The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1924, Page 5

~ Tuesday, June 17, 1924 STRIKE LOOMS LARGER IN MEN’S CLOTHING TRADES Amalgamated Warning New York Bosses By REBECCA GRECHT. NEW YORK, June 16.—A general strike in the men’s clothing trades in New York City, which was unanimous- ly decided upon at a meeting of exe- cutive and joint boards,of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers of Ameri- a, looms larger on the horizon each ay. Talk about the pending strike & creating quite a stir in the ranks oth of workers and manufacturers in the industry. Boases Scared. The. decision of the Amalgamated seems to have taken the employers by surprise. Tho no definite plans have yet been made public, and tho the bosses have received no official notice of a strike, its possibility caus- €s much disturbance among them. it is evident from statements made by the manufacturers that they are alarmed at the prospect of a stoppage of work, realizing that this is no empty rumor. They are trying to spread the impression that they do not fear any strike, at'the same time threatening to have their goods manu- factured in out-of-town scab shops if a strike is called. Workers Know How. Their attempt to frighten the work- ers with the prospect of a lost bat- tle; however, is an expression of their own uneasiness. Experience has shown that the Amalgamated knows how to conduct a strike, and that the clothing workers know how: to carry thru a successful struggle against the bosses. The manufacturers are aware that, when the strike will be declared, the workers in the industry have suffi- cient strength to force them to cease cutting wages and sending their work to non-union shops. It. is expected that plans for the strike, which ate to be drawn up by the Joint Boards of the men’s and chil- dren’s clothing trades, will shortly be decided. Police Patrol Kills Child. Little three-year-old Francis Phelan ‘was gaily riding his kiddie kar when ~—emmbhe-North Robey. street. police_patrol. backed out in answer to a call, and snuffed out his baby life in a moment. Of course the police did not hold the police for the child's death. PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Service La ea 445 SMITHFINLD ST. Near 7th Ave. {ter CENTER AVE., ‘Cor. Arthur Bt Con Pastime BIG BERTHA’S PAPA SAYS -SOVIETS WON'T LOSE REINS OF RUSSIA (Special to The Daily Worker) VIENNA, June 16—The boss of “Big Bertha,” the huge cannon which barked at Paris in the last big scrap over the bones on the continent, has just returned from a visit to. Trotzky in Moscow and an- nounced that the Soviet government is “sitting pretty” and won’t be budged, from within or without. Colonel Max Bauer, once the chief assistant of General Ludendorff on the German General Staff, is the gent, and was invited to visit Trotz- ky, head of the Red Army, because of his authoritative knowledge of military organization. Married Couple Starving as Cal’s Prosperity Fades ST. LOUIS, June’ 16—Cautious Cal’s prosperity is fading in this city —if ever it existed even in mild form. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Miles, 24 and 25 years old, were found in a city park on the verge of death from starvation, They told police they had gone three days without food, They had been sleeping at night under a railroad bridge near the park. Both were taken to the city hospital. Mrs. Miles is about to become a mother, According to his story, Miles recent- ly lost his job as a laborer at St. James, Mo., 101 miles from St. Louis. Penniless, the pair walked to St. Louis. Arriving here, the man hit the decidedly uncertain trail of a job and found none. Here he found more workers than jobs and no opening for him. Typos Put Collier’s Weekly on Scab List with Crowell’s Rags INDIANAPOLIS, June 16.—A call to arms against Collier's Weekly with its million and a quarter circulation is sounded by The Typographical Jour- nal, official organ of the printers’ union. Collier’s has gone from a union shop in New York to the non-union Crowell plant at Springfield, O. “Wherever a fight has. been wageq against the non-union publications of the Crowell company,” the union journal declares, ‘their circulation has been curtailed. Now that another magazine ‘has been added to the un- fair list, it means that more strenuous efforts must be made by the members of organized labor, and especially by menibers of the Intl. Typographical Union, if the campaign is to be suc- cessful.” LOS ANGELES, ATTENTION! HAND OVER TWO BITS NOW and you will be admitted to the AT LAST TOLEDO ATTENTION! “RUSSIA AND GERMANY” A Tale of Two Republics Is Coming for One Night Only to Toledo, _ SEE GERMAN WORKERS RIOTING—HUNGER AND STARVATION IS IT THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION? SEE RUSSIA RECONSTRUCTING » AND BUILDING THE NEW ORDER At the Theatre 1418-20 CHERRY ST. Tuesday Eve, June 17 7 to 11 Continuous Come Early and Bring Your Friends INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID. Send in that Subscription Today. cert given by the _Junior Section Young Workers League at the BROOKLYN HALL, Brooklyn & Soto Saturday Evening, June 21, 8 P. M. FARMER-LABOR PARTY ACCEPT THE DAILY WORKER TAFT GETS COLD CHALLENGE OF GOLD DUST TwiNs || FEET AS RADICAL (Continued from page 1) Insult to Labor. If Wall Street deliberately set out to. insult the workers and exploited farmers of America and scuttle its chances of plac- ing its favorite lackeys in the White House next January it could not have made a better selection. General Dawes is notorious from end to end of this country as a strike- | Dr. Marion L. Burton The man who discovered Cool- idge was one of the boys. breaker and openshopper. He is Wall ‘Street's general utility man. Since he first entered politics he has been an extreme reactionary. He-was a swivel chair warrior during fhe war and won his title because of his ability to keep away from the trenches until after the armistice was sfgned. * ~ Swore at Congress. When the Washington solons began to kick up a lot of dust over the hun- dreds of millions squandered during the war, Dawes was called-on to testi- fy. Instead of giving his testimony he bawled out the senators for their im- Pudence and said substantially that the war was worth every nickel wast- ed on it and more. Instead of beefing over the wasted war funds, senators would be serving the capitalists better if they put their own house in order and set about practicing economy in the administration of the nation’s business. F Dawes was given the job of clean- ing up the Capitol and he introduced his famous budget which showed pret- ty good on paper but did not prevent Fall from selling the nation’s oil, Forbes from selling the Department of Justice to the bootleggers. But all these men were bosom friends of Dawes so they were immune. He then organized his “Minute Men of the Constitution” to break the unions, but his ardor soon cooled. That scheme slumbers more or less for the present. Jerry On the Job. The next job this Wall Street gen- eral utility man was given was the assignment to make Europe safe for J. P. Morgan: Altho Washington (Géorge) warned us to keep out of all entangling alliances, Hell an’ Maria with the official approval of Coolidge, but without the sanction of Congress headed a committee of so-called ex- perts who labored long and arduously to bring Germany under the financial yoke of J. P. Morgan. He did an ex- cellent job for Morgan and he is now drafted to make the Morgan hold on the United States more secure than ever. With a good base the Wall Street pirates can carry on forays with greater confidence, So much for Morgan and the inter- national bankers. What about the American workers and exploited farm- ers who have been kicked in the face at the G. O. P. convention and had in- sult heaped upon injury by putting up the most perfect specimens of black reaction that this fertile breeding place of reactionaries could produce? The nomination of Coolidge .and Dawes gives an added impetus to the great movement of the producers of the United States toward building a class party that will cut all connec- tions with the capitalist parties, demo- cratic and republican, and organize to take. over the reigns of government from the exploiters and ultimately | Wadsworth of N. Y. “Om atin Cisne Empire State Senator who whispered for Wall Street at Cleveland. establish the rule of the workers on the ruins of this robber capitalist sys- tem. Labor Accepts Challenge. The answer to Coolidge, Dawes and their Wall Street masters will be given by the great Farmer-Labor con- vention that will meet in St. Paul on Tuesday. A class party representing the interests and the aims of labor will be the reply of the militant work- ers and exploited farmers to the Wall Street challenge. Spanish Dictator Raids Labor Unions; Imprisons Leaders 6 MADRID, June 16.—The military dictatorship of Spain has received the new minister from Guatemala, Don Adrian Resines, and the one from Peru, Eduardo Leguia of Peru. Amer- ican imperialism owns the Leguias, body and soul. MADRID, June 16.—The Vigilance committee of Spain is making numer- ous raids on labor organizations, im- prisoning many organizers and offi- elals. BARCELONA, Spain, June 16.—In Solidaridad Obrera, syndicalist organ, the following . statement appears: “The workers organizations have nothing to do with individual acts of violence that occur from time to time. We know that individual. acts of ‘vio- lence never solve any problems and that they are a detriment in the steady progress of the labor move- ment. ’ : Duluth Clothing Strike Endorsed i . by Central Bodies DULUTH, Minn., June 16.—Three American Federation of Labor city central bodies are now backing the strike at the F. A. Patrick & Co, cloth- ing shop which has been under way for 13 weeks. The Duluth central body endorsed the cause of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers’ strike, followed by the Superior (Wis.) and the Minneapolis trades /assembl: About 125 work- ers are involvéd, : ee yy Minnesota Farmer- Labor Party Loses No Friend in “Star” MINNEAPOLIS, June 16.—‘Outside the money loss,” declares the Minne- sota Union Advocate, official organ of the Minnesota State Federation of La- bor, on the sale by receiver of the Minnesota Star, “the Farmer-Labor movement of Minnesota will suffer no loss and will be saved a great deal of anxiety. The paper log ago lost much of its vitality as an organ of the progressives and more often hurt than helped the cause for which it was established. It will continue as it has in the past in the policy which is now well known.” Thomas Van Lear, John Thompson and H. D. Bratter are among the or- ganizers of t new corporation, in which the Great Northern railroad is suspected of having an influence. Miners Strike Part Time in Sympathy with Ruhr Workers (By Federated Press.) MEUSELWITZ, Germany, June 16. At a meeting of the miners’ dele- gates from central Germany it was decided to go on a sympathetic strike with the miners in the Ruhr valley, Upper Silesia, and the Saxon district of at work al {The Ruhr miners are at work 1 The strike takes the form, not of stopping all work, but of leaving the pits after eight hours, At present cen- tral sae miners are working nine and ten hours. Send in that Subscription Today! BREEZES BLOW Yields to Striker in Case —Before Election By LAURENCE TODD. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, June 16.—Are the election returns already in, from Iowa and Nebraska and South Dakota, con- clusive? Do coming political storm- clouds cast a long shadow into the courts? Someone has said the su- preme court merely follows the elec- tion returns. Anyhow, the supreme court of ‘the United States has just made two moves away from a 14th century view of the labor struggle. Picketing Not Violation. In the case broughtsby a St. Louis firm, the Herkert & Meisel Truck Co., picketed during a strike by the local union of the Leather Workers in that city, Chief Justice Taft announces a decision that the picketing was not in violation of the federal law kgainst restraint of interstate commerce. The strikers may have illegally picketed he factory, and may have illegally in- timidated strikebreakers, but the fact that they reduced production in that factory was not to be involved in in. terstate commerce law. There could be no commerce until the goods were produced. .Hence the trucking com- pany had no right to demand damages from the strikers for the loss of busi- ness which it would otherwise have done with the factory. Ordinary horse-sense would seem- ingly have established the rule when the claim was originally set up in the lower federal court, but so care- fully picked -have been the federal judges in St. Louis that the decision was given against the strikers. Per- haps the same district judge would have decided that the strikers owed damages to all the merchants with whom the profits of the struck shop would ordinarily have been spent; however, no such extension of strike- liability has yet been asserted. Now Taft warns the district judge that he has gone too far. 2 Lawful to Stop Production. Quoting his decision in the Coro- -jnado Coal case of two years ago, the chief justice recalled that he then held that even a conspiracy by the coal miners to prevent shipment of 75 per cent of the output of the mine, which output would have been shipped in interstate commerce, was not a violation of the Sherman law. The strike was aimed at preventing pro- duction, and‘that aim was lawful. The second move of the court was its refusal to review the constitution- ality of that part of the California in- dustrial accident commission act which authorizes the commission to award damages to workers injured upon vessels in navigable waters. Suit to nullify this protection to crews of bay and river steamboats was brought by the North Pacific Steam- ship Co. Send in that Subscription Today. Sheet Metal Men Meet in Montreal WASHINGTON, June 16.— Wages average about $1 an hour, the hours are eight daily, and written agree- ments protect a majority of the mem- bership, in the. Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers’ International Alliance, which will meet in its 21st general convention at Montreal on July 21. William L. Sullivan, general secre- tary-treasurer at headquarters here, states that approximately 200 dele- gates, representing 2¢,000 members in good standing, will meet in Montreal. Membership has steadily increased during the building boom, but employ- ment has been on the down grade since January Ist. The loss in em- Ployment since last June is about 25 per cent. On the other hand, many locals have secured increases fn wag- es. St. Louis and Pittsburgh have es- tablished a rate of $11 a day, New York $10.50 and Chicago $10, while the rate in the smaller cities and towns is 90 to 95c¢ an hour, RUSSIAN GRAIN CROP WILL BE BIG THIS YEAR SAYS REPORT (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 16.—Russia will have a good crop of grain this year and will be able to export a ge quantity, according to the Central Statistical Bureau report. Pregarin, head of the grain export section of the foreign trade office, has just re- turned from a trip to Germany, Hol- land and England where he con- ferred with capitalists about a loan ir the building of new grain elevators. He reports that Russia is at last able to com- pete successfully with America in the export of grain, especially rye. \ PITTSBURGH POLICE PLANNED GAS ATTACK AGAINST GAR STRIKERS | (Special to the Daily Worker.) PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 16.—The police spent $5,617 for emergency “weapons” in anticipation of the car strike here, according to the bill just authorized for payment by the city council. The police bought 150 gas maces at $3,037, 1,000 gas cart- ridges for maces at $900, 100 gas Grenades at $660, 10 gas tanks for $838, and 30 reloads for gas tanks at $182, The city council had voted a fund of $25,000 to be at the may- or’s disposal to ‘maintain peace and order.” And the taxpayers foot the bills! Reds Help German Chemical Strikers Win Wage Increase (By The Federated Press) SPEYER, Germany, June .16.— After a strike of 10 weeks, the work ers in the chemical industry of Spey- er, employed in the Badische Anilin and Sodafabrik, have a partial victory. The workers lose a straight 8-hour day, but get slightly better wages. The strike is a symptom of the zradual passing of power into the iands of the radicals. Weeks ago the trade union leaders counselled resum- ing work and accepted terms. But the Communists who were well re- presented among the workers council delegates, prevailed upon the rank and file to hold out. If the workers were able to hold out so long, it was chiefly due to the fact that the International Workers’ Aid installed soup kitchens and pre- vented starving out the workers. The struggle was marked by much police ruthlessness. Work Accidents Increase. ALBANY, N. Y., June16.—Increase in fatal accidents on construction jobs in all of the compensation districts in New York state, is reported by State Industrial Commissioner Bernard L. Shientag. Three women and 127 men workers were killed in the state in May. Every new subscriber increases the influence of the DAILY WORKER. BRICKLAYERS. JOIN STRIKE OF IRONWORKERS Engineers and Laborers Walkout, Too By Federated Press. NEW YORK, June 16.—Refusing te call their action a sympathetic strike, 2,000 bricklayers, hoisting engineers and laborers ha walked out on con- struction jobs which are struck” by iron workers in New York. ,Danger to other workers on the job because jincompetent non-union iron workers jare employed is given as the reason for the walkout % “The men are being pulled off the jobs for their own protection,” says John Donnelly, business agent Of | Bricklayers’ Local 34 } “One of our members was killed on ja 7th Ave. job thru the incompetence of iron workers emplo on it. An apprentice w med for life. There is constant from falling bee material.” unnecessary’ danger s, derricks and other Practically all of the open shop contractors are affected in New York city and northern ow Jersey. The International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Jron Work- ers, which called the strike on May 1 for a wage increase from $10.50 to $12 and union recognition, has won its fight on most of the large construe- tion jobs. But some of the smailer contractors have been able to- hold out against the union by the support of the powerful open shop combine, the Iron league. The latter organiza- tion has announced that it is bringing suit to make the union shop illegal. Furniture Movers Strike to Enforce Recent Settlement ST. LOUIS, June 16.—Van drivers and furniture mover: numbering about 200, are on strike to force com- Pliance with an agreement which was the basis of a strike settlement a month ago. Three hundred men at work for independent firms are not affected by the walkout. The strike was called because “the combine re- fused to pay overtime. f Are you self-conscious about the impression you make on people? pa appearance has a lot to do with the way you feel. 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