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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-21
WATT ADDRESSES
LARGE mine MEET
Make Ready for May q
Bellaire Convention

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 20.-Sev-
eral hundred striking miners listened
with keen interest and enthusiasm to
John J. Watt, Vice-Chairnian of the
Saye-the- Union Committee explain
the policies of the committee at a
meeting in Bellaire, Ohio, on Satur-
day afternoon, May IL.
Besides the miners, there were pres.
emit IN the audience Major caldwell
OF the governors staff, representing
the National Guard, U. S. Marshall
Noble and members of the Bellaire
police force. There was no attempt
made however to interrupt the meet
ing.
Watt delivered a scathing indict-
ment of the leadership of John L.
Lewis that has brought the union to
the verge of ruin. He pointed out
that over 70 per cent of the coal mined
IN this country at the present, is pro-
duced under non-union conditions and
that the failure of the Lewis machine
to organize the Southern fields is
largely responsible for this condition.
He pointed out that in Illinois the
[ Lewis Fishwick machine is dividing
the forces of the strikers by signing
individual agreements with certain
coal companies while the others con-
tinued to lock out their employees.
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WORKERS SUCCEED
BY UNION THUGS
Officials Lead Attack
on Meeting

Gangsters led by officials of the
reactionary controlled Cleaners and
Dyers Union entered meeting of the
progressive group of the union being
held at Checho-Slovak Hail., BAT E..
72nd Street and attacked with black.
jacks and hammers the workers who
were present, it was learned yester-
day. Three of the workers were so
severely beaten that they were taken
to a hospital for treatment.
The gangsters were headed by
Business Agent Weintraub, Presi-
dent Hammer, and Goldberg, business
manager of the Drivers Local. They
were accompanied by a half dozen
thugs.
Weintraub and Hammer were ar
rested and are held in $1,000 bail each
for hearing next Monday morning.
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THOUSANDS AT
HAYWOOD bier
Confined from page onel

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Party, while j. Louis Engdahl, as
the American representative to the
'Comintern, presided.
Thousands of workers crowded the
Political migrants Club where Hay
woods body, surrounded by emblems
of the revolutionary movement is ly-
ing in state. The long lines passed
slowly by the bier.
At the crematorium, a Negro repre-
sentative and representative of the
international Class War Prisoners
Aid, together with J. Louis Engdahl
and Nicholas Hourwich, as repre-
Sentative of the Russian emigrants
from the American Communist move
.ment also spoke.
Haywood's ashes are being kept
for the final ceremonies at the time
Of the world congress, when there will
be a joint funeral for Haywood and
LANDER, secretary of the Hungarian
Party.
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WORKING W 0 MEN
HOLD CONF ERENCE
Pledge Aid to Striking
Miners; Adopt Program

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utmost efforts Of the New York worn-
en- workers to provide food for the
starving miners and their families.
Urge Fighting Organization.
The terrible conditions of exploita-
tion and speed-up under which women
work in shops and factories today was
outlined by Juliet Stuart Poyntz, sec
rotary of the Conference Committee
who presided. She pointed out the
need for a strong, centralized, fight
ing organization of working women.
Great enthusiasm greeted the pro.
posal for united action of working
women to build the labor party and
fight the war danger.
The struggle of women textile
workers in New Bedford was reported
on by Albert Weisbord, leader of the
Passaic strike, who was greeted with
tremendous enthusiasm by the dele
gates. Weisbord described the women
textile workers as the majority of the
workers in the textile industry and
the most exploited, underpaid and
overworked section, showed their mill
fancy and fighting spirit as deter
mining factor in the greatest labor
struggles. "0-'"~
Wortis Gets Ovation.
The remarkable development of the
Millinery Workers Union in the last
three years into a powerful organiza-
ton of 5000 members and its present
fight for existence against the de-
structive work of the corrupt right
wing bureaucracy headed by Max Ia
risky was described by Sylvia Blech-
er.
A great ovation greeted Rose Wor-
tbs who spoke for the Dressmakers'
Union and pledged the support of the
veteran fighters in the Dressmakers
Union to all efforts of women in
other trades to organize and to the
building up of strong united work
ing women's federation.
Representatives of the Young
Workers League and the Pioneers
brought out the close relation of the
movement Of working women and chill
dren of the working class.
Work Out Program.
Harriet Silverman reported for the
program committee and outlined q
program for the federation including
organization of the unorganized, i'm
provement Of living and working con-
ditions, the fight against injunctions
compulsory arbitration, struggle
against the high cost of living, unem.
ployment, and child labor, with de-
mands for protection of working WON
en- and children, social insurance
against sickness, accident, old age
and maternity, the drawing of women
workers into political activity and q
labor party, and the fight against
militarism, imperialism and the war
danger.
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Labor and FYdteynaI
Organizations


:
Miners Relief Dnnce.
An entertainment and dance for min
ers' relief will be given on Saturday,
May 26, at p. m, at Rose Gardens,
1S4I Boston Road. under the auspices
Of the Youth Conference for Miners
Relief, 7s9 Broadway
To Aid Miners.
The United Council of Workingclass
Women Of the Unl.ed Workers Co
operative will hold a. midnight show,
Theatre, White Plains Ave. and Burke
Ave, the Bronx. The Proceeds will
go ter miners relief.
Labor sports Meet.
A national track and field meet will
be held Sunday, May 81, at 10 a. m.
at College Point, under the direction
of the Finnish Sports Club "Vesa," Is
w. 126th St, which has invited all
sports clubs connected with the Labor
tries must be made before May "a.
williamsburg Council Lecture.
Gertrude owen will lecture on Com
munism VS.. Socialism" before the
Council of Workingelass Housewives.
tomorrow tS:30 p. m. at 20 Graham
Ave, Brooklyn.
RagOzin To Lecture.
Ray Ragozin, secretary of the United
Council of Workingclass Women, will
lecture on Women in America and
Women in the U. s. s. r." this
evening at o'clock at 2O75 Clinton
Ave. The lecture will be given under
the auspices of Council ~, United
Council of Workingclass Women
Mine Relief namra
Women's Council of the Bronx will
hold vetcherinka for miners relief
on Saturday, May 20, at 1887 Washing
ton Ave-, Bronx.
Iron Workers Meet,
A meeting of the Iron & Bronze
Workers Union will be held on Tues
workers Union will be held tomorrow
at East 18th St, at p. m.
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RIGHT WING AID
seen IN ARRESTS
Hundreds Demonstrate
Against Action

Thirty young girls, fighting against
the attempt of the right wing bur-
eaucracy Of the Cap and Millinery
Workers Union to destroy the organ
ization they built thru such bitter
struggle, were arrested recently
while picketing by large squads Of
police called by the bosses and the
reactionary union officialdom.
Arrest Pickets.
Fifteen of them were arrested at
noon-time while picketing on West
Seth St., where several shops are on
strike. The other fifteen were ar
rested o'clock in the evening on the
same street, while the scabs sent by
right wing controlled Local "a, were
being escorted out of the shops by
executive board members Of the lat
ter union.
Both these arrests were obviously
made in an attempt to halt the en-
thusiastic picketing, and to discour-
age its further continuance. The fact
that picketing went on just as before
indicated that both attempts had
failed.
Without any charges preferred
against them, the first fifteen were
held in the 3Oth st. police station till
late in the afternoon before they were
released. It was aseertained, however,
that the leaders of Local 43, the strik-
ers' organization, had sufficient bail
prepared to obtain release Of all
workers arrested
Milliners Demonstrate
Hundreds of milliners heard of the
arrests while out to lunch or after
quitting time and voluntarily went
down to the office of Local "a, where
they demonstrated their protest
against the officialdoms union
wrecking for several hours.
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FERRY MISHAP DUE
TO OvERCROWDING
Loss Of 3 Passengers
Being flushed Up

Overcrowding and improper hand
ling were responsible for the accident
that occurred to the ferryboat Bronx
on the evening Of April 27, grand
jury investigation has established. The
ferryboat shipped huge wave off
Robbins Reef and three people were
washed overheard.
Tho designed in 1905 to carry a
maximum of 500 passengers, there
were 1000 on board on the night of
the accident, the grand jury charges,
while in rush hours the boat often
carried as many as $500. The grand
Jury also declares that the vehicles in
the gangways were unevenly dis
tributed, causing the boat to list.
Capt. Arthur J. Hinchey is blamed
for failure to reduce his speed while
going thru the cross current off Rob
bins Reef.
Efforts are being made to hush up
the loss of the three passengers. No
indictment on this score was returned
by the grand jury on the fliInsy ex-
cuse that the loss of the three persons
had never been proved and no bodies
had been found. Passengers on the
boat have testified, however, that the
three persons were swept overheard
and drowned.
The owners of the Bronx also es-
cape without a word of censure II the
grand jury investigation.
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MANY ON PENSION ROLL

A total of 1851 members were on
the old-age pension roll of the In
ternational Typographical Union on
April l, according TO statistics of the
union.
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the elght-hour day from an all-poWef
great victory for these government
slaves, who had previously been work
ing 10 hours a day and longer at
miserable wages.
But the eight-hour day was only
for cold weather. During the six
warmer months Of the year these ex-
pert sail-makers, ringers, shipwrights
and other navy yard workers had to
work 10 hours a day, but were to
receive extra pay for overtime.
Raise Never Came.
The extra pay never came. Congress
discovered that only enough had been
appropriated to pay for the regular
wages and the navy yard workers
were told to wait until the next con-
gress when they would surely be paid
all that was due them. These promises
continued for six years and for six
years congress continued to fool the
workers until the matter was dropped
entirely.
The graft and corruption that filled
the last quarter Of the 10th century,
the period of the rise to orld-power
of American capitalism, at times
reached such point that even CAPT
talist politicians were compelled to
hold their noses and appeal with
righteous indignation to "public
opinion" But there was not cent
fa,. tI,a x,,o,lya.s -, 4I&o ,-a,,o,,,, -, 49,
navy yards, whose back overtime
wages mounted in the course of years
to millions of dollars.
Most of the navy yard workers are
now in their graves. Some died in
the poor house and few are still
charity institutions. The widows and
children of many Of them are still
living in the wretched little shacks
around the Brooklyn navy yard where
they have spent most Of their lives.
These creditors of the United States
of America have for almost half a
century been trying to collect. For
almost half century they have lived
in poverty and want while millions in
graft, DoCh legitimate" and ''lllegltl-
mate" have been squandered by their
capitalist creditor.
After many years the widows and
children of the old navy yard workers
have succeeded in having bill intro
duced into congress appropriating
S324,000 for the payment of their
claims. This is only small part of
the money due them. Congress, which
exploited their husbands and fathers,
stole their wages from them and
ground them down to the depths Of
poverty, can now afford to toss ther1
this dole.
The bill has already been passed by
the senate and is now before the
house, where it may encounter new
obstacles. Should it be approved by
the house too, endless red tape will
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REPORT SUCCESS
IN MINE RELIEF
$4,000 Collected in Two
Tag Days
(Conti,lued from Page One)

Continued from Page QMe)
to the drive accounts for the splendid
response of the Bronx stations. The
Harlem Miners Relief Committee
with quarters at 143 East 1O3Il st.
modified in like manner all the Har-
lem stations.
Fine Record
Jewish workers Club, 35 East End
St, SHOTS; Ukrainian Miners Relief
Committee, II East 3rd St, $775.33:
Downtown Miners Relief Committee,
60 st. Marks Pl.. s192.67; workers club,
101 West 9th st, s1,39495s Czeehoslo-
yak and Jugoslovak Clubs. .347. u. 72nd
St, S132.62; Hungarian Miners Relief
Comm, $50 E. S1st ST., S106.73; Harlem
Miners Relief Comm, 143 e. 1O3rd ST.,
S60517,
Finnish workers Club. Is w. 10Th
St, S1442o; Bronx Jewish workers
Club, 1472 Boston Road, SI9S,S0; Lower
Bronx Workers Club, us e. 13Sth St.
SHIFT; Bronx Miners Relief Comm.
POS Clinton Ave, $356.9S& United
East. $5S0.2S; Consumers League of
Bronx $l02.S2.
National Workers Cooperative House
2771 WflliamsbridEe I'd, $S5.71: Council
No. IL, United Council worlkingclass
Women, $155.73 Bronx Miners Relief
Comm, S04 Forest Ave, S6766 Council
No. 8, 1887 Washington Ave. $I42.37;
Cloakmakers' Council, 1400 Boston Rd.,
$1S1.6S.
Womens Council, 1873 4Srd St, SAP;
Jewish Workers Club and Women's
Council 1901 Mermaid Ave, $3.50;
Workers Club and Women's Council,
1910 Benson Ave, 1911; Women's
Council No. II, Brighton Beach Ave.
$33.44; Williamsburg Miners Relief
Committee, S210.42; Russian Home of
South Brooklyn, $90.22; Individual
Collectors, S31662
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section 1 unlt orrnnIners.


Section 4 Unit Organizers.
Unit Organizers of Section 1 should
call special meetings OF their units to
elect delegates to the section confer
ence to be held on Wednesday, May
%, at 1850 p. m, at so ST. Marks Place
workers Party Picnic.
The Workers Party Picnic viii be
held on Sunday. June gath, at Pleas
ant Bay Park.
Night workers.
a special meeting of Night Workers
will take place tomorrow afternoon
Election of delegates to section con-
ference, which is called for May %,
and other very important matters will
be taken up. 1t is absolutely necss-
without fail Printers unit included.
Section Executive Committee.
Subsection Sc.
The enlarged executive committee of
Subsection BE will meet today at 6:I5
p. m. at 101 w 9th st.
SIS BE International Branch i.
The International Branch / of Sub
section BE will hold q regular meet
St
Unit 3E III,
Tomorrow an important meeting of
Unit &c If will be held at 6:15 d. m.
at 10I w. 9th st.
Unit BE 81.
Unit BE 81 will meet tomorrow at
6;15 p. m, at 1O1 w. 9th St
Unit 3E OF.
On Wednesday, May 20, a meeting
of Unit Sc Of will be held at 6:I5 d.
m. at 101 w. 9th st.
Unit ID, Section 4.
A regular meeting of Unit B, Section
!. VIII be held Wednesday, May %, at
$50 L. S1st St
Spanish Fraction Meeting.
on Wednesday, May 23rd, at $50 D,
m. the regular meeting of the Spanish
FRACTION will be held. A representa-
tive of the district to discuss the i'm
mediate tasks of the Fraction will he
present. All members must attend tbe
meeting at l4S E. 1oSrd st.
FD Q SIS &c,
I'D 8, SIS 2E will meet today at {
p M at l26 e. 18th ST.
Branch 5, Section 5.
"A business meeting of Branch SEC
ton 8 viii be held on Tuesday, Nav
Y at 2075 Clinton Ave, at $50 sharp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-21
Commits Suicide When
Machine Replaces Him

PEORIA, H., May 20.-When his
job as press telegraph operator,
which he had held for more than 25
years. was lost to him, thru the IN
stallation of the new mechanical
operator" which is now used in most
press bureaus, Leon Ollie, after a
period of unsuccessful attempts to
find employment, committed suicide
by turning on the gas and plugging
the doors and windows of his room.
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blry Girls Millinery Workers. Jailed While Picket Duty Before Shops
Workers Party Activities


FD3, Subsection BE.
Unit FD3 Subsection 3H will hold a
regular meeting tomorrow at 101 w.
9th st. al els p. m.
FD1 Section S.
FDl, Section will meet tongiht at
1853 Pitkin Ave, Brooklyn.
Section Membership Meet.
There will be membership meeting
Of Session G District today at 6 D. M,
at 70 Graham Ave, Brooklyn.
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Leaflets Are Ready.

Leaflets and throwaways advertising
the mass meeting that will open the
national nominating convention of the
trict office All units should call at
once for their quota. No charge will
be made.
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probably reach out to entangle the
lives of these last claimants. And
maybe at the end there will still be
a few who viii live to get their small
share Of the money kept from them
when they needed it most by gov
eminent that dispenses justice equally
to the rich and the poor.
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ALASKA, COAST BE LINKED WITH
 A|RL|NES 1923
COASTAL STATES AND TERRI TORY WILL SOON HAVE PAS
 sENGER PLANE SERVICE

SEATTLE. March Is. {P)-The en- tire Pacific coast from Los Angeles to Alaska will probably be linked with airplanes within the year if an ade- quate landing field is developed in Seattle, Charles Baking, Portland Gen eral Manager of the West Coast Air Transport, revealed.
 He said a new service from Vancou- yer to Seattle connecting with lines to California will be started in 30 or 40 days by his company. This will be followed, he said, by regular ser vice to Skagway plans for which al ready are under way Plans for ser. vice to Ketchikan and Seward are also being discussed.
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REPORT OF PLANES
 HEARD OVERHEAD
 Ic UNCONF IRMED
GENERALLY FEARED NORTH ATLANTIC HAS INCREASED
 VICTIMS BY TWO

NEW YORK, March 15. P)-De- spite widespread but unconfirmed re- ports of planes heard winging thru the night fear increased that Wis counts daughter has followed a Prin- cess to death in an attempt to fly the perilous western air lane across the North Atlantic.
 There is still hope that Elsie Mac kay and Major Hinchliffe somehow escaped the same fate met by Prin- cess Lowensteip Wettheim and her two pilots, and by Nungesser and Coli, but this hope was of despera- ton.
 An optimistic computation was that the gasoline could only have kept them aloft until dawn today but hours afer no definite word had been received and aviators generally fear ed the North Atlantic increased the number of its victims by two.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-15
HUSBAND JAILED CONNECTION DEATH
 MURDERED WIFE
OFFICIALS SAY DESCREPANCiES IN STORY TOLD BY L.. G.
 BAGWELL

SPOKANE, March 15, R-L. G, Bagwell, 37. was jailed in connection with the death of his wife who was murdered last night. The woman was bound and gagged, and appar- ently tsrangled.
 The husband said he discovered her body when he returned from Spokane to the ranch home at the edge of. the city. Two children, Il and nine slept in an adjoining room and did not awaken though the mother had been bound to her bed and killed Officials said there are discrepancies in Bagwell's story.
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FIGURES CHANGING
 LIVES AND HOMES
 LOST CALIFORNIA
DIFFICULT TO MAKE ACCURATE CHECK OWING TO SEARCH
 FOR RELATIVES

LOS ANGELES, March 15. (P)-Es- inmates of the number of homeless persons in the San Francisquito flood area is almost as varied as the ever changing figures on the death toll. The chaotic condition resulting from the devasting sweep of the flood made 1t almost impossible to. get definite line on the number of persons who lost their homes. MvY~ SC af- fected kept up a tragical hunt for missing relatives and did not keep in one place long enough to give much information on their families or homes.
 The toll of death, fluctuating on wide margins, stood in the neighbor- hood of 200 with 300 still missing.
 Shattered communications in the mud-bound countryside is making hstrangers of towns which formerly were neighbors and rendered impos- sible a positive checking. Bodies are being moved from one morgue to an- other.
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ENGLISH FL|ER AND
 MSS MACKAY THOT
 LOST IN ATLANTIC
ARE NOW LONG OVERDUE FROM FLIGHT. FROM ENGLAND TO
 NEW YORK

LONDON, March Is. P)-Captain Hinchliffe and Elsie Mackay we're the sole occupants of the Stinson Detroiter plane endeavour which started transatlantic flight Tues day mornins This became knpwn definitely when Major Gordon Sin clair, a close friend of Hinchliffe and whose whereabouts since the flight started had been a mystery, appear ed at the Purely suburban home of the British War Ace.
 He said Miss Mackay was the only passenger in the plane. "The whole thing was rather hurriedly arranged, said Sinclair, flor it originally had been intended that would accom- pany Hinchliffe but Miss Mackay was keen on going so I gave way at her request. I agreed to be a party to the fiction that was flying with the Captain for she did not wish her family to know anything about her trip as she desired they be spared the anxity. So far as Hinchliffe was concerned he was indifferent as to whether Miss Mackay or I accom- pany him."
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WILKINS TO HIP
 FOR BARROW FROM
 FAIRBANKS, SOOV
BELIEF EXPRESSED AvlAToRs CAN LIVE OFF THE coUN-
 TRY INDEFINITELY

FAIRBANKS, March Is. [P-Capt. Wilkins announced the first leg of the Spitzberger flight will be undertaken late this week. Early next week he will hop-off from Point Barrow. Ac- tuai time Is dependent upon the weather.
 The Lochead plane has been taken up almost daily in test flights and pro- nounced to be in perfect condition mechanically.
 No doubt exists, say Wilkins and Melson, as to the feasibility of skis with which the plane is equipped, in making hazardous landings on the Arctic ice pack.
 The equipment assembled here in- ciudes an extra steel propeller, snow shoes, skis, rifle, 400 rounds of am- ulunition, enough food for nine days. fishing nets and hooks, and a net for catching small birds.
 At Point Barrow, oil and gas and condensed rations for 30 days will be taken on. Wilkins continues in the firm belief that with the equipment taken he and Eielson can live off the country indefinitely if an emergency arises.
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YE TERAN SKIPPER IF
 ALASKAN WATERS, DEAD

SEATTLE, March 15. (R)-Funeral services for Captain Joseph Dodge, veteran Seattle and Alaska skipper, who died Tuesday aboard the freighter batouehe, vii be held Monday. Dodge vas 65 years old and had served AL aska vessels for 30 years. He had been with the Alaska Steamship Com Dany as pilot for 20 years. The body vii rarive in Seattle Sunday on the & s. Yukon.
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R|CH LEDGE QUARTZ
 FOUND COPPER RIVER

CORDOVA, Mar 15. (R-A ledge Of rich quartz two miles long was re- ported uncovered near Mile 126, Cop Der River, by Gus Wilson. The news brought a near stampede and excite gnent to Cordova. The strike lies on the Copper River 1lalf-mile from the railroad. It is in the center of rich mineral belt
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WALKER DENIES WAS LATE

NEW YORK, March 15, (P)-Mayor Walker denied he was late for con- ference with President Coolidge He said news was a little dead in Wash ington and newspaper reporters fixed up the story about his tardiness for themselves.
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5000 BooTLEGGERS

WASHINGTON, March 15, (P)-A volunteer sleuth told the House Com mittee that Washington has 5000 bootleggers. Spying organizations were disappointed he said because they could find few citizens willing to press liquor charges.