The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 9, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FCR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 136. T Published daily except Sunday by The Nationa: Daily Ww. Publishing Association, Inc. 38 Firat Street, New York, N. ¥. STATE COMMUNIST CONVENTION OPENS TOMORROW HEARST BACKING HOOVER IN G. O. P. SPOILS CAMPAIGN Fomenter of War Keninat Mexican Workers to | Comrades: Give Aid of Sheets to Wall Street Man Hoover, Favorite, Counts on Mellon and Butler, Republican Bosses (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, June 8,—The leading development in pre- convention republican party politics today was the addition of im- portant capitalist newspaper support for the candidacy of Herbert Hoover. The Hearst string of newspapers and the telegraphic service allied with them have been® thrown to Hoover, according to a statement by William Ran- dolph Hearst. Capitalist news- papers throughout the corn and wheat belts moreover have been conducting a campaign of silence against the proposed militant “march” of the wealthier farmers to Kansas City to petition for farm re- lief pledges along the line of the re- cently vetoed McNary-Haugen bill. This boycott of the farm movement constituted indirect support for Hoover, who supported the Coolidge administration’s opposition to special farm relief legislation. Imperialist Policy. Hearst has been given satisfactory | assurances that Hoover, if nominated and elected, would perpetuate the pre- sent administration’s imperialist policy in Mexico, Nicaragua and Chi- na. Hearst’s statement points out sig-| nificantly that Hoover is “perhaps. a more conservative candidate” than his string of papers ordinarily supports. “But,” the statement adds, “the pre- sent situation denlands conservatism.” By conservatism Hearst means com- mitment to the use of police against the American working class and the use of the army, navy and marines; against the working class of colonial/ and semi-colonial countries abroad, | together with the administration of} the legislative, judicial and executive branches of the government unquali- fiedly in the interest of heavy indus-| try and finance. | Hoover is thus far the outstanding | administration candidate for the re- publican nomination as successor to President Coolidge. Andrew T. Mel-| ion, industrial and political boss of | Pennsylvania, and William M. Butler, | boss in a similar sense in Massachu-} setts, with the aid of New York Na- tional Committeeman Charles D. Hil- lis, have seen to it that Coolidge re- mains a possible nominee up to the eve of the convention, without any disadvantage to Hoover should it seem} adviseable to Mellon and the other! administration leaders to put Hoover over. GRAFT CASE IN HANDS OF JURY Sentence of Lougheed, | Stoeber Postponed The case of William J. Oswald, dis- trict superintendent of the Depart- ment of Street Cleaning, and Charles | A. McGee, former assistant general superintendent, on trial in the Bronx for forgery and grand larceny in con- nection with the padding of street cleaning pajrolls, went to the jury at 12.05 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Judge Cohn’s charge to the jury made every effort to leave loopholes thru which the two men could escape. He declared proof of the acceptance of graft by the defendants was not enough to convict them, but it must be proved that they intended to ac- cept it. He also added that the cases of the two men should be considered separately, so that one might escape even if the other were found guilty. Before charging the jury, Judge Cohn again postponed sentence of William J. Lougheed and Benjamin Stoeber, who had pleaded guilty and been the state’s star witnesses in the trial. Tho their testimony had in- volved many high Tammany officials in a graft scandal estimated at $200,- See wat shone a has used Os- wa _McGee as scapegoats to | Fire Traps Three Two adults and a child were caught in a fire-trap tenement at 157 For- sythe St. and seriously injured. The picture shows the child, Rose Napoli, after her rescue by firemen. BAKERY UNIONS IN JOINT MEET | Amalgamation Work Is Spurred A mass meeting of all bakery work- ers in New York of both the Bakers’ |Local 500 of the International Bak- ery Workers’ Union and of the Bak- ery Workers’ branch of the Amalga- |mated Food Workers is to be held to- day in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave. at 3 o’clock. The purpose of the meeting is to end the bitter war being carried on by the officialdom of both unions to ithe detriment of the members and to initiate a drive to organize the thou- sands of bakéry workers of the city. The meeting sabotaged by the of- ficialdom of both unions, has been ‘ealled by the Rank and File Commit- | . j|tee of Bakery Workers for Amalga- This committee was elected mation. by a joint meeting of the membership pot both unions held April 20. Unor- | ganized workers are especially urged Abs come to this meeting. JAPANESE RUSH PLANES T0 CHINA City of Peking PEKING, June 8.—Following the arrival of the advance guard of the Nanking troops in the suburbs of Peking, the landing of a squadron of Japanese airplanes has been ac- complished. The planes effected a landing near the Japanese legation in an impro- vised landing field. Constant communication between the capital and the Japanese forces south of Peking will be maintained by means of these military planes. Another Polar Flight ‘Plans for another South-Polar ex- pedition, the third in preparation, have been announced by Commander to lead an expedition of twent; five men, equipped with two planes into | ilieceutasctic in ‘Seplanter : Bombers Are] Landed i in |Pa Douglas George Jeffrey, who expects telegraph and mail $695 toward paper from closing. we may be short by approxim $1,800 of the amount needed at But the response of the comra are some communications: TELEGRAM country. “We pledge our fullest support. the rest of the Chicago comrades the emergency. die. Party, Chicago.” “The Anthracite workers are rescue of The DAILY WORKER. DAILY WORKER is in a very des workers knowing that the ‘Daily’ every-day struggles against the machine and fakers, have come to the rescue, worker for The DAILY WORKER bers into the Party. DAILY WORKER agent from th setting in. The DAILY WORKER, the miners visit them. The DAILY WORKER of the workers, FUNDS FOR ‘DAILY’ STILL BEHIND GOAL Need More Donations to Save Paper With $695 received yesterday, the campaign to save The DAILY WORK- ER reached its highest point. The total of contributions thus far is $2,- 454.44, which means that more than $2,500 must be raised by this evening if The DAILY WORKER is to sut- vive. Despite the heroic sacrifices of hundreds of workers thruout the coun- try, many of them unemployed or on strike, contributions have been insuf- ficient, the they have increased from day to day. ‘ven greater sacrifices must be made. The DAILY WORKER, the only netvspaper in the English language that fights consistently on the side of the workers, must be saved at any costs. The following contributions were re- jceived yesterday: Ma. Garfinkel, Unity Co-operative Camp, $8; Sol ‘Turner, Unity Co-opera- tive Camp, $10; Jean Pincus, $2; S, Daixel, $2; Mollie Katz, $2.50; Gold- berg, Philadelphia, Pa., $1; Schwartz, Philadelphia, Pa., $1; Reed, Philadel- phia, ‘hee $1; A.-Kipness, Philadelphia, ey ; Kogerman, Philadelphia, Pa., $1; Butien Philadelphia, Pa., $1; Bal- delli, Philadelphia, Pa,, $2; Barrale, (Continued on Page Tuy) To the Readers of The DAILY WORKER. The DAILY WORKER received yesterday by must have in order to keep our revolutionary It still appears as though cording to the ultimatum of creditors. sympathizers is so enthusiastic more than ever to get through the crisis. Chicago. June 8. “We realize the great danger facing our DAILY WORKER and the working class movement of this $80.00 and there is more to follow. The DAILY WORKER shall not Nucleus 31 of the Workers (Communist) Here is another from a comrade at Wilkes- | Barre, Pa.: is exposing and undermining the “Comrade Anna Herbst who is the special field cite, has already gotten over 100 subscriptions for The DAILY WORKER and a number of subs for the language press, and approximately 12 new mem- « One hundred dollars have been wired in by The spite of the period of unemployment which is now The workers are very enthusiastic about to it as fast as Comrade Herbst can get around to that with her in the Anthracite the workers will more and more enthusiastically support The DAILY WORKER. The example and spirit of the Anthra- cite should be duplicated throughout the country by other workers, and The DAILY WORKER will go forward and become a mass paper and the leader \Workers Rally to Save “Daily”, Crisis Menaces Militant Organ With. a spirit of this kind The DAILY WORKER can never die. And one from New York: the amount we ately $1,700 or noon today ac- des, friends and that we hope Here $3.00; Al. We are wiring We hope that will awaken to Comrades, makes the Communist movement win. determined to keep our class paper alive, and we believe that you are going to help us to the limit of your ability. You remember that we told you we must have “COOPERATIVE UNITY CAMP, Inc. _ “Wingdale, N. Y., June 8. “At a meeting of our unit it was decided that each comrade working at the camp donate one day’s wages to The DAILY WORKER. fore find: enclosed herewith check for $112.30 do- nated by the comrades as follows: “Sophie Kniznik, $7.50; John Polleti Karrash, $3.00; Celia Samorodin, $3.00; Albert Altu, $2.80; Albert Ehrlich, Hyman, $6.00; H. Dardick, $5.00; Rebecca Backman, $5.00; B. Collenberg, $5.00; Hyman Botwinick, $9.00; M. Shek, $5.00; Walters, $9.00; M. Garfinkel, Turner, $10.00; Jean Pincus, $2.00; S. Daixel, $2.00; Mollie Katz, $2.50. You will there- $5.00; Frank $10.00; J. Sklar, $2.50; L Dan Horowitz, $7.00; Max Kagan, $8.00; Sol “Fraternally yours, Rebecca Beckman, Secretary.” this is the sort of spirit that We are revolutionary working $5,000 today and a total of $10,000 by next coming to the Seeing that The jperate need, the fights in their Cappelini-Lewis day. in the Anthra- limit. e Anthracite in are subscribing can rest assured if possible. York. Saturday, June 16. Although we have not by any means received the necessary minimum of funds necessary today, we hope for an unusually large amount in this morning’s telegrams and mail, as the contributions are increasing every We are reducing expenses to the extreme You will observe that we are printing only four pages this Saturday, instead of the) usual eight pages for the Saturday issue. is the best we can do this time, but with your] This | it to its normal size. Meanwhile the danger is so extremely great | —— that we request you not to delay any contribu- tion that can be gotten to us today, before noon | Send by telegraph, airmail or special delivery | to The DAILY WORKER, 383 First St., New —THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Class Struggle Is Mere Tiff, Avers Hillman AN FRANCISCO, June 8.—‘Amer- ica’s leading labor statesman,” as the capitalist press hails Sydney Hill- man, president ‘of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, has again announeed the “partnership of capital end labor” in a speech here. He was the chief speaker at a Pacific Social Workers’ Conference. “Our present industrial system has been the greatest contributor to wealth and prosperity in history,” says Hillman by way of acknowledge- ment that the exploitation of the needle trades workers doesn’t pinch him very much, personally. Hillman says, however, that ~the quarrel of labor is with the distribu- tion of the “prosperity.” Fearing that this might be taken too serious- ly Hillman then dismissed the class struggle by saying, “I’d rather be a party to a quarrel about distribu- tion than about a situation where there is nothing to distribute.” BOSTON BARBERS STRIKE. BOSTON, (FP) June 8.—One thou- sand barbers, members of an inde- pendent union, are striking against a $4 cut which would bring their wage to $21, and extension of hours from 56 to 59 a week. 800 shops are NEEDLE TRADES AFFAIR TODAY Workers to o Aid Defense of Militants The National 0 Gegantention Com- | mittee of the needle trades has called on progressive workers of all trades in New York to attend the all day carniva It obe held today in Starlight | Park, 177th St. and Tremont Ave.,| under the auspices of the Joint De-! fense and Relief Committee of the Cloakmakers and Furriers. The call was embodied in a special | statement. It asks that the big af- fair be regarded by the workers not only as one of the most enjoyable | jaffairs of the year, but more impor-) tant than this, a demonstration of solidarity of the militant workers} with the work being carried on by the} Defense Committee. The N. 0. C., which was organized in Boston to re- build the cloakmakers’ union, declares as follows: * Aided Victims. “During the 18 months of the struggle of the needle trades work- | ers against their betrayers, the Joint Defense Committee helped the vic- tims of the fight. It workers and their families who were} (Continued on Page Three) Ford, Pioneer i in Paternalism, ‘Has Armed His Social V Workers! By ROBERT W,. DUNN. (Federated Press). ETROIT, June 8.—Anti-union ¢ welfare devices are being used in a large number of automobile _ plants throughout the country. General Motors Corp. has a va- riety of devices. Workers and para- sitic stockholders and Wall Street gamblers are conceived as_ but “brothers” and “partners.” In the Buick plant at Flint, Mich., the company employes’ organ, The * Buick News, carries scores of items | about departmental welfare com- mittees, feather parties, 20-year service emblems for worn-out workers, bowling leagues, bands, dances, family parties, picnics, horseshoe pitching tournaments. In addition the company maintains the regulation G. M. C. group in- surance plans, savings devices and employe stock ownership. It makes the way easier for tlhe company to cut wages and accelerate speed-up. * * * ROUP insurance is nominally voluntary in G. M. C, plants, but ¥ workers in Fisher Body plants, for example, have declared that “we had no choice about accepting the insurance. . .The foremen were instructed to get 100 per cent re- sults, and being anxious to hold their jobs, they told us frankly that we either had to take the insurance or lose the job.” Studebaker also forces employes to take out insurance and urges them to belong to the athletic asso- ciation. Payments are forfeited “in supported | |begin a new aggressive JOINT DEFENSE CARNIVAL AT STARLIGHT PARK TODAY E DAILY WORKER. Eatered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y. under the act of March 3, 1979. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. cy 7 | | | wINAL city | AL CITY | . EDITION | Price 3 Cents DELEGATES FROM ALL SECTIONS TO BE REPRESENTED | Complete Workers Party “Ticket To Be Chosen | At First State Nominating Meet ‘Mobilize Working Class Forces For Struggle in ; Election Campaign The eyes of militant labor i ithe State Nominating Conventic — to be held | tomor row 10 A. | Victim of Imperialists Photo of Bela Kun (above) taken |during the days of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Kun was arrested in| «comradely help we are. determined to not only | Vienna.and. thrown into jails Only the save The DAILY WORKER but soon to restore | world-wide protest of the interna- Pea working class can save him | from the imperialists. NEGRO PORTERS FIGHT SELL OUT REIS 9s our Into) Headquarters Scores of telegrams, it was learned, were yesterday sent into the head-| quarters of the Brotherhood of Sleep- ing Car Porters, the Negro Pullman {Porters Union, at 2811 Seventh Ave. | protesting bitterly and in some cases} denouncing the betrayal of the porters} | through the calling off of the nation-| |wide strike qeheduled to take place} }yesterday at noon. | The letters came in from practically {all large centers of the country in which local unions of the porters are |found. In most cases these demanded| a reversal of the order calling off the! |strike yesterday put over through a} prearranged plan between William} Green, president of the American Fed- jeration of Labor and A. Philip Ran- |dolph, general organizer of the port- ers. New Maneuvers. Randolph, it was learned, |was in Washington to con Green. Plans are under way to stave joff the inevitable criticism of the |workers which is rising against the} +| officials of the union by a new series }of conferences with the governmest | mediation officials of the Watson-| |Parker board who early this week jturned down the porters’. demands. | It is clear that the officials of the| porters have complet sold out the |workers under the initiative of the! | American “beaten of Labor. <M i, WORKERS 10 Italian workers of New York will hold a mass meeting tomorrow, the; fourth anniversary of the murder of; | Matteotti, to honor all fascist victims| and to protest against the recent) reign of fascist terror of the workers of Italy. The meeting has been called by the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North| America, to unite all anti-fascist forc- es in New York and vicinity and to campaign] against the fascist terror under the Mussolini government. Speakers will be Francesco Coco Carlo Rakes, Oscar Mazzitelli and Pietro Allegra. Nicola Napoli will case of disloyalty.” But for “loyal (Continued on Page T'wo) preside. The meeting will take place at-2 p.m, at.7 Hast 16th: Street, “Union Square, n New York State are turned to on of the Workers (Communist) M., at the Workers Center, 26-28 when state can- didates will be nominated and a state platform adopted. This convention will be the starting point for a mobilization of all aggressive working class elements in the state against the corrupt forces of Tammany Hall and the republican party, and against the socialist party, the party of the betrayers of labor. Since the last general state elec- tions, the workers of New York have felt more keenly and sharply the heavy hand of the capitalist govern- ment against them. Injunctions, police brutality and terrorism against the needle trades workers, the trac- tion workers, and other sections of labor; the complete disregard by the state of the hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers, have demon- stated forcibly the nature of the two capitalist parties. The socialist party, allying itself with the union-wreckers of the city and state, repudiating the class strug- | gle, has been exposed as a party | which today is placing itself ip. the service of capitalism. The workers }of New York State can look towards |the Workers (Communist) Party as | the only Party prepared to organize and lead the masses behind a plat- form fighting for their interests and against capitalism. Delegates are expected from all parts of the state, and from numerous labor organizations. Following close upon the National Nominating Con- | vention of the Party, which put for- ward William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow as its standard bearers, the state convention in New York City | will mark the beginning of an inten- |sive and widespread campaign thru- out the “empire state” for the pro- gram and candidates of the Party. Candidates for governor, comptrol- er, attorney-general, U. S. senator, and other state offices will be nom- inated. In addition to deciding upon a state plaform, the convention will |also lay plans for the conduct of the aces geteesign oy the in the state. TO DEFY POLICE IN FALL RIVER Reid, Veteran Fighter to Hold d Meeting FALL RIV ER, “Maas June 8.— James P. Reid, Textile Mills Commit- |tee organizer in charge of the cam- | paign to mobilize the tens of thou- sands of Fall River workers for strike action against the wage cut they suf- fered some time ago, announced yes- |terday that another mass meeting is | being arranged despite police orders |to the contrary. The police chief, at | the head of a squad of uniformed and plain clothes men, had stopped a T. | M. C. meeting one hour before open- ling by ordering the hall owners to |keep the doors closed. | Reid, a veteran militant labor {leader in New England, declared “police or no police, a meeting ea ‘be held.” IN. *Y. Japless Council ‘Holds Conference Today Preparations for unusual. activities, it has been announced, will be re- ported at a conference called for to-~ day by Section A of the New York | Council of the Unemployed which has. been active in sponsoring the Unem- ployed Insurance Bill recently | nounced, | Today’s conference which meets at. lo p- m, at 60 St, Marks Place } ll |have before it the task of furtl the work so far carried on ing out the plans for the ij campaign for the unemploy John Di ito,