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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17

Above is a photo of a found
ling aohose parents aOere forced
to abandon 1t because of their
poUerty-stricken condition. The
baby aOos found IN one of the
a0orking-class sections of Brook
i'm. These foumdlings are sent to
city institutions, aohere amy re-
hgion the authorities choose IS
foisted upon them. The baby is
playing aoith the photographers
camera.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17
Operators Violate Law.

Colorado coal companies have con-
tinually violated the state law re-
curing a check weighman elected by
the miners at each tipple, and the
issue was one of the most important
demands in the strike which ended
February 20.
According to A. A. Heist, Denver
representative of the Civil Liberties
Union, the election of miner, Dave
Lewis, as check weighman of the
Chandler mine was approved by the
state mine inspector.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17
Fate In Workers Hands.


Time after time the fate of The
DAILY WORKER has been placed
directly in the hands of the militant
American workers and they have
never failed their only militant Eng
fish daily in it's crisis. While Charles
E. Puthenberg was living they re-
sponded to his challenge to defend
their press at all costs against the
onslaughts of the bosses. After his
death his example has become their
guide in resisting attacks against
The DAILY WORKER.
Saving The DAILY WORKER has
meant sacrifices to each and every
worker which only the workers will
understand. A little less food, little
less warmth in already impoverished
circumstances have often been the
price of the sacrifice which, every
militant American worker has been
forced at some time to pay for the
defense Of his paper against the plots
of its class enemies. But the import
ance of safeguarding The DAILY
WORKER against every inroad has
grown with each sacrifice the work
crs have been called upon to make.
Precarious Life.
The life of the workers press is
always precarious. Today The DAILY
WORKER is passing thru one of the
worst crises it has ever been forced
to meet, The question of its destruc-
ton or its survival in this struggle
is question before each. and every
American worker. Whether he de-
cides to sacrifice a little more, to
spare his last cent if necessary for
the defense of his class paper will
determine whether the Daily" will
be able to withstand the present at
tack.
Workers, follow the example that
Charles E. Ruthenberg gave you thru
his entire life. Follow the last coun-
sells he gave the American working
class at the time of his death. Save
The DAILY WORKER. Donate your
last dollar Aid the Ruthenberg Sus-
tanning Fund. Rush your contribu-
tions to The DAILY WORKER, SO
First St., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17

injunction leaflet issued by the Worke
Dry DOCK, BrooAlyn, december .. 4
Knith and the others,-Emil Max
vata, Thomas Thorsen and Eric
neinonen,-comple,ed their terms
this week.
A Dumping Ground.
Knith in describing Welfare Island,
called it "a general dumping-grouno
Tor the refuse OF capitalism"
All sorts of derelicts, DRINKS ana
helpless crlppies, who are considered
an eyesore TO respectable citizens"
are gwen sentences in Welfare Island
ranging from 10 days to six months
and Then dumped back again in a
more helpless condition than before,
he continued.
The food is poor" he said, land
100 people are crowded together III
single room with insufficient covers
in the cold nights. All inmates are
compelled TO be docile-otnerwise
they can expect a beaCing at the
nands Oh the guards ana the specially
favored prisoners who have been maze
tIunAeys OF the prison authorities.
Money Talks in Prison.
Gwen at Welfare Island money
talks. If you are well supplied with
cash, good food, extra blankets, a
better bed and o,her comforts are
Forthcoming"
A strong fight for new trial for
the four workers will be made by the
international Labor Defense, accord
ing to Rose Baron, secretary Of the
New York Section, despite the fact
that the workers have already served
their sentence.
The Workers Party last night is
sued the following statement COM
menting on their release.
Great Prisoners.
"After serving twenty days on the
trumped-up and ridiculous charge Of
conspiracy to undermine respect for
the courts. the four militant workers
Emil Makvata, Thomas Thorsen,
Neils Knith and Eric Heinonen have
baen released. These workers by dis
tributing the leaflet Down with
Government by Injunction were in
the front ranks of the struggle OF
the workingclass against the violence
of the American government toward
the worlSingclass as exempl'fied by
the brutality in the coal miners strike
and in the terror instituted by thc
| I. r. T. traction trust and its Tam
many Hall government.
Example Praised.
1--WE greet our four fellow-workers
who have been compelled to suffer
this imprisonment. Their example
however, of not wavering under the
attacks of the capitalist courts is ar
example for every worker to follow
and defiantly challenge the injunc.
ton and arouse labor to its task Of
organizing itself on the economic anc
political fronts Of a struggle to the
finish against the attempts of the
capitalist class to enslave the
workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17
BROACH RULEGACS
ELECTRICAL union
Little Caesar" Throws
Out or Gags Militants

An increase in the strong-arm
squad regularly stationed before the
meeting hall and the exclusion of adj
ditional workers from the hall were
the developments Thursday night at
the meeting of Local 3 of the cleo
trical workers union held at Central
Opera House, 9th st. and Third Ave.
Critic Thrown Out.
At the order of H. H. Breach, in
ternational vice president of the
union, and now virtually the dictator
of the union of which the rank and
file has lost all control, one of the
members who week ago made mo-
ton not to the liking of the Little
Caesar" was kept from the meeting.
No other reason could be found for
the exclusion of this member. His
guilt" consisted in the fact that he
made an amendment to a motion that
delegates be sent by Local to an
unemployment conference at Wash
lngton Irving High School.
The most bitter resentment has
been stirred up by the recent exclu-
sions by Breach. 1t has been learned
that he has excluded not only regular
progressive electrical workers but
some who have not been directly con-
nected with the progressive movement
in the union. AS result an ever en-
Iarging section of the membership has
Deen thrown into the opposition.
Gordon Scores Breach.
Bill Gordon, known to many work.
ers because of his fearlessness in at
lacking and denouncing corrupt Of
ficers, took the floor in an attack
against the policies of Breach and his
henchmen. Gordon denounced the
administration for supporting the
gangsters who beat up one of the
members, Steinberger, at a recent
meeting. "Are our officers represent
ing the rank and file or other out
side interests" Gordon asked, when
they support those who have beaten
up our fellow worker?"
He explained that ne had been to
the trial the day before at which the
officers of Local 3 were present to
defend "two gangsters who had beat
en- up one of our fellow workers"
| The chairman appeared unable to
answer the question by Gordon and
referred him to Preiss the manager.
PRESS assured Gordon that he could
nave the information he was seeking
if he would come to the office the
next day.
Workers Desperation.
A letter of resignation was received
from Samuel Nuttson, who has been a
member of the union for many years.
Due to the serious unemployment
problem in the industry, he wrote, and
due to the fact that the Breach ma
chine had done nothing to solve the
problem, he had been driven to the
point of desperation. The choice for
I him was between starvation and
joining the navy. He chose the lat
ter but wanted in resigning to let
the brothers in the union know his
reasons for doing so.
| Nothing whatever was reported at
the meeting as to the program for
meeting the increasing unemployment
lproblem.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17
SPORTS IN BRIEF

turn match at the Olympic A. C. to-
night. If Lou does not make fairly
good showing it will mean that he
will fade out of the picture for quite
while.
Phil Scott, English heavyweight
meets Prene Charles in the main
event at the st. Nicholas Arena Mon
day night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17
Aid INSTRUMENTATION

SAULTE STE. MARIE, Mich,
March 16.-The snowbound village of
Detour was once more in touch with
the outside world after an isolation
of more than two weeks, when DR..
John F.. Deadman, driving a dog team
to sled laden with medicine and
food, mushed into the village early
this morning. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17
Norris Muscle Shoals
Bill Being Considered

WASHINGTON, March 16. = The
Norris resolution for government OPP
Grafton of the s1o0,0Oo,0oo Muscle
Shoals project was taken up by the
House Military Affairs committee to.
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17
SAVE The union"
CALL is ECHOED
IN ANTHRACITE
"Take Up Battle" Cry
Of Tri-District

Continued from Page One)
District The Union Committee,
George Papcun, secretary, and reads
as follows:
To All Members of the United Mine
Workers Union in the Tri-District
of the Anthracite.
Greetings:
AS you no doubt have learned
from the call sem out by the Ma
tional Save The Union Committee,
there will be a great national con-
ference of coal miners in Pittsburgh
on April 1st. The soft coal miners
who have learned through bitter eX-
perience in the last few years how
the policies Of the Lewis Machine
have been destroying our union ana
permitting it to bleed to death in
many districts, will be represented
by hundreds of delegates from all
over the country. Already district
Save-The-U Union Conferences have
been held in Districts 2, 5, 6, and II
of the soft coal region, participated
in by over five hundred delegates at
which the idea of a national confer
ence was endorsed and plans outlined
for sending delegates to this con-
ference.
One Cause.
The anthracite miners are as much
interested in this conference as the
bituminous miners because the union
is attacked by operators on all fronts
and our officials are weaAening the
union so that it will be either de-
fealed and destroyed as it has been
in many soft coal districts or it will
be turned into mere company union
as it has been in Illinois. Already IN
many parts of our district the con-
tractors and coal company influence
rules many of our local unions, here
in the anthracite.
Hard coal miners! We urge you
to send delegates to the Pittsburgh
Conference on April LIST, and join
with the soft coal delegates in the
movement 10 save our union. One
look at the policies of our officials
should convince all Of us miners that
the time has come for action by the
rank and file, and that we must take
things in the union into bur hands.
Organize Unorganized.
We must organize the uncrganized
miners il we wish to maintain our
standard of living. The Lewis ma
chine has refused to do this and when
the unorgarized miners joined the
union in the 1922 strike, the Lewis
machine betrayed them and drove
them out of the union by signing
separate agreements for the same
companies that they were striking
against.
We here in the anthracite must
abolish the special mining contract
system. This the Lewis machine has
refused to do and has no. done so
far. The rest of our district Off
Gals Of the anthracite gave support
to this system, in spite of the fact
that the Executive Board of District
1 recently passed a hypocritical
statement against this system, which
was merely done to soften the in
dignation of the miners in the an
hracite, after the brutal murder of
brothers Alex Campbell and Peter
Reilly by hired assassins of the con-
tractor-operator union official group
Take control of the Union! Win
the soft coal strike! Save the Union
from the reactionary officialdom and
The coal operators. Send delegates tc
the Pittsburgh National Save-The-
Union Conference on April LIST.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17
JAIL CONDITIONS TOLD
BY RELEASED WORKER

Conditions by Knih
there distributing
Injunction Che Communisl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17

Photo at left taken at the of the murder of
Alec Campbell and Pete Reilly Co militant mine leaders
buchered By gunner of the CGppeincontrGctor
chine CGmpbeS home Pittstom Pa. The picture at
the right shoD the building IN WkesBarre IN aohich the
offices the reOctionary officials of District of the United
Nine Workers located The orders for the nder of the
progressive leaders Thomas LUs Campbell and Rey and
the attempt to murder Sam Greco, from THIS office
(dicGted y Gr0) The miners and Representatives Of the
tdistrct locals haze issued call to all anthracite miners
for National Save the Union Conference in Pittsburgh
April IL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17

There is good Why Eleventh. Avenue Neac
York is called Death Avenue For many aOorkeTs life has
snufed out By the trains Of the Neao York Central
Railroad nOch freely IN this grounded street IN dese
populated tOorg- cGss neghborhood There no play
around facilities for the children of poor this neighbor
hood and the children risk their hves in "Deah Avenue
Photo at left shooOs the Signal system of the railroad
death AvenWe bog horseback The railroad to SAGE
fen dollars IN 0ages longer SgnGtnnGn.
At the right engine is shoa0n seafnng up Death Avenue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17

CANADA WORKER
AIDS RUTHENBERC
SUSTAINING FUND
Worker Recalls Dead
Leader

Continued from Page One)
committed to those ideals and that
program coming to it's aid each year
thru contributions to its Sustaining
Fund"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-20
Sailors and Sanity

Last year one sky-pilot organization which
preys upon seafaring men distributed to sailors
in New York waters, according to its boast,
nearly 100000 copies of religious periodicals
and $4,000 bibles Captain Benn," the most
persistent of the dope distributors, claims that
this mystic literature is necessity to prevent
insanity among sailors who must go on long,
monotonous journeys In other words, when
cooped up on wind TANNER for thirty days at
sea with nothing else to read the sodden mys-
ticism of religious tracts produces a sort of
semi-idiocy which it is claimed will prevent the
more violent forms of insanity. 1t seems to
be an application of the theory by which man
is vaccinated with smallpox germs as pre-
tentative against the virulent form of small
pox.
This ought to be considered a challenge to
the Workers Communist Party to stiffen up
its work of getting into the hands of seafaring
men the intelligent literature which will edu-
cate them as class conscious members of their
own class, grasping its perspective and under
standing its glorious historic role Nothing
could be more conducive to real mental health
than this. It is not necessary for sailors to
choose between the seni-idiocy of the missions
and outright insanity.
Reach the seafaring men with Communist
literature! They belong with us, not with the
lying sky-pilots.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-20
Soviet Ship-Building

AT the time when world attention is centered
upon the magnificent attainment of the Soviet
ship, the Krassin, in rescuing the victims and
rlghting the blunderS of the fascist Arctic ex-
petition, it is interesting to note that the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is forging
ahead among nations in ship-building. Great
Britain and Ireland, which used to build half the
tonnage of the world, are now declining. With
the ship-yards of the world constructing nearly
half a million tons less at the end of June than
at the beginning of the year, only five nations
are increasing the amount of tonnage under
construction, and the Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics is among those increasing construc-
ton.
This year the Workers Republic has moved
up from seventh place to sixth place among
ship-building nations. It now has under con-
struction ships of lie, 298 tons, being ahead of
Japan and only about 10000 tons below France
in present ship-building.
This is part of socialist construction in the
Socialist Fatherland of the working class of
the world. The attachments of the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics are the attachments
of all of our class, in whatever land they may
be- Every rivet that is hammered in, every
piece of machinery constructed in the Soviet
Union makes the working class of the world
stronger in the struggle against capitalism
That is why the capitalist class of the world
is determined to make war on the Union of So
ciahst Soviet Republics to destroy the world
center of revolution
The workers of the world must defend their
Socialist Fatherland at all costs against the
imperialists of 'our own" capitalist countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-20
Concert a Great Demonstration

expeditions were not abandoned, ex-
perimental schools were not given
up, Marx-Engels institutes and rev.
dictionary museums were estab-
lished, libraries and reading cor
ners were spread to the remotest
villages, theatres were maintained
and symphony orchestras were
formed.
The world stands today in Won
derment before the achievements of
the Russian geographers, meteorlo-
gists, navigators, and red aviators
and sailors on the Krassin which is
snatching from the jaws of death in
the frozen Arctic the members of
the enthusiastically conceived and
scientifically bungled fascist expe-
dition. Working masses everywhere
applaud the Russian scientists, the
Red Navy, and the Workers Soviet
State which is responsible for this
glorious achievement. They are
proud of the achievements of their
Socialist Fatherland.
Proud of Artistry.
When we saw the great Russian
cinema products, "Potemkin" and
"The Fall of St. Petersburg" we
felt proud of the artistry and craft
manship exhibited by the Soviet
cinema producers. In Professor
Theremin, who has made an impor-
tant contribution to science under
the auspices of the Soviet Educa-
tional System, we also meet a pro-
duct of Soviet Russia. He deserves
a warm reception from all workers
and friends of Soviet Russia.
Comrades and fellow-sympathiz-
ers of Soviet Russia: Come in great
masses to the Theremin concert not
only to aid the fighting labor dailies,
The DAILY WORKER and the Fret
heit, which are the champions of
Soviet Russia in America, but also
to turn the concert into mass DEM
onstration for the Soviet Republic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-20
ALEXANDER TRAcHTENBERG.

ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG
The DAILY WORKER and the
Freiheit are sorely in need of funds
to help them tide over the bad sum-
mer months. They have arranged
the Theremin concert at the Coney
Island Stadium next Saturday night
to help meet the present emergency.
The DAILY WORKER only recent
ly was in a serious financial crisis.
The various financial drives con-
Quoted for the relief of the striking
miners, textile workers, ETC., taxed
the capacity of the workers, whose
earnings during recent times have
been none too good. Out of their
last resources they contributed to
the Daily when it called for help be-
cause they could not see the only
daily herald of the class struggle in
the English language go under for
lack of sustenance. The Freiheit,
too, has suffered greatly in its in
come because of the financial strain
which the Jewish comrades have
been under on account of the gar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-20
By L. sIsELMAN.

III is really encouraging to see how
The DAILY WORKER has rooted
itself among the steel workers. The
steel slayes in the region of Penn
sylvania and West Virginia actually
recognize that The DAILY WORK
Err is the only workers paper. Many
are afraid to subscribe to the Daily
because Of the spy system that pre-
walls in the mills and in the region
generally. Nevertheless this has not
stopped many workers from sub
scribing to The DAILY WORKER
and giving their support to the
Daily in spite of their starvation
wage.
Town Controlled by Company.
Here are few examples which
will show the devotion of the work
ers to The DAILY WORKER. For
instance, Ambridge, Pennsylvania.
is a town controlled by the American
Bridge Company. The workers are
earning 40 cents an hour; everything
is controlled by the company; the
spy system is terrible; our party is
illegal. But in spite of all these diff
ficulties a successful meeting was
arranged in Ambridge where loan
of 500 was raised and % workers
pledged 81 monthly to pay out the
loan. In addition to that young
Pioneer has had ten customers for
The DAILY WORKER and these
ten customers have now become
regular subscribers to the Daily.
The Pioneer is now looking for new
ones.
In New Kensington, small town
of steel and glass workers earning
35 cents an hour, the mills are work
ing only two to three days week
The workers had picnic and 500
was collected there; also many
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-20
Some High-Lghts on Campaign Tour of
Pennsylvania

workers subscribed to The DAILY
WORKER.
Worker Gets 3 Subs.
In McKeesport, many new sub
scriptions were also obtained, and
the workers responded cheerfully to
the aid of The DAILY WORKER.
One, by the name of Kessler, an old
socialist who repudiates the yellow
socialists for their cowardness and
betrayal of the workers, donated
$40 and gave three addresses of
miners asking that for this money
these three miners should have sub
scriptions for The DAILY WORK
Err. Kessler is not member of the
party.
In Pittsburgh a conference was
held by DAILY WORKER readers
and a DAILY WORKER Builders
Club was organized. One unit, num-
Der 2, pledged $3.50, of which s140
has already been raised. The other
units are also doing their share.
Prison Town Active.
Even in the prison town Of the
steel trust, Duquesne, where every
worker is surrounded by squad of
spies and detectives, the workers
have subscribed to The DAILY
WORKER secretly and asked that
the paper be sent to different adj
dresses. For example, one worker
donated SIS to The DAILY WORK
Err but asked that his name should
not be mentioned. 81 would surely
want to get The DAILY WORKER"
he said, "but as soon as | get it
it will be reported by the post Office
of the company and l will be fired
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-20

participate in the great national convention
called for September 9, when the new union will
be founded.
The advance guard has long ago started.
This confession of Lewis must be made to open
the eyes of new scores Of thousands of coal
miners who have been slow to see and believe.
On to the September convention!
The mine workers will not consent to be
slaves forever
On with the great new union of coal miners