The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1929, Page 5

D: AILY Y WORKER, NEW YORK, United Mine Worker Thugs Assault President Watt of National Miners’ Union FISHWICK SAYS HE WON'T SELL SCAB MINE BONDS ExposeGraft in UMWA| Balloting in Illinois PEORIA, Ill, (By Mail).—The Vishwick machine, controlling Dis- trict 12 of the United Mine Workers of America, closed its state conven- tion here in an atmosphere of graft | charges, operation of scab mines by the Fishwick gang, and with the administration leaders applauding the news that John Wat+, Nationa: President of the National Miners Union had been siugged on the streets of Springfield by Fishwick- | Lewis gangsters. | Watt was injured, but will be able | to continue his activity as president cf the new, militant, rapidly grow-| Foss and Dr. E. Stagg Whitin. ing Nativnal Miners Union. | ce i er. Photo shows him being presented Reward ‘Coolidge for Exploiting Prison Labor Calvin Coolidge, ex-president of the United States, was voted a medal by the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor for what they termed his “constructive measur bor was exploited as much as ev .” Under his regime, prison la- with the metal by congressman Fishwick Runs Scab Mine. The niost clear cut picture of the situation in which the United Mine Workers of America has been brought in District 12 was furnished y the debate on the question of the investment of $150,000 of the funds | of the union in Illinois in a non-| union coal company in West Vir- For a long time there was considerable mystery shrouding this investment, but resolutions submit- ted by several locals to the sub-dis- ‘viet convention forced District Pres- ident Fishwick, Secretary Nesbit, «and others, to come ut into the «pen at last and to defend this in- MANHATTAN Notice! Party Members, Tickets for the M stration at the Br be had at the District Office. cial secretaries should secure at once, ready April 12. Leaflets for tion in shops will be ready machinery accordingly. wanted very § Cente Comrades are pageant rehearsal m., at the Worker for da, Communist Activities | First demon-|tion 8 nx Coliseum may Finan- | their quota through the section machinery The Ellias poster will be) 7 Sections and units should organize athe cngdaht Talks On i| “Soviet Russia discussed by J. L | ing edito th § bm. Friday, Apr at the 154 Watk be ane ngdahl, Center, Membership Meeting, A membership meetit will be held tonight, 28th St. * * Unit 2F, Section 6. The unit meets at 6:30 p, day, 56 Manhattan Ave. a a4 @ International Branch The branch meets to- m, » Section 6. Mond: April -estment, Square, Further information from Ay if . Square. . B eects : 22, at 8 p. m., 56 Manhattan . Ave, It was admitted, then, in 1926 at | P! Santo at the District OF Ge. Hoffer will talk on “Leninism.” he very time when the wage cut- Par ae | re ¢ e | ing campaign was begun, they took Volunteers For May Day Wanted. a A contest the Young me ; in-| ‘The District Office u | Workers (C League and 10,000 of the union funds and in-| | c3S, volunteers to help |the Women’s Council as winners of ested it in the bonds of the Great) tions for the May Day D. mon: inte banners from the House Com- “alley i i tion at the New York Coliseum. ,mittee at the last dance will be held ‘alley, Anthracite, Noeerey of | Comrades are asked to report at any Manhattan Ave., Saturday, ntgomery County, West irginia. time during the day. | ; | og Persecutes Miners. spring Dance, nat ; 4 5 rgh section of the This mine is owned by E. ©.) unit BF ay today, at 6/League will give a spring Maas arles, whose Union mines in| P- ™, 101 W Saturday, April 27, at 56 Manhattan ; eu © FEC ee Ave. Jest Virginia are running at a Section 1 Membership Meet. ‘age rate of only $2.80 a day. The} pyans for the 1 3, L. Confer- | | BR i nly defense that Fishwick could ence will be discussed at the mem- Sener | bership meeting of 1 at 6 Baum at Open Air Meet. | finally think of was that this was good investment and paid regular rterest of 7 per cent. Three delegates from the southern ‘ield opened the charges that bribes ranning from $600 to $1,000 had heen offered by Fishwick henchmen m., tomorrow, $ Beet May Day Pageant Rehearsal. Workers pa Day pageant r to report at floor, 6 p. m. D. nion Square, tomorrow. te ae. Harlem Unit Headquarters, 7 i i The Harlem Unit announces the n exchange for corruption of union |, oh° Celine will be held at new votes. Fishwick refused to allow address, 143 EH. 108rd St. today. he accused men to take the floor AE * a | Séci 1 Mémbership Meet. to clear him and terrorized the | Lhd bi ee weak-kneed speakers into admitting that they knew of no case in which he (Fish%ick) was personally in- volved. 7 ey thereby put through % motion to expunge the matter d at the mem bership meeting of the AGG morrow night, 6 o'clock, 93 Av ng in the May oe Negro District Ghutties Conference. ‘A conference to outline plans for gro Week will be held at Room| _ Louis A. Baum, secretary organ- izer of the Photographic Workers’ | Union, will be chief speaker the open air meeting to be held the Lower Bronx Section of the Party at 138th St. and St. Anne's Ave. to- night, THOUSAND MEET eveland Confer- © AT CITY Rall Cafeteria Workers Will) ‘vem the vecords. The charges had . 26 Union Square, Friday, April| icon made “by delegates Stockton, (24 vst accuan dtecarr and Se-| © Defy Injunctions | Hammond and Conjaro and stated | attend. (Continued on. Page Two) | definitely that the secretary of the | ans oe aitken To Report. Valier local had been offered $600 (eats Ww olfeon, of Unit 6F, is tevia workers’ strike to the utmost. ‘o swi - |asked to report ‘to M. Bass, o swing the vote. Delegate J. Vin. lanes a eee ntataivy rent had made the charge that $1,- | 000 bribe had been received by J.| Terry for swinging the vote of | Sub-district 10, This was denied on | the floor of the convention and the ~atter was not pressed. taken on failure to report. Anti-War Meet, | pices of the Party, Y. | the All-America Workers Center, 154 tomorrow. ville Celebrate Revolutionary Mayday at| [St 8 p.m. he Coliseum, AA TOOLS DOWN! Vvvvvwr La & & & 4 Against Imperialist War! Organize the Unorganized! Celebrate the International Labor Holiday at the Bronx Coliseum, East 177th St. WEDNESDAY, MAY FIRST (doors open at 4 p. m.) Splendid Program HALL JOHNSON NEGRO CHOIR will sing Negro Labor Songs GUILD DANCERS in a special MAY DAY BALLET Nationally Known Speakers Auspices of May Day .Labor Conference of Unions and . Fraternal Organizations; Communist Party, U. S. A., New York District. ADMISSION 50c ADMISSION 50c Action will be| Hall cheered loudly as Poyntz de- | (oes An anti-war meet under the aus- Ww. C. L., and|of New York City.” | Anti- Imperialist | League will be held at the Browns-/ Watkins | said. The crowd assembled around City | clared: “Mayor Walker has time to| ||receive every blackshirt, every Fas- | cisti, every damn fool aristocrat in) |Europe, but none for the workers | “We have rights as citizens,” she | “We called on the chief ex-| ecutive of the city of New York and | we were shown the door. That is an} outrageous slap in the face and we shall continue to protest.” What Strikers Ask. “The cafeteria and restaurant workers are striking for the 8-hour | day, a minimum wage scale rang- | ling from $22 for bus boys and dish- | washers, to $35 for countermen and eooks; sanitary conditions, whole- | |some food and union recognition. | The action of the police and of the |courts is in flagrant violation of this | |right. The city administration, of | which you are the head, is directly | responsible for this outrageous and brutal strikebreaking activity.” Two more cafeterias on Fifth| Ave: were added, yesterday to the | list of places struck. “The workers in cafeterias throughout the city are | eager to go on strike,” Sam Kram- berg, secretary of the union, said today. “Workers from 5 cafeterias | insisted on going out on strike to- day and yesterday, and it is my opinion that no injunction can hold them in the 12-hour cpen shop slav- ery, The workers are determined to go on with the fight, insisting on picketing despite the injunction.’ More Join Strike. Eleven more pickets were arrested | yesterday on the picket line and charged with “disorderly conduct.” | Trials on frame-up charges of those already arrested continue. I. L. D. Will Defend. The New York District of the) International Labor Defense, after a conference with the Strike Com- | mittee of the Hotel, Restaurant and | Cafeteria Workers’ Union, announced | yesterday that it had decided to take an active part in the defense of all strikers arrested for violating | the injunction obtained against the | union by the Wil-low Cafeterias, | Ine. The attorneys for the I. L. D. will fight all efforts to railroad to | jail workers who assert their right of peaceful picketing in defiance of this strikebreaking injunction. Margaret Sanger Will Talk Before U.C.W.W. | Margaret Sanger will lecture on “Birth Control” at the Daily Work- er benefit to be given by Council 25, United Council of Working Class | Women, at 205 Central Ave. to- | morrow night, THREAT OF FLOOD ~; TARU N, Y, STATE * Small Towns Remain Isolated ALBANY, April 17 (UP).—The threat of flocds from heavy snows which blocked highways in Northern and Central New Yrk, arose today as communities attempted to dig from drifts which have piled up in the past thirty-six hou While the larger ties escaped the full force of the storm, scores of smaller places w- reported isolated. At Oneonta private homes were opened to house motorists who had been blocked by mountainous drifts. In the Cherry Valley s two feet c” snow was repor' in places on the Berkshire Trail be- tween Pittsfield and Albany, drifts were as high as ten feet, bus opera- tors said. The U. S. Weather Bureau at | Albany reported no indication of a |letup in the snow and rain which pelted the storm area. B. D. Van Buren, director of the State Bureau of Plant Industry, re- ported the damage to fruit trees in) the upper Hudson Valley as a re-| sult of low temperatures and storms would amount to thousands of dol- ; engineers who have not received ea H lars. In one apple section of-Colum- bia County, he said, the loss would | be $50,000. Engdahl Lecture Lectures on USSR Tomorrow Night “Socialist Construction in the U. S. S. R.” will be discussed by Louis Engdahl, recently from the Soviet Union, and now acting editor of the Daily Worker, | before the Boro Park Workers Club, | 1873 43d St., m., tomorrow, |Want Addressers to Aid Textile Relief Volunteers are wanted to ad- dress envelopes and help mail out appeals in connection with the textile relief campaign of the Workers International Relief. Re- port at Room 604, 1 Union Square, any day this week. Brooklyn, at 8:30 p. 'Membership Meet of J. | Pionee returned | 2 Section 7 Tonight | A membership meeting of Section 7 of the Communist Party will be held at the Bath Beach Center, 48 | Bay 28th St., tonight. Demonstrate for World Labor Sol- Idarity May First at Coliseum. CoMRA bas EAT SCIENTIFIC VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 1604-6 Madison Ave, Between 107th & 108tb Sts. Meet your Friends at GREENBERG’S Bakery © Restaurant 939 E. 174th St., Cor. Hoe Ave. Right off 174th Street Subway Station, Bronx ee as CARPENTERS’ UNION LOCAL 2090 Meets every Thursday, 8 P. M., at Labor Temple, 243 East 84th St. Office and headquarters are in the Labor Temple. Hotel and Restaurant Workers Branch of the Amalgamated Food Workers 133 W. Sist St. Phone Circle 7336 BUSINESS MEETING) eld on the first Monday of the month at 8 p. m. industry—One Union—Join Cane Bigitt 450 Comsnem, Bacm Office Open from 9 a. m. to 6 p. Advertise your Union Meetings here, For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. 26-28 Union Sq., New York City | trines was made here today by Mrs.) | States. THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1929 CITY ENGINEERS Fraternal Organizations! IN gl VOTE -artly Yields; < to Split Men W the civil ser- in making ges that board of estimate and the vice commission acted illegally granting the salary iner of $3,120 to the city engineers, John |* H, Delaney, chairman of the board | of transportation commissioners, yesterday backed down a last minute compromise. This was done in an attempt to avert the genera! le strike of subway engineers which ‘The second hike of the season w rag edule ake pla efore be given by the Harlem Pr was scheduled to take place before be wiven by the, Harlem Pre the end of the month. Commissioner m. from 1492 Madison Ave., ne Delaney granted 120 men out of the 102n¢ thousand effected the $3,120 but! the bulk of the men re i no in-| crease and no promotion. Up to the the present moment none of the field {) engineers supervising the construc- tion work have received increas Vote on Strike. | Marcel E. Scherer, organizer of the Union of Technical Men, stated oe terday a strike was qu sible. He said: “Delaney gave i. sop intended to divide the men and |” disorganize the ranks.” “The action of the commissioners does not solve the problem. The H men are still discriminated against and deprived of their civil service | L: standing There is still a possibility. ¢ Li uke s Ha all that the strike will be called. The{day, 8 p. m., il 22 strike ballots which were distributed | ia™ SSN peal h dad yesterday will be taken up by the| rc s, of the A. meeting of the executive council | Thursday, April 18th. We will stand | fast until all of the field men, all |e Open z MANHATYVAN May Day Ballet Rehearsal. 1 for t Ballet celebra Will. be to 8 28 held. p.m. Union Center, orkers fourth floor. Youth Club Dance. The first spring dance of the Har m_ Prog Youth Club will, be held at 1492 Madison Ave., near 102nd Satur 30 p,m, Ae Meee Downtown Workers Ball. A May Flower Ball will be giver e Downtown Workers Club at E, Second St., May 4 eh aie: Harlem Youth Hike. 1 St Yonkers Forum, assistant. director will speak American Negro Labor Congress Protest Meet. To protest the killing ry Clarke his white scho a meeting will be held under of the American Negro young Work- m Inter- harles Alexander of the , John Owens, recently tuoi seats penihern Textile eside cial’ Club ita of the temporary men, and all of} the office men have rights restored to them. All of the! 120 will accept their pay checks i the future only under protest. That | means that they consider the check | only as part payment of the legal salary established for that grade.” | DLA. ATTACKS lot | $1, oy YOUNG PIONEERS .. In Jingoists Aid to Navy Bill WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17.— arning against the activities of the Young Pioneers in schools and “un-American” and atheistic doc- of | of | Alfred Brosseau, president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Calling for a more intensive cam-| | the | Pr League will | membership meeting of Section 1 of | the Communist Party at 6 p. m., 93} Avenue B., | all of theit/Class War Prisoners in Poland Are Aided by U.S. Relief Group A sum of $519 has been sent by Society for Helping Political isoners in Poland for the benefit class war victims of the Polish | government, making a total of about 800 oa by the organization since its incepti Plans are ihe formulated where- the group will develop its acti- ity through the leadership of the ternational Labor Defense, an ap- Pissed for | Pe 1 urging working class support the organization declares. \Section 1, C. P. Will Discuss TUEL Meet Plans for the Cleveland Congress the Trade Union Educational be discussed at the tomorrow. s the American Work- ing Class Back Mat the Yonkers | Forum, Warburton Ave., onkers, Sunday night. * * * Jersey I, L. D. Meet. 5 A mass meeting to organize Hudson | ( t |b Moore, of 2 Distriet of ort on and the Young Plone Nearing Lec Nearing will Happening in at Hunts Point Pal B vard, 8 p.m. Fr Scott What I Union? and Sc Road, Dancing. number ature war will at the 154 Fred Bietlen- kapp, 0 he rs’ Union, Harold. Williams, gro De- of the ist Party, zimme 1, of the Needle s Work Industrial Union Walter. Trumbull will speak. d Guns,” by the Workers oratory Theatre, will be pro- | duced * lDertpene sme ho Die Tectures areas The lecture by national secreta nor Defense, Branch of the T. L. iet Stuart Poyntz, . Internetional La+ the Brownsvill phoned till Wednesday, * April 2 * Renefit. rs’ Indus- yor’ ze party Culture Club rk of at 154 Watkins St., the nsville y night. * * # Council 20 U.C.W. A concert for the ben will be given by the Council Si - day, April 27, at 313 Hinsdale § Brooklyn * * ger at Council 2, U.C.AW.W. * Ss Margaret Sanger will “Birth Control” before tomorrow night, at Proceeds to the D lecture on the council 205 Central Ave. ily Worker. arahe L Marmor will Freedom ctures. tur c. tives the on “Mo- and Reaction in "before Council t hton Beach h Tel.: DRYdock 8880 FRED SPITZ, Ine. FLORIST NOW AT 31 SECOND AVENUE. (Bet. 1st & 2nd Sts.) Flowers for All Occasions 15% REDUCTION TO READERS OF THE DAILY WORKER D. has been post- | Five Comrade Frances Pilat MIDWIFE. 351 E. 77th St., New York, Tel. Rhinel 16 NAY: => Phone: DiCkens 1096 Blue Bird Studio “Photos of the better kind.” 1598 PITKIN AVE., Cor, Amboy St. N, “For Any Kind of Insurance” (CARL BRODSKY Telephone: Murray Hill 5 . East 42nd Street, New York Cooperators! Patronize * Hy wee CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 Bronx, N. Y. DR. J. MINDEL SURGECN DENTIST 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803—Phonr Algonquin 8183 Not connected with any other office Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTI 249 EAST 115th STR Please telephone for app: Telephone: Lehigh 60 Patronize No-Tip Barber Shops 26-28 UNION SQUARE (1 flight up) 2700 BRONX P/"K EAST (corner Allerton Ave.) Unity Co-operators Patronize SAM LESSER Ladies’ and Gents’ Tailor 1818 - 7th Ave. New York Between 110th and 111th Sts. Next to Unity Co-operative House Imperialism is at the same time the most prostitute and the ultimate form of the state power which nas- cent middle-class society had com- menced to elaborate as a means of |its own emancipation from feudal- ism, and which full-grown bourgeois society had finally transformed inte a means for the enslavement of labor \by capital.—Marx. | paign against all militant labor or- ganizations and especially the Young , to whom she referred as | “sinister influence,” Mrs. Bros- \ seau congratulated the D. A. R. for | its support of the big navy bill and the changes in the immigration laws | designed to prevent class-conscious | workers from entering the United) xe, the bourgeois age, y thix—that it antagonisms. Our own distinguished simplified ¢ is has More more, society is splitting up into two great hostile eamps, into two great and directly contra- ss posed classes: bourgeoisie and pro~ letariat—Marx. All Comrades Meet at | BRONSTEIN’S VEGETARIAN HEALTH RESTAURANT 558 Claremont Parkway, Bronx —MELROSE—, VEGETARIAN Dairy restaurant omrades ‘Will Always Find 1t Pleasant to Dine at Our Place. 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD., Bronx . Station) DRVALE 9149 MEET YOUR FRIENDS at Messinger’s Vegetarian and Dairy Restaurant 1763 Southern Blvd., ™ onx, N.Y Right off 174th St. Subway Station Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVEi UE Bet. 12th and 13th Sts. Strictly Vegetarian Food HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian RESTAURANT 1600 MADISON AVE. Phone: UNIversity 5865 ete For a Real Oriental Cooked Meal VISIT THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRESSIVE CENTER 101 WEST 28TH STREET (Corner 6th Ave.) RESTAURANT, CAFETERIA RECREATION ROOM Open trom 1@ a m te 12 p m Phone: Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A_ place with atmosphere where all radicals meet | 202 E.12th St. New York | “BUILD THE UNION” BAZAAR VVVVVVVVVVVVIV VIVA Bargains in Lamps Ornamental Iron Candy Raincoats Leather Goods Umbrellas Shirts Ties Stockings Jewelry Grocery Mens’ Clothing Books Millinery Caps Knit Goods Slippers White Goods D Vases Japanese Goods Leath’ Carpei; Russian Art Goods Cloaks ‘portwear resses Oriental Dried Fruit WILL BE SOLD AT PRICES FAR BELOW THEIR VALUE AT RETAIL Today - Tomorrow - Saturday - Sunday at the STAR CASINO, 107th Street & Park Ave. Dancing Daily & & & 4y 4y 4p Ay 4y hy ty hy hy hy hy hr Restaurant in Lower Hall Come Direct from Work and Enjoy A Good Supper at the Bazaar