The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1926, Page 1

BB ely i The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ | and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 84. - q ap Mp a %4 & o. o é ¢ %y “? en x op Ye Yb # CUBAN RAILWAY WORKERS TIE UP ENTIRE ISLAND Machado Threatens Use of American Marines (Special to The Daily Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, April 18—Workers on the Havana Central, United Rai ways, the Hershey railroad and the Cuba Northern have gone on a sym- pathy strike to ald the workers of the Cuba Railroad company to force their bosses to comply with the demands of the union which they signed a year ago and recently violated. Strike Spreads. This strike of the railroad workers, which will spread to the Havana Elec- tric railway and thus make the strike 100 per cent has dealt a severe blow to the sugar growers. The sugar plan- tation owners were planning on tke voluntary limitation of sugar crops end were planning to artificially create a shortage of sugar. This strike of tne railroad workers has forced the plantation owners to forestall their plans. Juan Arevalo, representing the rail- road brotherhood in Cuba, sent a let- ter to the secretary of President Ma- chado, tool of the American sugar in- terests, pointing out that if the de- mands of the Cuba railroad company workers were not granted, the work- ers on the other roads would join the trike and tie-up the entire transporta- tion ‘system. Machado To Use Army. ‘The answer of President Machado to this’ demand that he force the Cuba Subscription Rates: Railroad company to comply with the terms of the contract~ they-signed- year ago, was to. immediately call a meeting of the cabinet to decide on the use of the soldiery to compel the strikers to return to work. . Soldiers have been assigned to crush the strike of the railroad workers, The Machado cabinet has also decided to use Amer- ican marines to break the. general strike on the railroads. if the army which he has. at his disposal cannot do so. Fight to Maintain Conditions. The workers are determined to force the bosses to settle with the union on the. Cuba Railroad company and insist-they will not return until tue demands of the- brotherhood are complied with, SOVIET RUSSIA INCREASES ITS EXPORT TRADE WASHINGTON, April 18—The for- eign trade turnover of the Soviet Union for February. .was $%9,841.700, an increase of $376,000 over January and of $7,000,000 over the figure tor February, 1925, according to the So- viet customs report received by the Russian information bureau. The fig- ures are for European frontiers ‘only. Imports were $27,604,000 and exports $22,237,700. The feature’ of the report was the marked increase of exports over Jan- vary, $4,274,500, with a decrease of $3,898,500 in imports. The advance in the imports was «principally in: furs, flax and grain, Grain exports were THE DAILY WORKER. Entered at Second-clgss matter September 21, 1923, at the Post OMce at Chicago, Ulinols, under the Avt of Math 3, 1879. ee Fr) 4 “sp % ¢ LABOR SKATES. VOTE CASH 0 N.Y. CATHEDRAL Council Refuses Aid to Workers on Strike (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Apjril 19—The Tam- many Hall democratic Catholic labor leaders who run this city’s union movement have voted to pay for the southwest transeptal porch of the cathedral of St. John the Divine, now being erected in this city. by Episcopalian church. ‘This*bishop in charge, William T. Manning, is a! high church ) official In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, the ¢ valued: at $3,708,000, an increase of| whose views on religion are. closely $600,000 ‘over Januaty. The import] allied to those of the Catholic hier- list showed, a general decline in vit-|archy. He is also a prominent leader tually all commodities except apparel, | of the fundamentalist movement and «dry goods and agricultural implements } lines «1p on all occasions with the ‘nd machinery, Imports of tractors,| most reactionary interests. Along CRAZIER THAN EVER WILLIAMSBURG 10 GIVE CONCERT AND DANCE ON SATURDAY FOR PASSAIC (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 18—A concert and dance for the benefit of the Passaic textile strikers will be held next Saturday, April 24, at the Royal Palace Hall, 16 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, under the auspices of the Jewish Workers’ Progressive Club, the Williamsburg Council of Work- ing Women and the ‘International Workers’ Aid. An excellent pro- gram has been arranged and a pleas- ant time can be had by all. Admission is only 35 cents. PANAMA REJECTS PEACE TREATY WITH AMERICA (Special to The Daily Worker) BALBOA, ©. Z., April 18.—-The Pan- ‘ma government has rejected the all from the United States, were val-/ with a number of labor leaders, he is | /Mited States’ terms for a new treaty, ued at $2,400,000, as compared with! member of the infamous Airie Fed-?*esident Chiari is sending Geenzier, $150,000 in’ January. erations. Panama consul, to Washington, He The porch will cost, it is estimated, | Sails on Sunday with instructions to New York Tug Boatmen| about $145,000. Organized 1dbor thru- | deliver the unapproved document to out America, according to the plans Tie Up Harbor for Two Days and Win Demands NEW YORK, Apri 19 — Three. thousand tugboat workers of New York harbor had only to tle up_ship- ping for two days to win their strike demonds from the tug boat operators’ association, Four hundred tugboats remained tled to their moorings ai which, council of the American Federation of Labor and its president, William Green, has endorsed the scheme, will be called on to contribute to the ex- pense. Labor Skate Traitors. the Panama commissioners in Wash- of Central Trades and Labor Council | ington for further discussions with the together with the executive | American treaty mmissioners, Machinists Plan Drive to Organize Hoe Plant NEW YORK, Aprit 19—Calling off It seems that the local labor lead-|the two-year strike at Hoe printing al ers of this city and the nation have |}machinery manufacturing plant in nunvber of large liners were forced time for all sorts of religious aid af- | Brdoklyn/does not mean the cessation delev sailings, \ fairs and schemes of class collabora- | of the Machinists’ Union efforts to or- The men asked wage increases rang-) tion and little, if any, time for mili-|ganize this firm’s workers and other ing trom $10 to $50 a month, a straight | tant cla: 10-hour day, time and a half fdr over-| these action. skates, On the other hand, unorganized members of the trade, headed by John P.|So says Alfred Peabody, representa time and triple time for holidays. The| Coughlin, ‘secretary of the council,|tive of District 15, International As- owners agreed after two days to the| have withdrawn their support. from |sociation of Machinists. A union mem: time demands and boosted wages from] the Furriers’ strike and do nothing | bership meeting is to formulate plans 910 to $26, Vv to help the Passaic textile workers. ite & goneral’ orgunization drive, ‘ TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1926 <p” SENATE ACT ON PA Published Datly except Sunday by THE DAILY PUBLISHING CO.; 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, SSAC THE BASEBALL SEASON OPENS. 3 JAILEL FER HANDING OUT A SHOP BULLETIN Arrested a Philly Auto BodyW, orks By BERNAD HERMAN (Worker Grespondent) PHILADELPHI) April 18—Three members of the orkers Party and Young Workers Ligue, Steven Stan- ley, Lena Rosenirg, and Bernard Herman, were arrted Thursday aft- ernoon while distruting the first is- sue of the shop bietin of the Budds nucleus before thejates of the E. G. Budds Auto Body lanufacturing Co. The plant is a laboorison well guard- ed by special poli, detectives and spies of every varty., The three of us were picked upmmediately after we started distribing the bulletins to the great mass ‘workers pouring out of the plant at:30 p. m. Thrown} Jail, ‘We were searcil, arrested and thrown in a cell wre we sent the time propagandizi) all the police- men that came nes, calling upon them to organize, e detective who searched us, thrnedpon Stanley with the question: “Youorked in Budds, didn’t you? We'll{ you.” Stanley certainly needs so) fixing up by Budds, but of an jtirely different nature, for he onlyas some 13 or 14 stitches on acco} of injuries re- ceived at that slayoen, 13 stitches but not 13 cents focompensation, The Heng. At the hearing bef} the magistrate the next morning thigents of Budds testified to our eres which con- sisted in distributinleaflets giving the conditions in Buj, on the public street. The magiste asked, “Are the bad conditions scribed in this leaflet true?” Our laer immediately (Continued opage 2.) 1/308 ATTEMPT [NEW YORK GETS TO BREAK FUR STRIKE FAILS Can Settle Onl y with Strike Committee (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 18 — The latest attempt of the manufacturers to break the furriers’ strike which is now in its th week, met with absolute defeat this afternoon when the thousands of furriers walked out of Carnegie Hall and refused to listen to any talk of a compromise settlement. The manufacturers evidently de- cided they must make a last great ef- fort to break the solid ranks of the trikers so they approached certain of- ficials of the union, who do not re- present the workers in this strike, and suggested an immediate settlement on erms which are not in accordance with the strikers’ demands, They did not come to the strike committee with, any suggestion of compromise; they knew they would not be listened to. But to those who are not the strikers’ chosen representatives, they proposed a meeting at Carnegie Hall. These of- ficials of the International, wanting to hide their part in this affair, invited the fur workers to come to a meeting to hear William Green, president. of the A. F. of L., and then they intended to present the terms of the compro- mise ‘settlement for discussion. Workers began coming to the hall at 11 o’clock in the morning and the lines extended for blocks. The hall holds but 3,000 people and there are 12,000 striking furriers. Long before 2 ,po'clock, the time of the meeting, the {} hall was crowded, and. all the other ‘workers who had been invited to ‘at- tend were turned away. Many work- ers who had stood in line for hours were brutally knocked out of line by those in charge of the meeting, when they reached the door of the hall. No member of the general strike commit- tee was allowed to. enter the hall. Aaron Gross, one of the vice-presi- dents of the international, and Ben Gold, general manager, of the New York joint board, were both among those excluded. Demand Gold Speak. But after this careful sifting out of the leaders in the present strike. when an attempt was made to call the meeting to order, “‘boos” greeted Hugh Frayne, who tried to speak in place o! -resident Green as a representattive of the A, F. of L. And then from all varts of the hall came cries of “Gold,” “Gold,” “We want Gold”—who is chairman of the general strike\com- mittee. Every time someone tried to speak and proceed with the meeting the cries of “Gold” grew louder. These calls continued for nearly twq hours and finally the international offic were convinced that the workers did not want to listen to their talk of a compromise settlement of the strike. The meeting was closed and the work- ers dispersed in an orderly manner. Workers Parade. In a double line the workers pro- ceeded from the hall at 57th street and Seventh avenue down to the cen- ter of the fur manufacturing district, where they walked thru the streets from 30th to 24th, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. From there the thousands of workers marched to the office of the joint board on East 22nd street, where they passed in a cheer- ing line shouting to the members of the general strike committee, and demonstrating their renewed enthu- siasm for the strike. Undoubtedly this meeting convinced the officials of the international that there gan be no settlement of the strike Without the consent of the work- ers themselves, and that any attempt by any group of officials to impose themselves on the strikers and make any sort of settlement for the strikers will meet with the same results, And the manufacturers must have learned from these eight weeks of strike, as well as from this afternoon's meeting, that the only way to bring peace in the fur industry and open the shops for work is thru a satisfac- tory settlement with the workers thru the regular channels—that is, confer with the legally elected leaders of the general strike committee. “Any other effort,” says Ben Gold, “will fail to bring about this result, and for the continuation of the strike and all the suffering it will mean to the workers the manufacturers must be held responsible. The strike com- mittee has always been ready to con- fer with the manufacturers, in arder to bring about peace in the industry and to secure better conditions for the strikers, ) €TS lout of a regular factory paper should} READY FOR MAY . DAY MEETINGS Will Have to Use Three Big Halls (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 18.—The labor conference for the celebration of May Day, 1926, that was formed in New York out of various labor organiza- WORKER tions that united for this common pur- pose, has been making determined ef- forts to get a single meeting place vast enough to hold the entire militant and progressive labor movement of New York City. They have tried to secure Madison Square Garden, the Yankee Stadium, the Polo Grounds and the Lewisohn Stadium, but could not get any one of them. No other hall in New York City is big enough for such a demonstration, therefore it has been decided by the conference to hold meetings in three halls in place of one. All meetings will be held simultaneously on Saturday afternoon, May 1, at 2 p. m. At the same time} the committee in charge is still trying to get a permit for a parade and open air demonstration at Union Square to} be held on the morning of May Day. Three Halls. ' The forces of the workers co-oper-} ating in the labor conference will be} divided as follows: There will be a} mass meeting in Mecca Temple for! the members of the International} Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union.j| There will be a meeting at Amal- }gamated Labor Temple, Brooklyn, for) members of Local 54 of the Amal-} gamated Clothing Workers and for| various other Brooklyn organizations | including the Lithuanian workers’ 80} cieties, All other organizations will go} Cooper. Union at Highth ‘street and ‘ourth avente. The program of the Cooper at meeting schédules as speakers C. EB. Ruthenburg, Wm. F. Dunne, William | W. Weinstone, Bertram D. Wolfe and} Charles Krumbein. Admission to the | Cooper Union meeting is 25 cents.} There will be an excellent musical program, Special May Day leaflets are being. prepared for the occasion. In addition to co-operating in the united front meeting, the Freiheit and District No. 2 of the Workers Party are arranging for a Fretheit and dis- rict bazaar on the week-end of May Day, beginning April 29 and ending on May 2. This four-day bazaar will take vlace at the Central Opera House, 67th 3t. and 3rd Ave. Factory Papers, The factory newspaper committee of the Workers Party is prepared to aid all factory newspapers in the prepara- tion of such May Day numbers in which the meaning of May Day is tied up with the concrete issues in the shop. Even nuclei which cannot get attempt to get out a mimeographed sheet,on May Day, dealing with the! shop problems and tying them up with May Day: For information, com- municate with Rebecca Grecht, chair- man of the factory newspaper commit- tee, or Bert Wolfe, director of the agit- prop department. SEND IN A SUB! NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents ML WEISBORD IS INDICTED BY GRAND JURY Bainbridge Colby De. fends Strike Leader BULLETIN (Speciat to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, April 18—Senator Borah, incensed at the procrastina- tion of the committee on manufac: turers of, which the defeated, re- pudiated and discredited Senator William B. McKinley of Illinois is chairman, regarding the resolution to investigate the Passaic strike, is preparing to take action the early part of the’ week. Borah threatens to interrogate McKinley on the senate floor and then, if need be, will move to dis- charge the committee and thus throw the issue into the senate in order to get action on the resolution. “It seems to me,” said Borah, “that conditions in New Jersey are such, or becoming such, that there is every reason why the resolution relative to investigation of these conditions should be passed.” eee (Special to The Dally Worker) PATERSON, N. J., April 18—Albert Weisbord, leader and organizer of the Passaic strike, was heid in $25,000 bail by Supreme Court Justice Charies C. Black here yesterday on four indict- ments after a temporary writ of habeas corpus providing for Weis- bord’s appearance in court had been superseded. Thus, it was just one week after the arrest of the militant strike leader that ball was finally fixed. Spring Colby as Surprise. The petty judges of the kangaroo courts who have connived to hold Weisbord and other strike leaders “in jail in violation of law and the ignor ant police, thugs and gangsters re- | ceived a jolt when Weisbord appeared in court here defended by Bambridge Colby, secretary of state in the cabin- et of Woodrow Wilson. In his address to the court Attorney Colby stressed the rights of free speech and assemblage and took a rap at the New Jersey propaganda that people from outside states should have no rights in that domain of scab in. dustry by asserting that “the question of preserving those rights concerns us all as free men and not simply as citizens of any one state or another.” Indict 1,000 “Persons” The first three of the superseding indictments charge the strike leader (Continued on page 3) KATHLEEN MINE IN DOWELL I$ CLOSED DOW! INDEFINITELY DOWELL, Iil., April 18.— The Kathleen mine of the Union Colliery company posted the following no- tice: “You are notified to skin up your places and remove your tools, as this mine will close indefinitely Aprit 15 ,1926. “N. Bayless, General Supt.” ZIMMERMAN URGES SHOP CHAIRMEN OF I. L. G. W.U. GET “SUBS” IN DAILY WORKER DRIVE FOR NEW READERS Statement on The DAILY WORKER subscription drive by Sascha Zimmerman, manager of the dress department of the New York joint board, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union: ASK the workers in the cloak and dress industry to give full support to the present subscription drive of The DAILY WORKER. All shop chairmen should organize in each shop groups of workers whose business it should be to take subscriptions for The DAILY WORKER. The American elements, those who speak and read Eng- lish, are growing in our union. These are coming into our union in larger numbers than ever before. We also have many Negro workers in our union and industry. The DAILY WORKER is the only English langua; daily organ of the, workers in this country that really fights for the interests of the workers. Other so-called labor papers, like the New York Leader, have demonstrat- ed that they do not deserve the confidence of the organized workers. Time after time in New York the New Leader and othr sheets like it have taken occasion to stab, militant workers in the back—at a time when they were in the midst of struggle with the bosses, i It is in our interests that we should see to it that the campaign to make The DAILY WORKER a bigger paper is a success, Every member of the International Lad Garment Workers’ Union who can read English should be a subscriber to The DAILY WORKER. t