The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1928, Page 1

a | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 145. Wublished daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. AMERICAN MINE OWNER INVOLVED IN DONETZ PLOT Krijanovsky Uénaseator: Res 300 Rubles a Month igs Dideived a Salary of, from U. S. Capitalist ‘ Forced to Admit His Guilt After Severe Cross-, Examination by Krylenko MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., June 19.—Engineer Krijanovsky, ac-| cused of criminal sabotage in the huge Donetz conspiracy against | the Soviet Union, admitted upon examination yesterday that he} had been paid a salary of 300 rubles ($150) @ month by an| American firm known as® “Enterea as second-class matter at Fund to Save the Daily Worker the Post Office nt New York, ou NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1928 nder the act of March 3, 1879. Lacks $695, Must Finish Today Stuart’s, and that he had parti-| cipated in the plot to destroy the | coal industry of the U.S. S. R. His admission of guilt fol- iowed a long statement against him by Prosecutor Krilenko of | the Soviet Government, who had | accused him of having contin-| ually backed the American Stuart | firm in preference to that operated by the Soviet Union, in consideration: of the monthly salary. Following the adjournment of the irial this afternoon, the American, Stuart, in a statement to American newspaper men tried to excuse his action by asserting that he had mere- ty paid the Soviet engineers “in strict accordance with the terms” of their sontract, ard for nothing more. CONFER ON PLANS TO FOOL VOTERS Hoover, Curtis Meet; Borah Backs Ticket WASHINGTON, June 19. — Plans for spinning the great web by whic’: millions of votes will be lured to the side of American capitalism’s effici- ency engineer were discussed — this afternocn at the first conference be- _ tween Herbert Hoover and Senator for” dent and vice-president, respectively, of the republican party. A formal conference will be held Thursday with the republican national committze. Tentative plans call for an ex- tensive stump-speaking tour by Curtis, who is expected to concentrate on the farmers. Among those who visited Hoover at his home today were Secretary Mellon, millionaire boss of the repub- lican party, and Senator Borah, al- leged “progressive” and “insurgent” who expressed. great satisfaction with the republican ticket and of- | fered to stump in its behalf. Smith to Pick Successor. Al Smith will take a little time! eff from his personal campaign for the democratic presidential nomina- tion to name the Tammany Hall can- | didate for his job as governor of New imerged itself with the 50 pickets Relief W York state. Among those mentioned as likely candidates for the Tammany rewar of the governorship is Aldermani President Joseph V. McKee, who was active in putting thru the traction betrayal and also backed the bus franchise sell-out to the Morgan con- trolled Fifth Avenue Bus Co, Another possible choice is Con- troller Charles W. Berry, .a close friend and admirer of Governor Smith and one of the most faithful servants of Tammany Hall. MUST HEED LAST CALL OF “DAILY”: Workers Ureed to Make Final Effort Today The last ealt for contributions to ‘raise the $10,000 fund to save The|the place of an experienced dough) DAILY WORKER is out today. * This will be a final test of the devotion of the class-conscious workers of this country to their fighting “Daily.” Only $475.10 was. received yesterday, leaving 695.89 still to be raised by 6 o'clock this evening. Workers, what will be your answer? After so many heroic sacrifices, you must not fail at the end! The following contributions ‘Were re- ceived yesterday: Lithuanian Fraction, $69; J. B. Col- ‘tins, NYC, Fy MILL COMMITTEE DEFIES BARONS. | TO OPEN PLANTS Continue Court Terror) Against Pickets | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 19. —Responding to the news made pub-| lic yesterday that the cotton manu-| facturers’ association “threatens” to reopen the 56 mills shut down by the | To the Readers of The DAILY WORKER. WEG eases ss 695.00 Comrades: Saturday :...... 705.77 Yesterday’s receipts in the campaign to Last week (beginning June 10): save The DAILY WORKER were $475.10. Monday 1,660.40 Today is the last day allowed by the ulti- Tuesday 661.20 matum of creditors under the terms of which Wednesday 712.65 these creditors refuse to continue the me- Thursday 670.40 chanical production of The DAILY WORKER PU o's 50.05.08 716.81 — unless we complete the raising of the $10,000 Saturday ....... 741.86 before tonight. This week: As these words are being written a mes- Monday 505.48 sage was again delivered from these credi- ‘Tuesday. cei. 6d 475.10 tors who insist on an answer to the question ————- whether this is to be the last issue of The Total to last night ...... $9,304.11 DAILY WORKER. Must raise today .......... $695.89 Our reply is: No! must be successful. must live and fight. We have come within less than $700 of the total of $10,000 which we are obliged to have raised before the end of this day. The receipts of the campaign up to last night are: Week beginning June 3: This is not going to be the last issue of The DAILY WORKER. The splendid response. of the militant workers de- termined to save their revolutionary paper The DAILY WORKER ing-class friend: ance rades, sympathi urged to bring fice (the office will contribute before this day is done. office will remain open tonight until the bal- is received. This $695 we are sure the militant work- is of The DAILY WORKER The Today we urge all com- zers, working class friends to do their best to carry us over ‘the crisis. New York City comrades and friends are the funds directly to the of- in the Workers Center at 26- 28 Union Square) of The DAILY WORKER. All others are shana $ pen 00 graph, air mai Wednesday 556.: 30 Thursday ..... . 576.60 strike of the 28,000 textile workers | here, the New Bedford Textile Work | ers’ Union of the T. M. C. issued a statement declaring that they bc welcome this challenge of the mill | barons. the employers could not get enough men to break ranks as would be re- statement says. The announcement | that the employers intend to “open” the gates was made in the bosses’ trade journals. Fine Picketers. Elizabeth Donneley, representative of Workers’ International Relief, and te organizer of the children’s strike clubs of the Textile Mills Commit+se, was fined $20 on the usual charge of of singing or even whistling on the picket lines. » Jackson Wales, Harvard eral months ago aligned himself with | the Textile Mill Committee and par- ticipated in the picketing under their leadership, was fined $20 on each of | two counts of “peace disturbance,” He appealed, after being forced to provide $600 in sureties. Another | “disturbing the peace” charge was added to the large number accumu- lated by William T. Murdoch, secre- tary of the union. He and thirteen others also appealed for trial in the | criminal session of the Supreme {Court Thursday. Picket Mills. The Textile Mills Committee a leaders yesterday led over 350 strik-| ers in a picket demonstration that en- compassed the Hathaway, Page,! Sharp, Gosnold and Wamsutta Mills. |The mills committee picket line ‘brought out | by Textile we BISCUIT WORKER IS CRUSHED TO DEATH Was Mangled by Dough Mixing Machine (By a Worker Correspondent) A young worker, a Spaniard, em- ployed as a dough mixer in the huge National Biscuit Company plant on Ninth Avenue, was crushed to death the dough-mixing machine. For sev-. eral months previous to his death he had been employed at the 10th avenue plant of the company. ° This is one of the results of the speed-up here. He had been transferred to his new position only last week to take mixer, The reason for this was that experienced men receive $37 a week, (Continued on enue oe F Og83 Rives RED PICNIC WILL DRAW THOUSANDS The “Red Picnic” to be held on Sun- day at Pleasant Bay Park is attract- ing thousands of workers of this city “We would then prove that | quired to operate a single plant,” the | disturbing the peace, which consists | student, and New Bedford resident, who sev-| , NYC, $4; Frank Rosetts, and the vicinity. The picnic prom- NYO" at ciara Etiedberg, NYC, $3;|ises to be one of the biggest gather- May Helfgott, Ne, i Li ‘Y:/ings ever held here, according to a we 30: P. Gre in} | Statement issued by the arrangement N.Y), $4; ‘A 1F, NYC, | committee. is Rites ae Eas Past ee folamon, Among the features of the picnic 8A 1 NYC, will be proletarian sports and games, Re ee Ovals rg i mass singing of revolutionary labor NYC, 0c; Russian ‘Ukrainia: bee Bndleott, “N.Y. ¥ $17.50; Hany Three) ies mot an urged to rush funds by tele- 1 or special delivery to The DAILY WORKER, 33 First St., New York. “THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. — C AR STRIKE FOR geet Aug UNION RIGHTS ‘Demands ‘Include 8- | Hour Day NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 19.— Tramway transportation throughout central and western Connecticut will be tied up if the Connecticut Co. con- tinues its refusal to recognize and deal with the street car men’s union. A strike vote has authorized officers }to call out thousands of trolley men as soon as international headquarters at Detroit gives its approval. Recognition of the union, arbitra- | tion of the demand for the 8-hour day and a voice in the disciplining of em- | ployes are leading demands. Car men |in Meriden, Hartford, Middletown, | Stamford, Derby, Waterbury, Nor- | walk and New Haven are involved. RELIEF WEEK TO | i i | | RALLY WORKERS ‘June 25 to July 1 Set for | Intensive Drive With plans for the National Miners’ | eek being put into ac fala and the mobilization of workers’ clubs | and individual workers for participa- | tion in the intensive relief drive of | the week of June 25 being organized, | the National Miners’ Relief Commit tee at 799 Broadway, held an execu-} tive meeting last night to make final | arrangements for the drive. At the conference were repre: sented | the Hungarian, Greek, Lithuanian, Po- | lish and Russian Committees ers’ Relief, all of whom repor fine response to the relief m tion call sent out through the ‘ious language newspapers, The itional Miners’ Relief Cornmittee its section and lang s are emphasizing the importance of shop collections during the week, te be preceded by the distribution of Monday, when his arm was caught in special miners’ relief literature in the | lw shops. The worker gathering the largest | amount of relief funds during the} drive will be rewarded by o trip to! the strike area, and the organization | |most active will receive a banner} 'made by striking min wives, ; “BIG BILL” THOMPSON. | CHICAGO, June i ngland | guns dealt death to two new victims here this afternoon when two men riding in an automobile near “death | corner” in “Little Italy” were in- |stantly killed by machine guns slugs poured at them from a passing auto- mobile. } - | workers in this country. [as she ¢at in the office of The DAILY} Kate Gitlow, militant leader of American women workers and secretary of the United Council of Workingclass Women, who has just returned from Soviet Russia, where she spent six months study- ing the conditions of the Russian working class. ‘Mother’ Gitlow Tells of Role of USSR Women Six months in the Soviet Union have been six months of increasing | revolutionary inspiration to Kate Git- \low, secretary of United Council of Workingclass Women and one of the Headers of the class-conscious women Mother Gitlow as she is known is| back in New York now after what she terms one of the greatest experiences | in her life. Leaving New York in latter part of October to attend i0th Anniversary of the first, ers’ and peasants’ republic as the} legate of the United Council of} orkingclass Women, she remained! fer six months, studying conditions there and particularly the conditions! lof the workingclass women. Socialism Being Built. Her eyes glowed with enthusiasm tin the WORKER yesterday telling of her! {trip. “The spirit of the workers and| |their faith in the Soviet government} are beyond belief,” she said. “There is absolutely no doubt that socialism is being built in the Soviet Union The first impression that one gets everywhere is that this jis a workers’ country where the worker§ rule and (Continued on Page t'wo) RUSH PLANES FOR NICARAGUA “POLL” Officers Will Command Sections; Rush Bomber MANAGUA, June 19.—Following the report that a fifth army bomb- ing plane is on its way to this coun- try from the Anacostia air station in the United States, plans are being perfected for rushing the operation ot the electoral machinery in prepar- @jation for the approaching elections. General Frank R. McCoy, Amer- ican supervisor, under whose com- mand the elections will virtually take place, has arrived in Nicaragua and had his first conference with presi- dent Diaz shortly after, Definite an- nouncement was then made that the American marine officers will act as departmental heads during the bal- loting. WOMEN RESPOND TO MEETING CALL NY Women Federation Conference Tomorrow The first delegate conference of the New York Working Women’s Feder- ation, to be held in Room 42, Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave., tomorrow at 7.30 p. m., will be rep- resentative not only of organized trades, but of women from unorgan- ized industries who were atttacted to the first meeting, at which the Fed- Jeration was formed. The present conference will decide jon the best means of showing soli- darity with the striking miners, and lay plans for raising relief funds for the strike zones in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Indications for an _ enthusiastic meeting are evident, judging from the number of delegates who have responded to the call. The Federa- tion plans to use the delegate con- ference method as one means of | reaching women in sy shops and fac- tories. * * * United Council Issues Call. The executive committee of the United Council of Workingclass Women, thru Ray Ragozin, organizer, Jast night issued a call to all the councils of the erganization to send delegates to tha first delegate con- ference of the New York Working Women’s Federation, to be held to- morrow at Labor Temple, MELLON SCABS KNIFE A MINE PICKET Coal Diggers | Force Demand for Expulsion of Strikebreakers (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) ITTSBURGH, Pa., June 19.--While Raoul Daniel of McDonald, Pa., in Mercy hospital here recovering from knife wounds inflicted by three scabs of the Pittsburgh* Coal Com- pany who attacked him near his home ports from various parts of the | /ate last week, wo.'ers of McDonald unusual rush for are cementing for the expulsion of all strikebreakers from the country, Octavio Ourago and a man known as Almadarez, attacked Daniels after the latter asked them to join the strike as they passed him in the road. The men turned on the striker. One plunged a knife into Daniels’ neck and another thrust into his abdomen. The third assailant is unknown. Ss eR 'HE demands of McDonald workers that steps be taken to remove all strikebreakers from the ‘vicinity proved fruitless when county author- ities protested that they had no| power to act in the matter. Still. indignant over the unprovoked as- sault, workers are insisting on action. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. PITTSBURGH, June 19.—C: as a whole to make the miners FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents MINE CONVENTION COMMITTEE CALLS FOR LABOR’S AID Chairman Watt Predicts Lewis Will Get Knock Out Blow at September Meeting |Appeals to Workers to Support Coal Diggers in Difficult Task of Building Union (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) alling upon the labor movement struggle its own, John J. Watt, | mittee, chairman of the National Miners’ Convention arrangements com- and one of the of the Teade of the movement for a new mine “©union, yesterday issued a call | for support in making the com- ling mine convention a success. } Rank and File To Act. STRIKEIN GREECE The time has arrived, the statement declares, when the rank and file in the miners’ peace must take matters in their SPREADS WHILE Govsmnuent I Despatches oi ous ae has par 2 beyond jrepair, the once powerful miners’ More Troops junion, At this moment the hundreds PARIS, June 19.—Admitting that | of thousands of miners in this coun- jtry are at the complete mercy of the the situation thruout the country is | egal} operators. crucial for them, the Greek author-|quired to save the miners from the Quick action is re- ities, in spite of a severe censorship, | yesterday indicated that martial law jhas been proclaimed in al! sections where street fighting is going on, | troops have been called out, and that | a number of warships are being} rushed to Lesbos, in the island of | Mytelena, where a squadron of the fleet has mutinied in support of the striking tobacco workers and others. While almost no news is being per- sorship, which the government has clamped down, reports that the sea- men have joined the general walk- out of all industries have been sub- | stantiated. Spreading thruout the © country from the Piraeus to northern Mace- donia, the general strike is bringing | all sections of the workers out in a militant movement, which is unusual for its spontaneity. Actual call for a general strike has not yet been is- sued but it is thought that the spon- taneous walk-out of the workers will force the leadership of the Federa- tion of Labor tc act today. Reports of casualties due to the fierce fighting between the police and the workers in the struggles of yes- terday and two days’ ago are being lieved that they may have been con- siderable. ARREST 35 CLOAK | WORKER PICKETS Thirty-fiva cloakmakers picketing the shop of Shapiro and Sons, 1333 Broadway, which was declared on strike Monday morning b; ne Joint Board of the ‘Cloakmakers’ dismissing a worker who to register in the right w of Sigman, were arrested morning, and_ received sentences when they came up for trial later before Magistrate . Flood in Jefferson Market Court. At the second of the two shops declared on strike for similar at- tempts at dismissals, a gang of thugs sent by the right wing union to act as escorts to strikebreakers, were driven away by the workers on strike and by the other cloakmakers who answered the call of the Joint Board for picket duty. This firm is Dress- ler and Freedman, 104 W. 27th St. These are the first of a series of strikes in the newly launched offens- ive of the workers in the industry for the rebuilding of their organiza- tion under the leadership of the Na- tional Organization Committee. The local section of the N, Volunteer Organization Committee of 600, plans a campaign to organize the open shops in the trade. suspended Carpenters, Painters! Help the “Worker” Carpenters and painters willing to aid in preparing the new editorial of- jfice of The DAILY WORKER at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, are urged to volunteer their services at once. It is not necessary to bring tools, and volunteers may report any time of day or after work and spend as little or as much time as possible. Call at the business office of the The two knife-wielders are under ar-}“Daily” on the second floor of the Center. rest. Workers mitted to filter thru the rigorous cen- | completely suppressed, but it is be- | O. C., thru its | misery and slavery which faces them. j On June 12th, a conference of the jrecently elected executives of Dis- jtricts 5, 6 and 12, and other nation- jally known miners was held in Pitts- burgh, Pa, The result of this confer- }ence was the issuing of a call for a |national miners’ convention to form a |new powerful union in the mining in- jdustry, to be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., jon September 9-16, 1928. | Representative Convention. Every worker must realize that it is of utmost importance that every {local union of the crippled United Mine Workers of America is repre- sented at this historical convention, It lis also very essential that the miners of the unorganized territories, so treacherously betrayed by Lewis, be well represented at the convention. This convention must be made a | huge success. This convention will \give the knockout blow to the entire |rotten Lewis machine. A successful jnational miners’ convention, and the organization of a clean and strong |miners’ union, will mean new hope and life to the entire working class of this country. Difficult Task. But to accomplish this is a diffi- cult task. A great deal of organiza- jtion work has to be done and much money is needed. Already the reac- tionary forces of the Lewis machine, with the assistance of the state troopers, deputies and coal and iron police, have started a campaign of terrorism against the progressive |forces in the mining fields, Mass jmeetings and conferences are being |broken up and the miners clubbed and arrested. Workers! Come to our aid. This’ fight is your fight also! Without the aid of the entire working class we are doomed to fail. We promise you that nothing will stop us to bring this struggle to a-successful conclusion. You must give us your support. We need funds at once. Send help to Convention A: }ments Committee, 119 Federal St, |S S., Room 411, Pittsburgh, Pa. JOHN J. Bees Chairman. FUR BLOC JOINS FIGHT FOR UNION Hold “Mass Caucus” in Webster Hall “A mass caucus” was the official name of the mass meeting of 1,700 fur workers held last night at Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave, under the auspices of a body that calls it- self the “Progressive Bloc of the Fur- rier’s Joint Council.” Beginning with this meeting, its spokesmen declared, the bloc officially comes out in the open in a struggle for the reestablish- ment of one union for the fur work- ers, which will again regain union conditions in the trade. Due ‘to the establishment of a Joint Council by \the A. F. of L., the Joint Board was greatly weakened, resulting in almost” complete open shop copdititns in the trade. x join Fight. Hyman®, Sorgin and J. . Winnick | leaders ofthe progressive bloc, read an official statement which con- cludes by saying: “The bloc is offi- cially organized after seeing that the struggle between the Joint Council and the Joint Board has resulted in the complete destruction of union standards.” |