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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
Many Delegates Will Go
to Pittsburgh
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numerical standpoint. The morgan
lied miners are close second.
Reports have been received from
some parts of the country, Colorado
Kansas, Indiana, Washington, etc.
stating that due to severe unemploy-
ment, bad conditions, ETC., the send
ing of delegates would be very diff
cult, but that they were with the
Save-the- Union Committee heart anc
soul. The administration unsuccess-
fully sought to block elections in all
districts by resorting to the most
vicious tactics, terrorizing, and gang
ster methods.
Membership Aroused.
"The issuance of official declara-
tions, statements, circulars, etc.. by
the administration on a national scale
in an effort to intimidate the mem
bership from attending the conference
has proven a mammoth fizzle, for the
membership is determined that their
union must be saved, that the strike
must be won and this can only be
done on the basis of Lewis and all
the rest must CO. The membership
/ have accepted the challenge of the
machine and the machine has been de.
| feated.
"Side by side with the election Of
their delegates the membership ha:
been organizing local committees Of
the Save the Union Committee in al
unions. The slogan, Miners, Take
Control Of Your Union is being
placed into effect nationally.
To Win the Strike.
"While Lewis sits in Washington
pleading for mercy at the hands Of
the powerful coal barons, the
Schwabs, Rockefellers and MELONS
and receiving no mercy, meanwhile
permitting the union to be weakened
by the intensified attacks of the oper
shoppers, the rank and file convene
in one of the most historic gathering
ever yet held.
"The national conference will
definitely outline policies to win the
strike now in process; to concretely
tackle the question of organization
of the non-union fields, and will take
steps to further the program of the
| Save-the- Union Committee, which is
for six hour day and five day week
naturalization of mines; for labor
party; national strike and nationa
agreement; abolition of company in
fluence from the union; aggressive
and fighting leadership, no wage cuts
for the Jacksonville agreement. AL
eyes on Pittsburgh April l."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
OIL CRAFT BEGAN
WITH DEMOCRATS.
FALL PROTECTED
Wilson Cabinet Heads
Took Oil Money

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w$S Sinclair, is already as good as
dropped.
The fact that the election of Hard
ing and Coolidge was financed by
Sinclair and allied oil magnates in
return for the Teapot Dome lease and
similar considerations is established
and no longer denied. But the poIit-
icians together with influential fl
nanciers and industrialists, including
individuals like President Coolidge and
Samuel insult, Illinois power and trac-
tion magnate, are still anxious to
conceal details of the national clush
fund.
Democrats Exposed.
Sen. Robinson, Indiana republican,
pointed out that former Secretary Of
the Navy Daniels, a democrat, had
authorized the drilling of So wells by
private companies on the government
reserves prior to 1923, and that form
err Secretary of the Interior John
Barton Payne had granted $50 leases
to private companies for a total of
$4,000 acres of land Immediately adj
jacent to Teapot Dome. He said
Payne had leased 5000 acres besides
Teapot Dome to John T. Barnett,
democratic national committeeman
from Denver.
McAdoo Got $25O,OO0.
"Thus the record shows that the
conspiracy of private oil interests to
grab the oil within the naval reserves
Of the nation was entered into and
consummated long before the repub-
lican national convention of 1920 -
entered into and eonsummated with
the active aid and assistance of DEM
ocratic cabinet officers and democratic
leaders in both branches of congress-"
Robinson continued.
The records of the Wilson admin
istration show, said Robinson, that
Doheny and other oil interests en-
ployed Franklin X. Lane, once Sec
rotary of the interior, Joseph J. Cot
ter, Lanes private secretary, Herbert
A. Meyer, assistant to Lane and Clay
Tallman, commissioner of the land
office under Lane. He also repeated
his former charges that Doheny en-
ployed William Gibbs McAdoo at a
salary of S250,000, Former Secretary
of War Lindley M. Garrison and
Former Attorney General Gregory, all
Wilson cabinet members, and George
Creel, "The Wilson publicity agent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30

The District DAILY WORKER agent L. BOhr is
pushing the campaign in all parts of the state and is
being given enthusiastic help by the other agents in
many centers.
The work which is being accomplished by S. ROsen-
thai in Canton should be followed by the agents ev
erywhere. With the same energy and enthusiasm
the Ohio district should take leading part in the
national subscription campaign in the future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
small. WAGES IN
CLOTHING SHOP

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rloyed here as finishers examiners
and on other jobs. There are a good
many men here, too, and they tell
me their conditions are much worse
than ours but 7 haven't been long
enough with this concern to see for
myself.
Our own conditions, as far as ventil-
alton and daylight go, are not 50 bad.
And they ought not to be with the
money they take off our wages and
the profit they make off the work we
do.
Of course there isn't any union in
this shop. The girls here need to
wake up and organize if they want
to win some decent pay and hours
out of the bosses. j.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
Miners Need Daily;
Send Them Free Sub

(Continued from PaGe Onel
class IS solidly behind us in our strug-
gle"
Send free subscription to The
DAILY WORKER to a striking min
er.
Striking Miners Free Subscription.
Daily Worker
33 First ST.,
New York City.
/ am enclosing herewith S.......
for free subscription to striking
miner.
Nar.s .......-.......
Address ..................
City ..............................
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
Baldwin to Lecture at
Workers School Sunday

Roger Baldwin, director of the
Civil Liberties Union, who has recent
ly returned from visit to the Soviet
Union and Europe where he made a
special study of the status of civil
liberties in the various countries, will
speak this Sunday evening at the
Workers School Forum, 10S E. 14th
st. on the question Liberty in the
Soviet Union"
The following week Harold Ware,
head Of tho Russia. Reconstruction
Farms, Inc, vii speak OIL impress
sions of an American Farmer in the
Soviet Union"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
Newark Speakers Arrested.

NEWARK, March 29-Despite a
verbal permit granted by the police
authorities here to the Provisional
Committee of the Unemployed to hold
an open air meeting in Military Park
on Broad st. yesterday afternoon, an
attempt was made by the police to
break up the meeting by a ruse.
After the meeting of several hun
bred jobless workers was opened the
police stopped the meeting by remov-
speaking for the Provisional Com
mittee, from the platform. The po-
lice demanded a written permit and
when one was not Forthcoming took
the two speakers to the First Pre-
cinct police station. The captain in
charge called police headquarters by
phone only to receive affirmation of
the granting of permit.
Meeting Goes On.
The several hundred assembled
workers, however, followed the ar
rested speakers to the police station
Following the release of Macklin and
Gaal the meeting was reassembled
and conducted to a successful conclu-
sion.
Other speakers at the meeting were
George Saul, Tom Foley and Arnold
Zeigler.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
Missouri ARKANSAS and Oklahoma Operators Join Drive on Miners
GS FREE DAILY WORKER SUBS 10 HUNDREDS OF

Week after week envelopes filled with subscriptions
have been sent to the office of The DAILY WORKER
the result of the part which Canton Ohio is taking
in the big national drive to add 10000 new readers
to the paper.
ThruOut Ohio the most energetic action is being
taken to make The DAILY WORKER familiar to the
middle western workers both in the rubber section of
the state around Canton and Akron and in the mining
sections to the SOUTH
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30

Nine hundred and sixty free subscriptions to The
DAILY WORKER have been sent to the striking
miners in the Ohio coal fields The DAILY WORKER
agents have been making every effort to bring the
worker" to the striking miners in southern Ohio.
Under the able leadership of l. Amter and Joseph
JudsOn, the paper is being procured for hundreds of
miners thruOut the southwestern section of Ohio.
This distribution must not be dropped for any
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30

such response will come from the
workers of the country who under
stand the meaning of these facts. The
DAILY WORKER makes this earnest
appeal to the working class: Save our
rsperl Rush funds by return mail by
special delivery, by wire. Next week
may be too late. Save The DAILY
WORKER! Rush funds to The
DAILY WORKER, 33 First St., New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
N. Y. TENANTS
FIGHT Rent HOGS
Expose Governor Smith
as Landlords Friend

Continued from Page 'One)
the law off the books, if not this year,
then next. The indications are that
Smith will probably continue the pres
ent law with some notifications, such
as limiting it only to New York City
and extending it until Dec. / on all
apartments renting for SIS a room
or less, and from Dec. 1, 1928, to
June l, 1929, only to apartments
renting for $40 a room or less. This
means be prepared to pay higher
rents after December LIST or get ready
to move. The State Housing Com
mission reports $4,000 vacancies, 81
per cent of which are in sub-standard
dwellings. These are buildings not
fit to house cattle, filthy unsanitary,
firetraps condemned over thirty
years ago by special investigating
commission. Exploiting landlords
are still able to use these to pile up
profits.
In his annual message to the legis-
lature, Smith declared in 1924 that
"even the large amount of construc-
ton which has taken place during the
last ten years has affected only the
well-to-do and will not for long
time help that three-quarters of the
state with family incomes of less than
$1,000 a year."
Tenants Represented.
The representative of the various
tenants leagues of New York en-
phatically demanded an extension of
the present law and cited evidence to
show the opposition of the landlords
was an organized move to boost the
rents from $50 to $50 on apartments
that are not worth S25 month. The
Harlem Tenants League, represented
by Richard Moore, told the governor
the housing shortage is just as acute
now as it ever was for working peo-
pie and that the overcrowding, and
doubling up" of families in Harlem,
who were unable to pay the extor-
tionate rents, is greater on account
of the unemployment.
The United Council of Working
class Housewives sent as legisla-
tive representative, Harriet Silver
man, to demand the extension of the
law and in the argument pointed out
that the report of Industrial Com
missioner of New York State on un-
employment, prepared for Gov. Smith
in February, calls attention to the in
crease in applications for relief from
charitable organizations from 81 to
as much as 1913 per cent in some
agencies on account of unemploy-
ment. Rent is the highest item next
to food, often higher than food, it
is pointed out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
Moisha Katz, Talks at
'Icor' Concert Tonight

Moisha Katz, Yiddish journalist and
member of the "Freiheit" staff, who
just returned from the Soviet Union.
will report at the "Icor" concert at
Tammany Hall, 145 E. 14th st. to-
night at $3.50. Theodore Celia, harp
list of the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra, Scipione Guidi, violinist Of
the New York Symphony Orchestra,
and Sergei Radomsky, tenor, are on
the program. Other speakers will be
Gina Modem, Prof. Charles Kuntz
and DR.. E. Wattenberg. DR.. j. Glass
man will be chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
LOCKOUT 100000
IN DISTRICT III;
10000 in SOUTH
Save-The-Union Forces
Call General Strike
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trict u on April 1. The national
miners Save-the- Union Committee
has called upon the Illinois miners
to join their brothers of Pennsylvania
and Ohio and come out on strike
April 1.
Gerald Allison, speaking for the
District IL Save-the- Union Commit
tee, has sent out the following re-
port Of the situation:
Smashing Reduction.
"The coal operators have offered
the Illinois miners a "a per cent wage
reduction as the only remedy they
could find to alleviate the present
economic conditions in the mining
industry. The Illinois officers of the
U. M. W. of A. were forced to reject
this proposition due to the pressure
of the rank and file.
"The last temporary agreement left
one half of the miners in this state
without work and forced them into
an absolute desertion from the mill
tant struggle now being waged by
the Perna.-0hio miners. Protest
against any submission to the coal
operators by the union officials has
been initiated by numbers of local
unions and mass determination to
fight to the last ditch before submit
ting to the operators is the prevail
ing spirit of the rank and file.
WhnA
"The operators plan would estab-
lish a reduction of tic on the ton
for all hand leaders. They propose
zoe with 12c differential fer the
machine men, leaving CSC for the coal
diggers per ton. The Jacksonville
agreement calls for 97c ton with a
differential of 13c leaving the coal
digger Sac per ton.
General Reduction.
"The rates 70, the shift men also
are reduced considerably. Approxim-
ately the same rate as the coal dig
gers. Shiftmen wage rates is Sc. the
present agreement calls for $3.50. a
reduction of $3.50 Motormen $3.50,
tie present scale is $3.50, a reduction
# $3.50; the same rates of reduction
n"plies to all other mine workers,
'urnpr1en. trip-riders, brattice men,
electricians, hosting engineers and
every miner of any description. it eff
fects every worker who is engaged
around coal mine
Hypocritical Position.
"The operators take the position
that this is the only way that they
will ever be able to meet the compe-
tition of the non-union fields and
they brazenly attempt to break down
the wage standard of the miners. At
the rate of $50 days year which
has been the average of the Illinois
miners for the last few years, at
their present scale of $3.50 they would
earn SLIPS annually. With the $500
{. day rate the miners would have to
labor 200 days year. It is very
easy to understand that there is small
likelihood that the miners of Illinois
would get 200 days work.
"The proposition of the bosses is
a very bold attempt. The rank and
file will not be deceived. The opin-
ion of the. rank and file is that only
the program of the Save-the-Union
Committee with its fight for shorter
week, the Jacksonville scale and the
custing of the Lewis-F ishwick ma
chine can solve the miners problems.
More important still the Illinois min
ers must come out on April to join
their striking brothers in Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
ENTIRE FAMILY STARvES.

Vincent Claragello, his wife and
nine children, 433 Lorimer st. are
starving, it was learned yesterday.
Until recently, Rose, the oldest child,
has been supporting the family, but
a short time ago she was placed on
part time work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30

SAN FRANCISCO, March go. -
Two Chinese, Chun Shin and Chun
Flu, are under arrest here for dis
tributing leaflets protesting against
the threatened deportation of an Ital-
ian anti-fascist from New York to
ItaH.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30

The speakers will include Henry
Bloom, of the council, Sylvan A. Pol
lack, of The DAILY WORKER; Louis
A. Baum, secretary, Photographic
Workers Union, and M. E. Taft,
manager of Local Al, International
Ladies Garment Workers Union.
A mass meeting of unemployed
young workers will be held Sunday
at 1 p. m. at Columbia Hall, 236 Third
Ave-, corner oath St., Brooklyn, under
the auspices of the Young Workers
(Communist) League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
"Say Il With FLOWERS"

The workers belonging to Local 2,
which is completely controlled by the
Beckerman machine, tell few inter
esting facts in regard to the recent
elections of convention delegates, in
which the right wing clique safely
counted themselves to victory.
The business agents of the local
have been routed thru the shops con-
trolled by the local to coerce their
members into contributing money for
the purchase of flowers for the dele
gates elected. The amounts collected
to date, however, have not been suf-
ficient for the Beckerman agents to
be able to boast Of the memberships
devotion to them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
UNEMPLOYED TO MEET:
N. ]. SPEAKERS JAILED

Two meetings of unemployed workers will be held the
The New Council the Unemployed will hold rally
Square at 2 m tomor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
.SAvE-UNION CALL MEMBERS OPPOSE
BRINGS RESPONSE BECKERMAN MOVE
Coerce Members to Buy
Flowers for Leaders"

Membership meetings of Locals
and 5 of the Analgamated Clothing
Workers Union, held late Thursday
night in the Forward building, re-
fused to accept the report of the
Joint Board decision not to seat the
full newly-elected Joint Board dele
cation recently elected by Local s.
The right wing Reckerman machine,
in control of the Joint Board, demand
ed that the local elect new delegates
to replace the two they refused to
seat because they were known as open
opponents Of the piece work system.
The membership voted not to elect
new delegates and were Joined by
Local in a demand on their exec
utive boards to map out a plan to
force the Beckerlnan machine to seat
the delegates of their choice. A mo-
ton was also passed instructing the
executive board Of Local & to prepare
for the calling of a mass meeting
Of the members Of the union to pro-
test against Beckerman's dictatorial
procedure.
Strong Opposition.
Even the Joint Board meeting
which decided not to seat the dele
gates, Beckerman had met with a
strong opposition. 1t was only after
he started fight there, using chairs
to punctuate his arguments, that he
succeeded in railroading thru his mo-
ton.
Elections for delegates to the con-
vention were also held at the local
meeting of Local 5. The five dele
gates elected, in the order of the
number of votes received are: J. Pol
lack, H. Borenstein, A. Herschkowitz,
Philip Weiner and Philip Brand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-03
DRY PROTEST BODY
GATHERS IN CHICAGO
Efforts Made to Join All Dis
senterS From Both Parties.
McAdoo Mentioned.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 3.-Leaders and
suokesmen of several national groups
which are in disagreement with both
major political parties prohibition
blanks were gathering today in advance
OF the convention called to meet here
July 10.
Although the convention Is nominaily
that of the Prohibition party, efforts
have been made to combine the
strength Of all those factions which are
dissatisfied by both platforms, includ-
ing Farmer Labor groups.
The jefferson Lincoln League, OF
which James A. Edgerton OF Washing
ton is president, was one OF thoSe or
PLANTATIONS invited to cooperate.
The names of William q. McAooo.
former Senator Robert l.. owen of
Oklahoma and Daniel c. Roper, VINO
was commissioner of internal revenue
under President Wilson, were mentioned
as presidential nominees. d. Leigh Col
vim, national chairman OF the Prohibl-
ton party said that "a prominent dry
Democrat" from the South was Under
consideration for the nomination.
Colvin indicated that the Anti-Saloon
League would not participate, In any
plan for organization of third party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-03
CALLS ON FARMERS
To AID DEMOCRATS
Party Plank Promises More
for Agriculture, Peek
Says.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, July 3.-The agriculture
plank in the Democratic national plat
form has proved so satisfactory to
George n. Peek, chairman of the ex-
ecutiVe committee representing the
Corn Belt Conference Of Il States,
that in a statement issued here he has
urged Republican farmers to vote the
Democratic ticket in November.
Peck. himself a Republican, said the
Republican party turned its back" on
the farmers at Kansas City and then
added insult to injury by nominal
ing for President the arch enemy of
a square deal for American agricul
ture."
In Houston. on the other hand. the
Peek statement said, THE farmers were
given the greatest consideration in
every way. Their reception was most
cordial their views on platform were
solicited and real plank was adopted
which is the most favorable for agri-
culture ever written in the platform OF
any political party in our history"
Farmers in the grain, live stock and
cotton States will recognize In the
Democratic plank for agriculture new
declaration Of Independence. the Peek
statement said
Peek said the sole solution of the
farm problem" offered by the Republi-
can party nominee lis TO keep on starE-
ing out farmers until production is re-
duced TO the demands Of the domestic
markets
Gov. McMullen of Nebraska. a lead
er In the farmer revolt" movement
that preceded the Republican national
convention, praised the Democratic
platforms farm plank
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-03
ADJUSTMENTS
NATIONAL Observation-Disclosures.

NATIONAL PLAYERS--"Interferencc."
The National Players this week are
doing excellent work i'll interference,
an English melodrama. shorn OF I'M
probabilities, which, nevertheless, pre-
sents at least one thrilling scene tnat
Is likely to linger long in the memory
OF those who see 1t. And In TINS scene
John Warner, leading man OF the com
pany and Helen Wallace enact an lncl-
dent probably unlike anything That mas
ever been witnessed on the stage before
1t Is almost blood-chilling in Its nor
ror. They did 1t, too, last evening with
a concentration Of dramatic aoiiity not
often duplicated.
The play is not properly one OF those
things that are called mystery plays,
which shoot the chills up and down the
spine at unexpected moments and force
feminine screams of the most approved
character and yet there is strain 0!
mystery to 1t, as rightly there snoulo
be, to hold the attention. The writer's
have utilized in its construction so many
varied characters that company not
finely equipped for character work
might easily make a failure OF 1t, but
when adequate to the task, as were the
National Players throughout last eve
ming, the play at once becomes not only
masterpiece of modern melodrama,
but an intensely interesting character
study
Miss Wallace represents woman
who has been Tilted in the past for an
other who Is now the adored wife OF
All eminent English surgeon, VINO IN
turn is adored by her. The former. III
revenge and also because envious OF
her rivals proud position and feellng
that something Is coming to her Tor
what she has lost, seeks to blackmail the
surgeons wife. The man in the case,
now ON his last legs and seeking the aid
of the surgeon, meets. when he calls
AT the latters office, the surgeons wife,
who is the woman whom he had for
meEly loved. There are compromising
letters that must be obtained, and
Philip Voaze, the derelict, and Incl
dentally for the time being John War
ner, gets them with pretended recon-
citation with Deborah Kane, the adj