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Upholsterers Move to Page Two rere (corr eens UNIONIZING OF BEDDING TRADE RILLED BY KOHN Desert Mattress Men The Upholsterers’ International Un- ion of North America, meeting in con- vention at the Morrison Hotel, gave some consideration to the question of amalgamation into industrial unions, and organization of the unorganized. Many of the delegates spoke against a resolution brot in by Vice-President Hatch, and backed by President Will lam Kohn, which declared that since the improvement of machinery had turned the mattress making workers into “common laborers,” no more money would be spent on organiza tlon of this trade, which is affiliated with the Upholsterers’ Union, and nothing more be done to organize the trade. After a long debate an amend- ment was passed referring the resolu tion to the executive board. Delegate Solvihoff, of the New York local union, led the fight against this atrocious resolution, The organiza the entire bedding trade was » he said, and the resolution rve notice to the bosses that they can go ahead and reduce wages. A Bosses’ Resolution, “The International bedding associa- tion would pay thousands of dollars to have such a resolution passed,” said Colvihoff. “True, there has been a division of labor, but are we above organizing common laborers? They have a strong union. Are we to con- demn the workers in the bedding trade to slavery at $15.00 a week?” After Solvihoff’s speech demanding FARRINGTON FIGHTS EXPOSURE OF TREASURE LOOTING HIS MACHINE AUDITORS CONCEALED FOR YEARS By ALEX REID (Secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee.) ARTICLE Iv, Systematic looting of the Illinois miners’ traesury by a set of official pirat and jail birds to an extent never equalled in the Miners’ Union is being carried on at the present time. The stench calls to high heaven for a clean-up, which the bureaucracy is determined the miners will not get, And in their determination to cover up the evidence, records are being grabbed and destroyed wholesale. It is well for the fakers that they destroy them, because if the miners knew one-tenth of what is taking place the apaches would be re ed to quarters where they would be un- able to continue their union busting. Dominick Couldn’t Get Away One parrot, willing,togl of the Far- rington machine, has gone to board with his Uncle Samue} for, from one to fourteen yea for getting away with approximately, $2,000 in death benefits, and overpaid. per capita tax to the sub-district, district, and inter- national organizations, Suring a pe- riod covering four years. The books | haye been audited time and again in| the last four years and the theft not discovered by the district auditors until it wa: id bare by, Local Union 3495 local officials, Dominick Teneski, financial. secret- ary of Local Union, 3495. in gathering to himself the miners’ money, adopted a novel method of petty larceny. He knowingly overpaid per capita tax to the sub-district, district and interna- tional, and the auditor’s O,.K’d books each audit, and had returned to him the overpaid tax, which he misappro- priated to his. own account. And those same auditors; did not find the money had not been receipted for by the local treasurer. Farrington Protects Treasury Thieves After the local union discovered the discrepancy, the district office, Far- rington, was notified by Freeman Thompson that action would be taken ! at once against the defaulting finan- Reece ++ cial secretary, Dominick Teneski. Which was done—the local union trying him and expelling him for 99 years, During this time, when the sub-dis- trict president and local officers e: a campaign to organize the unorganiz- ed m ss worke! another New York delegate moved an amendment to instruct the president to send an organizer into this field as soon as Possible, but President Kohn ruled the motion out of order. pected aid by the district officers, the Kohn Kills Demand For More Pay. machine sent to the local union a rub- Kohn then made a speech in which | ber stamp by the name of “Young” he told how the mattress makers went | WH informed the local union.that he on e. “We were paying them | represented President Farrington, and strike benefits,” Kohn said, “but when | attempted to have the fdcal union they demanded a fifteen per cent in- crease in wages, we withdrew the} benefits at once.” He had advised | the mattress makers, he said, to ac- cept a twenty per cent reduction fay wages. | (Continued from’ page '1) Kohn then declared, “The trade un-/ed in shops equipped with mechani- ion movement today is a cold blooded |cal power owned and opetated by the business proposition. When our in-| party of the first part. ternatiohal union invests in organiza-| “S—The party of the first’ part fur- tion work, we want returns in mem-|ther agrees that they will not use any bership.” of said labels after notification that He said the mattress’ makers did|the privilege to use same has been not bring in enough members in pro-| withdrawn, or when said party of the Portion to the money the internation- |first part abrogates this agreement. al had spent, but some delegates| “6—The said label shall be in Pointed out that no energy or money |charge of a member designated by whatever was put into the bedding|the party of the second part, employ- trade by the international organiza-|ed in said shop, who shall keep an ac- tion. ‘count of same. The label shall at all Kohn said that the only salvation times be considered the property of for the mattress makers was indus-|the party of the second part, and all trial organization, but he offered no|labels on hand shall be retnurned to gram. jsaid party immediately upon notifica- ‘tion that the privilege to use same Silk Workers Keep Up |has been withdrawn. “7—THE PARTY OF THE FIRST Scab Union in Alliance with Bosses F; ight for Wage Raise| parr AGREES TO PAY FOR THE Sr |USE OF LABELS THAT HAVE PATERSON, N. J., July 26—(FP)—|BEEN SEWED IN GARMENTS IN The 350 employes of the Henry Do-/THE PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE herty Silk Co, are continuing the stri-|oNLY, AT THE RATE OF $4.00 PER Ke for a 20 percent increase while | pHOUSAND LABELS (THIS PRICE members of the firm are negotiating|7Q BH SUBJECT TO CHANGE UP- with union representatives. |ON NOTICE BY PARTY OF THE Das _ ae = mm SECOND PART); PAYMENT TO BE nS. ZIMME |MADE TO THE LOCAL LABEL 4 oe SEM cocunracy, mxciarenr’ oe DE Ne |DRAFT MADE PAYABLE TO THE x: neato astral <i ORDER OF B. A. LARGER, GEN- , ALAEOP Phone AF Zim RAL SECRETARY, UNTIL FUR- THER NOTICE. Promise Not to Strike. "MY NEW LOCATION al “8—The party of the first part shall Saag # abide by the union conditions ob- Special X-Ray served in the respective branches of rrices Bo |the trade. to Gas “§—SHOULD ANY DIFFERENCE Workers Given |ARISE BETWEEN THE FIRM AND THE EMPLOYES, AND WHICH CANNOT BE SETTLED BETWEEN THEM, THE SAID DIFFERENCES My Examination| Is Free SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO THE My Prigee! Are Reasonab GENERAL OFFICERS OF THE U. My ‘Work Ie Guarantesa | °: W. OF A. FOR ADJUSTMENT ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS |SHOULD THIS PROVE NOT SATIS- Extracting Specialist It |FACTORY, THE SUBJECT IN DIS- DELAY MEANS DECAY PUTE, SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO Bertrand Russel (Negative) vs. RESOLVED: this interesting book (with photographs and of the debaters) can now be secured at the 50 Cents Each (In board covers) A DEBAT Scott Nearing drop the case against Dominick, fin- ally threatening the local union that if it did expell Dominick the local union would be expelled, Dominick realized that even in spite of the aid and connivance of his friend Farrington. “this name was Walker,” and a rumor reaching him that the bonding house was after him, he hied to a garage, bought four new tires and left for parts unknown. Accomplices In Crime The district officials including Far- rington, by their refusal to co-operate with the local union and sub-district officials, aided in every way the ene- my of our union, even to the extent | of openly supporting him at his trial, by the local union. The Farrington push button, Nesbit, showed his friendship for the crooks by stating Thompson and Watt were “too god-damned busy looking for something with which to put a feather in their hat,” thereby showing the whole gang of fakers were lined up with the enemies of the union. Machine Blind in One Eye It is very noticeable that during the four years of auditing the books, the machine auditors could never find the discrepancy, but an investigation of Dunean McDonald’s life membership disclosed the fact that during a life- time membership, somehow, some- where, he was behind $1,00 in dues, for which he was arbitrarily expelled from the union! In answer to the many requests that | give a complete history of the latest treachery of Farrington’s (the Thompson, Watt, and Parry case) | ask our friends to be patient for a few days and they will be given the story complete. With this part of the expose the Egan rat case will be laid bare. Mr. Egan was paid $14.60 per day for helping to frame Thompson. He help the machine kick. Thompson out, and now is occupying a usurped position at one of the mines, AN UMPIRE MUTUALLY SELECED, FOR FINAL DECISION. “10—Party of the first part agrees to abide by the’ conditions further specified in the supplementary agree- ment hereto attached, This agree- ment is not valid unless approved by the General Executive Board of the United Garment Workers of Amer- ica. Agrees to Aid Bosses. “11—The party of the first part shall forfeit for one year the priv- ilege of said label if proven that said party has aided or abetted in the vio- lation of article 10 of the constitution relative to the rules governing the use of the label. “12—-THE PARTY OF THE SEC- OND PART AGREES TO DO ALL IN ITS PROVINCE AS A LABOR OR- GANIZATION TO ADVERTISE THE GOODS AND OTHERWISE BENEFIT THE BUSINESS OF THE PARTY OF THE FIRST PART. “This' agreement to go into effect on the first day of July, 1925, and terminate one year from said date, “Signed by the party of the first part, International Tailoring company, “Signed by the party of the second part; United Garment Workers of America. “Executed at Chicago, Mlinois, on the 29th day of June, 1925. British Reforms for India Are Only Sham, Says Princeton Prof NEW YORK, July 26. (PP)—Dr. Herbert Adams Gibbons, Professor of History and International Politics at Princeton University, speaking at a meeting in honor of C, R. Das, deceas- ed president of the India Swaraj Party and of the All India Trade Union Con- gress, declared that is was Das’s Breat deed that he led the movement which showed that the so called reforms the British granted in India were nothing but shams. (Affirmative) THAT THE SOVIET FORM OF GOVERNMENT IS APPLICABLE TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION ‘ By arrangements with the League for Public Discussion, brief biographies special price of — The Daily Worker Publishing Co. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chidago, Mm THE DAILY WORKER STORY OF EL.GW. STRUGGLE INN. Y. Successful Meet Held In Spite of Opposition (Continued from Page 1) union for urging the amalgamation of three locals which should be amalga- mated according to; the constitution. Two hundred members were expelled with Rubin. Fight Class Collaboration. The left wing is opposed to the class-collaboration policies of the offi- cial bureaucracy, declared Zimmer- man, They opposed the governor's commission and held that whatever ‘the cloakmakers got from the em- ployers was secured by struggle and not thru the beneyolence of politici- ans; professors and: capitalist law- lyers. | The progressives are also opposed jto the use of gangsters in organizing jcampaigns.. The members of the union are capable of doing this organ- izing work, the speaker‘said. He gave an instance where this mass form of organization campaign was tried and proved successful despite the sabot- age of the joint board, One of the chief grievances of the left wing against the Sigman machine fs the system of misrepresentation which prevails. Each local, no matter whether it has twenty members or twenty thousand in entitled to five delegates to the Joint Board. Thus locals 2, 9 and 22 tho they have sixty per cent of the membership of the New York organ- ization have only 15 delegates to the Joint Board while forty per cent of the membership haye 50 delegates. Reactionaries MaintainsGontrol. Thus the reactionaries &r able to maintain control of the buatd. They do this by subsidizing locals that do not function any longér ‘and unless the paid managers of ‘those locals carry out the wishes of Feinberg and company, they are jerked’Toose from the payroll and thrown into exterior darkness, if not beaten’ up’ by Fein- berg’s hired gangsters, Members of the I.L.'G? W. U. in New York, who had to leave Chicago because they were blacklisted by Perlstein sent @ telegram to the mass meeting iniithe Workers’‘Lyceum. It reads as follows: a‘ “Sisters and 2) Peristein’s °F destructive. actitities arei*wall known |. ‘to you. After ruining the dressmak- ers at Chicago, he came to New York to proceed, with his policy of ruin. Too high a price have;we paid for per- mitting expulsion in our Chicago ranks. The fight of Locals 2, 9 and 22 of New York is our, fight. Now is the time to stand united with the New York cloak and dregsmakers in our common struggle against the re- actionary officialdom, Stand by the Joint Committee of Action, Help fi- naneially, Help to buildup a union for the members. Now is,the time to rid ourselves of Perlstein, Sigman, Feinberg, Rufer, Novack, and the rest. Signed: Frieda Reicher, J, Goldman, Minnie Belavsky, Olga Garshin, Min- nie Garshin, Mary Rodwill.” Hyman Exposes Fake Attack. Louis Hyman who’ spoke in Yiddish, held the attention of his audience for over an hour and a half, His speech was liberally sprinkled with humor- ous passages which kept the cloak and dressmakers in a happy mood. The more serious aspects of the situation were not neglected. He drove home his arguments with tell- ing force. He exposed the fake ex- cuse given by Sigman and Perlstein for the expulsion of the officials of the (three locals. They wete not expel- led because Moissaiye Olgin spoke at a May Day meeting, said'Hyman. O1- gin has@been speaking at their meet- ings for¥years.So had other Com- munist speakers! Sigman was invited to speak at the same meeting, but he regretfully declined having to be in Chicago on that day. Sigman, Perl- stein and Fineberg made no protest at the time. But when the governors’ commis- sion made fts award which gave noth- ing at all, to the cloakmakers then the manufacturers put it ap to Sigman that he must force the members to accept that award, Even Sigman him- self at first admitted that the com- mission gave the workers nothing. Hillquit, millionaire so¢ialist attorney for the I. L. G, W. U,'told the com- mision that he had come to the con- clusion that the body Was no longer of any use to the cloakmakers, but when the manufacturers gave their orders Sigman had to come across and he knew that he could not deliver the goods as long as the left wing had leaders who could voice a protest. This was the direct cause of the ex- pulsion of the 77 elected officials of Locals 2, 9 and 22, Sigman Suporters Answered. One supporter of Sigman at the meeting wanted to know how the union could ever come to an under- standing if the rank and file were lowed to decide policips, Hyma! wered that they had acsplendid exam- ple of the futility of a union that dié not allow the rank and file any say, in the Chicago I. L. G. W. U. He chal- 1 ed any one present to gay that the CHICAGO “HEARS Dever Greets Skrzynski as Friend While Police Attack Labor Gathering By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, Tebey, the catholic pope in Rome, pledged to the war against the Union of Soviet Republics, must smile hap- pily in his vatican IZr, as he reads of the “official greeting received by Count Alexander Skrzynski, minister of foreign affairs of Poland, at the hands of Chicago’s municipal ad- ministration. It is perhaps difficult for the average worker to under- stand the eagerness with which an Irish democratic mayor in America’s second city hastens to proclaim his oneness with the high official of Poland’s terror rule, unless one follows the connecting thread that leads thru the portals of the Roman catholic church, that carefully promotes its anti- Communist campaign in every land, ‘ * * * * Mayor Dever, the Irish democratic mayor of Chicago, is blood brother in organized religion of Count Skrzynski, of Poland. They both get their orders and inspiration from the Roman pope. They both clasp hands in a common cause, and that is one of the. big reasons why Devpr greeted Skrzynski first in his offices in the city hall, and then in Chicago’s council chamber, where the American stars and stripes entwined with the red and white flag of Poland, that drips the blood of thousands of workers slain, and waves over a land where prisons are choked with revolutionary toilers. Out over Chicago very few workers knew that the! agent of the Polish reaction was in the city. Fewer knew its meaning. The Polish, the Irish, the Czecho-Slovak, the workers of all nationalities, in the stockyards, have seen the princes of the Roman catholic church unite with the multi-million- aire food barons to keep labor divided and crushed. The same has been true always in the coal, the steel and every other industry. The catholic priest who challenges the power of the exploiter, and champions the cause of the workers, soon finds himself an outcast from his church, His church is the bulwark of reaction and it was A. Kazi- minski, president of the Polish Catholic Union, that stood side by side with Alderman Stanley Adamkiewicz,‘head of the reception committee, to testify that American’ politics and Roman.catholicism go hand in hand in the war against the workers. & * Alderman Adamkiewicz comes to Chicago's city council from the Polish section of the northwest side where the deadening power of religion’s black plague stretches into almost every workers’ home. munist) Party called to Polish When the Workers. (Com- labor to demonstrate against the terrorist rule that Skrzynski champions, the police hosts of the Dever municipal administration, on foot and in flivvers, flooded the district to see that no demonstration was held. The hu bank of the multi-millionaire Pole, John Smulski, looked down in approval as the police scattered the*workers, clubbing some, but unable to _ again in a neighborhood hall. : ‘ ©. against the striking members prevent them from’ gathering These are the same police, the same flivvers that the Dever democratic-catholic cit administration is using of the Amalgamated clothing workers. There are many Polish members of “The Amalga- mated.” It should be clear to them why Mayor Dever uses his police force to crush the “Amalgamated” strikers on the picket line, and at the same time extends his hand in friend- ship to the Polish terrorist, Skrzynski, and opposes any ef- fort io tell the thruth about him. Religion, race, nationality, color do not divide the up- holders of capitalism. The Chinese Rockefeller, won for the catholic church, recently passed thru Chicago on his way to Rome, and was the honored guest of the catholic Archbishop Mundelein. f * * Let the workers of Chicago, thru the visit of the enemy of labor, Skrzynski, hand in glove with labor's foe, Dever, shake off a little more the paralyzin; the great need of working class solidarity in spite of al power of religion, fluences that tend to divide them, and thus insure labor’s triumph against all its enemies. BRITISH COAL STRIKE UNSETTLED AS TEXTILE WORKERS FIGHT CUTS (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, July 26—While Great Britain’s coal crisis was allowed to simmer unmolested over the week- end, North England had a real strike situation to contend with to- day, with 135,000 mill workers in the woolen textile districts enlisted in a walkout against a wage cut of five per cent. Militant mill-girls attacked the factories in one area, smashed many windows and forced laggard scabs, known as “black legs,” to British workers, to cease work. Newspapers bitterly criticized Premier Baldwin for postponing action on the coal strike until Mon- day, but with five days then left before the Miners’ Federation order to 1,200,000 to quit work goes into effect, In some quarters, however, the lack of action over Sunday was re- garded as a good omen, Indicating that the government knew more than it was making public regard- in the situation. It was believed that unless an early settlement was in sight, negotiations would have continued over the week-end, bureaucratic methods had benefitted the workers. Another supporter of the Sigman- Perlstein machine was one by the name of Fink, She accused Hyman of keeping quiet for a number of years while those wrongs that he charged the officials with were being committed. The speaker showed that he had consistently fought the reac- tionaries during the many, years that same Aa Scns RONDA he was a member of the union. The audience expressed its satisfaction with Hyman’s speech and his answers to the questions by a prolonged burst of applause, The organizers of the meeting de- clared that but for the interfenrence of the fakers thru their tool, Edward Nockels in cancelling the hall at the last minute, the meeting would be one of the largest gathering of cloak and dress makers ever held in Chicago. HALL MEETING IS SUCCESS AS COPS ~ CLEAR STREETS Workers Hear the Truth ' About Skrzynski In order to show his illustrious guest, Count Alexander Skrzynski, foreign minister in the Polish cabinet, that the Polish government is not the : one adept in the art of white terrorism, Mayor Dever staged an ex- hibition of the American brand Satur- day. " On Saturday morning the Chicago papers announced that a lot of Chi- cago Poles were going to demonstrate their disrespect for the visiting count and the regime he represents by hold- ing a meeting in the heart of the Polish quarter, Division St, and Mil- waukee Ave. Mayor Deyer became very much excited and announced that the meeting would not be held. Police Gets Busy Early, Several hundred of the count’s countrymen who are not fooled by either his title or the smooth words he is famous for, gathered at the above corner Saturday night prepared to tell him what they thought of him, Mr. Dever’s bluecoats were on the job, As soon as a group collected that looked like a meeting, the cops made a charge and drove them away. When the persistent crowd re-assembled again the performance was repeated. One fellow who wanted to stand on his rights as an American citizen, dis- covered that he didn’t have any. Officer 1187 beat him up right then and there, Drive Workers to Hall, The word was passed around the crowd that the meeting would be held at the Workers, Home, 1902 W, Divi- sion. Directly after this the cops made another charge and conveniently drove the.crowd in the direction of the hall. By quarter after eight the hall was jammed with several hun- dred people. Thurber Lewis opened the meeting. “There is every reason in the world why the Polish foreign minister should be received with open arms by the politicians of American capital; the Polish government hag made itself famous in the imperialist world for repression, torture and murder of the workers and peasants of Poland. Such accomplishments are looked upon with admiration by our own politicians who know they may be called upon to emulate the bloody record of the count’s cabinet,” Lewis said. J. K, Gebert, secretary of the Polish section of the Workers (Communist) Party spoke in Polish, He recited the bloody record of the Polsih white ter- ror regime, reminding the count that the workers of the world will not soon forget the cowardly murders of Bagin- sky, Wierczorkiewiez and dozens of others who have fallén in the struggle there. : Shuwalov, Stolar, Engdah! Speak Comrade Shuwalov told the story of the brutal treatment of the Ukranian national minority by the Polish pup- pet government in the Ukranian language, and M. A, Stolar, speaking in Russian, said that the bonds of sympathy between the free workers of Russia and the tortured and ex- ploited workers of Poland is only en- hanced by the bloody measures of the fake “democratic” Warsaw junker regime, J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, declared that the workers also believed in democracy, but that it was a working class dem- ocracy of the proletarian dictatorship that seeks to overthrow capitalist rule. A large collection was taken up for the relief of working class prisoners and their families in Poland as the best answer American workers could make to the unwelcome visit of a spokesman of Polish reaction respon- sible for their imprisonment.. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two will make a better Communist of you. POLICE FLASH GATS ON SOUTH SIDE SPEAKERS Two members of the Workers Party, D. Early and Comrade Search, and one “innocent” bystander, were arrested last Saturday evening at 30th id State Sts,, and held at the Cot- tage Grove police station without being booked until Attorney Bentall threatened to have the police arrest- ed for violation of the law which ri quires that persons arrested be book- ed. Comrade Earley was speaking when a colored police officer approached and ordered him off the stand, Barley refused, explaining to the officer that he was within his constitutional rights and informing him of the recent de- cision in the case of the seventeen members fo the Workers Party arrest- ed for speaking on the corner of Or- chard and North avenues, Then a white officer, number 5259, rushed up and knocked Comrade Earley off the platform, pulling his gun at the same time. Warley was taken to the station, ‘The officers re-at Nortolk, Va at turned and arrested Search and Bald- win, the latter having just come out of a barber shop and did not know what was going on, The police at the Cottage Grove pol- ice station refused to book the prison- ers until Attorney Bentall got busy. Judge George, colored, offered to issue 4 warrant for the arrest of the police unless they immediately booked the three men. The judge stated that he had already secured a conviction of a policeman for similar conduct. Finally the police were forced to re- lease the three prisoners on bonds of fifty dollars each, on disorderly con- duct charge. The cases will come up for trial to- night at 7 p. m, at the Harrison Sst. | police court. Milnikoff, Tool of Capitalist Plotters, Sentenced to Death VLADIVOSTOK, July 26.—General Milnikoff, notorious cossack leader of the Semenoff white guard army in Far Hastern Russia, has been sentenced to death by the Soviet supreme court, Shenondoah Gets War Training. LAKEHURST, N. J., July 26.—The | dirigible Shenandoah returned to its base here today after two days of “war training” with the scouting fleet cca ) Set een

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