The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1928, Page 1

a RAISE AT FUR MEET THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 151. BOARD STALLS ON CENTRALIA CASE DECISION Washington ParoleBody Ignores Petitions WALLA WALLA, Wash. (By Mail).—Despite the fact that it has heard the evidence in the case of the | eight Centralia victims three times, | the parole board of the state of Wash-| ington has again postponed a deci-| sion on the ground that the evidence | is too voluminous to permit an im-| mediate verdict. | By this action ox lack of action the | parole board has shown its contempt for the petitions of thousands of} workers and the delegates of work- ingclass organizations who were pres- ent and whose request for an imme- | diate decision for or against is ig-| nored, Petition Presented. The eight class war prisoners were represented by Elmer Smith of the Centralia Publicity Committee, dele-| gates from the Tacoma and Spokane Central Labor Councils, the Centralia | Liberation Committee of Seattle and/ the International Labor Defense: of Seattle. Elmer Smith presented a petition for pardon signed by 2,000 residents of Centralia. He reviewed the case | briefly, pointing out that seven jur-| ors have repudiated their original ver- dict and have asked for the release} of these workers and that a simil: request has been made by the prose-| by miners from all organized and speaking at Arma, Kansas. will be ousted. Wublished daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc. 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Above James Hunter, delegate to the recent executive conference held at which a convention call for a new national mine union was Kansas miners are calling a special con- vention of district 14, July 1 at which the reactionary Lewis officials | Watered as second-class mater Kansas Miners Hear Report on New Mine Union| | 3 unorganized sections at Pi sued, DISTRICT 1 MINERS FACE NEW STRIKING MINER AIDS THE “DAILY” Funds Needed to Secure Paper Over Summer “Enclosed within find $1 in bank draft to help The DAILY WORKER. Wish I could send more, but it is impossible. Am not working 15 months because of the coal strike out euting attorney, W. H. Abel, who Continued on eae Two) HOUSTON FARCE OPENS IN PRAYER Convention to Begin at} = some P.M: (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) HOUSTON, June 26. — Simul- taneous with the disclosure in New York City last night of a new Tam- many graft haul amounting to some $20,000,000 in the current street cleaning scandal, Claude G. Bowers, editorial writer of the New York Evening World and opening @peaker at the democratic conven- tion struck the keynote of the don- key’s braying stunt here by declar- ing that the “American democracy. has mobilized today to wage a war of extermination against privilege and pillage.” Carefully avoiding the cynical smiles of some of the fat Tammany grafters sitting in the front rows, Bowers launched forth «into an attack on G. O. P. corrup- tion. | | | | | | eae eer | HOUSTON, June 26.—Everything | has been settled here in the prelim- -inaries to the democratic convention except the unimportant litile detail as to how to distinguish the democratic party from the republican. No one obviously has thought this worth wor- rying about and it is expected that the mere key-note formalities of put- ting the democratic donkey through |, its braying antics against the repub-| lig’ in elephant will this year be as : ais “ald as possible. t Same Tailor, | Even ordinary observers recognize |} the make of the same Wall Street tailor in the suit now worn by the donkey ahd that sported by the ele-! phant at Kansas City two weeks ago. Also everyone now admits that the same straddling of doubtful questions |% and the same avoidance of real issues (Continued on Page Two) TO DEMAND JULY A mass memvership meeting called by the dont Roard of the Furziers Unien will be hety tonght at Hall, 11th St..and Itisd Ave. inn, - dirtely after weris. here. “Anton Balazsi, Dillonvale, 0.” People who wonder how the strik- ing miners live might also wonder how Anton Balazsi, who has been on | strike at Dillonvale, 0., for 15 long, bitter months, has been able to con- tribute $1 to keep The DAILY WORKER going. Workers Cherish “Daily” But such people do not understand what the “Daily” means to the mili- tant miners. To them it is more than bread. And the miners are not alone in this feeling. Workers 7 trade, of every nationality have been making similar sacrifices. More sacrifices will have to be made if The DAILY WORKER is to con- tinue to exist during the summer months. Summer is always the most difficult period of the year for the “Daily” and this year conditions are !worse than ever because of the seri- ous financial crisis which so nearly proved the death of The DAILY WORKER. The acute crisis has been passed, but the critical situation still remains threatening at any moment to plunge the “Daily” into a new disaster. The following are additional con- tributiens to The DAILY WORKER: H. T. Ahrens, Spokane, $5; Alexander Mluhlberg, Elsino’ $5; Louis Hoeh- heim, Chicazo, @ Hirch, Cincin- nati,’ $2; Lrast Besselmann, ‘Los An- geles, $2: Subsection 2A. D1. New York, $7 FD2 Subsection 2A, New York, $4; Clara Freedberg, Bronx, $1.10; TU Local 2 ILGWU,. New York, $7.45; Anton Loo, Bronx, Bronx, $6; P. Kilaskpa, San Francisco, $2; Dr. Rosa C. Powell, Richmond, $2; Cora P. ; Wilson, St. Nuc. 1, San Jose, $5; Jos. Ozanich, Centerville, $4; WP'1 Slovak Branch, New York,’ $28; Lettish Fed- eration’ Bureau, New York, $2.50; Z. V. Engle, Detroit, $10; James Kazenis, Detroit, $5; A. Kamenoff, Detroit, $4; Nababedian, Detroit, §2;'H. Harbieu, $4; E. K. Feld, Detroit, 10; 0, Detroit, $1; Alex Theodor- T are bg Atanas ‘Trendoff, De- Detroit, seals Z.’Conin, De- St. Louis, $1: Detroit, KXnecleotf, Detroit, $.26; troit, $.50; Sarah Vi So’ San Francisco, $8} San Francisco, $1; tine rancisco, $1; Bordonaro, co, $2.50; Erik Falk, San San Fraj Francisco, $3; A Friend, San Francisco, $3; Vera Feinstein, Washington, $2; Colodny, Washington, §3; T. Colodny, | Washington, $1.50; J, Minkin, Wash- ington, $2; A. Rosan, Washington, $1; . Hertz,’ Washington, $3; Charley Sotis, Chicago, $5; W. Choyrak, Chica- go, $5; M.* Hranen, Chicago, $2; J. ¥reskenas, Chicago, $1; J. Wasiuk, Chicago, $1; W. Twash, Chicago, $1; Lenin Branch 625 W. $10; Marcello, New York ynuk, New York, $2; York, $.25;. 1. Giller, New 5 By Misell, New York! $25; M. Zlotnick, New York, $.50; J. Roublat, New York, $1; Jack ‘Rosen, New York, $.10; M: Zeinick, New York, $.10; R. Reitz, New York, $1; Goldberg, New York, $5; Bougman, New York, §.25; New York, $.25. Menchicjo, NYC, $1; Gusk Isidor, NYC, $1; Mishel, NYC,’ 50c; J. Marcl- (Conumued on Hage Four) Solomon, ‘MARINES TO STAY Ren Gols ninnager of the Jat B.ard wii! open tre meeting witn a purt of the gencial trade siti.s.n, Blce in the Joint Council, and on a mpign to secury the July wage ‘raises ior every fur worker in. the "Last seuscn,” a leaflet calag the, meeting deusres, “tee right wing. ha Counc; succeeded in selling out, fur workers to the bosses, wh» took adveriage of this by dispensing only with duly raises but with sll fitions.” This year pians ted so that econ’, nn the questions of the Progressive | Ii CHINA—WILBUR Ships Also to Remain to “Protect Pr Property” WASHINGTON, Ju June 26. — The United States government has no in- tention of withdrawing. the 3,900 ma- rines now on Chinese soil and the ships of the Asiatic fleet in Chinese waters, Secretary of the Navy Wil. lee Se ocey ; ‘4, | tional Biscuit Co. he very often loses | H, the time they were hired—about five -|also told them that their condition was caused by bad blood due to over- | | pensation TREACHERY A decal to The DAILY WORKER.) WILKES-BARRE, June 26.—The Cappellini administration in District No. 1 made its first move to expel | leaders of the special district con- vention held recently together with | the newly elected officials of Dis-| trict No. 1. After a meeting of the District No. 1 board, letters were sent to local unions demanding expulsion of Frank McGarry of Pittston, George Isaacs of Wilkes-Barre, Walter Har- ris of Parsons, who are President, Vice-President and Secretary-Treas- urer elected by the special district convention. | Cappellini demands also the expul- | | sion of John Bellfield, Edward Hogan, | Frank Sobers and Joseph Dongters| district board members, and Ray De- laney of Avoca, elected as Interna- tional board member. Letters to that | effect were sent to the respective lo-| cals of which these men are members. | it is generally believed that none of them will be expelled by their locals. It is also believed that the next move Cappellini will make will be to (Continued on Page Two) BISCUIT COMPANY | WORKERS SLAVE (By a Worker Correspondent) With the greatest interest I have read in your paper some articles ex- posing the conditions under which the workers of the National Biscuit Com- | pany are employed. I worked there for several years myself, and I can tell you that every word some of my fellow-workers have written is true. It’s very consoling to know that we workers of the National Biscuit Com- pany have at last begun to think how we can in some way get some protec- tion against the oppression of our palm beach suit bosses and against the speed-up system which lays us off one or two days a week. There is no doubt that a workers’ organiza- tion is the only power which can help us to obtain human working condi- tions, better wages and more protec- tion for those of us who get sick. { If a worker gets sick in the Na-} his job. If he stays home two days he is sure of losing his job. Two months ago, two workers were dis- charged by the company because they were sick, and I remember that at years ago—they were very strong and healthy. They gave their health up so that the company might build more plants; at the end of those five years they find themselves out of work be- | cause of blood infection! The doctor | fatigue and lack of plenty of food. ! This is one of many such accurrences. If we had a strong union here which | would fight for our rights as workers, | these two and many others would not now be out of work. The company would not only not have discharged them, but would have paid them com- At the Post Office at NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1928 = mu 7u"S BELA KUN DENOUNCES WORKERS IN NEW | York market and have signed an/| |agreement with the employers asso- | ciation which grants them the slave- | * | calling of a stoppage for the benefit | jof the bosses association and other | points. | cutive boards of New York locals, to- \ turn, | great majority remained silent. | page affects the shops of the inde-| | to the employers organization, which New York, Ns UNION-BOSS PACT | Workers “Denied All; Satisfies Bosses The officialdom of the Amalgama- | j ted Clothing Workers Union have fi- | | nally completed their betrayal of the | mens’ clothing workers in the New | driving system of*piece work, Complete Sell-Out In return for all this the “field marshalls. of labor strategy,” presi- dent Sydney Hillman and his satel- lites, have blessed the tailors witn an | unemployment insurance fund a la Beckerman, which will be contributed to by the employers, and “distribu- ted” by the graft machine in control of the New York Joint Board. Hill- man also agreed not to ask for the 40-hour five-day week. At a joint meeting of all the exe- gether with the delegates of the Joint Board, the agreement brought to them by Hillman, who came from the meeting with the bosses, was passed after not a single word of discussion. The meeting was attended by several scores of Hillman’s functionaries. It was plain to even the staunchest fol- lowers of Hillman that the union leaders had given the bosses every- thing and had gotten nothing in re- When“a vote was called for, |there were several scattered “ayes,” several isolated “nayes,” while the The officialdom of the once mili- tant but now corrupted Amalgamated are calling approximately 400 shops out on a stoppage for the benefit of the bosses association, and for the further intrenchment of the union administrative machine. The stop-j pendent manufacturers, their con-| tractors, and also those who are termed by the association as their own recalcitrant. members. By stop- ping work in the independent shops! and their contractors, the officialdom hopes to force them into membership in the association. By halting pro- duction in the factories of the “re- calcitrant” bosses, the union chiefs intend to whip them into line to com- pel them to pay up their back debts is not strong enough to use pressure on its own members. A Gentlemen’s Agreement The granting of piece work to the employers was accomplished without incorporating it into the agreement proper. It is an arrangement called by the bosses and Hillman a “gentle- men’s agreement.” This new contract opens to the graft ring encircling the union ap- paratus wide vistas of golden oppor- tunities for bribery. Piece work was not granted to the contractors, in general. But the contractors working for members of the association will get piece work. The query heard on every side is, “what can prevent the grafting officials from giving piece work privileges to any contractor?” “All that is necessary is for the offi- cials to declare that this contractor is working for a large manufacturer,” the outraged workers declare in’ an- swer. Carpenters, Painters Wanted by the “Daily” | Volunteer carpenters and painters are needed to help build the editorial offices of The DAILY WORKER in its new location, 26 Union Square. The work is urgent so that the \“Daily” may be helped in overcoming the serious crisf$ which has just been passed through, Please apply at business office of DAILY WORKER, 26 Union Square. LOSES FINGER IN MACHINE Jeff Fligin, 24, of 1565 Lincoln Pl., Brooklyn, lost the third finger of his left hand this morning when it was caught in a machine in the National uring their illness. Sa RA U. T. W. PLANNING STRIKE SELLOUT “Fake Pact Won’t Get Men Bac Back,’’ Mill Committees Say By GILBERT GREEN While the Superior Court was hear-| workers the character oft the “class; place at these conferences ing the appeals of William Murdoch | collabora‘ion” policies of Batty Binns, | c!carly the contention of the leaders jof.the Textile Mills Committee that and Fred Beal, the two leading fig-. ures in the strike of the New Bedford | Textile Workers Union of the T. M. C,, the mill owners are holding con: ferences with the reactionary leader. \ship of the Bey Betta United Tex-| ork the A. f | ening -was Charles Mitchell of the Ci | Mediation. Committee. X., under the nct of March 3 SUBSCRIPTION RAT! atts Outside New In New York, by mail, $8,00 malts: PROP 2 per year. FINAL CITY EDITION per year, Price 3 Cents IMPERIALIST PLOT T0 ATTACK SOVIET UNION Fights Collaboration The reformists of the General Council of the British Trade Union Congress are planning to expel A. J. Cook, militant Secretary of the British Miners’ Federation, because he attacked the Mond class col- laboration scheme. A complete cable story of the current session of the General Council wiil be found on page 3. ‘IDefies Judges of Capita | Under Way his resignation was the result hofer’s resignation, however, absolutely certain death of th ernment officials had declared before the working class, whic! VIENNA, June 26.—In a co fronting the legal experts of the SPEED-UP REIGNS AT DELAVAL C0, Poughkeepsie Firm Has Spies Everywhere (By @ Worker Correspondent) POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., (By Mail).—Working conditions in this town are rotten... The Belaival plant pays the lowest wages and has the worst speed-up system I have ever seen. We get only 40 to 45 cents per hour. Many get only 85 cents to start with and very few get more than 45 cents per hour. The women are very poorly paid, getting only 25 to 30 cents for work formerly done by men. The bosses are always trying to speed us up. They watch us to see if we can work faster. On one opera- (Continued on Page Four) BROACH SET FOR ELECTION FRAUD Electrical “Workers to Fight Back Further evidence substantiating the charge that officials of Electrical Union 3 are planning an open elec- tion steal this Saturday when the union votes on its officers, was of-| fered yesterday in quarters close to the administration of the union. These sources who for the time being do |not care to be quoted, pointed out that at the union meeting held last Thurs- | day at Central Opera House, H. H.| Broach, International vice president, | openly admitted the plan to steal the, local elections. Broach hinted that there is more! than one way of stealing the elec- tions, when at the last union meet-| ing he said, “There is more than one way of killing a cat.” Ingaddition he strongly mphasized the fact that if, he has anything to do with it there will be no change in the administra- tion after the coming elections. “By taking this stand on elections,” it was declared, “Broach places himself in the class of Major George Berry, renegade president of the Printing Pressmens’ Union, who has completely ruled out elections and is using the Garter Company, 1115 Broadway. He was taken to the New York Hospital. i leaders, and prove to the blindest Riviere, Campos, and Manning. The chairman of this conference zens" This _gentle- man, whom Mr. Batty recognizes as “impartial and unbiased,” in his op- en showed the union merely for his own business (Continued on Page Five) Details of the discussion that took prove the Textile Council officialdom is an- siously awaiting the opportunity to betray the 28,000 strikers whom they purport to represent. The T. M. C. heads declare that these petty politi- cians do not even represent the sen- timents of their own several terest WORKERS DEMAND “FREE PORTER,” IS, Meet Here to Demand | His Release NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 26.— An official statement was issued here today by the New Bedford Textile Workers’ Union of.the Textile Mills, Committee, denouncing in the strong- est terms the arrest of John Porter by the military authorities, as an at- tempt to break the strike of 28,000; textile workers. | “Tt is as bald as the imprisonment | of the other two leaders of the strike, | Beal,” the statement says. Porter jis being held in confinement by the | army bureaucrats pending a court} martial on the charge of being a “de- serter.” Isaac Shorr, New York attorney | who is a specialist in military law, having defended hundreds of cases be- | fore courts martial during the war, is en route to New Bedford to take | charge of Porter’s defense, it was learned today. Upon his arrival he} will immediately institute habeas cor- pus proceedings to obtain Porter’s re- lease. After being held incommunicado for a period, contact was finally se- cured with the prisoner. He issued a statement which appealed workers to fight for his release. He also approved the plan of the Young Workers (Communist) the International Labor Defense to launch a nation-wide drive to obtain mass support for his fight for free- dom. If convicted by the court martial, a sentence of life imprisonment stares Porter in the face. The viciousness with which those who infringe on the army czars’ regulations are handled | | provoke fears that he may be given the most severe sentence, AL'S PAL GRABS AT GOVT. SHIPS. Smith Backer May Get Fat Reward WASHINGTON, June 26. — The United States Steamship Lines may be put on the auction block by the shipping board within a short time, it’ was learned The board will consider the pro- ject soon. Reports here in- dicate that M. F. Kenney, wealthy New Yorker who is one of Gov. Al Smith’s big back- ers, has joined with L. R. Wilder, of New York and W. E. Kenney Gets Reward plan to bid for the United States lines which include the Leviathan, and to_ establish a large merchant fleet. sc eannen eas fe made an offer board by the Kenney associates in a plan) made to VIENNA, June 6.—In a move which may r *extradition of Bela Kun, Hungarian Communist leader, to Hungary and his murder by the Horthy regime, Minister of Justice Dinghofer has resigned. “refusal” to permit the extradition of Bela Kun. open the way for the extradition of Kun. over to the Hungarian government. nation of Dinghofer will serve as an open way to extradition, in which the resigned ministers seek to escape responsibility William T. Murdoch and Fred E.| to the! League and} Capitalist C Court as Trial Gets in Vienna i\Communist Party and Red Aid to Hold Huge Protest Demonstration sult in the Dinghofer explained that because of his Ding- is interpreted as a move to It will mean the e Communist leader. of “criticism” In an effort to quiet international mass protest, gov- that Kun would not be handed Apparently the resig- h is much aroused. * urtroom framed in guards, con- enemy which is pre-determined to sentence him, Bela Kun, Hungarian Communist leader, today stripped bare the pretence of justice which cloaks the proceedings “against him and hurled defiance at international imperialism with the declaration that he had come o Vienna because he had cum- ulative proof that foreign pow- ers were preparing an attack on the Soviet Union. Outside the courtroom the cordons of troops and police stood nine deep. From beginning to end of the ses- sion Kun maintained an attitude of composure, bringing frequent expres- sions of approval from the courtroom by his bearing and replies, The Communist Party. and the In« ternational Red Aid are planning huge protest demonstrations. Heavily armed detachinents of police are patrolling the streets. The Hungarian Communist Party has issued the following appeal to the workers of all countries: Communist Appeal. “The persecuted, secretly function- jing party of the revolutionary Hun- |garian proletariat, the Communist | Party of Hungary, sends you the fol- jlowing urgent message: Come to our aid immediately, determined action is necessary! Hurry to our assistance j and do all you can to prevent the government of the Austrian Bour- |geoisie from handing over the leader ‘of our Party, Comrade Bela Kun, to |the Hungarian murderers of workers. To Overthrow Reaction. “Under indescribably difficult cir- !cumstances, working under the cease ‘less fire of the united secutions jof the Hungarian counter-revolution and Social Democracy, constantly suf- \fering fresh losses, the vanguard of the revolutionary Hungarian prole- tariat, the Communist Party of Hun- gary, is fighting to rally the toilers of town and country to fight against the counter-revoluionary Hungarian regime and s, Italian |Fascism and Bri tion. Un- daunted and backed ty the persecu- tions, it is fighting to get the work- ing masses to weaken, to undermine and to overthrow one of the chief pillars of the reactionary block in Southern Europe, Horthy-Hungary. Save Communist Leader! “But Hungarien Labor, the Com- munist Party of Hungary, can hold out against their oppressors only by exerting every ounce of their strength, only with the greatest saeri- fice of their forces and by constantly |rallying their broken lines. And now the foreign bourgeoisie has joined in the raging war of extermination carried on by the Hungarian bour- geoisie against our Party: and the Italian bourgeoisie are agita- ting to support Austrian reaction in™ its infamous intention to deliver Comrade Bela Kun, the champion of ship, the leader of our party, into the © hands of his murderers. The Com= munist Party of Hungary is too weak” to withstand this vehement attack, In” Hungary itself we have to fight: against hundreds of enemies, and our strength does not suffice to ward the danger which threatens Com: Kun. The bourgeoisie of all 1 tries, foaming with hatred, are b on venting their spite against n rade Bela Kun, because he fought the front ranks of the party which in the year 1919—was the first jour Russian brothers to hoist the +of Communism in Central Ei e bourgeoisie cannot fors rive for this, and this is crit The British — the Hungarian proletarian dictators 3