The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1930, Page 2

MINER PICKETS I BATTLE TROOPERS IN MOUNDSVILLE : Lewis’ Brother Given Price of His Treason ‘ilipino J uleniae setray Independence Movement in Manila MANILA, Philippines, Feb, 28.— Philippine Inde ependente Confer- ence, which is run by the same pet- ourgeois politicians who are co- operating with U. S. imperialism in Washington, opened yesterday with 3,000 delegates. Among the delegates were many who are willing to fight for inde- The pendence, but the leaders of the MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Feb. 23. |conference favor |co-operation jwith ~—A clash between seve ired |Quezon, Roxas, Osmena and other large land-owning have betrayed and movement. npt-! One delegate who tried to point ikers, out the fake nature of the leadership | politicians who the independence min- and a Jickets, consisting of s ers, their wives and children, tontingent of state troopers local police when the latter wd to arrest a group of s' ig veatured the picket demonstration be- | was shouted down by the leaders. He | fore the First Street Mine of the | demanded that the chairman be | Glendale Gas Coal Co. riday. | elected by the delegates instead of Their attempt at wholesale ar by a small slique of petty-bourgeois | vas blocked by the pickets, and the | politicians as was done. solice and troopers succeeded in tak- ng away only rikers. “ee MANDO JAIL ‘ile by the company agents as Ly trikebreakers Saturday, explained | veing ited tg iteale dhe Seika tiga hey were shipped out. fa Ear! he day 13 pickets from | f+ a+-pas ‘ ihe P. 0;, ia across the Misti eat Depor ted, siver ed from the county | Worker jail at St. « ville. They had been pe ia arrested on the early morning picket BULLETIN. A radiogram to New York newspapers from Captain Ziegen- bein of the Bremen admits that Zinich was “kept under guard” until the ship left the dock, but alleged that he ts now released and pleced in the third class. Steve Zinich, handcuffed, and in; the damp brig at the bottom of the} lies. The statement denounced the | /uxurious ocean liner, Bremen, was local authorities and state police as | ©xiled from the country yesterday, | strikebreakers in the hire of the| While Federal authorities and the (Continued on Page| Three) ship’s officers refused to permit any) Sil See of the worker’s friends to bid him fa vell. Pick: Delegates to S Repeientatives’ of ate (interne .T.U. U.L. Convention tional Labor Defense and friends of Zinich were given “permission” to epee, b he ship, Pier 4 (Continued from Page One) | Se"Soen St, Breaklyn, but the work: for the huge demonstrations against | ers who came to see Zinich off were unemployment March 6. sent from officer to officer. The immediate threat of war It is unknown whether he will be against the Soviet Union, with the | permitted to leave the dark, un- priests and rabbis acting as the bell- | |healthy hole during the trip even wethers of imperialism, places be- | ;though passage was paid for his} fore the convention the task of or- | trip by the International Labor De-| ight in defense of the | fense. ine Wednesday when they engaged n a pitched battle with strikebreak- 2rs, local police and troopers. In a statement issued by Joe Tash, read of the youth department of he National Miners Union, and one of the leaders of the strike here, | humors spread by company stool- pigeans that the miners were re- turning to work were branded as Union in the shops and| And so Zinich was sent out of | “ unemployed, a fight/|the country, shackled, alone, in the! tably be directed | dark brig of the ship, while his | f L. and “social-; friends were refused to even say | “good bye. He is going to the So- viet Union, exiled from the U.S.A. because of his working class ac- L. Now in New Headquarters. | tivities. He was editor of Radnik, Metropolitan Area Trade | Jugo-Slav workers’ daily. Mass pro- st” trade union officials who play a leading role in all anti-Soviet at- | | The Unity League is now completely |test of the working class, fostered | new headquar- | by the LL.D. saved Zinich from be- | . This building, | ing sent to his death in Jugo-Slavia, | iL., houses | after a long, hard fight for his right trial groups of | to remain in the country. moved over into its ters, 13 West 17th § in addition to the T. all unions and indus’ the T.U.U.L. with the exception of | a E the needle, shoe and food unions,| WORKERS’ SCHOOL ADVISORY All industrial groups that have not | COUNCIL MEETS THURSDAY. yet moved to the new building must |_ A specia! meeting of the Advisory do so onee, the T.U.U.L, an- |Council of the Workers ’School will nounces, |be held on Thursday, February 27, | Five hundred dollars is needed |at 8: lop m., at the Workers’ Cen- immediately to build offices and |ter, 26 Union Square, to hear a gen- | meeting rooms. All trade unions, eral report for the school year, | dustrial groups, as well as individ- 1929-30. In addition, a number of ual workers, are dived to raise funds |important items will come up for | at once and send them to 13 West | discussion. This will actually be| 17th St. because the work of estab- |the first meeting of the council in tae a real revolutionary center |the history of the school. being seriously h ed by lack | is being seriously hampered lac! ‘Labor oni Fraternal | of the necessary funds. at HPALK to your fellow worker in Organizations your shop about the Daily | txposition International Revolution- Worker. Sell him a copy ‘every | o¢ workers Eoemento Group, 28 till Feb. 26. ee | LL.D. Bazaar. 26 to March 2, at New Star| Collect articles, funds, adds volunteer at room 4 and all branches. * ® P 5th floor, day for a week. Then ask him to e become a regular subscriber. Union Sq ra. no. 1 tickets, 799 Broadwa: Workers Laboratory Theatre. Tonight, & p, m, at Center, casting for “Paris Commune.” ibe tener W. 1. R. CLOTHING STORE 542 NROOK AVENUR Telephone Ludlow 3098 Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing High Class Work Done Goods Called for and Delivered All profits go towards strikers and their families. SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORKERS: Womens Council No. 17. ! Hecture on International Womens | ‘Tuesday, 8.30 p. m., 227 ton sch Ave. Admission free, Communist heGilins Painters T.U.U.1, Fraction. Tonight, 6 p.m. at Center. _ * eee eee 208 Enst 14th St., apartment 10, room and honrd—two or three comrades $10.00 n week. Unit Meetings Tonight. Init B, Section 4: 8 p, m.247 F. 72nd St. ‘Unit 7F, Section 2: Wom- | the rule for the whole working class. | | the rapidly decreasing 'sation from the government and in- | gle, Mass Picket Tomorrow | of the underworld.” warmer 1Us se is Blue Laws to Prevent Workers’ Teams from Playing! _ BORAH AIDS U.S. IMPERIALIST WAR _ DRIVE ON SOVIET Sends Cable i in ‘Protest’ Against Persecutions WORCESTER, Ma Feb. 2: Norwood Yritys today, using the blue laws to prevent the worker playing. While other permitted to be- Se Poli Kaytee game for cancelled teams from tea are play, cause the Norwood game was spon- Labor Svorts the police prevented the game from going on. The blue laws are now also being used abainst workers’ organizations. Walter Burck and sored by the Union, (Continued from Page One) ialist Hoover administration in such matters, only in order to carry out iwhat imperialism wants, supposed- lly thinks he can force the Soviet |four other workers were arrested. | Government to abolish the real re- ligious freedom it sures (the freedom to be against religion as well as for it) with the bait of dip- lomatic recognition. | The Soviet Government will, of course, not abolish the freedom of religion and anti-religion in change for Borah’s “unofficial” bait | of recognition. It knows very well Ss r 7 y that it is not the religious puppets | served i ai Strike Activity of Wall Street who would otherwise “favor” recognition and “influence” their paymasters and _ capitalist John Porter, in p tivity in the New strike for over 18 months, will be overlords to recognize the Soviet Government. The millions of workers of Amer-|released from Governor's Island, ica, many walking the streets |Where he is at present on Wednesday vainly hunting for non- tent | morning, February ‘26, at 9 a. m. jobs, with families starving and be- | He will arrive at the Battery Park ing evicted for failure to pay rent |Governor’s Island ferry, at 8.30 a. m. to landlords, and not the fat-bellied| The Young Communist League and sleek “religious leaders,” are|and the Communist Party of New the foree demanding recognition of |York are arranging a welcome the Soviet Government, both be-|demonstration for John Porter. cause this would somewhat diminish | Appeals have been sent out to all unemployment and because the So-| youth and adult organizations to GREET PORTER son for his ac- Bedford textile \viet Union is the only government | participate at this particular time, ruled by the workers, where the un-|the demonstration is of especially employment problem is being solved | great importance in view of the with the advance of socialist indus-| preparations for attack against the try and unemployment insurance is | Soviet Union. A statement issued by the Young In the Soviet Union, not only do! | Communist League: € number of} “The capitalist courts sent Porter unemployed receive money compen-|to prison for his militancy, in strug- for the working class. When dustry, but they pay no rent dur-| still under 16 he joined the army, ing the time they are unemployed, /and when he found that it was used besides free medical attention and against the workers, he left. Later various other benefits. |on he struck together with thousands Borah K Reply S ti of other workers in New Bedford. pwn. sencpe Peres. verre He proved to be one of the most AY Bosaieiiy i bab 23. Tray 2 militant young workers in the strug- ae ‘Gohined of F oan Narre gle, was arrested many times on the | oreign airs | o- a H » that etithe ‘Sovist corernmeng reser eee a a ever ee Bick Borahie paneaciet the dey he was once in the army and threat- s fees “ im in” if he k | Hone” of 14 nabbla at Mibzk, Lit jened to “put him in” if he kept up * off is said to have stated that three |S Sctivities. In spite of this threat off is said to have stated that three | porter kept on fighting in the strike been elected price to the protest {for the workers and against the bosses. He was arrested, turned and that the others will not be ex cuted. Borah did not make the text of Litvinoff’s message public, and in- serted his own assurance in plies | of Litvinoff’s as to the disposal of | | the cases, saying, “I feel reasonably | certain that those not released are | not in any danger of execution.” over to the military authorities and sentenced to prison for two years. |A few months before his arrest Por- ter joined the Young Communist League in which he was the leader |of the working youth. “John Por will arrive at Bat- tery Park at § a. m, on Wednes- |day, February 26. The Young Com munist League of New York appeals to the working youth to demonstrate the Garment Section |zecting John Porter. The John Por- ter demonstration, an answer to preparations for war against the Soviet Union, an answer to the forces of black reaction, an answer in (Continued from Page One) same long hours and increased ex- eee eae ae Hee to attack as manifested by the ap- Rave tile asite: enéuniess thé: homeée’ [Dees OF Manning of Lutheran | associations, the Whalen Cossack Church, a eae Jewish Ltd le IC daly {Sic llet thes toe weer fee MET AL WORKERS FIGHT SPEEDUP Women workers especially must | join the demonstration, the call con- | tinues. “Today, two of our women | food workers are held in prison un- der $6,000 bail each because they dared to protest against the police | | brutality dealt out to striking work- | District Convention in} ers at the Monroe and Benrod Cafe- = terias. These girls, Nina Speaker | N. Y. March 1 | and Rose Kaplan, write from their! cells of vicious beatings given them| The New York District of the in the name of capitalist ‘law and|Metal Workers’ Industrial League order.’ ” of the Trade Union Unity League “Demonstrate against police and |holds its convention March 1 in con- guerilla terrorism,” the call con-| junction with the T.U.U.L, district cludes. “Form workers’ defense | convention called for the same date. cor Join the NTWIU demonstra-| Important information on the rapid organization of the Metal Workers’ League was furnished the T.U.U.L. National Executive Board at its last meeting by A. Overgaard, national secretary of the M. W. I. L. Overgaard painted a word picture tion Tuesday as part of the fight | for the 40-hour week, better condi- | tions, and the building up of pow- | industrial unionism.” erful hipple St bh 136,151 St. lof extraordinary rationalization 6.30 Dp. m. 6 Whipple ‘st... funda-| speed up and substitution of lower mentale, Unit A, Section 4:'8 p. m,|paid women, young and Negro Lenox Ave. 386 Lenox Ave. workers for the old skilled hands. 5 BIG DAYS Feb. 26, 27, 28 Mar. 1, 2 New Star Casino 107th St. and Park Avenue International Labor ‘Tickets on New York District Office, 799 Brond: a nd at For the Defense of All Class War Prisoners I. L. D. Annual BAZAAR Wednesday Dancing! Restaurant! Music! Exhibitions! Concerts! International Labor Defense Branches JOIN AND SUPPORT THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE The new machinery constantly ap- pearing also drives many workers jfrom their jobs. He told how the Central Alloy Co. in Youngstown has started using a machine for mov- ling scrap tat immediately elimi- nated 25 common laborers, In Bir- mingham and Charleston the work- ‘ers are mostly Negroes. In the North one-third of the workers are Negroes. Criticisms made by Overgaard were, not enough attention to the basic industry, steel, as in Chicago, Pittsburgh, etc. There is also, as | in Cleveland, a tendency to under- estimate the necessity of working | inside the A.F.L., particularly the | Machinists’ Union. Revolt is grow- ing in the machinists. A strong sec- | tion of the league membership is | from rank and filers who rebelled | when progressives were expelled from the Machinists’ Union. Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday found, showing an underestimation of the results to be expected from attentive organization work, and consequently carelessness in getting affiliate progressive groups and other organized bodies to the T.U. U. L, Wherever the membership has had a chance in these bodies, as ‘in the jewelers, to decide, they have been overwhelmingly in favor of way, Room 422 THURS, FEB, 26 The report criticized certain right- | wing tendencies which have been | the work done, and hesitancy to | LAUNDRY TOILERS LOOK TOT. U,U.L. FOR LEADERSHIP Illness, Speedup; Wage Cuts, Every Day A good example of what it really means to be organized and left to the mercy of the bosses > the work- ers in the laundries. Here is the best example of highway robbery hy the laundry bosses who make big | profits and who live in luxury on the | sweat and labor of their Negro and | white slaves. In these laundries young and | grown up women (who are the ab- solute majority‘ are forced to work 54 hours a week, at a miserable wage of $12 to $14 a week. Neither the bosses nor the city sanitary in- spectors (whom you seldom see in these laundries) bother about the health and safety of the workers. Wet floors, no sunshine, bad odors dampness and when an electric ad- justment was broken in the Mott Haven Laundry last year, it has not yet been replaced. The results of these conditions are pale faces, faint- ing spells, fast undermining of the health, a shorter road to the come tery. i It is not for nothing that the | bosses do not want to keep their workers too long on the jobs. The | hire and fire system is hanging like a sharp sword over the heads of these workers, and the bosses. are using the lay-off as a weavon to speed up more and more. The boss- es do not bother too much about safety devices to protect the work-, ers from accidents. The Cleaning and Laundry Work- | ers Industrial Union fights for the | se ni | a ja i | S| | | CAMEO). WORKER, NuUW YORK, MONDAY, ESO 24, 1950 ections of Atlanta and Salen.” “While in Atlanta the for a ist Party held defense comr neetings among Negro “In Charlotte a few weeks jwhen a whispering campaign |being conducted to work up a local | lynching, the Communist Party held n open-air meeting in the working-class section, and several in the Negro and border-line secti and the International Labor Defw: Committee break up any mob that might have | made prepa ttempted to take a Negro ¥ out to lynch him from the Charlotte | jail. “The lynching and mobbing of N: Winston gro and white K.K.K staged a parade under police escort, they cz short plan efter the members of the ations to workers must | stopped by organized committees Negro and white worl ready econd|a prospective lynching of a un | orga T Union Uni extils The League, National union and unemployed councils mn tefer ago, iployed ¢ continue organizing their committees,” was Among the speakers at the me ite|ing tonight will be George New York District Organizer, U.U.L., and Sam Nisi ganizer of the International Lal: Defense, and others. Volunteer and unemployed wu ers are requested to call 2 Lenox Ave, at 10 a. m., tod |help distribute unemployment ti-lynching meeting Jeaflets. all times to rush to any place where egro worker is a state Worker: n, District br- | be | of | at © AUTO WORKERS RESIST POLICE AT MEETING 1,000 Hear ry Communis Speakers ion | ity nse HAMTRAMCK, Mich., Feb. 23.— At an open air election campaign meeting on Thursday, Feb. 20 at- tended by over 1,000 people at which Comrade George Kristalsky spoke, the police were as usual on hand, but feared to arrest the speaker on account of the mass support already bor vk- “AMUSEMENTS > OPENING TONIGHT AT 8 SHARP The APPLE CART|C Bernard Shaw’ MARTIN BECK « s Political Extravaganza |. Mats. 30, Mats. ‘hurs. and Sat. at rs. and Sat Eves. ves. itd ST. & B'WAY First ‘Time at PF Their First 'TALIKING “ACROSS THE WORLD” ‘Eshel Barrimore Theatre Mr. and Mrs. MARTIN JOHNSON EVA Le GALLI GULL » BOURRAT” Street, West of Broadwa 8:50. Mats. Wed. & Sat. ‘Death Takes a Holid A comedy about fife. with PHILIP MERIVALE have to follow the good example of | those laundry workers who have | already elected shop committees and | joined the Cleaning and Laundry} Workers Industrial Union. The unorganized laundry workers | have to respond to the call of the| will be held Saturday, March 1-1, at Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th St. This convention will discuss all the grievances of the workers in the} N. Y. area, and will map out plans | to fight more intensively the cause | of the workers in the shops and on the jobs. It is the duty of these un- | organized laundry workers to get together and elect delegates to this convention. * \Meet Tonight to Fight SouthernLynchingPlan (Continued from Page One) Harper, Negro worker, member of ; |the Southern District Committee of the Internatiozal Labor Defense and Trade Union Unity League Organ- izer in the South since December 12. He goes on trial Feb, 26 with others arrested at a Washington unemploy- ment demonstration. Harper stated to the Daily Worker: “The lynching of Negro workers is a passtime and pleasure of the Southern bosses and a means of ter- rorizing the workers. While 4,330 lynchings have been recorded during \the past thirty years, the Interna- tional Labor Defense will expose hundreds of unrecorded lynchings which have taken place, many of them under the guise of “unidenti- fied Negro found dead.” The Inter- national Labor Defence Anti-Lynch- ing Committee has already uncover- ed two such cases within the pa: few months, one the Willie MeDan- iels case near Charlotte committed by Mel Grier and a gang of wealthy planters, and that of Laura Wood, mother of four sons, “The Negro workers in large cities and towns like Winston Salem, N, C., Chattanooga, New Orleans, At- lanta, etc., are becoming too mili- tant for any open lynching and even in Charlotte, N. C., I doubt if a mob would visit the Brooklyn section to lynch Negro or white union organ- izers, I am sure they would not make such an attempt in the working class REBOUND Arthur Hopkins presents comedy by Donald Ogden $ New York Trade Union Unity} with HOPE WILLIAMS sctri ‘ hich | REYMOUTH Theatre, 45 St. W. of Brs League district convention, which} ives 8:50. Mats. Thurs. & Sat. following demands: 2 | a 4: Binow Bday Weeks JOLSONS? NS ihn | NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES 2. Standard minimum wage scale. | 6 ” |! Cooperators! Patronize A Hata cag Ine aaa aot tee He: COME of Luxembourg “Toews “Big 2” ] men and women, Negro and white} win, nov eae, LEHAR | S E R workers. | 4, Against the speed-up. | CHEMIST 5. Elimination of ahanaisa) in- PITKIN PARADISE | 657 Allerton Avenue juries to our health. cM E T EOR” Pi Grand Concourse 1/1 Estabrook 3215 Bronx, N. Y. 6. No discharge, no lay-offs, | ap Ro aati — ; s | y 3 ere ae ee ne ebeee ecuds i | GUILD. 82. evs. 8:50 ON BOTH SCREENS he unorganiz laundry workers | 3 MtecThur.@Sat.2:40 NORMA Comrades Meet at SHEARER ALL TALKING Staze Shows—Both Theatres fro: APITOL THEATRE, BROADWA wart 2:40 Starting Today! TREMENDOUS DOUBLE-FEATURE PROGRAM! “PRISONERS of SOCIETY” (CAUGHT powerful dr A 2 BERLIN UNDERWORLD) mitarian treatment Is. —and on the same program— AMAZING! —as real as ACTUA AUTHENTIC! war itself! “FIGHTING for the FATHERLAND” “Contains th ‘ALL @ Acme Theatre ‘* Continuoas Verformances Daily 9 A, M, to Midnight. 9A. M. to 5 PL M 25e of horror you will find in HE WESTERN FRO} ¥. World. East 14th St. Between Broadway and 4th Ave. ULE —N. ON sau ARE Prices: from Sat. and Sun. 35¢ all day After 5 P.M. 35¢ EAST SIDE THEATRES ND. AVEN YU PLAYH © U$ 133 SECOND AVEN UE, CORNER EIGHTH STREET Photographed We Meet at the— DOUBLE-FEATURE PROGRAM! Today, Tomorrow and Wednesday—February 24, 25 and 26 PICCADILLY FOREST PEOPLE of SIBERIA Week Day Prices: 12 to 6 p.m. 2% ARNOLD BENNE night life with and GILDA GRAY. by the Soviet Expedition es evenings 35e COOPERATIVE CAFETERIA 26-28 UNION SQUARE 155TH STREET and EIGHTH Admission 50c in advance 75¢e at the door. READ and SUPPORT affiliation with the T.U.U.L., and good resulis: ha To reach hall—6th or 9th Ave, “L” to 155th St. DAILY WORKER COSTUME BALL ROCKLAND PALACE AVENUE Fresh Vegetables Our Specialty Saturday Eve. March i5th RED DANCERS Other Entertainment PRIZES for class struggle group costumes VERNON ANDRADE ORCHESTRA THE DAILY WORKER IT FIGHTS FOR YOU! 4 IVIC REPERTORY [4th St h Ave. eves, $:30. Mats, Thur., Sat. 2:30 B0c, $1. $1.50 | . Director “THEIR OWN DESIRE” vi"S play of London’: NN AY WON shown to the Communist Party pro- gram in this campaign. They proceeded to stop the speak- | er that followed him, but were re- sisted by the workers who formed (Continued on Page Three) “For All Kind of Insurance” ARL BRODSKY ‘Telephone: Murray Hill 3550 Kast 42nd Street, New York WORKERS’ CENTER BARBER SHOP Moved to 30 Union Square FREMMEIT BLDG—Main Floor Phone: LEHIGH 6382 International Barber Shop M, W. SALA, Prop. 2016 Second Avenue, New York (vet. 103rd & 104th Sts.) Ladies Bobs Our Specialty Private Beauty Parlor Fe 2:30 | lay | —— a aan eeeeeeeeaeaema PARK RESTAURANT 698 Alerton Avenue Corner White Plains Ave. A GOOD PLACE TO EAT Open All Night. Ladies Invited. mt v Mg VEGETARIAN Dairy RESTA URAN' omrades Will Always find It Pleasant to Uine at Oar Cc 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD., Bronx (near 174th St. PHONE: Station) INTERVALB 9149. RATIONAL Vegetarian RESTAURANT 199 SECOND AVE] UE Bet. 12th and 18th Sts. Strictly Vegetarian Food ‘Fractal gacasaaaeananap HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian RESTAURANT 1600 MADISON AVE. Phone: UNI versity 5865 — Phone: Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet 302 EB. 12th St. New York All Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 658 Claremont Parkway, Bronz DR. J. MINDEL SURGECN DENTIST | 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803—Phone: Algonquin 81 Not connected with any other office Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST 249 BAST 115th orn ber, Second Ave. New York DAILY EXCEPT FRIDAY Wlease telephone for appointment Telephone: Lehigh (022 Cor. / | | | Advertise your Union Meetings here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. 26-28 Union Sq., New York City Business meet! Monday” of the month at pean, meetings—e: afternoon at 6 istry! One Union! Join and the Common Enemy! Oftice upen from 9 a, m. to 6 p.m AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS