The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1929, Page 1

a 4 frenzied THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government | To Organize the Unorganized | For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party eee enema age oo ne silty Entered as accond-class mutter at the Post Office at New York, N. Ya Published daily except Sunday by The Nation: Publishing Ansociation, Worker ew York, N. ¥. em 76-28 Union NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY | 20, 1929 HUDSON TUBES WORKERS ORGANIZATIONS EXPEL TROTSKY FIRE HURTS 300; MOTORMAN DEAD Defective Fuse Burns Train at Christopher Street Station Police Hustle Crowds Thousands Caught: in Jam; Some May Die \ Hoboken-bound train in the Hudson tubes at Christopher St. sta- / on caught fire last night. The fire, stifling fumes which choked | of the 1,500 people aboard esulted in approximately | ons being: injured, half of} ously. reported that the motorman | vas killed and that several cthers will die. Traffic in the tubes was com- pletely stopped, causing thousands to gather in other stations, packed tight and waiting in vain for their trains. Some of these were also in- jured by lack of air and crowding. The Hudson and Manhattan Rail- way Co., a subsidiary of the Penn- sylvania Railroad Co., and the Penn- sylvania operate the Hudson tubes, deep under the river. The trains are inadequately inspected and the cars | are partly inflammable. Bad Fuse. As near as could be learned in the confusion a fuse blew out as the ivain drew near the Christopher St. station, which is in Greenwich Vil- iage. The inflammable portions of ear after another took fire un- veral were burning. The lights went out on the entire Men struggled to break open ‘3 and windows. Many were ned more or less severely, but ill mo} re bruised and crushed, it is feared several of the in- d will die. Many women and a children were reported among hurt. ice Lose Heads. reserves ‘were called’ and the aid of firemen and station fought the crowds. Some ised were hit by police- indulged in a panic them- | The tube for a considerable dis- | e on both sides of the Christo- St. statfon filled with smoke es, which added to the dan- ger and made more difficult the work of rescue. Several of those taken to hospitals were said to be| suffering from the effects of the fumes and gas in the tube. An hour after the fire, which oc- curred at about 6:45 p. m., hospitals had been unable to determine the number brought in for treatment. Most of the injured were taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, where a crowd gathered and doctors and nurses worked amid much confusion. GOAL COPS HELD IN MINE MURDER Witnesses Tell Court of Brutal Murder PITTSBURGH, Feb. 19 (U.P).— ‘Three coal and iron police were held for the county grand jury today on! a charge of murder by the coroner’s | jury which investigated the fatal beating of John Barcoski, a coal miner, a week ago. | The three held for the grand jury | after witnesses had told of the beat- ing which caused the miner’s death were Police Lieutenant Walter J. Lyster, and Policemen Harold P.| Watts and Frank Slapakis. | Brutal Killing. | The killing was conducted with the usual brutality of the Pennsyl- vania coal and iron police. These officers are strikebreakers, hired and paid by the coal companies, armed and commissioned by the state. They are recruited from amongst professional criminals. One witness, Higgins, a former policeman, told how Watts and ster comme akis came to the house of Barcoski’s mother-in-law, where Barcoski was quietly reading. They were drunk, and picked a fight with him, then knocked him senseless, and carried him to the coal company jail, where Lieutenant Lyster took off his coat and shirt, remarking, “I feel like a good work out,” proceeded to beat the still unconscious form of Bar- coski with an iron poker. Watts, Higgins declared, began to kick Barcoski and ended by jump- ing with both feet on the uncon- scious man’s chest, crushing his ribs. Higgins said he buried his face in his hands, unable to stand the gruesome sight, but heard Bor- coski’s agonized + gasp and the crunching of breaking bones as the officer jumped up and down, crushing his ribs. . MUST SAVE THE “DAILY” Comrades: With 75 per cent of the collection boxes used in the New York City tag days for the fund to save the | Daily Worker opened, the total thus far amounts to only $819. The ‘fact that the proceeds are far below the amount expected from this source, left the Daily Worker in a critical position. The donations received since then have been dangerously low. Yesterday the Daily Worker re- ceived only $312.20. The receipts—aside from the tag days—up to last night (Tuesday) are: Previously listed . Monday Tuesday Total Comrades, fellow-workers, sympathizers, you can see from these amounts that we are traveling very slowly towards the total needed to wipe out our debts and overcome the crisis. While last week the amounts received in one day were rarely below $500, the money received thus far this week shows a steady and menacing decline. You must not work so slowly —you must work up steam. We want to bring this drive to an end as quickly as possible. But we must bring it to a SUCCESSFUL end. MORE ENERGY, MORE IMPETUS, MORE FORCE IN THE DRIVE TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! In reviewing the list of those organizations which have thus far contributed to the fund we find hundreds of organizations affiliated and sympathetic to ovr movement which did not yet help the Daily to overcome the crisis. We are depending upon all class-conscious workers’ organizations to join in the drive and give us your active and energetic support. We also find that the number of individual dona- tions: falls far shert of the number of our readers. This means that the readers of the Daily Worker are not all contributing to the drive to overcome the crisis.” EVERY READER must give a donation, large or small. Every reader must see his or her bee] in the list of contributors, as a sign that he has helpe: to save the Daily Worker. Comrades, you have by no means done all you can do in the shops. Do you know that the workers arrested by the hundreds on the picket lines in the garment district of New York have contributed to the Daily Worker from their prison cells? Singing and cheering, the workers in the jails, set up a cry: SAVE THE DAILY WORKER. The pickets digged into their pockets and gave as much as they could. They gave by cells. In the packed prison courtyard of Jefferson Market Court they again set up the cry: SAVE THE DAILY WORKER. And again they dug into their pockets. The total collected in this way was $36.18. If workers on strike can do this, the workers in | the shops can do much more. There are hundreds of shops throughout the country where there are many | workers willing to help the Daily. You must get to them Comrades. They will be glad to help. The workers of the Union Square Press sent in $25 for the Daily Worker. This is the spirit. Well, what do you say, workers in the shops? Let us see quickly. Here is a letter we received from a worker out in Wichita, Kansas: Dear Comrades: I will stretch a point to renew my sub- scription at this time, so as to keep the ship afloat—as well as to take advantage of the opportunity to get a copy of Big Bill’s memoirs. _ I have been reading the daily installments, and it is “hot stuff.” Enclosed find check for seven dollars. I wish I could contribute seventy times as much. Fraternally, W. F. KEENY. EVERYONE TO THE FRONT. MORE ENERGY IN THE DRIVE TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER. THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Rush all funds to: The ee ssasscbeonid 26-28 Daye Square, New York. CAN ‘DAILY’ SURVIVE? Funds. Vital : if Our Press 1s is to Live Respond immediately to the appeal of the Daily Worker for aid in its present crisis. The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker 1 am send- ing you the enclosed amount, $.... Name ....... PANE eee eee ete e teen eee een seen sense en eeeeeeeeteees Address oy Names of contributors will be published in the lay. —_— “Daily” without FROM USSR AS SOVIET ENEMY | Trotskyiats 2 Now Are Completely Anti- Soviet Group Family With Trotsky \Must Fight on Against Right Wingers (hinds the first authentic report from trustworthy sources received in this country on the expulsion of Trotsky from the territory of the Soviet Union. It comes by a special rediogram to the Daily Worker from the International Press Corre- sponden EDITOR) a load of under the act of March %, 1879. Outside New a Ms é s is singing, cheering pickets, herded by the bluecoat (Warelesa’ By" Tupyecovr’): man-socialist gang into a patrol wagon ey are a part of the MOSCOW, 19.—A special icket line in the garment The bigger the arrests, the session of the State Political Ad- ministration, popula known as | —— the Gaypayoo, has d ed to expel Trotsky from the Soviet Union be- cause of anti-Soviet activities. His family is accompanying him, at hi own wish. Isvestia, the official organ of the Soviet Government, declares that the Trotskyists are now a completely anti-Soviet organization, with basic ideas which fight against the Com- jmunist Party of the Soviet Union and against the Communist Inter- | national. Trotsky, it goes .on, banner of counter-revolution, and uses the same slogans as the white guards, as the mensheviks did in 1921, such as the demand for the secret ballot, ete. The Trotskyists over-estimate their strength. The ; rotsky group are bankrupt adven- turers who are consciously conduct- ‘ing counter-revolutionary activity against the proletarian dictatorship. It concludes with the reminder that in the struggle against Trotskyism, the fight against the right wingers and conciliators must not be for- gotten. KILLER OF FOE OF GRAFT ‘ESCAPES’ Guards Wink as Melleté : | Slayer Slips Out COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 19.— Hseape from Ohio state penitentiar: vas easy this morning for Pat Me- Dermott, convicted of kiiling Don R. Mellett, Canton, Ohio, newspape editor, who had been exposing ti graft connections between the Can ton police department and certair bootleggers, dive owners and dope pedd) McDermott and four others sawed the bars out of their cells, three bars from each cell, a job that would take a long time and be very neisy, then walked through a door in age leading to the roof, wh answer of militants, Conference to to Plan Aid to Dress Strike : The call for tk carries the joeq ort ence of the i organ ich will sheps, Saturd: response been received from who have contribut the Fund. The s have con- 00. ane the Sieh the Union building trades | tributed close to cery Clerks Unio pat CS a struggle, co: $200, as well as giving other able assistant The culi ers and Build iron work- > in showing their ith the struggle of yvespondir feren ‘The local Ni ealls the atte that the victory will encourage trades and will be better ecnditions for ail will help in organizing the m unorganized The workers are u their efforts to en | ordered kept locked, but thi locked, then attached a rope, ob- pa tained from some source unknown. | to the wall directly over the record | clerk's office, which is alongside of | the warden's office, and slid down | jcutside, about 6 a. m. this morning. They made their escape in a heavy snew-storm. They were not inter fered with anywhere along their (Continued on Page Five) Members in the C douakers Union, anized into a section of the Trade Union Educational League to fight the traitorous policies of their right wing officialdom, are calling an open forum meeting of the union membership in order to discuss the administration’s scandalous mis- handling of the unemployment i i i surance fund. The meet Knit Goods Meeting to held at Ukrainian Hall, Aid in Defense of 662)s«., Han Four. Mill Strike Victims) The members will discuss ways ‘and means for rallying the member- | ae ws ship to fight against the administra- | et ee goods workers, members tion, for their ruining of union con- ere Knit Goods local of the Na- tuitions in the shops thru bos co- anh Sel vores. enon of | operation methods and for allowing |oxecutive board to come to» ment (the huge fund for the relief of the |exeeutive board to come to ® memlicbiess members to evaporate, pigs se wicker doves. geen Wes pe Pow ie Left wingers in the union are also the headquarters of the local organ-fiow asking the officials as to why ization, 246 Sixth Ave., near 16th St. |the membership hasn’t the right to Besides the regular problems of now why A. Dolinko, who, accord- |the union, which will be taken up’ ing to the other officials, was elected |by the members after Sarah Cher- | organizer a few days ago, has sud- 2 15 E, 3rd | noff, organizer, delivers the report,! denly left his job. Is it because the ® the workers will consider the ques- once rich organization has become so impoverished thru “mismanage- ment” that it doesn’t pay the hench- x i men of the officialdom much? Or | Strikers who, with 24 leaders of the | hawhis quitting the office something union are to come up for trial in to do with his being fraudulently the courts of the Massachusets mill | elected. a short time ago? Despite barons, being defeated by about 100 votes in| the election Dolinko was declared | Clerks Join Union at. elected by the administration. Meet; Theatre Party jo. ic realize several thousand! for B’klyn Strike Fund | tollaes foe ate fund to be used to unionize Brooklyn. The Retail Grocery Fruit and | The meeting last night held by | Dairy Clerks’ Union, in preparation |the Grocery Clerks Union of Brook- of an Organization Fund in its con-|lyn workers was a huge success, templated drive to organize food| with many non-union workers at- stores in Brooklyn, is to hold a the- tending. When the meeting was atre benefit in the Jewish Art The-|over many had signed up, and paid paces 14th St. and Irving Place, to: the especially reduced initiation fee ‘night. The union has hired the en- of $5.50, instead of the regular fee tion of helping the I. L. D. and the national union in their fight to de- fend the 662 New Bedford textile tire theatre for the purpose and ex-of $25.50. | and file Work, the ra’ ated Clothing The revolt of unionized bj ached the the stage where ent is large enough to take s form. For the thousands to fight the terrible exploitation in the shops rade Union Educational League section in that union issued a call for a conference of shop represen- tatives to be held this Saturday and § at Stuyvesant Casino, mated Clothing Worker: Sisters and broth »” was reduced by the Hill- Beckerman-Schlossberg clique to a company union, into a swamp of raft, corruption and clique dom- “Hearty cooperation” es and a struggle against is their slogan. in the shops through ; and standard of produ m, starvation wages, reductions (Continued un Page Two) ISVESTIA URGES RATIFYING PACT « Grain Purchase in the USSR Increases (Wireless to th Dail y Worker) OW, L R., Feb. 19.. on the rati fication of Union of Soci an other s| y cutive Committee of the Soviet Union, and declares that the cause of peace demands the speedy cation of the other signatori But Isvestia adds that Li right, howeve the Kellogg pact is ins ensure peace; sures pea icient to only disarmament en- Purchase Greater. A leading article in Pravda con- tains figures in regard to the grain pure which totals 6,446,000 tons in seven months, compared with 6,- 418,000 tons in the same period last ye Si six per cent of the pro- gram rried out. Pravda, compared with 61 per cent of the program at the same time last year. Pravda indicates, however, that ase, there are difficulties ahead, as the, rich peasants are holding back their Still, Pravda continues, the s are favorable without the application of extraordinary meas- ures. There are good grein supplies in Siberia, Kasakstan, Bashkira and the Volga districts, where the grain purchase has not yet begun, orker ION RATES: In New bigger with | ork, by mail, $8.00 per yea York, by mail, 86.00 per year. friends of the bosses and the Hill- 280 arrested Monday morning on the the picket lines. That's the. RESPOND TO TEL 7. U. EL. CALLS TAILORS “STRIKEPARLEY 22 SHOP CONFERENCE “BOSSES APPEAL =: ON 5-DAY WEEK Get Hearing Today in|: how the Injunction Demand The appeal of the Building Trades | Employes "s Association against the |®” employer, ustice Bijur that no in- on could be granted to stop the | Electrical fontractors Brotherhood of Elec-| trical Workers Local 3 of New York, | for hearing this morning be- | Supreme> Court Justi¢e Town- ternational Caused Strike. t was made some time ago, 2 stopped by a court or- «cr obtained by the employers’ as- sociation Feb. 1. Two thousand electrical workers on many differ- ent jobs ‘struck, without the author- ization of V: any of his machine ofticials here. The members demanded thei: five day week, but the officials refused to jead a stril Nevertheless, the militant of the rank and file att tion to the and a p junction efused by jur. atten. manent in- Judge Bi. W.LR. Will Launch Big National Drive Soon The Workers International Relief announced yesterday that a nation- wide camnaign for the relief of the destitute coal miners of America will Le launched soon, The National Office of the W. I R., 1 Union Sauare, New York s in communication with the eral ecutive Board of the Na-| tional Miners’ Union, Pittsburgh, | Pa., and has offered that organiza-| tion its active support in the raising of funds on a nationwide basis. It also intends to bring before the} American working class facts re- en- FINAL CITY EDITION 3 Cents CLOAK BOSSES Association | wo; ying out its contract for the 5- | they day week: and $13.20 wage (o the In-|Wing uni e-President Broach or! appeared in court, action lt | TO START MINERS? the solida «RELIEF CAMPAIGN ° | i lating to the great suffering of the (Continued on Page Two) IRON WORKERS SEEK INCREASE, ST. LOUIS, (By Mail).—Strue tural iron workers here getting $1.50 an hour, demand an increase of 25 cents more. EMERGENCY FUND Workers Contribute to Save the ‘Daily’ Collected by H. Dosik, New Yi : Harry Dosik, $1; Jack Rasnow, $1; $1; Herman, 50c; Louis Louis Cupers: Slovak Workers Soc 5.50 36, Chicago, Ill. 5.86 Jose Perez, Portlan 5.00 Collected by Alex } ots, New York City: M | Crowe, 60c; H. Jusisans, | 25e; M. Roon F, Bruno, $1; Herjio, 25c; R. Eckert, 50¢; James E, Hen- ry, 50¢; Rachel Joe Martin, 25c .. 5.00, | Collected by Bertram Feld- man, Bronx: Jacob Weiss, $1; A. Berger, $1; Robert Marton, $1; N. Howard, $1; Sam Weiss, $1 ........... 5. Cook Young Workers League, Cook, Mini iieaeiias's «wx Paawi Altsehoff, Reading, Beh eet MN ania nis 3% Collected by Mrs, Collins, Wilmington, Del.: E. Collins, 4.26 4.00 $2; John Volkman, $2; A Hrtend, BOCs Sis iievie vie 4.50 Agricultural Nucleus, Petalu- Ay OMNES eased css sche 4.00 Comrade Ason, Section 4, Unit (Continued on Page Three) 00 | | | yesterday PANICKY OVER DRESS STRIKE Express Fear of New Union at Ass’n Me eeting Arrest 6 More Pickets Yellow Forward Froths at Strike Success That the employers in the needle trade: ly conte: » feeling the power of the young Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, because ef its conduct struggle for the improvement of conditions of the dresemakers through a brilliant two weeks old, was s This Ss arrested were vo of the most interesting develop- in the fight of the dressmak- eir employers. and ist company union ments ‘The mission this time was made at a meeting of the Industrial Coun- cil of Cloak Manufacturers, held Monday night, where the leaders of — the boss association expressed the feyr that the new union may men- ace them when the time comes for bite 2 the} e agreements with jalist company union. ake Sere mea fe; et a pana in which he told reement” with the right wing w had never been lebeyed. and how wages were openly |slashed with socialist permission. The particular occasion was when a member of the or- zation, made the suggestion that no agreements be signed with a min- p. He proposed that the be canvassed to see whom left or right e@ such a canvass |would show overwhelming s pport for the new union, the boss was im- |mediately silenced by a tirade from the association head. He launched into a frothing denunciation of the jlefts and their “pernicious influ- lence; and announced that business can be done only with an A. F. of L. union, a Benjamr> Schlesinger union, lige ae Six Pick Although the were rrested. rikers arrested eleased when they past experience shows that this is enly a temporary istrates’ courts, in nd Brooklyn, resulted in several and others had r cases postponed till Feb. 24, and 26. Among them are: Leon- . Ray Sapperstein, Irving arah Cohen, Louis Bortz Alex. Furtenstein. To date there have been 1,000 ar- ts in the be efforts to break the strike ho well as all oth- in efforts to s use y morale. The vage of the yellow socialist Forward at the success of the strike reached a ridiculous level yesterday. In face of the fact that all the cap- italist evening papers of Monday were compelled to print the story jof the remarkable demonstration of ni picketing, the Forward printed a story saying that “there was no picketing!” In an effort to stem the tide of dress manufacturers who are rush- .|ing to the office of the strike head- || quarters with |'ments, appeals for settle- the racketeering outfit that terms itself the Dress Manufactum ™ (Continued on Page Two) COMMUNISTS OF AUSTRIA MEET Letter from Comintern Condemns Minority (Wireless By * VIED . | Congress of the Austrian Communist Party opened two days ago, with a speech by Koepling on the results of the Sixth Congress of the Com- munist International and the tasks of the Austrian Communist Party. The Executive Committee of the Communist International sent an open letter declaring the congress must begin energetically to carry out the resolutions of the Sixth World Congress in regard to Aus- tria, demanding a struggle against the right wing. The letter of the E. C. C. I. con- demns the minority right winwers gathered around Schlamm, Reiss, Schoenfelder, and Wegerer, as op- portunists and supports the majority in the Austrian Party Beat Right Wing. The minority is completely de- feated in the party discussion and (Continued on Page Five) . if ‘Inprecorr”)