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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
HEARING REPORTS
MANY THOUSANDS
HAVE Been AIDED
Body Has Saved Union
He Declares

Especial to The Daily Worker
STAMFORD, Conn, May 16.-En-
dorsement of the National Miners Re-
lief Committees efforts in behalf of
striking miners and reputation of the
attacks made on the committee by the
officials of the A. F. of l.. Bureau
cracy was made by William G. Hear
ing, president of the General Labor
Union of Stanford and member of
the recent rank and file trade union
committee to the Soviet Union.
Made Investigation.
Hearing has just returned from a
trip of investigation of conditions in
the Pennsylvania mine districts in be-
half of the Stamford Central Labor
Union. His conclusions are given in
the following statement:
GAS result of my visit to Pitts
burgh to investigate the relief situa-
ton in behalf Of the Central Labor
Union, found that all the accusations
and attacks upon the Pennsylvania
Ohio Miners Relief Committee by GER
tain labor officials of this state are
false and unfounded The Pennsyl-
vania-Ohio Miners Relief Committee
is the only organization that feeds
tens of thousands of striking union
miners. If not for this committee the
strike would have been lost and the
union destroyed months ago"
The officials especially referred to
in the statement by Hearing are be-
lieved to be Eagan, Secretary of the
Connecticut State Federation and
Murphy of the New Haven Trades
Council who have been circulating
Islander and lies against the miners
rank and file relief committee at the
behest of John l.. Lewis and William
Green.
Divide with Strikebreaker.
Eagan brought into the state GER
tain worthy by the name of Butch"
James of Illinois who has been driven
out of the mining camps in Pennsyl-
vania for being a notorious strike
breaker, an agent of the coal opera
tors. Eagan and James spent some
time collecting money supposedly for
relief Of the miners. For this work
James is reported to have taken a
rake-off of SIG per day. 1t is believed
doubtful whether any money what
ever was turned over by James and
Eagan to the miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
.FRAME-UPS in U. S.
TO Be DESCRIBED

Back from a countrywide lecture
tour during which he visited Tom
Mooney, Warren X. Billings and
many other class war prisoners,
James p Cannon, national secretary
of the international Labor Defense,
will tell workers of New York tomor-
row evening the significance of the
American frame-up system and dis
cuss the history of many famous
cases. The lecture, under the aus
pieces of the New York section of the
international Labor Defense, will be
given at s p. m. at Irving Plaza, E.
18th st. and Irving Place.
Among the frame-ups that Cannon
will discuss are those of the Hay
market martyrs, Of Meyer, Haywood
and Pettibone, of Mooney and Bill
ings and Sacco and Vanzetti. A fea-
ture of the lecture will be the pre-
sentation of free three-months'
subscription to the Labor Defender,
organ of the international Labor De-
Tense
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
MILL WORKERS TO
HEAR WEISBORD
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ference with the officials Of the Tex
tile Council. The first break in the
ranks of the bosses had an excellent
effect on the spirit of all the strikers,
despite its being one of the silk mills.
The union membership working in this
mill, however, are demanding that the
agreement reached with the bosses
be made public and voted on by the
workers. 1t is believed that the re-
scinding of the wage cut was not I'M
conditional.
Ann Washington Grafton, organizer
for the Workers International Relief,
announced that a complete staff of
canvassers for relief funds is already
functioning in Boston. They are con-
Quoting house to house collections
there, in spite of an announcement
made by the Boston Central Labor
Union that the w. I. R. collectors
should not be supported. 1t was
shown, and has been generally adj
mitted since the beginning of the
strike that the WI. r. is the only
working class source of strikers aid.
The other relief committee, composed
of city politicians and local charities
several times closed doors saying
that it had no more funds. Members
of the Mill Committees are organ
izing squads to work among the fish
ing fleets here which bring in thou
sands of pounds of fish over the weak
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17

CONTINUED improvement of the
y economic conditions of the or
gained clowns, acrobats, and other
circus and vaudeville actors who be-
long to the Federated Novelty Acts,
was described yesterday by Jack
Wilbur, organizer of that associa-
ton, now six months old.
"Our organization" stated Will
bur, represents the ranks and file
novelty artists"
One Of the principal objects of the
organization is the elimination of
the booking agents. Altho legally
the agents are not entitled to more
than five per cent of the earnings
Of any act, in most cases they keep
the major portion for themselves,
Wilbur said"
The F. N. A., have arranged a
booking office of its own. which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
Miners RELIEF
BECOMES URGENT
Especial to The Daily Worker

PITTSBURGH, May I6. - Re-
sponses to the appeals by the National
Miners Relief Committee for assist
ance to the striking miners, their
wives and families have multiplied
during the past week. Eut side by
side with the spreading ard intensi-
fication of relief activity, the wants
of the striking coal diggers grow
more numerous and more urgent
daily. From the Kiski Valley where
thousands of non-union miners are on
strike, comes plea to the office of
the committee for one hundred tents.
These tents, sixteen feet square, will
house family of seven or eight. Each
tent, delivered from the factory, costs
S45. One hundred tents, conse-
quently, would cost $4,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
WEISBORD TO TALK
AT WOMEN'S MEET
Federation Conference
Here on Saturday

A program which will take up
every phase of the struggle of the
workingclass women in the United
States has been announced for the
working women's conference to be
held at Irving Plaza, Irving Place
and 18th St., next Saturday, May IS
at p. m, under the auspices of the
New York Committee for a Working
Women's Federation. The conference
to which all members of all working
women's organizations, unions, house
wives and parents organizations
have been invited, has been called
for the purpose of forming a fedora
ton of all workingclass women's or
CARNATIONS in New York City.
Among the speakers will be Albert
Weisbord, leader of the Passaic tex
tile strike, who will discuss the New
Bedford textile strike, in which thous-
ands of women workers are taking
part; Rose Wortis, of the Dressmak-
ers' Union, who will tell of the strug-
giles of the millinery workers; Gladys
Schechter and Sylvia Blecher of the
Millinery Union; Jeseca Smith, au-
thor of ''The Working Women in So
Wet Russia" and Juliet Stuart
Poyntz, chairman of the Committee
for Working Women's Federation.
A working women's program will be
proposed by Ray Ragozin and Harriet
Silverman.
The life and death struggle of the
miners and the heroic part of the
mine women will be set forth in a
report by Fannie Rudd, of the Ma
tional Miners Relief Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
DISTRICTS PLAN
Conventions TO
VOTE DELEGATES
Workers Party to Have
Strong State Lists

(Comtiaued from page o1le)
tries are unemployed and the army Of
the jobless is daily recruiting its
ranks from the workers Of mills anc
factories which are shutting down
Only the action of the working class
under the lead of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party can force the bosses
to change these conditions.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 16.-An en-
thusiastic gathering Of 65 regular anc
Is fraternal delegates, with hundred
# spectators, filled North West Hall
last Sunday afternoon when the State
Convention of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party of Illinois convened
Max Bedacht, organizer of District 5
called the convention to order and
outlined the issues of the campaign
A delegation of 10 was elected tc
represent the state organization al
he National Nominating Convention
On the 25th Of May.
A state committee was also elected
with instructions to place the required
80 electors on the ballot and to work
out state platform on the basis Of
the national platform that will BE-
adopted in New York on the 25th.
PHILADELPHIA, May 16.-The
State Nominating Convention of the
Workers (Communist) Party in Penn
sylvania will be held in the city OF
Philadelphia May oath, at p. M, If
The Grand Fraternity Hall, 1926 Arch
St.
All units of the Party in Pennsyl-
vania are instructed to elect regular
delegates to this convention ON tn
basis of one delegate for every q
members or major fraction thereof.
WHEELING, w. Va, May 49,
The state convention of the Workers
Party of West Virginia will be held
at the Arion Hall, 1000 Main ST.
Wheeling, Saturday, May 10 at 2
p. m.
The convention viii nominate can
didates for president and vice-presi-
dent of the United States and viii
elect state committee to be in charge
of the coming election campaign
Delegates to the National Nominal
ing Convention to be held in New
York on May. 25-27 will also be elect
ed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
Dance and Vaudeville
In Detroit Saturday

DETROIT, May 16.-A dance and
vaudeville show will be given Satur-
day, at p. m. at Martins Hall, 1853
Martin St., under the joint auspices
Of the Workers (Communist) Party.
Section 8, and the Young Workers
tCommunist) League, Branch l.
The program will include a play
written by Walter Trumbell, which
will expose the militaristic purposes
Of the Citizens Military Training
Camps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
Labor Defense Branch
Formed in Reading, Pa.

READING, Pa, May 16.-A Berks
county branch of the international
Labor Defense was organized at 9
meeting held at Labor Lyceum Hall
Jacob j. Dolla, of Hamburg, for
mer class-war prisoner and leader OF
the iron and steel workers of Lee
banon, Pa, was elected county or
ganizer. Pearl G. John and Fred Wig
man were named county secretary
and assistant county secretary, re-
spectively. 1t is expected that the
organization just formed will be the
parent body to number of branches
especially foreign language branches
to be formed thruout the county.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
Michigan Nominations.

DETROIT, Mich, May 16.-The
state convention of the Workers
(Communist) Party of Michigan
which will nominate a full slate of
candidates and elect delegates to the
National Convention, will be held in
Flint, Michigan, May 18th. The con-
vention will be held in the knights OF
Pythias Hall in the very heart of the
city and will be called to order at
10 o'clock in the morning
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
Taxi Drivers WIG, children Face Starvation

Destitute, and
facing the prob
lem Of supply
ing food to her
tao small chill
drem, SylUiG, 4
and Lena, 2,
Mrs. Fla n nj e
MoreHi has APP
pealed to the
ParoIe Commits
sion for the re-
lease of her has
band, Charles,
sentenced to jail
for crushing a
pedestrian a0ith
has CAB.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17

dents, George Saul and Kellogg, ad-
dressed the meeting and made an APP
peal for an active campaign to secure
new subscriptions to The d A 1 L Y
WORKER in New Jersey. A COM
nittee of four was Immediately elect
ed to take charge of this work. They
ARE Irving FREEMAN, j. Gaal, subdis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17

Twelve new subscriptions were Sc
cured at the meetings to start the
drive in New Jersey. Other New Jer-
sey cities will also be visited by the
two National Training School stu
dents, Saul and Kellogg, and all
Workers Party members will be mob
ilized in the drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
talk ON AT MEET
OF AMALCAMATED
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resolutions were handed in to the
resolutions committee calling for a
labor party, reinstatement of the ex-
PEELED left wingers, recognition of the
Soviet Union, condemning fascism.
and calling for an immediate cam
paign to obtain the 40-hour week.
Nearly all the other resolutions called
for organization work in various cen
tiers with the exception of few con-
demning the piece-work system. It is
believed here that these resolutions
will be opposed by some of the adj
ministration forces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17

An intensive DAILY WORKER
subscription drive was launched at an
enthusiastic meeting of the New Jer-
sey subdistrict of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party last night at the New
ark Labor Lyeeum, 90 Mercer St.,
Newark.
Two National Training School stu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
Chicago Atheists Meet

CHICAGO, May l6.-The Russian
branch of the American Association
for the Advancement of Atheism held
special meeting for $50 students Of
the Chicago University. The Russian
Workers Singing Society, the Russian
Mandolin Orchestra and the Young
Pioneers participated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17

trict organizer; Constantine and AL
fred Steines, Newark DAILY WORK
Err agent. 1t was decided that. the
committee visit every workingclass or
ganization in the city.
Following this meeting, the Newark
Council of the United Council of
Workingclass Women held meeting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
Call Hillman's Bluff.

In answer to the speech of Presi-
dent Hillman of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, which is holding
it's biennial convention now in Gin
cinnati, in which he declared that
great strides have been made in the
organization Of many open-shop cen
tiers, and that the union has won
many organizational victories, state
ments made by union employers in a
trade journal deny that this is so.
Their statements particularly dis
agree with. Hillman's declaration that
the New York market is completely
under union control and that the
union won a victory in the million
dollar strike against the big firm Of
S. Finkelstein and Co. They point
out that the Finkelstein Co. moved
out of town with their open-shop
where they now produce clothing I'M
molested by further organizational
attempts from the union officialdom.
Disagreeing with the first state
ment, the manufacturers, who have
union agreements, declare that a large
number Of New York firms are send
ing daily truckloads of cut material
to open shops outside city limits
There the garments are produced
much cheaper with much cheaper
labor COST the employers complain
adding that the union heads know of
these conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17

in the same hall and discussed plans
for the subscription drive. In address
ing the meeting, Gaal stressed the i'm
portance of foreign-language workers
subscribing to The DAILY WORKER
for the sake of their children, who
would otherwise read the capitalist
press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
TO EXTEND AIR LINES.

The transcontinental Air Transport,
Inc, the proposed new combination
and rail system between the Atlantic
and Pacific, will be extended event.
ually to include most of the principal
cities of the United States. M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17

t"Giye Everybody a Chance to
Read Mew
The Daily Worker.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-09-07
Some Courses Lucky for
Various Golf Champions

1t is peculiar how players seem to
be inspired by certain golf courses.
Bob Jones always plays well at Meri-
on, while Willie Macfarlane never
was better than when battling around
Shawnee. The scholarly Scot has
won the Shawnee meet several times.
Armour likes Oakmont, while Hagen
usually scores well on Chicago courses
and at Westchester Biltmore.
Although he has been unable to win
further titles since capturing the Ma
tional championship, Johnny Farrell
has been scoring well enough to re-
main one of the leading medalists of
The country. Including his play in
several winter events, John has an
average of slightly more than 721a
strokes per round. Mac Smith has
fractional lead on the Quaker Ridge
star and has played almost as many
rounds. Yet Smith has been able to
land among the winners only a few
times since last winter. Diegel, Sar-
azen and AL Espinosa are other lead
ing scorer and the difference between
the first 20 is scarcely two strokes.
Which shows that margin separating a
champion and the contesting field In
golf is smaller than in any othe
sport.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-09-07
L.yportinSSouibs|

Gene Tunney always can get job
as a window demonstration.
Who says there is nothing in
name? Didn't the Finnish Olympic run
ners finish one, two, there?
A frst-rate personal reason for Tun-
ney's retirement from the prize ring is
the fact that he no longer needs the
money.
The California crew made the trip
East four times before it won first
place. 1t was East in 1921. 1926 1927
and 1923.
Johnny Farrell and Gene SaraZen
split each others golf winnings, hav-
ing had an agreement to this effect for
several years.
If Tunney still insists he is through
when another 100000 check is waved
in his face, we shall then know that
he means it.
"The modernistic art trend is to
make itself felt shortly in sport at
tire" This will be o. k. if it doesn't
lead on to an oblong tennis ball or
something.
The recent doubles match of Tilden
and Hunter versus Cochet and Brug-
non was the most dramatic he had
ever seen, Winnie Richards said after
the match.
A home and home football contract
has been signed between Notre Dame
and Indiana university. The first game
will be played at Bloomington, October
5, 1923, with the Hoosiers journeying
to South Bend in 1880.
An attractive little clubhouse, with
gymnasium, lounge and writing rooms,
has been built for its caddies by the
Lenox Hills Golf club IF Long Island.
The boys pay 81 year dues and have
the use of the course on Mondays.
Aubrey Devine, the former All-Amer-
lean football player from Iowa univer-
sity, will retire as freshman coach I'M
der Howard Jones at the University
of Southern California in order to de-
vote more time to his law practice.
Another college breaks into the
sports field this fall. The University
of Baltimore, new and small, will have
basketball team.
Wright o. Salter, quarterback on
the Hendrix college eleven for four
years, entered West Point with the
plebe class this year.
Estimates place the number of en-
ployed caddies in the United States
around the half million marx. The
Lexicon golf club of Brooklyn is build
ing clubhouse for their bag toters.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-09-07
RENE LACOSTE TO
QUIT TENNIS GAME
Not a Fancy Player, but Is
Consistent.

Five years ago Rene Lacoste walked
up to his father and said:
'Let me play tennis for five years.
will become champion of the world
and then quit and devote myself to
business"
\ He did. And now Lacoste has said
he will keep the promise he made
back in 1923. He does not intend to
come to the United States to defend
his national singles championship.
His defeat by Big Bill Tilden in
Davis Cup play may cause him to
change his mind, however. If Lacoste
were still on top of the heap he
would be more inclined to abandon
his crown. But in the face of Til
denis triumph such an act is doubt
full.
Lacoste is not gallery player. He
is totally lacking in that elusive stuff
called color, for he makes the most
difficult shots seem ridiculously easy.
The Frenchman is the closest APP
proach to the perfect mechanical ten
payer tilC NOtlu has CfCl SCCu.
On the court he seems to be made
of springs and STEEL Short, swarthy,
why, he skins across the court like
an automatic doll His facial express
sion never changes. He has even
more of poker face" than Helen
Wills.
Faultless baseline play is the secret
of Lacoste's success. There is none
of Cochet's beautiful wrist work in
Lacoste's game; none of BorOtra's
furious forays to the net. At times
Lacoste appears awkward when max
ing a return, but the ball always
streaks back across the net, usually
to nick the baseline for a point.
Lacoste broke the stout heart of
Tilden in the finals of the National
tournament last year. Twice the
American was within one point Of
winning a set when Lacoste sent the
ball past him like rocket. Each time
the. ball splashed squarely into the
white lime of the Sideline. Tilden
never had a chance after that The
clcCl VI LdSoStC . SlOiiu,
consistent game is a powerful factor
in his victories. Opponents begin to
feel that they are battling against
machine and their cause is hopeless.
Long before Lacoste lost to Tilden
the former was beaten by George
Lott. when the American youngster
found a flaw in the great French
mans armOr.
1t was typical of Lacoste that the
next day he began workin.; on his
net game and now has mastered it.
For a while last year Lacoste found
human competition so bad that he in
vented a machine which he played
against. He placed this cvntraption,
which looked like a small cannon, on
one side of the net. Some one would
pull a string and the cannon would
shoot a tennis ball across at LacOste
at the speed of bullet. For days
he volleyed against the machine, and
Their the sport began to lose its Zest.
Lacoste began beating the ma
chine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-09-07
SEE HOOVER STRONG
WITH WOMEN VOTERS
State Organizations ActiUe
Everywhere.

"There are more women in politics
this year than ever before in history.
1t might be said that they are really
in politics for the first time" declared
Mrs. Anna Steese Richardson, we'll
known New York writer and club
woman, who has been spending mucn
of her time at the Hooyer-Curtis ma
tional headquarters in Washington.
Heretofore" continued Mrs. Rich
ardson, women have contented them
selves largely with local politics and
abstract discussions of welfare and
reform measures. They now find en-
bodied in Herbert Hoover, concrete
measures for the benefit of the whole
country, and it is surprising how many
thousands of genuinely effective work
ers have been enrolled at the Wash
ington headquarters.
"The women,s division of the ma
tional headquarters, under Mrs. Alvin
T. Hert. who is also vice chairman of
the national Republican committee. Is
fully as busy as is the mems division
Of the headquarters. Workers, from
all parts of the country are coming
and going at all hours of the day and
every form of political activity in
which men engage is being carried on
by the women. One of the most popu-
lar campaign novelties inaugurated
has been the Hoover kitchen. A card
bearing the candidates picture Is
placed in the kitchen as a constant
reminder of the wartime associations
of American housewives with Mr..
Hoover when they helped conserve
the nations resources"
State organizations also report I'M
usually heavy enrOllments among
women workers. Mrs. Reginald Baker.
national cOmmitteewoman from New
Jersey, predicts an unusually heavy
Hoover-Curtis vote from that state in
contrast with the general apathy
which has prevailed in previous cleo
lions. In 1920, said Mrs. Baker, wom-
en- cast only 80 per cent of the vote in
the state and only "a per cent of the
women eligible to vote went to the
polls.
women have in this Hoover-Curtis
ticket two men who are very close to
their hearts," said Mrs. Alvin I. Hert.
In other words Herbert Hoover and
the 1928 election bring to women the
opportunity to vote as they think-for
all that is clean in government-and
good in life.