The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 22, 1928, Page 2

/ file and to remov One Hundred Thousand Miners Yor Actual Starvation, Relief Body y Says KANSAS MINERS MINER'S FAMILY, STARVING, LOSES ITS TINY SHACK BY FIRE WILL TAKE OVER AUNTON ON JULY 1 Special Convention Call Goes Out ietextinued from Page One) Brought upon the union by the incom- petence and corr Burr-Skahan adm the, union in control « ficialdom. The miners’ union fa noe at the hands of The Lewis-B mi ration through tenee have rende rators. In I no more th union. The ope tions and do not pa; Many cases, with the I doing nothing to remed: The Pennsylvania 0! been on strike fighting off the attempts of the op- oper- ad- incompe- to the the erators to crush th They have been left alone nt this bat- tle. The sep: of Tllin- ois, Kansas, agreements of up by ‘the offici the members a Separate agreement alk conditions won struggles of the pa Machine of “The Lewis- will not call a consider the emergenc urtion arid to take the to remedy it. The their power to expel the militant | struggle, and collaborate operators. Pieketing of the rank and file “led” by Skahan while strip pits and mines work under separa trayal of the mi President Lew the U. S. Tre aoe Hoover. I on the en away rough the hard with the lion both sup- labor lead- ” joins hands openly with Mellony,S or. the seab coal oper. The District 14 s called by this ee will elect temporary officers from the rank and |¢ra fe who are for the rank and file, +d who will take care of the interest | 5 f The special Dis- | vention must work out new | _the rank and file. ine with the interest of Tt must help win the Penn-Ohio strike, take concrete steps’ in the Kansas strike, to fight for a national agreement, to fight against | wage cuts, to fight for the organiza- tion of the unorganized, to fight for the six hour day and the five-day week. Rank and File Acts. Throughout the organized districts the rank and file have held. conven- tions and are taking over unions. Penn. the miners h: tered their majo: the militant left fe: MES W. A., the Save the Union Commit-| a” tee. a is up to the miners of Dis- triet 14 to take control of their union and oust the Lewis machine. miners of the southw have been be- trayed by the Lewis pelicy. Our con- vention,,our call, is the battle call of the Southwest operaters, the Lewis their company union. The rank and file demanded a spe- cial convention. The are calling a special convention. Min- ers of Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma and Colorado, who have b the Lewis machine ternal» delegates machine and Send your cred E Cook, Mulberry, If your union does not hold a meeting before the 24th, call a special meeting at once, Fraternally yours, Everett Cook, Mulberry, Kan. Robert Ramadge, Franklin; James Hunter, Arma; Frank Pernott, Arma; James Bousfield, Gross; Chas.. White, Crowburg; Tom Wakefield, Mulberry; Amie Mar- tier, Franklin; Joe Brasso, Mulber- ry; William Verren, Arma; Wile | 85 liam Cusic, Englevale; Geo. Pugh, Franklin; Quinto Borello, Arma; Stephen Welch, Pittsburgh; Joe Studdard, Arma; Ferdinand God- ard, Ja., Girard; Dan Fenoglio, En- ‘glevale; Lewis Marrshall, Gross; | Matt Tait, Girard; Ray Smith, Arma; Joe Bierbrodt, Croweburg; John Keith, Girard; Albert. Brtol, Arma; John Fleming, Frontenac. YOU CANT EVEN SING IN NEW BEDFORD Mill Owners’ Police Break Up Children’s Demonstration NEW BEDFORD, Mass, (FP) (By mail)—Getting children to sing on the picket line is just as bad as sing- ing yourself, the cops warned Eliza- beth Donnelley. Then when the kids wouldn’t stop singing, “We'll catch the boss and put him in the sauce and never let him go,” the long arm of the law rang for the black wagon, pushed Elizabeth in, and gave her a \ geod of my life as already apo qneed by 40 _ other cotton mill strik ¢ U giving | s’ |The DAIL al convention |? their | NY In Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and 3 ave already regis-'$ The |$ miners against the} y rank and file |} n betrayed by |} PITTSBURGH, Pa., The fariily of Mrs, Eva Kempa, of Libra: Pa., which ineludes seven tildren, is in dire need of help. Mrs. husband has been on strike s as have most of the miners in this town. The family, re- SECURE “DAILY,” CALL TO WORKERS Must Insure Existence During Summer June 21. (Continued from Page One) yet been able to print the names of all those who responded to the call for funds. During the next few days we will publish those names that still ain unprinted. Among organiza- 3 that have responded to the ap~ peal of the “Daily” was the Freiheit ‘ociety and Mandolin Orches- tra of Chicago, which has sent $12.35 and promises to send more. The Chinese Workers-Peasants Alliance in America of Philadelphia contri- buted $105. A letter to the “Daily” from this organization says in part: “We clearly understood the saving of T AILY WORKER was to save the sp of the revolution, which is even more important than the saving of our own lives. At the present time most of us are out of work, but to keep the revolutionary fire burning we mus! sacrifice to save DR, the vanguard of the militant struggle.” This spirit must be kept up dur- ing the next few months. Keep The DAILY WORKER going during the summer. Help it to become a better {and more powerful organ of the class- conscious workers of this country. Additional Contributors The following are additional contri- butors to the fund to save The f eevee WORKER: ia tri Bklyn, $1; A Friend, H, Duvemcy, K: John Kolacio, Bettendort, H. Goldstein, Niagara Falls furhpy, Brooklyn, $5; Reva Maiamud, NYC, $3; A Worker, NYC, G. Casarco, Bs $1; Anna E P. Simon, NYC, J. Goldfuter, NYC, M. Hpstein, Nyc, 0. Ww Toledo, $2 Pueblo, Colo., $2 Jerry aidan T. Lilewelly, De- NYC, $1; Jamaica} Branch, + o YC, $2; $10; Sjoman, Kallio, $2; The Trimmers of the Trucikan Hat Co., Hollenberg, NYC, $10; May Heitgot, NYC, » $1; Kmet, $1; G. Kme Ys $1; M. Hudyma, Gndoxis, $1; 8. Estock, $1; Cre Members, Dil- lonville, Oh Workers, . $2; Yohn i ala, , Paterson, N. J. collected, NYC. D. R. Ishler, Hager, Dayt ie, Cleveland, 0. Ocenacek, John Tellick, Onto, $5; F ilies, Yorkville, or ; >, Ohio, $ Ohio, $3; J. Alexiou, Yorkville, Ohic Batjilakis, Yorkville, Ohio, A. man, Yorkyille, 1; Nybe, Holler, Rocheste Rocheste Villiam E. Beier, Joe Rukavi Berglund, tion attle, V ection Commun Wads- Thomas, Wads- K tz, Bronx, N. y H. Meister, Leberman, $2; Section 1, Unit Si on 1, Unit 3F, NYC. ‘Unit 2, NYC, $4. Bernstein, NYC, $3; Section 1, Unit >, $4.50; Proletarische Buhne, N Kettula, ag gage Minn., $5; . Nolan, nelawn, N. Y., 0c; a4 aly, Bellaire, Ohio, $ Tia POLISH FASCIST PLANE, WARSAW, June 20.—Premier Pil- sudski of Poland today christened the !airplane in which Polish aviators |Kubala and Idzikowski yill try:to fly ‘from Paris "to the United States, the “Marshal Pilsudski.” ers. Elizabeth, in charge of children’s organization for the Workers’ Inter- national Relief, for weeks has taught children strike songs, has told them of unionism,,has asked them to picket with parents to help them save that $19 a week average wage against a 10 percent cut, Curious logic used by New Bedford |trial problems at first hand in New cops shone through in this dialogue: “Cut out the singing, there. Shut - up them kids,” |De Lacroce, who has also gone under y,|district organizer of the {various labor meetings and was re- » |porting to a coal company detective y.,| But the militant striket will do work | under guard of soldiers with shot j}has been working among the miners, | ES ‘Moller, land the coal diggers especially are be made at once on the grounds that duced to utter destitution by ack which it had built. Three months ago the which the Kempas lived destroy- ; ed by fire. A hed, used by three of the younger children, barred the } only docr to the hovel and Mrs. Kem- shack in) ey, “Stool” «climbed through the window after fety by the same route. Mrs. | ;Kempa’s husband was also severely | | burned. Every stitch of clothing | owned by ‘the striking family was ‘destroyed in the blaze. They were HOUSTON POLICE AIDED LYNCHING Democratic: Delegates Are “Embarrassed” . (Continued from Page One) were making sanctimonious apologies for the lynching just before the open- ing of the democratic national con- vention, citizens of Houston remained calm, contented in the “job,” and even expressed surprise for the 'edi- torial comment. Press “Indignant.” Delegates to the convention, bored by the absence of excitement, had visited the scene of the lynching in groups. Automobiles that had brought the delegates were lined up as they viewed the dangling body of the murdered Negro youth. Righteous “indignation” flows from the editorial columns of the newspa- pers here, and especially is this true of. the democratic organs which claim to be embarrassed because the lynching occurred on the eve of the JOSEPH DE LACROCE Labor Spy DE LACROCE IS EXPOSED AS SPY Reported Mine Workers to Bosses (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, June 21.—Joseph the name of Delacroce, has been .ex- posed as a labor spy, according to linformation given out by A. Jakira, Workers (Communist) Party of District 5. ie Lacroce, who residence is at 1017 Western Ave., N. S. Pittsburgh, | warned against him. De Lacroce is tall, middle aged, dark complexion, speaks several lan- guages, including Italian, English | and some Slayish. He was under surveillance by a com- mittee of the Workers Party for sev- ,jeral months. The information re- ceived shows that he has been travel- ing around the mining towns of West Virginia, Ohio and Penn. for the last few years. Last year he spent most of his time in and around Pittsburgh, especially Castle Shannon. He has posed as a bootlegger and as jan agent, but all along was engaged in spying on the miners. He visited agency at the House Bldg., Pitts- burgh. Textile Leadet Faces Army Court Martial (Continued from Page One) method of depriving military prison- ers will be made a test case. Habeas Corpus proceedings are to Porter is entitled to bail unless he finally approved. In civil eases, when bail cannot be furnished, prisoners awaiting trial cannot be forced to do hard labor guns, upon to rally to the defense of Porter against the efforts of the army to stiffle labor with bayonet rule. . * * Youth League to Aid Porter. The Young Workers (Communist) League has announced plans for huge mass protest meetings all over the country to demand the release of John Porter, textile strike leader ac- tive organizer of the League in New Bedford. “I’ve got a perfect right to sing.” “You’ve got a right to sing all right, but you got no right to disturb the peace by singing or otherwise and you got no right to make the children sing and disturb the peace. So in you go.” Jackson W, Wales, Harvard grad- uate student down to study indus- Bedford, is taking the complete course, They threw him in jail, Jack- has been sentenced and the sentence |{ Workers in every city will becalled| convention. “May the outside world not take this as symbolic of the Houston spirit,” exclaims the Scripps-Howard paper, the Press. “It was not men like these who died in the Alamo. If was not craven creatures like these who fought at San Jacinto.” “Houston has been shamed before the nation,” says the Chronicle, pub- lished by Jesse Jones, candidate for the presidential nomination. “The people of Houston,” it says, “do not approve of this.” Citizens Not Interested. But on the streets there is no talk of the lynching among the “respect- ables,” apparently no interest. But Negroes gather and whisper, alert lest they be overheard. “Bob didn’t kill the cop,” they say. “The police just wanted blood.” The gory details of the lynching by the proud citizens of Houston are the ;pa was seriously burned when she)given some clothes by neighbors. rike, was living in a little two-room | Mrs. Kempa has written for help |mittee. “Don’t let my man go baci| Ito work now,” she pleads. He has | been holding out for three years and to go back now would be to lose these ‘Years of fighting.” The relief com- summer camps, getting the advanta, city streets. charge will be but $8 a week. ing parents will ba taken in free | mittee can do nothing for Mrs. Kempa and thousands of families dike hers she had helped all her children to }from the National Miners’ Relief Com-| unless the workers in other sections of the country give liberal sums of money and continue to give. All funds should be sent immediately to the National Miners’ Relief Commit- tee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Helping to Build a Camp for Workers’ Children While the children of the bosses are at exclusive profit-making- ges of physical activity and super= vised play, the workers’ children spend the hot months roving in the The Workers International Relief, 1 Union Square, New York, is now building a camp for workingclass children at Wingdale, N. Y., adjoining Unity Camp. Each child will stay two weeks and the Many children of unemployed and strik- of charge. Photo shows workers engaged on construction at Unity Camp volunteering their services to aid the children’s rest home on Sunday, their day off. shouted as they broke into the hos- pital ward. Four others put the rope around the neck of the Negro youth. They carried him out. “Lord have mercy!” the victim was pleading. The men were laughing and there behind was the rope trailing along. To give an appearance of sincerity to their “indignation,” Houston offi- cials are offering the munificent re- ward of $250 fo rthe apprehension of each of the lynchers. American Plan Denies | SANTIAGO, Chile, June 21,—The government press here regards with just seeping thru. “Stick ’em up!” the lynchers favor the latest plan -which is said to have been proposed by the United WORKERS CENTER, Labor and Fraternal Organizations Attention! | Airy, Light Rooms i'To Rent for OFFICES and MEETING ROOMS at the Elevator Service. Telephone Stuyvesant 1201. 26-28 Union Square. The Organization tasks? / italist countries must have a cop. everyday Party work.” Order 89 EAST 125th STREE By OSIP PIATNITSKY 15 Cents What are the various sections of the Communist Interna- tional doing? Germany, France, U..S., England, Italy? What are their achievements, shortcomings and future B. 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WIRES APPEAL TO EW YORK OFFICE FOR INSTANT AID | Local Committee to Hold Drive The virtual state of famine exist- ing in the mine districts was brought home to New York workers yesterday through the publication of a telegram sent by the National Miners Relief Committee of 611 Penn Ave., Pitts- burgh, to the New York headquarters of the committee requesting an im- mediate remittance by air mail or telegraph of all available funds in the possession of the committee. Actual Starvation The wire which was addressed to Fannie Rudd, New York representa- tive declared that hundreds of miners’ families are at the point of actual starvation and are beseeching the Pittsburgh headquarters for food. No other source of relief, other than this committee is available for nearly one hundred thousand miners from whom Lewis has cut off all help because they have refused to follow his policy of strikebreaking. The Telegram follows: Situation Desperate “The situation here is so critical that we are compelled to demand im- mediately remittance by air mail all relief money in your treasury and whatever you can possibly secure otherwise. Please show this telegram to all language relief committees and other agencies in your city which can immediately help in the task virtu- ally of saving life. Advise them to forward funds instantly. Miners fam- ilies are at the point of starvation and are beseeching us to do secure some- thing to eat for them. Organize a drive for more funds immediately. A. Wagenknecht, Relief Director. UM § <O ON dividénds are being ings, ete. 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