The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1926, Page 1

_ The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government ‘Vol. Il. No. 10. | Subscription Rates: outs ——$—$—$—$————————————— ap Ry. rm | fe Ye. a ty & if Oo" €., oo, ‘ a" fy + apatite ie 4 hicago, ity“ aSTERN SHOPMEN HEAR OF ‘B. & 0.’ PLAN Jewell Fails to Put Scheme Over on Men More than 500 shopmen of the Chi- Stent By T. J. O'FLAHERTY EFORE the senate finance commit: tee finished its task of preparing the Mellon tax bill for discussion on the floor.of that august body, the tidy sum of 350 million dollars was snugly esconsced in the wallets of those who have never enough of the coin, of the realm to justify their worrying over tax bills, Mellon’s plan saved them that amount. Democrats and repub- licans buried their respective hatchets in the necks of those who have very e little more than their chains to lose. cago & Northwestern Railroad com: The sham fight between these two|Pany assembled at the Wicker Park parties of capitalism was transformed | Hall, to hear 0. H. Beyer, Jr, known into a love feast when the question|as “consulting engineer” and J. Me of saving money for the capitalists | Jewell, president of the Railway Em- ‘was on the table. ployes’ department of the American , Federation of Labor, discuss the “Co- ee ge ener, eo termnent. The operative plan” or better known as representatives of the “independ- ; ea ent” capitalists of the west and mid- the “B, 4.0.” plan, to be Infroduced at the Chicago shops of the Chicago, dle west can talk all they like about Northwestern rellvend: the so-called traditions of the United States, but when the voting takes This was the first meeting of the place the solons take their orders | Shopmen dealing with this subject, from the Wall Street bankers. The|altho the shopcrafts are supposedly Italian debt agreement: was ratified| im favor of the adoption of the plan. in the house despite general public] ‘Several months ago, the system fed- opposition. But the only class that] ration asked the local unions to vote can cope successfully with Wall Street, | whether they want the “time and a is not yet on the offensive. That,half for overtime and Sunday work class is the working class. The big |rule re-established” (this rule was ab- finance and industrial capitalists are|rogated after this) taking with it also ruling the roost at present. They/|the co-operative plan. are class conscious and know what} The circular dealing with that mat- they want. The great mass of work-|ter was very emphatic, that unless the ers are not class-conscious. As a re-|shopcrafts do accept the co-operative sult the former have their own way/plan there will be no time and a half about things. rate for overtime work established NGLAND and France are worrying | at this time. “No checky; no washy’ about their future control of the |@8 a Chinese laundryman would say. machinery of the league of nations. No Discussion, At present England and France want! yen working in roundhouses and the United States to join the league.|,¢ jsolated points, .where there is But dollars to doughnuts no sooner | pjenty of overtime worked, naturally will this country get into that pirate | fey for the plan; men working at bund, than a struggle will take place |jarger points, particularly the Chicago tor control of the organization. The | chops, were against the plan, tho they two main contestants will be England | wanted the overtime rate re-establish and the United ‘States. At presentieg, without the.“co-operative plan England dominates the league as was! put as ii, most every other. case at shown When’ the Teague council @utt| issue, the present leadership of the fully turned over the Mosul oil flelds | .,opmen in complete agreement with to Great Britain. But the United the railroad company officials 80 man- States, or rather the Standard Oil) inated things that the “ ‘co: ative company is also in the market for jan” was declared aiortak 5s the oil and the United States representa- | |men, tho they were never’ given the tives on the league council will be | »portunity to discuss it pro oF con. expected to line up the necessary The meeting at the Wicker Park aoe So eee boi bi fall was the first of its kind amd the ‘ur will begin to fly and the “Spirit tiopmen’ went’ there {o. hear, “both of 1776” will be fed on the ‘best gas- ‘ide of the atery-ut oAtaal © The oe hates knee ipinctt ese meeting’ was called to order by the Ferguson of Texas made a con-| ic chairman of the system federa- tribution to Americana when she | tion and in the few words that he did recently proclaimed the month of say in opening the meeting he em- January as “laugh month. Now | phasized that “anybody is welcome to (Continued on page 2.) a seat in this meeting, but anyone not working for the Northwestern shall In. Chicago, by mall, $8.00 per year. THE DAIL Entered as Second-class mattcr september 21, 1928, at SATURDAY, by mail, 36.00 per year. STOP WOR NUARY 23, LULU TEMPLE MANAGEMENT DENIES PHILADELPHIA WORKERS HALL FOR LENIN MEETING; RENT NEW HALL (Special to The PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 21.—In spite of the fact that the management Daily Worker) 1926 a” LEWIS ABSENT; IN CONFERENCE ORE. ost Office at Chicago, Illinols, under thé Act of March 38, 1879. Published D: PUBLISH NEW YORK EDITION ly except Sunday by 30., 1113 W. THE DAILY WORKER Washington B Chicago, Ill. *Price 3 Cents D COURT FILIBUSTER + COOLIDGE CROWD AND MORGAN'S DEMOCRATIC GANG FEAR BORAH SEEKS ADVANTAGE THRU TRICK (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The world court filibuster goes merrily on with interminable documents, old magazine articles, speeches of former senators, industrial and commercial reports, and even sentimental poetry being intoned to half empty benches. Behind the scenes Borah and the irreconcilables have been holding conferences with the administration and democrat worid court leaders for the purpose of endeavoring to agree upon a date for closing debate and vot-* ing on the resolution. Afraid of Each Other, NEW YORK LABOR Being politicians, each side fears the other is trying to resort to trick- ery to gain an advantage, which is Militant Workers Will Honor Lenin Sunday unquestionably correct. But each tries to out maneuver the other. Today Senator Borah and his group proposed that an agreement be reach-| ed to vote on the question of Ameri- can adherence to the world court “four days after the tax bill is dispos- ed of,” but the republican regulars fear to trust the irregulars for fear they will immediately begin a,filibus- ter against the tax bill thereby delay- ing for a long time to come the world court proposition, WEISSMAN GETS OUT INUNCTION AGAINST STRIKE Shoe Workers’ Union Continues Picketing By & Worker Correspondent. BROOKLYN, N. Y., Jan. 21—The | millionaire. shoe manufacturer, Weiss- | man, who_runs a scab shop at 180 Ful- ton stréeet.in this city has turned to |the capitalist courts and gotten out an injunction against the Shoe Work- jers’ Protective Union, its organizer and fourteen of its members, forbid- ding them to picket or in any way in- terfere with the inhuman way in which he treats his employes. This “injunction follows the strike that wag Called after Weissman had fired men in the fitting department for belonging to the Shoe Workers’ NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—All of New York's working class that has even a breath of militancy in it will con- gregate this Sunday in the four big halls engaged by the Workers (Com- munist) Party for the Lenin memorial meetings and thus answer the attempt of the American Flag Association to prevent the usual monster demonstra- tion by having Madison Square Gar- den closed to the Workers (Commun- ist) Party. Jam Madison Square Garden. . It will be remembered that the whole country last year and the year before wa sobliged to take notice of the enormous domonstration in honor of the dead leader of the world’s working class which filled Madison Square Garden. with its capacity of 15,000 and overflowed into the streets for several bloeks around the enorm- ous auditorium. The demonstration broke thru. the campaign of silence with which the papers usually greet any mass achievements of the Work- ers (Communist) Party and they were compelled to give front page stories to this enormous manifestation of the power. and solidarity of the working class of New York and of its essential revolutionary . spirit. } Be Bigger This Year. This year, the demonstration will not participate in this discussion.” of the Lulu Temple has cancelled its agreement and will not let the Lenin | be even larger because, following the | mae yd baagrenges Union and who are active jin the movement to organize the shoe ® | workers of Brooklyn and Greater New } Make It a Thousand! 759 Saturday evening, January 23. B. Strong, justice of the supreme ‘Tho the first speaker called upon was| memorial meeting take place in its hall, the workers of Philadelphia will | neighborhood plan, the biggest halt Capt. O. H. Beyer, Jr., Mini ae a meet to pay their respects to Lenin and to celebrate the victories of the | York. in each section of the has been gineer” co-parent of the “B. & 0.”| workers in the year at the Turngemeinde Hall, Broad and Columbia Ave. psy ‘The injunction was issued by Selah] °msaged. Caught by surprise last plan and later followed by J. M. Jew- . Probably Hatching New i : ” "| year, the district has several addi- ell, president of the railway employes’ tional halls in reserve to handle over- ee PAE ‘ lepartment of the American Federa- Betra al Move | SCE tes ee Pape 2 flew meetings. The halls already b: . ti . tion of Labor, as if both of these y a scheduled are: Central Opera House, mew SuUDSCrIPUONS IN fF) centiemen were employes of the DOLLAR TODAY BUYS (epectat to “The Dally. Worker) British Bootleggers |67th St. and 3rd Ave.; New Star Northwest ilroad ny. Th * | Casi 7th St.a Ave.; Mil- the first 8 days of the ‘orthwestern Railroad company. The WILREEBARAS) Pas dan. 2-1 Alarmed-at Seizure |‘ asino, 107th St.and Park Ave.; Mil LENIN DRIVE shopmen were smiling, wondering whether the chairman really meant to imply that these two gentlemen were employes of the railroad com- pany. Those who listened to what Capt. Beyer said could not help but con- clude that an “engineer” was speak- ing—one who does not know or un- derstand a workers’ psychology and ideology; one who knows yery little about the functions of a labor union; how all the “points” he was “pointing out” have been taken care of and are AS MUCH AS SIXTY lers Grand Assembl; 8 Grand St., Brooklyn, and Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. The speakers are: Jay Lovestone, Benj. Gitlow, M. J. Olgin, Wm, W. Weinstone, Chas. Krumbein and others. All four meetings will be- harbor with thirty thousand cases of | gin simultaneously, Sunday afternoon, liquor Was of British ownership, but Jan, 24 at -2 o'clock, and the whole the foreign office stated that no ac-| Working class in New York City will tion would be taken except on recom-| be pledging itself at the same moment mendations from the British embassy | to carry On the work of Lenin. The at Washington. Many members of | Speakers mentioned above will cover royalty are alarmed at the seizure as, every meeting and there will be one many of them have invested large|or two additional speakers at each |John L. Lewis, president of the United |Mine Workers of America, was stil! missing from his temporary headquar- CENTS DID IN PRE-WAR NEW YORK, dan, 21.—The con- | abouts a mystery. sumer’s dollar today buys only 60 | ji, disappearance and his orders per cent of what>it bought before |i, nis secretary, 0. L. Garrison, to the war, according to the national | withhold the information led to re- industrial conference, ports that he had been in conference os with the operators, altho these rum- 5 Petroleum Kings Hand | a mapely by the mi 2 *, jowners and union officials in an effort Bribes:to Institute |; conceal movements that probably TO RECALL ORDER AIDING MELLON Somebody Is: Certainly in Liar in the Case WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Attorney General Sargent was recalled to the stand today at the senate judiciary committee’s investigation into the lax- of Shipload of Booze LONDON, Jan. 21.— Reports have been received here that the trans- »cean going tug seized in New York 5000 New Subs to the DAILY WORKER! ers were denied promptly by the mine ‘Sibsestibaieheine ade being taken care of by the regular committees representing the organ- (Continued on page 2.) MEAT PACKERS’ CONFERENCE BOARDS AND COMMITTEES ONLY TOOLS TO CUT WAGES AND LENGTHEN HOURS By ROBERT W. DUNN s The packing house workers have had plenty of time to get acquainted With company unions. Armour and company put in its conference boards in 1921; Cudahy installed committees in 1920; Swift and Wilson followed suit the following year. The first thing these trained seal committees did after their installation Was to accept a wage cut of 10 per cent in the fall of 1921. It will be re- galled how “representatives” of all the Armour company committees were (Continued on page 3+ RUSH YOUR SUB! Lenin Memorial M arranged by the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers (Communist) League ity of the department of justice to pro- secute the Mellon-owned Aluminium company of America. Like his crooked predecessor, Harry M. Daugherty, he “could not remem- ber” having ordered that action against the company be held up un- til he had reviewed the case. Even when confronted with testimony of William J. Donovan, his assistant, that he had signed such an order, Sar- gent steadfastly denied knowledge of it, One of the two, or both of these exalted officials of the law enforce- ment branch of the government lied. Claimed Rebels Repulsed. LONDON, Jan, 21,— Sixty rebels | who attacked the city of Damascus, were repulsed by tanks, according to advices received here today. ; ‘SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2 P. M. CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE — NEW STAR CASINO 67th St. and 3rd Ave. MILLER’S ASSEMBLY — MANHATTAN LYCEUM 107th St. and Park Ave. 318 Grand St., B’klyn 66 East 4th eeting NEW YORK, Jun. 21. — John D. Rockefeller’s giftoof $250,000 to the American Petroleum Institute for re- search purposes, which would aid Standard Oil to make more profits, has been supplemented by a contri- bution of the same size from Hiram J. |’ Halle, president ofitthe Universal Oil Products company.’ CORREETION. In yesterday's JDAILY WORKER the by-line on the article about condi- tions in the Armour meat packing plant in Chicago should have read: By Shop Nucleus No, 23 Correspondent and not By Jukka Salminen, Worker Correspondent. The Lenin Drive means action—send your sub today! quick St. JAY LOVESTONE Me WM. W. WEINSTONE ADMISSION 2 50 CENTS. ais are designed to betray the strike. PUBLICITY SEEKING HENRY FORD “FINDS” ANOTHER FIDDLE GENIUS DETROIT, Jan. 21.—Henry Ford in his des! for newspaper pulicity has “discovered” another fiddle- playing genius, This time it ts “Jep’ Bisbee of Paris, Michigan. ‘Jep” was recently acclaimed the champion fiddler of Michigan in a competition with fifteen other en- trants and was also awarded the Henry Ford trophy, a huge gold cup. This makes the second fiddler that publicity seeking Henry has “discovered.” SPEAKERS: BEN M. J. OLGIN AND OTHERS’ CHAS. KRUMBEIN Ticke’ Higgins Bookstore, 127 University Place, and all party organs. sums of money in smuggling booze in-} meeting. A program of ‘revolution- to the United States, ary music has been arranged with the a following organizations co-operating: Five thousand new subs in three| Freiheit Gesangs Verein, Lithuanian weeks is‘a big job—but it can be done} choruses, Hungarian orchestra, Uk- sc your help. Send in a sub, |rafnian chorus, COMMUNIST DEPUTIES ARRESTED IN NEW WAVE OF TERROR SWEEPING OVER JUGOSLAVIA AND WEST POLAND BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Jan. 21.—Wholesale raids are being conducted here by the government police against Communists and all those suspected of sympathizing with the revolutionary movement. Two Jugoslavian Communist deputies have been arrested and are held without bail in the dungeons of the government, parliamentary immunity has (Continued on page 2) CONCERT Freiheit Gesangs Verein Lithuanian Choruses Hungarian Orchestra MARIA SCHUPAC, dramatic soprano, will sing revolutionary folk songs GITLOW on sale at Workers Party office, 108 E. 14th St., Jimmie