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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-25
Communist Drive to Extend
to May I As Many Join
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bers of the Party who had dropped
out in the past several years are re-
joining in considerable numbers.
Many newcomers, young coal miners
now going thru their first big strug-
gle with the employers, make up most
of the rest.
Party Grows in Struggle.
"The short of it," said Siaehel
yesterday, sis that the fight in the
mining fields is having the effect of
drawing hundreds of the best of the
militant miners into the Party which
they see more and more clearly as
the leader Of their struggles on all
fronts, against the bosses and
against the treacherous bureau
Gratis who act as agents of the boss
es. In actual struggle the Workers
(Communist) Party is making head
way toward booming mass party"
Colorado Miners Join.
In Colorado, where the sharp
struggle reached the stage OF the
cold blooded shooting down of six
miners, the large number OF coal
diggers applying for membership nee
essitated the formation of a new
unit of the Party. In the Kansas dis
trict. sixty coal miners have joined
the Party within the past few days,
according to report OF Hugo Och
Ter, district organizer of the Party.
In Pennsylvania and Ohio the in
fluence of the Party has been greatly
increased during the strike, with or
ganizational gains
New York District Proposal.
The proposal for the extension Of
the big drive came first from the
District Committee Of District 2 Of
the Party in New York City. At the
office of the New York district it was
explained yesterday that the Party's
activities in the campaign for the re-
lief of the striking miners and the
campaign for help to the unemployed
and against the anti-strike bill are
resulting in an unusual stimulation of
the applications of workers to join
the Party.
The Lenin- Ruthenberg drive began
on January 81, the date commemorate
ing the death of Lenin, and was or
iginally intended to come to an end
on March 2, the anniversary of the
death of c. E. Ruthenberg, who was
the secretary of the Party and it
veteran leader. Nationwide memorial
meetings will be held on the Ruthen-
berg anniversary, the dates varying
in various cities from March 2 to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-25
Michigan Workers Rush Funds and Subs Fight Save Daily Worker
.FORD-C0NTROLLEO
STATE PROMISES
MORE AID SOON
Take Lead in Campaign
to Save "Daily"

DETROIT, Feb. 24.-Seven hun
bred and forty-seven dollars has been
sent to The DAILY WORKER as the
Michigan districts contribution this
week to the national campaign to winN
ten thousand new subscribers to the
paper. "This is only beginning"
declares the message accompanying
the collection, and hundreds more sub
scriptions will be sent in short
time"
Not only is the Michigan district
donating hundreds of dollars to the
defense of The DAILY WORKER
against the attack of the United
States government, but the hundreds
of subs collected thruout the Michigan
area are putting Ford's stronghold in
the forefront of the national subscrip-
ton campaign.
Under the able leadership of Sarah
Victor, The DAILY WORKER agent
in District 7, the sub drive is swing
ing to the lead place as scores of new
subscriptions are being turned in ev-
cry day and hundreds more are prom
ised in the near future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-25
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April l.. when the last meeting will
take place in Detroit.
At Chicago the big hall of Ashland
Auditorium has been obtained for
the Ruthenberg memorial meeting on
March 4. In this hall Ruthenberg
had addressed many mass meetings,
and from this same hall began his
funeral ceremonies which continued
to New York and then to the Union
of Socialist Soviet Republics, where
his ashes were buried in the Kremlin
wall
The purpose of the Lenin-R uthen-
berg drive is the recruiting of 5000
new members of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party-"the party of Len
in" and an increase of 10000 new
readers of the DAILY WORKER, the
central organ of the Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-25
Kinlock Mine Owners Didn't,
Worry Over Safety of Scabs

in Kinlock. This time it promises to
be big one. And one of the points
around which the probe will center is
the report made by mine Inspector
w, ]. McGregor and posted in the pit
on October %. It reads:
Reasonably safe. Explosive gas
found in No. II and No. Is entries off
No. 9 face. Found ventilation weak
and inadequate to keep fan and en-
tries clear and free from explosive
gas. Recommend that the quantity
of air be increased and conducted to
face the entries in sufficient quantity
to dilute and carry off and render
harmless all explosive gas generated.
Ventilation in No. split, Valley
Camp section. All dry parts of mine
be thoroly rockdusted and rockdust
barriers be placed in trackless en-
tries"
McGregor said that he does not
know if the coal company complied
with his recommendations. He knows
darned well they did not, but the in
vestigating committee may have to
apply a coat of whitewash.
Inside the company patch" which
skirts the fatal Kinlock mine, strike
breakers, their wives and children, i'll
clad and shivering in the raw damp
February air, walk like ghosts in the
shadow of disaster. Death turks I'M
der those Parnassus hills. The grim
reaper had good night on February
.21. Whose turn will it be next :?
There is blood on Kinlock coal and
guilt on the souls of the Valley Camp
Coal Company. Only, so much more
guilt. Is not the whole cursed capt.
talist system stained with blood?
On both sides of the Kinlock mine,
union miners maintain picket lines.
In congested barracks, their wives
cook scanty meals for many mouths,
Birth control does not prevail in the
mining camps. BLESSED are those
-" Blessed perhaps, but certainly
hungry. But those cold and hungry
striking miners face the world with
the spirit of men and women fight
ing for a great cause. They hunger
it is true, but have not the battlers
for freedom in all ages hungered ?
And they suffer in the consciousness
that the eyes of the class-conscious
workers of the U. S. and of all lands
are on them and that the hearts OF
the freedom-loving everywhere beat
with them. But tear-dimmed eyes
and throbbing hearts will not helI
the miners win their strike. Milk is
more precious than tear-water anc
one dollar is worth one million sym
pathetic heart tremors. Send money
for relief at once to the Pennsylvania
Ohio Miners Relief Committee, Gil
Penn Ave-, Room 314, Pittsburgh, Pa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-25
OF LEWIS
AID OHIO POLICE
To CRUSH MINERS
Militancy Increases
Among Rank and File
by a Worker Correspondent

MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, Feb. "a.
Following six successful mass meet
ings arranged by the Save the Union
Committee at which Tony Minerich,
president of the committee, and Vim
cent Kamenovich, secretary, rallied 90
per cent of the rank and file miners
around the progressive program, the
sub-district reactionary officials of
the United Mine Workers are stopping
at nothing in their desperate efforts
to stop the NEE ings arranged for the
progressives by John Brophy and Pat
Toohey. at Dillonville, Yorkville,
Landing, Neffs and Bellaire.
Miners Defy Police.
The meeting at Bellaire on the goth
last Sunday, was refused the Miners
Temple, and procured the Bohemian
hall seven blocks away. Just prior to
the NEE ing the police swarmed in and
prohibited the meeting from being
held. The miners, 500 strong, pro-
ceeded to the Miners Temple which
they had originally been refused, and
held their meeting for three hours in
defiance of the police. Vincent Kam-
enovich addressed the miners, followed
by many rank and file denunciations
of the right wing officials who had
refused the hall to the miners. The
officials are said by the rank and file
miners to have instigated the police
action in not allowing the meeting to
be held in the Bohemian Hall.
Officials Conspire.
Last Monday John Cirque, presi-
dent of Bellaire subdistrict of Dis
trict 6 of the U. M. W., Adolph Paci-
fico, vice president, and William Rob-
erts, secretary-treasurer, were re-
ported to have conferred with the
chief of police and Mayor Crunelle of
Belleaire. The local paper stated that
he purpose of the meeting could
not be learned" but the progressive
miners are we'll aware that a con-
spiracy between the reactionary Off
Gals of the union and the city police
is going on in an effort to ban the
meetings of the miners scheduled for
this weekend. The same paper also
carries statement by the mayor an
nouncing that miners meetings will
be banned under the war ordinances.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-25
Robert Minor to Conduct
Labor Journalism Class

The class in labor journalism, at
the Workers School, 108 E. 14th St.,
will be conducted by Robert Minor,
editor Of The DAILY WORKER. The
class in the future will meet every
Monday at $3.50 p. m.
Beatrice Becker will give course
in Speech Improvement" on Monday
from 6:45 to 7:45 p. m. David ].
Saposs will give series Of six lee
lures on Historic Struggles of Amer
lean Labor" on Friday evenings from
to 500 o'clock.
Students in the Labor Journalism
class will be given practical labor
journalism work and experience thru
assignments by The DAILY WORK
Err.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-25
Charge Terror

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 24.-Charges
that a reign of terror, instigated by
coal and iron police, existed in the
Moon Run Camp of the Pittsburgh
Coal Company were made before the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-25
TRACE OIL BONDS
TO REPUBLICANS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-The
senate's search for new traces of the
Continental Trading Company's mys-
terious $3,O80,000 Liberty Bond
"slush fund" was centered today upon
the accounts of the Republican Ma
tional Committee in the Continental
and Commercial Trust Company at
Chicago.
Government experts studied a list
of deposits made in the Chicago Bank
by the republican committee in Octo-
Der and November, 1928. In the lat
ter month, the republican deposits
totaled 100000 while over the per-
iod of the 1920 campaign, they ex-
ceeded a million dollars.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-25
TO GUST FULLER'S
ATTY.-CENERAL
Reading Admits Taking
Bride of S25, 900

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 24-Attor-
ney General Arthur X. Reading, who
acted as advisor" to Gov. Fuller
during the fight for Sacco and VAN
zetti, was today facing the possibility
of removal from office. Yesterday
he admitted before the House Com
mittee on Rules that he had accepted
$4,000 from the Decline Club, Inc,
soon after his office had completed
an investigation of that organization.
Reading also admitted that the
check, in the form of "fee for legal
advice" was made out to a third
person, and not to him directly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-25
RAP OPERATORS,
union OFFICIALS
IN ANTHRACITE
Big. Meeting Protests
Unemployment
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declared that "escaping gas" caused
the explosion Miners, however,
pointed out that it was the absence
Of safety appliances which made pos
sible the accident.
They declared that mines properly
inspected would be safeguarded, max
ing such an accident impossible.
AS soon as news of the explosion
spread thru the town, hundreds of
men, women and children began to
crowd around the entrance to the
mines awaiting for news of the res
cue crews. Groans rose from the
workers families as the mangled
bodies of the dead miners were
brought up.
Many Of the injured are not ex-
pected to live.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-25

senate coal investigating committee
today by number of striking
miners.
The hearing was held in the front
loom of a little country store.
every crime on the calendar has
been perpetrated by the coal and iron
police" said James Oinsadale, chief
of the union pickets. ''They have as
saulted and beaten up our miners"
He was followed by Mrs. Mary
Kruick, proprietor of the store, and
Mrs. Thomas Bresler, wife of the To-
cal constable.
Mrs. Kruick testified that some
time ago two coal and iron police,
with drawn guns, entered her store
in search Of strikers. They poked
their guns in the faces of her chill
dren and thrust them aside, knock
ing one to the floor. The little boy
was hit on the head by one of the
policemen.
The policemen then went next door
to the home of Mrs. Bresler, where
her father was lying on his death
he'd. The police called vile names at
him and knicked her around the
room.
P. M. White, division manager of
the Pittsburgh Coal Company, fatty
refused to answer Sen. Wheeler when
the latter asked concerning the cost
of producing coal at the Moon Run
mine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-25
By T. ]. O'FLAHERTY.

The Kinlock mine, where twelve
strikebreakers were killed in an ex-
plosion recently, was never rockdust-
ed or watered. The company was
making money until it went nom
union. 1t was selling coal at the pit
mouth for $2.10 a ton; the cost of
production was $1.83-a profit of 70
cents. Not so bad. Why bother about
making the mine safe? Human life
is abundant. People must eat to live.
And in order to eat one must either
work for master or be master and
make others work. And people will
take chance on anything rather than
die Of hunger.
A mine fire boss who once fenced
off a gas pocket and prevented two
men from working in the infected
area was fired. There were 100000
cubic feet Of gas there, right along
the motor run. A state examiner came
to investigate and saw nothing. Nice
examiner! Nice and generous COM
pany-to good examiners, also to the
campaign funds of good governors.
Very likely.
There will be another investigation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-25
HOTEL BURNS DOWN.

GALVESTON, Texas, Feb. "a. -
Two hundreds guests escaped when
the eight-story Hotel Royal, located
on one of the busiest downtown COR
ners Of Galveston, burned down.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-22
A MODERN HIGH SCHOOL

Dedication of the Theodore Roose- welt high school in the Bronx, New York. occupies a city block. It was dedicated the other day. with Mayor Walker the chief speaker.
 The New York mayor said the city has spent $4l.0oo,000 on school buildings this year, and added: wen get more and spend more to achieve the finest public school sys- tenn in all the world"
 There being quite a discussion about what a high school should be like in New Britain. let's note how the Roosevelt high school in the Bronx shapes up.
 Approximately $500 pupils are in attendance. There are 1os class rooms, laboratories. gymnasium. swimming pool, music rooms library. museum, club rooms. shop and cafe teria and a large auditorium"
 We rather think that if Mayor Walker could be induced to come to New Britain for the purpose of mak ing speech on schools and what kind ot high schools to build he could open the eyes of some of our citizens.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-22

an improvement to show full cause why. He has caused men to dig un- der the surface of the thing like no other issue has been treated here abouta during recent decades. He has forced the school committee to lay its entire deck of cards on the table-with the result that no mark ed trumps were found. He has made those favoring the high school addi- tion prove the justice of their con- tentionA And new, at the final climax. at least . moral victory has been won by the school progressivea This was to be expected because logic cannot be permanently down. ed. And even if the mayor forces a temporary delay. ultimate victory for the high school proponents is in sight.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-22
DOESN'T SUIT THE BRITISH

The inquiry into the sinking of the Nestris seems to be terrible ordeal to British observers. who are ener- getlc in their criticisms of how the Americans are telling the world through the evidence how things were done or allowed to be done on this British ship. If the Vestris had been flying the flag of any other na- tlon, however, British criticisms would probably be entirely absent. Instead Of criticism there would be approval. Such things, it would be stressed, could not happen on a British ship.
 The belief in England seems to be that the Vestris inquiry has one of its objects the shaking of public con- fidence in the safety of British ships and British seamanship.
 Let the chips fall where they may" does not hold good in the British estimation in this case They want the evidence "sifted," which must mean in the last analysis that only such evidence which is favor able 10 British ships and British sea- manship would be regarded as worthy ot credencs, Follows para graph from the London Daily News:
 The only findings " hlch will
 have any value or carry any
 weight with the great brother
 hood of the sea are those that
 our own Board of Trade will
 issue ln due course upon expert
 testimony carefully sIfted and
 sooerly considered
 lt Is ae clear as daylight that the British prefer a white wa shins tn qulry.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-22
SUPREME COURT NErrLED


 In order to obtain . speedy conaid- eration of the pros and cons in the New York subway fare case the Supreme Court of the United States obliginsly placed 1t ahead of previous cases on ats calendar. Public inter est demanded this step. Conse- quently the court was able to reach the briefs submitted by special counsel in ecord-breakine time. And it did not take the justices long to discover that something was wrong.
 The parties in the argument had employed high priced special counsel who believed in earning their fees with many words. Even Supreme Court justices are human. and too many words. confusing statistics and oceans of irrelevancy are likely to pail. Consequently the justices threw out all the briefs and ordered a new argument from the ground up.
 This ought to be a lesson for high priced word- The issfes in the fare dispute can be succinctly stated on less than a dozen typewriter pages. If masters of brief composition were paid ac- cording to how succinctly they pre- sented their arguments. instead of how extended they could be padded. such things would not happen.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-22
Obserudhons On ne Weofhey

Washington, Nov. 2:,-Forecast for Southern New England: Gener- ally fair and slightly colder tonight; i; Friday fair: fresh southwest, shift ing to west and northwest winds. probably strong on south coast, di- minishing Friday.
 Forecast for Eastern New York: Generally fair and slightly colder. except probably snow hurries in ex- treme north portion tonight: Friday fair: fresh to strong west and north west winds. diminishing late tonight
 Conditions: The disturbance that was central oyer northern Lake Su- perior yesterday moved rapidly southeaStward and ts central this morning over Eastern New York state and New England. It is pro- ducing local snows in portions of Ohio and the upper lake region and rains in the lower lake districts. the middle Atlantic states and New England. The western area of high
New Britain herald., 1928-11-22
16 Year Old Rhode
 Island Girl Found

Westerly. R. l.. Nov. P (UP)- Sixteen -year-old Bertha Piascik was safe at her Hope Valley home today after being the, object of an exten- sive search in which state police. Boy Scouts and volunteers partict- pated.
 During her nearly three days ab- sencs, the girl was feared to have been the victim of foul play. This morning, however. she appeared none the worse for her experience. She told authorities she had been with friends.
 Miss Piascik's boy friend. Bennia Habsrek. Fl, is being held at Wash- ington county jail on . statutory charge. The girl disappeared at 3 a. m. Monday after leaving him not far from her home.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-22

O'Connor. Kirkham. and Riley play ed with the business msn.
 A woman told Chief Rawlings to- day that her landlord wanted to get her out and had removed all the windows from her tenement. The chief told her it was . matter for civil action.
 The Senecas will meet the Bristol Consolidated team at 10 o'clock Thanksgiving morning. The local team vii have Hillard. Frank Star key, A. H.Rockwell. w. Corbin. B. Day. Parsons, Donnelley. Bert Star key. Fred Judd. w. E. Eastman, and C. c. Beach.
 Great sale of watches. clocks, and jewelry. Look in our window and see what we can give you for ts. M. P. Leghorn.-Advt.
 The Arcade clothing store adver- tises mems overcoats for $3.75 and mems suits for the same price, also heavy reefers for 31.25.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-22
THE SCHOOL REPORT

Having visited all the school build lngs and delved into the citys educa- tlcnal needs in what appears to have been a. thorough manner, the mayors second special school investigating committee has filed a report that possesses at least one striking feature-that the present senior high school. after certain changes are made. will sufYice for several more years. As regards the elementary educational needs, the report merely confirmed the prevailing opinion that increased accommodations are urgently needed.
 Opposition to the use of the Roose- welt school as junior high school is likely to be shared by many citizens, although the building, it is under stood, was constructed with this in view If found necessary. School pupils who have been attending the Roosevelt school and their parents. will not take kindly to a change to an old building to make room for junior high school pupils. There M also justice in the claim that the building is not ideally situated for the use of junior high pupils.
 The main argument in the report. the point which will be most seri- ously debated. is that which would postpone any effort to enlarge the senior high school at this time. That, at least, is one way of going about it: but unfortunately it will not evade the necessity of providing decidedly more room within . few more years.
 The special committee. it appears, IS of the opinion that before the high school problem IS definitely solved the city might more profitably solve elementary school problems. These. of course. must be solved any way. regardless of what is done about the high school. That the committee favors an improved ele- mentary school plant IS not a victory or defeat for anyone. as almost everybody already was aware of these needs.