The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1928, Page 2

Page Two Over 5,000 Troy Shirt Workers Plan Symp “900 ALREADY ON WHY HAVE ROBERT MINOR AND SEVEN STRIKE AGAINST BIG WAGE SLASH New System Means Cut of 35 to 50 Per Cent \ omoxy, N. Y. July © 11.—The strike of 900 workers employed at » the Cluett, Pez Company Collar and Shirt Manufacturers, has aroused such high feeling on the part of the rest of the workers in the city that the entire working force of over 5,000 are threatening to walk out on a general s Strike to come to the aid fellow workers \ After the stoppage of work} gaused by the str of 900 workers. | the company sunced that it would clos > of “its local plants in retaliatio’ yainst the buttonhole makers who walked out in protest against the tion of what the company calls “a new method of wage payme This new method, the workers claim, is actually a crooked plan whereby the weekly wages of those employed in the plant will be greatly reduced. Declare Solidarity. When it became known to the rest of the workers that the company contemplated closing one of its plants the rest of the workers as- sured the strikers that if the action is taken, they would march out. 5,000 strong, in a sympathy strike thus tying up the entire works, Wages Reduced 50 Per Cent. 4) The new tem which the com- pany tried to install, and in protest Against which 900 workers went on _/Strike,~ calls a plan whereby Mvorkers. will be paid on an hourly 4 basis instead of on piece work. Ap- proximately 1,000 workers would be } affected by ystem.” This f system, the officials of \ the.company the “Bedeaux system,” Would result in a cut of from 35 to 60 per cent in the weekly earnings @f the workers. PROTEST FRIDAY AT UNION SQUARE Minor To Speak Upon Tombs Release ontinned: Hick Pose One) of several York and ‘ =: consisting n in New Ss. zation are in agreement with the policies: of All-America Anti-Imperialist _| gamization thapsard othpr cities in the U and my orgar full th ann wAILY WORKER, EW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 1Z, r re crushing weak, innocent peoples. Is} his a crime? By MOISSAYE J. OLG Robert “Minor, militant e - of| Minor and his fellow protestants | The DAILY WORKER, is serving a/ Were rested on the spot. Why?| jail. Why is he there?| The p men invented an excuse ared in a certain street| They said the marchers had no per- | oie duly He was in| mit to march. This was an open| company with a number of work-| Subter: Peaceful picketing is| men and women who carried|an act allowed by the state of New| placards. There were inscriptions| York. Any picket may carry a sign. | on the placards. The inscriptions} Minor and his comrades picketed | demanded the withdrawal of United) Morgan’s office while carrying marines from Nicaragua and/ signs. They committed no crime even from the point of view of cap- § acrime? In which statute | italist law. book, in which code of laws is it Minor and his comrades were written t a citizen of the United | brought before a magistrate charg- | States may not express his dissatis-|ed with “disor y conduct.” This | tion with the policies of the pow-|charge is also a subterfuge. The | ers that be? The marching work-|law punishing disorderly conduct | ers did their duty before their fel-|had in view drunkenness, open pros- low workers, before the ‘masses of titution, abuses of peaceful passers- this country, when they voiced a/by. Minor and his comrades did | protest against the outrages of the |strongest republic in the world Vol 7 | & nothing of the kind. They attacked nobody. They interfered with no- olga Peasants Discuss Problems of U. S.S. R.| These Russian peasants are on their way down the Volga on a river steamer to participate at the meeting of the Rayon Soviet. They are busy discussing the needs of the peasants and attempting to solve some of their problems. When this picture was taken they were discussing the nt exemption from taxation by the Soviet | per cent of the peasantry. rec Government of another PIONEERS SCORE FINANCE CAPITAL PLOTKIN EDICT MODIFIES POLICY : eee |Order Young Militant) Also Speeds Drive on to Indiana Workers’ Wages (Continued from Page One) | portunity to testify. The latter was| Informed circles here are viewing serving a. two days’ sentence for| With considerable doubt the an- participating In the same démon-|nofincement that the Chicago\Fed- stration. {eral Reserve Bank has increased its By JOHN L. SHERMAN A large number of active Young | Tediscount rate from 4 1'2 to 5 per Pioneers and a group of Young | ‘ent Primarily as a further curb on 7 the speculative wave which has members partici- . « “| flowed over thé. country patticu- pated if | by telling them to go back to work body’s wor! They used the side- walks of New York which are the common property of all. They ex- pressed their political views on cer- tain issues of public life. What is “disorderly” about their conduct? They say: “Minor made an at- tempt to address the crowd.” What is wrong in thi Since when has it become a crime to address fellow citizens on a political or other issue? At the spot where Minor was ar- rested, a minister of a church was addressing the crowd. Why was he not molested? Hundreds of people speak in the streets of New York every day. Why did the long arm of the bluecoated “law” single out Minor and his friends? They were brought before a mag- istrate. Why did the magistrate behave like a bulldog, not like a judge? Why did he bark at Mimor instead of maintaining at least a semblance of balance? Whyedid he MINERS REFUSE. TO DO BIDDING OF 2 LABOR FAKERS: 10,000 Lehigh Workers! Will Continue Strike (Special To DAILY WORKER.) HAZLETON, Pa. July 11—The order of District President Andrew Mattey of District 7 of the United Mine Workers of America in_be- traying the 10,000 striking workers of the fourteen collieries of the Le- high Coal and Navigation Company today, even though the demands for which the miners struck have not been granted, was frustrated today by the rank and file of the coal workers. The General Mine Committee has refused to sanction the order of the district president, Mattey, who is serving the best interests of the coal barons instead of the miners whom he is supposed to represent. The coal barons for whom the cor- rupt Mattey is working recently sent a letter to all the local unions demanding their members be pres- ent at a meeting. At this meeting it is understood that machine men will be present to try to force the striking miners to return to work. Another Faker Joins. Thomas Gallegher, president of the Panther Valleys istrict District 7, joined Mattey. in tempts to break the strike and is- jsued a similar order that.the min- jers return to work today. No re- sponse has thus far met the reac- tionary orders -of~the- two corrupt a farewell= demon: it ae ™! arly on the New York stock market. for Rose at and Central Station | officials. not permit Minor to use his consti- tutional right to address the court? Why did he not interfere when po- licemen mishandled the defendant? Why did he stress the fact that the holy confines of Wall Street! They dared tread the street before the offices of the real American Emper- or, Morgan! They protested against Wall Street's bloody hand in other litical, to pry into the politica] views of the accused? Why did he remark that the accused were mostly “of | foreign extraction?” Is there a law in the U. S. according to which cit izens of foreign extraction are to be more severely punished than citizens a law of the land is violated (there are plenty of imbecilic laws made to oppress the workers), but here not even a capitalist law was violated! But the might of Wall Street is here concerned: “Wall Street, Wall Street ueber alles.” No law higher than What made them rave? O, a great crime was, indeed, com- mitted by our comrades! A grave, | unpardonable sin! They invaded the and his friends were charged with disorderly conduct because in the eyes of American capitalism nothing is more disorderly than challenging ridiculous crawled on his Moloch of Wall Street. not submit to this, that we will not tolerate such treat- country. working masses Street and its lackeys. Wall Street. The judge behaved like a prosecutor because he did the bidding of his masters in Wall Street. The judge referred to “rad- icalism” because in reality he sen- defendants w members of a “rad-| countries! tenced our comrades not for disor- ical organization?” What business] Police are mobilized, judges bull-|derliness but for opposing Wall has a judge, if the case is not po-|dozed, jails are packed—not because | Street. The judge imposed a polit- ical sentence under a flimsy and disguise. The judge knees before the We, the workers of America, will We serve notice of American ancestry? (The mag-| Wall Street. No government above| ment. We shall fight for our po- istrate’s name Gottlieb surely indi-] Wall Street. Every American gov-| litical rights. We shall protest jcates that he is of Mayflower] ernment, only a servant to Wall| whenever and wherever we see fit. descent! Street. We shall fight class justice, manip- | Why did all these people disre- Minor in jail because he pro- | ulated in favor of the Morgans. We, gard and violate their own law? | tested against Wall Street. Minor|not the handful of imperialist plunderers, are the people of this We shall mobilize the to resist Wall Doing a Lindbergh Stunt For the Bankers a Awaiting favorable weather, Capt. Emilio Carranza, Mexican flyer, make the 2,400-mile flight from here to Mexico in a non-stop hop of being fueled. The success of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh furnished a precedent for the spectacular flights by Carranza, who repre which is becoming more and more obedient to the dictates of Wall Street, DELAY MOONEY | Zzanderbolt in At m8 PARDON HEARING onc iray One y HE alleged Almighty was ap- ings. Fremont Older, who, as editor of| xy batynty doting on the job in the San Francisco Call, helped to) “4 wicked dent was made in his center attention on the frame-up by| vaunted reputation for omnipres- the publication of the famous Dens-| [uamuen, vepuiation for ommpres: Ee pteenelet: d other! discovered that the saintly First evidence of the innocence of Mooney| % : y Fir and Billings, writes of the inability| Comereestional Church, “at Clin- von | ton Ave. and Wright St., had its of the various members of the grour zl to arrive in time for the hearing | Steeple walloped by a passing before Gov. Young leaves on his va-| ‘underbolt and the cross hurled cation, Yrom which he will, not_re-| tthe street below. turn until the early putt of August | _ It is not known whether any so- ‘As further aid in the campaign to| ‘ial significance can be attached “Free Mooney and Billings,” led by| t? the incident in view oi the International Labor ‘Defense | fact that a local business men’s % Older writes” he’ will con-}—¢iub.was scheduled to hold a tribute an article for an early issue| “f00d-will” Incheon in the rooms Jof the “Labor Defender,” monthly| of the Men’s Brotherhood later pictorial of the I. L. D., which is| in the evening. | | nd Oil Operators ready at Roosevelt Field to 27 hours, Photo shows plane as a press agent for American imperialism sents the Calles-Obregon regime GREAT PROGRAM AT BIG CONCERT (Continued from Page One) minutes, the third part of this rich concert program will begin—the part which every person in the au- dience will look forward to with the greatest eagerness, the appearance | of Prof. Leon Theremin. Prof. Ther- emin, the world-famous Soviet sci- entist, will demonstrate his inven- tion by which he draws music out of the air and will play both solos and with orchestra accompaniment. In the solos he will be accompanied on the piano by Arie Abileah. His solo numbers will be Night by Rubinstein and Etude by Scriab- ine. With orchestra accompaniment he will playGolterman’s. Concerto. in. A Minor and Saint-Saens’ famous composition, The Swan. serving as an invaluable aid in the campaign. On thegreceipt of the letter from athy Strike Against Wage Reduction OTHER WORKERS BEEN JAILED? WHITE GUARDISTS ATTACK CHINESE- USSR MAIL TRAIN 4 Killed-in Assault Aided by Japanese MOSCOW, July 11.—The attack on the Chinese Eastern’ Railway mail train near Harbin on July 5 has caused great, indignation here. Four passengers were killed and seven seriously wounded, while 40 were kidnapped, including citizens of the Soviet Union. The attack is believed to have been carried out by white guardists with Japanese pro- tection. * The Chinese Eastern Railway is jointly owned: by the Soviet Union and the Chinese government. The white guardist attack on a mail train of the railway, which is be- lieved to have received the sanction and protection of the Japanese gov- ernment, is looked upon in authori- tative circles as an additional ef- fort to further Japanese imperialis- tic ambitions in China and to strike * * a blow at the Soviet Union. The Chinese Eastern Railway is a strategic connecting link, much coveted by the imperialist powers, who have made efforts in the past to capture it. HIGH DEATH RATE, ALBANY, July 11. (UP).—A bul- letin on infant mortality issued by the state department of health showed Albany’s record of 120 in- fant deaths for May was thé highest in the state. Take the DAILY WORKER With You on Your Vacation Keep in touch with the strug- gles of the. workers, ;while you are away on your vaca- tion. This summer the Elec- tion Campaign will be in full swing. The DAILY WORK- ER will carry up-to-the-min- ute news concerning the campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party in the various states, Daily cable news service frot the World Congress of the Communist International which opens soon_in Moscow. Vacation. Rates Leigue. We fully approve of the|yesterday evening at 7 o'clock, just| It is admitted here that the at-| The miners working at the Le-|Fremont Wider, another letter from ection of the Anti-Imperialist : to her departure for La Porte,| tempt to decrease brokers’ loans, high Coal and Navigation Company |Frank P. Walsh confirms the infor- 2 weeks 660 1 month $1 Lafiene in selecting the day before | Indiana. which form the basis for specula-/ went on a sympathy strike some|mation from Older in regard to the 2 months $1.50 8 months §2 Taleibenc nee Day to remind the | me statement of the Young | ti? i securities may be one of the time ago with the mass of mine| Postponement of the hearing set for \ wotkers that Independence Day A beh . . si factors in the present policy of the | work now fighti: for better | July 27. Enclosed find $ 4 tHoganen Pllewe? é : cy of er y fighting for e (vee etay the symbol of day when ane T eleea eae .__..| Federal Reserve Bank. It is pointed | conditions inthe various American —_—_—_— MOSCOW—LENINGRAD Bidan people thr tose Plotkin has been sent back : 3 ay ; . ‘ for ..... months subscription American peopl thru io ida an active |\Cl” however, that previous to this| mining fields. Their strike closed! weeks msevolution, freed them Pionaat. vines the vole of am, {month these loans had decreased by | fourteen. collieries and the com-| SOVIET AVIATOR | ae Geom yoke of England. This tr sist justice. The Youne Plonee ly a half billion from an earlier |pary was forced to close down| f | Free Visés to: The DAILY WORKER. Minor and the other seven workers |" Nistriet 2 know that che will he | Peak: The reason for the present |mines Nos. 4, 5 and 6. The sym-| i Name . Piatation in Wall Steest™ on |iust as active in Indiana or wherever | Dolicy. mutt be looked for in another | pathy strike was declared “by the || (Extensions Arranged Street .... ation in SEE eee On | lash WobkGte ARLE AN ae direction, it is stated. workers against the “advice” of the | for to Visit A: July Ree dill St lar ie aaa lie Aimed At “Prosperity” union bureaucrats who are at pres- | Ist ny CHY secseeeeseeseeeeee “Mother” Gitlow was acquitted of }##s beer in New York. [i es ees pei ryi sh j | Part 6f J. °S; : kde 1 hae : : | The policy of the Federal Reserve | tt trying to crush the strike and bee BRB) monticr toss asssessycices thé charge although she took an ac.| “The Young Pioneers therefore | Bank which for over four years has |f0F¢ the miners into submission (Continued from Page One) 5S. B,) tive part in the demonstration, and|call upon all workers and wor! sive} nes But so far their orders have not rs; ji ing i , 1 cers S| heen'to maintain “easy money.” wee $ . rescue workers; jagged, melting ice COMPLETE TOUR hef letter points, out the inconsis-|children to help it. in nt | motivated, it is declared, by the de- | fected the 10,000 miners who are|which prevented airplanes landing DAILY WORKER pey of freeing her and convicting) against the arrest of children and|sire to maintain “prosperity.” Easy |°% Strike. near; open water and rough ice on} 26-28 UNION SQUARE Mimor and the others. Her letter follows: “Magistrate G: workers who tuke part in demon- ) strations of the wot against the | bosses; against the capitalist courts ho penalize workers’ children when Vv protest against capitalist jus- th | money, free credit, extension of in. stallment buying, these it was be. ved would tend to maintain the upward trend of business. SPAIN ARRESTS which dog sleds would be under the greatest handicaps, and pack ice| through which the Krassin possibly | could not force her way. ee The giant ice ship Krassin left 450. AND UP NEW YORK, N. Y. tice; against the children’s society, | ,, {Re Seneral aim, it is understood, | AT am writing in reference to the| which works hand in hand with the |i8.t0 Testrict credit, foree down | 4) MILITA NTS See amndinec cesere? alU: SAILINGS: b dismissal of my in connection | bosses. It also advocates a real | Prices and hence wages and thus jentists, radio men, and newspaper f s ih, the convictibn of Robert Min-| workers’ government, where chil-| 89lve” the critical price question | Teporters, and the aviator Chukmnov- | . os mn -would, nag. Ber areented bocatne | fs ty the weanlee oe cae class'| PERPIGNAN, France, July 11—| sky, who had a reputation at id S. S. “ROTTERDAM” — Aug. 4 ast of my cor aie idtre EE Mai eue ees s is the mea increased % Sale ‘ A ‘ i if uly Oth, in the First District Court are active in workers‘ strug-| 9: count rates. <iher sonerve tani eae Coma eY 5 Ie arash ih intrepid aerial work in the Arc | = Pie “Wide BSE. wasting by’ Judge Gottlie will follow the lead of t i geal fn Hoy way | S re --— fe Wkiiin’s ‘Cirle BM ge one of the participants in\“YOUNG PIONEERS OF AMER-| branch Which ta"the: paws Hen baer celona, Spain, ons the “charge of| At Bergen the Krassin picked up S. 8. “PARIS Aug. 10 poeaoe panaen’s Cistle the demonstration of the All-| ICA, DISTRICT 2, EXECU- — | the first to put into operation any |;cmentine revolutionary | plot,”/the explorer Adolph Hoel, a valua-| Branches, Women's Councils, 4 TIVE COMMITTER.” ¥ | travellers arriving here reported to- Trade Union Educational Si waging an imperialist war 5 : Rainet the Pete’: wallora witah By PAUL CROUCH In a recent letter to me, John|o sacrifice even my life for the | kv vers they flew over the snowy Ee ects cunt FORD, Mass., tuly 11 | Porter revealed his determination—| working class. I am now locked in| /2d in search of the lost Italians. | : _ Make $100.00 Profi gi this and must.demand that the “oF John Porter is moy-| tis true character. He wrote little|a solitary confinement cell and| , Lvesday the Krassin reported she — a rotit \ GES. government Keep Nica rapidly, and unless there are about himself, being more concerned am called a rebel, but nothing can | eT G aranercy wa bees By Participating ‘agua, Santo Domingo, ete. protests of the workers im- Ay (Soureles. of his fellow-|tmake me turn my face from the k they could not stand up- {Tt was in this spirit that I pe | mediately this brave soldier worker ata on evan Mind see the working-class. . +» Hoping to hear Hoibchingee hata: threatened with TO ALL OUR READERS: in the idipated in this peaceful demonstra-| may get a far worse sentence than | day n the people will be strong|from you again, I remain . ith i i A TY A igh with Robert Minor and the rest| Walter ‘Trumbull and I received in |¢nough to say: ‘Here, you've made ih Pneumonia and with insanity. Rus- —- : ‘ Ririan’ | The jacensation 1 5 reise, rompactively’ ur profits; now we'll have a work- Serenade youre: Bans xboard. the :iceseain Vad va). See ee) Tbe accusation: 1946 (54 4nd 40 yesrs, respectively) oa eye (“Signed) JOHN PORTER.” | unteered to ettempt to row to the aginst me by the police officer was| Acocrding to military iaw, a pris- |/#€™Man's government and receive . staways, when suddenly the ice r hb I pushed the police, This ac-|oner must be brought to trial within | ‘iving wages.’ ” jane Working elses inust: ot: pers | a ane teneen ie: Keke : ‘uation is as false as the accusa-|cne month after arrest and charges| Porter continues: mit this brave fighter to remain in | een ee Suet forhours. * fdn against Robert Minor and the|made one week before trial. To| “And that day, Comrade Faul, 1|PFison. He must be released—free | "My BP) WC DIRE MAU AOE CU uthiers sentenced to 5 days in the|date, there has been no investiga-| believe is not so far away as one|t continue his fight for the cause] yt. trom which another Soviet ‘ we@rkhouse, that they incited to riot | tion or official charges made against |™@y_ thin Of course, it takes |0f the workers. aligin, i ¢ arrested when I passed by| Porter, but there can be no longer |time, but so it did in Russia. My Pp aae at ed past tpiPrs Ange eY ent AB 5 kt as an officer seized a young|delay, and the case is coming to a blood seems to be boiling to go out sally toh, Geteenbonvenee and once himself was lost for ‘four Do not forget at all times to mention that you : tif and knocked her to the pave-| climax. and do more for the working-class| An appeal was issued today by| days—is in the vicinity of the Kras- are a reader of The DAILY WORKER. Fill out this eereartarese, St | nght. 1 protested against such ac-| Will Never Bow to M in the class war struggle. I look|the National Porter Defense Com-| sin, but a magnetic storm and un- coupon stating where you buy your clothes, furnish. re = BR and this resulted in my! arrest | ‘ forward to that day and hope that | mittee to workers to write personal | favorable weather for the last twelve ings, ete. : and my organization protest The prospect of a militant fighter | it will soon come.” letters to John Porter, assuring him! hours have preyented communica- - ki SATURDAY, JULY 28 inst your decision of the convic-| before a court martial is not Interested in Strike that he has not been forgotten and | tions between the two vessels. Name of business: place ’o.. osiuicceciaascesccesdbadecccccces < i of Robert Minor and the others | Pleasant to the authorities. They Always interested in the strike|that the working-class is with him| The Maligin has two airplanes ULMER PARK Jan abuse against the use of frec| “re trying to break his spirit—-using | of the New Bedford textile workers, |in the struggle. Letters should be| aboard, but one of them has been AddreSS . 10. ssseseeeceeeensenesccenseseseceseeeeoees caine ch, I protest against the dis-|the most brutal treatment in their |from which he was taken to a mili- | eddressed to: damaged, The ship left Archangel “ Br 00 k ] yn iafésal of my case. I accept? this| efforts to make him submissive, but |tary prison, Porter writes: John Porter (Walerysiak), Guard| and for weeks has been waging a Your name . * seeee : | W@lan insult. If Robert Minor and|John Porter says that he will never.| “I am very glad to hear that the|House, Ft. Adams, R. I. tenacious campaign with the ice Add ten © others are guilty, then I am|Mever become a cringing creature|people of New Bedford are still| Books and printed matter can not| floes to reach Nobile’s companions. RODE ** ceresss4 sis Deron entra nen snne nt teentesnnntae Send your Check, Money Ore & If, however, 1 am not guil-}on his knees before the masters and| showing solidarity. I hope they will|be sent. Money or fruit, clothing pRneeTe SOAS Mail to der, or bring your cash 4 then, of course, Minor and the|the exploiters of his class. On the|continue to stick and fight until|and personal needs can be sent to| HEAT-CRAZED, KILLS SELF. to the st are not guilty. I therefore de-|¢onfrary, his spirit and determina-| they win.” the secretary of the National Por-| ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 10.—Harry DAILY WORKER ‘FREI HE ? had that either convict me or that|tion has become like steel since he] Speaking of the danger of years|ter Defense Committee, Theresa| Clement, 38, crazed by the heat, 83 FIRST STREET NEW YORK BI Te W Hoh dismiss the charges against|I:as been treated Mike a slave and in prison he is facing, Porter says:| Valente, P. 0. Box 278, New Bed-| dived 36 fect from the roof of his crry 380 Union Square, N: ¥, C. if Minor and the rest thrown into solitary finement | “Regardless of the sentence that | ford, } . a8 these articles may be | home to the brick pavement yester- 3 : : (Signed) “KATE GITLOW.” because of his railitant poa.tion. | may be imposed upon me, I am ready | sent to him by mail. day and died, America Anti-Imperialist League on Wall Strect, July 3 representing the United Council of Working Class $Women. with offices at 80 EF. 11th Pe ecctoce We bie seAtt pe =| held immovable for days in the thick WW Id T Ce I f Mpneace Women rote wee ae! Or ourists, Inc. ff 500 Tickets for $20 yilet the workers know that Amer. e@ today like England at that time changes. E day. PCRTER'S TRIAL WILL BEGIN SOON Soldier- Worker Remains Firm; Would Give Life for Cause ble aid to Prof. Samoilovitch, direc- tor of the expedition and an expert in Arctic exploration. Day by day, the Krassin crept northward and then eastward, often | Via: LONDON — Return: WARSAW thaw. Only a few miles were made in many days, for many days no miles were made at all, but Chuknov- 69 FIFTH AVENUE COPENHAGEN HELSINGFORS BERLIN — PARIS NEW YORK CITY Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6900, Leagues, Workers’ Clubs, ete, You Can Get with the Name of Your Or- ganization on Your Tickets,