The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1926, Page 1

| \ t 4 The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 70. P RILU.SESS. CONSIDER UNITY AND THE ORIENT Will Send Delegation to Revolutionary China (international Press Correspondence.) MOSCOW, U.S, S. R., March 13 (By Mail)—The discussion upon the re- ports of Losovsky and Nin were con- /Gnued in the third and fourth sessions of the enlarged executive bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions. Vitkovsky (Poland), who spoke upon the tasks of the leaders of the revolu- tionary trade union movement, pointed to two fundamental tasks on the ques- tion of the return of those workers who had left their trade unions and on the question of unemployment. ‘These were the two fundamental prob- lems facing the revolutionary opposi- tion of Losovsky and the line for the gtruggle for unity. Merker of Germany was of the opin- fon that the factory councils should be more firntly connected with the trade unions and should not represent @ parallel competing organization. Irisk Problems. Carney (Ireland) pointed to the dif- Acult situation of the Irish proletariat, The tactics of the reformists had led to the splitting of the Irish Transport @nd General Workers’ Union. He pointed further to the insufficient sup- rt given by the revolutionary trade ‘anion organizations to the recent sea- men’s strike and stressed the neces- ity of a more decided struggle on the of the English proletariat against i capitalists. Subscription Rates: In. Chici Outside GOVERNOR MOORE SIGNS BILL PROHIBITING MASS PICKETING IN STRIKES TRENTON, N. J., April 1.—Gov- ernor Moore of New Jersey signed the Simpson bill, which prohibits ‘\mass picketing. The bill, which is balled an anti-injunction measure And is hailed among the labor bureau- tracy as a victory for them and their lobbyists, provides that pickets must be at least ten feet apart when they picket a struck shop, Engineering Feat, NEW YORK, April 1 — Architects and engineers from more than a dozen states will witness the placing to- morrow of the four largest steel truss- es in the world in the framework of the New Level Club. Each truss weight 160 tons and contains 8,000 rivets, TEXTILE BARONS PLAN TO CLOSE PASSAIC HALLS Number of Police Thugs Increased by 21 By H. M. WICKS. (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., April 1—The forces of the uniformed thugs and drunks who have been mauling defenseless men and assaulting and trampling under horses’ hoofs women and chil- ; Kohn (Czecho-Sloyakia) stressed the|dren have been increased by 21 the ‘pecessity of the work inside the chris- fien and nationalist trade unions and be. ry to the unemployed vement and the connection of it vith the trade union movement. On Unity. Assistant Secretary Nin, in his clos- ng speech, occupied himself with the Question of the struggle against the deteatist tendencies, which had showed themselves .in Jugo-Slavia and in France during the course of the fight for unity. Unity may not be regarded ‘as an end in itself, but as a means for organizing the broadest masses of the workers for the struggle against, capi- talism. “ He stressed once again that the greatest possible attention should be paid to the questions of the transfor- mation of the trade unions to the in- dustrial union principle, to the prob- Jems of strike strategy and to the work amongst the members of trade whions of all possible colors. The speaker declared that there were no serious differences of opinion (Continued on page Z) past two days. Day before ‘yesterday Police. Commissioner Adam Preiski greater attention | appointed eleven additional, police’ men and yesterday he appointed ten more. ris The official paper of the textile bar- ons, The Daily"News Record, publish- ed in New: York, carries an inspired statement» that a “serious crisis ex- ists in the situation as regards ‘law and order’ and°it is expected that in the next day/6r ‘two steps will be tak- en by the authorities to curb the al- leged inflammiatory addresses of the strike leaders.” May Try to Curb Speech. This statement in the bosses’ paper undoubtedly ‘indicates that efforts will be made’to find some excuse to endeavor to stop the holding of meet- ings in the strike area, However, there are a number of small towns in the vicinity of Passaic where meet- ings can be held and furthermore the weather is warming up so that out- door meetings can be held almost every day so that the closing of halls, while inconvenient, would not in any (Continued on page 2.) avtnunannvneancvcnnecavcevncneznoctentecenccictevacoettetscnencccnsenitccciteacatctienniet BEGINNING MONDAY, APRIL 5 “Wall Street’s Profit-Pact for the Enslavement of the Peruvian People.” GENSATIONAL expose of how American Imperialism is making use“of a corrupt South American tyrant to im- press the entire Peruvian working class into the profit mill of a big Wall Street combine. NOT A WORD of this has appeared in a single American newspaper. The facts have been mysteriously excluded from Associated Press reports. Yet— Deputies who protested in the * Peruvian Congress were DE- PORTED. Workers and peasants have been imprisoned, beaten to a pulp, murdered, All Peru is aflame with the conflict against Ameri- can Imperialism in its effort to bind the Peruvian people helplessly to its golden chariot. These revelations have been made available to The Daily Worker thru the special news releases of the All-America Anti-Imperialist: League and will be published during the week of April 5. Subscribe! ler a Bundle! eet Le pesen mayer LMM MMM oAlite ¢ ‘ 1 toes t Ta ony th sor 0, by mall, $8:00 per year. hieago, by mail, $6.00 per year, HE DAIL WORKER. | Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at. the Post Office at Chicago, Ilinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1926 Se? PUBL Published Daily except Sunday NEW YORK EDITION THE POLICE. ARE SLUGGING (Drawn by Wm. Gropper.) e's P| What would happen if the furtiéts and textile strikers learned to do it? London Mounted Police Club Hundreds of Unemployed Workers in Attempt to Halt Demonstration (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, ‘April 1—Hundreds of unemployed “British workers were mercilessly clubbed and trampled on by British Park when they gathered preparatory stration thru the busy London streets, Police near Hyde ‘March demon- Sp steaiag. Many of these unemployed workers have been able to find work for years. Their condition has grown worse and worse, ‘Mie dole that the British government pays them amounts to go little that it is!impossible for them to exist. mand work andonot doles. PLASTERERS IN DEADLOCK WITH CHICAGO BOSSES Ask Two Dollar a Day Increase 3,000 journeymen plasterers are dead- locked in negotiations with two hun- dred contractors over the renewal of the present contract which expired to- day. The basic wage, not including bonuses, under the Present contract is $12.00 per day. The plasterers are demanding a $2.00 a day increase, a five day week with pay every Friday in cash and not check as formerly. Boss Unity. ~ The Employing Plasterers Associa- tion is standing pat against the in- crease with the rest of the building contractors’ associations urging them on, The plasterers’ is the first con- tract to expire this year. The other bulding trades contracts will expire on May 31st. If the boss plasterers give in it will weaken the case of the other contractors. The other building trades unions are preparing to ask for imcreases also and are very much interested in the outcome of the plasterers’ demands, The building trades unions are favored by large March building permit awards showing an increase over last year. The unemployed workers de- They want a chance toiwork for their living at decent wages, ins The demonstrators gathered near Hyde Park where after a short mass meeting they were to parade thru the busy streets ef London demanding that the government take some action towards aiding! them in the finding of work and alleviating the distress that is prevalent initheir homes, The mountei police immediately rode into the:assembled unemployed swinging clubs ‘left and right over the heads of the unemployed. Many of the workers resented this action of the police and threw a number of these servile lackeys of the moneyed fnterests from their horses. The police thru their vicious club- bing were able to break up the de- monstration. Many of the unemployed met after this exhibition of police bru- tality and determined to make another attempt to march thru the busy sec- tions of London, tie-up the traffic and force the government authorities to see the plight and the demands of the unemployed whether they want to do so or not, ‘Mie unemployed are de- termined that»police clubs will fail to break up their next demonstration. To CourtsMartial Williams. SAN FRANCISCO, April 1 — Court- martial of Col. Alexander S, Williams on charges of intoxication prefered by Brig. Gen. Sméiiley Butler will open at San Diego oneApril 12. Hopeful Outlook for Burbank. SANTA ROSA; Cal., April 1 — The condition of Luther Burbank, stricken a week ago with a heart attack, re- mained unchanged early today, Dr. Joseph H, Shawvdeclared the outlook for Mr, Burkank wvas more hopeful. STEEL WORKERS! ORGANIZE‘TO FIGHT TIGHE, TOOL OF BOSSES! DO NOT LET AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION BE SPLIT! ‘ By ISRAEL AMTER, . (Special to The Dal'y Worker) N April 6, the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers will open its convention in Pittsburgh, at a time when the capitalists of this country, bloated with the wealth that they have amassed in the past few years, are planning big things, This convention is taking place at a time when it is reported the rail manufacturers of the world have formed a combine to divide up the world markets, when there is a steel slump, +— when stocks have tumbled on the ex- change, and when the league of na- tions has blown up. Assochation Small, The Amalgamated Association em- braces about 12,000 workers out of a total ‘of 600,000 to 700,000 workers. as yet to penetrate the establishments of the United States and the Bethle- hem Steel companies. No attempts are being made ‘to butld up the or- ganization. Mike Tighe sits tight, knowing that to organize the steel workers is a difficult job and an at- (Continued on page 2) STEAMFITTERS ON STRIKE FOR HIGHER WAGES 2,000 Union Members NEW YORK, April 1—Over 2,000 union steamfitters and helpers are striking in New York City for $1.50 and $1 daily wage increases. The workers get $10.50 and $8 under the old scale, which was included in the contract ending last December 31. The old building trades council has voted to support the strike as far as necessary, which means that other building trades unions will strike if employers put non-union steamfitters and helpers on jobs to replace pres- ent strikers. Had Long Negotiations. Unions have been negotiating since last November for a new wage scale. THE CHICAGO DAILY WORKER BUILDERS 10 MEET TONIGHT Owing to the fact that so many of The DAILY WORKER agents cannot come to meetings on Satur- days the date of regular meetings of DAILY WORKER agents has been changed to the first and third Friday of every month. The next regular meeting will be tonight, Friday, April 2 and every DAILY WORKER agent should be present without fall at 19 South Lincoln St., 8 p. m., Chicago time. Our first party was a big success. The following comrades were se- lected as exetutive committee of the Chicago Daily Builders club: Anna Lawrence, Walter Schuth, Alfred Valentine and Jennie Gar- shin together with city DAILY WORKER agent, Hammersmark. Plans for the active work of the DAILY WORKER Builders will be perfected at the meeting to be held tonight. SENATE AVOIDS FARM PROBLEM: FARMERS MOODY . Farm Relief Measures . Pushed Aside {Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 1.—The sen- ate agricultural bloc threatened a re- volt today when administration lead- ers further ignored farm relief meas- ures in the selection ofthe legislative program for the remainder of the ses- sion. Choosing six war debt settle- ments, the Brookhart-Steck election contest and four’ other bills, the re- publican steering committee pushed aside farm relief: proposals. It is plain that the administration is afraid to open :thesfight on the farm question. Farmers’ organizations are seeking a~$250,000.subsidy fund to be administered. by. a federal farm board to be composed of a represen- tative from each ofthe twelve federal land bank districts,.. The fund is to be used for the. regulation of sur- pluses, Rebellion Looms. If this proposal is considered at all The electrical workers’ and carpen-|it will have to wait until next session, ters’ unions gained their demands for a $12 scale for mechanics, $9 for helpers, but the electricians are elim- inating future helpers and substitut- ing apprentices, who begin work at $3.60 per day. Stonemasons won $14 a day and $9 for helpers after a short strike, Heating contractors thruout their association, controlling 70 per cent of the work, offered to give steamfitters the $1.50 increase, but refused help- ers the raise on the ground that the existing rate is higher than in any other city except Newark, N. J. The employers complain that the union does not honor out-of-town members’ cards and restricts its membership so that an insufficient number of workers is available at certain times: In Old Council, There are about 3,400 members of the steamfitters’ local union and the helpers’ local in New York. They are affiliated with the old building: trades council, in which Robert P. Brindell formerly figured. John Halkett, vice-} president of the carpenters’ district council, heads the building trades council, which is not in the American Federation of Labor building trades department. The building trades council holding the American Federation of Labor de- partment charter contains chiefly the bricklayers, plasterers, and painters’ unions, while the independent council has the carpenters, electrical workers, elevator constructors, sheet metal workers, teamsters, and practically all other building unions. ‘The split came when the American Federation of La- bor department, following a building trades converition decision, demanded that no building trades council include locals of an international not in the American Federation of Labor depart- ment—aimed at the carpenters’ union, which withdrew from the American Federation of Labor building trades department following an award of metal trim work to the sheet metal workers’ union, “Trade unions are the, reservoir of the majority of the socially, decisive} was working Inthe mine. The union threatened to part of the proletariat.”—C, 1, Thes! as the present one ends on May 10. In the meantime the farm situation becomes more critical and the farm ers more rebellious. Farm bloc sena- tors are warning the administration that they can look forward to a revolt in the republican ranks thruout the corn and wheat belts unless something is done quickly. But the issue is so much like a hot potato that the ad- ministration is afraid to touch it. CARPENTERS’ CLUB CALLS MEETING FOR THIS SUNDAY MORNING NEW YORK, April 1.—A mass meeting has been called by the Car- penters’ Club of New York, which will be held at 62 East 106th street, New York City on Sunday, April 4, at 10 a. m. Problems of great interest to all carpenters will be discussed. No not fail to attend, { Carpenters’ Club of New York. THE DAILY WORKER ING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd,, Chicago, IL Price 3 Cents “ANT REVOLT LOOMS IN ROUMANIA i TROOPS GUARD CAPITAL FROM ANGRY MASSES Bratiano Forces Fascist Election Law (Special to The Daily Worker) BUCHAREST, April 1.—King Ferdl- |nand has officially intrusted the new cabinet formed by General Alexander Averescu with the government. The choice is expected to arouse tremen- dous resentment thruout the country, as Averescu is considered a puppet of former Premier Bratiano, whose poli- cies were overwhelming repudiated at the last general election. The cap- ital is heavily guarded to prevent any monstrations, soldiers patrolling all e main streets day and night. Averescu’s party, the Peoples or Liberal party, has only five adherents in parliament and is the smallest group in that body. There were not even enuf of them to fill the cabinet posts, so that he had to get three mem bers of the Transylvania Nationalist party to transfer their allegiance in order that his government might be strictly composed of his own party only. The new ministers are of little political importance. Four of them are generals, indicating that Averescu will rely on the military to maintain his continued dictatorship. According to the Roumanian con- stitution new elections must be called before the end of May. Bratianos as Dictators. For the last four years the Bra- tiano brothers, Ion I. C. Bratiano as premier, and Vintila Bratiano, as fi- nance minister, have been virtually dictators of the country, This arbi- trary rule. was. conducted within-the. Parliamentary bounds thru the me- dium of the Peoples or Liberal party, as it is interchangeably termed. Last February the municipal elections resulted in an overwhelming defeat of this group, with the result that Ion I. C. Bratiano resigned with his whole cabinet on March 27. The king, according to law, had to appoint either a new premier or rename the old. He chose to defeat the purpose of the constitution by calling Bratia- no’s puppet to power. Averescu had joined the United Opposition, com- posed of the Bessarabian Peasant's party and the Transylvania National- ists, in the February elections. Tho this combination swept the field, so deep-seated was the suspicion Aver- escu was insincere that he got a very small vote. After the election he quit the united oppa~ >on and re joined Bratiano’s group. Fascist Electoral Scheme. Just before Bratiano handed in bis resignation he forced thru the parlia- ment an electoral bill based on the Italian fascist model. The principal Opposition parties, the Nationalist and the Peakants, abstained from vot- ing so that the measure was passed with only three dissenting votes. At that time the leader of the Bessarab- jan Peasant party left his sick bed to make a dramatic appeal in the chamber of deputies for “fairness and common se” while the Nationalist leader, holas Jorga publicly char- acterized the measure as “cut to fit Mussolini's shoulders but on those of Bratiano it resembles Hercules’ shirt on a dwarf and will crush him.” To Restrict Suffrage. Adherents of the bill openly stated that they proposed to restrict uni- versal suffrage, which was introduced after the world war, and thus main- tain the old regime. The war more than doubled the area and population of Roumania. The post war policy (Continued on page z.) CONNELSVILLE BY-PRODUCTS COAL COMPANY MINERS DECLARE STRIKE MORGANTOWN, W. Va., April 1.—Connelsville By-products Coal Cow one of the largest Morgantown operators and largest union concerns in the State of West Virginia, has locked out miners in four mines for refusing to accept a 20 per cent cut under Jacksonville wages. local union United Mine Worke Daniel Cox, president » declares the wage cut illegal under the agreement and that the miners will strike. Insist on Semi-Monthly Payments. WHEELING, W. Va., April 1—About 2,600 miners employed in five mines owned by J. A. Paisley interests of Cleveland are striking to enforce semi-monthly wage payment instead of accepting the monthly method which the company insists is nec ry. ° ° 400 Miners Return, SCRANTON, Pa., April 1—The 400 miners striking at Riverside colliery, Archbald, are_at.work again, after the elimination of the contractor who strike all Scranton Goal x si Company mines If the contractor were not removed, a