The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 14, 1926, Page 2

Page Two ¢ THE DAIL LAUNCH DRIVE AGAINST PENN. SEDITION ACT Pittsburgh Conference Against Flynn Law (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 12, — A state-wide campaign was Inaugurated for the repeal of the Flynn anti-sedi- tion law of Pennsylvania was in- augurated at a conference of trade unions and other labor organizations held at the Walton Hall on Sunday, April 4. Among the organizations represented were the Central Labor Union of Pittsburgh, a number of car- penters’ locals, Pittsburgh street car men’s union, a number of miners’ locals, filnt glass workers, broom- makers and a number of other trade unions and fraternal societies of all Parts of western Pennsylvania. Permanent Organization, Resolutions condemning the law as the product of war hysteria and a strikebreaking measure detrimental to the entire labor movement of this state were adopted. The meeting de- cided to form a permanent organiza- tion known as the Conference for the Repeal of the Flynn Anti-Sedition Act, and elected an executive committee of 9 with John Otis, 1525 Hunter Ave., Wilkinsburgh, Pa., representing the Machinists’ Union, as secretary and L. Weissbart, secretary of the Bakery Workers’ Union No. 12, as the presi- dent. It is planned to hold a mass meet- ing in one of the largest halls of the city of Pittsburgh to protest against the anti-sedition bill in the very near future. It was also decided to circulate petitions against the sedition law, or- ganize conferences in other cities, to determine the stand of the candi- dates for state offices in the coming elections on the law and to report the project to the State Federation of La- bor convention for endorsement. A resolution was also adopted ex- pressing appreciation of the work done by the International Labor De- fense in behalf of all workers arrested under the Flynn anti-sedition act. The conference was conducted under the chairmanship of Brother P. J. Mec- Grath representing the Pittsburgh Central Labor Union. FOREIGN EXCHANGE NEW YORK, April 12.— Great Bri- tain, pound, demand, 4.85 7-8; cable, 4.86%; Franch, franc, demand, 3.424%; cable, 3.43; Belgium, franc, demand, 8.80; cable, 3.£¢%4; Italy, lira, de- mand, 4.02 1-8; cable, 4.02 3-8; Sweden, krone, demand, 26.78; cable, 26.81; Norway, krone, demand, 21.50; cable, 21.52; Denmark, krone, demand, 26.18; cable, 26.20; Ssanghai, tael, demand, 72.25. A BUST OF LENIN by the noted young prole- tarian sculptor G. PICCOLI will be given as a prize to every Daily Worker Build- ers. See Thursday’s Issue of The Daily Worker! WE WILL ALL MEET AT THE GRAND FLOWER BALL Farmers Will Seek Injunction Against Bundesen on Monday Assistant Corporation Counsels Leon Hornstein and James I. McCarthy an- nounced they will ask a continuance until Monday on petitions asking cita- tions against Health Commission Her- man N, Bundesen and twenty-one Chi- cago milk distributors fob alleged vio- lation of the injunction against inter- ference with the milk supply coming into Chicago. McCarthy declared the injunction, issued November 24 on petition of representatives of Illinois milk pro- ducers, was aimed at the Chicago pure milk ordinance which became effective April 1, “The case will be carried to the supreme court,” McCarthy said, “in order to fin dout if the state law or city ordinance is supreme in this mat- ter concernin gthe health of a com- munity.” HORTICULTURAL GENIUS EXPIRES AVOWING ATHEISM Burbank’s Death Hur- ried by Fanatic Protests (Special to The Dally Worker) SANTA ROSA, Calif, April 12 — Luther Burbank, world famous boton- ist, passed away in his garden home. Death came after an illness of sev- eral weeks, He expired in his sleep. Burbank was 77 years of age. Affirms Atheism, At the beginning of his last illness, Burkank had affirmed that he could not believe in a life after death. His life work as a scientist had made it impossible for him to accept the tenets of a superstition that rests on faith and not fact. Unlike many other scientists whose work brings them to this conclusion, Burkank frankly de- clased that he was an infidel. “The universe is not big enough to contain all the human souls and other living beings who have been here for a short span. A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation is un- tenable,” Burbank said. Letters and telegrams of protest from thousands of blue nosed fanatics thruout the country came to Burbank’s bedside. The agitation caused him in maintaining his stand hastened his death. Contributions. Burbank contributed inestimable services to mankind. Hundreds of new species of plants, flowers made more beautiful, vegetable foods and fruits improved, are the gifts of Burbank’s lifelong and tireless labors. Charge Nickel Plate Attempt to Economize, Responsible for Wreck WASHINGTON, April 12.—Failure to maintain the track condition for the operation of trains at the maximum speed allowed is given as the cause of an accident on the New York, Chicago and St,’ Louis near Erie, Pa., on No- vember 1, 1925, in the report of W. P. Borland, director of the bureau of safety of the interstate commerce commission. Borland found that the rails were too light to withstand the maximum speed. Five cars were derailed and one employe killed in the wreck. Earth Shocks Reported in Various Countries Seismographs in various parts of the country have registered severe disturbances in the earths crust, The distances are estimated variously at from 5,000 to 10,000 miles away. Simultaneously with these reports come news of earthquakes in Kamt- chatka, U. 8. S, R. and South Wales with severe earth movements accom- panying a recent eruption of Mauna Loa, Hawaiian -voleano. Ward Heeler Killed in Primary Campaign Walter Johnston, one of the Crowe- Barrett-Thompson ward heelers in the Sixteenth Ward, was killed and his body flung from an automobile into a ditch. Johnston at one time was a worker for the Deneen-Lundin faction. He recently transferred his activities to the Crowe-Barrett-Thompson group. Greek Distator Is President. ATHENS, April 12—Premier Pan- galos, greek dictator, entered today upon a four year term as president of Greece. He is the first president of the republic, SEND IN A SUB! given by the Waist and Dressmakers’ Union SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1926 at the Co-operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Ave., LOS ANGELES, CAL. Let us dance, enjoy and help the Dressmakers organize! WOMEN PRESE DRY PLEA FOR ENFORCING LAW Charch Ladies Threaten to Clean House (Continued from page 1) quirement of living im accordance with the truth.” What They Want. Mrs. Peabody in her testimony ex- plained their purpose in defending the dry law. “We hold the constitution invio- late,” she said, and are opposed to modification of the dry low. Rather we want it strengthened. We want strict enforcement and the removal of all men from office who do not struct- ly enforce the law. What we Want is a law, strongest in enforcement and weakest in liquor.” Religious Bunk. Mrs. BH. H. Silverthorne, president of the Federation of Women’s For- eign Mtssion Boards of North Amer- ica, in speaking for the drys before the committee, said:’ “We are work- ing to build up a truly christian civ- lization thruout the world. We re- ceive admonitions from all over the world to stand firm on this great question of. prohibition. All over, the world is watching our experiment here, weighing and judging America and we must stand firm on prohibition.” Mrs. J. W. Emrik, who spoke for the Federated Council of Women, said the women were “opposed to having the dry law set aside for any reason” and appealed to the “conscience of men to enforce the law.” Salvation Army Humbug. Martha Hamon, of th Salvation Army, said the children of the poor who used to be clothed by the Salvation Army “come to Sunday school wear- ing good clothes and shoes, since pro- hibition.” The number of “drunken cases” called to the attention of the Salvation Army in New York City, she added, has “dropped from 50 to 1 per cent” since prohibition, but de- clined to say how many “moonshine patients” are now being received. Mrs. Nell Burger, of St. Louis, rep- resenting the W. C. T. U., came next. “We are organizing 500,000 women to carry on the fight for temperance,” said Mrs. Burger. Catches Senator Off Guard, Mrs. D. E. Ward, of New Jersey, of the Council of Women for Home Missions, told the committee prohibi- tion has been improved in Alaska and Porto Rico, “Don’t you know liquor is easy to obtain in Porto Rico?” asked Senator Reed. “There’s a good deal of going into Porto Rico with congressional par- ties,” said Mrs. Ward. The crowd roared. “You don’t mean that congressional parties are responsible for violation of the dry law in Porto Rico?” “No, I don’t.” “Then why say it?” “I did it because the example set has been one of the greatest difficul- ties in enofreing prohibition there.” A Jeckyl and Hyde Legislator. Mrs. A. Haines Lippincott, repre- senting New Jersey delegates to the law enforcement convention, present- ed the dry petition, signed by 16,306 New Jersey citizens. “This petition pleads against the passage of the 2.75 or 4 per cent beer bills or the wine and beer bills of Senator Edge and Edwards. ‘ We are opposed to all of these plans of modi- fication.” She condemned both Senators Edge and Edwards of her own state. “Senator Edge ran on a wet plat- form, didn’t he?” asked Reed. “No, he ran on a wet platform in some counties and on a dry platform in others,’ the witness said. “You don’t mean that?” said Reed. “Yes, I do,” said Mrs. Lippincott, “I heard Senator Edge make a wet speech one week in one county and a dry speech in the next in another.” “Is there any doubt about Senator Edwards ever being dry?” “No, indeed.” Parliamentarism Fails, Reed asked how the two New Jer- sey wet senators could be elected if the voters didn’t endorse their wet views. “That's because of politics,” said Mrs. Lippincott. Mrs. .Herbert J, Gurney, of Wollas- ton, Mass., told the committee that Massachusetts favored the dry law. “73: Building Tradesmen Aid Cement Workers . * to Win Their Strike (Special to The Dally Worker) BOSTON, April 12.—When all union building trades workers walked off a big garage construction job after con- tractors hired strikebreaking cement finishers, the striking union cement workers were re-employed at the higher rates demanded of all Boston building trades employers, SEVEN FIREMEN HURT CLEVELAND, 0O., April 12—Seven firemen were seriously injured today when they were caughmt under a falling wall while fighting a@ fire at the St. Ladislaus Retreat, a jesuit monastery near Cleveland, Soviets W Alexander According LENINGRAD, U. 8. S. R., April 1 —Prof. Denike and Prof, Massalsk! have discovered in the library of the late Khan of Kiva a manuscript con- taning a translation from Greek Into Arabic of a letter sent by the great Macedonian prince, Alexander the Great, to one of his generals, The letter gives a full Inventory of the hero’s treasury, consisting of a pile of gold bars on which are en- graved treéatis on medicine and morals. The government will make excavations In the spots mentioned In the letter, Doctor Loses Court Fight. WASHINGTON, April 12—Right of the Missouri Board of Health to sus- pend Dr. Leon Hurwitz from practic- ing in that state for 15 years for conviction of performing .@ criminal operation was suste’ by the sup- reme court today. CHICAGO LABOR! HELP, PASSAIC WIN TTS STRIKE! Volunteer for House-to- House Collections! The attacks of the textile barons and the ‘police lackeys on the textile workers of Passaic are becoming more and more frequent. The bosses are becmoing desperate. Samples are being shown to purchasers. Orders are being taken. These orders must be filled immediately..Sixteen thous- and workers are on strike defying the bosses. While these workers strike the orders will not bé filled. The company continues to lose profits. Attempt to Break Strike. Every attempt to break the strike will be used by the bosses in the next week. Every attempt will be made to crush the strike, The strik- ers in Passaic are fighting a militant fight. Every attack of the} police on their headquarters, on their organiza- tion, on their relief work, on their parades is met with greater determi- nation to win the strike, Tho the Passaic strikers are carry- ing on a splendid fight, they need the aid of every worker in the United States to carry on their fight. Six- teen thousand are on strike. Many of the strikers have large families. Food, clothing, and shelter” needed by these workers. It is. they receive these nece: Sof life: Without them they loose the strike. With them they win. . The International Workers “Aid is arranging for a house to house col- lection in Chicago on Saturday and Sunday, April 17 and 18. Every worker must volunteer for this most important work. The stations at which the volunteers shall gather on these two days to get their collection boxes, badges and credentials will be announced in tomorrow's DAILY WORKER. 3 Did you subscribe to The American Worker Correspondent? Passaic Textile Barons Redouble Attack on Strike (Continued from Page 1) individuals with the bosses. The American Legion has also participated in @ police assault on the workers at the Gera mills. 7. * Green and Hilfers Confer. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 12. — Henry F. Hilfers, secretary of the New Jersey State GFederation, of Labor, discussed the Passaic strike situation with President Green of the American Federation of Labor while he was in Washington to argue before a senate committee on light wines and beers. Hilfers refused to make: public his statement to Green. The result of the conference was that Green declared that the Amreican Federation of La. bor would not attempt any organiza. tion drive among the 16,000 textile workers until the strike had become ancient history. Green declares that no aid will be offered the strikers and that no appeal will be de to the federal mediators by either Hilfers or Green, Scab Ads in Federationist. This action of Green may be ac counted for when one reads the scab- by advertisements in the American Federationist. Since the strike start ed the Botany Worsted Mills, one of the worst open shops in the Passaic district, and the United Piece Dye Works have had their advertisements placed in the American Federationist, The magazine of the United Textile Workers’ Union, a part of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, regularly carries the ads of the scab Passaic, Gera, Botany and Forstmann.Huff. mann mills making over $300 a month on them. Green Fears Orgainzation Drive. This may explain why Green of the American Federation of Labor and MeMahon of the United Téxtile Work- ers Union do not want ito organize the 16,000 textile strikers} who have called on the American Federation of Labor several times to ggganize the Labor in Illinois Must | Displace Chaos With Unity in Ballot Struggle By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. EE Incl labor goes to the polls today. Stress is put on “labor” because if the workers didn’t cast their votes, the ballot boxes would be almost empty when the precint of- ficials opened them in the evening to begin the count. The capitalists and their middle class allies cast a small percent- age of the ballot total on election day. Yet labor’s strength as a political factor is squandered to the winds, There has never been greater political chaos in Illinois in the ranks of the working class. * * * * Instead of having a labor party of its own, to rally all workers thru drawing them away from both the capitalist parties, the working mass is being cajoled by its reactionary Officialdom to vote the republican ticket here, the democratic ticket there, or to scratch his ballot here, there and every- where, to give a “personal vote” to some yi ck candi- date who is supposed by some freak stunt of the imagination to be his “friend.” e e e e John Fitzpatrick and Edward N. Nockels, president and secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor, who inaugur- ated the drive of-the farmer-labor movement in 1919, are pretty much out of the picture this week, The Chicago Fed- eration of Labor, politically sterile, has no definite position. It is the victim of all the clashing old party elements within Jt. Its official organ, the Federation News, is being used to boost the Cook County Wage Earners’ League, that is back- ing the Crowe-Barrett-Brennan bipartisan deal between some of the most corrupt and labor-hating elements in the city. Fitzpatrick and Nockels thus give “aid and comfort” to the “open shop” regime in the state’s attorney's office that has sent its “black hundreds” with orders raid and arrest against a host of Chicago labor unions. Margaret Haley, formerly an active political leader in the Chicago Federation of Labor, denounces the Crowe-Bar- rett outfit on the republican side. She is equally vindictive against the Brennan crowd. But she now supports, among others, the Deneen gang, against whom she previously hurled all the vitriol, of tongue and pen, of which she was capable. This is Miss Haley’s disastrous political method of fighting for the teachers. She never even allowed herself to be drawn into the farmer-labor movement, * * e a While Miss Haley confines her attentions to Cook County, at present, refusing to confuse her local fight with state and national politics, the Wage Earners’ League sup- ports the anti-McKinley candidate, Frank L. Smith, for the United States senate. A Yet the powerful Street Carmen's Union, which has practically a 100 per cent organization on the Chicago sur- face and elevated lines, co goes on record against Frank L. Smith, denounces him bitterly as labor's enemy and hires huge blocks of space in the capitalist press to blazon its charges before other workers, These divisions are re- flected thruout the whole officialdom of organized labor. * ® * ° It may truthfully be said that practically all the old party candidates, on both the democratic and republican tickets, can put up some sort of claim to labor’s support in Tuesday's primaries. This means that labor's vote will be splintered into as many pieces as there are old party office seekers. It means that labor’s vote will be completely neutralized by labor itself, which permits the continued division and dissipa- tion of its political strength. It means that the capitalist enemy laughs as it sees its candidates march into political office, while labor is minus any representation at all. sein 53 “a Bae par. | Half a dozen “labor leaders” paraded before a senate in- vestigating committee last week to give their views on the liquor problem. “Bill” Roberts, ex-reporter for Hearst, but now a professional lobbyist in the pay of the Green regime in the American Federation of Labor, appearing as substitute for Green, claimed to speak in the name of 3,000,000 organ- ized workers. This is a claim made by labor officials so often that it has been worn shoddy and threadbare, * * * ° No one can claim to speak for labor politically until labor's political strength is organized, and then labor will be able to speak for itself. The workers must organize their labor party to present a united labor front to the parties of the bosses. The disgust that will inevitably follow this week's primary election must drive masses of workers into independent political action under working class standards. That is the only victory that workers in Illinois and Chicago can win in this week’s ballotting. 1500 WORKERS AT|25 SEAMEN DIE; .L:D.MEETING) TRAPPED BY Bi IN PITTSBURGH} OIL EXPLOSION Bishop Brown and Stan- ley Clark Speak Ship Few Escape Burning PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 12—Car- negie Music Hall was jammed Sunday evening with 1,500 workers who turn- ed out to hear Bishop William Mont- gomery Brown and Stanley Clark speak at a mass meeting arranged by International Labor Defense. Bishop Brown, recently unfrocked in the Episcopal church for heresy, spoke on “Evolution and Revolution.” “No power On earth, heaven or hell can stop the revoultion, The entire present system is breakind down and will no longer exist in America 25 to 30 years from now,” said the Bishop. About |. L. D, Stanley Clark, in a vigorous speech, told of numerous cases in which work- ers are persecuted for fighting for po- litical opinions and for their class, He explained the function of Inter- national Labor Defense as a champion of the interests of all persecuted workers attacked by the bosses and their tools, , vast mass of unorganised workers inj A auh a day will to drive capital the textile industry, (Special to The Daily Worker) PORT AUTHUR, Texas, April 12— Trapped in, bunk rooms that were turned into seething cauldrons of burning gasoline ignited by a great explosion of the 50,000 barrel cargo of the ofl tanker, Gulf of Venezuela, 25 sleeping sailors were burned be- yond recognition. Several of the crew managed to reach port-holes and fling themselves into the harbor looking like flaming rockets. Bleven seriously burned were rescued. Five of these are ex- pected to die. Two members of the crew, missing, are believed to be dead, Several bodies were hurled high in the air with wreckage and debris from the impact of the huge blast. A pillar ‘of burning gasoline leaped a hundred feet in the air, The’ ex- plosion was heard for miles. Watch the Saturday Magazine | Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker, BEWARE OF U.S, MEXICAN WARNS PAIVAMERICANS Press Congress Bared as Imperialist Plan (Continued from Page 1) methods” to keep them from being easily taken in. Leaflets, printed in Spanish are being distributed among them setting out the true facts with regard to the congress as well as the tour, Distribute Leaflet. The leaflet is being distributed by the United States section of the All- American Anti-Imperialist League. It was prepared for the league by Ricar- do A. Martinez, a Venezuelan living in New York and a member of the ‘|“Venezuela Libre” group. “The congress to which you have been invited,” declares the leaflet, “is a development of a new stage of Yankee imperialism in its campaign of fertilization, assimilation and cor- ruption for the subjugation of the Latin-American continent, “After the closing, of the congress you will begin a voyage thru the Unit- ed States and you will be shown her riches and her glories, the develop- ment of her industries, and everything that might inspire respect and sym- pathy for the land of the dollar, Dollar Capitol, “In New York, the dollar capital, you will see various centers of Yan- kee imperialism, the residences of those who corrupt and dominate the public functionaries of the Americans, among them Standard Oil, the Nation- al City Bank, J. P. oMrgan & Co., ete. “In Washington, the agents of Wall Street will show you many sights, in their opinion memorable, but in that of every worthy delegate to this con- gress tragic, for Washington is the political branch of Yankee imperial- ism. . .; there is where the bombard- ment of Vera Cruz was ordered, the invasion of Santo Domingo and Haiti, the recent assault against the workers of Panama; there is where the out- rages against the Philippines, Cuba, Porto Rico, have been prepared; from there Mexico is threatened... American Capitalist Oppression. “In West Virginia you should study the methods used to break the strikes of workers who protest against their abominable living conditions. These jethods are martial law, official and secret violence of all sorts—machine guns, airplanes, bombs, poison gas. Victims of the same instrumentalities are Santo Domingo, Haiti, Panama, China and other parts of the world, and threatened with the same fate are Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia (who happen to be rich in oil), and Peru and Chile (because of nitrates). The capitalism that oppresses the Latin- Americans oppresses the American workers also, Falseness of Democracy. “In Baltimore do not forget that you represent a continent whose popu- lation is a mixture of Negroes, In- dians, ‘meztizos,’ ‘zambos’ and mulat- tos, and see how the workers of mixed races live in Baltimore. There you will see the falseness of the panegyrics to the democratic ideal that you will fear in many speeches, and also the hypocrisy of ‘Panamer- icanism.’ How can there be union with colored races when those who preach of such a union practice the crime of Jim Crowism and assault and lynch Negroes? . i“ Anti-Imperialist Union. “The only union for us is a union of all those forces interested in the overthrow of American imperialism: the alliance of all classes oppressed by Yankee capital in Latin-America with the workers and toiling farmers of the United States. .. .” Flames Continue to Sweep Oil Tank Farm (Special to The Daily Worker) SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., April 12 —Sky high flames continued to sweep the Great Union Oil company tank farm near here today. as two hundred additional men battled the raging in- ferno, Two more huge reservoirs caught fire during the night, leaving only five in the whole tank farm, covering more than one hundred acres, intact. No additional casualties have been reported since the deaths yesterduy of two men and the nearly fatal burning of a woman, Damage was estimated today at $20,000,000. Railway Express Labor Demands Wage Increase Two railway express unions, the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and the American Federation of Express Employes have filed petitions with the Railway Labor Board for 12 per cent increases in wages. Months of nego- tiation with the American Railway xpress Company failed to reach an agreement, Neither organization is affiliated to the A. F. of L. The Brotherhood was recently expelled over a jurisdic tb dispute with the Teamsters’ nion, It has @ membership 86,000, cal an “ih \ ie