The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1926, Page 2

Page Two FURRIERS JANi HALLS; PROTEST POLICE TERROR Thousands of Strikers Hear Left Speeches By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, March 5 — Thousands of fur strikers gathered in the three largest halls in the downtown section to protest the brutalities and arrests of the police. The police have been beating, clubbing and arresting strik- ing fur workers without cause or rea- son, and have heen protecting , the hired gunmen of the bosses. When Benjamin Gold came int Webster Hall, the strikers gave hin an ovation that lasted for a few minutes. “I know,” he said “the terror campaign that the bosses are carrying on thru the police and hired gangsters, will not in any way lessen the deter- mination and militancy of the fur strikers to fight for their just de mands in order that they may live like human beings and not like slaves. We will hold responsible the manufac- turers in any murder that the hired gunmen of the manufacturers’ may commit. No police force in the world nor all of the gangsters of the United States can break the solid ranks of the fur workers and the instructions for Monday morning are that all the workers are going to be in a mass Picketing demonstration.” Gitlow Gets Ovation. As soon as the workers saw Gitlow coming into the hall, he got an ovation that lasted at least fifteen minutes, “it is no surprise that the workers are ‘beaten and clubbed by the police for the police serve the interests of the bosses and not the workers, They do the bidding of the manufacturers and all exploiters of labor and the only way the workers will be able to stop the brutalities of the police, prison and injunction of the capitalist judges, is by| organizing a political party of their own, a labor party that will serve the interests of the workers and not of the bosses. Then the workers will stop the brutalities of the police, the injunctions, and prisons of the judges.” He then pointed out the importance for the needle trades to amalgamate into one big union where all the work- ers of the needle industry will be un- der one organization and not broken up into many small parts. Hyman, from the joint board, Cloak- makers’ Union, was then introduced as the next speaker and said the whole labor movement is watching the fur workers” strike, for a victory for the furriers, means a victory for the cloakmakers. Dangers to Health. William Weinstone, of the Workers Party, brought out that the striking furriers are subjected to the deadly plague of tuberculosis and many other diseases from the dyes and dust of the skins. Weinstone then touched upon the militant strike that the textile workers are carrying on dn Passaic and Garfield, N. J., where the workers were working for a starvation ,wage of $11 to $22 and when the workers went out on strike, the cry was raised of Bolshevik. “Yes, any worker is a Bolshevik when he demands a little more bread for himself and children. Yes and you are Bolsheviks because you want to make a better living for yourselves and family,” ended Wein- stone amid an ovation that lasted ten minutes. Strikers Militant, Shapiro, one of the most active, workers in the strike declared: “We are ready at any time to show who is using paid gangsters—the manufactur- ers or the strikers. The police is work- ing for the manufacturers association, and when the strikers are arrested in wholesale numbers and the judge fines them they are willing to serve in jail rather than have the union pay the fines that are imposed upon them, 1 am proud to belong to an industry where the workers are in such a mifi- tant spirit as the strikers are showing here. We are striking now to carry. the union into the shops and not keep. it in an office or a building. We are putting it where the workers will have something to say about, their working conditions.” Genova Restaurant ITALIAN-AMERICAN 1238 Madison Street N. &. Cor, Elizabeth St. Spaghetti and Ravioli Our Specialty Special Arrangements for Parties on Short Notice AT TP. M. PROGRAM TOMORROW THERE This banquet will have a double welcbme back Walter Trumbull, who | Party, will officiate. Hall, 2409 N. Halsted street, Chicago, TAKES PLAGE THE WALTER TRUMBULL. BANQUET significance. Not only is it called to has just been released from Alcatraz military prison, but a celebration will be staged for the fourth birthday of the fighting organ of the youth, the Young Worker. Comrade Jay Lovestone, acting secretary of the Workers (Communist) Delegations of various working class sending official delegations and spokesmen to this affair. to remain behind. Come early Sunday evening, March 7, 1926, to Imperial organizations are You cannot afford “Every attempt was miade by the suthorities at the Alcatraz Military on to make life as unbearable for @ul Crouch and myself as they ould,” declared Waltut Trumbull, re- ,ently released from Alcatraz after erving a sentence of one year for selonging to the Hawaiian Communist zeague, “Every effort. was made by he prison officials to provoke us by ‘lenying us the most trivial privileges hat were the common rule in the orison. At first when we came there, we were allowed to have two and three books in our cells, After an inspection of the cells one day they took away this privilege and declared that we could only have one book. All of the other prisoners were allowed to have as many books as they wanted in their cells. It was with things of that type that they tried to provoke us continuously to do something so that they could take away what good time that was coming to us and to take away some of the other privileges.” » He then went on to point out that tho Paul Crouch understands printing and has been an editor of a North Carolina paper, the prison authorities. refuse to allow lim work in the print shop but have him out on a pick and shovel gang doing the hardest work in the prison. They did this despite the rule in the prison that a prisoner shall be given work at his trade or profession if possible, Tho a number of vacancies have occurred and Paul Crouch applied further he was denied the privilege of working in the print- shop because of his Communist ideas, Privilege after privilége was taken from them, he went on, with no other purpose in view than to make life so unbearable that the both Crouch and Trumbull would violate some of the major prison rules and thus the offi- cials could then severely penalize them. When they found that they could not provoke Crouch and Trumbull; the authorities then called Crouch in- to the office and told him that if he would sign a statement renouncing his Communist ideas and repudiate his former affiliations and promise to never again participate in the work- ing-class movement, that he could go Passaic Strikers Win Battle Against Terrorism of Police (Continued from Page 1) cameras belonging to newspapermen who have come to tell the truth about the textile strike proves conclusively that disorders in this strike have been instigated entirely by police. In the city of Garfield where picket lines 500 strong are permitted daily by police to picket the mills, not a single clubbing has taken place, nor a single arrest for disorder o¢curred during the strike. “Our pickets will continue to be firm. We will not be provoked into violence. But we must protect our- selves. Tomorrow a picket line of strikers who are ex-service men will march under gas masks and helmets. Our picket lines will be increased in size and will be firmer than ever. “We think that the Americans who fought in the world war and who will picket tomorrow as ex-service men certainly will realize that they did not win in the war when today Amer- ican police help the kajser-loving own- ers of the textile mills to take the last bite of bread out of the mouths of the workers thru the wage reduc- tions.” Major Berry Panhandles Accounts for His Bank ~ SUNDAY, MARCH 7 GREAT WELCOME Entertainment and Dancing (Special to The Dally Worker) DENVER, Colo, March 5.—‘‘Major” George L, Berry, international presi- dent of the Pressmen’s Union, is pan- handling various unions thruout the country to deposit their funds in a bank known as the Hawkins County Bank at Rogersville, Tenn., which he claims the pressmen’s union gained control of in 1924, “ALCATRAZ MILITARY PRISON HEADS USED EVERY MEANS TO PROVOKE US,” DECLARES WALTER TRUMBULL and need not serve the prison tence, Crouch laughed outright at jailers and told them that they ould not buy him and that he would rather serve his sentence in jail rath- er than renounce his beliefs, When asked about conditions in Hawaii, Trumbull explained that the condition of the Filipino worker in Hawaii is just as bad as that of the American Negro in the south. Filipinos make up a great percentage of the Hawaii and work on the large sugar plantations in a state of semi- feudalism getting about. $1 a day. The highly skilled workers—those that handle ‘the tractors— receive the ow wage of $1.50 a day, He then went on to point out that before any Filipino is allowed to enter the island he must bring a mate with him, If he lacks a mate, the sugar trust takes it upon itself to provide him with one. When the Filipino ar- rives in Hawaii and has worked there a short time, he finds that tho he has been issued a marriage’ certificate in Manila, that is not worth anything and that he is not really married. If his wife is pretty, the plantation bosses merely take her and do as they please. If the Filipino protests against the liberties taken with his supposed wife, they point out that his certificate is of no value whatever is iNegal and if the Filipino still persists in protesting he is given a taste of colonial “justice.” The plantation owners do all they can to sow discord among the work- ers so as to keep them divided and from organizing into unions to force better conditions, : When asked as to the conditions of the soldiers he declared: “If the sold- iers in the army were treated in the United States the same as they are treated in Hawaii, the army would desert to a man.” He pointed: out that conditions were so bad in ¢he island that soldiers committed petty crimes in order to be sent away from the island. Trumbull has had enthusiastic meet- ings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver and was given a most cheering reception at the Union Station, Chicago by about 500 workers, who had gathered to greet Trumbull. a a anaTi ets RS i ediniad aetna eae FIND ELECTRICITY MEASURES POWER OF PNEUMONIA GERMS To the many uses of electricity a new and unique one has been added. Investigators at the University of Chicago have devised an electrical apparatus by which the killing power or strength of the germ which causés pneumonia may be measured and the patient’s chances of being cured thus ascertained. They are trying to find a serum which will prevent as well as cure the dise Dr. |. S. Falk, assistant professor of hygiene and bacteriology at the university and director of surveys for the health department of the city, together with his colleagues, H. A. Jacobson and H. A. Gussin, have been conducting the investiga- tion. ; $50,000,000 Fruit Company Represents Family Interests (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW ORLEANS, March 5 — The Standard Fruit company has been or- ganized here to take over the busi- ness of the Standard Fruit & Steam- ship Co., the Mexican-American Fruit & Steamship Co., the Bragman’s Bluff Lumber Co, and other financial inter ests of the extremely wealthy of Vac- cato’s family, The new concern is cap- italized at approximately $50,000,000. Why a worker correspondent?) Why not? Is there nothing of interest hap- pening around you? Write it up and send it In! The | ‘SENATE PREPARES TO APPROVE BIG POWER SWINDLE Power Trust Will Secure Muscle Shoals (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 5 — Govern- ment ownership advocates faced al- most certain defeat today as the -|senate prepared to yote on the Coo- lidge resolution, creating a congres- sional commission to negotiate a priv- ate lease of the government's $150,- 000,000 Muscle Shoals project. Lead- ers of the administrationdemocratic coalition, favoring lease of the pro- perty to private interests, predicted adoption of the resolution by a three to one vote. Their efférts to fix a time for the vote, howe¥eh, were blocked. After lengthy dise sion it was finally agreed to take a vote on the resolu- tion at 3:30 next Monday afternoon, The fight againststhe resolution has centered around agtempts by insur- gents from both parties to limit se- verely the poWwerg. of the proposed ; commission in neg@tiating any lease. The coalition leaders have insisted that the resolution’ he approved un- changed so that the {negotiators can have the widest latitide. This course has brought sharp criticism from the insurgents. A Criminal Lease, “Tt is little short of criminal to turn this property over to private interests for a song and without any safe- guards,” ‘said Senator McKellar, de- mocrat of Tennessee. “The govern- ment spent $150,000,000 of the people's money to build ft as an adjunct of the national defense and for the benefit of all the people, If we turn it over to private interests, without any -safe- guards, it will be gobbled up by the power trust and the people will re- ceive none of the benefits.” ‘BUILDING TRADES WORKERS STRIKE CLEVELAND JOBS For Protection (Special to The Dally Worker) CLEVELAND, March 4.—The build- trades employers of this city have ap- plied to the safety director of the city for protection’ m case of violence in the strike of painters and labor- ers: which is now on. Altho the strike has just started and there is not the slightest sign of any violence on the part-of the men, the employ- ers already want the city to protect their interests. 4 This is not at al new. A few weeks ago one of tle open shoppers, Mr. Long, lost his house by fire, and intimated that it was the act of an incendiary in the employ of the build- ing workers. He said the union had an agent near the place a short time before the fire and Suggested that the question of unionization was what led to the act, 3.000 laborers are on strike, de manding an increase of wages from 87% cents to $1 an hour. They con- ‘end, quite justly, that. as they can vork only 200 days a year their wages must ,be such as to make it possible | for them to live, The bosses maintain that there is plenty of unskilled labor and that the laborers have no right to demand more, since that would raise’the cost of building all around. The Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, as @ matter of coursé, has come out against the increase in wages. @ The painters are demanding $1.37% an hour and the five-day week. Two hundred and fifty of the independent contractors have’ signed up with the Painters’ Union, but 60 independents and 40 in the Master Painters’ Association have refused to grant the union demands, * All building work is at a standstill since the bricklayers will not work with scab labor. The demand by the bosses for ‘protection indicates that they will try to f laborers, but the bricklayers will not work with any scabs, If union men are imported from other towns e@ is every like- Mhood that the bricklayers will lay down their tools algo, The Cleveland building trades work- ers are determined’ to put thru their demands. If they Wish to.make them really effective thruout the industry, the entire building trades must come out on a sympathetic strike, in spite of the fact that they have allowed themselves to be entrapped into mak- ing agreements terminating at differ- ent times, Either this, or the bosses will take advantage of the receding building prosperity to drive down the conditions generally, a sheath isi'y. Employers A-ek Police| Coolidge’s In White House Records Triumphs for Reaction By J. LOUIS “(7 AL” COOLIDGE starts on his second year in the white house, “in his own right,” following his elec- tion in November, 1924, and inauguration March 4, 1925. The nation is supposed to be jubilant over i featured by the adoption in the senate of entry into the wor! court, and by congressional sanction of Coolidge's ‘econ- omy,” or Mellon’s so-called “tax reduction scheme. 3 There will be almost universal praise of the Coolidge regime on both these propos joined with the republicans in gress. The democrats are in The “progressives” have lost all energy to protest. ‘The Coolidge-Mellon dictatorship in Washington seems to have pretty easy going. But up at Passaic, New Jersey, the police are hurling tear bombs into the ranks of In the anthracite fields the coal miners have been forced back to work, restless and discontented. Thousands of members of the Furrier’ Union and the Workers’ and Boston. Textile workers and more under the pressure owners thruout the soft coal Jacksonville agreement and repeatedly clip the wage stand- ards of the workers in the bituminous mines. labor bill that is slipping thru congress develops the class collaboration between the railroad brotherhdods and the rail- road owners at the expense of the railroad shopmen. Violent fluctuations in prices on the Union are out on strike in New York City First Year ENGDAHL. J “his record,” itions because the democrats helping to put them thru con- no position even to criticize. the picketing textile strikers. International Ladies’ Garment in New England protest more of repeated wage cuts. Mine fields continually violate the The railroad stock exchanges indicate the nervousness and instability of big business. An industrial de- pression threatens in the months not far ahead. Bankrupt- cies and foreclosures have already hit the farmers over wide reaches of the nation. All these developments in tainly indicate that labor has the lives of the workers cer- nothing to rejoice over in the fact that “Strikebreakior” Coolidge has passed thru the first quarter of his four-year term. it has been a year of naked and defiant capitalist tyranny. The United States openly enters Europe to defen lars of Wall Stre «'s international bankers, tion bill favored the multi-mill incomes of one million and more. tary of the treasury, the rulin; ernment, pockets a saving of million dollars. John D. Rockefeller Jr, Hen “save” nearly five million dolla His “economy the dol- The tax reduc- ionaires, especially those with “Andy” Mellon, the secre- power in the Coolidge gov- Se 8,348.00, pretty close to a only exceeded by that of ry Ford and Edsel Ford, who rs between them. Eleven mil- lion dollars will be turned back to twenty millionaires. Entrenched wealth has had a good year with Coolidge. But that means inevitably that it has been a bad year for the workers and poor farmers, The farmers’ woes became acute, in fact, shortly after Coolidge was safely established in the white house “for four years more.” One of the first the drift among the farmers results of this land crisis was toward independent politiccal action, the revival and strengthening of the Farmer-Labor Party movement. That is the only contribution the Coolidge regime has made to city and land labor—arousing it to fight its own battles. It is inevitable that developments during the » months and years ahead, of the strikebreaker’s presidential career, will force the development of labor's struggle along the same lines. The Labor Party may not gain great momen- tum for this year’s fall congressional elections. It should become a challenging power by the time Wall Street gets ready to attempt another presidential swindle in the national elections of 1928. Three years more of Coolidge should mean, for the workers and poor farmers, THREE YEARS OF STREN- UOUS LABOR PARTY BUILDING! HAVE THE ENGLISH BEEN CHEWING OUR BREAKFAST FOODS? (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, March 5 — Human evo- lution is gradually changing the shape of the face, according to Miss Vivian George. Miss George is chief assistant to Sir Arthur Keith, one of the most eminent English anthro- pologists. vate ES Detalled™” Investigations lasting over a period of many y has shown, she says, that the face is becoming longer and narrower. She ascribes the change to the differ- ence between the modern way of living and the ancient. “In the old s the jaws of a man had to be so much stronger becau eating swas then a great physical effort. As a result the facial muscles were better developed then than now. This has had its effect upon the gen- eral bone construction of the skull,” she explains, ‘Only 6 Poses Tobias Owing to the failure of a carload| of paper to arrive before this issue of The DAILY WORKER went to press, and being unable to get the right size newsprint rolls for an eight-page paper It was necessary to cut this issue to six pages. _ Chicago Workers! Come to the TRUMBULL BANQUET TO WELCOME COMRADE WALTER TRUMBULL BACK TO ACTIVITY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. sommes eo Lovett Fort-Whiteman Speaks at Pittsburgh Sunday and Tuesday PITTSBURGH, Pa. March 5.— Lovett Fort-Whiteman, national organ- izer of the American Negro Labor Congress will speak at the Good Hope Church, 34th Street and Mulberry Way, Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. In the evening he will speak on the “Emancipation of the Negro Worker” at the Central Baptist Church, Kirk- patrick and Wylie streets at 8 o'clock, On Tuesday evening Lovett Fort- Whiteman will speak at the Metro- politan Baptist Church, Sampson St., N.S. at 8 o'clock. These meetings are all being arranged under the auspices of the American Negro Labor Con- gress, {THE DAILY WORKER ee erent se ee STUDENTS INSIST ON FREE SPEECH AT UNIVERSITY By a Student Correspondent, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. March 5 — Students and faculty members have started to cireulate petitions demand- ing that speakers of all ideas have their right to express themselves on the campus. A group of students at the Univer. sity of Minnesota organized a protest meeting against the recént actions of the board of administrators in not allowing free speech on the campus. Scott. Nearing was Tefused a room in which to give his lectures by Dean Nicholson on the grounds that where- ever he, went; there always followed a disturbance among the students. Dr. Riley, a fundamentalist was also denie@ the right to speak on the grounds that he was spreading anti- evolution propaganda, The students, altho they did not approve of Dr. Riley's theories did not approve of this action of the board and Wean Kelly: Last: spring when Scott Nearing passed’ thru Minneapolis to deliver a series of lectures he was not allowed to speak to the students on the campus for the same reasons. Pro- tests were raised, but the school pa- per, the Minnesota Daily, refused to print anything concerning the affair. This year, the students are taking an aggressive stand in the matter. 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