The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 6, 1926, Page 3

THE DAILY ‘WORKER PUTNAM POLICE AID BLOOM & CO, BREAK STRIKE Deport 7 New London Textile Strikers , (Worker Correspondent) NEW LONDON, Conn., May 4.— It seems to have become a mania with police in textile towns to seek pub- licity, The publicity is not of a very favorable nature. A strike of several hundred textile workers here was pro- gressing peacefully and quietly. The owners of Bloom Company, Inc., did not’ bother much about importing scabs, calling the strikers to confer- ence, or anything to show that they were alive. The strikers smelled a rat somewhere. They knew that the orders were coming in fast and thick at the time that the storm broke. They found out that the orders were being transferred to the plant in Putnam. The old game of the textile barons is to slash wages in one mill and in case of a strike, work the orders in an- other mill, smash the strike if one took place, and then follow it up with wage cuts in the other mills. The strikers understood the game and sent a delegation to investigate the situa- tion in the other mill They then plan- ned to organize the Putnam workers and call them out on strike. Committee Arrives in Putnam, A committee of seven strikers rode into Putnam by car. They arrived a bit before noon. The chief of police soon got wind of their presence. The committee then went to the mill and talked to the Putnam workers about wages, hours, organization, ete. They learnt that while the Putnam workers were being used to break the strike unknowingly, the wages they received were far below those of the New Lon- don mill. They averaged $15 to $22 a week, while New London averaged $18 to $24, including the weavers. Put- nam went out on strike, but lost due to lack of organization and leader- ship. The committee was not able to get any more information that day. A big touring car drew up before the mill with two uniformed cops. They went to the superintendent's office and came out a minute later. They drove over to where the strike committee was standing quietly and talking to other workers. They got out, approached the committee men and begam ques- tioning and examining them. When one worker protested against the whole procedure, he was told to shut up. When another protested remind- ing the officer that he was breaking the law, he was answered by the po- lice officer that constitution or no con- | stitution he was going ahead with what he was doing and furthermore, he was going to ship them all out of town. The committee was deported trom Putnam by the bosses agents, the police, Arrest Strikers. As the workers proceeded home fol- lowed by the entire police force of Putnam, the chief of police suddenly hit on a bright idea. He would lock them upon the charge of overloading their car—seven strikers in a five- passenger car. He stopped their car, ordered them to drive to the station, took their names and addresses, kept them waiting for half an hour in a stuffy room, and then came back to inform them to get the hell out of town. The committee left town after this very “hospitable” reception at the hands of the police. The effect was just the reverse expected by Edward Bloom Co., Inc. The striking textile workers became more determined than ever to win the strike. The workers at Putnam became more sympathetic when they heard of the incident, The American Worker Correspond- ent is out. Did you get your copy? Hurry up! Send in your sub! It's only 60 cents. HARLEM SECTION, WORKERS PARTY GRAND OPENING OF OUR -* ‘NEW HOME ‘VECHERINKA AND DANCE Saturday, May 8th, 1926 at 81 E. 110th St., New York City. 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(Workers organized as consumers) RESOLUTION PASSED BY CHICAGO DISTRICT CONFERENCE OF WORKER CORRESPONDENTS HELD ON MAY Ist At the Chicago district conference of worker correspondents, held on May 1 and reported in The DAILY WORKER, five resolutions were passed which are of interest to every worker correspondent, We are therefore printing them in the worker correspondents’ section of The DAILY WORKER, one each day until they are all given, Today we print the resolution on “Party Press Builders and Worker Correspondents”: RESOLUTION ON PARTY PRESS BUILDERS AND WORKER CORRESPONDENTS. Im order to reach the workers with the message intended for them, it is necessary to make them read our Press. The efforts of our party press builders will bring better results if they will co- operate with the worker correspondents, Local news and special stories written by the worker correspondents will interest the work- ers in our press and will ald the party press builders in their work. In order to bring closer co-operation between the worker correspon. dents and party press builders, the conference recommends that each group shall be represented at the meetings of the other group by official or especially appointed representatives, MINERS OF DAISEYTOWN STAGE MAY DAY PARADE AS ANSWER TO SUPPRESSION OF FREE SPEECH By a Worker Correspondent, PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 4—An enthusiastic May Day parade thru the main street of the coal mining center of militant Daisytown was the answer of the coal miners to the suppression of the International Labor Day celebra- tion in Pittsburgh. With the scarlet banner of their Local Union No, 2399, carrying the slogan “One and Indissoluble,” flung to the breeze, the miners marched and the city police only stood by-and¢——— watched. There was no display of hostility by any section of the popula- tion, Later at their mass meeting held in the open air in the local park the miners contributed to a collection taken for the defense of the comrades arrested in Pittsburgh. Harry Wads- worth, resident of the miners’ local union and check-weighman at the mine, acted as chairman. Among the speakers were J, Louis Engdahl, edi- tor of The DAILY WORER, arrested Saturday night with Abram Jakira in Pittsburgh; Michael Sulovsky, of Cleveland, in Slovak; Joseph Ehrlich, of Pittsburgh, in Hungarian; Alex Vit- ta, of Daisytown, in Finnish. Among the day’s sports was a 5,000 meter run that was won by John Karhu, first; John Kurke, second, and Charles Silander, third. Engdahl spoke in the evening at South Brownville, where the audience also pledged its support to the Pitts- burgh defense. Other speakers were John Sesesky, Louis Fisher, Alfredo Rodriguez and Sulovsky. Other meet- ings in the Pittsburgh district were reported larger and more enthusiastic than for many years. Former Union Head Now Republican Politician By a Worker Correspondent. DETROIT, May 4—Carey D. Fergu- son, one time business agent of the Street Carmen’s Union, has entered the race for the republican nomination for sheriff of Wayne county. With the en- trance of Fred H. Hessler, former head of the red-baiting Detroit Bureau of the department of justice, it brings the number of entries up to seven, Carey D. Ferguson -was_ business agent of the Street Carmen's local tor over four years, Following this he was president of the Detroit Federation of Labor. By then the republican party of Michigan recognized hig ability and drew him into its fold by appointing him deputy state commissioner of la- bor and industry. For his good service to the bosses, the labor hating senator, James Couz- eng, recommended him for the position of collector of customs be now holds. Restaurant Brooklyn, N. Y. CHICAGO WORKERS WILL SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH WORKER CORRESPONDENTS Is there humor, poetry, art and writing ability in the worker cor- respondents? Come and find out for yourself. A treat which comes only on rare occasions is in store for every worker in Chicago and of near- by towns. If you want to enjoy a few hours and meet the worker cor- respondents of The DAILY WORK- ER be on hand on Saturday May 8th at 8 p. m. at the Workers’ House, 1902 West Division St., Chicago. Everyone will be there. Why? Because the Chicago worker corres- pondents of The DAILY WORKER have worked for three weeks to give you a performance such as will long be remembered. They will present a Living Newspaper, the first ever given in the English language. They will tell you about the life of the workers in the shops, in the stores, in the industries. The very small sum of 15 cents will be charged for admission to pay for the hall. Come and bring your friends. We want to have a turnout that will show that Chicago workers stand behind the worker correspond- ents, the fighting writers, Operators’ Greed Causes Miner to be Crippled for Life By a Worker Correspondent PITTSBURGH, Pa. May 4—John Garibush, miner at the Alicia Mine property of the Pittsburgh Steel Co., was crippled about two years ago by a fall of mine slate. He has no hopes of ever going into the mines again to earn a living for his wife and six chil- ren. John Garibush was considered by the Alicia Mine Company as one of the best coal diggers for the company, To- day his children and wife are facing starvation. The company has no use for Garibush, They cannot make any profit out of him. The reward of the Pittsburgh Steel Coal Company to Garibush after he had worked for more than six years was to order him out of the company house, The com- pany needs the house for another worker who might produce more than Garibush. Garibush receives the state compensation of $12 a week. Out of this he must pay $2 a week for travel- ing expenses from Alicia Mine to Un- jontown, Pa, to see the doctor. It is impossible for a man, wife and six children to live on $10 a week. Gari- bush is a victim of the company greed. READ THE DAILY WORKER URGES ARMY GENERAL Tells “Paytriots” to Get Facts on Russia Gen, Amos Freis, head of the chem- ical warfare department of the United States war department, speak- ing before the Chicago member of the American Cherifcal Society at a re- cent meeting 6f the organization, ad- vised all of the members of the so- ciety to subsctibe for and read daily The DAILY WORKER, as he does, in order to keep in intimate touch with what is ‘going on in the great soviet republi¢, the potentially most powerful nation’in the world, both for general information and to keep ad- vised and abreast of the so-called rad- ical thought and the growth of such organizations, In America and abroad, and that they cannot depend on the daily capitalist- papers for such in- formation. Capitalist Papers Misrepresent. The daily paper editors and writers Page Three Workers (Communist) Party MASSACRE OF POLISH UNEMPLOYED CONDEMNED BY APPEAL OF POLISH BUREAU OF THE WORKERS PARTY The following statement has been issued by the Polish bureau of the Workers (Communist) Party of America: IOMRADES and fellow workers! Again the blood of the working class | / flows in Poland. There are more dead and wounded. This time it is| in Stryj. | It is not the first time in Poland. In the face of ever increasing unem- | ployment there has been but one answer to the demands of th starving un- | employed workers for bread and work—bullets, bayonets and the police- man’s club. —_—_————_——_—————______—_— NEW YORK PARTY FUNCTIONARIES MEET ON SUNDAY NEW YORK, May 4. — A confer- ence of all party functionaries of the New York district will be held Sun- day morning, May 9, at 10 o’clock at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., (large hall). At this meeting the following party functionaries must be present: All members of the district execu- do not understand the philosophy of Communism and the activities of the Communist International, and are therefore unable to report Communist activities correctly or write about them intelligently, nor is it their pol- icy to do so, if they could, for very obvious reason, said Gen, Freis in substance, “Great things are taking place in Russia and the world vital to the in- terest of America and American busi- ness,” declared Freis. “It is a nation that America will have to contend with in the near future, so the more that is known of that country and its philosophy of social life the better it is for the members of the American Chemical Society and all those en- gaged in the chemical manufacturing industry, and all other industries for that matter, and the way to get this information is to read The DAILY WORKER conscientiously.” The general’ paid his compliments to the pacifists and to those who prate about humane warefare and ‘those who inveigh against the use of chemi- cals in warfare, “War fs War.” “War is war and there is no such a thing as humane warfare,” declared the general bluntly. “Armies take the field to win by any means at hand, and the method used is wholesale killing. The method uséd to kill is of no par- ticular interest to the man who is killed. In fact the use of gases in warfare is, aftér all, one of the most humane ‘methods of mass murder. Death is more painless and less hor- rible than by use of high explosives. There is no mangling of the dead and less wounded and maimed, and there are as a whole less after-results. There is no place for sentimentalism in warfare. There is no nice war.” ANTI-ALIEN BILL UP IN CONGRESS FOR DISCUSSION Hot Fight Expected Over Deportation Law (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4. — Early this week the alien deportation law will come up in congress. Adolph Sabath, representative from Chicago, has set himself up as the opponent of the law. At the same time he is the author of the clause providing for the deportation of “undesirable aliens” without court proceedure, This provision would allow in- spectors and immigration agents to bring charges against an alien, hear the evidence and ask the secretary of labor for his deportation. This would deny the right of the alien a jury trial and establish tyranny in the immigra- tion department. Another Illinois man, William P. Holiday is the one who will champion the law. The provisionsin brief are: Auto- matic deportation of aliens sentenced to one’ year in jail or who have re- ceived two sentences totaling eighteen months. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! BISHOP BROWN AND PASSAIC STRIKERS SPEAK IN PULLMAN ON SUNDAY Bishop William Montgomery Brown will speak for the first time in Pullman on Sunday evening, May 9, at 8 o'clock at Strumil’s Hall, 158 East 107th St., at a meeting arranged by the Pullman and South Chicago Council for the Protection of For. eign-Born, : The mess. of the Passaic strikers will 0 be brought to the workers in Pullman at the same meeting by Nancy Frank Benti of Pas: The last bloody massacre in Stryj was preceded by the same events that have taken place in many other in- stances in Polish cities. The collapse of industry is daily throwing hundreds of thousands of wokers on the street without means to live. The ever-increasing cost of living is reducing the workers to a state of misery and starvation. The seven and a half years of the plunderbund government of manufac- turers, bankers and landlords has brot Poland to the verge of absolute financial ruin. The industries are wrecked, the capitalists are closing the doors of the factories and going bankrupt. The burden falls upon the toiling masses. According to government statictics there are in Poland at the present time 360,000 unemployed which is more than one-third of the workers employed in the industries, There are no doles for the unem- ployed workers, The coalition government—the part- nership of bourgeois and socialist par- ties, has no money for the unemploy- ed, but thousands of government high officials, bankers and members of the cabinet are stealing millions of gold marks from the treasury. There is also plenty of money to support a big horde of agents provocateur and to build new prisons. It is clear that the workers can ex- pect nothing from the coalition gov- ernment nor from the socialist cabi- net members. It was the Twentieth Congress of the P. P. S. (Polish So- cialist Party) held recently, that a member of the Warsaw district or- ganization of the P. P. S., Jaworowski, speaking for the coalition government declared: “A coalition government will never be a party to a changing of the elec- tion laws or to sending out of cav- alry against the working class.” ‘To- day, exactly two months after this declaration the coalition government is brutally dispersing the masses of unemployed workers—actually ‘mur dering the workers. In Warsaw, Zawiercie, Czenstocho- wa, Pozan, Lodz, Katowice, Kaliez and Stryj and many other towns the unemployed were only recently fired upon, the police resorting at times to poison gas. During the reign of the coalition government, the prisons have been fiilled to bursting with workers whose only crime is their cry for bread. This is not all. Those who are for- tunate enuf to have jobs are having Russian I. L. D. Branch Will Stage Play for Passaic Strikers’ Benefit “Money Mad,” a Russian play in 5 acts will be presented at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St., Sunday, May 9, for the benefit of the Passaic strikers. The affair is arranged by the Rus- sian I. L. D. branch and is staged un- der the direction of the well known Russian actor L. Luganoy. The follow- ing will participate in the play: E. Lies, W. Moiseyenko, L. Zorin, L. Luganov, A. Kotor, M. Miklov and H. Flour. Beginning at 8 p. m. Admission 50 cents. May Day Greetings (Arrived too late for the May Day issue) Paul Lipsky Meyer Purkin Leon Zucker Louls Freld NEW YORK CITY CTU LLLLLLLLLLELLLLLELLLLL LEAL CORRECTION. In the May Day Greetings from Pittsburgh, Pa, the name of EDWARD E. CALLEN was misspelled thru typographical error, BEG PARDON! ST TTT TTT ELL CLL No matter what your ailment, for Expert Diagno: and Quick Results Dr. J. J. Sclivltes, | IR 2447 Lorain Ave., Cor. W. 25th St, CLEVELAND, OHIO. Lincotn 2838 Special Rates for Daily Worker Readers their wages cut and hours lengthened | tive committee, to from 10 to 16 a day which adds to|, All section and sub-section function- the unemployed army. Many factories aries including organizer, secretary, in- are being moved to France, Rou-| dustrial secretary and agitprop direc- mania, Jugo-Slavia and Italy, In the face of all this the social traitors from the P. P. S, are asking the workers, for the sake of “Poland,” to hold out and suffer all this mis- ery. It is high time, that we Polish work- ers in America realize that the guilt for the masacre and the misery of the workers, in Stryj and other towns, must be laid at the door of the capi- talist system, its bourgeois govern- ment and its socialist lackeys, The tens of thousands of murdered workers, the hundreds of thousands of vounded, the imprisoned, have left behind them starving wives and chil- dren. What shall be their fate? Can they expect any help from tho gov- ernment of hangmen? The proletariat must come to their rescue. We must save their families from starvation, We must demon- strate to the workers of the world that the proletariat in Polnad can count on our help, They are expect- ing this help from us. We cannot re- fuse to give them the ald they need to carry the terrible burdens they bear. Give! Give as liberally and as much as you can! Organize protest meetings. Let us voice our condemnation of the tyrants who oppress the workers of Poland. Send resolutions of protest to the Polish ambassador at Washington, D. C.-and to the Communist Fraction, Warsaw district. Down with the bourgeois-socialist government of hangmen! Rally to the help of the victims of the mas- sacre! Polish Bureau Workers (Commu- nist) Party of America. All donations can be sent to Polish Bureau, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Westinghouse Nucleus Collects Relief for the Passaic Strikers (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, May 4.—The West- inghouse Workers (Communist) Party shop nucleus has collected $60 for the Passaic textile strikers, Newark Labor Defense Has Concert Saturday (Special to The Dally Worker) NEWARK, N. J., May 4 — The Polish branch of the International La- bor Defense is giving a concert and dance to aid the Passaic strikers, Saturday evening, May 8, at the New Polish Home, 278 New York Ave, A union orchestra will play. Concert will be given by the Mandolin Orchestra of Blizabeth, N, J, Astory “Workers of the World Unite'— in Chinese, of the rise of three hundred million people—-with Original Documents, Maps and Many Illustrations. Attractively Bound. DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY 113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. Chicago = ILL. espondents! | tor, } All nucleus functionaries including nucleus organizer, secretary, agitprop | director. All DAILY WORKER agents. All functionaries of trade union fractions, | . Every unit will be checked up for | full attendance and every functionary |must present his membership card. | Other party members in the district |are welcome to attend but must show membership cards. No non-party mem- bers will be admitted. | The order of business includes a re- | port on the industrial situation in this ‘district and the industrial work of the party, reporter, Comrade Krumbein; @ report of the Agitprop work of the district and the current party cam- paigns, reporter, Comrade Wolfe, A general discussion will follow the re- ports, Only party functionaries can participate in the discussion, The conference starts at 10 o'clock sharp. Every functionary should be there on time. Daily Worker Agents Meeting in Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 4. — A conference of all DAILY WORKER agents, and delegates from various fraternal and cultural societies will take place Sunday, May 9, at 2 p. m., to lay plans for our press subscription drive. About 40 delegates are expect- ed to attend. We need more news from the shops and factories. Send it in! WRITE AS YOU FIGHTI YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE MEMBERSHIP MEETING TO BE HELD FRIDAY NIGHT A city membership meeting is being arranged for Friday May 14, where Comrade John Williamson will report on the decisions and res olutions of the last plenum session of the Young Communist Interna tional. This meeting is of fundamental importance to the membership of the Young Workers League, and every league member in Chicago Is expected to attend and make this meeting a succe: i || THE AMERICAN ASSOCIA. || TION FOR THE ADVANCE- MENT OF ATHEISM, INC. | 49 Vesey St., New York City | A militant, uncompromising foe || of the church and clergy. 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