The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 14, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 79. TEXTILE BAR. SEEK 10 BREAK PASSAIC STRIKE Weisbord’s Arrest First Move of Bosses (Special to The Dally Workers PASSAIC, N. J., April, 12<—The ar- rest of Albert Weisbord, leader of the textile strikers, at the orders of the; textile bosses following a parade of| strike children is an attempt to break the strike of the Passaic textile work- ers. The arrest was made at this time as the textile barons are now showing samples to their prospective pur- chasers and the filling of orders de- * pends on the ability of the bosses to break the strike and get the workers back into the shops. The bosses think that by the jailing of Weisbord they will accomplish this, The strikers are more determined than they ever were to win the strike and. force the bosses to pay better wages, shorter the hours and recognize the workers’ union, Raid Strike Headquarters. Immediately after the arrest of Weisbord the police made a raid on the offices of the United Front Com- mittee and began a search, The property of the committee was re- moved and the officiais evicted. Hinder Strike Relief. The police then went to the strikers’ | relief headquarters. Here they tried to seize, all the money, and records and to search the place from top to bottom. Strentous objections were made by those in charge of the relief headquarters to this illegal search and they refused to allow the™polics “search the premises until.a warrant “was produced “A warrant was ‘later produced and the search began. After # three-hour search the police took a few letters received from. organiza- tions remitting money for relief. At the office of the United Front Com. mittee the police seized the member. ship files and all of the books, Refuse to Release Weisbord. Weisbord is held in jail, Bail is xefused him. No one is allowed to see him. The police .officers refuse to divulge the real charges placed against him. It is a plain attempt on the part of the textile barons and their police lackeys to persecute the strikers and their leaders and try to break the strike. Seize Committee Records. Tho the records of the United Front Co: mittee were seized and attempts are being continually ®made by the Passaic police to hinder the relief work, the strikers are determined to earry on their strike to a successful conclusion, The strikers refuse to al- low the bosses to terrorize them into submission. Is Green Behind Legion? Rumors are current in Passaic that President Green of the American Federation of Labor, who refuses to take steps to organize the 16,000 Pas- “gaic textile workers into the American Federation of Labor, has donated $100. to the strikebreaking American Le- gion relief kitchen, Before any of the strikers can receive relief from the American Legion relief kitchen they must promise they will not go on the. picket line and that they will deal as {Continued 6n page. 2.) YOU.CAN WIN A TRIP TO MOSCOW! See Thursday’s Issue o! The Daily Worker! Subscription Rates: ° oP Outside Chieago, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. THE DAILY TRE DAL. Entered at Second-class matter September by mail, $6.00 per year, MEXICAN WARNS PAN-AMERICANS Press Congress Bared as Imperialist Plan (Anti-Imperial Press Service.) WASHINGTON, April. 12.—Demand- ing that the Latin-American countries receive regular news from the United States that is not “dressed only in North American viewpoints,” Senor Nemesio Garcia Naranjo of Mexico threw a bombshell into the so-called Pan-American congress of Journalists at Washington right at its opening session. The Mexican newspapérman then launched into a severe criticism of the type of news service now given to Latin-America by the Associated Press, the United Press and the In- ternational News Service. Senor Garcia Naranjo's, remarks, which he declared involy.ad the most serious problem before the. congress, were. all the more significant because they followed immediately after a milk and water address. of welcome by President Coolidge, who dodged all real issues, praised the, deyelopment of “Pan-Americanism,”-and described the gathering grandiloquently,as “one of the most important .meetings of editors and publishers ever, held.” Imperial Maneuver. This first Pan-American congress of Journalists is being described on all sides as a clever scheme,;to bring the Latin-American press; completely un- der the tutelage of American. imperial- ism. It is pointed out that the ses- sions are being held inthe hall of the Pan-American Union, which is the semi-official expression of all the “Pan-American” manetvers of Wall Street and Washington. Inasmuch as they are practically dependent for much of their news upon the big agencies in the United States, most of the important Latin-American dailies have sent representatives. Personally Conducted Tour. The congress closes today, after which the Latin-Americans will be taken on a “personally conducted” tour thru various parts of the United States, the idea being to impress them with the might and importance of American capitalism, The tour has been carefully planned, It goes with- out saying that it will not include such “sights” as the textile! strike at Passaic, N, J., or the living condl- tions of the miners in West Virginia, thru which state the delegates will be carefully guided. ‘However, the Latin-Amerfcans al- Roald Emundsen, Norwegian ex- Plorer. who will fly a dirigible from Gatchina, near Leningrad, to the Polar regions. He intends to explore the Polar regions which has been his aim for many years. He has made a num- ber of unsuccessful trips, This time he expects to succeed. SENATE VOTES THAT STECK IS OWA SENATOR (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 12.— After one of the bitterest political battles in its history, the senate this afi noon seated Daniel F. Steck (D.) as lowa’s junior senator, The senate’s decision automatically expelled Senator Smith W. Brook- hart, republican-insurgent, who has been serving since March 4, 1925. Steck was awarded the seat as a re- sult of a recount of the ballots cast in the 1924 election after Brookhart was given the election by Iowa state officials on & plurality of 817 votes. The recount, according to a ten-to-one majority report of the senate elec- tions committee, showed Steck had won the election by a plurality of 1,420 votes and the senate endorsed that verdict. vi The decision will result in Brook- hart becoming a candidate for the seat now held by Albert B. Cummins, Iowa’s*senior senator, who must stand for re-election this fall. Brookhart’s defeat also was attrib- uted in some measure to the fact that in the last presidential campaign he supported the Jate Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin ‘and opposed President Coolidge, Ax a’ result the administra i, Z WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1926 NARY TROO CROWE—STATE’S ATTORNEY ONE OF THE BIRDS IN THE PRIMARIES CHINESE BOMBS Chang Tso Lin Raiders ‘Are Active (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, ‘April 12—Ten Chinese / |were killed and twenty wounded in an aerial bombardment by raiding air- men of the army now besieging the Chinese capital. At Hsi-Chihmen, Roy Chapman An- drews, leader of an American scien- tific expedition, narrowly escaped death when three bombs dropped by an airplane exploded within a few feet of where he was standing. ..Several Chinese members of Andrew's party were killed. Andrews was at the Hsi-Chihmen station superintending the departure of equipment for the expedition to Kalgan when the first bomb struck, about thirty: feet from where he was working, He took shelter under a freight car and as he watched a sec- ond bomb Janded several feet nearer. As he took refuge behind a steel wheel whem the third bomb landed, less than a yard away, scooping a fifteen foot) crater in the earth and scattering dron fragments against thé ar. | e Commission Meets, The powers commission investi- gating the question of the administra- tion of justice by Chinese courts as part of thir inquiry into the matter of extra-territoriality met last Satur- day at theoffice of Silas Strawn, the American member as the nationalist soldiers blocked their way to the hall they have een using. They expect to leave for THankow April 16, if the Chinese carry out a promise made by Tuan Chi Jali just before he was over- thrown as president, John Van A, MacMurray, American minister to China, has notified his government that the extent and suc cess of last weeks coup de etat is not yet apparent, Wu Reported Hesitant, General Wu Pei Fu is still at |Hankow, his headquarters in central China, having made no move as yet to jaccept the report offer from the na- tionalists of control of the central gov- ernment. Meanwhile the Chang Tso Lin forces are continuing their at- tacks in an effort to force an issue be- fore Wu can reach Peking, it the lat- ter really @avor the reported nation- alist offer, Put a copy of the DAILY ready know enough of »“American|tion republiédns in Iowa threw sup-| WORKER! in your pocket when rn (Continued on page 2.) port tah Gtggots Tee democrat, x you go to. your union meeting. worl y p#e Post Office at Chicago, Ilinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ato 290 PUBLISHING Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER W. Washington Blvd,, Chicago, MM. CoO., 1118 FUR STRIKERS HOLD 3 HUGE MASS MEETINGS 5 Police Court Cases Dismissed (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 12—Three en- thusiastic meetings of fur strikers were held in’ Webster Hall, Beetho- ven Hall and Manhattan Lyceum. The speakers were Ben Gitlow; Jos. Schlossberg, Secretary of Amal ed Clothing Workers of America; Judge Jacob. Panken; .Samuel E. Beardsley of Jewelry Workers Union; A. Lifshitz of The Freiheit; and 1. Goldberg of the Millinery Workers Union, All of them expressed their wish for a speedy and successful settle- ment of the fur strike with all the workers’ demands. Ben Gold was the last speaker at edch hall and gave the workers an account of the strike events of the past week. Cases Dismissed. In the 161st Street Court today one worker arrested on disorderly .con- duct was dismissed, and in the 121st Street Court 4 workers who had been arrested last week and held on $1000 bail each’ were also dismissed. A number of other cases whinch came up in Jefferson Market Court today were adjourned until next week. Shop Chairmen Meet. 4 At a meeting of shop chairmen held Thursday afternoon in Manhattan that thee Union should not yet begin to pay any strike benefits, The shop chairmen expressed their belief that the benefit paid for Passover week would tide ba ‘workers. over. for the present, 7; * of Employers (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 12.—Judge Man- cuso, a servile tool of the bosses, has ordered a grand jury investigation of the bosses’ complaints that the union employs sluggers. The bosses have employed sluggers since the beginning of the strike. These sluggers have mercilessly beaten the strike pickets. Many times they were aided in their brutal work by the police. Strikers brot complaints to the judges and ask- 2d for warrants for the arrest of these gunmen, The judges refused to issue he warrants. The judges refused to investigate the bosses hiring slug- gers. The bosses went to the judges and made accusations that the union hired sluggers and that these sluggers ter- rorized their workers to such an ex- tent that they feared to enter the shop. The bosses have no proof of their statement. They cannot point out a single act of terrorism on the part of the union. The workers in the shops refuse to scab because they are on strike for better living condi- tions. They are maintaining the pick- et lines in front of the shop. Tho there was no proof or evidence to prove the accusations of the employ- ers, Judge Mancuso orders a grand jury investigation. When word of Judge Mancuso’s ac- tion reached Ben Gold, general man- ager of the New York joint boatd of the Furriers’ Union, he declared: “The grand jury will find, upon’ in- vestigation, that if any gangsters have been used it is the manufactur’) ers who have used them. They wi!? find a number of instances where the police have arrested gangsters and they were found to have been hired by the employers. But there is not a single instance where the gangsters were employed by the union.” Gold added that Abraham Goodman, counsel for the union, was gathering that eight strikers were held prison- ers on a farm at Spring Valley, N. Y., where a fur manufacturing plant had been established by 8, Ratner & Sons, with offices at 146 West Twenty-fitth street, New York City. The evidence gathered by the lawyer will be present- ed to the grand jw material.and of union labor at the Lyceum it was uninimously decided | Readily Grants Demands’ facts in charges made by the union! | of the people. ANTHONY BIMBA SPEAKS TONIGHT ON “BLASPHEMY AND THE SHOE TRUST’ Anthony Bimba, who will speak at Schoenhoffen Hall, Division and Milwaukee Aves. on “Blasphemy and the Shoe Trust Henry Cor- bishley, victim of the Zeigler frame- up will also speak. The meeting is under the auspices of International Labor Defense. WOMEN PRESENT DRY PLEA FOR ENFORCING LAW Church Ladies Threaten to Clean House (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 12—A wave of conflicting opinion on the wet-and- ary question literally engulfed the capital today. Five hundred women, determined to offset the flood of evidence against the Volstead law that has poured in on congress the past week, gathered here in a convention of the “Woman's National Committee for Law Enforce- ment” and put out reams of “state- ments” and arguments in favor of prohibition. The drys, thru the women, had their inning today before the senate sub-committee. Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, acted as their attorney. While the wets will continue their modification pleas before the commit- tee tomorrow, the women will con- tinue their convention, and “meet Propaganda with propaganda.” New Jersey Petition. “If things are as ‘bad as they say,” said Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of Bos- ton, convention chairman, “the eternal woman will function in the government as she does’ in the house and sweep out corruption.” The feminist drys sent 65 wit- nesses to-the hearing. They were headed by Mrs. Peabody, One of their first acts was to present a great petition to the committee, carrying 16,306 signatures of’ New Jersey wo- men, urging a strengthening of the dry law. Most New Jersey congress- men are wet. Coolidge Hot Air, With out expressing any opinion as to™the merits or demerits of prohibi- tion itself, President Coolidge en- dorsed the zeal of the women in their campaign for law enforcement. “The law,” said Mr. Coolidge in a letter to Mrs, Peabody, “represents the voice Beyond it, and support- ing it, is a divine sanction, Enforce- ment of law and obedience to law, are. not matters of choice in this republic, but the expression of a moral re- (Continued on page 2.) BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY CLERKS’ LODGE DEMANDS USE OF UNION LABOR AT THE PHILADELPHIA EXPOSITION CLEVELAND, April 12.—Lodge No. 573 of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks at its last meeting went on record demanding the use of union-made squi-Centennial Exposition at Phila- | delphia ‘The progressive unions of Cleveland are lining up behind. this demand. NEW YORK EDITION *Price 3 Cents S GREET MUSSOLINI |MADE:TO-ORDER WELCOME MARKS DUCE'S ARRIVAL Greek Catholic Priests Bless Roman Butcher {Special to The Dally Worker) TRIPOLI, April 12—Premier Musso- lini today continued his “manifeeta- tlon of colonial power,” as he des- cribes his tour of inspection of Tripoli. The spectacular “review” which passed before his eyes has admittedly not been surpassed in pagantry since the days of the ancient Roman em- pire. Colonial natives are presenting him with precious unusual gifts. These include a golden vest and belt, and @ gem-encrusted golden sword. The dictator today motored to Sabraha where he visited excavations which have been made, disclosing the relies of ancient civilizations, Later be took a train for Zuara where an- other great demonstration is to take place, Priests Bless Butcher, The made-to-order welcome here to the dictator was a most colorful pageant. Native mercenary troops, companies of fascist militia, and the regular Italian troops made up the military display. Bishop Tonizza of the Greek Catholic church extended the best wishes of that organization in Africa to the butcher of the workers of Italy in a speech which showed that the priests were completely with Mus- solini, As the soldiers passed it was noticeable that along with the Italian and the native officers there rode the native priest assigned to each com- pany. Their high black hats made a striking contrast with the bine tassel- ed red fezes of the Libyan Askaris and the naked Suifburnéd heads of the other native troops. Religion was lending. its highest blessings to the imperialist butchers of Ttaly. Mounted on a brown Arabian horse, with the collar of the Annunziata around his neck, (the highest honor which the Italian king can bestow), Mussolini watched the miniature army file past, swelling up like a vain pea- cock on parade. At the conclusion of the demonstration he delivered King Victor Emmanuel’s message to his African subjects. Couched in the style of a Caesar, and délivered with the dictator’s usual bombast, it referred to the king as “our august and powerful sovereign, whom God protects and whom the people dearly love.” There followed the assurance that the Tripolitams, “being obedient to the laws.., will be protected eternally by the king’s just decrees.” ROME, April 12 — Diversion of the Italian emigrant stream to Tripoli is one of the chief objects of Premier Mussolini's visit to the Italian colon- ies in Africa where he will examine their possibilities as a home for Italy’e surplus population. If he finds climate and other conditions suitable he wilt open a campaign to persuade prospect- ive settlers in Argentina, Brazil and the United States to go instead to Tripoli and other Italian colonies im Africa, Many House Wreckers Win Wage Increases NEW YORK—(FP)—A third of the 2700 house wreckers who struck im New York for 15 cents an hour mors pay are back at work as result of their employers granting union ‘de- mands. A group of 30 contractors has formed a temporary association in aw attempt to hold out against the organ- ized workers. The new wage scale is $1.10 an hour for helpers and $1.20 for bar men. The union has a practically closed shop and since the work re- quires a considerable amount of skill and a good deal of daring the tie-up is effective. The work is hazardous to life and limb, and to health because of the dust and filth, Bad Prospects Cause N.Y. Exchange Relapse _ NEW YORK, April 12.—The New York stock exchange is experiencing @ new set-back. Motor stocks were hit hard in today’s market, skidding to lower levels under heavy selling pres sure, Bullish interests are anxious to re new the attack that lifted the ex change out of its las tsevere crisis but are looking in vain on the bust horizon for indications of up movements in business. Slowing in the second half of the year is ing predicted action