The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1926, Page 3

, Ministers’ Wife Boosts Fn ny ean ae Sere ee I A I EN SE TIGHE MACHINE. ADOPTS POLICY ~ OF EXPULSION Order Directed at All Militants in Union By ANDREW OVERGAARD (Special to The Dally Worker) PITTSBURGH, April 18—The offi- cial Tighe machine In the convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has suc- ceeded In putting over an expulsion pollcy similar to that adopted by other International union conventions of the A. F. of L. By a vote of 86 to 27 a recommendation of the executive board providing for the expulsion: of militant workers was adopted. The order Is directed against members of the Workers (Communist) Party, the Trade Union Educational League and the I. W. W. Progressive Fight. An intimidating’ and unprincipled speech by President Mike Tighe pre- ceded the vote....The small group of progressives that managed to go to the convention fought bravely against the motion. They are well aware that the move js.as much against them as against the other militant elements of the union. ; The expulsion order is quite in line with the complete bankruptcy that has. characterized the reactionary Tighe administration both in the con- vention and preceding it. Their utter inability to cope with the gigantic problems confronting an organization that has jurisdiction over hundreds of thousands of steel woorkers has caused them to fall into the narrowest kind of craft outlook. Fear Militants. Their conception of the role of their union is to preserve it as a bailiwick for a small clique in control. Their fear of spreading out, organizing the workers and making a mass union of the amalgamated has caused a violent reaction to the militants in the union who are agitating for these proposals. Hence the steam-rollering thru a-hand- picked convention of a resolution that will give the bureaucrats the neces- sary authority to expell any militant the moment he makes progressive de- mands not to the taste of the admin- istration. Pres. Calles’ Finance Obregon for President By L. P. RINDAL, LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 18— “There is a strong sentiment in Mex- ico in favor of Gen. Obregon’s coming out for the presidency at the next presidential election. The general at this time is probably the most popu- lar figure in Mexico, and the success of his former administration has led the people to desire ‘him to head the government again,” declared Mrs. Alberto J. Pani, wife of the Mexican STUDENTS OF NEW YORK COLLEGES DEMAND THAT U.S. LEAVE CHINA ALONE (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 15.—A dele- gation of six students, representing 900 students from the universities and colleges of New York, who ats, tended a mass meeting in that city March 29, were received by Presi- dent Coolidge. The deelgates pre- sented both to Coolidge and Kellogg, secretary of state, a petition ask- ing that the United States withdraw from the coalition of Imperialist powers which Is oppressing the Chi- nese and urging that the American right of extra-territoriality be sur- rendered. The attitude of this country, the students declared, was unfair to the Chinese and might Involve it In complications leading to war. The declaration also pointed out the costliness of the government's pres- ent poticy In the Orient, President Polite—That’s All. ‘The spokesman for the delegation reported that the president had ex- pressed his approval of their inter- est in foreign affairs and had ironic- ally suggested they go to China to ascertain conditions for themselves. Coolidge, he said, made no promises of a change. The visit is significant as an indi- cation that the students of this coun- try are at last waking up to a real- ization that there is something im- portant besides the grind of their. daily studies and athletic contests. The active part in public affairs taken by the students of China is arousing thoughts of a similar activ- ity in the United States. POLICE FAIL T0 ‘DISRUPT STRIKE RELIEF MEETING Philadelphia Collects $250 for Passaic PHILADELPHIA, April 18—Two very successful meetings were held for the Passaic textile workers, One of the meetings was at the Kensing- ton Labor Lyceum. About 500 work- Andrew Vance, an Official of the Federated Carpet Weavers of America acted as chair- ers were present. man. the workers shouted “Shame'” Norman Tallentire, a member of the Passaic relief conference formed in Philadelphia under whose auspices these meetings were held, spoke for an hour telling about the conditions in the textile mills of Passaic and Philadelphia. When Tallentire toldof how police used gas bombs against the strikers, a number of policemen jumped onto the platform and shouted’ He opened the meeting stating that the reason for the absence of Albert Weisbord and Robert W. Dunn was that both of them had been jailed. When he brot out this fact many of THE DAILY WORKER INDICTED BY GRAND JURY Bainbridge Colby De- fends Strike Leader (Continued from Page 1) with inciting a riot, the fourth alleges unlawful assembly. The fourth is di- rected not only against Weisbord, but against those notorious court phan- toms, John Doe, Richard Roe and against various other persons to the number of about 1,000 persoas un- known to the grand jurors. This mean that anyone known to be a par- ticipant in the so-called unlawful as- sembly may be arrested and held in excessive bond. No names of persons are necesary as John Doe and Richard Roe includes every male person in the whole United States. The imbecile indictment reads like part of the ancient curses frequently hurléd at quaking sinners by the riests of the medieval church. Each f them refers to Weisbord as a wicked, malicious, unlawful and evil- ly disposed person.” Called Police Names. The second indictment charges that Weisbord referred to the armed assail- ants of defenseless men, women and children as “gangsters and thugs in uniform.” It is supposed to be a crime to call these craven poltroons by their right names in Passaic and in Pater- son courts. The third indictment is based upon a plain lie sworn to by depraved stool pigeons of the mill owners and char- ges Weisbord with advocating the viol- ent overthrow of the government of the United States in his addresses to the strikers. Will Be Hot Fight. The trial will be one of the most hotly contested legal battles in the history of textile struggles in New Jersey. No stone will be left unturned to expose the contemptible nature of the administrations of the mill towns affected and pillory them as the real criminals who are guilty of the most ferocious assaults against citizens of the towns they infest. Public opinion generally is with the strikers in spite of the efforts of thc kept newspapers and the other hir< lings of the mill barons such as th American Legion post of Passaic an similar provocateurs who live off th crumbs thrown to them out of th enormous proceeds wrung from th sweat of the underpaid and overwork ed slaves in the woolen mills. Silk Workers to Aid. The Associated Silk Workers of Pa- terson, thru its secretary and execu- tive board, has taken a stand against the police assaults and the jailing of Weisbord and his associates and pledges its support to the fight of the textile workers in the woolen mills in the following announcement: “The executive board of the Broad Silk Department of the Associated Silk Workers, at its meeting on Wed- WEISBORD IS Overhaul Amundsen Dirigibld |for Flight to the Polar Regions (Special to The Daily Worker) LENINGRAD, April 18 The Amundsen-Ellsworth polar dirigible “Norge,” having undergone her first severe test in the air, is being over- hauled here, preparatory to her flight to Spitzbergen, whence she takes off for the North pole and Alaska. Commander Nobile of the “Norge” declared he was entirely satisfied with the flight of the “Norge” yesterday and her performance in a thick and heavy fog. Three of the motors of the “Norg are being replaced and the supply of hydrogen is being replenished. Com- mander Nobile said he does not in- tend to tarry.Jong in Leningrad and as soon as the necessary overhauling is done, he will start on his trip for the polar regions. MEXICAN CLERGY CLOSE SCHOOLS: FEAR NEW LAWS Workers} ‘and Peasants Win Fight on Church MEXICO CITY, April 18—The ap- peals of the Catholic clergy that they be allowed to dope the minds of the youth in the primary schools with the tales of @ mythical diety have fallen on deaf ears. Minister of Edu- cation Puig has declared that the government is determined to close all parochial schools in Mexico. The minister of education is preparing to open schools all over the country where the children will not be subject to the religious buncombe of the parasitic clergy. The minisér announced that no at- tempt will }Je;made to drive private schools out \f business if they abide by the lawg of the country, which prohibit the | instilling of religious dope into th}-minds of the youth’ un- ler the g -of giving the child an oducation, In the le@slature at Puebla, known as the “mst: Catholic state in Mex- ico” a law, passed by a huge ma- jority whijh restricts the number of oriests in@rcity to one for ever {,000 inhaitants. This means that here canjniy be 20 priests in some ities whgernow there are two hun- red. All ove Mexico the workers and easants Ares making a dirve on the ergy wReh has kept them in ig orante fttiges. These workers and peasaats @fé determined that the minds of their young will be unhamp- ered with réligious humbug and that the aildren “will be able to grow up with ninds that will look on the phe- nomda of nature not as the work of a myhical Gfety. Th Catholic church realizing the hopessness of having the Mexican lawaaking bodies reverse ttheir ac- tion which was forced by a great mas pressure in Mexico, have already begu to close up many of their schols. i. OUUOEDRGLEASETOOH UESETELALTOEOOURE EH GPEU LA ODES EAR EGEA LA ALE they would not let the meeting pro- ceed if he insisted on telling of the police brutality. The workers, who were already sore because Weisbord instead of being at the mass meeting was in jail began to voice their protests, but Vance asked the audience to sit still. Tallen- tire declared to the police tha he finance minister, to a reporter of the | Los Angeles Times. | Calles Sports in Los Angeles. | President Calles’ official family } | seems to like the “atmosphere” of this city of angels—the home of the oil king Doheny, who is much con- cerned about presidents, constitutions nesday evening, April 14th, voices its protests against the brutalities of the police inflicted upon the strikers of Passaic and vicinity. The arrest of Weisbord and all other leaders, and Frnch Bankers Hold jecret Meeting Over Franc Stabilization ‘Special to The Daily Worker) ecient evidence to us that the author- ities of Passaic and vicinity have tak- National Builders Campaign and land laws below the Rio Grande. Learn Imperialist Views. The finance minister’s son, Alberto Pani, is now learning the American imperialists’ “point of view” at the University of Southern California, and the minister himself has planned to join his wife and son for “several weeks’” stay this summer, the report states. Last year, President Calles’ 15-lear- old daughter intended to become a Hollywood sparkling movie star. The interfere with the meeting, would not give them a chance to break this meeting up and that if the police did not want him to tell the workers of Philadelphia that gas bombs were being used by the Pas- saic police against strikers, then he would not tell them that. Everybody started laughing as the police feeling like a bunch of fools left the plat- form. No excuse was given them to Tallentire then pointed out that just en upon themselves to crush the strike and help the Passaic mill owners in their pernicious task to subdue the workers to the enslaved conditions that they have been forced to work under up to the time of the strike. “We call upon the strikers to stand firm for their demands, as they have the support, morally and financially, of the Broad Silk Department of the Associated Silk Workers.—Fred Hoel- scher, secretary treasurer.” se ¢ PAIS, April 18—The French gov- ernmnt is taking measures to stabil- ize te franc, its continued downward pluns exciting grave fears for an ul- cima) financial debacle like that thru whic Germany passed. Finance Min- ster?eret at a secret conference with reprentatives of the leading French bank discussed the situation. The banlts agreed to co-operate in stif- ling peculation and in holding up the ‘ran They also promised to aid the ‘reary in the collection of taxes and leteion of frauds. T) financiers approved the consoli- iatic of the domestic debt, compris- ‘1g \e various, internal bond issues load by the government, These to- tal ®@ enormoys sum of 285,000,000,- 000 ‘ancs or «$9,804,000,000, They applause and cheering for the strikers is not enuf and that they must eat in order to carry on their struggle. A collection was then taken. The total collected was $125. Another collec- tion of about $125 was taken at the Times wrote that she was thoroly “Americanized” to the minutest detail —but papa Calles and Kellogg got in- to a newspaper quarrel at that time, { and ‘we heard nothing more about } Miss Calles’ career as an American Painters Aid Passaic Strikers Chicago Local No. 637 of the paint ers in its meeting held Wednesday April 14th donated the sum of Fifty ($50) Dollars to the striking textile workers. The appeal for funds to fee placing them under heavy bail is suffi- 4 actress. Workers Need Real Government. The quarrel for a while seemed like. a vietory for the Mexican presi- dent. Now he has backed down be- fore Wall Street on the question of the interpretation of the Mexican land laws, It is now up to American labor to aid the Mexican workers to elect Labor Institute which made a total the evening of $250. British West Indians to Meet for Fight on for Imperialism of the U. S. the strikers was made thru a com- munication from the strike committee. The brothers who took the floor on the question expressed their contempt and condemnation towards the local government of Passaic in permitting the hired thugs of the textile barons and the local police to brutally beat up and arrest women and children who oppad the suggestion of a moratori- um < the interest on the short term bond predicting that it would cause the illions of; peasants and small tradmen holding them to throw themn the market at any price and thus roduce a financial panic, Where the Taxes Go, M.theron, chairman of the a president who is willing and able to repair the damage. Obregon is not KINGSTON, Jamacia, Aprial 18—A are fighting for their very existance. conference of the British West In- finan committee, showed in a pub- lic stement jugt where the govern- the man! dian Islands, British Guiana and Brit- * mentevenues go. Out of , ish Honduras is to held next. May in|Caucasus Mountain trame\$844) of taxea, collected “by These Two Aviators Landon, ‘The chiet object of the cor Range Shifts 7 Feet a | the stp over 8 trance ($1.99) ts paid b ference is the furtherance of closer or imrest and charges on the in- Will Not Greet the co-operation between the possessions |Day Towards Black Sea ternalebt, over 17 francs (58 canny contiguous to the United States to meet in some measure American pene. on minry expenditure, with only 24 frnac#82 cents) for the ordinary Fascist Dictator MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R., April 11 ROME, April 18—Two aviators fly- ing to take part in the Welcome of Premier Mussolini, who is returning from a visit to the Italian African ‘ colonies, were killed when their ma- chine crashed to the ground near Ostia, Jntiteaperialiot Lenawe Moves Into New Offices The All-America Anti-Imperialist League has established new headquar- ters at 108 N, La Salle St., Room 48. The American secretary 1s Manuel The league is organized to imperialism “and has, tration and trade expansion. Big Four Passenger Wreck Injures Twenty (Special to The Daily Worker) ‘hand, respectively, SENDINA DANVILLE, Ill, April 18—Twenty Passengers were injured, none serious- ly, and two trainmen were hurt when the gas-electric passenger train on the Big Four railroad between Dan- ville and Mt, Carmel jumped the track here. 'The trainmen, Fred Erber, en- gineer, and Express Messenger Qld. ham suffered a broken right arm and Continued geological changes have caused a part of the Caucasus mour- tains to move rapidly towards the Black Sea at a speed of seven feet a erous catastrophes, The movement is very noticeable on the Crimean peninsula between Sebastopol and Yalta, passable. Half the health resort city of Alupka has been destroyed. rious damage has been done in the suburbs of Yalta, A commission of Russian scientists have been appointed by the govern- ment to study this phenomena. Work ers are Baer at all hours repairing damagés done by the movement of the mountain to the railroad track. ‘ day, This movement is causing num- The highways on this peninsula have become im- civil @ministration, Thisacludes no allowance for pay- ments} the principal or interest of the $7,0,000,000 in foreign debts. If this wp properly apportioned as a standincharge, not only would there be notig for current expenses of any dertment of government, even the mikry, but there would not be enuf reaue to meet the interest and paymen on the internal and exter- nal deb 4 — Send items about your class in Worker Correspandence for the Worker Correspondents’ Corner, When di it meet? 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