The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1928, Page 2

Graft and Reaction Mark Sessions of ~ Railroad Workers Risk Lives Daily On Job SACCO, VANZETTI HANGMAN SHOWN AS RECORD CROOK | Republicans, Democrats | For Power Interests | BOSTON, July 6 (FP).—Surrender to organized gas electric inter- | ests, continued subservience to the banking clique in control of rapid transit ‘n Greater Boston and the out- break of noisome nd at the state f the long ssion of the Massachu- ture. pose Grafter The session’s high light was the | impeachr:ent of Attorney General Ar- | r Reading, found guilty by a} ‘ial committee of extortion and | ‘onduct in office. A brisk, ge- ing political climber, Reading was on his way to the governorship when it was proved after a se tional trial that he had used his office to collect secretly and by ex- tortion 440,000 from the Decime Club, a get-rich-quick outfit, and $50,000 or more from an auto finance corpora- house mark the passing of drawn out | | tion. Faced by impeachment, Read- | ing resigned. Reading will be remembered by friends of Sacco and Vanzetti for his rart in the conspiracy to kill the two | labor men. Half an hour before mid- night of August 22 defense lawyers sought Reading’s help to stay the ex- ecution a few hours to give them time to reach a federal judge by air- plane. They claim he promised help. While they waited at the East Boston airport for his reply, news came by telephone that the two men had been executed, Crook Defends Hangman Later Reading defended Judge Thayer and the Massachusetts courts hefore the American Bar Association at Buffalo. It is reported he asked the bar association to cndorse the conduct of the judicial witchhunters in Massachusetts and to censure Wil- liam G. Thompson, counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti for “unethical conduct” in accepting money from “Reds.” Despite all efforts to smother it, seandal broke out concerning the dis- rosal of seized liquors to Republican politicians for use at banquets and outings. Other charges that legisla- tors staged a drinking bout under the golden dome itself were also white- washed. NOBILE RESCUER | strike, to resort: to desperate’*mea= | SAVED BY PLANE USSR Vessel to Resume Search For Amundsen STOCKHOLM, July 6. — Lieut. Einarpaal Lundborg, the Swedish airman, whose plane overturned while he was attempting to rescue five survivors of the Italia crew, has been rescued from the ice near Foyn Island. The Soviet ice-cutter Krassin had succeeded to reaching within fifty miles of the stranded fliers, but was delayed by ice and fog, and a broken propellor. In good condition again the Krassin, with the Soviet flier Babushkin who had recently returned to the ship when he was believed to have been lost, is resuming its search for Amundsen and his five com- panions. Babushkin is preparing for another flight. . LOOSE POLE KILLS WORKER. ASHBURY PARK, N. J., July 6— George J. Woodruff, night linesman for the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, died of injuries received when a pole upon which he was work- ing fell. Woodruff called at midnight to eliminate cross-wire trouble and was found crushed beneath the pole which had been loosened by recent storms and not repaired by the com- pany. He died in the hospital two hours later. hw This huge engine, overturning nearly brought death to more than MILITIA CALLED TO STRIKE AREA Bosses Will Try to Open Mills Monday | (Continued from Page One) dicates that the turnout to the picket lines will be tay greater than if the police mobilization had been confined | to the city wn resources. The leaders of the Textile Mills Committee reiterated their frequent statement that on Monday the mill} owners will clearly demonstrate their | utter inability to resume operations in even one of the 56 manufacturing plants. One of the reasons for this elab- orate mobilization of strikebreaking machinery is the knowledge of the} mill owners that they will be un-| able to open the mills. The whole mi tary a s with full war equip- | ment b: is being called in to create | the impression here and outside that many strikers are ready to return, | but are in need of “adequate protec- | tion.” Nothi is further from the truth, the union confidently declares. | The ranks of the 28,000 on strike are} as solid as on the first day of the strike, when not one worker remained working in the mills. Barons Desperate. Everywhere the belief is expressed that the mill owners have become desperate witn the sight of the re- markably solid strike ranks. They have therefore decided, with the be- ginning of the thirteenth week of the sures. The military has been mob- ilized for a wild attempt to shatter the strike by an attack launched against the picket lines, it is seen. At all the daily strike meetings, picket demonstrations, picnics and | thru the distribution of leaflets, the Textile Mills Committee has been rallying the strikers for Monday’s demonstration. More than six thousand strikers came to the July 4th .pienic of the T. M. C. Interspersing the games and other pastimes speeches were made by their other labor organizers, calling for Monday’s mobilization. Theresa Val- ente of the strike committee was chairman, Paul Crouch, ex-soldier and Communist, A. Lamieres, Don- neley, Kelley, Jack Rubenstein, Pachede, Cabral, Peleazar and Pach- ece of the T. M. C. spoke as did Nat Kay of Boston. Roumanian Workers Are Planning Picnic The Roumanian Workers Educa- tional League will hold a pieni¢ on July 15 at Witzel’s Park, 2d Ave. and 10th St., College Point, L. L., for the benefit of “Desteptaria,” the weekly Roumanian language Workers (Com- munist) Party paper. Besides dancing, which will begin at 2 p. m., there will be songs, recita- tions and refreshments. J. O. Bental) will talk on “The Labor Movement of Today.” union leaders and| pore in the South Station, at Boston, 50 persons. By some miracle all, including the workers in the engine, escaped without serious injury. ILLINOIS MINERS WIN ELECTION | Lewis Machine Resorts to Terror (Continued from Page One) sive slate would still have a major- ity. But for this very reason the re- demand. They called in the sheriff bank. | It is certain that the election will| be declared void by the sub-district | and that they will take some means | to put their reactionary tools in charge of the local. | Similar reports, though less’ com- | plete, come from the other sub-dis- tricts in southern Illinois. Wasson No. 1 and 2, Carrier Mills, and Old Gary No. 10 elected the progressive slates, At the Harco local there were | two elections held and two sets of | officials elected. The bulk of the members of this local live at ‘Harris- burgh and they held a meeting there and elected progressives. But the re- actionaries insisted on holding an “election” at Hareo with the few members who live there and claim the election for their candidates, Progressive Victory. In the Staunton Sub-District No. 6 five locals have elected progres- sives. A report as yet unverified mentions another three locals as hav- ing carried the progressive slates. In. Springfield the terrorism of the reactionaries was successful. Joe Loda and Hindmarsh, who formerly posed as progressives, showed their real face. They made the rounds with a squad of gunmen, threatening and warning the miners to vote for the machine candidates, and they now claim a complete victory. But there is keen resentment among the miners which will soon make itself felt. The National Miners’ Convention Arrangements Committee has re- quested all progressives to send in immediately all information of the elections in their sections, giving the locality and number of the locals and the names of the officers elected. All Convention Arrangements Committee, Room 411, 119 Federal St. N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa. Fascists See Ex-Kaiser DUBLIN, July 6.—Baron Huene- feld, trans-atlantic flier and member of the German fascist organization, Steel Helmets, departed yesterday from Ireland after a brief yisit here to pay his respects to the ex-kaiser. Fitzmaurice, Huenefeld’s Irish part- ner in the Bremen flight, refused an invitation to go to Doorn, where the ex-kaiser is in exile, Major Fitzmaurice is to receive a two years’ leave of absence from the government with full pay, during which time he will study aviation, it is reported. A lecture tour in the United States will also be inclided in these two years. PAINT IS DEATH TO AUTO WORKERS Benzol Destroys Bloodmaking Powers, Causing Hemorrhages By ROBERT W. DUNN. (Federated Press.) In addition to suffering a high ac- | ¢ident and severity rate, workers who | build Hudsons, Chryslers, Buicks and Hupps have to worry about very definite dangers to health. Health dangers vary from factory to factory and operation to operation. One of the worst lies in the spray painting of auto bodies and chassis and in the use of benzol, wood alco. hol, lead and other injurious ingre- dients in auto paints and lacquers. Spray given off by the use of these substances is highly injurious, “And during this hot weather,” the auto body paint sprayer will tell you, “it is torture to wear the mask,” pro- vided as a partial protection against the poisonous spray. Despite superficial measures taken to reduce dangers of spray painting, the Workers Health Bureau experiis declare that “even where carried on im specially constructed booths with @ provision for 100 feet of air con- tantly passing by the working face | af the booth and where lead, benzal | hi and wood alcohol have been removed from the materials, there is no as- surance that workers will not be poisoned.” It must be remembered in this connection that Michigan in particular has no adequate health | protective legislation applying to au- tomobile workers. It is all left to the whim and “good intentions” of the giant motor corporations. . Other dangers to motor workers’ health are lead poisoning growing out of the dry sandpapering of auto bod. ies and the dust and industtial poi- sons common to wood workers—skin inflammations caused by the acids, oils and varnishes used in treating wood. Those working in the drop- forging plants suffer from the dan- gers of intense heat, sharp changes in temperature and tke breathing of dust, smoke, fumes and fuel gases. High power machines and speed- up systems in many departments lead to excessive fatigue, nervous disor- ders and broken health. In brass foundries and in electric and acety- lene welding departments the air is frequently so thick from fumes that jthe workers can scarcely see each |other. The gas exhaust from motors | under test is often heavy in carbon monoxide and leads to the same chok- ing and nauseating effects noticeable among workers in garages and re- pair shops. Can workers speak out against oc- cupational diseases and detrimental conditions in open shop auto plants of Detroit where according to the Employers Association there is no “labor problem”? Perhaps the chief reason little protest is heard lies in a story told by a student who worked two summers in the River Rouge! plant of the Ford Motor Co. In} talking with a worker one day he was told that two others employed on the same kind of work had been. poisoned. The worker himself was | afraid of the same fate, uy “Why don’t you say something | about it,” asked the student. “One word of complaint and I’d be fired,” | was the reply. This happened at a; time when bosses were txylling men that “40,000 men in Detroit want that , job if you don’t.” actionaries could not accede to this | and had the ballots removed to the|they are large, as the government reports should be addressed to the} INDIA PEASANTS SEIZE LANDS IN SPITE OF EDICT Excitement Spreads to Other Sections BOMBAY, India, July) 6@~-Pea- ty in the Gijerat, the northern section of the, Bombay presidency, are harvesting the crops on the lands declared forfeit for unpaid taxes in spite of reports that the government is rushing troop trains} to ‘subdue the district. Information| to this effect reached here last night. The peasants are reported to have {streamed spontaneously into the fields for the harvest, and the action has ben sanctioned by the peasant or | ganization acting in the Gijerat. | The proportions which the peasant |results has assumed in the last. few days is reflected in the number of | villages headmen deposed. Of the eighty-eight headmen, seventy-nine have been driven from office by the: peasants. These village officials have been opposing the revolt of the peasants and the expulsion of the | government tax collectors which pre- jceded the outbreak. 2 While no definite information per- | mitted to leak thru by the govern- | ment, reports that troop trains are |already en route from a number of points north and east of Gijerat con- tinue to arrive here. Estimates of the} number of forces entrained have not) |been made, but it is believed that fears a dangerous situation. Widespread excitement still pre- vails in Bombay City over the news from the north. Following the huge demonstration yesterday, in which thousands of striking textile workers participated, the enthusiasm over the |outbreak in the northern section of the presidency is reported to be} | spreading to other industrial centers. Sholapur, the second largest textile center in India, has been especially aroused by reports of the revolt in the north. | MILLER MAKES IMMENSE PROFITS Competition Talk Is the Bunk (By « Worker Correspondent) Mr. Chas. Miller has been threat- ening to hire Goodyear stitchers on a piece-work basis and if they pro- duce more than the time-work stit- chers he will put them on a piece. work basis or else speed them up. He has also been hiring lasters for the miserable low price of fifty | cents a pair. He also demands as| good a job as that for which he pays seventy-seven cents a pair. I. Miller & Sons, Inc., have been giving their workers wage-cut after wage-cut, depriving them of a de- ‘cent standard of living. The excuse is they find it impossible to com- pete with the cheap shoes made in | Europe, He gives promises of steady work with his wage-cuts. He makes good his wage-cut promises but falls down on the steady work. The I. Miller Co. lies when it says fit cannot compete with the cheap European shoes. In 1926 the company made the enormous profit of $412,204.84. In 1927 the profits went up more than 25 per cent to $520,516.09. In the first thre months of this year, 1928. it increased the profits to more than $210,000. At this rate the profits for this year will be $840,000. More than double it was two years ago. These figures are the net profits after all expenses had been deducted. These figures are correct and can be proven. These profits have been made out of us who work in his factories. It is we who make these profits for them. Dont believe Charles Miller's lies about his poverty and competition. In the last three and a half years they have made two million dollars j clean profit from our work. I, Miller & Sons, Inc., can afford to give everyone of his workers an increase in pay and a decent stand- ard of living. , Organize and fight to get back what I. Miller has stolen from us, Join the newly consolidated organiza- tion: the Independent Shoe Workers of Greater New York. ALLEGE PLOT ON ALBANIA LEADER VIENNA, July 6.—Alleging that a new and daring plot against hig life has just been revealed by the Al- hanian police, Ahmed Zogu, president of Albania, did not dare to leave his palace yesterday. . Using the alleged plot as a pretext | the police have rounded up a number of suspects, chiefly Macedonians, atid Major Ismail Shanin, who is said to represent the former premier, Haa- san Pristina. The men are in jai. Zogu, who depends upon Italian | suppert for his safety, is reported to! be greatly alarmed at this attempt. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928 Massachusetts Old Political Oil? President Coolidge is resting after his great labors in behalf of Big Business by catching fish, walking and reading the bible on the estate of the late Henry Clay Frick, millionaire oil man, where the Teapot Dome President feels perfectly at home. Photo shows Wall Street’s footman, in vacation make-up, cutting a 17-pound cake on his 56th birthday. MOTHER JONES LAUDS DAILY WORKER FIGHT WASHINGTON, July 6.—Mother Jones, veteran revolutionary fighter of the labor movement and with Mother Bloor the only women mem- bers of the United Mine Workers Union, has declared her praise of The DAILY WORKER and the struggle which it is making. The letter, writ- ten to Roger Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, in- dieates Mother Jones’ keen interest in the erisis through which the paper is passing. Mother Jones is very ill at the pres- ent time, but is confident that she will soon be well and as active as ever. The letter follows: My dear Mr. Baldwin: Your very kind letter reached me some time ago, but owing to my health could not write to you. I ap- preciate your kind consideration of me with all your other responsibili- ties. Hopes It Will Survive I hope the New York DAILY WORKER will survive. It is a very good paper. They come out fearlessly and show up the mistakes being made and I want to say that this is the time the workers want an awakening. I would not miss that paper, as I en- joy it very much. I hope some day to. be in Los An- geles and stir those fellows up a little bit. I have been invited to go out there. I wish I could go to New York end see you, but I am not well enough to take the trip. Convey my best wishes to the boys on The DAILY WORKER and tell them I appreciate their kindness in sending me the paper every day. Tell them to keep up courage and keep up the fight. A fight that is easily won is not worth the winning. When the battle is over, then you feel that you have done your share to right the workers. With my best wishes to all friends. T hope some day to see you. aa Sincerely yours, (Signed) MOTHER JONES. RUMANIA TERROR IN BESSARABIA KISHINEV, Rumania, July 6.— The Rumanian police arrested Mme. Kollantay, aunt of Alexandria Kollan- tay, U. S. S. R. Ambassador to Nor- way, on the pretext of “plotting” for the returning of Bessarabia to Soviet Russia. The arrest followed the murder of the editor of a monarchist newspaper, who, it was charged, while pretend- ing to act as a spy for the Soviet gov- ernment, was actually connected with the Riimanian foreign service. LEGISLATURE IN BY POWER TRUST Spent $3,500 in 1927 On “Entertaining” WASHINGTON, July 6 (UP).—An Indiana utilities lobbyist spent $3,500 in 1927 on entertainment of members of the state legislature and utilities men, the Federal Trade Commission learned today. ° Most of the money was spent on dinners and theatre par- ties, Frank 0. Cuppey, Lafayette, Ind. testified. Cuppey said he was employed by the Indiana Utilities Association as a registered lobbyist at the state cap- itol and had formerly done similar work for Indiana telephone interests. The agreement was, Cuppey said, that he would receive $3,500, of which $1,500 was expenses and $2,000 sal- ary. However, Cuppey testified, the entire $3,500 was spent for expenses in entertainment of the legislators and others. ‘ORDER’ BLACKMER TO APPEAR OGT. 18 Sinclair Pal to Face Contempt Charge WASHINGTON, July 6. (UP)—An order directing Harry M. Blackmer to appear in District of Columbia | Supreme Court Oct. 15, to show cause why he should not be adjudged in contempt of court for failure to appear as a government witness in the last trial of Harry F. Sinclair, was signed today by Justice Bailey. Bailey also signed an order direct- ing U. S. Marshal Snyder to seize $100,000 worth of Blackmer’s prop- erty and hold it pending the pro- ceedings. A similar order had been issued when Blackmer failed to obey a sub< poena to testify last fall in the con- spiracy trial of Albert B. Fall and Sinclair. Blackmer’s attorneys placed $100,000 in bonds in the National Savings and Trust Co. to cover that first action. 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