The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1926, Page 1

t The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ THE D and Farmers’ Government In ver pages by mail, $8.00 Outside Chicago, by mail, Vol. Ill. No. 59, er year, 6.00 per year, Subscription Rates: Ce, a he A Maps “iy, @, fp j a A, S. MOVE TO BREAK STRIKE Ry be O °, 49 Pe ah 4 po #5 When Cooltu, amy” Reduces the Taxes CATHOLIC NOB RIOTS AGAINST CHURGH DECREE i Chine in Mexico Stone Soldiers (Special to 7h Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, March 19 — A num- ber of persons Have been killed and in San Luis Potosi, pt by the governor \froops to close all churches, Federal troops are patrol- ling the streetsspf the city today but | the disorders reported still in pro- gress. i When the federal troops tried to close the churehgs they were attacked by mobs which} stoned them. The troops retalii with rifle fire. Citi- zens are sniping on the soldiers, Bishop Appears. Reports had been circulated that the Bishop of Luis Potosi, who is a Mexican, wag to be arrested. A crowd of 5,000%gathered in front of his residence. defied the soldiers. The bishop appeared upon the veranda of his-home @n@ urged the people to disperse, ‘but } appeal only aroused the mob. the . Cowboys from sur- rounding rushed into the town. Cavalry charged the crowds several times but without results and machine gun$ Were then brought out. LLL Ca (ipl = Let the bugie Sound when 3+ may. We are always ready Yo do eur snare, ATT AT Strikers Demand Senate Investigation (Special to: The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Mar. 19. — The picket lines before the Gena Worsted Mills were viciously attacked by the police. Nine men and five women pickets were arrested. Baby carriag- es and babies were thrown onto the street, five newspaper reporters were slugged by police thugs and two news reel motion picture men were beaten and had their cameras smashed. A number of newspaper photographers were clubbed and had their cameras smashed and all film confiscated and destroyed. Three autos belonging to news reporters were smashed by the police. ‘EX-BOOTLEGGER’ RUNS FOR LEGISLATURE ON UNIQUE VOTE SLOGAN (Special to The Dally Worker) JOLIET, Ill, March 19—“An hon- est ex-bootlegger!” This Is the chief plank in the platform of Rich- and J. Burrill, erstwhile partner of Lawrence J. (Butch) Crowley of gold doorknob fame, who Is running for the legislature. “I'm frank to admit I’ve violated the Volstead law as 90 per cent of the people have done in this county, and | think the voters will admire me for telling the truth,” said Bur- rill, GRAND RAPIDS AUTO WORKERS HOLDING FIRM Company Unable to Re- cruit Scabs By EUGENE BECHTOLD, (Special to The Daily Worker) GRAND RAPIDS, March 19—The dastardly injunction obtained by the Hayes lonia Body company from their all-accommodatin servant, Judge Leonard D. Verdier of the superior court, against local 3 of the Automo- bile, Aircraft and Vehicle Workers’ Union of this city, for which a hear- ing was set for iturday last, has been postponed, ybrant Wesselius, the attorney for the strikers declared that “the bill WHOLE CABINET OF JAPAN IS READY T0 QUIT New Political Lineup Looms Near (Special to. The Daily Worker) TOKIO, March 19.—A rebuilding of the Japanese cabinet shortly after the diet adjourns at the end of March is Inevitable, according to close observ- ers of the political situation here. Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki will re- sign the portfolio of home minister, which he holds in addition to the premiership, and appoint someone to that office. Railway Minister to Quit. Dr. Mitsugu Sengoku, minister of railways, is reported to be preparing to resign, due to the diet’s defeat of one of his pet projects, the construc- tion of a railway between Shiojiri and Shimosuwa. When this projeet was dropped from the budget, Dr. Sen- goku retired to his country home and sent his resignation to the premier. He was prevailed upon, however, to postpone his retirement until a later date. CHIETI TRIAL INCRIMINATING Gangster : Likely to Get Off Easy (Special to The Daily Worker) CHIETI, Italy, March 19.—The five fascists on trial here for the murder of Deputy Matteotti become more and more agitated as witness follows wit- ness in supplying incriminating de- tails of the events preceding and fol- lowing the assassination, Poveromo, one of the defendants, Jeaped to his feet and shouted “Liar!” at a witness who said he learned of Matteotti’s death from the former while both were in prison. Aldo Pu- tato, the witness, was held for nine months in jail as a suspect in:the same case, Fascist Chief, Defense Attorney, Under the guidance of Farinacci, secretary-general of the fascist party and one of the attorneys for the de- fense, Povefomo denied a previous ‘statement he claims to have made un- der duress strongly implicating the chief defendant, Dumini. A police sergeant testified that ‘he had knowledge before the murder of Dumini having sald one day, follow- ing Matteotti’s challenging speech in the chamber, “If Matteotti does not stop it I will cut his head off.” A police inspector verified that Mat- teotti’s blood-stained trousers and the blood-stained upholstery of Dumini Protest To Senators. A telegram was immediately sent by the strike committee to Senators Borah, LaFollette, Wheeler, Walter E, Edge, E, I. Edwards demanding an immediate investigation of the tex- tile strike situation and pointing out the brutal assaults of the police on the striking textile’ workers: The telegram follows: “Passaic police, cossacks have bru- tally assaulted orderly strikers this afternoon. Hundreds of peaceful men, women and children, including babies in carriages were Beaten and tramped under by mountedsmen in front of Ge- ra textile mills. Many newspaper re- porters and photographers badly club- bed and cameras»smashed. Many strikers includingywomen arrested. Demand Immediate Investigation. “The United Front Committee of extile workers representing 16,000 trikers fighting against wage cuts nd for a living wage demand an im- rediate thoro investigation of the onditions existing in’ the textile mills f New Jersey and of the abolition of ull constitutional rights guaranteed to he people, Shidehara, to Resign. The most interesting rumor in con- nection with cabinet changes is that Baron K. Shidehara, foreign minister intends to retire. Baron Shidehara is a non-party man and holds resolutely aloof from domestic politics, There is also a report that Admira! Takarabe, minister of the navy, ma; tender his resignation as the result of the failure of the navy department to obtain appropriations for construction car were found in Dumini's luggage ‘i of new ships. _ “The tortured ery of the workers after the crime. As the evidence Hy geo ope Bk Bradlee sgnagar the Newspaper Editor to Front, ‘or bread shall not be throttled by the Srows, the fascist thugs become more| tne case was to be argued,” Premier Wakatsuki's relinquigh- | ‘Ut of maddened cossacks, involved. The defense of Dumini that Matteotti died of hemorrhage in the process of a kidnapping is holding less water as the trial goes on, Political Maneuver, It is evident to political observers that the five gangsters on trial, all fanatical fascist worshippers of Mus- solini, are being made scape-goats to cover the guilt of Mussolini and other higher-ups. This does not mean that Dumini and his comrades will be punished, “Albert Weisbord, Organizer United Front Committee.” 70 Men’s Shirt Shop Workers in N. Y. Strike NEW YORK, March 19.— Strikes are now on in 70 men’s shirt manu- facturing shops where employers re- fused to sign with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union. The shirt manufacturers’ association and some independents settled, Altho the trimmers placed strike notices in the principal automobile manufacturing centers of this ‘part of the state, the Hayes Ionia company managed to get scabs thru employ- ment agencies of Detroit and other cities in the most criminal manner. Get Scabs from Out of Town. Ads were run in the Detrolt rep- tile press asking for trimmers to work “out of town,” to be hired by the company’s representatives stop- ping at Detroit hotels, About 40 men (Continued on page 4) ment of the post of home minister will be followed, it is expected, by the transfer of K, Adacht, minister of com- munications, to that portfolio. Chuji Machida, proprietor of a powerful newspaper, is sald to be slated for appointment to the communications ministry. Bakers Organize in Eureka, EUREKA, Ore. March 19—The Bakery and Confectionery Workers International union has organized a local in Bureka, i ‘SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1926 ee? WORKER. Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at thé Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, OH Suddenly Turned Pious Kirby in the New York World. PASSAIG POLICE [PASSAIC STRIKERS PRESENT THEIR PICKETS DEMANDS TO THE UNION-SMASHING ‘GERA MILLS SECRETARY OF LABOR, JAMES DAVIS (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19.—The Passaic textile work- ers’ delegation, now in Washington demanding an investigation of the textile industry and the Passaic strike, in a statement sent to James J. Davis, union-smashing secretary of the Department of Labor, rejected the proposals of the bosses and sponsored by the secretary of labor to return to work on the old conditions and then negotiate with the bosses for better terms, The strikers’ committee characterized this proposal as an attempt on the part of the department of labor to crush the textile workers’ strike and to force them back to work at starvation wages. In a statement submitted by Davis, the strikers are called upon to repudiate their present strike leadership and elect new POLICE TERROR BRINGS PROTEST FROM WORKERS New Tork labor Plans . . Big Demonstrations NEW YORK, March 19—Thousands of New York workers will meet in the big New York halls to protest against the brutal assault of the striking textile workers of Passaic by the police in front of the Gera mill. Two meetings are to be held simul- taneously. One at the Central Opera House, 205 East 67th street and the other at the New Star Casino, 107th street and Park avenue, Among the organizations that are co-operating with the American Civil Liberties Union in arranging these mass protest meetings are the Work- ers (Communits) Party, the Furriers’ Union joint board, International La dies Garment Workers, the Amalgw mated Food Workers, League for In dustrial Democracy, International La bor Defense, Passaie Strike Reliet Committee, Paper Box Makers Union, Emergency Relief Committee for Strikers, Italian Chamber of Labor and the International Workers Aid. Other organizations. have also been invited to participate in the demon- strations, . Lawrence Demands Investigation. LAWRENCE, Mass., March 19—The Lawrence United Front Committee has sent a communication to Senator Borah urging an immediate federal in- vestigation of the textile industry of Massachusetts. The organization drive for the (Continued on page 4) tcommittees to negotiate with the bosses. In answer to the demands of the bosses and the strike- breaking department of labor, the strikers’ delegation has made a coun- ter-proposal demanding that Colonel A. F. H. Johnson of the Botany Wor- sted Mills be excluded from the mill- owners’ committee, The strikers point out that the pickets before the Bo- tany mills have been clubbed, have had fire hose played upon them in freezing weather and poisonous gas bombs thrown at them at the orders of this mill owner, THE LETTER TO DAVis. The following is the letter given by the committee of strikers to Davis: “The Secretary of Labor, “Washington, D. C. “Sir:—The undersigned committee has submitted to you a plan for the (Continued on page 4) companies in Germany, Hungary, Holland. In 1924 this company tions had been made it made over Spinners. Ba ESSEX COTTON MILLS in 1924 were $1,346,209, G wage reductions, PASSAIC TEXTILE BARONS’ PROFITS} (Gathered by New York Workers’ School Research Class) BaCTANy, WORSTED MILLS—owned by the Botany Consolidated Mills, which also owns the Garfield Worsted Mills and has a con+ trolling interest in two German textile groups which have 30 affiliated cerns and secured an option to purchase 50% of the stock of that com- pany. The Botany plant covers 67 acres on Passaic and 44 in ad- © joining boroughs. It has 108 buildings. were distributed in 1923 were $2,880,147. tn 1924 after the wage reduc- 'ORSTMANN AND HOFFMANN COMPANY owns mills in the Ruhe Valley, Germany, and has a merger of the big Forstmann and Holmann mills in Werden, Germany, with the Augsberger Kammgarn a big plant called the Essex Cotton Mills in Newburyport, and owns the entire $500,000 of capital stock of the Taylor, and Eagles company of New York. ERA WORSTED MILLS—made $1,145,553 in one year before This Issue Consists of Two Sections. SECTION ONE. Price 5 Cents COOLIDGE AND DAVIS ASSIST TEXTILE BARONS Dept. of Labor Leads in War on Workers By H. M. WICKS, (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D, C., March 19.— The role of the government as a strikebreaker always ready, willing and anxious to do the bidding of the most vicious and unscrupulous ex- ploiters of labor was never more clearly exposed than in the action of the department of labor in the pre- sent Passaic strike, When the strikers’ delegation sought admittance to the white house to see Calvin Coolidge, the strike- breaker president, they were told they could not see that worthy, Coolidge’s secretary “suggested” that James P. Davis, secretary of the department of labor, was the proper person with whom to discuss the matter, Already a number of mill owners ind their agents had secured the of- icial blessing of Davis thru his ninion, Hugh Kerwin, head of the sonciliation department.of the depart- ment, of labor, which was a matter of public. knowledge, so it was not pos- sible for this cabinet member to deny the strikers a hearing. After considerable waiting, first in one room then another in the labor department, Davis came into the ‘oom. Frank P. Walsh, counsel for the strikers, presented their side of the case in a masterly manner, depicting he miserable conditions under which hey lived and worked and the general errorism existing in Passaic since the strike. ots Davis Gets Sentimental. Finally Davis, who tried to become sentimental over the fact that he once worked as a puddier iff a steel mill and after displaying some nickel plated tools that he is alleged to have used at one time, revealed the bosses offer. He denied that the proposals were drawn up by the department of labor and stated that his office had to exert pressure to bear upon the mill owners to get them to agree to the proposal, the first clause of which jegreed that the workers return to work under their old scale and that he employers make settlements with he workers in their own mills. Hugh Kerwin, who was in the room, when asked what sort of agreement were meant said it might be by groups in the mills or thru individual agreements. Knowing full well that such a proposition meant the wreck- ing of the union, this bureaucrat made the proposal with a straight face, to which Davis nodded approval, Tries to Bulldoze Strikers, The spokesman for the mill own- ers, according to Davis, was one Colonel A, F. H. Johnson of the Bo- tany Worsted Mill. According to Davis he had to practically bludgeon Johnson into agreeing to the proposal, which if put into efféct would have meant the destruction of the union in Passaic. Among other proposals Johnson agreed to was one that Albert Weisbord and the United Front Com- mittee be completely ignored and that only actual workers in the mills deal with the bosses. This was calculated to give the employers a chance to use (Continued on page 4) Czecho-Slovakia, Italy, Latvia and loaned $2,000,000 to German con+ Its net profits after dividends $3,000,000 profits. Ae eer Sepang 9 se addition to its plant in Passaic, has | : Mass, — Armitage its net profits after dividends for the | ae