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The daily worker., 1928-05-08
textile PICKETS
keep MILLS SHUT
Balk Attempt to Reopen
Several Plants
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the gates of the factories closed tight
Now that the officialdom of the
American Federation of Textile
Operatives, has openly declared itself
opposed to the organization of chill
dren, the local city politicians led by
Mayor Ashley, has made statements
to the press denouncing the organi-
zation of children. The mayor re-
fused to grant the application of the
Textile Mill Committees, under whose
auspices the childrens' clubs were
formed, to obtain the use of several
city Fairgrounds for meetings.
Hundreds Join Clubs.
Elizabeth Donneley, organizer for
the relief station of the Workers In
ternational. Relief, who is also the
leader of the childrens' groups, de-
clares that in spite of all opposition
hundreds of children are joining the
clubs daily. Glasses on the reasons
for the strike an don unionism are
being held daily, as are the general
meetings where the children are
taught strike songs.
The Girl Scouts of America sent a
special emissary to the headquarters
of the Mill Committees, where the
children meet, to request Elizabeth
Donneley to cease organizing the
children for the picket line and in
support of the strike. Miss Hall, the
Girl Scout representative, in an in
terview with the local papers later,
admitted that she questioned each
child in the strike headquarters as to
whether he would rather be else
where than at the meeting, and had
received a negative reply from each.
Miss Donneley seems to have the con-
fidence of every child even though
she is only % years old, said the Girl
Scout agent, who has been working
in that organization for over twenty
years.
The daily worker., 1928-05-08

hired at basic rate of so cents to
55 cents an hour. Where the old
men have gone back for the Jobs
they have been advised to look for
work elsewhere. These new men
are not so skilled, but they are do
ing the work from SO to SIP less
per week.
General Electric unskilled at
Schenectady who were receiving
45 cents to 81 cents an hour are
now going to work at from 81 cents
10 45 cents per hour, with piece
work established throughout the
entire plant and many of the piece
work rates cut.
Unskilled workers in the United
states are generally unorganized.
Today hundreds of thousands Of
them are out of work. They and
their families are alike suffering.
Since there is no organization to
hold them steady, they are tearing
one another to pieces for jobs and
driving the wage rates for un-
skilled labor below the subsistence
level.
The daily worker., 1928-05-08
By SCOTT NEARING, (Fed. Press).
kkNTTD fharr ,.a <.IoI 70 ,.ro,.lr g.,

By SCOTT NEARING, (Fed. Press)
"CURE they are glad to work for
y 35 cents an hour. Many of
them are waiting for chance to
step in and take a job at any price"
Detroit, the Motor City; center of
much-heralded prosperity. The man
speaking conducts an employment
office for Negro labor.
A few months ago unskilled
Negro workers in Detroit received
As to 55 cents an hour. Today they
are standing in line for jobs at 35
cents.
What else can they do?" de-
manded my informant. Would
you have them starve? Some of
them have been out of work for 5
and 6 months. They have families.
35 cents is better than nothingn'
These same assertions are being
made and this same drama is be-
ing enacted in industrial centers all
over the United States at the pres
ent time. Not in all industrial
centers, but in some of the most
important.
The daily worker., 1928-05-08
HOLD z JOBLESS
Meets TOMORROW

The New York Council for the I'm
employed will continue its drive for
relief for the unemployed with three
meetings tomorrow and Thursday.
Two meetings are scheduled tomor-
row. Richard Moore, L. Baum, and
Fort-Lovett Whiteman will speak at
an open air mass meet at 138th st.
and Lenox Ave. at p. m. tomorrow.
Baum and Philip Frankfeld will ad-
dress meeting of the unemployed
at 101 w. 9th st. at II a. m. tomor-
row. The speakers at Thursdays
meeting at 138th St. and st. Anne's
Ave-, Bronx, will be Baum, Frankfeld
and Padgug.
The daily worker., 1928-05-08
Negro Lynched After
NAACP Report

MIAMI, May An unidentified
Negro was lynched by posse Of
pursuers half an hour after he had
shot and killed Philip H. Lee, chief
of police at Hallandale. No motive
for the shooting was established.
The affair at Miami comes just the
day after a report of the National
Association for the Advancement Of
Colored People, through its secretary
James Weldon Johnson, which stated
that no lynching anywhere in the
United States had been reported dur
ing the first third of the year 1923
The daily worker., 1928-05-08
Non-Union Agency for
Seamen Kept by Senate

WASHINGTON, May z (FP). -
Without a rollcall, the U. S. senate
voted on Friday to withdraw its
amendment to the independent offices
appropriations bill that would abol-
ish the sea service bureau of the
shipping board. Andrew Furuseth,
for the international Seamen's Union
Of America, had appealed to Martin
Madden, late chairman of the house
appropriations committee, to abolish
this bureau, which has been useless
and has had no legal status since the
war. The board has kept it alive.
While pretending to train young men
The daily worker., 1928-05-08
II MISSING AS
VESSEL SINKS
Crew of AT Imperilled
by Crash

Seventeen members of the crew Of
AZ Of the government dredge Nevasink
were missing late yesterday after it
was rammed and sunk in the Narrows
in a collision with the tanker Swim
burn, off Stapleton, L. I.
Nineteen members of the crew
swan ashore, distance of quarter
of mile. Others were picked up by
lifeboats sent out by the liner Adri-
attic and the liner Caronia and are now
in various hospitals where they are
being treated.
The sunken scow had been dredg-
ing the narrows half mile from pier
10, and had heavy cargo of wet
sand at the time Of the accident.
The daily worker., 1928-05-08

TAMMANY SHOWS
HAND IN S T { AL
IN FARE R AISE
Workers Party Leads
Fight on 7c Fare
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the attorney for various traction lines
held a meeting last Wednesday at
which no members of the Board of
Estimate were preesnt and there de-
cided upon plan which amounts
practically to preventing the city
from defending itself against the trac-
tion ring.
Closely Guarded.
Few details of this meeting were
available but it is known that mem
bers of the Board Of Estimate, the
body which is the highest in author
ity to act for the city in the matter,
have been aroused by the attempt to
keep them out Of the "dear' in which
in other years they have always been
permitted to share.
Joseph V. Mckee, president of the
Board of Aldermen, in particular Is
said to be up in arms. At the same
time it is understood that whatever
difference may exist is temporary
and will not prevent Tammany from
carrying out its original aim to hand
the traction lines the increased fare
after election.
Active preparations for a city
wide campaign to preevnt the Greet
fare Steal through the only way this
can now be done, the rallying of the
masses Of workers and strap hangers
have been going on under the initia-
tive Of the Workers (Communist)
Party, District 2. The Workers
Party, which has been alone in the
fight against the fare steal, has al
ready held a number of mass meet
ings, but the campaign will actually
begin in earnest with nearly dozen
ynass meetings scheduled for tonight
and dozens of others which are being
planned for this week and next.
Meetings scheduled for tonight Will.
be held at Fifth Ave. and 10th St.
138th st. and Sixth Ave, First Ave.
and 10th St., Second Ave. and 10th
St., Rutgers Square and Union Square
(south end); also at Steinway and
Jamaica Ave, Jamaica, L. l., Wilkins
and Intervale Ave-, Bronx; 138th St
and st. Anne's Ave, Bronx.
Among the speakers at the NEE
ings will be William w. Weinstoac
organizer of district Q; Bert Miller
organization secretary Of the district;
Juliet Stuart Poy ntz, D. Benjamin
assistant director Of the Workers
School; other speakers will be Rich
ard Moore, Phil Arenberg. M. Castrell
Chas. Mitchell, J. Sultan, Harry
Blake, Sylvan A. Pollack, ]. 0. Ben
tall, S. Hessin, NJ Markoff, Phil
Frankfeldt, John Sherman and II
Gordon.
eight the Fare Stear' and Cor
ganize q Labor Party" are the key
note slogans of the campaign.
In statement issued by the social
ist party yesterday, it was declared
that Tammany Hall had defeated
dylan and imposed Walker upon the
city," This was indicated as an evil
dence of the responsibility which Tam
many bears for the fare steal. The
statement, which was apparently di-
rected to secure the favor of former
Mayor Hylan, who has announced his
candidacy for mayor in 1929, is taken
in quarters to mean that the social
lists may be willing to endorse Hylan.
In other quarters, however, it is
thought that the socialists will again
support AL. Smith, chef Tammany
leader, as many of them did in 1924,
particularly the socialist leaders in
the needle trades.
The daily worker., 1928-05-08
Meet to Protest u. S.
Rule in Haiti Sunday

A protest meeting against the Wall
Street control of Haiti will be held
Sunday, May 13, at 2 p. M, at New
Harlem Casino, 80 w. 116th St., under
the joint auspices of the All-America
Anti-Imperialist League and the
Haitian Patriotic Union.
Among the speakers will be Will
liam Pickens, of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Col
ored People; Henry Rosemond, of the
Haitian Patriotic Union; Manuel Go
nez, U. S. secretary of the All
America Anti-Imperialist League.
and Robert Minor, editor of The
DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker., 1928-05-08
ONLY Permanent
ORGANIZATION or
CLOTH MAKERS
Mill Committees Strike
Heads Popular
BY HARVEY O'CONNoR.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, May
(FP)-Textile mill committees, which
have sprung up in various parts of
New England since last winter, have
taken firm hold in New Bedford, fol-
lowing the strike of 10000 workers
against a 10 per cent wage reduction,
The mill committees represent a
new departure in efforts to organize
American workers. They are COM
pletely independent of existing
unions and, according to officials
have new concepts and tactics in tex
tile organization.
In New Bedford, the mill commit
tees have organized a strike commit
tee of 27 members, representing most
of the big mills. In neighboring Fall
River, committees have been organ
lied in Is mills, according to W. T
Murdoch, youthful Scottish weaver
who is New England secretary.
Mill Units Best Form.
Organization by mills better fits
new trends in the textile industry
than does craft organization, Muir
doch argues. Craft organization in
New Bedford has produced unions
composed almost wholly of the skilled
he declares. The unskilled masses, diff
ficult in any case to place in unions.
feel themselves out of the picture
completely under present craft forms.
In addition craft distinctions are
breaking down as automatic machin-
cry becomes more prevalent.
The textile mill committees believe,
in the present demoralized state of
the textile industry. that complete
and effective organization will not be
possible for years. Existing unions
have been losing ground since 1921
they point out, as mill after mill slips
away from trade union control.
The committees propose a flexible,
mobile organization of the most ac-
tive workers in each mill. Arguing
from experience in other industries,
and particularly in French textiles,
they assert that such committees, ef-
fectively led, will mobilize the con-
fidence and enthusiasm Of unorgan-
lied workers in strikes and demon
strations. AS the committees grow
stronger, closer organization will be
possible. But for the present espion-
age and workers fear of losing their
jobs through agitating keep thou
sands out of the unions who would
be willing to follow an aggressive
committees lead, concludes Murdoch.
National Body.
Textile mill committee organizers
are active in New England, Pennsyl-
yania and the south, says Murdoch
Within two or three months a ma
tional convention will be held, either
in New York or Providence. From
New Bedford, they hope to spread the
fine cotton goods strike to nearby
Taunton and Fall River, and to fine
goods mills in the Pawtuxet and
Blackstone Valleys of Rhode Island
The committees right hand in the
New Bedford strike is the Workers
International Relief, which is opening
kitchens and grocery stores. W. I. R
promises to play an invaluable SER
vice in keeping hitherto unorganized
strikers from returning to the mills
The much-heralded citizens commit
tee, which was to give food to unor-
ganized workers while the unions
cared for their own members, has
raised only $400 in addition to the
$1,000 given by the textile unions.
The daily worker., 1928-05-08
Negro Women Organize

A meeting to organize Negro WON
en- workers into unions was held at
the headquarters of the Community
Progressive Painters Union, Negro
organization at 149 w. 136th st. The
question of securing a living wage
and improved working conditions for
Negro working women was the topic
of discussion.
The daily worker., 1928-05-08
NATIONAL Guard
S T O P Relief TO
Mine STRIKERS
Strike Breaking Move
Fails

Especial to The DAILY WORKER)
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, May 7.
Due to a '1sck of funds" the Ohio
National Guard will discontinue it's
work of relief among the children of
striking miners in Eastern Ohio after
May Is, according to an announce
ment made by Adjutant- General
Frank Henderson.
Real PurpCsed Revealed.
The announcement that the "re
lief work will stop follows the
revelation of the state militia in it's
true light which took place two weeks
ago when Colonel Don Caldwell in
command of the National Guard here
tricked fifty-one women pickets into
the Belmont county jail after they
protested against the arrest of five
of their leaders.
The National Guard established
kitchens where they dispensed food
to school children last January % fol-
lowing a proclamation ordering such
kitchens which was issued by Gov
ernor A. Y. Donahey, who is con-
sidered to be quite large stick of
presidential timber in democratic
circles. A small state appropriation
was made for opening several of the
kitchens. The period at which the
Kitchens were opened comedies with
the period at which intensified mass
rNialra+i17or r+
strike region.
Real Reason.
The discontinuance of relief has
come at the moment when the coal
operators have been forced to realize
that the move to break the strike by
this method had utterly failed.
Sheriff Hardesty of Belmont
county, who caused the arrests at
Lansing and at St. Clairsville, in
speaking of the mass picketing
carried on by the miners following
the arrests, said to reporters, 81 in
tend to put stop to this business
if it takes all summer. I'm quite
certain that the National Guard will
cooperate with me-"
Recent testimony of a representa-
tive of Ohio mine operators revealed
that numerous Ohio mines had com
plete arsenals stored away on the
mine premises and ready for instant
use in case mine authorities deemed
it necessary. The munitions included
tear gas, machine guns, riot guns,
rifles, pistols, and sky rockets for use
at night.
Rank and File Work.
No special agents are sent into the
field to distribute aid by the Ma
tional Miners Relief Committee. Rank
and file administration committees
are elected from each local. These
committees receive and distribute the
shipments of food which are consigned
from the office of the National
Miners Relief Committee to each To-
cal union. The two carloads of flour
and staple foods sent to Eastern
Ohio by the committee two weeks ago
was apportioned among As local
unions by representatives from each
local.
The withdrawal of its relief by the
Ohio National Guard will Immediately
intensity the necessity for food in
the affected strike territory. Closing
of schools, another reason offered by
the militia for the discontinuance of
its relief activity, will leave thou
sands of children facing conditions
near actual starvation unless food is
Immediately and regularly sent them
The daily worker., 1928-05-08

thorough canvass of the states Of
New York, New Jersey and Massachu-
setts.
These seven students, who have
spent the past few months in COM
bining the theoretical study of the
class struggle with active participa-
The daily worker., 1928-05-08

tour. "All members of the Workers
Party in these three states," declared
A. Ravitch, circulation manager of
The DAILY WORKER yesterday,
"and all other class conscious work
ers should do everything possible to
help these seven National Training
The daily worker., 1928-05-08
MOBILE AT sPITzBERGEN.

CORDOVA, Alaska, May 7.-The
dirigible Italia was at Spitzbergen
today after hop from Vadsoe, Nor
way, on the Mobile expedition to the
North Pole, according to radio mes
sage intercepted by the government
wireless station here.
The daily worker., 1928-05-08

tion in That struggle, will now be
called on to give further evidence of
their ability to lead the fights of the
American workers. The tour that they
will make to secure subscriptions to
The Daily Worker will be an effort to
bring to greater sections of the Arneri-
The daily worker., 1928-05-08

can workingclass the newspaper tina
lis their personal organ and is essen
tial to them in their numerous strug-
giles.
Thousands of workers of New
York, New Jersey and Massachusetts
will be reached in the course of this
The daily worker., 1928-05-08
REACTION ENDORSES SMITH.

PROVIDENCE, May 7.-Endorse
ment of All Smith and president
George L. Berry, misleader of the
Pressmen's Union, has been run thru
the Rhode Island Federation of Labor
by the reactionary officialdom.
The daily worker., 1928-05-08

School students in their efforts to ex-
tend the influence of The DAILY
WORKER. These three states are
among the most highly industrialized
in the country, with consequent inten-
sive exploitation of the workers. Now
more than ever do these workers need
The daily worker., 1928-05-08

The newspaper that fights for them
all the time. Every class conscious
worker of New York, New Jersey and
Massachusetts, should heed the ap-
peals of these seven workingclass stu
dents and subscribe at once to The
DAILY WORKER"
The daily worker., 1928-05-08

Seven members of the National Stu
dents Training School of the Workers
School are leaving next Monday to be-
gin subscription tour for The
DAILY WORKER. They will make
The daily worker., 1928-05-08
BOSTON POLICE
BAR DELEGATES
Cloak Convention Fake,
Say Workers
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(Continaed from Page One)
rank and file, are preparing to fight
each other for complete control of the
hulk that was once a powerful Inter
national union.
The fascist boss of the so-called
pressers' union in New York, Breslau.
who is the ommander-in-chief of
Schlesinger's fight for the presidency.
was busy making statements to the
press that Schlesinger will run for
office even if their referendum reso-
luton falls through.
The referendum" was demanded
by the Schlesinger-Breslau gang be-
cause Sigman seems to be in control
of majority of the fake delegates
here, hoping that by taking the cleo
tion of the president off the conven-
tion floor Sigman may be beaten. 1t
is apparent, however, that Sigman has
used his usual methods of obtaining
majorities, and will order this resolu-
tion beaten. A fight is also expected
tomorrow when the credential com
mittee brings in it's recommendation
The Breslau gang will seek to wrest
control from Sigman, by challenging
the validity of some of Sigman's
delegates"
Hyman's Statement.
In statement issued yesterday
Louis Hyman, leader of the left wing
delegation, declared that the delega-
ton is determined to carry out the in
struction given them by tens of thou
sands of cloakmakers whom they
represent. These instructions are
that in the event that the cliques in
control of the convention refuse to
permit the honestly elected represen-
tatives of the workers to participate
in the convention, and to rebuild the
union, the left wing leaders are in
structed to Immediately begin to lay
the basis for the rebuilding of the
union shattered by the right wing.
All contributions should be addressed
now to the National Miners, Relief
Committee, GIL Penn Avenue, Pitts
The daily worker., 1928-05-08

All contributions should be addressed
now to the National Miners Relief
Committee, GIL Penn Avenue, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
Evening star., 1928-12-12

have a nice dinner for us, won't you?"
Yvonne flushed with pleasure. Il
shall have grand dinner. mon ami,
trust Yvonne"
She was ve1V happy to think that
Richard would ask friend to dinner.
The preparations would fill her days.
She loved TO be busy.
The following day she sat thinking,
planning what she would do. She
looked at herself in the mirror, Won
dering what Richards friends would
think of her. She wanted to look well
for Richards sake. She smoothed
down her full blue skirt and patted
her white cap in place. Suddenly she
clapped her hands. She would make
herself new dress, all of silk.
She hurried through her housework
and down to the department store.
There she fingered fine soft silks and
crepe.
She was filled with happiness over
the thought of Richards generosity to
her. Back at the house she began her
work. There was a sewing machine,
but this she scorned. Her fingers flew
as she set the fine neat stitches, her
eyes danced as her work progressed
and she hummed a lively little song
of old Normandy as she worked. She
spent every possible moment of her
time at the costume, working until
late at night to get it finished.
In four days it was complete and
she laid it on her bed while she went
down to get the dinner. After dinner
she would slip upstairs and put it on
for Richards approval Suppose he
did not like it! True 1t was not an
American dress, but it was made of
American materials, and Yvone knew
she loked far simmer and lovelier
in it than in her own stiff costumes
from home.
Richard was surprised when, after
dinner, as he sat reading his paper,
his wife placed her hand softly on his
shoulder and said, Look Richard.
have a new dress, do you like it?"
He looked up startled. Had Yvonne
disobeyed his injunction? Was she
standing there just beside him in
fapper dress? For moment he Won
dered how she would look in such an
outfit, then he turned and gazed.
The soft materials draped about her
figure made her seem younger and
simmer. She wore lace cap on her
brown curlS which she had let fall
about her neck. She made him a deep
curtsey and then stood, hands folded,
watching him with her heart in her
eyes
Richard gasped. He had not dreamed
Evening star., 1928-12-12

she would DE expected to sit with the
two men at dinner. She was cook and
waitress in one Richard was the host.
She had a tiny apron frilled and
starched, which she would wear when
serving. In the kitchen she would slip
into the big all-over apron. Perhaps
after dinner Richard would introduce
her and she would sit with the two men
for a little in the living room. Now she
cast an anxious eye at the clock. She
hoped they would not be late. She had
timed things so carefully. She regretted
the absence of wines and liquors. They
were needed to give bouquet to the din
, ner, to sharpen TIE appetite.
Richard came in as she was beating
the eggs for her souffle. Her kitchen
Shone as though she expected the guests
| to dine there.
"All ready, Yvonne?" he said, laying
hand on her shoulder.
"All ready" she said, anxiously
wrinkling her brow. II hope your frined
will no. be late"
"He won't" said Richard, laughing
HE loves to eat and I told him you
were a wonderful cook. Did you get q
girl to come in to wash the dishes anc
so on for you?"
But no! Why should have a clumsy
American girl here? shall manage il
all myself"
"All right, my dear; but 1t will keer
you busy and 1 don't know that l like
to have you jumping up from the table
all the time"
But I shall not be jumping up from
the table. I shall stay here and serve
you as you are ready"
Richard was astounded. He glanced
through the door to the dining room
Sure enough, only two places we're laid
But, Yvonne," he protested, "yoU
are my wife, the hostess, not my cook.
Yvonne set her mouth stubbornly
"I will not have my delicious dinner
spoiled, Richard" she said. Il will be
very happy to sit with you after din
ner if you wish, but you must not ask
me to leave my good dinner to spoil"