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“Er ia Stale bat dn m3 tortures wl ira 28M DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FCR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 131. Publishing Association, Ine., 83 First St: $10,000 NEEDED AT ONCE IN DAILY WORKER CR Seamen Drown in Crash FALL OF PEKING NEAR AS CHANG EVACUATES CITY Japanese, American Troops On Watch SHANGHAI, June 3.—With a Na- tionalist army reported to be 500,00( strong advancing on the city and witt the northern war-lord, Chang Tso-lin in full flight for his Mukden strong- hgld, it is expected that Peking wil be.in the hands of the southern way- lord, Chiang Kai-shek, within a few days. American troops, hovering at Tientsin, and Japanese troops, at Tsinan, are reported to be eagerly awaiting , devetopments. The Amer- ican fleet on its. summer cruise is no’ on the coast. Retreat Prepared. The abandonment of the norther capital appears to have been decided| upon when news of the defeat of th troops of Chang Tso-lin at Liuliho one of the outposts of the city, reach: ed Peking. In spite of the assurances| posted everywhere thruout Peking that the dictator intended to remair| and defend the town, every energy has been bent on preparing for th retreat during the last few days. Not omg the northern railroad sta tion, from which Chang himself de parted, but all the roads north fro Peking are filled with the retreating soldiery of Chang Tso-lin. The dicta- tor abandoned the city in a specia’ train, leaving the government of Pek. ing to a council of elders. Wang Si (Continued on Page T . FIND TORTURER IS. “INNOCENT” Indo - French Officials} Crippled Natives MANILA, June 3.—The investiga- tion of the ease of the French colonia) official, Durupt, in Indo-China has resulted in a complete justification off all his acts, according to reports from Hanoi. Durupt’s practises in the tor- turing of natives were the subject off the investigation. In spite of the findings of the in- vestigators, which revealed that Du- rupt had used the’ most frightful} methods in trying to extort. confes-' sions of guilt from innocent natives] the investigators freed him. Twisting limbs until the ligaments] snap, tearing teeth out of the gums are only two of the ingenious prac- tises which Durupt devised for the torture of* natives. The witnesses against Durupt looked like an assem-| blage of cripples with warped arms| and legs and teethless heads, The physicians’ testimony held Durupt en tirely responsible for the tortures. At the head of the government in} French Indo-China is Varenne, the “socialist.” FASCIST VICTIM IS LUNATIC. NOW Blackshirt Tortures - Drove Him Insane VIENNA, June 3,—First reports of the trial of the Communists by th fasdist tribunal at Rome, which are} now leaking thru the Italian censor- ship, reveal that during the time of their imprisonment the accused had| no opportunity to make a statement of their innocence nor were they in-| liner Kershaw were lost off the Massachusetts coast when the ves- sel collided with the S. S. President Garfield (above). Seamen are among the lowest paid workers. | MENDOLA FACES — MURDER CHARGE Trial Follows Case of Sam Bonita (Special to the Daily Worker) WILKES-BARRE, Pa., June 3.— Steve Mendola of Local Union. 1703. is on trial and being framed up for the murder of Frank Agati. Already Sam Bonita, the militant leader of Local Union 1703, and its president, has been railroaded to the Eastern Peni- tentiary. The machine led by Cap- pelini and John L. Lewis, not satisfied with sending of Bonita to the peniten- tiary is proceeding to prosecute Men- dola. Yesterday Board Member. Au- gust Lippi, International Organizer Anthony Figlock, Traveling Auditor John B. Gallagher, testified in court and as usual these officials of the Mine Workers’ Union are assisting with the frame-up. The trial is going on before the same vicious, coal operators’ Judge McLean, who presided at.the trial of Sam Bonita. District Attorney Lewis, is the one who is trying the case. Other international organizers and representatives such as Bursarello are also testifying in the case.. It is feared that the very same verdict that was handed down in the Bonita case will be handed down in the case of Mendola. MILL COMMITTEE IN SPECIAL GALL Start Drive As A F of L Union Stops Dole NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 3.— A special proclamation to all the members ‘of the New Bedford Textile Council ‘of the United Textile Work- ers’ Union, is about to be issued by the Textile Mills Committee, a DAILY ,WORKER representative was told yesterday. The proclamation will call upon them to join the Mills Committee along with the thousands of unskilled and semi-skilled workers who have signed up with that organi- zation since the strike of 28,000 tex- tile operators began more than weeks ago. The Textile Counci] mem- bership consists of about 6,000 skilled workers. Although the membership drive conducted by the T. M. C. in New enroll the council members, this spe- cial call is forthcoming, it was learn- ed, because of the announcement lief doles to the union members will be stopped due to exhausted funds. The Loom Fixers’ local- declared that the last benefit payment-of $4 to a family was made last Saturday, and that further payments for the strike’s duration are not to be made. Published daily except Sunday by The Nationa) Daily Worker 7 Bedford also included a campaign to) made by the officialdom of the Tiex- | tile Council that the distribution «ve- | wed as second-cinns matter at the Post Office at New York, N.Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1928 weet, New York, N. ¥. THE DAILY WORKER. FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 96.00 per year. Price 3 Cents TO OUR READERS! COMRADES: As we regretfully announced in Saturday’s issue, The DAILY WORKER will cease publication within the next few days unless the workers and sympathizers with theworkers’ cause who read the DAILY WORKER come to its r>scue with very generous support. As we told you frankly, we are faced with an ultimatum under the terms of which $10,000 must be raised before June 16, and $5,000 of this must be obtained during this week. before Saturday, June 9. These terms are impossible to meet from any resources within reach of The DAILY WORKER. The paper must cease publication unless this money can be obtained from its readers. The danger is that you will not understand this urgent need until it is too late. Last Friday at three o’clock in the afternoon, the shop was scheduled to close, stopping the publication of Saturday’s paper. We ob- tained three hours’ grace—an extension of the time limit until six o'clock. At five-thirty a friend came to the rescue with 51,000, With this it was possible to make an arrangement with creditors which kept the doors open until Monday, so that this issue of the paper could be gotten out. On this Monday morning we are awaiting telegraphic and airmail answers to our appeal. If they don’t come, we know that we shall have to close. We are not going to close if it can be made physically possible to keep on. We will fight and go hungry as long as we can geta line of type set. We know that the Workers (Communist) Party, of which we, The DAILY WORKER, are the central organ, needs us now more than ever before. The greatest political campaign ever undertaken in the United States was launched by the National Nominating Convention ot our Pary which put Foster and Gitlow into the field as ‘candidates for president and vice-president. This revolutionary campaign in the capi- talist' “democratic” election marks an epoch in the history of the Ameri- can working class.and a turning point in the life.of our revolutionary Party. We don’t want to go down just at this of all times. We know | that our Party depends upon The DAILY WORKER now more than upon anything else to make a struggle to advance our cause. We know that if we fall, the hundreds of thousands of coal miners who are now in the turning point of their big fight for freedom from company agents in the union and from the scab conditions, as well as the textile strikers and also the needle trades workers whose fight is now just at its most critical point,—we know that all of these valiant members of our class will be hard hit if we are driven to the wall. We won’t quit as long as you give us a chance. But make it quick. We are sinking. OT de The conditions are: $10, must be obtained before June 16. But at least half of this must be obtained THIS WEEK, before Sat- urday, June 9. Otherwise there will be no more DAILY WORKER after that June 9. It may be necessary to reduce the size of The DAILY WORKER to four pages immediately unless the financial help comes in very rapidly in the next day or two. But we will fight on and win if you will help generously and quickly. Adress DAILY WORKER, 33 First St., New York. —THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. $.L CARMEN VOTES Jersey Job LIZABETH, N. J., June 3.—Brib- i Pp ery, conspiracy, misfeasance in again having bad dreams. Supt. | Demanding an inerease of ten office—these are but a few of the Hesse has just ordered his sleuths | cents an hour over the present scale.) yariety of indictments against five to-be on the lookout for all “persons | Several hundred trolley workers are’ councilmen of Liden, four men con- who have placed placards opposing | ¢xpected to go on strike this morning} nected with the administration and the citizens’ . military _ fraining | on Staten Island. A strike vote taken| two other city officials, camps in some’ of the Tocal Schools, | late Saturday night resulted Ls On Tuesday in Quarter Sessions ng yg eoseme in Meanwhile S. H. Sirena, general} Swer to the indictments which were covery of three placards signed |™anager of the Richmond Railways oo Capital / Cops ASHINGTON, June 3.—The po- The other locals may end benefits by (Continued on Page Two) FASCIST MURDER JAILED MILITANT ROME, June 3.—Carlo Riva, whose murder in the prison of Genoa ‘has now been established, suffered a fate similar to that of Ruota in the same prison, a week or two previously and of the well-known victims Sozzi and Sanvito. Tanai : The same report—that he had com- mitted suicide in his cell—was given| ot, but, as in the previous cases, the! body was refused to his relatives. and| formed of the reason for their deten- sion, In spite of the opposition raised by! the prosecution the court upheld th defense in its demand that documents: bearing on the case be read, The! reading occupied the first and second session, The prosecution further opposed the motion of the defense that Azzario be sent to an insane asylum as a mad- man but the court was compelled to uphold the defense in this point also. _ Azzario was arrested in 1927 when he was the representative from Pana- ma to the Red International of Trade Unions. He was deported from south- ern Italy but landed again at Genoa: Azzario was in good health et the ter- it in handed down against them by the 1 “Young Workers. (Communist) Company which operates six lines on! May grand jury following an inves- Leagie. oe weg (Continued on Page 1~ (Continued on Page T° RICH TOBACCO COLLEGE FIGHTS LABOR Magnate’s School io Train Political and Industrial Bosses Unqualified men cause accidents on the job, Only the other day a dyna- mite foreman overcharged and a reserve supply went off, tearing down a concrete wall 100 feet long, 21 inches thick and 20 feet high at its higest point. Duke University is a monument to its founder, James Buchanan Duke, the tobacco and watex-power multimillionaire, who died in 1925. Duke ae raised ae Durham, ‘going: bacco manufacturing, as a lee gg after the Civil Wan with . it his father, a discharged Confederate soldier. Using the new cigarette machines of the 80s, the family be- came enormously rich, and in 1890 Duke combined some of his com- petitors into the American Tobacco Co, Later his wealth flowed into ter N. C., June 3.—Wages | haye been lopped from 25 to 60 | per cent on the camnmpuag of Duke | University since the building trades | unions wero ousted last fail, A survey by tho Durham Contral La- bor Union tella what the opon shop plan is doing in tho construction of the most richly endowed school in the United States, © Groupn of mechanics show thelr discontent be petty strikes, but uns ized they los, and thus in- At nedeteh Moe ete: pin: Sansa ent: hydroelectria development in the south and in Canada and today the Duke Power Co., through its sub- sidiary, Southorn Power Co., drives tho spindles of 800 cotton mills in ‘nas. The Dukes are heavy inttrerats fm Pra Sys) the Cr, Militant Negro | me, Lo WwW. * Hawkins, thousands of Negro miners who for over a year have been conducting a militant fight against the coal | George one of the barons and their allies in the Le machine is shown in the pictr Hawkins is now in New-York City where he will plead for relief for | the struggling Negro and white mine strikers thruout the coal fields. CROP OUTLOOK | Into Farm Plans MOSCOW, U. S.S. R. (By Mail).— The spring field work in oviet Union has been somewhat de view of the late spring. The spring is from two to three weeks late and in some places. even four weeks. .Ow. ing to the slow melting of snow, con accumulated. This jespecially for the districts suffering from droughts. On the whole, accord- ing to the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture, the state of the spring crops is satisfactory. In this year’s spring campai, peasants who manifested gre jity have been drawn into th of planned farming and_ incr the arable soil. The sale of agr tural machinery has considerably creased. It is worth mentioning that the {state has given considerable aid to the poor peasants in the way of seeds. In the RSFSR alone, the peasants have been given this spring in’ the way of a loan 437,350 tons of seeds of different kinds, and about 7,700,000 roubles in money. In the Volga, south-eastern Siberian districts, the winte better than average; in the North Caucasus and the somewhat below the average. and MEET OPENS SOON : | i\Nominations to be Made } | i For All Offices Up-state delegat tion of New York State wi here next Saturday for the § |; Nominating Convention of The W ers (Communist) Party which o; |Sunday, June 10. The Conven' which will choose gubernatorial |Senatorial candidates in the 1 tion, will meet at 10 a | Workers Center, 26-28 U Delegates will be elec’ |Workers Party locals as well |ternal delegates from shops, jand labor and farmer ,organ | Large Representation. | The District Organizer of up-state Ne vith headquarters in” Buf- jfalo, has stated that delegates would be elected from Albany, Jamestown, (Continued on Page Two) 'Czech Police Attack Workers } with Guns PRAGUE, (By Mail).—Scores of workers and peasants were injured and many were arrested, including the editor of the Communist Rude Pravo, during May, Day demo: i the hinterland of Czecho rom every sec- strators with gun-butts and bay- onetts. May Day thruout the country was characterized by extreme police b: tality, meetings were forbidden, Com- munist newspapers and literature con- fi and placards ~ GOOD INUSSR. : Will Draw Peasants | layed in| siderable quantities of moisture have |? is very important, | an » |mail).—Sevent » indicted , | civil | quashed when the police attacked the demon-}| ISIS ET OPENS NEW ERA OF STRUGGLE Brand Schlesinger Move As Hypocritical their betray- whqp the es, repre- and dress day session evening. enthusias- y launches the the ladies’ n bearable vuilding of ed by the ialdom, ed ts ialist 0: ice, inery for the prose- mpaign in New York pective functions soon of workers’ shop dele- nclude: a committee of 1 the Shop Council, entatives from the the Tolerance Group and 2 Chairmen’s Committee of Resolutions Committee of 11; anda Committee ion Committee ask is to set up mmittee of 500 ce was hel@ in answer he National Organiza- , which is rallying the dressmakers thruout the ry to a struggle against the Sigman-Schlesinger clique for the re- construction of a union in the indus- rtry. Approximately eleven hundred shop representatives, representing about 800 cloak and dress manufacturing shops, according to an early report the credentials conimittée, partici- ted in the proceedings with an en- thusiasm seldom equalled in the union’s history. The delegates came from registered and unregistered shops, from organized as well as open shops, Even shops of leaders of the Industrial Council, which is the bosses’ association lending the great- (Continued on Page Ti» DIGTED MINERS ~ ARE DISCHARGED | Mine Justice Admits It Was Illegal (Special to the Daily Worker) ST. .CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio (By five striking miners, on ¢ ges of rioting as the lt of attacks on picket lines made Belmont county police authorities mine will never be » Nationa] Misiers’ infermed yes- tments pending were quashed ‘in rt here yesterday quest of County Prosecutor 1. In making his request ttorney said frankly that eve that “The charges ained in most instances.” the same gentleman who, on the abrogation Of all by and i s in Belmont county, de- , \clared: e have had to forget what we were taught in school about . rights.” None of the 51 women pickets ar- in St. Clairsville April 21 were d in the set of charges set aside Waddell’s request. None of the 81 women had ever been indicted and it is med that the county authorities will not press the cases against the women demonstrants. Concurrent with the report of the indictments, the National s’ Relief Committee received the information that the last detachment of the Ohio national guard had been withdraw from the eastern Ohio mining section. Ten officers will re- main stationed in various parts of the field as “observers,” it was announced. The exact functions of the National Guard “observers” haye never been defined. Several of the “observers” have, however, participated in and ‘directed attacks upon picket lines made by deputies and United States | marshals in the past month.’ (‘Short Strike Wins $1 | Increase For Carpenters | | BUFFALO, N. Y., June 3.—Ap- proximately 2,000 carpenters were granted an increase of $1 a day th a short strike h