The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1930, Page 3

valLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1930 THE “SOCI ALISTS” LE AD Benito’s Boloney UNEMPLOYMENT RISES § “Gentle, Good IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE TOILERS’ REPUBLIC Vorwaerts “Revelations” Like Mattie Woll’s and the “Red Disclosures” of Whalen German “Socialists” Be Workers in Attacks come Ridiculous Before] on the Soviet Union BERLIN (By Inprecorr Press Service).—The socialists are in the lead in the anti-Soviet campaign, of course, Today’s “Vorwaerts” pub- lishes the “sensational revelation” that the “Rote Fahne” is “main- tained” by the Soviet Embassy and the Soviet Trade Mission, and that 5,000 of the edition daily are taken by these two institutions. No attempt is made to explain to the unfortunate readers of the social democratic organ how it comes about that the bolshevists choose such a clumsy and complicated way of “maintaining” the “Rote Fahne.” What the Soviet Embassy and the Soviet Trade Mission do with 5,000 copies of the “Rote Fahne” every day only the “Vorwaerts” knows, and the “Vorwaerts” keeps it a dead secret. The Social Democratic Press Serv- ice goes! still further and reproaches the German Foreign Ministry for having tolerated “Soviet interfer- ence in German affairs” for years without protest. It then demands | that the government should “act ruthlessly as soon as there is any proof that the Soviet government participates in Communist actions in Germany. “Proof” would, there- fore, seem to be still lacking. The S. D. Press Service then de- clares hypocritically that the social democracy was always in favor of maintaining diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union (that’s why | the social democratic ministers sup- | ported the expulsion of the Soviet | Ambassador Joffre), but then raises | the question of what Germany gets \ from such relations apart from the expulsion of journalists, the perse- | cution of German citizens and the | impoverishment of Russo-German | peasants. “The continual executions | and hunger disturbances in the So- | viet Union had created a spirit in |Germany which demanded that this question should be raised.” The democratic “Berliner Tage- blatt” reports from “influential cir- cles” that the social democratic party intends to demand that “de- cisive action” should be taken, in other words a rupture between Ger- many and the Soviet Union, should it be proved that the Soviet Em-| bassy and Trade Mission actually subsidize the “Rote Fahne.” It would appear therefore that the so- cial democrats have no proof for) their slanderous allegations. Belgian Worke Fight “Socialists”, Police and Bosses; Win Strike by Communist Aid BRUSSELS, Belgium (By Inpre- corr Press Service).—Despite the joint efforts of the owners and the reformists, the strike of the hat workers here which was conducted under revolutionary leadership has ended with a complete success. The strike which was against a wage reduction ended with a wage in- crease of 5 per cent and a number of other advantages. The reformist Hatmakers International refused all assistance and the strike was sup- ported only by the Communist Party of Belgium and the revolutionary hatmakers of Paris. The strike of the 1,500 building workers in Ostende is still going on. Yesterday the strikers drove about 60 bricklayers off the dyke which Jobless Drive Defy Bosses War on Aliens (Continued from Page One) at Washington to deport all “Com- munists.” This is done under the guise of “Americanization work” of the Chamber of Commerce. C. H. Grifis, who has a “captain” in front of his name, and is execu- tivé secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, “disclosed,” so the capi- talist press reports, that “business conditions are menaced by Commu- nist activities’ making the ridicu- lous assertion that the business crisis is not due to the capitalist system but to its victims, the work- ers. “Frankly,” said Captain Grifis, “a lot of our members are scared,”—- and these capitalist parasites who expected that the working class was going to starve to death quietly, are showing their fear at the advance of the revolutionary workers as shown by the demonstrations last Thursday against unemployment not only by their persecutions and class revenge against the leaders of the demonstration, but by attacking the foreign-born workers. The International Labor Defense, taking the counter-offensive yester- day in this new phase of fascist re- pression, stated through its .secre- tary, J. Louis Engdahl, that: “The announced plan to deport all foreign- born militant workers, for activities in behalf of their class is a further attempt to divide the working mass- es, to drive a wedge into the unity. of the foreign-born and native work- ers who are fighting against starva- tion. We will intensify our cam- paign and carry it into every city and hamlet in the country, to pre- vent this attempt by the employing class to divide the workers.” At the same time the I.L.D. tele- graphed all its’ connections to rush cash funds, bonds, stock and con- tributions to its office at 80 East 11th St., to raise the $50,000 at least which is needed to free on ba‘l the work rrested and being per- secuted as a result of their activity in the March 6 demonstrations. The Chamber of Commerce in its plan for “Americanization” has ap- rointed a special committee of pro- fessional reactionary patriots, with “Brigadier Generals,” “Majors,” and “Captains” bristling among the bankers and big bosses, to lead the drive for the deportation “by ship- loads” of militant workers. Heading the list is Brigadier Gen- eral Peter A. Traub, as the commit- tees chairman, who as an agent par excellence of U. S. imperialism not only devotes ‘imself to suppressing foreign-born workers in America, but went as a member of a U. 8. commission to “supervise elections in they were engaged in repairing. A spontaneous demonstration of the strikers then took place in the center of the town. Police on horseback: ‘on foot and in motor trucks attacked |the demonstrators. Only after an hour and a half of disturbance were | the police able to gain the upper| hand hand. | Late information shows that the | strike of the 8,000 textile workers} lin Renaix ended as the result of a| of the reformists. True the strikers won an immediate 5 per cent in- |crease, but the reformists agreed to ja revision of the existing tariff and a reduction of the basic wage. In one factory where the owners have | already carried out this “revision,” the workers are still on strike. ers, the Rev. John Logan Davis, pastor of the Washington Square Methodist Episcopal Church is also on the committee, which, beside be- ing inspired by divine sources, will doubtless be assisted by the more earthly agency of Matthew Woll of the social fascist A. F. of L. and the protesting protection of the fascist “socialist” party. Another of the professional pat- riots (see the book of that nanie ‘published by Boni, by Norman Hap- good) is Major William F. Deegan, tenement house commissioner, who is responsible for the high rents paid for disease breeding flats, by Ne- gro, Latin American and other work- ers in the City of New York as general watchdog for the landlords. This gentleman is also a former While Benito Mussolini yodels “Youth, youth! Spring, spring!" in pretention that all is lovely in | the classic land of fascism, even the Italian government admits that over 500,000 EA le are starving. And with the world crisis rumbling ever louder under his feet, Benito will be singing a different tune in the not distant future. RALLY AGAINST BOSTONFRAME-UP Frame Murder Charge on Marine Worker The bosses of Boston are trying to cook up another Sacco-Vanzetti frame-up. They have arrested Leon- ard Dougherty, port organizer of the Marine Workers League and hold him on murder charges, under $25,- 000 bail. He was arrested on the picket line while demonstrating in solidarity with the strikers of the Needle Trades Workers Union. Five gang- sters hired by Schlesinger, of the right wing union, attacked the marine worker, who gave more than he received. He was arrested and held at first on assault and battery charges, which were immediately afterward changed to murder. Three police de- cided to frame him for the murder of |second piece of treachery on the part | somebody or other in Canada, The [International Labor Defense is al- ready on the job. George Mink, organizer of the Marine Workers League declared to- day, “This frame-up of Organizer | Dougherty proves the fascist meth- jods of the A. F. of L. which works jhand in glove with the Department of Justice. The International Sea- men’s Union, of which Andrew Fu- ruseth and Victor. Olander are the guiding spirits are trying their damndest to halt the growth of the Marine Workers League by helping the cops raid our headquarters and lock up our organizers. At the na- |tional convention of the Marine | Workers League to take place April 26 and 27, the new militant fighting union based on ship and dock com- mittee will be launched and will be the ISU fakerism forever.” Swedish Strikers in Big Fight STOCKHOLM (By _Inprecorr able to smash all the fink halls and state commander of the strikebreak- | Press Service)—On February 10 ing American Legion. | and 11 severe collisions occurred be- The bankers are represented by|tween demonstrating workers and James F. Kennedy, vice-president of | the police in Stockholm. Thousands the Interstate Trust Company, while | of building workers went on strike the capitalist courts are supplying as a protest against the use of strike | Judge William O, Mitchell, who is a relic of the Civil War not yet in &@ museum. The legal adviser is an attorney who is called Colonel F. C. 0. Thomas. Two so-called “Sons of the American Revolution” who are ‘seared of another revolution are add- ed, Major Charles A, DuBois, and William P. Van Alstyne, French and Dutch names respectively. While one other bird who would “Amer- icanize” foreign-born workers by de- porting them is named Captain Gum- pertz, a Legion post commander. Wars who wants civil wars against the workers here, by the name of Joseph Carl Thomas, And, as men- tioned, the Chamber of Commerce it- self is bossing the attack by means of its executive secretary, Captain Grifis and its president, Major Har- old Lee. . “It is time the business men of this city get together and showed these agitators that we are serious,” said Captain Grifis, declaring that he had information about the Communists that “would raise the hair on your head. The present state of affairs is sufficiently serious to demand n solid front be presented.” The workers, meanwhile, are in- creasing their drive against capital- ism in the unemployed movement which will hold its conference in New York on March 29, Zoergiebel Murders Jobless Worker (Continued from Page One) is also possible with the exclusion of the Peoples Party. “Rew Wea s FREETHINKERS NOT SO FREE (Wireless By Inprecorr) Then comes a Veteran of Foreign} Panama” in 1908, in order to fasten] BERLIN, March 10.—Elections of the chaits of American capitalist | delegates for the annual meeting of robbéry atid oppression on the necks |the Proletarian Frecthinkers’ League of the workers and peasants of|gave 60,000 votes to the reformists Panama. and 25,000 to the revolutionary op- As God also must have a hand in| position. The opposition, despite any diety crimes against the work: their voting strength, has no dele- 4 other workers, collected in front of | the building where the strike break- ers were at work. The meeting was addressed by Communists. In the beginning the police attempted to disperse the meeting by exhortation, but later on with the arrival of reinforcements they attacked the workers, whereby also a number of women and chil- dren were injured. The strike break- ers were then taken to their homes in motors. A number of these mo- tors were damaged by stones. Numerous arrests have been made in connection with the collisions and the indiscriminately arrested work- ers will be charged with rioting. In connection with the collisions the bourgeois and social democratic press has commenced a furious cam- munist Party has issued an appeal to the workers to continue the action until the ejection of the strike break- ers. Worker Children of World to Meet MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Press Service)—An international meeting of proletarian children will take place in one of the central German towns at the beginning of July. Twenty thousand children are ex- pected to take part from Germany, France, Tcheckoslovakia, Austria, Scandinavia and other countries, A delegation from the Soviet Union will also be present. The world con- gress of proletarian children will take place during the meeting. The delegate elections for the con; is and the meeting will commence at the end of May during the tenth international childrens week. Tell the Advertiser—“l Saw Your Ad in The Daily Worker.” gates, owing to the scandalous elec- toral system introduced by the re- formists. breakers. The masses, supported by | paign against the workers. The Com- | 'AMONG WEST MASS. League”, Says Wor Fitchburg, Sp 3 th 4 Day a (By a Worker Correspondent) MONROE BRIDGE, ase Cons| |ditions ofthe textile workers of | Western Massachusetts are bad—| very low wages, speed-up, long | | hours and unemployment. | And in the other big industries | here—the paper mills, the conditions ; Jare also bad. | The workers have been “induced” | as the ‘bosses say it—to “accept” | wage cuts. In some |plants they | work overtime—gradually having themselves scrapped; in others they | jare idle for shorter or longer periods. | Holyoke, “Prosperity” for (By a Worker Correspondent.) , TORONTO, Ont., Canada—The |churches of this bigoted fascist city | boasted they took in $7,000,000 last | year and the city jammed full of | starving workers who are unem- ployed. The labor fakers, A.F.L. kind here | had a meeting with Abram Stan- kovich, late of Russia and U.S.A. He urged all hatred against the So- viet Government. There is a three- (By a Worker Correspondent) I heard the Communist Party speakers on West St., New York City, about how we can fight unem- | ployment, and also for race equality \of the Negro and white workers. | I’ve been out of work a while, jturn, and I see that it was to join |the Unemployed Council. | Iam a Negro worker, was a coach | cleaner in the Waldo Ave., Jersey WATERBURY, Conn—I worked at the Scovil Mfg. Co. here( brass products), but since I have been laid | off six months ago I haven’t been able to get a job anywhere. My wife is sick, she is almost dying, and the doctor won’t give her any medicine, and I have no place to borrow money from. My two kids are coughing, sick from not getting the right food. The landlord gave me the last no- tice and tomorrow he is going to throw me and my kids on the street. I went up to the city hall and asked them why they didn’t send me help as they said they would, but CHESTER, Pa.—Since The Daily Worker is the only daily in the United States in English fighting for duty to send it our greeting as part of a celebration, for the formation burg three to four days a week is | and was wondering which way to} Greetings from Chester Ford Shop Nucleus jthe working class, we feel it our |thousands of workers being exploited PAPER MILL HANDS “Must Be- Organized by Trade Union Unity ker Correspondent ringfield, Lee Mills on| Week Basis | the rule, and wages accordingly. The | many unemployed are being used by the bosses to cut the standard, such | as it is, even on the skilled jobs. | In Lee, Mass., mills have been | shut down for an indefinite period. | Conditions in the Berkshires are at not higher level. The paper mill and the textile mill | workers in Western Massachusetts | and in Vermont must be organized | into the Trade Union Unity League | and the National Textile Workers Union, for their conditions are go- | ing down and there are so many of | —wW. Massachussetts Worker. | In Holyoke, Springfield and Fitch- | them unemployed. | Toronto Workers | works. Wages, 45 cents an hour. There were hundreds waiting for the job, and none taken on. Farmers getting slaves for $10 a month, long hours, hard work, starvation and a hard struggle to get your $10 when month is up. Yours for the final victory of the workers under the Communist lead- ership.—W. B. Why a Negro Worker Joined Unemployed Council City yards, of the Penn. R.R. Wages were 40 cents an hour, very bad con- |ditions. Job was especially hard in | winter, when we had to be out in the freezing cold most of the day, |and wasn’t allowed to warm our- | selves. Trade Union Unity League in the future, and tell all workers I can | about it. —UNEMPLOYED WORKER. Starving, His Family Starving—“Organize!” I told them I was starving and I am going crazy from not eating and worrying. I served in the World War for “Uncle Sam,” I still know how to use a gun, but suppose I get caught what will become of my family? Jail for the workers, jail for me, jail for those who organize us into councils of unemployed. I am not afraid of jail, I am going to tell all the workers to come to the meet- ings, to go to the city hall in num- bers of thousands to demand social insurance. —Waterbury Brass Worker. of a new shop nucleus in the Ford plant in Chester, Pa., and on this | occasion we pledge ourselves to carry on the struggle in behalf of the in said Ford plant. —Chester Ford Shop Nucleus. Corporation Lawyer Hillquit Advises | Whalen How to Act Social-fascist Morris Hillquit, us- jing his legal talents, which he has |often used in the interest of the | bosses, tells Whalen that he was cor- wect in not permitting the 110,000 workers parading on March 6, de- manding Work or Wages. This in- formation is conveyed to Whalen in a friendly letter written by the jcorporation lawyer Hillquit. |. Hillquit tells Whalen (instructing |him how best to serve the bosses) that clubbing the workers is not the tactical thing to do just yet, because it helps the Communists. In his letter to Whalen. Hillquit expresses fear that the workers might become disillusioned with the bunk about “democracy” and tells Whalen, in a friendly ‘way, that the action of the police is “infinitely more dangerous to our country and jits institutions than any number of ‘demonstrations’ of small and irre- sponsible groups.” For Hillquit 110,000 workers demanding work oc wages is a “small and irresponsible group.” 100 Leather Workers Strike in Peabody | Against a Wage Cut PEABODY, M. March 10,—A hundred, workers went out on strike in the plant of the Kirstein Co. last week against a 10 per cent wage cut. They elected a shop and strike com- mittee, and a: 88 picketing. They demand withdrawal of the wage cut, and recognition of their shop com- mittee, The boss offered to aban- don the cut, but refused to recognize the committée. on, The Shoe and Leather Workers Organization Committee, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, carries on a vigorous campaign in this section. Mass meetings are held weekly at 56 Main St. and are well So the strike goes} h The Polish Left Socialist Trial WARSAW (By Inprecorr Press | Service)—In the first telegram | dealing with the trial of the mem- bers of the Polish socialist party (left wing) in Sosnovice, the ex- pression “the Polish social democra- tie organization in Levitza,” was used. This is incorrect. Levitza is not the name of a place in Poland, but the Polish word for left wing. The trial is directed not against any branch of the left wing, but against the left-wing organization as a whole, which is organizationally in- dependent of the reactionary Polish social democratic party. On the second day of the trial the agent-provocateur Tchuma did not appear. The acused Gadomski de- nied the accusation that his organ- ization had received any subvention from the Communist Party and de- elared that his organization and the Communist Party had only one thing in common—the struggle against fascism. Replying to a question of the judge, Gadomski declared that his organization had |the deepest | sympathy for the workers and peas- ants state, After the president of the court had prevented a number of the ac- cused from expressing themselves sufficiently on the questions under discussion, the accused as a whole demonstratively refused to take any further part in the trial, and ignored the questions of the prosecutor. (Editorial note—These workers were later sentenced to long terms in prison.) INCREASING TEMPO OF SOVIET . PRODUCTION MOSCOW, U.S.S.R.—Reports for e first quarter of the present fiscal year showed am increased of 27 per cent in industrial production, ‘Costs have been lowered 4.6 per cent dur- ing this period. "TALK to your fellow worker in attended. Tell the Advertiser—“I Saw Your Ad in The Daily Worker.” * your shop about the Daily Worker. Sell him a copy every eee = Natured, Efficient New York Police’—Mayor Walker Police Commissioner Whalen says he “laughed until his sides nearly burst” at scenes like these; and he says the leaders of the unemployed are all cowards. Tammany police displaying their bravery by slugging one unarmed, 6 demonstration in New Yor DEMAND RELEAS \Fire Traps 70 Miners; Yhompson Challenges F e Militant year city job started foot of John JOBLESS LEADERS. ak St. a big tunnel for new water) | (Continued from Page One) | Jeut off all exits and traps below |ground a number of miners which Answer the Capitalists the company refuses to estimate, bat ¥. which is certainly at least 50, an Class Vengeance probably about 70. (Continued from Page One) | All telephone connections with the Lester and Raymond out of court #PParently doomed miners are cut, | back to their cells the fire is blazing so fiercely near | Judge Flood looks and acts like the main shaft that volunteer rescue | I’m going to do all I can for the | they said there are so many others. | | the famous “Bloody Judge Jeffries” |of British history: A smooth faced, | dissipated looking man with a fishey jeye, who snarls and howls at the defendant, and smirks at the prose- cution witnesses. The assistant dis- trict attorney is an oily piece of| capitalist machinery, with the | slicked locks, and little mustache of | the villain who swindles the widow | j out of her farm in an old-style melo- drama. | How They Treated Dyer. Open class justice, directed against | jthe workers, typified Magistrate's | \Crain attitude toward the arrested | |workers who were brought before | |him, || Victor Dyer’s case was tried just |before the case of the five leaders of the demonstration of 110,000 workers demanding Work or Wages, was called. Dyer’s left eye was bloodshot. A | long black and purplish scar covered | his left cheek. He had three stitches | in his head. He was one of the} crews, miners from other pits who are willing to risk their lives for their fellow workers, have been able to penetrate but a short way. Company Publishes Lies. The company officials talk glibly about “another entrance open if the miners below know how to reach it,” and issue soothing reports of the imminent rescue of the miners, but this talk of another entrance is denied by old miners here. The com- pany has not sent any of its of- ficials into any other entrance to lead the trapped workers to safety. Working of men in gas and dust fire traps is one of the things that the National Miners Union is or- ganizing the miners to prevent. ee 25% Thompson Strips Howatt. PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 10.— On the eve of the opening in Spring- field, Ill, of the “convention” of Harry Fishwick, U.M.W.A. president | of Illinois district, agent of the Pea- body and other Illinois operators, | Howat, who helped call the “con- Here is an actual photograph of ELEVEN unemployed worker at the March i OUTLINE PLAN FOR MARCH 23 Conference on Jobless, Then Big Convention (Continued from Page One) mobilized at once, we will succeed in making this national conference | of tremendous political importance ‘and, therefore, lay the foundation for a mass campaign under our gen- eral slogan, which is the organiza- | tion of the unorganized workers. “At all times we must keep in mind that the building of the unem- ployed movement must increase the numbers of our members in the unions by leaps and bounds. In fact it must be our every-day task that | during this campaign new members will join the revolutionary trade {union movement and thus lay the basis for the building up of a mass | trade-union movement in this coun- try, which will challenge the social reformist and social fascists of the Amoriean Federation of Labor and the yellow socialist party, in fact all ot the capitalist class. “All speakers and organizers must bring into the forefront the plan outlined above—that is the na- tional conference on March 29, which must be followed up by state conventions in all sections of the | country and the building up of a na- tional unemployed mass convention.” hundreds of workers viciously beaten | falar on Whalen’s orders. The charge |Vention,” was challenged to a de-| bate before the Illinois miners by | ekeingt him was “assault on an of gman Thompson, president of the | JOBLESS GLASS WORKERS BAT- so weak—he couldn’t say who hit against him from behind—that the Magistrate had to help him out. “You don’t know who hit you, if anybody?” asked attorney Buiten- |kant?” “Well, I couldn’t see behind |me,” admitted the surly provocateur. What had happened was very plain. About five dicks had severely for assault. The Judge Imagines Things. that Dyer was a dock worker who had been working steadily until a) day before the March 6 demonstra- | | tion, and was on his way to cash a check on 18th and Broadway “Did you see this man hit you?” | said the judge, very much chagrined {because of the evident flop of the stool-pigeons to identify a worker whom they beat up mercilessly as their assailant. | “No, but when I turned around,” | said the refreshed stool-pigeon, “I saw Dyer with his hands up.” “Did you say that before?” asked Buitenkant. “Sure he did,” chimed in the | Judge, with his spirit of helpfulness for the prosecutor and the capital- ists behind the case. “I heard him. Mr. Reporter, read the record.” Th record was read twice, and | the Judge was forced to admit that stool-pigeon Keeny had said nothing | of the kind. The Judge was so eager to find Dyer guilty that his brain manufactured imaginary testi- mony against Dyer. However, in spite of the fact that Dyer’s bruised and battered eye and head shrieked louder than any words uttered by the state’s stool pigeons, the Judge coldly and brazenly said: “guilty.” What Was the Sentence? He did not have the nerve to pronounce sentence against the worker immediately, but had him whisked away for finger-printing and other police maneuvers. What his sentence is was whispered in obscurity. Up to this minute the Daily Worker does not know the fate of the beaten worker, Dyer. It is this same Megistrate Flood who is scheduled to try the case | against Foster, Minor, Amter, Lester | and Raymond. The testimony of | Keeny is a sample of the evidence | that will be brought in, under the | grooming of Whalen and Crain, | against these leaders of the Com- | munist Party and the Trade Union | Unity League. | The hypocritical mask is com- pletely torn off the capitalist courts in this case. It is a case of open | class vengeance of the capitalist class as an answer to the 7,000,000 unemployed for daring not to starve in silence, but continuing to organ- | day for a week. Then ask him to become @ regular subscriber, - ize against capitalism and to con- tinue their fight for Work or Wages. | him, if anybody; somebody brushed | beaten Dyer and then arrested him the stand, after Buitenkant proved | | i | |belly for years, begging Interna- | The judge called Keeny back on | long posed as a “progressive” and a “militant” was elected chairman of the so-called convention. He was silent on the challenge from the N.M.U. president. Thompson demands that Howat answer the following questions: 1. “Why did you erawl on your tional President Lewis of the U.M. W.A. to take you back into the -W.A.? . “What does your “reorganiza- ion program” mean to the rank and file? 8. “How do you propose to furnish work for the miners? How do you propose to regain the lost working conditions in the Illinois mines? How do you propose to deal with the killing speed-up, and worsening conditions of miners? 4. “How will you give rank and | file control with the large army of officers riding on their backs? 5. “Will the officers of your re- organized union receive the average wage of miners?” Thompson reports through the National Miners Union general of- pace in Pittsburgh the increasing ” ert igeon Keeny testified [National Miners Union. UE ONT against Dyer. His testimony was | Today, Alexander Howat, who has! PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Mar. 8. |—Jobless glass workers marched on | Gablon, center of the glass industry |here last Thursday, International | Fighting Day Against Unemploy- |ment. There was a collision with | the police who fired upon the work- ers. The workers fought back with | stones. Many were wounded and five policemen seriously injured. Twenty were arrested. | determination of the Illinois miners to refuse to pay the check-off, to | either wing of the United Mine | Workers. Thompson is mobilizing the miners for a real rank and file convention of the National Miners Union in Pittsburgh, in June. The election of delegates will start soon, one - INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 10, —The Lewis convention of the U.M. W.A, opened here today, in opposi- tion to the Fishwick split. The re- port of Lewis was a flagrant bid !for support of thé coal operators |to himself, instead of to Fishwick. He called on the government to aid ‘the operators, because the coal in- | dustry is making less money now | than others. Saturday Evening Dancing until 8 A. M. VERNON ANDRADE ORCHESTRA To reach Hall—6th or Baily 35 Worker COSTUME Red Dancers and other entertainment ROCKLAND PALACE 155th STREET and 8th AVENUE 9th Ave. L, to 155th St. ADMISSION 50c IN ADVANCE READ AND SUPPORT 75e at the door THE DAILY WORKER IT FIGHTS FOR You!