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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
Canadian Unions Show
Effect of Young Blood

MONTREAL (FP).-Revolts of
unorganized workers and growing
militancy of union workers have
been featuring the Canadian indus
trial scene. A younger generation
with larger ideas and appetites is
entering the ranks of labor. Ag-
gressive spirits crossing the border
in search of better jobs in the
United States are disappointed. Thus
the Canadian labor movement is
strengthened.
Heavily subsidized immigration
increases the difficulties of the labor
movement and recent court decisions
have been designed to cripple unions.
But most trades moved forward last
year, and most of the reactionary
efforts of employers this spring
have been defeated by stubborn
resistance.
Unusual and of more than passing
significance is the role women and
girls have played in recent strikes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
.FASCISTS LEFT
MALMCREM TO DIE
OF HUNGER, COLD
Zappi and Mariana Abandoned Swedish Scien-
tist to Death In Arctic Ice
Saved Own Lives with Dying Companion's
Food and Compass

MOSCOW, U. S. s. R., July 15.-
A gruesome tale of virtual murder
by cold and starvation inflicted on
wounded man was revealed here
today when dispatches from the So
Wet icebreaker Krassin gave the
world the true story of how Zappi
and Mariana, officers from the
wrecked fascist airship Italia, left
DR.. Finn Malgren, noted Swedish
scientist and their companion in the
dash for land, to die alone in the
polar ice.
In spite of official denials by the
Italian government, the information
received from the Krassin is au-
thenticated and without any ques-
tion relates the true facts.
Brutality unparalleled among
men facing common danger char
acteriZes the action of the two Ital-
ians in abandoning their wounded
companion after they had taken his
food and his compass.
The true facts of the "heroism"
of the two Italians whose fidelity
to their companion has been lauded
for days in the European and Amer
ican press were ascertained by Of
ficers of the icebreaker after the
ship had been guided to them by
the Soviet flier Chukhnovsky
Chukhnovsky was wrecked in the
attempt.
The later reports of the fascist
captains so contradicted their first
story that the suspicious Of the
Krassin's officers were aroused and
they closely questioned the Italians
According to their latest confes-
sion, the men dug a grave in the
ice for Malgren when he could &C
no further and left him there to die
of hunger and cold after having APP
propriated his compass and provi-
sions.
Mobile, the commander of the
Italia and the first to b rescued
evidently feeling the need of an ex-
PLANTATION, has issued a statement
saying that there had been no mis-
understanding between himself and
Malgren and that there was no en-
nifty between any members of the
party.
A telegram received from the
Citta de Milano, the Italia base
ship, read: "Malgren died of ex-
pcsure on June Is. Mobile is bet
ter. His dog, Titina, feels fine"
In the meantime the Soviet ice
breaker Krassin has been ordered
to seek further for Amundsen and
his companions, in spite of heavy
fog and icefloes. The Malignin, an
other Soviet vessel, has also been
ordered by the Soviet Rescue Mis-
sion to continue with the search.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
CONVENTION CALL FOR
A NEW TEXTILE UNION

The following is the official call
for a convention of textile workers
organizations and mill committees
for the formation of national in
dustrial union of all textile work
ers. Due to it's tremendous impor-
tance since it affects the workers
in one of the country's major in
dustries, the call is presented in
full. Albert Weisbord, national
secretary of the Textile Mills Com
mittee, signs the document.
"To All Textile Workers Organ
izations, Textile Workers Mill
Committees, Tetile Workers
Clubs and Associations, Textile
Unions.
Greetings:
"The textile industry is in the
throes of reorganization. Intense
speeding up, mass unemployment
longer hours, and wage cuts are the
order of the day. Not satisfied
with their tremendous profits, the
textile manufacturers are doing
everything possible to squeeze the
workers harder than ever before.
"At the present time the textile
employers are planning new drive.
The drive has formally begun
against the cotton workers in New
England and over one hundred
thousand workers have already re-
ceived ten per cent wage cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
FASCIST terror
S WEEPS SPAIN
Blame Disturbances"
For Arrests

BORDEAUX, France, July 15.-
Arrests of thousands of workers.
liberals and Catalan nationalists are
being continued by the Spanish po-
lice as parts of wave of terrorism
which they began following an
nouncement by the authorities of a
widespread attempt to overthrow
the present regime, alleged to have
been discovered by the government s
secret agents.
Nationwide arrests of workers
are reported from cities as far apart
as Saragossa, Madrid and Barcelona
Scores of workers engaged in con-
structing the Theatre Royal near
the royal palace in Madrid have
been detained, while many trade
union organizations have been raid
ed and others are being watched by
the police.
Absolute censorship of all news
papers has prevented word of the
governments actions from appear
ing in the news in Spain, but, ir
spite of official efforts to close the
frontiers to information, reports o.
events are leaking through.
Passengers on international train
are being subjected to the most
thorough-going search by the border
guards at the French and Portu
guese frontiers. Many have beer
closely questioned and an effort is
being made to prevent all persons
suspected of labor activities from
entering the country.
Unconfirmed reports reaching
here from travellers who are hastily
leaving Spain allege considerable
unrest in the interior. Especially
from Barcelona there are reports Of
disturbances among the textile and
harbor workers, and a number Of
Catalan nationalists are said to have
been detained by the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
Matthew VOLS Ne1U Boss Racket IN Drive on Labor
CONVENTION TO
Be HELD HERE
SEPT. e 9
Mill Groups, Clubs,
Unions Called

A call for the formation Of
countrywide textile workers INDUS
trial union was issued yesterday
from the headquarters of the Ma
tional Textile Mill Committees, SO
Fifth Ave, this city.
The convention is to be held here
on Saturday and Sunday, September
22nd and 23rd at the Irving Plaza
Hall, Irving Place and 18th st. and
is scheduled to be opened at 2 p. m.
Saturday.
All textile workers organizations
mill committees, clubs, associations
and textile workers unions are called
upon to send delegates to the con-
vention.
Thousands Unorganized
The call is issued over the sigma
ture of Albert Weisbord, National
Secretary of the National Textile
Mill Committee. Weisbord was the
leader of the great strike of Passaic
textile workers in 1926.
L lie diIdllHB BIOWIH VI tIiS mn
committees in all sections of the
country and particularly in the New
England textile manufacturing dis
trict shows that the delegates from
the committees alone will represent
tens of thousands of mill workers.
Despite the con antration of most
of the forces of the National Textile
Mill Committee in the New Bedford
strike area, where $4,000 workers
are entering the 14th week of the
struggle against a wage cut under
the leadership ef the New Bedford
Textile Workers Union of the Tex
tile Mill Committee, recruiting work
in other fields show that hundreds
of new members are forming mill
1 committees.
A. F. of l.. Aids Bosses.
The weakened leadership of the
American Federation of Labor tex
tile union, who meet the bosses Of
fensive by advocating surrender
policy where they are not openly
the employers speed-up agents, is
Continued from Page One
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
union OFFICIALS
help OPEN SHOP
military SCHEME
Employers Lay /! Plans
For Soldier Law

CHICAGO, H., July ia new
tangled class collaboration scheme
by which Matthew Woll, reactionary
president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, and several other
labor skates sought to creep a bit
closer tc the bosom of the bosses
met with a tragic end here when
the employers sprung the trap bit
too soon and forced the labor Of
ficials to claim immunity"
The Illinois Association For Grim
inal Justice has issued a recommen-
dation for the establishment Of a
state constabulary to fight labor.
Respectable Strikebreakers
The association is one of the
numerous alleged reform organiza-
tions that put respectable front on
the legislative and judicial conspira-
cies of big business.
Part of the front is a window
dressing of liberals and labor off
cials, behind whom the anti-union
financiers and employers operate.
In this case Vice President Matthew
Woll, President John H. Walker of
the Illinois State Federation of La
Dor, President Agnes Nestor of the
Women's Trade Union League and
ex-President George w. Perkins of
the cigarmakers international pro-
vided the labor screen on the boar.
The association suddenly released
to the press a strong recor1rnanda
tion for a state cossack system. At
the same time 1T branded a number
Of Chicago labor men as sluggers,
murderers, bombers, gunmen and
extortionists. The survey commit
tee of the association assumed res
sponsibility for these astonishing ac-
tions and Woll is a member of that
committee.
Sit With Open-Shoppers
Some of Chicago's most notorious
open-shoppers, like Jim Patten of
the Lands committee and Tom Don
nelley of the scab printshops, sit
on the board of the Illinois Asso-
citation for Criminal Justice with
Woll and Walker and the other
takers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
Workers Lose Out In
New Law

WASHINGTON, July Is (FP).-
Private insurance companies have
a profitable monopoly of the busi-
ness, and workers have to safeguard
their own chance of compensation
for accident, under the new work
mems compensation law in the Dis
trict of Columbia, which became
effective on July 1. The worker
whose employer has violated the
law by failing to take out insurance
cannot collect if he is injured. 1t
is small satisfaction to him to know
that his boss may be fined or
jailed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
0LE-LITHUANIA
PARLEY WRECKED
Pilsudski to Address
Fascists in Wilma

KOENIGSBERG, East Prussia,
July 15.-Announcement that Mar
shall Pilsudski will go to Wilma to
inspect the frontier and to celebrate
the anniversary of the formation
of his military legion, followed i'm
mediately after the collapse of the
economic conference between the
Polish and Lithuanian delegates at
Warsaw, according to dispatches
from that city.
The conference went to pieces on
the question of the Kovno railroad,
according to the Polish dis
patches. Other issues are believed
to have played crucial part in the
outcome, however. The coming Sc
cret military conference of the
Little Entente called by the French
at Bucharest is reported to be one
of these.
Whether or not Marshall Pilsud-
ski will make any overt threats
during his harrangue to the legion
at Wilma is not known yet, but it
is anticipated that the relations of
Poland and the Soviet Union will
form feature of his speech.
Pilsudski will also make public
at that time his plans for the revi-
sio nof the constitution. The sup
preston of the Polish parliament
may depend upon the reception of
this Wilma speech, it is intimated.
After his Wilma trip, Pilsudski
will go to Bucharest for participa-
tion in a secret conference under
the direction of member of the
French general staff.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
JUDGE REFUSES
new TRIAL FOR
Steve MENDOL A
Upholds Frame-up of
Militant Miner
Special to The DAILY WORKER)

Especial to The DAILY WORKER)
WILKES-BARRE, Pa, July 15.-
The reactionary Judge Mclean has
refused a new trial for Steve Men
dola, one of the fighting Pittsburgh
miners framed up by the Cappellini
machine because of their struggle
against the contractors system
which has led to the murder of sew
eral Pittsburgh miners.
This same judge has also SEN
Stencad Sam Bonita, rank and file
leader to six to IL years. Judge
Mclean, in refusing to give new
trial to MENDOZA, was very much
aroused over the fact tnat the jury
did not bring the verdict of second
degree murder.
Judge Mclean is a coal operator
and is acting in behalf of Cappel-
lini and the Lewis Machine. He is
also a colonel in the state militia
of Pennsylvania and has done his
bit during the world war in direct
ing the slaughter of the workers.
1t is a well-known fact that in the
regiment under his command dur
ing the world war forty soldiers
were court-martialed for minor Of
fenses and some of them sentenced
TO death.
Adam Moleski, the third victim
of the frame-up, will probably come
up for trial in the September term
of the criminal court. He is now
out on bail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
FORD TAKES JOB
IN HOOVER drive
Named Official of En-
gineers' Group

WASHINGTON, July 15.-As
the first gun in its campaign to
match millionaire for millionaire,
the republican national committee
announced yesterday, through Chair
man Work, that Henry Ford has
been chosen as vice-president of
the Hoover-for- President Engineers
National Committee.
The Selection" of the famous
Detroit exploiter, who is one of the
richest men in the world, is loowed
upon as a move to counteract the
naming of John J. Raskob, chair
man of the finance committee Of
the General Motors Corp, as chair
man of the democratic national COM
mittee.
Among the others who will act
as vice-presidents of the Hoover
for-President Engineers National
Committee are Thomas A. Edison
and Michael I. Pupin, inventor and
professor at Columbia University.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
DAILY" WANTS PHOTOS
Workers Are Asked to Send IN Pictures

Workingclass photographs are
wanted by The DAILY WORKER.
Workers who own cameras are
asked to cooperate in improving
their "Daily" by taking pictures of
worlingclass activities and sending
them in. The summer season Of
fers particularly good opportunity
for worker photographers to develop
their talents.
The type Of photographs that
re most desirable are those show
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
STRIKERS FORCE
PARADE PERMIT
Mill Workers March
July 28

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, July Is.
forced to yield by the tremendous
public indignation that followed the
braking up of the textile strikers
parade. held recently by the New
Bedford Textile Workers Union of
the Textile Mill Committee, Mayor
Ashley has granted parade permit
to the organization for Saturday,
July %.
The permit was granted after a
committee, especially chosen by the
T. w. u. strike committee for that
purpose, had approached the mayor
The permit, however, stipulates that
the fina Issuance of the permit de-
pends upon the strike developments
until the 2Sth.
May Revoke Permit.
Despite the fact that the mayor
still has ample opportunity to re-
woke the permit, the granting Of
official sanction TO the Textile
Workers Union is considered re-
luctant tribute to the tremendous
mass following Of the Textile Mill
Committee.
Leaders of the Textile Worker
Union later signified their satisfac-
tion over the outcome of the test
strength between the textile work
ers and the mill boss controlled city
officials. "Now the New Bedford
Workers Union intends to go full
speed ahead with plans for staging
the biggest parade ever held in this
city" union spokesmen declared,
adding, The workers of the entire
country will then see tremendous
demonstration of the unions
strength"
Successful Meeting.
Albert Weisbord, Eli Keller and
other Textile Mill Committee lead
ers addressed meeting especially
called for the members of the Tex
tile Workers of the A.. F. of l.. The
meeting. which was held at the re-
quest of committee of 25 U. T. ",
members resulted in many enrolling
in the T. M. G. The attendance
consisted mainly of French ana
British workers. occupied in the
skilled crafts. A lengthy discussioA
followed the speeches Of the union
leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16

ing people in action, taken close up.
Pictures of picket-lines, or work
ing class demonstrations and Of
other vivid incidents of the class
struggle are especially valuable.
Glossy finish photographs are most
suitable for reproduction. Every
picture that is printed will carry
the name of the worker who took it.
Camera fans, get busy. Become
q worker-photographer for The
DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
BY LELAND OLDS
Federated Press)

Two items in the same issue of the
London Daily Herald suggest a re-
markable contrast. Both deal with
t ibute, one the tribute paid by an
English working girl to the multi
millionaire oligarchy in America. the
other the tribute of an English
workers wife to Russia. But paid
in very different ,oin.
\ Josephine Wilson was the English
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
New Bedford Struggle.


"But just as the Passaic workers
in 1926 did not take a cut lying
down, but under our leadership put
up a great and memorable struggle,
so today, again under our leader
ship, the textile workers are in bat
tie against this new ten per cent
wage cut.
"In New Bedford, Massachusetts,
now for over three months, $4,000
textile workers have been on strike
against the ten per cent wage cut,
for better conditions, and for the
right to have their own union. Mass
picket lines have closed the mills
down tight in spite of the terror
of the police and the militia which
had been called in, and in spite of
the treachery of the bureaucrats of
the A. F. Of l..
This brave fight in New Bedford
shows that everywhere the textile
workers are ready to move. In Fall
River, Massachusetts,, already the
workers are mobilizing for struggle.
Elsewhere too, the textile workers
are demonstrating that the time is
now amply ripe for struggle.
No Union.
What has prevented the textile
workers from carrying on an active
fight is the fact that there was no
militant leadership and no union to
lead them. Outside of a few tiny
independent groups, the only union
in the field is the small union of
the American Federation of Labor,
the United Textile Workers.
"The officials of this United Tex
tile Workers are of the most reac-
tionary character, with long SER
les of betrayals to their credit. They
have done their utmost TO divide the
workers and to defeat them. After
many years of existence the United
Textile Workers stands small
handful of skilled workers, pitifully
helpess to resist the attack of the
bosses.
Must Build Textile Union.
"This situation means that espe-
cialy now, the textile workers must
take things in their own hands and
build a national textile union, that
will be a real workers union, organ
izing the over one million textile
workers in this country and actual
" resisting the wage cuts and
worsened conditions imposed by the
employers. This is the immediate
task at the present time, the build
ing UP of a national textile union
that will mobilize the workers for
effective struggles.
"To accomplish this end, the Ma
tional Textile Mill Committees
hereby calls all textile workers or
ganizations to a national convention
to be held in New York City Satur-
day and Sunday, September 22nd
and 23rd, 1928. The convention
will be opened at D. m. September
22nd at Irving Plaza, Irving Place
and 18th St., New York City.
"All bona fide textile workers
organizations are urgently request
ed to elect two or more delegates to
attend this convention.
"ALBERT WEISBORD.
National Secretary,
"Textile Mill Committees
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
HUNGER STRIKE
IN SOFIA JAIL

SOFIA, July 15.-The prisoners
in the central jail at Sofia who were
punished by one month of hard la
Dor for wearing red ribbons on May
Day, are forced to suffer an addi-
tional 10 days of punishment. This
was announced to them shortly be-
fore the term of their original pun
ishment came to an end.
This additional punishment of
hard labor, which has already re-
suited in the death of one, Nikola
Iliew, and has led the political pris-
oners to declare a hunger strike as
protest against the, terrorism of
the wardens. All except M. 7.
Atanasoff, who is seriously i'll, have
already been on strike for ten days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
Palestine Apprentices
Labor Without Wages

BEIROUT, Palestine, July 49,
The status of the youthful worker
in Palestine today is far from what
could be desired. About half of
them work more than 8 hours day
Young apprentices must work for
a long time, frequently without pay,
in order to learn trade. Past ex-
perience has shown that the private
ly owned trades are no fit places
for learning a trade.
Recently the workingclass youth
has succeeded in arranging an ex-
hibition of the work of some of
these young workers. Some fine
specimens Of work were shown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
$500 MORE OUT
IN ANTHRACITE

Especial to The DAILY WORKER)
SCRANTON, Pa, July 15.--Fif-
teen hundred mine workers have
struck at the Trip Drift Of the
Diamond Colliery, Glen Alden Coal
Company, at West Scranton, be-
cause the company has refused to
give the miners back pay on a
grievance which was settled favor
ably to them and the coal company
,~ss to pay them some back wages.
IN striking miners are members
ofVLoeal Union 213.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
BRITISH TOILERS SLAVES
Workers Are Privileged Class IN USSR

working girl who paid her tribute to
American capital. 1t was her last
tribute, for she paid it with her life.
She poisoned herself because life did
not seem worth while on the "a
shillings ($5S0) a week she received
from Woolworth's.
Exploited by Woolworth
Yes, her employer was the same
Woolworth that exploits thousands
Of girls in the and 10 cent stores
Continued on Page Ta0o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
BERLIN AMNESTY
PROVES FRAUD;
few RELEASED
Poland, Too, Makes
Empty Gesture

Especial to The DAILY WORKERl
BERLIN, JULY 15.- Nationwide
resentment has followed the pas
sage by the Reichstag of an Gam
nesty act" by which relative hand
full of class war prisoners has been
released from Jail while thousands
are to remain for varying terms in
their cells. Characterized as trea-
son and betrayal by militant labor
leaders thruout the country, the
amnesty act" is arousing increas-
ing protest from the German work
ing class.
Altho the government organs are
triumphant in proclaiming the "am-
nesty," official distinction is being
made between political prisoners
and political murderers." In the
latter category the government is
including all the leading militant
workers who are now in German
jails.
The two hundred class war pris
oners who have been released il
answer to the tremendous mass pro
test for an amnesty are but a frac.
tion of the thousands who are
vainly asking when they will be lib.
Grated. The authorities are frankly
admitting that a large number will
never leave their cells under the
new edict.
Thousands of the prisoners who
expected that they would receive full
liberty within the next few days nov
learn that trivial reductions in theil
terms of Imprisonment are the bes
they can hope for from the govern
ment's action.