The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1926, Page 1

Dlg RR — ~ The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No! 39 ». Subscription Rates: Sastts"Gicaeo” Ry: | LAST STRIKE BULLETINS AS WE GO TO PRES$ ———— J SEAMEN OUT. LIVERPOOL, England, May 5.—British shipping will étop completely! tomorrow when the Sailors and Firemen’s Union goes on strike. This brings | ©cean and cross-channel services effectively under the general strike order | and will result in a complete tie-up of all British ports. * * * * GOVERNMENT STOPS DAILY HERALD. LONDON, May 5—The government this afternoon took drastic steps to prevent the publication of a strike newspaper from the plant of the Daily Herald. Government officials turned off all electric power from the Daily Herald plant, preventing publication of a strike organ. The government, it is understood, is prepared to seize any mimeographed er typewritten issues that may be put out. * ° * » FOOD SHORTAGE. NOTTINGHAM, England, May 5.—The first food shortage as the result of the general strike was reported here today. A shortage of meat has arisen and supplies coming in by train and road are inadequate to meet the demands, oo ee, See LEEDS WORKERS STOP CARS. LEEDS, England, May 5.—A tense situation was created here today when several thousand strikers attacked streetcars, operated by non-union workers, ee ae ee ASSURED OF CANADIAN WORKERS’ SUPPORT. OTTAWA, Canada, May 5.—The Trade and Labor Congress of Canada in a statement made public today promises financial support to the British strikers thru the medium of an appeal to members, if such action should become necessary. In so doing, it was stated, the Canadian congrese ie co- operating with the International Federation of Trade Unions, o 8 @ ‘ DESTROYER AT NEWCASTLE, NEWCASTLE, England, May 5.—A destroyer and a submarine. have arrived here for guard duty. = * SCABS WRECK TRAIN. LONDON, May 5.—Two train wrecks were reported tonight, as the result of the use of volunteer crews and the lack of proper signals. An empty milk train was wrecked at Burton-on-Trent. oe ee UNEMPLOYED DEMONSTRATE. MANCHESTER, England, May 5.—A huge unemployed demonstration here this afternoon was dispersed by the police. * * * TWO MONTH SENTENCE TO STRIKER. MANCHESTER, England, May 5.—Richard Stoker was today sentenced to two months imprisonment under regulations issued under the authority of the king’s proclamation of a state of emergency, Stoker was charged with acts calculated to cause dissatisfaction among the military. He was arrested while enroute to Glasgow with alleged seditious literature. * e * * STRIKER ARRESTED. LONDON, May 5.—James Mills, a striking printre, was fined $10 today in Bow Street court for “Insulting. behavior towards the police.” Mills was charged with having attacked the driver of an automobile carrying the “British Gazette.” Leaders of a mob of 500 which attempted to storm the Westham police station were arraigned today. The three men were charged with interfering with traffic, STRIKE REACHES NEW YORK, - NEW YORK, May 5.—The first echo of the British strike reached New York today when 46 members of the crew of the White Star line Arabic at- tempted to go ashore three minutes before sailing time, The officers pre- ented the men from landing and the ship departed. * * * * FRENCH PRINTERS AID STRIKE. PARIS, May 5.—French printers refuse to publish continental editions of London dailies to be shipped to London for distribution during the general strike, a EF ioe NORTH IRELAND HIT. BELFAST, May 5.—The Ulster parliament tonight passed an emergency act giving the government power to ration food and fuel. MORE STRIKE NEWS ON PAGE 2. DETROIT FEDERATION OF LABOR | DEMANDS USE OF UNION LABOR AT PHILADELPHIA EXPOSITION (Special to The Dally Worker) DETROIT, May 5—The Detroit Federation of Labor adopted a reso- lution demanding that only union labor be used at the Philadelphia Sesqui- Centennial celebration. The resolution calls on the executive council of the American Federation of Labor to start a drive insisting on the use of union lahor only at the exposition, TWO PAGES OF STRIKE PICTURES FROM ENGLAND! SATURDAY, MAY 8 Latest photographs from the great strike of five million Englieh work- ers—photos of leading figures and the latest pictures from the scene of action, RUSH (Wire) YOUR ORDERS! At Regular Price of 3/2 Cents a Copy, The Best Strike Edition of Any Labor Paper in America, uh HL Entered at Second-class matter September all, $8.00 per year, by mail, $6.00 per year. FUR STRIKERS SOLID FOR 40 HOURS A WEEK Send Their Greetings to} British Strikers | (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 5, — Following the break, early yesterday morning, in the negotiations for a settlement. be- tween the fur manufacturers and the union, the shop chairmen met in Man- hattan Lyceum this afternoon to hear the report of the members of the con- ference committee and discuss future plans for the fur strike. Ben Gold, general manager of the joint board and chairman of the Gen- eral Strike Committee, read to the chairmen a letter addressed to Organ- izer Hugh Frayne of the A. F. of L. who has acted as mediator between the union and the manufacturers, and who presided at Saturday's conference. The letter approves the proposal of a committee to work out a system for equal distribution of work in the shop -nd also states that before future nego. tiations are undertaken, the manufac- turers must accept the union’s demand for a forty hour week. Committee. This was enthusiastically approved by the shop chairmen, and a commit- tee composed of 8S. Liebovitz, of the General Strike Committee, Harry Trachtenberg, A. Jacobson, J. Hersko- vitz, H. Fishbach and Miss M. Liebo- vitz was appointed to take the letter to Mr. Frayne. : The shop chairman also voted un- animously to send a cablegram to the strike council ofthe British Trade Unions wishing them success in their great struggle and pledging. the solid- arity of the fur workers. 46 More Arrested. A direct reaction to the break up of Saturday’s conference was seen in the fact that 46. strikers were arrested during the mass picket demonstration this morning. 31 were arrested in one place and all were charged with dis- orderly conduct altho they were mere- ly peacefully picketing their shop. “Another desperate effort of the manu- facturers,” Gold calls it. “And it is floomed to fail liké all the other at- tempts to break the fur strike. Nothing can prevent the fur workers from win- ning all their demands.” NEW YORK FUNCTIONARIES MEETING SUNDAY MORNING AT MANHATTAN LYCEUM (Special: to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, May 5.— An extraordinary meeting of Workers (Communist) Party functionaries of the New York district will be held this Sunday at 10.00 a, m., at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th street. Every organizer, secretary, agitprop director, literature agent of every unit and all section and sub-section organizers, all members of section id sub-section committees and all members of the district executive must attend, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1926 COAL FOR THE PRIME MINISTER’S RESIDENCE r 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 187% SUPPORT. OF 100,000 ILLINOIS MINERS IS PLEDGED TO BRITISH LEFT WING MOVE FORCES FARRINGTON’S HAND (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, {ll., May 5—Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois Mine Workers, today sent the following cablegram to A. J. Cook, secretary of} the British Federation of Miners: “The one hundred thousand members of the United Mine Workers of | America in Illinois are watching with concern and sympathy the struggle of | their British brothers for a living wage and a betterment of their working conditions and as their spokesman and in their behalf | pledge you that we shall stand by ready to render such moral and financial assistance as may be possible. “Moreover you are advised to disregard the pledge of support made by one Alex Reid, who has spoken without authority and whose pledge is worth- less and made for publicity purposes only. He cannot deliver on the pledge. “Reid is one of a small group of malcontents who are making a futile effort to divide the ranks of the American miners and to establish a dual organization among the United Mine Workers of America. If the British miners place any dependence in Reid's pledge they are doomed to disap- pointment.” United Support for the British Miners! By ALEX REID Secretary Progressive Miners’ Committee. The cablegram sent by Frank Farrington to the British Federation of Miners is a victory for the progressives in the United Mine Workers of America, who have always stood for solidarity in the struggle against the bosses. Farrington sent his cable knowing that the members of the United Mine Workers would respond to the pledge of solidarity sent in the name of the progressives by the Progressive Miners’ Committee. The Progressive Miners’ Committee is glad to: have Farrington follow its initiative in Nning up theAmerican miners in sup- port of their fighting British brothers. Not Dual Union. As far as Farrington’s denunciation of the Progressive Miners’ Committee is concerned, this is not the-most im- portant issue at this moment. Of course, Farrington knows that the Pro- gressive Miners’ Committee is against dual unionism and has fought all dual union tendencies in the United Mine Workers of America. It is for a mili- (Continued on page 4.) America to Benefit by Age” is authority for the report that American coal will supply the British to weeks. The pig iron. supply that will be stopped sm leaving Great Britain will be furnished such coun- tries that call for it from America, Published Da: PUBLISHING CO., $+ trade in Italy, Scandinavia, and other | witnessing: great countries if the strike should run in-| miners except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 5. “thts ‘W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents joined the strike. The seamen | without lights. The cabmen ha last transport service. in English history. No signs o' of the strike. The government will not listen to a settlement u more workers. The government has asked parlia- ment and the labor benches. The gov- of the state of emergency for a month. The house of parliament was a scene of bitter debate between the govern- ment and th labor benches. The gov- ernment printers are on strike and parliament progressed with difficulty. Clashes Continue. Police attacked crowds of strikers who resent the operation of vehicles and trams by bs and volunteers in Poplar, East smith. Leeds, and Glasgow chester report continued clashes be- tween strikers and police. The government has issued the first number of its bulletin, the “British Gazette.” Its articles attack the trade union leaders and the gen- eral strike. Vigourous protests were | made from the labor benches in par- |liament actusing the government of |making unpardonable attacks upon | the trade uinon leaders. Trade Union Headquarters. Eccelston Square office of the Trade Union Congress is a bee-hive. Mes- | sengers: pour in and out the doors as | the strike leaders issue and receive | dispatches to and from the various | strike centers. “The strike is. or- |derly and disciplined beyond expec- tation,” said a spokesman for the congress. As to funds, the congress | Strikers and dependents for more than a week with assurances of fur- ther financial support being received from all over the world. Martial Movements. War-like movements of troops con- tinue. The fleet is co-operating and troop ship# have landed soldiers at Liverpool, Newcastle, Cardiff and else- where. A destroyer and a submarine put in at Newcastle, great shipping port for the Durham coal fields. Food Shortage. The government claims enrollment of thousands of volunteers but has} so far been unsuccessful in operating transportation. Numerous wrecks ————-|have already been caused by green- horns. The food problem is begin- ning to get acute. Food is rotting on British Coal Strikke| ‘2 docks. A meat shortage has been reported from Nottingham. Bread ra- tions are soon to follow the ration- PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 5.—‘“Iron|ing of milk that began yesterday. Strikers Demonstrate. The Welsh coal fields have been demonstrations of singing the ~ “Red Flag.” Manchester is so completely tied up that transportation except by private means is impossible. In Scotland the Clyde workers are holding great mass meetings. London streets are thronged with strikers on the march. OMAHA WORKERS WILL SUPPORT BRITISH LABOR Meeting Urges American Unions to Aid English {Bpecial to The Daily Worker) OMAHA, Neb., May 5.— The May Day demonstration on May 4, at Omaha, Nebr., pledged support to the determined efforts of five million striking British workers. The heroic reply of the million miners to the re- port of the Tory government coal com- mission, which called for a wage re- duction and lengthening hours, must not go unheeded by the American workers, The Omaha, workers call upon the United Mine Workers of America and the Transport Workers’ Unions to jom hands with fighting British Workers and refuse to haul coal for England and also to immediately send organ- izers into the non-union fields to or- ganize the unorganized miners and re- fuse to produce scab coal for export. David Coutts was chairman of the meetin~ been revoked by the Trade Union Congress. Congress’s answer is to call out ¢———_—___ jis equipped to support the 12,000,000! S GRIP Three More Unions Out; Troops Unable to Revive Transportation Service (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, May 5.—The second day of the great general | strike finds the British Isles paralyzed. Three more unions have have voted to tie up every port. The electricians have left London to confront today’s heavy fog ve gone out and taken away the The tremendous power of British labor is felt as never before f peace are evident. The trade union leaders express complete satisfaction with the effectiveness has issued an ultimatum that it ntil the general strike order has The Trade Union SOCIALISTS TURN BACKS ON DRIVE FORLABORPARTY | Sulk in Convention Over LaFollette Treason By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL (Editor of The Daily Worker.) PITTSBURGH, Pa. May 4—(By Mail.)—Having rejected the offer of the Workers (Communist) Party for united labor party activity in the fall elections, the socialist party conven- tion here very consistently turned its back on “every genuine effort of labor towards independent political action.” Instead of “independent political ac- tion,” the very general term “indus trial emancipation” was put into the resolutions committee report on this question, The convention refused even to join in any preparatory pro- paganda for the labor party. Time for Shedding Tears. The committees report shed bitter | tears over the failure of the LaFoliette |campaign to “launch an independent | party of labor,” and again declares the | “historic mission of the socialist party is the education of the American | Working class.” In fact the delegates continually Stressed that the socialist party was not now a political organization, but jhad become merely an educational institution. “Not Political Party.” Delegate Darlington Hoopes, the Norristown, Pa., lawyer, declared this to be so since the socialists had lost their legal standing as a political par- (Continued on page 3) STALIN TALKS 10 RUSSIAN WORKERS ON GREAT STRIKE Lay Bat is 9 lenis Unity Manifesto (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., May 5. — Stalin, the secretary of the Communist Party of Russia, said at a great mass demonstration of workers held in sup- port of the British general strike that collections are being made thruout the factories and workshops of Russia to aid the British strikers to victory. “There is little likelihood of the strike resulting in; a proletarian dic- tatorship such .as Russia's but ‘the strike will result in strengthening the class feeling of the English workers and eventually bring them under Com- munist influence,” Stalin said, R. I. L. U. Manifesto, The Red International of Labor Unions has issued a proclamation sign- ed by General Secretary Losovsky.. It reads in part, “The struggle has begun, Millions of the English proletariat have risen as one man against their exploiters. Call for Unity. “Facing the development of this Sigantic struggle, when for the first time in British history class rises against class, all differences among the workers must be sunk. All work- | ers, regardless of factions, must stand | with our struggling brothers and give them full and unqualified aid.” | No Coal for England. | “Not one ton of coal for England,” |fhe manifesto concludes, “All countries boycott British coal orders and refuse to deliver any foreign merchandise to Wngland. Wage a merciless fight | against strike-breakers!”