The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1926, Page 1

‘) The DAILY WORKER Ralees the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government HE BAIL Entered as Second-class matt.c = otember 21, 19%3, at te Pont Office at Chicago; Vol. Ill. No. 23. Subscription Rates: Shorey, or small a0 per you. dips JUEN DROP PLi ORGANIZE Th. ” AUTO WORKERS ‘A. F. of L. Balks at Straggle By LAWRENCE TODD, Federated Press. . WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.— cial effort will be made to the half million workers in tor vehicle and accessories this year. Promises made and plans outlined at the convention of the metal trades department of the American Federa- tion of Labor in Atlantic -City, last fall are scrapped, insdfar as the auto- mobile workers are e@hcerned. This decision was reached at a meeting of the executive beard -of the department, in Washington headquar- ters, when President O'Connell brot up the question of creating this new addition to the fundamental trade union structure of the country. Abandon Unskilled. Executives of metal trades organiza- tions, constituting the board, were un- willing to undertake the expense and danger involved in a big campaign of organization in the automobile fac- tories in Detroit and elsewhere. They took the position thatany funds which might be available for organization purposes should be used to increase the existing metal trades union mem- bership in plants employing a large percentage of skilled workers—such as the General. Electric plants at Schenectady, Pittsfield and Lynn, and the’ American Locomotive Works at Dunkirk and Richmond. These skill- ed men would naturally belong to the international craft unions of their trades, as they had formerly bee: union men and would be”Tikely spond to an effort to bring them to good union standing. dealously Guard Jurisdiction. No formal vote on the abandon-| ment of O'Connell's plan -for. captur-~ ing the automobile industry was.tak- en. Individual statements of views, striking textile workers here in however, disclosed the fact that his|a parade that stirred-the entire com- proposal that all the crafts cede aj unity to its Very toundation, de- part of their: jurisdiction to a new in-]monstrating the widespread. sympathy dustrial union of the semi-skilled and} with the strikers and putting fear into unskilled men who are employed im{the hearts of the bosses and all their these plants was not favored. Execu- fhenchmen, . tvies thot a surrender of Jurisdiction Parade Over Mile Long. lata ab ag Scart The line of march lead thru’ the Besides, the Ford and other motor) main streets of Passaic ii a stretch companies could be expected to spend | of over a mile long. It was formed by & great deal of money~so much as tothe uniting of divisions collected at make the funds of the organizers look | the several mills afd these divisions like a mere trifle by comparison—to | .oming together near the Botany Mill discredit the unionization” of their! trom which it passed south over the men. They might succeed in destroy- tracks and up the hill past the City ing much of the strength of other ele- Hall, where Mayor. McGuite viewed ments of the labor movement now}in, vast masses in horror ashe Peal. functioning ‘in these motor “factory }izoq that this was the greatest’ de. cities, monstration that has ever taken place BNLY DAILY WORKER | {2 the. bead ot tho ine ‘marenoa the leader of the strike, Albert Weis- BUILDERS CAN ATTEND NEW YORK BANQUET — bord, followed by a band which kept the paraders in step. Clearing the NEW YORK, Feb. 5—The DAILY , WORKER banquet, which is to way were the chief of police and his force, some on motorcycles and others hurriedly walking along the line, while other cops were stationed at the crossings to keep traffic back and take place at the Yorkville Casino |#llow the marchers to proceed. Sunday, Feb. 21 will be limited to the qualified members of The DAILY WORKER Builders Club. Any reader of The DAILY WORK- ER may become a member of The The first division had in it ex-sol- diers in uniform with medals pinned DAILY WORKER Builders Club by securing $10 worth of subscriptions No spe- organize |" the mo- industry PAINTERS’ LOCAL 637 DONATES $100 10 AID ANTHRACITE MINERS Chicago Painters’ Local No. 637) donated $100 towards the’ relief of) the striking anthracite miners andi has a its members 25 cents apiece. As there are about 1,100 members in the local, it. will mean a tidy sum for the strikers in. the mitheaeiba district. “The local also went on record for a five-day week to be incorporated tn the agreement to be made in the spring, between the Painters’ Dis- trict Council No. 14, and the Master Painters. TEXTILE STRIKE DEMONSTRATION STIRS PASSAIC Fighter (Special t6 The Daily Worker) ALCATRAZ, Cal., Feb. 5.—Walter Trumbull whe was imprisoned with Paul Crouch imithe Alcatraz military disciplinary barmacks for belonging to the Communist *League in the Philip- pine Islands arte for carrying on Com- munist agitation while in the army, has been released. ARMY IS STRIKE BREAKER ADMITS Telegrams ofigreting form the Chi- Party and The’ DAILY WORKER Ole Hanson, Tool of editorial staff-and a number of other working class erganizations, pointing War Dept., in Seattle By ART SHIELDS, Federated Pre: out that Trumbull’s release was a vic- tory for the American working class NEW YORK, Feb. 5. — The United States army as a strikebreaking agen- and pledging themselves to carry on ey hag again been revealed from the agitation for the release of his pal, ‘nside.” This time by Major General Paul Crouch, atd the other class war prisoners that are in American jails to- Robert Lee Bullard, also president of the National Security League. He day, greeted Trumbull on his release, drew back the curtain from Seattle In the following telegram sent by the Central Executive Committee of general strike days by telling the goy- ernment club at the Hotel Astor that the Workers (Communist) Party, it greets Trumbull on his release and Mayor Ole Hanson was merely a tool of the war department. pledges the party to continue to carry on its, agitationfor the release of Paul Crouch and all other class war prison- ers: “I am letting you into a military “Central Exeeative Committee of petrets 8 Bullard, paertaly tell You! the Workers (Communist) Party in that Ole Hanson was. called up trom the name of thervanguard of the class the office of the Secretary of War in * conscious workers of this country, Washington, and told that he must reets you’ upoliéyour. retease. | We have backbone in meeting the crisis. bd ‘ ‘! He was told that the army would pledge ourselves to continue the work back him up in whatever steps he undertook.” The general continued in dime to secure thetrelease of Comrade novel fashion to talk of the blowing By J. 0. BENTALL (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 5 — Twenty ind workers of this city joined on their breast to which they pointed with the remark, “This is all we got for fighting and now We are getting the additional medals of wage cuts,” In the line were young girls and Crouch and all:athre class war prison- ers, We aim to dneredse our efforts to win over the-proletarians, exploited farmers, soldiersevand sailors to the for The DAILY WORKER, the |many older women, some. pushing} ¥P of bridges and tunnels during the) oT? 11. revébutionary workers for carriages with babies in. them war. Coupling the Seattle strike with Fy Workers, Monthly, . the: Young sot these recitals “he urged that the Na- (Continuéd:on page 2} others carrying banners reading, “We want milk for our children, not wage cuts,” _ Worker and the Young Comrade, but only those that perform § this of equivalent service for The DAILY WORKER will be admitted to the banquet. Since the capacity of the banquet Hall is only 550, and since at least 50 builders are expected to attend from other cities, the number of New Yorkers who can attend will be 500. The tickets will be issued ‘to the first 500 readers of The DAILY WORKER who qualify by securing at least $10 worth of sub- scriptions or equivalent service to The DAILY WORKER thru the New York agency. Each ticket will bear the name of the person entitied to use It. Tickets will not be transferable. For information and supplies call at The DAILY WORKER New York Agency, 108 East 14th street, ; “New: Telephone Number, New York office of The KER has just receiv. number: tional Security League be still sup- ported in its war on the reds. “We Want To Live.” Hundreds of banners arose out of the marching masses all along the line with pointed: inscriptions, on all of them. “We want to live. We ‘shall live.” “Slave of the mills! Awaken.” “We make woolen cloth, we wear, shoddy.” Case Loses Appeal. SPRINGFIELD, Il, Feb. 5.— Rev. Carl D, Case, Oak Park, pastor, lost his final effortto have his name ed from the record in the Albert Leland divorce case, when the state supreme court denied his petition for a re- \} hearing. Leland had charged that “Wage cuts mean death, ‘The bosses was intimate with his wife, and| ~ (Continued on page 2.) was granted a decree, onsnuvnsictccvetoavanvenivvetinvasavevsncsnatatgnccnacnsnayvetvvenengavensent Visit The Daily Worker Booth— At the FOUR DAY (FEBRUARY vais)’ ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL BAZAAR Par the Delpiie of Chege: yee Frioveae about $860, oe BY SUNDAY FEBRUARY 7, 1926 CHICAGO TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION “NO..%6 DONATES $1,850 TO AID STRIKING ANTHRACITE MINERS Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 donated $1,000 towards the relief of the striking anthracite miners. union had lists circulated in the different shops on which it collected WORKER. Ninols, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Ga PUBLISHING CO., | Tie Issue Consists of Two Sections, SECTION ONE. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il OF FARMERS IN TRIAL OF MINERS PARENTS FIGHT MCANDREW EDICT ON SCHOOL TOTS Organize to Oppose Board Transfers That the arbitrary transfer orders of the board of education will not be swatiowed down without protest by the parents of the children affected was proved beyond any doubt at the meeting of hundreds of parents of children attending the Lowell School, Cameron. School, Stowe School and other schools involved in Superintend- dent McAndrew’s recent transfer de- crees. The parents met at Bethlehem Com- munity Center. The seriousness of the situation was explained by one parent after another who showed that Superintendent McAndrew’s arbitrary changes meant the endangering of the lives of hundreds of children: The schools to which the children were transferred were far off and for the children to get to them they would have ‘to cross dangerous boulevards and streets full of cars and autos. It was shown by one of the speakers that the high death rate of the school children was due to the utter disre- gard of the city authorities for their lives and health. It was also. point- ed out that the children who were condemned to go to schools so far away would not be able to have prop- er lunches, would either have to rush home for a hasty lunch or else bring cold. lunches with them to school. Every parent who spoke protested against ‘the danger to the life! atd health of the children involved in Superintendent McAndrew’s and Miss Murphy's arbitrary transfer orders. Several of the speakers showed why the board of education and the city authorities didn’t give a hang as to ‘what .,happened: to. the children. \It was because they were all children of working people and not of a lot of rich men and politicians. Such a thing would never happen in a rich district. But the city government run by the bosses doesn’t care about the chil- dren of the workers, Keep Up the Fight; Build the Lowell Addition! The spirit of the parents ran high and a resolution was passed by an overwhelming vote to keep up the ight until victory is achieved. The struggle against the transfer of the children out of Lowell and other schools and for the building of the Lowell addition which has been prom- ised by the politicians again and again but which is still only a “promitise.” Only thru the building of this annex can~the- present situation in Lowell School be. partially solved, Stick Together Till We Win! Every speaker pointed out the two great necessities a spirit of solidarity —“stick together till we win”—and organization—were needed to win the demands, A committee of ten to work out plans of activity and to arrange for further parents’ meetings was elected, Meanwhile the fight must go on! New Typhoid Cure, MOSCOW, Feb. 5.—(Tass.)— Dr. Tikhomirov of the Institute of Pro- Phylactic Sciences in Leningrad has succeeded in obtaining a ferment “bacteriophon” which destroys typhoid bacteria. This ferment was obtained from the culture of typhoid bacillae, In the near future, the newly invented ferment will be tested in treating typhoid patients. Build the DAILY WORKER. Besides this amount the Central Opera House, ,,-;., -' 67th Street and 3rd Avenue Combine Ticket---Good for 4 Days---$1 .00 p] —_ ithat part of the mine was sealed Senate Refuses to Intervene in Strike of Anthracite Miners WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—The sén- ate went on record refusing to inter- vene in the anthracite strike. By a vote of 48 to 28 with party lines split—the senate refused to lay aside the new tax reduction bill to consider the Copeland resolution, urg- ing President Coolidge to call miners and operators to the White House to end the tie-up. Chicago Workers Prepare to Greet Walter Trumbull When Walter Trumbull arrives in Chicago March 5 to address a mass meeting in the North Side Turner Hall, 820 North Clark St., he will be greeted at the depot by a large dele- gation representing the International Labor Defense and its affiliated work- ers’ organizations, declared George Maurer, secretary of the Chicago Lo- cal of the International Labor De- fense under whose auspices the meet- ing is being held. ABANDON HOPE FOR SIXTEEN AS MINE IS SEALED Operators Greed Kills Eighteen Miners (Special to The Daily Worker) HORNING, Pa., Feb, 5.—Hope for the entombed sixteen miners in the Horning No. 4 mine has been given up since the sealing of the mine bi the coal operators. A mumber miners declares that~about the ‘tone the rescue crews had located the en- tombed miners and in a short time would have brought them to the sur- face the company had that section of the mine in which the fire was raging the men were entombed sealed. Minets Condemn Company. When the wall is broken it is ex- pected the charred bodies of the miners. may be found. Some of the rescue crew held out hopes for the miners declaring that a number of} them understood mine fires and. would build a wall and protect themselves from the gases and.the fire, but since little hope is held out as the heat and the lack of water would be enough to kill them. Gasses are being pumped out of the mine and rescue crews expect to break thru the seal tonight as they beieve the fire will have been killed Dy then for want of airand the bodies will then be brought to the surface. Widows Awalt Victims, The widows, children, and hun- dreds of relatives of the six- teen miners wait at the shaft for the crews to start bringing up the miners dead or alive. They stand watching the mine with solemn faces. Not a word is said. Their eyes just look ahead—waiting—waiting. Most of those entombed in the mine have families. The miners point out that the lives of these sixteen are a sacrifice to the greed of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company as the company heads know that a fire was raging in the mines and did not notify fhe miners. Just as most of th miners had reached | | nun’ | AVONODANGREEUOUALONLUANEREOUUSOOUGUAQ)UOMOEEEROOUUAEOAnANGOOUUONEOULUOSLOVE AGA Hob Astana ccna anc cnnnn AS | = | the surfaco the explosion occured en- tombing those who were on their way out. If the company had-let the me: know the danger, the men would have been, above-ground, the part sealed and there would have been no loss of life declare old-time miners, Dismiss, Armour Case, WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 5.—The federal trade commission has dis- missed its complaint against Armour | & Co, charging the meat packer with concealing ownership of the Beyer Brothers. creamery concern, EVERY NIGHT Price 5 Cents [COMPLETE JURY FOR TRIAL OF ZEIGLER MINERS Prosecution Fears Rank and File Unionists BULLETIN. BENTON, fll., Feb. 5—The jury selected.to try the 13 Zeigler miners is composed of farmers, none of whom have any connection with the labor movement, Three of them were miners several years ago, One of them was formerly a union car- penter, The opening statements of the prosecution and defense and the examination of prosecution wit- will take at least several Lot het By TOM BELL, (Special to The Dally Worker) COURT HOUSE, BENTON, IIl.,Feb. 5—The weary process of selecting a jury to try the 13 Zeigler miners charged with assault with intent to murder D. B. Cobb, sub-district vice- president of the United Mine Work- ers, has been completed. Fear Rank and File Unionists. The prosecution minutely question- ed every prospective juror on the question of his affiliation to the la- bor movement, especially the miners’ union. Théy ask: Did you ever have trouble with the officers of the union? Is there anything that would prevent you getting back into the union? If there were any differences over the election of officials in the union would that affect you? Would the fact that Mr. Fox and Mr. Cobb are officials of the union prejudice,you against them in any way? The sub-district officials, Fox, Cobb and Hindman, together with board member,..Babbington, eagerly whiis- per with the prosecutors during the examination and retire with them to make the decision on accepting or re- jecting jurymen. Send Them to W. Va. From the questions asked it is ap- parent that the prosecution is of the opinion that to any rank and file member of the union it is sufficient that Fox and Cobb are aiding the Prosecution to prejudice him in favor of the defendants. One miner noticing the activity of the union officials in the courtroom remarked, “If there is nothing for these birds to do in this mine field except run around aiding in the prosecution of union miners why aren't they sent down to West Vir- ginia where there is lots to do in the way of organizing miners?” 76 38 Railroad Progressives. ZEIGLER, Ill, Feb. 5—The deter- mination of the reactionary officials of the Illinois district of the United Mine Workers to railroad the pro- gressive leaders of the Zeigler min- ers to jail has been demonstrated many times since the frame-up was first hatched. Frank Farrington, president of the district, has declared himself in fa- vor of the procedure of dragging the members of thé union into capitalist courts in an effort to get rid of them. To protests made by local unions against the actions of the Franklin county sub-district officials in laying charges against union members Far- rington hypocritically replied with the following scarcely veiled threat: : L advise that I am thoroly in- formed as to the trouble at Zeigler and you may be sure that those men who were responsible for the unwar- ranted brutal assault on .sub-district (Continued on page 2.)