The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1925, Page 3

| | } | : AGAINST BERRY To Restrain Henchmen From Lifting Label Printing Pressmens’ Union Local No, 3 has filed a petition for an in+ junction to restrain the Berry hench- men from molesting the members of the expelled local in shops having the Allied Printing Trades Council label. The Berry servants have caused a letter to be sent from the Allied Printing Trades Council to.the em- ployers telling them that the newly organized local which is scabbing on the expelled local is. the recognized union and. that in order to keep the label, only members of that local may be employed. International ‘Vice-President Marks refused to discuss the question of the injunction with a‘ DAILY WORKER reporter and stated that ‘he had never demanded that the ‘label be taken from the shops where members of the expelled local are employed. “While we are in favor of the fight against Berry in the Pressmen’s Union Local No. 3'of Chicago and in the International Printing Pressmen’s and Assistants Union, we are not in favor of the use of injunctions issued by capitalist courts,” declared one the Printing Trades Progressive Com- mittee national cammitteemen in an interview with a representative of the DAILY WORKER, “to carry on the fight against this reactionary outfit. In behalf of our committee, I can say that the idea of combatting Berry with injunctions is contrary to the principles enunciated by the left- wing in the printing traces.” The following letter sent by the Allied Printing Trades Council to the employers in the printing industry of Chicago and signed by William A. Lewis, a Berry henchman in the Web Pressmen’s’ Union, is the evidence which gives the lie to the statement of Marks that neither he nor the International union has attempted to take the label out of the printing shops that employ members of the expelled union: “To Label Offices, “Gentlemen: he “You are hereby advised, that Chieago Printing Ptessmen’s Union No. 3 with offices:‘located at 543 ‘South Dearborn Street, is no longer affiliated with the Chicago Allied Printing Trades’ Council, in accord- ance With the laws''of the Interna- tional Allied Printing Trades Asso- ciation, and thi8 council, and is there- fore not entitled to recognition in shops having.a label license issued by this council. “The Chicago Printing Pressmen’s Union No. 3 affiliated with and sub- ordinate to‘the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America, with offices located at 179° West Washington street, is affiliated with and recognized by the Chicago Allied’ Printing Trades Coun- cil in accordance with the law of the International Allied Printing Trades Association. This Local Union is entitled to all rights and recognition in shops having a label license with this council, to the same extent as any other local union which is affiliated with’ this’ council. “The following rule is set forth from the label license for your furth- er guidance: That said party of the second (firms) now employs and hereby agrees to employ and keep in its employ during the continua’ of this part agreement, in the composition, print-| ing, binding, ruling, electrotypes, stereotypes and all other electrotyp- ing matter, entering into printing end printing products, only members in good standing of unions affiliated with and represented in the party ‘of the first’ part’ (cOuneil).... and such other unions as may hereafter become affiliated with and be repres- ented in said party of the first part. (Council). “Wishing you continued we are, iy M Fraternally yours, Chicago Allied Printing Trades Council, By 'W. A, Lewis, Secretary-Treasurer.” 4 success, IN TROUBLE? Bright Election Idea Seems to Flivver BUENOS AIRES, October 18,—Dis- patches from Chile. indicate that in- surrectionary outbreaks have taken place. The army and navy official group which has been ruling Chile with an iron fist, yesterday allowed the following dispatch, evidently censored, to arrive here: Censored News “Nothing new. Troops continue to guard the moneda (government build- ing). It is stated that this is simply a measure of precaution to avoid disorders. Official information says all measures necessary for mainten- ance of order and discipline will be taken, Admiral Schroeder, director general of the navy, arrived at noon.” An election is due to be held on October 24th. The military junta have a new and bright idea on pre- venting disorders during the election. {t has issued orders that all parties agree upon one candidate. Of course, he junta expressed its opinion that his one candidate should be their choice, Senor Emiliano Figueroa Lar- rain, A Fly in the Ointment The bulk of the soldiery were sup- posed to fall in with the idea of their commanders and support Larrain. However, a ubiqutous army surgeon, Dr. Jose Salas, recently minister of public health, “complicated the situa- tion” b yannouncing that he was a eandidate against Larrain. This has probably brought about the “disorders” so much dreaded by the military dictatorship, since Dr. Salas is appealing to the masses on a platform containing progressive and even radical ideas and his following among the workers are increasing in number, N. Y. Daily Worker Rescue Parties Sat., Oct. 24—Sokol Hall, 525 East 72nd Street, New York. ,, Branches co-operating: German! section Greater New York, English’ Yorkville, Esthonian, Czecho-Slovak, Hungarian, Y.-W. L, No. 4 and No. 7; Sat., Oct. 31—West | Side Workers’ Hall, 301 East 29th Street, New York. { Branches co-operating: English West Side, Greek West Side; Italian West Side, Jugo-Slav. Sat., Oct. 31—Barbers’ Uni on Hall, 56 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn. ; Branches co-operating: Jewish Williamsburg. \ Mon., Nov. 2—Finnish Work- ers’ Hall, 764—40th Street, Brooklyn. Branches co-operating: _ Finnish | south Brooklyn, English Boro Park, Lithuanian Boro Park, Russia South { Brooklyn, Scandinavian South Brook: {lyn, English Coney Island. Sat., Nov. 14—Bronx Work- | jers’ Halt, 1347 Boston Road, Bronx. Branches co-operating: branches. Fri., Nov. 20—Manhattan Ly- |ceum, 66 East 4th Street, New | York. | Branches cobperating: All Down- | town branches. Additional DAILY WORKER Res- | cue Parties areobeing arranged for Astoria, Harlem, Williamsburg and Brownsville and will be announced at an early date. The plan is for every branch in Greater New York to co-operate in at least one of the affairs to help “Save the DAILY WORKER.” Tickets for all affairs are cut. Any members of these branches not yet supplied should call immediately at the DAILY WORKER, New York agency, 108 East 14th street to get some tickets to sell to Rescue Our Daily. All Bronx THE FURRIERS’ JOINT REMOVAL, GARMENT WORKERS’ LOCAL No. 2 DEMANDS GITLOW'S REPLACEMENT. DAVID RHYS WILLIAMS AND JAMES _ P. CANNON, PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS AT | ANTI-HORTHY PROTEST MASS MEETING Rev, David Rhys Williams, noted book on the Russian revolution, will mass meeting which will be held on Prudential Hall, corner of North Ave. latest murder orgy of the Horthy gove: Mr. Williams is an excellent speaker and has always been willing to render aid in any cause for the welfare of the workers. Another speaker whose ability to hold an audience is unsurpassed in the revolutionary movement is James P, Cannon, national secretary of the International Labor Defense, and member of the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) acquainted with Mathias Rakosi, the victims of Horthy’s latest orgy. R. user of Hungary will give first hand information of the conditions BOARD PROTESTS GITLOW’S liberal and brother of the author of a be one of the principal speakers at a next Tuesday evening, October 20, in and Halsted St., to protest against the rnment in Hungary. Party. Comrade Cannon is personally most prominent of the working class elections, we see a very good ex- ample of American “democracy” in action. we hear about this country being the “land of the free,” workers show any preteni tancy, we see the capitalist class and its organ, the government, in its true light, the enemy of the working class, BRITISH COMMUNISTS HELD FOR CONSPIRACY RELEASED UPON BAIL LONDON, October 18.—Charges against the six arrested Commun- ists, including Harry Pollitt and Albert Inkpin, Rose Campbell and others taken in the raid on the headquarters of the Communist Party and the National Minority Movement, were read in court yes- terday. Thomas Bell and Willie Gallagher were added to the six, making eight now arrested. These were selected by the Baldwin cabinet from a list of forty as the ones to prosecute. The charge alleges conspiracy to publish seditious literature and are drawn under the mutiny act of 1739, 1739. In spite of the supposed gravity of the offense and the campaign of “red scares” in the capitalist press, the bail was set at $250 each. This was furnished by Shapurji Saklatvala, Communist member of parliament and George Lansbury, labor member of parliament and publisher of a weekly paper. Great crowds of workers gathered out- side the court to welcome the Com- munists with cheers and demonstra- tions of support. FILIPINOS VIEW RUBBER AS BLOW TO INDEPENDENCE Hope of Peaceful Libera- tion of Islands Vanishes {Special to The Daily Worker) MANILA, P. I., Oct. 18—American designs on the Philippine Islands as a fruitful field for the cultivation of crude rubber is viewed here as fore- casting a long and bitter struggle for independence of these islands. For @ighteen years a struggle has gone forward against American aggression and the effort to limit the influence of American investors has kept the public domain here largely unculti- vated awaiting the time the Philip- pines could obtain complete freedom and develop the resources thru na- tive initiative. Path Now Blocked. Frequently the Washington govern- ment has appeared to be receptive to- ward the plea for freedom, but since the report of Congressman Robert i. Bacon, of New York, representing the | -ubber interests, that some of the is lands are potential rubber producers, the change has been marked and it is believed here that Washington will lever consent peacefully to the sur- render of domination of the Philip- pines. It is feared that the invasion of rub- ber means the abolition of the local legislative bodies and the substitution therefor of a federal administration directed by Washington. Governor-General Leonard H. Wood | openly expresses himself as favoring | action by congtess at Washington that will abolish the assembly elected to connéct the internal policy of the islands. “ Polish Barons Sell Tobacco Monopoly to Italian Bankers ROME, Italy, Oct. 18—The loan Po- land has been seeking,from the Italian Banca Commerciale is about to be signed. Poland has borrowed 40,000,000 paper lire ($16,000,000) from the bank and now asks for 600,000,000 lire ($24,- 000,000) more, offering as securiyt the right to administer the Polish tobacco monopoly. Poland in order to avoid having an economic dictator appointed either by the league of nations or the creditor nations, of whch France is the largest, to administer her finaricial affairs is selling her monopolies in order to raise funds to keep her vast army and spy system, By AARON GROSS, (Furriers’ Joint Board Candidate for alderman, 29th district). 'N. the barring of Ben Gitlow from the ballot in the New York City In spite of all the talk that whenever the of mill HE capitalists realize very well, that in Ben Gitlow, the American workers have a fearless leader; one who has stood in the forefront of the battle in the American clas§ strug- i a worker; a .member of th Amalgamated. Clothing Workers’ arring of Gitlow LV WORKER THE oa PRESSMEN APPLY )CHILEAN ARMY FOR INJUNCTION; DICTATORSHIP GITLOW SCORES NEW YORK CITY’S TAX LABOR LAWS Communists Fight for Soviet Standards By PAULINE ROGERS (Special to The Daily Worke.» NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Ben Gitlow, candidate of the Workers Communist | Party for mayor of New York City de- clared that the Communists were not out to maintain the existing New York standards for the pro workers ag the socialist pa to do, but is out to achieve dards of Soviet Russi. “The socialists,” declared Gitlow, “pledge themselves to maintain the New York standards; but we, the Workers Party say that the existing laws are very inadequate and do not meet the needs of the workers. Let us consider the so-called New York standards, First,—the workers’ com- pensation laws.do not cover all in- dustries and employments in any state. There still remain many loop holes and low standards in the law Clerks, professionals, farm hands and domestic servants are universaliy ex- eluded. The law covers only 17 groups of ‘hazardous employments’ and only 19 of the most common oc- cupational diseases. \ “In case of injury, no compensation is paid the first week, and then the injured worker receives from 50 to 66 per cent of his salary. Besides j this, workers meet constanly with un- | necessary delay and unfairness in the settlement of claims, “New York pays no health insur- ance to workers if their illness is not jdue to one of the 19 ocecupationa ‘diseases covered by the workmen's compensation law, and it has no system’ of insurance for the unem- ployed. “Second, is the question of labor legislation for men. In New York, 75 per cent of the people employed are wage workers, and yet there are no laws limiting the numper of hours 2 man mé@y work,no minimum wage laws, no laws establishing paid vaca- tions. There is a law requiring one day’s rest‘in 7 but this law is weak- ened by tiany exceptions, There are codes of factory laws regarding dan- gerous machinery, elevators, fire- escapes, and poison gases, but the inspection is lax, and the laws are constantly violated. One quarter ot our workers in New York are unem ployed, and there is no law guarantee- }its strong swing to the reactionary ing the worker a chance to earn hi: living, “Third is the question of labor le | gislation for women. There is in New | York, no ‘minimum wage for women, | there is no prohibition of night work, | except between the hours of 12 p. m. and 6 a. m. No attempt is made to give women the same salary as men |for the sdme work. There is a law demanding a minimum 9-hour day, |for womefi, but violations of it are | legion. One of the few protective measures for women is that physi- cians- must report immediately all cases of Occupational disease. But, where thousands of cases actually exist, only a few hundred are report- ed. Another law states that an em- ployer should not employ a female sooner than 4 weeks after she has given birth to a child. There is no law granting her a leave of absence with pay however, and no provision made for day nurseries. “We, the Workers Party repudiate all these meager measures, and Pledge ourselves to attain the stand- ards of Soviet Russia, where there is a minimum wage law for men and women, where the maximum day is 8 hours, and the night work lasts only 7 hours, where a 42 hour weekly rest is compulsory, where every worker after a year’s service is entitled to a month’s leave of absence with full pay where every citizen the right to employment in his “or her trade, where every worker for whom em- ployment cannot be found is entitled to a subsidy from the unemployment insurance fund and where a sick or disabled worker receives the full pay of his group.” DLE Trade’ Workers! Brothers nd sisters! Im this election cam- paign, we must rally to the support of the only working class party with @ worker as its standard bearer. We must raise our voices and in no un- certain terms make a mighty protest against the removal of Ben Gitlow’s name from the ballot. Iya only political organization of the working class that supported the militant members of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in their recent disagreement with Sigman, was the Workers (Com- munist) Party. It is the political ex- pression of working class that wor’ rhment of, for and by the wor class. Join us and let the capitalist class know that we do not approve of the removal of Ben Gitlow’s name from the ballot. It is because he stands for the end of the present economic and political sys- LEFT WING FIGHTING TO END CLASS COLLABORATION IN POLITICAL STRUGGLES By CHARLES ZIMMERMAN, Manager, Dress Dept. |. L. G. W. U., Candidate for Assembly, 7th A. D., Bronx The recent big victory of the cloak and dress makers, led by the left wing, will go a long way toward liquidating the class-collaboration policy in the needle trades on the economic as well as the political field. When in the last United States presidential election, the leaders of the needle trade unions endorsed democrats and republicans, and tacitly supported Smith for governor of New York state, it was in Mne with what they did later on the economic field by hand-+— $y ing over the most vital demands of “ the workers to a commission of capi. | Sargent for Law talst politicians. Enforcement” After Aiding Violations WASHINGTON, Oct. Gen. Sargent, whose unwillingness to The lett wing victory means above all that the needle workers are re- turning to the path of the clas trug- gle on the economic and political field. The socialist party having lost its hold almost completely, because of lon of the aluminum trust and by the the promoters of the bread trust and bureaucracy, is now a negligible fac-| electric power trast has brought a tor, which makes the prospects of unity on the political field thru a la- bor party a tangible possibility for sar future. Any attempt in that Yirection will surely receive the sup- port of the needle workers. law en- his head, has come out for forcement in an article in “Just new magazine published ‘in Washing- ton. Arthur E, Stilwell, finamecier, is president of the publishing company. SLUVUTEOCSTEEETUCAATAGEGSEEEEGEECOAUAGEGAGESAEEOEEEUOUOEOOOGAO OOOO ESATO gry press. A corps of skilled mechanics ping to rush the papers and other printed trains. together with hundreds of thousands of Propaganda” at work. * o ° ° frozen at its source. . 6 . ° sends in immediately Save THE DAILY WORKER. * * © ° supply. | Necessary to Name veeisceseseesees 18.—Atty.- | } ence were dropped. the look into lawbreaking by Andrew Mel- | | storm of ridicule and crfgicism upon | Machinists Put New | Preference Proposal Before U. S. Congress (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 employes in 1 - Veteram and arsen- y yard als, who were r ined on essential war work in those p ts in 1917 a 1918, are asking equal preferential rights ‘in government employment with men who served in the armed forces of the government: but did not leave the United States, That is the position decided upon by a conference, in Washington, of representatives of District 44 of the International Association of Machin- i covering the nav rds and ar Ils. Proposals that the union ask to abolish veterans’ prefér- Amendments to existing law, safeguarding the of the men who were kept in plants, by the wish of the gov- he JUST IMAGINE Imagine that you could walk into the building at 1113 W. Washington Blvd. today. You would find a hive of activity. Six linotypes casting the type for a hun- tables arranging the type into forms and pages. Four printing presses turning out newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, leaflets. Mailers busily addressing and wrap- ers. Auto trucks at the freight door to catch the fast mail ? THE DAILY WORKER; Radnik, South Slavic or- gan; Empros, Greek; Trybuna Robootnicz, Polish; Ny Tid, Swedish; The Young Worker; The Workers Monthly and a dozen other workers’ peridocials are being produced printed propaganda. It is the “Source of all Communist Imagine coming into THE DAILY WORKER plant a week later and finding a complete change. printing plant deserted; dust covering the tables, type cases and machinery; the humming motors silent. flow of Communist printed propaganda in America The first picture is what you would see today. The : second is the nightmare which stares us all in the face unless—the vanguard of the American working class the thousands of dollars needed to Thousands of dollars are needed to keep the presses running, thousands more to buy the paper Swift, United and Generous Action by Militant Proletarians Is SAVE THE DAILY WORKER In this space each day will be recorded the names of those who have provided print paper to save THE DAILY WORKER. Fill out this form and rush it in to 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Here are Funds to Buy Pape for Our Daily AddreSS eerreseecneceee aaechdinan ed gvossionty V avvbesvusreobsisceedbes \ ernment, will be offered in congress this winter. Twen ive thousand members of the machinists alone were taken from training camps and returned to skilled work in navy yards and arsenals under the selec tive system. * at the make-up t #r matter to read- 4 pieces of other A splendid The K fi yi ‘S = = = = = = = 5 = = = = j 2 = = : = = : 4 = = = Union; who has stood true to the working class, fighting labor's battles with a spirit and determination that raises in the working class a desire tem, that they have attacked him. Rally to the Workers (Communist) Party and fight shoulder to shoulder with Ben Gitlow, the workers’ candi- Sate in his native land, Other speakers may be announced later on. The case of Hungarian workers is attracting world-wide attention and radicals of many shades are interesting themselves in the movement to save them _from the pailaee timely be ee eli Pe Une threat el md eee ae