The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1926, Page 3

renee eet eneneneetar nee THE DAILY WORKER BIMBA TRIAL IS POSTPONED UNTIL FEB, 24 Thousands Jam Hall to Protest Arrest (Continued from page 1.) tool in the hands of the master class with which to dope the workers. Big Business Backs Prosecution. For this “Blasphemy” of god and the church he was arrested on a charge of sedition which was later changed to a charge of blasphemy by one of the Lithuanian nationalist or- ganizations. The employing class of Brockton and vicinity is very much in- terested in this case and the Douglas Shoe company, the Diamond Shoe Co. and @ number of other manufacturers and Mayor Harold’'D. Bent, leading Brockton merchants, members of the Knights of Columbus cardinal O’Con- nell assembly as well as the clergy and the Lithuanian red-baiters are united to see Bimba sent to jail on this charge.’ A niamber of the dis- eredited red-baiters are panhandling among the business men to raisé a fund to fight radicalism. If the employers are successful in their attempt to send Bimba to jail for the violation of this relic of the witch-hunting days of the ancestors of the likes of strikebreaker Coolidge, they believe they will be able to ar- rest labor union organizers in this state end jail them on frame-up charges of blasphemy. Not only will labor union organizers be framed and ar- rested on this charge but even pro- minent scientists such as Luther Bur- bank had better stay away from Massachussetts. The modernists, who do not want to be so credulous as to believe that Christ was the son of a virgin and the holy ghost will also find themselves on their way to jail if they express their opinions in Mas- sachussetts. , The International Labor Defense is handling the case and are determined to push it to the highest court. Jam Hall to Protest Arrest. Over one thousand workers jammed the Lithuanian Hall to protest against the arrest of Bimba. Bimba in a speech in English told the assembled workers that this was a conspiracy on the part of the tyrannical goyernment of Lithuania to silence workers not only in Lithuania but in other coun- tries who dare to expose the nature of the government. His speech was, in- terrupted at many times with tre- mendous applause. He read a number of documents in which the tortures that political prisoners were forced to undergo in the prisons of Lithuania were vividly portrayed. He pointed out that the corrupt clerical officials of the Lithuanian gov- ernment depend on the sums collected in this country to maintain them- selves in power and called upon the workers not to contribute to, the sup- port of the Lithuanian clerical gov: ernment. Jack McCarthy and Bert Miller of Moston were the other two speakers at this protests meeting. Only one previous case is known to heve been tried under this law and that in the case of Albert Keeland, an editor, who served 60 days in jail after the supreme court had upheld the law but cut his sentence from three months. Keeland acted as his attorney and pointed out that the law conflicted with the federal naturaliza- tion laws which permitted Jew, Mo- hammedan and Gentile to become citizens but did not prevent them from denying each other’s gods, Workers Back I. L. D. Lithuanian workers all over the country are raising funds to aid the International Labor Defense push this case to the limit and defeat the at- tempts of the Lithuanian clericals and social-democrats to terrorize workers im other lands. BEST QUALITY FOOD SERVED. MEET ME AT THE MANHATTAN LYCEUM CAFETERIA 66-68 East 4th Street, New York City Labor’s Eating Place That Deserves Your Patronage. Under the ownership and management of the Ukrainian Labor Home, Inc., a co-operative labor organization. : REASONABLE PRICES, American, Ukrainian and Russian Kitchen. Best Cup of Coffee on the East Side! With the increase of company unions— With the growth of “labof banks"— With the greater efforts in “labor education” — With labor financial ventures of a thousand kinds— This — booklet assumes increasing value and importance to alt workers. “Class Struggle vs. Class Collaboration” By Earl R. Browder. No, 2 in the Little Red Library wrens ia Sete mem ete: Workers and Farmers ' Organize to Defeat State Cossack Bill (Special to The Daily Worker) | WARREN, O., Feb, 11 —~ The lodges of the building trades in Warren and the iron and steel workers are making @ great fight to have the state cossack bill defeated, when ‘it comes up for eonsideration by tle legislature. They have already laid out plans for a cam- paign among the farmers thru ad- dressing the granges, and co-operative unions of the -farmers and‘the work- ers committee are planning sending out speakers from the building trades and the steel workers lodges to put the case of the workers before the farmers of Trumbull county. A sub a day will help to drive capital away, CAPMAKERS OF BOSTON WIN THEIR STRIKE Solidarity ae Workers Brings Speedy. Victory By S. J. LEVINE. (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 11—The strike of the Boston capmakers, local 17, which started last Tuesday was set- tled with a tremendous victory for the strikers. All the men have returned to work under the new union agreement, The main issues upon . which the strike was fought were 3 per cent unemployment insurance, payment for legal holidays and security bond, which were part of the old agrée- ment and which the employers wished to abolish this year. The capmakers’ reply was that they will not let the bosses wrest from them any of the conditions that they have previously won and went on strike. They showed wonderful deter- mination in their fight and the bosses soon realized they were out to win and signed the agreement. The settlement was ratified at an enthusiastic meeting where the agree- ment was read by organizer J. Miller and the report was unanimously~ac- cepted amidst a storm of applause. Local 7, Capmakers Union is one of the most progressive locals of Boston. . Texas Chief Disdains Labor Pardon Request TEXARKANA, Tex.—(FP)—“Labor and farmer resolutions don’t amount to anything anyhow,” practically ex presses the attitude of Jim Ferguson, the real governor of Texas, toward the numerous requests made to Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson to pardon Chas. Cline, Jose Rangel and four other workingmen and farmers who’ have been rotting in Texas prisons for 12 years, So the entire group of Mexi can freedom fighters are still in ‘the penitentiary though Pres. Calles has offered to receive all of them includ- ing Cline into Mexico if released. The act of the Fergusons in refus- ing to pardon is held to be a direct af- front to the American, Mexican amd Pan-American labor movements, all of which have requested by resolution the release of the men. It is hoped by those interested in the early pardon- ing of Cline, Rangel and their fellow prisoners that labor and farmer or- ganizations will immediately petition Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson, Austin, Tex., for pardons, sending their reso- ‘lutions to the press for publication, especially to the farmer and labor press of Texas and Oklahoma, After that talk with your shop- mate—hand him a copy of The DAILY WORKER, It will help convince him. SPECIAL DISHES EVERY DAY. 10 Cents Twelve Copies for One Dollar, VAG SALA? CANADIAN TORY GOVERNMENT TO HOG-TIE MINERS Royal Commission Aids| Besco Fight Union (Continued from page 1) coming year they ignored this report absolutely. The president of the dis-| trict in his annual report recommend-| ed that the convention instruct the} district officers to negotiate a new! wage contract based on paragraph 16) of the royal commission’s award. This split the convention in two, with the more progressive miners lining up with the policy committee, the reac- tionaries with the district officers. Two days were spent over this ques- tion—the only question of any im- portance before the convention. It could be easily seen that the dele- gates were strike and strife weary and McLeod, the district president, played on that to get his tory com- mission’s report accepted. Since 1922 the miners of this district have gone thru four strikes, four time have com- missions been appointed, royal and the other kind, to deal with wage dis- putes; four times has this island been flooded with soldiers and special provincial police during this period. Idle time and strikes had left the miners penniless. The district has thousands of dollars of debt with only 27 cents in the treasury as shown by the district secretary’s report. On these things McLeod played very effectively, Refuse to Sign Contracts. The policy committee pointed out that the thing to do was to refuse to sign any contract if any reduction was made, but to hold the miners ready against the day when the har- bor was full of Besco steamers waiting for coal then smash Besco with a 100% strike. They pointed out to the delegates that to accept the award was to hand over all the functions of the union to some professional ac- countant whose say-so would de- termine their wages and who would never once have to appear before the miners to give an account of his ac- tions, At the end of the second day a roll call vote was taken and reaction won out with fifty odd votes to forty-six. An incident rising out of the creden- tial committee’s report the first day of the convention ought to be of in- terest to John L, Lewis. In the year 1923 the miners of Nova Scotia had ulmost within their grasp the greatest victory that Canadian labor had ever won. The miners had gone on strike is a protest against the government sending soldiers to break a strike of jhe Besco steel workers. It was a 100% strike, and the ranks of the niners was like a rock. Their officers had been arrested and thrown into a filthy jail, but the miners continued solid as they had been from the first lay of battle. In despair the governor general of Canada toook a hand in the fight and met the district officer who that day had gotten out on bail. With these district officers he agreed that all soldiers would be withdrawn from Nova Scotia and the miners would return to the mines within a forty- eight hour period, both movements to be commenced at the same hour. It was then that the archtraitor of the miners, John L, Lewis, run the knife in the back of the miners of Nova Scotia, deposed the district officers, had an injunction issued against them, tore the hitherto solid ranks of the miners wide open and imposed on the district his unspeakable provisional officers, Unseat Silby Barrett. Well, one of these provisional offi- cers was Silby Barrett. At the follow- ing international convention Alex S. McIntyre, the deposed vice-president, was a delegate and Barrett sent long wire to traitor Lewis that McIntyre had worked two days in a bar-room when he was blacklisted because of the actions of the Lewis gang. Lewis got off a lot of bunk in that conven- tion about having to discuss the Nova Scotia case with “a bartender” and had McIntyre unseated. Well, Brother Barrett was convicted of selling rum here and the precedent that poor Sil had established in the McIntyre case was followed to the letter and he was dumped out of the door before the convention was half a day old. Since the convention closed the dis- trict officers have been in conference daily with Besco officials arranging a new wage contract. Just what is tak- ing place behind these doors cannot be learned at this date, But the con- vention decided that no wage agred- ment could be signed up until it had been submitted to the rank and file 0 be voted on, The present officers of the district who were all elected to office on the left wing vote, today with but two exceptions are fighting every progressive move and are play- ing into the hands of the new tory > ey and killing the miners’ union, Vote Against Commission Bunk! The wage proposition which these district officers shall submit to the miners after they are thru with Besco will be based on the royal commission award, and if accepted by the men shall be the last vote that the miners of this district will ever have on future wage changes, until the miners smash thru this arrangement which they are be! ct 8 Lace Operetors’ Union of Philadelphia Gives $100 tq Mine Strikers By a Woiket! Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 11.—Branch No. 1 6f the Amalgamated Lace Op- erators’ Union of America, at tts regu- |lar monthly meeting voted to donate| Policy which tends to split the forces of labor in this city. $100 to the striking miners. It was the} policy has been adopted in reference to a conference for relief for the an- unanimously expressed opinion of the| thracite miners called here for last Sunday at the American House. members that President Lewis of the) miners and his officers had no bu ness staying at the highest-priced ho-| tels and living in the most luxurious| fashion while the rank and file are| starving. Sailors’ Unions Talk Merger. VANCOUVER, B. C.—(FP) — The Federated Seafarers Union of Canada,| with headquarters in Vancouver, has| approached thé, National Sailors and Firemens Union of Canada on merg- ing the two organizations. The Fed- erated is the latger union and has| boen the most ‘aggressive in fighting} the iow pay and bad conditions aboard Canadiah government voe- sels. BELLAIRE COAL MINERS FAVOR GENERAL STRIKE “Call Out! Maintenance Men,” Is Demand BELLAIRE, Ohio, Feb. 11—Despite the frantic efforts of the reactionaries in Local No. 1840 of United Mine Workers of America, the miners show- ed their true spirit and passed a re- solution calling on Lewis to withdraw the maintenance men and declaring | their readiness to go out on general} strike with the hard coal miners. The meeting had the largest attend- ance in several months. The progres- jsives took the lead in the fight and |the. meeting voted 35 for the resolu- tion to 9 against. In the discussion which took at least one hour, most of the miners showed they were for a general strike and that they were fed up with scabbing on their brother in the hard coal. fields. The resolution ,adopted follows: “Whereas, 158,000 of our brothers have been on-strike for more than 5 months, battling against the lower- ing of their conditions; and “Whereas the. coal operators are trying to take away from the work- ers one of their,most powerful weap- ons—the strike; and | Lewis Aid. Operators. “Whereas the miners have allowed the coal operaiprs fo take advantage of them by, permitting the mainten- ance men to remain on the job; and “Whereas, the.operators have brok- en the Jacksonville agreements, show- ing that they will break their agree- ments with us when it suits their in- terests, therefore we are forced to do the same when it means victory for us; and “Whereas the operators have set the miners an example of solidarity to their own class, which the miners do not manifest; and “Whereas unless the maintenance men are called out, as is demanded by tens of thotisands of anthracite miners, the fight will be still harder; and Need Mine Workers’ Solidarity. “Whereas solidarity must extend to the workers of the entire industry fighting together against the common enemy; “Therefore Be It Resolved, That Local No, 1840 of the U. M. W. A. calls upon President Lewis to call out the maintenance men without further de- lay; and be it further “Resolved that we call upon Presi- dent Lewis when making a settle- ment to see to it that the agreement with the operators expires at the same time as that of the bituminous min- ers with the soft'coal operators; and be it further 3 For General Strike, “Resolved that “Local No, 1840 de- clares its willingness to back up this demand to the coal operators by join- ing the anthracite miners in general ‘strike; and be itsfurther “Resolved that»copy of this reso- lution be sent to President Lewis, the presidents of Districts 1, 7, and 9 and to the press.” Order a bundy of The DAILY WORKER for gvery meeting of | movement as a whole, but a picked results—IF. as yet—use Agar SOCIALIST PARTY “RULE OR RUIN” PORICY SPLITS UP BOSTON LABOR “ON AID TO ANTHRACITE MINERS | ; By BERT BOSTON, Feb, 11—The socialist tactics of exclusion, discrimination and and groups earnestly interested in raising funds for the striking miners, has aroused a storm of indignation in the+ — Boston labor movement. Excludes Many Workers, From ‘the outset of the conference, the socialist party showed that it was bent upon its exclusion policy. Invi- tations were not sent to the labor) group of organizations. Representa- tives were rigorously scrutinized at the door and questioned in a humilat-| ing manner.- Visitors and even the} press were excluded. The call was! not sent to the press until two days before the conferenée and then to one paper only—The Forward. Scores of representatives of recog- nized workers’ ‘organizations stood waiting in the lobby for admission until the managér of the hotel or-} dered them to-leave at the request of those in charge of the conference, The DAILY WORKER correspondent | was told thatthe conference was lim- ited strictly to Jewish organizations, Several delegates of the Amalgamated who spoke English left the conference becaues they could not understand the proceedings. One, representative of a very powerful workers’ organization for the striking miners, was bluntly refused at the door and was told, “No money today.” Work Against United Front. Thruout the conference the high- handed policy of the socialist party prevailed seriously hindering the building up of a united front for the relief which is so badly needed. As soon as the credentials committees had reported, a motion was made to accept without debate, which was rail- roaded thru. When it came to the election of an executive committee, the socialist party proposed that the chairman schould appoint a commit- tee of three to nominate a committe of 15, this insuring a hand-picked committee agreeable to the chair. | be done, MILLER. party of Boston has adopted a new This dangerous The splitting up of workers’ organizatioons Altho the left wing of the conference represented over one-third of the votes | cast after the exclusion of many or-| ganizations, it was given only one-| fifth of the places on the executive committee. Thruout the conference the steam roller was very much in evi- dence, | In spite of the disgusting and dem-| agogic tactics pursued by the socialist party, which were repeatedly de- nounced from the floor by rank and file delegates, the left wing refused to be provoked and distinguished itself | by presenting the most progressive proposals for the further work of the} conference. Time after time the left wing delegates pleaded and fought for | the broadening of the scope of the conference, so that real work might The policy of excluding workers’ organizations and even moth- ers’ clubs, was characterized as ruin ous to any effective relief campaign.)| Appeal after appeal was made to broaden the scope of the conference, and to let down all barriers of lan- guage or political differences. But to no avail, Left Wing Puts Over Some Proposals. The left wing then proposed the ar- rangement of a big mass meeting, which threw the socialist party dele-| gates into a fit of terror. However they had to accept this proposal after much squirming. The next proposal from the left was that there be a} minimum of overhead expense and no| paid officials, all of which the socialst| party had to swallow. Boston is look- ing forward to the next few weeks| when the left wing will show its abil- ity to bring relief for the miners, in contrast, with the bombast and empty Pphrasemongering of the socialist party, so that the workers of this city will recognize the real difference be- tween the two, ROUMANIAN BOYARS PLAN NEW MASS TRIALS OF BESSARABIAN PEASANTS BEFORE ELECTIONS, KISHINEV, Bessarabia, Feb, 11.—Official Roumania pretends that the Bessarabian trials are definitely ended with the trial aganist 500 peasants. In order to cover as far as possible the defeat that the government suffered in the trial, official news has appeared that 46 of the peasants sentenced to one and two years of prison, will be “amnestied.” On the other hand, however, the vice-minister of the interior, Tatarescu, in a speech in parliament described the peasants of Kishinev, who were acquitted by the courte, as the great-¢—__—_—____—______——_——— est possible criminals. The representatives of the peasant party answered him pointing out that only one real criminal existed in that trial, the Roumanian system of ad- ministration against the national minorities. In the meantime, quite silently and in secret a new monster trial against 46 peasants is being prepared. The accused are already over two years in prison awaiting their trial. As they have denied their “confessions” to the judge, because they were made under the pressure of brutal tortures, the judge intends to send them back to the Siguranza in order to torture them again. As a protest against this new meas- A Joint Celebration for THE DAILY WORKER and THE FREIHEIT with a GRAND DANCE ST.LOUIS, Mo. Westminster Hall, 3806 Olive St. Saturday, Feb. 27 Tickets in Advance 50 Cents, at the Door 75 Cents, ure, the peasants went on a hunger strike. The new trial will be a pol- itical trial of the first class. It is in- tended as the introduction to the election campaign of the “Liberals” against the peasant party. The main accused is the Peasant Senator Be- lausenco, a leading member of his party. Tho evidence against the peas- ant leader is a letter, alleged to have been written by Belausenco and found in the home of a dead peasant. Saturday Evening, SAM KISSIN’S JAZZ BAND SSS esses THE LENIN DRIVE For Fie Thousand Mew dibs to THE DAI WORKER Ends MONDAY, February 15. i ee results will be told. DAY—you can be proud of the u have sent a sub. If you haven't On THU year; City State (REET SSS SSS IN CHICAGO! Division Hall, 2441 W. Division St. TICKETS 50 CENTS. your union, 7 RATES—Outside of Chicago: $6.00 per months, Enclosed $.....e0eveseve months sub. Name Breet ccccrssssersensers: Page Three LABOR DEFENSE AT PITTSBURGH OPENS CAMPAIGN Open Vigorous Drive on Sedition Laws PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 11—The Pittsburgh workers have realized that if the union movement in the Pitts burgh district is to be saved it is time someone took some action. The JIn- ternational Labor Defense is taking advantage of this opportunity and is |taking the initiative in starting a vig- |Orous campaign for the repeal of the Anti-Sedition Act of this state, A call has already been sent out to local unions in this district asking for their endorsement of a call for a con- ference of delegates from all fraternal, labor and other organizations, ‘to be held March 21, at Walton Hall, 220 Stanwix street, Pittsburgh, Pa, At this conference all arrangements will be made to make this campaign effective, Bishop Brown Coming. Bishop Brown, who is touring the east under the auspices of the Inter- national Labor Defense, is expected to be here during the latter part of March. All members of the defense should make every effort to make this affair a success. see Plan Bazaar. Something new in the nature of em entertainment will be tried in Pitts burgh. All should watch for the big bazaar which will take place during the month of March. A meeting of delegates from defense branches has been called for Friday evening, Feb. 12, at 8 o'clock, at International So- cialist Lyceum, 805 James St. N. S., to make the necessary arrangements and all branches should be represent- ed to give suggestions and work out plans, Begin to gather contributions for this affair. Ce Aids Arrested Union Members, The International Labor Defense is fighting the case of B. J. Horacek, member of the machinists’. union, whose case was argued for a new trial and it is expected that the decision will soon be rendered whether the court will grant the new trial or not. The International Labor Defense is also defending the case of George Papcun, who was arrested at Republic, for urging miners to join the union and pointing out the need of a labor party in this country. To fight these cases it requires a large amount of money and the International Labor Defense has already sent out subserip- tion lists to its members and sympa- thizers to raise the required amount. Get busy and collect as much as pos- sible. eee A Free Speech Meetings. Free speech meetings are being am ranged around the Uniontown-Repub- lic territory to test the right of work- ers having the right to express them- selves, You do the job twice as well— when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your story in it. “Icor”-F reiheit MASQUERADE BALL given by the SELF-ADVANCEMENT CLUB February 13, 1926 DANCING TO 1A. M. § RUSH! $3.50 six months; $2.00 three for .... meeassueenanecenecanneevoneennoscessessensssessnesanensnsnasenanees seescameraneeanecantensanessoueseseneesseguesesnuegneeenesssenees he