The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. III. No. 55. ear ~viption Rates: Suaiae Chiceto by Sal, : i he neg <9, Soe Sit ee tet °o. ath >. “en, THE DAIL é LEAGUE PLANS COMPROMISE TO KEEP SELF ALIVE Swedes and Czechs Will Resign Seats , (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, March 15—Prospects of a decision being reached on the league deadlock seemed greater today with the announcement that both Sweden and Czecho-Slovakia will resign their non-permanent seats in the council at the open meeting of the league as- sembly now postponed to Wednesday. While this maneuver will throw the seats open for the election of any na- tion which can get a majority of votes it would be the understanding that Poland would be selected for jone of the vacancies. Sweden is ranked with the German group and Czecho-Slovakia is tied up to France. The delegates of both na- tions have announced that their gov- ernments have allowed them to pre sent their resignations. May Complicate Things. The question now arises as to what will happen to the resignations if this deal is objected to by some of the other members at the open session. It Is complicated by the question, in ease only one resignation is accepted of which would it be. France, of course, will vote to accept Sweden's and the German group to accept Czecho-Slovakia’s. Thus a more ‘tangled situation still may arise. The German delegates seem to have re- ceded from their die-hard position. “The German delegates do not intend to quit the conference before an equitable solution is_r: pacheds._one. of “the members Of the” British Press Bitter. sion stated to the press. LONDON, March 15—Settlement of the league council muddle at Geneva is further away than ever, in the opinion of the British press. Little hope is placed in optimistic reports that the German delegation’s willingness to compromise had eased the situation, and made prospects for a solution of the problem probable. N. Y. SCHOOL RAISES $1,000 Overflow Meeting Held for $10,- 000 Fund NEW YORK CITY, March 15 — Three thousand workers jammed the Central Opera House at a mass meet- ing held to raise funds in the drive for the ten thousand dollars for the Workers’ School of New York. The meeting’s result was an additional amgunt of more than $1,000 for the fund, The outstanding lists will com- plete the ten thousand dollars needed for the work and expansion of the school. The overflow meeting at the Central Opera Howse is ‘an indication of-the growing influetice that the Workers’ School is having over great- er masses of the New York workers. A good number of New York locals of trade unions have also already pledged their support to the school. JAPS BiD FOR RUSS TIMBER Negotiate for of Concession 5,000,000 ions MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., March 15.— The Soviet government and a group of the largest Japanese timber com- panies are carrying on negotiations for a concession to the latter of nearly 5,000,000 acres of rich timber lands in the Maritime Province of Eastern Siberia. A provisional agreement has been initialed by both parties. The proposed concession will be for forty- five years and will include the manu- facture of paper pulp. The Japanese will pay Russia a comprehensive tax of 25 per cent on all timber exported from the area, SILK WORKERS AT PATERSON PLAN WALKOUT National Silk Dye Shop to Join Passaic Strike (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J. March 15—New calls for leadership in a textile strike, involving the extension of the Passaic strike into Paterson with its 30,000 workers came when fifty workers of the National Silk Dyeing company walked out. The nine hundred work- ers of their mill will walk out within a day or two, according to their re-~ presentative, The strike was a spontaneous one, and was not called by the United Front Committee. “Those re — not be abandon- Weis) fter he had. res: ceived the me! ae ay at Ye did not wish to call a strike. over the heads of the Associated Silk. Workers of Patérson. This organization will “pledge support to the Paterson strik- ers and assist them in every way pos- sible to organize,” according to a statement of Fred Hoelscher, sec’y.- treasurer of the Paterson union, after a conference with Weisbord on the Paterson strike situation. Seé Spread of Strike, With more than 2,000 out of the Lodi mills, and the prospect of a strike movement in Paterson, it is en- tirely possible that a widespread tex- tile strike may result. Mass meetings are being held out of doors in Lodi, and the three halls in Garfield have been crowded to the limit this week. The second threat of death from the ky klux Klan was received by Weisbord and will be turned over to the federal authorities. Weisbord de- clared that he would ask for a permit to carry a revolver. “You know I have a medal as a marksman, won at Camp Devans,” he commented. The threat was printed with a pen, and was mail- ed from Garfield. e @,8 Plan Four-Day Bazaar. The 4-day Passaic bazaar will be- gin ‘at Kanter’s hall, on March 18. Articles to be sold at the bazaar should be sent at once by the donators to ‘Room 238, 799 Broadway, N. Y., or to 743 Main Ave., Passaic, COAL COMPANY WHITEWASHED IN MINE EXPLOSION-JURY INQUEST (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 15.—After a seven-hour inquest Into the cause of the fire and explosion which snuffed out the lives of 20 coal min at the Horning mine No, 4 of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal company on February 3, the coroner’s jury rendered a verdict of an undeterminable cause, The jury, hand picked by the coroner himself, did not include a single working miner. It was composed of Henry McEwan, foreman, J. H. Taylor, Edward Steidle, superintendent of mining at Carnogie Institute of Technology, William McCoy, inspector of mines, of the Bertha Consumers company, R. D. Maize of the Coal Mining Institute and William Rigg, chief inspector of the Pennsylvania Mine Rating Bureau. Show Company Guilty. State Mine Inspector John Pratt, who investigated the disaster for the state, testified that a state law re- quiring the drilling of holes ahead of the electrical coal cutter that was used in the mine, when the machine approaches clay veins in which gas is found, had not been enforced. He told of taking various alr readings and finding a slight quantity of gas in a corner of the workers near where the fetal explosion had occurred. He sald that he had recommended that the mt which normally employs | wash be, rockdusted, and that last [of aed ide acetic enigeen lime t September he had advised that the use of black powder be discontinued, None of these things had been done. Coroner McGregor brought out thru questioning that the type of cutter used was known as the “open type,” and that the type sanctioned by the state mine inspectors was the closed type, which was less Hable to give off a spark, It was this kind of a spark, George Denard, assistant mine boss, had told one’ of the miners who escaped the disaster, that caused the explosion, The blame for \the deaths of the 20 miners clearly rests on the shoulders of the company. But the coroner's jury was so well selected that the Maen ae received oa complete white the ded Winer nd eines wngliae & py phigt} 4 WORKER. | Entered as Second-class matter September 31, 1923, at ein Post Office at Chicago, lilinvis, under the Act of March 3, 187% mail, $8.00 er year, 6.00 per year. ULNL A. MEET OPENS WITH BIG DEMONSTRATION 2,000 Attend the First Session in Detroit ‘Sbecial to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, March 15.—The fifth in- ternational convention of the Uni- versal Negro Improvement Assocla- tion, sitting in extraordinary session, opened here with a parade. thru the | business section of the city and a mass meeting in the evening at Turner Hall, attended by more than 2,000 delegates and visitors. Frederick A. Foote, president of the Philadelphia division, presided. Wel- come addresses were made by the president of the Detroit division, Fred A. Johnson and the mayor of the city of Detroit and a speaker from the ministerial alliance, Demand Release of Garvey. A telegram was sent from the mass meeting by unanimous a sentence in Atlanta prison,, in At- lanta, Georgia, assuring him that those assembled were solidly behind the drive to have him freed. Resolutions addressed to President Coolidge, Attorney General Sargent and the president's cabinet wére sent (Continvee on page 2) GERMANS AID THE COMMUNIST PLAN TO EXPROPRIATE Confiscation Bill Gets Popular Approval (Special! to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, March 15.—Over 7,000,000 Germahs have signed the demand for the expropriation of the property for- merly owned by the various princes. This is 3,000,000 more than the num- ber actually required and indicates the popular support given this meas- ure. According to German law the reichs- tag must now vote upon the expro- priation bill. If it is disapproved it will go to a referendum of the nation 20,000,000 voters have to vote for it in order that it may become a law. The Communists are responsible for the expropriation measure and for the referendum. Tho the social-democrats have lined up behind the proposition it was against the advice of most of their leaders and only because the agitation conducted among the rank and file of that party by the Com- munists.compelled them to act or lose control of their whole organization. The Communists have carried on an aggressive campaign. A grand mass demonstration here under their aus- pices. yesterday attracted thousands. Nationalists tried to break up the |] gathering but the crowd turned on the ntruders and after a free-for-all fight n which a number got badly beaten ip the gangsters were driven off. Police who interfered aiso got more than they were looking for with the result that no further attempts at in- terference were made. The nationalists and German fas- cisti have put up a bitter opposition to the referendum and staged riots in many localities to intimidate voters from signing the petitions. The op- position set up the claim that confisca- tion of the princes’ properties would merely be the forerunner to whole- sale expropriation of private estates and concerns all thru the country, U. S. Foreign Agents to Talk to Coolidge (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, March 15—Alanson B. Houghton, ambassador to Great Brit- ain, and Hugh 8, Gibson, minister to Switzerland, arrived today on the liner President Roosevelt. They have been called to Washington to confer with President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg. consent to Marcus Garvey, who is now serving WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1926 =" Published Daily except Sunday. by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO.,,1118 W. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents \Wasnington Bivd., Chicago, IL > STRIKERS GO TO WASHINGTON LOOK OUT, BROTHER FARMER! Don't Feed the Cow to Feed the Snake. LADIES’ GARMENT | Uscé user WORKERS PLEDGE AID TO FURRIERS t|Open $100,000 Treasury to Strikers NEW YORK, March 15.— Pledging their hearty support to the striking furriers in their struggle with the manufacturers in this city, Local 22 vf the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, at a meeting in Web- ster Hall offered the furriers the whole or any part of their treasury x $100,000 if it was needed to win the strike. Ben Gold, general manager of the jaint board,» was a speaker at Local 28 membership»meeting, and following his account of\ the strike, the dress- makers gave expression to their in- terest and support of the furriers by opening their treasury to them, With this unlimited ‘supply of funds the union will be prepared to continue its fight until all its demands are won, Two men were arrested when they went to investigate a shop which was reported to be carrying on work. The union men were attacked by the own- er of the shopcwhen they appeared and they were*finally arrested and charged with felonious assault. They were later released on $5,000 bail each efter they had heen arraigned before Magistrate Goodman, who released the manufacturers who were arrested for carrying concealed weapons, Teachers Can Save Agency Fee. NEW YORK, March 15.—Teachers who wish to obtain positions in New York state’s school system will not have to pay a fee of $50 to $100 every time they seck a job. The twelve public employment offices maintained by the state department of labor are handling applications for teachers in slementary and secondary schools as well as colleges and universities and charge no fee, PULLMAN WORKERS TO HOLD ‘PROTEST AGAINST ANTI-FOREIGN-BORN BILLS bration and protest meeting against the vicious | re congress aimed at the foreign-born workers will be held in Pull- evening, March 27, at 8 o'clock in Strummil's Hall, 158 107th ‘the auspices of the International Labor Défense, lation that Call Issued for Congress to Form Republic SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, March 15.— A handbill circulated here calls upon all Porto Ricans to cease paying taxes as a means of resistance of the Yankee-dominated government, It calls upon all Porto Rican officehold- ers to resign and to call a constitu- tional convention for the purpose of organizing a republic. Porto Rica, under American dom!- nation, has suffered from the suppres- sion of its workers, and generally rot- ten conditions which characterize im- perialism. Almost 777,000 acres of the island’s choicest land is under the control of 447 American, Spanish and French corporations and individuals and the exploitation is very intense. FOREIGN-BORN PROTECTION MEET SUCCESSFUL IN W. PENNSYLVANIA (Special to The Dally Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 15.—Two hundred delegates, more than a hundred labor organizations, unions, fraternal societi like attended a most spirited conference called by the Western Pennsylvania Council for the Protection of the Foreign-Born here today at two in the after- noon at Walton Hall, The conference adopted resolutions condemning the anti-alien, breaking bills now before congress which provide for the pigeon-holing an¢ registering of all foreign-born workers working class. paign against the bills in this territory for the future were unanimously adopted, C. L. U. Head Presides, An executive committee of fifteen was elected, with Joseph Dean, of the Moving Picture Operators’ Union as chairman, and Edward Horacek, of the Machinists Local 52, was elected secretary. Charles Miller, represent- ing the Pittsburgh Central Labor Un- jon presided over the conference, On the same morning, fifty dele- gates representing twenty-five organ- izations in the Connelsville coke re- gion held a most successful conference for the same purpose in Uniontown, Pa. The movement against the in- famous bills now pending is gaining impetus in this section of the country, Pag Pmevement seacenur shop te sae arguments’ tr ouronnen {pele sraiaise fa the DAILY | ATED PORTO RICO | NEW JERSEY —_] ISTRIKERS’ HEADS SHOW NEED OF INVESTIGATION Passaic Workers Seek Congressional Probe (Special to The Baily Worker) NEW YORK, March 15—A commit- tee of Passaic textile strikers will be in Washington Tuesday to demand that a federal commission on indus- trial relations be formed to investi- gate conditions in the textile industry. The strikers are determined to force an investigation of the vile conditions that prevail in the Passe district. The manufacturers in this territory nave piled up immense profits while the workers have had their wages cut time and again. The committee in’ Washington to represent the strikers demands the in- vestigation on the following eleven points: 1, That the textile industry of New Jersey is primarily engaged in pro- duction for interstate and foreign com- merce, 2. That the vast majority of the sk."ed workers in this industry are denied a living wage by their employ- ers; that the wage level is far below that which has been found by the de- partment of labor of the United (Continued on page 2) AMTORG ENLISTS AID FOR SOVIET ELECTRIFICATION American Concerns Seek Russian Trade (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, —(FP)— March 15— American aid in two Russian electric projects is being enlisted by Amtorg Trading corporation announces Alexis V. Prigagin, elected chairman in place of Isaiah J. Hoorgin who was drowned in New York state last fall. Amtorg Trading corporation, the Russian gov- ernment’s importing and exporting concern in the United States, has al- dy sent over the plans of General Electric and of Westinghouse Electric for electrification of Moscow’s sub urban steam rail lines, Complete elec- trification of the rods will cost $10,- 000,000, The General Electric plan covers a seven mile section and in- _ © (pp) « __ |volves a $2,000,000 expenditure. Reece ee The Dnieper river Hydro-electric New Jersey Negroes are fighting for} ower project for which American the enactment by the state legislature |capital is sought will cost at least of an amendment to the civil rights |$100,000,000 to complete. The Russian act, so that persons discriminated |S0vernment aims to electrify the against in places*of public accommo- | Ukrainian metallurgical industry from dation would be allowed to bring civil {the Dnieper power plant. By harness- suit for damages. At present the right |iné the rapids it will develop 600,000 to bring action rests in a state official. | horsepower, making the Dnieper plant the greatest unit in a series of Soviet super-power systems. A woman, T. Maretskaya, is one of the four Russian engineers coming to the United States to consult with American intérests on the Dnieper river project. The trade turnover between this country and Russia in 1925 exceeded $105,000,000, considerably above pre- war, states Prigarin, Exports from the United States amounted to $90,000,000 of the total, NEGROES SEEK CIVIL RIGHTS: Fight Discrimination in Public Places (Special to The Daily Worker) representing and the Auto Death Toll 20,000, ALBAY, N. Y., March 15.—Twenty housand school children are killed in this country every year by automo- ‘les, is the declaration of Albert W. Vhitney of the National Safety Coun- 1, in an address to the New York tate safety congress today. strike and are aimed at the entire America: Plans for the cit. ws HELP THE PASSAIC STRIKERS! The International Workers’ Ald, with national headquarters at 15% W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill., announces that all preparations are made to open food stations for the textile workers now on strike at Passaic, N. J. § A committee of five, three from the strikers and two from the New York local I, W. A, has been selected to see to the distribution of food and clothing. Every worker and sympathizer, every workers’ organization is urged to send in their donations of either money or clothing to the national office of the International Workers’ Aid. F. G, Biedenkapp, national secretary, h pent the past week in the strike zone, and will personally visit the local I. W. A. organizations in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit, to urge im. mediate action. Locals please take notice,