The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER; NEW: YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1928 SAYS ALLEN-A STRIKE LEADERS ARE SPINELESS; YOUNG WORKER EXPELLED BY BUDENZ KENOSHA, Wis. (By mail).—I am one of the Allen-A Ho- They have refused to call out the rest of the workers at the ing our strike meetings by Budenz. ¢ i" 4 é ” siery strikers. Several months ago I saw the film, at reese rey ee ny Aspe aa Ls iy theese wate erisety 60 jue I certainly oppose such actions on the part of the leaders. one of the downtown shows in Kenosha. I certainly admired the oan chet er otek Mab Ree is I think it is a shame to bar from our meetings anyone from the splemdid fight put up by the thousands of Passaic textile strikers bine 8s edema hse Young Workers League. The League has certainly championed Sometimes I wonder if our leaders are without backbones, r . t under the leadership of Albert Weisbord, A Young Workers League representative, who helped us picket our strike and told us how we can win out. that struggle with the leadership of our strike, I notic@ an awful difference. Albert Weisbord organized mass picketing daily. and was. himself on the picket line and got arrested dozens of times. Our own leaders-refuse to have us violate the injunction’ by having mass picketing. Once in a while they let us picket for a few “Passaic,” who, I understand, is a member of the Workers (Communist) Party, When I compare how the leadership of Passaic strike led minutes but even then they do not help us on the picket line, but go elsewhere. and gave us bulletins pointing out that we must have picketing Kindly print this. daily and. must.call out the unorganized, was barred from attend- —ALLEN-A STRIKER. Rallying of Textile Workers to Picket Lines Keeps Mills from Operating STRIKERS IN NEW BEDFORD CARRY VICTORY SYMBOLS Mill Str ike ‘Spir it High| Despite Great Need By GRACE HUTCHINS. NEW BEDFORD, (FP).— With a spray of lilac in each pick buttanhole and the lines since th Bedford strikers move ‘to open the r did not open. Portug membered that flower been thir symbol of v picked fin the country handed out today when the pickets first came on the line. At least 2,000 strikers at the south end and 3,000 or more at the north end picketed or watched at the gates of the Hathaway, Page, Nonquit and other mills. ets, marching two by two, moved up and down past the big red brick build- ings, police watched silently and iets of other strikers across the street stood unmoving for an hour and a half. Antonio Adao, speaking in Portu- guese, keeps the strikers laughing and applauding. He is a former I. W W. man and led 5,000 Portuguese strikers once before. William T. Murdoch, whose sen- tence to 90 days for “disturbing the peace” is appealed to a higher court goes back and forth with Fred Beale #rom north to south end speaking at the hall and then at Saulnier’s lot. Amn Craton of the Workers’ Interna- ffonal Relief visits relief stations and Hotdsthesfort at headquarters. But the lines for relief grow longer as the strike enters its third month As Textile Council funds run low, the citizens’ relief committee cuts relief by 20 per cent and the loom fixers tinue relief payments at all, come over to the T. M. C. relief stations. Portuguese strikers who are also fishermen, stand ready to go out for fish if only money can be sent for schooners. To hire two schooners for a trip takes $14. The last trip brought in 8,000 pounds of fish, all distributed in two days. David Jones, young Welsh fellow worker, was arrested recently and fined $35 in court. He has been driv- ing out into the country, for milk, given by farmers for strikers’ chil- dren. To take his place while he was in jail, three other strikers volunteer- ed to drive out for milk. This relief work for foreign-born unorganized workers does not dupli- cate anything done by other relief agencies. If workers all over the country could watch those lines of strikers file into relief stations, they would soon see that empty shelves were refilled with groceries and. pro- visions. Workers’ International Re- lief, 12 Rodney French Blvd., New Bedford, Mass., is in charge of these stations. longest picket) ik N site| bo! PLAN AUERBACH PROTEST MEET Seott Nearing, Ousted in 1915, to Speak PHILADELPHIA, . June 6, — The Young Workers (Communist) League of Philadelphia has arranged a meet- ing to be held at Grand Fraternity Hall here tomorrow at 8 p. m. for the purpose of protesting against the re- cent dismissal from the Pennsylvania of Sol Auerbach, 21- year-old instructor in philosophy, for having spoken publicly in favor of the recognition of the Soviet Union, Among those who will address the meeting will be Auerbach; Scott Nearing, former professor of econom- ‘es at the same university, who was #xpelled in 1915 for his radical activi- ‘ties and teachings; Bertram D. Wolfe, vector of the New York Workers School and a member of the Central Txecutive Committee of the Workers (Coramunist) Party of America, and larence Miller, district organizer ot the Young Workers (Communist) League of hel 7 Children Killed SPRINGFIELD, 11 fi., June 6,— Seven children, six of them members of one family, were killed at Auburn, twelve miles south of here, last night when their automobile was struck by a northbound Illinois Traction System Interurban train enroute from St. Louis to Springfield. erday were As the long line of pick-| iversity of} WwW ell- ‘Known shoreline Where Rum Flows Free | | Bae tions of liquor graft in New York of the new “rum row.” ‘om five to eight thousand ca: ogy ses of rum are landed weekly at the Chelsea piers in the North River alone, according to the latest revela- harbor. The picture shows a section what the conditions are in the lower recesses of the boasted Dollar Line ships. Much of heavy or dirty work for |the Dollar Line profits is done by }men already beaten down to a starva- tion level in the colonial or semi- Chinese workers in the fireroom of the named after the late crusading so- called “spokesman of oppressed peo- ples,” are paid 12 cents a month, the report to a senate committee. FARM CAMPAIGN GOES REPUBLICAN Coolidge Waits (Conttnued from Page One) given the Hoover crowd supposed vic- tories in 35 out of the 37 contests over the seating’ of southern dele- gates, all. anxious for lucrative pa- tronage control. In one instance seven Hoover campaign managers with proxies voted as national com- mittee members. One of these was general under Harry M. Daugherty. to have paid Perry W. Howard, Mis- sissippi Negro politician and Wash- ington job-holder, $2,000 mm cash and $200 a week to line up Hoover votes, Holland sat through the committee sessions with Howard’s proxy. Hoover’s campaign has appeared more extravagantly financed and better organized in the machine |sense than the campaign of Frank O. Lowden. Hoover has controlled the national committee at times against the opposition of its chairman, Will- iam M. Butler. But Andrew W. Mel- lon, secretary of the treasury and boss of the republican industrialist group, has not arrived on the scene jand has remained non-committal, as has Butler himself on main issues. The “ ‘drafting” of Coolidge is still ja possibility, in case Mellon, Butler {and others believe it is advisable, Gen. John Pershing also has been summoned from Paris for political reasons, probably on the grounds that he could swing many hoodlum jingo |votes that might be wavering. The lopen shop interests of the United | States would even like to have such a fascist for president, though it is only Pershing’s uniform that distinguishes him in this respect from Hoover, Lowden and Coolidge. HUGE PROFITS FOR U.S. POWER TRUST WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.— The gross earnings of public utility trusts during the month of April, ex- clusive of telephone and telegraph companies, were $184,000,000, aecord- ing to statisties of the Department of Commerce, gathered from reports of 95 companies or systems operating gas, electric light, heat, power, trac- tion and water companies. This is an increase ,of more than $7,000,000 over the gross earnings for April, 1927, which were $176,467,300, The gross earnings in March of this year vrare $189,990,494, White Collars Jobless When Hornblower & Weeks, stock exchange*traders, advertised for cleri- cal help, 400 “white collar” men ap- plied But “only 10 were hired. U. S. Sharpes Corp., investment trust or- ganizers, advertised for securities salesmen. Two hundred applied; 15 were: hired: colonial countries of the far east. | Dollar Liner President Wilson, | vessel’s articles show, according to a| | woiccahtininrs | Pershing Called Home;| Rush L. Holland, assistant attorney | He was recently shown in the senate | ‘: WORKERS SLAVE FOR — 12 CENTS A MONTH WASHINGTON, June Gee wo secec who see the captain in his immaculate | military-looking uniform on the bridge or who see the expensively dressed vacationists on dec§: or who see the bank account of the ownership ate SEE BUTLER HAND Coolidge Man Vicious Labor Baiter (Continued from page one) and wag instructed to turn it over to the office of the Department of Justice at the post office and to give the department officials the files. I think they took a copy of all names and addresses, Butler told me his intention was to arrest and deport all of the radicals that we had anything on in New Bedford. ee Re Q WERE you in New Bedford at »* the time of the raid on the I. W. W. headquarters? A. You mean by the Sherman men? Yes. Q. What prompted the raid? A. The thought in the minds of the mill men that the I. W. W. was get- ting too strong and they simply wanted to put them out of business. Q. With whom did you make plans for conducting the raid? A. It was talked over with Dexter of the Beacon Mills and Kerwin, an- other mill owner. Q. Was the raid actually made by the police? A. No, no. It was a midnight visit, breaking and en- tering practically, surreptitiously done. There was only one man who did it. He was a New York opera- tor. His story to me was that he had bought a knife and cut out a space in the latch sufficiently large enough to insert his hand and turn | the catch to let him in. He then said he built a large bonfire in the middle of the floor of the books and had cut the pool tables and broken everything he could lay his hands on. He had broken the frame which held the I. W. W. charter and taken the charter away. He destroyed all the office records. * * Te? story was afterwards changed so that the public were led to be- lieve that the break was made by the American Legion men, who were incensed with the idea of the I. W. W. men being in New Bedford. The same thing happened in another city and it was to let them think the same thing happened over again. Q. In determining policies and the amount of expenditures and methods to be pursued, was Butler the directing genius of this work? A. So much that the last year, 1921, I got orders to cut my force down, so that the total cost to the manufacurers would be less than $50,000 for that year. I personally conferred with Butler at that time and showed him how it could be done by eliminating certain opera- tives who were not holding exec- utive positions.' I cut it down and he was patietied. * * EDITOR'S. NOTE—This is the second of a series on strikebreaking activities of William Butler, head of the Republican National Committee and personal adviser to Calvin Gool- idge, in previous New Bedford strikes. The next story will tell of Butler’s control of police and city administration. $325,000,000 Contracts In Flood Control Bill KANSAS CITY, June 6.—The flood control bill signed by President Cool- idge will mean the distribution of on the Mississippi River. This is one reason why many Mississippi Valley lican national convention here with great interest with a view to “invest-| N. ing” in the campaign of the most likely candidate. a IN MILL ARRESTS more than $325,000,000 in contracts] y, contractors are watching the repub-|N. MINERS LEAVE HALL EMPTY AT Lewis Machine (By a Worker Correspondent) LANSING, Woll and Lee Hall were announced and although the secretary of the lo- | of the local was present to hear these \two men, The miners were waiting | especially for Woll, for they know his y and methods, and were deter- rnined to make it hot for him, | Neither Woll nor Lee Hall, the dent of the district, showed up. their place came an international board member and all the sheriffs and deputy sheriffs in the county. It was ja great sight, but one to which the miners have got used. Del Guzzo, in- ternational organizer, took the plat- form and announced that he was go- |ing to be chairman of the meeting, that speeches would be made, but that no questions would be asked or an- swered. Bob Sivert, newly elected sub-dis- trict board member, immediately rose to ask a question. Hardly did he get a word out of hiss mouth before a deputy sheriff seized him and pushed him down into his seat, but not before he had torn his shirt to pieces. “Sit down and stay there and keep your mouth shut,” was the command of the-deputy..” “Like hell, I will,” said Bob. going’ to get out of here.” He. rose-and went out, followed by almost the entire body of men, About 40 men» remained, made up of reac- tionary- suckers, rats, ete., gathered from-all over the sub-district. Thus again-we see the function of the international officials of the Lewis machine, Sheriffs, marshals. national guard and Lewis. machine: what is the difference between them? None—and the rank and file will con- tinue to learn from these gentlemen. The same thing happened a few days ago at Robyville to which depu- ties also came. “We hold our meetings only with members of the United Mine Workers present,” said one of the men. “What the hell are the sheriffs doing here? Come on, boys, let’s go!” Everybody left and the old reactionary sub-dis- trict board members were left high and dry, and without an audience. The same thing happened in rot canwood. Sheriffs, reactionary officials, te stool-pigeons, strikebreakers — they are all there for the same purpose— to break up the organization. —WARE. NEED MORE FUNDS TO SAVE ‘DAILY’ Workers Must Increase Cor’ ibutions “Pm from page one) May Amper, Brong, ap (Contine: C Ts ; tnit 80 18; elfare League, iroup from Steinberg i $2; Mitz- 2. $1: J. Rabinow Morris Rosenberg, N. Le €, $1; John ‘Olah, Mh Ohio, D'Andreas, N. Hic ksville, 5 Hicksville, L. 1. *R: rie. be I,, $2; H Parson 33 Ka. “Hirse 5 Harington, (a gE ie aii “Unit LF, lL. Anglidmo, No YS $2; A. vidson, ;_E. P. tterson, Pilguist, Hicks- Hicksville, Detroit, N, YY. ¢, ‘5; S. Bray. Brook- $2; H. EB, McAdams, Dresden, Chas,"Bonsall, Sale Ohio, i. City, $ Con- NN... Ye John Local 22, I. L. i : H. Berngon, gered Bougiacs Bos: orker, N. ¥. C, Bronx, N, ° ton,-Mass., “Sh; An W. Jack Feurer, N.Y. C., Buehne {Collection}, 'N Rae Proletarische . S., $16; Joe Andolaro, N. i $5; KK, Pilleris, Cen- triville, N. J. 410; Geo, Tolly, collected, Pittsburgh, Pa., $9. 60; Jack Samek, N. Y.-C. $2; Ay Sparn, Wilmington, Del., $5;.Peter Fireman, Trenton, N, an $2; John Anastasio, Port Chester, N. $1; J, Savim, Chester, Pa., $2; 8S. tana: field, N. i Max Rozenberg, Bklyn, N. j Mstella Tarkoff, Bol- der, Colo, $1; Moses Bragin, Bklyn, N. Re "$2; Carlo'Lucearelli. (collected), N. $7; John Allen, N. Y. C., $1; H. Ep 1s ein, Hartford, Conn., $5; Bmily M Rosenstéin, Bklyn, N, %) $10; in 15 Begun, N, Y. $5; Theo, akg an $2; Maurice 1 Heller, Pe Phil Softer, N.Y. Gy #1; Samuel Moses, ected), Chest oye $850; 308 Teenes, ecte naar, Fa i rner, YG, $10; G. Ambrosio, N.Y, ae Miss B. tai a Evanston, Til. Bei «dar N, ¥., $1; Julius Boon, $1; I. H. Bay, Pittsburgh, Pa., &. 50; Shien, “Kirchman, Philadelphia, ai Frank Ginsberg, Boston, neha 3. WOLL MEETING: | Sheriffs On Hand to Aid | (By Mail).—Matthew |; to speak at this place on Saturday, | cal was not notified, the membership | § ‘land is announced for August 27 at| y, |a draft of the program of the coming $5. Sidney Diamond, | oustralians Succeed i in Imperialist Flight The upper pic~ ture shows the) sein Taste plane, Sout Cross, con, Hl longest airplane| flight in history across the Paci- fie from Hawaii to the Fiji Is- is piloted by Kingsford- Smith and three companions, all Australian army | officers. Cap- tain Kingsford- Smith is shown in the lower pic- ture. 0 productions scheduled for the com- ing season is definitely set. This will} be a new opus by Ard Morchouse, titled “The Gentlemen of the Press,” Henry Miller’s Theatre. The play will} have its try-out at Long Branch on| August 13, and will then play at As- bury Park and Atlantie City before} its New York premiere. The cast in-| cludes John Cromwell, Hugh O’Con-| nell, Harold Walbridge, Carlotta Ir- win, Helen Flint and Russell Crome. “The Domino Parlor,” a new play by Lynn Riggs, will be presented by ‘Lee Shubert in Newark on June 18 with a New York engagement in September. Irene Fenwick is fea- tured, and others in the cast include: Warren Williams, Alan Goods, John Brawn, Edith Arnold, Zelma Tiden, Marius Rogati and Pacie Ripple. Schwab and Mandel have arranged to keep their “Good News” company now current at Channin’s 46th Street Theatre intact for the balance of the New York run. Gus Shy, Inez Court- ney, John Sheehan, John Price Jones, Zelma O’Neal, Dom Tomkins and Ruth Mayon are the principals in the production. Although Agnes Morgan is re- sponsible generally for the book of portant sketches in the edition which opened recently at the Booth Theatre were contributed by members of the cast. Mare Loebell wrote the musical comedy burlesque of Coquette and Albert Carroll wrote the Laurette Taylor skit in the manner of Zoe Akins. Confiseat\ 1 ssue Of Czech Communist Paper |; (Specidl to the Daily Worker) PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, June 6 Bia entire issue of the Rudepravo,. organ of the Czechoslovakian Com- sigs Party, was confiscated on June 3rd bythe police because it contained congress of the Communist Interna- tional. ———————— The Vege-Tarry Inn “GRINE KRETCHMB” BEST VEGETARIAN FOOD MODERN IMPROVEMENTS DIRECTIONS: Take ferrics at 23rd St, Christopher St., Parclay St. or Hudson Tubes to Hoboken, Lacka- Berkeley Heights, N, J. BERKELEY HEIGHTS NEW JERSE wanna Railroud to © NE of the first of the new crop of| the “Grand Street Follies,” two im+-}j “Gentlemen of the Press’’ Set For August at Henry Miller’s “STAR OF “DIAMOND LIL” Mae West who is appearing in her own play “Diamond Lil” at the Royale Theatres FISHERMEN EXPLOITED. BOSTON, June 6 (FP).—Miserable working conditions and low wages of Massachusetts Bay fishermen have een brought to the attention of thc state commission of the necessaries of life. Fishermen get less than $900 2 year, despite the hazards of their work. just made the\ \ lands. The plane | Captain Charles | (JAPANESE PORTS PARALYZED WHILE SEAMEN STRIKE Thousands Ou Out; Harbor Workers May Follow TOKYO, June 6.—Thousands of seamen are out on strike today and hundreds of ships, are idle in all Japanese ports as the result of the general seamen’s strike which has virtually paralyzed shipping in the Islands. Qsaka, Nagasaki and Yokohoma are the centers of the strike. In these three ports alone thousands of men | walked out and the huge international | shipping is unable to take on or dis- charge. cargoes. | Rapid mobilization of police effec- tives by the government has. inter- fered with picketing, and demonstra- tions of the seamen are being pro- hibited in many places, but the lead- ers of the strike declare that picket- ing along the waterfronts will be be- } gun. shortly. Belief that the harbor workers who receive wretched wages and work long hours, may follow the seamen out in a sympathetic strike gained ground yesterday with the growing unrest i among all classes of stevedores on the | Osaka and Yokohama docks. _ Further spread of the strike to |Japanese controlled ports on the | Asiatic mainland is also considered | probable within the next few days. | Seamen in Dairen, Port Arthur, Tsing |'Tao and Formosan harbors are be~ ing called upon to join the walkout in the islands. Reading, Impeached, Resigns From Office BOSTON, June 6.—Following his impeachment, yesterday by the state house of representatives, Attorney- General Arthur K. Reading resigned today. Reading, notorious as one of the officials responsible for the legal murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, was proved to have accepted a $25,000 fee from the Decimo Club, at the same time that the club was under inves- tigation in several states. Reading’s resignation may not be accepted, and he may have to stand an impeachment trial in the senate: THE RUSSIAN Petersburg’ is easily the most vizo finest."—Quinn Martin, The World. Music by Herbert Stothart—Rus Nights 8:40; 50c to $1.50. Mats. | BOOTH YOTH Thea, w. 45 § . 8:80 x Mats. Wed. & 'THE GRAND ST. FOLLIES OF 1928 CHANIN'S 46 W. of Broadway th St. Evenings at 8:25 Mats, Wed. & Sat. SCHWAB and MANDEL’'S MUSICAL SMASH OOD NEW with GEO, OLSE. and HIS MUSIC LUN The Heart of Cones Talkin PARK beer of Str tr dl egy Garden 2ys. 8:30. 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