The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1926, Page 2

OA Page Two THE DAILY WORKER POLICE ATTACK STRIKE PARADE: ARREST LEADER 8,000 Furriers Smash Thru Slugging Crew By J. 0. BENTALL, (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, March 10.—The arrest of Manager Benjamin Gold and forty-three others and the triple de- feat of the police to break up the ma pleket line of the Furriers’ Union now in the 19th day of the strike marked the events of the morn- Ing when 5,000 determined pickets braved the hostile bosses and their hireling police officers. The demonstration was led by Ben Gold and Aaron Gross. Scores of police and private detectives were on the job before the picket line was formed and when the strikers ap- peared they) began to swing their clubs and threaten the strikers on every side, When the threats failed they hit the strikers on the head “| knocked down scores of them, arrest- ing Manager Gold, hoping in this way to weaken the mass and induce the pickets to disperse. When they failed in this they arrested 43 more of' the pickets. But even this did not deter the strikers from the task they had set out to accomplish. The workers were then driven into a corner near 26th street, where they were further clubbed. At this place 12 women were arrested and the rest told to get away and quit their demon- stration. Line Increases. But instead of the line becoming smaller it grew till the streets were packed with more union men and women. Many sympathizers joined the demonstration. This was the sig- nal for further brutal attacks by the police. More fiercely than ever the police now plunged into the mass of workers and beat down scores of pick- ets. But the line broke thru the po- lice gang and marched thru the fur district, as had been planned from the | beginning. | The arrest of Gold the police thought would leave the line leader less, and the police hoped this would | throw the pickets into a panic. Not a single moment was lost because of his arrest. The line forged ahead and made the job a complete success. Flivver Squad Clubs Strikers, When the force sent out to stop the strikers failed, cops in Fords ‘came to reinforce them. They came with breakneck speed and ran their Fords upon the sidewalks and directly at large numbers of people on the side- walk, The strikers did not budge. The line grew with every new attack and with every brutal assault of the motor cops. Finally the “law and order” gang were left powerless and the great mass of pickets, now over 8,000, passed on their way back, and when the line came in front of the Freiheit it stopped to cheer the paper that has helped so much to inform the Fur Workers about the conditions and helped to hold them firm in this struggle. In court before Judge Harry Good- man 26 men and 6 women were fined $5 each and one was given a sus- pended sentence. The judge lectured the strikers and told them that no rioting would be tolerated. it the attorney for the pickets declared it was the police that had rioted and Rot the striking fur workers, Color Bar Brings Fine to Prejudiced Waiter The Chicago Avenue police court fined Wm. Burkhardt, a waiter in a restaurant at 3 West Grand Ave., $5! and costs because of his refusal to serve Bobby Pain, a colored woman. Burkhardt told her if she insisted on eating in the restaurant she would have to go in the kitchen or take the food out. PARIS COMMUNE CELEBRATIONS ‘Chicago Workers Demonstrate, Chicago will hold a Paris Commune celebration at the Ashland Auditorium Ashland Ave, and Van Buren on Fri- day evening, March 19 at 8 o'clock with Bishop William Montgomery Brown, Robert Minor, editor of the New DAILY WORKER Magazine, J. W. Johnstone and others speaking. There will also be special moving pic- and speeches by Walter Trumbull and H, M, Wicks. Dancing from 7:30 to 11:30 p, m, Bring in your articles for the Bazaar to Room 521—328 W. Superior Ave. any afternoon. Cie New York Celebrates. NEW YORK, March 10—The Paris Commune celebration will take place tures of the class-war prisoners’ aid |at the Central Opera House, Friday in Europe and America. ss * Cleveland to Hold Bazaar. CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 10 —Lo- cal Cleveland, International Labor Defense, will have its Paris Commune celebration at Moose Hall, 1000 Wal- nut Ave: on Sunday, March 21st., be- ginning 2 o'clock. The bazaar begins at 2 o’clock and continues thruout the entire afternoon and evening. Supper will be served from 5 to 6 Pp. m. Paris Commune program from 6 to 7:80 o'clock consisting of one or two musical numbers, a pantomine under the direction of Comrade Sadie Amter night, March 19. Ben Gitlow, M. J. Olgin, J, Zack, and Harry Fox will be the speakers. William W. Weinstone will be chair- man of the meeting. An unusual musical program is arranged. ‘e « Minnesota Arranges Meetings. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 10— Paris Commune dates for District No. 9. Minneapolis, Thursday eve., Mar. Labor Lyceum, 1426—6th Ave, N. . Paul, Sunday, March 21, Com- monwealth Hall, 435 Rice St. Hibbing, March 22nd. Chesholm, March 28rd. Superior-Duluth, March 21st. CAPITOL FAST BECOMING THE CENTER OF VICIOUS WASHINGTON CRIME BELT (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March, 10.—-The dome of the capitol is fast becoming the center of Washington’s crime belt. Four youthful bandits, their faces masked, held up Mrs, J. H. Niver and Mrs. U, N. Legg on the south steps of the capitol last night, seized a handbag and ran. Yesterday, the police seized a 3,000-gallon still within a few blocks of where the senate and’ house dally wrangle over prohibition, Countess Vera Is a “Cradle Snatcher,” Says Countrywoman MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 8.— Vera, Countess of Cathcart, was de- scribed as a “cradle snatcher” by her own country woman, Miss Helen Fra- per, feminist leader here today. “Many people in England don’t mind in the least the idea of Count- ess Cathcart being insulted. In fact they are rather overjoyed about it,” Miss Fraser said. “They sort of feel that she had it coming.” As to the principle of the fight to keep her out of America on the grounds of “moral turpitudd, well, that was a different matter,” Miss Fraser said. Her comments on the countess were far from complimentary. “The countess, you know, is much older than the earl of Craven, and her elopement to South Africa with him is generally thot of in England as ‘cradle snatching,’” she explained. Vote Brokers Try to Whitewash $25,000 Gift In a statement that the Better Gov- ernment Association, which has come to be known in Chicago as the Better Graft Association, has sent out for public consumption attempts are made to whitewash the executive of the association that accepted about $25,000 from the democrat boss Bren- nan to split the republican party votes in such a manner as to elect the democrat candidate. The statement which was prepared by a committee Of seven after the ex- ecutive committee had held a lengthy executive session to decide as to what to tell the “public” is signed by such juminaries as R. 8B. Benjamin, president of the Benjamin Electric Manufacturing company, Thomas W, Sprowls, director of the Butler House, Paul A. Westburg, president. of the Westburg Engineering company and a number of Methodist clergymen, Get your tickets now for the Inter. nationai concert of the T. U. E, L. Sat., March 13, at 8th St, The: on the Fi 799 Broadway, Room 238 Passaic Textile Strikers’ Relief Tag Day. 9,000 Volunteers Wanted Report at the Stations Announced in Today's Daily Worker Help the Heroic Strikers Win Their Strike! Help Raise $50,000 to Feed Their Hungry Families! Joint Committee General Relief Committee Passaic Textile Strikers and the International Workers’ Aid, New York Section rst Page. New York City Urge Unions Take Part in Celebration (Continued from Page 1) ing class organizations may have their Platforms, floats, etc. The communication in full is as fol- lows: Chicago, Ill., March 9, 1926. Executive Council, American Fed- eration of Labor. Dear Sirs and Brothers: We have discussed the question of the Sesqui-Centennial Cleberation. Our central executive committee feels that all labor organizations should participate in this celebration; that the workers have made this country and are responsible for the progress that this country has made; consequently the workers should not only participate but take first place in such a celebration, ‘We recognize, however, that today the industries and government of the United States are completely in the hands of the employing class, the capitalists, and this is out of the question. Due to the weakness of the political and economic organizations of the workers, the labor organiza- tions will have to fight for the right to participate as labor organizations, as spokesmen of the workers in this celebration. As one of the organizations of the working class in this country, we re- quest: the co-operation of the execu- tive council of the American Federa- tion of Labor, to help us achieve the above-mentioned objective. Towards this end we make the following pro- posal to you which we hope you will take steps to realize. We are count- ing on you to exercise all your pres- eure and influence to secure the fol- lowing: 1, All work that will be involved in the arrangements for the Sesqui-Cen- tennial, Celebration in Philadelphia, such as building trades work, plumb- ing, electricity, etc., should be union labor. 2. All supplies union made. 3. A special section should be set aside where all working class organ- ization can have their floats, plat- forms, booths, or any other form they wish to resort to in order to por- tray the role of labor in the develop- ment of the United States. We feel sure that regardless of any difference of political opinion that the workers may have amongst them- selves, that all workingmen in the United States can get together to carry out the above program. We are convinced that the various points of view entertained by any organization or individual representatives of the different sections of the working class in this country can be and should be expressed by these workingman’s representatives and not by such agencies as self-anointed patriotic bodies, self-styled Americanization so- cieties, special government bureaus, nine times out of ten corrupted by the bosses, chambers of commerce used should be and various other opensnop organ- izations working under misleading aliases and pseudonyms. We hope that you will join with us in this effort and do your best to secure a successful execution of this program. We are looking forward to your early and favorable reply on this matter, Fraternally yours, ©, B, Ruthen- berg, General Secretary, Waterways Conflict Reaches Final Stage (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 10,—Admin- istration circles today predicted the defeat of New York's bid for a $590,- 000,000 “all American ship canal” from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, President Coolidge and Secretary Hoover are said to favor the St. Law- rence-to-the-sea project now under survey and army engineers are sure that both waterways cannot be started in the near future under present budget limitations. Final hearings on the appeal will be held next Monday, but Congressmen from the: northwest and middle west representing the 21 states which en- dorse thé St. Lawrence project are aligning themselves for an onslaught on the New York proposal, which they believe will deftiitely kill it, « LABOR LEADERS Detroit Auto Czars Open OF N.Y. FORM A | Attack on Foreign-Born TRUST COMPANY To Shield Their Profits By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. A.F. of L. Leader Chums with Open Shoppers (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 10 — Governor Al Smith and Mayor J. J. Wal of New York head a group of 25 federal, state and city officials Included in an advisory committee of more than 200 stockholders in the Fe tion Bank of New York, controlled by metropol- itan trade unlons, to assist in trans- forming the bank into a,trust com- pany. Other members of the commit- tee are President William Green of the A. F. of L., Mortimer L, Schiff, banker; Senator Royal’ S. Copeland, Thomas Meighan, John McCormack, Charles Chaplin, Adolph (Zuker, Ger- ard Swope of General) Electric Co., Charles D. Hilles, Franklin D. Roose- velt, Hugo Mayer, director of the La- bor Bank of Germany, Morones, Secretary of Li ico, The state department of banking has approved the bank's plan for ad- ding trust functions, The Federation Bank & Trust Co. as it is, to be known, will start with fésources of $17,000,000, according to President Peter J, Brady, A Dangerous Venture. This latest venture in the field of class-collaboration shows the dangers of this tactic to the working class most effectively. If allowed to per- meate the whole American labor movement it will destroy its fighting capacity and bind the workers to the chariot of American imperialism in a fashion most: difficult to break. This is evident from a consideration in the first place, of what a trust company is, and in the second plece, from the interests represented by the officials named, A Capitalist Institution. A trust company has for its object the investment of funds, not the re- ceipt of banking deposits to be paid out on call, When the Federation Bank is transformed into such a con- cern, the money of the unions and union members will be used to pur- chase real estaté bonds, corporation stock, and income segurities of one kind or other. In a short time the company will find i rit, in the predi- cament of the railwd{ Qgineers’ trust company which inv: its funds in coal mines and then e it was in business for as much, profit as pos- sible, just like an ordinary capitalist, refused to allow the unionization of its miners because that would entail additional expense and lessen the en- gineers’ control of the mines. Very soon it is inevitable the union trust company would be in the position of fighting the very working class it is supposed to represent, ” In the second place, there are the individuals who are guiding the insti- tution, Naturally they~will direct its policies to coincide their econ- omic interests. From standpoint we have the instructive spectacle of ‘Wm. Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, lining up with Gerard Swope, of the bitterly anti-union General Hlectric company. Mortimer Schiff, one of the great Wall Street bankers, will help Hugo Mayer, director of the Labor Bank of Ger- many, tell the New York workers how. to exploit their own fellow-workers more effectually, Luis D, Morones, the Gompers of Mexico, and the will- ing agent of every effort to dilute the militancy of Mexican labor, will talk over the matter of policy with Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, former republican secretary of the navy,.and an avowed American imperialist at Mexico's ex- pense, Sense of the Humorous. It seems that the organizers must have some sense of the humorous, for they have put on the advisory committee Charles Chaplin, the mo- tion picture comedian, and John Mac- Cormack, the Irish tendr. Altogether the whole proposition would be a roar- ing farce and a wonderful illustration of what not to do forthe workers if it were not for the fact that it threat- ens to involve the whole New York City labor movement fh a long-con- tinued program of class-collaboration of the most dangerous type. N. Y. Auto Workers Amend New Contract (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 10,—Local No. 49 of the United Automobile, Air- craft and Vehicle Workers of Amer- ica has rejected the offer of the asso- ciation group of the New York Auto Coach Manufacturers’ Association for @ new three-year contract. The union members demand an agreement for but one year. Another clause in the bosses’ proposition providing that the foremen shall be responsible to them was rejected in favor of the stipula- tion that instead they shall be ac- countable to the workers, The new wage scale Yepresents for most members of thé’ trade an in- crease of from $1 to $3" week. ASMA" Bi “By jor in Mex- Your neighbor wif] appreciate the favor—give him, this copy of the DAILY WO; ind Luis N.1 Tee extremes to which The Chicago Tribune, in common with the whole herd of kept newspapers, is willing to go in seeking to blacken forei, -born workers and create pre- judice against them is again revealed in a news item, this time from Detroit, Mich., under the headline, “State Troop- ers Take Charge of Alien Center; Hamtramck Is Again in Troubled Time.” It is the Tribune that is foremost in Chicago in seek- ing to charge every crime of the underworld, especially the shootings incidental to the profitable business of bootlegging, to the alien population. Therefore, its latest propaganda from Michigan must needs also carry this viewpoint. Hamtramck, Mich., is a municipality in itself, nestling in the midst of Detroit. ers. It is the home of automobile work- It is, in some respects, a duplicate of Highland Park, the seat of power of the Ford dynasty in the automobile industry. In 1910 Hamtramok had a population of only 3,559. This had grown to 48,615 by 1920, more than 12 times as great. It outstripped the population growth even of Highland Park, that made a showing of 4,120 in 1910, compared to 46,499 in 1920. This is a reflection of the tremendous growth of Detroit itself, that practically doubled in 10 years. Detroit stood below the half million mark at 465,766 in 1910, but showed a population of 993,739 in 1920. Including Hamtramck and Highland Park, the population of this tremendous industrial center actually leaped the million mark to 1,088,853. It was inevitable, of course, that such a huge growth in population should bring with it tremendous problems. The capitalist municipal government of Detroit solves these ques- tions in the usual capitalist way. * ” There has been a tremendous influx of Negro workers into Detroit, for instance. Instead of protecting these Negro workers in their rights, the whole ment was used against them. ower of the city govern- hen mobs attacked the home of the Negro doctor, Ossian H. Sweet, resulting in one death, the police arrested Dr. Sweet and 10 other Negroes who were subsequently placed on trial for their lives. None of the whites in the mob was arrested or placed on trial. In fact, it was claimed that the police functioned as members of the mob. lt was shown in a school canvass taken in December, 1920, that 4.5 per cent were children of native-born Negro parents; 50.5 per cent of native born white parents, while 45 per cent were children of foreign-born parents. Children of Polish parents were most numerous with those of Rus- sian parents, second. Seventy per cent of the whole population of Detroit is foreign-born or the children of foreign-born parents. * * * * There must be something wrong with capitalism’s ma- chinery of oppression when its press begins attacking this 70 per cent of the population. The shooting of Patrolman Charles Budds by Acting Chief of Police William Marquardt is not the cause but the excuse for this attack. Marquardt is said to be a protege of the city’s mayor, brought in from Gary, Ind., where the police are adepts at terrorizing the foreign-born in the steel mills. When politicians and gang- sters begin shooting it out among themselves, the capitalist press is compelled to purposely pervert the truth in order to put the odium of blame on the whole population. The fact is that the hundreds of thousands of workers in the great auto plants, including the Ford slave pens, are beginning to stir. is rife among them. he demand for organization and struggle They have seen the parasite stock- holders pocket increasingly huge dividends. They demand wage increases instead of wage cuts. It is in this crisis that the attack on the foreign-born becomes the major weapon of the employers in etroit, where the most vicious “red raids” were conducted against labor in 1920. Detroit labor will be warned in advance. The workers will stand together: born—Polish, Russian, American. sheets, inspired by their capitalist owne divide, the working class. Briand Again Takes Helm of French State (Continued from Page 1) openly fight the government then it appears doomed to defeat again, Swing to the Right. The Briand government leans too far to the right to please the chamber bourgeois majority, but for the sake of securing the passage of a budget it may withhold its opposition. Briand has chosen three men to evolve ‘a financial project, in Raoul Peret, finance minister, Louis Malvy, minister of the interior, and Lucien Lamouseux, minister of education, Malvy was president of the finance commission of the chamber and Lamoureux was reporter of the com- mission. Briand has taken on a task which he knows will be difficult, if not hope- less. He knows that his future course must be one of veering and tacking. He must steer from the right to the left and vice versa, always being cau- tious never to get too far to either side or the other of the course in or- der to hold together the hybrid gov- ernment. The opposition press today freely predicts that eventually this ministry will meet the same fate as its pre- decessor. 0 a American Debt Looms, PARIS, March 10,—The problem of France's debts to the United» States and Great Britain will be taken up at the earliest possible moment, Raoul Peret, newly appointed minister of ” | Negro and white, foreign and native The attacks of the kept , must solidify, not finance, told International News Serv- ice today. “Ambassador Berenger will con- tinue the negotiations which he has already begun in Washington, Perit said. “I plan to follow up M. Doumer’s intention and go to London for con- ferences with Chancellor of the Ex- chequer Winston Churchill, as soon as the internal financial situation has been cleared up, “My plans with regard to internal finance call for simple and speedy measures, with the first aim the balancing of the budget. I will send to the senate the tax projects, drawn up by M. Doumer and already voted by the chamber.” ' Plans for additional tax measures will depend upon the views expressed within the cabinet, Peret said. Howling Methodist Gives Millions to Aid Jesus Shouters NEW YORK, March ,—Sir Henry Lunn, an English capitalist and reli- gious leader, has turned over his wealth, estimated at many miffions, to the World Alliance for Interna- tional Friendship for the purpose of promoting unity among the churches and world peace. Forty-(wo years ago Sir Henry a Methodist missionary in India, Finding that his talent for saving dol- lars was greater than for saving souls he embarked in business. He estab- Mshed an English touring agency and built a number of hotels in Switzer. land. On the side he carried on his Telizious activitign, KING STIRS UP. MEXICO CRISIS BY RESOLUTION Condemns Department of Justice for Acts, (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 10. — The “more drastic” resolution of inquiry into the Mexican situation threatened by Senator King (R. of Utah) was in- troduced into the senate today In the form of two proposals, one to Inves- tigate immigration conditions along the Mexican border and the other, asking for a full and comprehensive report from Secretary Kellogg of all correspondence, etc., from the year 1910. ; 4 The latter resolution especially calls for the text of all protests “re- specting outrages and damages, suf- fered by American citizens in Mexico” and of all protests “against crimes, outrages, and spoilations perpetrated agsinst American citizens and ‘proper- ty in Mexico.” Correspondende_ over payménts on claims arising from such incidents is also demanded. ' “Illegal” Deportations, King castigated the department of justice and the immigration. depart- ment for what he termed the “illegal” deportation of political retugees. from Mexico. He particularly referred to the case of Manual Dimitrio Torres, returned: secretly by the American immigration authorities with the knowledge that he would be executed on his arrival in Mexico. The “so-called” Mexican constitu- tion of 1917 particularly aroused the senator’s wrath. Since the 1920 re- port of the senatorial investigation in- to the relationships ‘between the two countries King declares numerous seizures and confiscations of Ameri- can property have occurred. Petty Bourgeols Representative, Senator King in his attitude on the Mexican crisis represents the stand- point of the small business interests which want Mexico safe for their investments and trade but do not want the expenses and dangers in- cident to armed intervention. His re- solutions, of course, merely add fuel to an already serious situation. Steam Shovel Bucket Kills Two Workmen Two workers were crushed to death when a one-ton bucket of a steam shovel that was being repaired at the plant of the Federal Furnace Com- pany, Bast 108th St. and the Calu- met River, fell on them. b Little Red Library NUMBER SEVEN The Damned Agitator and Other Stories MICHAEL GOLD 10 Cents THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd, CHICAGO, ILL. is alone good reason to’ ~ Subscribe! RATES: ppg of Chicago ¥ OF YORE ssn x Six month. 800 Six monthe 460 00 2.00 ‘Three months., 2. Three months. THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Enclosed §.. . for sub to the Dally Worker.