The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1926, Page 1

= The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Hil. No. 90. Subscription Rates: cr eee is] a NEW YORK Us. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, Entered at Second-class matter Septemb: $6.00 per year. FIGHTS MOVE TO! JAIL WEISBORD Hold Protest Meeting on Wednesday By ESTHER LOWELL. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, April 25.— “No one shall be railroaded to jail from the Passaic strike. The joint committee for defense will fight to the finish.”| This is the cry calling all possible Supporters to the mass meeting at Star Casino, 101 East 107th street, New York, on Wednesday, April 28, at 8 p.m Every friend of the 16,000 striking woolen workers of Passaic, Garfield, Clifton and dye house workers of Lodi is expected to join this united campaign. . Frame-ups of workers and strike speakers now and after the strike ends must be prevented, the committee says emphatically. The joint committee for defense is sponsoring the mass meeting. It is martialling all forces for the fight in the courts to protect Passaic strikers in their rights to organize, to speak freely, to assemble, to issue their bull- etin, to picket peacefully, and to have their own leaders, The organizations united in the joint committee are the/ American Civil Liberties Union, the} International Labor _ Defense, the | League for Industrial Democracy, the | United Front Committee of Textile | Workers, the Passaic Strikers’ Relief | Committee,. the New York Emergen- | ey Committee for Strikers’ Relief, and | } the Federated Press. Speakers already announced for the|. ne en gigantic mass meeting aie bert WeishorA,. Frea ee = ganizer or nike’ ‘outer: 4 a Bee Cannon of the International Labor De- fense; Norman Thomas, League for er 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1926 we pn Gropper. The city health dormmhlssioners of our oftiea are » alrays looking for microbes ‘ih the products of small dealers—and they find them,,,.But they never investigate the poisonedotood of big trusts. Industrial Democracy director; For- rest Bailey of the American Civil Li- berties Union; Robert W. Dunn, au- thor of The Labor Spy (with Sidney Howard) and American Foreign In- vestments. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn will be chairman. Seek to ‘Jail Weisbord. Albert Weisbord is out on heavy bail, $25,000, for four indictments in Passaic county and $5,000 for charges yet to be given the Bergen county grand jury from Garfield. Robert Dunn is out on $10,000 bai! pending Bergen county grand jury action on Garfield charges. Dunn was arrested as he was leaving the scene of Sher- iff P. Nimmo’s riot after this hysteri- cal officer had read the riot act. Dunn witnessed the “cleaning out” which followed the sheriff's order in front of the Porstmann-Huffmann mill. He saw police and deputies beat women and children to the ground and bestially attack the splendid peaceful picket line. Practically all of the strike leaders | already have numerous charges against them. Jack Rubenstin and! Lena Chernenko have sentexces total- ing many months-if their appeals are} not carried to the highest courts. Nearly 300 strikers have various cases against them. Zober Threatensl Strike Leader. Weisbord stands in the greatest danger-from Jersey justice. In jail at}. Paterson, chief of police Richard Zo- ber of Passaic ¢ame daily to leer and sneer into.the cell. Zober seemed scarcely able to restrain himself from carrying out the violent threats he made against the young strike leade: Jersey justice is dicta by the’ mill owners. ‘The sheriffs muke their offices and house their deputies in the mills. Local police officials telephone the nfills for their orders, More than one city official of the mill towns has financial connections with the mills. Mayor Burke of Garfield is employed by Botany Mills, Commissioner of public safety Abram Preiskel of Pas-| the Passaic strikers is the living em- saic gets mill,remnants for his _shop bodiment of the May Day spirit of and is a local bank director. ~ labor, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY! LOOK FOR IT! \ SIX COMMUNISTS Workers ‘Greet Freed |: Party Leaders (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, April 13—(By Mail)— Fifteen thousand workers jammed; Clapham Common today in a demon- munists rel d from Old Bailey prison. Those who had served their six-months’ terms and were released are: Tom Bell R. Page Arnot, J. T. Murphy, J. R. Campbell, E. W. Cant, A. MacManus and T. H. Wintring- ham. \ Renew Fight. An official statement signed by. the released men expressed their gratifi. cation that “We come out to find our party influence has grown, our mem- bership increased, our ranks unbro- ken. We return to our posts to re- sume the struggle against capitalism with renewed vigor and determina- tion. That is our party’s reply..to government persecution.” * Six More Still In. ‘J. T. Murphy, speaking for himself and his colleagues said that the im- prisoned Gommunists had been treat- ed as criminals and nothing mote. Six more leaders of the British Com- munist Party are still in prison to finish out twelve-month terms. The militant, courageous fight of A. J. COOK, fighting secretary of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain and militant leader of the British coal- diggers in their struggle against the, bosses who are being supported by the government—writes a keen analysis of the situation in two Ey: in Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s issues. eT TH LSE ISSUES! | 1 | stration of greeting for the six Com-| STRIKE PICKET 1S VICTIM OF ATTACK BY FINISH TERM UN)! wmewe cussres) QF Uf, §.-ITALY BRITISH PRISON. MORRIS GARFINKEL. Victim of Gangsters. Gangsters Threaten Ac- tive Strikers NEW YORK, April 25.—-Members of the “Little Augie” East, Side gang as- saulted Morris Garfinkel, striker, near | the premises ofthe Arrow Manufac turing company, jewelry case makers, at 77 Wooster street, where a strike | the past! had been in three weeks. The strike is being conducted by,the Paper Box Makers’ Union of Greater New York, and the strikers are de- manding recognition-of the union, a 20 per cent increase in wages and a reduction of hours from 48 to 46 per week, Pickets are visited at their homes and threatened with violence. Active members and officials of the union are warned {f they do not cease their ac- tivities they will be “bumped” oft. Despite the threats and warnings, the workers, many of whom are young girls, are reporting for picket duty as usual and the union declares that it is determined to see them thru their fight to a finish, It is stated that Bulova and Weil, the bosses, have hired the “Little Augie” gang to do their dirty work, progress for Wa toh ‘the Saturday Magazine : icdoall xt FASCISTI TALK t ' ‘Fascisti Wage War on Birth Control (Special to The Daily Worker) ) ROME, April 25 — Fascist news- | papers are giving much attention to |future collaboration between the | United States and Italy. 1! Messag- igero talks about “italian hands and American money” for the exploitation of the Levant, Africa, Arabia and East India, This theory fits easily into the scheme of the new fascist imperialism which is based upon colonial expan- sion but that heeds: capital to make is expansion effective. | Debt Settlement Acclaimed. The news fromAmerica that the iItalian debt has been favorably set- tled feeds the fire of the theory that the United States «and Italy are natural collaborators in colonial dev- elopment, Fascist newspapers are ac- claiming the settlement as a victory for fascisin. War On BirthControl. Signor Federzoni,: minister of the interior, has begun.a’ war on birth control, The fascists ¢laim that Italy, altho over-populated vand becoming ;meore so every year, muct take of its surplus population by bu up colonies, Certaim districts of the j country “under the)antiuence of for- jeigners” have beeni'“infected” with birth contro}. } . 60,000,000 by, 1940, | Despite Italy’s 750,000 babies a year, this must be stopped, says Federzoni and measures are being taken to fight ‘tho “danger.” At present rate of in- crease, the population of Italy will be 50,000,000 by 1940, It t* now little over 42,000,000, Stop the reduction of our standard of living! A huge Coliseum demon- stration will start the fight. JOIN THE WORKERS! SCHOOL Monday, at 8 p. m.: “WORKER CORRESPONDENTS” J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, Instructor 1113 West Washington Bivd. “TRADE UNION TACTICS AND ORGANIZATION” ARNE SWABECK, Instructo» 1113 West Washington Blvd, “CAPITAL. THE DAILY WORKER. Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, Bw 290 Published Daily except § PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 y by THE DAILY JURORS SHOW PREJUDICE IN SWEET TRIAL Darrow May Ask Case ‘Be Tried Elsewhere By CORIENNE ROBINSON. ‘Speciai to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., April 25, — The first serious outbreak in connection with the trial of Henry Sweet defend- ant in the famous riot case of Detroit, occured today when several jurors made prejudicial statements in answer to questions by attorney for defense, Clarence Darrow. The first juror of these was a black- smith, Leo P. Brown, who stated that he believed “in a class of people stay- ing together where they belonged,” and that he didn’t “believe in classes mixing.” After these and similar statements Darrow angrily questioned the juror concerning the right of the principles in the Sweet case to defend their property, whereupon Mr. Brown stated that a “man looking for trouble al- ways get trouble.” Causes Stir in Court. These statements from Brown caused a stir thru the whole court Toom especially his reference to a class of people staying together. In this he “gainly demonstrated his ignorance of the meaning of the word “class” since he did not feel that he should live in the neighborhood of Negro workers, unquestionably mem- he was identified—Brown gave - his occupation. as a. blacksmith. “They Have to Live,” Says Darrow, The next exponent of “racial puri- ty,” was a stereotyper employed by the Detroit News who said that he be lieved Negroes should not» penetrate “white neghborhoods.” Darrow then stated to the juror the fact that within the last ten years the Negro population of Detroit has grown from 15,000 to between 70 or 80 thousand, and that it would be im- possible for the additional people to crowd themselves in the “black belt” |000 people. He further stated that the law. gives these Negroes the right to buy proper- ty here in Detroit just the same as any other man, “Then,” quizzed Darrow, “do the neighbors who happen not to want him, have the right to take the law in their hands and drive him out?” In answer to this, the juror squirmed uneasily and answered, that Negroes moving into “white” neighborhoods decrease property value, and that he owned property in this neighborhood which would be affected. Then the juror answering a second demand from Darrow as to the right of the objectors to storm the property, voiced his hearty endorsement of such violence, Darrow and Moll Clash. J. Moran was soon disqualified after a very emphatic statement of pre- judice based on possible financial loss and then the “last straw” confronted Darrow, who had, up to this point, managed in spite of his exasperation, to retain his rather cool, complacent manner of examination. Wm, E. Donner, an engineer for the Telephone company, said that he could see no necessity for the defendants in the Sweet case shooting at all since they had “police protection.” Darrow leaped to his feet with furious gesture and asked Donner it he knew that “a number of colored people's homes have been destroy right before the eyes of the police Lester Moll, assisting the prosecuting attorney, objected to the However, Judge Murphy ruled the (Contizued on page 2.) SPAIN PREPARES TO REOPEN WAR ON THE RIFFIANS (Special to The Dally Worker) GIBRALTAR, April 25.—While Rif- flan chieftaing are in Oujda, French Morocco, discussing terms of peace with the French and Spanish generals, Spain is sending four steamers packed with troops for Laracle, Morocco. Two steamers conveying horses, mules, barbed wire and other materials left, (| Algeciras yesterday morning for bers of the same “class” with which} | district formerly accommodating 15,-| COLLABORATION question. | Soviet F Wan Trade for February Reaches | Total of $49, 841,000) | WASHINGTON, April 20- Bb | eign trade turnover of the Soviet Union for February was $ 9,841, 700, an increase, of ,000 over Jan. and of $7,000,000 over the for Feb- ruary, 1925, according to the Soviet customs report. The fig are for the 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 nary, $4,274,500, with a of $3,898,500 in imports. © n exports were valued at 08,000, an increase of $600,000 over January. Imports of tractors, dll from the United States were valued at $2,400,000, as com- pared with piece 000 in January ‘WORKERS PARTY OF IRELAND IS NOW ORGANIZED Dublin Congress pet Up New Party (Special to The Daily Worker) DUBLIN, Ireland, April 8 (By Mail). —The first congress of the newly- cluded on Wednesday, April 7. Sev- enty-eight delegates were present from {the following organizations: Amal- | gamated Wood Workers’ Union, Irish | ;Transport and General Workers’ Union, Workers’ Union of Ireland, tional Wood Workers’ Unior Women Workers’ Union, Nurs Whion, Natfonal Amalgamated Paint: ers, Distributive Workers, National Union Assurance Agents, ers, N. U. R., E. T. U., International Tailors, Grocers and Vintners, Amal gamated Transport, Typographical, Plumbers, Plasterers, Bakers, Seamen | and Firemen, Motor Drivers and Me- Workers’ Council, Connolly Club, Re- publican Soldiers’ Federation, Unem- ployed Association and Sinn Fein. The Executive. McLay political sec- Despard, secretary and retary. Comrades Mrs, cehtral commitice. The national! executive committee is the chief executive organ of the Party and the following, with the central (Continued on page 2) hington Blvd., Ch formed Workers’ Party of Ireland con- j Boilermak- chanics’ Union, Dublin Trades Council, | J. J. Farrelly was elected organizing | T. Daly, Walter Carpenter, R. J. Con-| nolly and Sean McGlynn complete the } NEW YORK EDITION WORKER » il Price 3 Cents “GERMAN PACT IS BIG BLOW TO IMPERIALISTS (MOSCOW-BERLIN- | "TREATY EXCITES LEAGUE ALLIES | Economic ‘Conceniae Is Basis of Agreement (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, April 25 — The. friendly relations established between Ger- many and the Soviet Republics thru the Rapalio treaty has now been strengthened by a new treaty cover- ing economic and political relations | and a mutual understanding in times j of attack upon either nation, accord- jing to information learned in advance jof the publication of the treaty by | either government. | Among the assurances in the treaty 1 neutrality; 2, Ger- s herself to enter no at- nic or otherwise upon the Disputes arising — be wo nations shall be left r se ttle ment in a non- san court The Luther cab authorized Stresemann, foreign minister, to i nd A ador Krestinsky has din behalf of the So Union. A bridge between Berlin and | Mo OW a much bett safeguard jof European peace than a Polish jarmy,” was the way one of the diplo- |mats commented on the agreement. It is regarded as more of an economic |treaty and is not aimed to be an of- fensive or defensive document. It | seems to follow out the Soviet Union's lidea that the best v ay to do away |with war is to promote the use of the plow and the machine | ir has arisen an undercurrent of Z| tement in other European | capitals. German diplomats agree that it might be an inopportune time to sign such 4 treaty “but they inform the public that it was not their fault that their recent attempt to enter the league of nations failed. It is expected that all parties except \the People’s (Fa t) Party headed by General Von Ludendorff will back | the treaty. The anti-treaty propagandist press spread the usual scarehead stories j that Germany would be compelled to |report all confidential negotiations | with other powers and the league of nations affecting the interest of both. [But the economic necessity of Ger- {many at this time has overcome the opposition at all points Russia’s fears are somewhat allayed by the treaty wherein Germany might be forced to participate in an anti- Soviet Russian crusade and be com- pelled to permit allied troops to march thru Germany against the Soviets. AMERICAN FINANCE-CAPIT AL SEEKS declared: New York Plumbers Helpers Seek to Unionize the Trade NEW YORK, April is now being made in to organize all plumber’s helpers. A meeting at which all plumbers’ help- ers are urged to attend will be held in the Manhattan Lyceum, 66. East Fourth St.°on Wednesday evening, April 28 at 8 o'clock. The following appeal is being dis- tributed to all plumber’s helpers urg- ing them to organize: “You more than any anyone else know under what terrible conditions the plumber's helper is forced to work. “The plumber’s helper is more ex- ploited, gets less wages and is treat- ed worse than any other helper in the building trades. “You are underpaid and mistreated because you are not organized. “The Plumbers’ Helpers’ Clubs of Brooklyn and Bronx call upon you to demand and fight in an organized man- ner for the unionization of all plumb- er’s helpers in the trade, By organ, izing a Plumber’s Helpers’ Club fir |" in Bropklyn, and Bronx be in a tionyto accomplish this aim. “Come to the meeting and bring ‘|Your fellow helper along.” st New York we will together with those; Open your eyes! TO RULE EUROPEAN CONTINENT SAYS COMINTERN IN ITS APPEAL The Communist International in a recent manifesto “American finance capital which caused the failure of the nego- tiations in Geneva is preparing new measures in order to reduce the whole of Europe to the level of defeated and exploited Germany. . - - “The fate of Germany, her transformation from a great industrial state into a powerless suffering colony is awaiting Poland, France, italy, the Balkans, in fact, the whole of the European continent.” | Injunction Bans All Picketing by I.L.G.W. on N. Y. Dress Shop NEW ..YORK, April 26 —(FP)-—On appeal from the modified injunction granted him against the International Ladies, Garment Workers’ Union, N..Y. joint board, and Local 22 of dressmakers, Maurice Rentner won a decision banning all picketing in front of the building housing his large dress shops among. others, Rentner, non-union manufacturer, thru his at- torney claimed that the mere. pres- ence of union members in large num- bers before his shop entrance inter- fered with his employes enuf to injure his business. The modified injunction first grant- ed permitted six pickets In front and four on each side of the building. The appellate division of the supreme court ruled that the full injunction sought, banning all picketing, inti- midation, ete., be granted. Picketing of the shop has been carried on in conjunction with the union organiza- oR drive,? Look around! arc thé Stories of the workers’ struggtes around you begging to be wrriten up. Do it! Send it fal as you fight! ’