party members are wanted to report for important, work today at the DAILY WO! ER office, 33 First St.