The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1928, Page 2

tee Page Two THE DAIL F “UYUNION BUSTER IS ‘TROY COLLAR WORKERS WIN STRIKE AGAINST FIFTY PER CENT WAGE CUT: ( WORKE R, NEW YORK, FRID: AY, JU L x 13, ¥ 15,1928 VAL Smith’s Campaign Manager Exposed as Biggest Scab Boss in the United States LABOR DEFENSE TROY, ; today with their demands complete-| workers, to go out on a general/taliation against” the 900 ‘out on) pany officials decided to hold a out on strike, cdlling the other’5; hundred ye sympathy strike, 5,000 strong, un-|strike. This added to the militancy|meeting with a committee of six 000 workers in the plants out With PLAN MOONE | body Solid United Front. s the demands of the strikers|and solidarity of the workers of| workers representing the strikers. them, Under the force of the.work- ¥ the > cause of capitulation or was the |were immediately granted. The the entire company, who said that/At the meeting, the. officials tried ers solidarity, the’ compaiy | was ‘ h 1e part compan} gencral s)mpathy strike | if the action was taken, they would|to:cajole the workers into accepting; forced to grant the demand, rescind-| p front of the workers|threat was made more acute when | quit work, thus tying up the entire|the new system but the committee | ing its order that the new system| < | a c ther plants owned and oper-|thé company officials declared that| works. [never lost sight of tts demands be teied which.’ would.” have Scott laser ve ; the Cluett, Peabody Com-|unless the striking workers went Victory Won at Parley. |maintaining throughout the meet-|>e installed, whic a + ages of the workers employed » who threatened, as soon a:|back to work immediately, jt would) With the threat of a complete|ing that unless the old wage system: Meant a reduction of almost 50 per- Connected With Mellon and Re epublicans WASHINGT 4] Smith ha in the fac f of the Unitec John J. Raskob | nd chairman of the | the democratic r Raskok is a dt vVice-presiden hance de E. I. duPont | through | committee of the ny plate were back on their jolt he strike was declared by ‘the 900 Waifs in the Djerjinsky Orphanage ‘close another of its plants in “re MINE DELEGATES WELL RECEIVED IN ANTHRACITE Soft Coal ‘Deen Re-| port on Strike tie-up hanging over them, the com-! were reinstalled, they would stay Sends Out. I Hundreds cent in the wages of the workers. | | | Women of the Workers and Peasa nts’ Republic Training For Health of Letters ‘As further steps in the campaign 0. Free Mooney and Billings” ini- | tiated by the International Labor Defense, a letter has been sent out to” a few hundred noted people | throughout -the: country requesting | that they: issue statements.on the Mooney-Billings- frame-up for press publication in the latter* part of July, which marks the twelfth annf- versary of the frame-up. ‘ “Tom Mooney and. Warren Bill- : | “i |ings, the innocent victims of a the Genera | (Special To D AILY WORKER.) frame-up who have been confined Motors from D some years ago} PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 12.— jin California penitentiaries for he wa placed ge of the fi- nancing ggast non-union employing concern in the world. Re- cent estimates have placed the num- her of wage workers employed by General Motors and its subsidiaries | of and trained in the Djerjinsky Orphanage near Moscow. rphans, who are being taken care The home- less children of the Revolution have been picked up from the streets and put into such institutions throughout the whole U. Bs, Sy des Here they are trained to be useful members of a proletarian state. The delegations from the striking miners of Districts Two and Five now visiting the anthracite, are get- ting splendid response from the rank and file miners in the ‘tri-dis- trict territory, despite the sabotage twelve years how,” reads the letter issued through assistant secretary Martin Abern, “is ‘again becoming a public issue.and we believe that you~ will want to take part in the revival of a great movement of pro- at more than 500,0C0. Not 1 per When they leave the institute they know a trade and have already and terrorism of the Lewis ma- test against their confinement. cent of these—so far as is known ived an education equivalent to a high school training. chine, according to information To Print Statements. are organized —~ reaching the National Miners’ Con-| “International Labor Defense ts 5 . ; vention Arrangements Committee making arrangements. with a large ae ne ee ae KAPLAN CASE Alp FOR MINERS | ‘from Hazleton, Pa., in District 7. | number of. labor- and. sympathetic aly dent 2 C | inting of a series the solid anti-union front maintained Machine Tactics. EEE ee et ee individ: ky General Motors under the Raskob The delegation has everywhere Yegime has been the ravolt of the fompery union in the Canadian plant at Oshawa, Ont., when some 2,500 workers joined the various trade unions affiliated with the American Pederstion of Labor. After a vigor- cus fight they compelled this Cana- | dian branch t» recognize the unions. In the huge plants of General Motors in Michigan, especially, the industria! sp: ystem is maintained at pitiless e iency. Let a man be- come known in his section of the shop as a trade union sympathizer and he becomes conscious that his fellow-workers are afraid of being seen talking with him. Let him pro- pose any step toward unionism and trade union sentiment is as Fathiens cited t0 have! made the arrests, the srive whichis to last from Sun-|""Qniy in a few cases was the ter RE [taroano: tag tent geese teabearll neat asaue anemmeans Vacation as in the mills of the United States |2Peated against them, the others |day, July 22nd to Sunday, July 29th rorism successful. In most cases | Less than two-thirds of the wom-| $2 e tenth year. The sub- | “effective” cnough, according to a i] Steel Corporation or in the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad. While the heads of these latter corpora- tions are supporting Hoover and the republican ticket, Raskob has shown other anti-union bosses that the dem- ovrats are equally anxious to line up with them as a pledge of industrial Holicy for the coming four years. | Labor Fakers Pretend. -American Federation of Labor exe- cutives who support Smith were mo- | i ;| Aid” and other International Red World C ff th mentarily staggered by the news of 1 also | tional miners relief committee, whose | : f .| the laws in regard to hours of work | 4! ite 2 the Wor! ongress of e the Raskob appointment, but quickly ae af ae outing | @PPeal is now before a higher cour Pade ne S215 from its treasury! are those in domestic and personal | 4id publications. ‘+ as] Jt is probable that brutal meth-/} Communist International teeovered with the suggestion that | 8 sup Be John Brophy and Pat H. Toohey, the! service. The department estimates| The Australian Workers’ Aid | ods will be used to halt the develop- which opens soon in Moscow. other igh Motors were officials of General for Hoover. Leaders of the metal trades unions who did not want*to be quoted in connection with the political campaign—on the ground fee i that religious and other g might be aroused, to the| jury of their unions, pointed out | both the republican and demo- tic national committees have now | sclared their debts paid, ks to | : rank and file ‘ before the ard - = bgt Me eis ‘big buataeas cor- |Clor’ orations Still Halt | fer ll of labor,” said Abern. “They| strikers have been getting only $1) The present law, which has been dhe ot the wmaate Gilivaraw’ tasprest - Ne Seana dorations. oie Dp : jare in the vanguard of the struggle|a week, with the addition of 25]in force since 1911, provides “that from the Ast’ day ‘of the month, Breet . _ Who Are Al’s Pals? | Another phase of the Raskob ap- | pointment is seen in the power trust | influence over Rasxob’s: career. The | i aie : as plaintiffs and men fell over,man- | s , ‘ ‘ duPonts are heavily interested vi dibea covers and other obstruttions |Tepeatedly for aid, and it has not|their betrayers, have been altogeth-| place of amusement, or by any per- pirate nth bbl veteran co ‘DAILY WORKER waterpower, especially — through | "ss 8 street vefore feigning in-| been found wanting in a single in-|er cut off the relief lists, the an-|son, firm or corporation engaged in Nol THIRD AVE: Cor: 78ST. 26-28 UNION SQUARE eee poaeen th biodi eorabvesy jury to colleet damages on faked Stance. Just because the resources|thracite miners ate now asking how| any express or transportation or Teast fy dedany 41 Rarnb Slt ound lool tinea NEW YORK, N. ¥, ioneer Power Co., which proposes |” development cf power along the St Lawrence when the deep waterway | to the G Lakes is constructed. The Mellon and General Electric in- GRAND JURY Framed Militant Is Out On Bail (Continued pe ire One) same court by Magistrate Maurice Gottlieb, Magistrate Simpson missed their cases. “Free Speech” In a hypocritical speech Magis- trate Simpson deciared that the d fendants had merely exercised their right of “free speech” and had not broken the peace. The fact that only one witness, the policeman who (also policemen) being away on their vacations, as weli as the unsavory publicity the entire case has re ceived, is believed to have been re- sponsible for the magistrate’s hypo- critical dismissal. Jacques Buitenkant, representing | the New York Section of the Inter- national Labor Defense, defended all the accused. The I. L, D. has issued an appeal, through its sec- retary, Rose Baron, for funds with which to fight the threatened frame- Saturday, July 21, which will help furnish funds, for the defense. DISCOVER FAKED SUITS IN COURT Genuine Claims ‘An elaborate system of inventing accident cases, in which girls posed | doetor’s certificates, was uncovered Daniel Lamlicht, who is a three-year sentence prison in connec- inquiry. now serving in Great Meadow URGED BY |. L.D, “Fighting — th the Great Battle of Labor” An urgent appeal for support to the joint miners’ defense and relief, drive to be conducted by the Inter-| national Labor Defense and the na- tional relief committee was yester-| day issued from the national office; of the I. I. D., at 80 East 11th St. by ass’s ant secretary: Martin Abern Plans are now being perfected for| inclusive, | The I. L. D. statement points out| |the pressing necessity for adequate |means to carry on the defense of | the literally hundreds of miners who |have been arrested, | prisoned in the present miners’ | struggle. Among the most impor- |tant cases are cited those of An- , indicted or im- encountered an attempt on the part of the reactionary officialdom to block them from speaking before the local unions, although they had credentials from many locals in the strike area, A “warning” that they must not be accorded the privilege of the floor was carried prominently in the “Anthracite Miner,” the tri- district organ of the reactionary machine. Letters to the same ef- fect were sent to all local unions |And on top of this the delegations | were constantly trailed by hench- men of the machine and some dis- |trict official would follow them in- |to the meetings of the local unions personally to terrorize the member- after listening to warnings and threats from one or two of the dis- \trict officials the miners would give the delegation the floor and then vote a donation for relief from its | treasury. Locals Contribute. Thus, the Eckley local, No. 1507 gave $125. The McAdoo local, No 5516, $100. Another small local in Millions of the women working the factori recreation and body-building in the numerous sport clubs and physic U.S. S. R. Photo shows group ready to participate in a “Spartkiade, ILLINOIS WOMEN 2: : TOM LONG DAYS! |air service between England and In- | | Gia will be opened in April, 1929, the jair ministry announced today, un- der an arrangement by which im- perial airways will be granted a ten- | year operation subsidy, beginning at | $1,675,000 the first year and by pro- Britain Attempts To) Strengthen Empire by Wages Are Between $10 and $19 By LELAND OLDS. sidy will cover activities in all im- en wa; rners in Illinois ~ 4 ‘ ‘ Lister A! are Pro~) perial airways lin tected by any law which limits their hours of work, according to a sur- vey by the state department of la- bor. Out of the 540,938 gainfully employed women and girls in the state 197,499 are not covered either by the 10-hour law or by the child labor law. Most of them are at the mercy of their employers. Australian Gov. Bans Red Aid Literature SYDNEY, Australia, July 12— The Australian government has for- hidden the following publications: “The Red Helper,” “Red Aid Corre- of the Soviet Union have unlimited opportunities for COMMUNISTS HIT ‘BY BOGOTA BILL McAdoo, No. 2168, gave $25. The |thony Minerich, chairman of the na-|McA¢ i |Lattimer local, No. 250, in addition | | the fare and living expenses of the delegation, and wound up with in- viting the delegates, Charles Kil- linger and Mike Vasilaney, of Dis- framing up of Frank Brbot, a strik-| |ing miner of Triadelphia, West Vir-| ginia, the’ cases of the fifty-one {women in St. Clairsville, Ohio, and| The greatest number of women and girls outside the protection of the number without protection in this" group-at 95,387 or°76" per “cent of the total number in these occu- pations. spondence,” “Five Years of the Red Committee has broadcasted an en- ergetic.. protest. against. this com- mand and has appealed to the Au- stralian workers to support them, | hundreds of others who are falling| victim to the violent class “justice” of the coal operators’ police and judges and courts in the Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, West Virginia and IIl- |inois mining districts. “The miners are fighting the battle | against the open shop and slave | standards of work and life. These imprisoned and indicted fighters need the support of all. The International Labor Defense has been called upon of our enemy are so great, must our) |vesterday at the ambulance chasing | Work of solidarity be generous and Every worker must respond: | swift. to the appeal of the men and women | behind the bars.” trict Two, to visit the local again jin the near future. It should be borne in mind that the anthracite miners have beer paying a monthly assessment of $2 |presumably for strike relief. After learning that the cents for the wife and 20 cents for |@ child—and even this not regular- ly—and that many locals and thou- |sands of progressive miners, in re- prisal for taking a stand against much of the assessment is really going for the salaries and “ex- penses” of the Lewis officials and their campaign to bolster up their | autocratic rule. It also finds 64,024 or 97.5 per cent of those engaged in professional service and 17,947 or ‘+ 1852 ‘THE SAM ADDRESS OVER 75 YEARS 1928 = uals-in behalf of these two victims of the open shop interests of the states of California. The publica- tion” of such statements will help materially in the publicity cam- paign to again bring the case of Mooney and Billings to the atten- tion of the workers and sympathetic people of. America and the world.” al culture organizations of the ” or field meet. Take the DAILY WORKER With You on Your Fear Growing Strength of Militants BQGOTA, Columbia, July 12. memorial sert to congress here yes- terday. The signers of this anti- labor statement are lead by vice- president Jose Joaquin Casas, him- self. 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 from “Social” laws aimed at the grow- ing Communist movement are now being discussed in congress. The squelching of this militant working class organization is urged in the memorial favoring the adoption of the said laws, ment of Communism here since the memorial signers.wish the most.ef- fective means to be adopted by the government, . Vacation Rates 2 weeks 650 2 months $1.50 1 month $1 3 months §2 14.6 per cent of those engaged in manufacture unprotected by the laws limiting hours of work. “No More Than 10 Hours.” | ASSETS EXCEEDING no female shall be employed in any mechanical or mercantile establish- ment, or factory, or laundry, or ho- tel, or restaurant, or telegraph or telephone establishment, or in any Last Quarterly Dividend paid on all amounts from $5.00 to $7,500.00, at the rate of Open Mondays (all day) unt! Banking by Mail A'L% Society Accounts Accepted Enclosed find $.sereseesses . months subscription weeks to The DAIL¥ -WORKER. for . $29,000,000 og city Stare sae neenee b7 P.M. public utility business, or by any common carrier, or in any public institution, incorporated or unincor- porated in this state, more than 10 hours during any one day.” eee ie ee ae |tion with the system, took the stand ee Se ee ae ne For a New Fighting Union. Wage Slavery. TU Oe Ses 3 pair duPonts.” Raskob, other wo! 5 quested to send funds for the joint| q z ; Da ke the powar: teat: group. ae peaoancy Rede pak | a) HY teva darlig Hast WUak 8 the na.|_ The effect of this, and of the ter Paes pet rae ates vena = ee oifuwice cnidotascratic “party | Heed nk ays Se | |tional miners’ relief committee, 611/0tI8m of the Mattey-Kennedy-. Secident reports invol meee PA’ | RONIZE Ol IR ; policy, in the next congress, as to|* patie ‘ors’ Inquiry | Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. In |Lewis machine in District 7, is to shows that (loleAG years of ace : cite operation of giant power stations, 7) ose revelations followed | the Present drive this’office has been|iMerease the determination of the | S0eTe et ae ne eee eck ; Party | Units, Sub-sections, ° ean easily be forecast. And the| 1 21° on the arrest of the lawyers |¢etablished to centralise and: take! Membership, to ‘amash the machine | or ae eam 17 to. 64 years of gece snes aeameen's: Chale: Shiels power trust group is anti-|"1°°y 1" articipated in false saita| more efficient the: jeollestiom” of|and ‘a elect the, progressive slate 0 | Tite ie ga weak Ia Branches, Women’s Counciis, gnion in labor poliey, just as the| Who had parti ted in e suits | more teltha wea foe Bath OO |The rank and file is lining up with is A fe 0 * A x Sy! Trade Union Educational duPonts and General Motors are|8"d who had swindled workers, in- | sone. of defense cand’ steer the miners in the rest of the coun-| Other words the average wage o: Leagues, Workers’ Clubs, ete, a Jured through the negligence of | P%® try for a successful national con | these women throughout their lives : fh forget at all ti to mention that you ' eoeeanion: corporations, of over half of the | TNA ‘vention at Pittsburgh on September |C°rresponds to the wage paid boys jo-mot forget: ak at ames to" Meni erro Whitew: hing Fuller damages they collected. Reports from workers involved in DAILY WORKER 9-16 and for a new, progressive and fighting union, of 17 years. The average wage for men does not become stationary un- are a readeriof The DAILY WORKER. Fill out this . coupon stating where you buy your clothes, furnish- You Can Get « ry these Jerts state “that the in- til they reach 25 years after which te. Me Mm Six Big Volumes) iin, fs bene continued. merely as Blind N Worker | ‘it tnee is from $80 to $34, i aa 500 Tickets for $20 ¥ bec AO ¥6 A u move on the part of the corpo | FOR SERVICEMEN egro i orker Seca eer Name of business place ...+.+eeeeeeeerereeceeeceresemenane with: the Name ae Your Ore NEW YORK. Julv 12 rec s in order to do away with legit i ‘ ily” i : Ms ord of the trial and execution of ee oF ee ciety . Works with Daily Kansas City Youth To Address . neseses ganization on Your Tickets, Sacco and Vanzetti has been prin- ted in volumes. Although the , = on cea gcacesdatottaeeteseeevenives $ kind individuals who financed the) STORMS CAUSE DAMAGE. Yo Wee he Distributes to speak against the injustice done] xaNgag CITY, Mo. July 12— nee, * ack f Make 100.00 Profit publication are not known the} McCOQOK, Neb. July 12 (UP).— -aper to Soldiers ot ae class by the steel magnates | me Kansas City’ Young People’s : ERIE ies. akc 9 eho By Participating y whitewashing nature of the volumes| Damage done crops in southwestern pele Rel | Committee for Miners’ Relief +has mail te “in the é can be estimated from the commit-| | Nebraska by wind, hail and rain Members of the Young Workers Jailed for Speech. decided to reconvene the conference Sant tee" in charge of the publication.) this week has been estimated at $1,-} (Communist) Leage yesterday even- Tt was in es Lad ae ii and to invite many new: organiza- DAILY WORKER 4 They are Newton Baker, former} 00,000. Harlen and Phels Coun-| ing successfully conducted a distri- t° ® group of workers, in Midland,| tions to affiliate with the commit- "83 FIRST STREET NEW YORK Secretary of War, John Davis, for-| ties and part of Furnas County jution of The DAILY WORKER, Pa. in’ which he attacked the capit-| tee. The corference will be held at oe. : mer candidate’ for president of the| were the hardest hit. A smail tor- | containing a letter from a marine in @list system. Immediately he was|the Musicians’ Union Hall, 1017 democrats and Elihu Root former| neo did some damage near Oxford Secret ary of State. jured in accidents Neb. ANTI- JINGO POSTERS — WORRY DETROIT COPS DETROIT, July 12—The | Wiper’. gp ment of justice and the local police foree of Detroit are usy trying to|stickers. They tried to intimidate | yice, and the withdrawal of thc|spite of his blindness,*he recently | VIA 7 DAYS “ find a way to satisfy their rage,|him, saying that they had a copy|forces of intervention from Nicar-|Collected over thirty signatures to ee of Interesting Sightseeing in SE following the appearance of gummed | of a letter of instructions from the |agua, One stated that even in postr |put the Communist candidates on HELSINGPORS LENINGRAD and MOSCOW ered by partment of an agent of the de- justice” regarding the and sailors received copies. The distribution was carried out at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where the Daily Worker was given to ma- rines and sailors by two girl League members, and at the Battery Park ferry, where many soldiers. marines are not as bad as those in Nicaragua Members of the Marine Corps said they approved the work being done by the League for improve- ment of the conditions in the ser- (Continued from Page One) |Meet' For Mine Relief Nour MANG::, soc... segeeeumnies thrown into jail, and deprived of | Washington St., July.15, at 3 p. m. his rension. The blind Negro worker | at that time realized that a strong | organized labor force is required to | take up the cause of the workers. And under the influence of Roy| Mahoney, he joined the Workers | (Comniunist) Party. Now “Daily Agent” Lackett is now a fighter for his | cause and an active member of the Workers (Communist) Party, In A Worker’s Tour to Soviet Russia TO WITNESS THE CELEBRATION OF THE NOVEMBER REVOLUTION ‘EVERY WORKER SHOULD PARTICIPATE” The Group Sails October 17th on the Cunard Express Steamer ee posters exposing the citizens’ mili- league regarding the stickers; but|in this country, where conditions|the state ballot. And, most of all, ¥ tary training camp, which were|when challenged to produce the let-| |are not as bad as those in Nicara- he has now become the Daily « $375.00 ‘ " posted on public buildings, -recruit-|ter were unable to do so. | gua exposed by the Daily Worker | Worker agent at East Liverpool, May Be Paid in Monthly Installments. First Payment $25.00, ey Ore ing signs, ete., the night of July 4. Philip Bart, of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League, was ar- reste here a few days ago at an open-air meating, While held in | wi | prisonjhe was 77'>> pert tt practically vicvucuves and later! Two party members, arrested at| the same time, also were questioned regarding the stickers and instruc- tions for their use, but none of them were able to give the department of ‘iee” any information about the inher @ very large percentage of the re- eruits desert when they discover what they have been lured into by recruiting officers. The servicemen expressed their leratitude for the napera distribute? {to them by members of the League Ohio. Often Lackett comes out to speak to and for the colored workers, and tells them about our “democracy.” Since his release from jail, he has beeeme a fearless vgaterg revolutionary — WORLD TOURISTS, INC. 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