The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 14, 1928, Page 2

Calamari, Prog GRIM FACTS OF MINERS’ BATTLE TO BE RELATED Watt, Gold to Speak at Relief Meet CSS1VE Training Workers as I THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1928 Mine Leader, Is Still ‘in Danger After Lewis Thug’s Attack mperialist Sharpshooters Shoe Shop Fire _ DELEON LAUDS | WORKING YOUTH - MEET, SEPT, 2 Conference - Take Up) Vital Tasks “Faithful to our great tradition, Solon De Leon, labor economist, we, the delegates assembled at this yesterday endorsed the forthcoming a. A a Working Youth Conference to be 2s A pulsin held at the Labor Temple, Second and file coal min finally and Ave. and 14th St. on September completely repudiate the Lewis To crack sharp shooter team of the Second Corps Area of the Citizens Military Training Camp 29 and 30. machine and resolve to build the at Camp Perry, Ohio. More than 3,000 contestants competed. in the ri syeditog The Young Ww ork, | In a statement, issued through Fire in a shoe repair shop at Pitkin Ave, and Chester St., Brook- new union, the name of which shall ers (Communist) League is instructing these young workers in the réasons why the capitalists the arrangements committee of the Ne LEE laser cok aave! e Natio’ ners on.” aintain the Citizens Military Trai amps. | by id: ut Mena A Y eas be the National Miners’ Union maintatee the Citeens Muvtary Training) Comne conference, De Leon said: others in the continguous block of frame buildings. It took hours for | With these ringing words the his- tc a See 7 ee apy B el 2 “One of the most striking short- the firemen to get the blaze under control. toric Pittsburgh convention an- U. S.-Welsh Tinplate comings of the labor movement in| shoe shop. . nounced the launching of the new (Wh .. America is the fact that the young miners’ union on the ruins of the Combines Agree on workers, the Negro workers and old one destroyed by the Lewis chine and set in motion a ery which will unite the nearly 1,- 000,000 coal diggers in this eoun- try in one powerful, militant or- ganization. The steps that led up to the for- mation of the new union, the fight against the triple entente of the bosses, police and John L. Lewis and his cut-throat hirelings, the desper- ate struggles of thousands of min- ers and their families against star- IN PORT CHESTER J. O. Bentall Will Start Tour Bert Miller, organization secre- tary of District 1, will speak at two election campaign rallies on Satur- day, September 15th, in Port Ches- vation, eviction and disease, and tet, New York and Stamford, Con- the tense moment of the huge necticut. epoch-making Pittsburgh -conven-| The Port Chester meeting will tion—all this will be vividly des- eribed to the workers of New York by the first president of the new National Miners’ Union, John Watt, ata huge Solidarity Mass Meeting Thursday evening, Sept. 20, at Cen- tral Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. take place at 6 p. m, in the center of the city, a special permit having been secured for the purpose. The Stamford meeting will be held at 8 p. m. the same day on the Town Hall steps. This place is used by the republican and democratic par- ties once every three weeks respec- tively. The socialists were after the same position but were not on the job quick enough and lost out. Both meetings are arranged by Comrade Mitchell, acting district or- ganizer of District 15. J. O. Bentall, Communist candi- date for governor speaks in Scan- dinavian Hall, 701 State St., Erie, Pa., at 8 p. m., September 15th. If the weather is favorable, Comrade Bentall. will speak in Perry Sq., South Park Row and Peach St. Bentall will speak in several cities along the lake shore on his way to Minnesota where he is booked for a six-week tour. TOOHEY PLEDGES FIGHT FOR UNION Attends Funeral of Slain Miner The meeting, which has been ar- ranged by the National Miners’ Re- lief Committee, 799 Broadway, and the Shop Delegates Conference for Miners’ Relief, will mobilize the Workers of New York and vicinity in support of the new miners’ union and of the thousands of coal dig- gers, their wives and children who are face to face with starvation. In addition to Watt, who will be the main speaker, leaders of work- ers’ struggles in other fields will ap- pear to pledge the solidarity of the workers of New York with the fight- ing miners, These speakers will in- clude Ben Gold, general organizer of the Joint Board, Furriers’ Union; Gladys Schechter, organizer, Millin- ery Workers’ Union; Hyman Kor- etz, general manager of the organi- zation department, Cloak and Dress- makers’ Union; Harold Williams, secretary of the Negro Committee for Miners’ Relief; a speaker repre- senting the Youth Conference for Miners’ Relief and one from the Children’s Relief Scout Groups. | TAILORS DOWN SIGMAN SCHEME Settlement’ Rapped in Continued from Page One ready to be buried with him,” said Glovak. Long Procession of Mourners. A terrific rainstorm subsided a half hour before the funeral but in spite of the storm more than nine gations of nine local unions, > marched in the procession. Local 700 to 3 Vote women's aurillones, youth ora: Despite the presence of Morris iZations, Miners’ Relief and the N Sigman, president of the Intern’ tional Executive Board all sent oa “ina wreaths, President Watt of the tional Ladies Garment Workers Union, the membership of Ladies Tailors Local 88, at a mass meeting in Bryant Hall late Tuesday night, rejected by 700 to 3, the right wing proposal! that the employers be given Permission to dismiss workers in- diseriminately. This action forced the right wing officialdom of the local to go back to the employers National Miners’ Union was master of ceremonies and Patrick Toohey, secretary, was the principal speak- . Organizer. of Children. Many children and representatives ‘of children’s organizations attended the funeral. Moran was admired by all the miners’ children as he was one of the leaders in creating chil- negotiators for a new agreement ; ceive and tell of the membership’s de- 4°en’s organizations. cision. Tomorrow evening another, State troopers hovered around the outskirts of the crowd, but this time attempted no attack. Entertain Carboni. mass meeting will be held, where the Sigman officials will report on the result of their trip. At thes negotiation for the new agreement the employers organiza- tion, taking advantage of the de- terioration of the strength of the tnion due to the neglect and in- Weompetency of the right wing of- is technically under arrest, but in- stead of being in jail, as is always the case with militant miners under arrest, is being well cared for in a hospital in Washington, A’ wife of ficials, had the spunk to demand the|one of the local miners says that fight to discharge 10 per cent of Carboni's wife boasted that five fheir employees, and also those Were meant to be killed at the union Whom they iudge to be guilty of “in-| meeting. Glovak says that Pete gubordination, and a slow worker.|Gulik, Lewis sub-district board fter the battery of “expert member, thneatened him with egotiators” Morris Sigman and) “something worse than a frame-up,” several days before the shooting. The National Executive Board ad- journed last night. The next regu- lar meeting will be held in three forris Hillquit, corporation lawyer, id met many days with the em- loyers, they finally came to the embers and advised acceptance of ie clause they demanded. huntred mourners, organized dele-| Carboni, the murderer of Moran, ' | plane on Tuesday, he announced to- honing that the break off of| | ““ “www ; |day. ‘The flight will be from Croy- nentiations would discourage the, | S#0w Your Solidarity With the Textile Strikers | don to Paris. strikers, 4 ¥ ———¢ SLUGGED FOR ‘WILITANGY; MAY “DIE AS RESULT Mine Relief Appeals for Aid for Him (Special to the Daily Worker) | PITTSBURGH, Sept. 18.—For | thirty-six hours following the at- tack on the miners’ convention by Lewis thugs and Pittsburgh police, Anthony Calamari, the mine leader |of Charleroi, who was most seriously injured, hovered between life and |death in a state of unconsciousness. | At the present moment he is walking | about fretfully, his memory entirely gone, and refusing all food, The workers and threatened to trap Market Exploitation SWANSEA, Wales, Sept. 13 (UP) —Details of an American-Welsh tin- plate manufacturers’ agreement were published here today, allocat- ing the world’s tinplate markets. The agreement was for the pur- pose of securing if possible, the freedom of the United States from Welsh competition in certain export markets of the world where Amer- icans have immense capital invested. A similar agreement probably will be made, with Germany shortly, it the women workers have not yet been organized. The organized sec- tion of the working class is limited more or less to the skilled and well- ‘paid workers. The great masses of the worst exploited, the harshly | treated, the much abused, the low| paid, workers have not been organ- | ized. “The officials of the A. F. of L, DUBINSKY BROKE © MOVES OFFICES | TO BIG WAR BILL “Peace” Pact Takes Second Filace WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (FP). Cutters League Grows | bhag: in' Membership | When. Seorstary of State, Kelloge! soy ceneutecls shown AhRie casei. . returned from his Paris and Dublin jingness, or inability, to organize! Dubinsky and his Cutters’ Local trip, he went immediately into con- these masses of workers. Tens of |10, one of the strongest pillars of ference with President Coolidge. | thousands of these unskilled and reaction in the Jewish labor move- Then he talked with Chairman Borah S¢mi-skilled workers are ready to|ment, and Morris Sigman’s right- was said. * Py : " ; become organized. The youn; k-|hand man in his pogroms on the! In return for the concession,/of the senate foreign relations com- As sheds Pihe eloak’ anid’ vdtenemaktes in. Naw. American tinplate manufacturers mittee. After that, the unofficial percentage of these unskilled and report went around that the admin- ores TOR have shown ees a 4 ‘ their ability to fight side by side istration had made a deal with the) er Gbility to ight s Sr ae re were organized. They have shown, by the 16-ship naval construction jn instances, their readiness to be heres to the National Organization bill would first be passed and then organized. Since there is no one | Committee for a New Cloakmakers’ the Kellogg treaty for renunciation else to do the organizing, the left | Union. The meeting was held in the! of wars of aggression would be rati-| Wing must get, on the job and do it. | headquarters of the N. 0. C., 16 W. fied. “The Working Youth Conference |21st St., and began promptly at 6) Fifteen cruisers and one airplane '*.* step in the direction of organ- | last night. carrier are to be built, at a cost of i7ine the unorganized young work- | To substantiate this charge, Hor- $274,000,000, under the terms of the TS: . It should receive the greatest owitz called attention to the recent- | pending bill, which has passed the possible support from all militant |ly published charge that the “rich odie ea: has: “Baen' Seatewhat workers. This first step will have | and all-powerful Local 10,” (accord- amended in the senate committee, |'0 be followed up with many more ing to Bubinsky) is compelled to va- One’ amendment by. Senator Hale's Als Ae repre in accom- | cate its independent headquarters on committee is being fought by the or-|Soune workers, "eanizing the 14th St. and move into the right ganized labor lobby. It seeks to per- |” 3 | wing Joint Board building. It was mit naval officers to purchase from. . . Textile Relief Mpet also pointed out at the meeting that private non-union firms about half! | Dubinsky tried to cloud the impres- the work that will go into the eight | Called for Tomorrow Continued from Page One York, are bankrupt, was the charge made by Organizer A. Horowitz, when he reported yesterday to the crowded meeting of members of the Cutters’ Welfare League, which ad- ers especially, who constitute a laree| agree to refrain from Wales’ pre- war markets in Europe. FIND PORTION OF AMUNDSEN PLANE Pick Up Piece of Wing in Tromseo Channel OSLO, Norway, Sept. 13 (UP).— A piece of an airplane wing, iden- tified as belonging to Roald Amund- sen’s Latham plane, was found in the Tromsoe Channel today. Its position was believed to indi- cate that Amundsen and his party were forced down soon after they left Tromsoe last June to search for survivors from the -dirigible Italia, big navy lobby in the senate, where- ships that are to be built in govern- | ment yards. All the private yards are non-union, ; ‘ One primary reason for Kellogg's Painters and a large number of pro-|pect that his Local 10 is bankrupt, agreeing to let the naval construc- | &Tessive groups. : j but that the only reason he is moy- tion bill have the right of way over! “This conference will meet the | img from the very comfortable 14th his treaty is that Senator Swanson |challenge of the textile trust and the | StTeet offices, where they have been | of Virginia, who threatened trouble reactionary labor misleaders, who |fF Nearly 10 years, is for “con-| over ratification, is interested in get- are determined to break the strike,” | Venience- ting the ship contract for yards at| Harriet Silverman, secretary of the| Newport News and the Norfolk navy |New York branch of the Workers |unanimous approval to the request yard as quickly as possible, International Relief, said yesterday. of a committee sent by those ar- STILL ouT SOLID 4 - |heit Bazaar in Madison Square Gar- gates and hundreds of New York 4 workers are expected to view, the| 4M October 4, 5, 6 and 7. A com- Union Holds’ Section) Meeting Sunday SHIP BLAST KILLS FIVE WORKERS (By United Press) SOUTHPORT, N. C., Sept. 13.— The coast guard cutter Modoc to- day sought the 7,000-ton tanker Shreveport, converted by an explo- sion yesterday into a burning mass with four bodies aboard. Thirty others of the crew were rescued, but one man died later. Four others were treated at a hospital here, While the Modoc hunted the flaming ship 125 miles off shore here the twenty-nine survivors de- scribed the accident. Captain S. A. Simmons, of Balti- more, said the tanker was proceed- showi. t™ lad | mittee was elected to assist in mak- al eel ee bytarta ing the bazaar a success. A motion | tomorrow night. M. J. Olgin and Was also carried to request the or- Albert Weisbord will speak before | Snization’s executive board to buy each performance, at 8:45 p. m. and | tickets. 11 p.m. The entire proceeds will, The league leaders reported on 0 to the New Bedford and Fall the work to date, The organizer River. textile strikers. | reported on the complaints he had Rimes eser st \attended in the shops. The report on SAILOR DROWNS. |membership drives show that many WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UP). |neW members are signing up with —Francis Peterson, naval store-|the League every ‘week. keeper attached to the submarine | tender Beaver in Chinese waters,| Stolidly determined to stay out on strike till their demands for recog- nition of the union and reinstate- ment of active unionists, are granted all craftsmen employed by ing empty from Philadelphia to Frey scberman ene Cone was found dead on board the sub-| A taxi driver would appreciate Texas. Suddenly the decks bulged, 51°: vr aan Bhoe Co. in Brook-| marine 8-82 today, the-navy wast. this cony of The DAILY there was a great flash, then an|\¥™ Continue to picket the plant advised, His home was in Boston, WORKER. explosion, and wreckage began fall- With increasing vigor. Widespread _ arseuili se Rin Ms wc vel aa ie 2s I aR : ing about the now burning steamer. SUPPort is being marshalled by the A The Shreveport was owned by the WOFKers organization, the Inde- Come! Come! Cities Service Transportation Co. of Pendent Shoe Workers Union of New York. Greater New York, in a series of B . Cabs Sse meetings still being held. This | Motion 6 Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p. m. a section membership meeting of Har-| lem unionists is to be held in the Hungarian Workers Home, 350 E. 81st Street. In addition to taking up the ques- tion of supporting the men on strike in Brooklvn, this meeting, as the| others did, will occupy itself with | the coming organization drive of the union. Organizers Magliacano, the union president and other speakers will address the meeting. Last Sun- day shoe workers in Coney Island met in section meeting. Speakers’ Conference Tomorrow at 2 O’clock A conference of all open-air |speakers of District 2, Workers (Communist) Party, will be held at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, tomorrow at 2 p. m. M. J. Olgin will speak on “The Soviet Union and its Relation to the Election Campaign” at the con- ference, which is arrangec by the Agitprop department of the dis- piaure The Crowd” BENEFIT PERFORMANCE FOR THE TEXTILE STRIKERS OF NEW BEDFORD AND FALL RIVER ALBERT WEISBORD, Speaker ee SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15TH LABOR TEMPLE, 14TH ST. & 2ND AVENUE 2 Performances: 8.45 p. m. and 11 p. m. — Admission 50 Cents triet. h Pepi AUSPICES:—Local New York Workers’*International Relief, ee ete The anti-union employer has al- 1 Union Square, New York, Room 604. DICTATOR’S FLIER OFF. ready confessed the fact that the Proaited HN ne eet strike hurts where strikes hurt bosses most, and agreed to see the union leader in conference. On hear- ine the demands of the union, he re- fused to accede the men’s demands, | W. I. R. Textile Relief Conference SATURDAY, SEPT. 15TH, 2 P. M., IRVING PLAZA HALL, 15th Street and Irving Place LONDON, Sept. 13 (UP).—The Spanish inventor, De La Cierva, will attempt the first crossing of the | English Channel in an auto-gyro sion which he recognized such an) specitically applied for to halt’ this jevent would inevitably create, came | |out with a boisterous announcement | |to the effect that no one should sus- | isetts judge that the N. O. C. The meeting last night also voted) National Miners Relief Committee Above, the ruins of the has procured special medical aid for him. ‘SOCIALISTS’ ASK 1 Calamari has taken an active |part in the strike since the beginn- FOR INJUNCTION jing, and has been organizing the miners, urging them not to return |to the mines individually, but in an organized manner, Brutally Attacked. When Calamari approached the Labor Lyceum, Sunday morning, his convention delegate badge pinned to his lapel, the thugs fell upon him, breaking three blackjacks over his head, throwing stones and every conceivable missle at him. The gallant miner fought back as long as he could, but was soon over- powered, and fell unconscious, Then the thugs kicked his head and shoulders, and dragged him up the street. When the delegates in the hall who had repulsed the at- ‘tackers and closed the doors of the hall to open the convention, saw this through the window, they threatened to charge upon them un- less the attack upon Calamari ceased. The thugs drew away from the unconseious miner. Rushed te Hasnital. The delegates had succeeded in fighting off the attackers and were seated in the hall when thre police Sigmanites Beg Aid of Massachusetts Judge Continued from Page One union. Another hearing is scheduled for the coming Monday. The new union, tho recently launched, has already acquired the allegiance of the workers in nearly every ladies garment manufactur- ing shop in this city. The sudden and complete stoppage of dues pay- ments to the Sigman union by the members, and the simultaneous growth in membership of the new local section of the National Or- ganization Committee, caused the Boston Sigman machine to beg for aid from the employers which was promptly forthcoming from a num- ber of bosses. The firm of Cohen and Jacobson, was among the first to dismiss the most militant among its employees. This was answered by the workers by an immediate walkout. The new arrived. Calamari was rushed to union declared the shop on strike|the Passavant Hosnital while the and it has been tied up ever since, police cleared the hall. with regular picketing going on in| The doctors say that Calamari’s full force. The injunction was condition is verv serious. The Na- tional Miners Relief Committes is doing its utmost to heln him. Cala- mari was a member of the Relief Committee of Charleroi. and his ruddy, smiline face and wittv tongue were well known to the relief ‘committee staff. Whenever Cala- mari came to the headquarters, he ing friction between the company | ould bed Hoe ee eens clause in the injunction application, |ti! the order for groceries for Char- n ion, which states that the defendants, | ef?! areas foe Fis the officers of the N. O. C., are! + fa trying to break up the International The Talnere Wecuneny vas Hoe Ladies Garment Workers Union Ome@hela and Allegheny | Valleys know Calamari as a lovel leader. shee molance’), and: iithpents 9 The National Miners Relief Com- 4 mittee doing its utmost to save The writ application names in its/Calamari’s life. Funds are needed papers, Julius Portnoy, N. 0.-C./to pay doctor's bills, and take care treasurer, Emma Yaninsky, N. 0. C./ of the stricken striker’s family. All organizer; W. Weiner and A.| contributions should be sent directly Shapiro, local leaders, and all other to the relief headquarters, 611 Penn union functionaries. | Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. strike, and to stop picketing. In the injunction application the ‘ocialist” officials and their boss ally, went to great lengthy detail in trying to nroye to the Massachu- isa red” organization, which is caus- REGISTER NOW! FOR THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS “The Indian Summer” Week-End The best part of the year in nity Camp The best working class camp For registration inquire at our main office, 1808 7th Avenue, corner 110th Street, Telephone: Monument 0827 Monument 0111 Camp Telephone, Wingdale 51 Buses will leave 1800 7th Avenue corner 110th Street to the Camp, Friday evening at 6:30 p. m. and Saturday at 1:30 p.m. rticles Collect *s! Names forthe Honor Roll for the Benefit of The DAILY WORKER and FREIHEIT September 10 to 17 National Bazaar Committee 30 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK, N. Y.