The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1925, Page 2

1. espa ese iB antuctiinainn sisi ~ SHOP CHAIRNIEN Page Two DECIDING FATE OF PEACE PLAN L.L.G.W. Factions Have Tentativel y Agreed NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 24.—A proposed plan for peace within the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union has been agreed upon tentative- ly between the leaders of the Joint Action Committee, representing the suspended locals 2, 9 and 22, and the Sigman administration of the Interma- tional, according to reports of the Joint Action Committee. Conferences have been going on day and night for the past few days be- tween the left wing locals and the ad- ministration. These conferences have been under the direction of the com- mittee chosen by the meeting of shop chairmen at Cooper Union on Sep- tember 10. Shop Chairman Decide The deliberations closed Tuesday night, but the terms of the agreement are not made public until the plan has been ratified not only by the exec- utive boards of the suspended locals, but also by the shop chairmen who appointed the mediation committee. These shop chairmen are meeting tonight—Thursday, and if these re- Presentatives of the rank and file ap- prove the plan, peace will be restored to the I. L. G. W. after 15 weeks of bitter struggle. Louis Hyman, chairman of the joint action committee, though declining to give any details of the terms tenta- ‘tively agreed upon, said that he con- siders the plan a just settlement of the quarrel. Hyman States Approval of Plan “We believe the plan if accepted by the shop chairmen, will do away with the policies of our union to which we have had such objection,” he said. “It is going to make possible the re- forms we e demanded and it will undoubtedly make our union a strong- er organization than it has ever been.” The meeting of shop chairmen, since it brings those of both factions together, may be an overflow assemb- lage. If they adopt the plan, the joint action committee thinks that the fight that has gone on since June 11, when 77 members of the three left wing locals were suspended, will end with distinct gains for the left wing. Put Police in the Air LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept, 24.—Los Angeles city council was asked today to pass an ordinance providing an airplane police squad to regulate fiy- ing machines. Airplanes, under the proposed law, would be required to tarry licenses, fly only at certain heights and observe traffic rules. GARLAND FUND PLANS RADIO BROADCASTING TO ‘EDUCATE PEOPLE’ NEW YORK CITY, Sept 24.— Morris L. ‘Ernst, counsel for the American Fund for Public Service, known as the Garland Fund, to- day stated to the press that nego- tiations are under way to “give the people a political education” by use of a radio broadcasting station by means of which liberal and labor leaders may voice their side of so- cial questions. A. F. of L. headquarters not tong ago investigated the proposal for a broadcasting station, but Bil! @reen said they found it too ex- ‘What the political educa- fe to be is not announced, But by the Combined close $. Street: ........ Blvd., Chicago, Il. NOT BY THE STROKE OF ONE BORAH REFUSES TO SPEAK,..TO INTERPARLIAMENT ARY UNION AFTER EXCLUSION OF BRITISH COMMUNIST (Special to The WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept, 24.—-S cancelled an agreement to speak before the interparliamentary union here, as a protest against the exclusion of the Communist Shapurji Saklatvala, who was to attend the union as a delegate f Saklatvala was barred from the United States and his passport visas cancelled by Secretary of State Kellogg, on the ground that no foreign Com- munists will henceforth be admitted to Powerful American capitalists. hay great mistake in barring Saklatvala, g' “despised” Soviet government has al- + ready spent more than sixty million dollars in gold in America for pur- chase of textiles and machinery. They are afraid their business with the Soviet Union will be taken from them, se 8 Duncan McDonald Protests, SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. 24. Duncan MacDonald, one of the lead- ers in the left wing of the trade union movement, and formerly president of the Illinois Federation of Labor, and the Ilinois Mine Workers’ Union is- sued a statement protesting vigor- ously against the exclusion of Saklat- vala by the United States govern- ment. MacDonald, one of the outstanding figures in the fights of the Illinois miners against the corrupt Lewis-Far- rington machine, sgid: “In the barring of Shapurji Saklat- vala the powers that be in Washing- ton are running true to form. Their complaint that he has given expres- sion to certain opinions and for that reason is barred is prima facie evi- dence that people are no longer to have opinions in order to be admitted to a country that boasts of ‘freedom of speech’ and yet denies it at every opportunity, THE DAILY WORKER NEGROES:SEND Daily Worker) enator William E. Borah of Idaho has rom the British house of commons. this country, « e told President Coolidge he made a iving as one of their reasons that the “The charge that Saklatvala is a Communist means in effect that per- sons who reach our shores must be-| long to the gang in control of our political destinies or get off the earth, The misrepresentatives of our al leged ‘democracy’ no doubt are car- rying out the mandates of their Brit- ish contemporaries who are trying hard to boster up a corrupt system of misgovernment that is crumbling everywhere. A Band of Strikebreakers, “It ill becomes a member of the plunderbund to question the motive of any person in view of the record established by the gang now mas- querading under the banner of the republican party who have prostituted their office in the interest of capital ism at every opportunity. They have broken strikes, gouged the farmers exploited the railroad workers and in every instance have acted as the stool- pigeons and carried out the mandates of the plunderbund of America, “The action in barring Saklatvala is only in harmony with their other LABOR CONGRESS Whiteman ,.Speaks to Pitts., Grsference PITTSBURGH, Pak Sept. 24.—One dozen regular and fraternal delegates were elected at the Pittsburgh Local Negro Conference held at the Labor Lyceum to attend the National Negro Labor Congress at Chicago on Oct. 25. Wm. Scarville, W.-O. Francis and Ernest Careathers; were elected as delegates and in addition the follow- ing regular delegates from outside of Pittsburgh, C. W.°’Fulp, president of Local 212 United Mine Workers, Prim- rose, Pa.; J. J, Jones, member of Hod Carriers Local 527 from Ambridge, Charles Wallus, coal miner from Vestaburg, Pa., member of the U. M. W. of Ay G, W. Rich, of Ambridge, Pa., member of the Hod Carriers, Lo- cal No. 11 and T. A. Wilson of Pitts- burg. The following were elected as fra- ternal delegates: Joe Mankin, of Re- tail Clerks, 1046, Pittsburgh; Joe Sol- nitaky, Young Workers’ League; Sam Slomberg, member of Workers Party and Arne Swabeck, district organizer, Workers Party, Spirited Gathering. Approximately 60 delegates attend- Berger’s Socialists Try to Capture LaFollette Voters in Wisconsin By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, sees interesting closing clashes in the special senatorial campaign in Wisconsin, especially as Victor Berger's “socialist” daily, the Milwaukee Leader, struggles to win over some of the LaFollette vote to its banner. r The “socialists” cleverly claim that they have fallen heir to the LaFollette program, which they contend has been thrown overboard by the “crown prince,” LaFollette, Jr. ‘ * * ° . Here is the method of the “socialist” reasoning. In- stead of becoming more conservative with the passing years, LaFollette, Sr., became more radical, it is claimed. At first LaFollette, the elder, hit “wildly and viciously” without pro- gram, say the “socialists.” hen he proposed his system for the regulation of public utilities. Then the last develop- ment, in the words of an editorial article on the first page of the Milwaukee Leader, Sept. 15: “Much later still in his full maturity, he came around to the so- cialist viewpoint and came out clearly for public ownership as the only method of restoring to the people of the country what had in one way or another been taken from them.” Ergo, the “‘socialists'"’ stand for public ownership, and therefore, say the “socialists,” the LaFollette followers should all vote for the “socialist” candidate, John M. Work, former lowa lawyer, later a national secretary of the “‘social- ist” party in the days before the war, but now an editorial writer on Berger's Milwaukee Leader. * * . ° But, if this is all that is needed to vote the “socialist” acts but should be an inspiration to the | ed the convention representing vari- workers to reniew their determina-| ous organizations and groups of col- tion to fight for the overthrow of the| ored people and trade unions. In ad- most corrupt political machine that] dition a number of fraternal delegates ever existed since the beginning of| participated in the conference making time.” SEAMEN FLOCKING INTO I. W. W. TO JOIN STRUGGLE AGAINST BOSSES; I. S. U. SCAB POLICY REPUDIATED (Continued from page 1) Go Over in a Body. The Baltimore I, S. U. membership, in a body and over the vociferous protest of the most of their local of- ficials, came over to the I. W. W. hall Tuesday and accepted assignment to Picket duty. They report the I. S. U. hall is completely cleaned out of all except one or two office holders. Philadelphia reports that Tuesday was the most successful day of the strike in that port. Very few scabs got by the pickets and many men came ashore. All but three of the crew of the Mary Weems came off when they were paid, and two of those remaining promised the pickets they would follow. The crew of the Silver Dollar walked off. Six men left the Persion of the Merchants’ and Miners’ Line, Half the crew of the Eugene V. R; Thayer walked off. The pickets at the Humphries shipping office reports that there was only one animal “look- ing for work.” This character is well known and the men say he will have a hard time getting by after this strike—harder than he did before. The steamer Van Dyke is still look+ ing for a crew and part of the crews of both the Paulsboro and the Sabine Sun came off Wednesday. Going Strong in New York. The skipper of the Norwegian ship Sacktant, whose black gang and deck department came off in New York har- bor Wednesday, refuses to Pay the men off. The men threaten to tie up the ship with a libel for wages due, and they tell of the most abom- inable conditions of their quarters, which no printable words could de- scribe. The crew of the West Katan was paid off, but each man was logged Efforts of All Will It Be Possible to Save THE DAILY WORKER I am sending you my response to your appeal. I en- NOPD E sLiscsssubsagsbobalibuescsdvcesconncobosssdioecesonsathginscibeiaagiilesetisossastiog BEAEOS siccresssivvactadessovess Address letters and make checks and money orders payable to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington (fined) $3, as fee to be paid to the shipping crimp who will try to pro- cure scabs for the ship. This action is illegal, but under the capitalist class dictatorship the California Eastern Lumber company who owns the ship don’t have to concern itself with a little matter like the law— which either works for the bosses or don’t work at all. The Korean Prince crew have de- clared their readiness to join the strike and pickets have gone aboard tg get them off. The crew of the New Zealand freighter Piako, which struck Wednesday as soon as the ship tied up at the Bush Terminal, tell of mis- erable conditions on the trip from England, where they were held prac- tically prisoners by ship’s officers and police to prevent them leaving ship there. The food was spoiled in the storeroom and the crew became ter- ribly sick. Strike Meetings Enthusiastic. At the corner of South street and Coenties Slip Tuesday night Eliza- beth Gurley Flynn addressed a crowd of a thousand striking seamen, ex- plaining the strike situation and rous- ing great enthusiasm among the al- ready determined strikers. At the end of the meeting the hall at 105 Broad street was packed with strik- ers asking instructions and assign- ment to picket duty. William Brennan of the I. W. W. addressed the strikers and empha- sized the need for increasing the pickets and doing all in their power to bring the strike to a victorious oonclusion. The response was a spontaneous and immediate strength- ening of the picket line and a call for “action and still more action!” The hall rang with cheers for “interna- tional solidarity.” Other big meetings were held at the corner of Court and Carroll streets in Brooklyn. A large crowd of strik- ers cheered and applauded the M. T. W. strikers and somehow failed to see that the Salvation Army was pres- ent beating a drum and trying tol save the strikers’ souls—and get| | them to scab on their fellow workers |to their own detriment. Skipper Changes His Mind, When the Lamport and Holt liner Vauban paid off Tuesday, the skip- per tried to hold out $20 on a Portu- gese seaman who couldn't put up much of a fight because he could not speak English, The M. T. W. dele- gate went aboard and had a llittle round with said skipper, who finally discovered that he had made a “mis- take.” The seaman promptly lined up as a member of the M. T, W, and Joined the picket line. We Knew This Before But We’re Glad They Have Found It Also (Special to The Daily Worker) NUW YORK—(FP)—The chief reason why Negro children dies near- ly twice as rapidly as Yo white chil- dren, says Forrester B, Washington in the current issue of Opportunity, a Ne- gro magazine, ig that the Negro work- er is 80 poorly paid, Low wages com- pel the Negro worker to take the poorest and most unsanitary housing and low wages of the father compels the mother to go into industry, The children are neglected and under- nourished, Build ti a total of more than 100 participants of both races. .The conference altho a little slow in getting started due to the fact that delegates came together the first time and were not acquainted with one an- other turned out to become a very spirited gathering. Thé conference was presided over by Wnt. Scarville of the local committee of action with W. O, Francis as secretary. All the participants became very enthused as they began to recognize the great pos- sibilities in uniting workers of both races as embodied in the Negro La- bor Congress movement. A local executive’ committee con- sisting of eight members, to take up the future work and also to provide the necessary funds for the sending of delegates, was elected. The confer- ence decided to initiate a campaign to enlarge the response to the national congress by urging organizaitons who were not yet represe! to send dele- gates direct. i Delegates elected from points out- side of Pittsburgh assured the confer- ence that the necessary means to bring them to the national congress would be provided for by the local groups and thus ‘connections have been established thruout the Pitts- burgh coal mining and’steel territory. Unity of Workers of Both Races. Many speakers addressed the con- ference amongst them were Louis A. S. Ballinger, member of Veterans of Foreign, Wars who stated that the working class was entitled to all it produced and that he felt convinced that this conference was one step toward attaining that goal. C. W. Fulp from the United Mine Workers particularly stressed the necessity of complete unity between both races of the working class as only upon that basis could the aims of the movement be attained, Wm. Scarville in opening the con- ference pointed to the significance of the opposition to the movement which had come primarily from capitalist dominated publications of which the reactionary Negro press was no ex- ception and from the officials of the trade union movement who had shown their eagerness in helping to uphold the present system of exploitation. W. O. Francis in reporting on the activities of the local committee of action stressed the fact that the Negro workers everywhere as soon as the objects of the movement had been clearly presented to them responded wholeheartedly, which could particu- larly be measured by’ extensive distri- bution of publications and propaganda material published by the Negro La- bor Congress national committee, E, H. Careathers in making the final address told the delegates that no matter what the enemies may say about this movement that even tho it would be charged it was directed froni Moscow, from which he himself was convinced that only good direc- tions had come for the working class, that should be only one more reason why the Negro workers in particular should rally in full support. Greetings from Workers Party The district organizer of the Work- ers Party, Arne Swabeck, brot greet- ings of the party to the conference emphasizing that the party as the most militant section of the working class would continue as in the past to give co-operation to this move- ment to the best of its ability to unite the workers no matter what race they belong to and to more effectively carry on the struggle for complete emancipation, World Awakening. Lovett Fort Whitéman, national or- ganizer of the Negrp Labor Congress, attended this conference to help guide it in its first steps thru actual work. He spoke at length"on the aims and objects of the congréss movement stat- (a me js hat 10 adaitio. 4g she: problems ae ticket in Wisconsin, why not carry the reasoning a little fur- ther? Even Coolidge’s republican administration believes in the public ownership of the post office, for instance, among other things. cialist”? Evidently! Should Cal's boosters, therefore, vote ‘‘so- Public ownership had been carried far under the regime of the former kaiser in German y. Instead of the kaiser turn- ing “socialist,” however, the “socialists” went to the right during the war and voted him war credits, and even now they continue the most: ardent supporters of the German capitalist republic. Public ownership even had its say in the Russia of the czars. This should have been the bridge for the czarist fol- lowers to cross over to the “socialists,” according to the “Wisconsin idea.” ° J But in none of these countries, in Russia, in Germany, or in the United States, has public ownership proven a step- ping stone to socialism. Nor will it. Nor will those who be- lieve in public ownership under the capitalist state, as a cure all for the evils of exploitation, prove worthwhile fighters against capitalism. LaFollette, just as much as the former kaiser and the late czar, believed in a supported capitalism. It may be said that they did not prove more loyal to capital- ism, than have the “socialists” themselves, who have be- trayed all socialist principles and turned their backs on so- ialions, Public ownership is not socialism. Only the Commun- ists, who struggle for the rule of the working class, pave the way to the new era that follows close on the heels of the passing profit system. ° * LaFollette's desperate grasp, on the brink of the grave, at public ownership, did not make him a believer in socialism, any more than William Jennin gs Bryan's espousal of public ownership as a vote-getting weapon made him an upholder of socialist principles. The fact i however, that Berger’s “socialists with their “Wisconsin idea” have just slipped another cog back into the lap of capitalism, where they will find a comfort- able nestling place. In Wisco nsin, as everywhere else, the fight for socialism falls upon the shoulders of the Com- munists. which are confronting both Negro and white workers there were specific problems of the Negro workers in this country in the solution of which they themselves must take the lead- ership. He described the international situ- ation of this particular oppressed race emphasizing the awakening which could be noted thruout the world in many places expressing itself in struggles thruout the world to throw off the yokes of world im- perialism. He stated that this coming national congress is only a step which will be further solidified thru an in- ternational congress. Lovett Fort- Whiteman while expressing thanks to the local movement to the favorable attitude shown by the Pittsburgh American in giving publicity also pointed out that the Pittsburgh Cour- ier, local Negro paper, while giving prominent space to the vicious attack made ,by Wm. Green upon the con- gress in publishing the reply by the national committee inserting only a part took good care that this was hid- den in a very inconspicuous place. That of course said Whiteman proved who is dominating the Pitts- burgh Courier. Our struggle while di- rected against the domination of cap- italists of the white races is directed as eagerly against the Negro capital- ists and petty bourgeois who are try- ing to put obstructions in the paths of the Negro workers. Hence leader- ship is now developing from below, from the ranks of the workers them- selves, while this petty bourgeois lead- ership will be thrown on the scrap heap. This new leadership is a class leadership in the true sense of the word and becoming internationally unified, The conference adjourned by sing- ing the International, Suicide Leaves Shortage f DECATUR, IIl., Sept. 24.—A short- age of approximately $250,000 has been found in the accounts of Frank H. Harrold, cashier of the Farmers’ State Bank and Trust company, who committed suicide in a cottage on his Dewitt county farm Tuesday night, directors of the institution are report- ed to have estimated today: rt FAMOUS RUSSIAN POET GOMES T0 DETROIT ON 30TH Mayakovski to Speak on Russian Poetry Mayakovsky will speak on modern Russian poetry and literature. Vladimir Wladimirovich Mayakoy- sky is one of the most outstanding poets of the new Russia and of the great Russian revolution. He is com- ing to Detroit on Wednesday, Sept. 80 nad will speak in the House of the Masses, 2646 Gratoit, corner St. Aubin, on the new Russian literature and poetry, Thru him we will be able to get first hand information about what is going of in the literary world of the Present new Russia. Comrade Maya- kovsky is a powerful poet and a great personality, and he will surely be able to tell us of the new civilization and of the new culture that is being built in the socialist republic. Mayakovsky will also read some of his own poems. Russia has changed politically and socially and a new literature is the natural result. Comrade Mayakovsky will show us the new literature and poetry of a young proletarian state, We will all be there at 8 p, m. sharp. Watch for further announcements, «94, 6 Comrade Mayakovsky will speak in Chicago on October 2, at Temple Hall, cor, Van Buren St. and Marsh- field Ave, Make your friend a friend of the DAILY WORKER. Send in his subseription. Tear Gas For Evanston EVANSTON, Ill, Sept. 24.—Eyan- ston police today were ordered equip- ped with a new device known as “billy club protectors”—night sticks with a bulb filled with tear gas on the end, STOVE WORKERS START INTENSE UNION CAMPAIGN Plan to Organize the Cribben-Sexton Plant An intensive oganization campaign to unionize every one of the 600 workers in the Cribben & Sexton company plant, at Sacramento Blvd. and W. Chicago Ave., was decided upon at the meeting of the striking stove polishers and buffers, yester- day. Representatives of seven or eight unions met in conference and decided to carry on a house-to-house campaign to organize every worker in the big stove plant. Every worker, from the unskilled laborers that truck the sand to the molders, to the highest skilled worker, is to be approached and organized, Strikers Standing Firm, The molders’ union delegates were in conference with the bosses and it is understood that following the con- ference with the molders the manage- ment of the plant may call the rep- resentatives of the strikers to the of- fice. Little is expected to come out of the conference with the bosses. The strikers stand firm in their de mand for recognition of their union and their shop committee, “You can’t leave anything in that plant overnight. The roof leaks so damned bad, that we have to make umbrellas out of a newspaper when we work on a rainy day,” one of the strikers informed the DAILY WORK- ER. “If we leave our stuff over night we find it soaking wet in the morning. The company has got us on piece work. Sometimes, we leave a job un- finished when we leave the plant. If it rains that night, we've got to do the work all over again as the raain has spoiled the job. You can bet your sweet life that the roof will be fixed if the union has anything to say about it.” Company Feels Effects of Strike. The effect of the strike has begun to be felt by the company. The stove mounters are being placed on a day rate basis instead of a piece rate bas. is. There is so little work to do that the company has had to use this means of keeping the mounters on the job. The Chicago Plating company is not able to turn out the stoves need- ed. Some of the equipment of the Crbiben & Sexton company has been sent to the concern that is turning out the work of the shop on strike. The foreman of the polishing room at the stove manufacturing plant has been fired by the company. The super- intendent accused him of carrying a union card and not being able to re- cruit enough scabs to carry on pro- duction. Yesterday the foreman from the Edison Appliance Co., the mann- facturers of “Hotpoint” goods, was called to take charge of the depart- ment. Bosses Use New Threat, The pickets on the line were told by the superintendent of the Plant that they return by Friday or lose the insurance policies which have been mentioned in a previous article in the DAILY WORKER, Only two workers applied at the gate looking for work in the Polishing department. They had been working at the Crane company for some time and had been laid off, When the man- ager told them they were to get 40 cents an hour for strikebreaking they walked out of the office, telling the manager to go to a hotter place than the company’s furnace room, The company has not been able to coerce the laborers into Tunning the automatic polisher and with the in- tensive organization drive planned, in is expected that the strike will Spread and tie up the entire plant, ‘ _ The DAILY WORKER sub- scription list is a Communist honor roll. Is your name on it? : Native Capitalists * of India Develope ° Their Gravediggers NEW YORK—(FP)—o; aniz bor of India, recently defeated ~ tne Northwestern Railway strike and now fighting on the textile factory front Bombay has won recognition in ie steel industry without a strike, accord. ing to papers arriving in New York from Indian ports. The new deal af- fects the 25,000 workers employed by the Tata company, a group of Indian capitalists who have a virtual monop- oly of the iron and steel industry in the peninsula and who never before have recognized a labor union, The workers there were primed for a strike when the company conceded three main points—the reinstatement of Sethi, an organizer discharged for his union activities; recognition of the wnon and the promse of a system of union dues collections equivalent to the American checkoff, { desired it, iit hvuap ear Wrap your lunch in a the DAILY WORKER and give i Se DAILY WORKER, not the un Your sho, 2 Se er ee ee, ; —- a