The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1928, Page 2

Page Two HALL SURRO BY SHERIF F AR Many Confer ences Take Over Union DAILY i vo (Special to Th PITTSBUR Cooperation ministration with fort to block t ing control of their loc WOR action of the ¢ troopers who of the cording to infor today, Building | The sub-district led for the purpose « the sub-district to ies th sive policies adopted by t convention held on May Pittsburgh, and to elect new district officials. The call for conference was issued b: erscough, secretar, district 5, imme trict convention and sub-district 1 clected When the delegates a the hall of the Harw one of the prog ve locals of the Pittsburgh d they were con fronted by eleven deputy sheriff four state troopers and a s warned them that they would not be allowed to proceed with the confer- ence. at| kk local union, Many Corferences. The meeting was the f sub-district conferences within a week trict in ord to put the decisions of the district convention, eusted the Lewis administration of- ficials, into effect. Secretary Myers- cough expressed the belief that Fa gan, with the aid of the police, would | attempt to break up the other sched-| uled conferences, but Myerscough de- clared that the progressive miners will go through with the conferences despite all interference. ied to meet MCNARY JOINS IN G. 0. P. BETRAYAL. N.Y. Communists Speed Election Drive (Continued from Page One) Nary announced that he would have nothing further to do with any “bolt” in behalf of the agricultural week. * * * N. Y. Communists Active, With the record of the ublican | betrayal of the wor 's and: farmer: already written in + platform and with the ecually certain ‘etrayal by the ‘democrats only a few cays off, the Workers (Communist) Party ves terday announced an intensificatio: of its election activities, In a statement issued by the cenira lt executive of the Party, an appeal| *was issued to all members and sym-| pathizers to speed up the agitation | and propaganda for the campaign. Red Picnic Ahead. The New York state campaign wil! open with the Red Pienie scheduled for Pleasant Bay Park next Sunday. This event will mark, it the greatest combined and out-door outing in of the Ne York labor At this political ral enly nearly every in of the Wor but there will be seen as well amo: Cae many thousands who will attend the larger body of workers who to- I day are leading the struggle fur mil- itant policies in practically every union and who will play toe leading role in the great tasks before the American working el Sports Will Bé Featured at Red Picnic (Continued from Page One) runners, endurance tests and skill in juggling and wrestling, in games and athletic matches are the forerunners of training for the Red Army. And with this the Russian workers have learned to turn their sport meets, pic- nies and athletic games into great workers’ festivals. The Red Picnic on June 24th at Pleasant Bay Park is to be the first sport festival,of this kind. Pleasant Bay Payk is being made ready for the meet, it is announced. Trainman Killed on Car |, \ Falling beneath a heavy roll of con- crete re-erforcing iron wire on a/ freight car which was being backed into the New oYrk Central railroad yards early yesterday morning, Wil- liam Slocum, 39, a trainman, was kil- led when the roll of wire toppled on him, drushing him to the floor of the |’ car, uire whe | st of seven | n the Pittsburgh dis. |! which | | port | redhanded in e Farmers Get Cold Sh AAT UGily THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE. 18, 1928 oulder from G. 0. P. Convention After police had thrown a farm dele- gation out of the re. publican convention hall for protesting against the nomina- tion of Hoover a sop was thrown the far- mers in the shape of the Curtis vice- presidential candi- Photo shows of farmdelegation the dacy. members the picketing con- vention, APENTERS GALL’ | Ba jLaunch Plans for Next Convention (Continued trom Page One) otember but delegates are elected. The Progres- ters’ Committee has a program to meet not only g on in the industry on shop drive of the em-| ng place but the at- n officials who dur- 's have conduct- | rsecution and | ainst all progressive nst progressive local junions and r bers. The great majority of the members |look upon the union not any more as ja means of protection, but merely jsomething that takes from them a jcertain portion of their wages’ every {three months for being allowed to | work in the trade. They are gradu- lally rea g that they can obtain work without belonging to the union and are, therefore, dnjfting away from the Brotherhood, At’ the same time, | the Brotherhood is securing a decreas- | ing number of new members. On the contrary, it is pointed out, the officers of the union are using their powers to demolish the organ- ization even further, The charge is made that: Record of Destruction. “Since the last National Convention the outstanding events can be record- ed: (1) In Denver the men were driv- | en to work on the dld basis after a} signal victory for the 5-day week. | (2) In Detroit the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America | ned to keep the old adminis- | tration in power. (3) In New York the Di, ct Council was given sup- in upholding the former officials | 21 Union 2717 who were caught | tealing the funds of the j Local Uni The charter of Local! Union 376 was revoked on flimsy “constitutional” grounds. (4) In Chi- zo the steal of the District Council etions was given official approval. 5) In the San Francisco District, the | ike against the open shop drive was | taken over by the National adminis- | tration and the result was a miserable | failure. (6) Throughout the country | members have been arbitrarily framed up, fined and expelled because of their stand for the rights and privileges of the membership. | place it f Le GRESSIVES | for $2 | Sanderson has been named as mas- Expel Student for “Cutting” College Chapel OSTON, June 17.—Demanding her reinstatement and claiming intrigue in her expulsion from Wheaton College, Miss Bertha Lud- wig, of West New Brighton,\S, I., has brought suit in Supreme Court 000 damages. Benjamin ter, Miss Ludwig charged that she had been expelled for the reason that the college dean and two stu- dents did not “like her.” The charges, against her are that she made “unnecessary noise” in her room after 10 p. m., cut ‘chapel room, She was to have been graduated from Wheaton College this month. OLD MILL TOWN HANGS ON TO LIFE | Workers “There Face Starvation (Continued from Page One) no savings to live on in an emer- gency. Six young mouths to feed besides the parents. 15 years at | this place, except during the shut- down when they became tenant farmers. Saxapahaw’s old houses are not the showplaces of ‘southern mill men’s bragging. For years nothing has been done to them, They scramble over the hillside above the mill on rutty red clay roads. Most of them have little trace of past paint coats on their plain boards. Some of the workers have tried to hide with bits of gardens and flow- er boxes but others stand nakedly out of the wild grass. Decay. f True the company has promised new “covers” and “talks about bringing water to the houses.” The one newiy finished room shines out with its new shingles and makes its neighbors look more than ever shabby. Workers draw water from hillside springs, into which drain- age from houses above seeps down “The followi ing program is proposed ifying platform for all pro-| d we urge the nomination } mn of delegates on the basis! hour weck, Weekly i ma in A tho ame as before. | Uniform Building Trades agree- | jments ® expite at the same time and | to include the clause: “ONLY UN-| MADE MATERIAL TO BE 'D.” All agreements to be rati-| fied by a vote of the membership. “3. Job control through a steward | to be elected by the men on the job. | This to eliminate indiscriminate hire | and fire by the bosses and to elim- | inate the speed-up system. “4, Joint drive with all other un- ions to organize the unorganized with | the slogan, “A 100 Percent Organized | Industry.” | “5, United action with all other | crafts for the enforcement of wage | scales and union working conditions, | “6. For a state unemployment fund to be administered by local un- tons. “7. To call a national conference for the amalgamation of all Building Trades International Unions. “8. Mass violations of all injune- tions in labor disputes, struggle against the enactment of the Federal Anti-Strike Law and for a LABOR PARTY based on the labor unions. "0. Demooracy in our union with jfull. expression of opinions without \discrimination, restoration of revoked jcharters and full reinstatement of all | members expelled for their opposition to Hutcheson. “10, For limitation of the powers of the general president, and for a convention every two years.” Support Appeals, The call ends with the reminder that there are pending before the com- oa —just as in old times. An old for- mer resident sees little change in the town from Civil War days. One old house, still occupied, he remembers sent five workers to the mill in the 560s. One went off to war with his father, a farmer. The Saxapahaw mill was one of four in Alamae county operating when the Civil War began. When it was founded in 1849 it was one of the earliest cotton mills in the south, The mill still makes ginghams, bleaching, dyeing and finishing in its own small plant, It ships by truck to the nearest railroad, over 10 miles away. Alamac. county boasts of 21 small mills similar to Saxapahaw and many of them on the same Haw river, hidden away in farming sections off the main highways. Heflin, Klan Employe, Unhurt as Stand Falls SYRACUSE, N. Y., June 17. Thousands of people, gathered around a wooden platform from which Sen- ator J, Thomas ‘elfin, speaking in the pay of the ku klux Klan, against Al Smith, big business’ alternative with Hoover for the presidency. tee ing convention the appeals of a num- sépvices, and burned incense in her | 4 | | | | | i | | ‘ { JAPAN READY 10 HOLD MANCHURIA AGAINST ATTACK | Raises Fortifications at Strategic Points (Continued from Paye One) |in Manchuria, Matsuoka did not hesi- tate over the fact that Japanse con- trol there was intended to be per- manent. “Call it a protectorate, if you will,” he said. Embarrassing—But “T admit this is little to put us in an-embarrassing position, but Man- churia is our first line of defense,” he, declared further, “but there are times when a firm attitude is essen- tial and:this is one of them.” While this attitude of Japan was being enforced through the “unof- ficial” declaration. of Matsuoka, the so-called Nationalist government made public a request of the United States government for the negotiation of a new treaty which will revise the existing agreements between the two countries. This is seen as a virtual request for recognition from the Washington government. The request is based on the recent statement by the U.S. that, she, would recognize any responsible government at Kek- ing—meaning, of course, any govern- ment which would repress the work- ing class and peasant revolutionary movement. * * * Bids for Support. NANKING, June 17—The so-called Nationalist government made 9g further bid for the support of the imperialist powers here yesterday by promising a continued campaign against the Communists and left wing labor organizations. TEXTILE STRIKE OPENS 10TH WEEK Plan Big Picket Lines for This Morning (Conttnued from Page One) Whitman, Wamsutta, Page, Sharp and Hathaway mills. It is gen¢rally conceded that the utter failure of these plants to reopen successfully, due to the picketing demonstrations, is the only thing that discourages the bosses from attempting the ges- ture of a general reopening. Admit Success of Picketing. Even the officials of the A. F. of L. Textile Council are now using the picketing tactics of the T. M. C Formerly they had made statements to the press ridituling the picketing | of mills ‘which their owners had said would not be reopened. This change of front was made when they saw that picketing was rallying increas- ing thousands of strikers to member- ship in the T. M. C., while the council lost continually in influence. Jackson W. Wales, a second year student. in Harvard University, who for sometime has been associated | with the Textile Mills Committee, | pleaded not guilty to two charges of ; disorderly conduct: He will come up for ‘trial’ Monday. Bosses’ Relieved of Texas. While the city politicians’ at the head of>the charity boards and also of the relief committee organized by the A. F. L. union are declaring that ' there are no funds for strikers’ re- lief, the city government of New Bedford announced that 22 of the | city’s 26 textile corporations have | been granted an abatement of 1926- | 1927 taxes amounting to a total of | $243, 922. URGE FISHT ON ~ FASCIST TERROR (Continued from Page One) its greatest financial support, must carry cn an unceasing struggle against this modern inquisition, which has discovered tortures more subtle and terrible than were ever dreamed of by the professional torturers of the middle ages. Fascism is con- fined not to Italy alone, but rages in Hungary, Poland, Spain und other lands; with the active support of all other capital countries, partic. ularly tho United State: A blow against the fascism of 1 is a blow against fascism the world over. On Tuesday, June i9 at 8 p. m., a meeting has been arranged by the Committee Against Polish Fas- ber of union members whose cases | ¢i8m to protest against the sentenc- should receive the support of all del- | ing of 87 members of the White Rus- egates, These are the appeals of Fred Bobzin of Chicago, Bud Reynolds of Detroit, Joseph Lapidus of New York City ani carpenters are urged to elect delega' who favor this program. Those wl know of any grievances are secdtiented to send information to the Progres- sive Carpenters’ Committee, Room 811, 96 Fifth Ave, New York City. 4 y Local Union 876, The | . ternational Labor Defense calls upon ‘terms in Pilsudski’s dungeons. The meeting will be held in Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. The In- all class-conscious workers of New York to show their solidarity with the victims of fascisms all over the world by attending this great protest meet- ing.” + Photo shows Herbert C Wall Street. Hoover's wife is sho Chosen by Wall Street to-Fill Cal’s Shoes 7. Hoover, picked at the tion at Kansas City to fill the shoes of Cal Coolidge as the servant of rine Aids Police Break Up Mine Conference in District Five publican conven- wn at left. also the climb, porches and enter houses thru the windows for a living. Rifle Desks. This was demonstrated when the left wing leaders of the akers’ Union here entered tue union head- quarters and found the doors, win- dows and desks jimmied open and papers strewn about in great con- fusion. Every, availabla depository for records und documents had been rifled. However, nothing. more valuable than the charter of affiliation to the international was in the office. This they took. This is the second step in the cam- paign of Zaritsky and his clique- controlled general executive board to bi powerful under its militant leader- ship. After failing in attempts to ,re- move the leadership by special elec- tions, in which Zaritsky candidates were soundly spanked by the mem- bership, Zaritsky tried a‘ ‘putsch’ a la Mussolini. This oceurred last Thurs- day at a union membership meeting, | Zaritsky came to this meeting armed with a ukase by the general execu- tive board which gave him the author- ity to remove the legally elected lead- ership of the union and replace it benchmen. Fails in Coup d’Etat. Despite the squad of police he came prepared with, Zaritsky was forced by’ the membersHfip to leave the hall. With the few that followed him out Zaritsky held a meeting in another hall and announced that the handful of right wingers that met with him are now the new officials of the union. Zaritsky’s latest exploit, while of an extremely low ¢haracter, fails to measure up to the less spectacular and yet more vicious work he him- self is doing, He is drumming at the doors of all the bosses here and is promising them Alluring conces- sions at the workers expense — if from the union that receives the memberships’ support. Take the DAILY WORKER With You on Your Vacation Keep in touch with the strug- gles of the workers while you are away on your vaca- dion. This summer the Hlec+ country |’ sian Hromada Party to. long. prison. tion Campaign will be in full swing. The DAIRY WORK- ER will carry up-to-the-min="” ute news concerning thé” campaign of the Workers ~ (Communist) Party in. the various states, * Daily cable news service from the World Congress of the Communist International which opens soon in Moscow. Vacation Rates 2 weeks 65c 2 months $1.50 1 month $1 3 months $2 . Enclosed find $. months subscription weeks , to The DAILY: WORKER, : Name .. Street ' State .. DAILY WORKER 26-28 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK, N. Y. reak up a union that has grown] they would Lut withdraw recognition | § PORCH CLIMBING NEW TACTICS OF ZARITSKY BOSTON, June 17%—In his efforts to destroy the Boston Capmakers’ Local 7, Max Zaritsky, president-of the Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union, shows that not only will he use the assistance of the ee ae ate moles, but services of gentlemen who — ACW RIVAL SIGNS PHILA, OPEN SHOP | Beckerman WouldAvoid Graft Searchlight (Continued from page one)” Board. of the Amalgamated is the statement printed in the socialist Jewish Daily Forward by A. Becker- man, itt which he declares that any- one else found to be connected with the taking of* graft will be driven \from the organization. Beckerman makes this statement despite the proof offered in the graft exposures that this elaborate graft apparatus eould not have existed without the knowledge of the highest officials ‘of the New York Joint Board. Beckerman is manager of the ‘New York Joint Board. The proof of this is found in’ the fact that when the graft ring took money from employers who wanted to ship cut material for manufacture graft fyom scab shops for providing them with work, this transfer of graft could not have been accom- plished without the knowledge of the officials of the Cutters’ local and of the New York Joint Board heads. ~ with appointees from among his own{in seab shops, and when they took. goods to and from the two sources of | ‘ers. Further revelations were, that WHITE GUARDISTS OF MANY LANDS . IN DONETZ PLOT Former Czarist Owners Directed. Sabotage (Continued from page one) position in the Donugal Trust Co, He stated that the majority of his fel- low officers and engineers are mem- hers of the sabctage organization. He claimed that he had been elected to the Soviet after the February revo- lution, and because of this he claims he had the friendship of the workers. His membership in the Soviet ceased after the October revolution. He described the Charkov central body, its methods of finance, its structure, ete. The high position of Bratanovs- ky and the rest of the plottérs in the Dunugal enabled them to form an ef- ficient sabotage. Sent Reports to Former Owners. The Charkov central body super- vised this sabotage, and sent re- ports of its progress to the former congress and council of South Rus- sian imperialist mine owners abroad. The aim of the central body was to gain influence over trade and union leaders and arouse discontent among the workers. For this purpose it re- esived monéy from the former White Gnardist owners of the mines, In this scheme the French industrialists also gave financial aid. Bratanovsky stated that German firms were also involved in the financial aid for the project against the Soviet Union. » Aim Counter;Revolution. The further examination of Brata- novsky confirms these methods and aims of the sabetage organization. He said that the central body ar- ranged the sabotage, communicated with Paris and Warsaw anti-Soviet organizations and with the central bodies of German firms, He admit-/ ted that the aim of the conspiracy was to execute an economic and pol- itieal counter-revolution with the ultimate goal of overthrowing the Soviet control of the mines. Tn order to accomplish this, he stat- ed, there had been an intensive study on the part of the. treacherous or- ganization of the Soviet , economic and political situation of the Russian Communist Party. In replying to Krylenko he said that the organi- zation had established contacts with — foreign governments which had sup- plied the moncy for the venture. The central body, he confirmed, had kept both Poland and France posted on the mine situation. The intervention and complicity of these foreign countries in the plot had greatly helped the, sabotage. There had been extensive sabotage propaganda spread among the worl Bleiman, the director of the Russian department, had promised him 10,000 rubles. The Organiza tasks? everyday Party work.” ings, ete. By bed PIATNITSKY : 15 Cents What are the various sections of the Communist Interna- tional doing? Germany, France, U. S., England, Italy? What ave their achievements, shortcomings and future B. Vasiliev, reviewing this pamphlet in the May 1 issue of the Communist International, says: “Every active member of every Communist Party in cap- italist countries must have a copy of Comrade Piatnitsky's little book among the number of absolutely necessary handbooks on Order from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 89 EAST 125th STREET, NEW YORK CITY. TO ALL QUR READERS: PATRONIZE OUR OER Do not forget at all times to mention that are a reader of The DAILY WORKER. 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