The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE | UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR feng Om 4 UASOR PARTY, | Vol. V. No. 148. SURFACE LINES, OWNED BY SMITH BACKER, IN LEAD Other Lines Expected to Follow Suit its ring of supporting politicians yes- terday opened fire on a new front in i its war for an increased fare. | that the Third Avenue Railroad Com- pany, the company which is controlled by Wm. F. Kenny, principal contribu-' tor to Al Smith’s campaign fund, golf- partner and old crony of the Tam- | many governor, has filed a schedule for a seven-cent fare was announced by the New York State Transit Com- mission at noon. Immediately securities of all lines in the city soared on the stock market in anticipation of the coming fare in-| crease and in the confidence, appar- ently, that the Tammany Hall presi- dential aspirant was agreeable to the move, Other Companies To Follow. The Third Avenue Railroad Com- I pany filed the new schedule on behalf i of the Dry Dock, East Broadway and f Battery Railroad, one of its subsidi- aries. seven-cent fare beginning with July | 24, It is known that the move by the Third Avenue Company is a prelim- ii inary to a city-wide filing of similar} schedules by other lines. The company has followed the pre- cedent set by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company which last Febru- ary filed its seven-cent fare schedules for an increased fare later granted by the federal statutory court and final- ly taken to the supreme court for | The New York traction trust and News| The new schedules cali for a> | Robert Powell, final, decision_in. October. The, same) wublished daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. | | | Ben candidate of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, will be the principal speaker at a campaign rally and picnic arranged in Chicago for July Gitlow, _vice-presidential CONFESSION IN TEXAS LYNCHING Powell Failed HOUSTON, Tex., June 22.—A vol- untary statement was made today to the authorities here by A. B. Wheeler of this city confessing tWat he was one of the group which kidnapped 24-year-old Negro from the Jefferson Davis Hospital and lynched him about eight miles from Houston Wednesday night. The young Negro was dragged from a cot where he lay dying fol- “claim for the increase, a plea that the W. Davis, a local detective. Entered ax second-class mater ut (he Post Office at New York, N. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1928 TRACTION RING IN NEW DRIVE FOR 7c FARE STEAL under the act of March 3, 1879. ~ 7 ener ee THE DAILY WORKER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. ree i ee TO ATTEND GREAT RED PICNIC TOMORROW FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents \ “ew Massachusetts Judges Send Textile Leaders to Jail; hight Is On to Free Strike Head from Army Prison First Attempt to Hang| lowing an_ exchange of shots..with.A,.|, q present fares are “confiscatory,” is known to be at the basis of the new|to hang Powell failed when he struck demands. Whether or not the increase |the ground. He said the victim was will be granted will be decided at aj (Continued on Page | on Page Five) meeting of the New York Transit | Wheeler said that the first attempt f Commission next Wednesday, announced by James B. Walker, sec- retary to the Commission. Smith Owned By Traction The New York traction trust to! which the whole Tammany admini tration in the city, the republican con- ticularly Al Smith are known to have sold out is planning for its final cam-| | paign to secure an increased fare and } put over.its so-called unification plan i which will undoubtedly cost the work- j ers hundreds of millions of dollars, Hh The plan is*scheduled to reach its cli- 1} max immediately after the coming election. It is known that the whole scheme was due to have been put over late in 1926 except that a temporary con- flict between the B. M. T. and the (Continued on Page Two) it was! WOMEN’S MEETING 1S GREAT SUCCESS trolled legislature at Albany and per-| Assure Quick Aid In Miners’ Struggle The first Delegate Conference of the New York Working Women’s Fed- eration, held Thursday evening at the Labor Temple, Second avenue, and 14th Street, responded enthusiasti- cally to the appeal for immediiate re- \lief to the striking miners of Penn- sylvania and Ohio. One hundred and forty dollars was |turned over to the National Miners’ Relief Committee immediately after RIGHT WING ENDS CAPMAKER STRIKE Chicago Struggle Broken By Zaritsky CHICAGO, June 22.—After re- moving the leadership of the Chicago capmakers strike because of a too de- termined stand they took against the attempt of the employers association to install piece-work thru a lockout, the International officialdom, which ‘ “assumed control of the strike, yester- day announced that no more strike benefits will be paid to the 225 strikers, thus virtually admitting de- feat by the bosses’ association, At the time the progressive leader- ship was removed, facts were made public to the effect that the lockout was ordered by the bosses after they knew that Zaritsky was opposed to a fight against piece work, this sweat shop system of work being publicly advocated by him at union meetings. Another exposure which laid the responsibility of the lockout at the door of Zaritsky, was his close personal friendship with the manager of the employers’ association, Peréy Ginsberg, a former vice-president of the union. By removing the leadership of J. B. Salzburg, progressive, loss of the , strike was incurred by the right wing. & @ It was generally known that at the time the employers’ ranks were crack- ing, in spite of injunctions and arrests. An employers trade journal reports a union official as saying that they were ? unable to fight the injunction, Now the trade {the striking appeal made by Mrs. |Mary Nagle of Bentleyville and Mrs. ics Sokol of Vestaberg, both repre~ enting the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the eraee Union. Hunger, police bruta- |lities, evictions and intimidation hold \no terrors for the wives of striking miners, who have stood shoulder to shoulder with the miners on the pick- jet line and defied the threats as well as the machine guns of the coal cor- porations, they reported. Pledges Aid to Drive. The conference pledged itself to do everything possible in the drive for relief, starting June 25 to July 1, to carry out the plans proposed by "the Federation. Pauline Rogers, secre- tary of the Women’s Conimittee for Miners’ Relief, reporting on the plan, laid special emphasis on the need for creating shop committees for Miners’ Relief, as a basis for continuing the delegate conferences of the Federa- tion, the committees to serve as a connecting link between the shop rep- resentatives and the Federation. Ray Ragozin,. general secretary of the Federation reported on the activities since the last meeting one month ago at which time the Federation was launched. The re- port included a summary of the pro- gram adopted which pledged the Fed- erdtion to make its major task the organization of the unorganized women, impreving working condi- tions, social insurance, special ma- ternity care, protection of children from industrial exploitation, the rais- ing of demands for better schools, housing, and a clear cut policy of re- sisting all attempts of the employers to interfere with the workers strug- gle against injunctions, company unions, compulsory arbitration, co- ELECTION DRIVE Many Language Grciaie| to Entertain Tomorrow thousands of militant workers of New York will gather in Pleasant Bay Park on Long Island Sound at the great Red Campaign Picnic that has been arranged by the Workers (Communist) Party. The picnic is the first step in the nationwide sweep of the Workers (Communist) Party in its 1928 elec- tion campaign. It will be the occasion of a mass outdoor ratification of the tickets. Candidates to Speak The various candidates who are not on speaking tours will be there and will be called upon to make a few appropriate remarks during the course of the elaborate program which has been arranged. William Z. Foster, Ben Gitlow, Robert Minor, Juliet Stu- art Poyntz, Lovett Fort-Whiteman (Continued on Page Five) MINERS’ WEEK BEGINS. MONDAY Many Organizations to Take Part Mobilization for the city-wide min- ers’ relief week which is to begin Monday and continue throughout next week has been practically completed according to an announcement at the local office of the National Miners’ Relief Committee. Throughout the week open air meetings will be held, to stress the importance of miners “relief to the workers. They will be told of the na- tional open-shop drive, of which the plan to break up the miners’ union is the initial. step, and warned that unless they rally to the support of the striking miners, they may them- selves soon be appealing for support from labor. Supported by Women. At an-enthusiastic meeting held (Continued on Page Five) SEMARD SPEAKS AT FRENCH MEET Concludes Debate at the Party Conference PARIS, June 24.—Semard con- cluded the debate at the French Com- munist Party conference with a pro- test against the overestimation of the role of the peasantry in the French revolution, “The Communist Party must recog- nize the dangerous reformist delu- sions. Opportunism must be fought and we must combat the sterile op- position,” Semard said. The confer- on the political situation of the Com- munist Party. (Other information about the Party conference will be found on page 3. ) By ESTHER LOWELL. Eno, adjoining Hillsboro, N. C. At/ least one old couple has made that finding. The old man, still upstand. | ing and strong from generations of operation and employers’ welfare is’ ce Menonennn S| schemes and any other methods to _ (Continued on Page is taken out. True the rent is low, as his TO LAUNCH HUGE candidates of both state and national} MAXIM GORKY Maxim Gorki Is Acclaimed in the USSR (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) OSCOW, June 22:—‘Alexi Maxi- mitch, do not go back to Sor- rento, we will create here for you the necessary conditions for rest and work.” This is the plea addressed to Maxim Gorki, Soviet Russia’s fav- orite writer, by thousands of work- ers here. Following an absence of over six years due to illness, Gorki returned to the U. S, S. R. and has received universal acclaim. Beloved by millions of workers here not. only for,his great artistic works, but also for his loyalty to the first Workers’ and Peasants’ Re- public, Gorki has been showered with the highest honors in the pos- session of the Soviet government and the U. S. S. R. trade unions. Gorki’s appearance anywhere, the mere rumor that he might be ina place, is the signal for crowds and more crowds, 05 EDUCATORS CO TOU.S.S.R, The first American educational dele- gation to visit the Soviet Union will sail this noon on the “Drottningholm” for a Swedish port. It includes twenty-five of the most prominent educators and writers on education in America, and will be under the -gen- eral leadership of Dr. John Dewey, of Columbia University, who is already in Leningrad. The delegation will make a study of the new educational system of the So- viet. Union at the personal invitation of Lunacharsky, Commissar of Educa- tion, and under the auspices of the American Society for Cultural Rela- tions with Russia, It is entirely un- official, members paying their own expenses through Russia, according Miss Lucy Branham, secretary of the society which organized it, The itinerary of the delegation pro- vides for a two-weeks’ stay in Moscow and vicinity, five days in Leningrad, (Continued on Page Two) Party Members Needed for Important Work All party members must report for ence passed unanimously the theses#important work at 10:30 a. m. today at the Workers’. Center at 26-28 Union Square. It is essential that HILLSBORO, N. C. (FP), June | 22.—Two people can’t live on the pay 'And unlike some companies, the Eno|four days a week now. They fear of one in the cotton mill village of [mill lets its workers use lights or comrades report. JOHN J. BALLAM, Acting District Organizer. Two Can’t Live on Pay of One in Carolina Cotton Mill Village room house. That’s 25 cents a room plus a few cents for electric light. current for ironing at any time of day or night. Wife in Mill Since short-time has come, several farmer stock, has only $7 left in his months ago, the wife has gone into pay envelope after the rent money |the mill. While her husband works in the shipping room she irons down ‘e |selvage edges and earns, when sho ‘gets a full day's work, $2.10. Last PICNIC TOMORROW se LAUNCH HABEAS CORPUS STRUGGLE TO FREE PORTER hace Statement Gatte| on Workers’ Aid Preparations were made today for one of the greatest campaigns in the American labor movement to force the release of John Porter, the tex- tile strike leader who was arrested early this week in New Bedford by the military authorities. It is expected that Porter will be brought to trial before a court-mar- tial of army officers within a short time because of his desertion from the army last year after realizing the role of capitalist militarism against the labor movement. No reliance will be placed on the “justice” of ,courts-martial, and it is realized that mass protests of the workers is the only force which can make the War Department set Por- ter at iiberty. The Young Workers (Communist) League, of which Porte: z is an. activi organiger, has announced that it will conduct a nation-wide drive for the textile striker, and that huge pro- test meetings will be held in cities throughout the country, ‘The International Labor Defensé is preparing the legal defense of Por- ter and will participate actively in the drive to obtain his freedom. The first legal step in the case is an application for writ of habeas corpus, as the constitutional right of o Textile Leader Jailed | { | Murdoch, William T. the Textile Mills Committee of New Bedford, Mass., which is conduct- ing the struggle of the 28,000 tex- tile workers against the mill bosses, | must serve a sentence of two months | leader of imposed upon him recently. This | is the verdict announced yesterday by the Massachusetts Superior Court. Murdoch, jailed constantly since the strike began, was arrested on the customary charge of “dis. orderly conduct” when conducting @ huge picket line in front of one of the mills. NEED FUNDS TO SECURE “DAILY” 11,200 “MURDOCH GETS 2 MONTHS; BEAL, 11 OTHERS ON TRIAL Strikers Picket Wamsutta Mills BOSTON, June 22.—A special meeting of the National Textile Mill Committees will be held this coming Sunday afternoon at 3 p. m., 38 Causeway Street, here for the purpose of considering the immediate steps to be taken in the textile industry. This meeting will issue a call for the immediate national or- ganization of ail textile workers. The heroic struggle of the 28,- 000 textile workers in New Bed- ford, the growing restlessness of the workers in Fall River, the feelings of the workers in Rhode Island, in Paterson, Passaic and @ other textile centers, all de- mand that national aetion be taken and immediately for the formation of a national organi- | zation. * * NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 22+ With ,@ cynical brutality gu rp: <<) dhly by*theiv own collediifes ithe jstate, the Massachusetts judges pre- the prisoner to be released on bail is being denied. It is the rule of the army to hold prisoners without bail, but this ille- gal custom will be challenged in the drive for Porter. * * In a call issued tcday by the Na- tional Executive Committee of the Young Workers (Communist) Lea- gue, all workers organizations are called upon to join the fight for the release of John Porter. The statement follows: The arrest of John Porter, a tex- tile strike leader and organizer of the Young Workers (Communist) League, is a challenge to the work- ers and especially to the youth of America. It is the beginning of the intensive use of the army for the purpose for which it is intended— the suppression of strikes and all ef- forts against the exploiting class. “As the class struggle becomes more acute the dictatorship of capi- talism is forced to throw off the mask of democracy and use armed force to keep the masses enslaved. Young workers are being led into | the army and navy, and the “Citizens Military Training Camps” where they are not only taught how to kil! in the interest of their masters but also are subjected to patriotic propa- ganda with the purpose of keeping their minds blind to their role against their own class. | “The use of the military authorities in the textile strike after the civil government had failed to force the strikers back to work shows the im- mediate menace of militarism, and the court-martial of Porter is a chal- lenge which the young workers in particular must take up. “The Young Workers (Communist) League, the vanguard of the militant young workers of America, calls on all workers and labor organizations to (Continued on Page Four) BRING ON THE “PROSPERITY, PLEASE week she had only_two days work. They work 1014 hou?s a day and only the mill will “stand” for a ‘hole week at July Fourth, cutting off their meagre earnings entirely. The woman spoke of having to see a doctor, When asked if the company didn’t supply one, or at least a nurse, sho answered: “No, the company don’t give you nothing, except your pay, and not ( on Page All Groups of Workers Reached by Paper That The DAILY WORKER reaching workers in all parts of the country and in all trades is evident from the letters that have been re- ceived from militant workers in an- swer to the Daily’s appeal for funds. | The letters also show that The DAILY WORKER is not the paper| of any particular section of the work-| ingclass, but of all the skilled and unskilled, employed and unemployed, native and foreign-born.) The results of the campaign for| $10,000 to save The DAILY WORK-) ER also shows that the most savagely | exploited workers, those that feel} most intensely the brutality and op- pression of the capitalist system, are the readiest to come to its aid in time | of need. Striking Miner’s Letter. A striking miner of Dillonvale, O writes as follows: Dear Brothers: I have read in the last few days that our paper is in very grave danger of going out of existence. It would be a very great blow to the workers of this country. I wish that all the workers would rally to save their only fighting paper. You know how long we have been on strike, so I cannot afford to send much. I am sending $2. I am 19 years of age and know that there is a great fight before us. For this reason The DAILY WORKER must be saved, because it is a very effective weapon. JAME JURSIK. But not only among the miners, who are waging such a determined fight for a new and stronger union, (Continued on Page Two) INDICT CONNOLLY FOR SEWER MESS Former Borough President, Maurice E. Connolly of Queens Borough, in- volved in the $29,000,000 Queens sewer scandal, who resigned under fire in| the investigation into the doings of | his office, was indicted today by the | Special Grand Jury convened to ex- amine the evidence that had been col- lected in the investigation prior to Connolly’s resignation, | John M. Phillips, racing stable | owner and sole maker of “lock-joint, | pre-cast pipe,” especially specified | for him in all Queens sewer specifica- | tions, and two others were also in- is} workers, | leent days that work was being sent (to scab shops under the gut | Siding in the Superior Court here, set about doing the bidding of the mill | barons by jailing all the militant lead- Jers of the striké of 28,000 textile workers here. William T. Murdoch, secretary of the New Bedford Textile Workers Union, the local unit of the Textile Mills Cosipaitrees “was “sentenced to séfV€"two months in jail when he |lost his appeal from the decisions of | the lower courts. His was the first {of the 13 appeal cases to come be- fore the Superior Court, and the un- |disguised viciousness of the court |makes it apparent that all other ap- |peals will meet the same fate. The case of Fred E. Beal, Textile Mills Committee organizer, is the jmext to be heard. Nearly all the ap- pellants have additional sentences to rve for leading the picket lines and Continued on Page Two) JACKET WORKERS LOCKOUT ENDED \Beckerman Will Grant | Wage Cut Privately The lockout of the workers in the childrens’ jacket contractors shops ended yesterday when Abraham Beck- |erman, head of the machine in power |in the Joint Board of the Amalgama- ted Clothing Workers’ Union, told the contractors to bring their levances to him, giving assurances that they will be well taken care of. The lock- out was declared a few days ago, with the demand that wages be cut since reductions were permitted by the junion to other crafts in the industry. | The other demand made of the union by the contractors in ordering — |the lockout was that the union step {work of larger employers and job- 7 {bers from going for manufacture to the scab-contracting shops, since these larger employers are under control of © the union and sending work to scab — shops can easily be halted. This, also, Beckerman promises to “cor- rect” in spite of proof exposed in re- of officials of the union who ‘graft from both the larger employ- er and from the scab shops. But the contractors who locked out | the workers are nevertheless |ready to listen to Beckerman, has hitherto treated them with erous consideration, having p ted them individually, rather th an associated body, to y A