The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1926, Page 1

‘The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 72. Subscription Rates: THE Outside Chieago, CRIMES: STRIKERS SHOM CONDITIONS OF TEXTILE MILLS Labor Commissioner Gets Slapped (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., April 4.—The con- ditions in the mills are simply atro- clous.” This statement, backed up by hundreds of affidavits of workers, is the answer of the striking textile workers of Passaic to the published statement of Labor Commissioner A. F, McBride that conditigns in the Pas- saio mills were satisfactory,—that “no better places to work insofar as sanitation and hygiene” exist in this state. A statement by Albert Weisbord, organizer, in answer to McBride is as follows: “We read in the papers that Labor Commissioner McBride has given an unqualified denial of unsanitary condi- tions existing in the textile mills of Passaic and vicinity. During the past ‘week or so the United Front Commit- tee of Textile Workers has taken hun- dreds of affidavits from the workers testifying as to the actual conditions ‘$m the mills, “We believe that should Labor Commissioner McBride, in spite of his lanti-workers’ record, gained during ‘the textile strike in Paterson in 1913, look over these affidavits, that even he would be forced to admit that the con- ‘ditions in the mill are simply atro- clous, We are showing several re- porters’ copies of affidavits which Wwe have made, "These affidavits were obtained by Mr, Dunlap, representative ‘of the Rublio legislation service of Washing- ton. Mr. Dunlop has expressed him- self again and again as being horri- fied at the conditions ingide ‘the mills ;@8 shown by the affidavits. Should |Labor Commissioner McBride still be akeptical we worfld be glad to invite him to the wash house of the Botany Mill 6o that he may faint as strong men and women have fainted from the nauseous odors emanating from the place,” Establish Another Kitchen, The establishment of a relief kit ‘hen for the children of Botany mil! ‘was an outstanding event of the week. More than 200 children were fed a generous lunch of lamb Stew, bread nd butter, bananas and raisins and milk, by the-women of the Council of Working-Class Housewives, who have established the kitchen. A truck Joad of food and clothing from New York started the supply of the kit- chen. ¥ Even the feeding of hungry children did not escape interference from po- lice. Five detectivesinvaded the hall soon after it opened to “look around for papers,” taking away several bun- ales of newspapers after the women who were serving the children had protested against their disturbing the children, Many.of the children be- came panic stricken, but were quieted by the women, Many large donations have been “received. From the Ukrainian Daily News, $295.35; Free Synagogue Child Adoption commitee, Mrs, Wise, $280; Obrana, $220.70; Weaver's Social Club, $42 (one of several contributions from this. society); Society Co-operative Publishing Association,» $306.7! F. Feinberg, Brockton, Mass., weekly do- nation of $32.35; Detroit Relief Con- ference, $100; United Mine Workers Local No, 1829, $10. Five Workers Killed While Building Church NEW YORK, April 4.—Five workers were killed by a huge rock cliff which erumbled upon them as they were drilling and preparing blast holes. A 65-story Christian Missionary building is to be erected on the site to com- memorate the recovery of the build- er’s son from tetanus. Oscar B. Kon- kle, president of Realty Sugeties com- pany, is the builder who plans a church, hotel, restaurant, bank for missionaries, hospital and roof gar- dens in the structure. The five Ital- jan workers killed by the gigantic rock were Anthony Ameno, Frank Cioffi, Joseph Como, Louis Toppi, Carlo Maz- gulo. Three hurt are Louis Sareno, Anthony Vangelis and Pietro Viscardo. 4 ; q THE FAT-BOYS: “If the workers keep working for the same low wages Amalgamated Food Workers ‘Plan Big May | lay Meeting (Special to The Daily Worker) ~« NEW YORK, April'4—The Bakers’ Agitation Committee of the Amalga- mated Food Workersim Greater New York and vicinity are arranging for 1 gigantic May Day celebration. As his day falls on Saturday, the union ntends to have every ‘ore of its mem- vers at the celebration. FIRE TWELVE; | 200 L. 1. SHOE WORKERS STRIKE 1,200 More ‘Ready to Walk Out By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, April 4—In spite of the fact that I. Miller, shoe manufacturer, who has a factory on Long Island City employing over 1,200 workers, had made a “gentlemens agreement” with his workers that if they voted for a clause in the agree- ment between the manufacturers’ as- sociation and the American Shoe Workers’ Protective) Union, which gives the bosses the right to lay off workers during the slack season, that it would not apply to the workers in his factory due to its size and the amount of work it does, has fired twelve workers in the fitting depart- ment, some of whom have been work- ing in the factory for over a year and a half. y 200 Walk Out, The workers in the fitting depart- ment, indignant at this action on the part of Miller, have walked out of the factory to a man, 250 strong, and have sent a committee to the firm, notify- ing them that-if they will take the 12 workers back, they will return to work. Otherwise they will stay out, If the firm does not agree to this de- mand of the workers within a short time, all of the 1,200 workers will walk out to show their solidarity with the 12 fitters, Want Open Shop. It is_believed that the firing of the 12 workers is the beginning of an at- tempt to change I, Miller Co, from a 100% union shop to an open shop. This action willbe vigorously opposed by the workers who requést all other shoe workers not to apply for work ‘ab Millers at the presentotime for that would strengthen~the position of the In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, cen teine My God How the Money Rolls In! Dz LY WORKE Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the: Post OMice at Chicago, llinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879, by mail, $6.00 per year, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1926 ” Published Dally except Sunday by TAE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents FU. S. INFLAME PERU (Drawn by William Gopper) SENATOR URGES SWEEPING PROBE OF PHILIPPINES Step Would Aid Killing of Independence (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 4—A sweep- ing congressional investigation of con- ditions in the Philippine Islands was proposed in the senate by Senator Pat Harrison, democrat, of Mississippi as a result of the action of President Coolidge in sending Carmi Thompson of Ohio on a special mission to the is- lands. The proposed investigation would be conducted by two senators and two representatives, who would have au- thority to visit the islands and in- quire into: 1—Political, economic, deucational and financial conditions. 2—-Tho possibilities of developing the Philippine natural‘resources and, 8—The relations of the United States to the people and government of the islands, The appointment, in case the reso- lution is passed, of such a commission would give the administration the op- portunity to secure an investigation that will justify Coolidge’s scheme to postpone definitely to the dim and distant future any possibility of Phil- ippine independence. Its report would be certainly against the separa- tion of the islands from the United States but would give a pretense of impartiality to such a decision by this government, Rubber Kings Back Move, American capital is getting read to go into the Philippines on a big scale, but before taking the plunge it wants (Continvec on page Z) Raise $5,724 for Passaic Strikers in N. Y. Tag Day NEW YORK, April 4— $5,724 was raised during the tag-day campaign for the Passaic strikers conducted in New York for three days beginning March 12, reports the New York com- mittee in charge. The Bronx section turned in the highest amount, $1,362 with Brownsyille a close second at $1,161, Local No. 22 of the Inter- national ‘Ladies “Garment Workers save $500.00. The money has been for- warded to the,Passaic strike relief {NC NOMA NEO ENR AER NE ET TN CELNIAATEA ICON! ee 10 co-defendants ended in the jury \isagreement. A’ motion of the de- ense that each of the accused be DR. SWEET TRIAL OPENS TODAY IN DETROMT COURT Victims of Race Hate to Be Tried for Murder (Spectal to The Dally Worker) DETROIT, April 4.—The trial of Henry Sweet, yopnger brother of Dr. Ossian H. Sweet, opens in Detroit to- morrow morning. Henry Sweet along with ten other Hegroes is charged with the murder Of a white hoodlum that was In a meb that stoned and fired on the home Dr. Sweet in an at- tempt to force him to move out of the house he had occupied back to the “black belt” of Detroit. Ends in Disagreement. The first trial of Dr. Sweet and his siven separate trials was then grant- ed. The state has chosen Henry Sweet ts the first to. bejtried. The result of the trial of. He Sweet, against whom the state jclaims to have evi- at he killed the ine the outcome dence to - prove hoodlum, will-d of the other ; The best legaljtalent'in the nation has been employed to defend these victims of race Ratred in Detroit.’ The prosecution aided by by the ku klux klan is determined on sending these Negroes tq long terms in jail for their refusal to leave @ 80-called white dis- trict and move | belt.” ; Attract Natidn-Wide Attention. ted nation-wide attention assume great importance as will determine whether the Negro hag the legal right to defend himself when his life is threatened, The mob in front of the Sweet resi- dence was determined to kill Sweet and his 10 friends. They were out to “teach” the “damned niggers” a les- son, The mob was armed with revol- vers and sticks. Those in the Sweet residence realizéd the evil intentions of the mob. selves. In the scrimmmge that resulted one of the assailantsswas killed, another wounded. Negro Must Fight Segregation! This trial willi determine whether the Negro can live in districts where he pleases in Detroit and be safe from attacks by mobs of robed klansmen and hoodlums or whether he is doomed to live inthe segregated district where conditions are such that the death rate is greater and the rate of disease higher than in any other district. Workers Rally ¢o Sweet Defense. The American Negro Labor Con- gress and other Negro and white work- ing class organizations are rallying to the defense of these 11 victims of race hatred. : LAY-OFF LOOMS IN HUDSON AUTO PLANT, DETROIT 3,000 Workers Will Be Affected (By a Worker Correspondent.) DETROIT, Mich4.,April 4—-A report 's current in the Hudson Motor Co.'s Plant that 3,000 employes will be laid if this week, The order will effect he Essex plant morning shift and the Hudson evening shift. The produc- tion schedule will be reduced to 400 Hudsons and 700 ‘Essexes per day. The present schedule calls for 870 Hudsons and 1,080 Bssexes per day, Thirty tool makers have been laid off in the tool room and two tool de- signers in the engineering department have been let go. This ts the tool makers’ reward for working overtime two and three hours several times a week at 75 cents extra per night, into the “black This case has ‘They defended them- CONDENIN TALK’ OF CANCELLING WARTIME DEBTS Senator Raps Charchill for Stand (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 1 — The gov- ernment’s outstanding Indebtedness has been reduced below the twenty billion dollar mark for the first time since the war, Senator David A. Reed, (R) of Pennsylvania, told the senate this afternoon, in appealing for ratifi- cation of the Italian debt settlement. Reed urged approval because the terms were “less lenient” than those accorded to Germany and Austria. He denounced movements in Europe for concellation of the debts, and particu- larly criticized statements attributed to Winston Churchill, British chancel- lor of the exchequer. Reed said, how- ever, that the United States must con- tinue to “pay interest on that twenty billion dollars.” “Our allies should keep this in mind when demanding cancellation of their debts to us,” said Reed, “for no one has suggested any ¢ancellation of our obligations or of the billions of dollars in liberty bonds now held by the American people, Cancellation Too Near Confiscation. “{ hope European spokesmen will desist from their practice,” he added, “because it makes our task harder to deal justly with.these debts. I don’t (Continued on page 5.) HOTEL WORKERS COMPLAIN OF BAD CONDITIONS Workers Fight 12-Hour Day; 7-Day Week By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, April 4.—The hotel and restaurant workers of New York have, for the last 15 years, struggled bitterly against the seven-day week and the 12-hour day. The last general strike of 1918 tho not successful, brought to the cooks and waiters a reduction in hours, Boomer-Dupont Workers Complain. Among the big concerns where thc seven-day week and 12 to 15-hour da} {still prevails is the famous Boomer Dupont, owners of the Waldorf-Asto ria, the Pennsylvania Savarins, etc. In the latter restaurants the cooks and | waiters, toiling in miserable, unhealthy | kitchens, do not know what a day off means. Yet in the Staff News (called by the workers Stiff News), a monthly mag- azine given out by the humanitarian management, you can only read the imaginary praises of the workers for the bosses who are so kind as to keep their slaves on an “all year round steady job.” Besides, contrary to the rules of the board of health, every employe has to pay 50 cents for his medical ex- amination in order that the bankers, millionaires and big merchants «who patronize these reastaurants should not be exposed to the communicable diseases which the workers may con- tract in the underground kitchens. A cook rightly remarked to me the other day: “Who is to guarantee us against the blood diseases which we workers are exposed to by eating/the remains of bread and other food ich has been handled by the well-to-do patrons?’ Such is the situation of the food workers of the open-shop kitchens of New York. The exploitation in this industry is barbarous and unless the workers will respond to the calls of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union no change of the existing con- ditions is expected. Food workers join the union and be active, Postpone Passaic Strike Probe at Request of Open-Shopper Davis WASHINGTON; April 4.—Action on the LaFollette resolution, proposing an investigation into the textile strike at Passaic, N. J. was postponed again@ar nate committee on manufactures, by the This postponement was made on the pretext that Secretary of Labor Davis wanted an opportunity to appear hefore the committee next week, ewer ‘ Workers Conscripted, Imprisoned, Beaten and Murdered by the Police Involuntary servitude on the roads of Peru, in which the en- tire Peruvian working class is conscripted to work 12 days a year without pay for the Wall Street-controlled Foundation company, is the root of violent conflict over Law No. 4113, which is shaking the South American “republic” from end to end. This law, known as the “Road-Building Conscription Act,” has aroused peasants as well as workers against American imperialism and its cor- rupted instrument, President Leguia, supreme dictator of Peru by the approval and with the diplomatic support of the United States government. The present situation in Peru is tense. Workers have been imprisoned, beaten to a pulp by the police, murdered. Meantime the Foundation company, in whose benefit the in- famous conscription act was formulated, has just declared a 40 per cent stock dividend. The DAILY WORKER is receiving full information from day to day, thru the news service of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, which is in direct communication with Peru. Signifi- cantly enough, not a word of the Peruvian conflict has been sent out by any of the regular American news agencies. Following is the first communication received from the cor- respondent of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League in Peru: | Call for Help Comes from Peru LIMA, Peru, April 4.—This is a call for help! Wall Street imperialist interests have made a secret bargain with President Leguia for the enslavement of the Peruvian work- ers. The result of this bargain is the promulgation of the un- speakable Law No. 4113, the road-building conscription law, vir- tually turning the Peruvian working class population into inden- tured servants of American imperialism. The law compares with the vicious system of “la mita” forced upon the native Indians by ne ees Ria OO 7 and peasants are resisting! No won- MOTHER TAKES POISON; UNABLE TO FIND WORK TO FEED HER CHILDREN der that they have dyed fields red with their blood to prevent every lo- cal application of the law. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aprit 2—De- spairing at supporting three children when it was impossible drove a U. S.. Diplomat Supervises. They are meeting heavy blows from young mother to take poison. De- spairing of her health and haunted Legnia’s soldiers. In the background is the U.*§. diplomatic representative, looking“om “complacently (with one eye cocked*on the nearby provinces of Tacna and Arica), while Legula does the @ifty work. That Peruvian workers are~being deprived of liberty] by the necessity of providing for her three children, Mrs. Steli Hen- kle, aged 22, swallowed poison. She was taken to the St. Frances hos- pital, where the doctors reported that there was not much chance for her recovery. is of small ifiterest to his excellency, This act was after her husband the U. S.-minister. His one concern is to see that)as large a share of the went insane looking for a job in try ing to support the three children profits as possible go to Wall Street. According to the conscription law every Peruvian is obliged to donate 12 days of labor to the state each year, without. remuneration of any kind. “The state” will not employ all this labor power itself, but donates] that they had. It was impossible it, in turn, to a private contracting| for him to find a job in Pittsburgh and he had to be committed to the city hospital at Mayview wnen his mind became deranged over the fact that he could not find a job to sup- port his family. These are some of the signs of the prosperity the concern, the Foundation Company. It is one of the most barefaced bribery chamber of commerce of Pittsburgh is hollering about. PITTSBURGH CONVENTION OF STEEL WORKERS’ UNION OPENS TOMORROW; PROGRESSIVES PREPARED FOR FIGHT vhereby President Leguia is to pro- it personally by the enslavement of (Continned on page %.> By ANDREW OVERGAARD (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 4—The annual convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers opens in this city Tuesday, April 6th, at the national headquarters of the union. According to all indications this convention will mark a turning point in the h 'y of the organization as the progressive forces have been steadily gathering strength since the last convention. Organization of Unorganized. Of the 600,000 workers employed in the steel industry only a small num- ber, about 11,000, are organized in the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers’ Union. The great mass of semi- and unskilled work- ers in this gigantic industry, are un- + organized and working under the most PHYSICIANS DISCOVER PHEUMONIA ANTITOXIN vicious system of exploitation. The United States Steel corporation thru its control of public officials in the various steel centers and thru its ex- tensive spy system, have so far been able to prevent the trade union move- ALBANY, N. Y., April 4—An anti- ment from organizing the workers. Leadership of Union Bankrupt. In spite of the fact that the previous conventions of the union went on re- cord for one industrial unton in the steel industry and that the constitu- tion reads, “All men and women work- (Continued on page 2.) toxin for pneumonia which pro- duces excellent results if administer- ed within forty eight hours was re- ported by Drs. B. J. Olsan, G, H. A, Clowes and W. A, Jamieson, all of Minneapolis, at a meeting of the American Association of Immunolo- logists, Company Unions in the Steel Industry. N view of the convention of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers’ Union which opens tomorrow in Pittsburgh, The DAILY WORKER has asked Robert W. Dunn, authority on company unions, to prepare a special article on company unions in the steel industry, The information contained in this article will be of value to the dele- gates to this convention, as well as to the workers thruoyt the In- dustry, since they will have before them the problem of ofganizing the steel industry. Robert W. Dunn has spent more than a year making a special study of company unions. The article will appear tomorrow, ‘