The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1928, Page 1

=~ x" THE DAILY WORKER FI FOR A WORKERS’ AND FA . GOVERNMENT TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY GHTS RMERS’ SOVIET AVIATOR-HEROES MAY VISIT AMERICA IN SEPTEMBER orker Enteréd as second-class mutter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 17: Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union 8q., New York, N. Y. NEW YORK. MONDAY, JULY 23, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Outside New York, by mi New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. ' Price 3 Cents MINE LEADERS ATTACK LEWIS; CALL FOR A NEW UNION Watt, ’ Toohey, Expose Strikebreaker in Open ‘Shop Conspiracy With the Operators ,| COUNTER REVOLT : SEEKS TO RAISE HEAD IN MEXICO & Clericals Threaten La-| bor Unions MEXICO CITY, July 22 (UP).—} A decisive victory over the labor | party, resulting in the forced resig- | nation of Luis N. Morones, Minister | of Commerce, Industry and Labor | and two other high party officials was scored today by followers of the late President-Elect Alvarro Obregon. The resignation came as a result of charges that the laborites were! “psychological authors” of the assas-| % Sination of Obregon. Celestino Gas-| ca. head of the Government Depart- Strike “Leader Fred E. Beale, New Bedford tex- tile strike leader, who was released CHEER BEALE ON PRISON RELEASE Boss Lauds Chief of Police and Union Head (Special to The DAILY WORKER) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 22 —Despite an obvious effort to avoid |a strikers’ demonstration at the re- lease from jail of Fred E. Beale. rod MILL STRMERS RASS HEROES“ MAY PAY VISIT 10 THE U.S. A Soviet Government Grants Permission (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 22—The Soviet airmen, Chukhnovsky, Prof. Samillo- vitch, and the others of the expedi- tion aboard the Krassin, who rescued . | by textile strike leader, by freeing|/16 of the survivors of the Nobile | him shortly after 7 a. m. Saturday |disaster, may visit the United morning instead of at the announced| States in September, according to | time of 8 a. m., hundreds of strikers | an interview published in the “Izves- |were already waiting at the House/|tia,” chief Soviet newspaper, today, of Correction gates in time to greet; The Soviet government has given Beale with enthusiastic cheers. permission to the heroes of the Arc- Beale had just completed a 30-day tic rescue té accept the invitation ers in the Fight for a New Miners’ Union John J. Watt, (right) and Pat Toohey, chair - man and secre- tary of the Na- tional Miners’ Convention Ar- rangements Com- mittee, who are leading the min- ers in the fight for a new union to replace the one destroyed by the treacherous Lewis machine. MILL BOSSES TRY LAY- OFFS TO HALT STRIKE, SMALL SUMS TO | FALL RIVER, Mass., July 22.—| Desperate with fear of the imminent strike of ‘textile workers in Fall COMMITTEE LAYS PLANS FOR BIG SEPTEMBER MEET Calls Upon Labor Movement to Defend Fight of Striking Coal Diggers (Special To DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, July 22.—The National. Miners’ Arrange- ments Committee, through John J. Watt, secretary, issued here yesterday a ringing denunciation of the action of the Lewis machine of the United Mine Workers’ Union at the recent Indianapolis session of Lewis’ policy committee which repu- diated the so-called “no backward step” declaration of the last United Mine Workers’ Convention. Lewis’ action in abandon- ing the Jacksonville wage and in authorizing negotiations for district scales to be based on the “existing wages,” is the eul- mination of the conspiracy to destroy the United Mine Work- ment of Fabrics, and Eduardo Mon-| Saturday after completing a 30-day eda, director of the printing depart-| ial sentence for strike activities, ‘ment, were the other labor party|2/forts to head off welcome dem- leaders who stepped out of office to-| "tration by his release one hour day. v Apparently the Obregonists ex- erted pressure on President Calles to bring about the changes which were officially to “facilitate the in-| vestment of the assassination of General Alvaro Obregon.” Morones as President of the Crom, Mefican Federation of Labor, is one of the most powerful politicians in the country. The attack on the laborites was led by Deputies Soto Y. Gama and Aurelio Manquire who directed their assault chiefly against Morones. Pee MEXICO CITY, July 22.—A pos. sible recurrence of the counter-revo-! lutionary clerical outbreaks of sev- eral months ago, when the church hierarchy and wealthy landlords ‘made their bloody attempt to over- throw the Calles government, was foreshadowed by a demonstration of 1,000 so-called agrarians here Fri- day night, apparently instigated by| Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama. | Aviator’s Funeral May Bring Clash | Trouble is looked for tonight when | the body of the aviator, Carranza Filled in_an airplane accident in the | T=#ted States after his flight from, this city to Washington, will reack | bers.. Labor organizations plan to | demonstrate at the Colonia station when the body arrives, and the cleri-| cals are making open threats of | violence, attempting to bring thou- sands of“their followers to the city from the surrounding country. This is considered to be an effort of the clerical-landlord groups to turn the blame for the murder of Obregon from their own door. | Start Anti-Labor Drive. Remarks of Soto y Gama to the! press yesterday were plainly intended | Continued on Page Two SOVIET - AMERICA RADE INGREASES $45,000,000 Gain in 9- Month Period SovlebaAmerionh trade for the | first nine months of the Soviet fis-| cal year 1927-28, beginning October | aes | Great Thron Alexander Trachtenberg, treasurer | earlier than announced time failed when eager strikers showed up be- fore time. 20000 AT HUGE GONEY CONCERT g Applauds | Theremin Twenty thousand worker | jammed Coney Island Stadium. Sat-| urday night and for more than three | hours listened to one of the great- | est proletarian concerts ever held in| | this country. | The concert, arranged jointly by |the Daily Worker and the Freiheit, was characterized by high spirits | until the very end of the evening. | In addition to the musical program, | the affair took the form of a rous-| ing political demonstration, with Ben Gitlow, acting secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party and candidate for vice president as the| speaker of the evening. Lauds Soviet Rescuers. Gitlow, who was introduced by of the National Election Campaign Committee of the Workers (Com- | munist) Party, riddled the political | pretensions of Herbert Hoover and| pointed out his role as a faithful | servant of Wall St. When Gitlow | mentioned the achievements of the| i.yer Chukhnovsky, the huge stadium | rocked with applause. “The heroic | sentence for organizing a strikers’ parade and for other activities. The welcome committee of the union, however, arrived too late to officially weleome him back to the strikers’ ranks, but after having} | sped back to the union headquarters caught up with Beale just as he was about to enter the building. Here another rousing demonsta- tion was staged by the textile work- ers, as the union committee pre- of red flowers. Radiant and Continued on Page Two USSR RAISES BRAIN PRICES Gosplan Provisions Are Fulfilled MOSCOW, July out the five-year economic plan of the Planning Commission the gov- ernment of the U. S. S. R. has or- dered a general increase in the price of grain of approximately 10 to 15 per cent on wheat and 23 per cent on rye. The plan was destined to better \relations between the city and vil-| lage by raising the prices of the peasant’s products, thus enabling him to buy manufactured goods as his needs require. The actual carrying out of the ' plan in such a ygréat increase of prices is expected to result in great benefits for the peasant, especially autumn crop, The economic plan promises to be of the Russian American Chamber of Commerce to visit this country. This was the content of an an. nouncement made by the Soviet | Rescue Committee today. Official and public opinion was jimmensely interested in the an- |nouncement that the invitation had been extended and the news of its | acceptance was welcomed through- out the country. | The date of the proposed trip is !sented Beale with a huge bouquet | Still uncertain, but it will hardly be beford the end of September, | laughing, Beale, because Prof. Samillovitch, head of | | thanked them for the reception and | the relief expedition aboard the So- viet icebreaker Krassin, reports from King’s Bay that the vessel was so badly damaged in her struggle with the ice as to require refitting, which will be carried out within the next two weeks at a Scandinavian ‘port, probably Gothenburg. | Charles Smith, the Moscow rep- | resentativemof the Russian-Ameri- HELP RAISE FUND Workers Donate to Communist Drive The millions of General Motors jare behind the candidacy of Al | Smith and the millions of Wall Street, alias General Motors, are behind Herbert Hoover, but the one. five and ten dollar bills of the work- ing class are behind Foster and Git- low, the candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party of America. | “Enclosed please find .$5,00 do- inated to the National Campaign | Fund of the Workers Party by the, Lithuanian Working Women’s Al- liance, Branch 132 of Brooklyn, New York.—Fraternally yours, Edward Butkens.” River,which the Textile Mills Com- | ™natior c ee ( mittees threaten to call, the Ameri-| ers’ Union and to establish company unionism in the coal in- can Printing Company, one of the| dustry. largest textile employers in New Outline Tasks. ,can Chamber of Commerce, speaks! This is one of the first responses (| warmly of the world-wide interest | to the $100,000 Communist Cam- in the achievement of the Soviet air | paign Fund _Fequested by the Cen- | heroes who saved the survivors of |tral Executive Committee of the the fascist expedition when all the other countries attempting rescue work had failed. WOLL REPORTS ANTHLABOR PLAN ‘Open Shop Federation Active Another step in the class collab- joration policies of the American Federation of Labor leaders was t eatige these 1 |with such good prospects for the | taken with the publication yester- | let ice-breaker Krassin and the day of a report by the National | Civic Federation Committee on Plan ia ao | A 4 Scope, actively sponsored b: rescue achieved by these cit; | fulfilled, as far as the peasant prob- end ly Vy the first nae and sep pated PS is concerned, contrary to pes- | Matthew Woll, which recently was the slanders of the capitalist press | concerning the Soviet Union. In| the future they will be compelled to | hesitate before they write their lies about ‘Bolshevik barbarism.’ ” Gitlow received a great ovation both before and after his speech. The musical program proved to be all that had been expected. Prof. Leon Theremin, whom Trachtenberg | | public,” he said, “is a refutation of | Simistie reports current abroad. MANY KILLED IN LISBON REVOLT LISBON,, Portugal, July 22.—Re- organized to find the basic prin- ciples on which labor and capital can co-operate in securing industrial peace. The committee, whose composition was recently announced by Woll, now the acting president of the |open-shop federation, has on roster some of the most hitter union ihaters in the country. Jn the pre- lim‘nary report made public yester- referred to as a representative of actionary government forces here. day it was announced that steps to- the new Soviet culture, astounded | the vast audience with his new Continued on Page Two | after two days’ fighting, put \down a revolt of soldiers. Many arrests were made in Lis- bon, Oporto and other points. ward the repeal of anti-trust legis- lation have “been taken: activities looking, to the regulation of injunc- tions are likewise under way, it is its | | Workers (Communist) Party. Another comrade, Albert Gerling Madrid, Iowa, sends in $10 and asks for one hundred copies of the Party Platform. It is the ten dollars, the five dol-| lars, and the dollar bills of the working class against the millions of Wall Street. There is no difference today be- Continued on Page Five POWER TRUST IN NEW RACKET Sets Up a Course at Columbia The power trust, which has spent. thousands of dollars in buying poli- ticians, newspapers, teachers and ‘schools thruout the country, has de- cided to buy itself a summer course |at Columbia University, according |to information just disclosed. Two utility corporations, the | American Gas Association and the |notorious National Electric Light | _Association, are “co-operating” with the university in a course for the study of household gas and ‘electrical appliances. The two companies have provided an extensive laboratory of modern England, announced a_ twelve-day lay-off for 2,500 of its workers yes- | terday. The Textile Mills Committee unit here, growing in membership by leaps and bounds despite the active opposition of the mill barons, the| city police and the reactionary la- bor skates here, issued a statement declaring that it recognizes this is a bare-faced maneuver to smother the tremendous strike movement that wili soon flame into action. This lay-off, the T. M. C. says, will be used as a starting point in the Continued on Page Five GENERAL STRIKE ON INDIA LINES Hundreds of Arrests as Trains Halt CALCUTTA, India, July 22,— The tense situation among workers in South India reached a crisis to- day when a general strike of rail- way workers was declared, accord- ing to dispatches which are arriving here. Thousands of employers are af- fected by the strike and scenes of the utmost confusion exist in some parts ef the province of Madras, one of the most important in South India, Workers have prevented the operation of trains by hurling themselves on the tracks and defy- ing the police and emergéncy crews, the dispatches say. The workers are reported to be taking things in their own hands. A heavy guard of special police was summoned to control the situation. Hundreds of arrests have been made. Refusal of owners of business to deal with the labor unions has long | ben threatening serious disturbance | in India, Owners have repeatedly | refused to recognize the unions and serious clashes between police and strikers have resulted. The strike centered around the city of Madras, important as a transportation center of the lower peninsula. In a long statement to the labor movement and to the mine workers, Watt and Toohey, speaking for the National Arrangements Committee, outline the tasks before the coal diggers and call upon them to redouble their energies for the building of a new union to replace the one destroyed by Lewis. The statement follows in full: LEWIS COMPLETES BETRAYAL Abandons Jacksonville Scale—Defeats Pennsylvania and Ohio Strike—Destroys National Agreement. MINERS BUILD THE NEW UNION Elect Delegates to the Pittsburgh Convention, September 9-16. — The Policy Committee and the International Executive’ Board of the United Mine Workers’ of America, headed by John L. Lewis, has decided to abandon the Jacksonville scale. The national agreement and national wage scale has been finally and completely destroyed. Wage cuts will now take place in all districts. Union conditions will disappear. This is one more act of a treasonable career of the Lewis machine. Deliberately, and in the most base con- nivance with the bosses, step by step, the miners have been sold out. The union has been torn to: pieces and is now a complete wreck. The miners are facing “open-shop” con- ditions and starvation. The future of the miners lies only in the throwing overboard of the last remnants of the Lewis machine and uniting in building the new union—a powerful union to embrace all the traditions of the past heroic struggles of the coal miners. © That must now be the next step upon which every effort should be bent. Climax of Lewis’ Treason. Many are the sell-outs of the past. In 1919, John L. Lewis be- trayed the national strike; in 1922, he betrayed 100,000 unorganized miners who came out on strike and joined the union. He betrayed the anthracite miners, the West Virginia miners; he destroyed the Districts of Kansas, Nova Scotia and other districts. Last fall he put into effect the beginning of the separate agreement policy, took several districts out of the fight, leaving the Pennsylvania and Ohio miners to battle alone against the united coal operators. This recent ~ action of the International Executive Board finally completes this ~~ series of betrayals. It is even in distinct violation of the last packed International Convention decision not to permit any recession from _ the Jacksonville scale. In order to cover their sell-out and the fact that the union is | completely destroyed, the International Executive Board is making a pretense of negotiating separate district agreements. In this situa- — tion the Lewis machine can obtain no other agreements from the operators than those based on the “open-shop,” on conditions worse — than slavery. For the miners any such agreements will be fake agreements, further splitting the ranks of the miners, pitting the districts against one another in competition for lower wages. “Union” Officials Help Blacklist Union Miners. That the Lewis machine has no confidence in obtaining even district fake agreements is evidenced by the fact that the Inter. national Board is instructing officials to send men back to work to the mines before such agreements are negotiated. By this the corrupt officials hope to collaborate with the, operators in their black-listing and boycotting of active rank and file members. F “““~ To’ the Pennsylvania and Ohio miners this means the strike is 1, 1997, reached « total of $100,000. | ‘Aion the tascent tor pista aede |etatad.: Lar charge’ Chr tink baaich Freiheit Sports Clutb| tetrayed by those who are paid high salaries out of the sweat and home appliances in Dodge Hall, 000. Purchases for the Soviet Union and sales of Soviet products | in the United States in the nine | months’ period ending June 30, | 1927, amounted. to $55,000,000. | American-Russian trade in 1913 to- taled $48,000,000. “While a new record for Soviet- ‘American trade was reached during the nine months ending June 30, 1928, the composition of the trade mained about the same as last year,” stated M. G. Gurevitch, act- ing chairman of the board of direc- | tors of the Amtorg @ading Cor- poration, “Raw materials, indus- . trial equipment and agricultural ma- chinery constituted the bulk of So- viet purchases here, while animal products, such as furs, bristles and Continued on Page Two PLUTOCRAT LEAVES MILLIONS The will of Howard Elliott, for- mer chairman of the board of di- rectors of the Northern Pacific Rail- way Company, who died July 8 in Dennis, Mass., was filed for probate today. The bulk of the estate is said to be valued at more than two TWO KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK BOSTON, July 22 (UP).—At least two persons were killed and more than a score of persons injured here tonight when a four-car train on the Boston Elevated buckled and jumped the track just outside of the Beach St. station. From twenty-five to thirty per- sons were carrie! in ambulances and taxicabs to the City Hospital, early reports indicated. Cornelius) Koechan of Roxbury, three former cabinet ministers and|of the open-shoppers’ activities is a number of former officers who James W. Gerard, former U. S. Am- escaped after the revolution of last | hassador to Germany, member of year, | the State Industrial Commission and An official government report one of the most active enemies of states that during the duration of | the workers. Gerard is at the pres- | the fighting seven were killed and |¢nt time a staunch supporter of Al | over thirty persons were injured. | Smith. | No verification of the actual num-| Another committee ber slain and injured has been made | Forms of Employes Organizations, on account of the strict censorship | understood to be an attempt to work | exerted on the press throughout the out a form of company union, like- country since the hostilities began. wise reports “progress,” . working on | Teachers’ College. The course is in charge of Prof. Carleton J. Lynde, head of the Household Engineering Department of Teachers’ College. In the gas course lectures and demonstrations are being given each | afternoon by representatives of the | American Gas Association, Similar | lectures and demonstrations are be- ing contemplated in the electricity | course, to be given by representa- tives of the National Electric Light | Association. and ‘Daily’ Plan Dance The Freiheit Sports Club has ar- ranged a concert, sports exhibition and ball in collaboration with the Daily Worker, which will take place on the evening of August 4 at the Pythian Temple, 2864 West 21st St., Coney Island. A very interesting program has been prepared for the evening, and all workers in the city have been in- vited to attend. AIRPLANE “MYSTERY” BAFFLES THE CZECH POLICE conductor in the fourth car, de- ecribed to the United Press how the crash had felt in the train. “We left Dudley St. station at 6:52,” Koehan said, “arriving near the corner of Beach St. and Harri- son Ave about eight minutes later “All of a sudden, just as we were rounding the corner, I heard a ter- rible crash ahead. The lights went out and I could hear women and million dollars, children screaming.” Leaflets Calling for Red PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (By| Soviet Union and the Communists.) Mail)—On, July 2nd the fascist peut ieee hos apnea Pee ey | a display of the military and police Grech legionnaires staged 8 condons, They also contributed a/ demonstration in the sports|fleet of airplanes, whose function it stadium, which was a crude and un- | "88, to drop leaflets, bearing the successful attempt to arouse the in- while the demonstration was going habitants of Prague against the on. To the great surprise of the fas-, cists, and to the pleasure of thou- | sands of workers, the leaflets that came fluttering down from the sky were “polluted” by thousands of leaflets appealing for mass partici- July 5th. These leaflets had been declared, Day Demonstration Take Place of Fascist “Dope” illegal by the Czech government. which had raided many workers’! homes in an attempt to confiscate them. The mystery of how the fascist fascist propaganda, all over the city pation in the coming Red Day of leaflets were converted into revolu- tionary ones has not yet been solved by the police. i} blood and countless sacrifices of the rank and file miners. These strikers were stabbed in the back while fighting against the opera- tors, their evictions, their injunctions’and their police terror. Could a scab peform a more base, degrading function? + The Pennsylvania and Ohio miners’ strike is now definitely lost. The union is destroyed. Lewis, Murray, Fagan, Hall, Fishwick, — Cappillini and all the other henchmen have completed their treach- erous work. ‘ Fifteen months ago the operators set out to destroy the concentrating first on the Pennsylvania and Ohio fields, They ardently supported by the whole employing class. They found and police ready at their disposal. But their most formidable were their faithful tools—the officials of the U. M. W. of A. Save-the-Union Committee Fought Traitors we Wage cuts have already taken place in the striking districts, in the unorganized fields. Indirect wage cuts through the loss” union conditions have taken place everywhere. New wage cuts follow in the so-called organized districts. This is the vicious cirels What now has come to pass, we have warned against, time ar ie again. Speaking for the interest of the rank and file membership. we advanced the program to SAVE THE UNION when it into its crises. We demanded a fight against wage cuts, demanded a national agreement; the organization of the unorg: fields; a six-hour day, five-day week; control of operation of londii machines and mechanical devices; we demanded militant p rebuild the union such as strike activities, mass picketing fight against injunctions, fight against evictions, adequate extension of the strike into a national strike to secure victo Lewis Fought Picket Line, Helped Evictions, % Instead of paying relief the Lewis machine paid high for themselves and their hired gangsters who broke up t Continued on Page Two vw te