The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1926, Page 1

> Pri thinpeges ee Sides i es saeennionedeantcn =< . Vol. Ill. No. 4. | The-DAILY WORKER Raises] the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government —TAPANESE® 3 Striking Workers of the Faji Subscription Rates: Pty ae e P5 mh is o eke niacin ae ai Tit Entered #s Second-class matt. : In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, RE '$5 . G ERS ON PICKET LINE fed Gas Spinning iippans Picketing with Banners and Wearing Native Costumes ta Draw Attention to Their Demonstration. i Racerer% Stenw By T. J. O'FLAHERTY YOUNG man was on the witness stand in Judge McKinley’s court. He was charged with the larceny of an automobile, Two fat lawyers lounged on chairs in front of him. One of them, his own lawyer, was questioning the defendant, trying to bring out all the favorable points. The prosecutor appeared to be pend but particular notice of the objections, | z least of all the judge, who may have been thinking of the new Crowe-Bar- rett-Thompson alliance in Cook county politics. HE defendant’s name was Consi- dine—Jawn Considine. That’s the way he pronounced it. The court was crowded to the’ doors and standing room was at a premium. Perhaps the majority of the Chicago automobile thieves were there. I arrived on the scene after the witness had told of a visit paid to his house by Officer O’Boyle accompanied by somebody else whose name he did not know. O’Boyle told Considine that he had a warrant for him and Considine said: “If you have, you have it for the wrong man.” ATHER an interesting sidelight on the technique employed by po- lice in making arrests. O’Boyle was friendly. He wanted to get inside and hand the warrant to Considine. The latter advised O'Boyle to stick it un- derneath the door or throw it in over the open transom. O'Boyle exhibited: a healthy lack of confidence in Con- sidine’s intentions. He did not want to trust his defenseless warrant to Considine’s mercy.. He began to make violent assaults on the door, Cpa ing: my wife would faint,” continued Considine. “Object!” roared the prosecutor. “Well, you see my. wife was.sick,” essayed the wit- ness. “Object!", bellowed the prose- cutor, “I'll have the jury withdrawn if this disgraceful appeal to emotion con- tinues.” | The judge twirled his tall chair around and nodded to the stenographer. “What happened next? What did O’Boyle do then?” asked counsel for the defense. “I let him in and he was yery nice, saying he did not want to hurt-me and that he know my grandmother was matron at ‘Chi- cago avenue station a number of years, He asked me to come down to State’s Attorney Crowe's office and: talk things over,” (D he say anything about the four gallons of booze he told us here you had in your house?” “He Continued on page 2) PACKERS LOWER THE WAGES AND LENGTHEN THE HOURS IN ‘YARDS’ AFTER DESTROYING LABOR UNIONS By VICTOR ZOKAITIS. Ever since the meat packers succeeded in breaking the strike Hj ae 1 MN MEET (Special t6 The Daily Worker) NEW YORK. CITY, Jan. 14—The second anniv ey of the death of the recognized Jeader of the world proletariat, Comrade Lenin, will commemorated in the New York dis- trict in a manner worthy of the life and work of Lenin—not in the spirit of a day of mot jing, but in the spirit of carrying ones work. Symbolizes Struggle for Power. The name of in-is the standard of millions of Workers and peasants who hi entered the struggle against their perialist oppressors for the | establishment their own power. The lessons of Leninism must be ab- sorbed by the Workers if they are to emancipate themselves and be victor- ious in the striggle for the overthrow of ae tec ial meetings ar- ‘ork City in four big eir purpose the car- damental lessons of widest possible masses of New York workers. The activities of the American Legion (America’s faseisti) prevented’ the Workers Party from getting Madison Square Garden for the occasion. Therefore the Central Opera House, 67th street and Third avenue; the New Star Casino, 107 Park avenue; Miller’s Grand Assembly, 318 Grand avenue, Brooklyn, and Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 Hast street, have ie aad in Ne halls have for rying of the Leninism to of the packing house workers and destroying their unions, wages |been engaged a ngements are een.gontinually lowered and the hours of the workers being made Bone. halle tp ‘ Sia, inti “ov 0 . ceileictleieiaa ages have never been high in the meat packing oe Many Speakers: for Four Halls. lower than that paid to the workers in any other industry. The ~— wage that is paid in the Pt asi amounts to about $20 “ta 8 uel BREECE OPPOSES PROPOSITION TO With this $20 a week the worker must support himself and his family. This he is unable to do and his wife is forced to leave their children and go to work in the “yards” or to scrub floors in the loop office buildings in order to help the husband make both ends meet. As soon as the children reach 14 years of age, they must go to Work as the parents are not able to provide the food, clothing and neces- sary shelter. FUND U, S. DEBT ATHENS, Jan. 14—Efforts for the | settlement of the Greek debt to the| United States may come under the dictatorship of General Pangolas, it In the pork department the unskill-/ was learned today. ed laborer gets 47% cents an hour for doing heavy dirty work on the floors. The knifemen who must work shaving the hogs and carrying on the other tedious work to make the hog (Continued on page 2.) Chicago A. C. W. Left Wing States Its The needle trades unions, ¢ven more than other sections of ‘the la- bor movement, are feeling the effect “of class collaboration combined with an industrial depression, The swing of Sidney Hillman into the open championship of class collaboration has significantly occurred at the same time a like campaign is being ‘opered in the American Federation ‘of Labor by William Green. ' ‘The Amalgamated came to power and °tame as a union that was “differ- ent.” How different or how similar it is today from reactionary unions ‘of the A. F. of L, in the relation of its officialdom to its members and the practice of workers’ democracy in the union, nray be judged by the following statement of the T, U. B. Li. group in the Chicago A. Q. W. The statement says: ak HE elections in the Chicago Amal gamated Clothing Workers’ Union, held on December 10, 17 and 18, for DR. SWEET, DEFENDANT IN DETROIT NEGRO TRIAL RELATES EFFORTS OF K. K. K. TO TERRORIZE HIS RACE By C. O'BRIEN ROBINSON, Dr, Ossian H, Sweet of Detroit, Mich,, this week told a Chicago audience ot his experiences during the time of his case with ten co-defendants indicted for murder in the first degree following a race clash in Detroit in which one white man was killed and one wounded, In Detroit about five years before the world war there were not over 6,000 Negroes. At that time there was no racial friction and the slogan of ~ (Continued on page 2) | Under the urge of business and in- dustrial circles it is expected that General Pangalos will take an early opportunity to refute the last memo- In addition to Jay Lovestone, speaker from the natonal loffice, Benjamin Git- low, M. J. Olging William W. Wein- stone, Charles Krumbein and others will address all of the above meet- ings. The Frethsit Gesangs Verein. the Lithuanian ‘chorus, a Hungarian orchestra and othér organizations will furnish appropriate revolutionary | music. The meetings mre all scheduled to take place simultaneously at 2 p. m. on Sunday, Jan. 24 and tickets are now on sale admitting the bearer to his choice of the above halls, at 50 cents each. The slogan under, which the meetings are being held is— Lenin Is Dead But His Work Lives, “The party is the highest form of the class organization of the prole- tariat.”—Lenin. Strengthen the Len- randum on the Greek debt forwarded to the United States, joint board officers bel election of local officers that folfowed, makes it necessary for the Amalgamated sec- tion of the Trade Union Educational League of Chicago to issue the fol- lowing statement: The administration claims an over- whelming victory for its candidates. This victory, they claim, is the ap- proval of the membership toward the officialdom and its policies and tactics of the past year. This makes it necessary to make known to the vast membership of the Chicago organization the circumstanc- es that the opposition candidate for manager was faced within this elec: tion, so that the membership may Judge for themselves. (HE administration in their effort to roll up a big vote for their can- didate used the most unscrupulous methods, 1. They terrorized and intimidated the membership. 2. Most of the election committee and judges of election were composed of strongarm men. 8. No credentials were issued to Nathan Green's supporters for watch, ers to take care of his vote during the counting of the ballots, 4. No places on the election com- mittee were given to the opposition candidate. 5. Shop chairmen were instructed not to permit the distribution of any campaign literature for the opposition candidate, 6. Arbitrary removal from jobs inist tendencies in our party. Attend the Lenin meetings. 7. Shop chairmen were instructed to see that workers vote and how they vote, in many cases, they took advan- tage of the foreign workers who can- not read English and voted for them. 8. The counting of the ballots was entirely in the hands of the adminis- tration, The opposition had no say in the matter. A great nuniber of votes were either miscounted or stol- en, as proven by Local No. 39, elec- tion. Bundlesof ballots marked “straight” for the administration can- didates when examined were found to contain about/20 per cent of the votes for the opposition. 308 new subscriptions in the first 3 days of the 5000 New Subs to the DAILY WORKER! RUSH YOUR SUB were made of those workers who dis- tributed the plugger announcing Green's candidacy and the program upon which he made his campaign. to reach the total! be | september 21, 1923, at ‘tne Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1926 o> 290 BOSTON, Ma: chusetts. were given a fair trial. name in on the list. The hearing concluded today. be given. ° * PUBLISHING CO., He claimed that the bringing in of radicalism helped the defense and tried to answer charges of concealing witnesses by saying that the district attorney did not know the name of Gould who would have testified in favor of the defense and that the police who knew him did not give his ment by the court and it may take a few weeks before the decision will BOSTON, Jan. 14.—(FP)—Judge Webster Thayer's trial methods in the NEW YORK EDITION Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, IL The case will be taken on advise- * * case of Sacco and Vanzetti are bared in the 190-page brief that William G. Thompson, attorney for the defense, had submitted to the Massachusetts supreme court which is considering arguments for a new trial. They were ors. The last five were chosen from 175 talesmen picked overnight by sheriff's deputies. These deputies, according to their own reports, picked personal acquaint- ances, lodge members, tive citizens” and so forth—but did not get their men from any regular jury lists. Defense attorneys were denied the right to quiz talesmen as to their la- bor or employer connections and views of their feelings toward Italians. On the other hand the prosecution, during the trial, was permitted to excite prejudice by bringing out the radical views of the prisoners and their evasion of the draft. Both men “representa- | convicted June, 1921, of a payroll guard murder. The defendants’ rights were prejudiced from the beginning of the trial in the way the jury was selected. The regular jury panel had been exhausted in the selection of the first seven jur-+ COMMUNIST WINS were opposed to the last war. Judge Evaded Juror’s Prejudice. The attitude of the foreman of the jury, Walter Ripley, stands out in an ‘nels affidavit. by Nena H : week before the Sar “Damn them, they ought to hang anyway.” The Daly affidavit was filed in 1923 in a supplementary motion for a new trial. This motion was denied by Judge Thayer. Thompson calls attention to the judge's failure to make any ruling on this particular affidavit, in denying the motion as a whole, or even to make any reference to it and he asks that GREAT VICTORY IN FRENCH POLL Riliukes Action 4f Pain- leve Clique PARIS, France, Jan. 14—With the greatest majority yet returned for any working class candidate, the electo- rate of the suburb of Saint-Denis-La- Rouge voted overwhelmingly for the Communist Party ticket in the elec- tion for mayor, giving Jacques La- porte some sixty-five per cent of the total votes cast. ~Roli@ring-the; strike -of October 12; the government of Painleve and Schrameck by an arbitrary decision revoked the mayoralty of Laporte, one of the well-known leaders of the party and formerly the head of the French Young Communist League. To the action of the government the revolu- tionary workers of Saint-Denis-La- Rouge replied by giving Laporte 6,534 votes as against 1,875 votes for the yellow socialist party and 3,095 for the bourgeois bloc. The Paris L’Humanite, organ of the French Communist Party commenting on the election declares that the ‘Communist victory of yesterday at Saint-Denis has still another signifi- cance. It is not only a reply to the the defendants’ exception to the court’s omission be sustained. Denied Admission, Thompson shows how the defend- ants’ rights were again gravely pre judiced when the court refused to .can never hope to convince the rank allow a firing test of Sacco’s gun— that is a real test, firing a large num- ber of Winchester cartridges thru the gun. This, the defendants’ experts ar- gued, would refute the assertion of the state, gun expert that the firing of many cartridges would show a wide (Continued on page 2.) government. It is an expression by thousands of proletarians who have voted red of the will of the entire proletariat of the country to continue the battle against the war of Morocco and of Syria, against the high cost of living and against the fascist men- ace.” Positi which would turn our union from its class collaboration policy and make it an organ of struggle for the work- ers. It was upon the following program that the Amalgamated T, U. E. group was seeking the united front: 1.. Genuine unemployment insur- ance. 2. Organization of the unorganized. 8.0 Freedom of minority expression and the reinstatement of members ex- pelled for holding such views. 4. Amalgamation of all trades. 4. Shop delegate system. 6. Labor party based upon trade unions. 7. Against wage cuts in the form of readjustments or otherwise. 8. Against expulsion of members holding opposition views, against slug- } ging, and terroristic tactics. LL efforts for commof action fail- | ed and the leadership in the per-| son of Hyman Shneid of the “Advance | group” preferred to solicit to support | (Continued on page @ UR official organ the Advance, has helped considerably the official- dom in their condescension and mis- representation of the opposition can- didate for manager. In the’ Decem- ber 11 issue on the report of the nom- inations it stated that the opposi- tion in their effort to nominate Green has proven a fiasco, with possibly one exception where returns were not complete. fhe reporter of this news item was well aware of the fact that the parti- cular Jocal in question had nominated Green for manager some time in No- vember. And later in’ the December 10 issue it deliberately misrepresent- ed the answer's given by Nathan Green to the examining board, IELLOW workers, the present ad- ministration in their efforts to roll up a big vote have gone the limit to attain their objective. For hot until the membership is able to cast their | votes overwhelmingly for the progres- | sive program will the disparity be- tween votes cast and those counted be overcome. By mere figures the administration needle and file, the left wing and progressive elements, that they still enjoy the full confidence 6f the membership or that their policies and tactics have been approved, 'N this election the Amalgamated group of the T, U. PB. L, has sought to unite all progressive forces on a common program to fight the ma- chine’s onslaught of terrorism against | the membership, It had proposed a united front to the “Advance group” of Local No, 39, headed by Hyman Schneid, uponya, minimum program Some five hundred men, women For sheer beauty in costume and been seen—a combination for which CHICAGO CELEBRATES “DAILY BIRTHDAY” WITH PANTOMIME OF DANCING AND ART FEATU last night, cheering and applauding the presentation of the labor panto | “Six Live Pages”—which proved a real novelty in Chicago labor c! Gibson. and the splendid little dancer, Emma Ble (Continued on Price 3 Cents “OLDS FATE OF SACCO AND VANZETTI | BARE FRAME-UP P AGAINST SACCO AND VANZETTI IN BRIEF GIVEN TO SUPREME COURT ON APPEAL BULLETIN, By S. D. LEVINE, (Special to The Daily Worker) Jan. 14.—The fate of Sacco and Vanzetti in their appeal for their lives is now in the hands of the supreme court of Massa- The hearing for a new trial that began last Monday was con- cluded today after speech made by District Attorney Ranny, who argued against granting a new trial, claiming that the victims of the frame-up FEW ESCAPE FROM OPEN SHOP MINE Nearly 100 Dead Yet to Be Removed (Special to The Daily Worker) WILBURTON, Okla., Jan. 14.—State militia and deputy sheriffs guard the property of the open shop, or better said non-union, Degan - McConnell coal company’s mine No. 21, here, where approximately 100 miners lie buried and burned to death after the explosion which wrecked the mine early yesterday. The blast came from coal dust, illegally allowed to accumu. late. Only Nine Escape. The fires which broke out were ex- tinguished shortly after ten o'clock this morning and removal of the dead was resumed. Cecil McKinney, 26, emerged alive today, having crawled thru hundreds of feet of debris."He is the ninth survivor known to have es- caped. The second man to be revived after being carried out supposedly dead, is Beryl Holland, colored. He was the twenty-second man to be brot out, Many Cave-ins, Reports from rescue workers say that heavy falls of rock and cave-ing have occurred, burying many bodies. The nine survivors are unnerved and unable to give coherent stories off their experiences. The doctors and nurses mobilized yesterday when hope was held out | that many men might be alive, were ‘ demobilized, as most men are unques- | tionably dead. TWORAILROAD UNIONS ASKING =. WAGE INCREA ve Nothing Side on the Wat- son-Parker Bill CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 14.—Will- iam G. Lee, president of the Brother- hood of Railroad Trainmen, and L. B. Sheppard, head of the Order of Rail- way Conductors, announce that the memberships of their organizations have voted practically unanimously to demand a substantial raise of wages. All employes were cut 12 per cent in July, 1921, by the rail labor board. In April, 1925, they got five per cent back. The demand on the companies will be presented some time this month. — A referendum is now being taken by the Locomotive Firemen and Engine- men on a wage raise demand. The last convention at Detroit in the sum- mer passed it, it was referred to the ~~ general chairman who sanctioned it and is now in process of voting, What effect these demands will” have on the passage of the Watson- et Parker bill and what effect the bill will have on the wage demands, is not mentioned by the union officials, Observers incline to believe that the demands will make the companies anxious to speed up the bill, which is supposed to check all strike action by arbitration enforced by law, South Africa Will Not Attend British CAPETOWN, South Africa, Jan ‘“ —It is reliably reported that the South African government will re- fuse to participate in the British im- perial conference supposed to meet Jat London next fall. This is to be based on the ground that the govern- — }ment does not wish to run the risk of being Involved in foreign politics not \directly connected with South Africa. Trade problems, it is held, can be taken care of by the existing com- nections» with London. and children crowded Imperial grace in motion, nothing like it the noted Communist hschmidt, are both e 2)