The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 23, 1929, Page 2

Page Two One Mech HOSPITAL SAYS ANOTHER WILL PROBABLY DIE Flames Follow Blast; Sweep Whole Shop One 1 others ir he three >» seriously that gasolin errific Bro oklyn yesterday. nm occurred while cleaning grease floor of the a process gerous the clean: Company The in ex! ac- the explosion, t nto flames. Edwe echan cloth d to a rear window. and died he at- out, his body hang- lapsed tempted to get as over the window ledge. as Edward of 129th St irst Ave., Manhatt an. eriously injured were: Max 983 New York Ave. Louis skin, 1447 White Plains Road, Bronx, and a man named Willia’ of 306 Prospect Place, Brooklyn. At the lish Hospital, it was said Willi probably would die. All were t ne MAY IMPEACH GRAFTING JUDGES ; C ourt Fraud Okla. Charges BULLE’ IN. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Mare! 22 (U.P).—Chief Justice Charles W.| Mason, of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, impeached tonight by the state house of representatives s of bribery in connection vote on the impeachment against Justice AHOMA CITY, Okla., March ment of Chief Justice Mason, Justice Fletcher Justice J. W. Clark, of | ted of the Oklahoma house ives by its investigat- The charges are corruption in of- petence and wilful neg- These ne were mem- | ch in 1927 gave | ww ousted Governor Johnston | @ that the legislature-had no| to meet and impeach him,| judgment gave Johnston a rig. which ve the legislature from ace. W.LR. Conference in Phila. Monday Night! to Plan Miners’ Relief March 22 which has _ been ealled by the Philadelphia Commit-| tee of the Workers International Re- lief for Monday evening, March 25, at Grand Fraternity Hall, will take up primarily the question of quick) and effective relief for the~ miners | in the bituminous fields. This is a part of the nation-wide relief cam-| paign launched by the W. I. R. in conjunction with the National Min- ers’ Union. The question of broadening the workers’ children camps will also be considered at this conference. In- vitations have been sent out to af- filiated organizations and sympa- thetic workers’ organizations to send delegates to the conference. Rose Pastor Stokes, acting na- tional secretary of the W. I. R., will address the conference, MAY RAISE REDISCOUNT RATE. WASHINGTON, March 22 (UP). —Possibility of a raise in federal reserve rediscount rates was seen) tonight at the end of another skirmish in the federal reserve board’s attempt to curb the specu- lative fever of Wall St et. The skirmish tod s in the form of an extrac session of the reserve boar Secretary of Treasury Mellon and Governor George L. Harrison of the New 2 Reported Drowned When Trawler Sinks Nova Scotia Fishers ‘| HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Mar. 22 (U.P.).—The fishing schooner Maska, of Lunenburg, N. S., was sunk in collision with the French trawler, Rene Chuinard, on the fishing banks off the Nova Scotia , the trawler reported in a wireless message today. wrecked the | alleged acceptance of a} Mason was | ism in his use of the} a | | | seven crack army and are the u All of whicl DAILY WORKER, NEW y YORK They’ ll Be Fighting for Wall & Street in the Next War ‘ates k ing teams of the United S. h means that they'll be Ne: SHOE DRIVE NETS | MORE VICTORIES Workers Look to Parley | of Shop Delegates | (Continued from Page One) ened its attack against the stubborn Arthur Bender Co. whose 200 strik- | ers declare that only complete sur- rend will make them go back to} in the history of the New| hoe manufacturing industry } has such a brilliant whirwind or-| ganization campaign been esrricd on; with so great a numbei’ of vic-| tories despite heavy odds. | | To Report Achievements. The organizers also report that the battle line against the Albee Shoe Company is being held with fine ardor by its crew. This firm Jafter signing a union agreement! some time ago violated some sec- |tions of it and were faced with an immediate walkout by the workers. The conference of shop delegates which is to be one of the biggest jevents since the beginning of the drive over four weeks ago is to have | {on its agenda the reporting of the| achievements of the campaign and|. the forging of plans to extend the |cdmpaign into further unorganized jterritory. While several thousand of hitherto | "Never York | klahoma state supreme court, | ion -union shoe workers have become | Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. | {members of the union, there are | about 30,000 workers in the New) |York industry, including the envi- | {rons of the cit, | ‘Soviet Newsreel Will | Be Shown by Friends of USSR Tomorrow | The growth of industrialization in |the U. S. S. R., Soviet peasant jachievement in collective agricul- ture, pictures of Voroshilov, Red | Army head, and Lunarcharsky, com- jmissar of education—these are some of the shots in the ten-reel news film, “A Visit to Soviet Russia,” which be shown under the aus- pices of the Prov al Committee ” \of Friends of the U, S. S. R. at the Waldorf Theatre from 2 to 11 p. m. jtomorrow, Four performances will be given. The film is described by Henri | | Barbusse as the most comprehensive, |stupendous motion picture of social, | political and industrial conditions in |the Soviet Union since the October | Revolution. Need Extra Session of | Legislature for Fight | ALBANY, March 22.—It looks | 4 like an extra session of the legisla- ture. Governor Roosevelt vetoed | \the republican party majority’s ap-| | propriation bills, and told them just | what kind of a bill he wanted. They | amended his plan considerably, and he now says he will veto the latest bill, which calls for $55,000,000 ex-| penditures, An extra session will | |have to be called, it is said here, to| continue the quarrel. The fighting is about who shall hand out the con- tracts and other patronage. PORTO RICO GOVERNOR OUT WASHINGTON, March 22 (UP). --The resignation of Governor Horace M. Towner of Porto Rico |swill be accepted as soon as his suc- cessor can be selected, it was learned | unofficially today. At the White House there was no comment on the report. Towner was appointed by President Coolidge. ‘BVisit Russia Complete Tour and Return $375 Free Russian Visas — Stopover privileges — every tourist covered by bility insurance with- | { , Wrecking policies to be formulated, SOVIET Vahey H. Anmahian, Leading Communist in Boston Dist., Dies (Special to the Daily Worker) 22. BOSTON, March Haig Anmahian, prominent in the labor and Communist move-| | ment, died of acute neuphritis at 5:20 a. m. today in the Boston Hospital. He was taken serious- ly ill on his return from the Sixth Convention of the Commu- nist Party, to which he was a ‘Vahey delegate. Anmahian was a member the District ive Commit of the Communist Party, and was a leader of the Progressive Shoe Workers’ Union, He led the Cam- bridge rubber workers’ strike. CAP UNION SEEN AS WRECKAGE Discloses Ruin - | The degeneration of a national trade union organization was clear-) iy rairrored in the discussica of the | membership of the New York Cap- makers’ Union, held at an open forum meeting Thursday evening in| Unable to hold free discussion at | their own union meetings because of the fascist dictatorship, exercised by } the officialdom, the workers here | |showed in their talks that they ex. ! pect nothing but further union- the owners of ae union at the | Ta leading the held there, Henry Sazer, of the Left wing in that local, showed that during the two-year period when President Zaritsky was engaged in ventures in the insurance “game,” the union grew by thousands in mem- bership. He paralleled this with the two years since he returned to the union (still chasing Madame For- tune). Due to the expulsion and sell-out policies of the same Zarit- sky, the membership had dropped by thousands. Bimba Talks Speed-up, Bronx Forum Sunday,, a } Anthony Bimba, author of “The History of the American Working Class,” will speak on “Wage Cuts, Speed-up and the Sharpening of the Class. Struggle in the United States,” at the Bronx Workers carne 1330 Wilkins Ave., Bronx, | it 8 p. m. tomorrow. Questions and} discussion will follow the lecture. | 2£AALAAAAAAAA Your Chance to See RUSSEHA TOURS FROM $385.00 The Soviet government welcomes its friends and will put all facilities at your disposal to see everything— | go everywhere — form opinion of the greatest soc: seed expert: ment in the History of Mankind at first hand. World Tourists Inc. offer you a choice of tours which will ex- actly fit your desires and purse, Don’t dream of going to Russia— make it a reality! iy Write immediately to | | lu. JAIL TIN WINDOW CLEANER STRIKE: For Picketing Rabid Open-Shopper In what is seen by union leaders as a concerted effort on the part of | open-shop window cleaners to ter- rorize the striking members of Lo- cal 8, Window Cleaners Protective | even strikers were arrested yesterday as they were picketing the prem: Cleaning Company, a notorious open-shop plant. The seven men who were taken into custedy were: Peter Darck, for- mer secretary of the union; George Homleck, Michael ichael Horan, John Stan- Goulart, Gerega, ley and Nicholas Zmurko. Following their arrest the workers were Court where they Harry were arraigned ‘Open Forum Meeting’ before Magistrate Flood on charges of “disorderly conduct” for cting traffic.” were dismissed and two, and Five of them Peter Darck and Harry Homleck were given sus- | pended sentences. Harry Feinstein, secretary of the \striking union, yesterday _ said, | We are in this fight to stay and’ Jin the bus’ Numerous arrests will not leans and every man in it is de- termined to fight until we secure lour rightful demands.” ess. ——_———$$$$__—— '\“Daily” Will Print Letters from USSR Workers, Peasants Beginning in Monday’s Worker Correspondence section, the Daily Worker will commence publica- tion of the first of a remarkable series of letters from worker and peasant correspondents in the Soviet Union. These workers and peasants of the Soviet Union are eager to correspond with American workers and farmers, and have it their letters to the Daily Worker, with the request that an appeal be made to Amer- ican workers to write to them. The first letter published will oe from a farmer of the Ukrain- ian Soviet Republic. He will con- trast the miserable conditions of the peasants under the czar when millions were squandered on graft and on the priests, with the great improvement in conditions brought about by the peasants themselves since the Revolution, under a, workers’ and peasants’ government. your eyes are in good con+ dition is a pleasure, If, however, they are defective or strained, it 1s drudgery. A pair of rest glasses will refieve the strain and | keep good eyes well, OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 4. HM. TOO P.M s of the Commercial Window 107 W. 41st St., taken to the Jefferson Market oust SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 19: mTiZEN PAPERS OF MILITANT | ARE REVOKED Topolschanyi ; Loses His| | Citizenship and Home | 129 te Wt erialist | HARMONY, Pa, March John Topolosanzi has just had his citizenshiy papers revoked by Jud R. M. Gibson of the United States Court, after the case had gone through trials in other courts for the last six years. | The reason given for revocat: ion is that Topolosa after coming to} this country from Hungary and tak- | ing out papers of naturaliz tion | “has changed his views, has hecome | a Communist and is no longer a loyal supporter of the United States government.” | The International Labor Defense and the American Civil Liberties Buyeau Lave both defended the case. Evicted, Too. | At the moment this attack on To- |polostuzi was being made by the ‘court the Westmoreland Coal Com- pany was evicting the victim from his house and the barber shop in which he works, because they knew War Chief Toured U. Ss. > As part of the post-war publicity for French imperialism Foch, who died Wednesday, toured this country in 1921 and the eral Perching, Wall Street ets. Photo shows Foch favorite militarist, parading thru 5” GLAIM HAVE MAZATLAN “REBEL GAFE UNION T0 HOLD MEETING he was assisting to the utmost in Calles Sending 6,000 to' To Cap Intensive Drive power the new National Miners nion, which is organizing miners in this vicinity, The company has prevented Topolosanzi from renting another house in this vicinity. \British Liberals Win | By-election; Hope to | Be Balance of Power 23.— LONDON, England, March Liberal party leaders are jubilant |t over their success in a by-election in the Eddisbury division of the Cheshire district yesterday where the conservatives lost a seat. “Eddisbury is the finger of doom for the government,” Lloyd George hastened to say in a characteris- tic announcement. The election sent the liberals’ stock to the highest figure it has reached in the stock exchange’s gamble on election results, It is the hope of the liberals that they will be able to hold the balance of power in the parliament and thus dictate policy to the other two bourgeois parties. Floyd George {to drive out the last open-shopper | Masses for Murder of : Sacco; Declines Post! WASHINGTON, March 22.—State |department officials frankly ad- | mitted today that ex-Governor Ful- ler of Massachusetts could not be | sent to Paris as ambassador of the | U. S. to succeed Herrick, “because |of the Sacco-Vanzetti case.” They remembered when the workers of | Paris stormed the U. S. embassy on the date of the electrocution of the two innocent workers. Fuller appointed the fake commis- sion of college professors and legal reactionaries to “investigate the case,” and when they suppressed vital evidence of an alibi for Sacco, and advised the world that it was only a couple of radical foreign- {born workers who could be safely | killed, Fuller gladly let the execu- |tion go on. | It is said here that Fuller will be rewarded by a diplomatic post | somewhere else, where the U. S. | comfortable. | | Sonora, overnment thinks he will be more | West Coast Port (Continued from Page Ons) of Propaganda All energies of the General Or- about 40 miles from here. | ganization Drive Committee of the | nic Killed; Three Injured, When Forced to Clean Garage with Gasoline 1. Y. LEGISLATURE SMOTHERS BILL ‘ON INJUNCTIONS Trades Labor Council Hears It Is Lost The meeting last night of the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York listened solemn- ly to the reading of a letter from |President William Green of the American Federation of Labor in- forming them that the National Textile Workers’ Union was not af- filiated with the American Federa- tion of Labor, and shouldn’t be sup- ported. The delegates didn’t seem |to be much surprised at this dis- covery, and passed to other business, |particularly the cry for finances issued by the A. F. of L, to build a monument to Gompers. The big event was a speech by President Sullivan of the New York Federation of Labor, on the | woes of a lobbyi The president, secretary, vice president and attor- ney of the state federation has been up to Albany trying to find a friend here on whom to apply the tradi- \ioual A. F. L. policy of reward your friends and punish your enemies. They interviewed the speaker of the |legislature, and majority and minor- ity leaders in both houses, trying to get the injunction bill passed. President Sullivan made it very American interests are alarmed at|Cafeteria Workers’ Union are being| plain that it was not a bill against the seizure of the town where the| Greene Cananea Copper Company has holdings. a ee MEXICO CITY, March 22.—The federal government today made it known that its diversion of troops 0 “the relief of Mazatlan” is part br the general strategy of crushing the clerical-landholder outbreak. General Calles, with 13,000 men, is reported to be pushing north from Torreon on the Jiminez line, while the insurgents are reported to be evacuating that town. * * * MEXICO CITY, March 22.—Six of the highest officers of the Mex- ican fleet are being held in strict captivity here preliminary to court | martial. They will be asked to ex- | plain to the military court’ their ac- | tion in recognizing the insurgent, Ceneral Aguirre. Commodore Hermandez claims | that he was forced to recognize | Augirre in order to get away with | the, fleet, which he later took to Tampico. * JUAREZ, M —General behalf of J. G, Escobar, commander- * * 0, March 22 (UP). Marcelino Murrieta, on hten us. Our union is Fuller Fears French a chief of the revolutionary army, | oday denied reports that the rebel | (ar my, is evacuating Jiminez. “If any of General Escobar’s men are leaving Jiminez, they are going in the direction of the enemy,” Gen- cral Murrieta said. vere oie Murriecta’s stitement is regarded as a literal truth, large numbers of the insurgent forces having turned southward to give themselves up to the advancing federals. Many have also deserted and taken to the hills. Others have returned to their homes. directed toward making a success of the mass meeting called for next Wednesday at 8:30 o’clock in the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irv- ing Place. “From the response of the res-| taurant workers to the call of the union, guaged by the applications for membership since the beginning of this week when the drive began, it is seen that the time has come for the cafeteria workers to go out and fight for the improvement of their conditions,” said Organizer | | Michael Obermeier, heading the or- | ganization campaign. That the workers are ready for the fight can be seen in the atti- tude of one worker who brought to the union headquarters a letter re- ceived by his boss, the manager of a chain cafeteria. The letter was sent by his superiors, and ordered the immediate discharge of those tion of unionism. this threat. This attitude most of the workers hold. 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