The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1926, Page 1

convene the ————— The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No-.50. oom LLGW.U.T0 ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED Committee of 500 Mem- bers to Handle Drive The Chicago joint board of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union which was recently elected has decided to wage an organization cam- Paign to clean up the nonunion shops in this city. The election of a major- ity of progressives to the joint board Promises to make this campaign a real stride forward in the organiza- tion of the garment workers. The campaign is to be started by the selection of a commitiee of 500 members of the union. This commit- tee will insure the co-operation of the union membership in the drive and constitute a force which will reach every nonunion garment worker in Chicago, Joint Board Issues Statement. Thé® following statement has been issued by the officials of the Chicago Joint board: see With the installation of the new ad- ministration in the Chicago Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, a new spirit is felt. This administration has been selected after the convention which was held in Philadelphia last Decem- ber, where all those expelled and sus- pended were re-admitted to the union, and their rights restored. The new joint board was installed Friday, Feb. 19, and at its second meeting on Friday, Feb) 26, it:already, a.report from. the OBe. ! on committee ‘which was established during the short visit of International President Sigman about a month and a halfago, This com- mittee recommended that they start an immediate big drive to organize the uhorganized dressmakers, and for that purpose a committee of 500, picked from the shops, be organized. This recommendation of the committee was unanimously adopted with great en-| thusiasm. The interest shown by those present proved conclusively the determination of each and everyone of them that there must be 100 per cent union in every shop where ladies’. garments are made. Our wnion today is in a much bet- (Continued on page 5). Subscription Rates: In Chicago, by CHICAGO I. L. GC. W. MEMBERSHIP URGED TO VOTE FOR PROGRESSIVE SLATE IN THE ELECTIONS TOMORROW TO THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE C LADIES' GARMENT WORKERS’ UNION. Sisters and Brothers: Tomorrow, Thursday, March 11, you are going to elect your business agents for the coming term. Of course you are going to elect those most Suitable for this work. We, the members of the Trade us fight for the progressive movem: which are for the benefit of the workers you always respgnded to our call. You are supporting the progressives not because you like this in- dividual or that, but because you agree with the platform and principles Therefore we think it advisable to in- form you again what these principles are. which the progressives stand for. 1—Unity in our union, 2—For economy in our union, 3—Enforcement of union conditions in the shops. 4—Organization of the non-union 5—Amalgamation, 6—The shop delegate system. 7—A labor party. 8—World trade union unity. We are confident that you believe in these principles and are ready to support them. We have to elett three business agents from the five candidates whose names are on the Brothers and Sisters: sponsibilities. our union, A united progressive program, united rank and file will build our which will fight for the interests of ask the membership to vote for the following three candidates: Brother J. Levin, Local 81, Brother H. Metrick, Local 5. Brother H. Zeff, Local 5. 1. L. G. W. U, Group of the Trade Union Educational League. 1. L. G. W. U. Progressive Group. The recent local lection in the Chi-4 steifi°and Sigman were responsible for Garment /’puttiit cago International Ladies’ Workers’ Union for chairman, secre- tary, executive board and joint board delegations, show once more that the members have had enuf of the reactionary policies advocated by the local representatives of the Sigman machine, the results of which have so badly demoralized the organization. These elections prove conclpsively that the membership is determined to change the present policy. of surren- der to a more militant progressive INDIANA JURY INDICTS 96 UNION MINERS Miners Fight. Against 1917 Wage Scale BOONEVILLE, Ind., March 9—The grand jury in the case of the union) miners arrested for mass picketing of | non-union miners in this county has) indicted 96 union miners on charges,),, of rioting, ete. Henry Shafer, one of the union miners indicted was arrest- ed at Princeton this morning, brot to Booneville and released under $1,500 bond on charges of stabbing Lee Cor- bet, one of the scabs working in a mine at Newburgh, which was’ pick- ted by union miners on Feb. 16. , The ‘efférts of the operators of Southern Indiana to put their mines back on the 1917° wage scale ; met by -resistancé of the union} niin. concentrating working there. The governor of the state brot in the state national guard against them,} a1) the International officers can be and had airplanes scouting over the coal flelds to prevent further picket- Ing by the union men. Preparatory Meeting of Disarmament Confab to Be in Geneva May 17? LL.D P. 'S, March 9.—The preparatory disatmament conference will take place at Geneva on May 17, the coun- cll of the league of fations decided at] Commune commemoration in Chicago, 4 secret meeting, Reports are current| March 19th, will be made at the re that another postponement of the| gular monthly ¢onference of Inter- conference was about to be made, At] national Labor Defense delegates to- the same meeting it was agreed to| night at 8 p. m. at 180. W. Washington preparatory @ ‘at Geneva on April They marched on the milhes/Why does he not. intensify the cam- which were working on the low'scale| paign thruout the whole of the dis- and sought to bring out the miners] irict now that he has. the Whole of policy and to select a leadership that will lead the struggle of the workers against the employers, Peristein-Sigman Defeated, The outgoing officials led by Perl- mail, $8.00 Outside Chicago, Progressive group, know that whenever we have called upon you to help We have a great task before us, great re- We therefore have decided to endorse the brothers who have the experience and the ability to do the work to the satisfaction of THE PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES er year. by mail, $6.00 per year. art Sg Entered as Second-class matter September 41, 1923, ati LE HICAGO INTERNATIONAL Union Educational League and the ent and the progressive principles cloak and dre: ballot, a united progressive officiaildom, a union into a powerful organization the membership. We endorse and into effect the expulsion pol- icy Wind inaugurating the reign of ter- Tor ageinst the membership that was 8o‘detrimental to our union. It was therefore no surprise that the mem- bership has turned against them and defeated them badly in almost every o¢edsion jn the recent elections. So ‘great was the aversion of the mem- bership toward them that in many in- stances, the reactionary machine did not even dare to present their cand- didates, In some locals they made alliances with their supposed to be opponents, but even with this consolidation of the forces they were badly defeated and (Continued on page 5) ORGANIZE WEST VA. IS DEMAND OF UNION MINERS By ALEX REID. The prayer meeting. campaign in West Virginia to organize the miners is now on a different plane; the timid officials are retreating to “victory.” ‘The monumental failure, Van Bittner, thing he hag done in eotnection with the miners’ union, outside his success in keeping a death grip on the miners’ little bit of West Virginia instead of ‘the whole of it, Van says “he will concentrate around Fairmount first, but that does not mean the organizing campaign is over in ‘the other parts.” Oh no, it ‘only means that Van has too big a job for him in West Va, and he thinks that he would do better with a small piece of the @istrict than the whole of it. : Piece-meal Meth The miners are asking why Van is around Fairmount. the International at his service? The anthracite strike is over and utilized to organize in that field, Why don't the International officials place all their organizers in shat field now, and concentrate on the whole district? Boosting Lewis, Frank Hefferly, erstwhile progres- (Continued on page 4.) . Conference Tonight Important Final arrangements for the Paris COAL FIELDS, who has successfully failed at every- treasury, will now try to organize a SOUTH BEND WORKERS ORGANIZE TO RESIST FINGER-PRINT LAWS SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 9— Workers in South Bend are organ- izing against the passage of the Aswell bill,which is aimed at the foreign-born, workers, The Hungar- jan workers haye formed a council of about. 1,000, The Lithuanian Workers’ Literature Association has rallied many Lithuanian workers to the fight against the laws to finger- print, photograph and card-index foreign-born workers, The Jugo-Slav workers are organ- izing mass protest meetings against these bills, Other language groups are following the lead of the work- ers. It is expected shortly that the: roups will combine into an international council for the protec: tion of foreign-born workers, . Long Established Refinery Closes. LONDON,—The Lianelly Copper Works, -establi#hed over a hundred years ago and-in-continuous operation from the first, fave been closed down, ‘Thousands of tons of copper and lead, and 2,000,000 omnces of silver were refined annually,»German and Amer- ican competition cannot be met by the tish compan yo. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 118 ‘W. Wasnington Blvd., Chicago, UL Daily Worker) )» Mich., March 9— who have been on he Hayes-lonia, auto for the past three ‘confronted with an writ was obtained the Hayes-lonia com- No. 3 of the United raft and Vehicle and names nine- the organization. 8 issued by a cor- known as Judge of the superior strike against: body concern weeks are injunction, last evening by pany against court, The injun ers being ne concern, or the purpose that the co | prohibits the work- the premises of the Tailroad stations for approaching scabs attempts to import enters of the various has been realized by eir imported scabs have already quit. imported, 96 have sk and others are the strikers is good will not seriously Pee strike as means of “struggle in spite of Meetings. general presi- 4 ~ Air a Workers’. Union, since his arrival’here in behalf of the trimmers employed at the Hayes-Ionia Body Co., whovwent on strike in reply to a 10 per cent wage cut two weeks ago, addressed a series of well attend- ed meetings, the first of which, on Tuesday, filled St. Hyacinth Hall to great overflow. Bosses Want Same Hali. When the:!strike committee ar- ranged to move'the strike headquart- ers from Turner Hall to St. Hyacinth Hall, which, forvall practical purposes, and particularly, because it is situated but a short distance from the factory proved much amore suitable, they re- ceived a bit of highly amusing infor- mation, The management of Hayes-Ionia Body Co,, well known for its utter disregard for human lives, has sud- denly become philantropic, so it ap- peared; they decided that the slaves, after working from ten all the way to thirteen hours.a day, must enjoy some form of “recreation,” they should be given a chance to learn “boxing,” and to provide the necessary facility, the bosses’ welfare department offered an exceptionally good price for the use of St. Hyacinth Hall for the duration of “two weeks.” Altho the company’s offer exceeded that of the strikers about 50 per cent, the workers rightfully contended for the same hall, and awaited a deci- sion, Their Scheme Blocked. The hall being owned by an aid society, {ts hoard of trustees was (Continued on page 3.) . REBEL SOLDIER SPEAKS TONIGHT FOR SOUTH SIDE How the slogan of “Hawaii for Hawaiians and the World fof Com munism” was first raised in the United States army, causing two sol diers to be given maximum imprison tment sentences will be told to Pull- man workers tonight by Walter Trumbull, just released from the mili- tary prison at Aleatrez, who wag one of the “guilty” soldiers. He will speak at the K, P. Hall, 11037 Michigan ave., the meeting beginning at 8, p. m. Other speakers will be J. L. Bng- dahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, ang Robert Minor, editor of the Sa- turday magazine Section. Other speaking dates that Comrade Trumbull will {il in his nation-wide tour are the fdtiowing: South Bend, March 13; Kenosha, March 15; Ra- cine, March 16;) Canton, March 18; Pittsburgh, Mavch 19, 29; Cleveland, March 21; Jamestown, March 22; But- falo, March 23; Brie, March 24; Ro- chester, Marchi&5; Boston, March 27, .| Stephen Ss. Wi of the Cigar Makers’ Union, pending in congress. Diegate Ko’ declared: “We must not allow this hy: ary delegates, when the vote was take! ally introduced, and 33 voted for the tection of the foreign-born workers. LOS ANGELES CENTRAL LABOR UNION AGAINST ANTI-FOREIGN-BORN LAWS LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 9.—At the last meeting of the Los’ Angeles Central Labor Council, a resolution. was introduced by Delegate Globerman denouncing the anti-foreign-born legislation now vas, Globerman and Plotkin spoke in favor of the resolution, The reactionary officials saw they could not defeat | it, so the secretary of the council, J. W. Buzzel, introduced an amendment | which would render the resolution harmless. As he made his amendment he | sterical resolution to go thru.” Delegates Schneiderman and Feinstein then spoke against the amend- ment and for the adoption of the resolution, Despite a vicious “100 per cent American” speech by one of the reaction- | in, 25 voted for the resolution as origin- amended resolution, which merely en- dorses the Los Angeles Central Labor Council's previous stand for the pro- TEXTILE BARONS REJECT OFFER OF MEDIATION Bosses Refuse to Talk Terms with Strikers (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., March 9—Altho he previously announced that the mill owners were ready at all times to discuss grievances of the 11,000 striking mill workers here, Col. Chas. F. H. Johnson, spokesman of the mill owners rejected the offer of Rabbi 's committee of four to discuss terms of settlement. His repudiation of the offer followed a decision by the strikers committee to accept. ‘Coldnel Jolungon dencunged the~5t- fer as “futile” in that it ‘ty “Comiun- istic.” “He said in part:/"f don't think that We can see the value of the pro- posed intervention nor how’ it-wouk be useful in ending trouble. causec and maintained by Communist agita- tors entirely outside the ranks of the workers.” 5 4 Col. Johnson’s refusal while antici- pated by the strike committee was re- ceived with frank surprise in conserv- ative circles since the impartial com- mittee’s offer was regarded as_ the only medium for an early con- <lusion to the controversy. Albert Weisbord, orgatiizer for the United Front Committeé who is lead- ng the strike here, said he was not urprised when he learned of the mill »wners’ refusal. “Col. Johnson will re- ject any offer that threatens to keep organized employes in the Botany Mill,” he said. In the formal letter of acceptance sent to the offer to act as represent- atives of the strikers in settlement proceedings by Dr. Stephen S. Wise. the Reverend John Howard Melish, Paul U. Kellogg and John Lovejoy Elliot, the general strike committee reserved for itself the right of reach- ing final decision on the issues in con- troversy. The letter pointed out that the “obstinacy of the mill owners, their refusal to meet with the regular representatives of the workers for no valid reasons whatsoever,” has placed the responsibility for the continuance of the strike upon the mill owners. The committee also announced that it would be ready: to meet the mill owners of Passaic at any conference which Governor Moore-might call ir discussing his offer to act as mediator for the strike, SENTENCE DETECTIVE WHO KILLED TWO YOUTHS FOR STEALING $1.50 COKE (Special to The Daily Worker) BAYONNE, ‘N. J:, March 9—For wantonly shooting dead Andrew and Joseph Iskra, 19 and 23, whom he declared were stealing a $1.20 bag of coke from Bayonne, N. J., rail- road yards, Dock L. Stone, railroad detective, has gone to prison for from six y: and eight months to ten years. Sentence was for killing, the younger unemployed worker and the prosecutor will seek punish- ment of Stone for slaying his broth- er, also without provocation. A sim- ilar. occurred in Chicago rail- road yards two years ago when a detective killed a young worker picking up potaspes..on the tracks. ne English Raisd "$14}000 for Defense. LONDON, March 9.—Over $14,000 have been raised for the defense of the twelve imprisoned) Communists yee for the reliof oftheir dependents, PITTSBURGH TO HAVE TRUMBULL MEETING ON FRIDAY, MARCH 19TH (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 9 — Walter Trumbull, Hawaiian Com- munist United States soldier, will speak in Pittsburgh on Friday even- ing, March 19th at the Labor Ly- ceum, 35 Miller street, at 8 p. m. Trumbull has just been released from Alcatraz Military prison whete he served a one year sentence. He is speaking in all the large working centers In the United States where he is warmly greeted by large crowds of workers. Martin Abern, member of the cen- tral executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party will also speak. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Young Workers League, District 5. IBENEVA MEETING NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents IS. DEADLOCKED ON MEMBERSHIP |Locarno Treaties Ap- | pear to Be Doomed (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, March 9 Delegates |here from the various member na- jtions to attend the special extra- lordinary assembly of the league of {nations are paralyzed with fear before \the debacle that has overwhelmed the | league. All of them are waiting with baited breath the outcome of events in |France, where Doumergue, the presi- dent of that republic, is striving to create a cabinet that will give France a@ government @hat will last long enuf to bridge over the present crisi Briand, premier until Saturd was the leader of the anti-British align- ment in the league that was striving to offset Germany's taking a perman- ent seat by admitting Poland, Spain and Brazil. The British government has empha- tically informed the foreign- minister, Austen Chamberlain, who represents England at Geneva, that no enlarge- ment of the league would be tolerated at this session of the assembly. It looks as tho a deadlock prevails and all the delegates fear to face the real- ity of the situation. Unless the pres- ent crisis is patched up in some man- ner Germany will not enter as a mem- ber of the council, which means the collapse of the Locarno pacts and also the league itself. SRUAND TRYING. TO ORGANIZE Herriot Declines to Be- come Premier (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, March 9—For the tenth time in its history, a government of France has turned to M. Aristide Briand to try to lead it out of polit- ical chaos. President Doumergue summoned Briand, the veteran agent of imperial” ist despotism and assassin of workers and colonial peoples, and nine times premier, and asked him to reform a cabinet, notwithstanding the defeat which was administered to him on Saturday forcing his resignation. Briand agreed to attempt to form a cabinet and is holding conferences with other leaders of the various fac- tions’ in France at a late hour to- night. There is no majority party in the, chamber and so any government must. be a coalition. There is strong demand for new elections, but all pa¥- ties, except the Communists, fear the results of new elections at this time. The fall of the franc, the war in Syria and Morocco and the general disorganizatfon of national economy furnish fruitful sofl for revolutionary propaganda and the capitalist parties want no test of strength, ‘ = = S2 — = Herriot Refuses, President Doumergue concluded a series of political conferences this morning @nd announced that he would request either former premier Edward Herriot of the left bloc, or Briand, to organize a ‘Hew government, Herriot, now presidént’of the chamber of depu- ties, was’ first asked, but he himself had been holding conferences and de- clined instantly as he is convinced of the impossibility of his heading a goy- ernment that can last until the end of the sessions of the extraordinary as- (Continued on page 3) IS MAGNATES CAUSE CRISIS, Issues Manifesto Upon Mexican Conflict Aroused by the imminent danger of la break-off of diplomatic relationship between the United States and Mexico lover the disputes on the application of provisions of the Mexican constitution relative to oil, and the efforts of big business interests to utilize the relig- ious controversy in the southern re- public to secure American interven+ tion, the All-America Anti-Imperialist League has issued a manifesto calling upon the workers of this country to back its demand for non-interference by the United States government in the affairs of Mexico. The league points out that the rupture of diplo- matic relations is almost a sure precursor to war. The manfesto declares that it 1s only a handful of American exploiters who are supporting Kellogg's aggres- sive policy and charges that oil, mining, and banking magnates are be- hind the present “crisis” between the two countries. Signatories to the statement include the secretaries of the league in Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil,,and the United States. The manifesto is as follows: HANDS OFF MEXICO! 4 Manifesto of the All-America Antle Imperialist League (Liga Anti-Imperiapista de las Americas) To the Workers of the United States: ] Every day the newspapers talk of the “serious crisis” between the United States and Mexico, Sometimes you read that the crisis is being solved, Sometimes that a solution is 7 (Continued on page 2) FARMERS’ INTERNATIONAL ASKS WOMEN ON LAND TO AID FIGHT OF WORKING WOMEN FOR FREEDOM MOSCOW, U. 8, S. R. (Delayed)—On its third anpiversary the Farmers’ — international (Krestintern) has created a women's d agitation among the farmer women of the world to | of struggling side by side with the farmers and the w@king the creation of a workers’ and farmers’ government. The women's department has issued the follow, farmer wonien to join in an international celebra’ ‘on “§ Women's Day and (Continued women towards appeal, calling on on page 3) es a