The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY! WORKER SIXTY BOSSES GRANT DEMANDS OF FUR WORKERS Strike Ranks Solid; Em- ployers Split (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 22—The fur manufacturers’ opposition to a 40-hour week and equal distribution of work in the shop is rapidly breaking down, according to officials at the Furriers’ Union, which for the past five weeks has been conducting a strike in the industry in the city. These two im- portant demands of the fur workers have been most bitterly fought by the manufacturers; but with the be- ginning of the busy season in the trade, applications for settlement on the union’s terms are coming in from hundreds of manufacturers. The set- tlement committee has opened special headquarters to handle this work, Sixty Shops Resume Work. Altho all relations between the union and the Association of Fur) Manufacturers are completely sev- ered because the association refused to entertain the demands of the work- ers, individual members of this asso ciation have already settled with the union, and this morning opened un- der the new agreement. This makes a total of 60 shops now operating and new ones will be added daily from among those who have already signi- fied their desire to sign the new agreement. In addition to the 40-hour week and equal distribution of work the new contract grants the furriers their first wage increase since 1917—an ad- vance of 25 per cent over the pres- ent wage scale. There is also to be no overtime work, and the employer agrees to pay 3 per cent of his weekly salary budget for an unemployment insurance fund. Mass Picket Demonstration. In protest against the heavy fines and jail sentences. imposed upon strikers arrested for peaceful picket- ing during this past week the union officials have called upon the 12,000 fur strikers to appear on the picket line this morning for a mass picket demonstration. The union in this way will assert once again its legal right to picket in an orderly fashion the shops which are on strike. The union claims that peaceful picketing has been repeatedly interferred with, and that arrests have been made and fines imposed without cause. The strikers gathered in the fur manufacturing district at 7:30 and walked thru the streets from 30th Street to 23rd street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, and then down to their meeting halls on the east side. Intl. Harvester Co. Increases Dividends The past year’s business of the In- ternational Harvester, which has ro- flected the generally good business of 1925, coupled with intense exploitation of the workers in its plants and high prices to farmers for agricultural equipment has made it possible for the board of the directors of the firm to increase dividends to stockholders. The company had been paying $1.25 a share quarterly, This was raised to $ Holders of International Harvester stock now get $6 a share annually. 3rd Thru the 4th Convention development of the American Communist theses, declarations of the last convention of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. 50 Cents. Dictatorship vs. Democracy By Leon Trotsky. This book which has jone into many editions fresu languages Is a classic on the subject written by one of the most brilifant writers In the world Communist Movement. Paper, 50 Cents. From any Daily Worker Agent or The Daily Worker Pub, Co. 1113 W. Washington ‘gh Blvd. Chicago, TL. By ©. E. Ruthenberg. | The Menace of A history of the dif- . ferent i of the Opportunism In the American movement, these dangers have become apparent. timely booklet completely annihilates contribution to Communist clarity. PARTY ORGANIZATION With an Introduction by A most essential pamphlet for every Communist and those who would learn the form of organization of the American Communist Movement. stitution, organizational charts, plans for shop nuclei, etc. BOSTON CAPMAKERS ISSUE A CALL FOR CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY NIGHT TO AID PASSAIC TEXTILE WORKERS BOSTON, Mass., March 22.—The Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ International Union Local No. 7 has issued a call to all working class organ- izations to attend a conference to be held at the American House on Friday evening, March 26, at 7:30 o’clock, to arrange a Joint rellef campaign for the Passaic textile workers. All organizat to the conference. lons are asked to send two delegates Want Soviet Union and United States at New Conference (Continued from Page 1) ropean powers are in their interna- tional relationship, ' Widespread Resentment Abroad. Advices to the state department from abroad indicate a widespread re- sentment on the part of the adminis tration press of the varioN® countries because of the reported censure of their foreign policies by Coolidge's advisers. On the other hand, a num- ber of the opposition papers ‘admit that the strictures were in general justified. The French press terms Houghton as having always been “so pro-Ger- | gan in his attitude as to be anti- French.” The French foreign office has officially denied any differences with the United States oyé¥ the dis- armament program. London advices show that some ob- servers believe that even the pre- liminary meeting called by the league on the disarmament question will never take place. It is reported that Viscount Cecil, the British delegate, and M. Boncour, the French, are com- pletely disagreed as to the scope of the meeting. France insists that the actual extent of disarmament shall depend upon such factors as the geo- graphical location of a nation, its manpower and its capacity for produc- ing war materials. Under such con- ditions the French would expect to get off lightly, while Great Britain would be heavily penalized. English press opinion holds that in such a conflict of views the United States would support its contention, as oth- erwise America would be required to disarm almost entirely, Meanwhile it is understood here that Hugh 8. Gibson, American min- ister to Switzerland, will represent this government at the May 17 dis- armament conference which is to draw up the agenda for the gathering itself. Allen W. Dulles, chief of the division of near eastern affairs of the state department, will assist him. Fort-Whiteman Has _ Splendid Meetings in Kansas Cities (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo. March 22.— Lovett Fort-Whiteman, national or- ganizer of the American Negro La- bor Congress, spoke to the black and white workers at two mass meetings. The first meeting, on the Missouri side, was held under the auspices of the Kansas City Labor Bureau, and the second, on the Kansas side, by the Civic League. Both meetings had a good attend- ance in spite of the fact that its ene- mies, white and black, did everything possible to scare away workers, The result of Whiteman’s trip to Kansas City was far-reaching. A large inter-racial committee was organized on the Missouri side and a provisional committee on the Kansas side. Kansas City will be the center of a campaign to organize the Negro indus- trial and mining centers, This 15 Cents, JAY LOVESTONE. Con- _ 15 Cents a 44-hour week. There is no reduc- PARIS COMMUNE COMMEMORATION ATTRACTS CROWD Present Good Program at Carmen’s Hall From all over the country come re- ports of good Paris Commune cele- brations. Chicago itself led off with a crowd of several thousand at the Carmen's Auditorium on Ashland boulevard last Saturday night. The spléndid program was heartily enjoyed. The Lettish orchestra opened the affair with several selections, after which Bishop William Montgomery Brown addressed the gathering. He received quite an ovation, a tribute to his courage in facing the ostracism of his class to advocate the workers’ cause as he understands it, A unique feature was the presenta- tion of the short one-act play of that revolutionary period entitled “The Last Day of the Commune.” Here the workers saw what barricade fight- ing in a civil war actually means. The dramatic episode depicted was effectively staged with the assistance of local Comnwnist artists and the amateur company showed the results of conscientious drill in their portrayal of the spirit of the Commune. Proletarian Dictatorship Necessary. Robert Minor, in a short speech, declared that the Russian Bolshevik revolution incarnated the hopes of the Communards. From the experiences of Paris the militant workers had learned that it was only thru a prole* tarian dictatorship that power could be retained and the will of labor en- forced. They had come also to recog- nize that the peasants must ‘be con- sideped and that every effort should pe exerted to secure them as allies ot the industrial workers. He empha- sized the lesson that the revolutionary struggle could be carried on success- fully only thru the instrumentality of a highly disciplined, centralized po- litical party with the function of co- ordinating all laier’s efforts to’ the single end of overcrowding capital- ism, Corinne Speaks. Corinne Robinson followed him, call- ing upon the workers, irrespective of color, race, or nationality, to join in the common revolutionary object. She was heartily apptauded, representing as she does one of the most oppressed and discriminated against races. Russian Prison Songs. A very realistic touch was added in the singing of Russian prison songs by the Russian chorus. These plain- tive laments voiced the sufferings of the people under the czars, suffer- ings which the workers of the Euro- pean border states in particular are now experiencing. Moritz Loeb, business manager of the DAILY WORKER, made the col- lection appeal in behalf of the Labor Defense League, under whose auspices the meeting was held. Ralph Chap- lin, the I, W. W. poet, was chairman, Motion Pictures, Showing of motion pictures depict- ing the sufferings of political prison- ers and the outrages perpetrated upon the workers all over the world by the police and soldiers as the agents of fhe state’s repressive forces closed the evening’s program. © 8's Minnesota Commemorations, ST. PAUL, Maren 22.—The Twin Movement and its By Max Bedacht. cities are celebrating the Paris Com- problems, mune, St, Paul had a well-attended 40 Conte. & meeting Saturday at the Labor Tem- 5 : ple. There was speaking, singing, The revolutionary movement has ita |f|etc. Minneapolis holds its rally dangers from within. Unless it can |[|Thursday evening, March 25, at the The Fourth guard the crystal clearness of the prin- meet Lyceum, 1426 Sixth avenue, National ciples and policies that lead to power, |}| 9°". Convention its progress is retarded—and the move- PR Reet hha Pespateges ath oy ment endangered. day afternoon, Tonight he speaks at All the resolutions, Duluth and tomorrow at Superior, All the meetings are under the auspices of the International Labor po distorters of revolutionary prin- {| Defense. ciples and is an invaluable guide to the ; m mg nee for American Labor, Oil Magnate Wins U. S. larity of principle is essential to cor- : cas, rect policies. This booklet is a splendid High Court Decision (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 22.—H, L, Doheny, the oil magnate, who sued the government in the lower courte for $11,000,000 expended in the build- ing of a naval fuel station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and lost the case, won a tactical victory in the supreme court today. The petition of the Pan- American Oil company for a review of the decision of the court ’of appeals which denied Doheny reimbursement from the government, was granted, Seamen Get 44-Hour Week. SYDNEY—(FP)— Seamen employ- ed on steamers along the coast of New South Wales have been granted eed GARVEY: HOLDS UNLILA. CONTROL; SHERRILL 1S OUT Toote, of Detroit, Is Elected President By ROBERT MINOR. (Special to The Dally Worker) DERTOIT, March! :22,—After a bit- ter struggle between the supporters of Marcus Garvey’ afid those who sup- port William A, Sherrill, the conven- tion of the Universal Negro Improve- ment Association reached what may be called the first'round In the selec- tion of Fred A. Toote of Detroit as acting general president of the big Negro organization. Toote is a Garvey supporter and his election is a victory for the Garvey faction, The Garveyites also succeeded in.efecting Dr. Jay J. Peters to the offide of third assistant president general. ® ¢ William L, Shefrill, who is leading the anti-Garvey forces has been com- pletely ousted from bffice by the con- vention. He had‘ previously, in the capacity of acting second assistant president general, ‘directed the affairs of the association. Political Trading. Altho the victory for the supporters of the Garvey side is very demonstra- tive, it appears not at all to be com- pletely sure of itself. Mr. Wallace, who appears now to be a supporter of Sherrill and who is @ powerful leader in the Chicago organization, was elected secretary general by the con- vention. Thus the Garvey forces have apparently felt themselves forced to make ® concession. The Garvey side, altho victorious in the voting of the delegates, is not in a comfortable or stable position. The most ominous sign is in the fact that the two great citieés}"New York and Chicago, appear to' lave been almost completedy capturéd by the: Sherrill- Wallace combination. "The decisions of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Detroit are with the supporters of Garvey. G The significance of this line-up is great. The membership ‘which is newest from the South, with the farm psychology, appears ‘to cling longest to the narrow “zfbnist” illusions, while the Negro workers of the large cities, especially th) of the highly developed life of Ney York, are begin- ning to ask some! more. It is be- lieved that the rey supporters called this emergéti¢y convention in Detroit instead of,*s customary, in New York, for the furpose of getting away from the stronghold of those who are dissatisfied” with the Garvey policy. sid The possibility that Sherrill may succeed in finally” and completely holding the New York and Chicago divisions of the organization may be considered the chief nightmare of those who have ousted Sherrill from control of the paregt;body. The election, by the Garvey dele- gates, of Wallace as.secretary gener- al altho Wallace is understood now to be more or less with Sherrill, is said to be an effort to break a supposed Sherrill-Wallace combination and thereby to win back Chicago to the Garvey camp. Sherrill’s minority among the con- vention delegates ig strong enough in itself to make a considerable show- ing. The reports are that the Sher- rill delegates are making a persistent fight, tho they have a hard time to secure the floor. Unquestionably the real basis of the present contest is a political one of fundamental nafiire. It is the rest- lessness of a great!mass of the keen and most active Negro city workers who find themselvés in a great organ- ization without the slightest substance of a program. v However, the ition to Garvey’s utopianism, altho} having a social basis, is absolutely dumb as far as any expression of a program is con- cerned. ‘Whatever influences may move the rank and'file to dissatisfac- tion and make of‘them the material for an opposition, ‘the Sherrill leader- ship does not give the slightest sign of a program of its own. It seems it- self to have no program different from Garvey’s, but to build upon the gon- eral, confused groping for a change. The convention will continue until March 31. Severah;offices are yet to be filled, and questions of resolutions and program to be acted upon. No Rest for the Weary, SEATTLE—(FP)—Despondent over failure to secure work Donald Griffin, 21, a logger attempted suicide by gas. He was revived by a lung motor and Mussolini’s $100,000,000/ CHICAGO ADDS Bond Issue Not Selling] VOICEINAID OF Very Well in the U.S. A.| FOREIGN-BORN By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. There Is developing within the Chi- cago labor movement an ever broader organized protest against the bills now pending before congress which Propose fingerprinting and photo- graphing the foreign-born workere In the United States. Particularly, the foreign-born work- ers themselves are taking the action thru their various organizations to create mass sentiment and bring mass pressure to bear, fully recognizing, however, that it is not only they them- selves who are threatened by these bills, but the Anrerican working class as a whole. . Several mass meetings aré being planned by the various language groups and also one under the au- spices of the Workers (Communist) Party, to be held Wednesday March 24th at the Shoenhoffen Hall, corner Ashland and Milwaukee avenues. Ro- bert Minor and Arne Swabeck, with others, will speak. Unions Opposed. Unions have gone on record pro- testing against the passage of the bills and for the organization of a movement in opposition. When it 4s remembered that these bills propose not only finger-printing and register- ing foreign-born workers, but alse to give the record of present and pre- vious employers, and to give the re- cord of any arrest or penal servitude which workers may at one time or an- other have been subject to, either for strike activities or otherwise, the in- ‘tent of these bills becomes clear. In case they become law each worker will be supplied with a certificate of identification which he will be com- pelled to show upon demand any time at any place, this certificate contain- ing complete record of said worker, showing whether he ever participated Ckeues are beginning to gather in the heavens for the “Napoleonic Year” that was to usher in brilliant glories for the Mussolini dictatorship in Italy. After four months the House of Morgan reports that the gullible public has not yet gobbled up the $100,000,000 loan that was put on the market last November. Without money it is impossible to carry on’ war, especially wars of aggression, in which it is difficult to develop enthusiasm among the workers. . Mussolini’s fascist rule has no money of its own. This was shown by the steadily falling lire, which would have gone the way of the German mark if it had not been for the timely bolstering aid of $50,000,000 credits to act as a gold reserve, America’s financiers have accepted Mussolini as a protege, His terror rule over the Italian workers and farmers must be tenderly nursed with ceaseless injections of gold. King Midas could not digest the treasured metal. But the fascist dictatorship can. It cries for it, o * e e It should be remembered that the Wall Street financiers do not hand their own gold over to Mussolini’s government. Not at all. That would be very foolish. If the worker and peasant masses of Italy should kick Mussolini and his outfit into the Adriatic and repudiate the fascist debts, that would be bad. But not so bad for the bankers. For they merely hand over to Mussolini what they collect thru the sale of the fascist bonds to the innocent American investing public. To be sure, the bankers take a handsome discount in payment for their strenuous labors, which consists of watching their clerks catch the money as it comes in over the transom, But the “innocent investing public” is backward about biting on the Mussolini bait. The loan was floated last No- vember. It remains unsold. An extension of 60 days has just been announced. What is to be done at the end of the 60 days will be left to “the discretion of the bankers.” That doesn’t look so good for the “Napoleonic Year.” * ° * ° The floating of the $100,000,000 Italian loan was no little affair. The job was in the hands of a nation-wide syndicate headed auspiciously by J. P. Morgan & Co. It was the biggest piece of international financing attempted last year. The House of Morgan was supported by the largest bank- ing and investment concerns in the country. Included among them were the First National Bank, the National City Bank, the Guaranty Company, the Bankers’ Trust Company, Forbes & Co., Lee, Higginson & Co., Kidder, Peabody & Co., and Brown Brothers & Co. It is well for the workers to remem- ber the names of these great financial institutions. Some one of them will be found giving financial aid to the drive for the “open shop” in the next great anti-union campaign in some industry that boasts of its high profits and then an- nounces a wage cut against its workers. Mussolini has de- stroyed all semblance of trade'union organization in Italy. This has won the hearty applause of these internatiqnal money lenders. So they joined in oversubscribing the loan. ° Each one of them took big chunks of it and divided the bonds among their dealers for sale to “the public.” But the public didn't buy. A large part of that loan still remains unsold. e ° ° ° The trial of Matteoti’s murderers has revealed how: Mussolini himself personally encourages assassination as one method of maintaining fascism in power. It has bared the tight-rope walking career of a terror that lives a hectic car- eer from day to day. American investors who put their money into Mussolini’s Italy today cannot complain if the workers, when they come to power, erase the obligation and refuse to pay. That is what the Russian workers and peasants did. Others will fol- low this excellent example. Mussolini’s “Napoleonic: Year” may yet be the year of his Waterloo. Passaic Mill Kaisers Face Grill (ae tee | other views, When industrial condi- tions are satisfactory, he added, there need be no worry in this country over subversive doctrines. Sen. Edwards, democrat, insisted that the federal government had no right to interfere with any strike in New Jersey. He defended the judges and police in Passaic, and said the strikers who “paraded their red signs illegally” got the rough treatment they ought to have expected. Edge claimed that the American in a strike or belonged to a union. In other words a blacklist system of the most effective kind. Conferences Planned. Machinists Locals No, 84 and 337 have declared their opposition to the blacklist bills. The joint board of the International Ladies Garment workers has elected a committee in- structed to find ways and means to bring this whole matter effectively be- fore the Chicago trade union move- ment. One conference will take place on March 80th, consisting of various Ukrainian organizations of which twenty already have signified their readiness to participate. Branches of the Jewish Workmen’s Circle, and various South Slavic fraternal so- cieties have likewise taken the ini- tiative to call conferences. The same methods are being followed among other national groups, the purpose being to give organized expression to the opposition of the bills against the foreign-born workers, The details as to the real character of the bills pending will be brought out at the meeting at Schoenhoffen Hall, Milwaukee and Ashland Avenue, March 24th, bi French Government Begins New Battle to Save Its Franc {Continued from page 1). ject for balancing the budget deficit of 4,534,000,000 francs. The ‘budget proposes that the Doumer taxes which were accepted be permitted to remain in force, yielding 1,437,000,000 francs. Increases in customs and postal receipts are count- ed upon to yield 755,000,000 francs, A civic tax is proposed and a modified sales tax is estimated to yield 2,375,- (Continued from Page 1) and Wheeler are two of the ablest examining lawyers in the senate. Sen, Edge, republican, immediately upon the reading of the resolution to the senate, launched upon a denun- ciation of the leaders of the strike as being Communist Party representa- tives, seeking only to propagate revo- lutionary beliefs and to increase the hold of Communism in New Jersey. He demanded that the inquiry be made broad enough to “get down to fundamentals and see whether we are upon discharge from the Seattle hos- pital will be dumped back onto the job market. PORTLAND FORMS COUNCIL FOR PROTECTION OF FOREIGN-BORN; HOLD MEETING SUNDAY, MAR. 28 PORTLAND,‘Ore., March 22—A provisonal Council for the Protection of Foreign-Born Workers has been formed here. Th to protebt at 0 Federation of Labor was “in no way officially connected” with the strike, and offered in evidence a newspaper article by one John J, Leary, Jr., whom he described as a “prominent representative,” of the American Fed- eration of Labor, to prove’ that they had no sympathy with the movement, Another Minnesota . Bank Closes Doors . 68AKIS, Minn, March 22—The State Bank of Osakis has closed “its doors at the orders of A. J. Veigel, state commissioner of banks. . De- pleted reserves was given as therea- son for the failure. Deposits in this bank amounted to $480,000 most of which was’ put into the bank by farm- ers, and capital to $40,000, Put a’ copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. 000,000 francs. The budget will produce @ surplus of 33,000,000 francs, which would be transferred to am amortization fund, if the figures submitted work out in practice—a rather rare occurrence im recent years in French finance, encouraging the teaching of doctrines of revolution, of downthrowing of the government, of confiscation of private property, and repudiation of debts.” He read messages from Vice-Presi- dent Johnson of the Botany Mills, chief of the bosses involved, wel- coming an investigation that would show up “this Communist demonstra- tion.” Johnson stated that wages in this group of mills were “as high or higher than elsewhere,” naming $22.85 a week as an average wage. Prove Johnson Liar. Sen, Borah called attention to the 10 per cent cut imposed by Johnson last fall, and said his personal exami- nation of many pay-envelopes had convinced him that the actual wag were much lower. If less than living wage were paid, and if the companies were paying high divi- dends, then the ground was being prepared by the mill-owners for Com- munism, A strike would be justified under those circumstances, id Borah, regardless of whether it were led by Communists or by persons of Government Strikebreaker By Jay Lovestone. Paper, 30 Cents, Cloth, 60 Cents, jounell ie calling a mass