davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
G0YRl
Is acclaimed
IN the USSR

Especial to The DAILY WORKER.)
MOSCOW, June 22.-"Alexi Maxi
IVA mitch, do not go back to Sor-
rento, we will create here for you
the necessary conditions for rest and
work."
This is the plea addressed to
Maxim Cork, Soviet Russia's fav-
orite writer, by thousands of work
ers here.
Following an absence of over six
years due to illness, Cork returned
to the U. S. S. R. and has received
universal acclaim.
Beloved by millions of workers
here not only for his great artistic
works, but also for his loyalty to the
first Workers and Peasants Re-
public, Cork has been showered
with the highest honors in the pos
session of the Soviet government
and the u. S. S. R. trade unions.
Gorki's appearance anywhere, the
mere rumor that he might be in
place, is the signal for crowds and
more crowds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
PICNIC TOMORROW
TO LAUNCH HUGE
ECTION DRIVE
Many Language Groups
to Entertain

Tomorrow thousands of militant
workers of New York will gather in
Pleasant Bay Park on Long Island
Sound at the great Red Campaign
Picnic that has been arranged by the
Workers (Communist) Party.
The picnic is the first step in the
nationwide sweep Of the Workers
(Communist) Party in it's 1928 cleo
tion campaign. 1t will be the occasion
of mass outdoor ratification Of the
candidates of both state and national
tickets.
Candidates to Speak
The various candidates who are not
on speaking tours will be there and
will be called upon to make few
appropriate remarks during the course
of the elaborate program which has
been arranged. William z. Foster,
Ben Gitlow, Robert Minor, Juliet Stu
art Poyntz, Lovett Fort -Whiteman
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
.INDICT CONNOLLY
FOR SEWER MESS

Former Borough President, Maurice
E. Connolly of Queens Borough, in
volved in the $29, 100000 Queens sewer
scandal, who resigned under fire in
the investigation into the doings of
his office, was indicted today by the
Special Grand Jury convened to ex-
anime the evidence that had been col
lected in the investigation prior to
Connolly's resignation,
John M. Phillips, racing stable
owner and sole maker of Clock joint,
pre-cast pipe" especially specified
for him in all Queens sewer specifica-
tions, and two others were also in
dicted y the Special Grand JuxY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
NEED FUNDS TO
SECURE DAILY"
All Groups of Workers
Reached by Paper

That The DAILY WORKER is
reaching workers in all parts of the
country and in all trades is evident
from the letters that have been re-
ceived from militant workers in an
swer to the Daily's appeal for funds.
The letters also show that The
DAILY WORKER is not the paper
of any particular section of the work.
ingclass, but of all the workers,
skilled and unskilled, employed and
unemployed, native and foreign-born.
The results of the campaign for
$4,000 to save The DAILY WORK
Err also shows that the most savagely
exploited workers, those that feel
most intensely the brutality and op-
preston of the capitalist system, are
the readiest to come to its aid in time
of need
Striking Miners Letter.
A striking miner of Dillonvale, O.,
writes as follows:
Dear Brothers.:
/ have read in the last few
days that our paper is in very
grave danger of going out of
existence. 1t would be a very
great blow to the workers of
this country. / wish that all the
workers would rally to save their
only fighting paper. You know
how long we have been on strike,
so cannot afford to send much.
l am sending 81. l am 10 years
of age and know that there is a
great fight before us. For this
reason The DAILY WORKER
must be saved, because it is a
very effective weapon.
JANE JURSIK.
But not only among the miners,
who are waging such a determined
fight for new and stronger union,
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
JACKET WORKERS
LOCKOUT ENDED
Beckerman Will Grant
Wage Cut Privately

The lockout of the workers in the
childrens' jacket contractors shops
ended yesterday when Abraham Beck
erman, head of the machine in power
in the Joint Board of the Amalgama-
ted Clothing Workers Union, told the
contractors to bring their grievances
to him, giving assurances that they
will be well taken care Of. The lock-
out was declared few days ago, with
the demand that wages be cut since
reductions were permitted by the
union to other crafts in the industry.
The other demand made of the
union by the contractors in ordering
the lockout was that the union stop
work of larger employers and job
bers from going for manufacture to
the scab-contracting shops, since these
larger employers are under control of
the union and sending work to scab
shops can easily be halted. This.
also, Beckerman promises to Cor
rect" in spite of proof exposed in re-
cent days that work was being sent
to scab shops under the guardianship
of officials Of the union who received
graft from both the larger employ
er and from the scab shops.
But the contractors who locked out
the workers are nevertheless always
ready to listen to Beckerman, who
has hitherto treated them with gen.
erous consideration, having permit
ted them individually, rather than as
an associated body, to slash wages
with great abandon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
MINERS WEEK
BEGINS MONDAY
Many Organizations to
Take Part

Mobilization for the city-wide min
ers' relief week which is to begin
Monday and continue throughout next
week has been practically completed
according to an announcement at the
local office of the National Miners
Relief Committee.
Throughout the week open air
meetings will be held, to stress the
Importance of miners relief to the
workers. They will be told of the ma
tional open-shop drive, of which the
plan to break up the miners union
is the initial step, and warned that
unless they rally to the support of
the striking miners, they may them
selves soon be appealing for support
from labor.
Supported by Women.
At an enthusiastic meeting held
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
SEMARD SPEAKS
AT FRENCH meet
Concludes Debate at the
Party Conference

PARIS, June 24.-Semard con-
cluded the debate at the French Com
munist Party conference with pro-
test against the overestimation of the
role of the peasantry in the French
revolution.
"The Communist Party must recog-
nize the dangerous reformist delu-
sions. Opportunism must be fought
and we must combat the sterile op-
position" Semard said. The confer
ence passed unanimously the theses
on the political situation of the Com
munist Party.
(Other information about the
Party conference will be found on
page 8.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
WOMEN'S MEETING
is GREAT SUCCESS
Assure Quick Aid In
Miners Struggle

The first Delegate Conference of
the New York Working Women's Fed
Grafton, held Thursday evening at the
Labor Temple, Second avenue, and
18th Street, responded enthusiast
cally to the appeal for Immediate re-
lief to the striking miners of Penn
sylvania and Ohio.
One hundred and forty dollars was
turned over to the National Miners
Relief Committee Immediately after
the striking appeal made by Mrs.
Mary Nagle of Bentleyville and Mrs.
Mollie Sokol of Vestaberg, both repre-
senting the Ladies Auxiliary of the
Miners Union. Hunger, police bruta-
lities, evictions and intimidation hold
no terrors for the wives of striking
miners, who have stood shoulder to
shoulder with the miners on the pick
ct line and defied the threats as well
as the machine guns of the coal cor
porations, they reported.
Pledges Aid to Drive.
The conference pledged itself to do
everything possible in the drive for
relief, starting June 25 to July 1, to
carry out the plans proposed by the
Federation. Pauline Rogers, secre-
tary of the Women's Committee for
Miners Relief, reporting on the plan,
laid special emphasis on the need for
creating shop committees for Miners
Relief, as basis for continuing the
delegate conferences of the Fedora
ton, the committees to serve as a
connecting link between the shop rep
resentatives and the Federation.
Ray Ragozin, general secretary
of the Federation reported on the
activities since the last meeting
one month ago at which time the
Federation was launched. The re-
port included summary of the pro-
gram adopted which pledged the Fed
GRAFTON to make its major task the
organization of the unorganized
women, improving working condi-
tions, social insurance, special ma
ternity care, protection of children
from industrial exploitation, the rails
ing of demands for better schools,
housing, and clear cut policy Of re-
sisting all attempts of the employers
to interfere with the workers strug-
gle against injunctions, company
unions, compulsory arbitration, CO.
operation and employers welfare
schemes and any other methods to
Continued on Page Fsve)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
SURFACE LINES,
OWNED BY SMITH
BACkER, IN LEAD
Other Lines Expected
to Follow Suit

The New York traction trust and
its ring of supporting politicians yes
terday opened fire on a new front in
its war for an increased fare. News
that the Third Avenue Railroad Com
pany, the company which is controlled
by VIM. F. Kenny, principal contribu-
tor to Al Smiths campaign fund, golf
partner and old crony of the Tam
many governor, has filed a schedule
for a seven-cent fare was announced
by the New York State Transit Com
mission at noon.
Immediately securities of all lines
in the city scared on the stock market
in anticipation of the coming fare in
crease and in the confidence, appar-
emily, that the Tammany Hall presi-
dental aspirant was agreeable to the
move.
Other Companies To Follow.
The Third Avenue Railroad Com.
pany filed the new schedule on behalf
of the Dry Dock, East Broadway and
Battery Railroad, one of it's subsidi-
aries. The new schedules cali for a
seven-cent fare beginning with July
"a. It is known that the move by the
Third Avenue Company is prelim-
mary to city-wide filing of similar
schedules by other lines.
The company has followed the pre-
cedent set by the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company which last Febru-
ary filed it's seven-cent fare schedules
for an increased fare later granted by
the federal statutory court and final
Iy taken to the supreme court for
final decision in October. The same
claim for the increase, a plea that the
present fares are "confiscatory," is
known to be at the basis of the new
demands. Whether or not the increase
will be granted will be decided at a
meeting of the New York Transit
Commission next Wednesday, it was
announced by James B. Walker, sec
retary to the Commission.
Smith Owned By Traction
The New York traction trust to
which the whole Tammany admins
tration in the city, the republican con-
trolled legislature at Albany and per-
ticularly Al Smith are known to have
sold out is planning for it's final cam
paign to secure an increased fare and
put over its so-called unification plan
which will undoubtedly cost the work
ers hundreds of millions of dollars.
The plan is scheduled to reach it's eli
max Immediately after the coming
election.
1t is known that the whole scheme
was due to have been put over late
in 1926 except that a temporary con-
flict between the B. M. 7. and the
Continued on Page Tqoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
RIGHT WING ENDS
CAPMAKER STRIKE
Chica go Strug gle
Broken By Zaritsky

CHICAGO, June 22-After re-
moving the leadership of the Chicago
capmakers strike because of too de-
termined stand they took against the
attempt of the employers association
to install piece-work thru a lockout,
the International officialdom, which
assumed control of the strike, yester-
day announced that no more strike
benefits will be paid to the 225
strikers, thus virtually admitting de-
feat by the bosses association.
At the time the progressive leader
ship was removed, facts were made
public to the effect that the lockout
was ordered by the bosses after they
knew that Zaritsky was opposed
to fight against piece work, this
sweat shop system of work being
publicly advocated by him at union
meetings. Another exposure which
laid the responsibility of the lockout
at the door of Zaritsky, was his close
personal friendship with the manager
of the employers association, Percy
Ginsberg, former vice-president of
the union.
By removing the leadership of j.
B. Salzburg, progressive, loss of the
strike was incurred by the right wing.
1t was generally known that at the
time the employers ranks were crack
ing, in spite of injunctions and arrests.
An employers trade journal reports a
union official as saying that they were
unable to fight the injunction. Now
the trade is rs per cent open shop, this
official admits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
Party Members Needed
for Important Work

All party members must report for
work at 1890 a. m. today
at the Workers Center at 1928
Union Square. 1t is essential that
comrades report.
JOHN J. BALKAN,
Acting District Organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
BRING ON THE PROSPERITY" PLEASE
TsOo Can't Liue ON Pay of One in Carolina Cotton Mil Village

week she had only two days work,
They work 101a hours day and only
four days a week now. They fear
the mill will "stand" for a whole
week at July Fourth, cutting off their
meagre earnings entirely.
The woman spoke of having to see
a doctor, When asked If the company
didn't supply one, or at least nurse,
she answered:
"No, the company don't give you
nothing, except your pay, and not
(Contsas.ed on, Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
CONFESSION IN
TEXAS LYNCHINC
First Attempt to Hang
Powell Failed

HOUSTON, Tex, June pa vol
untary statement was made today to
the authorities here by A. B. Wheeler
of this city confessing tlaat ne was
one of the group which kidnapped
Robert Powell, 24-year-old Negro
from the Jefferson Davis Hospital
and lynched him about eight miles
from Houston Wednesday night.
The young Negro was dragged
from a cot where he lay dying fol-
lowing an exchange of shots with A.,
w. Davis, a local detective.
Wheeler said that the first attempt
to hang Powell failed when he struck
the ground. He said the victim was
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
LAUNCH HABEAS
CORPUS STRUGGLE
TO FREE PORTER
League Statement Calls
on Workers Aid

Preparations were made today for
one of the greatest campaigns in the
American labor movement to force
the release of John Porter, the tex
tile strike leader who was arrested
early this week in New Bedford by
the military authorities.
1t is expected that Porter will be
brought to trial before court-mar-
tial of army officers within short
time because of his desertion from
the army last year after realizing
the role of capitalist militarism
against the labor movement.
No reliance will be placed on the
"justice" of ,courts-martial, and it is
realized that mass protests of the
workers is the only force which can
make the War Department set Por-
ter at liberty.
The Young Workers (Communist)
League, of which Porter is an active
organizer, has announced that it will
conduct nationwide drive for the
textile striker, and that huge pro-
test meetings will be held in cities
throughout the country,
The International Labor Defense is
preparing the legal defense of Por-
ter and will participate actively in
the drive to obtain his freedom.
The first legal step in the case is
an application for writ of habeas
corpus, as the constitutional right of
the prisoner to be released on bail is
being denied.
1t is the rule of the army to hold
prisoners without bail, but this lille
gal custom will be challenged in the
drive for Porter.
In call issued today by the Ma
tional Executive Committee of the
Young Workers (Communist) Lea
que, all workers organizations are
called upon to join the fight for the
release of John Porter.
The statement follows:
The arrest of John Porter, a tex
tile strike leader and organizer of
the Young Workers (Communist)
League, is challenge to the work
ers and especially to the youth of
America. 1t is the beginning of the
intensive use of the army for the
purpose for which it is intended
the suppression of strikes and all eff
forts against the exploiting class.
GAS the class struggle becomes
more acute the dictatorship of capi-
talism is forced to throw off the
mask of democracy and use armed
force to keep the masses enslaved.
Young workers are being led into
the army and navy, and the "Citizens
Military Training Camps" where
they are not only taught how to kill
in the interest of their masters but
also are subjected to patriotic propa-
ganda with the purpose of keeping
their minds blind to their role against
their own class.
"The use of the military authorities
in the textile strike after the civil
SONSAhhiSAe hau IollSu W lOICe IHe
strikers back to work shows the i'm
mediate menace of militarism, and
the court-martial of Porter is a chal-
lenge which the young workers in
particular must take up.
"The Young Workers (Communist)
League, the vanguard Of the militant
young workers of America, calls on
all workers and labor organizations to
Continued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23

room house. That's 25 cents room
plus few cents for electric light.
And unlike some companies, the Emo
mill let's its workers use lights or
current for ironing at any time Of
day or night.
Wife in Mill
Since short-time has come, several
months ago, the wife has gone into
the mill. While her husband works
in the shipping room she irons down
selvage edges and earns, when she
gets full days work, $2.10. Last
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
By ESTHER LOWELL.

HILLSBORO, N. c. (FP), June
22.-Two people can't live on the pay
of one in the cotton mill village of
Emo, adjoining Hillsboro, N. G. At
least one old couple has made that
finding. The old man, still upstandL
ing and strong from generations Of
farmer stock, has only 81 left in his
pay envelope after the rent money
is taken out.
True the rent is low, as his wife
says, Sc cents a week for their two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
MURDOCH Gets z
MONTHS; BEAL, II
OTHERS ON TRIAL
1,200 Strikers Picket
,WamSutta Mills

BOSTON, June pa special
meeting of the National Textile
Mill Committees will be held this
coming Sunday afternoon at 8 p.
M, 3S Causeway Street, here for
the purpose of considering the
immediate steps to be taken in
the textile industry.
This meeting will issue a call
for the immediate national or
ganizatiOn of all textile workers.
The heroic struggle of the 2S,-
600 textile workers in New Bed
ford, the growing restIessness of
the workers in Fall River, the
feelings of the workers in Rhode
Island, in Paterson, Passaic and
The other textile centers, all de-
mand that national action be
taken and Immediately for the
formation of a national organi-
zation.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, June 22.-
With d cynical brutality surpassed
anly bya their own eolleag les ii the
state, the Massachusetts judges pre-
siding in the Superior Court here, set
about doing the bidding of the mill
barons by jailing all the militant lead
ers of the strike of $4,000 textile
workers here.
William T. Murdoch, secretary of
the New Bedford Textile Workers
Union, the local unit of the Textile
Mills Committee, was sentenced to
serve two months in Jail when he
lost his appeal from the decisions of
the lower courts. His was the first
of the 13 appeal cases to come be-
fore the Superior Court, and the un-
disguised viciousness of the court
makes it apparent that all other ap-
peals will meet the same fate.
The case of Fred E. Beal, Textile
Mills Committee organizer, is the
next to be heard. Nearly all The ap-
pellants have additional sentences to
serve for leading the picket lines and
Continued on Page TWo)
Evening star., 1928-09-07

Oliver Iselin: third, Walter Peyton.
Best 10 ears yellow or white, sweep
stakes; silver vase as premium-C.
Oliver Iselin, Middleburg. Best SIX
stalks-First. A. Morris Love: second,
Mr.. Ward; third, c. Oliver Iselin.
Tallest bunch second cutting Alfalfa
First. Mr.. Love; second, Mr.. Love: tnlro.
Richard H. Hickman. Best bunch soy
bean hay-First, j. D. Seaton; second,
B. o. Compiler; third, j. l.. Bush. SOY
bean hay-First, H. l.. Welsh: second,
Sterling Blocker. Best peck smooth
wheat-First, Mr. Blocker; second, B. A.
Rucker; third, H. L. Welsh. Best peck
beared wheat-Firss, j. D. Gibson; sec
ond, Mr.. Rucker; shird, @. M. Conard.
Best sheaf of wheat-First, j. D. Glib
son; second, Mr.. Ward; third, Mr..
Rucker.
Awards on Fruits.
Grimes Golden apples-First, T. L.
Bell; second, Mr.. Bell; third, Iceland
Orchard. Rome Beauty-First, Iceland
orchard, Leesburg;, second. I. J. Potts;
third, Iceland orchard. Black TWig--
First, Mrs. c. l.. Casey; second, John
Cockerille third. Iceland Orchard. Ben
Davis-First, Mr.. Bell: second, Mr..
Potts; third, Mr.. Bell Stayman-First,
Iceland Orchard; second, Mr.. Bell;
third, Mrs. c. l.. Casey. Winesap-
First, John Cockerille; second, john
Cockerille: third, Mrs H. M. Cockerille.
York ImperIal-First, second, Mr.. Bell:
third. Mr.. Potts. Delicious-First, Lee
land Orchard; second, Mr.. Potts: third,
Iceland Orchard. Smokehouse-First,
Mr.. Potts; second, Mr.. Potts; third,
John Cockerille Jonathan-First, w.
B. Clagett; second. Mrs. c. L. Casey;
third, r. L. Bell Baldwin-First, T: j.
Potts; second. Mrs. c. L. Casey: third,
Mrs II. M Cockerille. Best apple dis
plav-First, Iceland Orchard; second,
Mrs. c. L. Casey; third, Mr.. Potts. Best
plate pears-First, second and third. D.
Frank Wynkoop. Best plate Elberta
peaches-First. second and third, H. G.
Barthel, Gaylord, Va. Best plate plums
First, second and third, Thomas Tay-
lor, Lincoln.
Vegetable Awards.
Early Rose potatoes-First, Mrs. J. E.
Virts: second. A. C. Kelley. Irish Cob
bier potatoes-First, G. M. Conard;
second, F. A. Weadon; third, Mrs. j. E.
Virts. Sweet potatoes-First, W.. A.
MCDANIEL; second Eugene Keesling;
third. D. E. Brown. Eggplants-First,
Mr.. Mcdaniel; second, Mr.. Mcdaniel:
third. Benton Farms. String beans
First. Benton Farms; second, Bertha P.
Smith. Lima beans--F'lrst, Mrs. II. l..
Welsh; second. Lawrence Lee Taylor,
third, Mabel A. Taylor. Blood beets-
First. D. Frank Wynkoop: second, d.
Frank Wynkoop; third, Mr.. MCDANIEL.
Evening star., 1928-09-07

fourth, Charles GLAND. Barrows under
s months-Second. Charles GLAND:
third, George GLAND. Pen Of barrows
under months-First, Charles GLAND;
third, George GLAND. Special prizes,
American Duroc Association: Junior
boar pig-First. George GLAND. Junior
SOW pig-Second, George GLAND; third
Charles GLAND.
Home Meetings Planned.
Miss Blanche A. Corwin. county
home demonstration agent, is arrang-
ing for the semi-annual group meet
ings of the home demonstration CLUBS
of the county She has announced that
on Tuesday. September 18. the Pooles-
Vile, Clagettsville. Cabin John. Crop
lev. Four Corners and Brighton clubs
will meet in the county building at
Bethesda, with the Cabin John Cluo
hostess; on Wednesday. September l9,
the Wheaton. Brookeville -Olney. VIII
son Lane. Germantown and Clarks-
burg clubs will meet at Browningsville.
with the Browngsville Club hostess, and
on Thursday, September 20, the Danas-
Gus. Bartonsville, Dickerson, Gathers
burg and Barnesville clubs will meet at
Barnesville with the GAINESVILLE Club
hostess. Miss Corwin will have charge
OF the program at each place.
The State Roads Commission has
given notice that bids for construction