The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1926, Page 2

Page Two TRE DAILY WORKER ita Reena eh NOL RAR EN A ANTONIN CHICAGO DRESS MAKERS’ DRIVE IN FULL FORCE Some Shops Join Union en Masse The organization drive of the Inter national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union whioh started a week ago Mon- day Is now In full force. Officers re- port that some shops have already Joined the unlon as a whole and all non-union shops were covered with clreulars dealing with problems and conditions of the shops. Unbearable Conditions, According to the officers of the or- ganization department of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers, the conditions in a majority of the non- union shops are unbearable. They have taken advantage of the fact that there was no live organization cam- paign being conducted in the dress industry and have reduced the prices on their garments. One particular shop which was a union shop previous to the last strike, where t people were earning a fairly good Salary, is reported today to have cut its prices more than one third, and conditions in general are such which would not be tolerated in a decent non-union shop, In many instances the employers take advantage of the fact that the mass of dress workers is composed of ® conglomeration of practically all races and nationalities, and make various distinctions between groups of different speaking languages. Parti- cularly is this true of the Negro work- ers. Race Discrimination. In one shop there are thirteen Negro workers whose working hours are from fifty-four per week and up, and whose earnings ere $13.00 and up including overtime, In another in- stance there are twenty Negro women operators who are kept under the im- pression that if they ask for better prices they will lose their job, and white people put in their place. Of course this only exists in the non- union shops, as {n a union shop all workers, regardless of color or race, receive the protection of the union. Join With A. N. L. C. According to the head of the organ- ization campaign the local unions made connections with the American Negro Labor Congress, who have promised their full support im this campaign. A meeting of the Negro union members was held a few days ago in the union headquarters, which was addressed by Mr. Phillips, city } ! CONNECTICUT CONFERENCE OF FOREIGN-BORN GROUPS WILL BE HELD ON MAY 23 NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 14— The Connecticut state conference of the Council for the Protection of Foreign-Born, Initlated by the New Haven councll, will be held at the Machinists’ Hall, 99 Temple St., New Haven, Sunday afternoon, May 23, at 2 o'clock sharp. All unions and other working class organizations have been mailed Invitations to at- tend the conference. PENNSYLVANIA LABOR OPPOSES MILITARY CAMPS Resolution Adopted Af- ter Bitter Fight By GEORGE PAPCU'N (Special to The Daily Worker) ERIE, Pa., May 14. — A resolution against the citizens’ military training camps, which wag presented by a coal miner of Western Pennsylvania, was brot on the floor of the convention with an unfavorable report by the res- olutions committee. After a bitter fight the resolution was adopted over- whelmingly with only twenty dele- gates voting against the adoption of the resolution. President Maurer of the Pennsyl- vania State Federation of Labor was greatly surprised when the committee brot in the unfavorable report and stated in the convention that the res- olution must be adopted by the feder- ation when one of the delegates took the floor and declared that the resolu- tion was indefinite. President Maurer declared the resolution was decidedly against military training. The resolution calls for condemning the citizens’ military training camps and declares that the delegates to the American Federation of La»cr conven- tion shall fight, lobby and sve that the resolution shall be adopted and that this resolution shall be the policy of the American Federation of Labor towards the citizens’ military training camps and that the executive council shall start a state-wide campaign in Pennsylvania for fighting against the citizens’ military training camps by agitation, propaganda and other means, Mothers’ League in Chicago to Give Passaic Benefit The Mothers’ League of Chicago is giving a concert and entertainment for organizer of the congress, and Mr. ,the benefit of the Passaic strikers this Whitman, national organizer. meeting was very successful and all those present enrolled on the organ- ization committee in addition to the large five hundred committee, Answer Bosses. J.’ Levin, manager of the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union made the following remarks in regard to the or- ganization campaign. “I have seen Mr. Davidson’s reply pertaining to a cer- tain statement which appeared in the Women’s Wear sometime ago that we could not organize the larger shops because the workers are content with prevailing conditions. His reply em- phasized the fact that the existing conditions are in no way encouragipg to the workers to stay out of the union. I am in accord with his answer and wish to add the following reasons for my contention.” “We find in the report of the Bul- letin of Women In Illinois Industries, 33.3, which is the organized section of the industry, work forty-four hours and the rest work from forty-eight to fifty hours per week. Now, anybody who states that the workers in non- union shops are content, must make these conditions reconcilable with the conditions existing in the union shops.” “I know that conditions in the union shops are not as yet what they should be, but this is due to the fact that @ great many of the workers are as yet unorganized, which is just the reason why we are now conducting an organization campaign, and I have no doubt of its success.” Expect Sigman. President Sigman is expected here about the end of this week or the early part of next week. Various ques- tions will be taken up in the local organizations, and the plans for the organization campaign will be gone over, Lovett Fort-Whiteman Debates Ross Brown on Race Prejudice Sunday Lovett-Fort Whiteman, national or- ganizer of the American Negro Labor Congress, will debate Ross D, Brown, Negro socialist leader, at the Red Cap Club, 3639 South Michigan -Ave., to- morrow afternoon at 4:30, The sub fect of the debate will be “Resolved that the prejudicial attitude of the white man to the Negro is due to the ‘egro’s color and not his position.” Mare invited to attend. Lovett-Fort Whiteman will debate tho negative. Ans C te, ’ a a ee Ee ee The | Sunday, May 16 ,at Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsh Blvd, An interesting program igs being ar- ranged, beginning at 4 p. m. Tickets 35 cents, Minor to Speak Before A.N.L.C. on British Workers’ Strike Sunday The Chicago local of the American Negro Labor Congress will hold its regular Sunday afternoon meeting at 3518 So. State St., Robert Minor, edi- tor of the Workers Monthly, will speak on “The British Trade Union Strike, and its relation to the Darker Races of the World.” Peppy Goulash and Fancy Dancing for I. L. D. Dance Tonight Folk dances and Hungarian goulash will be the features at the May Party and Dance tonight given by the Irving Park branch of International Labor Defense, at 4021 N. Drake Ave, For this unusual treat the tickets cost only 25 cents, so bring along your friends and have a good time with the Irving Park I. L. D. branch tonight. All Nome Awaits Arrival of the Dirigible Norge NOME, Alaska, May 14.—Great ex- citement and enthusiasm prevails in this far northern outpost as the ar- rival of Captsin Roald Amundsen and the trans-polar dirigible Norge is ex- pected. Amundsen wired from Spitz- bergen to Ralph Lomen, Norwegian vice-consul here, to have 100 men ready to handle ropes in units of ton men each, 4 Miners Oppose Military Drill SUPERIOR, Wyo. — (FP) — Opposi- tion to the compulsory military train- ing in force at the state University of Wyoming is expressed in a@ resolution adopted by Local 2328, United Mine Workers of Superior. VOLUNTEER! come over and help. There are many little Jobs that you can do In our of- fice and the girls are just crowded with work, They'll be glad to see you. If you have any time to spare— VOLUNTEER ANY DAY! vewvevr weitere ree reri Trey PALSUDSKIIS REPORTED AS BEING VICTOR Trade Unions Stated to Be Supporting Him (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, May 14-—Confileting re- ports seeping thru the wall thrown about Poland by the disruption of communications say alternately that loyal regiments are coming succes» fully to the aid of President Wojle- chowskl, besleged In the Belvedere Palace, and that he Ie In full flight before the Insurgent regiments under Marshal Joseph Plisudskl, 450 Killed. Extensive street fighting in Warsaw is in progress, with 450 reported killed so far. Loyal regiments from the provinces under Generals Sikorski and Haller are said to be marching on the capital. Dispatches from Prague and Vienna credit Pilsudski with having the elty completely under control and the president and members of the government under arrest. Garrisons Join. Garrisons at Vilna, Brest-Litovsk, Cracow, Lublin and Grodno have joined the revolutionary movement, while troops at Posen are reported to remain loyal and have been ordered to Warsaw to aid the government. Unions Support Rebels, Advices from Vienna state that the Polish trade unions have declared a railroad strike in support of the Pil- sudski coup and are preventing the government from bringing reinforce- ments to Warsaw. Proclamations have been posted bearing the government signature and branding Pilsudski as an outlaw, Riot- ing has broken out in Lemberg. Ris- ing prices of foodstuffs in Warsaw threatens a serious situation in the city as the population becomes more destitute. Furriers’ Union Begins National Drive for the Shorter Work-Week (Continued from page 1) tomorrow morning, a poll of the work- ers would be taken on the subject of the 40-hour week demand in the fur strike. A mass picket demonstration will begin the day in the fur manufac- turing section, and then the strikers will proceed to their meeting halls where each worker will sign his name, local and ledger number to a ballot which reads: “We the undersigned strikers, members of the joint board of the Furriers Union, Locals 1, 5, 10 and 15, endorse and support the actions (Continued trom page 1) of our conference committee and we pledge ourselves to remain in the struggle until we win the 40- hour—5-day week, “We express our fullest trust and confidence in our strike committee and pledge to do all in our power to bring our struggle to a successful conclusion.” Will Show Bosses. “At any future conferences on a set- tlement of the strike,” said Ben Gold, “We will present these ballots if there is any question as to how the fur strikers feel about the 40-hour week. Some at the last conference seemed very anxious for a ballot; well, we will take one and show them the re- sult.” Demand Unanimous. Judging by the enthusiasm which greeted this announcement at today’s meeting there is no doubt that the fur strikers are unanimous én their demand for this point. N. Pasuras spoke in behalf of the Greek fur workers and stated that the Greek section instructed the General Strike Committee to act as it deemed best on all other terms of settlement of the strike but to remain firm in the demand for the 40-hour week, Lithuanian Reaction Raids Homes of Poor Peasants and Workers (Continued from page 1) tences of life imprisonment for one of the workers and to terms of from 4 to 10 years in prison for the other four. The same fate that met these 5 workers distributing and possessing literature of the Communist Party of Lithuania awaits the 92 candidates on the Workers’ and Poor Peasants’ tickets. The clerical government having the support of the nationalists and social<lemocrats seeks to send these 92 Lithuanian workers and peasants, who dared to be candidates in the elections on a workers’ and poor peasants’ platform, to thelr death. Their trial will open on May 17. Pro- test meetings are being held all over Lithuania. Workers’ and farmers’ or- ganizations all over the world are urged to stage protest demonstratoins before the Lithuanian consulates and to send protests to these consulates demanding that a civil trial be given these workers and peasants, Get your friends to subscribe to the American Worker Correspondent. The price la only 60 cents a yean ADMINISTRATION SEEKS TO RATIFY FRENCH DEBT BEFORE CONGRESS QUITS WASHINGTON, May 14.—The ad- ministration will launch a drive next week to secure ratification at this session of congress of the Franco- American debt agreement. Secretary of Treasury Mellon will appear next Wednesday before the house ways and means committee to urge prompt approval of the pact. M.T, W. MARINE STRIKE SCARES STANDARD OIL Guard Seats 2 ith Army of Detectives By GORDON CASCADEN. (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, May Enthusiasm reigned today in headquarters of the Marine Transport Workers’ Industrial Union No. 510 of the Industrial Work- ers of the World over prospects for ultimate victory in the Strike it has called on all seagoing ships. Altho the strike only became éffective Mon- day many reports are reaching head- quarters of whole ctews deserting ships, Standard Oil Afraid. Despite lack of funds the Marine Transport Workers’ Industrial Union again has struck fear into the hearts of the ship owners, Even the Standard Oil Company is afraid. Neither the power of its millions nor the name of John D. Rockefeller himself can add to its profits if its slaves rebel. The Standard Oil Company is tak- ing no chances. It is moving heaven and earth to keep its miserably-treated employes from contact with the Ma- rine Transport Workers’ Union. Five Standard Oil tanker crews, 80 men in all, were actually shipped under guard from the South Ferry terminal to Staten Island yesterday. Cops Guard §cabs, Five uniformed policemen and a score of private detectives marched on the flank of this “scab’ army from the Standard Oil's shipping offices to Staten Island. M. T. W. pickets were driven away from the, line of march when they approached .with strike leaflets and copies of .the “Strike Bulletin.” t 100 BOSSES _ NOW ACCEPT UNION TERMS Openshop Schdols Train Scabs to Break Strike The action of the plasterers at their union meeting in reaffirming their de- mands for a $14 a day basic wage and the insertion of a clause allowing the union to go on sympathy strike with any of the other building trades crafts and their insistence to stay on strike has forced a number of the contractors to sign agreements with the union. To date 100 contractors have signed the agreements. A number of the bosses have de- termined to resist the strike and are using men furnished by the Citizen's Committee to Enforce the Landis award to break the strike. Union plasterers point out that most of those that are placed on jobs are apprentices furnished from a number of open-shop schools in the city. A glance thru the ad sections of a number of the Chicago capitalist dailies will show that there are about a dozen schools that promise to turn out plasterers in two to three weeks promising jobs at $35 to $40 a week to beginners. Most of these ads are blinds for openshop hools where scabs are being trained to break the present strike, : 4 Klan and Booze Are Issues in Monmouth County Primaries ASBURY PARK, N. J., May 11—The wet and dry issue and the ku klux klan held the center of thé stage in the Monmouth County primary campaign. The ku klux klan is aétive in the re- publican party primaries. Monmouth County is the state Headquarters of the New Jersey realm of the knights of the ku klux klan, The klan has attempted at many times to deny its part in local politics, but in this elec- tion it is openly endorsing and cam- paigning for candidates. Strike Settlement Has Small Effect on Market NDW YORK, May 13,—Railroad stocks made the best records in an irregular market today, The prompt settlement of the British strike was responsible for some rapid covering of the shorts in the early period, but beyond that it could hardly be con- sidered as an important market factor. Bearish traders promptly resumed their attacks against the motor stocks, 9 of which were di sed 3 points or more from the o; prices, Only the Fist of Labor Can Stop the Murder of Sacco and Vanzetti By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. “AJEW move made to save Sacco and Vanzetti.” This is the headline over the latest news that from Boston, Mass., as the capitalist courts comes ush these two workers another step toward the electric chair. “New moves” have been made in he Sacco-Vanzetti case very frequently during the past six years. But they have all been moves that resulted in yet another step toward the door of the death house. One thing has always been lacking There has never been a united, fist in the face of capitalism's legal machinery. determined shaking of labor's Labor has protested. But it has spoken with weakness and indecision. The capitalist law has therefore, taken its usual course. e That death stares grimly ° at our prisoners is shown by the statement of fact as follows: “The full bench of the Massachusetts supreme court denled Sacco and Vanzett! a new trial and closed to them the last door of legal appeal from death In the electric chair. They will now come before the superior court for sentence after conviction in 1921 of the murder of the shoe com- pany paymaster and guard in South Bralntree on April 15, 1920.” It has been shown, beyond all contradiction, that Sacco and Vanzetti never committed this crime charged against them. No more than Tom Mooney and Warren K., Billings were guilty of the crime for which they were originally sen- tenced to death, but later let off with life imprisonment—the living death. Labor went to the verge of a nation-wide strike to save Mooney and Billings from the gallows. But there it halted. The noose was cheated of its intended victims. But Mooney and Billings live to drag out their days behind the high walls of San Quentin Prison, California. They await patiently the new awakening of the workers. ° ° The lawyers for Sacco and Vanzetti have not given up. They have asked for a reargument of the appeal before the full bench of the supreme court. It is said that this reargu- ment is discretionary with the court. It is stated that a wit- ness has been discovered who was at the scene of the shoot- ing and who is prepared to testify that the actual slayers were not Sacco and Vanzetti. will be asked. It is declared that a new trial But courts do not base their decisions on actual facts. Practically all the witnesses against Mooney later repudiated their testimony given in court. Those who did not were ex- osed as liars of the worst breed. ad to search for the worst dre; Frisco’s underworld to Capitalism’s prosecutor gs to be found in the gutters of t paid witnesses willing to swear away the lives of their fellow human beings. But even these outcasts ultimatel failed the anti-union multi-millionaire gang that stood behind ihe prosecution and paid them richly. * ° ° New testimony exposing the outrage that capitalism lans to perpetrate against Sacco and Vanzetti is good. ut it will not serve an effective purpose unless it arouses labor thruout the land to determined action, The last annual convention of the American Federation of Labor failed to pass even a resolution demanding the re- lease of Sacco and Vanzetti. It was declared that such reso- lutions had been passed at previous gatherings, and that the repetition was unnecessary. Labor generally cannot afford, it must not, take this position. now than ever before, It is more necessary to speak Capitalism’s executioner in Massachusetts is ready to turn on the electric current that will snuff out the lives of our comrades. Labor must rally to stay this double murder. ADMINISTRATION SEEKS DEFEAT OF HAUGEN BILL Cal’s Cohorts Oppose Farmer Relief WASHINGTON, May 14.—With a view to securing new democratic sup- port, and allaying the fears of waver- ing republicans who were opposed to the $375,000,000 appropriation the fol- lowing amendments were offered by Representative Haugen, republican of Towa, to his bill: Reduction of the appropriation to $175,000,000. This is to be apportioned as follows: $75,000,000 to stabilize cotton prices, $75,000,000 for similar operations in corn, wheat, cattle, swine and butter and $25,000,000 for miscellaneous crops. . Immediate equalization fee levy, not however, effective on cotton for two years. Removal of embargo features, These projected concession to con- servative members from farm districts were expected to enlist sufficient sup- port for the measure to insure its passage, Administration leaders, however, are opposed to the bill and are solidly backing the Tincher proposal for a $10,000,000 federal loan program to farm co-operatives, and declared they were “confident the Haugen bill would be defeated” as the backers of the Curtis-Aswell and Tincher bills had united to block the passage of the Haugen measure. Request to Friendly Labor Organizations— Keep June 6th Open A picnic is arranged by the Russian Ukrainian and Polish Workers’ So- cleties for Sunday, June 6, at Marvel Inn Grove, Milwaukee Ave., opposite St. Adalbert's Cemetery. All friendly organizations are re- quested not to arrange other affairs ROALD AMUNDSEN AND ELLSWORTH PASS OVER POLE May Have Made Land- ing for Research Work (Special to The Dally Worker) OSLO, Norway, May 13.—Captain Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ells- worth are probably making a joint celebration aboard the Norge of their success in reaching the North Pole. Advices to the Norwegian Aero Club would indicate that Amundsen prob- ably passed over the North Pole some time in the morning about 1:30. Messages picked up here from the Norge would indicate that the dirigible has made excellent time in her flight thru the polar regions, and if Captain Amundsen continues on to Alaska without making a stop at the pole the should reach Point Barrow some time Thursday. If he encounters unfavor- able weather the arrival at Alaska may be delayed until Friday. May Land at Pole. There is an opinion prevalent in scientific circles here, however, that Captain Amundsen will make a land- ing at the pole if conditions are at all favorable. The explorer is known to feel that the mere flight over the pole will not add a great deal to the pres- ent scientific knowledge of conditions there, and he is anxious to make a landing and take soundings and make other observations if possible, Trumbull Will Speak at Grand Rapids Monday GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 14— Preparations are well under way to give a rousing welcome to Walter Trumbull at a meeting arranged by the International Labor Defense of this city for Monday evening, May 17, PENN.BATTLE Rashes to Aid of Sen- ator Pepper WASHINGTON, May 14. — Andrew W. Mellon, boss of the Coolidge admi- nistration, one of the three richest men on earth, who Holds the office of secretary of the treasury In violation of the law, left here to appear tonight on a public platform in Pittsburgh to plead the cause of one of the adminie- tration favorites, Sen, George Wharton Pepper, who Is endeavoring to secure the republican nomination for senator against Gifford Pinchot, governor of Pennsylvania, and “Boss” Vare, of Philadelphia, Mellon ig 71 years of age and this is the first time he has appeared on a public platform in a political campaign. Hitherto his talents have been confined to pulling wires behind the scenes, Administration Spokesman. While Coolidge, himself, pretends to take no part in the Pennsylvania con- test, the presence of Mellon 1s proof that the administration officially enters the campaign in behalf of Pep- per. The contest has wider implications than the securing of the nomination for senator because it involves control of the republican machine which has had no decisive central direction since the death of Boies Penrose, for years boss of the machine in that state, Also the defeat of Pinchot is desirable from the standpoint of the Mellon-Coolidge gang because if Pinchot wins in the primary it will Place him in a strategic position for the presidential nomination on the republican ticket in 1928, Alrplanes Fight Fires. WINNIPEG, Man., May 14.—Aerial fire fighters have been dispatched in two airplanes to the Lac Dubonet and Grand Beach areas following the out- break there of serious forest fires, ac- cording to advices received from the aviation field near the Red River at St. Vital. Why don’t you write It up? 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