The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 13, 1924, Page 1

= eS ~~ THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE §TANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 48. SEAT IN MEET OF THE 1. L. 6. W, Hits Expulsions As Re- petitions of 1919 (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., May 12.—The ax of the Sigman administration in the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ union fell again in the convén- tion here when George Halperin, del- egate of Local 66, of New York, was unseated by a vote of 192 to 35, with 15 unseated delegates not voting. The charges against Halperin were the usual ones of membership in the Trade Union Educational league, to which was added that of slandering the officials of the Sigman regime. He was also attacked as a member of the Workers party, and for ~not protesting against the criticism of the Freiheit, the Jewish Communist daily, leveled against Sigman rule. Halperin Replies. In his reply to the attacks made upon him, Halperin charged that the Sigman dictatorship considered it criminal if a union member urged his local {% pass resolutions requesting the general executive board to re- scind the decree outlawing the T. U. E. L., and instructing its convention delegate to vote against the Sigman expulsion policy, tho the constitution of the union declares the convention to which all matters of disagreement may be brought. Halperin charged that the whole crusade growing out of the expulsion Policy was a campaign against the political movement of the workers, represented by the Workers party. He therefore charged it was an attack on the union’s members because of their political views. Halperin charged that the official- dom of the international were follow- ing the same tactics pursued by the Socialist party, in 1919,-when the re- action within the party expelled more then half the membership in order to}: maintain its leadership. He charged that the 1919 expulsions in the Socialist Party was the first shot fired against the left wing movement in this country. One delegate had the temerity to (Continued on Page 2.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES POINCARE BURIED B DENY HALPERIN THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Ch icago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. POINCARE RETURNS TO PARIS, COUNTS VOTES, DECIDES 10 RESIGN PARIS, May 12.—Premier Poin- care has decided that he must re- sign as a result of the defeat of the national bloc in the parliamentary elections. The premier returned hurriedly to Paris this afternoon from a week-end in the country, and con- sulted with some of his ministers, at which time his decision to resign was reached. Edouard Herriot, leader of the Radical Socialists, is believed likely to succeed Poincare, and Aristide Briand, former premier, may be- come foreign minister. Practically complete returns from Sunday’s elections showed that the national bloc, which has been in power in France since 1919, has lost its majority in the chamber of deputies. Millerand himself may resign the presidency, but cannot do so until the chamber meets. PITTSBURGH'S GAR STRIKE Is STILL SCABLESS Workers’ Power Brings Arbitration Talk (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 12— Pittsburgh’s street car strike ended this afternoon. By a vote of 1,073 to 920, the striking motormen and con- ductors voted to return to work at once, The carmen accepted a pro- posal presented by mediators which provided that the present wage scale, which carries a maximum of 67 cents an hour, be continued for the next two years; that there shall pens change in working conditions. that the company pay one-half the cost of one uniform for each employe every year. PITTSBURGH, May 12—The Pitts- burgh Railways company’s announce- ment that it would run cars Monday morning with strikebreakers turned out to be a monster bluff. ATTACK OF SIGMAN MACHINE ON MILITANTS CULMINATES IN UNSEATING OF 8 DELEGATES FROM LOCAL NO. 9 BOSTON, May 12.—Charges that the case against Local No. 9, New In Chicago, by mail, 8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. York, was a deliberate frame-up by the International officialdom, and that lynch law was replacing justice in the organization were made to-day at the convention of the International. The question at issue was the recommenda- tion of the Credentials Committee to unseat 8 out of the 10 delegates from Local No, 9, and to place the local under the direct supervision of the Cen- eral Executive Board of the union. Louis Hyman, manager of Local No. 9, stated in a bitter and eloquent attack upon the International administration, that flimsy evidence from an unreliable source wai being used by the officials to blackmail regularly elected delegates in a determined effort to wrest control of the local out of the hands of the progressive elements and place it under the dictatorship of Iron Workers Force the official machine. He accused the officials of having used their power to prevent the elec- tion to the convention of well-known, active trade unionists who disagreed with the policies of the administra- tion in order to pack the convention with representatives of their own choosing who would assure them a majority. This attack came after the report of Dubinsky, secretary of the credentials committee, Dubinsky charged eight of the delegates with having at- tended a meeting where delegates to the convention were nominated. Delegate Hyman then took the floor and in a scathing denunciation of the international policy of suppression and\ ‘oercion pointed out that no evi- denct of the secret nominating cau- cus existed other than the word of an irresponsible meriber of the local. (Continued on Page 2.) New York Bosses To Sign New Contract NEW YORK, May 12.—Despite the powerful openshop combine in the steel and iron trade,,the Architectural Iron, Bronze and Structural Workers’ union, has signed new contracts pro- tecting 1500 of the 2600 inside or shop iron workers in Greater New York. The Allied Metal Building Industries, branch of the Iron league openshop organization, still controls a group of small employers by threatening to shut off raw materials if they: sign with the union. To strike these small shops one at a time is now the policy of the union, which has called out the men at the Stolz Iron Works, The Mercury Iron Works has just signed without a strike, and negotiations are in process with the Prudential shop. BURNS CHASED RADICALS WHILE U. S. KILLERS HUNG UP RECORD THAT WILL MAKE BRITONS STEP LIVELY (By the Federated Press) NEW YORK, May 12.—While the U. and its detectives under William Burns S. department of justice were chasing red bomb throwers which did not exist, 10,000 murders were committed in the United States in 1923 and many went unpunished. These figures are given out by Dr. Frederick Ls Hoffman, crime expert for the Prudential Insurance Co. The increase he says is from 9 per 100,000 in 1922 to 10.2 in 1923, Fifty times as many persons were murdered in this country as in England and Wales, and twenty-five times as many on the basis of comparative population, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1924 STRIKE STRONG WHILE PERLSTEIN STAYS INBOSTON “Dennie” And Taylor Whet Teeth For 52 The lull in the garment strike here does not require that vice-president Meyer Perlstein leave the exhilirat- ing scene of the convention of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, in Boston, according to Miss Romer, Perlstein’s secretary. The vice-president had expected to come back about the middle of this week if the situation here demanded, but his plan now is to return at the end of the following week. No court cases come up today, but tomorrow will find Judge Charles M. Foell running a hot race with Judge “Dennie” Sullivan in adjoining court rooms. Some fifty-two cases are slat- ed for Sullivan’s annoyance and about twenty for Judge Foell. Taylor Keeps Dennie in Trim, “Dennie” wilt undoubtedly win for the amount of fines imposed, even if the sum is averaged by the number of pickets tried. Sullivan was in a mean mood when he last sentenced the garment strikers and dosed them out jail sentences as well as fines of $250 or more apiece. He may be in better humor tomorrow and satis- fy the bosses a little less, tho Dudley Taylor, attorney for the dress manu- facturers, keep Sullivan toeing the mark of severe sentences pretty Closely. One of the cases to come before Sullivan is that of Meyer Barkan, who spent another night in the lousy coun- ty jail when he was arrested for con- tempt. This is the second time Bar- kan has been treated to the inhospit- able qnarters*of the-jail, ~~. - Fifty Cases Up. The other cases coming before Sul- livan tomorrow are those of: Gertrude Hansen, Mary Shinska, Dora. Rubin, Ida Borkan, Sarah Orlove, Rebecca Shore, Rose Pester, Ida Kaufmann, Pauline Bernhardt, Martha Rybicka, Anna Doleschek, Add Abrams, Tillie Green, Ida Geffin, Rose Katz, Jose- phine Leone, Martha Wentor, Frieda Forbahn, Lena Stanish, Yettie Katz, Clara Krasnowsky, Fanny Batt, Sara Shapiro, Leah Katofsky, Libby Shenk- man, Ester Gittelman, Haddie Gren- berg, Frieda Nitchberg, Fanny Jacoby, Rose Cohen, Sofia Rosen, Sara Wood, Mary Armoto, Angel Matusisiak, Rose Weiner, Gussie Abramowitz, Nanna Peterson, Fannie Kramer, Sylvia Krause, Dora Hoffman, Marian Bros- teck, Etella Spaczeck, Jacob Hoffman, Bessie Beffield, Dora Samuelson, Ca- roline Heiner, Anna Sax, Esther Peg- noff and Saddie Beikoff. Bosses Dicker. Several bosses are negotiating with the union for terms but they are un- willing to accept the demands made by the garment workers when they went out on strike, February 27th. It is ‘possible when vice-president Perl- stein returns that the bosses and the union officials may reach some settle- ment, but the commitee in charge of the strike in Perlstein’s absence have no authority to compromise the strike demands to gain a settlement with any boss. The summer dress season should be well on in the shops by now but this season has been slack and to some extent the dullness of trade worked against the striking dressmfikers. The regular work should pick up within a few weeks and make the bosses more eager to come to terms. The strikers are determined to hold their lines intact until they can go back to work on the conditions They themselves have set. If they can sur- vive this critical short period as well as they have the long weeks past of the strike, they surely should gain the victory they are hoping for. Champion Military Glutton Assails The Women Peace Workers (By The Fi id Press) WASHINGTON, y 12.—General Barnett, former head of the Marine corps, has told the Republican Wom- en’s Campaign Training school, in ses- sion here, that the recent congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, headed by Jane Addams, was a “treasonable society,” made up chiefly of foreigners who came here to “corrupt our people with false id of national peace.” Barnett is one of the capital's ablest diners, dancers and medal carriers, and for years has appeared weekly in the society columns, ‘| company’s Pullman Bosses Agree To Meet With Strikers Brave Carmen’s Fight Forces Conference For the first time in its 59 years of labor fighting the Pull- man company yesterday agreed to meet with a duly elected strikers committee. First refusing to recognize that a strike existed, next refus- ing to deal with a strikers’ com- mittee, the steel car company was finally forced by the loss of valuable contracts to get down to realities. Twelve Strikers Elected. The strikers chose a body of twelve men to represent them before the con- ference in the Palace Building late that afternoon. The committee was instructed to give its report to the strikers that same evening so that ac- tion could be taken. Full reports of the workers’ deci- sions will be given in the next issue of the DAILY WORKER. The conference was arranged by Ben Marshman, official mediator of the department of labor who has been drawn into the strike, which is prov- ing so costly for, the rich steel car company. Three Parties At Conference. But the conference which the com- pany consented to, is not a pure and simple conference of workers and em- ployers. There is a third element present—the so-called “conciliating committees” from the departments of the plant not on strike. Most of the members of these departmental com- mittees are company men. Their jobs depend on acquiesence in the Three pafties are represented at this conference: the twelve elected strikers, twelve company men not on strike and McLaren, general manager of the Pullman plant. Company Wants Pullman Terms. Marshman admitted that xtanager McLaren was eager to settle the strike and was willing to make some concessions, but he said the Pullman boss asserted the reduced wage would stand. “Doesn’t that.mean that he wants to settle the strike on the Pullman company’s own terms?” asked a re- porter for the DAILY WORKER. “Yes, that’s about it,” said the de- partment of labor conciliator. Conference Result Reported. In his speech to the strikers at the noon meeting, the second big mass meeting of the day in Stancik’s hall, Marshman reported the result of his confab with the Pullman boss that morning, McLaren’s final decision to meet with the union committee. Company Wants to Blacklist. He said that McLaren tried to in- sist on blacklisting six leading spirits among the strikers and would not sit on a committee with these men. Finally McLaren and “efficiency,ex-) pert” Francis Gunn said they might’ (Continued on Page 2.) PULLMAN STRIKE HEAD TELLS WORKERS ABOUT BASIS OF STRUGGLE John Holmgren, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Railway Car- men, told the workers at the mass meeting that they had struck a blow at the wage cutting policy of the Pullman company that would be jong remembered; he urged them whatever else they did, to unite in ‘the labor make their next battle still more effective. He painted an inspiring picture of the class struggle and the world la- bor movement, which is fighting in Germany against the Morgan plan to’ enslave the workers of Europe. Asking for support of the DAILY WORKER, he showed how this newspaper, which gave the strikers their only publicity support, would keep them informed on the great world issues of labor. As a climax to his speech, he pointed out the necessity of cla conscious political action. He show- ed how United States senators and congressmen cared nothing for the workers and bound the chains around the necks of the child slaves of this country. He urged the work- ers to fill the posts of government with the members of their own class. te AEBao 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Y THE VOTES OF LEFT PARTIES FRENCH COMMUNISTS ARE CLOSE BEHINDW Workers! Farmers! The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents Demand: POINGARE’S NATIONAL BLOC IN PARIS AS ELECTIONS SHOW BIG LABOR PROGRESS (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, May 12.—Communists scored heavily in Sunday’s elections. Altho no figures have been received, of the total vote, or the number of party members elected to the chamber of depu- ties, it is reported that the Communist Party ran second only to the Poincare National Bloc in Paris, that carried the metropolis by only a slight majority. The Communists swept Bourges, an industrial and railway center in Central France. In fact, labor everywhere thruout the big French industrial centers showed a big revolutionary drift, just as in the recent German elections. The latest returns indicated that the anti-Poincare parties, including the Communists, secured 229 seats, as against 153 for the National Bloc, with 202 results yet to be announced, The extent to which the voters were aroused by the issues at stake is shown by the fact that 80 per cent of the voters, an unusually high number for France, with strong syndicalist tendencies among her workers, went to the polls on Sunday. 3 : Victory for the lefts was achieved by overwhelming majorities in the provinces. When Poin- HEAVY DECREASE IN STEEL ORDERS ANNOUNCED BY TRUST NEW YORK, May 12.—The U. S. Steel corporation figures announced at noon yesterday show a decrease in the unfilled tonnage of 574,360 tons during April. On April 30 the unfilled tonnage stood 4,208,447 tons against 4,728,807 on March 31, 4,912,901 on February 29, 1924, and 7,288,509 on April 30, 1923. WALL STREET JOURNAL “BLACKSHIRT” EDITORIAL READ IN THE SENATE (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, May 12—Sen. Shipstead, during debate on the Lock- wood matter, in a ringing voice, read to the Senate the “Blackshirts, On To Washington,” article published by the Wall Street Journal of March 17th, and the later editorial in the paper declaring that 48 Mussolinis are needed ——one in each state—as a sample of reactionary lawlessness in America. GERMAN WORKERS | MURDERED BY IFASCISTI ARMY Kaiserists Reviewed By Ludendorff (Special to The Daily Worker; HALLE, Germany, May 12.—With- out a murmur of protest from the So- cialist president of Germany, 70,000 Fascisti followers of the kaiser and bitter foes of the German republic, helmeted and armed to the teeth, marched in parade past Generals Lu- dendorff, Hindenburg and other mon- archists, who were gathered here to unveil a statute to General Moltke, to replace one destroyed by the Com- munists after the Hohenzollern head fled into Holland. The Fascist came from all parts of Germany in special trains. They were out for the blood of the work- ers, and wherever they saw a group of workers gathered they fired upon them. It is estimated that ten work- ers were killed, hundreds injured and over 500 jailed. Workers marching along the highways were fired upon from behind fences by Fascisti assas- sins. Armored cars were used by the monarchists to storm a brewery in which the workers sought protection. Monarchist speakers, advocating the overthrow of the republic, shouted for the kaiser’s return. “We will never rest until we have a kaiser again,” was a usual phrase. The re- actionary mob in arms was called “the Defensive Alliance of Overland Young German Order.” Ludendorff reviewed the Fascisti, dressed in his gold braid, red trousers and spiked helmet. He did not look fike the same general who threw himself in the gutter when the barroom Fascisti rebellion in Munich fizzled. While this monarchist carnival was going on in Halle, the Ruhr miners were on strike and had sucaeeded in paralyzing industry completely. War Mad Senator Now Shows Concern For Poor Farmers (By The Fe ed Press) WASHINGTON, May 12.— Senator Norbeck of South Dakota, who was made governor of his state, during the war hysteria, on the issue of jail- ing or otherwise suppressing the Non- partisan League organizers, has changed his mind. The man who saw only pro-Germanism, bolshevism and red ruin in the Nonpartisan League doctrine that the farmer must It given the aid of the government in his struggle to get a free market for his products, told the Senate, in A. C. Townley's own words, that “the far- mer must buy in a controlled market and sell in a competitive one, and then you tell him to solve all his own troubles by organizing co-operative stores when what he wants is a day's wage by which he can live.” FRENCH FRANC DROPS AS POINCARE’S BLOC GOES DOWN 10 DEFEAT PARIS, May 12-—-The French franc dropped sharply today to 17.40 to the dollar when it became apparent the government had been defeated in the national elections. Saturday's closing was at 16.75. The victory of the parties of tho left over Poincare is considered as making certain a settlement of the reparations problem on the basis of the experts’ report. *care piled up a small majority in Paris, the residents of the capital went to their beds be- lieving him to have won. Leaders of the left claim the result is an overwhelming repu- diation of Poincare’s foreign policies, including occupation of the Ruhr and insistence upon reservations to the experts’ re- port. The premier’s supporters, however, claim the overthrow was due to dissatisfaction with the cost of living, recent raising of the tax rate and other do- mestic matters. The new chamber, despite what Poincare’s followers say, will undoubtedly affect modifi- cation of France’s foreign poli- cies. The group which will control the chamber of deputies, favors modera- tion towards Germany. Many of Poin- care’s foreign policies are certain to be replaced by others of a conciliatory nature, higil, Jule es The premier may resign at once and it is possible that President Miller- and, who created the national bloc, which has met its first defeat, may re- sign as well. Premier Poincare and the national bloc have been in power in France for five years, and the overwhelming na- (Continued on Page 2.) PEORIA CONVENTiO® CF UMIVED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA WILL DISCUSS LIVE PROBLEMS The convention of the United Mine Workers of Illinois which opens today in Peoria promises to be the hottest of the many hot conventions held by the miners of District 12. The issues before the convention that will be most hotly con- tested and bitterly fought are the appointive power of the presi- dent and the reinstatement of Alexander Howat, former presi- dent of the Kansas miners. Ap- proximately 800 delegates will be present. Other questions to be taken up will be a demand for a special convention to consider charges against John L. Lewis, action against the Ku Klux Klan, which is attempting to gain control of the miners’ union in the interests of the coal barons; the abol- ition of eleven sub-districts; inaugura- tion of an old age pension fund; and demands that employes.on miners’ union payrolls now appointed shall in the future be elected. There is no doubt where the Illinois miners stand on the question of the reinstatement of Alexander Howat. During the early days of the success- ful effort on the part of the bully Lewis to drive his rival out of the or- ganization, District 12 poured thei money like water into Kansas to sup- port the miners who were on strike padi si Modern Industry Cause Gf Divorce, Drives Women From Home JACKSON, Mich., vorces are increasing because the American woman. “has been driven out of the home” by economic and so- cial forces, Miss Marion Leonard, |dean of women at the University of | Illinois, told the Michigan Federation jof Business and Professional Wom- en’s Clubs here. Dean Leonard pointed out that | women are becoming socially and eco- |nomically independent. Over 8,500 |American women are employed in {gainful occupations, she told her hear- ers. The American woman, she said, has been driven out of the home by the high cost of living, by the inven- May 12. —Di- there against the Kansas Industrial tion of labor-saving devices which Slave Law. Not alone were the min-|&¥e her more leisure; by the public ers assailed by the entire power of |8Ch00ls, where her children are taken i off her hands during the day, and by the state, but they were treacherously motor cars, country clubs and other (Continued on Page 2.) outside entertainments.” STEEL COMPANIES PLANNING TO BESTOW WAGE SLASH ON SLAVES; WILL PAY FOR MUNDELEIN FEED (By the Federated Press) NEW YORK, May 12.—Wall Street is full of reports received from pimps gare that the independent steel companies are on the point of cutting the yotay Pye wages. Some of the com- panies are now working onl per cent capacity due to the recent slump in orders. Judge Gary denies knowledge of the proposed cut but has stated that the policy of the U. S. Steel Cor- poration, would be to follow the independents in the matter of wont reductions. Republic Iron and Steel and Youngstown Sheet _ and Tube are among the big independents said to be planning a f