The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1926, Page 1

er == ae The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government: Vol. Ill. No. POLICE RAID FUR WORKERS’ HEADQUARTERS Arrest Strike Commit- tee at Beethoven Hall (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Mar, 26—The New York Police Industrial Squad together with sluggers and gunmen hired by the bosses made a raid on the strike headquarters at the Beethoven Hall, 210 E. 5th St. The entire strike com- mittee was arrested at this hall. The entire committee, consisting of twenty workers were packed into a patrol ‘wagon and taken to the police station. The total bail amounted to eleven thousand dollars. Four detectives entered in a sneaky way and asked for a certain Mr. Dick- Jer and when they were told that there was no man by that name in. the headquarters the police told every- body in the. strike headquarters to stand up. After everybody has been searched they were told to march out into the street where three police wagons were waiting for the strike committee. When they were brought to. the police station they were put un- der charges of disorderly conduct, pre- ferred by one of the agents of the manufacturers who tried to make trouble at the Beethoven hall. Agents Seek Scabs. During the past few days scab agents were seen coming into the hall and, approaching strikers and asking them to go out of town to work} where they will be protected by gun- men and police, They told the stri- kers not to be afraid to go and scab as they would ~get “many “good Subscription Rates: Outside. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, hicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, Bntered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Iilinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. things." - When. this. .was».reported.to|,... the strike committee he was told to " immediately leave the hall. He then attacked one of the strike committee, This enraged the strikers and they led the scab agent out of the hall. In a few seconds he came back with the police and arrested the entire strike ¢ommittee at the Beethoven. hall, It is no surprise to the’ strikers. They realize that the bosses are des- perate in their last stand, and will not stop at anything to provoke the strikers so as to break their. solid Set Date for English’ Impeachment ranks. They are now resorting to the use of the police more than ever, since the’ hired thugs and gunmen proved a failure and were unable :to break the solid’ ranks of the fur workers. Sell-Out Blows Up. The negotiations that they had with the Sorkin, Winnig and the Forward machine also blew up in the air altho Sorkin and Winnig were promised $100,000 to carry thru a plan to break the strike of the fur wrkers. The strike committee nipped the plot in time. The manufacturers held a meeting in the Hotel Pennsylvania to discuss the strike situation and from the in- forniation that we get from some of the manufacturers the meeting nearly ended in a riot. A large part of the Manufacturers Association is dissat- dsfied with the policies of President Samuels. Bosses Bewail Loss of Profit. By not starting negotiations for a settlement the manufacturers point out they are losing thousands of dol- Jars which will drive many into bank- Tuptcy. The scabs that were prom- ised by Samuels are not to be gotten and samples are not being (Continued on page 2) (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26 — Impeachment of federal district Judge George W. English, East St. Louis, Il!., was asked in the house today on five basic grounds of tyrannical conduct, favoritism; misbehavior, corruption and indecency in office, centering about treatment of lawyers and the conduct of bankruptcy cases. The report of the judiciary commit- tee to the house, recommended adop- tion of an impeachment resolution as follows: “Resolved, that George W. English, United States district judge for the eastern district of Illinois, be impeach- ed of misdemeanors in office; and that the evidence heretofore taken by the special committee of the house, sus- tains five articles of impeachment which are hereinafter set out and that said articles be adopted by the house.” The house agreed to consider the impeachment recommendation next week, Detailed Charges, The first article accused English of unlawfully disbarring Thomas W. Webb, East St, Louis Attorney, altho no charges had been preferred against (Continued on page 2) PHILADELPHIA FORMS COUNCIL FOR PROTECTION OF THE FOREIGN-BORN (Special to The Daily Worker) . PHILADELPHIA, March 26—A local Council for the Protection of the ‘Foreign-Born Workers was organized at a conference here, The conference ‘was opened by the temporary chairman, with a few remarks on the anti- foreign-born bills pending im congress. The conference then immediately got down to business. The credential committee reported 30 organizations represented. Among them 11 branches¢————--——- of the Workmen's Circle, one branch of the Independent Workmen's Cir cle, eight unions, eight beneficial as- tions, the Mothers’ League and Workers (Communist) Party, The following are the unions which are represented: Cap Makers, Fruit and Grocery Clerks, Amalgamated Food ‘Workers’, Bakers No. 201, Knitters Union, Federation of Textile Work- ers, Carpenters No. 1078, Suit Case and Bag Makers’ Union, Painters No. 1083, and Paperhangers No. 306, The resolutions committee brat in a resolution condemning all the bills pending in congress aimed against Qrreien-born workers. They keynote of the speeches was that this confer- ence must be broadened out to in- clude all organizations willing to fight these bills, Recommendations were made to the executive to send commit- tees ‘to various organizations, calling a trade union conference on this ques- tion, printing leaflets, arranging mass meetings and numerous other valu- able suggestions which the executive will consider at the first meeting, A large executive was elected in- cluding . representatives of almost every organization represented at the conference. The conference adjourn- ed with the determination to wage a 2 SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 1926 Eo 290 CAPITALIST JUSTICE IN NEW JERSEY The strikers. in Passaic have learned from ‘experience that the are used to keep Labor down, DURANT-STAR MOTOR MAY ORGANIZE UNION By H. M. WICKS. (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, March 26. — Morton Green and Abram Zuray, two young workers, were arrested in Elizabeth, a near-by city and held under ex- orbitant bail of $5,000 each for the “crime” of distributing before the Durant-Star motor works a shop nucteus bulletin containing an ar- ticle on the back page concerning the Passaic textile strike and ask- ing for aid for the strikers. The Paper also urged the underpaid and overworked employes who pro- duce the Durant and Star motor ears to organize. The hearing is set for next Wed- mesday tho no one knows as yet what “crime” these young workers, are to be charged with. Volunteers Needed to Care for Daily Worker News Stands NEW YORK, March 26—Volunteers are needed to help collect for the DAILY WORKER from the newsstands in New York, as the circulation has grown beyond the ability of the com- rades that have been handling this work to handle it. Both men and women can be used. If you have a few hours to spare each week that you are willing to devote to the up- building of the DAILY WORKER re- port to L. E. Katterfeld, manager of the New York agency, at 108 East 14th street, New York Workers, Keep July 3-4-5 Open! NEW YORK,’March 26,—Organiza- tions In New York friendly to the DAILY WORKER are requested not to arrange any conflicting affairs for July 3, 4 and 6, as the DAILY WORKER will hold an encampment on those three days in which not only the readers of the DAILY WORKER but the workers in general will be- come interested, Fall of Rock Buries pega 4 * Two Illinois Miners (Special to The Daily Worker) TAYLORVILLE, Ill, March 26.— Two miners were smothered to death in a fall of rock which occurred while they were timbering a passage in the Peabody Coal mine No. 5 yesterday. Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER. with you to the shop 7 at By William Gropver, police and the government ~ INVESTIGATION Tariff Effect (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 26.—Curious as to what benefits American labor is really getting from the high protective tariff on textiles and metal manufac- tures, Sen. Sheppard of Texas, demo- crat, has offered a resolution calling for a senatorial investigation of the subject. The Passaic textile strike and the refusal of the administration to probe the aluminum trust furnished the immediate incentive for his ac- tion, Sheppard proposes that a committee of seven senators shall visit typical mills of the cotton, woolen, worsted and other textiles, and plants in the aluminum and other metal manufac- turing industries,-and at public hear- ings to inquire into wages and work- ing conditions. 1The purpose of such inquiry is to determine what relation the cost of labor in the highly pro- tected industries! bears to the price of the finished prodmet, and hence to the difficulties of the farmer, who must buy these goods with low-priced crops. Tariff Bunk, Republican high-tariff beneficiaries have claimed that the tariff gives la- bor a high wage and high purchasing power, which in: turn enables the farmer to sell his crops at a high price. Sheppard expects to disclose that the high tariff enables manufac- turers to exploit‘Iabor at low wages, and that low wages have led to the collapse of the farmers. SOVIET GOVERNMENT ISSUES FIRST VOLUME OF NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March © 26,—Dissatis- fied with the encyclopaedias pre- pared under the czars of Russia, the Soviet government has issued the first volume of “The Great Soviet Encyclopaedia,” which is to appear in thirty volumes. It Is edited by Nicholas Bukharin, Karl jek; E, Ai Preobrazhensky, Valerian Ossinsky (formerly Prince Obolensky) and Vs V. Koulbishev, , The books will be sold to the pub- lic at cost price, $3.26 per volume, It will take six years to complete the work. INTO TEXTILES Sheppard Wants to Find SENATORS FEAR INQUIRY INTO TEXTILE STRIKE Edwards Launches New Attack on Strikers By LAWRENCE TODD, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, —(FP)— March 26 —Sen, Edwards of New Jersey, de- termined that any inquiry by the senate committee on manufactures in- to the Passaic textile strike shall be blocked, has issued a new attack on Albert Weisbord, leader of the strik- ers, His statement is in the form of a letter to Rabbi Stephen of New York, who had asked whether Edwards had been correctly reported as saying that’ the Passaic textile workers were well paid and their con- ditions satisfactory. Wise had offered to debate this issue with Edwards in public, The democratic senator’s announce- ment came just after Chairman Mc- Kinley of the manufacturers’ commit- tee had agreed to try to get his com- mittee to meet Saturday morning, March 27, to consider the LaFollette resolution of investigation. Edwards Back-Waters. Edwards told Rabbi Wise that he had never made any statement that the Passaic mill workers were well paid or their conditions satisfactory. Yet he quoted from his own speech to the senate, opposing any federal “interference,” the following: “I happen to have been an alien property director in one of the mills in which the strike took place,.and I know of my own knowledge that the employes in any manufacturing indus. try were never better treated.” He repeated what he said he had wired to the Civic Club, the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America, the Passaic Hotel Ware Co., Albert Weisbord, strike leader, and to the secretary of the Passaic chamber of commerce, that “present conditions in the Passaic textile industry is a mat- ter for the attention of the state of New Jersey and the city of Passaic, and until these matters get out of control of the state and city author- ities the federal government has np jurisdiction whatever to interfere.” Fear Federal Investigation. To this declaration he added the sentiment: “New Jersey is a free and untrampled commonwealth capable of taking care of her own affairs in the city of Passaic and needs no interfer- ence from the Washington government to bring about sane and healthy rule in her industry.” After praising Gov. Moore, Edwards declared that he understood Weisbord to be a foreigner, neither a citizen of the United States nor of New Jersey —“and as long as the Passaic strik- ers; for whom I have great sympathy, are willing to permit outside agitators to come to New Jersey for the purpose of creating dissension and incipient re- volution, just so long must they be ready and willing to accept the conse- quences.” Press correspondents who have talked with Sen. Edge, who claimed he was willing to have an investiga- tion by /McKinley’s committee, now are of the opinion that Edge will do nothing to aid the inquiry and will be pleased if his fellow-reactionaries veto it. They gain the impression also that both New Jersey senators believe the mill owners are wholly opposed to any inquiry, and that Col, Johnson of the Botany mills, in sending a telegram urging that an inquiry be had, was not acting in good faith. If the senate committee refuses to hold or recommend the investigation, it will do so because organized busi- ness is hostile to any disclosure of the wages and labor conditions in the most highly protected of tariff-favored industries. Sen. LaFollette, sponsor of the reso- lution, is now busy daily with the in- vestigation of the tariff commission. Sen. Wheeler is engaged on railroad measures in the committee on inter- state commerce, Sen. Reed of Mis- souri is fll, These men on the manu- facturers’ committee were counted up- on to develop the facts’ when the pro- mised inquiry should start, Churches Wallopped. SPRINGFIELD, IL, March 26.— Breeding places of hate and prejudice, Fully fifty per cent of America’s churches are just that and should have been closed long ago, Rev, Lloyd C. Douglas, Akron, Ohio, declared at the opening session of the south centra! division of the Illinois StatewReachers' Association v Ba Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, UL EADS IN ANTI-STRIKE FORMER GOVERNOR ON TRIAL Davis, of Kansas One of Our Honorable Patriots TOPEKA, Kans., March 26—Pros- pects that a jury will be completed before the afternoon session of court were bright yesterday as the second trial of Former Governor Jonathan M, Davis and his son, Russell, ac- cused of conspiracy to sell a pardon got under way. The former governor was acquitted at his first trial more than a year ago. The son has never been tried. The state charges that Russell Davis and the governor conspired to grant a pardon to Fred W. Poliman, former banker of La Cygne, Kansas, for $1,250 . Young Davis is accused of deliver- ing the pardon in a Topeka hotel after receiving the money from Pollman, while representatives of the Kansas City Journal-Post listened in on a dic- taphone and burst into the room as the money changed hands, STOCK MARKET HITS LOW AS LOANS CALLED Federal’ Reserve Board Calls $81,000,000 (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 26.—The fed- eral reserve board, in its weekly re- port of brokers’ loans, showed another contraction of $81,660,000 for the week ending March 17, representing a ‘total decrease of $337,000,000 from Jan- uary 1, The last loan contraction of the board, which has been holding on for some time now is the cause of the bearish market. Stocks have fallen millions of dollars in the last few days, yesterday’s quoted values of se- curities on the exchange being re- duced by $500,000,000. The situation in the stock market is a reflection of the condition in which most of the world’s gold is con- centrated in the United States, thus having made the call money rate as low as 2% per cent a number of months ago, and even as low as 1 per cent at times in the outside market. This cheap money situation led to a flood of investments, which brought about an inflation of capitalization in industry. The resulting tremendous capitalization led to increased indus- trial activity, greater production pro- grams, as was particularly shown in the automobile industry, which planned an unprecedented year of pro- duction for 1926. Federal Reserve Moves In. This inflation has alarmed the big banks, which have complete control of most of the important industries, and the federal reserve board began the calling of its loans on banks, and the latter on the brokers. Money is now at twice and three times the rate it was a few months ago, and the frantic chase towards unloading stocks threat- ened to knock the bottom out of the market for a while. The bear movement which began about a month ago, and which recov- ered for a time, has now become very swift and strong in the last few days. Financial experts predict the bottom (Continued on page 2) DAILY WORKER BUILDERS PLAN HIKE ALONG HUDSON RIVER SUNDAY, APRIL 4 (Special to The Daily Worker) « NEW YORK, March 26—The first hike of the season is arranged by The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club of New York for Sunday, April 4. The route will lead across the Hudson river and along the won- derful Palisades for several miles. All readers of The DAILY WORKER around New York are in- vited to come along. Meet at The DAILY WORKER office, 108 East 14th street atten o'clock and bring your own lunch, Proletarian Poet Will Address Harlem Forum NEW YORK, March 28—Simon Yel- shin, well-known proletarian poet, will discuss “Literature and Revolution” at the Harlem Forum, Sunday evening, March 28, at 64 Bast 104th street, the Harlem headquarters of, the Workers (Communist) Party, New York Sec- pam eee + This Issue Consists of Two Sections. SECTION ONE. Price 5 Cents 100 PER CENTERS TRY 10 DISRUPT STRIKE MEETING Seek Excuse to Close Strikers’ Halls By H. M. WICKS, ¥ (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, March 26 — Officials of the American legion, endeavoring to play the role of fascists, have come to the rescue of the mill owners in the strike here. A group of individuals claiming to be members of the legion came into the hall where a strike meeting was in progress carrying a large American flag and walked up to the platform from which Albert Weisbord was ad- dressing the meeting and asked him whether he would hang it in the hall. Recognizing this cheap, tawdry stunt as a plain piece of provocation, and an attempt to befog the issues in- volved in the strike by raising the fake issue of patriotism, the speaker surprised these flunkeys of the mill owners by taking the flag and placing it on the platform. Then one James H. Donnelly, fourth- rate ward heeler who holds a political job as overseer of the poor, tried to get the platform to make a “presenta- tion speech” and explain that the le- gion was for Americanism but against Communism and other things that did not efactly fit in with his disordered conception of jingoism. He was gent- ly, but firmly, told that he would have to get permission to speak from the committee having the selection of speakers in hand. After a few futile attempts to argue the question the self-appointed bri- gade left the building, evidently to re- port. to the mill owners and the other scabby agencies of Passaic thai their little scheme did not work, Try It Again. However, they tried to again raise the question by coming to strike head- quarters and demanding to see Weis- bord. There Donnelly and his group that made such a miserable flasco of their provocative effort at the hall de- manded that flags be displayed at all halls where strike meetings are held. Weisbord told them that if they desired to furnish the flags there would be no objection to displaying them, but that the committee would use its money for relief for the strik- ing workers who are in need of food instead of for the purchase of flags. John F. McCarthy, commander of the local legion post, spoke up and said that the committee of strikers would be forced to buy them and put them up. : “And what if we don’t?” asked Weis- bord. ceeeR Take Law Into Hands. “Then we'll see that there are no meetings,” belligerently declared Me- Carthy, “You mean you'll take the law into your own hands?” queried Weisbord. “Yes, we do.—We will do the same thing the legion posts have done thru- out the United States,” was the re- port. Soon the room was filled with strik ers listening to the alteration and the gallant legionnaires began to tame down a bit. The atmosphere was not exactly comfortable for them, They evidently thot some of the workers would resent such an uncalled for in- vasion of their property and throw them out. The representative of The DAILY WORKER told the legion gang that in his opinion they were simply provoca- teurs and agents of the bosses and suggested that the strikers pay no at- tention to them, but contemptuously ignore such cattle. Weisbord, who had to leave to ad- dress a meeting, started to walk away from them and told them that in his (Continued on page 2) GERMAN PRESIDENT IS MASS MURDERER, STATES COMMUNIST LEGISLATOR (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, March 26 — The reich- stag was the scene of tumult today when the Communist Deputy Koe- nen called President Hindenburg a murderer,” referring to his ord field mai i. The speaker immediately called Koenen to order and minister of the interior Kuelz rose to the defe: of the president. . The reichstag approved a salary of 60,000 marks for the president and expenses of 120,000 marks, (ap- proximately $30,000).