The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1928, Page 1

TO ORGANIZE THE UNORG. GOVERNMENT THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS ANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ Daily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., NATIONAT, EDITION Vol. V. No. 167. Published datly except Sunday by The National Datly Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. NEW ‘YORK, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by niall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents FASCISTS LEFT BERLIN AMNESTY. MALMGREM TO DIE PROVES FRAUD: OF HUNGER, COLD few pELeAsen Zappi and ‘Mariano Aan Abandoned Swedish Scien-| tist to Death In Arctic Ice Saved Own Lives with Dying Companion’ S| Food and MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 15.—| A gruesome tale of virtual murder by cold and starvation inflicted on | a wounded man was revealed here | today when dispatches from the So- viet icebreaker Krassin gave the world the true story of how Zappi and Mariano, officers from the | wrecked fascist airship Italia, left | Dr. Finn Malgren, noted Swedish | scientist and their companion in the | dash for land, to die alone in the| polar ice. In spite of official denials by the Italian government, the information | received from the Krassin is au-| thenticated and without any ques- tion relates the true facts. Brutality unparalleled among men facing a common danger char- acterizes the action of the two Ital- | jans in abandoning their wounded | companion after they had taken his | food and his compass. The true facts of the “heroism” | of the two Italians whose fidelity | to their companion has been lauded | for days in the European and Amer. ican press were ascertained by of- ficers of the icebreaker after the ship had been guided to them by the Soviet flier © Chukhnovsky.’ Chukhnovsky was wrecked in the! attempt. The later reports of the fascist captains so contradicted their first story that the suspicions of the Krassin’s officers were aroused and they closely questioned the Italians. | According to their latest confes- | gion, the men dug a grave in the ice for Malgren when he could go} no further and left him there to die of hunger and cold after having ap- propriated his compass ena provi- sions. Pei she simigia a SES Nobile, the connribidee of the Italia and the first to b rescued} | evidently feeling the need of an ex- | planation, has issued a statement | saying that there had been no mis- understanding between himself and | Malgren and that there was no en-| mity between any members of the| party, A telegram received from the| Citta de Milano, the Italia base-| ship, read: “Malgren died of ex- pesure on Juna 15. Nobile is bet-| ter. His dog, Titina, feels fine.” In the meantime the Soviet ice- breaker Krassin has been ordered to seek further for Amundsen and his companions, in spite of heavy fog and icefloes. The Malignin, an- other Soviet vessel, has also been ordered by the Soviet Rescue Mis- sion to continue with the search. FORD TAKES JOB IN HOOVER DRIVE Named Official of En- gineers’ Group WASHINGTON, July 15.—As the first gun in its campaign to match millionaire for millionaire, the republican national committee announced yesterday, through Chair- man Work, that Henry Ford has been chosen as a vice-president of the Hoover-for-President-Engineers’ National Committee. The “selection” of the famous Detroit exploiter, who is one of the richest men in the world, is loowed upon as a move to counteract the naming of John J. Raskob, chair- man of the finance committee of the General Motors Corp., as chatr- man of the democratic national com- mittee. Among the others who will act as vice-presidents of the Hoover- for-President Engineers’ National Committee are Thomas A, Edison and Michael I. Pupin, inventor and professor at Columbia University. 1.500 MORE OUT. IN ANTHRACITE (Special to The DAILY WORKER) SCRANTON, Pa., July 15.—Fif- teen hundred mine workers have struck at the Tripp Drift of the Diamond Colliery, Glen Aldem Coal Company, at West Scranton, be- cause the company has refused to give the miners back pay on a grievance which was settled favor- ably to them and the coal company Union 213, |huge Porter protest meeting held in |a report on the arrest and detention | Kansas City and that the cause of \John Porter is our cause likewise; |John Porter be released by the mili- | tary authorities; s to pay them some back wages. triking miners are members. ii 1) Josephine Wilson was the English Compass Army Officers | Won't Permit News of Porter FORT ADAMS, R. I, July is] The military authorities here refuse | |to permit any communication with | John Porter, imprisoned here for his activities in the New Bedfo; textile strike, while subject to mifli- tary law. The officers are keeping Porter | strictly incommunicado and even| refuse to permit his physical condi- |tion to be reported to friends. The last message from Porter reported that he had become ill following | |the brutal treatment to which he has | been subjected, and stated that the } authorities are trying to weaken his | militant attitude and prevent him| from exposing the role of the army before a public court-martial. At} that time he had been thrown into | solitary confinement. Efforts to learn about Porter’s |present condition have been unsuc- cessful. A message was sent through the Western Union by the , National Office of the Young Work- ers (Communist) Leaguesasking for |information as to Porter’s condition | and developments of the case. The military authorities here informed the Western Union that there is a| “military censorship on all com-| munication with this man.” Efforts are to be made tomorrow jor Tuesday to establish contact with Porter again by a visit from an attorney, and unless he is‘brought before a court-martial at once legal | ection, started, in’ the civil courts. * Kansas City Protest Resolution KANSAS CITY, July 15.—At the * Shawnee Park Wednesday the fol- jlowing resolution was adopted | unanimously: “We, the citizens of Armourdale, Kansas City, Kansas, assembled in a meeting at Shawnee Park, Ar- }mourdale, on July 11, having heard of John Porter, hereby resolve: “That the imprisonment of John Porter is caused by his activity on behalf of the New Bedford Textile Workers. He was imprisoned after warnings by the police that if he does not leave his work in the strike he would be “fixed up proper”; “That we recognize that the cause of the New Bedford Textile Work- ers is the cause of the workers of “That we therefore demand that at_a copy of this resolution be sent’to the Secretary of War, to the | President of the United States, to the Governor of Massachusetts and to the local and labor press.” Canadian Unions Show Effect of Young Blood MONTREAL (FP).—Revolts of unorganized workers and growing militancy of union workers have been featuring the Canadian indus- trial scene. A younger generation with larger ideas and appetites is entering the ranks of labor. Ag- gressive spirits crossing the border | in® search of better jobs in the United States are disappointed. Thus | the Canadian labor movement is) strengthened. Heavily subsidized immigration inoreases the difficulties of the labor movement and recent court decisions have been designed to cripple unions. But most trades moved forward last year, and most of the reactionary | efforts of employers this spring have been defeated by stubborn resistance, Unusual and of more than passing significance is the role women and girls have played in recent strikes. | Pilsudski Poland, “Too, Makes Empty Gesture (Special to The DAILY WORKER) | BERLIN, Jul;; 15.— Nationwide resentment has followed the pas- sage by the Reichstag of an “ nesty act” by which a relative ahd: | ful of class war prisoners has been ‘am. | released from jail while thousands are to remain for varying terms i their cells. Characterized as trea-| son and betrayal by militant labor| leaders thruout the country, the “amnesty act” is arousing increas- ing protest from the German work- ing class. Altho the government organs are triumphant in proclaiming the “am-| nesty,” official distinction is being | made between political prisoners | and “political murderers.” In the! latter category the government is| including all the leading militant | workers who are now in German) jails. | The two hundred class war pris-| | oners who have been released in answer to the tremendous mass pro-| test for an amnesty are but a frac- tion of the thousands who are | vainly asking when they will be lib- erated. The authorities are frankly admitting that a large number will| never leave their cells under the | new edict. Thousands of the prisoners who expected that they would receive full liberty within the next few days now learn that trivial reductions in their terms of imprisonment are the best | they can hope for from the govern- ment’s action. * Leaders Remain in Jail. WARSAW, Poland, July 15.—} Disappointment is widespread here today as the government’s “amnesty! act,” rushed thru parliament re) cently in response to mass pres- sure, hts resulted in the liberation of relatively few of the thousands of | class war prisoners. held in the Polish jails. Five thousand workers, most of| them jailed merely on suspicion of participation of Communist activity, have been set free to date, but it! is believed that the government has | no intention of making further re-| leases. The Polish militant leaders are withov , exception still in prison. POLE-LITHUANIA PARLEY WRECKED to Address) Fascists in Vilna KOENIGSBERG, East Prussia, July 15.—Announcement that Mar- shall Pilsudski will go to Vilna to inspect the frontier and to celebrate | the anniversary, of the formation) of his military legion, followed im-| mediately after the collapse of the | economie conference between the! Polish and Lithuanian delegates at Warsaw, according to dispatches from that city. The conference went to pieces on the question of the Kovno railroad, | accozrding to the Polish dis-| patches. Other issues are believed | to have played a crucial part in the | outcome, however. The coming se- | cret military conference of the Little Entente called by the French at Bucharest is reported to be one of these. Whether or not Marshall Pilsud- ski will make any overt threats | during his harrangue to the legion | at Vilna is not known yet, but it) is anticipated that the relations of Poland and the Soviet Union will | form a feature of his speech. Pilsudski will also make public) at that time his nlans for the revi. sio nof the constitution. The sup-| pression of the Polish parliament |: may depend upon the reception of | this Vilna speech, it is intimated. After his Vilna trip, Pilsudski| will £0 to Bucharest for participa-| tion in a secret conference under | the direction of a member of the French general staff. BRITISH TOILERS SLAVES Workers Are Privileged Class im USSR By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press) Two items in the same issue of the London Daily Herald suggest a re- markable contrast. Both deal with t ibvte, one the tribute paid hy an English working girl to the multi- in‘llionaire oligarchy in America, the other the tribute of an English worker's wife to Russia. But paid very different roin, working girl who paid her tribute to American capital. It was her last tribute, for she paid it with her life. She poisoned herself because life did not seem worth while on the 24) shillings ($5.80) a week she received from Woolworth’s. Exploited by Woolworth Yes, her employer was the same Woolworth that exploits thousands of girls in the 5 and 10 cent stores Continued on Page Two * pe 'Blame “Disturbances” | ISSUE CALL FOR NEW TEXTILE UNION UNION OFFICIALS “HELP OPEN SHOP. « MILITARY SCHEME. Employers 1 Lay | Plats For Soldier Law CHICAGO, Ill., July 15.—A new- fangled class collaboration scheme | by which Matthew Woll, reactionary vice-president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, and several other \labor skates sought to creep a bit closer te the bosom of the bosses met with a tragic end here when the employers sprung the trap a bit too soon and forced the labor of- ficials to claim “immunity.” The Illinois Association For Crim- inal Justice has issued a recommen- dation for the establishment of a state constabulary to’ fight labor. Respectable Strikebreakers The association is one of ‘the |numerous alleged reform organiza- tions that put a respectable front:on the legislative and judicial conspira- | cies of big business. Part of the front is a window | dressing of liberals and labor offi- cials, behind whom the anti-union financiers and employers operate. |In this case Vice-President Matthew Woll, President John H. Walker of |the Illinois State Federation of La- bor, President Agnes Nestor of the Women’s Trade Union League and ex-President George W. Perkins of the cigarmakers international pro- vided the labor screen on the boar. The association suddenly rel to the press a. strong rec tion for a state cossack system. At |the same time it branded a number | ‘New Bedford Strikers Stage Gress Al Night Picket Demonstration The most dramatic event of the New Bedford strike took place recently when a rumor that eight scabs had started the looms in the Kilburn mill brought out 18,000 strikers who continued to picket thruout the night. Pickets in fishermen’s boats ke pt guard at the mill gates on the waterfront in this tremendous demonstration of the strikers’ solidarity. Photo shows a group of pickets outside the Kilburn mill. JUDGE REFUSES CONVENTION CALL FOR ee eee UNION STEVE MENDOLA Upholds Frame-up of Militant Miner (Special to The DAILY WORKER) WILKES-BARRE, Pa., July 15.—, "The reactionary Judge McLean has tefused a new trial for Steve Men- dola, one of the fighting Pittsburgh miners framed up by the Cappellini machine because of their struggle against the contractors’ system which has led to the murder of sev- eral Pittsburgh miners. * This same judge has also sen- Sam Bonita, a rank and file | Meader to six to 12 years. Judge ef Chicago labor men as sluggers, extortionists. The survey commit- | |tee of the association assumed rev | sponsibility for these astonishing ac- | tions and Woll is a member of that committee. | Sit With Open-Shoppers | Some of Chicago’s most notorious | cpen-shoppers, like Jim Patten of the Landis committee and Tom Don- nelley of the scab printshops, sit on the board of the Illinois Asso- ciation for Criminal Justice with Woll and Walker and the other fakers, FASCIST TERROR SWEEPS SPAIN For Arrests BORDEAUX, France, July 15— Arrests of thousands of workers. liberals and Catalan nationalists are being continued by the Sp; I pea po- ice as parteof a wave of terrorism which they began following an-| nouncement by the authorities of a| widespread attempt to overthrow |the present regime, alleged to have | been discovered by the government’s secret agents. Nation-wide arrests of workers are reported from cities as far apart as Saragossa, Madrid and Barcelona Scores of workers engaged in con- structing the Theatre Royal near| the roynl palace in Madrid have} been detained, while many trade | union organizations have been raid- ed and others are being watched by| the police. Absolute censorship of all news- papers has preverted a word of the government’s actions from appear: ing in the news in Spain, but, ir spite of official efforts to close the | frontiers to information, reports 0” ‘events are leaking through. Passengers on international train: jare being subjected to the most) | thorough- going search by the border guards at the French and Portu- |guese frontiers. Many have beer | closely questioned and an effort is being made to prevent all persons | suspected of labor activities from entering the country. Unconfirmed reports reaching ‘here from travellers who are hastily |leaving Spain allege considerable junrest in the interior. Especially from Barcelona there are reports of | disturbances among the textile and \harbor workers, and a number of Catalan nationalists are said to have ‘been detained by the police. | NO JOBS IN OIL FIELDS. ARKANSAS CITY, Kan., (FP) July 15.—Oilfield workers around Arkansas City find jobs hard to get Over half are unemployed. McLean, in refusing to give a new trial to Mendola, was, very much | murderers, bombers, gunmen and | jaroused over the fact tnat the jury did not bring the verdict of second degree murder. Judge McLean is a coal operator and is acting in behalf of Cappel- lini and the Lewis Machine, He is also a colonel in the state militia of Pennsylvania and has done his bit during the world war in direct- ing the slaughter of the workers. It is a well-known fact that in the regiment under his command dur- ing the world war forty soldiers were court-martialed for minor of- fenses and some of them sentenced to death. Adam Moleski, the third victim of the frame-up, will probably come up for trial in the September term of the criminal court. He is now out on ci U.S, TROOPS IN HAWAII ‘ILLEGAL’ HONOLULU, United States July administration 15. — The of Hawaii has recently found it neces- | sary to “create and establish” 2 | Hawaii National Guard. Although | the guard was actually in existence since 1893, when Hawaii fell under the domination of U. S. imperialism it was discovered that the regiments never had a legal existence. When first instituted the Guard consisted of but one company, but) due to the necessity for “protection” | it soon grew into five companies | composed of men of thirty races. The armed forces grew steadily | ; until figures today shows an en- listed strength of 1,560 men and 101 | commissioned officers. The Hawai |ian National Guard has more men and officers than the guard of any other state or territory with an equal population, having one guards- man to every 157 persons. By a new order of the War De partment the forces are to be in-| creased even more. They are to have a force of pie 068 men and officers. Workers Lose Out In New Law WASHINGTON, , July 15 (FP).— Private insurance companies have @ profitable monopoly of the busi- ness, and workers have to safeguard | their own chance of compensation | for a convention of textile workers organiations and mill committees for the formation of a national in- dustrial union of all textile work- ers, Due to its tremendous impor- tance since it affects the workers in one of the country’s major in- dustries, the call is presented in full. Albert Weisbord, national secretary of the Textile Mills Com- mittee, signs the document. “To All Textile Workers’ Organ- izations, Textile Workers’ Mill Committees, Tetile Workers Clubs and Associations, Textile Unions. “Greetings: “The textile industry is in the throes of reorganization. Intense ‘speeding up, mass unemployment, longer hours, and wage cuts are the order of the day. with their tremendous profits, the textile manufacturers are doing everything possible to squeeze the workers harder than ever before. “At the present time the textile employers are planning a new drive. The drive has formally begun against the cotton workers in New| England and over one hundred thousand workers have already re- ceived a ten per cent wage cut. HUNGER STRIKE IN SOFIA JAIL SOFIA, July 15.—The prisoners lin the central jail at Sofia who were | punished by one month of hard la- | bor for wearing red ribbons on May | Day, are forced to suffer an addi- tional 10 days of punishment. This was announced to them shortly be- | fore the term of their original pun- ishment came to an end. This additional punishment of hard labor, which has already re- sulted in the death of one, Nikola Tliew, and has led the political pris- | oners to declare a hunger strike as a protest against the,terrorism of the wardens. All except M. T. Atanasoff, who is seriously ill, have | already been on strike for ten days. ‘Palestine Apprentices, BEIROUT, Palestine, July 15.— The status of the youthful worker in Palestine today is far from what could be desired. About ‘half of them work more than 8 hours a day Young apprentices must work for a long time, frequently without pay. in order to learn a trade. Past ex- perience has shown that the private- |ly owned trades are no fit places | |for learning a trade. The following is the official call| Not satisfied | Labor Without Wages, New Bedford Struggle. “But just as the Passaic workers | in 1926 did not take a cut lying| down, but under our leadership put |up a great and memorable struggle, so today, again under our leader- ship, the textile workers are in bat- tle against this new ten per cent wage cut. “In New Bedford, Massachusetts, now for over three months, 28,000 textile workers have been on strike against the ten per cent wage cut, for better conditions, and for the right to have their own union. Mass picket lines have closed the mills down tight in spite of the terror of the police and the militia which had been called in, and in spite of |the treachery of the bureaucrats of the A, F. of L. This brave fight in New Bedford shows that everywhere the textile workers are ready to move. In Fall | River, Massachusetts, already the | workers are mobilizing for struggle. | Elsewhere too, the textile workers are demonstrating that the time is now amply ripe for struggle. No Union. What has prevented the textile workers from carrying on an active fight is the fact that there was no militant leadership and no union to lead them. Outside of a few tiny independent groups, the only union in the field is the small union of the American Federation of Labor, the United Textile Workers. | “The officials of this United Tex. tile Workers are of the most reac- | tionary character, with a long ser- ies of betrayals to their credit. They have done their utmost to divide the workers and to defeat them. After many years of existence the United Textile Workers stands a_ small handful of skilled workers, pitifully helpess to resist the attack of the bosses. Must Build Textile Union. | “This situation means that espe- |cialy now, the textile workers must |take things in their own hands and build a national textile union, that will be a real workers’ union, organ- izing the over one million textile | workers in this country and actual- lly resisting the wage cuts and worsened conditions imposed by the employers. This is the immediate |task at the present time, the build- ing up of a national textile union |\that will mobilize the workers for effective struggles. “To accomplish this end, the Na- |tional Textile Mill Committees \hereby calls all textile workers’ or- ganizations to a national convention to be held in New York City Satur- day and Sunday, September 22nd and 23rd, 1928. The convention will be opened at 2 p. m. September 22nd at Irving Plaza, Irving Place Jand 15th St., New York City, “All bona fide textile workers’ | organizations are urgently request- “the leadershipsef the New B h| \ed to elect two or more delegates to ttend this convention. “ALBERT WEISBORD. “National Secretary, “Textile Mill Committees.” “DAILY” WANTS PHOTOS: | ‘Recently the workingclass yout |has succeeded in arranging an ex- jay | hibition of the work of some of| these young workers. Some fine yaberimens of work were shown, Workers Are / Are Asked to Send in Pi in Pictures, Workingclass photographs are |ing people in action, taken close up. | for accident, under the new work-| Wanted by The DAILY WORKER. \Pictures of picket-lines, or work- men’s compensation law in the Dis- trict of Columbia, which became effective on July 1. The worker whose employer has violated the law by failing to take out insurance cannot collect if he is injured. It is‘small satisfaction to him to know that his boss may be fined or jailed. ‘ | Workers are most desirable are Lhose.show- who own cameras are/ing class demonstrations and of asked to co-operate in improving other vivid incidents ‘of the class their “Daily” by taking pictures of | struggle are especially valuable. workingelass activities and sending Glossy finish photographs are most them in. The summer season of- suitable for reproduction. Every fers a particularly good opportunity picture that is printed will carry for worker-photographers to develop | the name of the worker who took it. their talents, | Camera fans, get busy. Become The type of photographs that « worker-photographer for The ‘DAILY WORKER. i Matthew Woll’ s s New Boss - Racket in Drive on Labor CONVENTION T0 BE HELD HERE SEPT. 22-3 Mill Groups, Clubs, Unions Called A call for the formation of a countrywide textile workers ingus- | trial union was issued yesterday | from the headquarters of the Na- ional Textile Mill Committees, 96 | Fifth Ave., this city. | The convention is to be held here |on Saturday and Sunday, September 22nd and 23rd at the Irving Plaza | Hall, Irving Place and 15th St. and lis scheduled to be opened at 2 p. m Saturday. All textile workers’ organizations mill committees, clubs, asociations and textile workers’ unions are called |upon to send delegates to the con- | vention. Thousands Unorganized | The call is issued over the signa- ture of Albert Weisbord, National Secretary of the National Textile | Mill Committee. Weisbord was the leader of the great strike of Passaic textile workers in 1926. The amazing growth of the mill committees in all sections of the country and particularly in‘the New England textile manufacturing dis- trict shows that the delegates from the committees alone will represent tens of thousands of mill workers. Despite the con’sntration of most of the forces of the National Textile Mill Committee in the New Bedford strike area, where 28,000 workers are entering the 14th week of the struggle against a wage cut under ford Textile Workers Union of th® Tex- tile Mill Committee, recruiting work in other fields show that hundreds of new members are forming mill committees. A. F. of L. Aids Bosses. The weak-kneed leadership of the American Federation of Labor tex- tile union, who meet the bosses of- fen: by advocating a surrender policy where they are not openly the employers speed-up agents, is Continued from Page One STRIKERS FORCE PARADE PERMIT Mill Workers March July 28 NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 15, —forced to yield by the tremendous public indignation that followed the braking up of the textile strikers parade. held recently by the New Bedford Textile Workers’ Union of the Textile Mill Committee, Mayor Ashley has granted a parade permit to the organization for Saturday, July 28. The permit was granted after a committee, especially chosen by the T. W. U. strike committee for that purpose, had approached the mayor. The permit, however, stipulates that the fina lissuance of the permit de- pends upon the strike developments until the 28th. May Revoke Permit. Despite the fact that the mayor still has ample opportunity to re- voke the permit, the granting of official sanction to the Textile Workers’ Union is considered a re- luctant tribute to the tremendous mass following of the Textile Mill Committee. Leaders of the Textile Worket. Union later signified their satisfac- tion over the outcome of the test strength between the textile work- jers and the mill boss controlled city | officials. “Now the New Bedford | Workers’ Union intends to go full speed ahead with plans for staging ae biggest parade ever held in this ’ union spokesmen declared, tain: “The workers of the entire | country will then see a tremendous demonstration of the union’s strength.” Successful Meeting. Albert Weisbord, Eli Keller and |other Textile Mill Committee lead- ‘ers addressed a meeting especially ‘called for the members of the Tex- tile Workers of the A. F. of L. The meeting, which was held at the re quest of a committee of 25 U. T. W, | members resulted in many enrolling in the T. M..C. The attendan consisted mainly of French ai Brtish workers, occupied in the skilled crafts. A lengthy discussiow followed the speeches of the union | leaders.