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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
Labor Defender Sets
Are Now For ale

Sets of the last three issues of
the Labor Defender, pictorial
monthly of, the International Labor
Defense, containing historical re-
view of the Mooney Billings Frame
Up, visit to both Mooney and Bill
lings at San Quentin and Folsom
prisons by James P. Cannon, pho
tographs of all the figures in the
case, together with a letter from
Tom Mooney to American workers,
are being sold through the Labor
Defender, at 80 East 18th St.. New
York, for Is cents set as material
of general interest for workers and
to serve as data for speakers, work
ers' clubs and libraries.
The unusual photographs in these
issues, now being displayed in
workers halls and the press gener-
ely throughout the country in the
reviving compaign to Gree Mooney
and Billings" include pictures of
Tom Mooney in 1915 and as he looks
today after II years of imprison-
ment, and a remarkable photo from
the files of the San Francisco po-
lice, showing Israel Weinberg being
given the third degree.
These and other photos have at
tracted widespread attention and
have already been syndicated thru
the International News Reel and
other press photo services.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
BY MOIssAYE ]. OLGIN.

The Don trial marks new stage
in the capitalists struggle against
the proletarian dictatorship and
new victory of the Workers Re-
public. The danger for the work
ers may not have been as spectacu-
lar as white regiments attacks or
foreign invasion, yet it was real
enough, and it touched the very vi
tails of the new order. In a sense
it was even greater than the danger
of open challenge. For while the
latter inflames the imagination and
enhances the fighting spirit Of the
workers, the Don conspiracy was
meant to discourage the workers, to
convince them of being inferior to
private business men as organizers
of industrial production, at the same
time to do material damage to one
of the fundamental industries of the
Soviet Union.
Workers Blocked Scheme.
Most of the sabotage was
planned rather than executed" says
the New York Evening Post in its
Saturdays editorial. 1t was not
question of sabotage, but of direct
ly damaging mines and mining the
official designation freely applied
by state, counsel and defendants be-
ing damager, a word hitherto used
only in connection with insects de-
stroying the crops-and if the coal
industry of the Dqn region has sur
vived in spite of all and has even
shown marked progress, it was not
because the "damagers' plans were
not executed" but because the
rank and file workers devoted them
selves to the reconstruction work
with so much enthusiasm and love
that all obstacles were overcome.
Far-Flung Conspiracy.
The plan was cunning indeed. It's
execution was conducted decisively
if subtly. The organization was a
perfect unit. Way up, in Warsaw
London and Paris, groups Of for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09

worthless mines were dug where
two or three large ones could have
yielded much more coal at a con-
siderably lower cost. Machinery
suited for soft coal was used in
hard coal mines, with the result that
they soon wore out and had to be
strapped.
Avowedly worthless machinery
was purchased abroad from German
firms, the delivering Germans be
ing made part of the plot. Mines
flooded during the civil war (1918-
1921 remained flooded for years so
as not to be utilized by the Soviets.
Well working mines were flooded by
the engineers under one pretext or
another. Underground corridors
were dug in places where they were
not needed at all. Ventilation
pumps were ordered stopped and the
mines filled with gas-the damage
resulting in the loss of lives and
suspension of work for a long while
Costly cables imported from abroad
were deliberately broken and bars
of iron found their mysterious way
into the heart of complicated ma.
chinery playing havoc with the
work.
Pretended Accidents"
I 1t would take a volume to an
merate all the varieties of "dam-
aging confessed to in the co4rt
There is the story about the forget
fullness of the German engineer
Wegener. That high technician was
supposed to help in putting into op-
Grafton a newly constructed turbine
He was to arrive from Kharkov
with load of small parts, cables,
screws, etc. The thing was urgen'
because the workers wished to time
the commencement of work with the
tenth anniversary of the November
revolution.
Wegener arrived, but he CONVEX
iently left one box In Kharkov with
the most essential parts. There il
another story about eight wagon
loads Of coal one of the mines dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
LATIN LEADER
! BACKS SANDING
Ugarte Scores Liberals
AS Wall St. Tools

In the name of four European stu
dent organizations Manuel Ugarte
has issued a statement from Nice,
condemning both the Liberal and
Conservative Parties of Nicaragua
as agents Of U. S. imperialism, and
commencing General SANDING for his
heroic struggle.
The student organizations, the
Hispano American University Fede-
ration Of Madrid, the General AS
ISOLATION of Latin American Stu
dents of Paris, The University Stu
dents of Berlin, numbering about
Association of Latin American Stu
dents of Berlin numbering about
10000, are in full agreement with
the statement.
Assigning the crisis in Nicaragua
to the "plutocracy of the United
States, DESTROYS of accentuating it's
imperialistic irradiations," and the
selfish and narrow vision of the Mic
Graguan politicians who are only
concerned with attaining power for
themselves he says, g. we do not
admit any difference between Lib
erals and Conservatives. We form
bloc against the defeatists, against
the presidents creased by the White
House"
"The only one who merits our en-
thusiastic support is General San
dino, because General SANDING repre-
sents, with his heroic followers, the
popular reaction of our America
against faithless oligarchies and the
resistance of our aggregation to An
glo-Saxon Imperialism"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
The Trial of the Donetz Conspirators

mer owners plus remnants of the
old Manufacturers Association of
the South. Back of them the gov
ernments of the former entente
who in providing funds the "disin-
herited" may lack, are interested
not only in sticking a knife into the
Soviet industrial backbone, but also
in obtaining specific information as
to the location of industrial plants
railroads, terminals, ammunition
stores, etc.-information that may
be of value in case of war.
Connections between the "bosses"
abroad and their agents in the
Union Of Socialist Soviet Republics
are maintained by mining engineers
dispatched abroad for business or
education, and by certain dark per.
sonages" visiting the Soviet Union
in the double capacity of political
spies and industrial agents of the
owners. Those Intermediates bring
specific orders from the superiors
and, to substantiate them, large
sums of money. The money goes
to the Moscow center whose mem
bers are known to only few. The
Moscow center communicates with
the Kharkov center-the institution
managing all the mines of the Dor
and belonging to the conspiracy as
a body. From Kharkov money and
orders go out to the individual
mines and groups of mines. The To-
cal "damagers" carry out instruc-
tions. Secrecy is maintained all
along the line.
Method of Sabotage.
"Most of the sabotage was
planned rather than executed"
However, this is what the defend
ants admitted and corroborated at
the trial The richest coal depos-
its were to be reserved for the for
mer operators tof whose return
either as full-fledged owners or at
least as concessionaires the gentle
men were perfectly sure). The
poor deposits were worked at ex-
cessive costs. Dozens of small
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09

their children for other professions
than that of teaching. Rowen is
merely passing the buck" in the
political parlance of this city.
What other professions Rowen
does not say, Very likely he does
not care. Perhaps he does even
not know that all sorts of young
workers in or out of the profess
sion can get nothing to do
The young workers of this city,
of whom the 1000 unemployed
teachers are but a small part, find
themselves in sad predicament.
There are no jobs available, not
even much despised work in the
poorly-paying department stores
and chain stores of the city.
And the teachers who are work
ing find themselves overburdened
with classes numbering as many as
fifty and sixty pupils.
The city of Philadelphia has a
special "school tax" which is high
enough to furnish adequate teach
ing facilities for every child. Class
es could be cut one-half their pres
ent size, furnishing several thou
sand more teachers with work.
But the board of education. is a
part of the stupendous graft ma
chine which governs" the munich
pality of Philadelphia The finan-
cial requirements of Ware and his
henchmen, the band of brothers, as
they are known, come first. The
needs of teachers and pupils are
only incidental.
Enormous commissaries are made
periodically for all kinds of sup
plies and text books. And vast sums
of money are spent to build, repair
and keep up school buildings.
Numerous jobs are at stake all
the way down from janitor to
superintendent of schools These
jobs are a part of the patronage"
that furnish the basis of the Ware
machine, to which Hoover owes his
nomination for president.
And as for Vare's (nearly sena-
tori contractor friends, none of them
have been known to die of MANU-
triton. All of them are known to
live off the fat of the land = and
off the backs of the workers.
c. RABIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
IS WORKERS Get
HEARING TODAY
Frame-Up of Militant
Furrier Looms
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
perialism in Wall st. July 3. The
charges of disorderly conduct
against IA of those arrested are not
sufficient. Nathan Kaplan, young
fur worker, has been selected to
pay a greater penalty. The charge
against him is felonious assault for
biting the finger Of Policeman Kee-
can. The manner of this 'biting' 3
highly irterestino. Policemen Kne-
gan smashed Kaplan in the face.
His fist caught on Kaplan's teeth
and a finger was cut Therefore,
according to capitalist law, Kaplan
'bit' Policeman Keegan and feloni-
ouslv assaulted him.
"Kaplan is now out on 81 500
bail furnished by the International
Labor Defense. The frame-up ma
chinery of the capitalist courts will
be set in motion this morning when
he appears for a hearinp. Every
effort will be made by those who
are paid to persecute the workers
to send him to jail. It will be a
great triumph for them and blow
to the workers. This frame-up must
be smashed We have had enough
of frame-ups. 1t can be smashed
only by the workers rallying to the
defense of their comrade by aiding
the international Labor Defense in
its efforts to free Kaplan from the
clutches of the capitalist inquisi-
tors.
"The case aoairs+ pose plotl-in
must also be smashed. This 13-year-
old militant has been kept prisoner
in the Heckscher Foundation for
participating in the demonstration
and efforts are being made to take
her away from the field where she
can be of most service to the work
ers by sending her back to her
home town in Indiana.
"And the legal hirelings of the
capitalist class must also be COM
PEELED to dismiss the cases against
the IA other workers arrested For
all this defense work immediate
funds are absolutely essential. Not
a single day in jail, not a penny
fine for any of them must be our
slogan. The International Labor
Defense calls upon all class-consci-
Gus workers to send their contribu-
tions at once to its office, 799
Broadway, Room 422, in order that
their comrades may be saved"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
NOT ENOUGH JOBS
in PHILADELpH
Only 300 Out of 1000
Can Get Appointments
(BY a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA (By MaiD.-
William Rowen, president of the
board of education, has seen fit to
issue a prepared statement in re-
CARDS to the large number of school
teachers in this city wl.o are with
out jobs and for whom the great
city of Philadelphia can do nothing
except prepare public warnings.
No Jobs
DR.. Broome, in backing up the
statements of Rowen (Broome, by
the way, is superintendent of
schools) said that Mr.. Rowen should
broadcast the dearth of teaching
positions over the radio in order
that every parent and student be
made fully acquainted with the sit
uation over which these school Off
Gals claim to have no control.
According to Rowens statement,
there are at present 1000 fully
qualified teachers seeking places in
Philadelphia classrooms. Only 300,
however, can be cared for in the
fall by the opening of new schools.
When the class of February, 1929,
graduates from the Philadelphia
Normal School, there will be at
least $50 more teachers looking for
jobs. Mr.. Rowen announced that
there will be no jobs to be had,
however, and no prospect of posi-
tons for teachers so far as the
schools in this city are concerned
for at least three and possibly four
years more.
Rowen further states that the
overflow" teacher problem has be-
come serious matter of such
grave concern to the Quaker City
educational officials that he asks
parents to urge their children to
nrepare for other professions than
that of teaching.
1t is in this part of the statement
that Rowen unintentionally becomes
humorous. He requests teachers to
look for jobs in other parts Of Penn
sylvania, and then admits that the
teacher supply of the state is by
far understanding that of the de-
mand. In fact so much so that
some cities in Pennsylvania have
abolished their normal schools al
together, hoping, thereby, to solve
the problem.
In urging parents to prepare
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
PAYS ITS LAST TRIBUTE TO CANISTER

The same police
department 1Uhich
only tao days be-
fore brutally at
tackled an aNtd-im-
perialist demonstrd-
ton IN Wall st.
joined IN paying
tribute to Frankie
Yale, not Orio Il s
gaNgster murdered
in d gang lO0r. F1pe
hundred police es-
cOrted the pfiHcetU
funeral procession
IN a demonstration
of the solidarity of
Tamnany Hall aoith
the criminals of the
underworld, the al
lance qohich is re-
ceiuimg the backing
of Wall St. Photo
shoaCs a Vie1O of the
funeral procession.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
Foreign Trade Makes
A Large Increase

WASHINGTON, July 8.-Euro-
pean purchases of American gold
in May were S17000,O00 more than
purchases in the same month last
year, according to figures of the
of commerce. Purchases
by the United States of European
goods in May were $5,000,000 more
than in May, 1927
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
N0N-UNI0N COAL
DICGERS STRIKE.
Nj ght Shift Out In
West Va. Town

Continued from Page One)
to build the houses and shafts" the
strike recruits said. "The pay was
supposed to be much higher, too.
Our kids are Just as hungry as
yours, and you've been striking for
months, and we've been working
like dogsw
These strikers will need help al
most Immediately. The coal diggers
of Elm Grove are ready to share
what relief they get with the new
strikers. The National Miners Re-
lief Committee has promised to
strain its resources and send little
more relief in the next shipment, if
enough money is sent by sympa-
thizers to their headquarters at Gil
Penn Ave, Pittsburgh.
ford" policy and has suddenly de-
'ided to enter the situation.
However. while we have no illu-
ions as to this conference, we shall
send our committee so as to guar
antee TO the workers that their true
interests will be adequately pro-
tected.
eve anticipate that perhaps our
committee will not be given official
place at this conference. This will
not worry us. 1t will be only an
other indication that the state board
is not friend of the workers, recog-
nizing not those chosen by the work.
ers themselves, but only those mis-
leaders who are not trusted by the
workers. Such an action by the
state board will only betray still
further the fact that the state board
has the real purpose not of settling
the strike but of breaking it. This
the New Bedford Textile Workers
Union will never permit to happen"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
FAKE MEDIATION
MOVE BY Mill.
BOSSES EXPOSED
Charge State Board Is
Owners Agent

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, July s.
The prediction of the Textile Mills
Committee that the recently held
conference between the Textile
Council officials, the mill owners
and the State Board of Cancellation
was a preliminary scheme of the
bosses to demoralize the morale Of
the strikers when them come on the
picket lines Monday, was borne out
when the conference ended with the
bosses still insisting on the 10 per
cent wage cut.
When the conference was called,
however, the New Bedford Textile
Workers Union of the Textile Mills
Committee demanded participation
in the name of the great majority
of strikers, whose spokesman it is
This demand was made in a public
statement which frankly character
lied the conference as a maneuver
of the mill owners, but nevertheless
demanded representation to safe
guard the workers. interests. Due
to the subsequent refusal to admit
the T. VI. c. delegation, the state
ment of the T. NJ. C. takes an added
significance. It follows:
"The strike committee of the New
Bedford Textile Workers. Union. at
its last meeting, considered the con-
ference called by the State Board of
Arbitration to which were invited
the employers aid the officials of
the A. F. T. 0.
"After a full discussion it was
decided to send committee from
the New bedford Textile Workers
Union to this conference. The New
Bedford Textile Workers Union
feels that it and it alone represents
the interests of the vast majority
of the workers. and this is true in
spite of all efforts, particularly by
the local press, to call the workers
supporting the new union small
group of "reds," radicals" and
such like.
"Sooner or later the employers
must learn that not Batty, Binns
and Rexiere control the strikers
but the New Bedford Textile Work
ers' Union, and no negotiations o.
dealings of whatever kind will br
considered valid by the workers till
their own real union is consulted.
eve have no illusions as to this
conference. The employers are not
sincere. They wish a test of
strength. If the employers really
wished to settle the strike they
could do it in short order. But what
the employers really wish to do
through this conference is to soften
the fighting spirit of the workers.
to give the workers illusions that
the strike will be soon over, ETC.,
while at the same time the employ
ers themselves will be preparing for
q long and hard battle. Besides this
purpose the state board has other
things in mind First of all it wants
to lend the impression that the state
is impartial" and flair" The
state board feels that the actions Of
Mayor Ashley have already COM
promised him too much, so it runs
to the rescue. Second, the state board
wants to bolster up the waning au-
thority of Batty, Binns and Riviere.
This the board does by calling then
alone to the conference, as though
they really controlled the situation.
In the third place, the board is
afraid of the success of the New
Bedford Textile Workers Union
This is the main reason why it has
changed its Glands off New Bed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
FRENCH RIrILn FORTS

\ PARIS. July S.-France and Bel
GUM are flinging across their east
ern borders a wall of Notifications
as nearly imprcgnable as modern
s.~saee will permit, while France is
playing a leading role at Geneva as
one Of the sponsors Of the Locarno
paace agreements and an advocate
cf the Kellogg Anti-war plan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
DESTITUTE, They
URGE RELIEF FOR
THE more NEEDY.
go First To Portage"
is New Slogan
CsneciaI To DAUY WORKFR.

Cspecial To DAILY WORKFR.)
PITTSBURGH, July Striking
miners Of Pennsylvania and Ohio
are proving what the best leaders
Of the working class have always
T'@7ntained, that the bonds Of class
lcvaltv and sacrifice are greater
than any other impulse; that this
loyalty and sacrifice remains firm
IN the face of suffering, need, even
starvation. Such confirmation is to
be found in reports sent out by the
National Miners Relief Committee
According To Need.
Go First To Portage" is the re-
quest Of Cresson, Pa. miners to re-
lief workers of this committee
There nearly 5000 miners, an entire
community, has been living for over
a year on SO cents a family a week
Cresson miners, themselves desti-
tute and starving, nevertheless, feel
that the conditions in Portage are
even worse. eyes, we are in bad
way here" they say, but our broth
ers up the line aren't even able to
go to the relief stations, they are so
weak"
Local stores are failing. Com
pany stores, which never extended
cent of credit to strikers, are clos
ing now Miners debts pile up
from $40 to $500 or more being
owed by individual families to
friendly storekeepers and local
TT. iesmen for rent and groceries
Private p 'erty is all heavily mort !
gagged
Relief Campaign.
What is to become the greatest
single effort for organized strike re
-.ef is now being planned b., the Ma
tioral Miners Relief Committee in
conjunction with the International
Labor Defense for the week of July
% %.
A caravan to the st~ike fields of
Western Pennsylvania by automo-
biles from all cities east of Chicago
viii be one of the principal pre-
Urinary features of the drive. Re-
lief workers and sympathizers will
be able to see the flimsy barracks
ana actual living conditions of the
miners. and learn about their strug-
gle directly. All expenses will be
borne by those participating. The
caravan viii reach Pittsburgh Sat
urdav, July IA, and a Relief-De
Conference will be held the follow
mo day
VIII Mobilize Masses.
irst joint mobilization confer
ence viii be held in every KEY city
on Sunday, July g. when plans for
the carayan will be perfected. In
terTati0nal Labor Defense branches
end local relief committees as well
as organizations represented in
thase two bodies, will be represent
ed. During the week of July ISL
following the return of the caravan
to their home cities, and preceding
the drive. thorough mobilization
of all forces for the series of mass
meetings, tag days and house to
house collections will be effected.
Relief and defense collections will
be held in factories and at local
Union meetings. Open air meetings
will take place in all parts of large
cities. A special Relief Defense
bulletin win be printed and widely
distributed. These are the prelin-
mary plans arrived at today in
joint conference held by Alfred |!
Wagenknecht, relief director of the !
National Miners Relief Committee
whose headquarters are at Gil Penn
Avenue, Pittsburgh, and Martin |
Abern, representative from the Ma
tional office of the International La
Dor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
Workers Party Picnic
in Cleveland July Is

The workers of Cleveland are to
have a picnic on July Is under the
auspices of the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party at which there will be
prominent speakers. Besides the
speakers very interesting pro-
gram of entertainment and prole-
tartan sports is being arranged.
Further details can be obtained
at the Party office in Cleveland.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-05-25
INVESTIGATING GULF
 HALLS OF CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, May 25. (P)-Hav- ing debated practically everything else the Senate staged heated argu- ment on the relative quis of golf.
 Senator Morris placed the ancient sport under attack, declaring it was an old mans game and a silly game of the idle rich and stated that thous- ands just played it in order to give others the impression that they were very we'll off.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-05-25
PACIFIC FLIGHT E PLANNED LONG BEACH
 BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA

LONG BEACH, May 25. (P)-capt Kingsford Smith, pilot; Charles T. P. Ulm, co-pilot; Capt. Harry Lyon, nav iigator; and James Warner, radio operator, announce they will hop for Australia in the Southern Cross on May 31. The first leg of their pro- iected flight will be Hawaii, next Fiji Island and next Brisbane, Australia.