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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
SHOW AT CENTER
OPENS TOMORROW
Members of S. P. Aids
Workers Building
continued from Pcae Onel

(Continued from PCqe Opel
ity. The drive for 100000, which !
entering its final week, is enlisting
greater and greater masses of work
ers, though some Workers Party units
are tagging behind.
"Many units of the Workers Party
have not been keeping the pace they
set earlier in the campaign" declared
William w. Weinstone yesterday. "A
careful check-up is being kept Of all
those that are dropping behind. They
must get on the job at once. Only q
week remains until May Is, the con-
clusion of the drive, and the 100000
must be raised by that time. Every
worker will benefit from the estab
Iishment of this home of the revolu
tionary movement, and every worker
should contribute his share towards
its establishment. We must show
ourselves true and self-sacrificing
revolutionists in every phase of our
activity"
Modjacot Show Starts Tomorrow.
Tomorrow evening at o'clock the
first performance Of the Modjacot
Marionettes will be given at the
Workers. Center. Performances viii
also be given Thursday, Saturday and
Sunday evenings, new program be-
ing put on each evening. A concert
will also be given at the Sunday eve
ming performance by the Musicians
fraction of the Workers Party. a
large number of workers are preparing
to see this unique entertainment,
Tickets are on sale at 1928 Union
So at 80 cents each for adults and
25 cents for children. Ali the pro
ceeds will go to the Workers Center
The drive during the last week will,
to a large extent, be devoted to the
sale of Workers Center "bricks"
Lists for the sale of these "bricks" al
25 cents, 90 cents and 81 can be Sc
cured at 1928 Union So. They should
be circulated in shops, trade unions
progressive workers organization
and among friends and synpathizers
in order to successfully wind up the
campaign to establish the Workers
Center. In addition, all Workers
Party units are urged to speed the
work of raising their quotas and make
the next few days the most productive
of all in the collection funds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
WOMEN TO MEET
TO AID MINERS
Bronx Rally Will Be
Held Tomorrow

The Bronx section of the Women's
Committee for Miners Relief has ar
ranged mass meeting and concert
for tomorrow night at 1472 Boston
Road.
At this meeting several miners di-
rect from the coalfields will tell the
story of the striking miners and theil
wives and children.
Among the speakers will be Juliet
Stuart Poyntz and Ray Ragozin. In
addition to the speakers there will be
concert, consisting of a singer, plan
list and dancer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
COMMUNISTS TO
BREAK into EVERY
STATE IN COUNTRY
$50 Delegates Expected
at National Meeting
(Contin'ted from Page One)
York will be the chief speakers.
To Break Into South.


For the first time in the history of
the workingclass movement a deter
mined attempt will be made to break
into every state in the country. Such
states as Alabama, Arizona, New
Mexico, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Mississippi ETC. will be represented
by delegations of workers, who can
be expected to return to their states
enthused by the prospect that at last
a real attempt is to be made to rouse
the workers of the south and instil
J them with the spirit to carry out the
tasks of the Party, preparatory to the
coming of its campaign speakers and
organizers.
To Cover South.
Already, the preparations being
made to "Put the Party on the Bal
lot" in these states is attracting con-
siderable attention.
Reactionaries Fight Communists.
Numerous leading officials of some
Of these states including some gov
ernors, secretaries of state, and at
torney generals have refused to reply
TO communications of the Party re-
questing information as to the pro-
cedure for getting on the ballot In
stead they are making preparations
to fight the Party by spreading
rumors thru the press of the south
in which they make all sorts of
ridiculous charges. In one instance
certain, newspapers let the cat out
Of the bag by explaining how letter
addressed by the Workers Party to
the secretary of state of a certain
state found itself in their possession.
The secretary of state had passed it
on to the governor who passed it on
to the democratic state boss who ap-
parently is the owner of a chain Of
newspapers and thought it would
make fine news story.
To Build Party.
The National Nominating Conven-
ton will do much to bring the oppor-
tunity facing the party in the south
to the attention of the whole move
ment. The large delegations coming
from the highly industrialized states
Of the North win help to arouse the
membership to the necessity of sup
porting the efforts to Build the Party
in the South when they return to
the home states.
This, and many other facts will
combine to make this the outstanding
political convention CT the decade and
full of significance to the working
class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
Carpenters Strike
Defeats Wage-Cut

READING, Pa, May 7.-As re-
suit of strike which lasted five
days, the carpenters employed by the
Gilpatrick-Dawson Contracting Com
pany, of Pittsburgh, engaged in the
construction of the Tyson-Schoener
grade school, regained their regular
rate of 81 per hour. The company
attempted to cut the carpenters pay
to 80 cents an hour. The carpenters
walked off the job.
A clause in the contract between
the city and the company penalties
the company for any delay at the
rate of 500 day. The strike and
resulting delay forced the contractors
to cancel the wage cut. The school
board had no authority to intervene.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
PROFESSOR SLUCS
PIONEER At CCNY
Confiscates Leaflets on
Ceremony

A white-haired professor of City
College forgot his PROFESSIONAL dig
nifty long enough to chase for several
blocks a member of the Young Pho
neers of America, who was distribut-
ing leaflets issued by the members o.
the Young Workers Communist
League at City College, after having
punched the youngster in the jaw and
confiscated his leaflets. The profess
sor then deposited several of the leaf
let's in a little black bag, in which
were his cap and gown, for future
reference.
The leaflet called upon the students
of the college to boycott the ceremo-
MES held yesterday commemorative
the day on which the college received
it's charter. These ceremonies were
followed by the inauguration of Fred
erick B. Robinson, president Of the in
stitution.
''This Charter Day military spec
tacle, says the leaflet, with its in
auguration of president who has fol-
lowed consistent policy of suspen-
sion and intimidation of all oppo-
nents Of military drill, takes on a
great Importance, coming as it does
in a period preceding an imperialist
war.
"It is the symbol of the increasing
authorization of the American youth
in preparation for the new war which
the bankers are planning It is a
form of preparation for similar ven
lures like the present bloody Wall
Street war in Nicaragua.
at should be made the occasion
for sterner resolution on the part of
the student body to force the hand of
the Tamman5 controlled faculty on
military training. Military training
must go!
"The Young Workers Communist
League, which raises the slogan of
determined struggle against imperial
ism and imperialist militarism, takes
this occasion to invite all hones1
working class students into its ranks
for the struggle all along the line
for better conditions for the working
youth, for organization of the unor-
ganized youth, against military train
ing in the schools and colleges.
against capitalistic teaching in the
schools, for the right to vote at the
age of IS and so on
Boycott the ceremoniesi Join the
Young Workers Communist League!'
Attached to the leaflet is an apple
cation blank for membership in the
Young Workers League. Over $500
of these leaflets were distributed to
the students and many OF them boy
cotted the ceremonies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
STARVING MINERS
JOINING STRIKE
Non-Union Men Leave
Scab Pits

Especial to The DAILY WOR,.ER)
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May Tin.
creastngly unbearable conditions ir
the mines of the unorganized counties
Of Pennsylvania are forcing more
miners to join the ranks of the strik.
ing coal diggcrs. Police brutality, anc
a highly organized spy system withir
the mines which makes it difficult tt
carry on any organization work are
having little effect on the miners who
are finding steadily, thinner pay en-
velopes and larger cars in which tt
load their coal. These facts are driv.
ing the miners in the unorganizeC
fields to desperation, which is ex
pressing itself into a slow spreading
Of the strike in the rest of western
Starvation Pay.
At the Vesta No. s mine of the
Jones and Laughlin Company, ir
Greene county near Bobtown, Pa.
leaders are receiving S1.45 per car
The cars have an average capacity Of
five tons. Their dimensions are ter
feet in length and six feet in width
with three-foot depth. Some mer
working at an almost inhuman speed
in the effort to earn a living wage
load as many as nine cars daily. Day
men receive six dollars day. Sever
hundred are employed at Vesta No. 8
At the Notwithstanding mine al
Point Marion, 70 cents is the pay fol-
leading a. two and half ton car with
unscreened coal. Day men receive
only four dollars and helpers are paic
three dollars and sixty cents.
SOC for 3 Tons!
At the Maple Sterling mine of the
Dunkird Coal Company, fifty cents il
paid for three tons. In the Brown Hi
mine of the Brown Hill Coal Company
day men are paid only three dollars
and sixty cents per day. The coal i.
mined under such difficult condition.
that in order to earn more than thu
price of their blasting powder the min
ers are forced to work twelve hours {
day. Fifty-four cents is the price paic
for two tons of coal which must BIZ
dug with pick where it cannot be
cut at the Brown Hill Mine-Greer
county.
And a Cut.
A cut at the Fancy Hill mine two
weeks ago, reduced the wages of day
men from five dollars to four and a
half dollars. Twenty-four dollars q
week is the average pay received by
non-union miners in the Point Marion
district in Greene county. Following
the wage cut at the Fancy Hill mine
deputy sheriffs were placed on duty
in anticipation of possible dissatisfac.
ton on the part of the men. Deputy
sheriffs have been threatening sum
mary arrest of any person whom they
suspect of organization activity among
the non-union miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08

Labor and Fraternal News

Labor Defense will meet tomorrow at
$50 p. m, at 143 z. 103rd st. a new
executive committee will be elected.
To Aid Miners.
The United Council of Workingclass
Women of the United Workers Co
operative viii hold a midnight show,
June 2, at 11.30 p. m, at Burke
Theatre, White Plains Ave. and Burke
Ave, the Bronx. The Proceeds will
go tor miners relief
HOHng Workers Club.
The Young Workers Social Culture
Club will meet at its new headquart-
ers, 11S Bristol St, Brooklyn Thurs
day at $50 p. m. The executive COM
mittee will render its report.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
To All Organizations,

We wish to call to your attention
the new calendar which has been es-
tablished by the district office in order
to avoid conflicts between various
sympathetic organizations in the ar
rangement of affairs and meetings.
Please note the following points.
l. All requests for dates and affairs
will have to be registered on this ca
lendar in the district office, giving
all the information requested.
2. No affair or meeting is author
lied by the district unless a written
authorization is received in the form
of a duplicate blank of the calendar
bearing the signature of the district
organizer.
8. Merely putting the date in the
calendar does not mean that you re-
ceive the right to hold an affair on
such a date.
A. The district takes this measure
of authorizing the date as well as the
character of the affair in order to
reduce duplication and to systematic
and improve the quality of our activ-
tiles.
William weinStone, Dist. Org.
Nightwsrkers Meet.
A special educational meeting of the
Nightworkers' International Branch,
Section l, will be held today at 2.So
p. m. at so st. Marks Place.
lac 3F.
An educational meeting of LAC ST
will be held tonight at $40 sharp
at 60 St. Marks Place.
2B If.
Subsection 2B, Unit IF. will hold an
educational meet tomorrow at 6 p.
M at 1o1 w. 27th st. The subject dis
cussed will be The Latest Develop
ments in the Socialist Party o-.-.
Spanish Fraction Meeting.
A special meeting of the Spanish
Fraction will be held tomorrow at
$50 p. mr.. at 143 E. 1o3rd St No
member of the Fraction should be
absent as a very important report win
be given at this meeting.
Branch 5, Section Is.
special meeting of Branch 5, Sec
ton 5, will be held at 2075 Clinton Ave.
at $50 sharp, today.
BE FD3 Meet.
Unit FD3, section BE. will meet to-
today at els p. m. at 1O1 w. 9th st.
Subsection sc Wednesday.
"A meeting of the enlarged executive
of subsection sc will be held tomor-
row at $50 p. m. at 101 w 9th st.
All unit organizers and executive
present.
FD3, De
Unit FD3, of Subsection 2E, will meet
today at p. m. at 1875 e. 10th Street,
to take up important business and dis
cussion.
BE, If
BE IF will meet today at 101 w
9th ST., at 6.15 p. m.
BE 3F
BE SF will meet today at els D. M,
at 101 W. 9th st.
Unit 5D1-2C.
A. Green will lecture on the 7-Cent
Fare Steal tomorrow at $50 p. M a,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
NEGROES PROTEST
VETERAN ACTION

James Weldon johnson, secretary
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peoples has
found reason to send sharp note to
the medical director in Washington of
the U. S. Veterans Bureau protest
ing against race discrimination.
"Unless this policy is discontinued
we shall place facts in the hands of
such members of congress as may be
interested in the situation, as well as
in the possession of newspaper edi-
tors throughout the country"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
Workers Party Activities

meeting of Unit 5D1-2C, formerly
2F, at 126 E. 18th St
1B If Meets.
A meeting of Unit 1B If will be
held tomorrow evening at $50 at so
St. Marks PL
Branch 6. Section 5.
The nominating convention and the
coming election campaign viii be the
subjects of discussion at the meeting
of Branch 6, Section 5, tomorrow in
the Auditorium, 2700 Bronx Park East.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
Sailor Won't Pay Fare;
Twelve Hurt in Clash

BALBOA, Panama, Canal Zone,
May Twelve persons were injured
here last night in riot which re-
suited when an American sailor re-
fused to pay an automobile fare. Six
sailors were among those injured
The American naval authorities
promise an investigation of the riot
ing"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
Suppress Communists

BOGOTA, Colombia, May IA
law that would be used to suppress
the Communist Party has been intro
duced in the senate. 1t has been the
cause of sharp debate on the senate
floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
BERT WILLIAMS ESTATE

Bert Williams, Negro comedian, who
died March a, 1922, at Detroit, left an
estate amounting to $34,521 gross and
$1S,390 net, according to the ap-
praisal made recently for tax transfer
purposes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
Iron Workers Union.

Iron workers Union.
A meeting of the Iron and Bronze
Workers Union Will be held tonight
at e. 18th St. Various reports will
be given. Plans for further activities
OF the union as to charging the or
ganization work among the non
union shops and as to a stronger con-
troll of the union shops will be taken
up.
YOrlsviIIe i. l.. ID.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Yorkville English branch of the Inter
national Labor Defense will be held
today at the Czechoslovak Home, BAT
Z. 72nd st.
FIntbuSh Council Meeting.
The Flatbush Council No. 81 Work
ingclass Housewives, will hold its reg
ular meeting tomorrow night at 1921
Nostrand Avenue Brooklyn.
Hungarian Needle workers.
A meeting of the Hungarian Needle
Trade workers will be held at $50 E.
S1st st, a t p. m. Ben Gold Will re-
port on the recent important develop
ments in the needle trade unions and
in the industry.
Plumbers Helpers Hike.
The American Association of Plumb
ers' Helpers will hike to Palisades In
tefState+ Park on sunday, May ~ Ihe
meeting point will be at 1876 E. Gath
Street.
Housewives Organizers Meet.
A regular meeting of the central
body and organizers of the. United
Council of Workingclass Housewives
will be held Thursday at $50 D. m.
at Irving Plaza Irving Place and 18th
Street.
Harlem /. l.. ID. Meeting.
The Harlem Section. international
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
WORKER KILLED.

SEMINOLE, Okla, May 6.-Theo-
dore Andrews was instantly killed
while on a highline in the Bowles
area.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08

A mass netting and concert arranged
Icy the Women's Committee on Miners
Relief will be held at l472 Boston
Road, tomorrow evening, May 8, at
o'clock. All women in the section are
urged to come.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
WorIsers, schooI Hike.

The next hike of the Workers School
will be held Sunday, May 13 The hik-
ers will go to Thirty Ear Ridge. There
1ith st. at s a. M, and at Van Cort-
landt Park, a. m. A sports and social
program has been arranged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
Downtown l. L. ID.

The annual entertainment and dance
of the Downtown International Labor
Defense Branch viii be held on Satur-
day evening, May 10, at 80 e. Second
Street. cofner Second Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08

An entertainment and dance for min
ers' relief will be given on May &c, at
p. m at Rose Gardens, 1347 Boston
Road, under the auspices of the Youth
Conference for Miners Relief, 100
Broadway. Admission Will be so cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
FrciheIt Gennng FnreIn.

The Fifth Jubilee Concert OF the
Freihelt Gezang Faren of New York
and Paterson Will be held Saturday,
May -, at Carnegie Hall
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-04
NAME WINNERS
OF IRIS EXHIBIT
Irvington Peony Show viii
Be Held Saturday.

Winners of the Irvington Iris
show, second OF the flower shows
being staged by the 1rvington Union
of Clubs, which was held Saturday
at 5436 E. Washington St., were an
nounced today by judges.
The peony show, which was to
have been held Saturday, was post
pcned unit lnext Saturday, because
Of the slow development Of the
peonies.
Iris prize winners we're: Miss
Bertha Thormeyer, SO Butler Ave,
five firsts, one third; Miss Margaret
Griffith, 1885 Burgess Ave, two
firsts, one second; Miss Anna Lott,
322 Downey Ave, one first, two sec
ondS; Mrs. Clarence Hughel, 5348
dinner Ave, two thirds; Mrs. w. P.
Miller, 312 Downey Ave, one first.
Miss Lott exhibited seventy-five
varities of iriseS and Miss Griffith,
fifty-fve.
The following winners in the gar
den flower division were announced:
Mrs. Robert Hall, 1877 Downey Ave,
one first, one third; Mrs. w. T.
Miller, one first; Walter Jenney,
5605 Pleasant Run Blvd, one first,
one second; Mrs. M. E. Scudder.
1896 Oak Ave, two seconds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-04
MOTHER SAVED
FROM FLAMES
Man Carries Parent Down
80-FoOt Blazing Hallway.

Dashing through an 80-foot hall
way, with flames leaping from the
wallpaper on either side, G. E. West
carried his 72-year-old mother to
safety early today, while his wife
rescued their 3-year-old daughter,
Mary Margaret.
Fire broke out in the Vests liv-
ing quarters above their restaurant
at 1875 S. Delaware St., about 3 a. m.
Mrs. West was the first to be
aroused by the smoke. After calling
her husband, she ran through the
hallway to awaken his parents.
Then she returned and carried
the baby daughter downstairs while
West carried his mother through
the hallway, which then was a mass
of flames. The aged woman escaped
with slight burns, but West was
burned severely on the shoulders,
arms, legs and body.
James West, II, was able to escape
unaided. He ran through the fam
ing hallway in advance Of his son.
Damage was $1,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-04
COLD HOLDING
UP CORN CROP
Continued Wet Weather
May Cause Damage.

Vegetation Of indianapolis and
central Indiana is about two weeks
delayed from its normal develop
ment as a result of the cool weather
of the last month, j. H. Arlington,
United States Weather Bureau
head, estimated today.
But that is about what vegeta-
ton was delayed at this time last
year, as last spring also was wet
and cool, he said.
If the cold, wet conditions con-
tinue, further delaying the plant
ing of corn, the Indiana corn crop
may be damaged considerably, he
said.
Rain will continue tonight, but
weather will be fair and cool Tues
day, according to Arlington.
1t should begin to get warmer
Tuesday night, he said.
With a high mark of So and a
low mark of 81, Sundays tempera-
ture averaged 10 degrees below nor
NAL. Today's temperature was about
the same below normal.
Mays temperatures averaged Is
degrees below normal according to
weather bureau records. But the
mercury was below normal the ma
iority of the days of the month.
High temperatures the first four
days and between the sixteenth and
twenty-f1rst raised the temperature
average.
Precipitation was 3.04 inches, .35
inch below normal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-04
In The Stock Market
BIZ United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, June 4.-The ele-
ment Of confidence which has char
acterized the trading for the last
few days is born of nature not
easily understood, for whenever one
stops long enough to examine the
basis upon which some Of the mar
ket is going ahead to new high
levels, it will be found that there
are sufficient reasons for denying
that the foundation is strong enough
to Justify the strength. CT course,
the main factor for consideration is
in the money market which, to say
the least, is in an acute position
and, as if to make matters worse,
the further expectation of gold
metal and the policy Of the Federal
Reserve Bank to add pressure to an
already tight money market, does
not tend to ward peace of mind. BY
what process Of reasoning some
traders reach the conclusion that
cheaper money will shortly be avail
able is certainly not clear to me for,
despite the somewhat common be-
lief that the contest between the
stock market and reserve banks is
based on grounds which might be
questioned, the fact remains those
OF experience which dates back a
sufficient number of years to cause
their opinion to be worth while,
think otherwise and have sound
grounds for doing so. Therefore, in
the event that this cheaper money
may not be forthcoming, we believe
liquidation on bulges to be the best
course to pursue despite the fact
that sentiment is bullish.