The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1926, Page 2

Page Two tr « OAILY WORKER The Miner to the Magnate: “Go Ahead, Go Ahead—You First!” CHOOSE FOUR JURORS OUT OF FIRST PANEL Witnesses Excused for Day at Miners’ Trial BENTON, Ill., Feb. 3.—After exam- ining 24 men In the trial of 13 Zeigler miners, who have been framed by the u klux klan and the Farrington ma- chine, charged with attempting to kill Delbert B. Cobb, vice-president of Sub- District 9, United Mine Workers of America, four men were accepted on the jury today. Seventeen men were excused by the defense on peremptory challenges, one for cause and two were excused by the state. A new panel of 100 from the rural districts has been called. It was not expected that a jury would be selected before tomorrow atleast and the wit- nesses, numbering approxiamtely 200 have been excused until that time. Curiosity Seekers View Body of Actress LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3.—Curlosity seekers flocked to the undertaking parlor to view the body of Barbara LaMarr, a creen actress. She was covered with a pink, gold and lace gown and placed on a gold velvet stand. A special warehouse was Chicago Labor Is Giving Aid to the Zeigler Miners’ Fight (Continued from page 1) gler defense. Many other local unions will be visited, The resolution on the Zeigler frame- up is as follows: “WHEREAS, thirteen out of twenty union miners, members of the Zeigler local of the United Mine Workers of America are now on trial in Benton, Illinois, on a frame-up charge of “as- sault with intent to murder,” D. B. Cobb, vice-president of the local sub- district, and “WHEREAS, the indicted union men are victims of a conspiracy on the part of the “coal operators, the Farrington machine aided by the ku klu klan and the Len Small admini- stration to crush the progressive miners who were fighting for the in- terests of the union coal diggers, and “WHEREAS, those indicted miners | are innocent of any offense but on the contrary were themselves victims of violence on the part of the oper- ators and their henchment, and “WHEREAS, Frank Corbishley, one of the indicted miners, has been charged with the murder of Mike Sa- rovich, a progressive member of the union, the eyewitnesses are willing to testify that Alex Hargis a member of the ku klux klan fired the fatal shot and the preliminary coroner's jury held him on the murder charge, and “WHEREAS, those miners now on trial who have not committed any crime but have devoted their energies to helping their fellow workers bet- ter their conditions may be sent to prison for long periods if the prose- cution succeeds in convicting them, necessary to house the floral tributes, | therefore The funeral services will be conduct- ed by a christian “science” reader. Soviet Union Sets Aside $500,000 for Homeless Children MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Feb. 3.—The Soviet government has appropriated $500,000 for the relief of homeless children It is estimated that there are at present 400,000 homeless chil- dren in the entire Soviet Union and all attempts are being made by the Soviets to provifle homes and food for these children. Yonkers Will Hold Lenin Mass Meeting YONKERS, N. Y., Feb, 3 — The Lenin momorial meeting here will be held in the Labor Lyceum, 20 War- burton Ave., Sunday evening, Feb. 7, at 8 o'clock. “BE IT RESOLVED, that this local union, protests against the persecu- tion of our brothers of the Zeigler lo- cal of the United Mine Workers of America and that we pledge them our support in their trial and be it further “RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be forwarded to Frank Far- rington, president of the United Mine Workers of America, John Walker, president of Illinois Federation of La- bor, the Bell and Zoller Coal company and the labor press.” sf SENATE BILL PROHIBITS COOLIDGE AND SENATORS IN Doesn’t Mention the Mellon Scandal (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb, 3. — With a new series of scandals,threatening to break about his head, President Cool- idge yesterday tried to.overcome them by discussing interviews \to reporters on his alleged opinions regarding problems confronting the government. He discussed the world court, disarm- ament, the army andinavy disputes and claimed that singe this is the “open season” for politics the people should not take the speeches of sen- ators too seriously. He was careful to refrain from mentioning the notor- ious aluminum trust scandals, which COAL PARLEY IS BROKEN OFF FOR THIRD TINE “Call Out Maintenance Men,” Miners’ Demand PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3—Negotia- tions between the coal operators and jthe Miners’ Union officials have been |broken off for the third time since last July. The break came after a four hour’s conference in which the operator's plan and the plan proposed by the Lewis henchmen, which was repudi- ated at a special session of the min- ers’ grievance committee at Wilkes- Barre, proved “unacceptable.” The strike is now in its sixth month point out progressive miners and the class collaborating mine union heads instead of calling out the mainten- ance men and forcing the coal op- erators to terms very quickly are spending their time dickering in swell cafes and taking week-end vacations while the striking miners suffer hun- ger and want, The demand for call- ing out the maintenace men and some measures of relief on the part of the union is growing daily. Many of the miners are in need of food and clothing. Congressman to Force Vote on Government Control of Coal Mines WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.— A move designed to force a vote in the house upon his bill directing the govern- ment to seize and operate the anthra- cite mines during the present emer- gency, was taken by Rep. Boylan, de- mocrat, of New York. He filed a petition instructing the interstate and foreign commerce cOm- mittee to report the bill to the house. A majority of the house must sign the petition to force the committee to act. Worker Had His Share INTER-MARRIAGE OF NEGRO | jof War Forced to Kiss AND WHITE RACES IN U, S. WASHINGTON, Feb, 3—~A bill proposing a national law to prohibit the inter-marriage of the white and black rai was introduced in the senate’by Senator Blease, democrat, of South Carolina. in with the coal operators. ment of these kitchens. check for $250, All donation: INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID TO OPEN RELIEF KITCHENS FOR STRIKING ANTHRACITE MINERS 1, W. A. News Service. The striking anthracite miners have sent a request to the Inter- national Workers’ Aid to establish relief kitchens In order to aid them and théir families thru the bitter struggle that they are now engaged Telegrams are being sent to every member of the national com- mittee and other individuals calling for donations for the establish- Bishop William Montgomery Brown, national chairman of the In- ternational Workers’ Aid, was the first to respond to the call with a hould be sent immediately to the Inter- tional Workers’ Aid, 1553 W. Madison Street, Room 803, Chicago, Ill. Flag for Anti-War Talk ST LOUIS—(FP)—“After what I endured and learned ‘over there,’ I wouldn’t wear the yniform again. What fools men are to kill people for money.” This was Victor Saff, 30, a laborer, conversing with a St. Louis army recruiting officer. He was promptly haled before Police judge Roscan, where he was compelled to kiss the American flag. The St, Louis Post-Dispatch remarks, “It is difficult to imagine what would have happened to this ‘dangerous’ laborer had he been caught reading article 1 of the bill of rights!” YORKVILLE POLICE RE- ARREST BUKSA; IS NOW HELD IN PRISON YORKVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 3—John Buksa, who was arrested for distrib. uting Workers (Communist) Party leaflets and slated for deportation, has been id and is being eld in prison. The International Labor Defense is handling this case. involve the chief of a's administra- tion, Secretary of the Treasury An- drew W. Mellon, who holds his office in plain violation of law and of the constitution of the United States, Defense Adequa' eC. Army and navy defenses are ade- quate and the propaganda about the breakdown of national'defense is sim- ply an effort on the part of certain groups to secure larger appropriations from congress. according to Coolidge. He accused of falsé and misleading propaganda those who criticize de- fenses. Obviously his-statement was an attempt to maintain the armed forces at their highest possible effi- ciency and he resents special interests advocating separation of the various departments of national defense, a program that has been strongly sup- ported by air-craft manufacturers. As the agent of the capitalist class as a whole Coolidge must defend a pow- erful army and navy and cannot let nnn nen ett PR ices | Capitalist Monster Dies|| ENTRANCE T0 ‘But Social System That} U. §. REFUSED POLITICAL ROW|Spawned Him Still Lives By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, William Madison Wood, multi-millionaire woolen trust czar is dead among luxurious surroundings in Florida. The event becomes the leading feature of the day in the kept press, while at the same time another item, only a few lines long, is hidden away in an obscure corner telling another story as follows: . Kentucky Senate Rejects Child Labor Amendment. Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 1—(AP)—The Kentucky senate today rejected without a dissenting vote, the proposed child labor amendment to the United States constitution. Wood, the enslaver of humanity, who used all the power of his amassed millions to beat down the workers, is dead; but the Wood system lives on. The above item, giving the action of the Kentucky senate in capitalism's war on the chil- dren, would prove a fitting epitaph on Wood's tombstone, He would glory in it, even in his grave, if such things are possible. * * ° * . Wood was part of “the New England system,” that in- cludes the strikebreaker, President Cal Coolidge, in the poli- tical arena, and William H. Butler, another multi-millionaire mill owner, as one of the powerful connecting links between Coolidge and the capitalist world that picked him out of backwoods obscurity to be used and manipulated for its own purposes. : Wood, like Butler, made open war on labor. The Ameri- can Woolen company, which grew into the largest textile manufacturing organization in the world, boasting “the Wood Worsted Mill in Lawrence, Mass., the largest plant of its kind on earth,” named after Wood himself, also stands as one of the most powerful citadels of capitalism in the war against American labor. The Wood-Butier system of war against the unions, wage cuts, spying on the workers, the speed-up, efforts at building traitor “company unions,” the use of the frame-up, the bringing in of the police and the state militia, is the ac- cepted “system” of the Coolidge administration. * * * * Numerous revolts have taken place against the Wood system. The desperate and restless New England textile the various groups endanger by their special interests the armed forces of the imperialists, Haunted by Court. That Coolidge is staggering under the blows delivered the world court is revealed by his reiteration that the court is not the back door to the league and his declaration that he be- lieves the majority of the people of the country oppose entrance to the league and that no such move is con- templated thru the court, He exposed his incapacity to understand the rel hip of the league’ and the court by stating that the court is a judicial body, while the league is a political body. If he were half as intelligent as his supporters would have us believe he would real- ize that the court is quasi-judicial and political and that the role of the league is to be the armed force that backs up the court decision. On disarmament he said that the “reasons for postponement of the arms conference are neither clear nor convincing and that this country will force the holding of the conference as soon as possible.” . He said nothing of the announce- ment of Britain that a.revision of the Washington naval treaties would be demanded. As the agent of the House of Morgan, Coolidge wants further limitation of European armaments so that more of the debts may be paid and in order that Morgan may still further penetrate Europe. Hot Retort in Senate. His reference to senators playing politics brought hot retorts from the floor of that body. Pat Harrison, q!- tho a staunch supporter of Coolidge’s world court program, had to have campaign material, so he made a poli- tical speech assailing Coolidge as one who devoted all his time to politics. Another critic of the president’s ut+ terances was Senator Burton K. Wheeler, running mate with LaFol- lette in 1924, who is also one of the supporters of the world court. Wheel- er brought up the question of graft and corruption, stating that instead of prosecuting the bird Coolidge and his associates, spent all their time trying to bring chargés against those senators who had exposed the mess and conducted investigations of the scandals, r All this is considered the real he- ginning of the campaign in which the republicans and demograts will try to create the illusion t) there is any difference between them in spite of the fact that they united on Morgan's conspiracy to get the’nation into the world court. Unemployment Is on Increase in Denmark STOCKHOLM, Feb. 3—The unem- ployment figures for the first week of ;the new year show a tremendous in- crease, The number of workers in receipt of benefit from the. trade unions has leapt up from 73,000 to $4,000; that means that one out of every three organized workers is out of a job. These figures only apply to organized workers; the total num- ber of unemployed in"the whole coun- try is of course considerably higher than that. The official statistics are not available, but total number might probably be éstimated at some- thing lke 100,000 or more, workers are continually striking at their chains, One of the historic chapters in America’s labor history records “the Lawrence strike” of 1912, when the frame-up system was brot into use and workers sent to prison for long terms. The militia were called out to prevent children being sent out of the strike zone to be cared for by friends. The mill owners knew that the sight of their starving children was helping to force the workers back to their jobs. So vicious was the industrial warfare carried on by the woolen trust against the workers that it couldn't prevent Wood from being indicted for conspiracy to “plant” dyna- mite, which had been found in the homes of several mill “hands” in an effort to “frame” them. Wood was, of course, freed by the courts of his class, but later he even confessed. to being guilty on a similar charge. But he never went to prison. As Wood died in the midst of Fiordia’s tropical splen- dor, Sacco and Vanzetti, victims of this same Wood “open shop” system, still sit in prison in the shadow of the hungry gallows in Massachusetts. Again in 1920, the tail end of the anti-trust prosecu- tions, that have now entirely soueneess under Coolidge, hit Wood's woolen trust with an indictment for profiteering in the sale of woolen cloth. An obliging judge threw the case out of court. * * * * It may be said that hundreds of thousands of workers in New England learned to hate Wood. The passing of Wood must convince these Workers that hatred against an individ- ual is useless unless it is converted into a hatred for the so- cial system that produced this ugly offspring. That hatred must manifest itself in renewed efforts to organize New Eng- land's workers, in the textile industry, the shoe industry and all other “open shop” plants. It must manifest itself in an effort to win the workers away from the political parties of their masters, thru the building of the labor party, that must spread off into the southern states where the New England profiteers are now sending many of their mills to take ad- vantage of the exploitation of children there permitted them. Wood, the capitalist monster, is dead, but the capitalist social order that spawned him is still here, to be fought and destroyed by an awakened and class conscious working class. 12,000 Workers on Strike Parade the Streets in Passaic bosses are the Don't scab!” Empty milk bottle, “Things that cause strikes! milk for the baby! Strike!” sinners! (Continued from page 1) to work to join them in the great fight against the 10 per cent wage cuts that the inhuman bosses have imposed upon the slaves of the textile industry, with the result that the ranks of the strikers are now more solid and the number of scabs have fallen down to almost zero. year. cuts back.” greet the bosses with are: “We want pork chops—not logna!” smile, We've been fighting starvation Strike! inscription: More »| Drawing of old pair of socks, “A mill man’s Sunday socks, one pair a Mr. boss we want our wage Some of the shouts that the pickets Do» “Are we going to win? We should Strike Grips Passaic. The strike is now two weeks old and is promising to last till the 10 per cent cut is abandoned and union conditions adopted in the mills. In all the history of Passaic there has not been such general uprising against the tyranny of the textile barons as now. The Botany workers were first to go out—first about 3,000, then fol- lowed another thousand, and every morning the pickets have brot out more, till there are now over 6,000 of the Botany Mill workers in the strike, These sent pickets to the Garfield mills and pulled down 800 the first morning and since then about 200 have joined the strikers, leaving the mill deserted, Passaic Worsted has also come out to the number of ove 800, Strikers Carry Slogans. The pickets are carrying banners with inscriptions such as: “Our reward after 40 years—10 per nt cut.” “Old age is rewarded in the, mills by being kicked into the street.” “The wages of sin is d but the | Phalanx. for a hell of a while.” Albert Weisbord, the organizer, is on the job day and night, and with a strike committee of 100 he is keep- ing the workers together in a solid “The situation is increas- ingly favorable, The Lodi mill is get- ting more and mofe “shaky,” said Weisbord, “and more and more work- ers are coming out, and we expect them all out this week.” They will have a delegate In the United Front Committee today for the first time, Negro Workers Join Battle. The colored workers in the mills are very much elated over the fact that Weisbord is the first to shake their hand in this fight where neither color, creed or nationality is recog. nized. Many of the mill workers are colored and have come out with the rest to fight for justice. In the Lodi mills the workers are compelled to submit to finger print- ing in order to secure work that pays from $12 to $18 a week, They are or- dered to carry the cards with their finger print on it at all times. This they resent most bitterly and are willing to do anything to have that LABOR EDITOR Daily Worker Demands ~ Coolidge ; Revoke Ban The refusal of the United States immigration authorities to allow T. E. Moore, editor of the One Big Union Bulletin of Winnipeg, Canada, to en- ter the United States to attend the annual meeting of the Federated Press, member papers at Chicago, Feb. 5, is meeting with the most vig- orous protest from the member. pa- pers of the Federated Press. Moore is refused entrance into the United States not as an individual but be- cause he is the editor of a labor pa- per. 5 DAILY WORKER Protest, The DAILY WORKER, as one of the member papers of the Federated Press, has sent the folling telegram of protest to President Coolidge de- manding that the same privileges as are accorded to capitalist newspaper editors and reporters be accorded to the editors of labor papers and that Moore be allowed entrance into the United States to attend the annual conference: “The DAILY WORKER enters em- phatic protest at action of immigra- tion authorities in barring T. H. Moore of Winnipeg from the United States, Moore, who is editor of the One Big Union Bulletin was about ot attend annual meeting of the Federated Press of which his paper is a mem- ber to be held in Chicago, Feb. 5, when authorities told him he was bar- red not as an individual but as edi- tor of his paper. “The DAILY WORKER as another member of the Federated Press and ‘in the name of the same freedom to labor editors as is commonly accord- ed to capitalist editors requests you to have the order reversed so that Moore may attend the annual meet- ing and so that aj nce of dis- crimination by your “administration against working working class public- tions may be removed. “J. Louls Engdahl, Editor.” Moore upon being informed that he would not be allowed to enter the United States sent the following tele- gram to the Federated Press show- ing that the immigration authorities barred him because he was an editor of a labor paper and called upon the Federated Press to wire its members to protest against such an action. “The United States Immigration au- thorities have refused me entrance to the states to attend annual meeting. Refused not for personal reasons but because I am connected with One Big Union Bulletin as editor. Have wir- ed protest to Washington and will appreciate it if Federated Press will protest and ask paper members to | protest by wire.” The American Civil Liberties Union upon being informed of the action of the immigration authorities sent the following telegram to the Federated Press telling them to have their friends wire the commissioner gener- al, bureau of immigration, department of labor to instruct the Montreal com- missioner to admit Moore to attend the annual meeting of the Federated Press. “We advise that instead of protest friends of Federated Press wire Com- missioner General, Bureau of Immi- gration, Department of Labor, request- ing that he instruct Montreal inspec- tor to admit Moore for specific pur- pose, explaining he is not Commun- ist and seeks entry on peaceable mis- sion. This is advice of our counsel. “Forrest Bailey, Director.” finger printing is allowed in union shops they all declared themselves ready to join the union. Fight Spy System. The spy system is carried to the very extreme in the Lodi mill and no worker who is known as a thinker or who talks to his fellows is allowed to remain in the mill.’ The blacklist is perfect so that no man who has been fired can ever get a job there again. The strike meetings in Passaic and Garfield pack the halls to overflow- ing and the workers are eager to hear the news of the development of the strike and the report of the picket lines that go out faithfully morning and night. Arrange Relief. The committee is busy arranging for relief for those who will be. in need of help if the strike continues for any length of time, for all are de- terminéd that no matter how long it takes they will not go back until the wage cut of 10 per cent is given back and union condition is allowed, Over 100 Members in Russian I.L.D. Branch In a notice about the affair to be given by the Russian I. L, D. branch in Chicago, it was stated that the branch has over 60 members, We are in- formed that this is incorrect. The branch has over 100 members and is very active in getting more members, The concert and dance given by the ee Nia be held at the Workers’ ‘ouse, 1902 W, Division St., Saturday, Feb, 13, at 8 p. m. ‘ Take this copy of the DAILY system abolished. When told that no WORKER with you to the shop atari nal } J NE pS ~ a ee at rela oe Ue Se Re