The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1928, Page 1

ee ee — } AGITATION MUST BE INTENSIFIED TQ FREE BELA KUN [eee Glaes wonkan pierre, | DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF ee UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A.LABOR ies ee A Anon vanry (| Vol. V: No. 143. T vublished daily except Sunday by The National Baily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. JAPAN READY TO Funds to Save HOLD MANCHURIA > AGAINST CHINESE Raises Fortifications at Strategic Points, will Close Door of Great Wall Position Will Be Defended “At Ane Cost,” as Protectorate Is Announced DARIEN, Manchuria, June 17.—Japan will hold Manchuria under a virtual “protectorate,” it was semi-officially declared here yesterday and a warning amounting to a war threat was issued against any attempt to dislodge® Entered as second-class matier at the Post Ofzice at New York, N. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE “Daily” Short . under the act of March 3, 1879. 18, 1928 $1676; Creditors Give 3 Days To the Readers of The DAILY WORKER. ‘This. Comrades: expiration of the ultimatum The DAILY WORKER, we Only $741.86 was received Saturday in the campaign to save our revolutionary organ. | Saturday evening at 6 p. m., the time of the essary to pull of creditors of Today. and This shortage of $1,676.17 of the sum nec- The DAILY WORKER out of this crisis which threatens its life. must be raised immediately. tomorrow are crucial days. Funds received now are twice as effective as were short by they would be at a later date. We urge the E DAILY WORKER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. 25 MINERS HELD FOR ATTEMPT TO ENTER OWN HALL Lewis-Fagan Machine Officials Padlock Meeting Room, Jeer at State Troopers’ Round Up FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Coal Diggers Miners Who Are Held $1,676.47 of the necessary funds. In negotiations with creditors Saturday night, an arrangement was reached by which the time for certain of the payments was extended. Some payments a‘e to be made Monday—today. Other payments can. be militant workers WORKER to respond as generously as pos- sible and quickly. 31, 676,47 Is t Urgent at halting the recently instituted Zar- her. The warning couched in the phrase that Japan will maintain peace in Manchuria “at any price” was issued by ~Yousuke Matsuoka, vice-president of the South Manchurian Railway, an official long connected with the Jap- anese foreign office at Tokio, and now holding a sort of unofficial post representing the Tokio government here, Prepares for Siege. | Japan has been active during the past week strengthening a number of strategic points which she will hold against attack. Preparations for closing the Great Wall at Shanhai- kwan, at the eastern end, have al- ready been made. Other preparations against attack are being rushed fran- tically by Japanese military officials. Referring to the Japanese position (Continued on Page Two) GOAL OF “DAILY” MUST BE REACHED Once in Crisis CA Sturdy the sum of $741.86 was received at the business office of The DAILY WORKER from loyal |. readers who have vowed to keep the paper from aestruction. In spite of the generous response of the DAILY WORKER army, a_ considerable amount is stil! n cessary if the paper is to remain alive. In order that the » goal of $10,000 be reached—a sum which must be paid to the paper’s creditors—$1,676.47. must be raised at once. Following are the names of the militant workers who contributed on Saturday: fe $6; Branch 5, Sec. 5, Bronx, N. Y., $13.75; Section 5, Branch 4, Bronx, N. Y., $70; Section 5, Branch 3, Bronx, N. ‘Jacob \Maximovich, Detroit, Mich., $5; A Group of Cloakmakers, Los Angeles, (Continued on pipeeetataiice Five) _ MILLINER PROTEST ~WEETING TONIGHT Call ‘Local 24 24 Members to Big Rally | Ym order to lay before the member- | ship of Millinery Local 24 the real reasons for the decision of the right |; wing general executive board of the | International Cloth Hat, Cap and Millingry Workers’ Union, to force} a fake amalgamation scheme upon - the members of Millinery Hand Work-' ers Local 43, and also to expose ail the other olan masking activities of the Zaritsky gang, a mass meeting is being called by the rank and file committee of local 24, The meeting will be held tomorrow evening im- mediately after work in Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 42nd St. . In a circular which the committee . intends to distributa thruout the market the committee calls upon the workers to attend the meeting and thereby take the first step toward itsky policy of removing from posi tions of leadership all those who clash with his policy of ‘surrender to the employers. ° The membership of local 24 are ap- pealed to stop “the scandalous con- duct of the members of their own executive board who are escorting A largest open shop men’s clothing man- |source of embarrassment for the Hill- | petitors in Philadelphia as reason for jeuts. KUN RELEASE RUMOR SEEN AS DECEPTION MOVE | World Workers Demand Prompt Release VIENNA, June 17. — The pres- sure of world-wide. agitation against the extradition of the Communist leader. Bela Kun, to Hungary, is be- | lieved to be responsible for a report here that Kun would soon be ,re- leased. His execution by ‘the reac. tionary terrorist government of Hungary is ¢onsidered/ certain if he is sent to that country, The report of an “expected” re- lease, which emanates from minister- ial circles here, is probably not based upcn any real intention to free the noted prisoner, but is very likely only an effort of the Austrian govern- ment to quiet the agitation which has produced seme embarassment to the government. It is not even claimed that the Communist leader of the Hungarian workers’ ‘will, be turned loose immediately, the goy- ernment stating that he will first: he given “a short term. in prison — passport irregularities.” - A.C.W. RIVAL SIGNS PHILA OPEN SHOP Beckerman. Is Avoiding Graft Searchlight By signing up the employers in the ufacturing area in the country, the United Garment Workers’ Union of the A. F. of L., severely aggravated the great “embarrassment” now being |felt by the Hillman administration in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, because of the daily exposures of corruption and graft in the New York Joint Board, The. two firms, the King Kard Overall Co, and the S, Abrams ~Co., both employing a total of 875 work- ers, signed contracts last Friday with {reactionary Rickert’s United Gar- ment Workers’ Union. This, while not meaning very much to the. workers involved, the U. G. W. being no better | than a company union, becomes /a man machine in the A. C. W.. This is because the New York bosses al- ways point to their non-union com- demanding more and more conces- sions, such as piece work and wage Instead of refusing the New. York bosses’ demands and beginning-an or- | ganization drive in Philadelphia, the Hillman machine has granted every on demand of the employers and done nothing to organize the open shops. Officials Know of Graft. The latest developments in the graft scandal in the New York Joint yeerted attempt by the 56 strike-bound | postponed’ until Tuesday if some Wednesday. A TEXTILE STRUGGLE ENTERS 10TH WEEK to Reopen Mills NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 17. -—Although it is believed highly im- probable that there will be a con- textile mills to reopen, organizational | activities for the mobilization of| strikers to the picket lines Monday morning was the chief task occupy-| ing the attention of the Textile Mills Committee yesterday. The ninth week of strike ends today. The picket lines are to be concen- trated around the few mills that have| stubbornly, though vainly, attempted | to resume partial operation with a} handful of setondary# foremen and| other straw bosses, These are the} Page Two) Last week (beginning June 10): Picket ‘Lines Balk Plan, necessary, and who vead The DAILY Today we have made good on one promise —that we would restore our revolutionary organ to the size which has been normal in the past—six pages. as it is impossible to give the workers the We must keep this up, necessary minimum of working class news, urday leaves information on the coal strike and the formation of the new union of the the textile strike, etc., with a The smallness of the amount received Sat- The receipts of the campaign up to Satur- day night ‘are: Week beginning June 5: and especially Monday ........ $ 161.99 Tuesday “...... 464.55 : Wednesday ..... 556.30 Bune WORSE Thursday ...... 576.60 \ Tour page Paper, Friday .... » 695.00 Saturday ...... 705.77 a dangerous gap. If The DAILY WORKER should fail to receive very substantial sums today and tomorrow, the resulting situation would be very precarious. you therefore, to rush every available dollar that you can possibly spare, by telegraph, airmail or special delivery, to The DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New Monday “..... 1,660.40 Tuesday 4 661.20 Wednesday F 712.65 Thursdayy, ...... 760.40 Friday .......7 716.81 i Saturday ...... 741.86 Total to last Saturday LL eae ec Raber Ae aig cra $8,323.53 York. Still to be raised . - 1,676.47 i be & Photograph shows last honors SANDING HAS 24. | To Challenge - Authority| of American Marines | TEGUCIGALPA, 17.—Twenty-four American prisoners, ; ineluding 18 U. S. marines are held captive by Augustin Sandino, leader of the Nicaraguan revolutionary forces. | This report was brought by Esteba Pavlevitch who arrived here today from Sandino’s headquarters in Ni- caragua, He also reported. that Sandino won} a pitched battle with marines June 11) at Zapote near Bacaye. The marines ee ns, and ieft a number of dead e field, including their com- mander, After June 14 Sandino will “no cept those owned by Spaniards and Latin Americans,” Pavlevitch said. (Continued on Page Two) Charge Against Fake Wool Co. Dismissed BOSTON, June 17. — The Federal Trade Commission announced yester- day that a complaint of the commis- sion against the Suffolk Knitting |Mills of this city, charging use of such labels as-“all wool” and “100 per cent all wool” to describe sweaters containing a large mixture of cotton, seabs to take the vlaces of the local 43 members out on strike.” The Zaritsky edict which declares local 43 non-existant and instructs the mem- bers of this organization to join lo- cal 24, which his clique controls, has met with the stiffest opposition from the members. They have called numerous strikes against employers oan’ to help Zaritsky. Many them were won, and this despi' : ’ holds here. has been dismissed by the commis- siop. Earhart Third of Wa: Over to- Ire Amslia Earhart, w who be es to be ‘ne first woman to complete a suc- ssfal flight across the Atlantic, was reported ra ite last night to be more RO EBCRSIR Crater lender ar ‘Ireland, her first stop. \ The informant stated that Sandino ne ane ee evclon. me WI e ful relop- ment of the rainy season he expected to fight under favorable conditions. national and formerly editer.of .The Daily. Worker. THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Last March of fs ca eens Working Class Fighter being paid to William D. Feantood, American Communist leader, and for many years at the head of the revolutionary labor movement in the United, States, who died recently in Moscow. At the left in the photograph is J. Louis Engdahl, rep- resentative of the Workers (Communist) Party tothe Communist. Inter- Chinese, Russian and other workers joined in the tribute. AUS, PRISONERS: CARPENTERS LAUNCH MILITANT PROGRAM Calling upon all carpenters and carpenters’ local unions to rally around a militant pregram and to elect delegates to the coming convention of the SPORTS FEATURE. AT “RED” PICNIC The Red picnic on June 24th will {follow the pattern of great demon-} strations such as the Russian work- ers make of their field days. The Russian sport festivals are Olympian in the best sense of the word, en- longer respect foreign properties ex-teoyraging the youth to develop skill and physical strength, endurance and intelligence such as the working class must have in Soviet Russia to with- stand the dangers which beset the First Workers’ Republic, Workers’ sport festivals, race tracks and fleet Continued on Page Two) Honduras, June United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, who will support this program, the Progressive Car- penters’ Committee of this city yes-| terd sued a warning of the dan- | ‘gers which the union is facing. “While the building industry is still near its production peak,” the call de- se tc there is prevalent throughout | he country acute unemployment.” Bes statement traces. the complete | revolution which has taken place in the building industry. “Today, build- ings are no longer put up; they are thrown together.” The use of sub- stitutes for wood, the ready made pro- duction of parts on a large scale with the consequent elimination of work- ers from the industry, constitute one of the chief issues the carpenters have to face, the call declares. A Real Program. The National Convention of the Carpenters’ Brotherhood will take (Continued on Page Two) OLD MILL TOWN HANGS ON TO LIFE Workers Face Starvation in Decayed North Carolina | Village AXAPAHAW, N. C., June 17 (FP).—Nearly 80 years of life to have lent little wisdom to the cotton mill village of Saxapa- haw, North Carolina. Trouble has come again to its 175 workers with the mill shut down by a broken dam, The company which took over the plant this year after two years complete closing, tried to continue with the old proce sraene dam across rushing Haw River. But mud piled up behind and fi- nally pressed down the rotting tim- bers, flooding the mill basement and stopping the two water wheels from which its electric power comes, Now only a few of the men have work repairing the dam while the rest of the village is idle—and hungrier than usual, Less Than $2 Day Average. When little over $2 a day is the average textile wage for the state, the average for a_ tucked-away place like Saxapahaw is always a | little less, And the week as long— | 65 hours, | “Yes, it is hard on us,” said a | woman spinner, “We don’t know when we can get back to work; maybe not foz three or four weeks,” With her husband wo--'>¢ Hn the cards” and. the oldes 14, al- ready in the spinning she has % roo } (Continued on Page, wo) bs in Jail Without Charge (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 17.—The arrest of 25 progressive miners at Avella last night and the padlocking of the hall owned by the | the local miners’ union whicl s ie been supporting the Save- OF MANY LANDS : Former Czarist Owners Directed Sabotage (Special Cable to the Datly Worker). | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., June 17, — With the examination of Deter, one of the engineers accused of ¢ sabotage in the huge Schachty trict conspiracy against the Soviet | Union, a new part of the trial was inaugurated. Upon investigation, it | was learned that all evidence so far |; collected point; to a body of cee counter’ - revolutionists center | around Charkov. Divdrathamnchile the chief power in control of the form- | er owners of the mines, was proven | to have had such confidence in Deter, that he continually sent him sabotage | instructions, The Soviet prosecution then went on to find that Pastuchov, manager of the mine, had continually communicated with Kusma and Schadlun in the Charkov central dis- trict. s- ; * Bet Deter was a representative to the | Charkov ‘central conferencesy He had previously been sent to the Berlin | trade conference as a representative | of the Donugal group. He denied, | however, that he had acted for sabo- | tage. But Matov, a member of the Charkov central committee, asserted that Deter had acted in favor of the sabotage in Berlin. Deter finally ac mitted that he nad received moi for his sakotage work from Dvor- began. He accused Bratanovsky of being among the leaders of the sabo- schanschik, Matov, and other counter- revolutionaries. The examination by Krylenko then tage crganization, And Bratanovs- ky, like a hardered criminal, accord- ing to reports, calmly admitted his conscious villainy. He said that he was anxious to satisfy the demands | ef the old eczarist owners, because} they paid very well for the work’ he was doing. He admitted receiving money from French former owners. He also asserted that he had received sabotage orders from Veter, The Charkov committee commissioned Bratanovsky to form plans whereby the work of the mines would be ob- structed and forced to continue idle. Bratanovsky had a very important (Continued on per hoge Ts) MONARY JOINS JN G. 0. P. BETRAYAL, N:Y. Communists Speed | Election Drive (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) | WASHINGTON, June 17. — The| republican landslide of betrayai of | the workers and farmers yesterday | swept up anc carried along ancther | retender to the position of spokes- man for agriculture when Serrator MeNary of Oregen, sidetracking the equalization fee plan of farm relief, announced his support of the Hoover- | Curtis ticket of Wall Street. MeNary, who was one of the chief movers in the agitation over the Mc- | Nary-Haugen bill announced his own | position after a conference with! Hoover, yesterday. Hypocrisy Exposed. Notwithstanding the fact that the republican platform blintly brushes | aside farm relief and that no one ex pects Hoover to .o any more for the fercmers than he will do for the in-! dustrial workers, MeNury after the meeting announced that he had found the republican candidate “sympathe- tic and anxious to believe in the dis tress of the farm population.” The real purpose of McNary’s meeting with Hoover became clear when Mc- | £ | | | | “(Continued on Page Two) X IN DONETZ PLOT. he-Union movement, is the!’ WHITE GUARDISTS Sie proof that the Fagan- fe ewis machine in the Pitts- burgh district is determined to lisreg: the will and rights of! the rank and file of the miners, it was seen here today. Arriving at the hall for a meeting called by the local |union, the miners found the hall padlocked and a group of Lewis men under the leadership of Wolcott, father of Carlisle Wol- cott, International organizer of the Lewis administration. It was later dis- overed that Wolcott hung the lock on he entrance. The Lewis machine men | jeered at the members of the Avella local, challenging them to hold the meeting in their hall, When Preston Henderson, a Negro progressive, attempted to force the lock, knowing that the hall belongs jto the Avella local, Wolcott summoned jfour state troopers and a number of |deputy sheriffs and induced them to place Preston Henderson under ar- rest, When the other progressive miners protested that the hall was theirs and they had a right to open it and hold their meeting, they, too, were arrested. State police were busy last night, calling at miners’ homes and arresting every person who ad- mitted having been in front of the hall during the disturbance, Kept in Jail. The 25 arrested miners were taken to the Washington county jail where officials refused to grant bail or to staté the charges under which the men were held. They will be confined the legal 48-hour limit without being charged, police officials announced. Wm. J. White, secretary of the Inter- national Labor Defense in the Pitts- argh district, left for Avella early to arrange for bond and defense of the 25 men. URGE FIGHT ON FASCIST TERROR Pilsudski “Excesses To Be Scored at, Meet Pointing out the existence of an in- ternational terrorist System by which Mussolini attempts to intimidate anti- workers in other countries, ne New York Section of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, 799 Broadway, inas issued yesterday, calls wpe the workers of New York to against these terrorist activ- ties and to wage an unceasing strug- gle against international fascism, The statement, signed by Rose |Baron, secretary of the New York |Section, follows: “Not gontent with oppressing the workers’ and peasants of Italy and torturing and murdering all those who voice the slightest protest against Mussolini’s black-shirted despotism, - Italian fascism reaches ont into other countries and conducts a systematic campaign of terrorism against ItaHan workers who pressume to oppose its blood-drenched rule workers of New York, the cap st stronghold where fascism in Italy and other countries receives (Continued on Wcaroieh Garin two) LETTER REVEALS SHLESINGER FAKE Further evidence has been cdteced by the New York Joint Board of the |Cloakmakers’ Union that the recent — \flourish of a fake amnesty made by | Benjamin Schlesinger, co-partner with Sigman in destroying the Internation- al Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Cnion, |was a bit of hypocrisy, in making |public a letter given to a worker by his boss, which shows that the war on the cloakmakers continues un- abated. Schlesinger recently declared that-he is halting es attack on the (Continued on Page Five) b ‘i gh i