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_Untermeyer Refutes the sammoreEiEm Esse —_—_———— The DAILY WORKER Raises the-Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. III. No. 88. SENATORS HEAR OF TERROR IN PASSAIC STRIKE Stories of Sen. Edwards By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press. WASHINGTON, April 22.—Samuel Untermyer, New York corporation law- yer and investigator, pleaded the’ cause of the Passaic textile strikers and that of the civil liberites of the people of the strike region for two hours before the senate committee 6n manufactures behind locked doors. Armed with hundreds of affidavits trom victims and witnesses of police brutality and official violence, he an- swered and overwhelmed the claim which had been made by Senator Ed- wards of New Jersey, corporation democrat, that the strike was simply a Communist demonstration without economic basis. Gives Lie to Edwards. Untermyer showed not only that the mill owners and their adherents in charge of the police and the sheriffs’ offices had treated the striking mill workers like a conquered people, but he demonstrated that the wage cut of 10 per cent which forced the mill hands to strike was unjustified by the financial condition ‘of the Botany mills or any other concern ‘which is involved. He proved that the average net earnings of the textile mills in Passaic for the past nine years had ‘been about 98 per cent on actual invest- ment. He showed that the United States government had gi granted tariff fates of about 43° per cent to the, manufacturers, and that on this tariff subsidy they had fat- tened while reducing their employes to a state of helplessness which bor- dered on peonage. They were kept unorganized, distrustful of each other, and afraid of losing their jobs. Finally the pressure had become too great, and at a call for resistance they. had walked out under the leadership of the improvised organization known as the United Front Committee. e Old Guard Opposed. His description of the clubbing, trampling and intimidation of the strikers and their sympathizers, and of_yiolence to onlookers in the streets when the strikers went on picket duty impressed the reactionary sena- tors of the committee. However, they indicated by ‘hostile questions and comments that they did not propose to ask the senate for a public investiga- tion of the strike. Senator Wheeler and Senator LaFollette favored prompt affirmative action on the LaFollette resolution, calling for a thoro inquiry. Chairman McKinley, Senator Metcalf of Rhode Island and other adminis- tration members did not support them. lt was agreed that Secretary of Labor Davis should be heard as to the possi- bility of federal mediation. Unter- myer had: argued that in view of the millions which congress had enablied these Passaic manufacturers to take irom’ the. American public thru the tariff congress could properly investi- gate the consequences of its own act. >OLICE APREST UNION PIGKETS IN IRON STRIKE: 2,000 Workers Out for! 44-Hour Week NEW YORK, April 22—Police are iatertering with peacefil picketing of ivon and ‘bronze building material « 4 shops which have been called on strike by the Architectural Iron, Bronze and = Structural Workers’ Union. Pickets carrying placards ebout, the. strike are arrested every day on various charges, altho the unton is appealing all sentences. Over 3,000 workers are now strik- ing. Several, large nonunion shops have been closed or crippled badly, reports Secretary Rosenfeld. Shops are so widely scattered in greater New York that picketing difficulties are greatly increased. The union's chief demand is for the 44-hour week, for increased’ wages, improved working. conditions and com- plete recognition of the ‘union. A number of nonunion.shops are in. the Iron League, which fights unionism in buflding “trades and iron building ma- terial peagch of the industry, ane Subscription Rates: é mh s a & 0 &. Veg 1 gteg ra oe 6, On, ¢ e sO © ~ 26% THE DAIL Outside Chieago, WORKER. ntered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Llinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. In ‘Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Oy tail, $6.00" per year, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1926 SLINI BU SENN) 58 cca 290 NEW YORK EDITION Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKSR PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ML | WORKind- WOMEN HOLD OUTDOOR MEETING FOR THE PASSAIC STRIKERS NEW YORK, April 22.—Workers udged to come to an outdoor mass meeting to be held under the auspices of the Council of Working Class Women to express solidarity with the Passaic strikers. Promi- nent speakers will address the meet- ing and a committee of strikers will come with fresh news from the bat- tle front. The meeting will be held at the Union Square on Saturday afternoon, April 24, at 2 o'clock, EXPOSE SCHEME OF BRITISH TO CONQUER CHINA Bank of England Backs Imperialist Plot (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, April 22.—Evidence ac- cumulat every hand that the pres- ent drive inst the Chinese national- ist movement, culminating in the cap- ture of Peking by the forces of Chang Tso Lin, is the result of an imperialist strategy carefully calculated and laid out in advance by the great powers, particularly Great Britain and Japan. The real struggle in the high diplo- matic circles of the governments in- volved—Great Britain, France, Eng- land, the United States, and Japan— has not been over the question of in- upon its 7 was over the form which such interference should assume. On the one side were'the advocates of putting off the Chitése nationalists with promises, conferences, negotia- tions, etle., all intended to wear out the nationalist leaders and_ discover their weak points, and to convince the masses that their demands were un- wise and ill-timed. On the other side were those who wanted force used on a large scale and immediately. In the latter group were the foreign trad- ers of the various national settlements in Shanghai, Tientsin, etc. 100,000 Murderers Needed. Experts there for the “force” advo- cates estimated that an army of 100,- 000 European soldiers could safeguard the present priviledged position of foreigners in China and hold back the nationalist armies. They estimate a large part of this force could be brot from India, where Great Britain now has 80,000 European soldiers stationed. The British garrison at Hongkong has already been heavily increased. This plan involved the division of China into two military commands— the north and the south. Most of the foreign troops would be garrisoned at Tientsin and Shanghai, these seaports dominating all the coast to Hongkong. Detailed Operations, This plan contemplated the first di- vision of such an army landing at Tientsin and coming to an early and decisive engagement with the army of General Feng, the kuominchun leader. It was reported that the tacit support of Chang Tso Lin had been already obtained for this maneuver. Hankow, the great center of the Chi- nese steel industry, the experts consid- ered, could be captured thru a bom- bardmént”’ by British gunboats, which can reach the city easily by the river route, As’ the city is unfortified it wotld be taken without much trouble. The principal objective of such a campaign was, of course, to be the destruction of the natidnalist move- ment in south China, The capture of Canton would be necessary. The ex- (Contizued on page 2.) WEINSTONE WILL SPEAK ON SOCIALIST PARTY AT THE BRONX FORUM NEW YORK, April 22—Sunday evening, April 25, at 8 o'clock, Wil- liam Weinstone, general secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, New York, will discuss “What is The Socialist Party Today,” at the Bronx Workers’ Forum, 1347 Boston Road, It’ Is absolutely essential for the workers in Ai ly the prog! the role the is playing in th tod: All were agreed | merican socialist party | SHOE WORKERS AND STRIKERS | STAY ON LINE | Also Send Workers to | Repair Shoes | | | | | | | (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 22—The Shoe | | Workers’ Protective Union has been | |one of the most active organizations {in helping the strikers. Last week the | | Unity Shoe Co. collected $14 in addi- | tion to the $53 of a few wecks ago, | |and the workers in the E, & W. shop | bought one hundred pairs of shoes | which they had made and sent to) ; Passaic. Only a short time ago they | took up a collection which has also | been done in all the shops of the pro- | tective. Also last week a committee was formed which will go to Passaic two days each week to repair the shoes of the strikers, buying the leather from collections made in the shops for that purpose. | Local 169 of the Bakers’ Union &t its executive board meeting Saturday agreed to support the strike as long as it should last by sending a truck load of bread each day. The first load went Friday from the Jennings Bakery | of 876 Jennings St., Bronx, the flour | being donated by the firm and the} labor given by the workers in the | bakery. Public School 150 collected $11.2 Local 53 of the Compressed Air &| Foundation Workers sent a substantial | check; the composing room of the | Brooklyn Eagle took up a collection | on Saturday; and many. other organ- | | swerving support of the struggle now going on in Passaic. You who are well fed and” well clothed remember that every day these strikers must eat and they ap-, peal to you to send donations, shoes and clothing. Four truck loads were sent thru the I. W. A. office last week and twice as many will go during this week. Send all contributions to the Inter- national Workers’ Aid, Local New York City, 799 Broadway, Room 237, New York City; telephone Stuyvesant 9964 NEW PROPOSAL TO FUND THE. FRENCH DEBT Paris Reports Said to Be False (Special to The Daily Worker) izations and sympathizers: show an un- |. | Mussolini Thumbs the Stub of His Nose - an a im a ee tl a } By William Gropper. The “Clown/Napoleon” incites enthusiasm among his hooligan fascists, but is held in contempt elsewhere, except among potential fascists. NEW YORK WILL GREET TRUMBULL AT MASS MEETING Hundreds Shouts Wel- come at R. R. Station (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 22,—Hundreds of workers lustily cheered Walter M. Trumbull, released from Alcatraz mili- tary disciplinary.barracks, at the rail- WASHINGTON, April 22—A new proposal for the funding of France’s $4,200,000,000 war debt will be sub- mitted to the American debt funding commission tomorrow by M, Berenger, the French ambassador. A call for a meeting of the full com- mission to hear the details of the latest settlement move was issued to- day. $ Meanwhile, Secretary of the Treas- ury Mellon characterized as entirely premature and misleading the inspired reports from Paris that an agreement had been reached. A book of cartoons with every hundred points, Get the point! TO THE AMERICAN By NAT KAPLAN, Editor Young Worker, road station onehis arrival in New York. soe 8 NEW YORK, /April 22.—Revolution- ary workers of:New York will greet Walter M. Trumbull on Saturday, April 24, at the Harlem Casino, 116th and Lenox avenwe. Trumbull was ar- rested with Paul Crouch for the “crime” of orgamizing within Hawaii a Young Communist League to fight imperialism andithe exploitation of op- pressed nationalities, This “crime” which aroused the wrath of the mili- tary authorities and all big business interests that lives by the suppression of our colonies won the admiration of every progressive’ minded worker in the United States»for daring to organ- WORKING YOUTH! “ OUR daily fighting weapon needs nourishment. Thousands of “subs” must come flowing in to The DAILY WORKER from the toiling youth in the mines, mills, factories and fields. Your fighting. champion, the heavyweight daily scrapper of the working class, calis for your support in its present popular subscription campaign. The DAILY WORKER is the only daily newspaper in the United States which gives entire sections working class youth and to the activities of ment. to the struggles and life of the the. Workers’ Sport Move- While The DAILY WORKER carries on the struggle for the bet- terment of the young workers’ conditions, the boss-eontrolied yellow Sheets carry on “concealed” propaganda campaigns to lure the work- Ing youth into the Citizens’ Military Training Camps, The National Guard: and The Reserve Officers’ Corps, in order to ‘prepare them for of Mérgan’s investments. ie a js why The DAILY WOR » the next world imperialist cataclysm to be fought for the preservation deserves your support! - A) FIVE ENTOMBED ROCK MINERS FOUND DEAD; ONE SURVIVES ORDEAL | (Special to The Daily Worker) | BUCKS RANCH, Plumas County, Cal., April 23—Grizzly Creek tun- nel today has given up its dead— victims of a disastrous cavein early Sunday morning. With two bodies rescued at day- break today the toll of the cavein stood at five dead. Only one of the six entombed miners was found alive. He was Thomas McDermott, rescued two days ago, ize a force against the imperialist ac- tivities of the American government. Walter M, Trumbull is our young American Doriot. Doriot organized within the French army an opposition |to militarism and imperialism and tho punished by French imperialism won | the admiration of the French working |class and is today the leader of the war against war in Morocco. Walter M, Trumbull tried to organ- ize a fight against the pernicious use of the American government as strike- breakers and as cossacks to beat down the people of Hawaii, Philip- pines; Central America and in all other colonies in which the American bank- ers rule. Tho the rage of imperialism led them to be court-martialed and sentenced to 26 and 40 years of imprisonment, the storm of protest that followed compelled the imperial- ists to yield the milder sentence of one and three years in order not to ex- pose too openly the brutal hand of imperialist oppression. Trumbull has completed his term of one year in Alcatraz military prison. Crouch is still locked up behind the gray walls of this dungeon. The workers of New York know good fight- ers, They know what it means to give up one’s liberty and one’s life for in- ternational working-class solidarity, For that reason the welcome which New York workers will give Trumbull will be worthy of these fighters for the cause of the working glass. The welcome to Trumbull will likewise, be message of cheer to Crouch, whose keodom must be speedily sécured, 2 i al tlt oa a ak tate 'GREEN PLEDGES. AF OFL AID TO FUR STRIKE 10,000 Strikers Hear Green and Gold By MICHAEL GOLD, (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 22.—More than ton avenue and 25th street yesterday afternoon to hear William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor explain the position of the federation in relation to the furriers strike, “A, F, of L. Behind Strike.” Applause and cheering greeted President Green when ho said that the federation was solidly behind the fur strikers and would do everything in its power to help them with their de- mands, Even louder enthusiasm greet- ed the statement by Ben Gold that this meeting would demonstrate to the fur bosses that there was not the dissension in the ranks of the union that cegtain elements had tried to claim. “What is more,” said Gold, “this meeting proves that the fur strikers are not fighting for themselves alone, but for the cause of organized labor in America, President Green's pres- ence here proves that,” Great Ovation for Gold. Ben Gold, probably the most idoliz- ed leader the fur workers have ever had, was never given a greater de monstration than when he came down the aisle, thru immenge ranks of workers waiting to hear the various speakers at this important. meeting. It has beef’ rumored® tor, several days that a conference with the fur bosses is being asked for and Presi dent Green ‘confirmed this in his speech, Thé > cbdiiference had been 10,000 striking fur workers crowded | the 69th Regiment Armory at Lexing-| asked for, he said, and the answer | trucks and carried away toa P {ia eee ent A. ~ Spaipaed go 0g, 3) Price 3 Cents NED IN EFFIGY + ASSAILED IN ~ EUROPE WHILE SENATE ACTS Italian Dictator Is Wild with Rage (Special to The Daily Worker) BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 22—The | anti-fascist sentiment that is growing | thruout Europe and the contempt in | which even moderates hold the fascist | braggart, Mussolini of Italy, mani- | fested itself here last night when some | 10,000 workers participated in a dem- |onstration at which Mussolini was burned in effigy. Police did not interfere with the | demonstration and there were no ob | jections, the entire population seem- ing to sympathize with the purpose of the demonstrators, . Rome Wild With Rage. Official Rome, which means the bloody tyranny of fascism, is wild with rage at the report of the affair here and hurriedly called the Italian ; ambassador; Signor Negretto Com- | biato, home so that he could person- ally report the incident and the situa- j tion that led up to it. Government Apologizes. | The Belgin government, thru {ts } foreign minister, Emil Vandervelde, | hero of the socialist ond internation- al, become so frightened at the display of the temper of the masses against fascism that it hastened to send a craven note uring the Italian gov ernment of it sincere regrets that jan effigy of Premier Mussolini was | burned during an z cist demon- stration at La Louviere.” | ¢ + i | Tries to Censor German Press. BERLIN, Germany, April 22— The } agents of the bloody despotism of {Italy not merely censors the press of their own country that workers there get no suggestion of the denun- ciation that is arising from every country in the world against Musso- lini, but they have the audacity to en- deavor to censor the press of other countries. Tageblatt advices from Danzig state that the press and pub- lic are aroused over the unheard of protest from the Italian council gen- | eral against attacks on Mussolini in | the social daily, Tageblatt. The | council arrogantly threatened that un- j less such attacks are stopped he is empowered to take measures “which might have unfortunate consequences.” The senate considered the protest and that there is no law against ach att s and that they do not eave to interfere in this case with the ee | | ‘ON, April 22—Senator whose acrimonious speech (Continvec on page Z) ITALIAN DOCKERS IN OPEN BATTLE WITH FASCISTI Seamen Help Workers in | Fight (Special to The Daliy Worker) | CHIAZZO, dtaly, April 22—An open ; battle betwéen| workers and fascist! ; ook place in Leghorn on the occasion {of the funeral ef a docker,who was killed while af’ ‘Work on the boats. The fascist miljtia attempted to break up the funeral procession of the dock- for their dead fellow worker, Lunardi, Workers Fight. The workers fought sturdily against the black-shirts and the populace of the neighborhood, roused to sympathy, sallied forth to the workers’ aid, Seamen Help, The crews of steamers in the har- bor, learning of what was happening, started a demonstration against the fascisti. Boatloads of marine police put out to deal with the demonstra- tors. They were met by fusilades of coal and other misstles. Town Surrounded. A hot campaign against the opposl- tion is being carried on in the provinces of Rome and Palermo, The two villages, San ‘Gidsseppe and Saf” Cirirello were recently surrounded by police and troops and’ Were eventually compelled to surrender their mayora and 100 leading inhabitants to the’ authorities, They were placed in motor

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