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| | | | j INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID APPEALS TO NEW YORK LABOR TO HELP THE PASSAIC TEXTILE WORKERS WIN THEIR STRIKE HE DAILY WORKER. Entered at Second-class matter September ‘21, 1928, at te Post OMice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. In Chicago, by mall, $8.00. per y Cutside Chicago, "by mall, $6.00 per year, SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1926 | <> * | The DAILY WORKER Raises This Issue Consists of Two Sections. SECTION ONE. TS the Standard fa Workers’ ' ~ and Farmers’ & ent Se Pha. ‘Ey 130ba in i FO) Vol. Il. Now S452 4 4* 0 ‘FREE WEISBORD!’ CAMPAIGN ON GREENFAISIN Union Drive in the Dress Industry Starts|L.D.GATHERS 4 Rates: Published Dally except Sunday by TAE DAILY WORKMSR PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, iL Price 5 Cents MOVE TOBREAK |m4ss commrrrée oF 500 INSTALLED NATION N.Y. FUR STRIKE Farrier’s Rank and File Defends Leadership (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW-YORK, April 16—Seven thous- and striking fur workers, crowding in- side and out of Carnegie Hall, demand- ed that Ben Gold, strike leader be per- mitted to speak at a meeting called by the international officials of the | Furriers’ Union. Hugh Frayne, New York organizer of the A. F. of Ly who had been invited here by the Interna- tional, was howled down by the crowd because Gold was not permitted to come into the hall. The cry of those In-he hall, “Let Gold speak, we want to hear Gold” was echoed by the thousand swarming about the front who could not gain entry, After ten minutes of this storm, Frayne gave up. “The meeting was disbanded. It was a Great victory for the New York joint board which is leading the present strike of 12,000 fur workers. The meeting had been called by President Schachtman and’ other offi- cers of the national administration of the furriérs’ union as an opening wedge to take the leadership of the strike out of the hands of the progres- sive.New York joint poard. Gold, the manager, and the other members of the joint board had decided to go to the meetiiig and make it a demonstra- tion for the strike and to demand sup- port from. the International. GangSters and Police. At hine“in the morning, the fur workers: began to gather at the hall. By twelve noon there were four thou- sand present And at one thirty in the afternoon this’ had swollen to seven thousand. A large force of police was on hand, Abraham Beckerman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. had his gangsters:on hand. Only a small part of the crowd could get into the hall, ‘The/ rest swarmed about the doors in front. $ When Gold came and attempted to get into the hall, he was refused ad- mission. Aaron Gross, a vice-presi- dent of the union was also not allowed to go in. This started the demonstra- tion. From all around came the de mand to allow the two officials into the hall. Frayne Gives Up. When the meeting was opened, the demand for Gold picked up momentum. ‘The introduction of Organizer Frayne only served to enhance the. protests of the crowd. He could make no head- ‘ way against the constant cries from fhe audience and finally gave up the «Continued on, page 2." AT I. L. G. W. U. MEETIN OPENING BIG CAMPAIGN; ZIMMERMAN SPEAKS The first gun of the big organization barrage that will sweep Chicago's cloak and dress industry was fired last night at a mass meeting of more than 1,000 members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union at Schoenhofen Hall. The meeting marked the opening of a well prepared cam- paign of organization initiated by the new administration of the Chicago Joint Board of the I. L. G. W..U. The feature of the occasion was the installation of a mass committee of 500 members of the union chosen by the various a organized shops to carry on the campaign. The main speaker was Sascha Zim- merman, manager of the organization committee of the New. York joint board. He was given an enthusiastic welcome’ by the Chicago members. He conveyed the greetings of the New York brothers and pledged the sup- port of the New York joint board to the present organization drive in Chicago. New Methods. “We in New York,” Zimmerman said, “Are now trying to put into prac- tice certain fundamental principles that we have been fighting for years. We have always said that in order to organize the large masses into the unions we must throw into the work the whole body of. the membership, The former officerg of the New York joint ‘board could eee this. They attempted to alienate the best fighters and even expelled them from the “But now it _ditterent,. Since. the. new administration took office in New York a reconstruction period has set in, We have gotten rid of all the so- called “professional organizers” who we call, “East Side gentlemen with fancy names.” We decided to dispense with all outsiders and put the work of building the union on the ‘shoulders of the mass of our owe membership.” xf N. ¥. Campaign, “We found ‘that the dressmaKers were not well organized. We imme- diately started a campaign. We set up committees of one, thousand to take care of certain territories each, When these committees: met there -were al ways 1,500 or 2,000 present. Instead of the former paid outside organizers. the shop committees sent to the organ ization committee of the union one representative each who was full time on the job and paid by the workers im his shop to carry on the campaign.” 4,000 New Members. “During this organization campaign we declared strikes in no less than 600 shops. We organized 275 new, dress (Continued on page 2.) SORKIN AND AIDS LAUNCH ATTACK ON NEW YORK LEADERS AT EASTERN CONFERENCE OF FURRIERS’ LOCALS (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April.16.—The International officers of the Furriers’ Union, unable any longer to contain themselves over the splendid showing being made by. the New: York joint board in the present New York strike, called a conference of the eastern locals under the pretense of helping the strike. ‘The members of the New York joint board who went there as delegates were not surprised to find that the conference turned out to be,an attack upon the New York joint board—a vicious: attack, at the worst possible, time— when the New York fur. workers are at grips with the manufacturers. Benjamin Gold, chairman of the New York joint board, made an hour's speech in which he told of the 'strug- gle against the New York bosses. He also took occasion to show the dele- gates how the international office of the union had been giving as little help as possible to the New York strike, Vice-President Sorkin, leader of the (Conunvec on page 2) NEW YORK WORKERS! RALLY TO THE 3 AID OF THE PASSAIC MILL STRIKE The riot law has been read in New Jersey. Deputies are to patrol the Streets with sawed-off shot guns. Leaders are jailed and held on exorbitant bail, picketing and’ meetings are forbidden. But stilt the spirit of the strikers remains undaunted and their determination to win is stronger than ever, The international Workers’ Aid is on all unions, all fraternal organ- izations, all sympathizers to support the strikers in this crisis. They must be fed and clothed that they may continue the fight until won. _ WHAT WILL YOU GIVE TODAY? The Bronx bakers offer several trucks of bread’a week, the flour being given by the bosses. The Russian Dramatic Club will give a play Sunday, April 16, at 1347 Boston Road, and the Williamsburg Jewish Club will give a concert and dance April 24 at 16 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn, the proceeds of both to go for the Passaic strikers. The Comrades Social Club of 1400 Clinton Ave., Bronx, donated $25.00. Many shops are making collections, Individ one of the big coll: them to aid the strikers. The ball held Saturday night at the Central Opera House was a big suc- joa comes a request for advice as to the best way for are donating and from severely on the face, hands and body. Room 237, 799 Broadway, New York City, Telephone Stuyvesant cess, and this means that thousands of pounds of sugar, cans of food and other necessities will go to encourage our fellow workers in P; » Hun dreds of pairs of shoes and several truck loads of clothing have been sent thru this office to the strikers. But now, at thelr critical time, they must ‘be shown that the workers are solidly behind them and DOLLARS will prove It, DOLLARS will give them encouragement. DOLLARS will keep them from starving. . ; How many DOLLARS will you send today? How many paira of SHO CLOTHING? | ' u Have you a list? If not, send for one, “ P Send all contributions to the International Workers’ Aid, Local Ni E- Emerson, Steretary as dabiakecrterss FUR STRIKERS HOLD 3 HUGE MASS MEETINGS (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 16—Two strik- ing furriers, Irving Tettingbaum and Thomas Arvani, were brot to Jeffer- son Market Court today and fined $10 each because of a disorderly con- duct charge made against them by a former active member of the union, Frank Stout, who has now become a manufacturer at 125 West 25th street. Stout only set up business for him- self in January, when strike prepara- tions were being made and all the members of the union were getting ready for this great struggle to gain better conditions for all the workers. Socialist Boss. In line with all the other bosses who have been fighting the workers in this great fur strike, Stout, who is member of the socialist party, 6th assembly district, had the two union members arrested and arraign- ed in court. He charged they had annoyed him by picketing, and $20 of the union’s money had to be used to pay the two workers’ fines. Knife Attack. Wielding a tur knife, Jacob Lipton, a fur manufacturer of 123 West 28th street, made a vicious attack upon a fur worker this afternoon and cut him An ambulance had to be called to give Weiss first aid treatment and he was later attended by a physician, With his head swathed in bandages, he was brot to the West 30th street ‘station under arrest, with another striker Abraham Reiter, and Lipton who {s charged with felonious assault. The two fur workers had gone to investigate Lipton’s shop and the manufacturer immédiately picked up his knife and attacked Wei Th was scarcely an inch of his face that remained visible after his wounds had AL ‘SUB’ First M aécow Candidate Announces Himself Before the small force of The DAILY WORKER has been able to put completely into the mails some 20,000 subscription drive announce- ments, the first returns are rolling in. On To Moscow! John di¢kson, of ‘Chicago, one of the leat gub-getters and Daily Worker Builder ‘ith few equals, brot in five <4 ly subscriptions to earn the first bust of Lenin, by the noted seulptér, G. Piccoli, :in'the Na- tional Sub Drive for “The DAILY WIORKER just opened. -“ This is ‘the opening gun,” was John’s statement. “Give me that bust ‘or my first fob. I got those at my onion meeting last night—and give ne competition? There is none in Chicago ¢?) and I'm going to Moscow with @ record, $f subs that’ no other in the céuntry Will equal. Broadcast this ehallege, he added, © “I’m started!” Ti competition is. now open to- heal n Heindrickson of bes’ Chicago. Pennsylvanias First Under Way. Pennsylvanias has been prepare most systematically. Defend Weishord! | Appeal to the Workers of America by the International Labor Defense Byssas! to desperation by the stubborn and heroic resistance of the striking textile workers, the mill owners of Passaic have played their last desperate card. Operating thru their political henchmen they have arrested Albert Weisbord, the courageous and inspiring leader of the strike and have openly announced their intention to railroad him to the penitentiary. Together with Weisbord they have also arrested Robert |, Dunn, of the American Civil Liberties Union, Norman Thomas, of the Socialist Party, Esther Lowell of the Federated Press, and a number of others. The textile police who have not even flinched from beating women and children have shown no discrimination in their per- ALL RESOURCES FOR BIG FIGHT |Cannon Goes to Passaic to Organize Drive International Labor Defense has come forth as the champion of Albert Weisbord, Passaic Textile strike leader, who together with Norman Thomas, Esther Lowell and others has been attacked by the minions of the mill barons, thrown in jail and re- leased only on an exhorbitant bail. James P. Cannon, national secre * tary of International Labor Defensé il today, “I. L. D. is embarking on a great nation-wide campaign of” pro- test against the arrest of Weisbord. Norman Thomas, Robert Dunne her Lowell and others who have been arrested in Passaic. This act is plainly the last resort of the mill secutions. Representatives of all shades of opinion who have taken part in the strike and given aid and comfort to the embat- tled workers are slated for the penitentiary. There are only two sides in Passaic; the side of the workers and those who stand with them in their fight for the right to live, and the mill barons and their political tools. The czaristic actions of the Passaic officidls is a challenge to the entire working class of America. It must be taken up most energetically and without delay. Just as the inspiring example of the Passaic ‘struggle has put new hope and courage and as- America, so does this, attempt to smash the strike and to send its t leaders to prison menace their interests as well. = Every one of those arrested regardless of his political or philosophical standpoint is entitled to the unreserved support of a| the working class of America. They have been taken prisoner The Agitprop|on the battle front for labor. This fact, and this fact alone, is committee ofthe Pittsburgh district | important at the moment. from news justereceived from A. Ja- With especial warmth and devotion the workers must rally kira, district onganizer, has made pro-| to the defense of the one most hated and feared by the bosses, visions to covétall Communist units | Albert Weisbord, the leader and organizer of the strike. For he at once, City agent, Bill Scarville, is}ig g representative of the best type of modern militant labor to secure the co-operation of Young Workers League, the whole city thru the ‘unions and shop cam-] ,, paigns is to be“put into motion. A the | leader. He is young, intelligent, fearless and devoted to the work- For that reason the bosses are determined at all costs to get” him, to railroad him to the penitentiary, to get rid of him ers. good number: of-subscriptions accom-| and all that he represents, by any means, no matter how brutal panied the plans. Philadelphia Young Workers Join. In Philadelpliia, three leading com-| Of a gigantic, and illegal. : ae The greatest need of the hour is the immediate organization united, nation-wide campaign of agitation and piration into the hearts of the most oppressed workers thruout|® rades in the Y..W. L. have been en-| protest to wake up the labor movement and throw it into action. thusiastically received as a commit-| The International Labor Defense, which has for its aim to frat- tee. to serve with the Philadelphia|ernally unite all forces on the platform of labor defense, is tak- DAILY WORKER Builders, coming as | ing the initiative to’organize such a movement and will put all of they did with a plelge of wholeheart-| its resources, down to the last dollar and the last man, into the ed youth support. fight. F Chicago began its campaign with a All elements and tendencies in the labor movement and all Pee re tutabetnitite te me who believe in free speech and the rights of labor must unite in Day issue of The DAILY WORKER |0Ne tremendous protest movement. : and.announces (self admission) the The Passaic strikers are heroically defending the elementary first candidate to Moscow. rights of labor. They stand today in the very vanguard of the Hundred Thousand for May Day. | labor movement. Thousands of. copies of The DAILY The arrested leaders are the standard bearers of the fight WORKER havetbeen ordered for May| against reaction. Let us build a wall of defense around them. Day meetings ithruout the country. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles aid a few other cities lead have run the total of initial orders close to the hundred thousand mark with most of thé’ country. still to be heard from. All indicationerare that the Third Annual Sub Drive is going to develop into the most remarkable one yet held for any Americansworking class news- paper and the future months will see a “Daily” better able to battle for labor. } Old Parties Repudiate Election Promises (Special to THe Daily Worker) takén ‘this week in the senate on a ALBANY, N. ¥.y{April 16.—The final | CMe into close contact with the or¢ test vote on thé/48-hour week bill for ganizations of women and minors in ipdustry will be | Unton Movement. All together for heroic Passaic! All together for united, nation-wide defense, of the arrested ers! 4 International Labor Defense, James P. Cannon, National Secretary. AUSTRIAN WORKERS’ DELEGATION IN THE SOVIET UNION REFUTES LIES OF COUNTER-REVOLUTIONISTS MOSCOW, U, 8. S. R. (Tass.)—(by Mail).—“Izvestia” publishes the fol- lowing statement written by the delegation of Austrian ‘workers visiting Soviet Russia in which they point out the progress made by Soviet Russia: “The Austrian workers’ delegation is leaving Moscow to visit Georgia via Kiev and Ekterinoslavy. The delegation has taken advantage of its stay in Moscow to visit factories and see how work is conducted there and also to the Russian Trade Impetus for the “The impression we have obtained | motion to discharge the rules com-|of all that we have seen completely mittee from further consideration of| refutes the lies and calumnies circu- the measure. The majority of the} lated abroad about Soviet Russia. We committee is opposed to the bill, but] see a country engaged in socialis tcon- THE present drive for The the program of our Party to give a new impetus in the direction of the class struggle to the labor movement the senate is in its favor. similar parliamentary, situation pre- vailed for the discharge of the rules committee from further consideration of the Shonk bill, identical with the senate proposal, failed last week by seven votes. Even if passed in the upper house the; proposal is sure to|%0M-Communist and we found that all| be killed in the assembly, Both the democratic and republican parties were pledged to establish a 48- hour week by theit: have opposed reporting it because of| struction, a countury in which their knowledge that a majority of| masses of the toilers are bound by the A motion in the assembly where a} forging new forms of social life. ction platforms, | WORKER with you to the shop the at the cost of great sacrifice a ther ar : ties of common labor and together are ment ‘if:6-can ore “The information and statistics which we received here from the of- ficial organizations we tested in per- sonal observations and convertation| with workers, both Communist and} AID IN THIS CAMPAIGN. that we had been told was correct.” Take this copy of the DAILY of the country. The DAILY WORKER has lived two years to continue to live and serve the American labor move- a broader base for its existence thru reaching a larger circle of reade ing this end, which is the aim of the present campaign, will not only aid The DAILY WORKER, it will be a power- ful factor in pushing the labor movement forward, EVERY FRIEND OF THE DAILY WORKER MUST MUST DO HIS UTMOST TO MAKE IT A SUCCESS. General Secretary Workers (Communist) Party, owners who have been unable to break the strikers’ resistance by one of the worst reigns of terror and po lice brutality that has characterized a strike in this country.” Goes to N. Y. ‘IT am leaving for New York and Passaic to attempt to gather together in one united effort all elements in the labor movement, radical and pro- e, to fight *against this vicions ution. The police, acting for the mill owners, made no discrimina- tion about political or other opinion when they arrested Weisbord, Thomas and the others, and the workers should make no discrimination in the fight to save them from the prutal conse- quences awaiting them unless by sheer might of a nation-wide protest the workers are able to set them free.” Weisbord Good Type. “Weisbord is the best type of work- ers’ leader. He has performed a great work in his present leadership of thie strike. Young and intrepid, with the solid confidence of the 16,000 mill workers behind him, he has thrown fear into the hearts of the exploiting, labor-hating mill owners. His arrest is their last effort to break the strike. They have tried to isolate the leader of the strike and have persecuted apathetic elements coming. from utside to help the mill workers. Nation-wide Support. “The whole working class of the country must thwart this dastardly attack, The whole working class movement, all sections of it, as well as those who still respect the rights of free speech and free assemblage must rally behind this drive of Inter- national Labor Defense to stay the treacherous hand of the Passaic tex-_ tile barons working thru their min- ions, the municipal governments of the small mill’ towns.” International Labor Defense reports that all of its branches thruout the country are being notified to concen- traté on this campaign and Secretary Cannon hopes to ‘create a great united movement thruout the east for the release, unconditionally of Weis- bord, Thomas, Dunne, Lowell and all others arrested in the strike zone. ‘ Weisbord Is Releasails Gives $30,000 Bail (Special .to, The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., April 16.—Albert Weisbord, organizer and leader of the Strike of 16,000 textile workers that is (Continued on page 2) Class Struggle! DAILY WORKER is part of and struggle. It will be able Success in achiev- EVERY PARTY MEMBER C. E. RUTHENBERG,

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