The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1928, Page 1

ONE- ay TRIAL OF BELA KUNIS SET FOR JUNE 26th THE DAIL am DAILY WORKER Ficus: * | WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY rs Vol. V. No. 139. OFFICERS FROM ALL DISTRICTS IN-PITTSBURGH Conference 1 Takes Up| Future Programs PITTSBURGH, June 12. Re- sponding to a call from the new of- ficers of, district, five United Mine Workers of America, officers and rep- vesentatives of all organized districts as-well ds representatives: from un- organized territory ssemiiled here tonight for a second historic. meeti' to consider the situation in. the union and to plan for a great national min- ers’ convention in the near future. Wide Representation. The meeting which opens at six o'cloék at Walton Hall will be attend- | ed by the’ new’ officers of district] 12 of Tilinois in which the Lewis-Fish- | ie Officers of district 5, from which the | Fagan* machine was recently ousted | are alfeady herve. Representatives | SAGE gies on ug lee Le Three). FESS IS MUM ON OIL GRAFT MESS Keynoter. Sings the Oid) “Prosperity” Song _ (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) KANSAS CITY, June 12.—Careful skirting of the notorious oil \eandals of the Harding-Coolidge administra- iions and lavish—almost hysterical— praise for. the present incumbent of the White House featured the keynote speech of Senator Simeon D, Fess of | | Ohio at the republican convention here today. | Defeated in his aspiration io be a} “ Gelegate to the convention, Fess \acted as keynoter upon the invitation | of William M.Butler, chairtaan of the republican national committee. Unblushingly, Fess whose overlor Coclidge,. vetoed even the fake “ lief’ MeNary-Haugen bill, handlga | the present plight:of the farmers ex- tremely gingerly. “Sound relief,’ he said, “will avoid artificial stimulous such as government price fixing or government buying and selling,” Daugherty, Fall. The merest hint of the oi¥ thiev-. ery with which the present admin- istration bought its way into the White House was suggested wher Fess innocently announced at the conclusion of his speech: “While moral delitquenc be found in all political partic while they sometimcs reach, plae influence, the general rule is a high) type .of character in eur public ser viee, and never, more so’ than at the present time.” a oe Recognize Union ‘ SPUKAND, 12.—More than d, | dune new agreement with the Culinary Workers’ Union. PRINTERS GET NEW SCALE. LOS ANGELES, June: 12.—Under a new scale which increases wages $1.70 a week organized newspaper printers receive $56 for night work and $53 for day work. .E, C. Calls Meeting Of Needle Workers) j A Tiienibetsitn the I. L, G. W. U., Cap} and Millinery, Amalgamated Cloth-} ing Workers’ Unicn, United Hat- rs, Journeymen Tailors _ Union, Furriers, etc, has been called by! the Central Executive Comm‘ttee | of ‘the Workers ‘(Communist) Party. The meeting will be held at the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. ‘and Irving Place, tomorrow eve- ning at 7 p. m. The Central Executive Commit- tee asks that members of the above ons drop all other engagements > Thursday evening to attend this sical sentient” Publishing Association, Fagan machine was recently ousted, ! | York state as the candidate of the TRIAL OF BELA special peeling of all eet \ | Kun and are vigorously demanding _ THE DAILY Wo iiutered as si ‘ublished daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker » 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. t New York, inde the net NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1928 SRE el SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 p Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. 1ST. of Marek 3, FINAL CITY EDITION per year, ‘Price 3 Cents MINE CONFERENCE PLANS NATIONAL CONVENTION A, f, of 1. ds Scheduled for Cold Reception from the Republican Politicians DANGEROUS EBB IN FUNDS FOR THE “DAILY” ‘HON-PASTISAN’ To the ‘pieadebs of The DAILY WORKER. COMRADES: ’ The funds contributed yesterday in the campaign to save The DAI,Y WORKER fell to a dangerously lew ebb, From the high point of $1,660.40 received Monday, the amount of contributions received yes- terday sank to $661.20—the lowest level since last Thursday. Since the campaign started this is the first time the receipts for any day have failed to be larger than those of thespreceding day. This is positively next Satw $4,518.19 The amounts recéived up to last night are: Last week. Monday : re 99 Tucsday~..... Wednesday . are forthe ae 60 Thursday . Friday 695.00 Saturday 705.77 i This week: Monday .... 4 :660.40 Comrad Tuesday .. 53. . é 661.20 481.81 NY AMALGAMATED BARED AS CENTER OF GRAFT SYSTEM cesses ieee ke remnce ‘Hillman to Pick Goste| (Other Grafters Get By One of ie most pstoundingiy | elaborate systems of crganized graft ever found orerating in an ozganiza- | tion was discovered to be infesting | the New York Joint Beard jof the Amalgamated Clothing Workers ‘Inion. | The general national office of tne union is trying its utmost to, stifle | the sensational cisclosures of a graft | system that includes the setting and } Juliet Stuart Poyntz, who is run- jcollecting of official graft as aia for” ning fo? Attorney) General of New lassistance to scab shops, charges of workers, for perm put over wage cuts. and permission to | dis- | ion to | Workers (Communist) Party. -All ike bila. chad dinbis Hon Lids eee paces nea more and more vicious # : z e speed-up syutems. are enemies of. the workingcluss. | Biaree mice: "+ The detailed facts were ‘earned | from .a..series of formal charges | Against the officialdom of ,the Knee Pants Makers Trade Board, and are sufficient: to show {hat the bosses in! the hig! hest positions ir: the New York Joint Board also participated in. the: subdivision of the ‘spo The charges were ‘brought te Tvesident Hillman, , who was compelled. to choose a few KUN ON JUNE 26 : Horthy Regime Has Spy scapegoats in order to shicld4his valu- Agency in Vienna able henchmen who ate the heads of oo the Joint Board. Hillnan is prepar- (Special Cable to the Daily Worker), (ing a decision requesting 3 of them | op to. kindly vacate their berths. Tnese INNA, June 12.—-The® tsial Kun, _ internationally. nang?" Louis Communist leader, arrested ‘Several! wecks ago, will be held here sung | 26th, it was an- nounced teday. “At | the same time it! was revealed that the entire pro- ceedings will con- sume but a single day. > ern, manager of the Knee (Continued on Page Private Property LONDON, England, June 12. -—- By; a formal resolution passed by the ; Bournemouth and Christchurch board | oi guardians, the unclaimed bodies | of workers who die in the Park Fr witt Mental Hospital become ~ property of Oxford University fo: ‘dissection by the sons of wealth: mer and members of Britain’s deca. Tivo) Meanwhile — the} Horthy fascist ©; government of Hungary is con- tinuing its de- mands upon the Austrian govern- ment for Kun’s) extradition whieh would undoubted- medicine there. “Bela Kur ‘ly result in his i execution, ~ sic revelations have. Aust) working in the packing department n made of the existence of a sys- tematic spy agency and forgery mill ‘maintained by the Horthy-regime in | Vienna where Kun was arrested. Millions of workers ‘thruout the world are continuing to hold protest meetings against the extradition of of the National Biscuit Co. In this de- partment the majority of the workers are women. These girls have to stand square fgot of space without moving. Behind them stands the foreman or the forelady, yelling most of the time to hurry up. That is because every that he be set free at once. . | two or three moaths—as soon. ante One of the charges which the in-|bossés sge that more production can dictment is expected to list is “plot-| be gotten out of the same number of ting to” be areas ate pacise Kev workers, they increase it, I vemem- Me 4 bor that two years ago the highest | ues ee paper die. “the, the shop chairmens’ Joint Board m an announcement calls publican party and the government | on their feet eight hours long in one, Gnlunday. j 3518.19 a danger signal. The DAILY WORKER must complete the raising of the $10,000 required by the ultinvatum of creditors on or before rday, June 16, There is siill to ke raised BEFORE NEXT SATURDAY NIGHT. This means that an Average of more than $1,100 must be raised on each remaining day of this week, teday included. We do not wish to create undue alarm, but the ultimatum stands before us that the DAILY WORKER will be closed unless the funds oming. It is very doubtful whether we can cbtain any further leniency in regard to the time allowed for further payments... es, we are sure you will stand by us. We ar2 determined not to let our revolutionary fighting Our Party’s revolutionary campaign in tured after killing a large part of the popula march of Japanese tmper tart in t Shantung. Average of $1;100 Each Day This Week eh Neauiral to Save Revolutionary Organ vhtinig coal miners will need The DAILY WORKER ring the coming months more than at any previous time. The textile workers, the needle trades workers, the unorganized and the unemployed workers now of all times must not lose their only daily which speaks in the language of the country. Communists, sympathizers, militant workers, we are confident that you will not fail us. We will not fail you. Our Party Central Committee has declared that it will sacrifice anything rather than let our revolutionary central organ-go out of existence. But in order to put this determination into reality, it is necessary that you act quickly—TODAY. You are urged to redouble your efforts and to send all pessible funds to The DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, by telegraph, airmail or special delivery: Photo above shows Japanese troops firing into the city of Tsinan, Shantung, which they later cap- tion. This is one of the first authentic pictures of the CLOAKMAKERS TO EL HOLD MEET TODAY Member rs Are Called to Manhattan Lyceum Among. the’ first of the organ t° the I Her al natio: H ert oO | tional res ions worked ov recent all day ecnference of shop | rupt in t representatives of the cl nd! the Harding dressmakers to. be put into te ; tions. action is the one calling for-the in-.| the auguration of an organiza efficionc) th shops in the faign among unorg: epen | This48 to be do ing of active w bers of the cloak- }\ | makers: Joint Board. The meeting’ ¢ will be held if Manhattan Lyceum, 66 |y KANSAS CITY, Andrew W. 1ized tomorrow for his nomination. mentioned ‘in recent LLON AND BUTLER APPROVE OF HOO VER‘: June 12 _With Secretar y of the Treasury Mellon and Wi il illiam M. Butler, chairman of the repub nal committee, publicly committed to the candidacy of oover, it looked today as if the convention would be been seldom? exposu: name has of cor- he pa party pane | pss eco “LOCAL 43 REBUKES “wr = TARITSKY CLIQUE ** | Reelects “Militants Officials p ce Local 43, Inter- E ag and Millin- kept hi comme: of as senator- The member national ints Uni whose cam ‘East 4th St., immediately after work. | considered models in vote buying Daal ing avian i ris union- (dea tie National and local leaders of the | slush-funding by the republican party | \activit of the international presi- National Organization Committee will | officials. Vare's espous sal of Hooy- ea gute eer it ane its ant administration at an: enthusi- 2 € 8 : a preceded Mellon’s by | Mutant ad be at this ‘meeting to sec thru’ the le candidacy pre: CHO; Y | netic meeting at Bryant Hall, formation of, the volunteer organiza-| several hour tion committee of 500 decided upoit at | conference. The} men, liaison ll those who Went to rebuild-a union. and big bus the recrtablishment of union con-| portant poli dent nobility who study surgery an¢| ditions i in the be to come: to sea} vit see to it that money is put out (Continued oy Pags Two) meeting. NATIONAL BISCUIT- SPEED-UP GROWS Workers Slav Slave i in 100 Degree ree Temperature; Starvation | Wages Rar several years I have been; production was 30 barrels per day in they are being laid off, or, in some wach ila now with the ‘same! instances, they find- they will sand sometimes less| get the doilar raise’ they are supposed number of. girl: —they producé5 to 50 barrels. No girl can open her mouth and | complain about anything. daras to, the foreman immediately | highest wee! jumps up, shouting “if you girls don’t est $14. If | like to work, better stay home!” The or sometim foreman then looks up the working} amount to the| cards, on which tho production of | week. each worker is noted, and places a mark against those names which show less production than others. A‘ the big of the weekythose girls find iy to get. } Mellon, one of the nation’s richest Considering the work: these girls If she do, the wages are very low. In summertime. this department | 'p. m, sharp, at 60 St. Marks Place. Ss M. Golden, of Local 42, told the {Local 43 membership that his local | would give beth physical and financia! jhelp to Leal 43*in it3 fight on |the bosses and the right wing. By man between the re-/| ess, and the most im- cian at the convention, | picket lines, he explained. P | Gladys Schechter, Sylvia Blecher ‘anfl Freda Fraidis were reelected or- |ganizers. The old executive board was reelected, with one or two ad- ‘ditions. ¢ } BAR “POTEMKI LONDON, England (By Mail).— Then anti-labor London County Coun- cil has definitely banned the film “Potemkin,” produced in the Soviet Union, a recognized masterpiece. The not uled to pass on the film this week. The kly wage is $24, the low- | be ee you are laid off for one , | (Sec. 1 as two days, the wages ; only, from $10 to $16 a 1. ‘Daily’ Agents, pAllL DAILY WORKER agents of | |Section 1 will meet tomorrow at ‘| | tem- | RSE SE. looks and feels like hell! Deratrs go 1 (Conti The es up #o one hundred de- > nued on Page Tuv) —L, Kling, Daily, Kbit t, ‘ » | committee physical help he meant aid eon ‘the | Middlesex County Council was sched-) POLITICS IS DUE FOR KNOCK OUT Secretary Davi is Urges Tariff Support 1 to The DAILY WORKER.) S CITY, June 12. Five minutes groveling before the reso- lution committee of, the Wall! Street henchmen of the republican party after which they will be unceremoni- ously shunted out, is the program which Wm. Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and his called’ non-partisan political campaign committee are expected to go through when they appear here some time this week to present their terms of surrender to finance-capital. “Crown Prinee” Il) Received. In 1924 when old Sammy Compers ill alive, his young “crown pri Matthew Woll, vice president of the federation, received ten minutes | from the committee in which to pre- (Continued on be feue Three) FOSTER, GITLOW AT “RED” PICNIC Athletics, Music at Big Party Affair | The entry of the Work (Com |munist) Party intc the presidential } ‘ 4 and state election campaigns this jyear with greatcr energy than ever before will be signalized by the In- |ternational Red Picnic on Sunday, at Pleasant Bay Park. The ngth of district 2 will be ed to make this picnie an en- and a concentrating force to dune whole mobi start off the campaign with a bang. All candidates’ on the Workers Party ticket will be present at the picnie. William %. Foster, candidate for President of the United $tates,* jand Benjamin Gitlow, candidate for vice-president, will speak and alse n the ¢ amusements. itions to the program announced by the pienic They are: Chinese opera accompanied by Chinese wind and string instruments. haif hour program contributed by Chinese work- ers who embers of the Work- ers Pa Young Pioneers have challen: ing Workers League to ail, and will take part in the nging and dane- ing. - Chi rs will be heard urging workers of voting age to sup- port the Party ticket WORKERS’ GROUPS AIDING THE “DAILY’ Paper Again.in Dange As Contributions Drop Contributions to save The DAILY WORKER ave being received from many progressive workers’ organiza tions, including Workmen’s Circles, councils of the United Council of) Workingelass Women and other frat- ernal groups. But despite the efforts of these | organizations, as well as hundreds individual workers, contributions are still far from what they should be. With only $661.20 received yesterday, |the danger of suspension facing The | DAILY WORKER becomes more im: lminent. The total of contributions | thus far, $5,456.51, indicates that only/ 56.81 has been raised towards the md $5,000 that the “Daily” must by Saturday. ssterday’s contributions were as bee have songs ged the a game follows; ‘ Emil Turina, West Allis, Wise., i f 1 Modrich, West Allis, Wise., 256: Burmay, Baltimore, Md, $2; Sante Tapstein, Walter P, Sakut, roup of Pro ; 1 CHicago, vimmer, Pittsburgh, Pa Wouk, Pittsburgh, Pa handler, ee h, PaL/ge 6. i Pittsburgh, Pa. $2: A. Halfgotty 304 = ibureh, Pa. $1) Wm. Paransky, Rah burgh, Pa., Bi Pitts! =