The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 1926, Page 2

Page Two tT MAC NDER GETS INDUSTRY READY FOR NEXT WAR Manufacturers Listen to Plan Col. Hanford MacNider, assistant secretary of war and past commander of the American Legion, is in Chicago co-ordinating plans of the war depart- ment for “industrial preparedness” with manufacturing and industrial plants of the middie west. MacNider spoke today at a meet- ing of mid-west manufacturers. He told them how the war department was operating on a national scale to prepare for the shifting.of industries to a war basis on a minute’s notice. “We ask that industry make its own arrangements to meet the war-time de- mands of the nation. It is our duty, however, to take to industrial con- cerns our requirements that they may give us expert advice.” The colonel assured his listeners that when the United States goes to war, “It will be in self-defense”—for- getting the circumstances under which the United States went to its last war. And without, it seems, paying any attention to the contradiction of the statement he added: “Industrial mobil- ization is a frank declaration that we want peace and intend to have it,” Officers of the sixth corps army area were to have met with the as- sistant secretary tonight to discuss in detail plans for the placing of Chicago industries on a war-time basis. Farmers Will Seek Injunction Against Chicago Health Head Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen and twenty-one others, in- cluding heads of some of the largest milk distributing firms in Chicago, were notified that Attorney Frank Me- Carthy, counsel for the Milk Pro- ducers’ Association, will institute con- tempt proceedings against them in Kane county circuit court. His peti- tion will ask that the Chicago officials and distributors be cited for violation of the injunction issued in Kane coun- \ty prohibiting interferemse in milk distribution in Ilinois. Congress Turns Down Reapportionment Bill (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 8.—The house late today overwhelmingly turned down a move to force a reapportion- ment of congressional representation on the basis of the 1920 census. Ac- cording to law there should be a re- apportionment after every ‘census. The states, however, which would lose representation naturally object. Couldn’t Live on $18 a Week. ST. LOUIS—(FP)—Richard Moo- ney, who lost his arm in a railroad accident 12 years ago, made an un- successful attempt to end his life by shooting. “I just could not make ends meet on my salary of $18 a week,” he told hospital attendants, EXPOSE OF CONDITIONS IN PERU TO APPEAR IN SATURDAY’S DAILY WORKER The next story exposing the vicious labor conditions in Peru will appear in tomorrow’s DAILY WORKER, Fascists Line Up with Government Against Workers MELBOURNE — (FP) — Fasci steadily gaining headway in A’ According to statements by its ¢ organizer, Capt. Hatcher, its members are all supporters of the federal gov- ernment, while the organization is re- ceiving assistance from the big busi- ness elements behind the government. Hatcher is a government employe. A manifesto recently issued by Hatcher set out that the fascists are a semi-military body, amd intend to line up on the side of the government against “extremists and agitators.” That the fascists are in league with the government is made clear in an article by William Davies, a British newspaper-owner who recently visited Australia. Davies said that while in Melbourne last October a staunch sup- porter of the anti-Labor prime minis- ter told him to go right ahead with his anti-labor legislation and that if the prime minister wanted any help gainst the unions he would have the assistance of ‘a large civilian volun- teer force.” AVENTINE LEADER DIES FROM BLOWS | OF FASCIST THUGS Mussolini Gets Rid of Parliamentary Foe m is (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, April 8.— Prof. Giovanni Amendola, one of the most relentless opponents of Premier Mussolini and fascism in Italy, died at Cannes to- day, according to the newspaper Le Matin. Death came as the result of injuries ‘suffered six months ago when he was brutally attacked by a gang of fascist hirelings. He was after- wards smuggled out of Italy by friends and taken to Paris. Later he was removed to Cannes. The death of Amendola, who had at one time been minister for the colo- nies in the fascisti cabinet and served numerous terms as deputy for Sa- lerno, may prove almost as sensa- tional an incident in Italian affairs as was the death of Deputy Matteotti. He is the most distinguished Italian personage to fall before the alleged attacks of political enemies and it is expected here his friends will demand an inquiry by the Italian government to clear up the events leading to his death. Aventine Opposition Leader. As leader of the Aventine opposi- tion, Amendola represented the strong- est opposition, aside from the Com- munists, the fascist party has had. The attack upon Amendola, which led to his death, is still involved in obscurity and no accurate details have been made known. Pa. Hodcarriers, White and Black, Form Union READING, Pa., April 8—Sixty-seven Reading hodtarriers of various nation- alities, including Negro workers, have taken the first steps toward forming a local union. Unorganized hodcarriers here re- ceive 25 to 35 cents an hour less than workers in unionized districts. Business agent Jesse George, plumb- ers’ union, told the hodcarriers he had never seen a more fraternal spirit among such a diverse group of work- ers. Strike Stops Wage Cutting. MELBOURNE, Australian—(FP)— An attempt by the federal government to reduce wages in the munition works at Melbourne by $1.25 per week ended in failure. The men ceased work im- mediately and did not resume till the old scale was reintroduced, FOURTH OF THE FREIHEIT CLEVELAND; 0. CARPENTERS’ HALL, 2226 East 55th Street Sunday, April 11, 1926, 2 P. M. Jubilee Speaker: M. J. OLGIN Freiheit Gesangsverein JUBILEE Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra Misha Finkel, of Detroit, humorous readings, TONIGHT! Relief Ball for Passaic Strikers Passaic strikers in tableux led by A. Weisbord. PASSAIC STRIKE ENTERS INTOITS ELEVENTH WEEK Relief Badly Needed By Textile Workers (Special to The Dally Worker) PASSAIC, N, J., April 8—“The eleventh week finds the workers fully determined to continue their strike un- til their demands have been granted.” With this firm announcement made by Albert Weisbord, the eleventh week of the strike was ushered in. “Refusal | by the companies to confer with the workers will find the workers with ample resources to continue the strike with greater vigor,” he said further. His statement in full is as follows: Strike in Eleventh Week. “The strike of the Passaic textile workers is now in the, eleventh week. The eleventh week finds the workers fully determined to continue their strike’ until their.demands have been granted, The demands of the work- ers are just demands and can be eas- ily granted by the mill companies. Every attempt to intimidate the} strikers and to break their ranks has, failed. The strike has aroused na- tional interest with the result that public opinion is in full sympathy with the workers, Repeated efforts have been made to mediate the strike. The strikers have welcomed these efforts and have on more than one occasion expressed their willingness to confer with the representatives of the mill companies for a settlement of the con. troversy. “The representatives of the mill companies, however, have been obsti- nate and have stubbornly refused to confer with a committee of the work- ers. Teach Bosses Lession, “If the representatives of the mill) companies will continue to maintain} such an attitude, they will learn thru sad experience that the workers’ ranks will hold firm and that the pub- lic sympathy for their cause will in- crease. The responsibility for the prolongation of the struggle which is| especially costly to the community of Pasasic, therefore rests upon the rep- resentatives of the mill companies. “Refusal by the companies to con- fer with the workers will find the workers with ample resources to con- tinue the strike with greater vigor until the representatives of the com- panies will recognize that only thru conferring with the workers can the controversy be ended satisfactorily.” Walkout Began with 2,500. The Passaic strike began with a walkout of 2,500 workers from the Botany mills, They went on strike to protest the discharge of fellow em- ployes who had dared to suggest to Colonel Charles F. H. Johnson, vice- president of the Botany mill, that a 10 per cent wage cut of starvation wages was unjust. They went on strike to gain a just wage, decent working conditions, pay of time and a half for overtime, a 44-hour week, and the right to have a union. Other workers, desperate from long con- tinued injustice, joined them. As the strike enters the eleventh week, ¢ HE DAILY WORKER Convention of Steel Workers Hears of Membership Loss (Continued from page 1). Amalgamated Association under these circumstances, The Progressives. The problem of the progressive forces in this convention will be espe- cially to break down the complete craft union ideology and outlook which controls the official policy of the organization and take the leader- ship in a real campaign to organize the unorganized. The progressive group in the association is still per- meated too much with a craft outlook itself and with a number of contra- dictions which naturally tends to weaken its opposition to, the machine. Only thru development Of a real con- structive program will the progressive forces finally be able to overthrow the present bureaucracy and make the Amalgamated what it professes to be, the all-embracing steel workers’ in- dustrial union, RUSSIAN EMIGRES’ “DUMA” PLOTS 10 RESTORE CZARDOM Nicolai Nicolaievitch Heads the Outfit (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, April 8—The congress of Russian emigres who hope to re-estab- lish the czardom in their country has adjourned with the selection of Grand Duke Nicolaievitch as their choice for the throne. The announcement sent him from the gathering terms him “the foreordained representative of the nationalist idea as well as the glorious supreme chief of the army and the defender of the fatherland since the first days of our Calvary.” It declares the emigres have the utmost confidence in the wisdom of his states- manship and the ability of his mili-| tary leadership. “We are firmly con- vinced,” is its conclusion;:;“that upon the issuance of your appeal all Rus- sians, without exception; will take up unhesitatingly the glorious task of liberating the fatherland.” Nicholas Nicolaievitch, et cetera, is now living in a handsome chateau, with all his wants attended to, near the city. The “valiant’® duke did not dare to attend the meéting for fear that some Communist might recognize him and end any hopes he has of be- coming a second czar. Middle Class Mostly. The “Russian Emigres’ Duma,” as it has been dubbed, was Officially com- posad of 500 delegatesirepresenting the former Russian ruljng class and its hirelings. The call for the gather- ing was sent out a year ago by a tem- porary organization committee. The majority of those in attendance were middle-class Russians, tho there were members of Kerettsky’s govern- ment and a number of former Duma representatives. Many’ of the dele- gates were doing some “useful work for the first time in their'lives. Among this group were tailors, writers, scien- tists, bartenders, clerks, taxi-drivers 16,000 workers are striking, picket lines are firmer than ever, the spirit of the strike remains unbroken. Relief Needed! and dancers. Bum Prophet Is Chairman. Professor P. Struve, the chairman of the gathering, is a former liberal. Aid from the workers in every quar-|He used to have rather a name in ter continues to swell relief funds so|Russia for his liberalism and had that the tremendous need for more |some influence during the period when than $10,000 worth of food aloneevery|he was an exile abroad. Several week, may be met, and the 2,500 fam-|months before the 1905 outbreak, ilies that are dependent on the gen-|however, he discredited himself by eral relief may be fed. The International Workers Aid of |that a running a series of articles proving revolt in Russia was impossi- Chicago has shipped 2,000 cans of milk, ‘ble under the existing conditions, 250 pounds of coffee, 1,600 pounds He came back to Russia during the of oatmeal, 1,000 pounds of rice, and |Tevolt and after it had‘been crushed 1,000 pounds of prunes. These stap- les will be put in storage, together with a carload of sugar and acarpad of flour from the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers, and will be distributed to the four relief stores as it is needed. Other large contributions that have been received recently include the took part in the political life of the country, becoming a leatler in the con- stitutional democrati¢é” party, the ‘eadets,” as they were properly dubbed. He never got beyond that point, tho the capitalist press often refers to him as a Marxian. Exile Did Somé Good. In his opening address Struve re- proceeds from the mass meetings held |minded the assembled ‘ex-princes, ex- in New York, amounting to $1,313.66, | capitalists, ex-landholders, and ex- the Workmen’s Circle, New York, | generally good-for-nothings that they $662.59; Joint Board of Cloak, Suit, |had all “learned to w and Dressmakers’ Union, $2,899.49; |exile, tho he did not Finnish |munists credit for this change. When collections thru Steenpan, daily paper, $38.45; Perth Amboy con- ference, $46.45. 159 Boys Watlk-Out during their the Com- he declared they would’ return “poor” to Russia there was ng applause. Some Emigres Back Out. The congress was~dominated. so BAYQNNE, N. J.—(FP)—A walkout | much by the extreme reactionaries of of 150 boys between 16 and 18 years |the former czar’s court that men like old demanding a wage increase from |the former Foreign Minister Miliou- 82 to 36c an hour closed the case and | koff, Alexander Kerensky, Victor can department of the Standard Oil|Tchernof and their followers have for Co, of New Jersey Bayonne plant. TONIGHT! the most part refused to take part, Mencken’s Raids on Bookstores Arrest and Should Arouse Labor By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. elipesnne passing day offers some new stinging revelation showing how the straightjacket gang is continually busy trying to clamp the American brain into a common mould. If it isn’t the Rev. J. Frank Chase of the New England Watch and Ward Society, or John Sumner of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, then it is some other self-elected protector of public morals like Dr. Phillip Yarrow, of the Illinois Vigilance Association, * * INJUNCTIONS FAIL TO BREAK NEWARK STRIKE Greek Priest Acts as Scab Herder NEWARK, N. J., April 8 — Tho six injunctions have been granted so far to the Hellenic-American Restaurant Owners Association of New Jersey in an attempt to crush the strike of the waiters organized in the Greek Workers Club, the strike enters its third week with an increased deter- mination on the part of the strikers ° * During these past few days, Chase has been running around the streets of Boston in pursuit of H. L. Mencken, editor of the American Mercury, having him arrested for printing and circulatin, snoops around the lobbies of an alleged salacious article. Sumner New York theaters trying to smell out stage smut. Yarrow has just led a mob of police against hitherto unpretentious book stores in Chicago's “loop,” siezing literature that p may be had at the public li- brary, and that is to be found in thousands of private libraries | thruout thi city. * « Mencken is dismissed in a Boston police court, but the Chicago bookstore proprietors still face six months’ jail terms and a heavy fine under a statute dating back to 1873, when the nation was just crawling out of chattel slavery. The trial has been set for April 23, when a municipal court judge will have to decide if the public may be permitted to buy copies of Giovanni Boceaccio’s “Decameron,” the works of Francois Rabelais; Giovanni Giacomo Casanova’s memoirs of such historic personages as Frederick the Great, Mme. Pompadour and others; Dr. W. F. Robie'’s “Sex Histories” and “The Art of Love.’ The 1873 statute holds anyone to be a criminal who is discovered “having in his possession with or without intent to sell. . . . or who shall give away or lend, any indecent or immoral book.” This would cover librarians. It is urged that public libraries have not been raided for distributing these books, especially those of Boccaccio and Rabelais, that have been in circulation for the past ten centuries. But even that may come to pass. * * It is very evident that the mass of the people are not stirred by such attacks. The masses saw an espionage act clapped upon the national brain during the war. The mass- es applauded when workers were sent to prison for alleged violations of this law thru exercising the “rights” of speech, press and assemblage. to win all their demands, The Greek restaurant workers start- ed an organization campaign about two months ago. They succeeded in organizing about 300 workers, They organized independently but before going on strike they joined the Amer- ican Federation of Labor union for restaurant workers. Waiters Make Mild Demands. The striking waiters demand a 10 hour day, 6 day week and the recogni- tion of their union. These demands of the Greek waiters were called: “radi- cal” by the restaurant owners and the owners began to rave that the strike was caused and engineered by “out- siders” and “bolsheviks.” Large ads have been published by the restaurant bosses in the capitalist press attack- ing the striking workers. Priest Alds Bosses. The Greek priest Spyridakis of New- ark has been appointed as chief “strikebreaker” by the Hellenic-Amer- ican Restaurant Owners’ Association. They held a meeting in the Greek church laying plans for crushing the strike of the waiters. The Greek workers in general and the restaurant workers in particular are furious against this action of the priest, who undertook to break their strike. This resentment has increased since they saw him accompanying a strike-breaker to the Lincoln restau- rant. They went in together thru the front door pushing thru the “pick- et line.” Greek workers are asking, “What business has a priest to interfere with a strike?” Mussolini, Head of The so-called anti-sedition laws, adopted in 35 states after the war, wiping out all civil liberties in industrial strug- gles, aroused some resentment. Labor did rally for a time in support of the Michigan defendants, in the trials of Ruth- enberg and Foster, growing out of the Bridgeman raid on the Communist Party convention. But it is very evident that labor's vigilance has been waning. The sedition laws still stands with the endorsement of the United States supreme court. charge of heresy growing out An Anthony Bimba can be brought to trial on a of a speech made to workers. Coal miners can be convicted, as at Zeigler, Ill., for espous- ing the left wing cause of the workers in their industry. Textile strikers are jailed and gassed at Passaic, New Jersey, and William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, is unchallenged by the millions of organized Ameri- can workers when he refuses to join in the effort to aid these strikers become an integral part of the American labor movement. All these outrages pass unheeded. __ The cases of Mencken’and the Chicago bookstores are interesting in that they reveal the extreme petty tyrannies that a docile public opinion will endure. They ‘emphasize the need of a class organization, like the International Labor Defense, to take up labor’s defense in all of its struggles. Labor must realize that every success- ful aggression on the part of the ruling class, thru any of The its satellites, is a weakening of the wor ers’ position. “ ublic” may cower and crawl before every kick and cuff. he working class must stand and fight. Big “Wet and Dry” Battle Continues to Rage in Washington (Continued from page 1.) enforce the law in New York state if you don’t abolish jury trials,” he said—“But what is $75,000,000. It.is mere carfare compared to the profits and volume of business done by the bootlegging industry.” Suggests Stone Wall, Senator Reed, (D) of Missouri, asked if Buckner were advocating mandatory jail sentences, but Buckner said no. “What do you want?” asked Reed. “More judges, better court machin- ery and more agents,” said Buckner. “You want more jails, too?” ob- served Senator Harreld.(R) of Okla- homa. es.” “Why not just put a stone wall around the country?” asked Reed while-the crowd roared. “Do you think you could find enough men to guard that wall?” Buckner only smiled, \ When he finished, the committee ad- TONIGHT! ‘DANCING AND FUN. journed until tomorrow. ** 8 60,000,000 Gallons Here. “The inefficiency of the industrial alcohol service which lets 60,000,000 gallons of alcohol slip into the boot- leg trade annually has done as much as the coast guard service to halt smuggling of foreign liquors into the United States,” Buckner told an amazed audience which jammed the senate judiciary committee’s public hearings. Buckner said one carload of boot- Fascism, Embarks on Imperialist Voyage (Continued from Page 1) financial situation of both France and Italy. ees ' Wreck Opposition Press. | ROME, April 8.—Fascist riotére — have wrecked the offices of the local opposition press. The buildings of La Voce Republicana, a republican daily; Il Risorgimento, organ of the constitutionalists, and Il Mundo, an antifascist paper, were invaded and the machinery broken. All employes and others connected with the papers were driven out and beaten up by the mobs, ee Beat Up Modigliani. _ NAPLES, April 8—Modigliani, the lawyer for Matteotti’s widow, was se- riously beaten up by a gang of fascist hoodlums last night. Crazed crowds jot fascists paraded up and down the streets of the city, searching for vic- tims. The reign of terror still exists. ees ¢ Civil War in Italy, PALERMO, Sicily, April 8—Open warfare has broken out between the fascists and anti-fascists on this island. A number of casualties have been sustained on both sides. eos Temporarily Insane. LONDON, April 8.—Friends of Miss Gibson, who shot Premier Mussolini, expect that she will be held to be temporarily insane and that the dic- tator himself will order that she be delivered into the custody of friends who will guarantee that she does not return to Italy, Miss Gibson is a convert to the Catholic church and has spent most of her time in the last year in prayer, Her sister believes the act was com- leg alcohol already has been seized | mitted in a moment of mental unbal- at the Canadian border. It was sent by American bootleggers to Canadian bootleggers to defraud the Canadian government of its tax. eee Watered Stock. Bootleggers use one gallon of alco- hol to make three gallons of wiskey. “At $5 a quart for bootleg whiskey—"” Buckner said, “I find that $3,600,000,000 is the gross busi- ness involved In the diversion of 60,000,000 gallons of industrial alco- hol to the bootleg trade.” There is a trace of poison in 98% per cent of all the bootleg liquor seized in New York, Buckner stated. Trimm mmm MMM TTT CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th Street and 3rd Avenue, New York City Speeches Mike Gold and Joe Freeman Drawin Hugo Gellert and ancement, Malvy Resigns from Briand French Cabinet PARIS, April 8.—Minister of the In- terior Malvy has resigned, it was an- nounced semi-officially this afternoon, M, Durand, minister of agriculture, may succeed him. The extreme right in parliament has ‘been bitterly opposed to Malvy’s pres- ence in the government, as he was convicted during the World War, illie Gropper ADMISSION 50 CENTS along with Caillaux, of dealing with the enemy, Qe