The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 28, 1928, Page 1

SS ses Cinta weenie THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY ‘BAN Wo. ) PSToP MARCH,” SAY MILL UNION’S LEADERS Thousands to Turn Out Saturday NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 27 —The request of the New Bedfor Unit of Textile Mills Committee, that a permit be gramted for a parade of the 28,000 textile workers out on strike here, was flatly refused by the police yesterday. The parade planned for Saturday. Immediately after the refusal the strike leaders issued a statement de- nouncing this action and declaring | that permit or no permit a parade would be held. Organization plans | for the parade have aiready been set | in motion, it was stated. is | THE Wublished daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. | Bela Kun In Danger If Bela Kun (left) Hungarian Communist leader is deported to | Hungary, he will undoubtedly be the fascist regime headed by the terrorist premier, Horthy (right). Only a world. wide protest of the working class can save Bela Kun, | murdered ° by fe Bntered as second-cuiss nyarier RANK AND FILE ACTION IN SPITE OF OFFICIALDOM i\Free Mooney, Billings| Fight Grows us (he Post Office at NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1928 SMILE STRIKE PARADE DESPITE POLICE REFUSAL Fear New Austrian Move to Extradite Bela Kun Tom I . Mooney Chosen Delegate to Molders’ Convention Despite bitter opposition by the o! | ficialdom to his election as one of the} AILY WORKER. New York,,N. \., under the act of March 3, 1579. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents by mail, $6.00 per year. Miners Set Up Tent Colony After Lewis. New Boss Move. Official announcements were issued by the mill owners to the effect that they intend to “reopen” the mills on DEMOCRATS § SLAP five delegates to be sent. by local 164} to the international convention of the! Molders’ Union, Tom Mooney, victim | of the San Francisco frame-up with| | Cuts Off Relief ee oe 'SEE SENTENCE AS ‘TRICK TO STIFLE MASS PROTESTS ee Defense Tssues | Call For Action | pfSpecial to The DAILY WORKER.) | VIENNA, June 27.—Surroundeé by jheavily armed guards Bela Kun, | leader of the Hungarian Soviet Re- [pati was returned to jail yester- day. His sentence has been recetved serious injury by a hair’s breadth to- day, when a track walker thwarted a ’ deliberate attempt to wreck the train, The errest of three fairfield youths disclesed the attempt to derai! the train. A worker, walking the tracks last Friday afternoon, it was learned, found a dozen railroad ties viled on the westboknd rails about a quarter of a mile Ue Front “tie the fairfield station. noted explorer had been sétn by a seal hunter on an ice-floe, southeast of Spitzbergen. According to the report, relayed Telegraph Company, Peter Freuchen, the Danish explorer, who is now at Murmansk, was informed of the sea hunter's story by the crew of @ fish- Hag boat which boat which met him. EVICT 18: MINE FAMILIES ap \DLEY, Ohio, June 27,Bight- | ore families’ will be evicted to- is from houses owned by the U. S. Coal Company, whith is attempting to reopen its mines here and in Smith- field. Four new barracks, containing 52 rooms, were built by the miners to house the evicted coal diggers’ families. There are about 10 chil- dren in each family, according to re- ports received by the National Min- ers’ Relief Committee. Open Shop Coal Operator Bids Jor Scabs r cAebate for this company are dis- tributing cards broadcast through the strike fields of Pennsylvania and Ohio, calling for “men to work in coal mines; very good opportunity to obtain steady work and make mon- ey.” The advertisement describes these mines as “very good places to live and work.” But large picket lines will be posted at the pits ‘to stop any strikebreaker from entering them, local leaders declare. © from Copenhagen by the Exchange} ing of textile strikers will be held | duly 4th, it is stated. While Porter was in prison here, | \gea after contact with pan had been made (he was held incommunicado for a time), it was learned that he had been compelled to work endless hours each day for seven days a week. The food was miserable. Issues Statement. As soon as Porter found it possible to reach the outside world by a com- munication he issued a statement en- ,dorsing the campaign being carried on for him by the Young Workers oe and the International Labor nse, = also issued the following state- (Continued on Page two) I Dead In Train Crash CHICOPEE, Mass., June 27.—One man was killed and seven others in- jured today in a collision here when an automobile crashed into an ap- proaching trolley car. Cornelius Mc- Carthy of Holyoke, 65, was instant- ly killed in the smaah-up, ° ‘ ifunds they can to the Pittsburgh of- | |fice,, 11 Penn Avenue, ey ake an al | mediate shipment to rio possible. ri Hundreds A trucks from Teng Need Daily’ in Many | throughout Pennsylvania strike fields | Struggles | come to the Pittsbirgh headquarters | gates pleading er. reli | The financial aid which the work- lers of this country are continuing to i jsend to The DAILY WORKER is MORGAN SPEAKS ‘helping materially to secure the ex- istence of the only militant working- ;class newspaper in the English lan- ‘guage. The manner in which the , workers have responded to the ap-{ peals for funds, despite the wides-| | spread unemployment and low wage} At least twenty leading stocks in| conditions, is proof positive of the which the Morgan interests are do-| significance of the “Daily” in thej minant reacted favorably following’ struggles of the American working- | statement by John J, Raskeb, chair. | class. | man of. the soard of Directors of the} A fund of $10,000 was raised with- General Motors Corporation, that]in a shert time when a sudden crisis “business big or little has nothing te! threatened to shut down The DAILY fear from Governor Smith”. The} WORKER completely. Since the rais- statement made by Raskob who is at} ing of this fund and the successful Houston as one of the Morgan re-| passing of the crisis, class-conscious presentatives to see that Smith is|workers Have continued to contribute put over, was relayed to New York|in order to secure the existence of from Houston on the General Motor/the “Daily” in the future. Yesterday Company's private wires. (Continued on Page Two) gineered the adoption of resolutions | and that therefore its members were ky locals at Marion, Coulterville, \guilty of secret association. Herring and Duqueoin aiming at a|\ Bela Kun commenced his closing return to work movement which will| Speech but was immediately stopped appear to come at the request of the| by the president. rank and file. t ten o’clock at night the court ‘A new national miners union under announced that Kun would receive the control of the miners themselves | three\ months solitary confinement, is seen here as the only way to save|With one foodless day every month, the situation. (Continued on Page Two) “DAILY” CONCERT JULY 14 iT. heremin'to E Perform at Coney St Stadium What bids fair to be the greatest thing that has hitherto been attempt-_ musical event in the history of the) ed in this cit}, Twenty-five thousand revolutionary movement of this city| militant workers, including many will take place Saturday evening, July! from out of town, are expected to 14, when the great concert and enter-| pack Coney Island Stadium on this tainment of The DAILY WORKER) occasion. ; will be held at Coney Island Stadium.| Prominent on the program will be As this is also the anniversary of | Prof. Leo Theremin, the young Soviet. the fall of the Bastille, the concert} scientist whose invention by which will be a double celebration. A pro-|draws music out of the air gram of unusual elaborateness is be-|the aid of a musical instrument ing arranged, far surpassing any- Continued on’Page Two) | | | | July 9th. This is generally taken to Warren Billings, was chosen by a |with expressions of regret by {" oa that the bosses will bend Laat huge vote by the membership of his | Z . ‘ (oe ee aaa wee pi. Prince H ey Sa mport na al pars 9 Aas union to represent them. This was | Because their men-folk refused to support the strike-wrecking policies of the John L. Lewis officialdom lafee which Se ati: likely. dc EAEeaIGA LRAE “stesece E8, SE | the information reported last night) and joined the Save-The-Union movement, these families of striking coel diggers of Avella, Pa. were cut off | ioe GE AKG aL be ete, wears fe eae ‘Convention Si Segregates |, the national office of International | the relief list and refused lumber for barracks when the company evicted them from their homes. The National ce Se ee ee ae 3 Miners Relief Committee furnished the tents and is saving over 800 families here from actual starvation. a journals here and in New York ad-/ Them From Others — Labor Defense, 80 B. 11th St. | Fred Siders, newly elected president of District Five, is the second man standing from the left. Steve Paich, | Seipel government from immediately mit that enough people cannot be ob- | The union bureaucracy had pre-| philip Giambattista, rank and file organizers, are in the center. jeffecting the extradition of Kun, tained to operate the mills. | Special To The DAILY WORKER.) | sented a slate of candidates for dele- Z [it is frankly admi itted here, Mobilize Forces. |_ HOUSTON, June 27.—The party of] gates to the international convention L EW TS TE IC Fes Ss K NIF; a | Fear Trick. {> All the machinery and resources of | Thomas Jefferson assembled in sale and Mooney’s name was not on it. Even yesterday well informed the union me now being mobilized to { vention cece ae cone ee From his prison cell in San Quentin ao here expressed the fear that answer this attempted reopening, quite shamele: penitentiary Mooney began to write ‘1 MILI / AN / COAL MINER the sentence passed on Kun is merely those in charge of the Textile Mills | “democracy” bh yee it hie sory to the local union of which he is still FE INE |a ruse cn the part of the Austrian Committee state. “Last Monday_ saw | oeeene: ate raat dadics ER pee a member, urging upon the member- | gov ernment to give the worldwide Se pha 7,000 Be: porte et pala Negro seattoes ship that they resist the attempts of |Special To The DAILY WORKER | protests a chance to subside in order uge Two) $3 thecaenvention. and. to bald thine the officials to tie the union to the B |to proceed with extradition. ‘apart from the white delegates and ac aaa! campaign. \No Scabs Enter Open Oe ae i rie ele aaees ee Ban Tis brother and his friends in the * cause he was one 0: C rumors by the resignation o: ‘anz EX-COAL HEAD ater se sa ie d for | Union worked so persistently and with Shop Pit progressive candidates at the local) | Dings ofer, minister of justice, who seqeron: nh cation ahty h d effect i fon.’ jon i | is believed to have given up his post the Ne: t d of the con-| Such good effect in the local, that the ‘ union election held here Friday, June sention thal: nee the blue blooded ,fficialdom tried a new tack by pro-| (Special To The DAILY Be ae Gocrre Dilloncweavattacked ani| order to facilitate new moves g*— 5 IN DONETZ PLOT. egiiik-iieduatedband. tte Morgan- | Posing to elect , Mooney as an “hon-| YORKVILLE, Ohio, June 27.— Sat Sear thie ia. iith,a letpe bite hs es Bela Kun. ; / ‘controlled Tammany Hall grafters waren Fe bi ae ae Taee Large picket lines of striking minets};" 41. wandé of a Lewis supporter Boss Says ‘That Zavitsky | seme: PER. : ae New tess ie oN be fered to exonetng the aveatierats’ attempt fn under the leadership of the newly named “Monte” Bestwick Induced Lockout Bere vee pts oe 5 3 | ited sections . as mnt ‘ 5 : | atrol the streets of Vienna last nij Proved Guilty in Big) icemeous avon» teal vets of confidence tn iin elected “progressive officers end 2) The attack occurred when Dillon | fa the government viewed with | Negro delegates here call attention by the membership. score of state troopers were lise only was returning to his home at the bar-| A new wave of arrests was in-/ alarm the rising tide of mass resent- Sabotage Case be the fact that the Tammany~Hall! Ones vote was og ay high- jones who Cac Brice morning ie racks, after the meeting at which all | es arses ae tee GR | pee against the sentence passed on Bey Sage administration in New York City has &St. is imprisonment, of course,|the much_heralde resumption " ) w + | Kun. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., June 27.—| |sought to wall-in a whole section of|makes it impossible for him to at-| operations” at four mines near here. eS prea wave offices were! members of the Millinery Hand | It is intimated that the govern- Following the examination of Skorat-|Hariem to which it aims to confine|tend the convention, but Jenkins, the}. 4¢ even one miner applied for work.|-" by the progressives. | Workers Union were arrested for pic-| ment intends to continue the tactics to, the technician accused of sabo-/+h¢ Negro workers, and that public/first alternate and a staunch sup- |" ‘ck ea heats “| During the bitter fight of the elec- | keting the shop of Theodore eaens) | ot veiled terrorism at the trial where tage and counter-revolutionary activi-'| oifice and the civil service is prac-|porter of Mooney, will, take his place| The longest picket line marched be- tions, the machine used every method | 92 West 39th St., which was declared! police stood nine deep’ around the ties in connection with the Don min-| tically closed to the Negroes in “dem- | as regular delegate. |fore the mouth of the Blaine mine of at its command in an attempt to| jon strike Monday evening for lock-| }uilding and every man or woman ing operations, the trial of the de- | oeratic” New York as in prejudiced] The mass movement begun by the|the Lorain Coal and Coke Company. |, s gs noe | ing out the 40 milliners, with whose | entering the courtroom was searched. fendants in the Donetz conspiracy | pexas, I. L. D. to free Mooney and Billings |The other pits which were to open steamroller” the vote but the miners | union Klaus had an agreement. The| arly in the course of the trial the b case continued yesterday with the ex-| * * * is meeting with the active support]. the No. 4 mine of the Rail and broke through these devices. junion attorney succeeded in getting | prosecution sought to withdraw those amination of the former mine owner! first Fight Over “Tolerance.” of workers and working-class organ-|“7° ‘© “°- he 8 sage Fe) Gets Own Medicine. |the trial of the girls postponed till] parts of the indictment which re- Rabinovitch. ee N, June 27.—Balloti izations throughout the country. River Coal Company in Stewarts; the + Thursday in Jefferson Market Court. | ferred to the Soviet Union. | At least two thousand workers pe eas ee fc presidency, Gaylord mine of the Sauters Coal Bestwick, tool of Frank Hefferly In declaring the lockout the em-| Exposes Imperialists auc? the great hall of prosecu-} —y i), A due aorta tonight, is al- Company, Martins Ferry; and the|@nd Jack Hasson, the Lewis-Fagan| plover stated that he wants no deal-| Tearing ay) the mask of legality sth ek Se tae eee, e van Oe ast certain to result in the nam- P RT Red Bird mine of the Warner Collier- | °'ganizers in this See pits him- ing with the administration of Local | jin which the attack on the Soviet | Rai slas —3 ae ea fee tate |e of Alfred E. Smith, Tammany ies Company in Tiltonville. These self beaten up when the progressives | 43, because they have no inducements | Union was being veiled, Bela Kun | easing ‘covnvaiecion. pede olay | Hall governor of New York State, on mines are-in’the heart of ¢he~moat repulsed the attacks of his cohorts. to offer him. Whereas, said the boss, | | charges the Austrian authorities with | heey Uaeteried breathlessly as Rab- |the first count. 35 e Ban edets That the Lewis forces are getting President Zaritsky’s Local 24 has placing every possible obstacle in the | y x ‘s i militant strike district in the east. : 2 already offered him many induce- | inovitch denied his giilt in the con-| The same oe “the | eae a | Daily Demonstrations. desperate is evidenced by the hasty (Continued on Page Three) | way ah the inwyers ee refusing to coe ataehitety logal ge fot toned DY Joseph px Hopmeeneor es bie figg. <A: (6 sy | enattiad tote, ak Tieuevilles come thay ‘eecetved word ob the ee | Kun himself Gi e cebceiment. jkansas_ and which led'to.@ Beemer ee eies SIMy Zars Mm weeks ago, a series of mass meet- aed vidieey, Which, eliminated ve LEWIS-FISHWICK | Kun was continually interrupted in No one left the crowded court room | jall fight when the delegations of sev- Statement |ings at the Epis day Bieeet inet Lewis relief “Bandit,” Patsy Am- the course of his testimony by the | as the trial dragged on while witness eral states refused to join in the Boa pend Races esol pea eat ‘women |morosa, from the presidency of the roe m after witness shattered the former, march which followed, is the conven-; NrW BEDFORD, Mass., June 27. ead ecesailch ut iat lead: local, “official” word was sent that Asked why he entered Austria witiy mine controller’s testimony. with evi-;tion which calmly segregated Negro —-Indicating an extremely ominous} , ve presi-|there would be no more relief for the F false passport, the Hungarian Come dlonce that he had not only been a viitors and delegates off in one-Cor-j turn of events in the attompt of the | 4 Robert Matusek, promressive PEWS | miners of Curtisville, * munist leader declared that his life participant in the counter-revolution- ner of the hall. army authorities to railroad to prison Matick ‘deslk : that the striking ; ‘Still Fight On. | pees not have been safe had he Hved ary activities of, but was actually the | ear eee |John Porter, comes the information | miners will continue to mass picket; While things look black here as a Hope to Paves Miners | in Vienna under his own name Ieader of the Moscow sabotage or- that his jailers suddenly decided to} it where resumption is at- result of this Lewis-Faganr action, the | Court Alarmed. anization, maintaining secret roles SAY AMUNDSEN ship him off to Fort Adams, por ; laewetoa4 on an open shop basis, re-|Miners still fight desperately, realiz- | Back to Work Thoroughly alarmed, the court pen with former mine owners in 2 eg Tsland. This was done Satur-|-ardiess of injunctions and mass ar- ing that they cai strugy: ee oe every| 3 finally forbade Kun to say anything Paris and receiving funds from them was learnt... Porter is the | rests, |advance they make and this they are) (Special to The I DAIL AILY WORKER.) | more. for the purpose of briking techni. ¢ young vice dent of the mill!” tno letter received by Alfred Wag-| determined to do, despite. the eftorts| SPRINGFIEDD, Ill, June 27.—| On further examination experts ad- cians end others in the eee Union, | strikers’ union, and member of the | onknecht relief director of the Na-|°f the machine to force them into|Maneuvering through officials of|mitted that Kun’s letters had been (alent ro | Young: Workers (Communist)! onal Miners’ Relief Committee, | fam eesinns veral local unions in Minois, the translated. Material read by the Attempt to Wreck Train. | League, who is to face a court-mar | Matusek says that thousands of fam-| ISTO: | Lewis-Fishwick machine’ is seeking | prosecution proved to be nothing but | -LONDON, Jone 2. While several | tial for having deserted the army. _jjies are living on one meager meal! to devise méthods of escaping re-) Hungarian Communist Party matter Discovered By Worker selief expeditions Sela eee | Plan Protest. la day, and many do not have even | sce for its ae x weet ana —- were none ot oe heel ae psdate ee search of the Arctic wastes for Cap-} ‘The national campaign of protest | that. policy and for wage reductions which; which the government had ho ‘or. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., June 27.-~!tain Roald Amundsen, confirmation |lanned to secure his frecdom is get-| Milk, even for the babies, is an un- | it has helped put over on the miners | In his closing speech, however, the Hundreds of passengers of a New |was eagerly awaited today of the re-/'ting- into full swing, those in charge | dreamt of luxury. Wagenknecht behoesl of district 12. prosecutor declared that the Hun- . - York-Boston express escaped deeth or | port received at Copenhagen that the | stated. A huge mass protest meet-|that all sympathizers rush whatever | The Lewis-Fishwick gang has en-| garian Communist Party is illegal Py