The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1928, Page 1

\ it OVERFLOW CROWD EXPECTED AT BIG FREIHEIT EXCURSION THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY T Entered as second-class mutter ut the Post Office at Vol. V.' No. 142. Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. New Aork, N. ¥, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1928 under the act of March-3, 1879. E DAILY WORKER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. | FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents WALL STREET NAMES CURTIS TO TRICK FARMERS Ultimatum of Creditors of “Daily” Expires Today; MINE. OFFICIAL LEADS: ATTACK ON PICKET LINE Seabs Driven Back In Spite of Guns (Special to the Daily Worker) , PITTSBURGH, Kansas, June 15.— Armed scabs in the pay of the Pitts- burgh Coal ‘Company escorted by a small army of thugs and gunmen to- day rushed a picket line of about 1,000 miners before Mine No. 14 near here in an attempt to break up the demon- stration. In the skirmish which followed six scabs are said to have been beaten up, including the superintenderit ‘of the} mine who led the attack. { The scabs were armed with ‘buns | blackjacks and knives and although the strikers were unarmed they gave a good*account of Jhemselves, it is) reported. | The Pittsburgh Coal Company which | is a Mellon company has been seeking to open at the 1917 wage scale which calls for $5 a day. While Andrew! Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury is) at the republican convention at Kan- | sas City virtually dictating his wil! | to the entire country, his coal and iron police are using every device to beat; back the miners to the starvation ! levels of pre-war times. ILLINOIS MINERS HOLD CONVENTION Sub:Distriet 9 9 Ousts Of- | ficialdom ! Fund Short $2,418; Quick Help Needed Before 6 p. To’ the Readers of The DAILY WORKER. COMRADES: Today, Saturday, June 16 is the date of expiration of the ultimatum of creditors of The DAILY WORK- ER. According to the terms of this ultimatum we are compelled to complete the sum of $10,000, with- out which the creditors would LY WORKER before 6 p. m. We have not secured the $10,000. The total raised up to the time of going to press last night is $7,581.67. This is short by $2,418.33 of the necessary sum. Is it possible that we can raise $2,418.33 today? We are striving our best to the same time we are negotiating with creditors in the effort to get the extension ment until Monday. close down The DAI- today. morning. raise that sum. At of the time for pay- Determined at all cost not to permit The DAILY WORKER to go out of existence, and confident that YOU, the militant workers and sympathizers of our revolutionary paper, will stand by us, we must nevertheléss say that the situation today is a dan- gerous one. We appeal to you now to do everything in your power to secure and rush funds to The DAILY WORKER office today to the limit of your capacity before six o’clock p. m. We will nevertheless strive to secure a postpone- ment of the expiration time of the ultimatum until Monday. Therefore all funds that cannot be obtained today should be rushed into this office Monday ceived $1,660.40—perhaps this coming Monday will also be large enough to make up the necessary total. But try to make it today, that we can get an extension. mM. The ieee of the campaign up to last night are: Last week: Monday ..........$ 161.99 Tuesday .. ow | 464,55 Wednesday -- 556.30 Thursday . 576.60 Friday .... 695.00 Saturday 705.77 This week: Monday ..4 . 1,660.40 Tusday... .. -. 661.20 Wednesday ...,.... 712.65 Thursday .. ..... 670.40 Friday ia). ius: 716.81 Last Monday was a heavy day—we re- Send funds quick by as we have no assurance THE MAN Total to last night. . Comrades, please do not leave any effort undone. 581.67 telegraph if possible, other- wise by airmail or special delivery. Fraternally yours, AGEMENT COMMITTEF, Mooney’s Face Tells Tal This is what capitalist justice ha: e of Capitalist ‘Justice’ s done to Tom Mooney. The picture CONTINUE IN NEW BEDFORD STRIKE Whistling - Strike Songs | Brings Jail Terms | | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 15. Another victim of the police phrase “disturbing the peace” which is being used by the mill barons in their at- ‘tempt to terrorize the tens 4f thou- sands of textile strikers, was record- ARRESTS, JAILINGS SUSPENSION THREATENS “DAILY,” AID IS URGENT Contributions to save The DAILY Y WORKER showed a slightyincrease lyesterday over the previous day. But the;amount received, $716.81, was! MELLON MACHINE PICKED SENATOR FOR DUPE GAME ‘Betrayal ere Farmers His Job | KANSAS. CITY, June’ 5.—Follow- ing juggernaut triumph of the Wall Street-Coolidge machine in the nomination of Herhert Hoower for president of the United States, the; ta of the machine was completed yesterday with the naming for the vice-presidency of Charles Curtis of Kansas. As the scenes unfolded on the stage |of this big hall it became clear that Curtis has been the nominee for vice- | presindency picked out by the Mellon machine some time ago, and that the task of-Curtis has been to hold at all) | cost the following and the faith of as large as possible a portion of the dis- contended farm elements and small- town capitalists which have been | milling around the convention with anti-Hoover sentiments. Curtis, whose leadership of the farm insurgency, had for its sole purpose the control, and not the development of the den of the farmers, has received his reward at the hands of the grateful politicians, by whom he jis now acclaimed as a saviour. Nominated by Senator Borah, self- |still far below the pace necessary to place the paper on safe ground as it | ctyled progressive who as oatiat was jbrings the total to only $7,581.67. Large contributions are the great need now and for this purpose work- lers must canvass labor and fraternal jorganizations of all sorts. The danger | signal is out. All efforts must be| directed towards saving the only mili-| tant. workingclass newspaper in the | English language. Yesterday’s contributions were as! follows: | | James Bova and J. Weinberg, Buf- & ‘THOUSANDS 60 ON FREIHEIT VOYAGE ‘Large Advance Sale is} Announced This afternoon at 2 o’clock thou- drafted to turn the party’s shrewdest | trick, Curtis received the unanimous | nomination of the republican delegates whipped into order by the machine leaders. Curtis is a Mississippi valley man and it is the hope of the republican bosses that he may stem the threaten- |ing defection from the party ranks bin the ee sections - the-country. * | (Special to the ay Worker) KANSAS CITY, June 15.—The | nomination of Herbert Hoover and i = "fee Me > Fs 1 t, ¢ 1 ES eater, fen a6 tot on the left shows Mooney as he looked when arrested in 1916. On the bay wince teases ear ie been ee ee Son. bea ep eg inl aed kg hart | Charles Curtis with the adoption of unions athred at the French Olub. | right is Mooney after rotting for 12 years in the hell-holes of capital- cl ay sestenday aoe ciirapss! so riniet ltected), Maybury Sanitarium, North- “She tad re ae ch it e part in| the extreme imperialist platform by | Christo} ner Ill, in a sub-district con: | ism. The international Labor Defense has started a nation-wide |line of singing’ strikers’ children. | ville, 's3; Bike edb ican: ie hah Ae ‘reihei jexearsion | sie republican national convention, ! cso ac movement to free this victim of one of the most vicious frame-ups tai ; Wash, $5; John Steinham, Detroit, | #8 indicated by advance sales of tic- | gives a dizzy picture of political road } vention embracing practically all lo-| ” . ee a | A jail sentence of thirty days was | 1725°" 93. ’pruch lected), Cleve. | kets up to yesterday. The trip will| b 9, district 12.| the history of American capitalism, who is condemned to spend the |. sf Mich., $2; Bruches (eollected), C travelled since the Civil War toward : cal unions of sub-district istric| |imposed upon’ Bessie Katsikaros, who | land, 0., $3.15; Fremch Dye Works,/take its participants for a four hour The call for the convention was issued | rest. of his life in notorious San fee prison. Hartford, Cong. $1; A. J. Freeman,| (nice on the Atlantic Ocean to Amer- | COMS°lidating the domination of the ~ WOMEN TO HOLD SECOND MEETING = union. The Forward also declares}Stone Ave., Brooklyn. - the New York Working Women's boca is charged as a second offender in the | e'g1; 8. Luth, Hartford, eS a Gerry fle acting secretary, by | “ 99 singing of strike songs and thereby Conny sis 3. Tuner, HecerortinComn, ica’s most. famous bathing resort, At- | peor Pike working less aad’ Sa lecision of the special district conven- FREE MOONEY: FIGHT “disturbing the peace. S0c; B. Greenberg, Hartford, Conn.. 50c;| Tanti City. Two steamers, the Clear- | tion that was held in Belleville on | : 4) |Slossbera Hartferd, Conn, $1; M. Ber-| mont and the Ontario, have been re. | SA7merS. May 19th and 20th. The convention | |_ More than forty of the most mil- | ¢ovitz, Hartford, Conn., Be fargol-| served by the Freiheit to acéommo-| U. S. Steel, Washington. was called for the purpose of setting | GAINING IN STRENG TH itant strikers and their leaders have Baretonds Conn. $15 dessin Re date the crowd that is expected. | In spite of the fact that the secre- forth new policies on the same line | been arrested and sentenced to months | SYC, $0: Oram, Portland, Ore, $1}| The Freiheit Army will board the | tary of commerce of the Harding and as the district convention and to oust | in jail on the charge of aleying this Bo a. Sintes Deniver, Golo.” $ EB E| Preiheit Fleet with the full assurance | Coolidge administrations is the heir | the reactionary machine by electing) SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.—The agitational. campaign ‘to free Tom|0” Similar flimsy ordinances. Artest | trgquist, Rockford, lik, $13 Hid’ | that everything possible will be done |! Coolidge and the man-higher-up to * rank and file miners to the positions. Mooney and Warren K. Billings, victims.of the San Francisco frame-up is ona mn na ee e Liat Ww h ied pe sides van Peterson, Vinal-|for its entertainment, a statement | the professional slush~ funding poli- Daniel H. Slinger, secretary-treas-| gaining momentum. Under the leadership of International Labor Defense, leaawty? See Hos ecaGr biehen able bidvale, ti banorTAttaeais. Y° |from the Freiheit office anhounces. | ticians like William S. (“boss”) Vare, urer district No. 12, addressed the convention and received a great ova- tion. He clearly outlined the imme- diate task of the miners of Illinois and the miners nationally. ~ Seek Release of Prisoners. Resolutions for the release of the Zeigler miners and all class war pris- oners, support of the Coal Digger as the new official organ, for an Inter- national Convention, etc., were un- animously adopted. The new officers of the sub-district | are: C.\Atkinson, president; William Owsley, vice-president, and Arley Staples, secretary-treasurer. The Sub- District Executive Board was abo]- ished and a more simplified means of courts organized, N. Y. Federation Will Emphasize Relief The second delegates’ conference of Federation, to be held Thursday even- ing June 21st at the Labor Temple, |? will be greeted by a representative from the Pennsylvania mine strike area, a miner’s wife who will address the federatio# on the role played by women in the mining strike. She wil] stress the acute need for a strpng dis- play of solidarity between Working women engaged in other industries -and the wives of | “the embattled miners. According to Ray Ragozin, Secre- tary of the N. Y. Working Women’s Federation, the dominant note of the second conference will be the ques- tion of miners’ relief. This will carry on the work commenced at the initia! conference “of a few weeks ago, at which the federation was formed by SHOW HILLMAN UP AS A HYPOCRITE Refused és "Beebe Many Graft Cases With citation of fact after fact, showing the slimy history“ of graft in the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers Union /in the past few years, the Jewish Communist Daily Freiheit editorially exposes as the rankest hypocrisy the statements of Sidney Hillman and his socialist. organ the Jewish daily Forward that the Com-|- munists are the only ones attacking Hillman after the graft exposures, and that they are sorry to see those indicted for graft dismissed from the that Hillman ig being flooded with congratulations for his speedy dismis- sals of the three indicted officials, do- ing nothing — the high-ups in- volved, Tho editorial proves that Hillman, as welf as the other high officials of} publes, construction of a woolen cloth|they. made while reading it, shows the Amalgamated, have known for years of an existing and a function- ing system of graft and corruption, while neither investigated nor acted with speed in tho matter. This was because Hillman could not maintain control without the assistance of his . (Continued on Page Three) Jury Indicts Blackmer, Teapot Dome Swindler DENVER, Col., June 15.—Henry M. Blackmer, Denver oil magnate, one of the group that swindled millions of dollars in nati pon se in the Teapot Dome Scandal, was. indicted .today by a Federal Grand Jury. » National Miners’ Relief Commit-| yes) : = Rae Aen eesine a aad The indictment charge» attempts | perjury whose national headquarters are in New York City, a nation-wide pro- test has begun for the purpose of | freeing the two workers from their cells in San Quentin and Folsom pri- sons. S z Mooney, ‘who’ was originally sen tenced to die following the San Fran- cisco explosion, had previously been active in the street carmen’s union of this city and had incurred the en- | mity of the bosses here. Now 47 years old, Mooney has been | imprisoned for over twelve years. During that time he has become a} physical wreck, United Council Will Hold Annual Banquet | Council No. 7 of Brownsville, of the United Councils of, Workingclass Women, will hold its annual banquet on Sunday, 4 p. m. at the Non-parti- san Workers Childrens’ School, 563 Many ‘novel features have been arranged for the program, it is announced. The entire proceeds will go to the Joint t Defense \ USSR BUILDS MILLS. _ At an estimated cost’ of 1,400,000 manufacturing plant at Kremenchug. Ukraine, has been started. POLICE ATTACK Ce nN: X. Y. STUDENTS Two shan Follows Campus. P Protest Meet Against Ouster ie members of Wis Young Work-, Fis ansainge League, both fore xf students, were arrested yes- a when police charged a meet- ing of 500 students on the campus after Dean Daniel W. Redmond and other members of the faculty had failed to disperse 500 students of the College of thé City of New York. The students had gathered to protest the expulsion of Simon W. president of the Social Prob-' \ as strikebreakers. Arrests are now made of any striker caught even jwhistling a strike tune. FALL RIVER MILL | UNION CALLS MEN ‘Police Can’t Stop Mill | Committee Growth | | (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) | FALL RIVER, Mass., June 15.— Giving the lie to the recently pub- lished reports in the capitalist press here and in New York that the Textile Mills Committee was compelled to re- treat in its campaign to rally the tex- tile workers here for a general strike because of police prohibition of meet- ings, a leaflet of the T. MC. ling the workers to join was distributed by the tens of thousands at mill gates thruout the city. © The eagerness with which the cir- culars were. snatched by the mill workers and the enthusiastic comment that the sentiment for a struggle (Continued on Page Two) lems as and an ad of the Young Workers (Communist) League. The’two who were arrested were taken to the police station on charges of disorderly conduct, where they were later released on $500 bail each, fur- nished by the International Labor De- fense. They are Nathan Adler, of 1205 Boynton Ave., the Bronx, and Jonah Schnissman, of 584 West 137th St, both former students of the col- The names of dozens of the ne | Almond, $20,000,000 COAL — . ‘Bukoyac, M Midvale, 0., M. | ‘ablar, Midvale, 0., $1; J. Vucidvich, | + Midvale, $1;' D:"Kiuchivsky, $2; Es Hannah Keubbeler, . Theo. Woodward, | . O'Hare, San Diego, | Hizabeth, N. J., $13 ed among the Prog. $7; A. Levy, reen, NYC, NYC, $10 ahamae, N $2; Dirbach, NYC, $ Metletz, N¥ Kotek, Omaha, Nebr, (Continued on Page Two) MERGER PLANNED One hundred coal operators of Vir- ginia and southerh West Virginia will form a $200,000,000 bituminous coal merger according to information made public yesterday. Representatives of these open shop organizations are planning a meet- ing for next Wednesday at the Wald- orf Astoria Hotel at which the pro- posed consolidation will be formally Joutlined. protesting students were taken ‘by the jingo professors. Adler and Schnissman had been carrying placards inscribed with the slogans, “Working Class Students: Fight Labor’s Battles in the Schools!” and “Working Class Students: Fight Imperialism!” Both placards were signed “Young Workers (Communist) League of America.” Their trial was |ing, rowing, and dancing. } ments will be servedgthruout the trip. At the destination there will be bath- Refresh- | It is reported that there has been an ’| unexpectedly large advance sale of tickets and an overflow crowd is ex- | pected. CLOAKMAKERS 10 SEND ORGANIZERS : Committee of | of 500 Shows} Great Activity After successfully concluding . the first steps towards launching the or- | ganization of the practically’ unor- ganized cloak and dress manufactur- | ing shops in the New York market by beginning the formation of the Volunteer Organization Committee of 500, the Cloakmakers’ National Or- ganization Committee yesterday made public decisions at its last meeting | to broaden out the campaign by ap- pointing three field organizers to ac- celerate the movement and coordin- ate the work in all cloak manufactur- ing centers. * Meeting Monday. A meeting of all those registered in the Organization Gommittee of 500 has been called for Monday evening, immediately after work in the office of the Joint Board, 16 W. 21st St. This meeting will concern itself mainly with the formation of basic units of ten committeemen each..Cap- tains will also be appointed accord- ing to the original plans of the gen- eral meeting of the Committee of 500. * * 300 LOSE JOBS FORT WILLIAM, Ont., June 15.— Three hundred men were thrown out of work here when the entire plant of the Fort William Paper Co. closed down without explanation and with- Set for the night court in the evening, (Continued on Page Two) out any word as to when it would reopen. | of Philadelphia, Hoover is of a dif- |ferent type of executive from the | Taft-Harding-Coolidge brand. Hoover is an engineer and efficiency techni- cian who, if elected next Noventber, would relate the White House more frankly and directly than ever before to the executive offices of the United States Steel Corporation. As secre- tary of coffimerce, since his appoint- ment by Harding in 1921, Hoover has devoted his talents to improving facil- ities abroad for the extension of iron- heeled Ame n imperialism. The shadow of Hoover was beside Gen, Smedley Butler at Nanking and is now | beside Brig. Gen. Frank R. McCoy in ae gua, where the marines are ely the bloodiest and most con- | egteatus expression of the incursions of American capital. So that similarly Hoover would relate the executive of- fice of the United States Government | more ®peply and directly than ever |to the executive office of J. P. Mor- gan & Co. MORE TAMMANY GRAFTERS OUT While sentence of those already| found guilty in the Tammany street) cleaning graft scandals for reasons is being postponed, three more men,’ all employed in Manhattan, were yes- terday dismissed from the depart- ment. The three are Henry M. Lawrence, of 57 Lexington Ave., Brooklyn, as- sistant foreman of section No. 8; George H. Lake, of 2 St. Andrews Place, Brooklyn, foreman of section 14; and Henry M. Gerraty, of 434 East One Hundred and Fifty-seventh St., the Bronx, foreman of section $0. How the Grafter Hides. Dismissal was announced by Com- missioner Alfred A. Taylor, believed to be the one higher up in the graft scandal and whom Mayor Jimmie Walker has been protecting. At the same time, Taylor (Continued on Page es \ ‘ c=