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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
CLOAK SHOPS ARE
ALREADY PICKING
representatives.
Cooper Union Mass
Meet Monday Evening

Outstanding among the numerous
events that can be recorded and that
show the rapid mobilization of the
masses of workers in the ladies' gar
ment industry for the re-unionizatior
Of the trade by the National Organ
izing Committee are, first, the big
conferences of shop representatives
scheduled for next Saturday, and
second, the mass meeting in Cooper
Union which the Tolerance Group is
calling for Monday evening, i'm
mediatly after work.
The headquarters of the National
Organizing Committee announces that
many shops have already sent in
notification of the fact that their dele
gates to the conference have already
been chosen and many more will pick
representatives early next week. The
New York drive for the regaining OF
union conditions in the shops will be
officially begun at this conference
Similar gatherings of shop delegates
conferences are being arranged for
other cities.
Cooper Union Meet.
The detailed plans for the inaugura-
ton of a campaign to rebuild the
union and rid the trade of the Sig
man bureaucracy which have been
worked out by the N. o. c. will at
this conference be transformed into
action.
All preparations for the mass meet
ing in Cooper Union, which the Tol-
erance Group called when they
severed relations with the Sigmar
union, of which they were function
aries, are completed, it was learned
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

tasks now facing the workers and
farmers thruout the United States.
Inc struggle against the bureau
cracy of the American Federation of
Labor and the class collaboration
schemes of the bosses, the socialist
party which has openly allied itself
with the enemies of the workers, the
struggle against American imperial
ism in Nicaragua and China, tha de-
tense of the Soviet Union these
were among the major forces with
which the American workers and
farmers must contend, the speakers
pointed out.
Activity Urged
Against the setting of red banting
and revolutionary banners and en-
blems, the delegates stressed the
necessity Of increasing political &C
tivity in the coming election cam
paign.
Long before the convention was Of
ficially opened the large auditorium
of Mecca Temple was crowded to
overflowing. Thousands of workers
from this city as well as from Phils-
Continued on Page Tq0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
CLASS STRUGGLE
AT
BIG PARTY MEET
Great Enthusiasm A
Demonstration

Militant class struggle was the key
note struck at the opening of the Ma
tional Nominating Convention of the
Workers (Communist) Party last
night when almost four thousand
workers crowded into Mecca Temple,
1873 West 55th St., to greet more than
$50 delegates from all sections OF the
country and representing virtually
every industry.
The convention marked the opening
of the election struggle which the
Workers (Communist) Party will
carry on against the capitalist parties
and the socialist party refornists.
Fight Bureaucracy.
The necessity of the struggle
against capitalism and labor bureau
cracy and reformism was sounded by
Jay Lovestone, general secretary Of
the Party, who acted as chairman and
William 2. Foster, member Of the
secretariat and secretary of the
Trade Union Educational League.
Delegates from the mine field, the
textile mills and other basic indus
tries, farmers from the west and
south-all emphasized the tremendous
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
I MINERS KILLED
IN new ACCIDENT
Contract System Leads
To Deaths
Especial To The DAILY WORKER,

Especial To The DAILY WOhhEh'I
WILKES-BARRE, May 25.-At
least seven miners were instantly
killed and a number of others injured
are not expected to live as result
of an explosion in the Cunningham
contractor-operated mines of the
Hudson Coal Company here today.
Ambulances were rushed to the
mine and removed the injured to the
Wilkes-Barre general hospital.
Union officials of the treacherous
Lewis Cappelini machine in District 1
are held equally responsible with the
operators for the deaths inasmuch as
these officials have refused to fight
against the vicious contractor and
speed-up system. This among other
practices have been shown to have
caused accidents which have taken
nearly three hundred miners lives in
the last month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
MORE OFFICIALS
IN STREET CRAFT
Higher-Ups Pull Wires
to Escape

Four petty employees yesterday
were confronted by the possibility of
Imprisonment on charges of payroll
padding and forgery in the New York
department of street cleaning, while
executives who profited to excess sit
back pulling political wires to keep
themselves out of prison. Evidence
presented to a jury by District At
torney Mcclellan is expected to show
that financial manipulations by de-
partment officials netted graft total
ling between $5,0OO,O00 and $7,O00,000
annually.
1t was learned this morning that
two more employees of the Bronx
street cleaning department have been
arrested on forgery charges and two
others were indefinitely suspended.
The four who are on trial are
William j. Lougheed, garage fore
man, whose confession was the basis
of the present war on grating city
employees; Benjamin Stoeber, his as
sistant; Charles A. MCGEE, assistant
general superintendent; and William
]. Oswald, district superintendent.
The latest arrests for forgery were
those of Max Schmillowitz, 1865
Grand Concourse, foreman of the
branch at 1450 Brook Ave, an en-
ploye of the department for 81 years;
and James Gevlin, 467 West 143rd
St., sweeper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
STEEL MEN SLAVE
IS HOURS A DAY
Speed-Up Drives Serfs
Inhumanly
(By a Worker Correspondent

SPARROWS POINT, Md, (By
Mail) .-Seventy-five per cent. of the
workers at the Bethlehem steel plant
here work ten, twelve and in lot of
cases, thirteen hours a day. Elec-
tricians, painters, carpenters, ship
workers, yard and maintenance men,
oilers, shearmen, machine operators.
thread cutters, bundlers, cranemen.
plumbers, millwrights, inspectors.
leaders and the hundreds of other
jobs that are necessary to keep the
mill going as well as take care of the
product through it's finishing process.
The aforementioned trades work ten
hours not counting half hour lunch.
These men are divided into two shifts
changing about, one week day and the
following week at night.
Laborers.
/ failed to mention the laborers of
Bethlehem who compose a big slice
Of the workers here. This group COM
posed mostly of Negroes, represent
about the most exploited unorganized
group of workers that l ever came
into contact with. While their official
name is that of laborer, great ma
jority of them are engaged in semi
skilled work and in most cases work
ing under a perfected speed-up sys-
tenn. Here is an instance of common
labor work under speed-up system
Laborers engaged in loading box cars
can increase their pay from the hourly
rate of thirty-seven cents an hour tc
about thirty -eight or thirty-nine cents
an hour by increasing the tonnage
handled in the day time. This scheme
Of driving hard all day and loading
up to maximum each worker will
probably net them after a period OF
two weeks the princely sum of five
dollars.
Most people picture Negro labor
gang as slow moving group who
take their sweet old southern style
time about doing things will become
changed when they see how Bethle.
hem trains their workers. Actually or
a cold day, group of Negro laborers
were perspiring from working so fast
(Continaed on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
ExPOSkGTAILS
OF IMPERIALIST
REIGN OF TERROR
Says Sandino Can Hold
Out Indefinitely

LONDON, May 25. = A detailed
description of marine terror in Mic
aragua, accusing the American forces
of murder, pillage and torture, was
published today by the London Daily
Herald, organ of the British Labor
Party. The article was written by a
special correspondent who has spent
some time in the war area.
That most of the Nicaraguans killed
by marines were civilians and not
combatants is one of the indictments
against the marines in the article.
The writer gives specific details of
marine terror:
Torture Old Man.
fThe house of Colonel Marin, a
known Sandino follower" he says,
"was burned by marines and his
mother taken away with her hands
tied behind her back and moose
around her neck. Santiago Herrero,
a wealthy farmer, refused to speak
when his place was invaded by Amer
lean troops and was shot and later
it turned out that he was dumb.
"Caldivia, a farmer in Pedernates,
outside the combat zone, denied sug-
gestions that he was a Sandino SYM
pathizer. On December 26, 1927,
twelve marines entered his hacienda
while he was absent, burned the house.
demolished sugar cane and destroyed
120 loads of corn. His son was taken
to a nearby creek and shot and the
(Continated on Page Ta0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
COMMUNIST NOMINATING CONVENTION OPENS HERE
american Marines Torture Civilians IN Nicaragua
Where Faulty Subway Construction Wrecked Grocery Store

A grocery store
at TAG st. Nicholas
AGE. crashed into
q sub1Uay e1cGvG-
tion near the fOun-
dGtion of the build
ing. The faulty
construction had
been dug too close
to the store. The
picture shoWs the
s0reckGge after the
collapse and part
of the store left
standing. On many
construction Jobs,
the contractors
speed-utp the work-
ers so that proper
buttressing of the
excavation is neg
lected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
BANQUET FOR IGOR
HOLD TAG DAYS,
Aid Jewish Colonies in
u. S. S. r.

Hundreds of workers will collect
funds on the streets of New York to-
day and tomorrow, when "Icor" Tag
Days will be held for the benefit of
the Jewish Colonization Society in
Soviet Russia. Volunteer stations
have been established thruout the
city. The "Icor" is aiding in the es-
tablishment of an autonomous Jewish
Soviet Republic in Biro Bidjan on the
Amur River in Siberia.
A banquet will be held tonight at
Webster Hall, 119 E. 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
New Jersey Jewish
Workers Meet

Jewish Workers Clubs of New Jer-
sey will hold conference in Newark
tomorrow at 2 p. m. at the new
United Workers Progressive Center
Hall, SO Mercer St., Newark.
The purpose of the conference is
to discuss plans for state picnic for
miners relief; to discuss plans for
helping the new Workers Center in
New York, and to discuss the role
to be played by these clubs in the
coming national and state elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
THE FORD BELT KEPT MOVING FASTER
Automobile Bosses Intent Sly Ways of hensyyig Sbeedub

workers in the section to do the
work formerly handled by the fired
employees.
For instance, here is Dodge
worker who writes that Gin the
Duco work we now spray the Vic
tory Six with two coats instead of
one, and at the same price," A
Packard man writes, "In the body
division we used to do six jobs
day. Now we do eight, and 20 per
Continued oR Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

ers, by sweating more, can turn out
more per hour.
The layoff method, or the mere
rumors of layoffs, may be used to
put fear in the hearts of hands.
The workers names and production
records may be put on blackboard
and competition encouraged. The
gang or group piece-work system
may be used. Or the management
may fire few workers during a
slack period and ask the remaining
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
By ROBERT w. DUNN,
Federated PreSs).

DETROIT, May 25.-Speed-up of
y man and machine rules the De-
troit automobile industry, piling up
workers on the job market in long
queues of the unemployed, even in
the busiest seasons.
Speed-up is manifested in various
ways. The conveyor line may be
screwed up little faster. The stop
watch men may observe that work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
|Out-of-Town "Daily"
Agents Meet Monday

All out-of-town DAILY WORK
Err agents attending the Nominat-
ing Convention of the Workers
(Communist) Party are urged to
attend l.-eeting to be held at the
local office of The DAILY WORK
Err, 1928 Union Square, Monday
morning at 10 o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
FOR THE COOLIDGE PAYROLL

SAN FRANCISCO, May 25.-Cus-
toms collections for the San Francisco
district IN 1877 were $2y5ASs 3S22- 20
This is nearly equal to the collections
from the rest OF California together
with -four other states md two terri
tories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

The central committee of the
Workers (CoDen1tt1eist) Party has
adopted draft platform 10hich Is,
proposed to the convention. The
te1t of this platform appears on
pages four, five, si1 and seven of
this edition of the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
10 Volunteer Painters
Needed at Red Center

At least ten volunteer painters
are wanted to paint the new bust
ness office of The DAILY WORK
Err at the Workers Center, 1928
Union Square, tomorrow and Sum-
day. Ask for Ameron.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
BRIDGE WORKERS
out ON STRIKE
Strikebreakers Sent to
Smash Walkout

One hundred and fifty concrete
workers and skilled men are out on
strike in the huge bridge construc-
tion now almost completed in Staten
Island, to connect New Jersey with
New York. The workers, who quit
work on Thursday, demand an in
crease in wages of 20 cents per hour
Strikebreakers were sent to take
their places yesterday by Ike Silver
man, the notorious strikebreaker, who
broke the Union Gas Company strike
the Bush Terminal strike and many
others, several years ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
BROWNSVILLE LEAGUE HIKE

The Brownsville section of the
Young Workers (Communist) League
will hold a hike to Tibbetts Brook
Park, Westchester County, tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-28
Highway Bill Boards Doomed.
(New York Times. ]

Slowly but cumulatively evidence piles up that the nation is determined to rid it's highways of obnoxious billboards The latest indication comes from Kansas where the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a law prohib- iting signs other than road markers on the rights of way of highways
 Elsewhere throughout the country the fight against the bilboards is being steadily waged. Each seasons sees increase in the number of persons determined that the roads shall be kept free from unsightly Instructions Women's clubs, garden clubs, civic organizations of all sorts, are quietly proceeding with the work of public edu- cation. The outcome is inevitable as every mot orist in time becomes an opponent of billboards. The advertisers cannot continue to profit from the use of medium which is obnoxious to the very people to whom it is designed to appeal
 Every decision such that handed down in Kansas strengthens the cause of those who wish to see this defacement of the landscape ended. In view of the short time that has elapsed since the campaign against bilboards was opened the progress has been great to make it clear that the movement has the support of the people of all sections.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-28
THE CONTROLLER BILL.

The Empire is not much interested in the question of the final adoption or rejection of the governmental system proposed by the much touted Controller Bill it is in doing it's part to make it plain that the system has no con nection with the principle of self-government Its objection to the measure is principally the in- justice that would result from getting the people to accept it with the hope that it would be a solution of the question of government by the people CT that it has anything to do with the subject. We do not propose that it shall be accepted in that sense and then have the people a half-dozen years, less hence awaken to razation of the fact that the people of Alaska had not gained whit authority in gov ernment than they had enjoyed before it's con ception At least The Empire will protect for itself the right to say, We told you so."
 The only way to bring self-government to the people of Alaska is to bring greater authority to them by increasing the powers of the Terri torial government and by providing local control through creating smaller governmental units. At the present, aside from the municipal govern ments, we have but single governmental unit in Alaska-the Territory itself with an area more than eight times as large as the State of Wash ington with her thirty-nine counties, and as great diversity in all conditions exists in any like area of the United States The Legislature of Alaska serves, not only legislative body, but
 
 that part of the United States lying east of the Mississippi River with State and County government combined it's seat at Washington or Boston New Orleans! Would it be pos sibe for the people of any particular State, or part of State, to have self-government? The asking answers the question
 The Controller Bill would not touch the ques- tion of self-goyernment. It would change the personnel of those who make records of vital statistics examine banks, pass the merits of applications to enter the Pioneers Home, and do certain other work required by the Legislature and in the manner the Legislature might direct If the people want that sort of change it is all right with us. but it will harrass the whole situation if they permit it to take their attention from a real fight for real self-government in Alaska. And if they fight for it a self government measure and get it, there will be a sad awakening some day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-28
Northern CogitatiOns.
Steward Gateway ]

When pink fingered dawn first tore aside the somber curtains of the night" it must have been on Resurrection Bay. This is the place where the stage is set and the mountains seem waiting.
 We had never seen it more beautiful before. This morning some were lifted out of bed at the first break of light though some quiet, bene- fcent spirit had aroused them and lightly touched them the shoulder.
 Out .across the bay an upstandng pinnacle of snow flashed brilliantly like merry search light turned upon the dark surroundings. The bay blaek-raining-bu down along the range and all around the bowl some fairy sprte began picking out peak after peak, touching each with dainty wand of pink and rose. Over one of the high pinn"cles a long streaming gossamer of drifting snow fared out like golden banner.
 whale boat sturdy up the bay; the handsome, yaeht-like Surveyor anchored off, shore; the big freghter Tanana with it's winches grooming under heavy slings of dredge steel; smoke, drifting lazly from the tunnels of smaller vessels
 Coming back along the docks the bay reflected the morning light like cold steel. The noun tains in their ccwls of white stood silent as a forbidding brotherhood. stroller shivered and glanced in warehouse door
 There was blow, real blow, made back In Illinois. The early riser, a here, was not only astonshed, but 1abbergasted. It was addressed te somebody over at Windy Alaska, but my gosh, how it warmed the carkles of ones heart. You the stroller was born in Illinois.
 Over a side track were a number of cars of railroad ties destined for somewhere up the line. Those ties loaded aboard ship at Juneau. Later the stroller found saw mill idle in Seward.
 Those gulls get ones everlasting goat! They are the original "Gimmie'' colony; they take all and give nothing If you have some thing and believe me they know you have it. they will hang around till the cows come home If you haven't anything, they know that too, and if you make the mistake of lettering around they will greet you with racous cheers If you feed 'em most of em are sore because they didn't get their peaks in the nosebag. If you don't feed them they'll sail round and round with a mournful wall like you had beaten their last child to aeath With mallet. What to do! What to do!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-28

that she doesn't know a single one of her mothers recipes for cake, pie and grand old home made bread.
 The happiest men are those to whom home is the place where they always can get a square meal. But their wives are not always the happiest women.
 Loyalty is what makes wo- man stick to her husband through the trial when she didn't get a cent of the graft to spend on finery.
 The trouble with being duti- ful wife is that on those rare oc- casions when her husband has to take her out he is mortified to death by her careworn look, her rough, red hands and dowdy clothes.
 There is a lot of progress being made, but there still are darn few houses being built with enough closets to give dad all the room he wants.
 Another reason why there isn't as much visiting as there used to be is because sleeping on bed made on the living-room couch is nothing like the comfort sleeping in the guest room used to be.
 The reason friend wife quits about "when they get rich" is because with boob like her hub earning the cash it is like a Chicago gunman talking about what he'll do when he gets to heaven.
 According to the cynic, an op- timist is June groom who thinks a wife is helpmeet and will gladly go without in order to make ends meet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-28
EDITOR SCHOETTLER IS SOLE
 PROPRIETOR.

John W. Schoetter, editor and joint publisher and proprietor with Albert o. Elstad for several years of the Petersburg Press has purchased the interest of MT. Elstad in the paper, and is now sole editor and proprietor of the publica- tion MT Elstad will remain in Petersburg and enter ether business there
 In announcing the deal whereby MT. Schoettler became its sole owner and publisher, the Press said:
 As early as March, 1922, MT. Schoet-
 tier attempted to purchase the Peters
 burg Herald, as the paper was then
 known, and his acquisition of MT El-
 sad's interest in the Viking Publish
 ing Co is the culmination of an ambi-
 ton of several years standing In be-
 coming sole owner and proprietor of the
 concern MT. Schoetter is purchasing
 a considerable amount of new equip
 ment and will continue the attempt
 launched by himself and MT Estad to
 give Petersburg the best paper of it's
 kind in any Alaskan community.
 Under the direction of MT Schoettler and MT Elstad, the Petersburg Press has been one of the best weekly newspapers Alaska has ever had That it will continue to be so under the control of MT. schoetter alone there Is no doubt
 The Empires wish is that Petersburg may grow into great city. If it does. the Press will grow and flourish with it. and MT sehoet- tier will get his just deserts
 The best wishes of the newspaper fraternity will follow MT Elstad into whatever line oi business he may enter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-28

that she will insist upon forcing Prohibition on other States that's the business of those other States than it is of Texas.
 MT Jones accepts this Texas position with altogether too much complacence to be satis- factory Democratic National leader We cannot regard him seriously as formidable rival of Gov. Smith, the Jefferscnian States rights pro- ponent, for the Presidency.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-28
TOO COMPLACENT

Jesse H. Jones, who will probably get the vote of the Texas delegation at the Democratic National Convention for the nomination for President, explaining the position of his State in the present political situation. recently de- clared that Texas is overwhelmingly for Prohibi- ton. That's Texas's business Let her have Prohibition. But when Texas loudly proclaims
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-28
Historian Sticks with U. of w.
Seattle Times.9

Recipient Of the Pulitzer prize for the most Important contribution of the year to American history. Professor Vernon L. Harrington of the University of Washington typifes that fine sense or loyalty that has contributed much to the enduring welfare of American schools. Both be- lore and after publication of his prize-winning book Professor Harrington received calls to other colleges at far higher compensation than Wash ington gives him, but heturned them aside to remain in Seattle.