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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06
PITTSTON MINERS
SHUN PEACE PLAN
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against the Cappelini contractor ma
chine. Over dozen local unions have
already called for the resignation of
the Cappelini murder machine. One
general grievance committee of the
Glen Alden Coal Co. collieries at a
meeting Saturday also demanded the
immediate resignation of Cappelini.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa, March s.
Greater sacrifices and redoubled eff
forts on the part of the workers are
the results here of the attempts by
the local police and city officials to
drive back the march of the rising
progressive miners movement.
The breakup by the local police
and city authorities of the meeting at
the Armory Hall today at which over
ten thousand miners came together to
discuss the program Of the tri-district
Save the Union Committee and the
defense of Bonita, Moleski, and Men
dola, and the arresting of Powers
Hapgood and his wife, Peter Gallia,
Llco5a and other miners leaves no
doubt in the minds Of the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06
DETROIT LABOR
DONATES FUNDS
TO AID DAILY"
Stamford Communists
Cite Devotion
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other districts in the United States
to show the same devotion to their
dead leader and to the paper whose
defense was one of the central pur-
pose of his aggressive career as a
leader Of the American workers"
"As our part in concentrating
the anniversary of the death of our
dead leader, Charles E. Ruthenberg,
we are sending you $780," says a
letter accompanying the contribu-
tion from Camp Nitgedaiget.
"The paper was never in greater
danger than it is today. Now is the
time for every conscious worker to
rally to the defense of the only Eng
lish militant daily labor paper in the
world. Our contribution is only a
fraction of the wave of donations
from all over the country beneath
w<ich we must bury the campaign
our class foes have launched upon
our paper. Let every other group
of workers in the United States fol-
low the example of Camp Nitge-
daiget."
Rush your contributions to The
DAILY WORKER, 33 First ST., New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06
SPORTS IN BRIEF

recognized in New York state, and
frankie Genaro, National Boxing
champion to meet in a bout at the
Garden on March 20. The winner will
have the undisputed right to the fly
weight crown.
According to rumor in the city
yesterday, Tex Richard and a Pitts
burgh syndicate will take over the
Polo Grounds shortly. Richard has
denied that the rumor is true. He
says that he has only taken year
lease on the Polo Grounds for boxing.
Charley (PhiD Rosenberg, former
worlds champion bantamweight, has
been matched for two bouts. The
first will be with Harry Scott, At
lantic City Negro at the Olympia A.
C. Saturday night One week later he
will meet Pete Civic who knocked
out Lou Moslsowitz in the first round
last Saturday.
George Godfry, outstanding Negro
heavyweight will fight in New York
this summer. Humbret Fugazy has
received telegram from Godfeys
manager instructing him to sign the
best heavyweight available for
match.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06
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engage in mass picketing. This was
declared today at the national office
of International Labor Defense, so E.
II st.
The eight miners were sentenced by
Judge Benson N. Hough, one of the
Infamous strike injunction judges,
who gave Minerich 45 days in the
Muskingum County jail. Alex Fell
zan, Andy Lidarik, Steve Vohanck,
Louis Mozi, Joe Kuri and John Oboza
were given 80 days, and John Karlich,
IS, was given five days because of his
youth. Minerich was arrested for
speaking at mass meeting in Lam
sing, Ohio, and held on 81 900 bail.
Following the conviction, the Inter-
national Labor Defense, cooperating
with the Pennsylvania-Ohio Relief
Committee retained the well-known
attorney, Joseph STARTS of Dayton,
Ohio, VINO will work together with the
attorney for the defense in the trial,
Mrs. Dora Sande Bachman, of Column
bus, Ohio. The court would permit
Mrs. Bachman to defend only Miner
ich and not his seven co-defendants.
The Minerich case will be raised if
necessary into national issue, ac-
cording to the International Labor
Defense. Minerich maintained in
court the militant position he had ad-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06

calls on the department of labor for
a national survey of unemployment.
The secretary of labor Is instructed
to investigate unemployment and
part-time employment" report the
facts to the senate and suggest means
of getting regular reports on employ
ment conditions.
The resolution provoked democratic
senator's to attack the administra-
tons claims of prosperity IN bid
for labor support in the Forthcoming
presidential campaign.
Reports received here show that in
New York state where hundreds of
thousands are unemployed nothing
has been done by Gov. Al Smiths
democratic party administration to
relieve the growing hardship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06
SMITH CHECKS
CRAFT INQUIRY

A legislative investigation into the
Queens sewer graft charges against
Boro President Connolly, was STAYED
off by Gov. Smiths appointment of
Clarence j. Shearn to succeed Justice
Scudder in the inquiry, it was said by
members of the state legislature yes
terday.
The case had been tied up with red
tape 80 long that republican legis-
lators were anxious to step in. Ac-
cording to the legislators, democratic
leaders feared the Legislative inquiry
would not be confined to Queens alone.
BY the prompt appointment of
Shearn and the promise of immediate
action it is said Smith hopes to pre-
vent legislative interference that
might be disastrous to the democratic
party.
Charges against the police of Free
port, L. L., accused of protecting John
M. Phillips from process sewers, viii
be laid before Nassau county grand
jury. Phillips is said to have made
millions out of his sale of sewer pip
ing to Queens county. A total of
329, 800, 900 is said to hass been graft
ed over a period Of . lew Years
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06
Rautc to Stimulate Massachusetts Sub Dr1ve IN Tour for Daily Work
Mlnench Case Taken Up by
International Labor Defense

vocated at the mass meeting, that the
'injunctions to prevent picketing
should be defied in mass by the strik-
ing miners so that the strike would be
effective and successful.
Workers Will Fight
The injunction menace, particularly
in the present coal strike, has aroused
the anger and opposition of hundreds
of thousands of workers who are
ready to carry on a concerted fight
against this vicious anti-labor weapon
used by the employers with the aid
of their kept courts and judges. Min
erich pointed out that despite the fact
that the officialdom Of the American
Federation of Labor was not doing
anything concretely to fight the in
junction danger, Gompers had once
declared himself violently opposed
to the injunction and in favor of it's
violation. Minerich had merely trans
formed these words into deeds by
urging the miners to defeat the in
junction by violating it in mass.
The appeal of the Minerich case, it
is pointed out, becomes important
particularly in view of the fact that
it bears the character of test made
in the heat of struggle of the validity
and power of the anti-labor injunction
and the attitude of the labor move
ment toward it in the future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06
Coolidge Report False;
MiSlnfOrmed Committee

WASHINGTON, March 5. - Four
million Americans are unemployed,
Sen. Robert F. Wagner, Of New York,
told the senate today in a speech ask
ing for adoption of his resolution call
ing on the secretary of labor to make
survey Of unemployment.
Wagner charged President Coolidge
with giving false information to con-
gress and country in his last message,
which declared that wages are at a
very high range and employment is
plentiful"
Wagner declared one in every ten
men was unemployed.
Survey Ordered.
After a two-hour debate over labor
conditions throughout the country,
the senate adopted the resolution. 1t
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06
BROACH, LITTLE CAESAR OF ELECTRICAL
UNION is WARNED BY THE MEMBERSHIP
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ing. He did not tell the members
that this method is the typical one
used by all reactionaries who are
preparing to betray the workers to
the bosses; nor did he say that the
charge of Communism will be made
in all cases when it suits his pur-
poses.
Cannot Expel Membership.
,"But here is something Breach
may ponder over: He may expel ten,
fifteen, or even hundred members,
but he cannot expel the entire mem
bership. This will be his opposition
as the discomfort in the local devel-
ops.
At the last meeting of Local at
which Breach as usual took charge,
he announced that he had tried to
conduct meetings in the democratic
and orderly fashion advised him by
the Communists but that these meth
DDS had failed. 1t is known, however,
that Breach has never really at
tempted to introduce such methods
and is merely seeking to sidetrack
the issues which the members insist
that he take up.
He stated further that he had re-
ceived letters from Communists
which he now had in his possession
approving of his policies. This sta e.
ment is branded as a plain deception
since no such letters, it is known,
have been sent to him.
Rap Expenditures.
Considerable criticism has been of
fered to Broach's huge expenditures
during the period of serious unem-
ployment. Members of the union have
not been impressed with his state
ment that the exorbitant expendi-
,ures if divided among the unem-
ployed would provide but dollar
relief for each man. These expendi-
lures, it has been pointed out, prove
his indifference to the suffering of
the membership, fact further indi-
Gated by his continued refusal to
adopt real unemployment program.
Several weeks ago, Breach asked
and was granted a vote of $4,000
additional for his "legal' expenses
A short time previously he had bee
voted $4,000. Such sums for whic
he refuses to give an accounting hay
ma urally aroused the suspicion
the members.
Raise Issue.
Considerable suspicion has likewise
been aroused over the optimistic
promise made by Breach that rigid
conduit would be enforced instead Of
BX. This claim is now seen to be a
sort of fake move to delude the mem
bers.
Ano her member of the progressive
group in the union condemned espe-
cially the exclusion policy of Breach
and raised the following issues:
"You have succeeded in excluding
from the meetings approximately
two hundred and fifty members,
among whom we find such members
as John Sullivan. Isidore Josephson,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06

4 VIZ -->N-iNs' lIRHI NtTU IUHIIUy
for the heavyweight championship.
Under the present arrangement S
the winner of the Sharkey-Risko tus-
sic is supposed to meet Heeney, the
survivor to meet Gene for the title.
If the Risko-Sharkey ba tie and the
one following it, ere not of a high
calibre, the championship fight will
not draw the size Of crowd that
Tex Richard is in the habit of find
ing at his slugging parties.
Efforts are being made to match
Izzy Schwartz, flyweight champion,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06

Glossy, Rosenthal, Murtha, Smith
and others whom we will mention in
good time Some of these are pro-
gressive workers who have been ex-
cluded because they have had the
courage to take issue with you at
meetings on problems which con-
cerned the members.
'When such vital issues come up
as the question of the employment
of scab workers on subway construc-
ton, the question of a Labor Party
to protect the workers against the
two old parties which are selling
them out, an accounting of the years
activities of the organization COM
mittee which has spent hundreds of
thousands of the unions money, you
use your position as an International
officer to suppress discussion on
these issues? Do you think that we
will fail to understand the reason
for your acts?
Issue Warning.
eve wish to warn you Mr.. Breach
that your exclusion policy, yes, and
the expulsion policy which you no
doubt plan soon to introduce, will
not help you. They will not solve
unemployment; they will not answer
to the members to the questions Of
the new agreement; to the stall about
BX. Nor will it explain your connec-
ton with the power trust lobby which
we may have TO talk about at an
other time.
"Our demands for the membership
are (1) No exclusions of members
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06

called by politicians, churchmen and
employers, the workers themselves
are calling a conference thru the
New York Council of the Unemploy-
ed. At this conference, to be held
Saturday, March II, 2 p. M, at Web
ster Hall, 119 East 18th st., delegates
from trade unions and other labor
organizations will be present. Prac-
tically all of the organized unem-
ployed workers will be represented
there. Fraternai organizations are
also urged to send delegates without
fail.
Charities Fail.
"Charity" organization in reports
just issued have admitted they are
unable to afford adequate relief to
the unemployed workers. The Char
ity Organization Society, in it's an
nual report, stated that more applica-
tons for aid had been received by it
in the last year than in any previous
year during it's as years of existence.
1t reports itself unable to take care
of the major part of those seeking
relief, due to the severe unemploy-
ment situation in New York City.
Several other organizations have
been forced by the huge and daily
increasing number of unemployed
who crowd their doors to request
Mayor Walker TO start public work
at once.
w. |. r. Kitchens.
The Council of Chelsea Agencies,
representing many Charitable" or
CARNATIONS in the working class dis
tricts on the West Side near the Hud-
son, yesterday called on Mayor Walk
err to "enter the situation" The Hud-
son House wrote the mayor asking
him to start work on parks at once.
Meanwhile the Workers Interna-
tional Relief will open food kitchens
for the unemployed workers Thurs
day. Three kitchens will be opened,
one at the headquarters of the New
York Council of the Unemployed, 60
st. Marks Place, and the others in
Harlem and Williamsburg, at points
not yet announced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06
Smith MAY Order
MRS. KNAPP FREED

ALBANY, Mar. 5.-That Mrs. Flor
ence E. s. Knapp, former republican
secretary Of state, will entirely es-
cape prosecution despite the fact
that State Commissioner LeBoeuf re-
ported that she was guilty of for
gerry and grand larceny in the admin
istration of the 1925 census, is con-
sidered practically certainty here.
Tomorrow Gov. Smith will confer
with Attorney General Ottinger and
District Attorney Herrick of Albany
County. The official treason" to be
given for the let-down of Mrs. Knapp,
it is rumored in political circles here,
is that Herrick is not obliged to go
thru with the prosecution if he thinks
that the evidence is inadequate"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06
PLAN TO BETTER
FINE RECORD OF
BOSTON drive
Worcester, Providence
to Hear Speaker, Too

Every preparation for stimulating
the national subscription drive to gain
10000 more subscribers to The
DAILY WORKER before next Satur-
day will be taken by the Massachu-
sets district during the course of a
whirlwind lecture tour A. Ravitch
circulation manager of the paper, is
planning thru New England.
In spite of the scores of subscrip-
tions which have been daily turned in
by Ben Brown, organizer Of The
DAILY WORKER subscription drive
in the Boston area, every effort will
be made to surpass the record rolled
up the district during the past few
week
Industrial Distribution Planned.
AS the first step in the intensified
ton of the campaign Ravitch will ad-
dress a meeting of DAILY WORKER
readers and subscribers at P. M.
Thursday, at So Causeway ST., Boston,
Outlining the history of the sub
seription campaign and its success
thruout the United States, Ravitch
will lay plans for the free distribution
of the paper to thousands of workers
in the Massachusetts textile and shoe
industrial sections.
Clubs Strengthened.
Arrangements for the strengthen
ing Of The DAILY WORKER build
ers' club will be made at the same
time. All readers and subscribers are
invited to be present to assist in the
preparations for the drive.
A mass meeting of all workers,
subscribers, and readers of The
DAILY WORKER will be held in
Worcester Friday to hear Ravitch
speak on the work of sub collecting.
Worcester, a great industrial town,
is making every preparation for the
occasion. All day stream of Party
functionaries, subscribers and read
ers will confer with the circulation
manager on the best ways to stimu-
late subscription activity in the dis
trict.
Conferences Scheduled.
Saturday will find Ravitch back in
Boston, where he will attend an all
day meeting of DAILY WORKER
agents at 8 P. M. at SO Causeway st.
On both Saturday and Sunday morn
ing Ravitch will pay personal visits to
many of the subscribers.
A mass meeting of DAILY WORK
Err readers and subscribers will hear
an address by Ravitch in Providence,
r. l., at p. m. Sunday. After the
meeting the speaker will pay visits to
many of the subscribers in Providence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06

that the authorities are in alliance
with the Lewis-Cappellini- Contractor
Coal-Operators machine.
Suspicion on the part of the min
ers is thus doubly aroused by the
failure to round up the murderers of
Alex Campbell, Peter Reilly, and Tom
Lillis by the hired gunner of the
Cappelini murder machine. The min
ers observe that the authorities are
doing everything possible to throttle
expression and are making very lit
tie effort to round up the murderers
of the miners leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06
BOWERY MISSIONS ACT AS SCAB AGENTS
FOR LR.T.; JOBLESS ORGANIZE FOR ACTION
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winter set in have been playing on
the need Of unemployed workers for
food and shelter to recruit soldiers to
protect or extend Wall Streets pro-
perties abroad.
Meet at Union Square.
"Do not be driven into the army as
result Of hunger and cold-fight
for effective relief" This is one of
the slogans to be raised at a monster
mass meeting of unemployed work
ers to be held Saturday at 2 p. m.
in Union Square, under the auspices
Of the New York Council Of the I'm
employed.
Othar slogans ore Demand food
and shelter" ard Demand Work
and Wages" Members of trade
unions. the Workers (Communist)
Party, the New York Council of the
Unemployed and the Youth Commit
tee of the Council will speak
Urge Organization.
This meeting comes at the end of a
week Of meetings called by the New
York Council Of the Unemployed to
emphasize upon the unempl9vod the
great need for proper organization.
At meeting in Union Square yes
terdav the speakers were MURRAY
Sasanoff, chairman, Harry Yaras, Of
the Youth Committee, John Di Santo,
secretary of the Council, Tom Flem-
ing, Roy Stephens and George Saul
Two meetings are being held ct D..
m. today. one at the Seamen's Cub,
90 South ST., for unemployed seamen.
ard the other at 10t West 9th St.
for the unemployed needle trados
workers. The Women's Committee
of the New York Council of the I'm
employed is calling a meeting of un-
employed women Of al trades for 2
.. m. tomorrow at 10t West 9th st.
Another meeting tomorrow will be
held at p. m. at 1472 Boston Road
for Bronx workers.
Conference Saturday.
After weeks of investigations"
and co1fera.,oac ~, 4,.,a,-, Il - 49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06
.CUCCENKEIM CANS
CHILEAN WORKERS

SANTIAGO, Chile, March 5.-Ten
thousand Chile workers will lose their
jobs when the new Guggenheim nj
trate plant at Tocopilla is completed,
according to an interview with E. A.
Capnelin Smith. president of the An
glo-Chileari Consolidated Nitrate Cor
poration which operates the plant, in
the Gel Mercur;o."
The introduction of new processe-
will cut the number Of workers EN-
ployed in the plants from 10000 t.
1900.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06

from meetings; (2) Free and open
discussion on the floor; (3) No over
time while members are out of work;
(4) the five day week at five and
one half days pay. (5) the organ
ization of the unorganized and the
amalgamation of the building trades
unions as means Of fighting the
growing combinations of the bosses"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06
NOTES

The heavyweight situation becomes
more complicated as time goes along.
With the recent Heeney-Delaney bout
more or less of dud, a great deal
De-. =. mon the fight between Jack
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06


Sharkey and John
Risko on March IL.
If neither Sharkey
or Risko make an
impressive showing
it will become all
he more necessary
for Jack Dempsey
to come out of his
retirement a n d
f.ul4 Co T,~1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-06

Conference Saturday.
After weeks of Investigations"
and conferences on unemployment
The Washington times., 1928-10-08
BOY TOY VICTIM DIES

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. S.-Burns
received in the explosion of small
vehicle operated by gasoline while
playing with his brother proved
fatal to a 6-year-old boy IN the
Chestnut Hill Hospital. The boy
was Harry Baisch. or Mt. Airy,
His brother, Morris, 5, II In .
critical condition in the same insti-
luton.
The Washington times., 1928-10-08
CHEVY CHASE SCHOOL FORCED
tn Use 9PORTABLE- BUILDINGS

The Elizabeth V. Brown School, Connecticut Avenue and
Mckinley Northwest In the fastrowng Chevy Chase
district the victim of the overcrOWded conditions
Washington Beside the in the school ITSELF carrying
load pupils each the overflow cared for by nine
portable buildings the largest number used by Wash
The Washington times., 1928-10-08
MOVIE PROTEGE
GIVEN AUTO
BY CARNES

ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. S.-Clinton
S. Carnes, absconding treasurer of
the Southern Baptist Home Mission
Board, purchased at least one auto
mobile for Sonia Merida, movie pro-
tege, according to information in
hands of local authorities today.
Miss Merida was one Of three
women to- whom Carnes paid a total
approximately $4,000 to finance
movie careers in Hollywood. The
second was Miss Lois Griffin, and
the third was Mrs. Louise Pope, who
was paid a monthly sum to act as
manager for the girls.
Solicitor General John A. Boykin
made this information public today
in answer to Carnes' pleas that he
was blackmailed by those who knew
of his former prison record. He was
arrested in Winnipeg following his
disappearance here August Is.
"Who will believe" asked Boykin,
"that he threw $953, 900 to black.
mailers? His shortages are almost
20 times as much as his salary for
the entire period OF his employment
as treasurer. A $4,000 home, four
cars, servants and all the luxuries
Of life were not the product of
blackmailers.'
The Washington times., 1928-10-08
8 STATES CHECK
CAS- SALES

Only eight States and the Dis
trict of Columbia adequately pro-
tect the motorist from short sales
of motor fuel, the American Auto
mobile Association reported today.
Considering that the car owners
spent $3.50, 100000 for fuel in
1927, it is nothing short of deplor-
able that so few States have made
provision to check the sales Of
1000 retail gas stations and the
604, 900 pumps that were in opera
ton last year." Thomas D. Henry,
A. A. A. president. declared.
The eight States in which gaso-
line stations are subjected to a
periodic check are California. Indi-
ana, Massachusetts,, Michigan. New
Jersey, New York and Ohio. Other
States have laws but are without
appropriations to enforce them ana
still others are entirely without
proper regulation. the association
reported.