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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
URGE FIGHT TO
STEM new DRIVE
OF CAPITALISTS
Soviet-Swedish Miners
Issue Appeal
Especial Gable to DAILY WORKER)

Especial Gable to DAILY WORKER)
MOSCOW, March 18.-The Soviet
Swedish Miners Cooperation Commit
tee has published an appeal to all
miners unions and federations call
ing for world congress to consider
the growing crisis in the coal mining
industry.
The appeal points to the steady de-
terioration in the position of the
miners and sharply criticizes the
policy of the International Miners
Federation, which refused to declare
a solidarity strike and which en-
couraged a split among miners along
national lines. The appeal calls for
the creation of miners international
thru the convocation of a world con-
gress and the unity of the various
miners unions and federations.
The Committee accompanies its ap-
peal with an explanation pointing out
that an appeal had already been
adopted at the January meeting of
the Soviet Swedish Committee, was
postponed because Of the objections of
the Swedish Miners Union pending
the plenary session of the Executive
Committee of the International
Miners Federation on the strike 60
ing on in Sweden.
The Swedish miners union has
abandoned its objection and the ap-
peal has therefore been public in the
press. Realizing all the difficulties
facing the Swedish Miners Union,
the representatives of the Central
Committee of Soviet Swedish Com
mittee could nevertheless see no
reasons why the publication of the
appeal should adversely affect the
Swedish Miners struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
DELEGATES FROM 4Of
LANDS AT RED TRADE
MEETING IN MOSCOW
Movement of Proletariat Stronger, Declares
Losovsky in Opening the Congress

MOSCOW, March 18Th view of
the more intense onslaught of eapi-
talism, the international working
class must unite all forces in order
to organize resistance and launch a
eounter-attack," declared Hunbert-
droz, in greeting the fourth world
congress of the Red international of
Labor Unions on behalf of the Com
munist International
"The Red International of Labor
Unions," he continued, must do
everything to free the working
masses from the influence of the re-
formists and must launch an attack
against capitalism. We are witness
ing a powerful struggle for wages.
The congress must find methods of
organizing the revolutionary forces
and leadership for the struggle of
the broad masses. Particular atten-
ton must be given to the struggle
for the everyday needs of the work
ing class which will help organize
the masses for political action.
"The more largely that we shall
affect the mobilization of forces" he
said, "the sooner will it be possible
to transform the defensive war of
the working class into an offensive
one, lead the working class struggle
for the overthrow of capitalism and
establish dictatorship of the prole-
tariat IN all countries"
Losovsky Opens Congress.
The R. I. L. U. Congress was Of
ficially opened in the Trade Union
(Con:irs.ed on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
WORKERS RESUME
HORTHY PROTEST
Picket Line Is Planned
for White House

WASHINGTON, March 18.--The
White House will be picketed Mon
day noon by Anti -Horthy League
members and sympathizers if Presi-
dent Coolidge receives the so-called
Kossuth Memorial Committee of Hun
garian fascists now visiting this
country.
A delegation of New York workers
and liberals are scheduled to arrive
here in the morning, headed by Hugo
Gellert, president and Emery Balint,
secretary, of the Anti-Horthy League.
The Horthy Terror.
Gustav Meyers, president of the
Hungarian Sick and Death Benefit
Federation and Teadore VASTLY, edi-
tor of "Munkas," New York Hun
garian newspaper, both of New York,
will be in the anti-Horthy delegation.
According to present arrangements
Coolidge will receive the fascist
party at the White House at noon
tomorrow. If this program is carried
out the pickets will display banners
denouncing the terroristic activities
of the regime of Horthy, Hungarian
premier, which has resulted in the
murder of thousands of workers and
Jews in Hungary during the last few
years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
BISCUIT WORKERS
UNDERPAID WANT UNION
the National Biscuit 18th ST. and
least 10000 employed There three
units to antwh exten blocks.

The highest wage a man can make
in the plant is S35 but you never
make it for the reason that worker
only works full time during two or
three months in the summer. Other
wise you are laid off two or three
times week no matter how long
you have worked for the company.
The best you can get is SIS to $18
per week. Some of the workers have
been here for fifteen or more years.
Force Cut in Half.
The speed-up is terrible. The factory
force has been almost cut in half so
that now there are about 80 men on
machines doing the work that used
to be done by 160. There are foremen
keeping strict watch everywhere to
see that the work is never slowed
up for any reason.
Frank Quinn, the superintendent
of the 10th Ave. factory, is q brutal
and ignorant man who spies on
the workers thru his brother, who is
the assistant foreman in B2 depart
ment, and his nephew, who is the ma
chine captain on Az.
The workers are too frightened foI
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
Labor Sports Exhibition
Next Sunday to Raise
Miners Relief Funds

Among the most interesting con-
tesst to be held at the first exhibition
meet Of the Labor Sports Union next
Sunday at the Finnish Hall, 15 w.
126th St., will be the swimming
events, conducted by NJ Kaminke.
In addition to style swimming and
diving the fourth event viii be re-
lay swimming race, followed by a
four lap free style race. The water
sports exhibit will be concluded by a
general water sports carnival.
The Labor Sports Union is donat-
ing half the proceeds of this meet to
the relief of the striking miners of
Pennsylvania and Ohio, through the
Youth Committee for Miners Relief,
Room 236. 799 Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
NICARAGUA WAR
PROTEST CALLED
Nearing Will Address
Mass Meeting

The invasion of Nicaragua by
United States marines will be at
tackled at a meeting tonight at 8
o'clock at Irving Plaza, Irving Place
and 18th St., called by the All-Amer-
lea Anti-Imperialist League.
The speakers will be Scott Near
ing, recently returned from the Soviet
Union and China, and Torinio Ire
jerino, former Nicaraguan counsel
general in New York.
The speakers will discuss the new
attack on the League by the postal
authorities who have labeled leaf
let that the League is distributing
as objectionable"
The leaflets urges the contribution
of funds to purchase medical sup
plies for the army of General Aug
usto Sandino, commander of the Nj
caraguan army of independence. 1t
also contains photographs of Nicara-
guam victims of marine attacks.
Mexican Workers Help.
More than thousand dollars has
been collected in the past few weeks
in small amounts from the Mexican
workers and soldiers, according to a
report from the Hands Off -Nicara-
guam Committee in Mexico City
which reached the League Saturday,
"One of the most wonderful of all
the demonstrations for Sandino was
that in Pueblo, the textile center of
Mexico, where 800 pesos were col
lected from workers and soldiers
When one recalls how bad are the
living conditions of the Mexican
workers and soldiers, one realizes
what 800 pesos means from Taexi-
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
MINERS co over
TO PROCRESSIVES
Lewis Terror Fails to
Check Movement

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 49,
The campaign of terrorism and init
midation that the Lewis-F Pagan mach
inc, in conjunction with the sheriffs
and state police, has been carrying or
in District 5, u. M. w. A., has failed
to crush the rapidly growing senti-
ment of the membership in favor of
the "Save-the- Union Committee" and
its program.
To Send Delegation.
Reports from the mining camps in
District shows that this district,
which has been held in the iron grip
of the Pagan despotism, is preparing
to send huge delegation from local
unions and progressive groups repre-
senting every section to the National
miners Save-the- Union Conference
to be held in Pittsburgh.
Lewis Power Fading.
The miners of Washington County
especially are determined to make the
April / conference an overwhelming
victory for the progressive move
ment. Many locals which had sup
ported Lewis in the past are swing
ing over in staunch support of the
Save-the- Union policies. Miners wf:1
had been indifferent or apathetic
are now waking up to demand action.
They are calling on all their union
members to get into the fight against
the Lewis machine and its destructive
policies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
INDUSTRY KILLS
139 IN new YORK
100 Dependents Left;
l Months Toll


ALBANY, N. Y, March 18.--In-
dustry swept 139 workers to their
deaths last month, the state labor
department asserts, leaving to fate
and the future the livelihood of at
least 100 dependents. Among these
were SO widows, 81 children, nine
aging parents and a dependent
brother.
Only 10 of the workers killed on
the job left no family dependent on
their earnings.
Although construction work leads
in workers fatalities, the hazards of
painting are once again emphasized
by the department. Two painters died
of lead poisoning because, the depart
ment remarks, of the lack of state
provisions for periodic examinations
of workers in hazardous trades.
Examinations Demanded.
"We are all for periodic examina-
tions," asserted Herriet Silverman,
secretary of the Workers Health
Bureau. "But either the trade unions
should be empowered to administer
the tests or the examining board
should be under the control of trade
unionists. In unorganized industries
the necessary state machinery must
of course be controlled by trade
unionists to keep the examinations
from degenerating into an employers
blacklist" -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19

ing miners are waging terrific
struggle against the efforts Of the
mine barons to smash the miners
union and of the union officialdom to
destroy it from within. Hunger and
cold, brutal beatk ), jailings, mur-
der have been the\lot of the miners
in the fight for existence, but these
have failed to break their spirit. BY
their own repeated statements The
DAILY WORKER has been the only
Continued on Page TaUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
LEWIS MACHINE
MAKES GESTURE
Issues Deceptive Order
on Picketing
Especial to The Daily Worker.)

Especial TO The Daily Workey.)
PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 18. -
At a meeting of pickets held here
yesterday at the headquarters Of the
United Mine Workers of America,
orders were given by the Lewis Of
ficials that mass picketing of the scab
mines is to be inaugurated at once.
This decision is eleven months too
late.
Against Mass Picketing.
In the past the officials of the min
ers' union not only advised the strik-
ers to obey the strikebreaking in
functions but bitterly attacked the
Pennsylvania Miners Relief
Committee for urging the miners and
their women-folk to picket in hun
dreds. They even went so far as to
publicly denounce the Pennsylvania
Ohio Relief Committee and accused
it of putting out "subversive propa-
ganda." These officials boasted that
they were obeying the injunctions
even tho they objected to them. They
informed the senate subcommittee
which investigated conditions in the
strike area that the Pennsylvania
Ohio Miners Relief Committee was
violating the law by spreading false
reports about its work, induced Sena-
tor Gooding to make an attack on
the committee. The union officials
even called in the state police to
break up Pennsylvania relief
meetings and threatened to discipline
all union members who advocated
mass picketing.
Now, however, in the twelfth month
of the strike, the union officials have
been forced to adopt the policy pro-
claimed several months ago by the
Pennsylvania-O Miners Relief
Committee. They have ordered mass
picketing in violation Of iniunctions.
Senator Wheeler in Washington who
also criticizes the progressive miners,
echoed their attacks on the judges
who have issued strikebreaking in
functions. The belated change of poll
icy is welcome.
Minerich Attacked.
Anthony p. Minerich, chairman of
the Pennsylvania Ohio Miners Relief
Committee who was arrested in Lam
sing, Ohio, on a charge of violating
an injunction Of Federal Judge Ben
son w. Hough, was denounced as a
"red" by union officials. Now, those
(Comtinued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
CAP union HEADS
HIT MILITANTS
Threatened Report Is
Mostly Wind

Infuriated by the growing mass
sentiment for left wing leadership
which threatens to topple the throne
of Max Zaritsky, right wing pres
ident of the International Cloth Hat,
Cap and Millinery Workers Union,
and unable to answer the charges of
the left wing that his machine in
the New York Joint Council had
squandered the huge sums of money
held in trust for an unemployment
insurance fund, the general executive
board of the International union, an
nounced Saturday that they have or
dered new elections in the left wing
controlled Boston section Of the Cap
makers union.
Mountains Birth of a Mouse.
The announcement was made pub
lie as result of a so-called investi-
cation conducted by l. Goldberg, and
S. Hershkowitz, two of Zaritsky's S
followers on the general executive
board. The committee had gone to
Boston to investigate the unions ex-
penditures after they had won the
40-hour week by brilliant 10-week
general strike.
The long statement declaring their
decision to order new elections
threatens to the extent of many
columns in the right wing Jewish
Daily Forward to expose the "Com-
Emunist swindles" perpetrated by the
leaders of the Boston local and fin
ally ends up by announcing that the
committee with the aid Of expert
accountants finally uncovered" a
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
.FLOGGERS FREED;
VERDICT DIRECTED
Cases Against Kluxers
Also Dismissed

RALEIGH, N. c., March 49,
Twelve men who participated in a
night raid made by masked mob Of
whites, in which two Negroes and an
aged white one-armed storekeeper
were severely flogged, we're dis
charged by jury here when the pre-
siding Judge directed verdict of not
guilty. Four cases against individual
members of the Ku Klux Klan band
were also dismissed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
THE "DAILY" is STILL IN DANGER
Workers Constant Aid Is Its Sole Defense Against Attack

The DAILY WORKER has not
passed its crisis. The enemies who
are threatening the very existence of
the paper have not relaxed their
vigilance. They are merely waiting
for a favorable moment to resume
their attack. The DAILY WORKER
Is in a more precarious situation to-
day than at any time in its past. The
life Of the paper is at stake and the
only power capable Of saving it is
the power of the militant workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
Miners Are Rich.
Daily Worker Agents
Will Meet Tomorrow;
lWeinstOne to Speak

An important meeting of all
DAILY WORKER agents will be
held tomorrow night at Irving
Plaza, Irving Place and 18th ST.
to act upon questions of major
importance. Plans for a wide dis
tribution of the special May Day
edition will be included in the or
der Of business. William w. Vein
stone, district organizer, Workers
Communist Party will speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19

acting as one unit If the workers do
not come to the defense of their pa
per one hundred per cent it will go
down before the assaults Of the CAPT
talist courts and the conspiracies of
its enemies
Their Real Defender.
Seldom before in the history of the
militant working class has the work
ers' need for their militant press been
more urgent than it is today. In coal
fields thruout the country, the strik-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
Anniversary of Freiheit
At the Garden Sunday

Wide interest is being taken In
plans for the sixth anniversary of the
Jewish Daily Freiheit, Communist
daily paper, to be held at Madison
Square Garden next Sunday after
noon. The program will include "Red,
Yellow and Black" mass spectacle
in which 1000 workers will partici-
pate. Another feature will be songs
by Sergei Radamsky, who recently
returned from the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
NY. J0BLESS IN NATIONAL CAMP
The Anthracite: Scene of the Most Crucial Revolt Against

At left is a breaker
house of CoIliery 6, of the
Pennsylvania Coal Com
pamy at Pittston. Local
1908 of the United Mine
Workers of which the
murdered AleS Campbell
wos the leader, IS at the
head of the revolt against
the corrupt Le1Ois mo-
chine in the anthracite.
BeIo10 is RinGldo CGppe-
Iini, Lewis hemchmGn and
president of District 1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
p.ATIENTs ENDANGERED.

ALBANY, N. Y, March 18.-Twc
hundred patients were carried to
safety when fire broke out here yes
terday in the Memorial Hospital
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
MINERS ASK AID
FOR DELEGATES
April l Conference Stirs
Districts

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March Is. -
AS April 1st, the date set for the
convening of the National Miners
Save-the- Union Conference of the
United Mine Workers draws near,
hundreds of local unions and progress
sive groups in every district in the
international Union are electing dele
gates to the conference while the re-
dictionary Lewis machine is calling on
the police authorities to break up
miners meetings, even going 50 far
as to instruct county sheriffs in
Pennsylvania not to permit a local
union to meet unless the meeting is
authorized by the Lewis officials.
= While John L. Lewis is in Wash
ington hobnobbing with the coal OPP
orators and posing as a 100 per cent
patriot denouncing the progressives
and urging the employers to help him
save the country from the "Red Men
ace" the rank and file of the interna-
tional union under the leadership of
the Save-the- Union Committee are
perfecting plans for the great pro-
gressive conference in Pittsburgh,
April 1.
Miners Are Rich.
The miners are rich in fighting ma
terial but poor financially The long
struggle has completely drained their
resources. They are now calling on
their fellow workers for aid to help
defray the cost of this great and
significant conference = significant,
not only to the miners but to the en-
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having been enormously enlisted. It
was explained at brigade headquarters
that this man Is an employe OF the
customs house at Georgetown, and that
such employees are exempt from mill
itary service, and permission was never
obtained from his Superiors for the en-
listment, as required by the regulations.
A total Of 1882 persons used the To-
cal rifle range at Camp Simms during
May. according to report submitted to
brigade headquarters by Capt. j. C.
Jensen, Ordnance Department. Capt.
Jensen reported three units used the
range during the month. on % firing
days. Forty-Six men completed the
authorized practice firing. and the same
number completed the record firing.
OF those who used the range, $40 were
from the Regular Army. sol from the
National Guard and 161 were civilians
Sergt. Walter Raymond Stokes, Med
ical Department Detachment, 12lSt
Engineers. has been appointed a first
lieutenant in the Medical Reserve
Corps of the Army Of the United States.
He Just graduated from the George
Washington University Medical School
and has been member of the local
Guard for several years. He lives at
719 Thirteenth street.
The new Medical Department Detach-
ment of the 260th Coast Artillery heads
the list in drill attendance for last week
This organization reported 100 per cent
attendance. With 1t in the superior"
classification was the QuartermaSter
Corps Detachment. with percentage
of $685.. The other organizations, in
their respective classes, with percent
ages, follow:
Very sfactory--Headquart De-
tachment, 260th Coast Artillery. 79l7:
Band, l21st Engineers, 77.15; Head
quarters and Service Company. 121st
Engineers, 1919; Headquarters Detach-
ment, goth Division, 1887; Headquar-
ters Detachment, Special Troops, 29th
Division, rs; Battery G, 260th Coast
Artillery, 74.08,
Company A, 12lst En-
gineers, IS; Company c, 12lst Engineers,
64.71; Company A. 372d Infantry. 1924;
Battery B, 260th Coast Artillery, 62.75;
Company ID, 12lSt Engineers, 62.69
Company F. l2lst Engineers. 62.32;
Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery. 60.
factory--Company B. 121st
Engineers. 58.74; Company E, 12lst
Evening star., 1928-06-10

the retired list of the Navy on that date
on account Of age. Due to the ex-
haustion of last years list Of selectees
for the grade Of rear admiral no pro-
motion to that grade can be made until
the report Of the 1923 selection board
has been approved.
With the above promotions, Comdr.
Albert Norris and Lieut.. Comdrs. Archi-
bald McGlasson, Joseph A. Murphy and
James r. Barry remain on last years
list OF selectees for the next higher
grades, respectively. and they will be
considered by the 1923 selection board,
headed by Admiral Charles F. Hughes,
which held its first session last Mon
day in the Navy Department. The
other members Of the board include the
following: Admiral Henry A. Wiley,
Rear Admirals Thomas Washington,
William s. Cole, Charles 3. McVay, jr.;
William A. Moffett. Julian l.. Latlmer,
Arthur L. Willard and Joel r. P. Prin-
gle, with Comdr. Emanuel A. Lofquist
as recorder. Due to the fact that Rear
Admiral Samuel S. Robson has been
assigned to relieve Rear Admiral Louis
M. Mutton as superintendent of the
Naval Academy. the detail of the for
mer officer as a member of the selec-
ton board was revoked and Admiral
Willard was designated in his place.
The 1928 selection board will select
five captains for advancement to rear
admiral. nine commanders for advance
ment to captain and IL lieutenant COM
manders for advancement to COM
mander. Under authority granted the
board. this number may be increased in
the event that any officer who is passed
over would be retired for service in
grade before the 1929 selection board
meets, a year hence. The maximum
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number that may be selected under this
authorization would be 10 commanders
for captain and ID lieutenant COM
manders for commander. there being
one captain and one commander who.
II not selected, would retire for service
In grade before next June.
Rear Admiral Louis McC Mutton will
be relieved as superintendent of the
Naval Academy by Rear Admiral Sam
uel s. Robson on June 20. the former
officer proceeding Immediately to the
West Coast, where he will assume his
new duties as commander of the bat
tleship divisions of the battle feet on
June 26. Though Capt. Sinclair Can
non, on duty as commandant Of mid
sipmen at the academy, is due for sea
duty. he will remain at Annapolis until
Autumn. Lieut. Comdr George H.
Fort, who has been on duty in the
office of the director of officer person.
mel, Bureau of Navigation, has been
assigned to command the u. S. S. Borie
as the relief of Lieut.. Comdr George
e. Brandt.
The Navy Department is opposed to
the proposal to authorize the retirement
of midshipmen for physical disability,
there being pending bill placing mid
shipmen with one year and four months
attendance at the Naval Academy on
the retired list on account of physical
disability. While the Navy Department
should and does accept the RESPONSE
bility for caring for the health Of the
midshipmen, it is not believed that
physical disabilities appearing during
their course at the Naval Academy
should entitle them to retirement
either as midshipmen or still more as
ensigns If this principle of their re-