The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 57. ae Ss 35.209,” Subscription Rar®s22" 4 nox Sha tHe! $9 FER VEy tA COOLIDGE U.N. LA. MEET TRIES 10 OUST SHERRILL GROUP Conference to Discuss Sell-Out of Liberia BULLETIN DETROIT, March 17 — William Sherrill, president-general of the Universal Negro Improvement As- sociation is preparing to defend his position at tomorrow’s business ses- sion, The Sherrill forces are gain- ing in strength. He still remains quiet on policy. Wallace, head of the Chicago divi- sion of the Universal Negro Im- provement Association has been ac- cused of political trading by the Chicago Garvey followers at the convention. The feeling between the two groups is running high and a real fight is expected in the conven- tlon before the week Is over, “+ 8 (Special to Thefaily Worker) DETROIT, March 17 — The busi- ness sessions of the fifth international convention of the Universal Negro Improvement Association have been taken up so far with the question of the seating or the unseating of the @elegates that are known to be sup- porters of William Sherrill, president general of the Universal Negro Im- provement Association. As the con- vention has been called expressly for the removal of Sherrill, the issue of whether delegates that are known to be favorable to Sherrill shall be seat- ®d has become an all-important one to the convention. 3 Ban Visitors. % All visitors except those that are very close to the Garvey group are barred from the convention, News- paper correspondents are not allowed to enter as the administration wishes to keep the charges and counter- charges that will be made as to the administration of the organization a secret to rank and file of the Univer- eal Negro Improvement Association. Fraternal delegates have not. been ~ peated as yet, tho there are several that have come representing other large Negro organizations, At the evening mass meetings Mar- cus Garvey’s slogan of “Back to Africa” is given to Negro workers as ® solution of their problems. The various speakers from the platform stress that if the conditions of the Negro are such that it is impossible to put up with them that the Negro should leave the country and go to Africa and establish a homeland there for himself. Sherrill tho he has attended the day Sp ¥ OR p, DAILY WORKER. Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 8, 1879. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1926 © per year. 4, $6.00 per year, o DODGES STR Powers Threaten War on China THE JEWISH A QUESTION TO THE ‘DEFENDER’ OF THE FURRIERS’ $ T RIK E— 8. P. ‘FORWARD’ OU say that the Forward is a “workers’ paper.” You say that your Com- rades Morris Kaufman, Sam Cohen, Charles Stetzky—all the gentlemen who are financially bound to the open shop manufacturers and with the bosses of the fur strikers—are all good comrades, that they are not guilty of secret conspiracies, You say that you are helping the furriers’ strike. Then kindly answer the following few questions for the time being; In your paper we have seen for the last few days a well-paid advertise. ment which reads as follows: “Fur Workers, Attention! “Do you want to learn a new business, which will pay you far more than you ever earned as a fur worker? “Here is your great opportunity to become financially independent. “Come between 10 in the morning and 8 in the evening for details.” And there follows in the advertisement the name and the address of a bureau, to which the furriers are called to come. So we ask you, gentlemen of the Forward, what is the meannig of this advertisement? Is not your paper simply a-seab herder? Is it permissible for a labor paper to print such advertisements in time of a strike? ANSWER! Hosiery Workers Plan _ Intense Union Drive NEW YORK, March 15—Short skirts and the preference of women and girls for vari-colored silk hose is booming the full-fashioned hosiery in- dustry and the Federation of Full- Fashioned Hosiery Workers. Expan- sion of the union is ded, in the ‘new Fashioned Hosiery department of the Textile Worker, monthly organ of United Textile Workers, with which the hosiery union is affiliated as an au- tonomous organization. Alfred Hoff- man, national executive board mem- ber of the hosiery union ‘and Brook- wood Labor College student, is editor of the hosiery news. Paterson, Dover, Passaic, Newark. Boonton and Washington, N. J., locals are growing and the New York-New Jersey negotiations for a uniform wage scale have resulted so far in the acceptance of the rates by over half the employers. A business agent for the district is to be elected to con- solidate organization work. New Eng- land -branches are holding a confer- ence in April to form a district coun- cil to facilitate their work. The union has small strikes in Quakertown, Pa., and in Durham, 'N. C. ‘The more you'll write you'll like it. sessions has been absent from many the better «Continued on page 2) “The Powers” in the Orient RUSS WORKERS’ ATHLETICS AND SPORTS GROWS Breaking Down Boycott of Capitalists “When the Soviet skater, Yakov Melnikov, unexpectedly won the world’s championship, the fairy stor- jes that Russia Was starving and dy- ing ceased in the bourgeois newspa- pers,” says Boris Bajanov, chairman of the sports committee of the Mos- com Soviet, according to a dispatch received by the Chicago Daily News from its Moscow correspondent. “It now is necessary to show the world that our union is strong and that our proletariat can beat the bourgeois champions. By competing with “the bourgeoisie we shall destroy its fanci- ful boasts and gain the sympathy of thousands of workmen.” The constant development of the Russian workers’ sports movemént has brot it to the attention of sport and athletic enthusiasts all over the world and forced even the capitalist adher- ents to give it recognition. Despite the cordon sanitarie established against the Russian workers’ sports movement by those in charge of the Olympic games, which led them to omit an invitation to Russia to attend the international games at Paris in 1924, and the failure of the social- democratic (Lucerne) sports interna- tional to invite Russia to the Frank- fort games_in 1925, the Russians have been forging to the front. The Soviet soccer football team has defeated already the Turkish team, which took-third place in the Paris Olympics, And it has delivered a de- feat recently to a crack French team in the Pershing stadium with a score of four to nothing. Now there is being organized a far eastern Olympic which will include, besides the Russians, China, Afghan- istant, Persia, India and similarly situated countries; a conference is t be held in Tiflis this summer for the purpose of consummating the plan. The Russian sports movement is af- filiated with the Red Sports Interna- tional, which has sections in every important country in Burope and a section in the United States, The Sportintern (R. S. L.) has plans for the building up of a huge red stadium on Vorobiovi Goryi (Sparrow Hills), the spot from which Napoleon took his last look at Moscow. This is to be dedicated with an international meet to which all the world may be invited in 1927, 6 The most favorite Russian games are soccer football and basketball, When that argument begins at lunch time in, your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY WORKER, says aboutit, | Ultimatum Will Expire Tharsday Noon (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, h 17.—The mask of friendship for China has been torn from the face of American imperial-| ism with thé appending of its sig- nature to Peking gov called Boxer | than a dozen maval vessels of the various are in the vicinity Tientsin, ready to enforce thelr dé- mands upon the Chinese, and six American destroyers are steaming full speed to Chinese coast from Manila. . The ultimatum, which expires Thursday aftefmoon, is a naked, brutal attempt of the imperialist powers to break the resis! | ultimatum sent the istance of the Kuomin- chun (the nationalist armies) and to permit the tool of Japanese im- + <p» (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, March 17 — A new in- dustrial crisis threatens to sweep England within the next couple of months, according to indications which are causing serious concern and fretting among business and fi- nancial circles in this country. Careful observers agree that there are big struggles ahead for British labor and the issue has been brought out with increasing sharpness by the threat- ened lockout of engineers (machinists) and the report of the coal commission which has been received with con- siderable nervousness over its con- sequences by the press. Present Wage Raise Demands. All the engineering trades of the Lancashire textile area have present- ed a proposal for an advance in wages, A similar proposal by the London District Engineering Trades Commit- tee was held up in consequence of the refusal of the bosses to meet the perialism, Chang Tso-lin to take Peking, om De nd of Ultimatum. The ulti of the powers, the United States ; Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy, demands the aban- donment of’ hostilities between ‘the remoyal of ver PelHo; the ces- sation of allomolesting of navigation signals; that all combatant naval craft remain outside of the Taku bar, refraining from interferences with foreign shipping; and the discontinu- ance of the searching of foreign ves- sels, Many of the demands are “blinds” in order thatthe powers may put on a front for the-purpose of hiding their real aim: laying open the road for Chang Tso-lin’s counter-revolutionary forces by the:removal of the mines in Pei-ho, the dismantling of the Taku forts, and the discontinuance of the searching of foreign vessels which very often are used as a ruse by Chang. The forces of foreign imperialism, supporting the Manchurian war lord Chang, are being augmented daily, Besides the reinforcements from Manila to the five-power fleet, Rear Admiral Nagano, commander of the Japanese Yangtse fleet has been or- dered to Tientsin and has been given a blank check to act in “an emer- gency.” If any joint action is under- taken by the foreign powers, Nagano (Continued on page 2.) CLAIM GERMANS COUNTERFEITED HUGE MARK ISSUE Expose Shows Officials as Forgers (Special to: The Daily Worker) BRUSSELS, Mar. 17—The Gazette has published a series of articles de- claring that the German Reichsbank authorities deliberately printed 100,- 000,000,000 marks worth of counterfeit currency in May, June and July of 1919, This counterfeit currency, the paper alleges, was used to purchase in turn a large amount of various for- eign currencies. At the time the mark had only depreciated 50 per cent. Those concerned in the transaction made millions, the articles claim, The counterfeits were in 1,000 mark notes, all dated prior to the world war, slightly smaller than the regular notes, and with a hardly noticeable difference in coloring. They were all sold abroad, The Gazette states that both Presi- dent Coolidge and the secretary gen- eral of the league of nations have been informed of the facts, The docu- ments are now being submitted to the French foreignsoffice, the paper adds. The Paris daily, The Presse, is pub- lishing the articles simultaneoysly. The charges, ff sustained, may prove much more serious than the recent Hungarian banknote scandal, N | FURRIERS SHOW SENATE TO GET CONTEMPT FOR | RESOLUTION ON _ BOSSES" JUDGE) PASSAIC STRIKE Strikers Demonstrate Against “The Forward”| ton Is Getting Results (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., March 17. The furriers’ mass picket demon- stration passed off quietly, without any disorder or interference from the police. Five thousand workers walked by twos in a picket line which began at 28th street and Sixth avenue and wound'in and out of every street from there to 24th street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. The same solid line proceeded down to.175 E. Broadway, about 9:30, and there in front of the Forward building the thousands of furriers expressed their opinion of the Forward by burn- ing copies of it which they carried in their pockets.. The entire square was filled with men and women who main- tained their orderly line of march and finally turned back to the meeting hall. There were two women arrested in the course of the morning and they were charged with disorderly conduct and fined $10 each in Jefferson Mar- ket court. Later in the day four men were ar- rested in front of 312 Seventh avenue and B. Zalkin, a manufacturer tried to charge them with felonious. ab- sault. The judge, however, insisted that the charge be changed to disor- derly conduct, after it had been proy- ed to his satisfaction that the men were union members and not gang- sters as the manufacturer charged. All four men were released on $500 bail each and will come up for hear- ing before Magistrate H. N. Goodman in Jefferson Market Court. Utica Foreign-Born Council Will Meet on Sunday, March 28 UTICA, N. Y., March 17—A Council for the Protection of the Foreign- Born was formed at a conference here at which delegates from the Workers (Communist) Party, the socialist party of Oneida county, the Ukrainian Sing- ing Society, Branch 4, the Polish Workers’ Educational Circle, and the International Labor Defense attended. The next meeting will be held Sunday afternoon, March 28, at 2:30 at 1f1 Washington street. Thieves Get Jap Papers. MEXICO CITY, March 17—The Japanese legation was thieves and important documents stolen, The secretary stated that complications night ensue if the con- tents ofthe papers taken were made ‘Phe sate was also rifled of BIG LABOR STRUGGLES LOOM = ON HORIZON IN ENGLAND AS UNIONS PREPARE FOR FIGHT Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. unionists owing to the strike at Hoe’s, where seven out of the nine hundred strikers are members of the Amalga- mated Engineers Union, | The effect of a threatened lockout of the workers in the engineering in- dustry, which seems apparent from the | hard-boiled attitude of Sir Allan Smith | chairman of the Allied Employers | National Federation may prove very far-reaching, The unions are demand- ing a national 20 shillings increase and Smith has declared that if they at- tempt to endorse their demand the employers will resist to “the fullest extent.” This is tantamount to a lock- out threat. The Coal commission has rendered its report in which it emphatically re- | commends that the government sub-| sidy ‘be discontinued at the end of April and never revived. The execut- ive committee of the miners’ union is meeting regularly with the general (Continued on page 2) Committee in Washing- " By H. M. WICKS, (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17— Within twenty-four hours a resolution NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents KE TALK CAL FINDS TIME TO SEE DANCERS; BARS WORKERS Bosses Use Labor Dept. as Their Blind (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17— Prgsident Calvin Coolidge of the union-smashing republican party, who has found plenty of time to watch Charleston dancers exhibit their wares before him, refused to meet the delegation of Passaic textile strikers that are now in Washington to de- mand the creation of a federal indus- frial relations commission to probe conditions in the textile industry, Everett Sanders, the strikebreaker president's secretary, told the delega- tion that it should “take its troubles” to the department of labor and not to the White House. “President Coolidge finds time to see Charleston dancers and others like that, but he hasn’t time to talk to a delegation representing strikers upon whom 250,000 people are de- pendent for a livelihood,” declared Weisbord as he left the White House with the Passaic strikers’ delega- tion. “* « Bosses Use Dept. of Labor. WASHINGTON, March 17—All of the mill owners have agreed to the- government's plans, which have not been made public as » for settling the Passaic textile strike, the labor department announced today. An effort to get the strikers’ ap- proval was made this afternoon by in the labor department, who con- ferred with the workers’ delegation which was refused an audience with union-smashing President Coolidge this morning. The government plans are undoubtedly an attempt on the part of the textile barons to offset the impending congressional investiga- tion. will be introduced in the United States senate requesting an investi- gation of the textile industry of the nation, This is assured after a visit to Washington of a committee of eleven from the Passaic strike zone. These men and women strikers re- presenting more than 16,000 workers now out on strike against a series of savage wage cuts in the industry that AT BRONX FORUM SUNDAY NIGHT YORK, NEW March 17 — The have reduced them to a level far be-| Bronx workers’ forum, which has its low that regular forum evenings every Sunday, aquired to maintain a de- cent stand Wt living had the benefit |ekpects an overflow crowd in its hall of the counsel of Frank P. Walsh, at 1347 Boston Road, near 169 St., Hugh Kerwin, director of canciliation ¢» WEISBORD SPEAKS entered by! Bron: former joint chairman of the national , on Sunday evening, March 21, war labor board and chairman of the |at8 o’clock. Albert Weisbord, the head federal commission on industrial re-}0f the United Front Committee that lations that laid bare the atrocious |is leading the strikers in Passaic, will conditions in the mining regions a |tell the workers of New York City the decade ago, who aided them present |5tory of the textile mill barony in their case to influential members of | Passaic and of the heroic struggle of the senate. the strikers against their powerful To Press Investigation, _ enemy—the bosses, who have at their Senator William B. Borah, ranking | disposal, the government, police and member of the senate committee on | courts of Passaic. labor and education, was the first one ane aeaaE mea conditions of the workers in the tex- ASK PAROLE FOR tile industry were even worse than those revealed thru investigations of the condition ,of the packing .house workers and the miners, which shock- ed the nation at the time they were conducted, family of nine, told the senator that eG she worked 9 and 10 hours a day for| Application for the parole of Chas, from $15 to $16 per week. R. Forbes and John W. Thompson, Theresa Staundinger showed pay [convicted of conspiracy to defraud the envelopes for a week’s work as low {sovernment thru hospital contracts, as $10 and $11 and the pay never ran | Will be filed in federal court here next above $15, These stark figures are | week, erty and misery that is the lot of the workers in the woolen mills, the in- dustry that gained the greatest bene- fits from the infamous Fordney-Me- FOREIGN 7 BORN COUNCIL Cumber tariff. Stories were told of finger-printing MEETS SUNDAY AFTERNOON | workers jn the Lodi Silk Dye Works, Sate tie “pp ger een ruc NEW YORK, March 17.—The ex. e 8 thruou' e industry, and the i y, t unexampled terrorism imposed by the Soutiva: committee a0 the Sawin foremen, who get bonuses if they suc-| CoUncI! for the Protection of For ceed in speeding-up their departments | ¢ign-Born Workers will meet Sun+ beyond the former productive capaci- day afternoon, March 21, at 2 o'clock ty. Borah said that he was convinced street, gated at the earliest possible momeut Immediate preparations must be and stated that he would do ail that | Made for the campaign for 1,000,000 he could to aid the move, signatures and the sending of a del- ~, To Introduce Senate Resolution, egation to Washington to fight Young LaFollette was interviewed | &04inst the finger-printing and regi. in the cloak room Of the senate build-| ation bills now pending. ing and after hearing the story of the interviewed. Walsh told him that the Mrs, Anna Braznak, mother of a sufficient to indicate the extreme pov- of the widespread spy system that at'the Labor Temple, 243 East 84th the whole industry should be investi- (Continved on page 2) SEND IN A SUB, ri