The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 23, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government Te Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Baily — Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. amder the met of March 3, 1879. FIN d daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Ing Association, inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. Vol. VI, No. 15 DEATHLISTIN MINE BLASTNOW 41;-STILL GROWS. Stories of Gas Told by | Escaping Miners Hit Operators’ Lies Speed Hindered Safety Mine Union Condemns) Murderous Slavery PARNASSUS, Pa., March 22 (UP).—A check-up this afternoon showed that 41 miners were known to have lost their lives in the ex-j viosion yesterday at tthe Kinloch} Mine of the Valley Camp Coal Com- | counted for. Find More Bodies. Yesterday only 21 bodies had teat found, and it was hoped that only six more men remained unaccounted for. 'Today’s discoveries and check showed a growing death toll. Thirty-one bodies have been re- | moved from the mine, one miner died in a hospital and nine other bodies remain to be lifted from the | mine on stretchers this evening. | They are all so badly burned iden- | tirication is difficult, The bodies of 14 men were found grouped together in a chamber of the mine some distance from the foot of the shaft where the explo- | sion occurred. One Found Alive. Lawrence Allshouse, 28, was found elive and carried from the pit. He was in the same portion of the mine in which three bodies were located at noon today. Allshouse brought the list of min- | ers who escaped to 234. James Poole, Davis were the three men whose bodies were removed at noon. Rescued Man to Die. Allshouse is not expected to live. When he was brought from the mine this morning—he was found in a chamber near three dead bodies— he was extremely weak and in.a semi-conscious condition, He could mumble only a few words and his | | STILL SNARLING eyes showed plainly the terror of those 26 hours of imprisonment. When he could talk he said that he had tried to keep the gas from kis face, so he could breathe, by fanning himself with a shovel. Then, too, he breathed through the mud- soaked burlap bag in an attempt to inhale clear oxygen. The chambers of the mine are filled with gas and rescue workers | had to wear masks and helmets be- fore entering. All of the bodies found today | were in groups, as though the men (Continued on Page Five) French War-Maimed | Herded Past Bier of) Dead Militarist, Foch) PARIS, France, March 22.— Maimed and blinded veterans and the widows and orphaned children of thousands of soldiers who fell in the war of the allied and German imperialists in northern France wereyesterday herded past the bier of Marshal Foch, who led the allied armies. Plans for the funeral of the im- perialist leader are lavish and the French government: is sparing nothing to make an im- pression with its tribute to a dead militarist. Three marshals of France will be pall-bearers, while behind the corpse President Doumergue will walk afoot in honor to the man who is credited with saving French imper- jalism from German imperialism. Clemenceau, who managed the po- Clemenceau “Nitical end of the French govern- ment during the war and was one of the most merciless oppressors of the German workers through his war demands in the days after the war, is too old to take part in the funeral exercises. * * WASHINGTON, D. C., March 22. --The United States government will also honor the dead French wilitarist by a national salute of 21 guns and flags at half-mast. Hoover and Pershing will attend funeral eercises. Daily Worker Agents Meet Tuesday Night An important meeting of Daily Worker agents will be held next Tuesday night at 7:30 in the Workers Center, 26 Union Sq. Irving Fralkin, new manager of the Daily Worker, will meet the agents and outline plans for im- portant campaigns. Sixteen miners remain to be ‘| Jesse and James | NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, » 1929 Bo Greed Writes Bloody Chapter it in ee Mine Disaster | shows the blazing of the mine. ana Twenty-one bodies have thus far been recovered in the horrible Kinloch mine di: nassus, Pa., in which nearly 250 miners were entombed by a preventible gas explosion. six and twelve miners are still missing and there is little hope of their recovery alive. | ster in Par- Between Telephoto ‘TAMMANY TIGER \Smith, Raskob Man, Seems Victor Tammany Hall, which has, under | instructions from Big Business, been | vuling New York for some time} | now, practically admits it can’t rule | | itself. | The executive committee of Tam- | many Hall tried for a spirited hour | and a half yesterday to elect a leader to succeed George Olvany, re- signed, without success. Then they admitted failure and named a committee of seven to wait | upon former Governor Alfred E. | Smith, Mayor James J. Walker, Sur- | wogate James Foley and Senator | Wagner with orders to go thru the| |formality of finding out who is ac- ceptable to those four. Seems a Smith Victory. When the meeting adjourned at 6 p. m. and the announcement of the action taken was made, observers immediately interpreted it as a vic- tory for Smith. Smith took Raskob, an official of |General Motors (Morgan and Mel- lon) as his campaign manager in | the presidential race, so there is a pretty sure indication that the si- lent men of money are going to de- cide on a Smith man as the next dispenser of patronage, SHOE DRIVE NETS MORE VICTORIES Workers Look to Parley of Shop Delegates Leaders of the militant Indepen- dent Shoe Workers Union, in pre- paring for the shop delegates con- ference to be held this Monday evening at 8 at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, will be able to report the surrender of two more shoe bosses. One of these firms, the Real Art Shoe Company, employing over 175, gave the union a stiff fight, but the uncompromising stubbornness of the striking crew won for them all their demands, from union recognition down to individual wage increases. The other is the Kados Shoe Co. of Brooklyn, employing about 40 work- ers. Gain Wage Raize. Wage raises of from $2 to $10 a week were won in the fight. In the meantime the union sharp- (Continued on Page Two) ! ry i ‘|Back to Work! | Win the Masses! || Unite Our Ranks! | The above are the slogans ad- vanced in the declaration of the | {Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of the United States that appears on Page 3 today. This is the statement of the Party’s Central Committee on the conclusion of the recent Sixth National Convention of the Party. It should be carefully studied by all readers of the Daily Worker. SOCIALIST THUGS SLUG OLD WORKER 'Left Wing Ur Union Wins | Philadelphia Strike A squad of fourteen hired thugs yesterday waited for the shop crew of the Dubofsky and Shapiro Cloak Co., 22 W. 21st St., and when the! workers came out of the building,| ordered them all to march to the headquarters of the socialist scab union, the International Ladies’ Gar- | ment Workers’ Union. Their refusal to do so was followed by a murder- ous attack upon the workers in the shop, injuring several and severely wounding one old cloakmaker, aged | 7. After treatment by a surgeon | the wounded worker was advised to go to a hospital because of the ser- |iousness of his injuries, In a statement issued to the work- lers, the N. T. W. LU. yesterday declared organization plans to be under way for meeting this fiendish onslaught on unprepared workers, The statement also called on the workers to resist with all their pow- er the attempts of a gang of thugs to terrorize left wing workers. * * * |22—A tornado sweeping out | school 20 NEGRO SCHOOL CHILDREN KILLED |Flimsy School Is De- stroyed by Tornado MAXWELLBORN, Ala., March of existence frail Negro houses and ramshackle Negro schools, which are all the poverty stricken tenant far- mers in this part of the South can afford, today killed at least 20 chil- dren, demolished whole sections of several villages near here, and in- an several Negro adults. he tornado struck a Negro school | pe miles west of here. Two pupils | were reported to have been killed. Eight or ten persons were injured. | CN Taal BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 22.| stroyed the village of Merrelton in Eastern Alabama today. All three of the dead were Negro | children, killed when the | twister wrecked the village school- | house. Give Package Party for “Daily” Tonight Entertainment and games will be featured at the package party to be \held under the auspices of Unit 4F, SC, of the Communist Party at the home of Lena Gordon, Apt. 4-C, 49) KE. 102d St., tonight. Proceeds will | be donated to the Daily Worker. —————$—$—$—_—$—$_ |Manufacturing Company ended in a victory for the left wing Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union after a struggle lasting but a few days. The strike was won despite the keenest and most stubborn opposi- tion by the reactionary I. L. G. W. U., which did not hesitate a moment PHILADELPHIA, March 22,— The strike against the Repp Dress PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 22.— “The death list at the Kinloch mine disaster may be very much larger than any company official or pub- lished account admits,” stated Ella Reeves (Mother) Bloor, national ex- ecutive board member and director of women’s work for the National Miners Union, on her return from the scene of the explosion today. “There is a report that 335, not 235, went down into the mine,” she said, to stoop to open scabbery in their tries at harming the strike. CLERICALS SAY AMAZATLANFALLS, Is UNCONFIRMED \calles Is Sending 6,000 to West Coast Port; Moves on Jiminez | Naco Battle Delayed Escobar Men Leaving; | Walkout Follows Firing | | Desert to Federals | XICO CITY, March 22 (UP). --Federal reinforcements for the protection of Mazatlan, important western Me city, are being rushed from Trapuato, and the gov- ernment is confident that city will withstand any rebel attack. There has been no major attack at Mazatlan, the presidencia an- nounced, although the rebels made a slight skirmish this morning. ‘The presidencia denied all rumors that the rebels had succeeded in entering and occupying the city. | Col. Joseph M. Tapia, chief of the presidential staff, said the rebel at- tack this morning had been defeated by the fer |Jaime Carrillo. There was no con- certed movement—leading many to |the belief that the full rebel army was not massed on the outskirts— but there were indications in the dis patches here that the rebels contem- | plated another scurry against the dcfense Carrillo’s men have put up. | Reports that Mazatlan had fallen to the rebels presumably originated in a rebel radio broadcasting station, it was reported here. Insurgent broadcasters yesterday stated that |Fuebla, which is less than 60 miles |from the capital, had capitulated to the rebels and that President Portes Gil was fleeing from Mexico City. These reports, which are being ra-| dioed nightly, are picked up at Cha- | pultepec Castle, the home of Presi- |dent Portes Gil. NOGALES, Mexico, March 22.— |Headquarters of the insurgent forces this morning announced that their |ermy... under _ Generals Manzo and Ramon _Iturbe stormed Mazatlan in Sinaloa. The report did not give any of the details of the attack. The insurgents also announced |that they had received wireless mes- sages from American vessels in Ma- zatlan harbor stating that the fed-| eral troops were willing to surrender | |the city to the insurgents. Mazatlan is the most important | west coast seaport of Mexico. Fed- eral troops there are under com- peas of General Jaime Carrillo, The confirmation of the seizure lof Mazatlan or the surrender of the| \federals was lacking tonight. | The attack on the border city of Naco which the insurgents have |been threatening for several days failed to take place, Naco is held| 1,200 under General Lucas Gon- les who is reported to be strongly intrenched. | Insurgent headquarters explained | the failure to attack Naco as due by (U.P.)—At least three persons were |to the stoppage of one of the threc| business elements before it will act killed by the tornado which de-|attacking columns at Santa Crug|on the Allied terms. where they halted to repair a rail- \road bridge. Another division of insurgents is reported to have taken Cananea in| (Continued on Page Two) \Trotskyite Organizers Leader; Admit Errors (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., March 22.— Pravda today publishes declarations of the Trotskyist organizers, Mar-| | tino, demning Trotsky’s writings in the bourgeois press. The former Trotskyites recognize | their errors and are requesting to be re-admitted to the Party. STARVING WORKER TAKES LIFE. CHICAGO, |to find a job for two months, Ada Lamonte, 19 year old girl office |worker, committed suicide by inhal- ling gas. She had not eaten for sev- s commended by General | TOBE $9,000,000,000 Francisco | had | 500,000,000 will go to cover Allied in USSR Condemn Ex- | Ivanovskaya and others con-| (By Mail).—Unable | SUBSCRIPT! SILK PLANTS TIED UP BY STRIKE IN WILKES BARRE,PA, 'Seck 8 Hr. Day, 44 Hrs., Recognition of Nat’l Textile Union Jail Youth Organizer of Unionist WILKES-BARRE, Pa., March —The entire plant of the V Barre Weaving Co., silk 1 turers, tied up by a st which began with 2 walkout in the night | shift, and spread rapidly till it in- cluded nearly all of the day workers. A picket demonstration of the has already called forth angry police | \interference and a p’ arrested. The workers are demand-| ing the eight-hour day 44-hour week | instead of the 12-hour day, wage increases and recognition of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union. When John Gregory, member of | the union and employed on the night | shift, was dismissed Wednesday be- i cause he was agitating for unionism, | |the entire night shift walked out| after him, They immediately organized them- selves, electing a strike committe nd establishing the other necessar: ke apparatus. The night wo. ers concentrated their attention o calling out the day workers for a joint fight to obtain more human ket leader working standards. | A meeting of night strikers and | day workers was held yesterday | morning after circulars calling the ieee on Egeee Five) GERMANPAYMENT ‘Schacht to Tell Allied Terms at Conference PARIS, France, March 22.—Nine | billion dollars cash is hte sum which Germany is to pay to her Allied creditors to liquidate her war debts, |aceording to one report here. The exact figure is being carefully con- cealed. Of the nine billion dollars, $6,- war debts to the United States. Pay- ments will extend over 50 years. Meeting between Dr. Hjalmar |Schacht, president of the Reichs- bank and the leading German indus- tr s and financiers is scheduled for today and tomorrow in Berlin. At that meeting Schacht will lay before them the terms of the Allied Reparations Conference. The move is seen as an attempt on the part of the social democratic government to secure the support of the big BR, SHOPMEN VOTE ON STRIKE '8,000 Railroad Workers Involved WASHINGTON, March 22 (UP). —A strike vote is being taken among the 8,000 shopmen of the Southern Railroad, it was learned here today. | | Builots have been sent out by the! Shopmen’s Committee and are grad- uaiy being returned to William H. | Baldock at his hotel here. They will |not be opened, he said, until March | 31. Requests for a wage increase, first made by the shopmen on May 10, 1928, were refused and subse- quent negotiations have failed to bring a settlement of the controver- sy. The Federal Board of Media- eral days, a note said. Mother Bloor had been in Par- nassus and at the mine mouth all day, going from house to house, try- ing to arrange relief for the fam- ilies of the victims, and getting punched into a pile of coal dust by a state trooper for her pains. She reports state troopers and coal and iron police swarming about the mine mouth by hundreds, cowing the be- reaved women and children with harsh words, shoving and pushing them and always keeping tight the MORE KILLED IN MINE BLAST THAN OFFICIALS SAY Mother Bl Bloor 7 Tells of Disaster; Many Negroes ‘Among Dead; Workers to 1 to Rescue company’s veil of secrecy as to the causes of the accident and exact number of deaths. Negroes Killed. “Some of the best Negro members of the National Miners Union were killed and their bodies found in a heap near the foot of the first 400- foot slope. It would have been easy to take them out during the day, but the police made rescue workers jleave them alone until nine g’clock tion failed to obtain an btain an agreement. at night, after dark, so that they could not be so well counted or rec- ognized. The real rescue work is being done by the miners themselves, Bloor stated. Some miner rescue crews came from as far as 85 miles. Some came from West Virginia. Some of the best rescue work and most heroic efforts are made by Negro miners. | in by mail, $6.00 per year. Fights Fascism noted French who was chair- ascist Cong Henri Barbusse, Commun man of the / which t closed in Berlin, Bar- busse is among the many famous revolutionary personalities in cluded in the film, “A J to Soviet Russia,” to be shown c the Waldorf Theatre tomorrou under the auspices. of the Friends of the U. R. TROOPS PATROL INDIAN CITIES | Machine Guns Ready to Mow Down Workers | DELHI, India, March 22—Pa- trols of police and troops on motor trucks today patrolled the streets through the wot ing class sections Jof this city with mounted machine guns, threatening the workers. Most of the workers remained their homes, fearing military action similar to that when troops mowed down textile and other work- ers during the week’s street fighting | in Bombay recently, Expectation of a general round-up of all workers in an effort to comb out and jail the qnost active among) es was expressed today. Sir J. Simon Troops Occupy Mills. Late yesterday afternoon troops began to occupy the Tata textile mills at Dadar, near Bombay. The occupation was completed during the night, Fourteen mills are now | filled with troops. Troops now stand | picket at the gates of all the mills, | though no workers are coming to work, The Anglo-Indian forces and their officers are garrisoned inside. The occupation by the military is | said to result from the fear of the owners and the government that the workers would seize the mills as the beginning of a general insurrection- (Continued on Page Five) NEW DRIVE OF POLISH TERROR . Workers, Peasants (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) LEMBERG, Poland, March 22.— Sixty-nine Ukrainian workers and peasants have been arrested in a new wave of white terror which has | broken out in Kovel and Volidimir. All those arrested are accused of membership in the Communist Party. On March 18 22 Ukrainian peas- | ants were sentenced to a total of At Lember, in the great political trial against the 22 Ukrainian peas- to resistance against the police. The princinle charges are levelled against the 63-year old peasant wo- man, Yanka Pavlik. The Polish authorities have sup- pressed the Ukrainian bourgeois woman’s organization Sojus Ukrai- nok, Engdahl Will Talk on Secialism in USSR at School Forum Sunday “Building Su 1 in the Soviet Union” will be .. abject of a talk by J, Louis Engdahl. recently re- turned from U. S. S. R., Workers School Forum, 8 p. m. to- morrow. Conversations with the peasantry, impressions of factories and the de-| velopment of collective agriculture | will be discussed by the speaker, author of the pamphlet “The Tenth Year,” in his talk. EXPEL SCHOOL SMOKERS. FALL RIVER, Mass., (By Mail). —Durfee high school pupils caught “The company had abundant no- (Continued on Page Three) smoking near the school will be ex- pelled, reads a new order issued by officials, ernment. Jail Many t Ukrainian | 200 years at hard labor on charges) lof belonging to the Communist Par- \ty. ants, they were accused of inciting | at the! States marines had AL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ‘ALL SOUTHERN KIANGS! JOINS WORKER REVOLT Communists Lead Mass Uprising Against Kuomin Chiang Nanking in Panic Over Peking Revolt ‘Communi ring states in j been forced | authoritie to h every prot m It is regarded as h able that the Canton authorities will be troops to suppre: their hands being f swiftly developing fi Hankow and N. | , ee PEKING, China, The Nanking governme today arrested more th indred persons accused of conspiring for the ove throw of the present gov- * * * Mongolia Revolts. SHANGHAI, Chin Reports received here st tives of Inner Mongolia have de- clared their independence the | Nanking government and are fra- e that na- of ,ternizing with troops on the Outer | Mongolian frontier. It is stated that they have invited the Outer Mongolians to defend them against the king forces should the Kuomintang government feel frec to dispatch troops against them, ee ee PEKIN ports of received from ankow ‘today indicat- ing thai fighting had broke rear the Hupeh border hetween the forces of ing and Hankow Approximately 80,000 anking troops were mobilized in this area, while the Hankow forces are esti- mated at about 70,000 men. Li Chi-sen Held. SHANGHAI, March 22.—With General Li Chi-sen, member of the Kw clique and head of the Kwangsi and Kwantung military forces, safely detained in Nanking, ment today inst the at- strong the Kuomintang gove felt a little securer tempts of the Yu member of the the Kuom e cong make cicar th | mediate personal « Awhwei Troops Advance. | SHANGHAI, March 2 |marizing the situat g Kai-shek, anking regime, prepared to use hods” against and Yeh-chi. | government today, C’ |president of t declared that he “revolutionary mi Generals Hu Tsung-} This is considered particularly fatuous in the light of Yeh-chi’s rout of Nanking forces at Chang- teh two days ago when he took 500 | prisoners and quantities of arms and ammunition. Yeh-chi is a Hankow general. ‘MARINE MURDERS | PLEASE SENATOR Wheeler Praises Action Again +. Nicaragua MANAG! aragua, March 22.—At a given by the American seQauua he Senator Burton K, Wheeler of Montana - saic that it “pleased him immensely” to learn “from per- sonal observation” that the United performed their seryices here in a ighly commend- jable manner.” He felt this, he said, fn spite of the f: that “he had al- ways been opposed to American armed intervention in eign countrie: Latin Americans, who have long been measuring the’ political attitude of this so-called (Continued on Page Five) 4 4 t Wheeler bB. K. {it hy