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/ ( The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard Tor a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 39. Subscription Rates: BIG MILL AT PASSAIC JOINS THE TEXTILES 888 10,000 PACK EVERY Ave. <> ““ALL IN CITY By J. 0. BEN Z (Special to The Daily worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 24.—The Forstmann-Huffmann mill, mightiest of the remaining plants, came out this morning 3,000 strong as the picket line of 3,000 marched to the plant at 6:30. cheering and singing “Solidarity Forever.” As the long line of workers came to work the pickets called on them to turn away from the gates and join in the fight for justice in the textile industry. It was a dramatic moment when the first crowd stopped and hesitated, looked around at their fellows in the struggle, waited a moment, talked among them- sélves, and then making for the) picket line joined in the songs, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. UNION AGITATES EUROPEAN HEADS Economic Forces Seek to Erase Barriers (Special to The Dally Worker’ VIENNA, Feb. 24.—The violent con- troversy over South Tyrol is pushing the question of the political union of Austria and Germany again into the foreground. Economic reasons, partic- warly on the part of Austria, require such a solution of the difficult situa- tion in which that country has been placed by the peace treaty. The breakup of the old Austro-Hun- garian empire has reduced Austria to the position of a city state, deprived of its natural markets and raw re- sources, It is surrounded by the suc- cession republics-which are trying to utilize every opportunity to build themselves up at the expense of Austria. To Join the Zollverein. The breakdown of the tariff barriers which Germany has erected would bring a tremendous improvement, in- 4 more thai dustrialists believe. This would be Ss te ge ce several: hgudred pervert: and declaring for workers going back: Thie BUBB shop. ‘The. webby ot Sabet pricked by the | Were able to get to work at the 1917 speakers so often’ that the workers | ale was dragged out of the mines by It was |Dickets of union miners who marched Botany had to shut | ftom, the strongly unionized districts down and the latest mill to be struck | ‘© spread ‘the. union to the non-union complished by Austria becoming a ‘member of the Zollverein, the custom: umion which includes the other Ger- man states. Under the proposed plan, Austria would take her place among the federal states of the German re- public, with the same autonomy as Bavaria, for example. Fifty deputies would represent Austria in the Reichs- tag, half of whom would be christian socialists. This party holds the same principles as the center, or catholic party in Germany. It is neither chris- tian, however, nor socialist, but is really the political appendage of the vatican, ss In Germany only those who are working for the restoration of the Hohenzollerns are opposed, as that dynasty is Lutheran. The followers of the catholic Hapsburgs of Austria fight the union because it will destroy their chances of a restoration. Sanc- tion for the union must be obtained from the great powers, as the present status of Austria was established by the treaty of St. Germain. France is opposed naturally. Premier Mussolini has violently condemned the proposal but the Austrians believe he is mere- ly trying to bargain for his approval. Czecho-Slovakia is strongly opposed to the project fearing that Austria would become a powerful industrial rival, Rely on Chamberlain. Both Austrians and Germans are pinning their hopes to England’s an- ticipated sanction. Austen Chamber- Jain is conducting an extremely com- plicated game of international diplom- acy, all looking to the strengthening low workers, “Hold the Fort for We Are Coming.” Friends and neighbors in the textile district were in the two divisions that now became one, After the first group had swung into line the torrent of workers, men and women and many children under fourteen, came along without hesitation, grasping each other by the hand, women falling into each other’s arms singing and sobbing at once in the joy that they had chosen to make the cause of the strikers their own cause and unite in j this, the greatest of all conflicts that has ever taken place in the industrial life of the state. Bosses to Close Plants. The Forstmann-Huffmann mill em- Ployes 3,800 and all went out except some finishers who wanted to wind up their work in order to get their pay for partly-completed jobs. They will all come out tgmorrow. « The officials of the firm stated that they would close the plant as the Bo- tany and the Gera bosses have done. It is so difficult to get scabs and they cost so much that it does not pay in this case. The leadership has so thoroly educated the strikers that no matter how many scabs appear . to enter a mill the strikers understand that these go in at the front gate and then leave at a side door, making the rounds so that a gang of scabs. not ity-five or fifty show the’ bosses has been are fully-aware of the triek, for that reason the is not even attempting to fool the strikers, Hence the announcement that it will shut down entirely, Forstmann Bosses Ordered Attack. It was the Forstmann-Huffmann lords that ordered the local police | to make, the attack on the Ackerman Ave. bridge, where dozens of workers were beaten and knocked down. This stirred the strikers to greater deter- mination and from that day to this it was decided that the Forstmann-Huff- mann would be pulled down. It is down and the strikers are happy and the new recruits are more happy. Strikers Pack Halls. Yesterday at the strike meetings organizer Weisbord had annotnced (Continued on page 6) 1,400 GIRL MILL WORKERS STRIKE FOR $3°RAISE They Strike as Fathers Return to Work SCRANTON, Pa., Feb. 24.—(FP)— Japanese Engineer Lauds Managament of Soviet Railroads (Special to The Dally Worker) TIFLIS, U. S. S. R., Feb. 24.—The Japanese engineer Kanaki, the chief manager of the Japanese railways who took part in the international railway conference, was in studying the methods of management on the Soviet railways. M. Kanaki declared that altogether wrong opinions were current in Japan concerning the Russian railways. He had found the Russian railways bet- ter managed than was supposed in Japan. TROOPS READY TO SUPPRESS UNION MINERS Operators Want Re- turn to 1917 Scale BULLETIN (Special to The Daily Worker) EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb, 24 — Three companies of national guard troops are held in readiness in the armory here to aid the coal opera- tors in preventing the picketing of non-union mines by union miners. Two airplanes from the 113th air squadron at Kokomo are patroling the mine fields watching for further marches of the union miners, “2 © 4 EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb, 24—Work has been resumed at the non-union mines in Vanderburgh, Warrick and Gibson counties with the aid of scabs under protection of some companies of the Indiana national guard which arrived here yesterday. Six mines are hdisting coal, the first that has.. been produced since the union miners picketed the mines to unionize the scabs, The operators have been putting the mines in this district on a 1917 wage fields: The bringing in of the national guard is part of the operators’ scheme to drive the. union out of the field. It is reported that the union miners haye not. abandoned their campaign to organize the field. ‘He Had a Still, But Did He Use It?’ Stirs Washington’s Solemnity (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb, 24.— Observ- ance of Washington’s birthday here was marked by tumult and shouting, by hubbub and furore, and by the hurl- ing of verbal brickbats over prohibi- tion. The peace and sedate solemnity that for 127 years have marked the capital’s observance of the day was utterly shattered as proponents and opponents of the eighteenth amend- ment went to the mat over the per- sonal habits and private practices o the Master of Mount Vernon, 4 Still There’s the Still, In the turmoil, the policies for which Washington stood appeared to have been lost in the question as to whether or not the father of his coun- try kept a sill. He made and drank his own living,” declared the wets. “He was a believer in personal lib- of that country's position in Asia and Over 1,400 girl workers in the anthra- erty, and he was not a prohibition- as data | the Soviet Union, ~~ Wages Have Increased 23 Pct. in Soviet Union; Unemployment Lower VLADIVOSTOCK, U. 8. 8. R., Feb. 24.—The territorial congress of the trade unions has established, . that since last year wages have increased 23%, making the average wage 42 roubles @ month, against 32 roubles last year, With the rising of wages, the pro- duction has also increased, Unemployment has considerably de- creased, leaving practically no skilled workers among the unemployed, Passport Rules Bar Communist Travelers CAIRO, Feb, 24.—The directors of Publio: Security for Palestine, Syria, and Egypt at a meeting here have drafted passport regulations which will bar Communists from those eoun- tries, The regulations have been sub- mitted for approval to the various H., pects cite region silk mills are striking, while ist.”. “Even tho he kept a still, he Tiflis |. did believe in prohibition,” retorded thers, brothers go back in- od Pipe er thelr five and a|the drys. “He discharged a division half months’ fight. The girls protest |°°™mander in the continental army iserable wages they|{r drinking, and he had soldiers nec tae cgi akoneaihe'o— 34 whipped for drunkenness,” Last June the girls struck demand- ing $3 increases over thuir average Russian Engineers Go to Japan to Study weekly wage of $12. “They were then poorly organized and the impending Factory Construction VLADIVOSTOCK, U. 8:8. R., Feb anthracite strike sent them back to the mills after a hard fight which did not bring them all they wanted. The maximum wage since their summer} , strike has been $15 with girls aver- aging $8.50 as the season slowed, The girls striking at Century Throwing Co., owned by a Paterson, N, J., silk firm, were given a $2 wage cut, altho the Paterson workers organized in the Associated Silk Workers get a third to a half more pay than the an- thracite region workers, Most of the girls are strikers from Leon-Ferenbach Silk Co, They com- lain that speeding up of machines ree their ciratigy fe oe fon to (Speciat_te The Dally Worker) the product, The United» Textile| LONDON, Feb. 24.—A bill has been workers have been organizing the | introduced in parliament 2 authorize girls, There are several thousand silk | local authorities to expend mandy. on workers in these anthracite valleys, |the preparation of birth control infor- 5,000 employed at Shamokin by ©, K. |mation’ and its dissemination, .Mem- Eagle & Co, alone when busy, During | bers bt'all three parties, labor, liberal, the winter the silk mille were not /atid tory, will support it and speak for working full time, spy ah priors sa ont “nh ns) %, ' left from Vladivestock for an excur- sion to Japan, where they will in- spect Japanese factories and port con- structions. From Japan the members of the excursion intend to proceed to China, They All Want Birth ~ Control Information 24.—A group of Russian engineers has. ALT HEAD FURRIERS’ ON INN. Y. ee Beat Up Strike Leaders “A, L. SUSKIN, ito The Daily Worker) RK, Feb. 24 — While thousands ‘fur workers turned out in the fi iss picketing demonstra- tion Monday morning to show their solidarity far a determined fight to win their d@mands, Benjamin Gold, who is thé Chairman of the present strike committee, and Jack Skolnick, chairman Of} Manhattan Lyceum, lead- irs in the demonstration, the face and body with is by the police, who sted Skolnick on a irderly conduct. fact that Monday was a legal hol the streets were jam- med with kets, workers who are ready to sacrifice their lives if neces- sary to win their demands for better NEW * fists and afterward charge of Despite living con ms, for a higher stand- ard. After picketing about 3 hours the workers formed into line and the fur district with id and Aaron Gross at the head line that reached from 6th to 7th 4 Despite the fact that the police tried to break up the march- ing line violence and force the workers croged in solid ranks, and marched down to the halls, rs’ Demands: s have submitted the fol- marched Benjamin | 3. Unemployment insurance fund to be paid by the manufacturers, The bosses feel that the workers mean busir ‘and are determined to fight for mands they have sub- mitted. Out Scabbery. Wer et the Post Office at Chicago, Ilinois, under the Act of March 3, 187% FEBRUARY 26, 1926 Publis PUBL »"” British Government Under Fire for Failute to Aid Countess Vera LONDON, Feb, 24 — The British government was subjected to heavy fire in the house of commons tis afternoon, for its failure to act in the banning of Vera Countess of Cathcart from the United States, Sir Austin Chamberlain, foreign minister, declared Great Britain will not intervene in the case, will not attempt reprisals and will not. ask the United States to enter an agree- ment for reciprocal action whereby the granting of a visa by a consul will be tentamount to a guarantee that the’ holder of the visa will be granted ad- mittance at_the port of entry. CAL’S CABINET UNDER FIRE ON SENATE FLOOR Demand Prosecution of Mellon’s Trust (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. — Two members of President Coolidge’s cabi- net were under fire in the senate when debate was resumed on the Walsh report, criticizing the depart- ment of justice for failing to prose- cute the Mellon-owned Aluminum company of America on a charge of violating the anti-trust laws, While a coalition of democrats and progressives drove their attack osten- sibly at Attorney General John S§. Sar- gent, their real objective was also Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. !Mellon. By revealing Sargent’s al- leged weakness as a prosecutor, the coalition hoped to pave the way for |the employment of special govern- ment counsel to hale the Mellon con- cern into court. The movement turned the adminis- k since the work-| was the administration viewpoint that the fur where they. ‘subject to all kinds of diseases fromthe cheap dyes and dust of the pelts. They have shown their ability to smash 75 scab nests and within a week or so will drive the rest of the scabs out of business, The workers are full of enthusiasm as no strikers:have betn before. They are hopeful of winning the strike in record-breaking time. SOCIETY MORONS VIEW NAKED GIRL BATHE IN WINE Blase Broadway Jolted by Debauchery (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Broadway, which has been treated to many sights by the depraved morons that infest its lights, was given a jolt when Earl Carroll, theater magnate, held a par- ty at his playhouse in which over 300 men and women viewed a naked girl bathing in a bath-tub filled with costly wines and champagne. “That's Too Raw!” The men were told to line-up and as they passed the tub, chuckling with glee, the naked- chorus dancer ladled out some of thewine to them. Harry K. Thaw and Countess Vera Cathcart were among thé’ guests at this affair. Irwin 8. Cobb; newspaper writer who was among those that viewed the nude chorus girl, remarked to Harry K. Thaw, “That’s too raw!” Two jazz orchestras played thru- out the night while the guests pranc- ed around the floor. Heightoof Debauchery. This party bas thrown into the shade the historic Seeley dinner at Sherry’s in 189% when “Little Egypt” danced upon the tables of the assem- bled morons in m costume of nothing at all. Thaw's presence at the party re- called the Garden of Eden party giv- en by Stanford White, whom Thaw later shot and killed, At the White party a girl stepped from a huge pie dressed as Eve. The party dimmed all previous “wild parties” in the white or red light dis- trict. Besides the girl-in-the-bath- tub feature, there was a Charleston contest, informal speeches and much drinking at an old-fashioned bar set The guests had to sign away their rights for any claims for damages for “anything that might happen to them” special prosecutions and senatorial in- better vestigations must be stopped once and for all, or the” will be forever forced to step aside when their ‘actions displease con- gress. Instead of merely advocating a sen- atorial investigation of the Aluminum company, as recommended by a ma- jority of the senate judiciary commit- tee, the democrats rallied around the proposal of Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, the minority leader, that a resolution should be adopted directing President Coolidge to name two spe- cial prosecutors to initiate ‘proceed- ings against the. Mellon concern. Senator Cummin, republican, of Towa, charged this would be tanta- mount to removing the attorney,gen- eral from office. Sen. Borah Enters Fight on Italian aaa WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 —(FP)— Sen. Borah, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, has come into the open as a foe of the Italian debt settlement negotiated by Mellon, Kellogg, Hoover and Smoot. He has even gone into a conference on the subject with a dozen democratic sen- ators, including Walsh and Reed. They frankly declared their intention to de- feat the ratification of the pact if they can. Borah returns to his earlier posi- tion, that no settlement ought to be made on terms more favorable than those granted to Great Britain, unless the United States desires to offer to the French a virtual cancellation of their $4,000,000,000 obligation, Reed will “emphasize America’s responsibili- ty alike to refrain from giving finan- cial encouragement to the Mussolini despotism, and to give equal justice to all creditors, Resolutions, letters and telegrams opposing the settlement are reaching scores of senators from all sections of the country. Slave Driver Says British Contractors Pay Coolies Too Much SINGAPORE, (By Mail.)—Sir Ivor Phillips, K, C. B., chairman of the Singapore United Rubber Plantations Co., Ltd, complained at the stock- holders meeting that as a result of the British contractors in charge of the construction of the huge naval base here paying above the current wage for native labor in order to hur- ry the work, coolies on the corpora- tion’s plantations are quitting. The chairman declared dolefully that the company would sooner or later have at the party .before the debauchery to theet the scale thus established, started, Get your tickets now for the Inte national concertrof the T. U. E. Sat. March 13) at 8th St, Theat “Me stockholders adopted, a resolu- rte anagmercgy demanding a reduc- joi ‘of wages on the , government “weik. ‘The Plantations Co. dividends rs about 17% per cent, NEW YORK EDITION t hed Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER ISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il OLD LAW ASSAILED AS “BLASPHEMY’ CASE OPENS; FIRST WITNESS GETS CAUGHT TELLING LIE Ii COURT By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, (Special to The Daily Worker) COURT HOUSE, BROCKTON, Mass., Feb. 24.—The thin thread by which the so-called commonwealth of Massachusetts |is trying to hang charges of blasphemy and sedition on Anthony |Bimba, editor of the Laisve, Lithuanian Communist daily of Brooklyn, New York, was revealed in the attack against the | testimony of the state’s star witness, Anthony W. Eudaco, a shoe worker in the plant of the Douglas Shoe Company that has con- tributed money in support of the prosecution. Under cross-examination by Bimba’s attorney, Harry Hoff- man, Eudaco, who professed to be shocked at Bimba’s state- ments about the non-existence of god, admitted that he did not Price 3 Cents Debt Settlement | now belong to any church. But the presiding justice, C. question. After denying that he had ever be- flonged to any radical organization, |Eudaco was forced to admit that he ‘had acted as treasurer one evening at a meeting to e funds for the defense of William Foster in the Michigan case. It was very apparent jthat he is now more interested in a jlawsuit he has started against the Lithuanian National Hall, where Bimba made his alleged ungodly and seditious speech under the auspices of the American Lithuanian Educational and Literary |than he is in protecting Massachu- \setts against alleged seditious utter- jances. | Case Is Flimsy. Im fact the case is so flimsy that |Judge King, in rendering his decision jon the motions of Attorney Hoffntan {to drop both charges, made excellent arguments why the case should be thrown out of court. Judge King, however, decided to go on with the jease, trying both charges at once and loverruling Attorney Hoffman's de- |mand that the charges be dismissed. | tration forces into a“fighting group.’ It | Following an enthusiastic mass meeting last night in the Labor Ly- \ceum, the court house was crowded \this morning with eager spectators ing the opening ‘of the trial. Only a few could be admitted to the small courtroom in addition to the }score of newspapermen and many witnesses. . David E. Noonan, a dejected look- ing human being, led a procession of jhalf a dozen drunks, haled before the jcourt before the Bimba case was jealled. Noonan received a $5 fine. yOther cases were continued. Bimba arrived early, lingering for a time at the entrance to the court- house, meeting many of his comrades. On entering the court room he was immediately directed by court attend- ants to the prisoners’ dock, sitting apart from his lawyers. Assails Ancient Law. (Continued on page 2.) PLAN STEAL OF $100,000 FROM INDIAN FUNDS Govt. Official Demands Looting of Navajos WASHINGTON, Feb, 24 — (FP) — Whether the senate and house confer- ees on the urgent deficiency appro- priation bill will grant or reject the demand of Commissioner Burke of the Indian Office that $100,000 of tye tribal funds of the/Navajo Indians in Ari- zona be taken, for a bridge which the Indians ‘will never use, is to be de- cided within a few days. The item voted by the house and rejected by the senate 4s ‘one providing that the $100,000 be taken from ‘the tribal funds to pay half the cost of a bridge over the Colorado River near Lee's Ferry. This ‘point is some 50 miles from any considerable settlement of the Indians, and in the opposite direc- tion from their lines’ of travel to market. John Collier, executive secretary of the Indian Defense Association, has is- sued a circular telling the story of | this attempted steal. He quotes u let- |ter written by Burke to the Navajo | tribal council last July, wherein Burke |told the Indians thef¥ ought to use | their money for water and implements |and for improving their sheep breeds, but saying that of course congress had |final power over the use of their funds, Yet he knew that Secretary Work, his chief, had persuaded the | house to pass the bridge bill, claiming |that the bridge was important to the | progress of the Indians, Collier shows that $90,000,000 of Indian tw are now at the disposal of congress, and that if the Indian bureau is. able to ‘cheat’ the Navajo (tribe of this»$100,000 there will be no safety for any of the ‘other trust funds. stating he need not answer mer Workers’ | Society, ; Attorney Hoffman, arguing for the | “When did you last go to church?” asked Attorney Hoffman. C. King, came to his assistar ‘MINER IS FREED _ AFTER 5-YEAR INTENSE FIGHT Union Coaldigger Gains His Liberty By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press. | HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Feb. 24— J. C, Me , Mingo county miner, is free again, and home with his wife and seven children, at the close of a five- year conspiracy against his liberty by the coal operators of that county, The case began in May, 1921, with his ar- Test on a charge of shooting Squire |Harry Staten of Sprigg during the {1921 strike, and it closed here in Huntington when the fourth jury that has tried him for murder freed him af- |ter two minutes of deliberation. Twice McCoy was convicted in the operator-controlled courtssin William- son, At the time of the first trial. September, 1921, the county was un- der martial law and the courtroom full Of ‘atmed ‘meh. Twice he went to the penitentiary at Moundsville to serve 99 years and twice came out again on writs of error. The third trial took place in Huntington on a change of venue and brought a hung jury— nine to three for acquittal. The fourth has just closed. It was a class conspiracy thruout, John S. Marcum, 74-year old attorney for the Mingo coal operators, served as special prosecutor at the fourth trial as he did at the first. His shaven, wrinkled head bobbed aggressively as |he rasped out the usual openshop cant about lawless unionism. But the coal operators were unfortu- nate in their witnesses. Some testi- fied that McCoy had been firing from a railroad switch-stand; others as positively declared that it was nearly a hundreds yards away by a store. And defense attorneys proved con- clusively that it would have been im- possible to see the victim from the place named. There was further proof by the defense that McCoy had not done any firing and that the only» overt act he had committed was to loyally aid the strike and relief pro- gram of his union. Bratiano Will Soon ye Have an Opposition LONDON, Feb. 24 — Prince Carol's sudden-departure for Paris from Milan is causing belief that the prince had left to consult with leaders of the op position party in Roumania regard- ing his return to, Bucharest, COMRADE GRISCHUK Comrade Joseph Grischuk, former member of the Russian district com- mittee of Chicago, died in Los) An- geles, Cal., Feb, 21, according to a telegram received from comrades of Los Angeles. Comrade Grischuk came to the United States in 1913 from the open wide plains of Volynia, A son of the fields and forests, he was suffocating in the shops and fac- | tories. He became a victim of the | white plague—tuberculosis, Altho sick | he continued actively to work in the labor movement. When the party was driven under ground he remained at his post, con- tinuing to work under the name of Smith, He was a capable speaker and used to go out to the branches in the dis trict to speak. For the last two years he was too sick to work and went to a sanitarium in Los Angeles where he remained un- il his death on Feb, 21, The Russian section of the Work- money to the comrades in Los Angeles to help cover the funeral expense, ers Party of Chicago wired some - : arenas amegutiedafbetian + necmeabat = i = Oe _—