The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1926, Page 2

AeA Page Two THE DAILY WO POLICE AND JUDGES SERVE FUR BOSSES Manufacturer Assaults Picket; Is Freed NEW YORK, March 14 — The Judges and the police force of New York City are very busy serving the fur manufacturers in every way, ar- resting and imposing heavy fines on the strikers, The workers are swoop- ed upon by the police, when they are peacefully picketing the shops, pack- ed into a police patrol wagon and brought to court. Here a heavy fine is imposed on the strikers without questioning. Judge Goodman, a son-in-law of Friedman of Friedman and Hershko- witz, one of largest fur manufacturers in New York, has proven that he is serving the fur manufacturers loyally by imposing heavy fines on strikers ond dismissing manufacturers, who assault workers with blackjacks, knives and leadpipes. When A. Glantzman, a fur operator, and Jack Walder, a fur cutter, were walking on Seventh street and Sixth avenue to the hall after they had done picket duty, they were approached by A. Abrams, a manufacturer, and his fi ons. These bosses began to beat Glantzman and Walder. Glantzman ran to a policeman and had them ar- rested for assault, When they were brought to police headquarters the Police found in their possession a few revolvers, blackjacks and a piece of lead pipe. When they were brought to court they were put under bail of $4,000 apiece for carrying concealed ‘weapons. When the case came up before Judge Goodman he dismissed the case, despite the heavy charges that were made against them and evidence enough to convict them for a few years’ imprisonment. When a striker comes up before Judge Goodman he is not so lenient with him as he is with the manufacturers. 200 Seek Settlement. Over two hundred manufacturers have applied for a settlement and their applications are being considered, while 25 shops have already settled with the union. Many manufacturers have broken away from the Fur Man- ufacturers’ Association and are ap- plying to the union for a settlement. They claim that the policy of Samuels will ruin their established business, In the ranks of the manufacturers things are not so pleasant. A strong current of dissatisfaction with the leadership of Samuels is permeating the association. Many members of the association want a settlement with the union, but Samuels and a few oth- ers are holding them back. The asso- ciation was re-organized in groups of 50 manufacturers with one appointed as a captain of the groups. Reports are that the reason why the manufacturers reorganized the asso- ciation of the fur manufacturers is to prevent the current of dissatisfaction with the leadership from growing stronger. Despite this move the dis- satisfaction grows and many manu- facturers claim that they cannot hold out any longer and are ready to break with Samuels. Launch Airplanes by Compressed Air ROME, March 14—The Italian navy has adopted a device for launching airplanes by compressed air from the decks of warships. The mechanism operates in all kinds of weather and demonstrations have been most suc- cessful, [HAITI UP IN SENATE AGAIN Report on Conditions There Buried in Committee (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 14— A new investigation on the occupa- tion of Haiti by American troops in the interests of the National City Bank, which manufactures revolu- tions and buys speculating officials by turns, is foreseen as a result of a memorandum which Senator King at- tempted to introduce on the question of Haiti written by Percival Thoby, former Haitian charge d'affaires at Washington, the representative here of the Patriotic Union of Haiti. King wished to introduce the memo- randum into the Senate record, but it was refused on a technical ground. Two reports on conditions in Haiti offered by Senator Odtlie, were read into the record, and later the docu- ment of King to the committee on foreign relations, which, under Bo- rah’s leadership, may begin a.new in- vestigation which will end like those previous: with nothing but continued subjections for the Haitians. DR. SWEET'S NEW TRIAL OPENS IN DETROIT TODAY Attempt to Railroad Negro Defendants BOSTON, Mar. 14.—Dr. Ossian H. Sweet, his brother Henry. Sweet and Leonard Morse are the first of 11 co- defendants to get separate new trials for the alleged shooting of Leon Brei- ner, one of the hoodlums that was in the party that stoned and fired at the home of Dr. Sweet. These three de- fendants will face a recorder’s court jury témorrow announces the prose- cutor’s office, Try to Railroad Three. The other eight co-defendants will not be tried until the cases of these three are disposed of. The prose- cutor declares that it has little against the other eight and as most of its evidence was against the three to be tried tomorrow, they were granted separate trials. When the case was first tried be- fore a jury on Noy. 27, 1925, and an attempt made by the prosecuting at- torney to railroad the 11 to jail, the jury after 46 hours of disagreement was discharged and a new trial given the defendants. The 11 are also facing a charge of assault with intent to kill Eric Haughberg, one of the hoodlums that was also in the attacking party. Klan For Conviction. All attempts are being made by the klan elements to convict these Neg- roes with the intention of thus ter- rorizing those Negroes that arg at- tempting to move out of the “black belt”, where housing conditions are the worst imaginable and where the death rate is two to three times that in the white districts, into . better neighborhoods. Police Arrest Fur Pickets. NEW YORK, March 14.— Interna- tional Fur Workers’ president, Oscar Shachtman, is making an investigat- ing tour to forestall attempts of New York fur manufacturers now tied up by a strike to have their work done in other cities. I. Winnick, vice-presi- dent, heads the union in Shachtman’s absence. While mass picketing of fur shops resulted in no arrests, subse- quent small groups of pickets in the strike of 12,000 New York workers have been interfered with by police. The courts usually dismiss the pickets as fast as police bring them in, the two workers are held on $300 bail for disorderly conduct. The more you'll write the better you'll like it. BRITISH LABOR WILL AID COAL ‘MINERS IN STRIKE Railroad Unions Ready to Aid Coaldiggers By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. The solid front with which British labor opposed the attack on the coal miners still holds. Repeated attempts of the owning class to split it during the 9 months industrial truce failed. British capital must fight the entire trade union movement if it renews the attempt to lower miners’ living standards when the government sub- sidy expires May 1. This is the meat of a joint state- ment issued by the special industrial committee of the British Trades Union congress and a subcommittee of the miner executive. Against Worsening of Conditions. “The committees,” the statement says, “gave full consideration to the possibility of a crisis arising in con nection with the mining situation. The attitude of the trade union move- ment was made perfectly clear last July, namely, that it would stand firm- ly and unitedly against any attempt rther to degrade the standard of life in the. coal fields. There was to be no reduction of wages, no increase in working hours, and no interference with the principle of national agree- ments, “This is the position of the trade union movement today. The two com- mittees are awaiting the report of the coal commission, and will meet again jointly specially to consider the re- port as soon as it is available.” Rail Labor Backs Miners, Railroad workers are standing firm- ly behind the miners. C. T. Cramp of the National Union of Railwaymen says, “I am certain that I speak with the approval of the great mass of rail- waymen throughout this country when I say that if any attempt is made to bring down the remuneration of the miners, as was done last July, the same resistance will be shown again by the railwaymen as was shown then.” When the union order to stop all movement of coal was issued last July the question asked by the rank and file railroaders was simply, “Does the order include all fuels, coal sub- stitutes as well as the actual product of the mines?” There was no question about ‘the men's determination to cut off the power which drives English industry. This made premier Baldwin back down, Sinking Fund Only Way to Save France, Says Rich Perfumer (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, March 14.—France can be saved only by a huge sinking fund which will be independent of all po- litical machinations, according to the declaration of Francois Coty, one of the most influential business men of the country, in an address before the American Club. He recently offered to contribute 100,000,000 francs as the start of such a fund. Coty is the political director of the Figaro, one of the great Paris dailies, He is one of the wealthiest men in the country, having accumulated mil- lions out of the business of manufac- turing perfumes, Puritan Sunday is Not Welcome. OSLO, Norway, March 14— At a general church meeting, including all the bishops assembled in Oslo, a storm of protest was evoked when ‘ertain ones tried to get the assem- dly to go on record in favor of the *uritan Sunday laws making it a Urge Congressional Investigation of All | U. S. Rubber Concerns (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 14.—Loring N. Black, New York congressman, is demanding action on ‘his resolution calling for an investigation into the rubber situation in this country. He cites the 1925 earnings of the princi- pal companies as proof that the high prices of rubber products are as much due to their monopolization by large corporations here as to the foreign control of the sources of crude rubber. These reports show that the Amer- ican tire concerns all made substan- tially larger profits last year than ever before. The Fiske comprny made net earnings of $8,958,105; Goodrich, $16,- 700,000; Goodyear, $21,500,898; United States, $17,306,670, and ithe Firestore, $12,800,412, Bhi Immediately after #he introduction of his resolution thege gompanies an- nounced’ reductions per cent in the: prices of tires Compared to a decline of 50 per centain quotations for crude rubber, LABORERS AND PAINTERS? STRIKE STILL CONTINUES Many Contractors Grant Union Demands (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, March 14. — The strike of the painters and building laborers which has tied up opera- tions on big buildings is still in force. |This is true in spite of the fact that \Mr. Carroll, secretary of the Building ; Trades Employes Association, carries |on a campdign declaring the building |laborers of Cleveland are overpaid jand are getting wages second only to |those paid in New York City. Mr. Carroll does not*heed the fact that the workers of Cleveland are speeded up and that which with their supposedly high wage of $1 an hour, would not even be earning what gov- ernment statistics declare is necés- |sary as a standard of living in the United States. is years if fully employed, and this would give them just $1,600 a year, | whereas government. bureaus declare that the minimum standard of decent \living in this country requires $1,800 a@ year. “a The painters are, practically 100 per cent organized ii Cleveland. It \is claimed that wages for painters in ' Cleveland are 7.3 per cent above the average for the 11 dargest cities of the country, and building costs are 5.7 per cent above the average for those cities. Detroit, on the other hand, an open shop city, pays wages 5 per cent below the average of the 11 cities and building costs are 16.4 per cent above the average for the 11 cities. The independent contractors are signing up more and)more every day with the painters but the work on the Union Depot, and Telephone Building is at a standstill and will remain so despite the barrage of pro- paganda that the open shoppers are carrying on to induce the men to re- turn to work. Riffs Inflict Losses Upon Spanish Troops (Special to The Dally Worker) MADRID, March 14—A communi- que issued by the war office today ad- mits that 30 native Spanish soldiers were killed in the fighting in the Larache zone yesterday. Many pris- oners are claimed to have been taken and the operations are alleged to have been successful. Owing to the cen- RKER / The laborers work only 200 days a 4 Coral Gables Poster in Working Class Districts May Get Results in Time By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. VENTER S last lashes of viciously bitter wind are begin- ning to tear effectively at the huge poster that has blat- antly proclaimed to all the world, from its strange location in the sooty reaches of North Halsted street, Chicago, the at- tractions of “Coral Gables—Land of Sunshine and Fortune.” * * * * In this “Goose Island District,” on Chicago’s near north side the poverty stricken drag out a weary existence among lumber yards, grain elevators, tanneries, soap factories, steel mills and the endless passing of railroad trains, many of them destined for the other side of the continent. ‘The Depths” of Chicago are located in and about “Goose Island.” Just why the Florida realtors should have their scream- ing publicity put up at such a spot is a mystery. The only answer is that their millions of dollars devoted to far-flung advertising resulted in the bill posting trust spreading the tidings about Florida sunshine everywhere, even in the dark places of the great cities. : * ° e ° | find that “Goose Island” has not been. selected for signal honors. There is another huge poster over in “Little Italy,” one of the densest populated centers in the city. There is another out near the Pullman shops on the south side. In fact, they dot the working class districts of the city and of-the nation, a challenge to the workers everywhere to seize the opportunity to enjoy this land of sunshine now set apart as the playground of the idle and parasite rich. In the Union of Soviet Republics the workers get their vacations to go to their Floridas and Californias, to the Cau- cuses and Crimea. That is part of their right as workers. In the United States the workers are kept close to their jobs. Vacations are unknown except in those rare instances where “the faithful” have toiled loyally and without protest for the same boss five, ten or twenty years, as the em- ployer decrees. Yet even this is held up as a bait for labor to blind its eyes to the bad conditions under which it toils. In the Soviet Union the workers enjoy their vacations as a right granted to all labor. * * * ° The lot of the worker needs no touch of exaggeration to emphasize its horror. During the months of January and February, last year, 872 babies under one year died of 7,743 born in Chicago. The death rate was more than one out of every ten. There has been a slight falling off for January and February this year. It is claimed that 708 babies have died out of 9,195 born. But the decrease is not found among the workers’ children. The plan proposed by the Chicago health department, for further cutting down the death rate, does not mention better housing conditions to combat disease, better food for the mother, improving the immediate surrounds of the newly born babe. That would benefit the working class and that would be Bolshevism. Instead the health department proposes improving its human milk dairies that can only benefit the upper and mid- dle classes. Working class mothers, and it is they who are ex- pected to become human cows, may sell their milk. But this will not benefit the babies of the working class, whose par- ents cannot afford to buy this food. It is claimed a babe needs 30 ounces of milk. It is proposed to sell this human milk as high as 30 cents an ounce. That would mean $9 per day. That is beyond any but purses of the rich madames on the North Shore “gold coast,” who are too degenerate to give the proper care to their own flesh and blood. Yet work- ing class mothers are expected to sell their milk as low as six cents an ounce. In the midst of poverty it can readily be guessed that she will part, even at this price, with the milk that rightfully gat. to her own child. This is capitalism's remedy for the murder of the children. It is a remedy that does not benefit labor and that the workers cannot accept. The Coral Gables, Florida, poster, with its many bril- liant colors, should inspire the workers to think of their own lowly condition. In that it may do some good. It should urge them to struggle for their class and its victory. The sunshine of the Crimea is now the her! every Russian worker. Florida and California will some day become the playground of the American working class, where the mothers and children of the workers will learn how to live, and not continue to die in the disease-breeding slums of great cities under capitalism. ° ee Rich Goes to Prison, (CLOAK MAKERS | tors used by a jobber and prevention MAKE DEMANDS | ON MEDIATORS | Union Spokesmen Want Original Proposals (Special to The Dally Workery NEW YORK, March 14.—The orig- inal demands for a guaranteed mini- mum number of weeks employment, limitation of the number of contrac- of his dealing with nonunion shops, the 40-hour week, higher minimum wage scales, equal distribution of work, and the power to enforce such an agreement were demanded again by the cloakmakers union in the final heating before the governor's special mediation commission. Contract Not Carried Out. “Our present contract, made with the cloak manufacturers and jobbers two years ago, has never been carried out,” union/spokesmen declared.” “Ac- cording to their own report, 33 per cent of the jobbers belonging to the Merchants’ Ladies Garment Associa- tion have contributed nothing to the unemployment insurance fund and 40 per cent of the ladies’ garments are still being made shops employing less than the 44 operators required by the agreement. “Unless we have access to the books of jobbers and know the sub- manufacturers who contract to make garments for each jobber, agreements are useless. The number of contrac- tors doing business with a jobber must be limited and the jobber instead of being a free lance must be held responsible for the enforcement of union standards in the shops of his sub-maunfacturers if the ladies gar ment industry is ever to be com- pletely unionized.” Jobbers Bane of Garment Trades. The cloak and suit industry has broken up into so many factors that the situation between the union and employers is highly complicated. Job- bers are wholesalers, maintaining stockhouses and farming out actual manufacturing to contractors. In- side manufacturers are also whole- salers but have garments made in their own shops. They give work out to contractors as well. Jobbers and inside manufacturers play off con- tractors against one another to beat down pri¢es for work. As a conse- quence the myriad of little sab-manu- facturing shops competi! break down union standards of production and wages. Unlimited right to discharge and reduce wages and removal of all con+ tract restrictions was demanded by Henry H. Finder, president Indus- trial oCuncil of Cloak and Suit Manu- facturers, representing 189 inside manuacturers, “We must have the right to rule that the shirker and agitator should go,” said Finder, “We must be able to take on workers in the rush season and discharge them when we don’t need them.” Defend Jobber System. Contractors, thru Henry Uviller, claimed that the jobber- contractor system under which 75 per cent of garments are manufactured will re- main and that until a definite system of control was established to regulate the deaings of jobbers with the thousands of small shops whch make his garments, the industry would re- main in its present chaotic state. The governor's advisory commis- sion of five, appointed two years ago when the thousands of cloakmakers struck, serves as an arbitration board nd issues reports on its investiga- ions of the ladies’ garment industry. will submit its final recommenda- ms within a few weeks. Breakdown of League Looms Big at Geneva venal offense to work or enjoy one’s elf on Sunday. Approve Abolition of Legal Killings in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON, March 14 — The proposal to abolish capital punish- ment in. the District of Columbia has been approved by the house district committee to which the bill was re- ferred, Proponents of the legislation hope to use it as a model for similiar measures to be Introduced into the state legislatures. sorship the government claims of Mor- rocan victories are heavily discounted. New York Commissioner Shows Solidarity with Textile Mill Owners by Arrestin Thirty-Three Passaic Tag-Day Workers NEW YORK CITY, March 14.— Thirty-three Passalc textile strikers | Pextile Bosses. Refuse to Meet with Strikers and sympathizers were arrested here — for attempting to hold a tag day lemonstration for the purpose of col- io lecting funds for the aid of the Pas- (Continued fram page 1). saic workers. Despite the persistent |°PPOrtunity to committees and indi- refusal of Bird 8, Coler, New York’s | #4uals to try their luck with the commissioner of public welfare, to | 2 No one can say that the grant a permit to solicit funds, a|%ttikers have not been willing to con- couple of hundred strikers arrived in | fF and to have their side brot out. New York from across the river and| While these overtures are being began carrying on a very successtul|™ade the strike is spreading. The drive, which netted them a few hun-|¢Mtire force of the Lodi Piece Dye dreds of dollars, Works is out and the report is that Coler had instructed his police to | the bosses there have decided to close arrest anyone who did this work with-|the plant which normally employs out a permit, and thirty-three of the |OVer 4,000 workers, The police have taggers were picked up and brought|™ade no attempt to interfere, and the into the court of Magistrate Henry | 4etectives and outside deputies have M. R. Goodman, on the west side, |#lso remained passive, Goodman, expressing his solidarity] This morning 50 walked out from with the mill ‘owners in New Jorsey,|the small Dye Works plant in Pater- gave them all suspended senten son that employs 900, It is said this and demanded that they leave New| plant will be on strike within a few York forthwith, days. Next comes the big dye plant The International Labor Defense, | Which has 7,000 workers. The entire however, announces that it will con-|force is hop ly underpaid and the tinue to raise money for the defense | conditions are no longer to be en- of the striking textile workers. Its |dured, attorney, Joseph Brodsky, defended the taggers, JACKSON, Mich., Mar. 14— Arthu Rich, millionaire’s son, became. con- vict 18848 at Michigan state prison today, Rich, who was sentenced to life im- prisonment for criminally attacking Miss Louise King, college girl, was questioned, registered and a short time afterwards dressed in the regula- tion prison denim and placed in soli- tary confinement for two weeks under quarantine regulations. (Continued from page 1) He has LOS ANGELES! and constantly increasing. virtually no defenders. Locarno Spirit Disappearing. On the other hand, the failure to reach a solution and to secure Ger- many’s entrance to the league will au- tomatically invalidate all the famons Locarno treaties, Europe will ho back from the standpoint of international re- lations to where it was befors the ne- gotiations began but with a consider- able increase of bad feeling. Inabil- ity to reach an agreement wil! almost certainly resuit in the fall of several governments, This is the fate which is holding Stressemann and Luther here, as well as Briand. It is rumored that Austen Chamberlain has already pre- pared his Attend the Most Unique “Laying the Cornerstone” Organization of the DAILY WORKER Avecles Builders’ Club at the celebration of THE PARIS COMMUNE On this day— SEND IN A SUB, SSS SESE: Fourth Jubilee Celebration of “Freiheit” at the Mecca Auditorium _ 55th Street and 7th Avenue, New York City Saturday Evening, April 3rd, 1926 Oratorio “DIE TZVAI BRIDER” Words by J. L. Peretza——Music by J. Schaffer with the Freiheit Singing Society and the New York Symphony Orchestra. Conducted by Lazar Weiner, Altogether unmentioned by the press is the part which American di. plomacy is playing behind the scenes. American imperialism is not interest: ed in building up the power of a league which threatens to units all Europe finally against its own exac- tions. On the other hand its interna- tional bankers want a peacetnl Europe in which it may sink further millions under profitable condition: Spee hoses Thursday Evening, March We pledge our allegiance to the working class and we ORGANIZE to better serve the cause. Every reader of The DAILY WORKER will be welcome to the meeting. Every Daily Worker Agent will be present. at 138% 8. Spring Street When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- ow—show them what the DALLY WORKER says about it, ! Tickets $1,00, $1.50, $2.00 ee SEND IN A 8UB,