Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1928 Save-the-Union Gives New Hope to Tri-State Diggers, Correspondent Says KANSAS MINERS Storm Wrecked Ocean Liner “President” Shows Dangers Seamen Face BOSSES REALIZE To Save His Own Skin TEACHERS SPILL NEAR STARVING MASS PICKETING MINEPROPAGANDA P FIGHT LEWIS IS GOOD WEAPON IN AVELLA SCHOOL overly-ridden Men Eat Are Better at It Than Seek' to Influence the Chickdn Feed Woll or Lewis Miners’ Children

{By a Worker Correspondent) (By a Worker Correspondent) (Special To The DAILY WORKER) ARM A, Kansas, (By Mail).—Since Our so-called trade union leaders AVELLA, Pa., May 11—“If you April 'the first the majority of the or, as W. Z. Foster calls them in his were standing on a road and a trooper have been on strike. book, “misleaders,”' are campaigning Kansas miners John D. Rockefeller, Jr., head the told you to move on, would you do To these miners with might and main to prevent work- of query ques- This is nothing new. The ship’s crew on the S. S. President narrowly escaped death when the steamer ran into a storm the interests, has said that so?” was the first on a affair just like Spring off ers from striking, mass picketing, etc. Rockefeller it's a yearly coast of Scotland and was wrecked on the rocks. Seamen are to slave under the worst conditions Col. Robert Stewart, head the tionaire John B. Wiley, a teacher in When April the forced for In general they are against any mili- W. of young follows Winter. starvation wages. Standard Oil Co. Indiana, must re- ,the school here required his are out, tant action of workers. The rea- of first comes they either locked the sign. Stewart partner pupils to answer. Those who said off, so most it sons they give are these things was a fourth “No,” on strike, or laid to that in the Continental Trading Co. slush were kept after school. does not seem to make much differ- are not “fine” and “respectable.” “Is a trooper a fellowman?” the This funding deal. By getting rid of Steiv- ence how the inevitable comes. Upholsterers art, hopes to silence the school master wanted to know. Many from the HO CUSS WSR," On May 2, I was present at a meet- Rockefeller period is different TOO POOR TO GET children who had seen their fathers April of the Retail and growing demand for a senate investi- years. ing Grocery Dairy viciously by state troopers, other Jailed; Later Owners of Greater New gation of the Standard’s government beaten Once a powerful well organized Association while the scabs were protected, had poor York. oil reserve leases. district, Kansas now is a weak, SAYS N. THOMAS Are Released HALL FOR MEET their doubts. and unorganized one. Only about four These store owners are now trying Propaganda. five hundred are carrying thousand (By to close their stores at Bp. m. Some you About three hundred of these Correspondent a Worker Correspondent.) “Do think you should obey the cards. “0, No,” ANGELES, Cal., (By Mail) Idaho Workers Would of the owners are not willing to close troopers?” working by separate agreement LOS soo “Is the United States the are lTnecuts their that hour. There —Seven upholsterers were arrested stores at was greatest nation in the world?” were that the district officials signed up. Answers, “None at All” yse Square meeting April 30 on charges of picketing a discussion at the over this other questions to teacher Over a thousand non-union miners which the (By a Correspondent.) the California High Grade Uphol- point. demanded are working strip pits. Worker (By a Worker Correspondent) PAY answers. stery, WORKERS' 2132 East First St. Three Another called But there is an undercurrent of Here is the message of Norman A motion was carried to mass teacher a state days before, April 27, the company BOISE, Idaho, (By Mail)—l have policeman into her classroom to anger and hell to pay somewhere. No Thomas, James H. Maurer and Morris picket every store that does not point discharged 16 union men as “in- been watching your columns expect- out that many children of who wo rit, no pay, no union relief with a Hillquit, of the American “socialist” close at 8 p. m. Forced to Board miners efficient,” according to Acting De- ing of Men received a day’s pay or a few in the district treasury’ party to the proletariat in the “land to read some speakers from haven’t full thousand tective Capt. W. F. Hynes, head The wives of the store owners were for more a seeing fast they of the Workers (Communist) Party who Selves in Bunk Cars meal than year, are not and the officials how democracy” and to the world in of red squad, with drawn into the struggle also. Last but the This general. the offices in fit to come to school and be seen by can ride across continent. the Chamber of Commerce Bldg. will tour Idaho to tell the Idaho not least these men will use a little the children them on the way east (By a Worker Correspondent) other because they are Sunday finds In away it is an honest sincere The men jailed were: John Sal- workers what they will stand for in education besides agitation. These officials LAC, Wis., (By Mail). “indecently dressed.” to Lewis’s summons. statement of daring “gentlemanship.” tekov, John Agalsoff, W. Delam- the FOND DU will have lots to’tell, for the miners election. It seems that the business men un- —Taking advantage of the wide- It is a “courageous” attempt to un- toff, Sidney Dimond, A. B. Cum- derstand role picketing have been giving them hell ever since It looks like most of us will have the of mass spread unemployment, especially mask oneself and to stand before the mings, W. Standera and James better than the union officials and are the Save-the-l T nicn delegates came Koshergen. to stay home anyway at the next among the unskilled workers, the Soo world as one is. not afraid to use it. , back from Pittsburgh. “The red squad was beaten,” the election. We are too poor to go any- Line has cut their hourly rate for This is what Thomas and Co. are 35 to 32 The Same System. business agent of the union told where. I don’t know how we could I wonder what Lewis, Woll and the section laborers from cents really saying to the American work- a of 24 me. The Centbal Labor Council ever get iponey to hire a hall for a rest of the gang would say about it. cents per hour, or cut cents 1 Last Few Days While the executive committee of ers: “The miners are shot on the succeeded in getting the workers speaker anyway. try Had it been the Furriers, they would per eight hour day. J But we would the reactionary forces are back east battlefield of the coal mines and their boarding out of jail. They are back on th< to get a vacant square at least where have been called Reds. These laborers are thent- the miners are grumbling and some families are driven out of their picket line again, it was said. all standing selves in bunk cars which are furn- are planning. Others, young bucks homes, dying of hunger. But who could have room. I will There is no need to comment on this The authorities probably decided do all I can to aid this. by the company. who have become disgusted with the gave the miners the right to attack story. Mass picketing is a very good ished that it wasn’t the right time to I am an old man, 73 years old and daily wage of $2.56 per day and game have left for the big cities look- private property?,” say the “so- weapon for the workers. Let’s make A arrest union men the day before have been robbed all my life by bank- necessity of living in railroad ing for work, only to find unemploy- cialists.” “Is it not the right of the use of it in the time of necessity. In the the primary election, is the opinion ers and lawyers, I am now pushed will certainly appeal to Cal ment and the same kind of bosses. landowners to give the land or a job so this instance I think it wouldn’t hurt bunk cars expressed in some quarters. hard to get something to eat.—T. P. learned these business Coolidge and the rest of the “pros- oni Some hundreds have left and more to whomever he pleases and rent his us if we from Sale —L. P. RINDAL. of the I as an earnest following. The rest of the strik- houses to whomever he wants?” men. perity” shouters are “prosperity” they mean when, ing miners are digging in for another —ENDORE. kind of “You do in private j R. R. Shops Go on Full they this spell. not believe tongue-in-check, hand out ownership. It is not right to pro- soap to workers. April different. The Time Lay Off 70 soft the Yes this is tect one’s own lands and properties, j NEW HOSE but —TRA. peace non- PLANf .pke came off in and the you the socialists ask. say?” “But I TWO HARBORS, Minn., May 11— union miners work on in peace. But ask you, gentlemen, did not ‘god’ him- j ADD NEWSUGE as Beginning May Ist the workers of the Spring ¦ uet as soon the Save-the-Union self fence paradise with a huge wall,! Policeman Is Freed I delegates got back, hell GOES Duluth and Iron Range Railroad drmmittee and put cherubim and a blazing OPEN SHOP j shops went on full time, eight hours ii pried loose. Mass meetings, where Patrolman Lexis Mongue, Jr. sword in his hand, to guard its gate? day days legates met district officials and a for six a week. This came TO U. S. EMPIRE charged extorting $4 from Stan- “You say Sacco and are with they Vanzetti Union Answer after a period of over two years in ’.¦•i:longed them to show why burnt to in the electric chair, Must Be ley Parifeer, who he accused of a present deatji which the shops had been operated on onld continue in their and Tom Mooney is sitting in jail?” Strike, WASHINGTON, May 11—Another minor traffic violation was freed with support all Is Demand short time. Magis- .parity, have met as k the socialists.” “We say justice slice was added to the American em- when the case was heard by Now the miners t the '.rough the camps. is not you to buy it.” 11.—An In December the working hours pire today when the senate adopted trate Abraham Rosenbluth in I May Coats free, have PHILADELPHHIA, asking: Why the separate agree- were further seven the Bingham resolution providing for Side Court. The magistrate did j •e “Class struggle,” the “socialists” ask. other plant manufacturing shortened to hours West ment? Why are the non-union full- for five days a week. the annexation of the “American” not consider Pariser’s testimony im- yk We are offering our en- K “What-is class struggle in the land of ' gaining in numbers? Why fashioned hosiery, has followed the Islands. portant in rendering his verdict. miners “democracy”? Your Karl Marx was The cut in hours Samoan j tire stock of SPRING It talk of expelling these delegates who example set by the Allen-A Co., of of service was a moron; your Lenin was a soap-box originally inaugurated at the instance The ratification is merely formal urssent a program that we have al- Kenosha, Wis., TO FLY TO URUGUAY. COATS (sizes from 32 ¦ preacher. Max Eastman will and declared for the of the men who since the islands have for some time I® ways thought of? If there is going testify wanted their com- to 48) to this. Said the reverend: “Let open shop and two machine system rades kept in in the hope of been administered by the navy de- In an airplane which he is building w below manufac- m up. be. any ousting it should be the service there be light and there was light.” of operation. Although the Amcri- resumption of a normal of partment. The resolution provides himself, Serafin Cirigliano, 28, an & other way. Rank and file delegates volume turing cost. “No struggle business. The company conceded to for a commission to be appointed by employe of the Bellanca Aircraft ‘met District officials and beat them there is no class in cah Federation of Full-Fashioned the United States,” the “so- their request. In order to make the president, consisting of two sena- plant at Mariner’s Harbor, Staten face to face. Now the officials wi'l say Hosiery Workers has as yet made the lleg. Price Sale Price ¦ cialists.” new system possible, however, it was tors, two members of the house of Island, will make a 7,000 mile flight, of their underhand methods no public statement as to the course null some O, O none decided to lay off a definite number representatives and two with intermediate stops, to Monte- unless the miners of District 14 act no. at all! Samoans —H. it will pursue, it is believed that a of men. About 70 men were slated authorized to “study and recommend video, Uruguay, his native city, this $22.50 quick. against yesterday. I $ strike will be declared this for dismissal. legislation” for the islands. summer he announced | I Eat Chicken Feed. 0.50 firm. Little all winter, no work j work The Allen-A in Kenosha, now. need of relief already. Sunday j Company LOS ANGELES a vicious labor hating firm, has been $27.50 not IN finds most of the miners in the j best condition. They’re worried over! tied up for many weeks by a bitter | sl3-50 | (he way their officers have been; struggle of the workers there for handling the organization and letting | DRIVE FOR SUBS union recognition, and the with- the companies make a joke out of; $30.50 drawal of the 2 machine speed-up I their grievances. Many fear expulsion | $20.501 yet more are determined to fight to j May Day Distribution system of operation. save the union. Spurs Activity In declaring for the open shop the gi Already food is a scarcity with j Philadelphia manufacturers issued a Volunteer I $32.50 50 I ! those who were not fortunate enough statement to the effect that an in- L $22- The Miy Dav distribution of The their efficiency i to have small gardens and chickens. vestigation made by DAILY WORKER in the Los Angeles This Sunday found some hungry.- experts, discloses that each knitter district has greatly stimulated plans Some eating chicken feed. Others -stands idle a certain number of 1 $35.50 for a permanent increase of the dis- time he a Tag 1 minutes, between the starts Days cars, for tinkering Miners’ with their delapidated tribution of the Daily in that district $24-50 no necessity their work cn cars new stocking on the machine, and the for Under the direction of Paul C.* Reiss are cheating the scrap heap. time it tapers off to a finish. The Support that DAILY WORKER agent in Los An- the Striking D Help Resist the Open Blue Law town. Pittsburgh, like all employers declare that the knitter can geles, efforts to secure new subscrip- I $39.50 the rest’—but what difference does it use this idle time to start another Miners! Iyoll€i Shop Drive! I tions are going forward with great disregarding the fact that $27-50 make, these miners are in no position machine, / energy. ¦i to Blue laws town, not even a the worker is under the highest ten- go. The cooperation of library Poker bocze—- active all mem- sion in preventing the entering of open. games, bers of the (Communist) STATIONS: I m Don’t miss this oppor- ¦ well the miners are so poor they Workers flaws while one machine is operated. | Party in Los Angeles is essential to tunity. Come and be afford women, so stop Flaws in stockings are deducted from DOWNTOWN BROWNSVILLE W ¦ can't most don’t the of this work, Re'ss UPTOWN (Continued) success writes • called Pittsburg. the pay. Progressive Workers Club East N. Y. Workers Club m convinced. m long at the town in a letter to the Czecho-Slovak Workers House of . fields are at least better for Business Office 60 St. Marks Place 317 Hast 72nd Street 604 Sutter Avenue The oil ! the Daily. The election campaign these products of capitalism. of- Jewish Workers Club Workers Center I fers an excellent opportunity for Fireman Hurt When 35 Second Street BRONX 1689 Bitkin Avenue operators the- last six 733 Broadway, Bis »°P kins °n Avenue The think srtreading the influence of The DAILY Room 236 jewish Workers Club & Engine Progressive Bristol Street Phil years, Industrial Jumps Labor Center Ka'hai since the Kansas 'WORKER among larger sections Track 1472 Boston Road 118 I of j 103 B. 11th Street Court Law fight, has resulted in their the workingclass, he declares. Women s Council 122 Osborne Street ( of the BOSTON, May fireman and Workers School HOO Boston Road 1111 Rutland Road. 37 Canal Street ( final victory, the smashing The distribution of thousands of 11.—A 108 East 14th Street were injured and West Bronx Jewish Workers' 663 Stone Avenue Cor. Ludlow Street, union or transforming it into a corn- copies May Day a girl passenger Plumbers Helpers m of the edition of The Club M NEW YORK « ny expect coming many passengers were shaken up 156 Bast 24th Bathgate CITY. ua union and in the DAILY WORKER has famil arized Street Avenue \xttt mMODimr of a Boston, Re- 101 West. 27th WiLLiAMSBULC v-»ar to pick the fruit of their long j many Los Angeles workers with the when the locomotive Street 2075 Clinton Avenue Railroad pas 66 Bust 4th Street 2700 plans. Os course, the Lewis officials j paper, and Workers Party members vere Beach and Lynn Bronx Park East iOl Grand Avenue into the harbor 215 Bast 138th given senger train dropped • Street 29 Graham Avenue •"¦list be more than medals. But | in Los Angeles plan to take advan- lv TiTvrAti»\T Terminal today. rt 16C8 Vyse Avenue Eyck ¦be oncrators have another wish com- tnge of this in securing new subscrip- at the East Boston 46 Ten Street RE SO RTS | 7 Waa ,i" ° n are Hungarian ! Bt AvenUe for the miners in Kansas Angeles were, Workers Club t., ' j tions. Los does not intend The injured Fireman John 3uu ore Avenue - fight. Ready oust East 81st Street !“ f, . "dv to to the remaining other cities, Reiss Warren and Miss Elsie Small, of 7j3 "‘¦ LONG ISLAND • behind East Tremont East Avenue _ ;, d a ; 143 103rd Street , machine: ready to bu real declares. 11 ulton Ave ” M,ddle Hamlin St., Lynn. 1538 .Madison Avenue Jewish National Workers VHlaße j 71 he rPaf U t effect 2771 Williamsbridge° iv f 0 p in the unity ltoad r, co-operative House si. tot a xtty H —'-the-Union Committee prn" \ ; 1800 Seventh- Avenue LyUiNJLhx lo.L/Ai\.U f RROORT Y\T —FRED. 1* innish Workers Club 2901 Mermaid Avenue Vege- Tarry Workmen’s Furniture Fire Insurance Society, Inc. Jo West 120th Street Workers School ESTABLISHED 1872 13,13 43rd Street Negro Committee for Miners' nnTPUTAM TRUCK DRIVER KILLED Belief 764 4oth Street BlviUlilUIN Main Office: 227 EAST 84th STREET (Bet. 2nd and 3rd Ave.) 20u West Inn Y„ 135th Street 1940 Benson Avenue Brighton ‘T'THAMPTON, N. May 11— Telephone Regent 4391. NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. 217 Beach Avenue ’ “GRINE •«., Hraverman. 34 years old. driver Ps KRETCHME” ' co-operative working All Jewish on-Partisan Schools will serve as a Piverhead Laundry Cornoration A fire insurance society for people. Fifty- stations for Children. Opens for the Season three branches throughout Membership Decem- motor truck was instantly killed here the United States. on 31, 1927, 49,600. force, $53,000,000. ‘rday when his truck was hit by the ber Assets $700,000. Insurance in 50,000 Unorganized Miners Need Tents Food Medicines! Friday, May 11,1928 AH profits revert back to the members (policy holders) which enables 'ucomotive of a Long Island express Enjoy Your Vaca- us to offer the cheapest Fire Insurance in the country. Fight Bright .train. Disease! Evictions and Hunger! tion and Week-Ends The yearly assessment (premium) is only 10c for each SIOO insurance. DIRECTIONS: Take ferries at MARTINS FERRY LABOR PICNIC. Upon joining every one must deposit SI.OO for every SIOO Insurance 23rd Street, Christopher Street, which will be returned upon withdrawal from the Society. Harclay Street or Hudson Tubes MARTINS FERRY, 0., May 11— NATIONAL MINERS RELIEF COMMITTEE to Hoboken, Lackawanna ltail- 1 I The local branch of the International Maximum insurance issued $2,000. i road to Berkeley Heights, N. J. Workingmen and women, protect homes in fire. Join * Defense has planned a picnic your case of Broadway Labor the society of your own 799 (Stuyvesant 8881) Room at Pesback Farm for June 10. The insurance class. 236 Berkeley Heights committee is inviting all members For further information apply at 227 East 84th Street. New Jersey. *"" and to ’ - - - ' ' * - workers attend. ' : _