The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1928, Page 3

| MB etait pestniiesnany ain THE DAILY WORKER, NEWYORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1928 LAHEY, LITTLE COLEMAN OF AMALGAMA PLANS BETRAYAL jen Island local of the Amalgamated |face lines of Staten Island, were ready }to the workers tonight. man, Lahey is no more honest « -, who is a Tammany tool. land park The scheduled strike of the 200] Association of Street and Electric te atte? ze eee oon hen inform- tary, is a small gestion oe James | itant; he has adopted the | ident he the Borough etl 1 i ‘ D Snr ed by Lahey that he had entered in-!H. Coleman, who with the other rep-| bastic and deceptive manner towards} red as the friend of the |lions of work during the year. wi s s } S. | aps 4 ; a AE : fraction workers of State Island due} Railway. employes. to negotiations with John A. Lynch, | resentatives of the Amalgamated re-|the rank and file which is used by! but his activities are best e rank and file control of tor yesterday noon has been postponed| antil tomorrew according to an agree-| ment pui over for the men by Ed- ward J. Leahy, President of the Stat-| The traction workers whose demand | for a 10 cent an hour inerease in wages was rejected by the Richmond Railways Co. which operates the sur- Tammany Hall president of the Bor- |cently betrayed the New York traction | Coleman and Fitzgerald, the vi ough of Richmond. Lynch will meet | workers for Tammany Hall and the| ident of the Amalgamated. with Lahey this morning and the re- \Interborough. known that the workers sults of the meeting will’ be conveyed While a younger man than Cole-| to expect from the ac nd traction local and rike for the 10 per can be relied upon to rom a number of grafting park schemes he has put over on Stat- ja 100 per ¢ en Island and from his bitter oppo: cent incre iu have nothing s vites of Lahey,; tion to the popular demand for an is- | win for the workers. is Hoover Won Florida Delegates by Holding Fake State Conve i ntion, Charge ' ) BUILDING TRADES WORKERS FACING WORSENING EVILS Unemployed, Speed-Up, | Graft /.re Rife Conditions in the are rapidly getting worse, accorving} to testimony of rank ‘and file union) members who yesterday gave a de-| tailed picture of what the workers in! these trades have to contend with. “The building trades today are fac-| ing a basic depression,” one of these workers declared. “Unemployment is general and severe and thousands of| building trades workers are walking} building trades; | woman, registering as ‘Cadet Makes | Grade; Jailed For Larceny INDICATION of the prom the U. S. Navy to train cruits in many Ids has at been partially realized for Harlo Hamilton H. honor grad- uate of Annapoiis 0, for three | years ensign in the navy, erduy he received a sentence of from two to four years in Sing Sing in General ions after pleading guilty to grand larceny in the second degree in connection with bad checks totalling $189.52 given by him to the Hotel Plaza where he stopped in December, 1926, with a “Mr. and Mrs. G. Bordon,” 4 ° & (SEE U. S, HAND IN COLOMBIA'S OIL LAW CHANGE \Concession May Go to | American Interest | lowing the sudden announcement that the Barca petroleum concession had become the subject of serious discus- sions between the government of Colombia and the United States with \a view to transferring the concession to the latter power, the important | announcement that a presidential de- |eree suspending the operation of the law regulating petroleum output and Three Workers a Died in T ese Ruins At Arlington, N. J. HERBERT PACKED CONVENTION WITH OWN SUPPORTERS \Lenroot Lawyer For All | Contesting Delegates KANSAS CITY lently | vention jin the contest Beach were made er the Florida dele- arted here today. The contest involved nine delegates, me set headed by National Commit- }teeman Geor W. Bean and unin- | gates which s | pat u ] | structed; the othe -Senator L, the streets seeking emnloment which | ownership has just been issued. The eee "line ae now 4 is nowhere to be found. TEXTILE Heopenbdtiag was approved by the | psident of Florida, who is pledged to Graft and Speed-up. | x! ae) aan | Hoover. “Graft, the speed-up system, aoiat| j _ The petroleum law has been con- Charles F. C charged that oration between the bosses and the} union officials, are dominating fac-| tors in the present situation of the} building trades workers,” he charged.| “The plumbers are especially hit by| and this wave of unemployment, class-collaboration policies of bureaueracy of the plumbe) “Local 14 of Jersey C | for trial in a loe BEGINS OTH WEEK More Pickets Join Line } Despite Arrests (Continued from page one) court today. They of the will be defended by attorney stently attacked since the time of S passage by the legal advisers of | all the Colombian and foreign oil com- panies on the grounds that it is un- constitutional and confiscatory. |. Commenting editorially on the sus- , pension of the oil laws by the presi- {dent's decree, El] Tiempo, one of the largest papers in Colombia states, “It ruins for still more victims. Three men are known to have died and 20 were painfully injured in the celluloid plant of E. I. du Pont de Nemours, shown here, when a faulty valve caused an explosion. Other workers are shown looking in the he Hoover st packed the | state convent aytona Beach pan in the ab > of the regular chairman, George P. Wentworth, held an unauthorized session presided over |by Glenn: B. Skipper, vice-chairman | of the state committee. This was the {session that instructed Florida’s dele- | gates for Hoover. of 2,100 members, has as International Labor Defens must be confessed that the first im- { , - sei | The fact that Hoover is willing to tary of the local, the city plur The Workers International Relicf| pression is that the decree is unfor. WINE POLICE IN ‘Can 4 in 0 , SAY LABOR FAKER Boho a omens st ae rector. To any rank and file o sent out an appeal to workers to re-|tunate for us and excellent for the | | any kery in order to ensnare the this is sufficient to convince hi such a man cannot represent h terests. Ask an) plumber and he tell you of the thousands of d of graft that is collected by these in- spectors. How can such a man repre- sent the interests of the workers? “Focal 418 of Queens has a group within the local that is fighting the ss-collaboration schemes of the of- This group has succeeded in|} bettering the conditions of the men end improving the conditions on the their utmost to”! progress this group. Whenever a member of - for spond immediately to their appeal kers relief. This is gent now, the Workers’ Relief states, in view of vy increase of applications for ming in. In add to the normal increase coming from the new members of the Textile Mill Committee, the fact that the skilled workers’ unions are stop- ping the relief doles due to exhausted treasuries, is putting heavier burdens on the W. I. R. station. An announcement* was also made yesterday by the Citizens’ Relief Com- mittee, composed of local politicians and endorsed by the A. F. of L. union {petroleum interests. It is the first| blow struck against the nation in pe-| |troleum affairs. The annulment of} the petroleum laws by the supreme court is possible.” The Barco oil field, which will, it is intimated, shortly come under the| control of American interests, is in the extreme north-eastern section of Colombia near the Venezuelan bor- der. The field has heen in the hands of a number of petroleum companies until in 1926 the Colombian govern- ment decreed that the field should be returned to the nation since Barco, the original concessionaire, had failed to NEW TERRORISM. Continue Clubbings, Gas Attacks | CALDWELL, Ohio (By mail). — A | ! mass picket line of two hundred stood | |fast in front of the entrance to the | | Belle Valley mine“near here Thursday, | |dsepite a tear gas attack directed by | Sheriff Byron Schaefer and a dozen | deputies who had ordered the ‘pickets | Asks for Cel SPARTANBURG, Released from the Penitentiary after serving f S. C., June 4 ’ GETSGENEVAGOLD yea there, Robert I, Thomas has aske ® Believe John Walker is Paid Observer CHICAGO, Ill, June 4. — Disclos- ures that Geneva gold is at this mo- + ment lining the pockets of “Honest” John H. W president of the Illi- nois State Federation of Labor are ex- pected here to result in a rank and penitentiary officials to permit him to return to complete his maximum | sentence of ten years. When Thomas left the penitentiary recently he returned to his hon He sought employment but to find a job. After months o 1 ing the streets in vain efforts t find work he walked into the o: |republican nom } de: for the presi- cy was also made evident when it S announced that he had hired Ex- | Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wiscon- sin to act as general counsel for all | Hoover cont ng delegates. Lenroot } will have si ral lawyers for assis- | tants. MACHINES FIGURE IN DON SABOTAGE ghia group takes the: floor and fights i iti js|to disperse. The strikers had gath-|of Sheriff’ Sam K. Miller and re- file demand by union members for an_| SER ivigle : ; becomes here, to the effect that the amount| Comply with the conditions of his| — : : i : nateernante We moe, je demand by union members for a if oh ovale Uap gi hrg ae Ra goled gigas ae to He es wil) | contract. ered near the mine, owned by -the| quested that arrangements be made | investigation when Walker returns| USeless Iron Imported boss by the official of the union and} immediately fired from the job. This] is the way these misleaders of lebor be reduced by 20 per cent. This order goes into effect to-day. A. F. of L. Treachery. It is believed that the American in- terests, which have been considering he Colombian oil prospects for some | Cambridge ~Collieries company, as | |mon-union miners were leaving work | late in the day. Disparaging remarks addressed to for him to return to the penitentia: He was told that it was impos to grant his request. from h tern furopean mission to the In- tional Office conference ble He communi- cated with officials of the peniten- Labor now in session at Geneva. | By Technicians MOSCOW, U. R., June 4.— ‘protect the interests of the men.” | Not onty have the A. F. of } ime, pi te le possession of the/non-union workers caused the calling | tiary but there shis request was also| Walker who is an “unofficial ob- | During yesterday’s sion of the trial Confirming these statements, an-|) reaucrats failed to organize terco field within the next few/|of the police officers by the mine su-| turned dow | lof the Donetz plotters, Eliadze, a vit rganize su | A 8 DY urned down. server” > ¢ 2 Q | ¥ iu iu other building trades worker declarea| si}6 relief machinery for the greai| Months. |perintendent. Sheriff Schaefer com- | Pea ae eae ca renence ra G Og tlh adeuned of sabotage, denied that a member of the above sp} who has frequently taken the floor to} fight the policies of the officials, got into a heated argument with Flan-; nagan ‘vho is the delegate of .the lo-| eal. Flannagan immediately took} steps to get rid of this member by| masses of strikers, but they have ever failed to provide ample aid for their own small membership, the workers here declare. In view of these events the Work- ers International Relief intends to prosecute an energetie campaign to CHINESE PEASANT MOVEMENT GAINS ; manded the crowd to scatter, insist- ing that it was assembled in violation | ‘of an injunction granted to the Cam- bridge Collieries by the Noble county common pleas court, When the 200} greeted his order with derision and | defiance, Schaefer threatened to club | “DOPE” SCHOOLS OF POWER TRIST jthe labor section of the League of | Nations, undertook the journey at the invitation of the League of Nations \Non-Partisan Association of Illinois which is known to have paid all his <penses and is believed to have made \that he participated in such activity, {but admitted that he had sheltered |the counter-revolutionary, Kurkin. | He admitted further that he had | received graft money from Kalganov }but “not for sabotaging.” Bashkin, another accused tech- endeavoring to railroad him out of the; enlarge their resources. Plans are them. him an additional “consideration” | nician, testified that foreign engineers local, he charged. The '@/ speedily being pushed to carry on a “Come ahead,” yelled the pickets. | os the amount of which is not yet ascer-|took great interest in the sabotage board, which consists of a clique’ of} textile strike relief thruout the _ (Continued on Page Three) iol gaa ‘ A a ee eet | (Continued from page one) jtained. |plot. He said he had received sabo- the officials, took up the question of | country. asking for immediate withdrawal of meyee A e Gel Uries ssid | Was “Persuaded.” tage instructions from Beresoyski, getting rid of this member by trans- fering him to another local. The rules of the plumbers’ locals state that no transfers car be issued at the present time. By transfering this member) they are trying to get rid of him, and} deprive him of earning a‘living. When! the matter was brot before the rani} nnd file, about two weeks ago. Flan- DISPUTE MAY END IN CUBAN STRIKE all American troops in North China. The note will be’ transmitted to John Van MacMurray, the American ) minister in Peking. i * * * | Mass Demonstration. SHANGHAI, June 4, — Reports | from Foochow state that mass demon- strations have taken place against gas bombs into the crowd without | warning. Saved by a favorable wind, the majority of the pickets suffered no ill effects from the tear gas though smarting eyes and choking throats | caused the picket line to waver for | an-instant. Caldwell, at the edge of the Hock- ing Valley, has been waging its strug- | ments against public ownership, the In thi ti SG dink * “, ” i is n this connection it is interesting ‘graduates as sent out a schools |to note that the first intimation that and colleges in Colorado, New Mex- | Walker had been “persuaded” to un- ico, Wyoming and other states. dertake the trip came from Director At the same time it has been re- | Magnuson, the American representa- vealed that employes of Colorado |tive of the International Labor office, |who early in May announced that | Walker would be the American “rep- | resentative” to the conference. This utilities are rated on their ability to spread the propaganda of the | Kalganov, Samoilov, and Gorletzki, ‘for which Kalganov and Kusma had |paid-him 6,000 roubles. | Regarding the plotters activity in jthe Donetz fields, he testified that |useless machinery was imported from abroad and that the plotters invited him to travel thruout Europe and re- the former owners about 4 gle against the coal operators with- i Tega AR (ete else bm nae “i port to spainet the Eater lagreement between the Cuban rail- merican mission schools are sai¢ | pinning of the strike. Isolated by the | Public. ete Pannteeye 7 dent? | Gorlov, another technician, testified This was aj scheme to scare the plumbers in vot-| way workers and the owners of the United Cuban Railroads over the ques- to have been closed. * * * high hills and poor transportation fa- | cilities the Hocking Valley had had| president of the American Fec tion An elaborate system of “dope” 4 of Labor. Green denied that the distribution, among newspapers that wh ng to the chief en- s 4 Penis a al i Berge Sara cass Sv about the useless | me ae ihe Fe ae at oo tion of the eight hour day continues | nee Sel a tombed. little relief all winter. Battling against | thruout the United States, has also eee ee a a Shivieracie A y was threatened with | executive board. In this they succee Hl Ga apie uf the “prepasal’ which both | I Manchu-ta, June 4.—|the posses and the police on the picket | been uncovered. Boiler plate ar. ang ha sibe bates singe ficial and a report to the political i ed ax most. of the plumbers were) parties have tentatively agreed to ac-| Reports that the special armored Hine becomes harder every day hunger| ticles, cartoons and special features /Walker was not even an “unofficia’ ' afraid to vote against the suspens fe Flannagan is carrying on| his dirty work insi the lsenl, Me-) Adams. ancther delegate, | on tne outside work, Tle reporis to} y man who dares to oppose | ue.” ive group har While succesded in bettering the conditions the prog: ona great rember of jobs, due to the ff the railroad workers against any pre- Peed aM og ESS ay elas ae ‘tions. fact of {ta weak forces it has not sue- t ; . : r i abor office ha a j ‘i Fi J te action. ° . Ny The International Labor office has geeded in installing: strict union con-|°" "'* 880 i ey But in vy vA j 1 ie 3 sought re the ‘at Sees ag ee Sct on on the Firehole Are 19 Stokers Bruised B y Police Clubs tor several years sought to secure the Captain Ohadag job on Merrick Read, Long Island that is being done by Gross & Sons. Most of the building trades wo: on the job are non-union men, ani! working below the scale. The plumb- ing on the job is unsanitary and is a violation of.the city plumbing code while faced with a different situation | is no better, he declared: “The officials of oral No, 1. Brooklyn, are trying to drag over the matter of the new agreement, until after the elections which take place yery shortl). This is bui a scheme to} ut over the agreement until the fall.) By that time there will be more un- Joyment and the officials will be Ne fo sell the men out “ signing and there is growing suspicion that the government's interference in the {dispute is the official forerunner of a victory for the roads. Leaders among the men assert that |strike feeling is strong but that the ruthlessness with which the Machado authorities have shot down Cuban strikers in the past are influencing thom by the bosses. There is no doubt thas this new agreement will never | live up to promises that the officials made during the lest strike. The plumbers must deft the schemes of the officials by electing honest rank organized it will prevent them from scabbing on the plumbers if another strike situation arises. “Plumbers support the progressive groups in your locals! “Do not be fooled by the false promises of your misleazders! “Firht for one unifonm agreement for all locals! _ “Fight against the installation of pine setting machines on the job!” jtrain in which Chang Tso-lin, north- been dropped on the tracks. One coach was derailed and several others | set on fire by the explosio: Chang Tso-lin was not injured. National Miners Relief Committee,” | ay the strikers. “They've got to keep itheir relief shipments going if they expect to see us win the strike.” ver. TE, hodabs ltracks of Walker by fire broke out today. in'the L Bton | Walker does not represent the A. F Avenue tunnel of the Interborough | o¢ L. but only the Illinois Non-I Subway between the Astor Place and |tisan Association. Walker carries let- Fourteenth Street static |ters of introduction from declaring that Henin and bruised from the blows of police clubs and ex- hausted from the beating and a week-end in a Staten Island jail, 19 | Fast Indian stokers were sent back ing the 19 workers back into the stcke hole. -Capt. Ardus Livingston is the chip’s master. Municipel and special private dock potice were called Saturday by Capt. Livingston when the sto- kers demanded the fulfilment of a promise of a cay’s shore leaye. The police attacked the defenseless and eary workers with clubs, threaten- ng them at the same time with pis- COMERIC’S CAPTAIN PACES THE BRIDGE tols. The workers wee then tal ; ashore in irons and locked under | heavy guard. in 2 warehouse until time for arraignment. * * * Today the Comeric is steaming toward Liverpool, its sixteenth port since the present trip began. The stokers had fired the Com- eric on its rounds in and out of 14 ports, beginning with Liverpool, when the agreement for shore leave in New York was made, the spokes- man of the 19 informed the court. The working conditions were un- rnor | mag inate tool of Illinois, to whom Whiker and a number of other labor fakers sold out in. the 1926 and other elec ~|Len Small, the Insull tractio: cooperation of the A. F. of L. clos quate, In the court room as in the black hole of the the defendants had th chattel slaves. They h ficulty) in court’ in ‘Rumania Journalists | Who Criticize Gov't. to Face Life Terms and file members as officials, who} to the fireroom of the Pritish T the request of Capt. Livingston, selves understood. Ar —_— how ‘The builder has police protecting the/ will take a militant stand and really] freighter Comeric under guard yes- Magietien Chak Aaah: ie no use for them to show the court Among the- many ineredibly 3. |" ‘teant the big tri-motored tmonos fob, and refuses to let either union fight for the interest of the men. The} terday. 19 imprisoned in police headquar- | that humanly and legatiy they were pressive measures contained in the| lane were certain of their ability t » men or delegate on the job. It is the! plymbers must also fight for the ree- Encouraged by the attitude of the ters at St. George until shortly b entitled to a day on shore. new penal code which is being p: pay Last reports duty of the delegate to i.spect every} ognition of the helpers, as this is very police and Magistrate Croak in fo t ilin a i Alentapeteeitahge ‘ mM Pa pared in Ru A are la’ which|the airmen wore battling a storm, plumbing job that is done. necessary to them in order to improve| New Brighton, S. I, the offices of | *° Selling time for the Comeric RR insist completely abolish any freedom of| ———— : — Plumbers’ Local 1 of Brooklyn./their conditions. If the helpers are| the ship used brutal tacties in herd- yesterday, HEIR insistence on the day off ithe pre § which now exists. Confisca-| caused the captain to c¢ them with “attacking” him, the cifie charge in court being di orderly conduct. *¢ | tion is sanctioned for the publ lof even the st anti-gover nent | jarticles or news items. | Sentences from 5 years to life im- priconment will be dealt out to adres nalists responsible for such items. Although this has not yet become law, journalists have already been threatened with prosecution if they write anything objectionable to the / governmens. The “crime” of these under-paid stokers, bleeding and bruised from police clubs in a strange land, as their spokesman laboriously ex- plained to the court, was wanting to go to a circus here. : ENDOF SUVA HOP j rey eis a + eget vi " ni ‘ne| are sent regularly to € F tted reoaiel as it would probably mean that they! HAM sara re dispute. to | . rn w: fled from Peking before ee hae ne bg Aled pablisctavie, and espec rom | 38 Pen uncertain a at La be would he blacklisted. Nevertheless ""pescntment is high among the|*h¢ advancing armies of the Nanking |” Caldwell hus had no relief shipment | t&Y Rewspapers and 1 ena pean rous.” the sives voted solidly: against! ..iovaq workers, oming tothe per.| government bombed just outside this |foy'a month. “We mane co ment neice pe pie inhi a te ee —— the suspension. : Letctarit refduhl ‘of the tatiwnbe” city have been confirmed. Several of |the fight, and’ we’ve got to have food! ANOTHER I. R. cee i y This is oniy part of the scheme, th ; supation te Unter to Swen Or Chang 's attendants are said to have|to do it,” is what Caldwell thinks of| Several persons were overcome | STi res Labor f | H worker said. Others complete the) hot on eight hour day be enforced, | been killed. ts present situation. “We'd have heen | smoke and a hundred and fifty were) 7. yoy earn ey up the PALER yy ik : | Two bombs are reported t» hyve jlicked long ago if it wasn't for the| led through dark taubes to exits when|2%° NOW Seeking | te epaprn i 1, T. H., June 4. — The s was today on the last” s 3,100-mile hop across ! HONOLUL Sont m 60 had planned to nding on the tiny We gre inake Phoen an emerg group, of th The i € irimopher St., ‘udson Tubes Hobe wanna RK an no “er S i BERKELEY HEIGHTS commander of the