The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1928, Page 1

& unless the mass protests of the work- militant and they had maintained their | i ‘al Sandino, exrpaing vianks us yesterday sentenced to serve 30 days ‘ ing class can force his release, ‘ Pe ae ae. cease iret a late | merican workers for their aid anc in jail for leading a picketing demon- Riotleee Sokal akan seperation) Oe ee 8. Steke une excoriating the Wall Street govern- eG the gates of the Monmile | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED POR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY VoL V. No. 149. FRAMED MINER IS FOUND GUILTY IN DYNAMITING CASE Jury Packed 1 With Mine! Officials (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) | WHEELING, W. Va., June 21 (By | in a _ framed-up | Mail).—Convicted dynamiting conspiracy in a trial in which the jury and the chief wit- nesses were mine officials and scabs, Frank Brbot, striking miner of Tria- | delphia, faces the extreme penalty Appeal to Prejudice “And I ask every member of this jury as an American citizen, to bring | in a verdict of guilty.” With this appeal to anti-foreign prejudice, A. ©, Schiffler, prosecuting attorney of Wheeling County, closed the state’s | case against Brbot, who was con-} vieted Wednesday, June 20, of taking } Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Werker Publishing Association, Inc. 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Seeks Aid for Miners ture, is the wife of a striking Penn- sylvania miner. She is at present | in New York City where she ad- dressed an enthusiastic meeting re- cently. She plans to go to Phila- delphia soon to carry on work for the Steer miners in that cit Entered an second-class matier ut the Post Office at New York. N. V4 umder the NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 25, i928 V TRACTION MEN CALL STRIKE IN NEW HAVEN Expect General Walk-| Out Today | NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 24.— Trolley workers thruout the state of Connecticut were ready to walk out on | i general strike at midnight last night. In spite of the efforts of the federal | commissioner to delay strike action, the spirit of the trolley workers hour last night. | Refusal of the company to recog- ‘nize the union or to grant wage in- creases has infuriated the men, in spite lof the statement of J. H. Reardon, | ihead of the executive board, that the | |men are fighting solely for the right | Arrest Militant __PAU L REISS COAST RED RAIDS: Anti- Imperialist Leagu Leaders Seized e | 3 1878. Outsi fEDICA “SUPPLIES REACH SANDINO FORCES. FIRST [General Thanks U. S.| Workers for Aid The first shipment of medical sup- |plies sent by American workers direct |to General Augusto Sandino, thru the All-American Anti-Imperialist League, | jhas reached the army of independence | jin } Nicaragua. This information was {made known yesterday with the ré-| jceipt of a letter of gratitude from Gen- ment of the United States. First Relief. “I am happy to inform you that I |have received from the hands of Gus- | tavo Machado (who came to our en-| |campment as the representative of the |central body of the Hands-Off-Nicara- | |gua Committee) a package containing, | [PTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. ide New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents IBEAL SENTENCED FOR PIC TO “TR Led Picket Demonstrat ; Spite of P Plan Lar. ger Demonstra | Thanks U. S. Workers | F Refuse Delay to Murdoch, KETING; Y” 5 MORE ion in New Bedford in olice Edict tions Than Ever; Judges Beal NEW BEDF ‘ORD, Me ss., June 24.— Fred E. Beal, organizer of the Textile ills Committee, and one of the lead- of the textile strike here, was Mills rested while 2 other strikers were ar- picketing this mill, in defian of police order, and are to go to trial in a few days. he attorneys for the scores of under heavy jail sentences have succeeded in getting uations of their cases till No- cont. , of employes to arbitrate in all major — cotton, bandages; an®6ther medicines vember. but the Massachusatte Gamaaan ae the dynamiting of a scab’s DAILY WORKER Td Gisputés. LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 24—|to cure the wounds of our soldiers,” are refusing to grant delays is the u : e -oli ide perse- | Sandino writes. | rie . “ jk The union has already set up relief | The beginning ofa nation-wi two leaders of the strike, Murdoch Argument on a motion for a new j cution of Japanese and other Oriental] “We are especially delighted that | and Beal. The strike leaders’ attor- trial was opened Friday by Attorney Charles Roger Ahrens before Judge Ritz in intermediate court. Though | Brbot was an active picket and) worked energetically for the further- | ance of the strike, and though the majority of the state’s witnesses were | FACE HARD TIMES | Workers Must Keep Up. Aid Over Summer headquarters and is prepared to care | for hundreds of the strikers and their families, | It is known that the company has |been hiring strikebreakers for the jemergency for some time but their | whereabout in city have been kept a} profound secret. The strikers ace workers is seen in the- arrest of three | you, honest North Americans, mani- | Japanese, and the same number of Americans, workers in Los Angeles yesterday. It is expected that de- portations will follow in the case of the three Japanese. Following the police seizure of N. fest in this manner your protest and disapproval of the policies of aggres- sion that the existing government of } the United States is carrying on in Nicaragua. “We know that the majority of the | | . General Augusto Sandino, above, is the leader of the Nicaraguan | army of independence. A_ letter * written by him to the All-American Anti-Imperialist League thanking now attempting to appeal her courts for reversals and de- neys to hi This tactic of the mill owners of jailing the strike heads is proving fruitless as the rank and file picket leaders, deveioped during the strug- mine officials and scab employes, the | Pee i North American people is not re-| the Ameri: vork for aid i if eee = frankly sceptical. that the company|Nishimura, Y. Yamgehi and M. Lice d le American workers for aid sent | 11. are leading larger and larger ue gin yea, grid With all of the $10,000 raised by | can pe the’“efficient and ade-| Kawau, three Japanese, accused of spaesible for the feces one that.| to his troops hos just been received 4 | fenstrations ae ds mill cates t! le -day : sees snttieant-w s hi ee ees ifs “1G ; iviti e marines commit every day in our | in this country Lioace vaue ier i troduce the strike as an issue directly | militant workers of this country |quate service” which they are promis- | Communist activities here, members country. Notice came to us of the . ¥: een ole | every day. mete | involved in the case. One of the chief Mining Company, where Brbot had} been employed. The prosecution’s case was based to save The DAILY WORKER al- | feady turned over to creditors to meet | for the summer :nonths now becomes | more apparent than ever, The “Daily” {is in the position of a convalescent on a confession wrung from Brbot jorson, who, though he has success- by beating him into a state of semi- funy fonght through his illness, is so consciousness on the lonely hillside |\,cakened that he is not out of danger. road where he was arrested. A bit of irony flitted through the | (Continued on inued on Page Two) BEMOGRATIC MEET ‘Stage Is All S Set for the Choosing: of Smith HOUSTON, Tex., June 24.—With the complete collapse of even the fake opposition of Senator James A. Reed, | of Missouri, the stage is all set here | for the several hundred mannikins | who on Tuesday will begin going thru, the motions of choosing Gov. Smith as; the democratic candidate for presi-! dent. Reed has declared he would support the ticket, no matter who! runs. Set against the background of the’ Negro lynching which occurred here several days ago and which all the, delegates have been finding it con-'; venient to forget, the convention of the party that flavors its complete * subservience to Big Business with remnants of southern feudalism will probably see even less “opposition” to the picked candidate than did the re- publican party convention at Kansas City. Moody Rallies “Opposition.” At present this so-called opposition | seems to be. grouping itself around) Gov. Dan Moody of Texas. Moody is supposedly rallying the “dry” forces, | future. It is up to the militant workers of | this country to tide the “Daily” over jth ie summer, the most difficult peri- od of the year. The sharp falling off ef contributions during the last few was saved only by the generous re- sponse of workers throughout the country. The existence of the “Daily” [rnust be secured by a continuation of ie response, : Camp Aids | That class-conscious. workers are | vealizing this and are preparing to }assure the Dailiy’s. existence is evi- |denced by a decision of the directors of Camp Trombenick, a. workers’ \camp at Glenkam, N. ¥. This camp, which is ordinarily open only to mem- bers, will take in about 100 visitors tover July 4 and turn over all: the | profits to The DAILY WORKER and | the striking: miners, The camp has also contributed $31.50 to the “Daily” and will send more. §* Another organization tina ie help. | ing to keep The DAILY WORKER going is the Workers Club of Chieca- go, which has sent in $75. . Workers |, and workingclass clubs of Netagy kinds must follow the example >of these two organizations if The DAILY. WORKER 1s. to continue fighting in the interests of the Amer- + ican workingclass. 1 Contributors The following is an additional: list of contributions that helped save The DAILY WORKER: ing their patrons. ers which says in part: “The Connecticut Company, a Sub- sidiary of the N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. a concern of Wall Street, is making every effort to break your Union. “Your Union is an instrument ‘in your hands, with which you are able to protect your working conditions; to shorten your hours of work, to increase your wages and to protect yourselves generally. This the Com- pany does not like, and is using every “The only method by which you can win your just demands, and your right to be organized is that of mili- tant struggle. The great danger facing your Union at the present time is that your Union leaders, incompe- tent, afraid and unwilling to engage in a real fight, will give the Connec- ticut Company a long sought chance to completely destroy your organiza- tion. Instead of immediately mobiliz- (Continued on Page Five) NOBILE RESCUED WITH 5 OF CREW. Rescuers Now Looking for Amundsen Plane . LONDON, June. 24—With Com- mander Umberto Nobile, leader of the Italia expedition, brought to safety by of the bomb squad also entered the headquarters of the All-America Anti- Edith Berkman, the local secretary of the All-American Anti-Imperialist meetings and public manifestations who also are the victims of the oppres- | sion of the exploiters, the same in-/ |terests that are now fighting to en-| STATES START ELECTION DRIVE Exceptionally large demonstrations are planned for this morning, as the | witnesses against the striker was 0. | * * * ae inst sending the marines to Ni: - . immediate obligations, the possibility} The District Executive Committee Imperialist League at 122 West |#& s = } to Nicara I hs . | B Sat superintendent of the Tria-| «mediate obligations, the importance | of the Workers Party of America has | Third street, and arrested George|SU@- We well know the situation of | strike enters the 12th week, These delphia No. 2 mine of the Elm Grove!| sec! The DAILY WORKER |isssued an appeal to the trolley work. | Maurer, well-known labor leader, the working class of your cointry, | |demonstrations have hitherto pre- | vented the mill owners from attempt- ling to open the plants. The strikers are already beginning to mobilize all Li >. Reiss, it } : s Roce teen neie mene 26r |slave the peoples of Latin America. a Swedish plane, and no fears felt for his'five companions on an ice floe off! North East land, the efforts of the | rescuers were concentrated today on! jthe hunt for Amundsen and his five companions, and the ten members of | The DAILY WORKER in the Los An- geles district. Maurer and his companies were rushed to police headquarters where after a severe questioning, which lasted for nearly an hour, they were | finally released. The arrests are the result of the activities of the California police in they arrested the —" yo ree workers, — Immediately after their raid, the police communicated with the Japan- ese consul, Midzusawa, who declared that his government. is: prepared to take extraordinary measures to as- sist the United States in syppressing Communism among Japanese im- migrants in this country. None of the men arrested is said to be an American citizen. Steps have already been taken to | deport the three Japanese workers and it is blieved that a wholesale | persecution of Japanese and other Oriental werkers on the west coast is’ preparing. MANY ARE FREED IN SEWER GRAFT The “inyestigation” of graft in the Bronx districts of the Department of | Street Cleaning by the district attor- | ney, will end tomorrow with a “re- | port of aetivities” it was announced yesterday. The carly predictions that the ‘so- “We want to transmit through you the feeling of gratitude of our army of liberation of Nicaragua to the anti- imperialist fighters in the United | (Continued on Page | on Page Two) DRIVE FOR MINE N..Y. Workers Launch Campaign Today This morning thousands of New York workers will launch an inten- sive drive for the relief of the strik- ing soft-coal miners and their depen dents throughout half a dozen states. | For the past two weeks preparations jhave been going on, under the aus- pices of the National Miners Relief Committee of 799 Broadway. The drive will last from this morning to next Sunday, and will include house- to-house collections, special . relief | meetings by workers’ organizations, | open-air meetings which will empha- size the importance of miners’ relief to New York workers, and will wind lap with a mass collection on Satur- | ay and Sunday. The striking, hercie miners, now in | their 15th month of resistance to the vpen shop onslaught of the coal op- erators, rely on the solidarity and support of other workers to help them win their long and bitter battle. | Workers of New York, recognizing |the grave consequences to the rest of organized labor should the miners lose their fight, are determined to expend | their forcesefor an offensive against the bosses, who do not deny that they ll try to open the mill gates July |Party Campaign Now! in Full Swing DETROIT, Mich., June 24.—Carry- ing on the militant spirit prevailing at | \the National Nominating Convention | jof the Workers (Communist) Party | iin New York City, a mass conference campaign: At Detroit in the heart of the American automotive industry, the Workers’ Party intends to carry its message to thousands of workers in the automobile factories of Ford’s own city. A large attendance of nuclei pected, as well as from other shop and | street nuclei, and large delegations | from out of town. A representative from the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party will report on the possibilities which the Party has thruout the country. they can take an active part in the (Continued on Page Two) To Follow Coolidge} Policies Exactly WASHINGTON Tune 24.—Amer- ican marines will not be withdrawn from the automobile factories is ex- | Party members in the Detroit district | are being instructed to register so that | HOOVER WILL NOT WITHDRAW AW TROOPS Although the strong determina- tion exhibited by the wide masses of | the 28,000 on strike shows that there will be no desertions from the ranks, the workers are prepared to prevent the pabortstion 26a of scabs. | HUGE RED PICNIC ‘ElectionCampaign Drive is Inaugurated - Five thousand workers gathered tecemeiae in Plgasant Bay Park on Long Island Sound to participate in |the huge Red Campaign picnic ar- |ranged by the Workers (Communist) Party to inaugurate its election drive. The picnic, according to reports from | those in charge of the affair, was a | big The rain, which had lasted through the morning and part of the afternoon, fated towkeep the workers away from this, the most significant affair held here this sum- mer. Communist sailors from the Ger- jman ship Tirpitz came to the picnic, carrying the red banner of the sea- |men’s communist fraction aboard the Workers from all the trades were represented. Workers (Com- munist) Party members, Young Work- success. | vessel. but his supporters include a number , Hisber, M. NYC, $.50; Freelix B. NYC, |00 ytalj h till, every energy and make every sacri-|from China, Nicaragua or Hayti,ers (Communist) League members, ; Wand, Peter, NYC, $2; Robinson, {the ia. crew who are still, un- Hac Nasi gr Ae eaha oe, agli eg ag ee Pied = $n of “wets” as well. He is also being Frank, Chester, Pa, $2: Me eien, sel uccountadefor: bac ceat round: api ore ee ue aid fice to help thei valiant brothers of |while President Coolidge remains in | Young Pion delegates from scores : Astoria, L. 1, $2; Box 307, Dresden, O., at ey Simon Sominnien-waave the mines win, the White House. groomed as a possible running mate for Smith. 1$1; Schwannun, R., NYC, $1; Leib, Tes With Amundsen. in»'the French hydroplane were Lief Dietrichsen, a wash of the guilt of all those uinpli-.| Authoritative < surances to this effect have already of labor organizations attended. | ‘The workers ‘gathered in the spaci- NYC, $1; Feher, A, ES, ae, ‘Kleinman, cated in the ft dal he be-| The National Miners Relief Com- cr yr NYC) $1; Redenst, 1; Zuckson, cia . f ne graft scandal at the be- . + 4 ‘. e The great “issue” of the ‘convention a one, Gi. Risniberge seus pon Norwegian; Rene Bilbaud, pilot of the | heii anmainr Sula tweeted ene aiis | poate, calls on every worker in the jueen given in those countries, ie So a Raseat MUG a ostensibly centers around the prohibi- zion plank. It is thought likely that Gov. Smith will be persuaded to Nacelman, 5., Horowitz, Sy NYC, $.25, Hilpern, GC. NYC. $80; Kielt B. NYG, $1; Bornstein, Rosenfeld, EB. NYC, $.5 * in the vicinity of Spitzbergen, a theory plane, and three other Frenchmén. They are believed to have come down | iwhich receives credence from the fact | proven true, when the official stat ment was issued yesterday by the in-| vestigators to the effect! that the | ‘shop and factory to do all he can to ‘urther the cause of the striking min- ‘ers. Workers’ are urged to take up If Secretary Hoover is elected pres- | ident next November, American ma- ines will not be withdrawn — from | (Communist) Party candidate for U. |senator from New York State, and The DAILY WORKER, and Workers — ———$———__ | days points to a danger. The DAILY i : means available to destroy your) running down alleged Communists and : WORKER must not again face such 2) Union, thereby goon co men| members of the een American Anti 1: het Pes menbers at De set to é sg ld ble a ‘when its. Tie ster ‘as ata a ‘the ae in the coming eleon*} maa sae = modify his.uncompromising wetness Nyc, $.25; Sarah, NYC, 5 a , sufficiently te is Beh wider ara Hee 20; Fatah EC A ahae nae eee ad fale a limited | committee had “found graft” in the | collections in their shops among their ber until a government appears | by.the spokesman ‘of the Gaeaaas « the “ ” berg, , NYC, 3; Stein, M., Chicago, $2; . | Bronx but had “little proof on which | shopmetes and wherever possible, to|there that will protect American | com: gather in the votes of “drys” as well Keitix a4 ‘A, Poledo, Ohio, $1; Mattison, |£ending Fange: le | munist sailors. 13 “wets.” iA, NYG, $1; Finnish Workers | Cl | % nd | to conviet anyone.” forge shoparommnrpes LOf: mines re- | Property. meshed -the-“assintance =| The picnic came to an end with @ Having been twice thrown out of eles geanere ae AE sta LONDON, June’ 24.—Another SOS __ With the district attorney dropping | Hef nay tae Ptteae 208 Oe SED ine armed forces of the United States. | iance in which all those.who’ wend! (Continued P F a iota AY! bis-acti she .B the probabil. | Collections regularly. The Relief Com- They will not be withdrawn from | pai ‘ontinued on ees ive) 5; Granitz, $5; {call came out of the Arctic today as | his action in che Bronx, the probabil |present participated, and the initia- seit S seola NYC, $5; Brateivag Bits: plans were rushed to go to the aid of /ity that all those who cheated the | mittee asks that workers call at its| Nicaragua until the new president fi) oF the state-wide election cam-— . $10;' Winolger, ©. Chi- | offices, 799 Broadway, for special lit-; Whom the Nicaraguan people elect | ’ Roald Amundsen and his five’ com-| workers. of New York City by pad- | panions lost sinceslast Monday. when | ding payrolls and swindling money in| erature to be distributed among their ifer ember and his administration are | ‘they flew from Tromsoe, Norway in a| various other -ways, will be exoner- Shopmates as a spur to relief activity. | irmly established. They will not be i House-to-house collections will form Withdrawn from Hayti until the French plane to search for missing | ated of all blame and allowed to con- an important part of the week's ac-| \pending treaty between the United | es is ab-| paign GEIB Fs ee ROCKEFELLER IN ” CenBinued on MARVIN, FASCIST s and Hayti expires, or i LEADER, I$ SUED Fred A. Marvin, celebrated labor baiter, and leader of the notorious Keymen of America, the fascist or- ganization recently instrumental in springing charges in an etfort to sup: press The DAILY WORKER. * ing sued for $45,000 by Rosika Schwimmer, Hungarian feminist and pacifist. Kosika Schwimmer alleges that Marvin issued libelous state- ments about ner.in the information service which he offers to women’s clubs. and other —_ organizations thronghout the country. The case fhe cote before supreme court dus- P tice McCook. _ Mrs. ri also has if sular Stove Company violated its] ¢* New Equipment The Negro Bureau of the Workers (Communist) Party is being reorgan- jized at present and would appreciate any gifts of office equipment, desks, lamps, typewriters, chairs, and other articles. These are absolutely neces- “ary now in order to enable the Negro Sureau to put its department in proper Fifteen hundred taxicab drivers | working order, All wishing to help| were fired without notice Saturday should communicate or send articles| night for falling below their quota to the national office, 43 E. 125th St.| cf “hookings.” or call Harlem 1278. This action, in which all of the : shop taxi companies in the city as a unit, came after many of the drivers,had worked as lung as 16 and 17 hours at a stretch in an effort overcome the effects of the bad the | agreement with Molgers’ Union No. weuther which cut down fares below i the $15 minimum een of them, Italia. VIOLATE AGREEMENT DETROIT, June 24,—The Penin, members of the crew of the dtetgils | oe their crooked tactics in the fu- | ture. Taxi drivers throughout the city are aroused at this action of the cab companies, which comes as the cli- max to a long séries of persecutions in which the police have taken an active part. The minimum booking system in force in all the companies is used to drive the workcrs and in- timidste them into submissiveness, taxi drivers say. The viciously open- shop Yellow Taxicab Co. fires all day _tmen ‘whose bookings are less than \. a ai on Page Five) 1,500 TAXI DRIVERS FIRED SATURDAY, Open Shops Ki Kick Out Those With ‘Bookings’ Below Minimum £60 and all night men with bookings less than $70 on a six-day shift. The owner of a fleet of Mogul) checker cabs in Harlem is reported | to have blusteringly told his men: “I never fire a man, He fires himself.” Paramount and Packard cab fleet owners have also been hounding their | Spanish government has sanctioned men mercilessly, In addition, con- stant police la ae with fines and suspensions clapped on for reason at all and licknees ent (Contin: on Pane Two) cia rogated by the American Congress. Secretary Hoover has told leaders | that he is just as strongly and sin-; cerely in sympathy with thg program | of President Coolidge in the field of jforeign relations asin the field of | domestic affairs. his all impor- tant fact will be le plain in the address of. acceptal which the Re- | publican nominee for president. will deliver from jhis hpme at Leland | Stanford University late in July or | early in August. - Control of Indiana Standard _ ‘Fight for .The struggle between John | Rockefeller, Jr., and Robert W, art, Chairman of the Board rectors of the Standard Oil Cd {of Indiana, for the control company was sharpened when Rockefeller issued a denying that he was taking dispose of his stock in 8 0 tion. ; The Rockefeller invtenentel clear that they bar de carry on a po Sor to Buenos. Ap. cf the ae —_———— SPAIN TO BUILD AIR Port * As part of its new air policy, the the building. of a $5,000,000 American air-port at. Seville, his will : setve fas the base of a proposed Zeppelin