The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 8, 1928, Page 1

\ 4 hide ug iad in, graft, attorneys ~ McGee, on tri: the Bronx for forg- H “ not difficult to prove. 14E DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FCR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK | FOR A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 189. FINAL CITY { |____ EDITION _—i{ Vol. V. No. 135. Published daily except Sunday by The Nationa: Dally Worker Publishing Aseeciation, Imc., 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $5.00 per yenr. Outside New York, by mat, 96.00 per year. Price 3 Cents (GREEN CALLS OFF NATION-WIDE PULLMAN STRIKE hea) Now Ready for New Y York Nominating Convention of of Workers Party “DELEGATES FROM NEED MORE FUNDS TO SAVE DAILY WORKER iS ONE MORE ENTIRE STATE 10 CHOOSE NOMINEES Communists of District 2Meet Sunday | Comrades: All plans for the New York State nominating convention of District 2 of the Workers (Communist) ‘Party have been completed, it was announce: yesterday. Delegates from the principal cities and sections of the whole state will be present, it is stated, when the convention opens Sunday morning at: the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square. According to the latest plan, the candidates who are-to be nominated will make their first public appear- ance .after the convention at a big Red Fienic which has been arranged for Sunday, June 24, at Pleasant | Bay. The Picnic is expected to be} the largest mass affair yet held in| the city. Labor organizations, frat-| ernal bodies, ahd clubs throughout} the city will mobolize their members| and sympathizers for the event. LAWYERS CHARGE HIGHER-UP GR AFT. Also Show Prosecutors Are In With Gang Charging that an attempt is being | made by Tammany Hall officials to | day, June 9. Poisoned on Radium Job ery and grand larceny in the street cleaning scandals, yesterday showed that subordinate éfficials were being made the “goats” for superior offi- | eers in various Tammany depart- ments. Without attempting unduly to prove the innocence of their clients, attor- | ney Samuel Goldstein and Charles B. McLaughlin, summing up for the de- | fense, deliberately charged that those | at the head of the finance and other The United States Radium Cor- poration recently hustled out of court suits of five New Jersey young wo- | men who are slowly dying of radium poisoning contracted on the job. Fearing exposure of the deadly con- pe eae were’ involved in. ‘the ditions existing in their plants, the Ls ‘Attofne: Goldstein ay eae corporation settled with the young deel Miner: naming UP | workers. Mrs. Marian C. Valese (above) has just discovered infection in her gums and doctors corroborate her claim that it resulted from her six months’ work in the radium fac- tory. She is planning immediate suit. RIGHT WING MEET your information, I, will tell you that the assistant district attor- neys proseguting this case, Mr. Ryan and Mr. Bonaparth are ambitious to become ‘judges. In this case some- body is being protected.” » Judges, according’ to the common practice both within the democratic and republican organizations are forced to pay between ten and twen- ty-five thousand dollars for the priv- ilege of being nominated by the ma- chine, It is not believed that the district | attorney will sue Goldstein for libel ; inasmuch as the facts charged are | Atmosphere: 1 Tey Until | “ ” The Tammany graft total in the | Peace Is Mentioned. heen estimated nt at $200 00, ie iy | _After many feverish days of mob- managed to hold a mass meeting AT TAILOR Mer in Manhattan pera | Schlesinger gang in control of the In- | ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ _ Union, with the aid of all the right |wing forces in the Jewish unions here, |House, which they claim was ‘com- posed’ of cloak and dressmakers, Nineteen months after the’ expul- }sion of the militant leadership of the New York, Joint Board from the In- ternational, during which time the inewspaper organs of the right wing have again and again declared that thé left wing Joint Board is dead and buried, and that not a single Gom- munist is left alive in the trade, the union wreckers dared to call their first. meeting (according -to. their own admission), Details of Meeting. The following area few facts on how the Sigman clique carried thru a meeting in a theatre with a maxi- mum capacity of 3,500 when the trade contains at least 60,000 workers. The meeting was called for 4 p.. m.. By 1 o'clock in the afternoon the front rows of the theatre were filled with 600 right wing followers from }+ the various nee under right wing Happy Family. \ s Local 2 of the Amalga- pthing Workers’ Union, } hold a membership meet- e night, announced that For ‘the first time in his careex, | Sydney Hillmany president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, was! compelled to face a meeting of the membership which jeered and booed , while he was on the platform. This took place a ta meeting of the Oper- ‘ators’ Local 5, held Wednesday eve- ‘ning in Beethoven all, 2nd St, and interesting event took place at this meeting, This was the sight of an administration of a local, who, bought by the promise of jobs, gave up their former opposition to piece work and helped the vain at- tempt of the Hillma ckerman et Continued on Page Three) ‘Daily Worker Agents. Will Meet Today A special meeting of all unit and section DAILY WORKHR agents willbe held today at 7 p. m. at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square. All DAILY |} WORKER agents must be pres- jent. A roll call will be taken. Very important matters will be| |, 4 eth Ml ai ile ae y Yesterday we told‘you that the hope of keeping |our revolutionary daily paper alive depends abso- lutely upon our receiving a total of $10,000 before Saturday, June 16, and that at least $5,000 of this 4 must be had not later than TOMORROW—Satur- We said that the rate at which the money was coming in would have to be doubled. It has been in- creased, but it has not been doubled. danger of falling short by about $1,800 of the mini- mum amount required tomorrow. REPUBLICAN GANG’ TO HOLD SWAY AT | | IS FAMILY AFFAIR Tomorrow will be the last day for-meeting ine: first: obligations amounting to $5,000. many friends and comrades have loyally come for- ward with contributions, there is a dangerous gap * between the amount we have received and the $5,000 which we must have tomorrow at noon. compelled to let you know that with all! the fine re- sponse that many comrades have made, the con- tributions do not yet sufficiently guarantee the pass- ing of this first danger point. special effort to get every possible dollar into this office—quickly—before 12 o'clock Saturday, We are in morrow? G.0.P, CONVENTION “Grand Oil Party” 1s Ready for Spoils (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) KANSAS CITY, June 7.—While scores of labor officials in the indus- trial centers of the United States were planning to turn over as many labor votes as possible to the repub- licans in return for money or favor, Andrew. T. Mellon, William M. But- ler, Herbert Hoover and President i sinister today as the big four for the G. O. P.—the “Grand Oil Para) ty.” These four men are doing most of the large-scale practical work of or- ganizing for the convention so as to guarantee control over nominations and the republican platform to the open shop, industrial and financial in- terests which now dominate the gov- ; ernment and its foreign and domestic policies, Butler, industrial and poli- tical boss of Massachusetts, friend of |} Coolidge and immediate enemy of the | (Continued on Page Two) MILL PICKET = LEADERS JAILED Police Trying to Hait Fall River Meeting NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 7.— Another sentence of thirty days in jail has been imposed upon Alfred ilization and preparation, the Sigman- | Texeria, a picket leader of the Tex- | tile Mills Committee, for “disturbing jthe peace” by calling “scab.” Joseph | Darosa, a stri iker arrested at the same! |time, was” fined $20 on a similar| |charge by Judge Milliken. Both! workers were picketing the Hathaway, Mills where a handful of straw bosses are attempting to put out a sample) order, | As week by week goes by without) the slightest sign of a break in the ranks of the 28,000 textile workers on strike here—becoming more solidified, on the contrary, by the Textile Mills Committee work in conducting picket lines,—the city government becomes more vicious in its attempt to crush the influence of the T, M. C. * * * Bar Weisbord Meet, FALL RIVER, Mass., June 7.—The police authorities here have attested to the rapid strides being made by (Continued on Page Two) WE WAS sick and hadn’t-been * working for some time. Even when he did work, the wages he got were hardly enough to keep him from starving. The mills at Fall River, Mass., where he lived, give their slaves only what they must to keep them alive. A copy of The DAILY WORKER stared him in the face. Quick help was needed. The “Daily” was on | the verge of suspension. Unless $5,000 was raised by the workers ‘of the country by Satu pene Coolidge loomed more conspicuous |. | tering the city. § * You must make it possible for us to meet the Can you net make a Although sympathizer to rus! special delivery. We are New York. Again we assu to: can do it if you wi Address DAILY WORKER, 33 ultimatum of creditors.\ Because of the urgency of the need we request every comrade, friend and h funds by telegraph, airmail or First Street, ure you that we will make any sacrifice to keep our revolutionary paper, the only daily Communist paper in the English language in| ;, the whole world, from going out of existence. We ill help us. But you, comrades, must do your part as never before. —THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Three peared - Naval rover ponies Epics i in Brooklyn Navy Yard day wrecked a for-| ty-foot power boat belonging to the commandant of the Brooklyn Navy ers were injured as the result. The feverish haste with which the United States is building up its imperialist forces results in| frequent accidents | Above, craft after being pulled ashore. TROOPS RISING More Forces Landed By Japanese SHANGHAI, June 7.—Reports of outbreaks of thousands of soldiers in Shantung and the evacuated parts of Chihli province are giving rise to the belief that the forces of the Kuo- ‘mintang \generals may not be able to retain the territory which its success against the northern war-lord has opened to its armies. Differences are alSo arising among the Kuomintang generals. Four thousand soldiers are report- ed to haye taken affairs into their own hands in one section of Shantung alone and are occupying the villages. Disturbances in which smaller forces are involved are reported from vari- ous sections of the former northern) territory. * * * More Japanese Troops. SHANGHAI, June 7—Several hun- dred more Japanese troops are re- ported to have landed in Shantung, prepared to back up whatever action their government may take in’ the present situation. The Japanese forces have been-mo-} bilized for a sudden advance. “A total of $576.60 was contributed yesterday to save The DAILY WORKER from suspending publica- tion. This brings the total received thus far to $1,759.43. While yester- day’s contributions were the highest that have been received for any single day, they were far below the rate at which they should have come in in order to raise the $5,000 ‘that is needed by tomorrow. More than $8,000 must be raised beforé tomorrow evening to keep The DAILY WORKER from going under. Workers, redouble your efforts! Make every possible personal sacri- fice; solicit your friends, shopmates, organizations, trade unions! Save The DAILY WORKER! Contributions were as follows: Sec. received yesterday 5 (collection), 3 Lewis Fisher, BANQUET TODAY : WORKERS MUST SPEED = DS_TQ SAVE.DALLY? "yi: (COMMUNISTS IN ELECTION FIGHTS: Many States ‘Begin An Active Campaign Active preparations for the launch- ing of the Workers (Communist) Party election campaign are now tak- ing place in a score of states through- out the country according to inform- ation released yesterday at the na- tional headquarters of the Party. In addition field organizers from the national headquarters will be sent out into. a number of states where} + | special work is necessary. Ella Reeve Bloor, veteran cam- paigner and Party worker, center of a hundred struggles in behalf of the! workers of the country, will be sent} out on a national tour very shortly, it is understood. “Mother” Bloor is a charter (Communist) Party. Field organizers will be sent into| | Maine and New Hampshire and one | to Montana. In Milwaukee the Wis-| ionsin campaign will be arsed e) ill give al vee send off to Socrates Sandino, brother |!#unched with a large labor. picnic. SHANGHAI, June 7. — Reports|of the Nicaraguan rebel leader at a| siecheed tke mig is aren ri sks from Peking state that the advance|banquet to be held tonight at the |Tesentative of the national campai | guard of the Nanking armies are en- * * SHANGHAT, June 7.—Several per- sons were killed and extensive dam-| age done to Japanese factories an other structures at Tsinanfu when an arsenal blew up yesterday. Advices, telling of the explosion did not state the cause. The arsenal was located behind the éommercial area.’ Tsinanfu is capital of Shan- tung province. Dr. C. T. Wang has been appointed foreign minister in the Nanking re- gime. career rere ee a a aa t_(Contimued on Fuge. Three) SENDS LAST $2 TO SAVE DAILY WORKER Workers Rally to Paper Despite Unemployment and F and Poverty woud “he WORKER. There was $2 in his pocket—the only money he had. But The DAILY WORKER must be saved. He sat down, wrote a letter and en- closed the $2. The letter he wrote was as follows: “Dear Comrades: “I'm enclosing you $2 to help sup- port The DAILY WORKER in its crisis. These $2 are the only money I have. I only get small w: i but now I don’t work becaugé I’m < no more DAILY i |Palace D’Orient Restaurant, 108 Lex- jington Ave., near 28th St. Sandino | jwill soon leave for a tour of Europe under the auspices of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League. The banquet ill be given under the auspices of the All-America _Anti-Imperialist League. Sandino will leave soon for a tour of Europe, where he will tell the workers of the heroic struggles of the Nicaraguan workers and pea- sants for the freedom of their coun- try. Among the speakers there will be Robert Minor, editomof The DAILY (Continued on Page Three) sick. But I won't forget The DAILY WORKER. If every work- er would do the same, our paper would be the strongest revolutionary paper of the world.” The name ‘of the worker who gave his last $2 to save The DAILY WORKER is F, A. Graca His letter is typical of many gthers that The DAILY WORKER has received dur- ing the past few days from work- ers who are making extraordinary sacrifices to save the only news- (Continued on Page Twa) , 7 Tae Wer of Senator Stanley Clark } lot. |committee will be present from Chi-| cago. A hot preliminary battle is now taking place in Oklahoma under ,the where the fight centers around the} -'out plan of class-collaboration if not ask of getting the Party on the bal The close division of forces be- tween the republican and democratic machines in this state makes both old| groups particularly opposed to the en- trance of a working class political) party in ee spe 2 race. LEWIS GANG MAY AID CAPPELINI 7.—The INDIANAPOLIS, June special convention recently held by | ¢———— members of District No. 1 of the United Mine Workers at Scranton, Pa., which ousted the Cappelini dis- trict officers, was illegal and its ac- tions and charges therefore have no standing, John L. Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers of America decided here this after- noon. ’ These officers, headed by District President Rinaldo Cappelini came here to lay their “cases” before Lewis. After conferring with the ousted district officers Lewis this af- ternoon issued the following state- ment: A blast yester-| ie Yard. Three work-| - member of the Workers} Le TO LONG LIST OF. estimate C Cmebutions W; Will Be $1, 800 800 Short of Minimum Needed Tinorvon LABOR BETRAYALS To All Friends of The DAILY WORKER. Porters’ Officials Share In Sell-Out The strike of the 12,000 Pullman port nd maids scheduled to take on today has been called the request of William dent of the American n of Labor, according to an- nouncement of A. Philip Randolph, general organizer of the porters’ or- ganization. off th Green, p | Randolph today made publica copy of a telegram which he said he yes- terday received from Green request- ing the “postponement of strike ac- |tion and the substitution therefore of campaign of public education and enlightment.” Branded in some quarters as a long prepared for sell-out by the officials of the porters’ organization, in con- junction with the A. F. of L, labor officials, the present move postpon- ing the strike was declared to be not unexpected. Even the wording of the telegram, it is understood, was pre- pared in New York by the local of- ficers and was either transmitted to Green or was never sent by him at all. Rank and file pressure had forced the decision to call the walk-oug. which has been delayed on several ogcasions. | By a vote of approximately 5,750 to 25 the porters and maids authorized their executive board-to call the strike. ,The order for the walkout was sent to all of the locals of the ion this week. Hold Union Meetings. union meetings held in every important railroad center in the country heard the results of the | strike vote and vowed fight to the end in their struggle against the Pullman |kings. Years of merciless exploitation have laid the basis for what is ex- pected to be a militant fight on the part of the strikers. Fight on Union. Recognition of the union is the }fundamental demand of the workers. |They also seek a minimum wage of |$150 a month, the elimination of the | Workers’ dependence on tips, the eight-hour day and the 240-hour month. “We are being pushed into the strike by the pressure of the rank and file,” said Milton Webster, west- jern organizer, on the eve of the strike. “Naturally the brotherhood | would prefer to achieve its aims with- out a strike but the members are |tired of waiting and tired of fruit- | less diplomacy. Strike sentiment is | particularly strong in Chicago, Oak- }land, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle.” BUILDING BOSSES JOIN FOR BATTLE ment ; penton that tions of Man- The annou | the boss builder hattan and of 's County had amal- gimated following within a day of \the news of the merger of the two existing union building trades coune/ils is seen here as part of a well-worked union-busting between the bosses and the builtiing trades unions. The merging of the labor couneils | brought under one head the old Brine dell council not recognized by the | American Federation of Labor but the |enly one which has actually fune- tioned, and the paper federation body. The Associated Builders of Kings | County made final arrangements yes- terday with the New York Building Trades Employers Association for the consolidation of these powerful em- | ployers’ groups. In some quarters an open-shop drive is thought to be con- templated. Ask Return of All _ “Red” Center. Lists There are still a number of Workers Center collection lists! that have not yet been Feturned. | | All those still having lists in their | possession must turn them in at |once, together ‘with all contriu-} |tions and pledges still outstanding, {to the Workers Center, 26-28) Union Square, es W. W. WEINSTONE, aan Workers Center.