The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 1, 1928, Page 1

HAYWOOD MEMORIAL AT CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE TONIGHT —<$$$—$—$ $ THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: | FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 129. Published daily except Pub! ing Association, Inc., 33 First Sireet, Dally Worker ew York, N. ¥. THE DAILY WORKER. Emtered as second-class matter nt the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. | FINAL CITY | EDITION Price 3 Cents DISTRICT FIVE MINERS TAKE CONTROL OF UNION MURDOCH, TEXTIL To Honor Leader | | | cers | Mobilize Workers for $100,000 Election Campaign Fund STRIKE HEAD, i 10 In Memory of Cannon Fodder; in Preparation For More : SIDERS, MUNSEY, rE ~ The latest types SERVE JAIL TERM Porter, Organizer, 30) Days, 12 Others Fined BULLETIN. NEW BEDFORD, May 31.—Wil- liam T. Murdoch, of the Textile Mills Committee was sentenced to serve three months in prison here, for leading and organizing picket demonstrations of strikers at the mill gates. Porter, another Mills Committee organizer, was sentenced to one month, twelve other strikers arrested were sentenced to pay heayy fines. The International Labor Defense announced that all the cases would be appealed to higher courts and in the meantime obtain the release of those imprisoned. ’ * * * BOSTON, May 31.—Just as a wide- spread relief campaign to aid New Bedford’s 28,000 textile strikers is being carried on by the Workers’ In- ternational Relief, so is a special campaign being organized to keep out of the clutches of ‘Massachusetts justice,” the daily increasing number of strikers arrested on the picketing line, The International Labor De- fense, District Boston is calling a con- ference of labor organizations for this purpose, The special conference is to be held in Boston Wednesday evening, June 6, at 7 o’clock, at the district office of.| the International Labor Defense, 113 Dudley St., Room 6, according to the official call issued by Robert Zelms, secretary, which follows in part. “Since May the 10th, when the first two arrests were made in the big strike of 28,000 téxtile workers in New Bedford, 20 more militant strik- ers and strike leaders have been ar- (Continued on Page Two) SCHOOL HEAD IS UNFAIR AT TRIAL Teachers Say O’Shea Is Aiding Altman In a protest to President George J.) Ryan of the Board of Education re-j; garding the recent hearing by the Law Committee of the Board of Edu- cation of complaints by public school | teachers against the board’s medical | staff, Henry R. Linville, president of the Teachers’ Union, asked yesterday | that Superintendent of Schools Will- iam J. O’Shea be excused from sit- ting with the committee at future hearings. O'Shea Unfair To Teachers. Throughout the hearing on May 24, Linville charges, O’Shea seemed to be acting as “attorney” for Dr. Emil Altman, head of the medical board, “and seldom, if at any time, as an impartial listener to the statements that were being inade by the teach- ers.” The retention of Dr. O’Shea as a member of the investigating commit- tee rt future hearings, Mr. Linville continued, “will, it seems to us, ham- per the investigation and weaken any decision the committee may make.” HEFLIN IN PAY OF KU KLUXERS Admissions Made by the Counsel for Klan WASHINGTO. Mey 31.—Senator Heflin, democrat of Alabama, was paid by the Ku Klux Klan for speech- es delivered in various states, Wil- liam Zumbrunn, general counsel for the Klan, testified today before the Senate Presidential Campaign Com- mittee. Zumbrunn declared that the Klan had received $250 for speaking in Ohio, $250 for speaking in New York State and either $150 or $250 for speaking in Iowa, The payments were made by national organizers of the Klan, Zumbrunn testified. Numerous meetings had been ar- ranged for Heflin by the Klan, ™) admitted. “SUPPORT FROM, LABOR,” SLOGAN; TOTOUR SPEAKERS “Red Special” to Carry} _|Nominees Thruout U.S. | | Every section of the American working: elass will be mobilized in the raising of & $100,000 fund to conduct the national election campaign of the | Workers (Communist) Party, de- clared Alexander Trachtenberg, chair- man of the ways and means commit- tee of the National Campaign Com. mittee, yesterday. (Communist) Party. “The Workers Party,” Trachten- berg said, “has no rich uncles who | pfpeseceecrcpae will help us buy offices in return for | fat contracts and other favors, As a working class party, we depend only on the working class for support, fi- HAYWOOD TONIGHT Centralization Is Aim. “Tt is aimed to centralize bot the jall the funds it raises for use in the Thousands of New York workers will honor the memory of the late William D. Hay- wood, Communist leader, at a huge mass meeting tonight at the Central Opera House,67th St. near Third Ave. The meet- ing will be held under the aus- pices of District 2, Workers markets and open-shop centers will BOSSES GREET PIECE _ WORK WITH DELIGHT “Now I see absolutely no difference between the union and non-union | have to look out for the competition collection and the distribution of Militarists Fail To Halt |*#% 8n¢ ‘ca! campaigns. | “There will really be two funds raised: the first to place our Party on the ballot, and the second the ac- tual campaign fund. Our initial ap- peal will be to the units of the Work- ers Party and to sympathetic fra- ternal organizations. But we will rely chiefly for the raising of funds on shop collections, subscription lists and the sale of campaign stamps, certi- ficates and buttons. “Our presidential and vice presiden- tial candidates, William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow,” continued Trach- tenberg, “will visit each large city at least once and most of them will be visited twice. Tag days will be ar- ranged in each city on every occasion hey are visited by the two candi- lates. if Demonstration Thousands of m@€n, women and, children are expected to throng to) the Central Opera House, 67th St.| and Third Ave., at 8 o’clock ‘tonight | to honor the memory of “Big Bill” | Haywood, Communist and founder of | the I. W. W., who died in Moscow | May 18, * { Several miners who are leading the | fight to oust the reactionary Lewis | machine in Pennsylvania and Obie will attend the meeting in tribute to! ithe man who put the old Western | {Pederation of Miners in the vanguard | BEGIN OFFENSIVE IN CLOAK PARLEY Opens Saturday sho tomorrow, under the auspices of the National Organizing Committee of the cloak and dressmakers. The con- ference promises to be one of the largest gatherings of workers’ rep- resentatives ever held in the ladies from the union shops.” \J. Friedman, one of the biggest em-)| Shop Delegate Confab Plans have been completed for the delegates conference to be held lof the labor movement. \ “Funds will be also raised by var- | A delegation of silk workers from /i0U8 speakers, who will be routed | Patterson, N. J., whom Haywood lead thruout the country and will combine in a strike 15 years ago, longshore- financial with political campaigning. men, needle trades workers, textile |For this purpose a bus, to be known strikers from the New Bedford,|88 a “Red Bus,” will be hired in each garment industry, according to the discussions among the thousands of workers, among whom the conference has become almost the sole topic of conversation. The conference has With these words of appreciation, | ployers in the men’s clothing indus- | try, thanked the officialdom of the) New York Joint Board of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers’ Union for taking the first organizational step toward forcing upon the union mem- bership the hated sweat shop system of piece work. A Beckerman, reac- tionary Joint Board manager, several days ago granted piece work to about 12 large manufacturers, A series of interviews with impor- tant manufacturers in the New York market, appearing in the columns of an employers trade journal yesterday, present to the betrayed union mem- bership a picture of their bosses gush- ing with enthusiastic praise for the Amalgamated union officials. Both the employers and union offici- als all frankly admit that the mem- bership is strenuously opposed to this vicious and degrading form of the ‘Railroad (Workers in| Mass., picket lines, shoe, iron and food | workers will be among the various} trade and industrial workers present. | Hundreds of Young Pioneers, with! their white blouses and red ties, mem- bers of the Young ~Workers (Com-, munist) League, the United Council | of Working Class Housewives, the International Labor Defense, the Trade Union Educational League, the Industrial Workers of the World, Ne-| groes, and members of the socialist | party, who are disgusted with their (Continued on Page Five) RED CENTER DANCE To Award Red Banner at Big Affair Hundreds of woikers are expected to usher in the summer season to- morrow evening at the great concert and dance to be held at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square. The affair will celebrate the acqui- 'sition of the Center as the home of ee Two institutions are moving into \the Workers Center today. They are District 2, Workers (Communist) Par- ty which will occupy the second floor | the Workers School, which will oc- | cupy the fifth floor, = the revolutionary movement and ter- |minate the $30,000 drive to establish it. All those who have taken part: in the drive are anxious to know which Workers Party unit will win the red revolutionary banner for making the highest totals in the drive. Not un- til tomorrow evening will it be pos- sible to determine the winner, as contributions are still coming in. Wil- liam W. Weinstone, district organ- izer and secretary of the board of TOMORROW NIGHT of the election districts to transport (Continued on Page Two) CHARGES HOOVER SPENDS BIG SUMS Iowa Field For Huge Expenditures DES MOINES, Iowa, May..31.—A request that Secretary of the Treas- ury Andrew Mel- lon be subpoenaed | before a senatorial committee in the anticipated inves- tigation of activi- ties of the “Hoover } group” in Iowa | was by Milo Reno | iicover: president of the spending fast 4 Union. John Hammill and former Congress- man James W. Good, manager of the Hoover campaign, might be able to shed light on “large sums of money” he -alleges is being spent throughout the state to further the candidacies of Hoover and Hammill, Reno’s demands were contained in a lengthy telegram to Senator Freder- ick W. Steiwer, Oregon, chairman of the special committee investigating campaign expenditures. speed up system. The “labor leaders” are quoted as saying that “there is a (Continued on Page Two) BRAFTERS PLUNGE ON STOCK MARKET Tammany Henchmen in been called as the first step toward rebuilding the union, and will be held in Webster Hall, 11th St. and 3rd Ave. In ealling the workers to elect dele- gates the National Organizing Com- mittee declares: “The work of rebuilding the union begins. In accordance with the deci- sion of the National Organizing Com- mittee, conferences of this kind will be called in all cloak and_ dress manufacturing centers. The New York conference is the first to be held. “All cloak and dressmaking shops, (Continued on Page Five) | (Special Cable to the Daily Worker). | ROME, May 31. — The trial of the} made today leaders of the Italian Communist Par-| | ty has begun here. Saporiti has been appointed Court Iowa Farmers’|President, while the fascist attorney s The trial Reno also suggested that Governor | Will be secret and will be barred even Official reports Isgro will be prosecutor. to newspapermen. will be given to the fascist press. ie ees i |Workers Center Now Local “Daily” Office The DAILY WORKER local of- fice is now at 26-28 Union Square. All business will hereafter be HS aaa at that address, “TRY” COMMUNIST LEADERS IN ITALY a if Big Deals The man whom Frank C. Gannon last week forgot appeared yesterday on the stand at Commissioner of Ac- counts Higgins’ investigation into lgraft proceedings of Tammany Hall officials and disclosed in some detail why Gannon’s memory had so mys- teriously failed him. W. E. A. Wheeler was the man. He is a stock broker. On the stand} Wheeler likewise had unexpected lapses of memory but what he did re- call was sufficient to disclose that Gannon, suspended Brooklyn street cleaning superintendent, had plunged heavily into Wall Street stock speeu- lations totaling sums far larger than his yearly salary of $4,200. Pays By Check. Wheeler, whom Gannon couldn't re- member, though he gave him a check |for $1,250 on July 80, 1926, came to the stand and testified in halting, frightened sentences that the check was given him for the purchase of stock from the Kings County Realty | Corporation, and that Gannon, whose | (Continued on Page Two) Te FRANCISCO, May 31.—A slight man of 80 named Jack directors of the Workers Center, will make the award and greet the win- ning unit in the name of District 2. The concert, which will begin about 8:30, promises to be unusually attractive. N. Nazaroff, famous Rus- sian baritone, who has sung with (Continued on Page Two) great success thruout many cities in | Beavert has been released from San Quentin Penitentiary. He is sick of mind and body, although he was once a robust lumber-jack of Hum- boldt county. He probably will be sent to one of the state’s hospitals as a permanent ward of California. He is the last of the 150 political prisoners jailed under the Criminal ad x " = CALIFORNIA CLAS Beavert Was Convicted Under Criminal Syndicalism Law Syndicalism law of California. * * * EAVERT has served his full sen- tence. He steadfastly refused _ parole. Much of his time has been spent in the hospital and in soli- tary confinement. Like the rest of the wobblies who served time under the criminal syndicalism law, his only crime was membership in: the Industrial Workers of the World. Not one of the men made felons Fare ae aka S PRISONER RELEASED under the law was accused of an overt act of sabotage or violence. * * * | Welt his stay in San Quentin Penitentiary Beavert continually received funds, together with all the rest of the prisoners convicted for political offenses in the United States, regularly every month, from the Internaional Labor Defense, whose national office is in New York City. 1 |tion of legislation at next winter’s of tanks and field guns mounted on tractor-drawn car- riages were exhib- f ited to the public in the | demonstration of gigantic power which the can militariste made in New York City on Ameri- | Memorial Day. The picture thnks howitzers shows and | passing up Riverside Drive. FALL OF PEKING — APPEARS LIKELY Kwantung Strike BULLETIN. TOKIO, May 31.—With the Nan- king forces nearing Peking, Mar- shal Chang Tso-lin has decided to withdraw to Manchuria, according to information received by the Jap- anese “military headquarters here. Detachments of Chang’s troops are | already proceeding to Mukden, Manchuria, it is stated. . * * LONDON, May 31.—The fall of Peking appears imminent today, a) dispatch to the Daily Mail from the| Chinese capital stated. The Kuomintang troops have cap- tured Paoting-fu, the key city to Peking, 85 miles to the south. The| northerners are reported to be re- treating. | Chang Tso-lin’s troops are being | hemmed in from three sides by the} southern war-lords. More than one hundred thousand southern troops are reported to have crossed the Yellow} River west of Tsinan-fu. They ar now believed to be advancing toward: Peking. The Shansi army which is allied with the Kuomintang, is reported to be similarly advancing towards the (Continued on Page Three) I | cough, | thony Calamari as international board | cidentally, MYERSCOUGH, ARE THE NEW LEADERS Plan Big Drive For Organization (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa. May 80 (By Mail) ——A new constitution, doing away with one-man power and plac- ing the government of the United Mine Worl of America once more into the hands of ranle and file coal diggers, was adopted by the special convention of District 5 which ad- journed last night. Some of the highlights of the new constitution are the removal of all appointive power, provision for a rank and file grievance committee and the reduction of exorbitant salaries of officers to the prevailing Jacksonville scale of $7.50 a day. During strikes, however, no salaries will be paid, and only legitimate expenses allowed. All district offices were declared vacant early in the session. Fred Sid- ers, as president “Dad” Isaac Mun- sey, Negro president of the Avella local, as vice-president, Tom Myers- secretary-treasurer and An- member were elected temporary offi- cers of the district until the rank and file could vote for permanent officers. Call Railroad Workers. Upon request of the Cokeburg loeal, a resolution calling upon-the rank-and | file of the railroad brotherhood to re- fuse to haul scab coal, was adopted. Almost every delegate came with in- | structions to demand a national con- (Continued on Page Two) REFUSES PERMIT TO YOUTH LEAGUE Communist Workers Plan Campaign HARTFORD, May 31. — Mayor Walter E. Batterson, vice-president of the City Band and Trust Company, one of the five largest insurance com- anies of the United States, and, in- Mayor of Hartford, re- fused the Young Workers (Com- munist) League of this city a permit for an open air meeting which the league intended to arrange against the Citizens Military Training Camps and militarism. MORE CONGRESS — WHITEWASHINGS To “Probe” Oil Leases, Slush Funds WASHINGTON, May 31.—An all- summer series of congressional “in- vestigations” was in prospect today despite the adjournment of congress. Presidential campaign expenditures government oil teases in the Salt} Creek fields, the S-4 submarine dis- aster, senatorial election contests, cot-| ton market conditions, military and} naval affairs and activities of Herbert} Hoover as food administrator during the war were among the subjects to be investigated this summer by con- gressional committees. The proposed inquiries will be used ostensibly to gather information for the introduc-| session. The senate presidential funds com- mittee will be thé busiest for the next few weeks. It has been divided into two sub-committees, one of which will go to Ohio, West Virginia and probably Indiana, and the other to New York. The Ohio group will con- sist of Senators McMaster (R), of| South Dakota, and Barkley (D), of Kentucky. They will leave tonight for Cincinnati. The other sub-commit- tee, composed of Senators Steiwer (R) of Oregon and Bratton (D) of New Mexico, will investigate cam- paign expenditures in New York to- morrow, An inquiry into the Iowa primary was under consideration, while a sub-committee may visit Cali- fornia in July. SRR NA MARUI MPT 5 UENO A NMA. Oe The Hartford branch of the Young Workers League has previously been able to obtain permits whenever they desired and this refusal came as a distinct surprise to the organization. It is be i that this attempt to gag the | is a result of the success- ful paign it has been waging against militarism. Recently, the As- | sociated Press broadcast the fact that the Young Workers League of Hart- ford had dared to place on the state capitol and other strategic points in the city placards denouncing the Citi- zens Military Training Camp and militarism. RADIUM VICTIMS. OFFERED PENSION Frame-Up of Case is Imminent Continued efforts were being made yesterday to invalidate the cases of the five women suing the United States Radium Corporation for a sum ageregating $1,250,000, by offering to “settle the matter” out of court. The chief exponent of these latest moves is Federal Judge William Clark of Newark, who, through a former law association with Raymond H. Berry, counsel for the five women, may be instrumental in making them accept the offer of the radium cor- poration, which provides them with a scanty pension for the rest of their lives. Since they have less than a year to live, a saving of more than $1,000,000 would result for the come