The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 10, 1924, Page 5

4a | | Tuesday, June 10, 1924 - FASCISM IS REAL _ MENACE IN U.S. LABOR MOVEMENT ~ Gurley Flynn Tells of Klan in Farrell Case American fascisti, the white-sheeted Ku Klux. Klan, were chiefly respon- sible for the conviction of Tony Kov- acoyich in Mercer, Pa., and will secure the conviction of the other five Farrell defendants if the organized labor and radical forces of this country do not make their protest. This was part of the challenge . of, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, speaking to the Amalgamated Food Workers recently on the “Men- ace of tha Fascisti and the Klan.” Fascios to Split Unions. The organized forces of reaction must be fought in this country, the Klan and the American Legion, and the newly organized Fascios which are being directed by Mussolini’s own forces, Miss Flynn stated. She displayed official papers dis- closing plans for forming Fascios in the United States to take the Italian workers out of the so-called “red” la- bor organizations of the garment workers and of the miners. No Laughing Matter, “We may laugh at the Klan, but they may very well have some serious purpose underneath which will over- take us when we are not expecting it. The Fascisti were laughed at first for their blackshirts but when they came with daggers and bombs and broke up every labor union and radical meeting place, office, press, and even entered the homes of well known active mem- bers of the movement it was no laugh- ing matter. “If any Italian paper in this country attempts to picture even mildly the terrible deeds of the Fas- cisti, Mussolini’s influence reaches in- to this country and hes him arrest- ed,” Miss Flynn flashed indignantly. Wouldn’t Try Mussolini Here. She related how Carlo Tresca, editor of “Il Martello,” was arrested in August for anti-Fascisti articles pub- lished earlier in the year and was con- victed in October for publishing in September, after his arrest, the ad of a book on birth control! The Fas- cist leader of New York openly said that his organization did not. want to have Mussolini and Fascism tried in an American court by American jurors. The Fascist did not want to have favorable publicity which would attend Tresca’s trial if based on his ‘anti-Fascism. Miss Flynn told how Tony Kovaco- vich, the steel worker tried and con- victed under the Pennsylvania sedi- tion law, had: lived peaceably in Far- rell for 12 years and then suddenly ‘was indicted for no other reason than tor membership in the Workers Party and subscribing to the Russian Com- munist paper of America, Miss Flynn’s final plea was for the liberal, labor and radical forces of this country to stand together against the encroachments of the reactionary Klan and Legion which threaten the very life of the labor movement. OUR DAILY A NEW SMART BLOUSE 4690, Figured silk was used for this model. The collar and vest may be of self or cont material. This is a good style for linen, silk, al or flannel, Thé Pattern is cut in 6 Sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, and 44 inches bust meas- ure. “To make the blouse for a 38 inch size requires 3 years of 32 inch ma- terial. To make the collar and vest of con- trasting material will require % yard v0 inches wide. Address: The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, II. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING & SUMMER 1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS. MOSCOW MASS DEMONSTRATIONS SHOW HOW SPLENDIDLY RUSSIA’S PROLETARIAT SUPPORTS SOVIETS By SADIE AMTER. MOSCOW, May 20.-—(By Mail.)—There is only one country in the world where the masses, that is, the workers, are solidly behind the government. That country is Russia, and that gov- ernment is the Soviet government. Anyone witnessing a demonstration in Moscow must be con- vinced that the Soviet government is a workers’ government 0 and that the masses, Communist and non-Communist, are fully conscious of this, and of the revolutionary role they are play- ing in the history of Russia and of the world. Masses Protest German Rald. On May 3, the Russian trade com- mission in Berlin was raided, and the comrades brutally beaten and arrest- ed. On May 11, all Russia registered @ protest in mass demonstration, Group after group in orderly pro- cession marched thru the streets, and past the headquarters of the Com- munist International bearing their red banners, singing revolutionary songs and shouting denunciations against the German government and the: Fas- cisti. Everybody Marches. There are practically no spectators lining the streets as in bourgeois coun- tries during parades, because every- one ig marching. All the children march with their schools or clubs. Sturdy Young Pioneers. - The young Pioneers are a splendid sight. They march in the costume of their particular group. Red blouses, red ties, stirring songs, a sturdy mass of young revolutionists. The streets are ablaze with all sorts of red banners inscribed with all the slogans of the class-conscious prole- tariat. Down the street they go, stu- dents, soldiers, children and workers. The air rings with music and songs and hurrahs. They turn into the great square before the Communist Interna- tional building. From three sides they come, forming their ranks and march- ing eight abreast. Laughing, singing, determined, a great splendid demon- stration of the mass power of the or- ganized proletariat. As they march, they shout their stirring slogans and it is a threat and a hope. “Lomg live the Dictatorship of the Proletariat” they cry and the mass answers with a great hurrah, “Long live the Russian Revolution, Long live the Communist Internation- al—Down with the Fascisti—Down with Ebert, Stresseman, Poincare,” and many, many times they shout, “Long live the Proletariat Revolution sic of the revolutionary funeral march and the International. Save for the music there Was a deep silence over all Moscow. Russia grieved and still grieves for.the loss of her greatest and dearest comrade, but the work- ers are determined to go on in spite of their loss and their sorrow. Why is it that only in Russia such mass demonstrations are possible? When Woodrow Wilson died—the “great hero,” did the American mass- es, which means the workers, demon- strate? Not by any means. Why should they? Was there ever any evidence that Wilson stood for a pro- gram or policies that would break the chains of the wage slaves of America? A mass demonstration means a pro- letarian demonstration and the prole- tarians will register their joy or their anger only when there is class organ- |ization and class. solidarity. Send in that Subscription Today. IRONWORKERS TO ATTACK BOSSES DISRUPTING UNION Counter Against Suit of Openshop Bosses By Ludwell Denny. Federated Press Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, June 9.—To make the union shop illegal is the declared pur- pose of the suit to be brot against the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Work- ers by the Iron league, New York's notorious openshop combine. Employ- ers consider the case as equal ‘in im- portance to the famous Danbury Hat- ters case. The iron 8 will ask for an injunction restraining union members from signing a contract agreeing to the union shop on the ground that such a contract is illegal of Germany” and “Long live the Union|}, jnterferring with rights of non- of Socialist Soviet Republics.” On November 7, and May 1, Moscow was decked in red like a great garden. The fronts of all the big buildings were draped in red. Everywhere were seen the red flag and the Commun- ist symbols. On the coldest day of the year, all Moscow again demonstrated, but with deepest sorrow. Lenin was dead. Moscow was draped in black. A: mil- lion marchers muffled to the eyes marched past the Red Square. Music was continual, the sad impressive mu- PATTERNS A DAINTY SUMMER FROCK FOR A “LITTLE MISS” 4683. Dotted Swiss or embroidered batiste would be pretty for this model. The style is also good for taffeta, for organdy or chiffon. 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Replying to the Iron league, the union proposed to bring suit against it for attempting to disrupt the union unless it “forthwith abandon these il- legal purposes.” Samuel Untermeyer, who exposed in the Lockwood investi- gation the illegal practices of the Iron league, is attorney for the union. He charges that the league’s lawlessness continues, and in a letter to the league proposes to test its right “by under- standing or concerted action to wage warfare against members of the union by means of unlawful discrimination against contractors who have chosen to enter into agreements with the union, or to give preference in the furnishing of building materials to the empolyers of non-union men.” Send in that Subscription Today. Farrell Steel Mills Closed; 600 Workers Out (Special to the Daily Worker.) FARRELL, Pa. June 9.—The Mer- cer Workers of the American Sheet & Tin Plate” Co,, subsidiary of the United State Steel corporation, has closed down and thrown 500 to 600 men out of work. Six mills out of eight have been operating until this week. Sa The Sharon Steel Hoop company, where Tony Kovacovich, recently con- victed for “sedition” because of mem- bership in the Workers’ party, was so long employed, will keep its 8, 9 and 19-inch mills open this week, The Youngstown plant will continue if full operation. Ay) No date has been set for the reopen- ing of the American Sheet & Tin, Plate Co, mills. It may be delayed re fy inn SDL) Sten P80 val, 0, Reraonin es June 23, of the other five men in- dicted with Tony Kocacovich, THE DAILY WORKER Page Five UNION ACTORS WIN VICTORY OVER BOSSES Equity ove. Has Ten Thousand Members (By the Federated Press) NEW YORK, June 9.—“It’s all over but the mopping up,” said President John Emergon, Actors’ Equity Asso- ciation, American Federation of La- bor, in describing to the annual meet- ing of the union in New York the union’s victory in securing a ten-year Equity contract with practically all the theatrical producers. On June 1, the expiration of the old contract, only seven productions re- mained which had not signed with the union, These have been closed by the walkout of ie 117 actors. Two of the shows are expected to reopen soon with union conditions. The annual meeting, which was in the nature of a victory demonstra- tion, reelected the Equity board by acclimation. Beginning with three members in 1913 the union now has over 10,0000 members, constituting about 90 per cent of the legitimate theater casts. Equity now controls the profession. The new contract provides for 80 per cent Equity cast’s, and does not touch wages and hours. The antiunion. managers of the struck productions must either sign independent contracts granting 100 per cent Equity casts or permit the Producing Managers’ Association to take over the union contracts signed by the new Managers’ Protective As- sociation. Managers in the former ofganization desiring a settlement with Equity formed the latter associa- tion when the ‘die-hard producers blocked an agreement. Send in that Subscription Today. Black Powder Menaces Miners, Profits Bosses Between 1908 and 1923 71 explos- ions in the coal mines of the United States have been caused directly by black blasting powdvr and. dynamite, according to the United States bureau of mines. These disasters killed 857 men and injured 173 others. Disasters of this kind have con- tinued in spite of the fact that the government hes stressed the special dangers of black blasting powder in gassy and dusty mines. The interior department of which the bureau is a part issues a warning that the con- tinued use of this explosive consti- tutes a great menace to the lives of miners. Combinations of black blast- ing powder and gas or coal dust, it states, are Vicious hazards all of which have resulted in terrible disas- ters. The callousness of the powder trust when the lives of wage earners are concerned is illustrated by its failure to design a safe keg for the marketing of black powder. These corporations which fatten on war con- tinue, according to the interior de- partment, to market this most dan- gerous industrial expolsive in danger- ous metal Kegs. British Labor Party Expects General Election in Fall (By the Federaféd Press)« NEW YORK, June 9.—Postpone- ment of the British Commonwealta Labor conference, which was to have met in August, % announced in re- ports received from London. Unset- tled political conditions in the empire is given as the reason. It is thought, however, that possibility of a general election in Britain in the autumn which would requre all the time and energies of the British Labor party, has influenced’ the decision to post- pone the conference. Tampa Painters Win Raise. TAMPA, Fla—Union painters in Tampa now receiving $1 an hour, an increase of almost 20 per cent over last year’s scale. Paperhangers will get $1.10, a corresponding raise. Send in that Subsoription Today. CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION QUIZZES CANDIDATES ON INJUNCTION STAND (By Federated Press.) NEW YORK, June 9.—Injunctions speech will be made issues in the coming political campaign if the plans of the American Civil Liberties union, New York, materialize. Letters to the leading republican and democratic oan’ by the union demanding that they deci. against unions and suppression of free didates for nomination have been sent are their position on these issues. Declaring that “injunctions such as those granted in the strike of rallk road shopmen have seriously curtaile ordinary rights of organization, speaking, meeting and picketing,” the letter | ‘dangerous to orderly progress, for re-} states that the present situation is pression inevitably breeds disorde: id for thousands of working men, the Over 100 men are still in prison solely for expression of opinion or mem- bership in radical organizations. A syndicalism and peace-time sedition laws penalizing civil liberty, the union | rting that 34 states have criminal asks if the prospective candidates favor repeal of such legislation. SECOND TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1924. 133 Boot and Shoe Workers, 1939 Mil- waukee Ave. 21 Bricklayers, 912 W. Monroe St. 378 Brick and Clay Workers, Paving Inspectors, 166 W. Washington. Calumet Joint Council, 514 W. 117th Street. 58 Carpenters, Diversey and Sheffield. 141 Carpenters, 1023 E. 75th St, 272 Carpenters, Moose Hall, Chicago Heights. 461 Carpenters, Witten’s Hall, High- land Park, Ill, 1786 Carpenters, Springfield and 26th. Clerks, Grocery, Street. Conductors Bidg., 10 Electricians, 505 S. State St. Electricians, 741 S. Western Ave. Engineers (Loc.), 5058 Wentworth Ave Engin 180 W, Washington (Loc.), 2488 W, Ro Engin velt (Loc.), 2647 W. 38th St. Eng Inspectors, 418 N. Clark St. | Federal Employes, 64 W. Randolph | Federal Union, 3046 W. 26th st. | F en and Enginemen, Ogden and Taylor. Hatters (Trimmers), 166 W. Wash- ington St. ‘ aid 15th St., Chi- W. Van Buren (Sleeping Car), Capitol a.m. Engin, Hod Carri 14 W. Harrison St. ent Workers, 328 W. ers, 77 W. Adams St. Leather Workers, 777 W. Adams St. ists, 2548 S. Homan Ave. inists, 4126 W. Lake St. Machinist: 234 Princeton re. Meat Cut 175 Washington Street. Meat Cutte: ie ne Fire , 9206 Houston Ave. and Oilers, 357 N, , 175 W. Washington St., Funk’s Hall, Oak Park. 20 W. Randolph St. N. E. cor. California and Ww. 0. inters, Trumbull and Ogden ‘ rs, Monroe and Peoria Sts. |, 1507 Ogden Ave, Plumbers, 180 W. W. Plumbers, 4111 W. Railway Carmen, Odd F. Biue Island, Ill., 7:30 p. m. hie tg Carmen, 11037 Michigan Plum! Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washington Street. Railway Clerks, Moose Hall, Chi- cago Heights. Railway Clerks, 5438 S. Halsted St. ail 509 W. Washing- Railway Cler Railroad Trainmen, 3359 W. Madi- 220 $s. 727 Teamsters (Auto), 220 $. Ashland 67 Tile Layers, 180 W. Washington St. Waiters, 234 W. Randolph ee 7 (Note—Unleus otherwise stated meetings are at 8p. m.) Council, all Send in that Subscription Today. Senate Inaction May Cost Dr. Levermore Fifty Thousand $ $ (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 9.—Dr, Charles Levermore of Brooklyn, N. Y., winner of the Bok peace award, probably will have to forego that ex- tra $50,000 he was to get if the sen- ate approved his plan. The senate may approve it at some future date, but not this session, A bill embodying the plan has not been introduced by a sympathetic senator, and that is essential to get the sen- ate’s opinion of it. Levermore has one other chance to get the $50,000, and that is by pop- ular indorsement of his plan in the nation-wide referendum. A provision was inserted in the conditions of the award to this effect, possibly ip view of the senate’s balky action. The senate investigation of alleged propaganda for the Bok peace plan has completely fizzled out. Inquiries at the office of Senator Mot chairman of the committee, to- day, as to why the investigation had been dropped, drew the an: : “Sen- ator Reed of Missouri has lost inter- est.” + 14 W. Harrison St.| and and La Vergne| ve. ey Carmen, 5324 S. Halsted! AUSTRALIA MAY DESERT BRITAIN FOR UNCLE SAM Labor Rule in Dutch on Trade Break By W. FRANCIS AHERN. (Staf€ Correspondent of the Fed. Press) SYDNEY, . S. W.—The decision of the British Labor government not to accept the imperial preference pro- gram of the Australian prime min- ister at the imperial conference held at London last November, has caused consternation among the wealthy pro- ducing and exporting interests in Aus- tralia, United States commerce with Australia will probably be the gainer. The Australian program was that Britain should give preference to Aus- tratian products by tariffs on food- stuffs. This would mean a dearer breakfast table for the British people and they refused sanction at the last election, This caused the defeat of the Baldwin government and brought Labor into power, pledged to institute a cheaper breakfast table. When the British Labor government turned down trade preference, the Australian federal government threat- ened reprisals. At Melbourne the Australian prime minister said: “If we cannot obtain the trade relations we desire with Britain, we will have to’ go-elsewhere.” This threat was apparently issued wthout a consideration of the fact that Britain is Australia’s best cus- tomer and always had been. In but- “\ter, wheat, wool, beef, mutton, lamb, tinned meats, and other products, Britian takes the preponderance of |supplies from Australia. At present the trend. is towards trade agreements with other countries prepared to give concessions to Aus- tralia. This move will tend to increase trade between Australia and the United States and Canada and also with other countries. Trade negotia- tions are proceeding with Canada, and a similar move will be made with the United States in the near future. 3,000 Workers Laid Off in Cleveland in May; More to Follow By J. A. HAMILTON. CLEVELAND, 0., June 9.—Over three ‘thousand workers, employed at 100 of the largest of Cleveland's 3500 manufacturing plants, joined the ar- my of the unemployed in May, accord- ing to the labor relations committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Thirty plants expect to lay off more men in June, while two plan to increase their forces. Average wages for common labor are reported as 44.7 cents per hour, with wage cuts contemplated by ten out of the hundred plants. Cleveland workers can derive com- fort from the facts (as so reported) that there is more unemployment in Detroit and also that employment in these hundred plants is still 37 per. be greater than in the low point of 1. Send in that Subseription Today. GRIGER & NOVAK | GENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS UNION MERCHANDISE 1934 W. CHICAGO AVENUE (Cor, Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 FRENCH GARY USING FILMS TO DOPE WORKERS Out to Surpass Dead Stinnes Record By PAUL HOYER (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) PARIS, France Who is the power |behind the French national bloc that controlled policy until the resignation of Premier Poincare? Commonly it is said that Poincare jis the tool of the French steel trust, the Comites des Forges. But this com- mittee is dominated by a single person who is to F 2 what Stinnes was to Germany, or what Gary is to the United States His name is Billiet, and he is presi- dent of the Union des Interests B nomiques, the great Federation of E nomic Interests of France. It is Bil- liet to whom Poincare bowed in the ast analysis. In fact, when the Poin- care cabinet fell the other day, it was Billiet whom the president of the re- public, Millerand, received first. Billiet controls sugar, oil, the mines and other undertakings. He is man- euvering to get the state tobacco mon- opoly into his hands. He would like to annex the telegraphs and tele- phones, now owned by the state, the railways and arsenals, and a few other industries. 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