The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1926, Page 3

ORGANIZE TO FIGHT AGAINST "OSWALD BILL To Resist Registering Foreign-Born (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 16, — The Oswald bill for the fingerprinting, photographing, registering, blacklist- Ing and deporting of militant foreign+ born workers has aroused general in- dignation among the entire working class of New York City, both native and foreign-born elements. To protect the foreign-born workers and to prevent this scheme for the conscription of foreign-born labor and the lowering of conditions and wages for the American workers, a council for the protection of the foreign-born fs being organized with Pascal Cos- grove, organizer of the Protective Shoe Workers’ Union, as provisional secretary, Call Conference. The provisional committee, the tem- porary heddquarters of which are at 142 Livingston St., Brooklyn, N. Y., are issuing a call for a conference of unions and other workers’ organ- izations interested in fighting the bill, which conference is to be held at the Central Opera House on Sunday, Feb. 21, at 2 p. m. All workers’ organiza- tions are invited to send two dele- gates, The provisional committee includes: O. Schachtman, president of Int’l, Fur Workers’ Union; S. Zimmerman, N. Y. joint board, I. L. G. W. U.; J. Port- noy, vice-president of I. L. G. W. U.; J, Boruchowitz, vice-president of I. L. G, W. U.; M. Rosen, president of Local Union 376, Carpenters; T. Burkhardt, national secretary of Amalgamated Food Workers; A. Rosenféld, secre- tary of Architectural Iron and Bronze Workers; Ben Gold, manager of N. Y. joint board of the International Fur Workers’ Union; A. Christman, secre- tary of Hotel Workers’ Branch, Amal- gamated Food Workers; Abe Epstein, ‘Workmen’s Circle; Sam Piskothy, president of Hungarian Workmen's Sick BeneVolent and Workers’ Liter- ary Society; William Weinstone, sec- retary of N. Y. District, Workers Par- ty; Rose Baron, secretary of N. Y. Section, International Labor Defense; Kate Gitlow, secretary of United Council, Working Class Housewives; A. Kadler, secretary of Czecho-Slovak Central Trades and Labor Council; D. Turansky, Ukrainian Workers’ Club of N. Y.; and Sam Don, secretary of N. Y. District, Young Workers League. A preliminary survey, made by Pascal Cosgrove, the secretary of the committee, reveals that organizations, representing at least 100,000 workers will attend the conference on Feb. 21, at Central Opera House. Many addi- tional unions and other workers’ or- ganizations are expected to affiliate before that date and send two dele- gates each, MEET ME AT THE Manhattan Lyceum CAFETERIA 66—68 E. 4th St., New York, N. Y. A Labor’s Eating Place That Deserves Your Patronage. Under the Ownership and Manage- ment of the Ukrainian Labor Home, In., a Co-operative Labor Organization Best Quality Food Served. Special Dishes Eevery Day. Reasonable Prices American, Ukrainian and Russian Kitchen. Best Cup of Coffee on the East Side English Ship Textile Machinery to Russia (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Feb. 16 — An investiga- tion here into the status of the con- tracts made some time ago between textile manufacturers of the Lanca- shire district. and the Soviet govern- ment shows that satisfactory results are being achieved. Contrary to cap- italist press propaganda, the Russian obligations are being met promptly. Tweedales & Smalley, a prominent textile machinery concern, is running full time on orders from the Soviet Union which is importing machinery to equip its own mills. This is in accordance with the government's policy of building up its own industry in order as soon as possible to cut down the import of manufactured goods. This policy aims also at the increasing of the industrial base thru the enlargement of the factory work- ing class as compared to the mass of peasants, CICERO WORKERS MASS PROTEST ON WEDNESDAY Hold Labor Defense Rally at Liberty Hall On next Wednesday night, Feb, 17, at 8 p. m. at Liberty Hall, 14th and 49th Ct., Cicero, a membership rally and Labor Defense mass meeting will be held with J. Grasunis, M. Kalousek and George Maurer as the speakers. The talks will be on the Paris Com- mune anniversary, and the interna- and wholesale imprisonment of work- tional fight against the white terror ers. Comrade Gasunis will deal with the case of Bimba who has been jailed and to be tried in New England for so-called “blasphemy” under an an- cient law about 230 years old. The story of the persecution of workers in Czecho-Slovakia, Lithu- ania and other European lands will be told, along with the story of the fight being waged here in America by the I. L, D. on behalf of the “framed-up” miners in Zeigler and for the release of over 100 working class prisoners. All friends and sympathizers, come THE DAILY WORK ER ruge Three NONPARTISANS DEBATE FARMER: LABOR ISSUE Machine Defeats Move for Class Party ‘JSpecial to The Daily Worker) BISMARCK, N. D., Feb, 14. — (By Mail—The discussion whether the nonpartisan league of North Dakota should join the Farmer-Labor party in the state consumed 16 hours at the nonpartisan Jeague state convention being held here. A vote was finally taken on whether the nonpartisan league should file its candidates on the farmer-labor ticket, the result being 18 in favor and 87° against May Have Ticket This is' the first time for several years that a new political idea has stirred the peaceful and stagnant league in North Dakota. Committees selected by both sides to thrash out differences came to no agreement and the delegates who are for a farmer- labor party may go down the line with a full ticket in the fleld in the coming election Gerald P. Nye was endorsed for United States senator for both the short and the long term. It is ex- pected that a warm fight will be stag- ed on candidates for governor, there being considerable opposition to the renomination of A. G. Sorlie. It is expected that the convention will finish its work today. Earl of Craven Flees to Canada to Dodge Deportation Warrant NEW YORK, Feb, 16 — While the department of labor at Washington prepared to issue a warrant of arrest for the Harl of Craven in connection with the charges of “moral turpitude” on which the Countess Cathcart is be- ing held at Ellis Island, the countess let it be known that the earl was safely in Canada. It is charged that this parasitic earl carried on the same “sociological” investigations with the countess that the, head of Scotland Yard did in a and hear the speakers; join in our! tondon park with Miss de Lava, protest campaigns, against the white terror, against the frame-ups of the Zeigler miners, Bimba and the many others. Police Chief Rapes Girls; Judge Balks at Death Sentence SAN DIEGO, Calif, Feb, 16 — The expected court order sentencing seven men to death at the hands of a firing squad as a climax of the outraging of Clyde and Audrey Peteet and the subsequent suicide of the girls and their parents was not forthcoming at Tia Juana, Lower California, Judge S, Urias, justice of the court of first instance at Tia Juana, who will survey the case said he would take the full 72 hours allowed him under Mexican law, The information charging murder against former Chief of Police Zenaid- es Llanes, Luis Amador and five other men was formally laid before Judge Unias yesterday. The bodies of the four “shame suicides” were to have been shipped to Mount Washington, Mo., for burial, but Coroner Schuyler Kelly announced he would hold them in expectation of ‘a request from the Mexican authori- ‘es that physicians appointed by judge Urias be permitted to perform an autopsy. AMERICAN FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS By Clarissa S. Ware. In these days when the question of the Alien Registra- tion Law is threatening to further enslave American Labor— This little pamphlet assumes increasing importance. It is a most valuable little booklet containing facts— essential to intelligent understanding of this question. The Daily Worker Publishing Co. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., ° Chicago, Il. BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY Meat Market IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER. Bakery deliveries made to your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, ‘Inc, * (Workers organized as consumers) , 4301 8th Avenue \ A Cents \ Restaurant Brooklyn, N. Y. se * Will Go to ‘Bermuda. MONTREAL, Feb. 16 —The Earl of Craven is going to sail for Bermuda ‘jon: the “first ship that sails,” he de- clared at the Ritz Carlton Hotel here. Doctor Records to Prove Judge Sane Last August one of the more than usually crazy judges of the circuit court in Chicago was considered as ‘beyond even the limit allowed on the bench and he was officially declared insane, stripped of his judicial office and put in confienement. This month he is deemed not only sane again but the records have been dressed up to indicate that he never had been in- sane. He gets full pay for all the time since he was kicked off the bench and kept in custody. His title and powers as circuit. judge are restored. If he likes he can commit other peo- ple to prison or he can fine them. All because his wife, who had peti- tioned for the insanity verdict, dis- covered that if he is allowed to serve out his term the couple will get a pen- sion. The obliging county judge hastily found errors in the commit- ment. In legal phrase, the nut order was “expunged.’ So, who’s looney now? God’s Agent in Mexico Swears He Never Did It MEXICO CITY, Feb. 16.—The con- troversy between the government and Archbishop Del Rio appears to have been brought to an end thru the is- suance of a signed statement by the latter, denying fe had ever attacked the Mexican constitution. The de- portation of foreign priests continues, however. Fourteen have already been deported, Under Capitalism They Even Rob the Graves MIAMI, Fla., Feb, 16. — Frederick C. Beale, wanted in New York state for robbing a grave in connection with an attempted insurance fraud, today admitted his identity and asked for an early trial. He is charged with tak- ing a corpse from its grave so his wife could collect insurance under an identification of the body as his own, Your patronage invited on our 18-year record for serving the finest food, pies and pastry in this vicinity. West Inn Cafeteria 734 West Madison St., 2nd Floor 3 Doors East of Halsted St. We als ar ” Sandwiches; “80 good and. ‘no aitters ent; two or ‘three layers. Dinner 10:30 to 2:30 Supper 4:15 sto 7:15 ‘Trial One Trial Will ean You of Our For Quick Noon Servi jon- ‘venteng Bofore 11:30 of tte” Polish Textile Industry Hit’ hy Trade Crisis (Special to The Daily Worker) VIENNA, Feb. 16, — The industrial depression has hit the textile mills particularly hard. Capital is difficult to attract and the industry as a whole seems doomed, Trades returning from Lodz and other important centers in Poland state that if present conditions continue that country will lose its im-| portance as a textile manufacturing) nation, The economy of Poland is so bound up with that of the Soviet Union| that there can be no permanent im-| provement until the government per- fects a political understanding with! Russia. This,showever, is contrary to the interests of the French and Eng-| lish financiers! and imperialfst poli-| ticians who want to keep the country,| regardless of dow their ambitions may effect the people, as a standing menace to the: workers’ republic. CHAPLIN SPEAKS FOR FREEDOM OF CLASS PRISONERS Speaks to Picako Work- ers on Labor Defense On Sunday night, the Eugene Bar- nett (Northwest branch) of the Inter- national Labor Defense held a very successful meeting at which Ralph Chaplin, the I. W. W. ex-class war prisoner and poet was the principal speaker, After an excellent musical program by Margaret Lewis, pianist, Kirsch, violinist, and Max Rosner, singer, with Mrs, Rosner as accompanist, Comrade Moritz J. Loeb, chairman, spoke on the general aims of labor defense, and in- troduced Ralph Chaplin. Chaplin began by pointing out the intensification of the class struggle and the urgent necessity for organized defense on the part of labor, showing the ever-increasing use of the frame- up as a method of getting rid of militant workers, After speaking of the Zeigler frame-up as a glaring and immediate illustration, Chaplin review- ed the 1919 l W. W. cases, the Ford and Suhr, the Everett case, and gave a detailed and extremely vivid ac- count of the Centralia battle. The simple,and yet immensely dra- matic recital of events by the class war fighter and poet who had so act- ively shared.in them made a deep impression @n the audience, and a number of | ications for member- ship in the Sxternational Labor De- fense were received after the meeting. Japan Plans Huge Naval Program of Expansion (Special to’ The Daily Worker) TOKIO, Feb. 16 — The Japanese government is ‘planning a huge naval building program to include the con- struction immediately of four cruisers, twenty destréyers, five submarines, three gunboats, and five special ser- vice ships. Questioning of Admiral Hyo Takarabe, minister of naval af- fairs, in the Diet today brot out the admission that talk hitherto of a paring down of military expenditures to a bare minimum had been only for public effect. There are reports from \EAST CHICAGO LABOR PROTESTS SIMONS? ARREST’ 1. L. Do Holds Suscessful| Mass Meeting EAST CHICAGO, Ind., Feb. 16—The protest meeting against the arrest of William Simons, secretary of the Chicago Workers’ School, and the breaking up of the Lenin memorial meeting was better attended than the Lenin memorial meeting itself, Simons, who was arrested for speak- ing at the Lenin meeting and who is charged with attempting to ‘“over- throw the government,” spoke to the workers in the hall showing that the charge against him was groundless | and that it was nothing more than a| frame-up. H, W. Garner, a promin- ent member of the Machinists’ Union acted as chairman of the meeting for the International Labor Defense. Young Pioneer Speaks. Jack Cohen, a member of the Young Pioneers then spoke explain- ng that the statements of the teach- ers that this is a free country and a lemocracy and that equal rights exist for all is given the lie when working| class speakers are arrested for urging workers to organize to fight for better conditions, x C, A. Hathaway, a former business agent of the Machinists’ Union, spoke on the need for labor defense and of the many cases that the International Labor Defense is now handling and urged all the workers present to join the International Labor Defense branch here in order to beat back the attempts of the boss-ruled police to break up workers’ gatherings, Police Leave Meeting Alone. Tho the same dicks that made the arrest at the Lenin meeting were pres- ent and had a number of police on hand no attempts were made to inter- fere with the meeting. The local International Labor De- fense branch has gained a number of new members since the persecution of workers’ organizations has started here and on March 19. it is planned to hold a Paris Commune celebration. The two youngsters that were ar- rested and held over six hours by the police were subjected to one of the worst gruellings that the police could devise. They attempted to learn from the youngsters who had “given them the leaflets advertising this mass meeting. Terrorize Youngsters. When the lads reftised to answer the questions the police bellowed at them, one was offered $100 and the other $60 if he would tell who gave him the leaflets. The. police also drove the boys around the city in an attempt to get them to tell where they had procured the leaflets, Every at- tempt was made by the police to make it appear that these lads were com- mitting a criminal offense for the dis- tribution of these leaflets. This at- tempt on the part of. the police to stage a dramatic “exposure” of the reds failed miserably as all the work- ers know that to distribute handbills is not illegal and that if the police really wanted to know who gave the youngsters the leaflets they could have found out at the mass protest meeting, many quarters that the government will submit a program calling for the expenditure of 335,000,000 yen (about $160,000,0009 on the navy. A bitter struggle is developing with- ing the cabinet between advocates of strict economy and the protagonists of a greater navy. The latter group, comprising high naval officers and the heads of the munition and steel indus- try, are utilizing the unsettled condi- tions in China and the increasing armaments of America to arouse sentiment in their favor, The “little navy” advocates, as the economists are dubbed by their opponents, point to the serious unemployment stuation in Japan and the general fear of dan- gerous complications in the imperial- istic maneuvers of the general staff in Manchuria. Meanwhile it becomes in- creasingly evident that the Washing- ton disarmament conference of 1922 has merely diverted the great powers from the building of useless bulks of battleships, easily destroyed with a few bombs dropped from airplanes, to the constructign of fleet commerce- destroying cruisers and submarines in particular, it Mussolini Fanatic Hangs Self in Her Night Dress (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Feb, 16—Countess Di Sera divorced wife of an Italian marchese and sister of the acress, Maria Orska killed herself last night after having been ousted from a night club by Ger- mans who were outraged by her pro- Italian sentiments. She was slater found clad only in her night dress, having hung herself with a curtain rope. The countess had met Musso. lini in Rome some time ago and was a most ardent admirer of the dictator. Use ‘Many Labels, ST, LOUIS-+(FP)—During 1925 the St. Louis bakers union used 120,358, 000 union labels, Secy. Grimm reports. Tho St. Louts;local has a membership of 1,500. Approximately 50 unem- Americans Safe, Cables Consul at Hankow WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. — The 26 Americans reported to have, been held captive by Chinese troops at Sinyang- chow are safe, according to a cable to the state department from J. C; Hous- ton, American consul at Hankow. This disposes of another effort to arouse feeling against the nationalist troops who were previously charged with having held them as hostages, To Populate Far East. MOSCOW, U.S. S. R.. Feb, 16—The Narcomzem expedition to the Far East has established that within the next ten years over a million people can be transferred to the Far East. A plan to upbuild the roads and rail- ways along the riverways of the southern parts of that country where vast timber lands are located, has al- ready been worked out. POEMS For Workers Edited by Manuel Gomez. A ‘collection of choice working class poetry in a handy pocket volume, Should be included in every worker’s library— and indispensible for re- citation and all working class affairs. No. 5 In THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY 10 CENTS Twelve Copies for One Dollar Daily Workers Publishing Co. ployed are provided for by assegs- ments upon working members, ¥ 1118 W, Washington Blvd, | Your Union Meeting Third Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1926. Name of Local and 0. Place of Meeting 38 Amalgamated Clothing 1864 N. Robey St. 79 B. & §. 1. W., Stone Derrick, 180 W. Washington St. Federation, 62nd and Workers, 131 Belt’ Line Halsted. ‘ 2 Brick and Clay, Village Hall, Lan- sing. 10 Carpenters, 12 Garfield Bivd. 21 Carpent Western and Lexing- ton 242 Carpenters, 5443 S. Ashland Ave. 250 Carpenters, Blacker’s Hall, Lake Forest. 643 Carpenters, 180 W. Washington St, 1693 Carpenters, 505 S. State St. s. 1638 N. Halsted St. Sec'y. 2253 race St. Irving 7597. Carpenters, 6414 S. Halsted St. Carpenters, 113 S. Ashland Blvd. Carvers (Wood), 1619 N. California. Conductors ie R.), 127 N. Fran- m, 1784 Carpenter: i Fehling. Rec. 4922 2289 293 cisco Av p.m. 798 Electricians, 127 N. Francisco Ave. 85 Engineers, . Chi., 11405 Michigan Avenue. 47 Firemen and Enginemen, Chicago Ave., 9:30 a. m. Firemen and Enginemen, Lake and Francisco, 9:30 a. m. Hod Carriers District Council, 814 W. Harrison St. 1 Janitors (Mun.), Kedzie and Bel- mont. Garment Workers, 328 W. 5 Ladies’ Van Buren St. 7429S. 366 sts, 818 W. 55th St. 478 s, 3802 W. Madison St. 830 8, 1182 Milwaukee Ave. 515 ice of Way, 5324 S. Hal- 23 Moulders, 2800 W. Madison St. Painters, Sherman and Main Sts., Evanton, iil. Painters, 180 W. Washington St. Painters, Moose Hall, La Grange. Painters, Odd Fellows Hall, Blue Island. Plasterers, 910 W. Monroe St. Poultry and Game, 200 Water St. Railway Clerks, 849 W. Washing- ton. Railroad’ Trainmen, 812 W. 59th St. Railroad Trainmen, 64th and Uni- versity. 73 Sheet Metal, 714 W. Harrison St. Teanaters (Soda), 220 S. Ashiand vd. Teamsters, 220 S. Ashland Bivd. Teamste 6359 S. Ashland Ave. Typographical, 5015 N. Clark St. 8 Wall Paper Crafts, Chicago and Western Aves. \Daily News Editor Shouts for League “And now for America’s entrance into the league of nations,” demanded Victor Yarros, editorial writer of the Chicago Daily News in an address to the League of Nations Nonpartisan Association of Illinois. His remarks were broadcast by radio. “Yes, we are conspiring for the entry of the United States not only into the world court but into the league itself. Our entry, with reservations, into the world court means very little in itself since it commits the country to noth- ing but payment of $50,000 a year dues, It is the league that is signifi- cant.” He argued that with Germany ap- plying for league membership the only nations of importance outside of the league are Turkey, Mexico, Rus- sia and the United States, that it is no longer a mere pro-ally affair, that it limits the occasions for. war and that. every act of the league and of its/| court has in his opinion been com- mendable and has injured no one. The 7,000,000 majority in the 1920 presidential election for Harding who denounced the Wilson league, does not matter, Yarros claimed, because the league was not really an issue. U. S. Prepares to Enter CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 16 — Ad-| miral Bristol, comamnder of the! American fleet in Near Eastern wat-| ers, will leave for Angora Saturday for a conference on questions in dis- | pute between the United States and Turkey, it was announced today. The Turkish government recently withdrew its heavy tariff directed against American products, grant- ing the United States a limited period in which to negotiate a new com- mercial treaty. Order a bundle of The DAILY | MILITANTS WAR ON REACTION IN WAITERS’ LOCAL Real Progressives Are Gaining Leadership NEW YORK, Feb. 16. — In the re cent elections for officers in Waiters’ Union Local No, 1 the members show= > ed an unusual radical change in their voting. Ever since the organization has been in existence, it has always been a custom of its leaders to put out a slate of candidates, for no other reason than that they were suitable to the leaders, upon which the leaders would be able to depend to raise and get others to raise their hands when- ever it was necessary for the machine to pull something thru over the wishes of the members, In this they have been successful for over 20 years. Then some few fluent speaking, so-called progressive gentlemen appeared on the scene and put up a fight against the old reaction- ary machine, and when a few of them had been elected to office, they shirked their duties and said, “let the members suffer if they don’t know a good thing when they see it.” All year round they did nothing, only agitating that until their entire slate is elected, the few officals were not in a position to remedy any of the evils, Organize Rank and File Committee But these poor excuses were 80 ap parently contemptible lies, that a few progressive members with Brother William Lipschitz at the head, organ ized a rank and file committee anc thru circulars gave them the He tc their face. Soon another election neared anc they began fearing that it might hur their opportunities for election of i full slate, 6o they began pleading wit! the rank and file committee that sine they broke the reactionary machin they still deserve the vote of th membership even tho they have ac mitted that they are not much bette: With their fluent and sentiments talks, they succeeded in making th rank and file committee say in on of their leaflets that these pretende progressives are a lesser evil, an their whole clique was elected to 0 fice. When elected, instead of killing r action and taking some progressi\ measures to cure the evils, they bege using the same old methods that the claimed at one time they were figh ing and all year round nothing wi done for the members. They soug thruout the entire year to discred the rank and file committee, At meee ings they never let them speak « anything of importance and when t committee protested they suspend: them from the meetings. The more progressive members the organization at this election sho ed their protest and threw out t majority of them and voted only f the half-progressive president— others were elected of the old bp chine. The niembers bore in mind t old saying: “Save me from my frien and I will take care of my enemies Old Parties Unite Against Militant In view of the fact that the ra and file committee had only limt resources for campaigning, their ¢ didates for the executive board dr an excellent vote. Both of the ot! parties carried on a bitter fi against the rank and file committe FOR RENT: Furnished Room Steam-heated, for 1 or 2. # No. Homan Ave. Phone Ked WORKER for every meeting of your union, “NEW YORK You're Daily ADMISSION IN CHICA FOURTH Admission 50 Cents in Advai Workers (Communist) 9537. WORKERS Invited! Work ) weter Concert Yorkville Casino, 86th St. and Third Ave, Sunday, February 21, at 2 P. M. International Artists. 60 CENTS. GO, ILL.! 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