The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1928, Page 3

a THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1928 Page Three Social Democrats and Stresemann Confer on Coalition in Secret Meeting 10 COLLABORATE WITH HINDENBURG ON MANY ISSUES Reach , Understanding With Meissner (Special to the Daily Worker) BERLIN, June 18.—Bargaining be- tween the social democrats and the capitalist “parties with a view to form- inz a coalition cabinet reached a new etage yesterday with the calling of a secret conference between Stresemann and. representatives of the democratic party. Secretary of State Meissner pressed to the delegates the desire of President von Hindenburg for the rap- id formation of a coalition cabinet. A full understanding is reported to have been reached during the meeting between Meissner and the social dem- ocratic representatives on all ques- tions of foreign policy, on the evacua- tion of the Rhineland and the navy question. Important economic issues are also said to have been discussed. GREEK SAILORS HELP WORKERS Mutiny When Rushed! Against Strikers- (Continued from Page One) ing Greek tobacco workers and the police at Saloniki, Kavalla and other centers, news that the crews of a number of warships Kave mutinied in the harbor of Lesbos, threatened yesterday to bring about a nationwide conflict between the workers and the troops, which the government is calling out all over the country. Railway service between Athens and the north, where the conflicts are raging has been suspended, following the walkout of the railway workers in sympathy with the striking tobacco, workers while the government is pre- paritig td run troop..trains..to..the north with engineers drafted from the armed forces themselves. Spread of the conflict thruout the entire nation in «nxiously awaited here as it is expected that the rank and file of the Greek Federation of Labor will force the immediate call- ing of a general strike. The crisis is heightened by the bill to declare the Greek Communist Party illegal and to make a penal of- fense the reading, or discussing ‘of labor literature and: to make punish- able with prison terms the mere dis- cussion of politics, economics~or re- ligion. + The Greek workers are enraged at the attempt to destroy the Communist Party which has strong roots among’ the laboring masses and it is believed that the passage of the bill will be the signal for a general disturbance | which may result in the disappear- ance of the present government. It is unofficially reported from sey- eral sections in the north that action | looking towards this end has already been taken. The federal government employes have already passed a resolution de- claring for an immediate walkout of the entire civil service as soon as the! illegalizing measure is passed. The present situation was precip. itated by government action in at tempting to employ force against the striking tobaceo workers at Kavalla., The tobacco strikers are demanding; Pieters the Ohio county grand jury jonly $505. recognition of their union and goy-:for a hearing on chargers of dyna- tors were the following: ernment prohibition of the export of unfinished tobacco, a struggle which: they have been carrying on for years with the federal government. The present: strike represents the first complete co-operation between the members of the two tobacco work- ers’ unions, between which the gov- ernment engineered a split, admitting one into the Greek Federation of La- bor and excluding the larger union, which is under Communist leadership. The men in both unions are now co- operating and an amalgamation is ex- pected under sasdalae control, CHICAGO LL.D. PICNIC SUNDAY CHICAGO, June 18. A large crowd Is expected at the Mioiite of the Chicago Local of the International Tabor Defense, to be held next Sun- day at Zahor Grove, Lyons, Til. Carl Haessler, managing editor of the Federated Press. will speak ‘about the Mooney and Billings and the Centralia cases. Dancing at the pienic will ecntinue far, into. might and elaborate preparations for “games “and amusements of all kinds beitig made by Hans Pedeeson os Steve. Rubicki, who are in charg es atin i oes j i si social ex- Mytilene, | ito the keeper. the’ “Maw” ‘Guynn By VERA BUCH. LANSING, Ohio, June. 18-~They | call her “Mother’ Guynn in thi jparts, but the name that suits her| best is the one she had yea go back in the Cumberland mount “Maw” Guynn. She is big and rugged | like those mountains—rugged and} strong and clean. Tall, raw- boned, | white-haired, sixty-three years old.} With a deep voice like a man’s i real soldier of a woman. But a soldier} of the proletariat, every drop of| blood in her, every thought of he mind, for the fight of the working! class. It’s Maw Guynn that put the pep into the fighting women of Lansing. She led them, 51 strong—and a hun- dred more wanted to come but could not find trucks to go in—in the march to St. Clairsville that put them in jail that famous 24th of April. \“They told us to take the children off lhe picket line,” Maw Guynn will tell you. “And we did take them off the picket line. Then they arrested us. {1 was all bruised up that “morning ‘from fighting with scabs. My fingers were chewed, and my knees were all eut up, and my arms were all black ‘and blue. Them state troopers just lined us up) and marchett the whole bunch of us women—51 of us—up to the jail. And we hadn’t done a thing, I tell you, not a thing. A mile and a quarter in the pouring rain, and them troopers pushin’ uS on all the time and hollerin’ ‘Step on, step on!’ “They herded us in three cells, 21 iof us, and the rest on the other side. We just wrang the water out of our clothes by the bucketfull.. We had to sleep in turns. on ‘the iron floor, with nothing but a thin cotton blanket under us and one over us. Them-eells was the filthiest thing I ever laid my eyes on. And the food! We couldn’t eat a bite. A lot of garbage with roaches swimmin’ in it. We sent for a big slop pail and we scraped all the food into it. Then we handed it out ‘Here, Douglas’, I’ says, ‘If you know anybody that keeps pigs, here’s something you can give him for them. It aint fit for us to eat and we aint goin’ to eat it.’ ” | She comes of fighting stock, does Mother Guynn, Scotch-Irish, from the Maryland mountains. Her father was a miner and a Molly.MacGuire. He died early and her mother took in| washings to keep her log cabin home and bring up her family. Maw Guynn’s brothers and _pneles and sons} are all miners and union men. “I was always a fighter,” says Maw. Guynn, “But somehow or other, I never got Ww th an \ Eye to Latin American Conquest jand go out and fight. The Ireland am- phibian, shown in the picture @ new type of plane developed under ‘the watehful eye tof American mili- It can fly in the air, float on the water and taxi on the land, Leads the is ry tarism. Mine Women of Lansing right out into the thing as I did in jthis strike. What changed me? Well, | maybe it was when they put my two|war threat against’the Soviet Union: boys in jail that did it, I don’t know. IT used to alwa jand sew patch-work quilts. Never ns—just| went out nowheres,—you just couldn’t | And} get me away from them patches, my_ lands, I was sick all the time! But now that I’ve got out fightin’ and organizin’ like this, I don’t know! a sick day. cleanin’ my house, either, used to. I used to think, if I didn’t nop up that kitchen floor every day, something terrible’ would happen. But now—now I just leave everything Pappy, he cleans up the place and washes the dishes. My boys don’t have a clea shirt to their backs half the time, but’ they don’t.care. I just want to go out and FIGHT all the time!” “Tm the only American woman in this town that ain’tstickin’ with Lewis,” Mother Gaynn will tell you to her sorrow. “They talk about Hunkies, but believe me, it’s the Hunkies that’s doin’ the fightin’ in this strike, and I stick with them. And if it comes to that, I think the Hunkies will have to go out and teach the Americans what’s good for them.” It is when she talks to the Lewis men that Maw Guynn’s best fighting spirit reveals itself. A steely gleam comes into her light brown eyes and a threatening ring to her deep voice. “You poor miserable, low-lived things,” she says to them. “Do you mean to tell me you've signed over to John L. Lewis after he’s robbed you and sucked the life blood out of you all these years! Just because he promised you a dollar a week more for relief, And you won't even oot the dollar. I’ye seen the time in this strike when we didn’t have a erumb! of food in our house for four days together. And did John L. Lewis help us? Don’t you ever come near me with any of your dirty yellow-dog Lewis papers,” she shouts, shaking a) powerful fist in their faces. “If you do I'll smash your face in so you'll never ‘see again.” No yellow dog paper will ever come near Mother Guynn. She is feared by the Lewis gang in town as much as_she is respected by the Save-the- Union people. We take off our hats to her, to “Maw” Guynn, the fighting leader of the mine women. Sisters of the working class everywhere, let us follow her! Let us leave our kitchens and in them our fears and sorrows of the past. Let us organize and join the fight of all the workers for the freedom of our eel BROBB, FRAMED ~ MINER, ON TRIAL Machinery in in Motion to! Railroad Worker | WPEELING. W, Va., June 18; | Machinery in one of the most vic’ou frame-ups perpetrated eainet a! orl during recent years, will be pit in motion Tyesdavy when Frank } Brobb, Triadelphia striker, appears) miting three houses shkelter’ne non- ‘vnion miners employed by the Elm Grove mining comnany. Pare Beame-Un, Information which proves ehorges to be a carefully engineered | ‘freme-up, is in the possession of the | defense. Revelations of an elabor- |) ute spy system to keopmtrack of the blast which he is aecused of hav- ing touched off, may be made by the | defense at the grand jury hearing. Brobb was arrested shortly after | the explosion and beaten to a point | p; neay death by State Trooper E. W.: Mavingo who attempted to force a confession of guilt from the striker. Vazingo’s brutality was openly ad- mitted by County Prosecutor A. C. Sehiffler, in an interview lug a de- fense representative. Capitalist “Justices.” If Brebb names anyone of those | who participated in framing him, he | also exposes himself to charges of | conspiracy and the danger of a long- er jail sentence by a peculiar provi- sion of the “Redman Act” which ht part of the West. Virginia penal ne le. | By holding this threat over the ‘d le | fense, mining company officials hope’ to save themselves from being ex- posed, Flashlights, used to signal long distances over black hillsides to wain spies of Brobb’s approach, figure in the elaborate apparatus em- sleyed in the effort to railroad. the - jae \ Brobh’s movements on the night of Hpi.) | Sand, TRIBUTE TO ‘DAILY’ IN MANY LETTERS Workers Tell « of Paper’s Significance (Continued from Page One) lout of danger. More sacrifices must be made to keep the workers’ paper ‘alive, Yesterday’s totaled | contribu- contributions Among the stick in the house | And I don’t spend time | the way I! American Militarism’ s Latest B Bombing Glory THOUSANDS OF ARMY MEN GET “RED” LEAFLETS Young Workers Active. in Many Cities (Continued from Page One) ; Sioned officers, and the right to vote |and to join unions and political or- | ganizations. It concluded with the appeal: “Refuse to act against the | workers in strikes! Refuse to be a [policeman for the - bosses! | your fellow workers in th jgles for better conditions! The JC-4 York to advertise the giant dirigible is the latest _for long bombing flights. POLICE ATTACK ALLEGHENY MEET \Miners Enthusiastic in All Sections In spite of the fact that the dis-| tribution covered a period of more; than two hours, and that it soon be- | came known to the officers and the} military police, the 4eague members| worked so efficiently that \none of them were arrested. hee Youth Active in Duluth. rTITUTH, June 18.—Hundreds of | leaflets were distributed by six mem- vers ot the Young Workers (Commu: | nist) League to soldiers of the 125th | Field Artillery regiment as they were | leaving this city for summer prac- tice at Sparta, Minn. The soldiers | read them with great interest, and some revealed this by personal con- versation with League members who|, (Continued from Page One) took part in the distribution. | sub-district ~ officials; Hugh 7 eee leaflet ridiculed the “wonder-}gerty as district bo ul life” promised by recruiting offi- i ,, istri t cers and,stated that the League has Joe Tashinsky as sub-district organ: nothing so enticing to. offer .as«the | !2e?-, false promises of the military =au+|’ A similarly successful peritias Then oy appeal was made}of the Cartiers Valley section, sub- 0 the service men to read the “Youn; 5th, Worker” and The DAILY WORKER, district 2, held on Friday, Jase ae which have special departments for at Cannonsburgh, also. endorsed the the enlisted men and are the only|call for a natioral convention, newspapers really defending their in-' district terests, military tow Hag- conference elect- ing Frank Note as board * * * Attack Militarists in Concord. CONCORD, N. H., June 18.—Ex- cellent anti-militarist work, is being Be es ae Sie, Bul idee yeoman ing today at. McDona'd, and the Ells mis’ League in es oncor an Rive Newport, and stickers exposing the | worth RE ORB imei) nature of the ' Citizen's Military | district conferences to be held tomor- Training Camps have caused much | row, are also expected to support ‘the worry to the “patriotic” business men} call for a national miners convention of these towns. Leaflets are bai g | and new mrenoe distributed to the workers showing! that the C. M. T. C. is a part of the military preparations of American} capitalism to use the working class as cannon fodder for the interests of their exploiters, In July, many young workers will be taught the art of murder and sub-} jected to capitalist propaganda in the) C, M. T. C.; but nevertheless the mili-| tary authorities and the capitalists are not enjoying themselves—for they see much of their work being undone by the anti-militarist efforts of the Communists, secretary of re- organized district states. that the | Panhandla section \conference meet-| Tom Myerscough, sub- * Third baie Responds. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) McDONALD, Pa., June 18. — An| enthusiastic and suce2s"ul sub-dis trict conference was hel here yes- | terday at which 50 delegates were present from 17 out of 24 locals in the sub-district. The biggest locals were all represented. Creat enthusi- asm was expressed over the call for the national miners convention to be held in September. Tom Ray was elected district board member and Robert Baird was elect- | ed sub-district organizer, DOLLAR VOL E LOWER. 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Send $1.50 to: shown i the picture as it sailed ever downtown New ship of this type, which is especially adapted d member andj member and Ben Audia as organizer. | tions in steel plants showed smaller | The volume of new building contracts | - COLOMBIAN PHONE ‘STRIKE RECEIVES WIDESPREAD AID Workers Raise Money to Continue Fight BOGOTA, |scriptions r: the Cc June 18 — Large sub- all sections sed of ing class en- nee of the telephone been-tying up serv- for some time ™ sure the cor strike which ice her of the author upon the strik- orce them back of the work- r leaders state, ettlement of the In spi s to bring pre in an. effoy |to th rnament at Governor's Island. The I of the telephone com- y g a determined effort mash the strike but haye se far Debacle orttbicy c There is reported to be wileswread | popular panpore of the strike. VIENNA BANISHES jeasualty list from the- explosion | aboard the Columbian gunboat Her- jcules in the Magdenela River at 63.| - REPORT 63 DEAD IN SHIP BLOW- P. ‘only 22 Membéra of Crew Survive | | BOGOTA, -Columbia, June 18. (Svecial to The DAILY WORKER.) The Hercules belonged to the| . BERLIN, June 18. — Complete Columbian’ river fleet and was cruis-| violation of the right of asylum for ing in when the bviler| foreign political fugitives has been | burst, ig to reports received j ffected by the Austrian government here. 2 members of the in the banishment from that coun- id. }try of the Communists, Lukaes and Szekely. Despite the fact that the charges ainst the two men were complete- refuted, the order for deportation being enforced, Another Communist, mains in Aw jwere saved, the war mini | Very few bodies have been: rec CRISE INDEX DE ‘ The general index of Srholonall prices again declined from the pre- |vious week, but was well above the level of a year ago. 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