The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1928, Page 1

| THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: ; FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 140. vublished daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Entered as. second-ciass matter at the Post Office at NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1928 New York, . ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Outs! SUBSCRIPTION RA'SR6: In New York, by mail, $8.00 pti Year. ide New Rerk, By, 2eail @CRR yar FeeR ee by mail, $6.00 per year. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents NEW NATIONAL MINE UNION NEW NATI U.S. BIG BUSINESS IS. More Contributions Needed SOLID FOR HOOVER © AT KANSAS CITY Mellon, Rockefeller, So-Called “Farm Revol Work With KANSAS CITY, June 13.—The oligarchy of big business and Butler and Morgan Crowned | Hoover for Coolidge’s Job | t” Fizzles; Its Leaders Wall Street finance, as ‘represented by Andrew W. Mellon, of the coal and steel group, William M. Butler, of the textile group, John D. Rockefeller, of oil, and J. P. Morgan, of Wall Street, extended its control today as the organization of the republican national con- vention proceeded. This is the oligarchy ah party machine sense by Calv: Coolidge, who went into the | White House with Warren G.| Harding on Teapot. Dome, Elk Hills and Salt Creek oil aratt money, and by William (“Boss”) Vare, of fore ahd whose campaigns for years have fur. nished models for the republican pa’ in slush funding and vote buying. “Hoover Certain. It still looked at the close of téday’s session as if these forces now in con- trol of the imperialist capitalist class government of the United States, would put Herbert Hoover over as the party nominee to succeed Coolidge. | Hoover has been groomed as a politic- ian for the last eight years. There are many signs here of his “reguiar- ity,” not the least of them being the} fact. that Vare broke the silence of the Pennsylvania delegation in declaring | for his nomination. There is also the fact that Hoover men control the ¢re- dentials committee 36 to 15. The per- manent chairman: of the convention, Senator George H. Moses, was one of the original Hoover partisans. “If Coolidge has held any choice as to his successor among the various | candidates,” C. W. Barron, president (Continued on Page Two) HOOVER, SMITH 10 BE EXPOSE Communist t Candidates! to Tour Country While propaganda is flooding the country intended to put over Herbert | Hoover and Al Smith, most likely can- didates of the republican and demo- cratic parties, the true story of the forces behind the selection of these servants of big business will be told during the campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party by its standard bearers, Wm. Z, Foster and Benjamin | Gitlow. Country-Wide Campaign. The Workers Party campaign com- mittee is alresdy working on a scries cf election campaign tours which will earry the Party candidates for pres- ident and vice-president into hundreds of cities thrcughcut the country from coast to ccast. Millions of workers will be given an opportunity tc hear in full the pro- gram of the Workers (Communist) Party. The true character of the dem- oeratie and republican parties will be everywhere explained and analyzed. Hoover will very likely dwell largely on the filth and corruption rampant | in the democratic party. The compli-{ ment will be returned to the re-| republican party by Smith who (Continued on Page v4. SEES APE a SS MOCK ELECTION AT “RED” PICNIC : ‘ A mock election campaign’ will be one of the features of the “Red” Pic- _ nie which has been arranged by the ‘orkers (Communist) Party, district , to be held at Pleasant Bay Park, June 24. A torchlight parade will follow. The picnic committee reports a pro- gram of sports events such as has beem rarely seen at radical affairs. The sports events will include a ser‘es of soccer games arrangedby the Metropoiitan Sports League, the Fin- nish Sports Club Vesa, and the Pio- neer! is represented in the republican WORKERS PARTY HOLDS MEETING © IN KANSAS GITY iFarmer Dielowation Is! Ousted from GOP Hall | (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) | | KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 13.—-In} | this city where the republican party | is now holding its Wall Street con-| trolled nomination conventicn, the | Workers (Communist) Party last | |night held’a meeting at 7th and Min- | nesota Streets. The speakers, George | J. Saul-and D. E. Earley, stressed the | fact that the republican party is the greatest enemy of the workers and farmers of the United States, A large jcrowd that was assembled there con- | tinually cheered the exposures of ‘the ! speakers concerning the graft and | anti-labor tactics of the G. O. P. { | After the meeting, many signa; |tures were obtained for the petition | which will get the Workers (Com- | munist) Party on, the ballot in the | state of Kansas in the coming presi- | dential! elections. | | Farmers Protest Against Hoover. | | Nine hundred farmers and farmer- delegates earlier in the morning pick- eted the convention hall with placards ,and banners on which were inscribed | the slogans: “Anyone But Hoover;” | “The 30,000,000 Farmers Don’t Want | | Hooyer;”, and “We Don’t Choose to Vote for Hoover.” They attempted to enter the hall, but the few who | managed to get in were immediately } ejected. The rest were dispersed by | the police. | They shouted: “Whose convention is this? Mellon’s, the American auto- eracy’s, or the American zh pes ion oad e LOCAL 3 GAN GANG TO STEAL ELECTION ; Electrical "Workers : In| Strong Battle Increasing evidences that the pre- sent administration of local 3 of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is making plans to steal the coming elec- ‘tion, have been increasing, according to information secured from a naae ber of sources within the union. ‘officials of the union are peariben | to” hold to their fat jobs at all costs, |and have kept from meetings of the union all members capable of voicing /a_protest at the manner in which the ‘officers are conducting the affairs of “the union. At the last meeting of the union, Armstrong, a union member in good standing, was forcibly ejected from the meeting by several henchmen of the reactionary clique. Armstrong came to the meeting it is known with no other intention than that of per-j forming one of his duties and privi- leges, that of nominating candidates for officers in the coming elections. “Steam Roller, The president of the union, Frank Wilson, waiting until all present of- ficers of the union were again nom- inated by their henchmen, sitting in the front row of seats in the hall, im- mediately closed nominations there- after. In addition all those elements | that stand a chance of nomination for officers of the local in opposition to (Continued on Page Three) to Save Revolutionary ‘Daily’ To the Readers of The DAILY WORKER. COMRADES: Contribtitions received yesterday in the campaign to save The DAILY WORKER were $712.65. This is slightly larger than the day before, but falls far short of what is necessary. Facing the ultimatum -of ¢ the terms of which we must complete the rais- ing of $10,000 before the end of this week, we are compelled to point out to you that some very heroic efforts will have to be made today, tomorrow and the next olutionary organ is to be pulled out of this very grave crisis. The receipts of the campaign up to last night are: Saturday when the ultimatum expires’ under the terms of which we are forced to complete the $10,000. San Francisco, words: reditors, under We hope that you will hasten your help. The Provisional Central Committee of the Alliance for the Support of the Chinese Work- ers’ and Peasants’ Revolution in America, of sent $10 yesterday with these "LEADERS SUMMON CONVENTION FOR Districts and Un SEPTEMBER 9--16 Conference Attended By Officers From All Mine organized Fields Call Upon Rank ana File to Build New Union Where Lewis Has Wrecked Old PITTSBURGH, June 13.—Declaring that the Lewis machine “When world imperialism is preparing fresh intervention in colonial revolts and when world | capital is launching an increasing offensive against the workingclass, we must not let The | DAILY WORKER, the only English daily that | speaks for the workingclass and the oppressed peoples of the world, go out of existence. Our crisis, is sending this small-sum and we will call organization, though itself in a constant financial upon our members and sympathizers to make their contributions to save The DAILY WORK- day if our rev- Last. week: Monday 161.99 ER.” gor aah alee poe The Workers (Communist) Party of Balti- Wednesday . papcorige more sends $25, saying: Thursday 576.60 a pace a W 5 re re Enclosed find check’ for the sum of $25 for Friday 695.00 the rescue of The DAILY WORKER. We shall Saturday ..... 705.77 continue working to safeguard the only revolu- i This week: Monday 1,660.40 tionary daily in the English language There is | Tuesday ..... 661.20 no-room for Giscturagement if every Aapeabe ay i Wednesday 712.65 ous worker would only do his duty to his paper. gay Cea ed S. BERGER, City Organizer, ee —_ Workers (Communist) Party, Baltimore. Total to last night 36,194.46 We request all comrades, Communists, sym- Comrades, we have still the raise $3,806.64 before this coming Saturday night. This is an average of more than $1,200 for each of the three remaining days. Can you help us to make it? As we told you yester- day, the situation will be very compelled to try to obtain further time beyond pathizers, and all workers’ organizations that recognize The DAILY WORKER’S unbending fight’ for the cause of our class to send all possible aid immediately by telegraph, airmail or special delivery to The DAILY WORKER, 33 First St., New York City. THE MASAGEMEND ‘COMMA USEE. urgent need to grave if we are feaie U.S. rues s a eal Ld to Nicaragua "DON ATE SECON | a TIME TO “DAILY” |Workers Must Increase | Contributions wotkers are Many not contenting | ER. are necessary to ensure the continued | existence of their fighting ‘Daily” |they ‘are contributing a second and | leven a third time. One such worker | is S, Brener of Detroit, who has sent in his second $5 contribution | and promises to try to send more. Only by such sacrifices can The DAILY WORKER be saved. Yester- day’s contributions were higher than the day before, with $712.65 received, but still far below the rate they should |themselves with contributing once to | |the fund to save The DAILY WORK- | Realizing that great sacrifices | had wrecked the once powerful organization of the mine workers, | officers and delegates from every district of the organized and unorganized fields meeting in conference here today issued a call for a national miners’ convention for the establishment of a new union, . The call for the convention which is to be held in Pittsburgh ————*September 9 to 16 at the same RES time sent out word to the 900,- ae anthracite and bituminous iners to take control of their IN GRAFT RING OF : union, to choose delegates for the Sep- tember national ecnvention, to make {plans for the organization of the un- erganized and the speeding up of re- MALGAMATED “: lief for the strikers. NY A Spirit of Struggle. the conference which closed here, leads was one of the most earnest Hillman eles fox Only | end detern:ined in the history of the : miners’ union. Called at the initiative Three Resignations of the newly elected officers of dis- | trict 5, there were in attendance of- In addition to further astounding |ficers ond representatives from dis- disclosures of malodorous details in| trict 2 of Pennsy!vania, from districts the graft system which has hitherto|1, 7 and 9 of the anthracite, from | been functioning smoothly in the New| Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, West | York Joint Board of the Amalgamat-| Virginia, Colorado, Kentucky, from jed Clothing Workers Union, the ex-| the formerly unorganized districts. of | pected action of President. Hillman) Wegtmoreland County in Pennsylva- lin, asking the resignation of three | nia, Grom snorganizéd West, Virginia br aganiee officials was also made pub-| wistricts and from other unorganized ic yesterday. | sections Choses Scape Goats. | Jokn Watt, well known mine leader, As was reported, Hillman, yester-| Was chosen chairman of the meeting. day, chgse his scape goats and, with|Pat Toohey was made secretary. One ponte. g of horrified surprise, thru|of the principal tasks of the confer- |the columns of the socialist Daily|ence, besides the issuance of the Sep- Forward, requested the three officials | tember convention call, was the elee- of the Knee Pants Union vacate their |tion of a national organization com- positions at the receiving end of the| mittee composed of representatives |elaborate graft apparatus de veloped | from every district in the union, offic- |under his leadership in the union. | ers of district 5 and in addition, John Not only did Hillman fail to ask the | Watt and Pat Toohey. higher-ups to quit their jobs, but his} The convention call points out that public request that/the three men re-| the Lewis machine took over the great sign did not even cast a questioning|and powerful mine unior which had | glance at the Beckerman machine} slowly been built through the sacri- controlling the Joint Board, without |fices and courage of the miners, but whose knowledge the graft system|which ever since Lewis took control could not have functioned. | has been going down until it has been The uncovering of all this sewage | (Continued on prone. Two) brought to light further proof that |the machine in the Joint Board re- | | ceived graft for providing workers | CLOAK COMMIT TEE for the scab open-shops, and then contracted to receive more graft for | providing this scab contracting aiop| with work. A boss willing to come (JF 500 iS FORMED across discovered that he could have} at his disposal a machine that would/| American marines carrying a death-flag, symbol. of their activity in Nicaragua, where they have slaughtered hundreds of natives in the Basia aa to establish sis att de puduekens rule. 1,500 MORE MARINES TO GO TO wi NICARAGUA WASHINGTON, June 18 = Preparaione, are going on here today to send 1,500 more marines to Nicaragua for the purpose of “supervising” the Nicaraguan elections in November. Several marine and navy che ee including Major General John A./ Lejeune will place the proposal before® President Coolidge at a white house} conference today. All indications | point to the immediate granting of) the request.. These reinforcements| will bring the Nicaragua to 5, ficial figures. The action was decided upon after! ny} ged of marines in| 0, according to of-| ‘the 1 receipt ¢ 0! dier General McCoy, in charge of the ruthless killing of citizens in Nica- ragua, asking for reinforcements; The force at his command at present, he claimed, was insufficient to wipe out the forces of General Sandino, ‘militant leader of the Nicaraguan revolutionists. come in to raise the second $5,000 that The DAILY WORKER must have by Saturday. The contributions yesterday were as | follows: Peter Buzuid, Bklyn, N. Poskitis, Y » $1 Bisnov, $1; Minow, $1; J, Puodziunas, Cicero, $1573, K. Stalioratis, Cicero, Ill, $1; Jakutis, Cicero, Il, $1; A. Demikis, Cicero, Ill, $1; Ch. Seveckis, ll, $1; M Cicero, Butvil, Hea: Til, $1 » Sideravicius, Ki Dat, Binghamto ly, Johnston City, N. nie Kocik, Johnston City, 4 Minnie Vavra, Binghamton, N. Y¥., $3: P. Balchukonis, \ Binghamton, N. 4 2.25; Grinbyig, Bronx, N, riedman, Bronx, 'N, Paulie Roll, Bronx, N. Sammerstein, Bron3 Lichtman, Bronx, GigaJman, Bkly Bklyn, N. Y., $1;’Sam italian: Bklyn, N. ¥., $1; Abe Chernoff, Bklyn, N. Y., (Continued on Page Two) | POWER TRUST PROPAGANDA AND “A, P.” Texas ‘Lobby Director Is on ‘the Associated Press | Payroll (By Federated Press.) WAS nc Toy. June 13. — Testi- fying under oath before Commis- sioner McCulloch in the federal trade commissioner’s investigation of the, power trust propaganda activities, June 12, William C. Grant of Dallas, | Texas, director of the Texas Public| Service Information Bureau since June | 1, 1927. stated-that he had remained} “on the payroll of the Associated Press| as relief editor” ever since that date. _|He had previously been a regular A. P. ,man, and was chosen by the public utilities propaganda bureau to succeed the late Gecrge McQuaide because of his wide personal influence with news- paper men. “Do I understand,”sasked MeCui- | loch, “that you are still connected with | the Associated Press?” “Yes, Judge, I work Saturday nights for them in Dallas.” Grant, as press lobbyist Quring the past year, “offered to the Associated Press numerous stories, many of which they have asked for and most of which ni they have used” dealing with, public utilities, ea COUNSEL HEALY for the commission introduced in evidence a number of Grant’s letters to utility men in Texas, in which Grant mentioned his relation with the A. P. To Lynch Davidson, former lieuten jant governor, Grant described his new job as publicity agent for the utilities, {but said,“I am still, however, connected \with the A. P. as a special writer, and . (Continued on Page Two) \ y Peter | ve! Break bankrupt his rival. Wages in back pay and other forms were confis-| cated instead of being turned over |to the workers who sweated for it. Pay Twice for “Servi Affidavits in Hillman’s p “service.” This contractot, employed (Continued on Page Three) _ DENTAL UNION REPORTS GAINS in “Laboratory Owners Association Hundreds of dental mechanics have returned to work with the recognition of their union and their other de- ment made last night at the office Union. There has been a break in the Den- tal Laboratory Owners’ Association as tl Gottlieb Dental Laboratory, Green ‘& Maslov, New Era, Herman & Goldhgrg, Karr, Ellar, Beacon, Pro- ‘gress an owners. throughout greater New York and New Jersey, have, settled in spite of the association. Among the independent bosses, the following have settled: Shapiro & Baker. Furman & Horowitz, Journal Square, Levitt, Shalita, Consolidated, Imperial, Prosthetic and many others. During the day settlements are made at the Labor Temple, Room 82, 2nd Avenue and 14th Stregt. Session - | declare that a specific contractor was .|made to pay graft twice for the same mands granted, according to a state- | of the Dental Laboratory Workers |0. and.such members of the Association | Eastern Dental Laborator- | ies and many oth*r smaller labsratory | |To Organize ( Open Shop | Cloak Trade The steps taken by the active members o- ers urion, held here last night, and a statement of decisions made at yesterday’s meeting of the National | Organization Committee, were the |two most important developments yet |recorded this week in the struggle of the workers in the industry to re- build their union and drive from the _ trade the union wrecking Sigman- | Schlesinger clique. | Successful formation of the Organ- \ization Committee of 500 which was | decided upon at the recent Shop Chairmen’s Conference as the first step to bring unionization to the New York market, was achieved at jnight’s meeting of the activé cl |makers. The meeting was held in the large hall of Manhattan Lyceum, 66 |East 4th St. Charles_S. Zimmerman, head of the organization department of the N. C., led the meeting’s work of form- jing the committee of 500. After a | short talk in which he exposed the |hypocrisy of Schlesinger’s statements, by citing proof of Schle- singer’s continued campaign of throw- ing out from the shops those who jhad not registered. To Choose Units. ¢ The basic units of the Organiza- — tion Committee will be formed by 10 workers headed by a captain who will be a member of the local branch of the N. 0. ©. A larger body of five lunits will be captained by a member — of the N. 0, C. Joseph Borochovich, Rose Wortis jand others also spokeg The chairman, was J. H. Cohen, chairman of | local section of the Neteoa ization Nbancn see the meeting of the cloakmak-