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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
RADEK IN LETTER
TO PRAvDA RAPS
GERMAN LEFTISTS
Says All Workers Must
Vote for Party
Especial Cable to Daily worker)

Especial Cable to Daily Worker)
MOSCOW, May 6.-Karl Radek has
sent telegram to the Pravda, off
cial organ of the All-Union Commu-
mist Party, condemning the selection
Of special candidates for the Reichs-
tag by the German ultra-leftists.
He declared that every revolution
ary worker may reserve the right Of
criticism, but must vote for the Com
munist Party candidates and abso-
lutely support the Communist Party's
fight against the bourgeoisie and the
social-democracy.
Pravda declares that Radek's tele-
gram was first sent to Trotsky, who
apparently refused to sign it.
Gregory Belenki, who was expelled
from the Communist Party for oppo-
sitional and fractional work, declares
that he now submits completely to
the Fifteenth Party congress,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
SPEAKERS Will
EXPOSE TAMMANY
in TRACTION DEAL
1000 Attend Bronx
Meet Saturday

The city-wide fight by the workers
of this city, led by the Workers
(Communist) Party, District 2,
against the seven-cent fare steal will
continue tomorrow with six open-air
meetings in various parts of the city.
Speakers will expose the part of
Tammany Hall in the traction deal
The meetings will be held at Fifth
Ave. and 10th ST., Seventh Ave. and
138th St., First Ave and 10th ST..
Second Ave. and 10th ST., Rutgers
Square and at the south end of Union
Square.
Among the speakers at the meet
ings will be William w. Weinstone.
organizer of district 2 of the Work
ers' (Communist) Party; Bert Miller
organizational secretary of the New
York district of the party; D. Benja-
min, R. Moore, John Sherman, Harry
Blake, Sylvan A. Pollack, ]. o. Ben
tall, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, S. Hessin,
N. Markoff, Philip Franldeld and H.
Gordon. The meetings. tomorrow will
be part of series of open-air mass
meetings, at which the slogans will be
Against the Seven-Cent Fare Steal'
and "For a Labor Party"
10-Cent Fare Looms.
/ Not only seven-cent but the pros
pect of ten-cent fare is now loom
ing for the 100000 or more work
ers of New York City, as result of
the decision of the statutory court of
three judges which stated that an s
per cent return on the valuation for
the Interboro would be necessary
The decision resulted in much jubila-
tion among the officials of the I. R.
T., who stated that 10-cent fare
was necessary to realize the eight
per cent return. October / is report
ed to be the date fixed by the Inter
borough for putting the 7-cent fare
into effect. The application for the
10-cent fare is expected to follow
soon after.
Reports persisted yesterday that
the Brooklyn-Manhattan transit COM
pany was also intending to grab for
7-cent fare, together with several
surface-car lines in Manhattan and
Brooklyn.
A mass meeting to fight the trac-
tion steal was held Saturday night at
Third Ave. and 149th St. nearly two
thousand workers attended. Louis A,
Baum, secretary of the Photographic
Workers Union, was the principal
speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
SCOTT NEARINC'S
COLUMN To START
New Daily Feature to
|, Appear Wednesday

Beginning Wednesday, Scott Near
ing, author and lecturer, will contrib
ute a daily feature column to The
DAILY WORKER.
The column will be novel in that it
will not be confined to any set sub
ject or method of treatment In adj
dition to containing comment on cur
rent events, it viii contain social
studies, economic analyses and short
historical studies.
The column will frequently be il
lustrated with photographs taken by
Nearing.
This daily feature by one of the
best known writers and propagandists
in the radical movement, is only the
first of a series of features The
DAILY WORKER will introduce ir
the near future. By the addition OF
snappy, readable working class fea-
lures, The DAILY WORKER plans tc
increase its circulation and influence
among the broad masses of American
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
TERROR FAILS TO
STOP PICKETINC
Arrest of Four Cannot
Break Mems Spirit

BELLEVILLE, ILL.,, May 6.-Fail-
ure of the district officialdom to
check the growing strength of the
progressives in the Illinois coal fields,
which has eliminated in the calling of
the May 10 convention, has brought
on new reign of terrorism with the
union bosses working hand in glove
with the coal barons.
Reverse Tactics.
Following the sporadic efforts of
local boards in some centers, the coal
companies have reversed their entire
tactics and, with the Peabody Coal Co.
in the lead, are attempting to operate
mines thruout the state on separate
or temporary agreements. The Pea
body Coal Company has opened two
mines at Kincaide, while the Old Ben
Coal Company, the Bell and Zoller,
and number of smaller concerns
are also starting up.
The spontaneous wave of mass
picketing which has met the latest
treason of the Lewis bosses and the
coal operators is being confronted
with the full might of the coal COM
pany thugs backed by the state police,
county sheriffs, and members of the
Ku Klux Klan. The presence of the
company terrorists has completely
failed in its object Of intimidating the
picketers.
A number of arrests made at West
Frankford have resulted in the jailing
of four union members, including
James McCullum and Morris Tomash.
The latter was distributing handbills
for the Save-the- Union meeting.
Gerry Allard, prominent progressive
leader and VIM. Matheson, were also
seized while attempting to investigate
these arrests. The police, however,
were compelled to release the two pro-
gressives when no charges could be
framed against them.
The authorities have made attacks
on the mass picket lines at Staunton
and Springfield, as well as at West
Franbford.
Union conditions have been COM
Ipletely wiped out in the re-opened
mines, according to the statements of
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07

spirited away to Coverdale, it is be-
lieved. Following the dispersal of the
protesting non-union miners, no fur
ther demonstration took place. in the
camp on Sunday
Monday morning, however, the pro-
tests were renewed when the $50
strikebreakers refused to go to work
despite the pleadings of Mine Super
intenednt William Ivel and the
threats of coal and iron police. Pa
rading about the scab patch, the Ne
groes demanded the surrender of the
company policeman to county authori-
ties.
Lack of leadership forced the min
ers back to work Wednesday morn
ing following two days of intensive
intimidation by the company police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
Mill COMMITTEE
EXTENDS RELIEF
ACTIVITY DAILY
Pickets Keep Scabs Out
Of Whitman Mill

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, May g.
AS the relief machinery established
for the Textile Mill Committees, here
by the Workers international Relief,
is rapidly extending its activities to
provide relief for the $4,000 of the
10000 textile workers on strike
against wage cut of 10 per cent,
the so-called "New Bedford Relief
Committee" started by the official
dom of the Textile Council with the
aid of several city charities, is pre-
pairing to close it's doors, according
10 a report yesterday.
Taxed Beyond Resources.
The Board of Public Welfare, the
official charity body of the city, also
announced that applications of sew
eral hundred strikers are taxing
their resources beyond their
strength" Both these organizations
made noisy announcements that mot
a single person will suffer hunger in
New Bedford"
The leadership of American Fedora
ton of Textile Operatives, is being
condemned not only by the thousands
of unskilled workers who are rapidly
enrolling themselves as members of
the mill committees, but also by their
own union membership who realize
that the union must assist the t. M.
G. in gathering relief for the vast
majority of the semi and unskilled
workers if the strike is to be won.
Instead of helping the Mill Com
mittees gather relief for the unorgan-
lied the union administration al
lowed the city business men, politi-
clans, and church charities to obtain
control of the relief machinery, the
union members point out. They also
show that, in addition to giving no
assistance to the strikers, the city
politicians in control of relief actually
told many workers applying for aid
to go back to work if they want food,
thus proving an active strike-break-
ing agency.
The New Bedford Relief Commit
tee," in its statement yesterday de-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
THUGS SHOOT AT
HOSE STRIKERS
Armed Scabs in Kenosha
Make Strike Bitter

KENOSHA, Wis, May 6.-The bit
terness of the struggle of the $50
knitters against the >open-shop policy
and speed-up system of the Allen-A
Hosiery Company, is growing more
intense as the boss-controlled city au-
thorities refuse to take any steps to
prevent the mill owners from con-
tinuing their Importation OF armed
thugs as strikebreakers.
A picketing demonstration staged
daily by the strikers here, in frank
violation of the vicious anti-picketing
federal injunction, was charged by an
armed group of strikebreakers, who
began to shoot when the unarmed
strikers resisted being dispersed. Not
knowing each other very well because
they were recently imported from
several sections of the country, the
thugs shot one of their own number
who was taken to hospital later
with wound in the thigh.
Attack Strikers Homes.
Five striking workers were arrest
ed Friday when several hundred
workers participated in demonstra-
ton before City Hall. While the CO. n
mittee chosen by the workers went in
TO the representative of the "city
manager" or mayor, the police at
tempted to break the ranks of the
demonstrators by arresting five OF
their leaders. The committee went tc
demand that the city authorities seac
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07

coal and iron policeman used black
jack in his efforts to settle the dis
pute, it is alleged, and struck the
miner on the head, killing him in
stantly.
The company policeman was saved
from lynching by the Negroes who
witnessed the scene only by the ar
rival of coal and iron police from the
Broughton, Castle Shannon and Gov
erdale mines of the same company
These combined forces held the en-
ragged strikebreakers at bay until the
danger of a riot, which threatened to
involve every one on company prop
erty, had passed.
The coal and iron policeman
charged with the deliberate murder
of the Negro strikebreaker was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
SICMAN PLANS TO
BAR LEFT WING
Right Wing Cancels
Parade at Convention

In their efforts to stifle the over
whelming demand of the thousands of
cloak and dressmakers that the dele
cation of the New York Joint Board
be permitted to participate to the con-
vention to open in Boston this morn
ing, the reactionary officialdom of
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union have stopped to the
position of ordinary agents provaca-
teurs for the Boston police force, ac-
cording to a dispatch received here
yesterday.
Sigman Aided by Police.
A. Weiss, one of the delegates from
the Joint Board, who reached Boston
seevral days ago, investigated the
statements of the union membership
in Boston that they are certain Inter
national officials went to the police
inspector for help in keeping out of
Boston the delegation of left-wingers
and militants from locals throughout
the country. In asking this flavor"
from the police inspector, the work
ers said that the police were told that
"a crowd of Communists were coming
to break up the convention with the
aid of gang of gunmen."
In Investigating this statement
Weiss decided to go to the office of
the police Inspector, accompanied by
an attorney. On reaching police head
quarters, they found A. Barrof, secre-
treasurer of the international.
Sol Polakoff, International organizer
in Boston, and a few other leading
figures of'the .Sigman clique waiting
to speak to the police head.
In statements made previously the
police Inspector announced that the
officials Of the International would
have the Boston police placed at their
Continued on Page Fiue1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
TO SELL WORKERS
CENTER BRICKS"
M 0 djacot Marionette
Performs Wednesday

BUY brick and build the Work
srs' Centerl' will become new slo-
gan for the class-conscious workers
If New York and vicinity, beginning
with today. To wind up the campaign
for $4,000 to establish the Workers
Center at 1928 Union So, bricks of
the new building will be sold at 25c.
SOC and 81 apiece. New collection list
for selling of bricks, designed by
Hugo Gellert, are being distributed
and all workers and unit, subsection
and section functionaries should Sc
cure these new lists at 1928 Union
So. The lists are especially intended
for canvassing in shops and workers
organizations.
With the conclusion of the drive for
S30,000-May 15-only little more
than a week away, the collection Of
funds and selling of bricks must be
conducted on more intensive scale
than ever before, it is pointed out
Many sympathetic organizations
whose membership includes many ma
tionalities, are hard at work collect
ing funds and arranging social and
literary affairs for the benefit of the
Workers Center. The revolutionary
banner, which will be given to the
organization making the highest to-
tails in the drive, is now on exhibition
at the Workers Center. 1t may be
viewed throughout the day until the
conclusion of the drive.
A novel entertainment has been ar
ranged at the Workers Center, begin
ming Wednesday. The Modjacot
Marionettes, which have become ia
nous during the last few years fo1
their satirical and humorous sketches
and representations, will give per-
formances at the Workers Center
Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and
Sunady evenings at o'clock. The
marionettes are designed and direct
cd by the revolutionary artists, Yosse
Cutler and Zuni Maud. A new pro
gram will be presented at teach erT-
iormance, and as an added attraction
there will be concert by the Musi.
clans Fraction of the Workers Party
on Sunday evening. Tickets for ths
Modjacot performances are now or
sale at 1928 Union So. at so cents TO,
adults and 25 cents for children. AL
the proceeds will go to the Workers
center.
Many pledges to the Workers Cen
ter drive have not yet been paid up
This has left the center in difficulties
as many necessary improvements can.
not be made because of lack of funds
All those who have pledged are
therefore urged to pay in full as soor
as possible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
COMPANY THUGS KILL NEGRO MINER
Comrades Strike TaOo Days in Protest Against Murder

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May Glow
$50 non-union Negros miners massed
to protest the killing of one of their
number by coal and iron policeman
at the Mollenaur mine of the Pitts
burgh Terminal Coal Company last
Sunday, was disclosed today by a
field worker for the National Miners
Relief Committee.
Efforts of the mine officials to
avoid publicity in the killing, resulted
in almost complete ignorance of the
affair which reached it's climax in a
two-day strike.
According to the investigation made
by the field worker for the National
Miners Relief Committee, the non
union miner was killed following an
altercation over dice game. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
WORKERS PARTY
ExPELS B. LEDER
Betrayed Militants In
Coatmakers' Union

For betraying the interests of the
mems clothing workers, who elected
him to the executive board of the
Coatmakers' Local of the Amalgam-
ated Clothing Workers. Union, be-
cause they believed that he would
fight the Hillman administration and
its followers and their reactionary
policies, the District Executive Com
mittee of the Workers (Communist)
Party, District 2, issued statement
yesterday expelling Benjamin Ledel
from party membership. The state
ment, which follows in full, is signed
by William w. Weinstone, organizer
of the district:
"The Workers (Communist) Party
(Continaed on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07

to vacate their company homes
by the end of the coming week.
Mining company officials have de-
clared that they will not tolerate any
delay after the deadline set by the
eviction notices. Any miner who at
tempts to enter company house aft
er the date set for his removal from
the dwelling will be Immediately ar
rested and charged with tresspassing.
Though barracks are being con-
structed for the shelter of many Of
the families who will find themselves
homeless as a result of the wholesale
evictions, numerous miners will have
no place to turn unless they are sup
piled with tents before they find their
furniture in the streets. This situa-
tion exists in an especially threaten
ing manner in places where not
enough families are to be evicted to
justify the construction of barrack
colonies.
Tents offer the only solution to the
eviction problem which is being faced
by steadily increasing numbers of
striking miners in Pennsylvania and
Ohio, as we'll as in West Virginia.
All contributions toward sheltering
evicted miners and those who face
immediate dispossessal must be sent
at once to the National Miners Relief
Committee, Gil Penn avenue, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
Federal Workers to
Lose $20,00O,O00

WASHINGTON, (FP).-Chairman
Smoot of the senate finance commit
tee, foe of wage increases for federal
workers, announces that he will per-
NIT passage of the Welch salary raise
bill in modified form. Instead Of
granting S40,000,000 more pay to
100000 federal employees, it will give
them half that amount. The house is
expected to pass the bill with $780,
100000 limit on May z.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
Please Quit Nicaragua,
Peace Women Plead

WASHINGTON, (FP) May c.
Resolutions deploring American Mill
tary occupation of Nicaragua, de-
manding recall of the armed forces
and demanding that a civil, rather
than a military, commissioner be sta
toned in that republic, were adopted,
May 4, by the conference of the
American section, Women's Interna-
tional League for Peace and Freedom.
Jane Adams presided.
Other resolutions called for de-
militarizing the Mexican border, and
for the filing of an annual report by
the State Department.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
51s,53s AUTOS EXPORTED

The total export of motor vehicles
from the United States and Canada,
including assembly plant output, was
518,538 in 1927, according to Facts
and Figures of the Automobile IN
dustry,' 2 published by the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
WIN WAGE INCREASE.

DENTON, Tex, May 6.--Division
88, Order of Railroad Telegraphers,
has won wage increased of two and
a half cents an hour per position on
the Texas and Pacific Railroad The
new wage scale is effective as of
March 1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
MINERS TO BE JAILED
ON ENTERING HOMES

MARTINS FERRY o. May 6Famies of 285 miners who have been
which
Eastern Ohio threatened with if they fail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
CALL ILLINOIS
SAvE-UNION MEET
Local Flaunts Order of
Lewis Machine
BULLETIN.

BELLEVILLE, ILL.,, May 6.--Lo-
cal 20, United Mine Workers Of
America yesterday elected seven
delegates to the District No. IL
convention, completely routing the
Fishwick machine. The election fol-
lowed the refusal of the member
ship to expel Luke Coffey, the
president of the local. The orders
of the Lewis machine were tabled
by unanimous vote of the rank and
file.
BELLEVILLE, Ill.,, May 6.-De-
claring that the miners union faces
destruction at the hands of the Illi-
nois coal barons, in the fight against
whom, the officials of the Fishwick
machine have showed nothing but in
competence and corruption, 100 lead
ing progressive rank and file mem
bers of the District IL, United Mine
Workers Of America yesterday issued
an. appeal for a district convention
to be held at Belleville on May 10.
The election of rank and file Off
GERS who will defend their union by
active assistance of the Pennsylvania
Ohio strike, by fight on wage cuts,
fight for a national agreement, fight
for the organization of the unorgan-
lied, and other vital measures, will
l6tsatinased on Page Taea)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07

All the deUices non grating officehoers of the corrupt
capitalist parties used by Mrs. Florence E. s. Knapp former
publican trial
has reUead Part of the technique of Mrs Knapp b until recently
University consisted placing her
the state payroll then herself cang the checks made
their poeng the About $1200O00 the
placed Mrs. Knapps hands the
the 1925 defense opened Saturday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07

TIE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
UNORGANIZED
FOR THE 4O-HOUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
Evening star., 1928-06-22

permit war ia Manchuria. They viii
Insist on protecting the South Man.
churian Railway and the lives and prop
erty OF Japanese nationals.
No opinion was expressed regarding
Chang Hsueh-liang, eldest son of the
former dictator and his successor as
military governor of Mukden. The
Japanese government, however, stressed
that 1t was not Its intention to inter-
fere in any peaceful administration.
1t was rumored that more troops
might be sent to Manchuria to COM
plete the quota provided for by treaty.
but 1t was understood the war ONCE
had not vet reached any decision in
regard to this.
Evening star., 1928-06-22
T. w. BELT HELD.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK. Md, June 22.-Town-
send w. Belt. prominent real estate op-
orator in Montgomery and Frederick
counties. was arrested here yesterday
on warrants charging assault and bat
terry and driving an automobile while
under the influence of liquor Belt is
charged with having struck Richard
F. Simmons. neighbor.
It is Belts fourth arrest on the in
toxication charge An appeal Is now
pending following his conviction as hit
and-run driver He was sentenced to
80 days in jail on a previous convic-
ton
Evening star., 1928-06-22
NINE PUPILS GRADUATED.
William Tyler Page Speaks al
Landover Exercises.

William Tyler Page Speaks at
Landover Exercises.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
LANDOvER, Md, June 22.-The
following were presented certificates at
closing exercises of Landover School,
held In Magruder Memorial Christian
Church: Evelyn Dorothy Beall Helen
Cecilia Casserly, Donna Elizabeth Dant.
Aubrey Leroy Lanham. Edith Carroll
Mott, Curtis Edward Mullikin. Ludwell
Compton Quade, Mary Hazel Wheeler
and Pearl Frances Windsor, The class
history was given by Pearl Windsor and
Edith Mott, the class will by Anna
Dant, Helen Casserly and Aubrey Lam
ham; the class prophecy by Evelyn
Beall and Hazel Wheeler, and the
farewell addresses by Compton Quade
and Custis Mullikin.
William Tyler Page, clerk of the
House of Representatives and author
of "The Americans Creed" spoke.
Evening star., 1928-06-22

DIR. c. G. WI. representative Of the
Chinese nationalist government In this
country.
Press report of execution In Canton
If young girls and boys on account OF
communism entirely untrue" the cable
gram read.
Evening star., 1928-06-22
JAPAN CONTINUES
MANCHUR|A POLICY
Death of Chang TSo-Lin Not
to Affect knti-War
Stand.

Ey the Associated Press,
TOXIC, June 22.-The spokesman for
the foreign Office said today that the
death of Chang Tso-lin, once dictator
of North China. which was announced
In Mukden, was not expected to change
1apan's present policy in Manchuria.
While there may be sporadic disturb
arccs. the JaoancSc do not intend to
Evening star., 1928-06-22
SLAYING RUMOR DENIED.

Execution of Children as Com
munists in China Denied.
The press reports from Canton re-
lating the execution of large numbers
of young Chinese boys and girls because
of communistic beliefs are denied In a
cablegram from Gen. Ii Chat Sum to