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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-18
PRINTERS RAISE WAGE

Omaha.-Newspaper printers secur-
ed three-year contract which in
creases rates every year Night work
ers' pay the third year will be $51
a week and day workers, $48.
Commercial shop printers recently
increased rates ST for a week of "A
hours.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-18
GLOSS OFF

Will remove the wearshine from
Ladies and Gents garments. Get
the better kind of Cleaning, Repair
ing and Remodeling done at Kappel's,
1852 N. B street. Phone 2617-L
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-18
CULINARY WORKERS UNITE

Canton, Ohio.-Culinary workers ir
this city have organized and are affil-
lated to the trade union movement.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-18
ELECTRICIANS GAIN

Peoria, Ill.-Organized electricians
raised wages cents an hour. The
new rate is $1.25.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-18
The Cherry
- Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
fOundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Now that the Sinclair case has be-
gun to melt away into the dusty pages
of history, let us look for a moment
at other phases of the oil situation.
If Sinclair has stood for anything
in the oil business, that something is
monopoly by manipulation. John d.
Rockefeller stood for about the same
thing. John d. began to get respect
able after Lands assessed his famous
twenty-nine million dollar fine, which
was never paid, and after John hired
Mackenzie King to purify his indus
trial policies.
The process of monopolization in oil
has continued steadily All those
things which the public was expected
to believe would check monopoly have
in reality helped it.
Today about seven big groups are
operating in oil, all looking forward
hopefully to the day when they can
gather around and fix things as they
should be fixed.
The late Senator La Toilette, sens
ing accurately what was going on,
predicted gasoline at a dollar gal
lon, if the monopolists ever got their
way. He knew what he was talking
about.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-18

When you drive up to the pump re-
member that great appetites are
grasping for complete monopoly. The
Independents out in the field, wild
eating it and every now and then
making rich strikes are the present
preventors of that monopoly. Don't
be fooled by crooks-but don't be
fooled by corporation propaganda
either. The big oil interests have
small license to be throwing stones,
for of all the baleful influences Amer
lea has had to contend with, some of
the most baleful have been found in
the offices of our great oil companies,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
FURRIER APPEAL
VERDICT TODAY

A decision in the application for
permission to appeal in the case of
the nine fur workers convicted in
Mineola last year is to be handed
down this morning by Judge Lehman.
The judge will decide whether the
workers will continue on bail pending
a new trial or Immediately start for
prison to serve their sentences.
Defense counsel George 2. Medalie
and the assistant district attorney ap-
peared before the judge last Saturday
Medalie pleaded for new trial
while Edwards opposed it, and re-
quested that the bail of the nine de-
PENDANTS be raised from $500 each
to $4,000 each. The. appellate di-
vision upheld their conviction April
IA.
The defendants are Jack Schneider,
Samuel Menscher, Oscar Mileaf, Mar
tin Rosenberg, Joe Katz, George
Weiss, A. Franklin and M. Mall1in,
all sentenced to two and a half to
five years, and Otto Lenhart, SEN
fenced to one and half years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
LABOR, DEFENSE
AIDS MAY DAY
Realizes Necessity of
Great Demonstration

Following up it's endorsement of
the call for the Madison Square Ga1$
den meeting on May Day, the Inter
national Labor Defense, New York
district, is energetically assisting in
the arrangements for the meeting.
A meeting of the city executive
authorized the issuance of call in
the name of the International Labor
Defense to all workers to support this
united front demonstration.
Letters have been sent by the dis
trict office of the I. L. D. to all its
branches in the city urging the mem
bers to sell tickets.
The I. L. D. district has undertake.,
the responsibility of selling 5Ct
tickets at so cents each, which it has
called upon its membership to sell
among the workers.
international Labor Defense, it
self united front organization, re-
alizes the necessity of a powerful
demonstration for international solid
arity on May Day, at a period when
the class struggle, growing ever
more acute, will demand more class
victims, which will need the protec-
tion Of the entire working class
through its Shield" the 1. L. d."
Rose Baron, secretary, said last night.
"This calls for all the energies of
the working class being modified to
make of this Madison Square Garden
meeting a demonstration which will
challenge the oncoming offensive of
the capitalists challenge fit to be
flung forth on the day of international
labor solidarity-May First"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
TO WIN ITALIAN
LABOR TO PARTY
N a tional Conference
Holds 2-Day Session
WILLIAM BOYCE

Plans for winning the Italian work.
ers for the Communist movement
were forwarded at the two-day ma
tional conference of the Italian Sec
ton of the Workers (Communist)
Party held yesterday and Saturday at
108 E. 14th st.
Nineteen delegates were present at
the conference, representing Italian
fractions of the Party from all parts
of the country. At the opening ses-
sion Saturday morning a presidium
was elected consisting of Biacco, Can
della and Osualdo.
Markoff Reports.
A. Markoff made a report to the
conference in the name of the central
executive committee of the Party,
which was accepted unanimously by
the delegates. He pointed out that
there are 100000 Italian workers
in this country almost all of whom
are employed in basic industries such
as mining, steel and building trades
He urged the building of the influ-
ence of the Party among the Italian
masses by the strengthening of the
Party fractions and work to build up
the anti-fascist movement.
Greet Italian Party.
A report was also given by Fran
cisco Coco. secretary of the Italian
section.
Resolutions were adopted greeting
the italian Communist Party for the
struggle it is conducting against fas-
cism, also in commemoration of the
memory of C. E. Ruthenberg, one of
the founders of the Communist move
ment of this country and in memory
of N. Lenin.
The conference closed with the cleo
tion of new bureau.
The delegates at the conference in
cluded one each from Cleveland.
Rochester, Buffalo, California, Chi
cago, Syracuse, Detroit and Boston.
Also two each from Philadelphia and
New Jersey and five from New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
COURT ACQUITS
HARRY SINCLAIR
Repeats 'Bye-Bye Black
Bird Stunt

WASHINGTON, April 22.-Harry
F. Sinclair, oil magnate and slush-
funder, quite in the natural course of
events, has been acquitted of charge
of conspiracy by a court of the Cool
idge government which he spent so
many hundreds of thousands of dol
lars to put in power.
The government of the republican
party has returned verdict of mot
guilty" in favor of the man who
donated so lavishly to republican
party slush funds.
A Consistent Verdict
The verdict of the District of Col
umbia court, rendered Saturday, was
consistent in every way with the back
ground of the so-called trial.
The background of the Sinclair trial
consists in part of the acquittal in De-
cember, 1926, of Edward L. Doheny,
oil millionaire, of similar charge of
conspiracy and the dropping of the
conspiracy case against Albert B.
Fall, former Harding-Coolidge secre-
tary of the interior.
Collected From Both.
Fall got $233,000 from Sinclair at
the time the Teapot Dome oil reserve
was leased by his department to Sin
clair with the authorization of Presi-
dent Harding. He was originally
jointly charged with Sinclair. He re-
ceived 100000 from Doheny at the
time the government leased the Elk
Hills oil reserve to Doheny. Fall too
was acquitted with Doheny in 1925 in
the trial in which the jury entered
into the spirit Of the occasion to sing,
"Bye, Bye Blackbird" as it let the
two defendants out Of the "cage."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
Mine STRIKERS
IN BIG MEETING.

WHITE VALLEY, Pa, April 22.-
Striking miners of Westmoreland
County, the heart of the struggle in
the unorganized counties of western
Pennsylvania, yesterday took prac-l
tical steps to bring the thousands Of
non-union coal diggers in the county
into the ranks of organized labor,
when more than $50 representatives
of strikers who went out on April 10
in answer to the strike call Of the
Save the Union Committee met here
to elect an executive committee to
carry on the work of organization
started by the Westmoreland County
strike committee.
With five mounted state troopers
posted at the entrance to Slovan Hall,
where the conference was held, and
as many in plain clothes in an auto
mobile, with stoolpigeons busily en-
gagged in scanning the faces of the
delegates, the meeting was called to
order by Anthony P. Minerich, gen.
eral organizer of the Save the Union
Committee, in charge of the unor-
Continued on Page Ta0ol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23

the executive board of the United
Mine Workers of America declaring
the the Pennsylvania Ohio Miners Re-
lief Committee is an organization
dual ito the United Mine Workers of
America, Communist in character, and
is playing into the hands Of the non
union operators and only grants relief
to striking miners who subscribe to
the policies Of the committee"
Large Scale Relief.
The Pennsylvania Ohio Miners
Relief Committee is workingclass
relief organization formed nine
months ago by rank and file delegates
from 80 Local Unions in the Ale
gheny Valley, Pennsylvania, and now
supplying relief to approximately 200
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
TEXTILE WORKERS
LAY STRIKE PLANS
IN FALL RIVER
Fifteen Mills Send Rep
resentatives

FALL RIVER, April 22.-Repre-
sentatives of fifteen textile mills met
here Saturday to organize
strike committee in preparation for
the inevitable walkout of the Fall
River operatives who, like those now
out in New Bedford, have received a
10 per cent cut in wages.
When the workers here organized
into the newly formed Textile Mill
Committees and held their first mem
bership meeting, enthusiasm ran high
as a strike committee of representa-
tives of all mills was formed. Scores
Of new workers Joined the organiza-
tion. In addition plans were laid for
w. L. Murdock and Fred Beal, lead
ers of the Textile Mill Committees,
told of the aims of the organization
and declared that the movement of
the textile workers for better condi-
tions and higher wages could not be
stopped. Dues books were given out.
Recruiting blanks also were distribut-
ed to those present to take back for
the workers in the mills who are anx-
ious to join.
The Fall River workers recently
were forced back into the mills when
union officials announced that a
strike vote had been lost by some
eleven votes. Feeling has been high
for a strike ever since.
Especial to The DAILY WORKER)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, April o..
Mass picketng of the struck tex
tile mills is sure to begin here Mon
day when the workers under the call
of the Textile Mill Committees begin
to realize that this is the only method
of showing the bosses their strength
and determination.
w. E. G. Batty, secretary of the
American Federation of Textile OPP
eratives, who has patched up his diff
ferences with Thomas McMahon, pres
Iident of the United Textile Workers,
in what is expected to be an out and
out betrayal of the strike, especially
of the unorganized operatives, has an
nounced his opposition to mass pick
citing.
The Textile Mill Committees, which
are now seen to be the only guaran-
tee against betrayal, are making all
oy.a,oa atoms IN stinnIlIatn nick ptinp
1t is believed that the workers will
not stand by and see the strike de-
feated but if necessary will take rank
and file control themselves to insure
victory.
Rumors of a spontaneous walkout
of the Taunton textile workers have
been circulated here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23

PITTSBURGH, April 22.--In a
statement issued here yesterday by
the executive committee Of tn e
Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Relief
Committee over the signatures of
Anthony P. Minerich, Chairman and
Vincent Kamenovih, Secretary Treas
urer Of the organization, charges made
by John l.. Lewis, thru the executive
board Of the United Mine Workers Of
America, that the Pennsylvania and
Ohio Relief Committee was Com
munist organization and dual to the
United Mine Workers of America,
were emphatically denied. The state
ment reads:
Washington dispatches of April
21st give excerpts from decision Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
FOSTER TO SPEAK
ON COAL STRIKE
AT MEET TONIGHT
Latest Developments
Will Be Explained

The latest developments in the coal
strike will be defined tonight by Will
liam z. Foster, national secretary of
the Trade Union Educational League.
He will speak at Manhattan Lyceum,
&c E. 4th st. at 8 PM. under the
auspices of the Trade Union Educa-
tional League.
Besides presenting a complete an
alysis of the coal situation, especially
with regard to the moving of the
industry into the unorganized fields
further South, and the tactics of the
corrupt leadership of the United
Mine Workers, Foster will review and
analyze the findings of the senate
investigating committee, paying spe-
cial attention to the testimony of the
various coal operators at Washing
ton.
To Expose Lewis
Also President John L. Lewis's plea
to the coal operators will receive its
due attention; the plea being for the
coal operators making some sort OF
a settlement with him on the ground
that he is "the bulwark against
radicalism" in the miners union,
after drawing a lurid picture of the
'red menace" which exists in the
union.
The role played by the govern
ment will be touched upon, especially
in the light of President Coolidge's
recommendation that the only solu-
ton feasible is gigantic merger of
private coal interests; the danger in
that being the closer, if possible, and
more complete alliance of such a
private trust with the railroad inter-
ests, which already are able to de-
press coal wages when they wish.
Ben Gold, manager of the Joint
Board, Fur Workers Union, will also
speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
RELIEF BODY NAILS FALSE CHARGES
Pe Ohio Committee Exposes LeUs Attack Against Miners

Local Unions in Central and Western
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir-
ginia.
This organization was formed to
supplement the inadequate relief
given to the striking miners and their
families by the United Mine Workers
of America. 1t appealed to the work.
ers and elements sympathetic to the
cause of the striking miners thruout
the United States for money and
clothing for the striking miners and
their families to enable them to carry
on the strike.
Relief For Thousands.
During the period of it's existence
the Pennsylvania Miners Relief
Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23

Center to all sympathetic organ
izations who are asked to send
delegations to the banquet.
These organizations are asked to
postpone all other activities for this
date. Leaders of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party, prominent trade
unionists will speak. They will in
clude Jay Lovestone, William 2. Fos-
ter, Bert Wolfe and William w.
Weinstone.
To Serve Dinner.
A full-course meal will be served by
Proletcos, it is announced. Decora-
tions for the banquet are in charge
of Adolf Wolff and Hugo Gellert.
Workers are being urged to purchase
their tickets at once as only linn
tied number can be taken care of. The
tickets are on sale at 1928 Union
Square and lose. 14th St.
The banquet will mark the high
point of the campaign to raise $780,
100 to purchase and finance the
Workers Center. The sums so far
collected will be announced at the
banquet and all Workers Party units
and other workingclass organizations
are intensifying their campaign ac-
tivity in order that their totals may
be as high as possible.
New Contributions.
New contributions have come in
from a number of Party units, many
of whom have contributed before.
Section 4, Unit 2, which collected $34
last week, brought in $27 more; Sec
tion 4, Unit A, added $40 to it's pre-
vious total of $31. Other contribu-
tions brought in yesterday were Sec
tion a, Unit l, $19; Long Island Sec
ton, $40; Section 7, Branch 3, $30;
"a IF, $65 in cash, $50 in pledges;
2E 2F, $37; &c and I'd, $51; Sec
ton 5, Branch 5, $11.
A number of non-Party organiza-
tions are also active in the drive. The
Jewish Arbeiter Club contributed $50
for it's executive committee, while the
members gave $50 more. The Hun
garion Workers Club contributed $50
in cash and $40 in pledges. Work
mems Circle, Branch 548, has given
$25. All three organizations are To-
Gated in the Bronx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
CHARGE SLAVERY
IN LOUISIANA

NEW ORLEANS, La, April 22-
Charged with holding Johanna La
mau, 18, in virtual slavery for three
years, Mrs. Mabel Arico has been
found guilty in the criminal district
court.
The defendant was also charged
with excessive brutality, with assault
ing and slugging her employe and
knocking out some of her teeth with
a hammer.
Cases of this sort Of peonage are
not unusual especially in the far
South and in the West.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23

Tor tents TO house thousands OF strlK-
ing miners and their families who
have been evicted in the unorganized
fields.
"There has never been such an ur-
gent need" the appeal states. "Thou-
sands of miners have been evicted.
They, their families and children, are
now living in the fields without shell
ter or food. Tents are needed to
house children and women. Food is
needed to preserve life in a thousand
communities. There never was a more
pressing need. Rush funds by wire
and special mail to the Pennsylvania
Ohio Miners Relief Committee, GIL
Penn Ave-, Pittsburgh"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
OPEN SHOPPER IS
JAILED AS Thief

CHICAGO, April 22.-Robert Tuft,
executive secretary Of the Open Shop
Employers Association, which has
fought the printing trades unions for
many years, has been jailed on a
charge of embezzling $4,000 from
the association. 1t is charged that
Tuft used this authority to sign
checks as means of defrauding the
association over period of 15
months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
Wage Increased Pr0mised
Post Office Employees

WASHINGTON, April %. - The
house post office committee has made
favorable report on the Sproul bill
to increase postal employees wages
for night work.
A 10 per cent advance will be paid
for services between 6 p. m. and
6 a. m. The bill is urged by the Ma
tional Federation Of Post Office
Clerks and Railway Mail Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
May First Greetings
Should be Turned in
To 'Daily" at Once

All units Of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party and fraternal and
labor organizations are requested
to send in to The DAILY WORK
Err, 33 First st. their May / greet
ings and lists that they have on
hand at once. The section contain
ing greetings is already being set
up. Additional expense will be
saved if this plea is needed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
WORKERS Center BANQUET WILL
Be Held AT 26-28 union SQUARE
This FRIDAY; TO DRAW THRONGS
Final Preparations for Red Affair Are Now
Being Made by Committee
Many New Contributions Received from Workers
Party Units and Labor Organizations

Preparations under way for the 'Red Banquet of
the militant workers of New York and vicinity that will be held
Friday evening the Workers Center 1928 Union Square The
banquet will celebrate the establishment of the Workers Center
as the home of the left wing movement
Hundreds of workers expected to be this
Invitations being extended by the board of directors Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
Office Workers Lecture

The recently organized Office
Workers League will hold lecture
tonight at s o'clock at the Labor
Temple, Second Ave. and 14th St
Theresa Wolfson will speak on
workers Education"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23

tII6SL Oh II6 leaders OF Cn6 save
5terday herded into the stuffy
Belmont County Jail and are to
be kept here until next Tuesday
under bail of between $1,000 and
$500.
When five of their leaders were ar
rested for heading a picket line in
the struggle waged here under the
direction of the Save-the-U Union
forces, the women organized march
of protest on the Jail. Arriving at the
scene they found armed troopers with
rifles surrounding the Jail.
Tricks Women.
Colonel Don L. Caldwell, of the Ma
tional Guard, then invited the women
into the Jail ITO see your leaders,"
After the women had entered, the
doors were locked behind them and
they were placed under arrest.
Over 300 men and women partici-
pated in yesterdays march with the
women at the lead. After they had
been arrested, the troopers rode into
the mems ranks, trying to disperse
them. The picketing and arrests
occurred in connection with the strike
Of the Mutton Hollow Mine.
The women We're greatly aroused
by the arrest. Sheriff C. C. Hardesty
expressed fears that hundreds Of
miners, enraged at the arrest of their
wives, would march on the jail.
During the past week, miners and
their wives have marched to the mine
twice day to "Save-the- Union"
There is no doubt that mass pick
eting win be increased to even larger
proportions by the miners resentment
of the brutal treatment of the women.
Especial to The Daily Workey)
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, o. April %.
(By MaiD.-Another chapter of the
heroic struggle to save their union by
the militant mine workers of South
eastern Ohio was written when 81
miners were brought into court to
answer to the charges of rioting at
Lansing, Ohio.
The arrests were made Tuesday
when over 200 men, women and chill
dren attempted to picket the Mutton
Hollow mine of the Shadyside Coal
Co., where scabs are employed.
Trouble was started by the sheriff and
deputies attempting to break up the
picket lines and the miners stood their
ground. The women and children of
fered stubborn resistance, some even
matching their strength with the WELL
fed, well-trained, well equipped strike
breakers masquerading under the
name of protectors Of the law"
Mass arrests began and carload
after carload of pickets were brought
to the county Jail at st. Clairsville.
Arrests were made within a mile
radius of the mine and soon the Jail
was filled to capacity with miners who
were on the picket lines. Scores OF
women and children were set free be-
cause there was no place to put them
Refuse Bail.
The international Labor Defense
will fight the cases of those arrested.
many of whom were set free on bail
Many of the miners, however, refused
to be bailed out, saying that they
would stay in until they were set free-
Continued on Page 7poo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
OHIO COMMITTEE
MAKESURGENT APPEAL
JOHN w. WATT

PITTSBURGH April 2An appeal Of the most urgent character
Relief
all sympathe clements and funds
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23
.SEVENTY-FIvE Mine WOMEN JAILED
FOIL OWING PROTEST MARCH AGAINST
ARREST OF Three PICKET LEADERS
National Guard Officer Tricks Them Into Pen,
Then Closes Prison Gates
Over Three Hundred in March on Mutton Hollow
Mine to Save-the-Union
Especial to The Duily Worker)

ST. CLAIRSVILLE Ohio April 22.-Seventy-fve women,
marching protest against the arrest of the leaders Of the Save
Committee yesterday herded into the suffy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-23

TIE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS,
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
UNORGANIZED
FOR THE 4O-HOUR WEEK
For A LABOR PARTY