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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
YOUTH PLEDGES
AID TO MINERS

The Youth Conference for Miners
Relief met yesterday afternoon at
Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 18th
St., with 100 delegates of 40 organ
izations of young workers represent
ing 10000, in attendance.
The conference was presided over
by Max Helfand, president of Amer
lean Association of Plumbers Help
ers. 1t voted to arrange tag days in
colleges, also hikes, affairs and mass
meetings to raise funds for the re-
lief of the striking coal miners.
Joe Vranesevich, striking miner
from Kinlock, Pennsylvania, ad
dressed the delegates. He pointed out
that the strike is now in its 14th
month and is becoming more bitter.
The speaker told how the strikers,
% per cent of whom are young work.
ers, have been conducting militant
struggle against the combined forces
of the coal companies and the John
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
THOUSANDS AT MAY ONSTRATION TOMORROW
To surrender
Kun for Loan
from England

PRAGUE, Czecho-S -Slovalzia, April
29.-Bela Kun is still in Jail today
and scores of workers thruout Vienna
and the provincial cities are being
rounded up in a series of raids such
as. have been hitherto unknown even
to Austrian police terrorism.
With brutal and cynical frankness
it is being intimated by the Austrian
officials that Kun is being held as a
kidnapping victim in an official
thieves ring and that his ransom, in
the form of loans from Great Britain
or the United States, will be the price
of turning him over to the Horthy
terrorists in Hungary.
Even should this ransom not be
Forthcoming it is believed that the
Austrian authorities will attempt to
release Kun into the hands of the
Budapest government.
In spite of the wave of anger which
the news of Kun's arrest in Vienna
caused to sweep over the Austrian
working class, it is understood that
the Austrian government is awaiting
instructions from Great Britain and
Italy before taking open action.
Hungary, thru it's minister in Wen
ma, has already put in a plea for the
immediate extradition of Kun, not as
the leader of the revolutionary Hun
garian workers, but as murderer.
1t is believed that the extradition
plea may be successful.
U. S. Protest Meetings.
Mass meetings of protest against
the arrest of Bella Kun have already
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PROPOSED CUT IN
WAGES IS FOUGHT

WARREN, r. l., April 29.-The
local leaders of the United Textile
Workers of America, who have been
conducting strike against the
Parker Mills here for many weeks,
issued reply to the treasurer of the
company who sent out a statement
two weeks ago offering to take lack
the workers if they agreed to accept
the wage cut. The primary issue Of
the fight, however, has been against
the bosses declarations that no union
had the right to tell them when and
where not to "curtail their expenses"
even if the 'curtailment" took the
form of wage cut.
In the letter issued by the union
officials, they declare that the de-
mand in the treasurer's statement
that "the management would brook
no interference from an outside or
ganization in the conduct of it's busi-
ness" is acceptable to the union. The
bureaucrats' letter then praises the
boss for not insisting on an increase
in hours above the 4S previously
worked.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
BECKERM MAN IN
PIECE-WORK DRIVE
Patches Rift With One
Time Foes

The Hillman administration in the
Amalgan1ated Clothing Workers
Union having rid itself of the proo-
lem of obtaining the 40-hour week
from the mems clothing bosses in
Chicago and Rochester by agreeing
to lot the 44-houY week stand, the
right wing Beckerman CLIQUE in con
troll of the New York Joint Board
have now become increasingly active
in pushing their plans to force the
piece-work system on the New York
workers.
At a meeting Of the executive
board of the Vestmakers Local held
recently, Beckerman openly declared
that only piece-work and the better
organization of the bosses into the
bosses association will benefit the
industry" The 44-hour week, plus
speed-up, indiscriminate discharge Of
workers, and continually rising stand
ards of production, are not enough
to Stabilize" the industry, said
Beckerman. Piece-work is needed
also, ne declared.
The meeting was arranged by the
right wing in control of the Vest
makers Union in order to patch up
the differences between them and the
Beckerman machine.
At this meeting Peter None, leader
of the gang holding power in the
Vestmakers' Local made a speech in
which he pledged of his followers
to Cooperate with Beckerman for
the good Of the industry" Becker
man, however, announced in reply
that he needs no cooperation. What
he needs are individuals to carry out
his orders. Workers charge Becker
man is acquainted with the fact that
Pollack and Weiner, hitherto posing
as "progressives" in Local 5, have
openly betrayed the workers. This,
it is believed, is responsible for his
present mood, after a period of alb
solute silence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
Propose Re-Forestation
Plan in Congress

WASHINGTON, Apr. 29.-Creation
of national forest reserve in each
state, together with adoption of a
permanent policy of reforestation, is
the purpose of bill offered in the
House. The bill also provides for a
migratory bird refuge in each state
where suitable loca ions exist.
The Mississippi flood would have
been far less serious had the 100000
acres of actual or potential forest
land draining into the Mississippi
been wholly planted in trees. Because
of the cutting off of the woodland in
that region 100000 acres of agri-
cultural soil are carried away each
year. OF the 100000 of forested
land originally contained in the con-
tinental United States, only 138,0O,-
900 acres of virgin forests remain.
Saw timber,is disappearing eight and
one-half times as fast as new growth
is replacing it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
JAIL RUMANIAN
LABOR LEADERS

BUCHAREST (By maiD - Two
hundred trade union leaders connected
with the Central Council of the Uni-
tary Trade Unions have been placed
under arrest. Further arrests are
threatened in an editorial in the Off
cial government organ, "Vitorul."
At Oradia in Siebenbergen a work
ers' home was rsided by the police
and about 100 .orkers placed under
arrest. The VT kers We're subjected
to torture by the police in order to
extract confessions of membership in
revolutionary organizations.
Among those arrested was a little
girl of twelve who was savagely
whipped by the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
PAUL CROUCH TO
SPEAK FRIDAY
Anti -Imperialist Affair
May 4

Paul Crouch, former corporal who
served 2 years in the military prison
at Alcatraz, California, for Com
muSist activities while in the U. S.
Army in Hawaii, and who has just
returned from the Soviet Union, will
be a guest of honor at dinner to
be given by The New York branch of
the All America Anti-Imperialist
League, in conjunction with many
Latin American, Chinese and Philip
pine labor organizations, next. Fri
day, May 4, at the Oriental
416 Pell st.
Bertram d. Wolfe, director of the
Workers School, who spent several
years il Mexico. will speak on the
American occupation of Nicaragua.
Tickets for the dinner are on sale
at the office of the anti-Imperialist
League, 80 Union Square
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
WOMEN, CHILDREN
MARCH IN PICKET
Line AT PORTAGE
Mine Terror Rouses
District
By AMY sCHECHTER.

Especial To The DAILY WORKER.)
PITTSBURGH, April 29.-Defying
the state troopers who rode through
Portage Thursday afternoon hurting
tear bombs, tranapling strikers chill
dren and picking out Save-the- Union
leaders to place under arrest, six hun
dred men and women marched four
miles over the hills from Jamestown
and Portage to close down Cassandra
No. 2 mine.
Led by John Watt, vice chairman of
the Save the Union Committee, and
foremost militant in the Illinois dis
trict, the pickets arose before dawn
and marched on the mine, one of the
five at Cassandra and Lilly, in Cen
tral Pennsylvania District 2 which
was recently signed UP under sepa-
rate agreement by Lewis.
Sixty men came out at once and
the larger part of the remainder said
they would fetch out their tools and
quit the following day.
"Union men, strike and don't help
i. to lick us!" Strike and help our long
fight for victory" read the roughly
lettered signs the strikers carried
Both state troopers and Lewis ma
chine "pussyfoots" have been on the
alert since last Tuesdays Save the
Union protest meeting against the
District 2 separate agreement betraX-
al, at which John Watt nayed the
union-wrecking tactics Lewis is seek-
ing to extend from Illinois to Cent
tral Pennsylvania. Watt urged the
strikers and their women to march on
the scab union mines.
On, Thursday afternoon number
of troopers, and police under CORPORAL
Charles H. Rodgers, mounted ana ins
cars, came through Portage, looking
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
FIVE WOMEN RADIJM
WORKERS ARE DYING

NEWARK, N. j., April 20 (FP).-
as radium eats it's way remorselessly
United States Radium Co., painting
structed to point their brushes with
their lips. AS a result radium pene-
trated their lips and is inevitably
bringing painful death through rot
ting tissues.
Each young woman worker values
her life at $250,000 and is contesting
the technical defense erected by their
former employer that the statute of
limitations bars their suits. The
workers are pleading before the court
that they did not know the deadly ra-
dunn was eating through their lips
and jaws and piercing through to
their brains, until two years after
they quit their jobs.
After several workers had died of
the radium poisoning, the plant was
closed in 1925 by the state health
board.
Medicine at present holds no hope
for the radium workers. Although
scientists are working on the problem
Of arresting radioactiyity in the body,
no cure has yet been discovered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
FOR
MAY DAY ISSUED
Weinstone Urges Great
Activity For Meeting

To all units and all members of the
Workers (COmmunist) Party, Dis
trict 2:
l. In order to make the May Day
meeting successful, it is not only nee
essary to have a huge mass of peo-
pie, but particularly to draw the
workers from the big shops and from
the trade union movement of the city.
Every member is therefore directed to
concentrate upon the distribution of
the leaflets among the big shops in
their sections.
2. All Party members to make .
final effort to get. their trade union
locals to come to the meeting en-
masse, and to make it their official
May Day meeting.
3. All members in their fraternai
and workers clubs are to do likewise
and to get their organization on rec
ord for this May Day meeting, and
to urge their members TO attend this
meeting.
a. If your shop does not quit for
the entire day, make every effort to
get the workers to take off after
lunch hour and attend the meeting.
5. The program will continue from
8 to z.
District Executive Committee
William w. Weinstone,
Dist. Organizer.
All comrades are expected to report
not later than 1890 at Madison
Square Garden, Tuesday, May 1, to be
assigned to duty at the demonstra-
ton.
Bert Miller, Organizationai
Secretary. Dist z
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
MANY CASUALTIES INBLAST AND STORM
Three Down; Two Die IN Explosion Many Laues Jeoba,dzed

ATLANTIC CITY, April 29.-Three
- members Of the crew of a steamer
were drowned off Atlantic City as a
result of storm which has lashed
the New Jersey coast since last Fri
day.
Many small fishing craft along the
coast were driven from their moor
irgs in the blasts Of the gale. The
windows of many homes were smash
ed by the gale and heavy rain. Three
persons were hurt near Freehold, N,
j., when two automobiles in which
they were riding crashed into trees
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
HUNGER STRIKE
FORCES ACTION

PRAGUE, Czecho- Slovakia, April
ga forty-eight hour hunger strike
of the political prisoners in the Pan
kratz prison, cooperating with the
Red Aid in the city, has forced the
prison authorities to ameliorate the
wretched conditions of the political
prisoners in the Jail.
The prisoners are now permitted to
read, to study, to write letters, receive
occasional visits and wear their own
clothes.
The Czech workers have been
greatly encouraged by the success of
the Red Aid which forced the Czecho-
Slovak deputies to take notice of this
activity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
DISAPPEARANCE
means MURDER

SALONIKI, Greece, April 29.-
Michail Genowski, general secretary
Of the Bulgarian Peasants League
and secretary of the Amnesty Com
mittee in Sofia, Bulgaria, was ar
rested following an election meeting
in the Tirno district and has since
then vanished without trace"
N. Donchev, prominent in an an
archist group in the capital, has also
disappeared without leaving a
trace" since the discovery of the
group by the police.
The vanished without trace"
which the police are employing to
describe the whereabouts of political
prisoners, is interpreted to mean
murdered"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
MAY DAY Meeting
TO Greet Center
Celebration by 10000
Workers Expected

The May Day demonstration at
Madison Square Garden tomorrow,
which has been arranged by the
Workers (Communist) Party with
the cooperation of many progressive
trade unions and other labor organ
izations, will celebrate not merely
the holiday of the international
workingclass, but will also be the
mass celebration of the New York
workers of the establishment os the
Workers Center at 26-28 Union So.
Twenty thousand workers are ex-
pected to welcome the new home of
the revolutionary movement at Mad
ison Square Garden tomorrow, thus
inaugurating the second half of the
campaign to raise $4,000 TO pur-
chase and finance the Workers Cen
ter.
The banquet Friday night at the
Workers Center afforded ample
proof of the significance Of the Work
ers' Center to the thousands of mil
itant workers of New York City and
vicinity.
The enthusiasm that prevailed and
the response to the appeal for funds
by Robert Minor, editor of The
DAILY WORKER, showed that the
establishment of the Workers Center
was meeting long-felt need. About
$4,000 was contributed during the
course of the evening, many of the
contributions coming from sym
L. y
It was, however, pointed out dur
ing the evening that the Workers
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Fight Freight Rates

BUENCS AYRES, April 29.--
Statements by the national railroad
board in the Argentine that an at
tempt will be made to reduce freight
rates to the 1922 level thruoat the
country, has brought an attack from
the British railroad interests on the
governments position.
James Goudge, the manager Of the
British owned Buenos Ayres-Pacific
Railroad has arrived in the Argen-
tine to carry on the struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
WORKERS TO DOWfIs,;.
TOOLS FOR GREAT
GARDEN Meeting
Miners Tableau Among
Many Features

Thousands of workers throughout
New York will drop their tools to-
morrow and join with their comrades
in other cities throughout the world
in celebrating May Day, the holiday
of the international working class.
In this city the May Day ceIebra-
ton will start with demonstration
of unemployed workers in Union
Square at o'clock. The meeting
will be addressed by John Di Santo,
secretary of the New York Council
of the Unemployed, Louis A. Baum,
Pascal Cosgrove, George Powers,
Harry Blake, John Sherman, Morris
Taft and others.
Parade To Garden
From Union Square the unem-
ployed workers will march to Madi-
son Square Garden, carrying signs
with slogans such as "Work or Main
tenance," "Food and Shelter" "Un-
employment Insurance" At Madison
Square Garden they will join in the
general mass demonstration of the
militant workers of New York, which
will start at 8 o'clock and end "a
Z.
Cops VIII Do Their Stuff
The police department is also pre-
pairing to celebrate May Day in its
usual fashion. Extra squads are be-
ing detailed to preserve order"
The Bomb Squad, the Industrial
Squad and other breaking
agencies will be on hand, ostensibly
to guard public buildings, churches
and sacred personages such az
Cardinal Hayes, but actually to in
'timidate workers and act as provo
cateurs.
The Associated Shoe and Slipper
Workers of Greater New York have
joined the other militant organize
tions in endorsing the Madison Square
Garden meeting, and have issued q
call to all shoe workers to lay down
their tools and take part in the
demonstration.
The appeal, signed by Louis Rudo-
min, president, reads:
"The Associated Shoe and Slipper
Workers Of Greater New York calls
upon all shoe workers to drop their
tools on the First of May and cele-
brate the only labor holiday together
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which had fallen across the roads.
The steamship company did not
give out the names of two of the
drowned seamen. They reported only
the name of the captain, Noah II.
Moore.
GAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 29.--
= Two workers were killed and six
injured when the Richfield Oil Com
pany tanker Richfield exploded yes
terday on the waterfront at the Union
Iron Works.
Work of draining the oil from the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
Gas Attacks Rehearsed

CHICAGO.-As part Of the pre-
paration for the next imperialist war
when chemical gases will be used to
wipe out whole armies at a time, a
class in chemical warfare has been
opened at the 131st regiment armory
10th and Michigan Ave. The class
is being attended by about 60 off.
GERS and non-commissioned officers cf
the sixth corps area.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
Officials to "Arbitrate.' .

PAWTUCKET, r. l., April 29.-
The officials of the United Textile
Workers of America agreed to ear
bitrate7 the demands of the owners
of the Darlington Textile Company
and this offer was accepted yesterday
by the mill bosses. The workers in
this mill have been striking several
weeks against an attempt of the en-
ployers to slash wages and increase
the number of looms attended by each
operative.
1t is almost certain that the en-
ployers will gain every one of their
demands. The company demands in
addition to the wage cut and speed
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
OFFICIALS
Silent AS new
ATTACK LOOMS
Mill Committees Rally
Strikers for Struggle

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, April 20.
Despite the opposition of the Off
cialdom Of the American Federation
of Textile Operatives, the Textile
Mill Committees have issued call
to the 10000 organized and unorgan-
lied textile workers on strike here TO
appear for picket demonstrations
this morning. This is an answer to
the report that most of the mill own
ers will open the factory gates in an
effort to resume operations.
While the solid front presented by
the strikers since the beginning Of
the struggle Just two weeks ago
gives no cause for belief that sin
gle worker will return to the mills.
Nevertheless the strikers plan to
meet the threat of reopening the
mills with mass picketing, the mill
committee leaders declare. In their
call they especially appeal to mem
bers of the union, saying that their
officials action in refusing to per-
nit mass demonstrations of strength
were direct steps to break the solidar-
ity of the strikers ranks.
Raise Prices.
Retail stores selling necessities cf
life have already increased prices. in
addition to posting. notices that bust
ness v:ll be done on strictly cash
basis. This, it was learned from
some store owners whose friends and
relatives are strikers, was done after
express instructions to this effect
had been handed out by representa-
tives Of the mill owners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
DON COAL OUTPUT GROWS

MOSCOW fBy maiD The out
put Of coal in the Don Basin has
increased 20 per cent in the last
half year as compared with the out
put. for the first half of the year.
Machinery is rapidly being intro
duced in the Don Basin.
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tanker had just begun when the ex-
plosion occurred.
Fire Endangers %.
TWENTY-FIVE men were endan-
gered when fire broke out in the
boiler room of the Grace Line Caraca,
at Pier 33, foot of Hamilton Ave.
Brooklyn. The fire was caused by
leaking oil supply line.
The men, who were in the boiler
room managed to fight their way out
of the flames.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
Boss es Break Wage
Laws

VANCOUVER, B. c., April 29.-
Manufacturers of Vancouver are at
tempting to evade the minimum wage
laws by dismissing men and employ
ing in their places women, whose
minimum wage is set by law at a
lower sum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30

HOUSTON, Tex, April 20. - The
injunction restraining Of
ficers of the Southern Pacific lines in
Texas and Louisiana from interfering
with the Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks has been made permanent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30
MANY FEATURES
IN LABOR UNITY"
May Issue Co ntain S
Vital Articles

The struggle in the coal fields, the
April 1 National Save-the- Miners
Union Conference" at Pittsburgh, the
great strike in the New England
textile factories, the whole building
trades situation, and the prospects of
building trades workers in view OF
the revolutionary changes recently
made in technique, are the high lights
in the May issue Of Labor Unity"
organ of the Trade Union Educational
League, 2 West IS Street, New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-30

NEWARK n J. April 20 (FP)Fe workers slowly dying
ram its remorsey their bodies of the
United States Radum Co. painting luminous watch dia they
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AIechanization.

All of these articles are profusely
illustrated. The study of the building
industry, wr4ttgr by Jack Jolnlstene
of the painters union and National
Organizer of the T. U. E. L. has with
it pictures showing how even such
simple handicraft activities as saving
boards and planning floors are now
done on the job with electric hand
saws and floor-sanding machinery.
In this issue of Labor Unity the
publication is begun of the thesis
adopted by the Fourth World Con-
gress of the Red International of La
Dor Unions, which is plan for ae-
tivity in every country of the world.
The World of Labor.
Pictures Of the slaughter of work
ers in China by the reactionary Kuo-
mintang, of labor conditions in China,
and of strikers and Red Guards strug-
Cling against the reaction there, are
placed with an article on the next
steps for the Chinese Labor move
ment. Views on the life of women in
modern industry, Vogel's story of his
work on mule ship, and other phases
of modern workers life are printed
in this issue. There is a two color
cover by Fred Ellis.