The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. In Chicay Outside 24. PASSAIC, N.J., TEXTILE WORKERS | ~ NOW ASK THE 44-HOUR WEEK AND TEN PER CENT WAGE INCREASE By J. 0. BENTALL. (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 7.—The new demands of the textile workers presented to the bosses by Organizer Albert Weisbord, representing the united front committee of textile workers, struck terror in the camps of the mill owners who had expected that the strikers would meekly return after a short period of protest against the wage cut. The strikers gathered in several halls to hear the reports and get further instructions and the spirit was at a higher pitch than ever since the strike started. Since the monster parade the strikers and the people of the entire city have agreed that they will win this battle and every one is set in his opinion that the workers have made entirely reasonable demands. Store- keepers, bakers and other busi- nessmen have offered co-opera- tion and help. Owners of empty stores have givén them over to the strike committee for use in the handling of food. As the matter now stands, and the strikers are pulling out workers all the time and adding to the force, the following mills are effected: Textile Mills Out. The Botany Mill. All out. Mill shut down. The Garfield Mill, shut down. Passaic Worsted. Has 600 work- ers. 400 out. Others coming every day. The Gera Mill. Hag 1,200 workers. 900 out. Mill trying to operate, but gets no fesults, Will shut down soon, 3 New Jersey Spinning. Mill. workers. Only few out. came out terday. circulating/sthe following declaration of the committee on the néw demands among, the workers that are still in a number. of.shops whete efforts are being made to get them out and to other workers to acquaint them with the new, development in the textile trike: “Our new demands! To all textile workers of Passaic and vicinity! “We have been very patient with the mill “bosses. We said to them, ‘Pleasé give us our wage cuts back,’ but they have kicked us in the face We have’ lost our patience. If the bosses wish to make us suffer they must pay for it. Here is our answer to the insults of the bosses. “We now demand: “1. Not only the abolition of the wage cut but a 10 per cent increase in wages over the old wage scale, (Continued on page 3.) CLEVELAND CO-OPERATIVE ENDORSES INTERNATIONAL ANTI-FASCIST ALLIANCE Seg ants: CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 7.—The Finnish: Co-operative Hotel and Boarding House of this city adopted a resolution its annual protesting against the fa tacks on the workers’ and farmers’ co-operatives in Italy and endorsing the proposal of the Red Internation- al of Trade Unions for a joint inter- national conference of the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions, the Amsterdam’ International F. a tion of Trade Unions and the Inter- national ‘Co-operative Alliance to lay plans for combatting fascism, CONGRESS OF RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY BY A VOTE OF 559 TO 65 SUPPORTS THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE After a discussion a pey Ween days and after the closin ’ speeches of Zinoviev, and of Molotov and Stalin for the centr committee, the Fourteenth Party congress of the Russian Com- munist Party adopted the following resolution with 559 against 65 votes, with 41 delegates absent. The voting was conducted by roll-call. The resolution in favor of the policy of the central mmittee reads as follows: — J Pap Bive Resolution on the Political and Organizational Speeches on Be- half of the Central Committee. j 4 * THE and or- Subscription Rates: Kemer Bent | By T. J. O'FLAHERTY | peers the month of September, 1925, several political court mar- } tials were held in Esthonia. Sixty workers and peasants. were sentenced to 343 years hard labor for “Commun- ist activities." Those workers were not charged with any overt act, merely for believing and propagating their political ideas. Five students were indicted for having solicited funds for a worker who was later exe- cuted, All out. Mill * | A LETTER from a political prisoner in Reval ‘reads: “The inquiry prison in Reval, which is: threatenihg ‘tor fall. to pieces-every day is being uated and the’ prisoners..are being el _dnto ‘the )central- - prison, From thirty to -forty prisoners are crowded into one cell, which was or, iginally intended for five prisoners. The meager prison rations have been eut and the meat ration has been dis- continued entirely.” This is the situa- tion in the little “democratic” satrapy of England, one of the capitalist buf- fer states against Soviet Russia. It “ ghould not be forgotten that it was the Esthonian General Laidoner, who was chairman of the league of na- tions committee that handed the Mo- sul oil fields over to Britain. Yes, jhe Esthonian government has a soul —for sale. 1,200 Fifty more hoo HE capitalist papers never learn anything and forget everything. /Which shows that they are even ahead of the Bourbons of France. It may be noticed that recently a lively dis- cussion took place in the Russian Communist Party, now the All-Union Communist Party. This is as it should be, as political parties, and in fact every organization that is not decently reposing in a graveyard, must have conflicts if it wants to give the impression that it lives. As ustal in all conflicts there is a victor and @ vanquished. In simpler terms so: body gets licked. This is exactly what happened in Russia. ee HE Russian Bolshevik leaders are as frank with each other as they are with the capitalists. They are in the habit of calling a spade a spade. Tho the fate of one-sixth of the earth's surface hangs on their decisions and tho they know that every capjtalist ' and labor hater in the world is look- ing with a hawk's eye on the Soviet territory hoping against hope for a sign of dissension, the leaders of So- (Continued on page 3) s* as congress approves completely the political L wl rength Entered as Second-class mattic september 21, 1938, a » by mail, $8.00 per yeer, Chicago, by mall, $6:00 per year. LABOR OFFICIAL PAYS HOMAGE 10 OPENSHOP FORD Lauds Exploiter as speech” at the annual convention of the Michigan State Federation of La- bor at Jackson. and frequently ungrammatical English by none other than William Collins, general organizer for the American Federation of Labor, assigned to the, Detroit district for a 40-week's organi- zation campaign. aroused the workers to etxend thei unions to the huge shops of the For Motor. Co. speed-up system: ployers like Mr. Ford and others, who are supposed to pay good wages and | take care of the personal welfare of their employes. Let us look into this subject-and we will find that Mr. Ford hi look after or know the actual opera- tion of his plant from a human point, turing corporation. letters of compaints that are sent to the American Federation of Labor asking when they are coming to bring organization to these employes, was only the other day that the un- sanitary condition of one branch of the Highland Park plant had to be investigated by your state department of jinimizing the greatness and hu- BAIL | Post Office at Chicago, Ulinols, under ihe Act of March 3, 187% BRUARY 9, 1926 <@»™” TUESDAY, 2 ORKER.| Published Datly except Sun: PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. NEW YORK EDITION vy THE DAILY WORKER ‘ashington Bivd., Chicago, Ill Price 3 Cents NEW SACCO AND VANZETTI ARE STILL IN JAIL ieee dustice Is Not @hly Blind But Movable. BOTH PEBU AND CHILE AFYHES SEES BAERS LEON Us|| PO} SHEVISM FOR GERMANY ARICA, Chile, Feb. 7—Both Chile and Peru have appealed from the election lawsadopted by the com- mission to ‘charge of the coming plebiscite to “determine” who gets Tanca and Arica. More Negro Segregation. BALTIMORE, February 7.—(FP)— Judge Bond in the circuit court of Baltimore has given Henry Johnson, Negro, 24 hours in which to move from the dwelling he had rented at 1107 West Franklin St. Judge Stanton has previously issued an injunction to compel Johnson to move, on the ground that the owners of all property in that block had agreed to permit no Negro to become an occupant. TRUMBULL EAGER TO BE ACTIVE IN WORKERS’ RANKS Will Fight:for Release of Class War Victims SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 7.— Walter Trumbail, who has been re- leased from the Alcatraz military dis- ciplinary barraéks, on his release de- clared that he wanted to thank his comrades all over the country for their loyalty tochim and to his pal, Paul Crouch, both of whom were im- prisoned in Alcatraz for belonging to the Communist! League in the Philip- pine Islands and for carrying on pro- paganda among the soldiers for a workers’ and farmers’ government. He declared he is proud to be out once more, but is very sorry that his comrade, Paul Crouch, must remain behind and asks that comrdaes pour in letters to Paul Crouch, He thanks the workers’ organiza- tions that sent telegrams of. greet- ing to him on his release and declare that it will be his greatest. joy and pleasure to have the opportunity to return to his comrades and carry on the agitation for the release of Paul Crouch and the other class-war pris- oners and to aid in the building of the Workers (Communist) Party and the International’ Labor Defense to an extent ‘that frame-ups and ions of’ workers will be im- 9 Mesh : . Humanitarian (Special to The Daily Worker) JACKSON, Mich. Feb. 7—Henry id for his “great- in a “keynote Misery for Workers (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Feb. 7.—The execution of the Dawes plan may pave the way for the Bolshevization of Germany, is given in an article by the English bourgeois economist, John Maynard Keynes, published today by the Lokal Anzeiger, Under the caption, “The second year of the Dawes plan,” Professor Keynes says that while the first year of the Dawes plan was “plain sailing,” great difficulties will have to be over- come in the next three years when the transfer committee must turn a deficit rf $250,000,000 into a profit of $500,- 000,000. The professor declares the activity of the transfer committee must be con- entrated on lowering the standard of life of the German workers. German industrialists are ready to cooperate with the Dawes plan exec- utives, Keynes continues, but there will be a time when no German gov- ernment will enjoy the confidence of the German people. = An attempt to reduce ‘the living standard of Germany would pave the way for revolution, the professor be- .leves. “I foresee the greatest difficulties in the execution of the Dawes plan and. for the present Germany is the danger peint of Europe,” says Keyn Keynes, as a capitalist apologist, observes what has been plain to all revolutionists—that the Dawes plan, instead’ of stabilizing conditions in Germany will help to make the lot of the working class much worse. For the workers there is but one way out and that is revolution. Of course the liberation of the workers ppears as a calamity to the cap italist economists of the Keynes type, as such people view phe overthrow of capitalism as destruction of humanity The speech was delivered in stilted Here is the way Brother Collins} with its unprecedented ‘Here in our state we have fine em got about as mucl time to any executive of a large manufac- Many are the It labor. It is not for the purpose ity of Mr. Ford that I mention (Continued on page 4.) SPEAKER I$ CHARGED WITH BLASPHEMY UNDER PURITANICAL BLUE LAWS WORCESTER, Mass, Feb, soe ps te {jury and a promise made that it would Dawes Plan Means. MINERS” UNION HEADS ‘FORGET’ THEIR SELL-OUT TO OPERATORS IN ZEIGLER COALDIGGERS’ TRIAL By TOM BELL. (Special to The Daily Worker) COURT HOUSE, BENTON, Ill., Feb. 7.—‘‘They are on trial here because the sub-district officials want to get them out of the way—so that they can steal more union elections.” This declaration by Attorney Isaac E. Ferguson concluded the opening statement for the defense in the trial of the thirteen Zeigler miners charged with assault with intent to murder D. B: Cobb. It brot the prosecuting attorney to his feet in objection and was ruled out by the judge. But it goes to the heart of the trial. + TO SEND ARMY AGAINST NINERS Use Soldiers to Settle Anthracite Strike WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—Represen- tative Somers of New York urged on Instead the state’s attorney attempt- the floor of congress that President ed to make it appear that Fox and Calvin Coolidge send the army into the Cobb were upright) offici of the |anthracite strike zone and force the union who were set.upon by a “mob” | miners to call off the strike. —Fox used the werd on the stand—j| for sion. The cause of the whole trouble The fight of the miners against the sell-out of their in- terests by Fox, Cobb & Co. to the operat was not mentioned. 's, the attempt at terrorization of the membership with the aid of the ku ‘klux klan, the murder of Mike Sarovich by Alex Hargis, klansman and supporter of the Fox-Cobb-Far- rington n hine, the shielding of Hargis by this gang, and the thousand and one other assaults against the rank and file miners was not men- tioned. Union Miners Called “Mob.” + + © jwhile in the pexfokmance of thelr! wasHINGTON, Feb. 7—Following | duty. |the refusal of the senate to intervene The “foreigner” issue was dragged |in the anthracite coal strike to settle in by the prosecution by the state- ment that Stanley Paurez ended a epeech-in “Ruglish. by saying: some thing in a “foreign language” which precipitated the attack on Uobb at the union meeting on Aug. 11 last year. The opening statement for the de- fense raised the-real issues by recit- ing the facts of the miners’ struggle| with the company to force accurate|that use anthracite mainly for heating weighing of. their’coal, how Fox and| point out the predicament that house- Cobb had lined up with the company | holders find themselves” in, paying and deposed Henry Corbishly and the| high prices for coal substitutes and other progressive local officials at the|for coal which is mostly slate. demand of the company. Coolidge and his administration are ‘The dastardly murder of Mike Saro- (Continued on page 2.) vich by Hargis was also told to the ABANDON EFFORTS 10 RESCUE SIXTEEN MINERS IN HORNING MINE NO, 4 PITTSBURGH, Feb. 7—Mine offic- lals announced that no attempts will be mdde to reach the bodies of the sixteen entombeds miners in the Horning Mine No. 4 of the Pitts burgh Termifal Coal company and that the fire walls will not be broken until all gases have been the dispute between the coal operat- ors and the United Mine Workers -* America, “thousands of iette®s “from” many eastern states have deluged the senators requesting they take/,/some action to settle the present coal strike, Many letters from New York, Massa- chusetts, Connecticut and other states be proven up t the hilt. The des- perate efforts of the officialdom to pro- tect their tool Harris is one of the reasons for the present trial. By util- izing the courts to frame up and rail- road these miners they expect to dis- tract attention to their own crimes, and get rid of those who fight for the miners” interests. The prosecution witnesses will be proven to be a well coached pack of Mars before this trial is over who de- pend on the lead given them by the LEAGUE PRELIMINARY DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED (Continued on page 2) pumped out of the mines. CLEVELAND NOW HAS ONE UNITED RELIEF ORGANIZATION TO ASSIST STRIKING ANTHRACITE COALDIGGERS CLEVELAND; 0., Feb. 7.—The conference called by the district commit. tee of the Workers (Communist) Party has united with the conference called by the district committee of the Workmen's Circle, The conference’ called by the Workers (Communist) Party wags partick pated in by 24 organizations with 36 delegates; Two other organizations elected delegates to, the conference, but their delegates were prevented from attending. This conference therefore comprised the following organizations: BUFFALO WILL PROTEST ate RA tie: Perrin Ms Noting AGAINST FRAME-UP OF UNION STREET CARMEN Workers’ Union, Automobile. Workers’ Union No¥ 195, Bakers’ Union No, 56, Journeymén Tailors’ Union, Co-oper- ators company, two branches of the Hungarian Sick Benefit and Educa- tional Agéociation, American Lithuan- BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 7—A pro- |isdn /Workers Literature Society, two test meeting against the frame-up of the members of the Street Car- men's Union by company stool pig- eons and agent provocateurs will be held Monday evening, Feb. 8 at 8 o'clock in the Engineers’ Hall, 36 Hungarians workers’ clubs, the Icor, and Icor Auxiliary, Slovak Workers’ Sick and Benefit Society and the Slo- vak Workers’ Club, the Hungart West Huron street. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the International Labor ‘ense, Buffalo section. James C. Campbell, Her- Working Women’s Society, the Inte: national Workers’ Club, the Interna- bert Benjamin, Rudolph Katz and others will speak, ay tional Labor Defense, the Lettish Edu- cational and Singing Society, Young Workers (Communist) League, Work- men’s Circle No, 334 and the Workers (Communist) Party. The conferance elected an executive committee j,of evelen with George Schwartz of the Amalgamated -Cloth- ing Workers" Union as president, and J. A. Hamilton. of the Automobile Workers’ Union, as secretary, The decision ‘et th® conference was that, out offigial announcements | in view ofthe tact that the di conference, which had | Committee of the Wor Pa / p W ¢ i Fad