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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Wife of Mine Striker
Relates Heroic Struggle

Continued from Page One)
she declared, are most active in bring
ing relief to the strike fields.
A conference to make further plans
for relief work has been called for 2
o'clock Sunday afternoon, February
5, at Irving Plaza, 18th St. and Irving
Place, the chairman said.
"This will be the greatest mobiliza-
ton of women's organizations in this
district ever attained" she declared.
Juliet Stuart Poyntz, who recently
returned from the Pennsylvania strike
fields, told how the relief funds of the
union are dwindling to almost moth
ing. The mine communities, she said,
are small and scattered through the
valleys, and the life of the family
depends upon work in the mines, since
there are no other industries that they
can turn to.
The miners haven't worked for al
most year. The restitution is ap-
palling. Evictions are increasing and
more and more families are being
driven to the already overcrowded
barracks. Disease is spreading, and
actual starvation is facing them.
Rose Wortis of the Joint Board of
the Cloak and Dressmakers' Union
pointed out that the Importance of
the miners struggle is particularly
felt by workers of the needle trades
because of the similarity of their
problems. The miners, too, must fight
enemies on two fronts, reactionary
leaders from within and the bosses
from without, she said.
Urge Immediate Relief.
The cooperation of the United Mine
Workers bureaucracy in loaning Sig
man $4,000 during the 1925 struggles
was cited as an example of coopera-
ton among the reactionary leaders
fighting the progressives in both
unions, she said.
What can we do to help the miners
who are waging a bitter struggle in
the coal fields?" asked Marian Emer-
son of the International Labor De-
Tense. "We can organize the relief SO
strongly that they will be able to con-
tinue their struggle without fear or
suffering" ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
COOPERATIVE"
FAKE IN MINES

JACKSONVILLE, Ohio, Jan. Is
An attempt at widespread open shop
mining, under the guise of "co-opera-
tive mining" is being attempted by
practically all employers in this vi
entity, Monday. Mines with a total
capacity of $500 tons a day. en-
ploying normally 10000 men, will re-
open, and will try to get union min
ers to desert their fellow workers
and come into the modified Morris
plan, a cooperative scheme, involv-
ing q company union, with represen-
tatives of the union on the board of
directors controlled by the operators,
and wages at SIS day instead of the
union rate of $3.50. There will be
q sliding scale by which the wages
will be reduced as soon as the price
of coal goes down under competition
from the southern mines.
So far, no union miners have sig
nified any intention of going into the
trap.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
4 WORKERS HURT
IN Wind STORM

A $4,000 gallon water tank, torn
from it's supports by gale sweeping
this city today, crashed through the
roof of an eleven sstory building at
Washington and Hubert Streets on
the lower ives, side, and tore through
four stories, landing in mass of de-
bris on the seventh floor.
Seven hundred workers were on
the upper floors of the building, which
is devoted to manufacturing, at the
time of the crash, but according to
an early check, all but four escaped
injury. These four were buried in
the debris.
Only heroic efforts of coast guards
men today saved two harbor boats
from sinking off the Battery in the
most violent land and sea-storm that
has struck the city and harbor this
year. Several other vessels were be-
lieved 20 have been sunk. The lower
bay was strewn with wreckage.
A Jersey Central lighter menaced
the lives of hundreds of passengers
aboard two ferry-boats it grazed and
then, suddenly listed and sank off the
Thirty-ninth street ferry slip in the
North River. authorities were en-
deavoring to learn if anyone was
aboard the lighter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
RON WORKERS
DECLARE STRIKE

The Architectural Iron Bronze and
Structural Workers Union yesterday
declared strike at the Carman Iron
Works, SO Davis ST.
This firm had been a union shop
for over seven years but recently
broke off relations with the Iron
Workers organization, the union an
nounces. Union men were laid off
and an attempt made to employ non
union men at reduced wages.
A strike which has resulted in the
calling out of all employees followed.
Pickets were stationed yesterday be-
fore the headquarters of the firm.
On its fifteenth anniversary the
union has made bid to it's Inter-
national for unity with that organi-
cation and with other locals in the
trade.
In a statement issued yesterday,
through A. Rosenfeld, secretary, the
union announces that eve believe
that our International will realize the
tbDoO4uCS uCGu VI bringing our IIdue
within its ranks and will connect us
with the rest of the locals in the
rade and with other unions in the
building trades"
Organization Counts.
After recounting the many achieve
ments and struggles of the union
during the fifteen years of its exist
ence, the union further announces
that it has succeeded in raising the
standards of its members from a S36
week to between $50 and $50. Hours
have been reduced from about 60 a
week to d.
The failure to organize the whole
trade, it is pointed out, has been due
to the lack of support from other
locals in the trade and in the building
trades generally.
The union will celebrate its fiji
teenth anniversary with a ball in
Webster Hall, 119 E. 18th ST., Sat-
urday night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Contemporary Literature
Course VIII Begin Soon
at the Workers School

The course in Modern Literature"
to be given by Eli B. Jacobson at the
Workers School, 108 E. 14th ST., dur
ing the coming spring term, on Fri
day evenings, will take up the works
of Andre eide, Marcel Proust, Ro-
main ROLAND, Gerhardt Hauptmann,
Thomas Mann, Franz Werfel, Ernst
Toller, John Galsworthy, George Ber-
nard Shaw, D. H. Lawrence, Sinclair
Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Theodore
Dresser, Eugene O'Neill, Maxim Cor
ky and various contemporary Rus
sian poets.
The course, according to the in
structor, will be a critical survey of
the most important literary efforts
of postwar Europe and America. The
literary reaction to the war and the
Russian Revolution will also be dis
cussed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
WOMEN'S GROUPS
TO AID IN RELIEF
Conference for Miners
Next Sunday

All working class women's organ
izations are called upon to help the
suffering women and children of the
strike fields of Colorado, Ohio and
Pennsylvania by participating in the
Women's Miners Relief Conference
Sunday afternoon, February 5, at 2
p. m. in Irving Plaza, 18th st. and
Irving Place, in an appeal issued yes
terday by the conference organization.
Each organization is entitled to
one delegate for every 20 members,
but if no regular meeting is held be-
fore the date of the conference, Ray
Ragozin, secretary of the Conference,
asks that two officers attend as dele
gates.
Thousands Affected.
women and children in the coal re-
gions are suffering cold and hunger
as result of the nine months strike, |"
the conference call says. "The miners
who are striking for living wage
and the right to organize have been
blocked by wholesale injunctions
against picketing, organizing and even
relief work" Men and women have
gone to Jail for attempting to feed
the starving miners and their chill
dren.
Thousands of families have been
evicted from company houses and
forced to take shelter in rudely con-
structed barracks where they suffer
from intolerable conditions without
water, without light, and without pro-
lection from the cold of winter"
Thousands of dollars and tons of
clothing have already been sent by the
committee to Pennsylvania, Colorado
and Ohio, said Ray Ragozin, empha-
sizing, however, that the need for
food is still very great and that much
remains to be done.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
SECOND TEXTILE
MILL ON STRIKE
10000 Fall River Work
ers Plan Action

FALL RIVER, Mass, Jan. 25.-The
second textile mill in this~city to be
tied up by a strike is the Stevens
Manufacturing Company. Yesterday
the weavers of this mill at a meeting
decided not to await the action de-
cided upon by general meetings of
the Textile Council. A strike was
declared Immediately to be effective
this morning.
Tuesday morning, the 1000 work
ers employed in the Awkwright Mills
walked out of the factory when the
superintendent announced 10 per
cent wage cut.
Speed-up Increasing.
The workers in the Stevens plant
had been notified that in addition to
the wage cut they would be expected
to operate three looms each instead of
two. 1t was on this issue that the
weavers decided to strike independ-
entity. They declared that since the
question of the wage cut would be
taken up by the Textile Council as
whole they would discuss this cues
ton together with the other unions.
Just as the Stevens Manufacturing
Company declared wage reduction
before the announcement of a general
slash was made by the Fall River
Cotton Manufacturers Association, so
the workers in this plant decided to
answer their bosses.
Information has not yet been re-
ceived as to the action decided upon
at the meetings of the unions af-
filiated with the Textile Council. APP
proximately 10000 workers were to
gather in various meeting halls late
last night to plan action.
The sentiment of the workers in
general can be well guaged by the
response to a strike call in these two
plants. Their resentment is in
tensified by. the attitude of the en-
ployers, who declared that even if the
reduction is accepted they will refuse
to guarantee steady employment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Prison Torture Shown

CHICAGO, Jan. 25.-Torture at the
Joliet prison has been criticized in re-
lation to the case of Martin Durkin,
serving 35 year term for killing a
Secret Service agent. He was hand
cuffed to the bars above his head for
a period of 80 days when knife was
found in his cell. In protest to the
parole board, University of Chicago
professors charge that prisoners are
made to stand on the ball of the foot
for days at time for petty infrac-
tons Of the rules.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Socrates SANDING Will
Be Guest at Benefit
At New Playwrights'

Socrates SANDING, brother of Gen.
Augus-o c. SANDING, the Nicaraguan
Liberation leader, will be a guest of
honor at the performance of John
Howard Lawson's "The Information
al" to be given at the New Play
wrights Theatre, Sc Commerce ST.,
Friday evening, Feb. 3.
The occasion will be special per-
formance for the benefit of the All
America Anti-Imperialist League u.
S. sec-ion). All seats for that night
have been purchased by the league.
Tickets can be obtained at the league
headquarters, SO Union Square, or at
the Jimmie Higgins Bookshop, 1O6
University Place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
STRIFE AWAITED
!. AT SICMAN MEET

Sharp conflict which might develop
into open battle is anticipated at a
meeting to be held tonight immedi-
ately after work by members of the
right wing cloak operators Local 2,
controlled by Morris Sigman. The
meeting is to be held at Webster Hall,
18th st. and Third Ave.
1t is expected that difficulties will
arise when a group among the right
wing will use the meeting as forum
from which to advocate peace and
unity in the union. A free-for all
had actually developed at a previous
meeting held at Webster Hall at the
installation of the new executive
board.
Sigman recently announced that
he will fight against anyone who pro-
poses to again unite the cloakmakers'
organization. In answer to the grow
ing sentiment among the right wing
ers that their expulsion policy was
a failure, Sigman's majority on the
executive board of this local declared
that they will reopen registration if
the workers will pay $12.85 for a
. union" book.
A statement issued by the Joint
Board of the Cloakmakers' Union de-
clares that "the new manifesto of
Sigman will be recognized by the
workers for the fake that it is. After
more than a years continuous ar
nouncements by the Sigman CLIQUE
that they have registered all the
workers in the trade, a sudden de-
. claration of amnesty is made by
them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Union Officials Fight
Labor Party Plan
Continued from Page Onel

presidents, Martin F. Ryan, Matthew
Woll, and James E. O'Connell was ap-
pointed to direct the campaign.
The council decided to hold another
meeting on April "a at which time a
final draft of labor's political de-
mands on both old parties will be
made. Thereafter the campaign will
be directed to securing favorable"
delegates to the political conventions
as we'll as favorable action from the
conventions as whole after they
have begun their sessions.
The council announces specifically
that it will not follow the example of
its 1924 efforts at which time organ
lied labor deviated from it's former
policy by supporting the candidate of
a third party, Senator Robert M. La
Toilette. Labor officials have since
claimed that the experience proved
disasterous, but it has been pointed
out by others that the reason for this
experience was the open sabatoge of
independent political action by the
labor leaders themselves who in vari-
Gus localities such as, for instance in
New York City, are bound up with
the ruling, old party machine in
power.
Labor Party Sentiment Rising
Labor in Pennsylvania and es-
pecially in Minnesota is committed to
the program of labor party. Re-
Gently over two hundred delegates of
labor and farmers organizations in
Indiana united for common action.
Workers in large industrial centers
such as New York and Chicago, hard
hit by increasing unemployment and
lowering wage levels, have in recent
months shown strong signs of labor
party sentiment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Nully, Mooney Write
For February Issue
Of Labor Defender

With n photograph from the bat
tlefield in Nicaragua on the cover, a
two-page layout of other photos pic-
turing many phases of the situation,
and an article by Manuel Gomez, sec
rotary of the All-America Anti-Im-
rsrialist League, presenting facts and
figures on the invasion of Nicaragua,
the February Labor Defender is a
timely pictorial review Of the brave
struggle of the workers and farmers
under SANDING against Wall Street
aggression. The Labor Defender is
published monthly by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
Jim FULLY, novelist, has written an
impression of Tom Mooney as he
appears today, after ~ years behind
prison bars as result Of a vicious
frame-up.
Mooney Writes.
There is also in this issue a letter
from Mooney from San Quentin
Prison. He writes in grateful ac-
acknowledgement to American workers:
1.-The contribution from the Interna-
ticnal Labor Defense and similar
sources at this time of the year, COM
bined with International Labor De-
Tense monthly relief, takes care of
my yearly wants in the way of COM
missary and other incidentals."
In addition to the features, the
case of the coal miners in Pennsyl-
vania is presented in many photo
graphs ard notes from the field by
I. ]. O'Flaherty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Turn in Cards and Badges.

All Party members who have mem
bership application cards that were
filled out at the Madison Square Gar
den meeting or committee badges
should turn them into the district Of
flee at once, 108 E. 18th St. No Party
members are permitted to keep the
badges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
ASKS CHANGE IN
DAILY REPORT
Food Workers. Officer
Makes Correction

The following letter was yesterday
received from headquarters Of the
Amalgamated Food Workers, 100
Broadway:
Editor, DAILY WORKER:
The news item of the convention
of the Amalagamated Food Work
ers which was published in the
Daily Worker of Tuesday, Jan. ID,
was an entire misstatement of any
part Of the proceedings Of the con-
vention. The mater in your note
was not brought up on the floor
of the convention during the entire
session.
Correction Is Made.
The DAILY WORKER on the day
mentioned carried the following head
line: Convention Criticizes Bakers
for Using the Injunction in Fight. )"
This headline was a wrong interprets-
ton of the news carried in the body
of the article and was not an irten-
tional misstatement. The DAILY
WORKER is accordingly glad to
make the correction.
The news item itself ran as fol-
lows: Severe criticism is anticipated
against the officials of Local of the
Amalgamated Food Workers Union
at the convention Of that union. -.
Local had taken out an injunction
against the Bakers Local 81 of the
A. F. of L., to prevent the latter
union from calling strikes in shops
under its control"
Criticism Justified.
The DAILY WORKER is reliably
informed that such criticism has been
voiced by the membership and that
such criticism was to have been brot
up on the convention floor. Severe
criticism of the unions failure to
carry out its announced program Of
amalgamation is also being voiced.
The news item in no way misstated
the fact.
Because of space limitations, the
news account of the convention is
omitted from this issue. AS much as
possible OF the record will be carried
tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Discusses New Books.

Barbara Rand of The DAILY
WORKER will lead discussion on
VIM. z. Fosters "Misleaders Of La
Dor" and Stains book, Questions
and Answers" at an educational meet
ing of IF Subsection "a tomorrow at
$3.50 p. m. at 1903 E. 18th st. All
workers are invited to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Newark Y. w. l.. Dance.

The Young Workers League of
Newark will hold it's fifth annual
dance Saturday, Jan. %, at New
Montgomery Hall, Prince and Mont
gemery SITS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Informer Dies

c. G. Meing, Chinese owner of
Newark restaurant who died Monday,
was at one time United States
secret service agent, following his
employment as an interpreter in
Miami courts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Midnight Show Saturday.

A midnight show will be held Sat-
urday at 1870 p. m. at the Allerton
Theatre, near Allerton subway sta
ton, the Bronx, by the Cooperative
Section, Freiheit Singing Society. The
program will include songs by the
chorus, lead by j. Schafer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Labor and FTateYmaZ
Organizations
Yorkville Workers Forum.

f. Rogers will talk on What
Saw in Soviet Russia" Friday at p.
m. at the Yorkville Workers Forum,
$50 E. 81st St. Questions and dis
cussion will follow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Ice Skating Sunday.

The Brownsville Young Workers
League will hold an ice-skating party
Sunday at 2 p. m. Those wishing to
participate will meet at 1859 Pitkin
Ave-, Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Jersey CITY Lenin Meeting.

The Jersey City Lenin Memorial
meeting will be held Sunday at 2 p.
m. at 1O6 Mercer st. The speakers
will include Leon Plat, j. o. Bentall
and Sam Nesin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
IIn-Ar-CoOp Meet.

A general membership meeting of
the Un-Ar-Cooperative will be held
Monday at p. m. at the Parkview
Palace, 10th st. and 9th Ave. A new
board of directors will be elected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Lecture in Lower Bronx.

c. Marmor will lecture on "The
Change in Family Relations and the
Role of the Woman in Industry" Fri
day, Feb. II, at tbs E. 138th St., I'M
der the auspices of the United Coun-
Gil of Working Class Women, Council
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Liebknecht Memorial Meeting.

The Liebknecht Memorial meeting
will be held Feb. by the Young
Workers League at the Labor Tenn
pie, Second Ave. and 18th ST.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Special IF I'D Meeting.

Due to the sudden death of one of
the members of the unit, a special
meeting of IF I'D will be held to-
night at p. m. at 80 St. Marks
Place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Bensonhurst Meeting Tonight.

The wives of the striking laundry
drivers of Bensonhurst have called a
mass meeting for tonight at 1910
Benson Ave-, Brooklyn at 8 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Section /, Attention!

Section l will hold a "Proletarian
Banquet" on Saturday, Feb. A, at p.
m. at the Downtown Labor Center, 60
st. Marks Place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Astoria Entertainment and Dance.

Subsection 3 A will hold an enter
tainment and dance Saturday, Feb.
A, at Bohemian Hall, Woolsey and.
Second Ave-, Astoria, L. |. To reach
the hall take Astoria train to Hoyt
Ave. station.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Yorkyille Pioneer Meet.

The newly organized Pioneer nu-
cleus will meet Saturday at p. m.
at $50 E. S1st St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Workers School Forum.

Herbert Fam will lecture on when
War Comes" at the Workers School
Forum, 108 E. 18th St., Sunday at
8 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
WORKERS PARTY
ACTIVITIES
Party Conference Sunday.
y Ew YoRK-N JERsE

All Party functionaries, department
heads, unit organizers, subsection Or
ganizers, section organizers and agit-
prop directors of units, subsection and
sections should attend the Party con-
ference Sunday at 1896 a. m. at Man
haitian Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth st. The
conference is called by w. w. Vein
stone, district organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Bronx Open Forum.

Alexander Bittelman will lecture on
"Moscow and Geneva" at the Bronx
Open Forum, 2075 Clinton Ave, Sun
day at $3.50 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
BrownsviIle Omen Forum.

Bert Miller will lecture on "The
Political Prospects for 1928" at the
Brownsville Open Forum, 1859 Pitkin
Ave-, Brooklyn, Sunday at $3.50 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Lower Bronx Forum.

E. Rogers will lecture on What l
Saw in the Soviet Union" at the Low
er Bronx Open Forum, 715 E. 138th
ST., Sunday at 8 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Vaeabond Sports Club.

The Vagabond Sports Club meets
the first Sunday of every month at
6 p. m. at 1910 Benson Ave, Brook
Ign. All young workers interested in
sports are invited to attend the meet
ingS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Harlem HOusewarming.

M. j. Olgin will lecture on ''Ten Red
Years" tonight at the housewarming
of the Harlem Section, Workers Par
ty at 143 E. 103rd st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Lecture ON Sunday.

A speaker from the Young Work
ers League will address the John
Brown Club on "Lindbergh and Mica
ragua" at 1876 E. oath St., Sunday
at p. m. Questions ard discussion
will follow.
Freiheit Singing Society.
The Freiheit Singing Society will
hold its annual ball Saturday, Feb.
at Tammany Hall, 18th St. and Third
Ave.
Williamsburg l. L. ID.
The Williamsburg branch of the In
ternational Labor Defense will meet
today at 8 p. m. at 20 Graham Ave-,
Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Dance Saturday.

The Harlem Progressive Youth
Club will hold ball Saturday even
ing at the Harlem Casino, 10th st.
and Lenox Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26
Jewish Culture Club.

The Jewish Workers Culture Club
will hold it's first dance at 715 E.
13Sth St., on Saturday, Feb. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-26

The following letter was yesterday
received from headquarters Of the
Food Workers, 100
Broadway: