The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1924, Page 3

Barsrdnys May 191, 1924 GOMPERS AIDS SIGMAN IN WAR ON LEFT WING AT BOSTON CONVENTION OF GARMENT WORKERS (Continued From Page 1.) ‘With his usual gusto he claimed the American labor movement to be the foremost in all’ the world, probably remembering that ex-President Ben- jamin Schlesinger had hailed him as the “greatest labor leader in the world.” When the back rubbers get busy in conventions, the sky is the limit. Gompers added his eulogy and ap- proval of the unseating of the New York delegates. He painted the black horrors that menace the labor move- ment because, as he said, the Work- ers party controls “the league” and the general activities of all militants. The leaflet on “Gompers’ Stand on Immigration” was very disturbing to the Sigman reactionaries. One of the girls was thrown out of the hall for distributing it. The leaflet stated: Gompers for Johnson Bill. “Our membership is vitally inter- ested in unrestricted immigration. ‘What does Gompers say about it? “In the American Federationist for April Gompers says: “If it were possible to replace the 3 per cent quota law with a law ab- solutely forbidding immigration into the United States for the next five years, that would be the most advan- tageous thing that could be done. “*& great many employers, former- ly hostile to restrictive legislation, see the error of their way and have changed their position entirely as a result of the war. - “The Johnson bill is by no means all that could be desired, but it is ob- viously all that can be had. “It appears to be the assumption of the foreign-born groups in the Unit- ed States that the people of the world have the right to come to the Unted States at will.’ “This is where Gompers stands on immigration. What do YOU think about it?” A bitter battle over the recom- mendation of the credentials commit- tee that four members of Local 1, New York City, be not seated as delegates, and that four substitutes be called to take their place was the outstand- ing. feature cf the third day of the convention of the international ses- sion here. This marked the first round in a fight over contested dele- gates which is expected to bring to a head in the convention the conflict between the militant elements in the union and the officialdom, with their reactionary supporters, that resulted in the expulsion of active members of the international. The report of the credentials com- mittee had been awaited, with much impatience. The expulsion issue, of which the contest of duly elected delegates is a part, is the foremost question before the convention. ‘When the delegates assembled this morning the atmosphere was charged with tenseness and expectancy. The chairman of the credentials committee reported that 95 local unions joint boards and district coun- cils were represented by 297 dele- gates. Its report that these be seat- ed was accepted. Before beginning the report on the objected delegates, an effort was le to create an at- mosphere conducive to acceptance of all recommendations. After dwelling on the achievements of the interna- tional, the chairman of the credentials committee made a heated appeal to the loyalty: of delegates, calling upon them to place the welfare of the union above all else, and to take disciplin- ary action against all disrupters of the union. Action Against Four. The chairman then recommended that four members of Local 1, New York City, should not be seated, as they had been illegally placed on the ballot by their union. By refusing to sign a statement submitted to them by an investigating committee of the General Executive Board of the inter- national, which demanded that they discontinue all relationship with the Trade Union Educational League and agree not to attend any meetings called by it, they had automatically disqualified themselves as candidates for election to the convention. They therefore could not be recognized as duly elected delegates, he said. An amendment was made by a dele- gate fromthe floor that action on these four members be deferred until the appeal of Local 1 from the de- cision of the General Executive Board be taken up by the convention. This appeal is directly bound up with the case of the four members in question, but Morris Sigman, as chairman, re- fused to entertain the amendment on the ground that ‘the two questions were entirely unrelated. Militants Fight Well, A splendid fight was put up by the challenged delegates. They claimed that two months before the investigat- ing committee of the General Execu- tive Board had been appointed they had signed a statement accepted by the grievance committee of Local 1 agreeing to withdraw from the league. They were no longer members of the league and could not be challenged on grounds of their membership. They called upon the convention to main- tain the unity of the organization at a time when the international is faced with pressing problems and stands. be- fore a general strike in the industry. They pointed to their long years of service in the movement, and urged that differences in points of view must be tolerated within the organ- ization, The keynote of their appeal was that under no circumstances would they cease their trade union ac- tivities; that unseating them as dele- gates or other action taken against them could not destroy their deter- mination to work for a strong and effective union, and to participate in the struggles of all other members or the international side by side with them. Support Challenged Delegates. ‘The appeal of the challenged dele- gates was taken up by many other militant representatives. It was point- ed out that these delegates had been guilty of na destructive action against’ the union. They had been guilty only of holding different views on the labor movement and the tactics and policies of the international. Of the chal- lenged delegates, one had been an or- ganizer of the local for 15 months, another was vice chairman of the ex- ecutive board of the local. All could be counted amongst the most active and sincere members of the interna- tional. Speakers appealed for har- Cohen & Horvitz Well- - Known Insurance Salesmen HARRIS COHEN 2645 Potomac Ave. Office: 737 W. ROOSEVELT ROAD SSSI Sse aaa aes! With them. 8. M. HORVITZ 3359 Hirsch St. Phone Roosevelt 2500 MARYLAND RESTAURANT 1011-1013 North State Street OPEN DAY AND NIGHT HIGH QUALITY FOOD GOOD SERVICE Telephone: Superior 9441 Over Glove Shoe Store 11138 S. Michigan Ave. Roseland, III. Buy the Union Guaranteed Labor-Made Shoe Res. 1632 8. Trumbull Ave, Phone Rockwell 5050 MORDECAI SHULMAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 701 Association Building 19 S. La Salle Street CHICAGO Dearborn 8657 Central 4945-4947 Fi 1, er UPHOLSTERING done your ou, home very reason: 6006 SO. KOMENSKY call REPUBLIC 3788 Attorney and Counsellor -10 South LA Salle etreat, oom 601 rom a hr JAY STETLER’S RESTAURANT Established 1901 1053 W. Madison St. Tel. Monroe 2241 Established 1899 JOHN B. HESSLER SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN 2720 North Ave. CHICAGO RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS 1N ENGLISH AND IN ALL FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE,Erc, NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO. Chicago THE DAILY WORKER TASMANIA JUDGE DECLARES HUMAN RIGHTS SUPREME Propertarians Call Him Red Judge By W. FRANCIS AHERN. HOBART, Tasmania.—Judge Ew- ing, lieutenant-governor of the Labor state of Tasmania, has thrown a bombshell into the judicial world in Australia by publishing a volume in which criminal law is based on “the rights of the person and not rights of property.” Recently he put his theory into practice by sentencing a policeman to three years in jail for making a widow by recklessly shooting a man who was illegally fishing. Private property rights were horrified and launched a campaign against the judge. Judge Ewing, who is also head of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, is known as the Red judge because he appears in court in vivid scarlet robes. Property rights coined the phrase, hoping to make him appear as a rad- ical in the eyes of the people. The workers also call him the Red judge on the grounds that he is broadmind- ed enough to see the workers’ side of justice. He is best known for his action in New South Wales in 1919 in ordering the release of 12 I. W. W. who had been sent to jail during the war for terms ranging up to 15 years. Natur- ally, this decision staggered the up- holders of private property rights. Judge Ewing is able and courage- ous, a good orator, a skilled tactician- and respected. His law !s sound. mony in the organization and a cessa- tion of the persecution by the Gen- eral Executive Board of militants in the union, Israel Feinberg then launched into a bitter attack upon the challenged delegates, William Z. Foster, the Trade Union Educational League and the Workers Party. The Trade Union Educational League was charged with being a dual union, which sought to undermine the international. The question of differences of opinion, he declared, was not involved, as this had always been permitted. The question at issue was one of discipline. These four, delegates had refused to obey the decision of the General Executive Board, had refused to accept the dis- cipline of the international, and as such were not qualified to run as dele- gates to the convention. Perlstein Raves. How true these allegations of Fein- berg were could be seen from the speech of Meyer Perlstein, vice presi- dent of the international, and one of the investigating committee of the challenged members of Local 1. Perl- stein repeated Feinberg’s charges that the Trade Union Educational League was a dual union. That, he insisted, was the reason why members of the union had been asked to withdraw. Only the failure to do so, which was a breach of discipline, and not any difference in belief, motivated them in challenging the members in question. Immediately after that Perlstein launched a scurrilous attack upon the Trade Union Educational League and the Workers. Party, denouncing bit- terly the policy of amalgamation, which he termed the greatest fake, and sneering at the policy of inde- pendent political action. He roundly denounced the activities of the mili- tants in the international in having influenced local unions in Chicago to send observers to the July 3rd con- ference called last year to organize a Labor Party, and which resulted in the forming of the Federated Farmer- Labor Party. While he insisted that freedom of opinion was allowed, his entire speech was an attack upon the principles ad- vocated by members of the league. ‘While in one breath he declared that the breaking of discipline caused them to challenge the four delegates of Local 1, in the other he attacked the political and economic views of these delegates and all associated Wives Of Soldiers Who Saw Service In France Carry Anti-War Banners VANCOUVER, B. C.—Women with peace banners are not wanted when war memorials are unveiled in Van- couver. The wife of a soldier who had seen service in France was standing silently with three other women near the world war monument during the dedication, Hach woman had had a man in service during the conflict. Each woman held a banner. One banner had a quotation from Robert Burns reading: Ye hypocrite: re these your pranks, To murder men and give God thanks, Desist for shame; proceed no further, God won't accept your thanks for murder. A female war shouter strode up to the women and ordered them to cut it out. When they continued to stand in silence she called a policeman who put the pickets out of business. Elevated Death Traps NEW YORK, May 9.—Lack of afety devices and obsolete wooden cars characterize the equipment of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. elevated lines, according to the city board of estimate. was ordered by the board following McLean’s Teapot Dome Policy Probed By Newspaper Editors (By The Federated Press) ATLANTIC CITY, N, J., May 9.— Investigation of unethical conduct of certain editors in connection with the Senate Teapot Dome inquiry has Been ordered by the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, in session at Atlantic City. Tho the mover of the resolution re- fused to mention names, it was as- sumed that, among others, the person aimed at was ex-Secretary Fall's fel- low-conspirator and intimate friend of Daugherty, Harding and Coolidge, Ned McLean, proprietor-editor of the Washington Post. Action yas taken after heated debate and over the pro- test of the chairman of the committee on ethical standards, P. B. Williams, Utica. UNEMPLOYMENT WIDESPREAD IN CENTRAL N, Y, Thousands Idle; Others On Part Time By H. M. WICKS. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., May 9.—~ Unemployment is ravaging the entire Capitol District of New York. Thou- sands upon thousands of workers have been forced from their homes to tramp the highways of the country, looking for an oportunity to sell their labor power. But the wave of unem- ployment that holds the country in its grip is still rising, and labor power is the most plentiful commodity on the market. This district, comprising the central part of New York state, owes its ex- istence to miscellaneous industries. There are a number of railroad cen- ters here, but aside from this the Gen- eral Electric Company of Schenectady is the largést industry. Here work- ers are on part time, with a reduced force. In Albany, the state capital, there is a pronounced decline in building, with the result that all building trades workers are forced to seek other fields. Being also a railroad center, there are thousands of railroad work- ers idle as the result of the nation- wide unemployment on the transpor- tation systems. Small Localities Hard Hit. It is the smaller localities that are hardest hit thus far. In Amsterdam center of carpet manufacturing, the large Sanford carpet works has closed down, throwing 3,000 workers onto the streets. Those few mills that are run- ning are on half time, affecting ap- proximately 10,000 more workers. In Johnstown and Gloversville, cen- ters of the glove industry, part time work is the rule, with vicious wage slashes reducing the workers’ stand- ard of living to an appalling degree. ‘The piece work scale has also been cut in this district, so that workers getting an average of $6 per day be- fore Christmas now get an average of $3.38. ’ As the glove industry in this sec- tion is one of the few survivals of the handicraft period, and much of the work is done in individual homes of workers under sweatshop conditions, a survey of the industry is next to impossible. Thruout all the hills and defend their class saninnere in any sort of struggle. ferent. they can be impelled into action by intelligent organization in the larger centers, which will aid its extension An investigation |to the smaller places. valleys within a radius of 25 miles women and children toil long hours at glove making for a pittance, just as their ancestors for four generations toiled before them. With the decline in industry here the misery and pov- erty is past description. May Have Political Effect. The wave of industrial depression is still rising and will soon reach the boiling point; that is, the point where the economic chaos will register defi- nite political upheavals. It is fortunate that this district ha: been chosen as the place to hold « state Labor Party convention, as the vigorous launching of a state party at this time would have a favorable ef- fect upon the development of the class consciousness of the unemployed and underpaid masses of the Capitol District. Not so long ago this section was one of the most favorable spots in the na- tion for independent political action, but the maladministration of the yel- low Socialist tribe that one time ruled Schenectady destroyed the movement until today there is not a remnant anywhere of class action on the polit- ical field. While the task of reaching the in- dustrial workers in the larger centers will be an ordinary one, the task of reaching the handicraft workers in the glove making industry will be dif- ficult and will require careful and in- tensive organization work. The economic situation of the home workers in this industry renders their organization into labor unions impos- sible, and also makes difficult their awakening to political consciousness. Economically they belong to the slum Proletariat. They are so low the scale of human existence that most of them haven't sufficient vitality to With the factory workers it is dif- Tho miserably underpaid, The unemployment in the Capitol a wreck on the line last June when |District furnishes the basis for an ef- _[many persons were killed, fective campaign this year, BERRY CANDIDACY A HUGE JOKE 10 OKLAHOMA LABOR Ambilicds Labo Faker Gets The Laugh (From thé Unionist Journal, Tulsa, Oklahoma.) TULSA, Okla., May 9.—George L. Berry’s candidacy for vice-president gets a loud He! Ha! from the Union- ist-Journal, organ of the Tulsa Trades and Labor Council. Here is what they say about the strike-breaking czar of the pressmen’s union, George L. Berry, presfient of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistant's Union, of North America, on February 29, filed his application with Secretary of State Brown of Ohio as a candidate for the office of vice-president of the United States on the democratic ticket. Berry’s declaration of can- didacy was filed by William Green, secretary of the United Mine Work- ers of America, and was signed by George H. H. Pratt and M. G. Berry. The above appeared in the coun- try’s newspapers and was given gen- eral publicity. Berry’s middle name is publicity—or should be. Candidacy a Joke. But his announcement for the vice-presidency of the United States brought only derisive smiles and sarcastic remarks. And, in truth, it is a joke. But it may prove a sorry joke for the pressmen’s ex- ecutive before the campaign even gets on its running legs. In the opinion of nine-tenths of the membership of the Allied Print- ing Trades Council, Berry's reputa- tion is well known. The only reason he is president of the pressmen’s union is because of the fact that he has formed an organization to per- petuate himself in office. And it is some organization. In fact, so strong is it that while the majority of the pressmen do not want him, he has engineered laws by which a handful can keep him in office. Embezzling Union Funds. Berry has been accused by the pressmen of embezzling a quarter of a million dollars from their treasury and using the pressmen’s home at Pressmen’s Home, Tenn., as a vehicle to further his selfish interests and wants. The case was called before a Chicago court about a year ago and Berry was ordered by the court to pay to the organiza- tion of which he was head the sum of something like $62,000. Whether he has maneuvered out of the pay- ment of this sum is unknown. And for a man with a past of this caliber to seek second highest of- fice in the United States shows just how much nerve he has. Of course, he will not get to first base. It would be a calamity if the people of the country would elect a man of this caliber. Even the pressmen will not vote for him. AUSTRALIA PLANS BIG BATTLESHIPS IN SPITE OF PACT (Staff Corréspondent of the Fed. Press) By W. FRANCIS AHERN. MELBOURNE, Australia, May 9.— The Australian federal government apparently does not intend to respect the provisions of the Washington arms conference any more than the other powers. It is true that the battle-cruiser Aus- tralia of 18,000 tons, is being sunk. But this can hardly be called a sac- rifice. The Australia would have passed into the hands of the wreckers en if the Washington conference had not been held. Concurrent with the decision to sink the Australia, the following semi- official statement has been issued: “In view of the large number of 10,000 ton, cruisers, with relatively heavy armaments and an extensive radius of action, that are now under construction by two of,sthe powers that participated in the Washington eonference, it is probable that ves- sels of the same class will be recom- mended to the Australian parlia- ment as the most suitable for con- struction to replace existing cruis- ers of the Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide class as they become ob- solete. This means that four old cruisers of this class, vessels of 5400 tons each are to be replaced by vessels of 10,000 tons each. That is to say, the Aus- tralian government is going to replace 21,600 tons of junk by an up-to-date naval construction of 40,000. Why Not Organize Asiatics Into Unions Mr. Andy F uruseth? WASHINGTON.—Water-tight exclu- sion of Asiatics pretending to be sea- men, from immigration into this coun- try, without impairing the seamen’s act, has been proposed in an amend- ment offered the immigration bill con- ferees by Andrew Furuseth. He pro- poses that each ship be compelled to carry seamen of its own national citi- zenship ouly, and that it be forced to carry awey as many men as it brings to our ports. Page Three SESS SSSSS SEES ae a Studebaker Theatre 418 S. Michigan Boulevard Tomorrow (Sunday) Morning Eleven o’Clock ercy Ward The Eminent Orator “Can Science Make the World | Safe For Democracy?” This Lecture Promises To Be Mr. Ward's Platform Masterpiece. 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