The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY, WORKER CRIBBEN-SEXTON POLISHERS GO BACK TO WORK Union Heads and Bosses to Settle Strike The striking metal polishers of the Cribben, Sexton & company stove manufacturing plant at West Chicago avenue and Sacramento Bivd., have returned to work, pending a settle- | ment of the dispute by the officials of the Metal Polishers’ International Union and the Stove Founders’ Na- tional Defense, Cribben, Sexton & company has fir- ed all of the scabs that it had em- ployed dur the nd took > went on | National v g with the 1 union heads on beh Sexton plant for a »ben, “settlement.” To Strike Again, The strikers insist that if in the ne- gotiations they do not get the union conditions they went on strike for, they will walk out and go on strike for t nd time. This strike last- ed nearly five months. During this period the striking metal polishers maintained a stout picket line and the company was able to find but very few who were willing to scab. The Cribben, Sextion & company in the beginning of the strike did all it could to scare the men back to work threatening them with the loss of the insurance policies the company had given them. When this method fail- ed, they sent a letter to the mothers, wives and sisters of the men on strike, telling them that if their broth- ers, husbands or sons did not go back | to. work that the policies would be worthless. This attempt to use the women ‘against the men failed miserably and made the strikers more determined than ever to stay out until their de- mands were won. Following th gunmen and, pro- fessional scabs were imported into the plant and a number of times gunmen threatened the strikers and a number drew knives on the pickets. When Local 6 of the metal polishers called out the union men in the Chicago Plating Works on West Superior St., one of the private “finks” the company had hired, tried to frame up the un- fon pickets on a charge of arson by throwing old dry rags into a hallway, where the pickets rested, and then throwing burning cigarettes onto the rags. State’s Attorney Robert E. Crow's office arrested two of the union of- ficials and tried to implicate them in a bomb plot and thus scare the men back to work. Then a number of detectives attached to the state’s at- torney’s office and the head of a private detective agency kidnaped one of the pickets. They drove with their automobile to a spot under a rail- road track, beat up the picket and then threw him out into the gutter. They beat up another picket the same day in front of the plant, while a num- ber in the main office looked on. Gunmen Fail in Purpose. This attack on the pickets was fol- lowed by a raid on the union head- quarters. The picket line thruout all this period remained intact and the the open-shop concern and orney’s office and the and gunmen failed to 2 men back to work. “dicks” Current Events (Continued from page 1) Chinese news: The first of three newspapers published in China and financed by the Roman catholic church was launched last week, The papers will oppose Bolshevism. The foreign business elements led by the British have raised a huge anti-Sov- iet propaganda fund. Again quoting the correspondent: “They (foreign interests) are now considering future plans, as they fully realize that it is no longef possible to resist or to op- pose the new Chinese nationalism.” ‘ee HOSE brigands had no hesitation in having Chinese students and workers murdered in cold blood but now that the movement has gotten beyond their powers to stop it, they are considering plans to debauch it. After commenting on the lack of plan in the conservative camp, the Times correspondent says: “It is now evi- dent that the Soviets during the last year were more intelligent and active here than the stable (?) governments which try to cling to the usual diplo- matic methods. The Soviets acted with a better understanding of the actual conditions in China and Chi- nese political psychology and ambi- tions,” It never occurs to the capi- talist reporters that Soviet Russia’s foreign policy is based on the inter- ests of the producing classes every- where. The policy of the imperialist powers is one of deception and plun- der. 8-8 HE Soviet government has placed $250,000,000 worth of crown jewels on exhibition in Moscow. Those gems formerly adorned the useless persons of the Romanoffs. They can now be seen by the Russian workers and peas- ants on payment of a fee of $1.00. Be- sides contributing to the Soviet treas- ury the exhibtion is bound to have great educational value. The peas- ants and workers can remember how they starved and suffered while the former “little father” an@ his para- site retainers were able to wear little else but gems for clothing. se 8 ge abe os Commissioner Enright of New York, famous red-baiter, is having some trouble with his suc- cessor. Enright is an ardent advo- cate of finger printing and other schemes that would enable the master class to keep better posted on those who are obnoxious to them. One of Enright’s pet schemes is the "Interna- tional Police Conference” of which he is president. When he surrendered his office as police comisioner to a Mr. McLaughlin, he carted tons of police records along with him. The workers should not expect any change for the ‘better in the new adminis- tration at City Hall, even tho the new mayor has been initiated as a mem- ber of the Stationary Firemen’s Union by Tim Healy. The fight between Hy- lan and Al Smith and their respective backers was a struggle over the spoils of New York city. “Political Prisoners in Hungary” Subject of I. L. D. Meeting Monday NEW YORK, Jan, 19.—At the Inter- national Labor Defense, Section No. 2, meeting on Monday, Jan. 25, Emil Gardos of the Elore will speak on “Po- litical Prisoners in Hungary” with particular emphasis on the latest de- velopments in the Rakosi case. The meeting will be held at 301 W. 29th street. All comrades and sympathiz- ers are invited to attend. The Lenin action—send your sub today! Drive means quick LENIN THE GREAT STRATEGIST 222" CLASS WAR ANSWER TO THE LEGION GIVEN BY N.Y, PARTY Four Big Halls for Lenin Memorial (Continued fiom page 1) representative of the district agitprop department. Attendance of all party members is obligatory at these meet- ings. Those still to be held are as fol- lows: Wednesday, Jan. 19—Sub-section 3, 1808 South Racine Ave.; district representative, Harry Gannes; Sub- Section 6, 3209 W. Roosevelt Road; district representative, Max Shact- man; subsection 7, 4733 Hirsch Bivd., district representative, Louis Fisher. Thursday, Jan. 20—Section 1, $427 Indiana Ave.; district represen- tative, C. E. Ruthenberg. Sub-section 2, 777 W. Adams St.; district representative, Manuel Go- mez. To Hold Regular Meetings. The agitprop department has pre- pared full outlines of the subject under discussion, with recommendations to suggested reading. A copy of the out- line is given to everyone attending the meetings. Political discussion meetings similar to those now arranged are to be held regularly each month in the various sections and sub-sections, the topics and chief speakers to be selected by the district agitprop department. | These are in addition to the detailed courses of study in the Chicago | Workers’ School and to the education- al activities of the party nuclei. ae ae N. Y. to Answer the Legion, NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 19.—“What Lenin means to the American Work- ers.” “The Theoretical heritage of Leninism”: “Lenin’s guidance on the organization and rule of a Commun- ist Party”; “Lenin and the American empire”; “Lenin’s Russia as a sym- bol of the achievements of Leninism”; —these are some of the topics which will be discussed at the four big Lenin memorial meetings to’ be held in the New York district simultaneously on Sunday afternoon, Tried to Prevent Meetings. Last year and the year before the meeting filled and overflowed Madi son Square Garden, the largest hall in the United States and thousands were turned away. This year the big busi- ness interests, represented in such so- cieties as the American Flag Associa- tion, were determined to prevent the annual demonstration and succeeded in preventing the party’ from hiring Madison Square Garden. Its answer has been to hire four halls and it is still negotiating for others to handle the overflow crowds. Each of these halls is large enough to hold a huge mass demonstration and yet the party is confident that they will all be overcrowded and the over- flow halls held in reserve will have to be used. Four Simultaneous Meetings. All of the meetings will go on simul- taneously, beginning at 2 p. m. sharp on Sunday, Jan, 24. The speakers in- clude Comrades Jay Lovestone, Ben Gitlow, M, J. Olgin, Wm. W. Wein- stone, Charles Krumbein and others. Those whose names are mentioned will cover all the four meetings and additional speakers will be assigned to each individual meeting. An elaborate program of revolution- ary music has been arranged with the following organizations co-operat- ing: Freiheit Gesangs Verein; Lithu- anian Choruses; Hungarian Orches- tra; Ukrainian Chorus. The halls are The Central Opera House, 67th street and 8rd avenue; New Star Casino, 107th street and Park avenue; Miller’s Grand Assembly, 318 Grand street, Brooklyn; and Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th street. Admission is. 50 cents, eit Memorial in Minneapolis, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—The Lenin memorial here will be held Sunday, Jan, 31, from 2 to 12 p, m,, at the Finnish Hall, Western and Humboldt Ave. N. Speakers: T. R. Sullivan, Matti Tenhunen, K. BH. Heikkinen, Wm. Watkins, Marion Parness (Young DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY W. WASHINGTON BLVD, Chicago~ ILL. —— Workers League), Cecile Guttman, | | “Why Organize Women?” Meat Packing Plant Destroyed, PARIS, lL, Jan, 19.—The Steidle | meat packing plant, largest in south- eastern Illinois, was partially destroy- ed by fire today. Private Detectives Jailed for Attack on Metal Polishers (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT—(FP)—A sentence of 30 Gays in Detroit's county jatl was im- posed on William Buk, ©, B, Shep- pard Co, thug, who furled an iron bar into an auto filled with str'king metal polishers, injuring Fos:cet Foster, Ap- ril 7, 1925, Burk was found guilty of felonious assault by a jury. Many cases of assault and battery also grew out of the strike, “The central question of th lution is the question of powe: in, Hear this question discussed at the Lenin Memorial meetings, ' v4 3erlin Unem} oyment Leads to Few Workers Getting 2: ad Jobs (Special to Th aly Worker) BERLIN, Jan. 19.—So great is un- mployment and so continually does it secome greater, that in searching for a way to give jobs to the starving thousands of Berliners seeking work, the city administration is advancing $1,250,000 to pay for wages and ma- terial to complete the subway from Hermann Platz to the Landwher canal, a project begun in 1912, but stopped by the war. However, this work can furnish only a small percent- age of the unemployed with jobs—and at a good profit for their bosses as well as the usual graft for various offi- cials, SHOE WORKERS’ STRIKE 1S. ON IN BROOKLYN Weissman Shop Fires All Fitters (Continued from page 1.) sult to his greeting when he coughed to explain that he-intended to give up the entire fitting room space for other purposes. This would have worked well enough if the workers had not been able to read or’ write, for on the. following. Monday this round preacher of truth and honesty Tan substantial advertisements in the papers calling for fitters. He also in- stilled a new fitter foreman, Now, since he had no space for a fitting room the strikers are wondering if his new fitters and foreman are an- gels who need so little space that a thousand can dance on the point of a needle, The entire shop was called out and is now a hundred per cent on strike, with the exception of the cleaners and finishers. Pickets are on the job and the scabs find it bothersome -to try to break the strike, One picket appealed to the shop foreman to consider,the men with wives and children, but this gent call- ed the police and had the picket ar- rested, This striker was given a hear- ing and promptly released, since the charge was merely that he called the foreman a scab, which the court seem- ed to consider an honorable title. They too left. rQpp shrdlu etaoinnnn The ads which were kept in the pa- pers for some ‘time seem to have brot no tangible results and Weissman has his fitting room empty. Even the foreman he for this depart- ment refused to stay, The attempt to haye the work done by contract has also failed, as men in other shops refuse to.supply a struck shop with goods. : Shop as Bad Name. The Weissman slop is considered one of the worst in’ the industry. It is fearfully congested and unsanitary, with poor light and air, long hours and the lowest possible wage. Weiss- man himself is overbearing and proud and his pet phrase is, “Take your tools and get out.” 8 He takes it upon pimself to fix all prices without consulting the men or the union. He has,also done all in his power to keep the shop from be- coming organized, and tries to arouse race prejudice by pointing to some of the workers and calling them “a bunch of Jews.” . In spite of this the union now has control and the strike is on in full blast. ‘The strikers are supported by other shops who send members to help picket and a real spirit of solidarity is keeping the workers together, Meetings are being held daily where the strikers are addyessed by Organ- izer Cosgrove and others, and the out- look is now for a figiit to the finish. TRY TO HUSH UP EXPOSE TO SAVE HORTHY REGIME (Special to The Dally Worker) VIENNA, Jan, 19+Efforts to hush up the gigantic batk-note forgery § dal because ofthe political im- plications, the orthy government be- ing deeply incolved in the issuance of billions of counterfieit French francs, are being made in Hungary. The French government is quietly working to stifle the'scandal and con- fines its investigatién only to see that there are no forged ‘notes held out by those who have confessed, who include one prince, @ count and cabi- net ministers of orthy’s government. The French are dickering unofficial- ly with the prince, Windisch-Graetz, and Permier Bethlen is also working to prevent further exposures of the incredible crookedness of the reaction Horthy regime which overthrew the soviets established under Bela Kuhn with massacre and white terror, The whole mess ig 80 unspeakably rotten that even the social-democrats have threatened to withdraw support from oHrthy and Bethlen, altho they had an agreement with this white guard leader against the Commun- ists. 7 He will like it! Give your union brother a sub to The DAILY WORKDR, ! ae REPORT CHANG Manchurian the arch reactionary of China, is Gold Coast Fawns on Panhandlers of Russia’s Overthrown Aristocracy By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. al eaedaculs Chicago presents a contrast in beggars. _ Blind beggars, seeking a livelihood upon the streets, have been repeatedly ordered arrested by the city authorities, un- til the Chicago Federation of Labor took a hand and came to their defense. s Labor decided to make the fight for the blind against the “opposition of organized charity, the church, the police, the judges and the big business interests as represented by the association of commerce.” * * ° * ‘ But the rich, who direct the association of commerce, and who dole out a few paltry dollars to church and charity, have a set of kept beggars of their own, for whom they are conducting a charity hall this Saturday oe The offi- cial name isn’t “charity ball,” but “The Russian Ball.” It is, nevertheless, a panhandling affair, with Russian dukes, princes, army and navy officers, counts and the accompany- ing no-accounts holding out their itching palms. * * * * In this contrast the attitude of 100 per cent American pay-triotism, on the question of “foreigners,” is strangely inverted. Native Americans, many of them blinded in indus- try, forced upon the street to beg in order to escape death by starvation, are arrested by the police and sent away for a stretch in the workhouse. Their begging conflicts with or- ganized charity for a price. They must be suppressed. * * * . But the poverty-stricken, emigre Russian nobility that existed before the 1917 revolution, but now lives only in me- mory in the ballrooms of America’s rich, is looked upon quite differently. e ° e e . “Russians are Lionized by Many Chicago Hostesses,” reads the headline in the Sunday society section of the Chi- cago Herald-Examiner. It is declared that James Gordon Bennett built the New York Herald into a great profit-pro- ducing institution thru filling his classified columns with the advertisements of procurers. The society columns of the Hearst sheets do not wander far from the same purpose. It is Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis, wife of the former de- mocratic United States senator from Illinois, who is a featured writer on social topics in this Hearst sheet, that says in quoting one of the Chicago hostesses: “If we Chicagoans are aiding these Russian bachelors materially from our own abundance, are they not in turn helping us to appreciate anew the value, the charm and helpfulness and even the relief to one’s nerves of dependable good manners, of gentle breeding...” Evidéntly the crumbs cast from the tables of Chicago’s Midases are not very plentiful so far as the average parasite emigre is concerned, for the same writer, quoting the same nameless hostess, continues: “Altho the Russians live often in smali rooming houses and have No telephone of their own, no business offices of their own, they never- theless seem to receive their invitations—either formal cards or tele- phone messages left with a Polish maid who speaks but indifferent Eng- lish—much more promptly than the thoroly established Chicagoan living in ‘this own home or at his club.” And-why should they cut themselves off from this form of panhandling considered “respectable” in capitalist Chi- cago? The final cost of maintaing these outcast Russian de- corations on Chicago's gold coast falls on the shoulders of the workers and farmers who provide the wealth that the parasite class squanders, American labor has yet to achieve the victory won by the Russian workers and peasants when they either put the parasites to work or drove them pell mell out of the country. When American labor does achieve its victory it will per- form the double job of dumping its own parasite class as well as getting rid of the human offscourings from other lands where the workers and farmers have already come to power, tenced them to six months’ prison and a fine of $90 each, The union was legally organized and was holding a meeting to discuss the signing of a wage agreement with a contractor. In spite of this the re- actionary Chinese judge refused to hear the evidence, declared the pris- oners guilty of holding an. illegal meeting and posessing Communist lit- erature, While this is not true the whole affair shows how the workers are treated under the rule of reaction in Manchuria, AGAIN MOVING TOWARD PEKING Reaction Jails Unionists LONDON, Jan. 19 — Chang Tso-lin again raising his head, according to reports received here. His troops are moving southward and again threaten to seize Peking, say these advices. Kuo Sun-lin’s soldiers are withdrawing from the region of Shan al Kwan before the advance of Thang’s army. Again, in Harbin, the reactionary government is active. It seized thir- téen Russian members of a water ‘hransport workers’ union and sen- Foreign Exchange, NEW YORK, Jan, 19.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.85%; cable 4.86%. France, franc, demand 3.73%; cable 3.74. Belgium, franc, de- mand 4.54; cable 4.54%, Italy, lira, mand 4.03%; cable 4.04, krone, demand 26.75; cable 26.78, Nor- way, krone, demand 20.33; cable 20,35, Denmark, krone, demand 24.83; cable 24.85. Shanghai, taels, demand 77.50. IN CHICAGO, ILL.! NEW LENIN FILM Three Great Reels Never Before Shown in the United States to appear for the first time at the LENIN MEMORIAL NEETING Sunday, January 24, 8 P. M. COLISEUM, 16th and Wabash Avenue SPEAKERS: C. E. Ruthenberg. Gen, Sec'y Workers (Communist) Party William F, Dunne, Editor The Daily Worker Max Shachtman, Young Workers (Communist) League Lovett Fort-Whiteman, American Negro Labor Organizer C. S. Jon, Chinese speaker. Chairman: Arne Swabeck, , District Organizer Workers (Communist) Party. Sweden,’ FORD EMBRACES REINCARNATION AS NEW ILLUSION Burbank Can’t Believe in Life After Death (Special to The Dally Worker) SANTA ROSA, Cal., Jan. 19.—Two men, both at the top of their respec- tive callings, were at odds today over that much-discussed question—rein- carnation. Henry Ford, in the midst of De- troit’s industrial world, in a recent interview, declared that he believed that life on this earth was solely for the purpose of giving experience to men forfuture lives. Luther Burbank, California's great naturalist, paused long enough at his little farm near, here today to take issue with Henry Ford on the subject. Cannot Believe It, “Life after death,” mused the aged naturalist, as he stroked his long, white locks reflectively, “I can’t be- lieve it. “4 “I have thot about reincarnation all my life and after all these years I am unable to accept the theory that we will live again,” He contends that it has never been proven that such a thing as reincar- nation exists, and that is another rea- son the plant wizard refuses to em- grace the theory. “Nothing could induce me to accept that theory,” he said. Filibuster Over the World Court Is Now Raging in Senate (Continued from page 1) an incoherent harrangue wherein he wandered over history and literature and mythology as only such a person ean flop from one subject to another in order to kill time, Dawes and the administration sup- porters on the republican side as well as most of the democratic senators who are playing the game of the House of Morgan to get the United States in the world court were des- berate, but they fear to invoke cloture (shutting off debate) because many of them are standing for re-election this year and being political cowards they fear the effect of. shutting off debate at this time would have on the elec- tion this fall. Wants Months to Debate. Peace negotiations between the ad- ministration-democratic world court bloc and the senate irreconcillables over fixing a date for a final vote on American adherence were taken up this morning, but failed because of op- Position by Blease. After blocking a peace’ move for voting on Feb. 10, Blease offered a resolution in the senate proposing Dec. 8, 1926, as a date for the final vote on the court. His resolution came as a surprise both to court ad- herents and the irreconciliables. Hiram Johnson Joins Fight. After Blease came Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California, one of the original foes of the league of nations who announced that he was unalter- ably opposed to American entry in the court with or without reservations. “How soon we forget,” said Johnson, “the struggle which rocked this senate but a few years ago over our entrance into the league of nations. I am op- posed to this court becausé I think it will take us bodily into the league.” Miner Dies From Injuries. DUQUOIN, IIL, Jan, 19.— Charles Schemick, 33, a trip rider at the Ma- jestic mine, died here early today of injuries sustained yesterday when he was crushed between a car and the side wall. y “Lenin is dead but his work lives.” Pledge yourself te carry on his work at the Lenin Memorial meetings. CHICAGO FITZGERALD BEAUTY .SHOP Marcel Waving Hair Tinting Shampooing Facials Manicuring Scalp Treatments Open Evenings by Appointment. Low 15 E, Washington St. Suite 1314 Venetian Bldg. Rates can pearvorn 4777. hii —T iim SYMBOLIC DANCES Czecho-Slovak Athletic Society CONCERT Frejheit Singing Society Twenty Pieces Brass Band Playing Admission: In Advance 35¢ at the Door 50c Auspices Workers (Communist) Party, Local Chicago, NS