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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-05
HARLEM MASS
Meet FOR Miners
Hawkins Will Tel of
Struggle

Isaiah Hawkins, militant Negro
mine leader of Fredericktown, Pa,
who has been in the thick of the mine
war for over a year, will tell the story
of the reaction and corruption of the
officials of District of the United
Mine Workers at the united mass
demonstration in support of the strik-
in gminers to be held at st. James
Presbyterian Church, st. Nicholas
Avenue and 141st ST., on Friday, June
8th at s p. m. Other speakers will be
Harold Williams and Grace Campbell,
organizer and chairman, respectively
of the Negro Committee for Miners
Relief, Robert Minor, Editor of The
DAILY WORKER and Reverend Will
ing miners to be held at st. James
Presbyterian Church. Richard Moore,
of the American Negro Labor Con-
gress, will preside.
The struggle of the miners union
against reactionary officialdom, now
entering its fifteenth month of starva-
ton, exposure and disease, is of spe-
cial significance to the large masses
| of Negro workers, many thousands of
them unorganized. The militant lead
ership given the striking miners by
their Save-the-Union Committee on
which the two Negroes Charles w.
Fulp and Isaac Munsey represent the
thousands of striking Negro miners, is
organizing the unorganized miners of
Western Pennsylvania, among which
are many Negroes. The Negro Com
mittee for Miners Relief has called
on the masses of Negro workers in
this city, unorganized and organized,
to support the striking miners in their
attempt to save their union. The
Negro committee points out that
Negro workers, who are being dis
eliminated against, can find remedy
only in organization along militant
Zines, and emphasizes the fact that
should the miners strike be lost the
whole American labor movement will
suffer, and organization for the vast
army of unorganized Negro workers
will be much more difficult to achieve
An excellent program of speakers
has been arranged and admission will
be free of charge. Although smaller
meetings for miners relief have been
4 held throughout the Negro section OF
Harlem, the united mass demonstFa-
ton of Friday night W i be the first
mass meeting for miners relief among
the Negro population of this city,,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-05
FORM PERMANENT
GL 0 LAX COUNCIL
1000 Delegates at Shop
Meeting
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thru the members Of the Council for
participation in the work of organic
ing the trade.
8. The executive Committee of the
Council shall constitute the local sec
ton of the National Organization
Committee.
A. The Joint Board functions shall
be settlements with bosses; the call
ing of shop meetings, attending to
complaints, and work of a similar
nature.
5. For coordination of the work
the executive committee of the Coun-
Gil will have representation on the
Board of Directors of the Joint Board.
This body meets once a week.
Organization Work.
The detailed provisions of the reso-
luton on organization work unani-
mously adopted at the conference are
as follows:
/. The incoming local section of the
National Organization Committee
stands instructed to prepare the
launching of an organization cam
paign in the industry. 2. A rank and
file organization committee of 500
shall be built up. A cali is therefore
to be issued to the workers in the
industry asking them to contribute to
the erection of this committee by
sending one member of each shop to
join its work. 8. An immediate reg
istration of all open shops shall be
begun. Shop committees shall be or
ganized in as many open shops as
possible. 4. A call shall be issued to
the workers in the open shops to bring
complaints to the union headquarters,
and in order to obtain help to build
these committees, which will prepare
the workers to rally to the call of the
Organization Committee when they
open the drive.
Support Tax.
A resolution endorsing the decision
for the Boston conference to levy q
voluntary $40 tax, was also unani-
mously carried. The tax is to fur
nish funds for the carrying on of the
organization campaign. The resolu-
ton also stipulated that call be
issued to the cloak and dress makers
to form committees in the shops for
the collection of this tax.
Despite the organized distractions
made by self styled group of "anar-
chists," who lined up with the Sigman-
ties a membership meeting of the
Russian Polish Branch of the Cloak
makers Union held last Friday night,
decided by an overwhelming majority
to affiliate with the National Organi-
cation Committee in their fight to
rebuild the union.
After talk delivered by Joseph
Goretsky, manager of the Pressers
Local 35. new chairman and execu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-05
WILL CONTINUE
FIGHT ON Piece
WORK, Answer
Right Wing Aids Lies
of Bosses
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Industrial Council had declared that
he would permit piece work and over
time at single time in his effort to
destroy the Sigman scab union. The
rest of the statement is taken up with
a declaration that, due to the open
shop condition in the industry it can
not be expected that the members of
the Industrial Council will bear the
burden of the 40 hour week. They
therefore appeal to the Impartial
chairman to call conference of the
bosses and Sigman.
Discussed the statement as a whole
Hyman later branded it as another
vancouver to serve as a prop for the
rotting Sigman structure" Referring
to the mention of himself, Hymar
declared that the only time he was
eyer in the shop of I. Grossman was
when he called to stop the employer
from locking out his workers for RI
fusing to register in the right wing
union.
Hyman said that if he had been
prepared to allow the destruction of
union conditions, there would not have
been any desire on the part Of the
bosses to break their agreement with
the Joint Board and sign fake one
with Sigman's "Union."
Even the call upon the impartial
chairman for a conference and hear
ing, with which the statement ends,
is fake, Hyman said. "The impair
tial chairman will no doubt grant this
hearing and rule that the bosses must
abide by the 40-hour week point in
the agreement. Thus giving another
fake victory to Sigman in his attempt
to deceive the workers. He added
that none of the bosses intend to
observe the fourty hour week, whether
it is on paper or not" Gwen Gross
man, who is president of the Indus
trial Council, makes as many wage
cuts as he desires, having only re
Gently enforced 20 per cent reduc-
ton in wages" he said.
"The association bosses will con-
tinue to enforce the existing 60 and 70
hour week." Hyman concluded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-05
Workers Delegation to
Visit Strike Regions

DETROIT, Mich, June 4.-Workers
of Detroit are raising money for the
relief of striking miners and getting
their entries into the contest for the
workers delegation to visit the strike
area, September /, and 8.
Thru an error the contest was an
nounced as ending July 21st, when it
should have been August 21st, which
gives Detroit workers just one more
month to gather funds and work to
send a large delegation to the mining
fields.
All organizations should select can
didates and hold affairs during the
summer months to raise money.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-05
2 Workers Killed; Train
Leaps Embankment

MOUNT CARMEL, Pa, June a.
Two were killed and seven other per-
sons injured when a Lehigh Valley
passenger train bound from New York
to Mount Carmel was wrecked two
miles east of this place.
The engine and tender went over a
75-foot embankment, carrying the en-
gineer, Neal Gonahan, so, of Hazel
ton and fireman, F. P. Hoffman, SO,
of Mount Carmel, to almost instant
death. Gonahan was scalded to death
in the cab and Hoffman was literally
cut to pieces. Eight years ago Hoff-
mans father, Lehigh Valley engi-
neer, was killed in similar accident
at Lehighton, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-05

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, June A.
William M. Butler, chief strategist in
the cotton mill owners war on the
living standards of $4,000 of their
workers, forced to strike to defend
themselves against 10 per cent wage
reduction is still playing the role Of
MISUNDERSTANDING master of la
Dor spies and bitter foe of trade I'M
ionists that he assumed in 1918-1921?
The wealth of the chairman of the
national republican party is still
based on his vast holdings in New
Bedford cotton mills. His anti-labor
policies have become intensified. His
reactionary sympathies are far more
notorious now, that he is q principal
adviser to President Coolidge, than
they were in 1918.
Buffers record in those years has
been barred by A. M. Donahue, hired
by Sherman Service, expert labor es-
pionage concern, to head a crew of
union wreckers to operate in New
Bedford at the behest Of the Manu-
facturers Assn. just organized by
Butler. Donahue years later told Fred
Moore the whole story. Moore was
chief counsel for Sacco and Yanzetti
and the man who made their case a
worldwide labor issue.
"We were paid" Donahue related,
i"to discourage those who were mem
bers of the union, so they would not
join, and to breed into the minds of
the union men that they were simply
being imposed upon by bunch Of
professional labor organizers VINO
were getting a good living out OF
their hard labor in the mills. At
times of strike we were to encourage
those who were striking to return to
work and those who were not striking
to stay in"
@. AS / understand, you continued
to see Butler approximately once a
month during the course of the years
1881? A. Yes.
@. Those meetings with Butler
were either at the Wamsutta Club in
New Bedford or at Buffers office, n
Franklin ST., Boston?
A. Yes. Mr. Moore, of the Sher-
man office, saw Butler more frequent
ly than 1 did. He invariably repeated
the conversations he had with Butler
to me so that l was always advised
as to Buffers position in regard to
the operation.
@. Can you outline the essential
subject matter of your conversations
with Butler? A. He was anxious tc
learn who active union leaders were
who the radical element were and the
extent of their activity and the senti-
ment at large in the city regarding
wage reduction.
@. At that time how many men
did you have there? A. 25. @. Dc
you have any specific conversations
with Butler relative to wage reduc-
ton? A. Yes. At one time I OBJ
jected to 20 per cent wage reduc-
ton because / felt from the reports
of the men that it would bring about
a strike. Already there had been two
or three reductions varying from 10
to 1917 per cent and another 20 per
cent on top of it would be too much
When objected to it, Butler laughed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-05
BUTLER, COOLIDGE NAN,
FIGHTING MILL STRIKERS

and said the workers of New Bedford
would be glad to work for nothing
before he got through with them.
@. Did you know how much the
Manufacturers Assn. paid the Sher-
man Agency for industrial work in
New Bedford? A. $250,000, my own
estimate of it, which l was in a po-
sition to figure to penny because 1
knew how many men were working
at all times and the length of the job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-05
FORBID LEVINE LIFE"

BERLIN, June 3.-Max Schultz. a
German political prisoner in the Lut-
tringhausen jail, has announced that
the prison authorities have ruled
against his receiving a copy of Paul
Werner's life of Eugen Levine, and
the political cartoons of the great
French cartoonist, Honore Daumier.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-05
Hynua1 Leader the CoQknuQkeS Ee steeu of Manufactures
Workers Party Activities

Ralss, ]. Cohen. LIlienstein, H. Blake,
Taft, c.. Cork.
Varet and Graham AYES, Brooklyn
J, Padgug, A. Bimba, P. Shapiro, l..
Ross, Intrator.
5th Ave. and 52nd St, Brooklyn, n.
Us. Pollock, J. Hardy, J. Marshall,
Williams, Russak
9Th Ave and 10th ST. Sherman,
e. zenbert, M. Hartlieb, Lovett Fort
Whiteman, j. S. Poyntz
7th Ave. and 138th ST. o. Benta1l,
Geo. Padmore Z. Stanley T. Foley
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-05
Appeals Court Quits;
No Sinclair Decision

WASHINGTON, June 4.-The Dis
trict Court of Appeals recessed for
the summer today without giving an
opinion of the appeal of Harry F.
Sinclair, sentenced to three months
imprisonment for his refusal to an
swer questions before the Senate Tea
Pot Dome Investigating Committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-05
Labor and FTateYnal
Organizations
w. - r. Chi1dren,s Camp

w. I. Il. Children's Camp
The Workers international Relief
announces that it's office. at 1 Union
Square, Room 604, is open Tor those who
camp. The camp itself, which occupies
part of the ground of Unity Camp
Wingdale, N. Y, will open on July z.
Those wishing to phone for reserva-
tons should call Algonquin SO4S.
YorkviIIe /. L. ID.
The semi monthly meeting of the
Yorkville English branch of the Inter
national Labor Defense will be held
today at BAT East 72nd St, CzechoslO
yak Workers Home, at p. m.
A meeting of regular physicians in
terested in radical medico-sociologic
problems win be held on Thursday,
June 14th, at $3.50 p, M, at the Civic
Club, Is E. 10th Street.
wOrkingclass Women.
Council will hold lecture on Fri
day, June Sth, at p. m, at us East
13Sth St, City. Subject, From the
Cradle to College" Lecturer, DR.. G.
Modem.
Council 10 will hold lecture on
Thursday, June 7th, at p. m, at 1910
Benson Ave, Brooklyn, N. Y. Subject
Birth Control" Lecturer DR.. Helen
Council 10 will also have an open
air entertainment on Sunday, June 10,
afternoon and evening" at the Golf
Links. Take seth ST. car to the links.
Admission free.
Council l of Rose1le & Linden of
New Jersey will have a concert and
talk for miners relief, on Sunday, June
10, at 8 p. m, at Frank and Grand SITS.
Roselle, N. J. Gertrude Owen will
speak on miners relief. Proceeds will
go to the striking miners.
Council 4 of the United Council Of
Working Glass Women will hold a lee
ture tonight on American Militarism"
at 30 Graham Ave- Brooklyn Dr..
Howser will be the lecturer
Harlem Festival.
The Harlem branch of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense will hold a Straw
berry Festival and Concert on June 6,
at p. m. at 143 East 103rd St, in
stead of its regular meeting. Every
one is invited to attend.
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tive secretary were elected. A repre-
sentative to the N. o. c. was also
elected. ]. Petrofsky was chosen
chairman, and Olga Levoff, became
secretary and representative to the
N. 0. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-05

Jugoslav branch of International La
Dor Defense is holding on Outing on
June 10, at Edenwald. If it rains, the
outing will take place on following
Sunday, June II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-05
ONE KILLED IN SHIP BEAST.

GLOUCESTER, Mass, June A. -
One man was killed and several 9TH
ers seriously injured in an explosion
on the auxiliary fishing schooner
Mary at the wharf here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-05
Harlem Festival,

The Harlem branch of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense will hold a Straw
berry Festival and Concert on June 6,
at p. m. at 143 East 103rd St, in
stead of its regular meeting. Every
one is invited to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
CHICAGO POLICE
KILL NEGRO BOY
IN HIS OWN HOME
200 Cops Fire Into His
Apartment 5 Hours;
Use Bombs, Gas
Say He Broke Window
Gave Safest Place to
| Brothers, Sisters
Say He Broke Window

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-For five
hours thirty-seven police squads of
five men each, barricaded behind
furniture seized in nearby apart
ments, fired into one poor alley
apartment on the near Northside
here, with a steady stream of bull
let's and other projectiles from
machine guns, revolvers, automatics,
shotguns, and rifles; tear-gas bombs
were hurled, and hand-grenades of
high explosives were flung into the
alley window.
Finally, a charge of squad of
police was made against the shat
tered door of the apartment, it was
blown open, and volley of bullets
shot into the enemy.
The enemy was sixteen-year-old
Ernest Wickhurst, a Negro boy who
became frightened early in the day
because he knew of horrible brutal
tiles visited upon Negro workers ar
rested by the Chicago police, and
who had heard he was to be ar
rested, having been accused of
breaking a plate-glass window. So
he barricaded himself in his apart
ment, with a gun, and sold his life
as dearly as he could, wounding
nine of the army of 200 or more
police gunmen sent against him, be-
fore he fell, riddled with more than
80 bullets.
When the police broke into the
apartment they had been so in
dustriously bombing and showering
with bullets, it was seen that Ernest
had given the best and safest places,
the closet and behind the barricade
made in one corner with a bed, tc
his older sister and three small
brothers. An infant sister was
wrapped in the blankets of the bed.
Deputy Commissioner of Police
Martin Mullen and Commissioner
of Police, William Russell personally
directed the five-hour bombardment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
CLOAK, DRESS PARLEY
TO RAP SCHLESLNGER

A conference of thousands, to be
held in Cooper Union tonight by
shop chairmen and active members
IF the left wing cloak and dressmak-
ers' union will be the scene of the
official unmasking, planned ty the
leaders of the union, of the latest
hypocrisy of Benjamin Schlesinger,
in the form of a fake peace pro-
posal. Schlesinger is head Of The
right wing company union, aid the
fake proposal was made public last
night at meeting of the right wing
union.
At meeting of the National Or
ganization Committee of the Cloak
and Dressmakers' Union, held last
night, the peace" proposal was con-
sidered and at late hour they were
still working on an official state
ment which the Daily Worker will
publish in full tomorrow.
While the Schlesinger meeting was
attended by many workers, the most
dispirited atmosphere that can be
imagined reigned ever the gathering.
AS soon as Schlesinger completed
reading his fake proposals, an exo-
dus began, and before he could take
it to a vote, the meeting attendance
had petered out to a faithful few.
In brief, the proposals of the Sig
NANTES are no different from any
Of the other fake proposals issued
by that scab organization, and are
to be characterized as such in the
N. 0. c. statement tomorrow, it was
learnt. First Schleslnger's "offer'
will permit all cloak and dressmak-
ers to come into his company union,
on payment of nine months dues,
"No Discrimination" says he. Even
IN elections all would be allowed to
Continued on Page TaUo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
WELCOME HOOVER
BY MASS ARREST
Irigoyen Jails Workers
as Tribute to u. S.

LAS CUEVAS, Dec. 12.-Presi-
dent-elect Hoover today crossed the
line into the decidedly hostile terri
tory of Argentina. His entry was
preceded by wholesale arrests of
hundreds Of workers in the larger
cities of this country by the Irigoyen
government which is anxious to
make a good impression on the
country where the big Four" meat
packers have their capital, and to
which the. stock ranching landlords
of Argentina export the bulk of
their meat.
But in spite of these arrests the
Hoover party expresses some trepi-
dation. They remember widespread
anti-imperialistic demonstrations in
Buenos Aires last year when Sacco
and Vanzetti were murdered, and
the generally class conscious atti-
tude of the Argentine workers,
heroes of some of the hardest fought
strikes ever known.
Hoover's special train stopped in
driving snow storm at the crest of
the Andes to let aboard the special
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
HOLD BIG SILK
RALLY IN JERSEY
Foster and Weisbord
Urge Strong Union

Especial to the Daily Worker
PATERSON, N. j., Dec. H.
Over six hundred silk workers
crowded Entire Nous Lyceum here
yesterday and demonstrated their
allegiance to the National Textile
Workers Union at mass meeting
where Vim. z. Foster and Albert
Weisbord were the main speakers.
Foster led the great steel strike in
1919 and Weisbord is the national
secretary-treasurer of the N. T. W..
U.
That the meeting was clearly a
demonstration of strength by the
new N. T. w. Paterson local, was
indicated by the counter-meeting of
the Associated Silk Workers Union
officialdom, held at the same time.
Attendance at that meeting was
never over 800, with many leaving
long before the meeting ended.
Skilled, Unskilled at Left Wing Rally
The attendance at the right wing
meeting was wholly of skilled work.
ers, the only ones to retain mem
bership in the reactionary union,
while the left wing meeting was at
tended by both skilled and unskilled
workers. Due to the expulsion policy
and betrayal tactics adopted by the
Associated leaders during the strike,
all the broad silk workers formed
the basis of a N. T. w. local that
proposes to organize the entire
trade.
Uproarious demonstrations greet.
ed the chief speakers, who were in
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
COLOMBIA FRUIT
STRIKERS FIGHT
FEDERAL TROOPS
Anti i-Imperialists Urge
Them to Fight u. S.
Domination
Company Tool Arrives
fJ S. Govt Shown to Be
7 Directly Involved
Company Tool Arrives

BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 12.-
Minister of war Rengifo had to ad-
NIT today that Colombian troops are
unable to break the strike of 10000
banana plantation workers and that
despite the massing of soldiers the
workers clashed with a battalion
yesterday. He gave no details of the
fight and refused to state how many
if any were killed.
In his official release to the press
the minister of war declared that
the banana zone was mot yet en-
tirely pacified." Minister of Indus
tries Montalvo told a United Press
correspondent that "the negotia-
tions, which were suspended when
the strikers compelled the govern
ment to declare state of siege, can
be resumed when the zone is fully
5acified"
The official releases on the stu
Cation in the strike area are scanty
and carefully veiled, and it is i'm
possible to obtain facts, due TO the
strict censorship of the United Fruit
Company and the government.
1t was learned authoritatively
that representative from the
United Fruit Company's office in
New York arrived here Monday to
confer with government officials as
to the strategy to be used against
the 10000 strikers in Magdalena
province.