The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1926, Page 2

Page Two COOLIDGE BLOC FEARS DEFEAT Los Angeles Bosses Fear Strikers (Continued from Page 1) | February she and the children are construction industry of the city may | likely to be out on the street in know the position of the exchange we | March. THE DAIBY WORKER ITALIAN RULER GAGS PRESS BY The Treason of the Nine! Shoemakers of Brockton |reaffirm our commitment to the Amer-| The Times in this way serves notice Jican plan, open-shop policy of dealing |” the strikers that such orders have | with labor. | been already given to the local bank- | ers with whom their bungalows are Cal Desperate to Keep Majority in Senate In its desperation to maintain a ma- jority at all costs, the Coolidge admin- istration is allowing its backers to declare that they voted for the world court because it was a party platform and that they were ready to fight the world court In order to get the nom- inations in the republican primaries this spring. William B. McKinley, traction mag- nate, who is seeking the republican party re-nomination for the United Staes senate has intimated that he supported the world court because it | was part of the party platform and that he hopes that he will have a hand in changing the policy of the party so that he can fight just as enthus!- astically against the world court as he did for it. This move on the part of McKinley is to keep himself in the senate. He is willing to make these promises and the Coolidge machine is sanctioning this attitude in an at- tempt to keep its majority for the reactionary administration measures. “It’s Only a Promise.” The machine regards these promis- es as nothing more than vote catch- ers and after the elections the sena tors have six years in which they can back all of the administration policies and pursue the policies they declared they were willing to scrap. This frantic effort on the part of McKinléy comes immediately after the opening of a national drive by Borah and other opponents of the world court on those senators who were the enthusiastic backers of the Morgan policy. Borah and Reed have spoken in Chicagn at the Coliseum} and on the radio. This has McKinley scared and the administration in Washington fears that if McKinley is defeated in the primaries on the world court issue it will have its harmful effects on the Coolidge bloc in the senate. Hoover to Come to Chicago. McKinley is trying to get the sup- port of the Crowe-Barrett machine in his fight. MeKinley has also sent an urgent message to Coolidge to send some strong administration speaker to Chicago to counteract the effects of the speeches of Borah and Reed. ‘This maneuver on the part of McKin- ley has met with theqannouncement that Borah will stump Illinois for Frank L. Smith. Herbert Hoover, se- cretary of commerce, is scheduled to come to Chicago in the near future to present the administration’s point of view. Smith Aids Rall Interests. At present the Crowe-Barrett com- bination is pushing the candidacy of Frank L. Smith, head of the Illinois commerce commission, which has Played to the railroad interests of the state. While head of the [Illinois commerce commission, Smith has done nothing to abolish “death crossings” that are a constant menace to the lives of workers who must use these crossings in going to and from work. Every act of the commission has been more or less the white-washing of the accidents that have occurred and at- jusing the very same opportunity to “Everywhere thru the United States the sympathetic strike, such as the} brick masons in Los Angeles are now carrying on, is looked on as one of the most contemptible and vicious instru-| ments of organized labor radicals, “The brick masons leaders have or- dered them on strike, a sympathetic strike, in an effort to assist the marble and tile journeymen’s bosses in for- cing marble and tile contractors to close their jobs against all but union- ized workmen.” In denouncing the sympathy strike of the workers the scabby Times is organize and to still more consolidate the brutal forces of the bosses. It violently agitates for and threatens with the use of the sympathy strike or organized capital under the head of the chamber of commerce the life of labors’ organizations, It sounds the alarm that: “They (The Builders’ Exchange) must not be left to fight our battle alone. To their right already stands the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association and to their left the cham- ber of commerce. These two organ- izations have already passed resolu- tions strongly condemning the attempt of the labor unions to cripple indus- try and to open our gates to the wolves of hunger and distress thru the sympathetic strike.” To Forclose Mortgages on Homes. The Times threatens the strikers that: “The wife and mother knows what it means when the instalment of the bungalow cannot be paid because her man is out on strike. She real- izes that if he is out om the street because of the sympathetic strike in mortgaged. It continues to frighten the strikers that: “The places vacated ‘will be fill- ed by other men. That has taken place in every strike here that lasted more than a few days in the last twenty years, “Free industry f2 Los Angeles is constantly recruited by skilled work- men from other parts of the country who have refused longer to wear the chains of industrial slavery, Thy learned that in Los Angeles industry is free, that men work here without paying tribute to a labor union boss and they tear up their union cards, board a train or drive their own car to Los Angeles and prove valuable re- cruits to our industry.” Fear Labor Unity, The Times is in a rage as its agents on the inside have made a bad job. They are determined not to allow such a dangerous precedent as the sym- pathy strike to be set, This precedent sets an example of labor unity which puts fear in the scabby hearts of the enemies of labor. That is why they are screaming so loudly, That is why they are hastily calling together their black forces, This danger signal of our enemy should help the toiling masses of Los Angeles to build up and to consolidate their own fighting forces. The work- ers all over the country should also take notice. Beware of the paid pub- licity in your local newspapers about the immaginary blessings of Califor- nia. You are being trapped by the scab agencies of the Los Angeles chamber of commerce into ‘the bread lines of the local salvation army, Watch your step. MUSSOLINI MUST GET OUT, SAYS U, S, REACTIONARY Conservative Attorney Denounces Him (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 1.—That a con- siderable section of the American bourgeoisie believe that Mussolini is sO great a danger to the world that he should be removed from power is a logical inference in considering the significance of George W. Wickers- ham’s speech at the Harvard Club of this city. Wickersham himself stated that this must be done, and soon. The meeting was held under the auspices of the commission on inter- national justice and goodwill of the Federal Council of churches of Amer- ica, Wickersham is one of the lead- ing corporation lawyers in the coun- try and has long been a prominent republican. He is the American mem- ber of the “commission-of fifteen for of international jurisprudence. state of absolute tyranny reigns over tempts to aid the railroads to disre- gard safety precautions. If you want to thoroughly un- deistand Communism--study it. The principles of our of freedom of speech and of freedom of the press. The lives of every one are under the supervision of a vi- gilante type of government.” A Communist Classic The Theory and Practice of LENINISM by I. STALIN Italy under his dictatorship,” he said.} >, “There has been an utter destruction bi FURSHOP BOSSES FAIL TO PROCURE STRIKEBREAKERS Strikers Daly | Police and Gunmen (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 1—The manufac- turers of the tur industry are panic stricken at the militant spirit of the workers, and the hope they would eas- ily secure scabs has been smashed for no scabs are to be gotten. The scab- bing corporations on which they de- pended are all going to smash and out of business. The bosses are now re- sorting to other means to fight the workers. The whole police force is in the service of the bosses, beating and clubbing the workers on picket line. They are not satisfied with the serv- ants of the bosses, the police, but they are also hiring thugs and gangsters for subduing the workers. Fur District Armed Camp. When one walks thru the fur dis- the codification of international law,” ie he ome A a irrogtard tor to wipe out not only what little which was appointed by the league of | S°°XS 0m horses and automobiles load- ed with police and here and there a nations to lay the basis for a a4 patrol wagon all ready to serve the bosses. Not only do the bosses make the T district a camp of police and thugs, ut these henchmen of the bosses pull workers into the halls of buildings and without cause or reason beat and club the workers. Batches of 15 and 20 workers are grabbed, piled in a patrol wagon like sheep and thrown into jail without any cause or reason. In the last raid that the police made on the furriers, 50 workers were ar-|‘°¢ Talds on their printing plants| rested for no reason at all and when they were brot before the judge he without any possible legal redress. did not have the nerve to convict the workers on the fabricated charges the police made and the strikers were dis- charged. Workers Insist on Demands. The fur workers realize that these are the methods the bosses are using to force them back to work. The strikers are determined that neither the police, hired thugs nor all the other black elements hired by bosses to subdue the workers will drive them back to work under the conditions that have existed for the past few years but will fight for the demands they have submitted to the bosses. Phe fur workers demand: Equal divis- ion of work; no discharge, 40-hour week and unemployment insurance, paid by the manufacturer. Newberry Co-operative |Grew Out of Nationalism LEGISLATION New Law Destroys All Freedom of Speech (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Mar. 1.— The press act, passed by the last chamber of deputies at the command’ of Mussolini, gives the dictator absolute and unlimited} control of all newspapers and period- leals published im italy. It is worth the attention of workers all over the world as an example of what they will be confronted with! as the present sys- tem breaks down ‘and the need of the ruling cla for the most rigorous measures of suppression become more pressing, f The act stipulatés that every news- paper or periodical ‘must have a re- sponsible snr} f the manager is a parliamentary deputy or senator, the responsibility chief editors, Before they can enter upon their duties, responsible man- agers or editors must provide them- selves with an authority from the at- torney-general at.the court appeal under whose jurisdiction the paper is being published, ‘This authority can be refused or revoked if the journal- ists in question have twice been pun- ished for journalistic offenses. Pub- lication cannot take place until the ‘eat leader—his contribution to Backs War on Fascism (Special to The Daily Worker) NEWBERRY, Mich., March 1 — The Cooperative Association of this place has passed a resolution approving the protest of the International Co-oper- ative Alliance against the attacks of Communist theory—his service to the world Commu- nist movement— All,these are the subject of this booklet, written by a close co-worker of LENIN and the present secretary of the Russian Communist Party. It is one of those splen- did contributions sure to remain a classic of Communist the fascisti government of Italy upon the co-operatives of that country. The proposal of the Red International of Labor Unions for a joint conference of the Amsterdam Intornational Fed- eration of Trade Unions, the Interna- tional Co-operative Alliance, and itself literature, 35 Cents Endurable Duroflex Binding DAILY WORKER PUBL. CO. to formulate common means of fight- ing fascism was endorsed, The local association is a member of the Co-operative League of Amer- ica, It manages a general merchan- dising store here, A Send in that ek? vy 1113 W. Washington Bivd, Chicago, Illinois, authority hag been given, List of Owners, The publisher must submit a com- plete list of the proprietors of the Paper, together with’his request for the recognition of the responsible man- ager or editor. The, proprietors are liable for the payment of any dam- ages or legal costs consequent upon or arising out of a conviction for a journalistic offense..,The machinery, type and installations of the printing shop must stand as surety for these Payments. The proprietors can free themselves from this liability by de- positing as security asum to be fixed every year ,according to the circum- stances, by the president of the court in the district in qdéstion, Order of Journalists, While it might be thought that these provisions are sufficiently rigorous to give Mussolini control, a further ex- tension of his power is to be found in the next to the last clause of the bill which establishes @n“'Order of joarnal- ists.” This order ig to draw up a list of those who in its. opinion are en- titled to write for,and manage the press and magazines,. Upon the filing of this roll at the,schancery of the court of appeal, the Jaw provides that “The exercise of the profession of| journalist shall only:be permitted to those persons whose names are in- scribed on this roll, «<A special regula- tion shall establish the terms for such inscription.” F To Wipe OutOpposition. This measure will’ enable the dicta- is left of the antifascist press but as well the papers which maintain neutrality politically. The recent change in the ownership of the two great bourgeois opposition Papers, the Stampa and the Corriere della Sera, is believed due to the new law. The difficulties of the labor press are tremendously increased, Unless these papers are to be mere echoes of the fascist movement—and in that case they wiil, of course, be worse than useless to the workers—they will) and physical assaults on their staff An underground press is certain to appear, te —— Get your tickets mow for the Inter. national concert of the T. U. E, Ly Sat., March 13, at \8th St, Theater. Merrick Casé Before Supreme Court Today par is“ (1. L. D. News Service.) HAVERHILL, Miiss., Mar, 1—The case of John Merfick, framed-up by the shop manufacthrers for his mill- tant activity on ai! absurd charge of attempted dynamfting three years ago, comes up agwin in the supreme court tomorrow. ‘1 The powerful iffterests which suc- ceeded in framingtitp Merrick for his Activities on behalf of the shoe work- ers of this sectio# have hundreds of thousands of dollars at their com- mand, while the defense, thru the tre- mendous expenses involved in expos- ing the frame-up and arranging for an appeal to the supreme court, is practically financially exhausted and is calling for aid, The International Labor Defense, 23 South Lincoln St., Chicago, which is aiding in the defense, appeals to all workers and progressives in the country to come to the aid of the Merrick defense immediately. This ts a case Very much similar to the Mooney frame-up, and there is a dan- ger that the outcome will be the same unless ald is giyen swiftly. Like Mooney, Merrick has been very active in behalf of orgapized labor, and like the San Francisg@ labor leader, Mer- rick is charged with dynamiting, a charge which wag; successfully expos- ed as a tissue during the first trial. ‘alls on one of the|_ By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. | PICK up another “latest edition” of one of the many Boston papers that pour in endless streams into Brock- ton, almost to the exclusion of the local kept press. The first sentence that strikes my eye on a page almost fully devoted to the Bimba trial reads as follows: “Yes, he agitated for the people to organize.” * * ® * It was the witness John Balonis talking, Balonis, the renegade socialist! Balonis, the fear-numbed shoeworker! Balonis, who clings desperately to his job in the William L. Douglas Shoe Company's plant! Balonis, the stool pigeon of his employers! Balonis, who has been in the United States for 19 years, but who has worked for his boss so hard that he hasn't even had time to learn the English language, and must depend on an interpreter to give his testimony in court! Balonis, who is a citizen of the American capitalist republic because he took out his first papers and then fought in one of Wall Street’s wars. This was but one sample of the nine spineless and spiritless workers that the Massachusetts prosecutor used in trying to convict Bimba of his real crime, in the words of Balonis: “Yes, he agitated for the people to organize!” ? * * * Any criminal charge is good enough as an excuse to put the agitator who dares urge the workers to organize behind prison bars. They charged that Sacco and Vanzetti were payroll bandits. They framed up a charge of murder against them. After years of imprisonment, Sacco and Vanzetti still stand before the electric chair in this state, because they dared agitate for the workers to organize. The case of Merrick is to be called again this week. Mer- tick dared to agitate for the organization of the shoe work- ers of Haverhill, not far away. He also was framed. * * * * The nine slaves of the shoe factories of Brockton, the witnesses of the capitalist state, said that Anthony Bimba, the Communist editor of the Lithuanian daily, Laisve, of Brooklyn, N. Y., had come among them telling of the condi- tions in the factories of other cities he had visited. At Haverhill, where the law took Merrick, Bimba had seen the workers afraid to take their eyes off the machines lest.they lose a few moments in their frantic piece-work struggle to earn enough to keep alive. At Lawrence, where the workers have rebelled time and again and been defeated, he found labor now doing more than three times as much work for less pay than it had pre- viously received. In the mills at Wilmington he had learned that Lithuani- an women were beaten by the bosses in the mills. *. . * * The nine Lithuanian shoe workers heard Bimba tell all this in his speech at the Lithuanian National Hall, in Brock- ton, Tuesday night, Jan. 26th. But their class spirit was so dead that the peproitted themselves to become in the days immediately fol lowing the catspaw of the mill owners’ offi- cial prosecutors, who dragged out a law 299 years old en- acted to protect the orthodox god of the puritans from the attacks. of unbelievers, as a camouflage for imprisoning the Communist agitator of the year 1926. Some of them had been touched by a spark of the revo- lution. They had belonged to the socialist party in the days before the war. Balonis had marched in an International May Day parade in Brockton in 1916, But the triumph of the Russian workers and peasants has not only left them indifferent, but active champions of the white terror’s reaction in Lithuania and of the American capitalist rule under which they now live. * * * * The answer is simple. They are Lithuanian nationalists to the core, these nine shoe workers, some of whom paraded for but a short time as class conscious workers, who would now rather support the clerical-socialist terror regime in Lithuania than see a Soviet republic established; who run to aid the mill owners’ capitalist state when they hear that a Communist agitator is abroad among the workers, * * ” * The story of these nine Lithuanian shoe workers of Brockton teaches the lesson that the chains of nationalism must be struck completely from the limbs of labor before the working class can struggle effectively for its liberation. Nationalism must be rooted out. Internationalism must be planted in the minds of the workers and caused to grow there instead. Nine reasons are Anthony W. Eudaco, George A. Samp- son, John Balones, Joseph Trainowicz, Frank Alusow, Carl Pigoga, John David, Mike Uzdavinis and William Sharkus, the nine Lithuanian shoe workers of Brockton, Mass., who donned the hideous mask of treason to their class in the trial of the man of whom it was said: “HE AGITATED FOR THE PEOPLE TO ORGANIZE!” 300 Cossacks Recruited to Assail Mill Workers on Strike in Passaic He was a model mayor. It would be hard to find his equal. For a rub- berstamp the bosses knew what they did when they got him. Threaten Strike Pickets, The police commissioner sat at his side and when the conference came to an end he told the strikers that there would be no more picketing except as he should direct. He informed the committee that he had scoured the country and that he had secured 300 (Continued from Page 1) became unendurable and for them to so back to the same condition would be utterly impossible.” Ideal Rubberstamp, The mayor did not know that there | EASTERN OHIO CONFERENCE OF YOUTH SUCCESS (Continued from Page 1) ting from 2 to 7 cents more, The sanitary conditions there were hor- rible and ‘on top of all the speed up system had been introduced so that instead of lids being turned out at the rate of 95 they are now forced to turn them out at the rate of 125, Another delegate from the enamel works in Bellaire told of the girls get- ting only 24 cents an hour, working some 60 hours a week thus making a total of the magnificent wage of $12 a week. It was no wonder, therefore, that many of the girls are driven to lives of shame. In this plant, the sinks are so rusty that the girls can- not wash their hands before lunch because of the filthiness of the water. Boys Work for Half Wages. The young miners reported one in- stance after another of discrimination again the youth, Where young greas- ers and couplers, who were doing the work of men, received only $4.00 a day, the men would get practically $700 a day. Boys are often obliged to set posts at 7 cents each, a job which should be done by the day man who gets 7% cents per post and can work swiftly enough to make a fairly decent wage—something which the in- experience of the boy prevents him. from making. Slate pickers and trappers are reg- ularly discriminated against not only by the coal operators but also by the union, which provides for less wages for equal work in the contract with the bosses, Story after story was told of the life of the young workers in industry and the buffeting from pillar to post between the capitalist who knows how to take advantage of the young workers, and the adult workers who are too shortsighted to see the harm which is being done to their whole class by their attitude of superiority and carelessness. The resolutions committee of the conference introduced a number of re- solutions. One resolution endorsed the labor party and called upon the trade unions to form one. A resolu- tion was unanimously adopted endors- ing the International Labor Defense and calling for the release of all the Moundsville prisoners. A resolution of demands for the young workers of Eastern Ohio, containing detailed points, was adopted and a motion ac- cepted to have it printed in leaflet form for distribution to the young workers of the entire section, Against Militarism, A resolution against the Citizens || Military Training Camps was passed with enthusiasm, after one of the delegates who had attended the camps last year, arose and pointed out its basically capitalist and anti-labor character. A resolution which was also un- animously adopted called upon the Young Workers League to carry on further the work of rallying the young workers to the support of the confer- ence program, and endorsing the Young Worker, official organ of the league, as the only paper which re- presented the real interests of the working class youth of the country, The conference ended with enthu- siasm, the delegates pledging them- selves to return to their respective localities and work with greater energy than ever before for the car- trying on of the work, N. Y. Labor Council Elects Joseph Ryan Tammanyite Lackey NEW YORK CITY, March 1 — Jos- eph Ryan, vice president of the Inter- national Longshoremans’ Association, has been elected president of the New York Central Trades and Labor Coun- cil at its meeting, succeeding John Sullivan who has been elevated to the presidency of the New York State Federation of Labor, replacing James P, Holland, who has obtained a politic- al plum from Mayor Walker, that of commissioner of the board of stand- ards and appeal Ryan was placed in nomination by John Mulholland, who had also been nominated earlier by Delegate Curtis, but had declined, stating that his con- nections with the Federation Bank were of such importance, that he had to refuse, Curtis in nominating Mul- holand said that he is “not only)! famous in the field of labor, but also as a banker, We are proud of him, we had been wage cuts, that there had been a committee sent to the bosses and that over thirty in that committee had been fired point blank as soon as they appeared before the bosses. He did not know the name of the commit- tee or the union conducting the strike. He had not taken enough interest in the progress of the strike to know horses for the police and that there would be no intimidation allowed by the strikers, They would be ridaen down and law and order would be maintained if he had to shoot every peaceful worker in the whole blasted town, Weisbord replied that he would hold the police commissioner responsible who were supposed to know nothing. of bankin, i ¥ * An amusing incident connected Ryan’s election as president was the chairman, Sullivan, forgot to take a vote; giving the chair over to Ryan quickly that the delegates did not realize what had taken place until a delegate named Cohen called to the at what the demands were, He did not know what cellective bargaining meant. He did not know that in Germany and Czecho-Slovakia the Forstmann-Huffmann company has to deal with the union and submit to the principle of collective bargaining, He for any violence and that there would be 3,000 pickets on the line to meet his cossacks. Typographical Union Seeks Wage Increase tention of the assembly that no vote had been taken, and moved that Ryan be unanimously elected. HELP WANTED. did not know that the wofkers had called the strike and said that the bosses could not settle since they had not called it, He was in total ignor- ance of the conditions in which the workers have to live, He knew noth¢ ing about wages and hgd.no idea of the profits made by bosses, Modern Grocery of Pitts- field, Mass., at 238 Colum- bus Ave., requires services of a comrade living in or near Pittsfield, Mass. good standing Communist ' — DENVER, March 1, — The Denver Typographical Union has asked for a wage scale of $54 a week on the day side for newspaper printers and for $60 a week for typographical workers on the night side,