The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Sfandard-for a Workers’ and ‘Farmers’ Government the oat Office at Chicago, Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923; THURSD. In barge ey by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per-year? Vol. Ill. No. 56. Subscription Rates: TORS ASK PA ee ; 6 v US. JOINS tn ULTIMATUM 0 “Friends of the Chinese People”—Chamberlain and Chang-Tso-Lin NATIONALISTS Kuominchun Will Com- ply If Chang Does (Special to The Dally Worker) PEKING, March 16 — The United States has joined with other powers in delivering an ultimatum to the Chinese government demanding that hostilities at Tientsin, cease before noon Thursday. The ultimatum insists that all fighting in the district be- tween Taku and Tientsin, a stretch of about thirty-eight miles, be halted at once. Mines and other obstructions are to be removed, \ The powers demand that navigation signals be restored and that the gov- ernment pledge itself never to inter- tere with them again. All combatant vessels are to remain outside the Taku bar. Searching of vessels of foreign registry is to cease, Unless satisfactory assurances are given on all these points the naval authorities of the powers, the ultimatum states, will take such measures as are neces- sary to guarantee freedom of naviga- tion from Taku to Tientsin, The ultimatum was delivered be- cause, it is alleged, the Chinese gov- ernment ignored the note sent by the powers last week asking that foreign shipping be respected and obstructions in the harbor be removed. Will Cease, If— In reply the official spokesman of the people’s army states that his fac- tion will “Be only too glad to cease its activities in the Taku ports, if the naval forces of the powers will prevent, the entrance of Fengtien LABOR 0 cruisers.” The spokesman said the protest would arouse a new wave of: Russ. Co-op ‘Head An agitation against the “unequal treat-} gwers Misstatements: jes” concerning ‘China; (Special to The Daily Worker) s+ © i ee LONDON, March 16 — “Entirely berg P. os March 16 — Six! orroneous” is the Russian reply to the Pere os Onecrorare aie Bow 4a: description of the position of coopera- tion in that country, given bya book route to China, according to an an- nouncement made at the naval base “ entitled, “The Co-operative Movement here. Besides the McCarmick and in Soviet Russia,” published by the Bulwer, reported yesterday as leav- international labor office of the league. ing, the destroyers Simpson, Kasall, M. A. B. Gourevitch, representative Parrott and MacLeish are under or- of Centrosoyus in London, has made ders to proceed to Chinese waters, he following reply to these mistate- See ments, Hongkong Cut Off. “In the period when, according to LONDON, March 16. — An anti-|the I. L. O. book, ‘co-operative activity Christian wave is reported sweeping | had completely disappeared,’ civil war Hongkong. The city is placarded with |and intervention had closed practical- posters against foreign imperialism. |ly all the frontiers of the country, and Steamer communication is cut off |famine was the result, Growth Begins. with the outside world. “fae “Immediately after the clearing up Jap Cruiser Sails for Taku, of the various battle fronts and the TOKIO, March 16, — The cruiser |introduction of the new economic Hirado has been ordered from port policy, co-operation began to grow Arthur to Taku. The cruiser Tone, rapidly, as an organization based on flagship of the China fleet, arrived|the activity and initiative of the at Tientsin last night, bearing Rear | workers and peasants, Admiral Nagano, Japanese command-| “The extent of its growth may be gauged from the fact that in 1914 the er-in-chief. The parliamentary oppo- sition has been trying to make politi-| Russian consumers’ co-operatives had cal capital out of the critical condi-|a membership of 1,650,000, their cap- tions in China but the press is pre-|ital was $16,087,500, and annual turn- serving a remarkably calm attitude. lover $145,000,000; in 1922 their: mem- bership was 4,936,255, with a capital of $72,500,000, and turnover of $426,- 500,000; whilst in 1925 the member- ship had increased to 10,000,000, their capital to $156,000,000, and turnover to $1,750,000,000. Editor's Note:—The English. pound, is given a value of $5, which is slight- ly over its value but the excess is in- }considerable.) , “At present,” continued M. Goure- vitch, “the share of the Co-operative movement in the total international trade of the Soviet Union amounts to 50 per cent, the remainder being made up of 25 percent state trade and 25 per cent private trade, “Co-operation in the U. 8, 8, R., con- sumers, as well as agricultural, has gained such power and development because its interests coincide with the general economic interests of the people and of the state as a whole. Delegates’ Witness. “May I draw your attention,” M. Gourevitch concluded, “to the fact that the official delegations of the In- ternational Co-operative Alliance and the English C. W. 8., which visited Russia in 1922 and 1925 respectively, completely bear out my attentions? ““The co-operative movement in Russia,’ they said, ‘occupies a unique (Continued on page 2) Amsterdam Will Hold Conference, Aug., 1927 AMSTERDAM, March 16.~—The next International Trade» Union Congress ‘those of an opposite race, the ord of the International Federation ot vides. Violations are. pun-, | Trade August EXPOSE LIES OF | | Soviet REPRESENTATIVES WILL DISCUSS FINANCES WITH FRENCH GOVERNMENT; NO THAT ART LOSE SENATE cipitates Bit- ‘a Fight (Special to. The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 16 — The sub-committee df the committee on privileges and elections has reported to the full cammittee that Capt. Daniel F. Steck,sdemocratic candidate for senator from:lIowa in last fall's elections, was elicted over Smith W. Brookhart, who has been serving un- der a certificate of election given by the Iowa authorities. The report of he sub-committee, composed of two epublicans and: two democrats, was inanimous, \ The recommendation was based on the conclusion that by canvass of all votes cast Steck had an actual major- ity of 76 ballots. If the obvious inten- tion of the voters was taken into con- sideration this would be increased to a plurality of 1,420. Resignation Urged. The*teport is certain to be sustain- ed by the senate, tho Brookhart has announced his intention of fighting to the bitter end. Whether he will carry out his threat is doubtful. Friends are urging him to resign before the ques- tion comes up in the senate. Brookhart will ‘contest the repub- lican nomination this year with Sen. Albert Cumminsy who has been in the : . senate since 1908}and who holds the From left to right, top: Rakovsky, |important post ‘of chairman of the Preobrajensky, Tomsky,~- Mdivani, |committee on the judiciary, Cummins Sheikman, Piatakov, Dolzov and | will be a candidate to succeed himself. Reingold. A prolonged debate over the com- mittee’s recommendation may jeopard- ize Brookhart’s chances, as the last lay in which a candidate may file for the senatorship is April 27, Republicansrin a Dilemna, The acceptance: of the report will reduce the republican membership in the senate to fifty-five and increase the democratic ranks to forty. It is this fact, combined with the possibil- ity that if unseated Brookhart may be able to win the republican nomination trom Cummins, one of the old stand- pat warhorses ofthe republican party in the senate, which has prolonged the investigation until the republican: could decide which horn of the dilemma to grasp, e- 8.2 Bitter lowa Fight Looms. DES MOINES, Iowa, March 16, —- One of the bitterest elections in Iowa's history lies ahead if the United States (Continvet on page 2) MARRIED NINE TIMES AND DIVORCED EIGHT; SHE WANTS ANOTHER “1 have never been married to the right man,” commented Mrs, Henry Meyers Thornburg Poulos Kardran Kalivas Sarmarsokos, 31, as she ap- plied for her ninth divorce. This much-married lady is a Chicago resident, Utica Co-operative Urges War on Fascism (Special to The Daily Worker) UTICA, N. Y., March 16—The Utica Co-Operative Society at its annual membership meeting adopted a reso- lution denouncing the fascist attacks on the ItaMan co-operatives and. en- dorsing the call for an international conference of delegates from the Réd International of Labor Unions, the Amoterdam International Federation of Trade Unions and the International Co-Operative Alliance to formulate ways and means of combatting the { fascist menace to workers’ and farm- | ers’ co-operatives. {INDIANAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL PASSES RACE SEGREGATION BILL ‘Special to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, March 16— Mayor John L. Duvall had before him today an ordinance passed by the city council at a stormy session last night providing for future seg- regation of whites and Negroes In the residential sections of Indian- apolls. . Only by written consent of a ma- jority of property holders in the neighborhood can a person of. one SHOE WORKERS HAVE INTENSE “UNION DRIVE Organize Many During Busy Season (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 16.—Steady progress in organizing Brooklyn shoe workers is reported by Shoe Workers’ Protective Union Organizer, Pascal Cosgrove. The busy season for women’s novelty shoes is on and work- ers respond readily to the union. Co: grove found workers waiting outside factory doors at six in the morning for one of their fellows who carried the key to let them in. They work on4 piece work rates and come as early possible and stay late. The employ- ers come late and go early. The worker with the key liked the union and refused to let the other work- ers go in until they heard about it. The result was a 100 per cent union shop and the employer signed an agreement quickly. | I Take this copy of the DAILY with you to, the shop Unions will\be held in Paris ho hid lc ' MARCH 18, 1926 t Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, GE» *? PUBLISHING CO,, 11 KER. Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 13 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, J. S. Helps Wreck League Meet CONFERENCE AT | GENEVA QUITS IN A DEADLOCK Germany's Admission Is Postponed to September GENEVA, March 16. — Hopelessly deadlocked after over a week of in- cessant bickerings, with every effort of all the delegates bent on prevent- ing’ an exposure of what has been going on behind the scenes, the coun- cil of the league of nations detided this evening to postpone Germany’s admission to the league until the next regular meeting, scheduled for Sep- tember, For the first time during the pro- ceedings the hand of the United States became evident when rumors spread about the city that America was backing Brazil in the latter’s de- termination to veto Germany's entry uniess itself is assured of a permanent seat in the council, italy Balks. Italy was reported to be support- ing Brazil, also. Italy, however, by the war debt agreement and the Mor- gan financial advances is under the domination of American imperialism. Thus it becomes clear that from the very beginning the influence of the United States has been exerted quiet- ly but effectively to block further consolidation of the power of the league, A Spanish Monkey Wrench, After it became evident that Brazil would not recede from, her. position Spain threw @ second monkey wrench into the machinery by announcing that while she would not vote against Germany's entry she would herself resign from the league unless given a permanent seat in the council. Resignation Offer Starts Trouble. The day had been busy with at- tempts to reconcile the vital interests of the various national combinations. It became soon evident that the offer of Sweden and Czecho-Slovakia to re- sign their temporary seats in the council had merely produced a more widespread struggle for advantage. Czecho-Slovakia attached as a con- dition to her withdrawal a promise by Germany that she would support Ru- mania for membership in the council at the September session, Rumania, like Czecho-Slovakia, is a vassal of France. Germany refused to make the promise. France could, of course, have gone ahead on the basis of the Swedish re signation alone. The French, how- ever, feared that the assembly would re-elect Sweden, in which case they would have gained nothing while on the other hand they would have shown their inability to secure Poland, the seat Briand had promised. South American Nations Meet. That Brazil’s demand for a perman- ent place on the council as the re- presentative of the South American countries did not meet with their sup- port was evident when the delegates from Columbia, Chile, Venezuela, Uru- guay, Paraguay, San Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua and San Do- mingo, meeting together, adopted re- solutions declaring the matter of (Continued on page 2) JRIVE IS ON 10 ORGANIZE NEGRO LAUNDRY WORKER Many Meetings Held in New York NEW YORK, March 16.— Mass neetings of Negro laundry workers we being hqld in different parts of New York City in an attempt to get the 20,000 Negro laundry workers that are unorganized into the unions, A Joint committee from the Women's Trade Union League, the trade union committee for organizing the Negro workers and the International Laun- dry Workers’ Union are conducting these meetings in an effort to bring the vast mass of the over-worked and under-pald, Negro workers into the unions. It is stated that 75 per cent of the ‘aundry workers in New York are Negroes. Most of the women that work in the laundries are mothers having large families, RATIFICATION OF ITALIAN DEBT 1S NOW DECLARED CERTAIN IN THE SENATE WASHINTOGN, March 16.—Ratk fication of the Itallan debt settle- ment during the coming week is predicted by administration spokes- men, They say they have enough votes from the democratic side of the senate to assure them of tri- umph. Banking pressure has been applied in some southern | states, and the views of big mill owners and shippers have been invoked in NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents SAIC STRIKE PROBE TEXTILE STRIKE DELEGATION IS IN-WASHINGTON Borah and LaFollette Support Demands (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 16-— The Passaic textile workers’ delega- tion has arrived in Washington and has interviewed a number of senators with a demand that they recommend others. The courage of the demo- cratic opponents of debt cancella- tion to Mussolini has ebbed. Mus- solini has the backing of American business. He will get the settle- ment, get new credits, and prepare for his promised war to secure col- onles. At this juncture James M. Beck, craftiest of corporation lawyers, whose services to Wall Street have been numberless, issues a warning that half of Europe has fallen under the sway of dictators, and that America must jealously guard her liberty. Coolidge and Mellon keep straight faces. MURDERERS OF MATTEOTTI ARE NOW ON ‘TRIAL’ Five Fascisti Before a Whitewash Court (Special to The Daily Worker) CHIETI, Italy, March 16.—The trial of the five fascisti, who kidnapped and murdered Giacomo Matteotti, so- cialist deputy for his opposition to the black-shirt dictatorship of Benito Mus- solini, opened in this small hill town this morning. Armed Fascists in Courtroom. Hundreds of armed fascists and soldiers are in the town under the evcuse that they have come “to pre- serve peace and maintain order.” Workers from many nearby cities have come to this town in the Apen- nines to see the type of “justice” that the fascist controlled court will deal out to the murderers of those who op- pose the rule of the black-shirts. It is not expected that the murder- ors of Matteotti will be given death sentence. The opinion prevails that the five will be set free as the mur- der was directed and ordered by the higher circles of the fascist party and that in the carrying out of the act their tools had imbibed too much wine and bungled the job. Trial Is Huge Farce, The workers in the courtroom point out that the judge and the prosecutor are close to the fascisti and that as far as “justice” is concerned, the trial is a mere formality of blaming some of the goats—the bunglers—and in this way whitewashing Farinacci, Mus- solini and the other higher-ups in fas- cist circles, The five that are on, trial are Amerigo Dumini, the leader of the as- sassins, who claims to have been born in St. Louis, Mo., in the United States; Volpi, Viola, Poveromo and’ Malegria, Roberto. Farinacci, secretary of the fascist party, is the chief counsel for the five fascists, As soon as. the court opened the names of the assassins were called. (Continued on page z.) ALIEN DEPORTATION I$ ONLY BLIND, SAYS DISTRICT ATTORNEY JOLIET, Ill, March 16—Edwin A. Olson, United St district attor- ney, in an addi here to the Nor. wegian Nordstjarnan (North Star Benefit Society) asserted that the wholesale deportation of alien sus- pects in Chicago and other large cities was only a blind to cover up the incapacity of public offic charged with the enforcement o: law, “How can you hope to eliminate crime by deporting the alien when the great majority of our criminals are born and reared in this coun- try,” was one of the questions he |store the schedules of wages employes, put to his audience, sangnidiiodhs (C22 8 to congres@ the creation of a federal commission on industrial relations, Patterned after the United States com- mission on industrial relations of the Taft administration, to investigate conditions in the textile industry of New Jersey. The strikers’ delegation led by Al bert Weisbord, their leader, and Frank P, Walsh have approached Senator Borah, republican, of Idaho, and Sen- ator LaFollette, progressive repub- lican of Wisconsin, with their de- mands. Both of these senators de- clared they favored an inquiry into the textile industry thru the senate education and labor committee. Walsh, in presenting the demands of the strikers characterized labor con- ditions in the textile industry as “the worst I have ever seen.” He placed the blame upon the mill owners for the wages they paid. The delegation said wages amount- ed to from $12 to $22 a week. One woman, the mother of nine children, said she received less than $1,000 last year, and that her husband earned but $35 jn two years, The strikers’ delegatiog consists of Albert Weisbord, Stephen Resetar, |Frank Giacomini, Matyas Hady, An- “\tia Broznik, Nancy Sanduswy, Cari J. Trocolo and Frances Janicku, dele- gates from the various mills, and a number of those in sympathy with the strikers. WORKERS PICKET PATERSON SHOP: BROADEN STRIKE Motorcycle Police to Club Strikers PASSAIC, N. J., March 16.—While the strikers’ delegation is in Washing- ton demanding a congressional investi- gation into the conditions existing in the Passaic textile district, the textile strikers are preparing to win over the workers at the East Paterson plant of the National Silk Dyeing com- pany to down their tools and demand @ wage increase and recognition of a union, The Associated Silk Workers are very much interested in organizing the dye house workers and will co- operate to the fullest possible extent with the Passaic strikers to pull out the shop, Sheriff George P. Nimmo of Bergen county and County Chief of Police Petre Siccardi have recruited a force of gunmen and put them into uniforms and have fifteen motorcycle cops sta- tioned at the plant. Both of these tools of the textile bosses have threat- ened with arrest any of the strikers who dare to call on the workers at the Hast ‘Paterson plant to strike. The police thugs have been armed with riot guns and tear gas bombs, The police have been instructed to use their nightsticks whenever they think that the strikers are not “main- taining the proper peace,” The action of the police here has convinced the strikers that the same methods as were used by the police of Clifton and Passaic will be used against them to prevent them from pulling out the National Silk Dyeing shop. The strikers are determined to do so and will continue their picket. ing of the plant regardless of the threats of the police to use the riot guns on them, Amalgamated Strikes Against Wage Cuts BOSTON—(FP) — More than 100 men and women ‘members of the Bow ton Amalgamated Clothing of America are on strike as a protest against a reduction in wages, ” shops of nine other local The 7 turers will be struck unless they ously paid -their