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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
COAL DIGCERS TO
FIGHT FOR union,
BLOCK FRAME-UP
Adopt Big Program to
Save u. NJ. w. A.

WILKES-BARRE, Feb. 20. - Sam
Grecio, shot by gunmen said to have
been employed by coal company agents
working with the Cappelini n1achine
of District /, United Mine Workers
of America, is lingering between life
and death in a hospital here.
There has been no relaxing Of the
tension caused by this latest outrage
of reaction.
Meanwhile preparations are CONS
pleted for the funeral of Frank Agati.
personal bodyguard of Cappelini from
whose magnificent home will proceed
today funeral organized by the Cap
pelini machine as a demonstration
against the rank and file opposition.
Frank Bonito, rank and file presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Colliery Lo-
cal union at Pittston, whose friends
state he shot Agati in self defense is
held in Jail here without bail.
A resolution pledging support to
Bonito was adopted by the "Save the
Union" conference which met here
yesterday attended by 123 delegates,
number of additional delegates coming
in the afternoon.
In statement issued to the press
an hich will be circulated widely in
Z strlcts One, Seven and Nine of the
United Mine Workers Of America in
leaflet form, and signed by l. Dzieng-
elewski as chairman, the serious crisis
in the union here is analyzed and a
complete program for combating coal
company influence and building the
union outlined. An executive and
defense committee was elected by the
conference and it is planned to begin
at once the work of organizing the
progressive miners for support of the
program.
Powers Hapgood, Pat Toohey,
George Papcun and others spoke on
the situation in the union and various
points of the program. Martin Abern
spoke for the International Labor De-
fense. The conference was en.husi-
astic and marked a real step toward
development of the progressive move
ment in spite of the difficult condi-
tions under which it was held.
Plans for conferences in Districts Z
and 9 have been made as well as for
ano her conference in District 1. These
meetings will be followed by tri-dis-
trict conference.
Support was pledged to the Penn
sylvania and Ohio strike and to the
Continued on Page T1oo)
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gesture for labor's political support.
The figures are based on states
ments by the Urban League. Unem-
ployment among the Negro workers
is increased by the general policy of
segregation and discrimination fol-
lowed by the organized employing IN
terests and other property owners,
Reports to The DAILY WORKER
show that the condition of the Negro
workers of Harlem and other New
York districts under industrial de-
preston is repeated in every indus
trial and agricultural region of the
United States where Negroes are en-
ployed in large numbers.
Unemployment is growing more
acute generally. One free social serv-
ice employment agency in the Bronx
New York, reports TIC applicants for
every 100 jobs.
Alexander Mcclellan, 21-year-old
clerk, out of work for many months,
hanged himself in the cellar of his
home in Brooklyn Sunday.
James Mahoney, 59-Xear-old home
less and jobless worker, collapsed in
the 1. R. 7. subway entrance at E.
42nd St. In his weakened condition,
the starving worker was only able to
say that he had eaten nothing for
several days. He was removed to
Bellevue Hospital, where his condition
was so serious he was unable to take
food.
When policemen broken into the
door of basement apartment at 531
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
Open SHOP drive
ON WOLL'S union

CHICAGO, Feb. 20. - A move in
the extension of the employers coun-
trywide open-shop drive is seen here
in the order by the Federal Trade
Commission banning clause 10 of the
standard wage agreement of the
Photo-engravers' International of
which Matthew Woll is president.
Clause 10 in effect bound union
members to refuse to work for firms
that cut standard prices to the public
for photoengraving. The result was
high prices and enormous profits. The
trade commission found 80 firms
making over 80 per cen profit. 1t
held clause 10 of the union agreement
a conspiracy in restraint of fair COM
petition. The clause was adopted in
1917 and complaint was made in 1922.
Woll Campaigns for Bosses.
Pres. Matthew Woll of the union
has been active ever since 1928 in agi-
tation agains the antitrust laws that
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
CHARGE DEAL IN
L.R. T.FARE MOVE
Workers Go to Mass
Meeting Tonight
By ROBERT MITCHELL.

Charges that officials of the Anal
gamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees, the trac-
tion union, are behind the move to
boost the fare were made yesterday
in connection with the union drive
which union officials announce will
begin all over again tonight with a
meeting at Harlem Casino, 100 W.
116th st.
Details of the alleged deal by which
the |. R. T. has agreed to recognize
the union in turn for support of its
efforts to put over the fare steal,
were given out at the moment that
union officials were announcing that
a demand for recognition would be
made on the company tonight.
Overtures, it was stated, have not
been carried on directly but thru a
properly diplomatic third party. That
these charges are not unfounded is
indicated by the fact that James H.
Coleman, local organizer for the In
ternational, refused to deny them
when first approached. eve could
not discuss such a matter even if
true" was his reply when asked to
comment on the situation. He ap-
peared considerably astonished rather
than indignant at the charges.
1t can be openly stated that Cole
man more than a year ago expressed
his view in sympathy with the In
terborougn increased fare move. Sat
Continued on Page FiVe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
ilernbers Of c. E. c. to
Report on Pl3num at
Special Section Meetings

Reports of the recent plenary
meeting of the Central Committee,
Workers (Communist) Party, will
be given at special section meet
ings of the Party to be held this
week. Members of the Central
Committee will report at the
meetings.
Tonight's meetings are as fol-
lows: Section / at 60 St. Marks
Place at p. M; Section 2 at 101
w. 9th st. at p. M; Section 5
at POTS Clinton Ave. at 8 p. m. !;
Section 6 at 29 Graham Ave. at
8 p. m. and Section 7 at 764 doth
st. at 8 p. m.
Section 3 will meet Thursday at
7 p. m. at 101 w. 9th st. and
Section 4 will meet the same eve
ming at 143 E. 103rd st. at s
o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
MERCHANTS PLAN
FOR AID IS FIAsC0
Relief for Pennsylvania
Miners Proves Fraud
By t. ]. O'FLAHERTY.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 20
Greeks bearing gifts have always
been considered legitimate targets for
skepticism since the classical Trojan
episode, and Pittsburgh businessmen
who announced they would raise
funds to feed and clothe those re-
duced to nakedness and starvation
thru big business conspiracies against
their right to organize into trade
unions, are now looked upon by
striking miners with much the same
kind of an eye that was directed on
the contents of the Trojan horse by
the inhabitants of the beleagured
city.
A Real Fake.
Here in Pittsburgh, bankers and
business men recently broke into the
front page of the capitalist press with
we'll organized ballyhoo about what
they were going to do for the desti-
tute families of the striking miners.
But the whole thing was fake
and false alarm. So much SO in
deed, that Arthur E. Braun, Presi-
dent of the Farmers Deposit Ma
tional Bank and treasurer of the
business mems fund refuses to make
public the amount collected.
Fifty of the most prominent busi-
ness men in Pittsburgh attended the
meeting at which this committee was
organized. Each was urged to con-
tribute one thousand dollars. Evi-
IDENTIFY word was passed along by the
heads of the Mellon banking house
and Of the Pittsburgh Coal Company
and the Pittsburgh Terminal Goa.
Corporation that any monlzeying with
their strikebreaking conspiracy woulc.
be a dangerous diversion for those
participating. The result is that SO
far, the Pittsburgh business mems
committee has not put doughnut
into the mouth of a single hungry
strikers child.
In Ohio, governor Donahey is rails
ing funds for relief thru the medium
(Conr1nued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
URGES Immediate
DISARMAMENT IN
LEAGUE MESSAGE
Would Provide Jobs for
Soldiers and Sailors

MOSCOW, Feb. 20.-The Soviet
Union has submitted to the League of
Nations another proposal for COM
plete and immediate disarmament for
consideration by the preparatory dis
armament commission, it was an
nounced this afternoon. If possible
the Soviet Union will attempt to get
the proposals before the security
commission which began a series of
meetings in Geneva today.
The suggestions are contained in a
concrete covenant, based upon the
proposals made by Maxim Litvinoff
to the preparatory disarmament COM
mission in Geneva last November.
The convention would order complete
world disarmament and demobiliza-
tion of land, sea and air forces with
in four years, but would "limit the
possibility of armed conflicts within
one year" by immediate reductions of
all fighting forces.
Immediate Reduction.
Under the terms of the convention,
the signatory powers would be bound
to reduce their armed forces 80 per
cent Immediately. Furthermore, the
nations would be compelled to de-
stroy at once all arms and munitions;
demobilize reserve troops, dismantle
all warships and close all military
training establishments.
The convention provides that, fol-
lowing the partial disarmament dur
ing the first year, complete disarma-
ment shall be effected within the fol-
lowing three years.
Work For Soldiers.
There was a departure from the
original Litvinoff proposals in that
the Soviet Union now suggest the
creation of an international control
commission and district control com
missions composed of representatives
of the national legislatures, the pub
lie and the working classes. 1t would
be the duty of these commissions to
enforce disarmament. The soldiers,
sailors and airmen who would be
Thrown out of work" by disarma-
ment would be supported by the vari-
(Con.inated ON Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
DETROIT WORKERS
JEER NUSSOLINI
Demonstrate Against
Giacoma Despite Cops

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 20.-Defy-
ing slugging and clubbing by uni
ean~'od rl'~onaen and plaincl thes
detectives, 800 working men and wo-
men demonstrated their contempt for
fascism upon the arrival Of Musso-
lini's personal representative, Baron
Giacoma, at the Union Station here
today
AS Giacoma, Italian ambassador to
the United States, came thru the
Front st. entrance, the large police
force charged the crowd which greet
ed the fascist agent with jeers and
cries of "Down with Fascism."
Police Superintendent Sprott gave
the order to uniformed men; mounted
and on foot; detectives from the ho-
micide and black hand squads and
detectives in cars with the .ops low
cred for action, to drive away the
demonstrators.
After using their fists on men and
women indiscriminately, and swing
ing their clubs down upon the heads
Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
MONEY TO HELP
PAPER IS RUSHED
Workers Thruout u. S.
Respond to Appeal

The campaign to wreck The DAILY
WORKER and smash the militant
American labor movement is drawing
to a head as the re-arrest of VIM. F.
Dunno, Bert Miller and Alex Bittel-
man is hourly expected. The Jhree
Communists are still out on $1,000
bail apiece and the courts who are
carrying out the instructions of the
American capitalists in his drive to
exterminate militancy in the United
States are preparing to strike again.
The American workers who from
one end of the United S ates to the
other, have responded to the appeal
to save their only militant English
daily paper will be called upon to in
tensify the struggle agains. the con-
spiracy by which the capitalists are
threatening the existence of the
DAILY WORKER.
Dozens of workers who bring their
contribu ions in person to the office
of the DAILY WORKER every day,
scores of donations and letters of sup
port and confidence from workers all
over the United States, are the living
testimony % the determination of the
militant American workers to rescue
their paper and to defeat the often
sive which the capitalists have begun
against them.
Con ributions sent by groups of
workers and by individuals vary from
a few cents to hundreds of dollars.
{t ontiRued on. :-q1e UoI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
COOL LIDGE FUNDS
TRACED TO OIL
Walsh Traces Bonds to
Harry F. Sinclair

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-Definite
proof that Harry F. Sinclair, oil mag
nate involved in the Teapot Dome
scandals, had helped subsidize the
campaign which elected Harding and
Coolidge in 1920, has been obtained
by Senator Thomas j. Walsh (D) of
Montana, it was learned today. Every
one of the $4,000 in Liberty Bonds
used by the Republican National Com
mittee to pay off debt with the
Empire Trust Company, in 1928, has
beer traced back to the Golfers of
the Continental Trading Company,
Walsh announced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
HAVANA CONFAB
ENDS. IN FIASC0

HAVANA, Feb. 20.-The sixth
Pan-American conference ended to-
day with almost nothing accomplish
ed. At full plenary session the
delegates representing all the Amer
lean nations formally ratified the
achievements" of the conference by
signing its "final acts"
The signatures covered declara-
tions, resolutions and recommenda-
tons as well as the stiles" of the
treaties and conventions agreed upon
by the representatives of the Fl re-
publics during their five weeks of de-
iberations.
The intervention question has been
shelved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21

ne creation OF party which hopes
secure its detectives by bargain
ng with the two old parties is seen
N the announcement made by Julius
Gerber, local secretary of the social
ist party, of the plans for the coming
eonven. ion of that party.
One hundred men and women So
cialist party leaders of New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the
New England states, have been
named on the action committee, il
was stated by Mr.. Gerber. Heading
the committee are Morris Hillquit,
attorney and stockholder in capitalist
ventures, and James Oneal, editor of
the New Leader" Others on the
committee are: Norman Thomas,
VIM. Feigenbaum, Edward Karlin,
August Claessens and Judge Jacob
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
POLICE ENFORCEB B.S. A. u. EXPULSION
Union Officials Lead Thugs in Attack Clerical Workers

self assaulted several of the women
members. Another member, not in
cluded in the "disassociated" "a, but
who had spoken in their defense at a
meeting held by the union officials
in the Amalgamated Bank recently,
was likewise prevented from entering
the meeting last night. E. Steinber-
ger, president of the union, presided
at the meeting and gave the official
sanction for the gangster attack.
Ernest Bohm, who organized the COM
pany union in the Amalgamated
Bank, was likewise present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21

Police and gangsters last night en-
forced the expulsion order issued by
officials of the Bookkeepers', Steno-
graphers' and Accountants Union Of
"a members of the organization.
These workers recently voted to sup
port strike to bring about the REIN
statement of Harry Rubin, who had
been summarily discharged from the
Amalgamated Bank for union activ-
ity.
Twenty-four individual letters had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
DAILY" Benefit
AT PLAYWRIGHTS
Readers to See Colds
"Hoboken Blues"

DAILY WORKER readers win
meet tomorrow night at the New
Playwrights' Theatre, 40 Commerce
St., near Seventh Ave-, at a special
benefit performance of Michael Colds
new play, "Hoboken Blues"
Tomorrow afternoon the house Is
being taken over by the Youth Com
mittee for Miners Relief, and on
Friday night the students of the Jew
ish University, 10th st. near Irving
Place, will see the play.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21

been sent out by the union advising
these members of the fact that they
had been "disassociated" from the
union. This new word for expulsion
did not prevent these union officials
from calling the police and their regu-
lar gangster squad who prevented the
I'd members from attending the regu-
lar union meeting at w. 10th St.,
last night.
Walter Cook, accountant for the
union, former state secretary of the
socialist party, led the gangster at
tack against the workers and him
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
TWO ALARM HARLEM FIRE.

Twenty families were driven to the
street, two firemen and two tenants
were injured, and damage amounting
to thousands of dollars was caused
early yesterday by a two-alarm fire
in five-story apartment house at
1O2d St. and Third Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
Dresser Returns from
Soviet Union Tomorrow

Theodore Dresser, noted American
novelist, will return to the United
States on the "Minnetonka" tomorrow
morning after a three months visit
in Europe, and particularly in Soviet
Union, where he went as the guest
of Workers International Relief, l
Union Square. Dresser arrived in the
q. S. S. r. in time for the Tenth
Anniversary celebrations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
Workers Theatre Will
Present One-Act Plays

The Workers Theatre, 81 Charles
ST., will present three one-act plays
on two successive nights, March 5
and II, at the Triangle Theatre, 7th
Ave. near 11th st. The plays are
"The Renegade" by Karl Witfogel:
"The Scab," by Max Geltman;
Aftermath" Negro play
presented by Negro cas-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
ARREST PICKET
AT DRESS SHOP
Active Cloakmakers to
Meet Thursday Night

Rose Katz, member of the Dress
makers Local % of the Joint Board
of the Cloak and Dressmakers' Union,
was arrested yesterday r1orning while
picketing in front of the shop of the
Rose Dress Company, 260 w. 40th
st. She, together with large num-
Der of workers who turned out for
picket duty, had been ordered to re-
frain from picketing this plant by the
police. When this order was defied
by the workers, the police, in an at
tempt to intimidate the strikers, be-
gan to make arrests. However, they
held only one picket.
Case Postponed.
At Jefferson Market Court where
the case came up later a postpone
ment was secured till Friday. The
shop in question had been called on
strike because the employers had
made an attempt to force the work
ers to register in the right wing dual
union. A lockout followed the re-
fusal of the workers to comply.
Meeting Thursday.
The Joint Board announced yester-
day that a meeting of all the active
union members will be held on Thurs
day evening at Webster Hall, 18th St.
and Third Ave-, at 8 o'clock. The
leaders of the Joint Board will report
on the situation in the union, it is
announced, and will propose plans for
future work.
Another announcement issued by
the Cloakmakers' Joint Board calls
upon all cloak and dressmakers to
stay away from their shops tomorrow,
Washington's birthday. This day is
a legal holiday and according to the
agreement is to be paid for in full.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
T.U.E.L. Meet Tuesday

A general membership meeting of
the Trade Union Educational League,
Local New York, will be held Tuesday
at Irving Plaza. Irving Place and
18th ST., at 8 o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
CHICAGO MUSICIANS TO STRIKE

CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-Organized
musicians here are threatening to
strike against remote control abus-
es" in radio broadcasting. They are
determined to oppose any attempt at
a spread of the Chicago practice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
Socialists Offer Terms to
Middle Class for Support

creation Interstate action committee" for the of
the capitalist
draw the dsafeeted clements from these parties and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
Re-Arrest of daily Editors Expected Momentari.
For Every Job There Are II
Unemployed Negro Workers

applicants for job this section of the
official
made public by Gov AL Smith as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21
syub All Machinery of War; Soviet Union Again Demands OF Capitalists

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF the
UNORGANIZED
FOR THE 4O-HOIR WEEK
FOR LABOR PARTY
The Washington times., 1928-12-27
YANKEES Sc Nd
REESE BACK

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-The 1929
competition for the vacant infield
berth on the champion New York
Yankees was narrowed today by the
action of the club in returning
Jimmy Reese, highly touted in.
fielder, back to the Oakland club
OF the Pacific. Coast League under
option for another years seasoning.
The Yanlxs were alleged to
have paid 100000 or more In
1927 for Reese and his team
mate. I4yn Larry, for delivery In
1929. ShOrtstOp Mark KOenig
Is slated to be moved to third
base to fill the post made va.
cant by the sale Of Joe Dugan
and Mike GazeIIa, leaving Larry
and Leo DnrOcher, n substitute,
10 fight It out for KOenig's old
job at short.
Durocher is a flashy fielder but
a. light hitter, and the Yanks were
none too steady with him in the
line.up last season. And so appre-
hensive fans expressed the fear to-
day that Manager Miller Higgins is
stalking a great deal upon his faith
in Lary's ability to make the grade
in the big league.
The Washington times., 1928-12-27

Views Of Knute Rockne, Notre
Dame football coach, on the
value of football to the lads who
would ''die for dear old Siwash,"
were reflected herein yesterday,
and today the attitude of an
other distinguished gridiron edu-
Gator, William w. Roper, of
Princeton, is registered.
Replying to recent critics who
declare football is overempha-
sized. Roper says that school,
college, and university sports
keep young men and women out
of trouble and that they fill
need in the life OF, youth which
has become greater than ever
during the last few years.
athletic sports, especially
football, are engaging public at
tention to q very great extent" "
he says. "Some persons say we
are OVERRIDING them. Perhaps
we do. We overdo most things
in America.
"What if there were no
sports ? We certainly would not
want our children to study all
day and all night, with no recres
alton at all. If there were no
football and baseball fields, ten
mis- courts and running tracks,
what would they do with their
spare time?
"There are hundreds of OPP
portunities for getting into trou-
bic today, and if it weren't for
athletics the modern boy and
girl would be occupying his or
her time with something much
worse. Sports give young men
and women the chance to get
out doors and work off their
surplus energy. If boys We're
not playing football after classes
they would probably spend their
time lounging around corners
and smoking more cigarettes
than are good for them.
"There are very definite bene-
fits derived from participation
in sports, particularly football.
Youths are taught to keep them