The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1928, Page 1

GRAF LT TRAIL LEADS TO HIGHER-UPS IN TAMMANY HALL THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS, FUR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK te POD Pema ees id A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY WORKER. FINAL CITY EDITION Entered as second-class matter at the 1e Post Office at New Yor Office at New York, N, ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1873. Vol. V. No. 130. Published daily except Sunday by The Nationa: Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Price 3 Cents Outnide New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. GRAVE CRISIS MAY CLOSE THE DAILY WORKER SOON TO OUR READERS: COMRADES: The DAILY WORKER is likely to cease publication within the next few days. The only hope of continuing publication is in receiving very substantial financial help immediately. So urgent is the need that we are obliged now to put the matter up to the workers and sympathizers to decide whether this, the only daily Communist paper in the English language, is to continue its life. The paper received an ultimatum yesterday from its printer that unless certain financial demands long postponed, were met, the printing shop would be unable to get out today’s issue of the paper. Last night we suc- ceeded in raising one thousand dollars to meet the first requirement, without which this issue of The DAILY WORKER would not have appeared today. We cannot continue to publish unless the other de- mands are met. For a long time we have struggled to keep from going to our readers with this urgent cry for help. We are now compelled to take you into our con- Militarist Plane Safe in Honolulu fidence, put the terms before you and let you decide. The terms are: Five thousand dollars must be raised by Saturday, June 9, Ten thousand dollars must be raised within two weeks. Do not misunderstand. If the first $5,000 is not re- ceived within the next seven days, we will be compelled to suspend. It may ‘be necessary to reduce the size of the paper to four pages before the middle of the week, if the funds do not come in very rapidly Monday and Tuesday. In any case, if we do not receive $10,000 with- in the two weeks, The DAILY WORKER will go out of existence. There appears to be-no other choice this time. We appeal to you, Comrades, Communists, sym- pathizers, militant workers, for whom ,The DAILY WORKER has fought in every strike, in every cause of the working class during the last four years, not to let our revolutionary fighting organ fall, * Our Party, of which The DAILY WORKER is the ~ CLOAK DELEGATES PARLEY LAUNCHES. REAL UNION DRIVE Conference Opens in Webster Hall Today fee The conference of shop representa- tives, called together by the National Organizing Committee opens at 10 o'clock this morning at Webster Hall, 11th Street and Third Ave. The pur- pose of the meeting is to begin the drive to build the union of the rank and file cloak and dressmakers, and to again reclaim the industry from the morass of open-shopdom into which the Socialist-| ‘boss partnership has driven it. A whole series of such conferences are to be held in the near future in all ladies garment manufacturing centers of the country. The conference of the National Or- \ Union Oil Corporation. The tri-motored airplane, Southern Cross, shown in the picture, is one of the planes to attempt the trans-Pacific flight from California to Australia via Honolulu. The plane is piloted by Captain Charles Kingsford-Smith, and two other Australian army officers. were escorted from the California coast by an airplane belonging to the Appeal ine central organ, needs our revolutionary daily more in the next few months than ever before. We are just en- tering the biggest campaign we have ever faced. The struggle of the fighting coal miners against the. open shop bosses and against the treacherous Lewis bureau- cracy in the union is at its most critical point. The tex- tile workers, in the midst of battle, and the needle trades workers whose long struggle is one of the bravest in the history of our class, need this fighting paper more than ever before. And we are determined to live and to fight on, if it can be made possible. Send help quickly. Send by telegraph, airmail or special delivery, as large sums as you can possibly spare at any sacrifice. Address DAILY WORKER, 33 First St., New York, N.Y. Special Committee for the Management, ROBERT MINOR ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG R. SALZMAN A. RAVITCH , Canton War Lords Kill 6 Railroad Sinikers Sentence of Mill Strike Leader REPEATED. ARREST! OF LEADERS CAN'T HALT PICKETING 3000 Hear Weisbord At Mass Meeting NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 1.— An appeal to the Superior Court has been made by the International Labor Defense for William T. Murdoch, sen- tenced to 90 days, A. Porter, 30 days, and 12 other active strikers, heavily The planes ganizing Committee, sent broadcast to the workers in the entire industry, has been answered by as great a response | from the shops, as has ever been re- MICHIGAN READY FOR fined for picketing the mill gates earlier in the week. Murdoch, who is secretary of the New Bedford Textile Mills Committee, was released only after bail of $900 was furnished. Alarms Textile Bosses Even in Jail \WORKER-PEASANT ARMIES GAINING THRUOUT SOUTH | Take Two M More Cities in Drive on Canton | VANCOUVER, B. C., June 1—In |an effort to stem the railway strike | which has tied up three of the prin- | cipal railways in the province of ; |Kwangtung, General Li Chai-sum } | war-lord in control of the city of Can- | ton, has executed six railway workers, j; | one of them a leader of the union, | according to information received here by the Canada Morning News, left wing Chinese Fifteen corded at any of the numerous gather- | ings of ‘eluak and dress makers yet held, according to the preliminary re-| ports coming in. One of the first tasks of the cone (Continued on Page Two) HIGH TAMMANY MEN IN GRAFT Lougheed Exposes Big Steal Taking off the lid completely from the vile-smelling, Tammany street cleaning scandal from which in the past few weeks escaping odors have already penetrated thruout the city administration, William J. Lougheed, self-confessed grafter, yesterday ex-| posed the whole nauseating mess in the $200,000,000 steal, the full story of which will, it is believed, leave no important high official in the dem- ocratic party untouched. In the course of his testimony Lougheed, who is a witness for the state in the prosecution involved Al- fred A. Taylor, head of the street cleaning department; “Big Bill” Ea- _wards, commissioner of the depart- ment in 1911, and suggested that even Mayor William J. Gaynor who was elected to office in 1913 had profited from the payroll padding. He did not say whether the present mayor was also implicated. More than $230,000 have been grafted during the past three years in the one Cromwell Avenue garage alone of which Lougheed was fore- man. Of this sum William J. Oswald, district superintendent in the Bronx, received at least $84,000. Another $20,000 went to Charles A. McGee, assistant general superintendent of the department, who with Oswald is on trial in the Bronx County Court on charges of grand larceny and for- "Graft now extends to every bureau (Continued 2 Page Two) “COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN Michigan will have a stirring Communist election campaign this year according to William Reynolds, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, who was recently chosen candidate for | veinion on the Workers Party ticket. Reynolds, who was in New York | City for the National Nominating | Convention of the Party, in an inter- |view yesterday at ‘The DAILY WORKER gave his impressions of the Communist election prospects this year. “Our presidential candidates, Foster land Gitlow drew a large vote in Michigan in 1924. The Communist vote in this state was one of the larg- jest in the country. This year we will increase our vote record for our Party substantially, The struggles which we have been carrying on especially among the auto workers has brought the Party to the fore.” Reynolds was chosen as candidate (Continued on Page Two) DANCE TONIGHT AT WORKERS CENTER Distinguished Artists at Concert Proletarian gladness will flow un- hindered tonight at the great con- cert, dance and celebration that will be held at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, Hundreds of workers are expected to attend this affair, which will celebrate the actual acqui- sition of the Workers Center as the home of the revolutionary movement of New York and vicinity. The announcement that District 2, Workers (Communist) Party and the Workers School have already begun to move into the new building makes the concert and dance tonight an ad- ditional celebration. It marks the taking over of the building by the organizations that will occupy it and (Continued on Page Seven) Et Hf “TRY” C COMMUNIST HEADS IN SECRET More Militants Jailed in Rome (Special Cable to the Daily Worker). ROME, June 1.—The Italian news- papers contain no information con- cerning the trial of the Central Com- mittee of the Italian Communist Par- ty which is now taking place here. Reports of the trial have not been sent by any foreign correspondents. The trial is being held in complete secrecy. The court indictment is said to be illegal by some of the foremost authorities. The accused has accepted responsibility for the actions of the Italian Communist Party. The Italian Party has issued a mass The sharpness of the attack launched by the police all during last week in an effort to halt the regular picketing being conducted by the workers following the Textile Mill Committee, has proved a boomerang. As arrests of the picket leaders con- tinued daily, the number of workers turning out for picket duty increased. Yesterday almost 1,000 workers re- ported early in the morning to patrol the mill gates. Hear Weisbord. Three thousand textile strikers turned out to hear Albert Weisbord, | Passaic textile strike leader, and na- - |tional head of the Textile Mills Com- mittee, at a meeting held yesterday on lots atthe South end. While the meeting was in progress the 14 re- leased on appeal arrived. They were enthusiastically cheered by the thou- sands assembled. Fred E. Beal, Mill Committee organizer, was among the (Continued on Page Two) “Daily” Needs Painters at New Workers Center Several volunteer painters to help paint the new local office of The appeal concerning the trial, More arrests are reported here and in Toscana, DEATH IN LUNGS OF SUBWAY WORKERS 75 New York Union Men Are 1 Beyond the Atd of Science One a week, New York’s subway builders are dying of a baffling disease known as silicosis. Pound- ing at hard rock with drills, 1,500 members of the Subway and Tunnel Constructors Union breathe in rock dust, coating lungs and giving rise to tumors and abscesses soon in- curable. 75 union members are, doomed to die, beyond the aid of medicine, within the next five years, asserts President Thomas J. Curtis of the international union. Dry rock drills are cheaper than 5 y ¥ DAILY WORKER at 26-28 Union Square are wanted. Please apply at Workers Center, at above address. drills jacketed with water connec- tions to allay the dust. * * * UBWAY builders, working deep in cuts through Manhattan’s solid underpinning, carrying heavy auto- matic hammers and drills, find it nearly impossible to wear suffoca- ting masks throughout the day, as bosses advise. Promises have beer made by the city, as the result of the union’s expose, to equip drills with water connections. Granite Cutters Union years ago William T. Murdoch, leader of has brought the New Bedford textile pick ks out on the lines in spite newspaper. other railway workers have been jail- ed. * * » VANCOUVER, B. C., June 1—The worker-peasant troops are gaining (Continued on, Page meee? Seems DISTRICT 5 MINE the Texgile Mills Committee, which of the police and the tactics of the reactionary leaders of the Textile Council, is shown behind the bars in the New Bedford jail. Murdoch ! was arrested while leading the picket line at the Hathaway mill. He has |W OMEN HOLD MEET since been liberated on $900 bail. NINE MEN DROWNED WHEN VESSEL SINKS Report Organization of Many Districts Special to ths Haag Worker) PITTSBURGH, May 31 (By Mail). BOSTON, Mass., June 1.—Nine seamen of the Merchants and Miners |_Militant determination was the key Transportation company freighter Kershaw were drowned early today, it |note of the conference of women dele- is believed, when the dollar liner President Garfield, on dy on. the da last Jap sided |gates to the District 5 convention of New York to Boston after a cruise around the world, rammed and sunk the Kershaw in Vinyard Sound, off| ‘Vineyard Haven. The Kershaw rolled over and went) down ten minutes after the collision, carrying nine of the members of the! crew down with it, according to re-| ports, which are not complete as yet. The ship’s papers of the Kershaw (Continued on Page Seven) ordered an investigation of sur- facing methods which were sending poisonous dust into lungs of mem- bers. Arsenic was found to be a menacing ingredient. * * . INION rules were enforced to abate the evil, but even now one- third of Ohio sandstone workers are found to be suffering from silicosis and in New South Wales, 17 per cent of quarry workers were afflic- ted. In a third of these cases, tuber- culosis had also set in. y ‘ | Union Educational League, and In- |Children in the section have been 6 |the United Mine Workers which con- \cluded here yesterday. Twenty-one of the 28 women dele- gates present at the convention re- 3,000 WORKERS HONOR HAYWOOD Sl aa and women’s Win-The-Strike That the mine women of District 5 have been won over to the support of the progressive mine movement was evident from the re- Speakers Trace Career in Labor Movement [ports of the delegates. The women lauxiliaries of the United Mine Work- Over 8,000 workers crowded into Se broken up by ee Central Opera House, 67th St, and |panded, reactionary tactics of Third Ave., last night to honor the Noi ladies, hand picked by Bat vewis, are now being rebuilt on a late William D, Haywood. © Com-|qomocratic basis, the delegates de- munist leader who died in s.. tow on /clared. ' May 18. Present at the memorial| Reports from Renton showed that meeting were miners from the strike |OV¢t 100 women shave been organized areas of Pennsylvania, Ohio and |i" one circle, “We meet regularly Illinois; silk workers from Paterson, and everyone is solid for the union, N. J., whom Haywood once led in a |Mrs. Mondale, chairman of the con- strike; textile strikera from the |feTence reported, picket lines in New Bedford, besides | In Bentlyville it was learned the hundreds of Young Pioneers, Young |Women’s auxiliary have a fund of Workers, members of the Interna- |$100 in their treasury to be used for tional Labor Defense, the Trade | special relief, medicine and so on. |ganized for months, the women ported. Women of Cokeburg and May (Continued on Page Seven) dustrial Workers of the World whose organization Haywood founded. Dele- gations from the needle trades and (Continued on Page Seven) a