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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
RED LABOR MEET
HEARS REPORTS
Stress Need of Work
Among Masses
espeeial cable to rhe pailr worIkerl

Especial Cable to The Daily NorIker)
MOSCOW, March 49, Gay, re-
porting at the Fourth World Congress
of the Red International of Trade
Unions, on the organizational ques-
tions of the international movement,
pointed out that the intensification of
the class struggle in the principal
capitalist states, and the growth of
the trade union movement in colonial
and semi-colonial countries bring be-
fore the revolutionary trade union
movement a series of important tasks
in the sphere of leadership of the
working class.
"The whole work of the revolution
ary trade union movement must be
based on the drawing of the broad
masses of the workers into discussions
of the fundamental questions of the
trade unions, the chief basis for the
unions activities being enterprise in
the mills Gay said. sThe carrying
thru of mass work is impossible with
out creating and educating the neces-
sary cadres of rank and file trade
union militants.
Rank and File Work.
ITO educate such cadres we must
proceed by opening schools with
courses on the problems of the trade
union movement and Systematically
drawing into participation in the lead
ing organs, comrades who have dis
tinguished themselves in rank and file
work.
Trade union organizations adher-
ing to the Red International must
work to become mass organizations
while those in countries where the
Red International adherents work as
revolutionary minorities must on the
one hand win the workers who are
dissatisfied with the reformist lead
ership and on the other hand, draw
Continued ON Page Thrse7
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
LABOR DEFENSE
RAPS PILSUDSKI
Demands Release of Sc
on Trial at Wilma

Denouncing the wholesale arrest of
White Russian worker and peasant
members of "Hromada," the Interna-
tional Labor Defense has sent a
cablegram Of protest to Premier Pill
sudski and another cablegram ex-
pressing it's solidarity to the fifty-six
members of "Hromada" now on trial
at Wilma.
The cablegram to the Parasldewicz,
one of the leading defendants, fol-
lows:
I'm the name If the 100000 men,
hers Of our organization in the
United States, we express solidarity
with you and your fellow-defendants
on trial and condemn the trial as an
attempt to annihilate "Hromada" and
crush the aspirations of the White
Russian minorities in Poland. We
pledge our support and are conduct
ing campaign to arouse and organ
ize workers in the United States in
a protest movement against this in
Continued on Page 1'hree)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
FIGHT TO
RETAIN RENTLAWS

ALBANY, March 28.-Over 100000
tenants in New York City and Buff
falo are threatened with eviction as
if the fight of the landlords and real
estate interests against the extension
of the emergency rent laws for the
protection of tenants is successful, it
was indicated at hearing before
Governor Smith today. The hearing
was attended by both the landlords
and tenants associations. The ten
ants declared the housing situation in
New York City was too serious to per-
nit the emergency law to be scrapped.
The United Council Of Workingclass
Housewives We're active in fighting
for the retention of the rent law, and
were represented by Harriet Silver
man at the hearing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
RUSSIAN MUSIC AT
FREIHEIT JUBILEE

A rehearsal Of all those partici-
pating in the mass pageant and bal
let to be presented by "The Frei-
heit" as part Of it's sixth annivers-
ary celebration at Madison Square
Garden next Saturday night, will be
held at Stuyvesant Casino, Second
Ave. and 9th St., today at $50.
Measurements for costumes will be
taken at this time.
One of the major attractions at the
Freiheit Jubilee will be Sergey Rad
omsky, tenor, who will appear in a
program Of new songs from Soviet
Russia. Radomsky has just returned
from visit to the U. S. S. R., and
his program will include folk ballads
and revolutionary songs. Ny
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29

w lllldIu w. eluSlOIle, QlSLIlCL OI-
ganizer.
The statement points out that due
to the unemployment crisis and with
American imperialism invading Mica
ragua and other small countries it is
of utmost Importance for all who toll
to assemble in Madison Square Gar
den on that day to demonstrate for
international solidarity among work
ers.
The statement in full reads as fol-
lows:
Militant Solidarity.
"May First this year will be cele-
brated by all class-conscious workers
under conditions demanding that the
spirit of the day-that of information
al solidarity-be demonstrated more
militantly and more Loyalty than ever
before. With general depression ex-
listing within the country, destroying
the myth of prosperity, and with more
acute exploitation Of the workers in
every country dominated by capital
ism, the workers of the whole world
are finding themselves face to face
situation which only interna-
tional solidarity can cope with.
"What are the battle fronts of the
class struggle on which the American
workers are most fiercely attacked
on this May First? The Miners
Union is marked by the capitalists
and their servants, the union bureau
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
NEARING TELLS OF
new WAR DANCER

A capacity audience at the Irving
Plaza, Irving Place and 18th St.,
heard Scott Nearing, writer and
teacher, lecture last night on Europe
Today" Despite the fact that the
last world war was stated to be a
war to end war, writers all over
Europe are describing the present
period as pre-war period, Nearing
said. An attack on Soviet Russia is
being prepared behind the screen Of
the Geneva so-called disarmament
conference, he stated Nearing de-
scribed the conditions of the workers
in western Europe and the U. S. S. R
from his experiences during his re-
cent world tour. He contrasted the
workers conditions in Germany, Eng
land and France with the conditions
in Soviet Russia.
John Sherman of the editorial staff
of The DAILY WORKER made an
appeal for the paper. S237.45 was
collected.
The lecture was held under the aus
pices of Sections and of the Work.
ers (Communist) Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29

in a retail business, demands
this sum as damages. The ac-
count objected to by Lessing ap-
peared in the March 81, 1927,
issue Of The DAILY WORKER
and exposed him as being in the
employ of the International
Auxiliary Co., operating also
under the name of the Eastern
Engineering Company, one of
the biggest spy agencies in the
United States, at the same time that
Lessing was an "active" member of
the Associated Silk Workers Union
in Paterson.
Expelled From Union.
When Lessing's activities in the
union were exposed and after he had
lost all his influence there, the spy
agency, following the usual practice
in such cases, discharged him. 1t was
revealed later that Lessing short
time afterward opened newspaper
and magazine store in Paterson.
Lessing was expelled from his
union and is at the present time suing
the organization for slander for de-
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
TROOPERS SHOOT
AT Mine PICKETS
Club Strikers at Bulger
Block Mine
Especial to The Daily Worker

Especial to The Daily WorEeT)
PITTSBURGH, March %. - State
troopers fired upon and dubbed a
crowd of mine pickets at the Bulger
Block coal mine this morning. Fail
ing to break up the demonstration the
troopers finally resorted to tear gas
bombs. A number of the miners were
arrested.
The nature of the injuries and their
nunber have not yet been ascertained.
Over 500 Picket.
Over 500 striking miners marched
toward the company mine at Bulger
at four o'clock this morning. Four
teen state troopers and four deputy
sheriffs already on the scene then
fired into their midst and clubbed
many in an attempt to break their
ranks. The troopers lined up across
the road, but the striking miners who
had marched from Cherry Valley
Racoon midway between Mcdonald
and Bulger broke through, forcing
their way to the picket line at the
(Continlted on Page T10o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
DISTRIBUTE DAILY
TO Mine WORKERS
Urge Free Subscription
for Coal Strikers

The Save the Union Conference In
Pittsburgh will bring together coal
miners from all over the country on
April 1. This conference is a deci~
sive moment in the struggle to defend
the United Mine Workers of America
from the combined corruption of mine
bosses and union misleaders and to
ward off from the American working
class the most terrific blow which can
be made by the destruction Of the
miners union.
The coal miners have been on strike
for nearly year. Thru the bitter
cold Of winter, in the midst of STAR
walton and in spite of organized ter
rorism by the company police and the
machine gun terrorism of reaction
airy officials of the Lewis -Cappellini
machine, the strikers have continued
their stirring struggle.
Month after month of bitter strug-
gle has rolled by. Forsaken by their
traitorous misleaders. brutalized by
the coal company bosses, the miners
have had just one ally in their fight
The DAILY WORKER.
A Vital Need.
But the poverty, into which the life
and death struggle with the bosses
has plunged the miners, prevents
them from subscribing to their press.
Continued on Page TaOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
CHICAGO POLICE
BREAK UP JOBLESS
WORKERS PARADE
To Hold New Meetings
Despite Terror

CHICAGO, March %. - Slugging
men and women Unfortunately, po-
lice this afternoon broke up a parade
of several hundred workers headed for
the city hall.
Follows Demonstration.
The parade followed a demonstra-
tion organized by the Chicago Council
of Unemployed at which reactionary
union officials and municipal author
ties were denounced for their refusal
to take any action on the grave unem-
ployment situation in this city. Pla-
cards which were carried by the
workers were destroyed by the police.
The marchers were attacked three
successive times by the police, but
each time the line was reformed.
Arrest 8 Workers.
Three young workers, Samuel T..
Herman, secretary of the Unemployed
Council, Gil Green, district organizer
of the Young Workers League and
Mary Kasernov, were arrested and
charged with "disorderly conduct"
Despite the terrorization on the
part of the authorities, it was an
nounced by the organizers of the DEM
onstration that another meeting would
be held within the next few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29

shown by their alacrity to make ges-
lures wards improvements when
foul ..iitions are shown up in the
militant little shop paper.
The current issue of the Mascot"
is accompanied by statement to the
workers in the shop from the Dis
trict Executive Committee of the
Workers (Communist) Party. The
statement explains the policies of the
Party, and points out that it is the
only organization whole heartedly
working for the workers. 1t calls on
all class conscious workers to coop
crate with the Party in its campaigns
and to show their militancy by join
ing the Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
$500, 1000 More to Finance
"Pay-trolic" Publicity

ALBANY, N. Y, March 2S. = New
York State will cooperate with the
federal government in celebrating the
two hundredth anniversary of the
birth of George Washington.
A bill signed by Governor Smith
creates a temporary commission to
fulfill this purpose and makes an ap-
preparation of 100000 to convey it's
expenses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29

Above is the shattered death car
into whicb the machine gatanaen,
hired by the LeWis- Cappelini gang,
pumped their naatrderous fire, end
ing the hUes Of these tloo progress
size miners, Aleg Campbell and
Pete Reilly. CampbelPs head acas
found hanging on to his body by
ribbon of flesh. At the right is a
picture of Pete Reilly, one of the
two murdered leaders. BeLoio is
Tom LilIis, progressive treasurer of
Local 1903, 10hose death, aohen he
1oas shot do1cfa IN Pittston qohile
returning from meeting, ashered
IN the Leiois' reign of machine gan
F. terror IN the anthracite.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
Expose Bosses Trick.


Expose Bosses Trick.
The March number of this fighting
shop paper consists of six pages, in
stead of the former four. The prin-
cipal article of the second number is
an expose of the new club of the
bosses. 1t pointed out that the club
was an attempt by the bosses to fore
stall militant activity of the workers.
Other articles deal with shop condi-
tions and the war danger. Many Of
the Rolls Royce workers have sent
the Mascot" letters telling of con-
ditions in their departments. Par
ticular mention is made of the Rolls
Royce Company's policy Of dismiss
ing workers who have slaved for as
long as ten years in the Rolls Royce
shop, for showing signs of militancy
or interest in conditions. Several
such cases have recently occurred.
Even Bosses Read 1t.
Even the bosses in the Rolls Royce
plant look the Mascot" over, as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
Jewelry Workers Will
Hold Meeting Tonight

A mass meeting of all jewelry work
ers is to be held tonight at o'clock
in Bryant Hall, 4lst st. and Sixth Ave.
An announcement issued by the
Jewelry Workers Local /, which is
calling the meeting, appeals to all
jewelers., settlers, engravers, polishers,
toolmakers, press-hands and all other
crafts to attend. Workers are also
asked to bring their shop mates along,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
Fire Endangers 30

More than 30 women patients were
endangered yesterday when fire broke
out in the Bronx Maternity Hospital,
Grand Concourse and 165th st. Fire
men arriving with apparatus bells
muffled put out the fire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
Nearing, Thomas Will
Debate Tomorrow

Scott Nearing and Norman Thomas
will debate on Communism VS.. So
cialism" at the Community Church,
saith st. and Park Ave-, tomorrow eve
ming at 8.15. Roger Baldwin win b.
chairman. The debate will be under
the auspices of the New Masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
$4,000 LIBEL SUIT new BLOW AT DAILY WORKER
Ne Pennsylvania Strike Call Issued 100000 Uoygamized Miners
order Bundle of
Dailys NotO for
Sane Union Meet

The Save-the-U Union Conference
begins on April 1st in Pittsburgh.
A special edition of the DAILY
WORKER is being prepared for
April l, which will contain dozens
of items of vital interest on the
coal situation all over the country.
Prepare for the arrival of the
miners in the Pittsburgh confer
ence.
Order your bundle of DAILY
WORKERS now for April 1st!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
Barber Bill Vetoed

ALBANY, N. Y, Mar. 28.--Gov.
Smith vetoed the L;powitc- Dickey bill
which would have provided for state
licensing and regulating of BARRIERS.
Under the bill the state commissioner
Of health would have been empowered
to promulgate rules and regulations
for the conduct of barber shops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
ASAvE-THE-UNION'
COMMITTEE URGES
MEN out APRIL IS
Workers Were Betrayed
By Lewis Machine

PITTSBURGH, Mar. 28.-One hun
dred thousand unorganized miners in
Westmoreland, Somerset and Green
Counties were yesterday urged to
strike Monday, April 16, in call
issued by the executive of the nation
al Save-The- -Upon miners committee.
The unorganized coal diggers to
whom the call is addressed are adj
vised Immediately to organize strike
committees, elect secretaries and
make all preparations for the strike.
The strike call was decided upon after
a lengthy discussion with forty-five
members of the committee participat-
ing. The meeting was held at the
Pittsburgh headquarters of the COM
mittee.
The strike call is issued to a strate-
gic section of the miners who supply
coke for the open shop steel mills.
These coal diggers were betrayed by
the 1922 settlement in which the
arbitrator Lewis left 100000 out of
the agreement.
The strike call reads as follows;
Strike April 10Th.
'eThe wages and working conditions
of the unorganized miners are un-
bearable. There is a sweeping senti-
ment among the miners Of the un-
organized regions of Pennsylvania to
organize and wage struggle for the
improvement of their conditions.
Throughout the entire unorganized
region there has been for long time
a growing realization that their in
terest is common interest and that
their unbearable wage, working, and
living standards can only be remedied
by organization. The Save-the- Union
Committee, composed of the rank and
file of the United Mine Workers of
America, has been successfully carry
ing on organization work among the
unorganized miners, establishing
committees amongst them, etc.
"The powerful coal companies, in
alliance with the big railroad COM
panies and banks, are attacking the
miners on all sides. The demand of
the MELONS, Schwabs, Rockefellers,
etc. is for for 100 per cent open
shop system in the entire mining in
dustry. This openshop drive creates
the most serious crisis in both the
organized and unorganized mining re-
gions. The reactionary Lewis ad-
ministration thru their treacherous
policies has made no effort to de-
fend the interests of the miners, or
ganized and unorganized. This re-
dictionary Lewis machine is directly
responsible for the open-shop condi-
tion of the mining industry and not
the miners of the unorganized re-
gions.
Starvation and oppression prevail
everywhere in the Pennsylvania coal
fields. Wage cut has followed wage
cut. Living conditions in the COM
pany towns-subjected to robbery by
the company store system-are un-
bearable. No tonnage system exists
in the unorganized fields as it does
in the union fields. Coal is not paid
for by the ton but by the "box-car." I"
No mine run prevails. The miners
are compelled to load countless tons
of coal free for the companies by the
infamous screen system There is
no pay for dead work, such as tim
bering, rock and slate, bailing of
water, etc. No checkweighmen are
permitted. No mine committees are
allowed. The operators stifle any at
tempt of the miners to establish a
union. The companies resort to wide
Continued ON Page Tpoo)
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Standard Rakes in

MADRID, Mar 2S.--It was report
ed today that American and French
oil interests have agreed to accept
$3,500,000 for their properties which
were taken over by the Spanish gov
ernment oil monopoly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
WINDOW CLEANER KILLED.

Charles Coma, window cleaner Of
Jersey City, was killed when he fell
from a ninth floor window of the
United Charities Building, 105 E..
22nd st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
SECOND ATTACK FOLLOWS
DECISION OF STATE COURT
ORDERING FINE, JAIL TERMS
Lessing, Complainant, Objects to News Story
Exposing him as Employe of Spy Agency

Hardly had the decision of the New York State Court of Ap
peas confirming the fine and prison sentences against The
DAILY WORKER and its editors been revealed when the
with notice of the filing of civil suit in the Of
$50,000
Because the paper described him in story labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
H|LLMAN PUcHES
PIECE WORK PLAN
Bosses Boast They Can
Win Old System

The Hillman administration in the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers OF
America is going ahead full speed
with its plans to inform the member
ship of its intention of helping the
employers install the piece work sys-
tenn in the New York market. Fear
ing to call membership meetings to
discuss their project, the Amalga-
mated officials are instead calling
conferences of the executive boards
of the various locals on the accept
ance of the piece work system.
Progressives to Fight.
Abraham Beckerman, manager of
the New York Joint Board, will at
tempt to force an endorsement of his
frankly proclaimed piece-work policy
at the coming meetings of the exec
utive boards of the children's cloth
ing division, washable goods division,
vestmakers, and Italian and Lithu-
anian locals.
The sentiment freely expressed by
the workers in the market shows
that one of the bitterest fights against
the cooperation with the employers"
policy of Hillman and Beckerman will
be made when they try to force the
sweat shop system on the member
G N M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
"1NASCOI" FIGHTS FOR
ROLLS ROYCE WORKERS

edited by the workers at the Rolls Royce
City, made its second appearance VIII" e
the plant had been looking Tor IT. ana a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
WORKERS ARE URGED
TO DOWN TOOLS MAY I

May for celebration
of
committee the Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-29
Misleaders for Piece-Work.


1t is believed certain that the ad-
ministration will do more than secret
ly allow individual employers to IN
stall the piece work system in their
shops. There is no doubt but that
an attempt will be made to frankly
legalize piece work in the coming neg
citations with the employers when the
present agreement expires. This is
seen by the statements made daily
by anonymous representatives of the
manufacturers association, in the en-
ployers' trade journals. These state
ments falsely declare that the mem
hership is in favor of piece work,
and that the union representatives
will be willing to concede this point
for the 40 hour week when negoti-
ations open.
Evening star., 1928-03-21

their honeymoon in the East and win
later make their home at Jackson
Heights. Long Island. N. Y.
Mai. and Mrs. Samuel Burleigh MIL
ton will entertain at bridge this eve
ming in their home on Sixteenth street
in honor of Mrs. George Lees and Mrs.
Laura Sevison of Pottstown. Pa, who
are the house guests of Mrs. Daisy
Seymour FronhciSer. Mrs. SeviSon is
the golf champion of central Pennsyl-
vania. Guests invited to meet them
are the Minister of siam. Lieut.. Gen
Phya Vijitavongs: the United States
Minister to Venezuela and Mrs. Willis
G. Cook. and their son. Mr.. Alfred
Cook: Senorita Carmen Teresa GriSanti,
Senorita Maria Louisa GriSanti. daugh-
ters of the Minister of Venezuela and
Sonora de Grisanti Senator David l.
Walsh of Massachusetts, Senator and
Mrs. William H. McAiaster of South Da-
kota the charge d'affaires Of the Meth
erlandS. Mr.. L. @. van Hoorn: the mill
tary aide to the President and Mrs
Osrnun Latrobe. the military attache Of
the British embassy, Col l.. Fl. r. Pope
Hennessy; the secretary OF the Egyp-
tian legation. Mr.. Ramses Chaffey; the
secretary of the Siamese legation. Mr.
Pra Sundara Vachana; the secretary
OF the Salvadorean legation and Sonora
de Mejia, the commercial secretary of
the Canadian legation and Mrs. Mer-
chant Mahoney. the attache In charge
of the Ecuadorean legation. Senor Car
los Mantilla. the attache OF the Vene-
zuelan legation, Dr. Manuel r. Egana:
Evening star., 1928-03-21

Mrs Walter Scotten Of Crosse Point.
Mich. is passing few days In Wash
ington at the Mayfower. following a
short visit In Atlantic City. where she
was accompanied by her daughter. Miss
Gina Mary Scotch. who Is studying
music in Washington.
Evening star., 1928-03-21

Mrs. j. P. Davenport Of Santa Monica
Calf, is stopping at Wardman Park
Hotel, where she will stay for a few
days. Mrs. Davenport is on her way
to New York for short stay before
sailing for Europe in May.
Evening star., 1928-03-21

States. arrived In Washington yesterday
from Florida and will be guests at the
Mayfiower for several days.