The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 22, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 86. PICK JURY IN SWEET TRIAL e a8 sean +. Subscription Rates: oo LO Ss % tot ee > a> 25% “9. - he #ntered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at th Post OMce at Chicago, illinois, under the Avt of March 3, 1879. In. Chi o, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Reo hieago, by mail, $6.00 per year, Op » ar Strikers Thwart Maneuver of Re-actionaries Against Left-Wing AT DETROIT o Bale disruptive maneuvers of international officers of the Furriers’ Union Klan Seeks to Convict Negro Defendant (Special to The Daily Worker> DETROIT, Mich, April 20 — The trial of Henry Sweet, younger brother of Dr, Ossian H. Sweet, charged with the murder of Leon Breiner on Sept. 9, 1925, opened yesterday in recorders’ court with Frank Murphy as judge. Henry Sweet is the first. of the eleven Negroes charged with conspir- acy to murder Leon Breiner, a white (Continued on page 4.) MASS MEETING PROTESTS U.S, ANTI-ALIEN LAWS Circulate Petitions Among Workers ‘Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, April 20.—'The New York Council for the Protection of Foreign-Born Workers held a suc- cessful mass meeting at Manhattan Lyceum. Petitions were distributed to those present to obtain signatures as part of the drive to obtain.one million big- natures to be presented to congress to show that the American working class is opposed to the anti-alien bills, Bertram D, Wolfe of the Workers (Communist) Party pointed out the nature of the anti-allen bills, Pascal P. Cosgrove, New York or- ganizer of the Shoe Workers’ Pro- tective Union, stated that the laws to fingerprint workers would bring about say enkente LA led by Pres. Shachtman and Vice-Pres. Sorkin have been defeated, 12,000 striking furriers in New York have given their unequivocal answer to who shall lead their strike. Their faith and confidence in the New York joint board of theiqunion and their general strike committee is stronger than ever. After the hardest battle had been fought, when the time for settlement had come, Shachtman and Sorkin, acting for the international union stepped belatedly into the arena and sought to usurp leadership of the strike while at the same time they were secretly carrying on negotiations with the fur manufacturers. They called a meeting in Carnegie Hall without consulting the strike committee, This meeting was part of a campaign the aim of which was to THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1926 'OINS MILITAR sd 290 Published Daily except Sunda: PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. NEW YORK EDITION by TAE DAILY ‘ashington Bivd., Cl OTS AT GE —+ affirmed their faith in the New York joint board. The police terminated the} meeting. t | On Saturday last, three great mass meetings of furriers again reiterated the implicit corifidence of the strikers in their New York leaders, Gold and his associates. These dstohigiratione ended inthe complete defeat of the international administration. | On Sunday, William Green, the president of the American Federation of Labor held a conference with both the international officers and the New Y6rk joint board. The voice of the membership had been heard. At this conference it was decided that the strike leadérship shall remain in the hands of the joint board and that no strike settlement shall be made without the partitipation of the general strike committee. The strike will not be settied until a referendum vote of the strikers has confirmed the agree- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PLAYS THE ROLE OF A MODERN “DON QUIXOTE” (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, DB, C., April 20-- A consent degree was entered in federal court in Richmond against 13 plumbing supply companies, the department of justice announced. The corporations are forbidden to join together to fix prices or restrain interstate commerce. Fourteen suits were filed. All but one of the companies, the Crane Co. of Illinois, accepte the degree. It was announced that the department of justice would press anti-trust assume leadership of the strike. strike committee on this occasion. furriers flocked to Carnegie Hall in answer to this call. Needless to say, the There they demand- ed to hear Ben Gold of the joint board who had been refused admission and THE ARMY OF THE UNEMPLOYED the same situation in America as in Russia we will be satiSfied. He point ed out that these bills would be used to help keep the workers in subjec- tion. Robert W. Dunn of the American Civil Liberties Union described the bills at great length, He reminded the assembled workers of the brutal “red raids” of 1920, when A, Mitchell Palmer, who was then at- torney general, deported over 4,000 foreign-born workers. . , Carlo Tresea, representing the Anti- Fascisti Alliayce of North America, addressed the meeting in Italian, and Rebecca Grecht, secretary of the Néw ‘York Council for the Protection of Foreign-Born Workers, acted as chair- man. ; _/FoReIGN EXCHANGE, NEW YORK, Aprii 20 — Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.85 13-16 cable 4,86 3-16; France, franc, demand 8.30%, cable 3.31; Belgium, franc, de- mand 3.02%; cable 3.03; Italy, lira, demand 4.02%, cable 4.02%; Sweden, krone, demand 26.75, cable 26.78; Nor- way, krone, demand 21,83, cable 21.85; Denmark, krone, demand 26.14, cable 26.16; Shanghai, taels, d¢mand 70.00, cable not quoted, RAIL UNIONS FOR ° DRY LAW, SAYS ‘LABOR’ EDITOR Testimony Shows Divi- sion of Sentiment WASHINGTON, April 20—Demon- strating that organized labor is not all wet, Edward Keating, manager of the railroad labor organizations’ weekly newspaper, Labor, testified be- fore the senate committee on liquor law modification, favoring enforce- ment of the dry law. Keating was formerly a congressman from Colo- rado, and belongs to the Typograph- ical Union. His coming before the committee was accepted as an indica- tion that the rail brotherhoods are as interested in retaining prohibition and getting jt enforced as some of the other unions are in repealing it. fi Pu mera A bust af: Lenin with each five hundred points. Get the point! aid tH Below is printed the declaration of the} ment It explains itself. The cail issued by the strike committee that the membership rallied to and that completely upset the nefarious plans of Shachtman, Sorkin and Co. follows: N.Y. COUNCIL FUR STRIKE above action tral Council, board of they with the union and Federation @ the New York Cen- ie New York joint iers, in conference ational officers of the am Green, American yabor president, have ment that provides ' strike committee “dlsettlement con- ferences withthe bosses. ws 8 By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. (Special to: The Daily Worker) NEW YORK,, April 20—Less than half an hour aftér the Central Trades and Labor Council had accepted the recommendations of its executive board, which included support to the 12,000 striking #urriers in New York, Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the American Federation of Labor, was responsible for: a motion which was introduced by John Mulholland, presi- dent of the Federation Bank, which referred the question of supporting the striking furriers back to the next meeting of the executive board for further action. Attacks Left Wing. Frayne bitterly attacked the left wing which is conducting the strike and at the same time spoke in favor of the so-called agreement which In- ternational President Oscar Schacht- man, of the Furriers’ Union, and the fur bosses are trying to jam down the throats of the workers over the head of the New York joint board of the Furriers’ Union, which is conducting the strike. Answered. He was ably auswered by Delegate Morris Rosefh, of the Carpenters’ Union, who defended the position of the left wing and Ben Gold, the leader of the strike. Frayne stated that three weeks ago he was approached by Schachtman dnd they have sinee been holding con- ferences at the Hotel Cadillac. Also that for the last) two weeks he has been in close touch with the Fur Man- ufacturers’ Association and secured eight “concessions” from them, which he wanted to put-before the member- ship of the Furriers’ Union, but at the Carnegie Hall meeting, which he helped to arrange.for that purpose, he | was unable to speak. “Left Wing iin Minority” “The strike,” hes continued, “is in the control of whatsis called the rad- ical or left wjng elements which is a minority of the union, Since the strike started they have been unable to secure a conference with the manu- facturers. “If the workers had given authority to Schachtman,’ he would have the workers back to work by Monday morning at theylatest, as the manu- facturers will meet him and not the radicals.” Rosen's\Reply. Rosen said that it is dificult for the delegates to thé Central Trades ‘and Labor Council to judge the merits or demerits of either side to the con- troversy as mostoof them do not know the situation in the Furriers’ Union nor the laws of that union, “The statement of Frayne,” said Rosen, “that only a: minority of the Ce Ret OMRADES Brothers and Sisters: At last the expectations of many of us have materialized. It is now nearly nine weeks that we are engaged in a fight for the most important and vital demands. We are engaged in a fight that has been fore- ed upon us. We took up the chal- lenge of the fur manufacturers and we have been conducting a general strike which arouses the admiration of the entire labor world. We are opposed by enemies from within and without. But no attempt from whatever camp, § | has succeeded in breaking our organ- ized ranks. Each hostile attempt has only strengthened our courage and steeled our power. It is due to the heroic struggle to the devotion and spirit of sacrifice of our members and fo the confidence of the masses in the leadership of the strike that we have reached the moment when the fur manufacturers begin to feel that they have to talk settlement. But just at this moment (Contixued on page 2.) See Furriers’ Union supports the left wing is open to dispute. The biggest part of the membership of the union is in New York and they are supporting the left wing leadership. “The reason the Carnegie Hall meet- ing was not held is because Gold, whe is the leader of the strike was unable to speak, or even allowed to’enter the hall.” Rosen also pointed out that he has attended many strike meetings of the furriers and found the membership supporting Gold to the fullest extend, Support Schachtman. John P. Coughlin, secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council, then suggested that Schachtman should write a letter to the council and ask it to support him in his strug- gle with the New York joint board, to which Frayne answered by saying, “I'll see him tomorrow, John, and have him write it.” The meeting decided to write the leaders of the republican and demo- cratic party in Albany, urging them to support various bills which the Central Trades and Labor Council evors. It was also decided that this rear’s labor day celebration should once again be held at Fort Hamilton. The meeting was closed by a lengthy speech by Mathew Woll, on the aim and purpose of the mewly formed Union Life Insurance Co., of which he is the president. Senate Asks Shipping Board to Reject Bids on Pacific Mail Lines WASHINGTON, D. C., April 20 — Rejection by, the shipping board of the j bids of Stanley Dollar, and others, for the American-Oriental mail lines was asked today in a resolution adopted by the senate. The board recently ac- ; cepted Dollar's offer, The resolutions introduced by Sen. McNary, (R), of Oregon, asked that new bids be called for, or that the line be reassigned to “American citizens supported by commercial interests.” A book of cartoons with every hundred points, Get the point! BERTRAM WOLFE WILL SPEAK AT PHILADELPHIA FORUM ON SUNDAY NIGHT PHILADELPHIA, April 20—The forum which has been conducted by the Workers (Communist) Party this winter on every Sunday night at Grand Fraternity Hall, 1628 Arch St., with great succe comes to a close Sunday, April 25; when Ber- tram Wolfe, director of the Work- ers’ School of New York, will speak on “1776 thru Communist Eyes. charges against the Crane company. POLICE TAKE ORDERS FROM MILL OWNERS Jailing of Thomas a| Stupid Farce By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press.! HACHENSACK, N. J.—“Call up the Forstmann & Hoffmann plant and get my orders.” So Officer No, 1 of the city of Gar- field, strike town, loudly asked his headquarters over the telephone of Justice of the Peace Hargreaves in Hackensack while the Federated Press correspondent, Arthur Warner of the Nation and others sat a few feet away at a strike hearing. Bosses Direct Police. It was no secret that the bosses of the big’ Woolen mf" were directmg the police and sheriff's men. They are all getting their orders from the com- y. Hargreaves told us that the riot act was read after the company 1otified the mayor that it would hold he city responsible for damages they uffered in the strike. But there was no violence by the trikers to justify the call and fhe city ouncil of Garfield has repudiated the j action of the police in asking the sher- ift to take charge. The council de- nounced the sheriffs deputies who are patrolling the town with sawed off shot guns as “thugs” of bad character and demanded their removal. The censured Mayor William Burke for g ing over their heads. Burke is ploye of the Botany Worsted Mi Passaic whose 5, the big strike. Thomas Arrest Melodramatic. The arrest of Norman Thomas, di- rector of the league for industrial de- mocracy for defying the. “riot act which attorneys for the American | il Liberties Union say is illegally in- |voked, was a melodramatic event. Thomas, perched in the fork of a dead apple tree, on a lot leased for the cecasion, was addressing an assembl- age of strikers, New York sympathiz- ers and a double phalanx of uniform- ed police, nervously twisting their (Conunver On page » 000 workers started KUOMINCHUN AT NANKOW RALLIES FOR NEW BATTLE (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, April 20—Reports here are that the kuominchun is massing its} eo. more WORKSR thicago, AL Price 3 Cents al ss OTHER STEP INTO LEAGUE CONSPIRACIES Kellogg States Position in N. Y. Speech (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, April 20.—The United States government will have an official representative in attend- ance at the league of nations disarm- ament conference to be held in Gene- va, Switzerland, on May 20, Secretary of State Kellogg declared today in an address at an Associated Press lunch- eon, The United States will press pri marily for further reduction of naval armaments, according to Secretary llogg. He expressed the fear that without a further reduction of naval jarmaments by international agree- | ment the naval armament race might | continued in pect Lo cruisers }and other naval craft not limited by the Washington treaty, which limited dreadnaughts and capital ships gen- ee Reduce and Pay. | This is interpreted in political cir- cles as an indication of the desire of the United States to indu e Eu- | topean debtor nations to her re- | naval armaments they can bay more of what they o this coun- jtry. This demand will be directed | brincd Britain and the po- | tential alli hat power in its { Struggle ag e United States for | world supr It is also \ ewed as a further step toward partic tion in the league of nations by the Wall Street at Wagsh- ington, As. is the custom these) days, Jiore indulged in the familiar pacifist ik, declaring that “each definite move toward disarmament, small tho it be, is of greater value for the pro- motion of world peace than ambitious and all inclusive projects which may (Continued on page 2) SUB DRIVE IS | NOW UNDER WAY Big Cities Swing Into Intensive Drive Monday morning’s mail, bending the shoulders of our (7) government's mail carrier more than ever, brot first Signs of the big subscription drive for The DAILY WORKER, Subscriptions in double the normal "s receipts, many deserving of both of the book of “Red Cartoons” da. beautiful bust of Lenin were ng them. The drive is on and fi- dividuals deserving p hold first votes for the trip to Moscow. Builders’ Tighten Organization, With first subscriptions, the first word of organization has also arrived. .. E. Katterfeld, New York DAILY WORKER agent and Eastérn epresentative of The DAILY WORK- oR sends a rush request for many nore sub blanks and. much more of “The Book” to lighten the labor of the,eleven hundred DAILY WORKER builders in the New York Club, Boston, Los Angeles and n Francisco ask tools to work with, more sub forces at, Nankow for an attempt. to }ijanks and more copies of “The Book,” capture the capital. An armored train manned by the mercenary white Rus- sians has left the city. A number of Manchurian regiments Ki as City is holding a member- ship meeting ta throw the local unit of the Workers (Communist) Party back of the drive. Baltimore has eleet- bisa Joined in the movement. A heavy fod a new agent and has cleaned decks battle is possible, if the rumors are} ror action, The Los Angeles Builders’ correct. Club now numbering sixty members Chang fso Lin has wired the com-| has presented a program of action im mittee of public safety and Tuan Chi Jul, the two groups which claim to re- present political authority in the cit demanding that diplomatic relatio cluding co-operation of the Women’s ducational Alliance in a picnic. actory drives, giant distributions of the May Day Special, social, visits EVA ships with the Soviet Union be broken }i9 trade unions and fraternal organi ~ by the recall of M, Karakhan, the So-]:utions are all a part of the huge viet ambassador here, and of all So-| machinery of the workers thruout the viet diplomatic agegts in China. Porta ye hacer drive sure 8 Does This Mean Workers’ Films?) 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