The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1928, Page 2

a Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MOND AY, SULY 9, 928 Class Loyalty DESTITUTE, THEY TAMMANY PAYS ITS LAST TRIBUTE TO GANGSTER URGE RELIEF FOR THE MORE NEEDY “Go Firs st To Portage” Yew Slogan To DAILY WORKER.) BURGH, July 8.—Striking miners of Penns;\lvania and Ohio are proving what the best leaders} of e working class have alwa: ntained, that the bonds of class| Ity and sacrifice are greater than any other impulse; that this| loyalty and sacrifice remains firm in the face of suf g, need, even | 1 Miners’ R “Accordi miners to re. committee 9; 000 miners, an entire| has been living for over a year on 98 cents a family a week on themselves desti- tute and starving, nevertheless, fee) that the con in Portage are even worse. es, we are in a bad way here.” the , but our broth- ers up the line There near! community, miners, ons ren’t weak.” Local stores are failing. Com-| pany stores, which never extended | a cent of credit to strikers, are ae ing now. Miners’ debts pile up from $10 to 600 or more being owed by i al families to friendly storekeepers and loc tr lesmen for rent and grocerie Private p. >erty is all heavily mort-| gaged. Relief Campaign. What is to become the greatest single effort for organized strike re ef is now being planned by: the Na- tioral Miners’ Relief Committee in nction with the International Labor Defense for the week of July 22-29, A caravan to the strike fields of Western’ Pennsylvania by automo- biles from all cities east of Chicago will be one of the principal pre- liminary features of the drive. Re- lief workers and sympathizers will be able the flimsy barracks end actual living conditions of the nd learn about their strug- to see The | v M1 reach Pittsburzh Sat- | urdev. July 14, and a Relief-Defense Co nee, will be held the follow- ine days £ Will Mobilize Masses. “irst a joint mobilization confer. ence will be held in every key city on Sunday, July 8, when plans for the caravan will be perfected. In- ternational Labor Defense branches end local relief committees as well @s organizations represented in these two bodies, will be represent- ed. During the week of July 16 following the return of the caravan caravan to their home cities, and peaceding | a thorough mobilizatior ! the drive, of all forces for the series of mass meetings, tag days and house to house collections will be effected, Relief and defense collections will be_held.in factories and at local tion meetings. Open air meetings will take place in all parts of large cities. .A special Relief-Defense bulletin will be printed and widely distributed. These are the prelim- inary plans arrived at today in a joint conference held by Alfred Wagenknecht, relief director of the National Miners’ Relief Committee whose headquarters are at 611 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, and Martin Abern, representative from the Na- tional office of the International La- bor Defense. ROTTEN VESSEL SINKS; 291 LOST SANTIAGO, Chile, July 8 (UP). -——The wreck of the Chilean war transport Angoms, with men, women and children abourd, was described today by the four known survivors of the 295 persons aboard when the ship battered to pieces and sank in darkness and storm at 1 a.m. Saturday « Punta Chimpel Seven miles south of Lebu and only a short distance from land. The Angomas ran on the rocks at p.m. Friday during a terrific storm. The radio was wrecked and all lights aboard the ship went out Scores were washed pounded to death against the rocks. About twenty children were among the lost. Righty bodies were reported to have been recovere:|, several of them having been washed ashore at Mor- hnillas Beach. Slight hope was held that any of those aboard would te found alive on the sparsely set- tled shores near the scene of the disaster. Search for victims today was vir- tually impossible because of the gale which also had interrupted telegraph ‘and telephone services. itself FRENCH BUILD FORTS \ PARIS, July 8.—France and Bel- dium are flinging across their east- ern borders a wall of fortifications as nearly impregnable as modern tence. will permit, while France is iz a lending role at Geneva as of the sponsors of the Locarno agreements and an advocate the Kellogg anti-war plan. “Y. wy Y f even able to} go to the relief stations, they are so| | fur | gan si will be} | i; | | | police which | be- at| The same department only two days fore brutally tacked an anti-im- perialist demons of Wall St. Photo shows a view of the funeral procession. on WORKERS GET HEARING TODAY | |Frame- Up. of Militant | Furrier Looms (Continued from Page One) St. July 3. The} of disorder! ec igh | t 14 of those arrested are not ient. Nathan Kaplan, young worker, has Pes pay a greater penalty. charge against him is felonious ult for ‘biting’ the finger of Policeman Kee- can. The manner of this ‘bitine’ :s highly interestine, Policeman ashed Kaplan in the face. st caught on Kaplan’s teet finger s cut. Therefore, ling to capitalist law. Kaplan Policeman Keegan and feloni- ously assaulted hi perialism in Wall charges ag: suff! been selected The | His fi and a “Kaplan is now out on $1,500! bail furnished by the International Labor Defense. The frame-up ma- chinery of the capitalist courts will | be set in motion this morning when he appears for a hearine. Every | | effort will be made by those who| are paid to persecnte the workers | to send him to jail. It will be a} great trnimph for them and a blow! to the workers. This frame-up must | be smashed. We have had enough} of frame-ups. It can be smashed | only by the workers rallying to the defense of their comrade by aiding the International Labor Defense in its efforts to free Kaplan from the clutches of the capitalist inquisi- tors. &The ease ac: Pore must be smashed. This 13-year- old militant has been kept prisoner in the Heckscher Foundation for participating in the demonstration and efforts are being made to take her away from the field where she can be of most service to the work- ers by sending her back to her home town in Indiana. “And the legal hirelings of the capitalist class must also he com- pelled to dismiss the cases against the 14 other workers arrested. For all this defense work immediate funds are absolutely essential. Not a single day in jail, not a penny fine for any of them must be our slogan. The International Labor Defense calls upon all class-consci- ous workers to send their contribu- | tions at once to its office, 799° Broadway, Room 422, in order that their comrades may be saved.” | nad Pott in Workers *Party Picnic in Cleveland July 15 The workers of Cleveland are to have a picnic on July 15 under the ers (Commun- h there will be) speakers, Besides the | very interesting pro- | rtainment and prole- | ian sports*is being arranged. urther details can be aetained| at the Party office in eee ae elevelanty prominent 5) avesners a | William LATIN LEADER BACKS SANDINO : Ugarte Scores Liberals | As Wall St. Tools | —- | In the name of four European stu- dent organizations Manuel Ugarte has issued a statement from Nice, condemning both the Liberal and Conservative Parties of Nicaragua gents of U. S. ending General Sandino for his heroic struggle. The organi: the | Hispano American University Fede- | ration of Madrid, the General As- jation of Latin American Stu- dents of Paris, The University Stu-| dents of Berlin, nunibering about | Association of Latin American Stu- dents of Berlin numbering about 10,000, are in full agreement with! the statement. Assigning the crisis in Nicaragua to the “plutocracy of the United States, desirous of accentuating its imperialistic irradiations,” and the selfish and narrow vision of the Nic- ‘aguan politicians who are only concernea with attaining power for themselves he says, “. . .we do not admit any difference between Lib- | erals and Conservatives. We form a} bloc against the defeatists, against | the presidents greased by the White Tlouse.”” “The only one who merits our en- thusiastic support is General San- dine, because General Sandino repre- sents, with his heroic followers, the ; Popular reaction of our America against faithless oligarchies and the resistance of our aggregation to An- glo-Saxon Imperialism.” imperialism, and co student tions, | graduates |there will be no jobs to be: had, | schools in this city are concerned | NOT ENOUGH JOB IN. PHILADELPHIA .. 7 § year, according to figures of the | |Only 300 Out of 1000 department of commerce. Purchases | ‘by the United Statas of European | goods in May were $5,000,000 more than in May, 1927. |Can Get Appointments (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).— Rowen, president of the { their children for other professions | board of education: has seen fit to|than that of teaching, Rowen a issue a prepared statement in re-| Merely “passing the buck” in the |gards to the large number of school | Political parlance of this city. | | te eachers in this-city wl are with.| What other professions? Rowen | out jobs and for whom the great |does not say. Very likely he does} of Philadelphia can do nothing|m®t care. Perhavs he does even -——except prepare public warnings. |not know that all sorts of young) No Jobs workers in or out of the profes- Dr. Broome, in backing up the} sion can get nothing to do. | statements of Rowen (Broome, by| The young workers of this city, | the way, is superintendent of!of whom the 1,000 unemployed | schools) said that Mr. Rowen should | teachers are but a small part, find | broadcast the dearth of teaching| themselves in a sad predicament. positions over the radio in order| There are no jobs available, not that every parent and student be|even much despised work in the made fully acquainted with the sit-| poorly-paying department — stores uation over which these school offi-| and chain stores of the city. cials claim to have no control. And the teachers who are work-| According to Rowen’s statement,| ing find themselves overburdened there are at present 1,000 fully | with classes numbering as many as qualified teachers sesking places in| fifty and sixty pupils. | Philadelphia classrooms. Only 300,; The city of Philadelphia has aj however, can be cared for in the| special “school tax” which is high | fall by the opening of new school jenough to furnish adequate teach- When the class of Februa 19 ing facilities for every child. Class- | from the Philadelphia ;es could be cut one-half their pres-| Normal School, there will be at|ent size, furnishing several thou- | least 250 more teachers looking for|sand more teachers with work. jobs. Mr. Rowem announced that} But the board of education. is a |part of the stupendous graft ma- | chine which “governs” the munici- pality of Philadelphia. The finan. cial requirements of Vare and his | | henchmen, the band of brothers, as | | they are known, come first. The needs of teachers and pupils are | | only incidental. however, and no prospect of posis tions for teachers so far as the for at least three and possibly four years more. Rowen further states that the} “overflow” teacher problem has be- come a serious matter of such Enormous commissaries are made grave concern to the Quaker City | periodically for all kinds of sup- educational officials that he asks plies and text books. And vast sums parents to urge their children to, of money are spent to build, repair nrenare for other professions than|and keep up school buildings. that of teaching. Numergis jobs are at stake all It is in this part of the statement | the way “down”. from‘ janitor to | that Rowen unintentionally becomes superintendent of schools. These humorous. He requests teachers to | jobs are a part of the “patronage” look for jobs in other parts of Penn-| that furnish the basis of the Vare sylvania, and then admits that the| machine, to which Hoover owes his teacher supply of the state is by |nomination for president. far outdistancing that of the de- And as for Vare’s (nearly sena-/ mand. In fact so much so that|tor) contractor friends, none of them some cities in Pennsylvania have|have been known to die of malnu- abolished their normal schools al-|trition, All of them are known to together, hoping, thereby, to solve|live off the fat of the land — and the problem. off the backs of the workers. In urging parents Cc. RABIN. to prepare The Trial of the Donetz Conspirators changed its “hands off New Bed | By, MOISSAYE J. OLGIN. | The Don trial marks a new stage | in the capitalists’ struggle against | the proletarian dictatorship and a new victory of the Workers’ Re- public. The danger for the work- mer owvers plus remnants of the old Manufacturers’ Association of the South. Back of them, the gov- ernments of the former entente who in providing funds the “disin- | herited” may lack, are interested | two or three large ones could have | yielded much more coal at a con- worthless mines were dug where{ patched to Leningrad as a gift or | the oceasio} sary and which upon arrival turned A to be eight wagonloads of rub- ish. There is the story about the two siderably lower cost. Machinery suited for soft coal was used in hard coal mines, with the result that tion in Wall St. joined in paying tribute to Yale, notorious gangster mu in a gang wor. hundred police es- corted the @ funeral — procession in a demonstration of the solidarity of Tammany Hall with the criminals of the | underworld, the al- liance which is re-| ceiving the backing | | When the conference was jthe T. M. |must learn that not Batty, {but the New Bedford Textile Work of the Tenth Anniver: | not only in sticking a knife into the| they soon wore out and had to be plants that were connected with one ers may not have been as spectacu-| Soviet industrial backbone, but also lar as white regiments’ attacks or|in obtaining specific information as scrapped, of the mines: a briquette plant and Avowedly worthless machinery |a phenole plant, and that were re overboard aru | foreign invasion, yet it was real enough, and it touched the very vi- tals of the new order. In a sense it was even greater than the danger | |of open challenge. For while the! latter inflames the imagination and enhances the fighting spirit of the workers, the Don conspiracy was meant to discourage the workers, to convince them of being infe: to} or private business men as organizers of industrial production, at the same time to do material damage to one) of the fundamental industries of the Soviet Union. Workers Blocked Scheme. “Most of the sabotage was |planned rather than executed,” says |the New York Evening Post in its Saturday’s editorial. It was not a question of sabotage, but of direct-| ly damaging mines and mining—the jofficial designation freely applied ; by state, counsel and defendants be- | jing damager, a word hitherto used! stroying the crops—and if the coal) industry of the Dgn region has sur- vived in spite of all and has even shown marked progress, it was not | because the “ “damagers’” plans were not “executed.” but because the| rank and file workers devoted them- selves to the reconstruction work that all obstacles were overcome. Far-Flung Conspiracy. The plan was cunning indeed. Its execution was conducted decisively if subtly. The organization was a perfect unit. Way up, in Warsaw London and Paris, groups of for- | railroads, | Moscow center communicates with with so much enthusiasm and love| to the location of industrial plants terminals, ammunitior stores, ete.—information that may| be of value in case of war. Connections between the “bosses” | abroad and their agents in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republier are maintained by: mining engineers | dispatched abroad for business or} education, and by certain “dark per: | sonages” visiting the Soviet Union| in the double capacity of politica’| spies and industrial agents of the owners. Those intermediaries bring specific orders from the superiors and, to substantiate them, large | sums of money. The money goes to the Moscow center whose mem-| bers are known to only a few. The the Kharkov center—the institution managing all the mines of the Dor} and belonging to the conspiracy as! a body. From Kharkov money anc orders go out to the individual cal “damagers” carry out instrue-| tions. Secrecy is maintained all along the line. | Method of Sabotage. “Most of the sabotage planned rather than executed.”| However, this is what the, defend- ants admitted and corroborated at the trial. The richest coal depos- its were to be reserved for the for- mer operators (of whose return either as full-fledged owners or at) least as concessionaires the gentle. | |men were perfectly sure). The poor deposits were workell at ex- cessive costs. Dozens of was purchased abroad from German firms, the delivering Germans be ing made part of the plot. Mines | flooded during the civil war (1918. 1921) remained flooded for years so as not to be utilized by the Soviets. Well working mines were flooded by | the engineers under one pretext or another, Underground — corridor: were dug in places where they were not needed at all. ~ Ventilation| pumps were ordered stopped and the} mines filled with gas—the damage | resulting in the loss of lives and| suspension of work for a long while Costly cables imported from abroad were deliberately broken, and bars of iron found their mysterious way into the heart of complicated ma- chinery playing havoc with the work. Pretended “Accidents.” Tt would take a volume to merate all the varieties of aging” confeased to in the cuurt nn only in connection with insects de-, mines and groups of mines. The lo-| There is the story about the forget- of the German engineer That high technician was fullness Wegener. supposed to help in putting into op- | eration a newly constructed turbine war'|He was to arrive from Kharkov with a load of small parts, cables. screws, etc. revolution. Wegener arrived, but he conver iently left one box in Kharkov with the most essential parts. another story about eight wagon small loads of coal one of the mines dis- , the world over. 7 “dam- The thing was urgen‘ , because the workers wished to time workers. their interest in their eco- ‘the commencement of work with the | nomic life, and their devotion to the tenth anniversary of the November | revolution have triumphed over this duced to naught after the engineers ordered the machinery dismantled | and placed in storage there to rust | away and lose all value. There is the story about phantastic plans for years deliberated by the engineers in all earnestness, while the neces- sary and urgent work was not done. | Was Peculiar “War.” | It was a plan well conceived and cleverly executed. It was a contin uation of the war waged by Kolchak Denikin, Yudenich, Wrangel and other white generals, but with other | means, It was a continuation of the starving-out policy pursued by | world imperiahsm in relation to the Soviet Union. But whereas former- ly world imperialism gave money and encouragement to military spe- | cialists left over from the old re- | gime, they now did the same thing with the technical specialists, (It is noteworthy that this conspiracy started in 1922-1923 after the mili- tary attacks had all collapsed.) And whereas formerly it was planned to break the physical resistance of the workers, it was now planned to break their morale (outside of do- ing them economic harm), Defeated by Workers, The vigilance of the rank and file | enemy as they triumphed in the civil | war. & 8S. R. It must be hailed by every worker A great victory has been won by There ie |the workers of the U. |FAKE MEDIATION MOVE BY MILL BOSSES EXPOSED Frankie} Chay ze ate Board Is Ime aphs of all the figures in the ? Agent NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Owners July 8— princely | The prediction of the Textile Mills | Yor Committee that the recentiy held conference between the Textile | | Council o: als, the mill owners jand the St Board of Conciliation was a preliminary scheme of the | bosses to demoralize the morale: of the strikers when them come on the picket lines Monday, was borne out when the conference ended with the | bos: Foreign Trade Makes| A Large Increase, WASHINGTON, July 8.—Euro- | ag purchases of American gold) ay were $17,000,000 more thar | es in the same month last still insisting on the 10 per | age cut | called, | Bedford Textile Mills participation | jin the name of the great majority jof strikers, whose spokesman it is This demand was made in a public | statement which frankly character- | ized the conference as a maneuver of the nffll owners, but nevertheless | |demanded representation to safe- |guard the workers’ interests. Due to the subsequent refusal to admit C. delegation, the state- ment of the T. M. C. takes an added significance. Jt follows: “The strike commitee of the New Redford Textile Workers’ Union, at | lits last meeting, considered the con- | ference called by the State Board of Arbitration to which were invited the emnloyers and the officials of |the A. F. T. 0. “After a full discussion it was decided to send a committee from the New Redford Textile Workers’, Union to this conference. The New Bedford Textile Workers’ Union feels that it and it alone represents the interests of the vast majority | of the workers, and this is true in | spite of all efforts, particularly by the local press, to call the workers supporting the new union a small cent | howe ever, the New Ryorkees Union of the Tex | Committee demanded group of “reds,” “radicals”. and such like. “Sooner or later the employer Binns and Kexiere control the strikers ers’ Union, and no negotiations o dealings of whatever kind will br considered valid by the workers til) their own real union is consulted. “We have no illusions as to this jconference. The employers are not sincere. They wish a test of |strength. If the employers really |wished to settle the strike they could do it in short order. But what jthe employers really wish to «to through this conference is to soften the fighting spirit of the workers. to give the workers illusiens that the strike will be soon over, etc., while at the same time the employ- ers themselves will be preparing for a long and hard battle. Besides this |purpose the state board has other |things in mind. First of all it wants to lend the impression that the state is “impartial” and “fair”’ The state board feels that the actions of Mayor Ashley have already com- promised him too much, so it runs to the rescue. Second, the state board wants to bolster up the waning au- thority of Batty, Binns and Riviere. This the board does by calling then: alone to the conference, as though they really controlled the situation. In the third place, the board is afraid of the success of the New Bedford Textile Workers Union. 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The unusual photographs in these issues, now being displayed in workers’ halls and the press gener- ally throughout the country in the reviving compaign to “Free Mooney and Billings,” include pictures of Tom Mooney in 1916 and as he looks |today after 12 years of imprison- ment, and a remarkable photo from the files of the San Francisco po- lice, showing Israel Weinberg being given the third degree. These and other photos have at- tracted widespread attention and have already been syndicated thru the International News Reel and other press photo services. NON-UNION COAL ers’ Night Shift Out In West Va. Town (Continued from Page One) to build the houses and shafts,” the strike recruits said. “The pay was supposed to be much higher, too. Our kids are just as hungry as yours, and you’ve been striking for months, and we’ve been working like dogs!” These strikers will need help al- most immediately. The coal diggers what relief they get with the new strikers. The National Miners Re- lief Committee has promised to strain its resources and send a little more relief in the next shipment, if enough money is sent by sympa- thizers to their headquarters at 611 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh. ford” policy and has suddenly de- sided to enter the situation. ““fowever, while we have no illu- ions as to this conference, we sha!] send our committee so as to guar- antee to the workers that their true interests will be adequately pro- tected. “We anticipate that perhaps our committee will not be given official place at this conference. This will not worry us. It will be only an- other indication that the state board is not a friend of the workers, recog- nizing not those chosen by the wor! ers themselves, but only those mis- leaders who are not trusted by the workers. Such an action by the state board will only betray still further the fact that the state board has the real purpose not of settling the strike but of breaking it. This the New Bedfora Textile Workers’ Union will never permit to happen.” WALL ST. BACKS RUMANIAN LOAN Fascists Make Bid For $80,000,000 New York bankers, backing the proposed “Stabilization Loan” of $80,000,000 to the fascist Rumanian government, have just announced that the loan “may now be consid« ered. as an accomplished fact,” A large group of the basic {n- dustries of Rumania will be turned over to American financiers as col. lateral. Denial of reports that the loan would not materialize wag made Saturday by Dr. Max Wink- ler of Betron, Griscom & Co. Of the total amount, he said, $80,000,000 is scheduled to be placed in this market, and an offering will be made as soon as market conditions assume a more favorable aspect. Among the securities being taken over by the American capitalists are the shares of the Resita iron nd Steel Company, Rumania’s largest industrial corporation, and those of the Buhush, the country’s largest textile company. 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