The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1928, Page 1

| | TRIAL OF BELA KUN WILL START TODAY HE DAILY Wo THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE, UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 150. Wublished daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Entered as secon wee mater it tue Past flies at New York, N. Y,, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1928 » under the act of March 3, 1879. i. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents PORTER DEFIES ARMY CZARS, DEFENDS COMMUNISM SEIPEL REGIME TO START BELA KUN TRIAL TODAY Workers of All Lands Send Protest BULLETIN (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) VIENNA, June 25.—The court building, in which the trial of Bela Kun will take place tomorrow, is surrounded by cordons of heavily armed police. The Red Aid and the Austrian Communist Party are planning to hold a kuge protest demonstration tomorrow night. * * * VIENNA, June 25. — The trial of Bela Kun, Hungarian Communisi leader, on charges of passport vioia- tion will be begun here tomorrow. At the same time the power of interna- tional labor has compelled the Aus- trian government tc desist from its purposes in part, and intimations have been received that the Seipei xovernment will refuse to hand over Kun for extradition by the Horthy regime. The Viernese workers are in a state of high tension on the eve of the trial of Bela Kun and the gov- ernment is utilizing their excitement to justify extra quotas of police, on the pretext that they are needed to maintain law and order. Hamper Defense Every obstacle has been placed by the Seipel government in the way of _ the defense lawyers acting for Kun. At one stage of the case, Kun’s law- yer was actually forbidden to confer with him. The trial will last only one day. This is the opinion passed about in informed circles here. The Vienna government has marshalled its agents and their evidence end is prepared to judge Kun as a Communist, though it has evntrived the necessary “legal” entanglements as a basis for proceed- ing. While it is believed that sentence will be quickly passed, the Austrian government has already showed its fear of the power of international la- bor and it is unlikely that any further attempt to turn over Kun to any ether government for prosecution will be made KANSAS MINERS FIGHT MACHINE Officials Arrange With Operators PITTSBURGH, Kansas, June 25.— The rank and file miners of District 14 are putting up a heroic struggle against the combined forces of the Op- erators and the Lewis-Burr-Skahan machine. As soon as the rank and file became active in the district the officials follow up and do all possible to take the lead of what they start. Lately it has become so unpleasant for the officials that a conference was called at Franklin where delegates from each local were to discuss the District situation. The Western Coal and Mining Company, the largest in the field, desires to put their mines on the 1917 basis as they have done in Oklahoma and Missouri. As soon as the meeting was called it is known from reliable sources that the operator of one of the large mines approached the officials and some miners and asked them to accept a compromise scale between the 1917 and the Jacksonville. If the conference had voted to ac- cept, the officials were ready to agree, and blame the reduction on the men. However, as soon as the issue was (Continued on Page Two) New Compensation Law in Effect in Quebec QUEBEC, June 25.— A new -workmen’s compensation is now in effect in the Province of Quebec. Workers here state that they are dis- satisfied with it. The goveruing commission is composed of three, with an advisory board of five. Labor sought representation on the commis- Japanese Police Used Against Chinese’ Strikers The picture shows: Japanese motorcycle troops with mounted machine’ guns. oops like these are used against the Shanghai textile workers, 80,000 of whom are now on strike to protest the frame-up of a Chinese worker charged with killing a Japanese citizen. to have been committed by a police The murder is known officer. 1,000 MORE TAXI MEN FIRED IN BIG DRIVE MINERS’ RELIEF DRIVE CONTINUES To Hold Mass ‘Collection This Week End Concerts for miners’ relief, house to house collections, distribution of special literature, shop callections all week, various relief stations set up by sympathetic workers’ organiza- tions in every section of the city, this are the program for the final wind- up of National Miners’ Relief Week to be followed by the Mass Collection Days of*Saturday and Sunday. Hard Month Ahead. A mistaken belief is current that in the summer the suffering of the miners and their families is not so acute. However, weather which for New York workers is a signal for outings and picnics means that what ever little food is on hand in the barracks and tents of the mine camps, cannot be kept at all due to lack of ice; the food decays rapidly and the added danger of ptomaine poisoning is ever present. The danger ,of disease is also heightened by poo: sewage disposal. Infants suffer witk prickly heat. No powders or lotions are to be had. Appeal For Aid. The National Miners’ Relief Com- mittee, under whose auspices the drive is being conducted, calls on all work- ers to volunteer their services during the Mass Collection Days. A com- plete list of stations may be obtained at 799 Broadway, Room 236, and any required information may be obtained by telephoning the committee at Stuyvesant 8881. TAMMANY READY FOR FINAL BLOW Convention Is Picture of Bankruptey (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) HOUSTON, June 25.—A national political party so bankrupt of leader- ship that it is forced to accept Al Smith against its will, and so devoid of principle that Tammany Hall must become its symbol—this is the picture which the futile writhings of the “democracy” here calls forth, on the eve of the opening of the convention. The democratic delegates have no one to offer other than Smith, so they are hurriedly scrambling to get on his band wagon. Frantic hand shak- ing takes place between the bone-dry representatives of the west and such soaking-wet, New York State Com- mitteeman, as Norman E. Mack, oft- exposed Tammany grafter; en the virtuous southern colonels and the power-controlled, traction-owned George Van Mamee, public service commissioner of New York, manager of Al Smith’s election campaign and chief fund-gatherer for the Wall Street candidate. All forecasts point to the election of Smith on the first ballot. The Tam- many tiger is even said to be consider- ing how to withhold the force of his spring in order not to crush out the opposition too completely. J operating under the orders of Fu- ‘ One thotieand mor more taxi drivers were yesterday fired in what has been learned is a drive by the Great- ex City Taxi Owners’ Association, a recently formed bosses’ organization, to force out thousands of workers from the industry and to control the trade. This brings the total of driv- ers who have lost their jobs since Saturday to 2,500. In every instance discharges are without warning only reason given being failure on the part of drivers to bring in the re- cuired minimum of “bookings.” Maintain Blacklist At the same time information was secured from reliable sources that be officials of the Greater City Owners are maintaining a well or- ganized and systematic blacklist which is compiled in cooperation with ! insurance companies who are work- ing together with the taxi bosses to secure control of the industry. Equally reliable information has been secured that a further niove is planned to reduce the present 40 per cent commission for which the cab- men operate to 35 per cent, as an additioral means of forcing out thou- sands of drivers. Under the present rate of 40 per cent commission, the drivers are forced to cruise twelve, (Continued on Page Five) RED SPEAKER TO COVER 5 STATES H. Benjamin Will Deal With Negro Question PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 25,— Five states, southern and central- eastern, will have an opportunity to hear the Workers (Communist) Party platform regarding the question of the Negro worker, when Herbert Ben- jamin, organizer of District 3 of the Workers (Communist) Party, begins his extensive tour through cities of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. This speaking tour, besides its pri- mary purpose of making clear the Workers (Communist) Party stand on the Negro workers, will also mo- bilize the Party resources for the elec- sion campaign and the campaign for the relief of the striking miners. The question of unemployment wiil also be intensified in these cities by the pres- ence of Benjamin. The recent lynching of a Negro worker near Houston, Texas, before the opening cf the democratic con- vention is a symbol of what the Ne- gro workers in this country may ex- pect from either the republican or democratic parties, according to a statement issued by Benjamin. “For Continued on Page T'wo) the; 1 LEADERS IN JAIL, | 7000 RALLY FOR MILL PIGKETING Conference Held for Big| National Mill Union BOSTON, June 25.—A call for the immediate launching of a na- | tional organization of textile work- ers is being formulated here as a result of 2 decision made at the conference of the National Textile Mills Committee, held here Sun- day afternoon, at 38 Causeway St. The heads of the T. M. C. move- ment, who have been leading tens of thousands of mili workers in their struggles are now preparing the official call. * * * Despite the imprisonment of the | two leaders of the Textile Mills Com- mittee, Murdoch and Beal, several thousands of textile strikers organ- ized themselves under the leadership | of rank and file picket captains and conducted picket lines this morning | that were admittedly the largest: and | most enthusiastic since the strike of | £8,000 workers began, 11 weeks ago | today. More than 7,000 patrolled the mill gates. Answering the severe police terror instituted in the last few days by the, mill owners with tremendously inten- i sified militancy, the strikers under the Textile Mills Committee leadership also turned out in large masses for picket duty on Saturday and Sunday. Jrrom the mill gates the thousands of strikers went each day to the union halls and, lots to bold-short. meetings,. <1 preparatory to the daily mass meet- ings in the afternoon. Instituted with the intention of (Continued on Page Two) FUR UNION MASS MEET TOMORROW July Raises and “Bloc” | To Be Discussed Thousands of leaflets were dis- tributed among the workers in the fur trade yesterday announcing the calling of a mass membership meet- ing by the Joint Bourd of the; Furriers’ Union, for tomorrow ever ing, immediately after work, in Web ster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave. Ben Gold to Report. All workers, whether registered or unregistered are called to participate in the membership meeting. Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board, will deliver a report on the general situa- tion after which there will be a gen- eral discussion by the members from | the floor. The appeal which calls the attention of the workers to the problem of “July raises” says that they are the latest development of the organized opposi- tion in the right wing union will be the subjects talked about by Gold and the membership at the meeting. Due to the campaign of destruction carried on by the socialist agents of the American Federation of Labor of- ficialdom, the July raises were sold out to the bosses last year, the leaf- let states. It then calls for action to secure a July raise his season for every furrier in the industry. The wage raise in July is a custom de- veloped by the Joint Board when it was powerful under the left wing leadership. THEA RASCHE HOPS OFF. CURTIS FIELD, June 25.—Harried by the efforts made to delay her trans-Atlantic flight, Thea Rasche to- day hopped off for a Newfoundland Above is a scene at No. 24 Wes have betrayed district 14. mass picketing demonstration of miners. for. a special convention July 1st to remove the corrupt officials who [Mass ae seen The Great hbase of Miners | tern Mine, Arma, Kansas during a Kansas miners are calling BANK FAILURE IN MINE TOWN \Pits Also Shut Down; City a Tomb (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) HIMLERVILLE, W. Va., June 25.— Bankruptcy of the Himlerville Bank with the loss of $68,000 of miners’ money which they have been forced te deposit there by Martin Himler, owner of the bank, and the shut-down of the mines likewise owned by the same man, has made this town in which several thousand miners live, a-teritable place of the dead. - Mine®s and their families are lit- erally frantic, facing almost immedi- ate starvation. A mortgage of $25,- (00 on the Himlerville bank is held by the bank at Huntington, which means that practically nothing will be left for the miners when the ac- counting is made. The closing of the mines preceded the bank failure. Himler, who practically owned the {town in addition, forced the miners |to buy worthless Icts of land on which they erected their shacks. This is an- other reason why they are practically bound to the town which is now like a huge silent tomb. The miners were forced to place some of their wages in Himlers’ bank in order to main- tain their jobs. Thig accounts for the $68,000 of their money in the bank- rupt institution. URGE PICNICS TO AID THE “DAILY” Barber 25% of Proceeds During the difficult months, the militant workers of this country who by their financial help recently saved The DAILY WORKER from closing down, must not cease their aid. On the contrary, they must intensify their efforts in behalf of their fighting “Daily” if perhaps even more serious crises are to be avoided. One of the ways in which working class groups can raise money for The DAILY WORKER is by arranging picnics and outings now that warm weather has arrived. All class con- scious workers should immediately bring proposals for such affairs be- fore the organizations to which they beléng. They should also solicit their friends and sympathizers for individ- (Continued on Page Two) 3,000 POLISH IMMIGRANTS. WARSAW, June 25.—Three thou- base, the first leg of her hop to Ger- many, according to reports here. sand Polish immigrants will be sent to Peru to settle on farms. U. S. S. R. PROTESTS KUOMINTANG RAID Score Attack on Tientsin Consulate by Tools of Imperialism MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., June 25.—The Foreign Office of the Soviet Gov- ernment today sent a vigorious pro- test to the Chinese Embassy against the recent raid on the Soviet Union Consulate in Tientsin by police Tso-Yi, traitorous Kuomintang gen- etal. 4 The raid, {hich oceurred last Thurs- day, was a repetition of the Shanghai raid made last year. The invaders occupied the consulate for severa) hours, overturning desks and ran-|Charge d’Affaires Cheny Men-shin| sented by Dr. C. C. Wu, one of the Wrecking Our Union,” the . to the Nanking government, according| most conservative members of the re-| calls the attention of the workers After ‘the raid, however, Chinese of- to repor' be sre ane sacking cabinets. ficials admitted that they had found neither arms nor “Communist propa- ganda.” The protest sent to the Chinese Embassy by the Soviet Union Foreign Office has been transmitted by Shop Donates| | summer | LABOR DEFENSE HITS JAILING OF PORTER ile Sirf SHES ODEs Retest SRM ates Tvl nC kee | Isaac Shorr, a 5 Srommnene New York | attorney who has defended many la- ational Office of the International | Labor Defense, 80 East 1ith Street, | | to defend John Porter. |__Shorr is leaving this afternoon for New Bedford to begin the defense of Porter. * * * I. L. D. Statement The following statement on the | by the National Office of the Inter- national Labor Defense: “The arrest and impending court- | martial of John Porter, vice-president of the New Bedford Textile Workers Union and organizer for the Young Workers (Communist) League, shows that the United States Army, at whose prison in Fort Rodman Porter the complete disposal of the textile barons of Massachusetts who are bending every effort to break the courageous resistance of the New Bedford textile workers. Proved Mettle “John Porter, although only nine- his mettle by his activities in the (Continued on Page Two) NO WORD YET OF AMUNDSEN PARTY. Rescue Plane KING’S BAY, Spitzbergen, June |25.—Gen. Umberto Nobile, who was rescued from an ice flow by the Swed- ish plane Upland and taken on board the supply ship Citta di Milano is not in serious condition, according to word reaching here this afternoon. The five merabers of the party left {pair the Upland which capsized in making a second landing. as to the whereabouts or fate of the Amundsen party which disappeared |a week ago. * * * LONDON, June 25.—Capt. Amund- sen, missing Norwegian explorer, has been located by the U. S. S. R. ice breaker Krassin and plans are being made for the rescue of himself and his companions, according to an ex- change telegraph dispatch from Paris this afternoon quoting an un- confirmed report printed by the news- paper L’Information. NANKING SEEKING U. §. RECOGNITION WASHINGTON, June 25.—Repre- sentatives of the Nanking govern-| ment in the United States are nego- | tiating with the state department for the recognition of their government, it has been learned from authorita- tive sources. The hostile attitude which the, Nanking government has maintained toward the Soviet Union and the wholesale execution of Chinese! workers and peasants indicate that the Nanking regime has definitely, embarked on an internal and foreign | policy which meets with the complete | approval of the state department. | The Nanking government is repre-| actionary Ki | bor cases, has been retained by the| | pease of John Porter has been issued | teen years old, has already proved | | Work to Repair Nobile| behind on the ice are trying to re-| So far no word has reached here TEXTILE STRIKER REMAINS TRUE TO WORKERS’ CAUSE \Held Incommunicado in Military Prison BULLETIN. | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 25. —A huge protest meeting against the imprisonment by military au-" | thorities of John Porter, organizer of the Young Workers (Comunist) League and Vice-President of the New Bedford Textile Workers’ Union has been called for July 4. The Y. W. C. L. and other work- ing class organizations will partiel- pate in the demonstration, at which prominent speakers will be present. + ae ae By GILBERT GREEN | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 25. —John Porter hurled defiance at the military authorities here following , his arrest and announced that he has | no apologies for being a Communist ~ and a leader in the strike against the textile barons. “Yes, I am a member and organizer of the Communist youth league, and I am going to remain so, in spite of any sentence you may give me,” was the challenge in the face of the army officers who questioned Porter. John Porter took his militant stand in the face of a general court-martial and the certainty of a long sentence to the military prison at Governor’s (Continued on Page Two) none ae, ew vee = MINE WOMAN TO: KEEP CHILDREN |Laura Calegari Put On “Good Behavior” (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) WHEELING, W. Va., June 25.— |“If you keep off the picket line and turn that soup kitchen over to some- |.one else, we'll let you keep your kids.” This was the ruling of the squire’s |court before which Laura Calegari, | coal digger’s widow and strike leader at Triadelphia, appeared to answer @ | warrant charging her with neglect of her two children Virgil, seven and | Vera, four. The move to deprive Mrs. |Calegari of her children was institu- ted as a means of forcing her to give |up her activities on the picket line. None of the 14 witnesses which Mrs. Calegari brought to testify to her good character and her faithful- ness as a parent were permitted to testify. When the widow attempted to speak in her own defense she was | silenced by the cour ‘I’m not interested in anything you o say,” the presiding jus- rmed her. “I can’t take the a woman who is known to her | (Contés rued on Page Two) ASKS PIECE WORK FOR N.Y. CAP UNION Bosses’ Paper International Cloth Hat Cap and Mil- |linery Workers Union, moves | forcing on the entire membership of — the union the degradation known as — piece-work ,despite the overwhelming opposition of the workers. Following calling off the Chicago strike against piece-work, despite the overwhelming the trade journal of the employers in which he again openly declares himself, as favoring this method of work to that of week-work. In a long statement issued by the left wing in the capmakers union, distributed in circular form to {workers in the market, the ca] ers are warned of an impending 1 tack of the New York employers with the aid of Zaritsky’s hand will come out with the d for the 44-hour week and the shop system of piece-work. Zaritsky Betrayals With the headline “Zaritsky | Gontined om Page Fog) Zaritsky’s Statement in close upon the heels of his action in» ‘ Step by step the president of the — » r —