The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1928, Page 1

i THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS; FCR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 133. Published daily except Sunday by The Nationa: Dafly Worker Publishing Association, Imc., 33 First Sireet, New York, N. ¥, Enutered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1979. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall, 94.00 per year. / Price 3 Cents NATION-WIDE SEAMEN STRIKE HITS JAPAN PORTS “Fascists Sentence 19 Militants to Long Terms WORKERS OUT AS BOSSES REFUSE MINIMUM WAGE Hundreds of Ships Tied Up by Walkout TOKYO, June 5.—All but three steamship lines in Japan are com- pletely tied up as the result of a nation-wide strike called by the Sea- men’s Union last night. Seventy ships are being held in Yokohoma alone. The walkout occurred at midnight after the steamship companies had refused to accept the union’s demand for a minimum wage. Virtually every ship is idle as the result of the strike. Scores of vessels of all nations are tied up in a number of Japanese ports unable to load or unload due to the extremely rapid spread of the walk- out, In spite of unusually provocative tactics on the part of the police, the spirit of the men is unbroken accord- ing to reports received here from Kobe, Osaka and other shipping cen- ters. Even such an extreme northern port as Hakadati has been affected by the strike and a number of smaller ones are expected to join the strike within the next twenty-four hours. The three steamship lines which have not yet been affected by the strike are the Nippon-Yusen, the Osaka-Shoshen and the Kwasaki. MORE FUR LOCALS CALL FOR PARLEY Locals 53, 40 Demand End of War PHILADELPHIA, June 5. — A membership meeting of the Furriers’ Local 58, held here last week, unani- mously adopted the recommendation of their executive board to endorse a demand on the general executive board of the International to call im- mediately a conference of locals as g first step to halt the war being con- ducted on the New York membership by the International officials. The original demand for a confer- ence was made several weeks ago by the Boston local and was embodied in a resolution which declared that all the smaller locals of the union are being rapidly destroyed by the bosses because of the chaos in the New York market. The resolution appeared in these columns at the time it was made public. It was then sent to all locals of the union to be endorsed. tak cae TORONTO, June 5.—Endorsement of the Boston local’s demand upon the International Furriers’ Union general! executive board that a conference of | all locals be called, was unanimously endorsed at the last meeting of the executive board of the Toronto Local 40, The executive board announced that a membership meeting is to be called to secure the membership’s endorse- ment of their action. Thus far the general executive board of the Inter- national has not replied to this de- mand, made originally several weeks ago by the Boston Furriers’ union. GRAFT IS HIDDEN BY REPUBLICANS Politicians Use Power To Stop Exposure Dress Rehearsal For Next Slanghter of Workers? The battle of Fleville, in the wo at the military tournament on Governor's island on June 16. The pic- ture shows the rehearsal held at For sheep and fowls has been issued by add the last touch in realistic detai rid war, will be reproduced in 2 detail t Wadsworth. An appeal for goats, thé military authorities in order to l to the imaginary slaughter. DAS T RICT. 7 MINERS TO OUST KENNEDY-MATTEY (Special to the HAZELTON, Pa., June 5.—Steps the treacherous Lewis machine were taken by the rank and file mine pected. In addition to the delegates workers when 150 union yaad a local union presidents and secretaries! girectly from the Party organizations, HOOVER MACHINE GRABS DELEGATES: Pulls Strings to Win Contested Seats KANSAS CITY, June 5.—With the Hoover machine prepared to steam-| roller all opposition, the republican | national committee today settled down} to its task of settling the remaining contests for seats to the national con- vention. The three chief contests in- volye. the. state. delegations. of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi and indica- tions are that they will be settled to} the satisfaction of Hoover. George W. Bean, veteran national committeeman of Florida, today paid the price of opposing Hoover when he was excluded from the convention. | Bean has charged that Hoover wen | Florida by holding a fake state con-| vention, packed with his own hench-} men, “HORSES” WIN TAMMANY GRAFT And Choir Si Singer Lies Only Mildly Race horses that always brought home the bacon for him, presumably because he regularly sang sweet mu- sic in a church choir, was the ex- planation adopted by William J. Os- wald, indicted district superintendent of the street cleaning department to account for the sums of money varying between $125 and $150 per week which William J. Lougheed, self-confessed grafter and state wit- ness, regularly handed over to him. Oswald, who sings in a Catholic chureh choir, is on trial with Charles A. McGee, general superintendent of the department on charges of grand larceny and forgery. He did not de- ny having received these sums which aggregated more than his salary. The money, he declared, came from win- nings on races as a result of an “air- tight system”, Lougheed had worked which brought in three or four hund- ved dollars a week. Oswald undey direct examination testified that he had been. assigned to the fourth Bronx district in Janu- ary 1925.. In March of that year, he declaréd, Lougheed first made known to him his acquaintance with pranc- ing steeds by showing him a bank- roll the size of the proverbial horse. The rum smuggling graft disclo- sures which threatened Monday to splash over half the republican par- ty’s New York face and as a result of which fifteen customs guards, two roundsmen and an inspector were Sat- urday suspended, appeared yesterday to have been sufficiently stemmed to be called a “petty affair” by those responsible. The reports were “grossly exag- gerated,” these officials declared. No ; one really doubts that millions of dol- lars of high priced liquor has been “bootlegged” in from trans-Atlantic liners to find its way into the cellars of New York society. As much as $40,000,000 is the amount estimated thus to have been eae te Sop hed $200,00,000 i the Lug tes |Guupeshon a: to is reac! , in Pi . eee Sina nen vity. The graft Oswald did not say that this was how he came to believe the money had been obtained through playing the ponies. He insisted, however, that Lougheed had offered to let him in on the game of beating the book- makers—-and he, Oswald, fell for it. Thereafter, Oswald testified, the “horses” won regularly with only one exception. Another remarkable fact about these uniformly winning “horses” was jthat Oswald never was asked to put up any money for his bets. They just ran knowing in advance that they would win for Oswald, McGee, Lougheed, and the others higher up whose grafting activities in the great Tammany scandal is believed to have | theoretical Daily Worker) for elimination of another section of ——— representing over 25 local unions gathered here Sunday evening at a nominating conference to name a pro- gressive slate in opposition to the well ‘known corrupt Lewis-Kennedy- Mattey officialdom in District 7, Unit- ed Mine Workers of America. Biggest Meeting Ever. | The meeting was the biggest the {opposition forces ever held in District |7. Gebert spoke on the national sit- uation, also on the tri-district fight jagainst the Lewis machine, and very | severely criticized the Brennan-Mc- |Garry-Harris forces in District one |for their steam rolling tactics in Dis- |trict 1 convention and for their lack of a program, William Gaffney, an outstanding \leader of the opposition in District 7, made a very rousing talk and present- ‘ed the progressive program. After a (Continued on beers Twa) WORKERS IGNORE SIGMAN MEETING 'See It as Attempt to Get | 3-Day Tax mass meeting called by the| yee Schlesinger gang for tonight is so completely disregarded by the | masses of cloak and dressmakers in |the market that their agents are fev- erishly mobilizing all their henchmen in the other trade unions to attend the meeting. Ostensibly, the meeting is called | “celebrate” the beginning of the 40-hour week with the cloak bosses. The latter practically admitted this in a statement issued yesterday that since Sigman had failed to destroy the influence of the left wing Joint Board, the bosses cannot be held re- sponsible for the inauguration of the shorter week. ment, it is pointed out, is made when | the union shattered by the right wing is unable to prevent these same bosses from running their shops on a 70 hour week basis. The meeting is merely an attempt to secure payments of the three-day tax which was the sole outcome of the recent convention of fakers in Boston, many workers declare. |to Woman Flier Delayed TREPASSEY BAY, Newfoundland, June 5.—A leak in the gas tank and high winds today delayed the hop off of the Fokker monoplane for England with three flyers on board including a Boston woman, Amelia Earhart. This curious state- | UP-STATE NAMES. PARTY DELEGATES TO CONVENTION State Nominating Meet Saturday | The units of District 2 and District 4 (up-state New York) of the Work- ers (Communist) Party are electing delegates to the State Nominating Convention of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party of New York state, to be held Sunday at 10 a. m. at the new Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, New York City. Several hundred delegates are ex- fraternal delegates are expected from other workers’ organizations, includ- ing shops in New York and immediate vicinity. The convention will last throughout the day. Workers’ organizations have |been invited to send delegates. All units are to pay $1 per delegate and fraternal organizations $2 as a fraternal fee, regardless of the num- ber of delegates sent. District 2 and 4 have made. ar- rangements for a tour of upper New York in order to obtain signatures, county by county. The Party intends to get the nec- essary quota of signatures to put the ticket on the ballot, 6,000 for up-state New York and 6,000 for New York City_and vicinity, William W. Wein-| out ‘stoné, ‘district organizer, “said” last night. Plans are being made for an inten- sive campaign throughout the state which will include the gending out of ja squad of speakers fo “soap box” jthe main cities of thé state. | All these arrangements will be com- | pleted at the State Convention. The convention will adopt the state plat- form and put fo’ rd the state and | local ey. 00 , TO GIVE! SEND-OFF FOR S. SANDINO Leaves for European Tour Soon | Socrates Sandino, brother of the| Nicaraguan rebel) leader, is leaving} the United States for a tour of Eupo- pean cities to win support for the Nicaraguan struggle for freedom from imperialist domination. A fare- well banquet arranged in his honor} will be held Friday’ evening June 8th at 8 o’clock at the Palace D’Orient All Units of the Party, All Sympathizers, All Militant Workers. Comrades: in imminent danger. create a panic. ER go out of existence. that you will give it. fatal. The DAILY WORKER is ear ago. iners must continue to receive ay. out fthe subscription lists_at | stand and will respond. masses of the workers. crisis at any cost. DAILY WORKER. But you must do your part. 33 First Street, New York City. To All Members of the Warkers (Communist) Party, The Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party appeals to you to send financial help in the quickest possible time ,. to The DAILY WORKER, central organ of our Party, which is dred years imprisonment, for carry- The loss of The DAILY WORKER at this time would be the/ worst disaster that could come to our Party. We do not wish to! We are determined not to let The DAILY WORK-| But we must face the cold reality, and must frankly tell you that your immediate help on the most gen- erous possible scale is absolutely necessary. We are confident The Party members and sympathizers, the militant workers who depend upon our revolutionary fighting paper, must under- stand the reason for the present crisis which comes so near being not in an unhealthy condition; it is improved in quality, in circulation and in mass support; its income from both subscriptions and advertising is larger than a But The DAILY WORKER has been compelled in the past few months to undertake tasks and expenses greater than it was able to bear. Thousands of striking mine workers are receiv- ing The DAILY WORKER and are unable to pay for it. These The DAILY WORKER. Textile orkers on strike have been supplied and must continue to be sup- lied with The DAILY WORKER even though it is impossible to Unemployed’ workers in many thousands cannot be thrown the time sien, more. than. ever. before, they need their fighting paper. The prosecution of the paper and of its editors placed a very heavy burden upon the “Daily” which is still upon it. The situation is this: Before next Saturday, June 9, The DAILY WORKER must receive not less than $5,000 to keep it from suspending. Before the following Saturday, June 16, The DAILY WORKER must receive a total of $10,000. This is the nature of the present crisis, as it is put up to us in ultimative form | by creditors of the paper. We are confident that you will under- On its own part, the Central Committee pledges itself to make | any sacrifice to keep our daily fighting organ alive. WORKER is the face of our revolutionary Party. voice with which the Workers (Communist) Party speaks to the |of Ge We will not, we cannot let it be destroyed. | Shansi province, The DAILY | It is the daily | It would be impossible to wage an effective election cam- paign without our daily Party organ in the English language. We are determined to see The DAILY WORKER through this) Anything can be sacrificed rather than The} Send all possible financial aid by | |telegraph, airmail or special delivery, to The DAILY WORKER, | he |Restaurant, 108 Lexington Avenue} near 28th St. under the auspices of | the New York branch of the All- American Anti-Imperialist League. Speakers at the dinner are: Reservations should be made im-| mediately by telephoning the office| of the League: gonqain 6789. Among the ers will be Scott Nearing, lec and economist; Robert Minor, .Jitor of THE DAILY WORKER; Leon Ruiz, of the Spanish Speaking workers Club; Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League; Y. Y. Hsu, Henry Rosemond, of the Haitian Pa- triotie Union, Juan DeHesus, presi- dent of the Philippinean Club of New York, and Irving Potash, of the Fur- riers Union. EXCHANGE FAT JOBS CLEVELAND, June 5.—In a handsome exchange of official positions, William G. Lee, president and A. F. Whitney, secretary-treasurer of the | Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, took over each other’s jobs in the or; gan- a little private arrangement between themselves in order to suit the con- venience as well as to continue the high salary of Lee. Lee was “defeated” for re-election to the presidency of the union and Whitney was “elected” to that office at vhe triennial convention Monday. Immediately, he was chosen “to the office which Whitney is now occupy- ing. Lee, who has been president for WORKERS SEND FUNDS TO SAVE ‘DAILY’ In response to The DAILY WORKER’S appeal for funds, work- ers in various parts of the country have begun sending in contributions to save the only fighting working- class newspaper in the English lan- guage from suspending publication. The money received thus far has, meet the pressing financial demands more! Don’t let your “Daily” die! The following is a list of contribu- tions received Monday: Eva Levine, Brooklyn, N.~ D. os New York he Barada however, been entirely inadequate to! \ made upon the Daily. Workers, send! # Sklar, Milwaukee, Wis., $4.99; E. Oker-} steoin, Portland, Ore., $1; I. Zimmer-} bi A. Malisoff, Y., $5; Max Fox, New Hannah Kuebbeler, E. M. Leete, New York Goldstein, Niagara Falls, 2; H. Bunin, New York Cityy #19: Che ‘Homeetas, Baltimore, Md., §1; Glustrom, Atlanta, Ga,, $21.25; frase : Morris, New_York C y, $5; J. Glad- *| stone, Troy, N. Y., $5; M. Levine, Troy, 5; White Collar Slave, Flush- Ww Hartman, River » M Steve Morasky, Cald- 1 O. $2; Folin Langley, New York City, $2; Sarah Villas, New sare City, $1; A. W. Nelson, Rose Lake, I U, C.'W.C. W., Council 2, Bronx, N. ¥,, af oe $10; Ma » $85 Benjamin Fiok Louis Helg, Ernst reson kssoht, $7.50: Henry Schnaal. A. Blomquist, Maple, Braverman, Bronx, N, Smith, Charlotte, N.C, Cleveland, © fli dr. Cloveland. Contributions Thus Far Inadequate as Suspension Threatens Cleveland, 0. °; James C. Valek, Cleveland, O, 2; Rose Maria, Cleve- land, 0. $1; smil Schuller, Cleveland, ic; N. F. Dachtter, Cleveland, 0., $i J. Hekelman, Cleveland, 0.” § A. Sympathizer, Cleveland, 0.,'50c; W. Lang, Cleveland, ©., $1; ‘John Koob, Se eines O., poe Henry Libin, ed land, O., ; Kosmon, Cleveland, 0. 25c; Al "Ditteahafer Cleveland, O., a LaBone, Cleveland, 2 Beckley, 61 veland, Vanta, Cleveland, O., Cleveland, ©., 25c; 25c; Norman be; George 50c; H, Burke, Herman Lindeman, 25e; Joe Rusnack, Cleve- Jand, O. b0e; Joe Hanzlik, Cleveland, ©,, 25c; John’ Vanta, Cleveland, ©., 50c; Geo. Pohm, c leveland, O., 50; An Old Timer, Cleveland, O., $1; Hannah Sher- er, New York City, $8; Harry Leff, New York City, $3; Gustav Wailman, New York City, $5; J. Nagin, New York City, $2; W. Heinig, New York City, $10. Total: 8161.99. lization under what is believed to bee———_—________-- | 19 years, is now 68 years old and the “duties” of office weighed heavily on| him, so to speak. Now he can con- tinye to draw his salary as secretary- treasurer while the work will be done by the accountants. Whitney, who is 55 years old, can still maintain the pretense of being “active.” The fact that both Lee and Whit- | ney have both resigned from their | present offices to take effect July 1, one month before their terms expired, to take up their new “duties” is only another confirmation that the ar- rangement had been made before- hand. Call Contractors In Sewer Graft Hearing | Many important witnesses were called before the special grand jury investigating sewer contracts in Queens when it resumed its sessions this afternoon. Among the witnesses were Edward Staats Luther, an of- ficial of the Independent Security | Company of New York, which spe-| cializes in public works contracts; Thomas Mooney of Mooney and Man.| ;|nino, sewer contractors of Flushing; | Peter Campbell, former business as- sociate of John M, Phillips; Angelo and Marino Piano, sewer contractors; and Fredecack R. Curran, confiden- tial secretary to John M. Phillips’ Party C Central Committee Asks Aid to ‘Daily’ “CRISIS NEAR BEING FATAL”, “SEND HELP” NGGREGATE OF 300 COMMUNISTS GET YEARS IN PRISON Renee More sre Arr ests By Fascist Terrorists ROME, June 5.—Nineteen mili- tants, most of them members of the n Communist Party, were sen- ed to an aggregate of three hun- ing revolutionary propaganda. The sentences ranged from five to twenty- seven years imprisonment. The trial was held in secret by a Fascist court. A woman, Anita Pusterka, was sentenced to nine years imprisonment. Numerous arrests of Communists have taken place in Rome. Pike are VIENNA, June 4.—During yester- days session of the trial against the Italian Communist victims of the Ital- ian fascists, the defendants demanded a precise statement of the indictments against them. The public prosecutor replied to this demand with the state- ment that the police censider them dangerous rebels. Under examination, Fleschia, one of the accused workers, then frankly. (Continued on Page Three) NANKING ARMY ~~ ENTERS PEKING /Deny That Chang Tso- lin is Dead | PEKING, June 5.—The occupation of Peking by the Shansi troops who jare cooperating with the Nanking |regime, was begun today when the the army entered | jadvance guard of |the suburbs. Three armies have been converging jon Peking, one under the command al Yen Shi-shan, war lord of nother under Gen- eral Feng Yu-hsiang and a third un- der General Chiang Kai-shek, Nank- | ing *generalissimo. ae Ta PEKING, June 5.—The report that ad died as the result 1 at Mukden, Man- train in which he was denied A report received here , when the |was riding was bombed, | here today. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE | declared that Chang was improving WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA. aaa UNION BUREAUCRATS NEEDLE WORKERS IN CANADA MEET |Thugs Fail to Break Up Rally of 4,000 MONTREAL, June 5.—Despite the attempt of a squad of hired gangsters to break up the mass meeting of needle trades workers held here sey- eral days ago, four thousand workers successfully concluded their protest demonstration against the bureau- cracy in control of the needle trades unions here. The strong-arm squad which ttied to break up the meeting was led by I. Rabkin, an official in the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers’ Union. They were driven from the meenne, by the angry workers. | Enthustastie ovations were accord- jed Sam Lipsin of New York, and Morris Spector, Communist leader. | Phe meeting was one of the largest | ever held in the local labor movement. Resolutions condemning the expul- sion policy of the reactionary needle btrades union heads, and demanding re~ instatement for those expelled were |unanimously passed. The resolutions also called for condemnation for the \officialdom for installing the hated | piece- -work system in the el trades and for transforming unions into ordinary company unio They also proposed the ina of a campaign to organize the ganized in t’ » nie and be ' co e needle trades