The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1926, Page 1

i His DAILY WORKER Ralssed DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Pyare THE BD Entered at Sscond-class matter September 21, 1928, ae the Post Office at Chicago, Bik under the Act of March 3, 1879, . 2 Vol. TIT. No: £99... be Ratess Guisias Chicagor by tan, 320d Oe year. 80 NEW « 'SoQ 3 . PRINTERS Ain’ DOCKERS SIGN AS MEN RETURN Miners Grimly Carry on Strike By W. Ni EWER (Cable to Federated Press and The DAILY WORKER.) LONDON, May 17. — Negotiations were concluded over the week-end which permit practically all trades to resume -work today. The conditions agreed upon vary in the different set- tlements, but in some cases, the work- ers wer€ given much the worst of it. For instance, the dockers’ union lead- ers signed a contract similar to that agreed to by the railway union leaders on Friday, which permits “blacklegs” to continue work and which gives away the right in the future to con- duct another sympathetic strike, The printers have also signed up, and the press is appearing. Thus the general strike ends after a week of amazing demonstrations of solidarity and power. The struggle was broken off at a time everyone was confident of success and the retreat was effected only at the expense of much lost prestige. Miners Still Out. The miners are stll locked out. They are now left to carry on the struggle alone. They will meet again Thursday to answer Baldwin's proposals. Cook’s Reproach. “I regret the fact we are left alone to fight our battles,” is the only word of reproach utteredby Cook, the fight- ing secretary ofthe Miners’ Federa- tion, The feeling among the miners is intense. The calling off of the gen- eral strike was a hard blow to them. What effect the last few day’s events will have on the rank and file of other industries still remains to be more clearly expressed. Two Alternatives. alternatives. present them- Will the memory of earlier days of bygye struggle and a, realiza- tion of thé@ir strength in unity still hearten and consolidate them and-thug bring increased numbers. and_. new vigor to the whole movement,or will final bitter disappointement and a feeling of futility and disgust pring a loss of numbers and morale? Upon the answer to’ that question depends the future of the British la- bor movement in the coming years. WILHELM MARX RETAINS THE LUTHER CABINET Foreign Policy Will Not Be Changed BERLIN, May 17—Wilhelm Marx, who was called upon by President Von Hindenburg to form a cabinet after the failure of Gessler and Ade- nauer, has decided to retain the Lu- ther cabinet with the exception of the minister of justice. The new min- ister of justice will be Johannes Bell of the center party. 2 Marx announces that the. foreign policy of the Luther cabinet’ will be strictly adhered to and that the_peo- ple’s paty had promised not to make any trouble for the Marx cabinet. Two selves, Every Worker Correspondent must be a subscriber to the Aiierican Worker Correspondent. Are you one? — . oal Barons in Parliament Lead Fight to Subdue Miners Above, from left to right, are the and Lord Londonderry, all members of parliament and wealthy coal mine owners. It is these men who are lea drastic government measures against while the miners’ standard is reduced, Earl of Balfour, Marquis of Salsbury ding the fight in Commons for more the coal miners so that their rich royalties from the collieries can again flow into their princely mansions NORGE REVEALED NO NEW LAND ON ROOF OF WORLD Travelled 3,293 Miles| in 71 Hours (Special to The Daily Worker) NOME, May 17. — When the diri- gible Norge landed at Teller, 75 miles north of here, it completed the first journey ever made over the roof of the earth. The Amundsen-Ellsworth expedition was the third to have reached the North Pole. They were preceded by | Commander Byrd of the U, S. Navy | by a few days who himself was pre- | ceded by Commander Peary who made | the Pole seventeen years ago, First Continuous Trip. Bui Peary. and Byrd went to the j their journeys. The Norge flew Over the Pole and continued ' on ‘thru hitherto unexplored regions North of Alaska to Point Barrow. The trip from Spitzbergen to ‘Alaska involved 3,293 miles and was com- pleted in 71 hours. One important result of the voyage was verification of the. belief that there was no land in the “blind spot” north of the Alaskan coast. No land was sighted by the observers on the down journey from the Pole. They were, however, annoyed by |heavy fogs after they left the pole and it is possible they may have been un- able to observe some lands they may have flown near. Nome Sore. When the dirigible hove in view of Teller, most of the Indian inhabitants became frightened and ran away. The ship was landed with but a few hands and was brot to the ground damaged after much difficulty. Extensive preparations had been made in Nome for the reception of the explorers and the inhabitants of \the city were in very bad humor over their disappointment. The Norge is being dismantled and shipped to the United States for re- pairs, The ship stood the journey well and tho some of the girders were bent and the gas bag rent in. spots, Capt. Nobile, it’s Italian commander, said that the engines were working well and that if it had not been for the fog they might have remained in the air for fifteen hours longer. Pole and back to their bases, ite wre 40-HR. WEEK DRIVE BEGUN BY FURRIERS Launch All-In Move with Mass Meeting (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 17.—The fur strikers’ campaign for a forty-hour week for all workers was officially aunched today by the issuing of an Ppeal sent to all labor organizations hruout the country, urging all work- ets to join this nation-wide drive for a forty-hour, five-day week. Assurances of the enthusiastic re- |sponse which will greet this call-have jalréady réached the Furriers’ Union,, and plans are under way for amass meeting to be held at Madison Square Garden next Saturday afternoon, May 22, at 2.0/clock.” _ i All Trades Participate. Altho this forty-hour week campaign has originated in the needle trades, there will be delegates from every branch of organized labor in this city present at the Garden meeting. The committee is inviting representative speakers from various trades, and this mass meeting will prove an historic event in the American labor movement. The balloting of the fur strikers on the question of a forty-hour week— which began yesterday morning—will not be completed until after Monday, when the settled shops hold a meeting and cast their votes. Mass Picketing, On Monday morning a mass picket demonstration will be held thruout tne fur manufacturing district, with thou- sands of workers reporting in front of their shops and showing to the em- ployers their splendid solidarity and fighting spirit at the beginning of this fourteenth week of the strike. ee The appeal for a nation-wide strug- gle for the forty-hour week for all workers, sent by the Furriers’ Union to labor organizations thruout the country, appears on the last page of this issue. Carpenters Strike. NEW HAVEN, Conn.—(FP)—New London and Bridgeport carpenters are striking for higher“wages. Over 500 workers are involved. SEND IN A SUB! The Heart of Moscow—Goal of Daily Worker Builders Photograph of the center of world | iointon, wiiate winning candidates In the ire subscription campaign for The DAILY WORKER will visit to attend the Sixth C ngress of the Communist international—and’ meet among others the two Communist leade: pictured here—Zinovisy and scameniey mal ors Ra. geet WASHIN ‘ON, D. C., May 17,.'— Delegates, Fepresenting between 700, 000 and 8 workers, met at the house Saturday and call of the Western f Council for Protection , endorsed by the Penn. } Federation of Labor, to Nal organization for the -born. Hons, thirty fraternal or- miscellaneous organ- Olish Catholic Union of rs and twelve councils tion of Foreign-Born protection of N ineteen fossman Raps Bill. n A. J. Sabath of Ili- “The interests bejjind this bill want to have a whip to hold over the heads of strik ing workers ®f foreign origin or those who join’ pplitical organizations or unions not #€ceptable to those inter- ests,” declared Sabbath. A perman@nt body was formed with a national executive of seventeen. The headquarters are to be at Pittsburgh. The chairm will be Joseph Dean, of the Motiém Picture Operators’ Un- burgh. ion.of Pitt The first vice: chairman. is )} Max. Orlafski of the Machinists Whion of Chicago, Other m ers of the committee are Pastal Copgrove, of the New York Shoe Workers Union; Carl Brodsky, Rebecca Grocht and Burkhardt of New York;| Pede of New Have: Appel of on; Sugar of »Detroi Gallagher } Cleveland; Horachek; Boorum and Sefchuk of Pittsburgh; Sesiskie of Uniontown; Lebanitski of Roseland, Ml, Ri ution Adopted. Resolutions were adopted condemn- e° mn bills, denouncing the eee the Italian political lave bee exhibition in the sea i foreign-bornwworkers played in build- ing this country. All important decisions were adopt- ed by the wranimous vote of the one hundred andfiten delegates present. The officers were elected by acclama- tion. Plans wwere laid for extending the organization to include the entire labor movement and to organize for- eign-born workers into the trade unions so aseto closer cement their alliance with American workers, who have rallied to their defence. NEW YORK GAP MAKERS SEEK 40-HOUR WEEK Demand Flat ] Increase of $5 a Week (Special to The The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 17.— Immediate response to 'the striking fur work- ers’ movement for a national 40-hour work week comes from the Interna- tional Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union in the formation of its demands on New York cap manu- facturers. The union is asking a flat $5 weekly wage increase for all work ers aswell as a stricter union shop, “The demand for the 40-hour week is not specifically a demand of the cap union,” says J. M. Budish, of the union management committee and Headgear Worker editor, “but is a recognized .general demand of the needle trade unions, It is well-known that the conditions of the work, which compel the ~worker. to sit constantly at his machiae without opportunity for relaxation, endangers his health. Tt is a fact that tuberculosis is com- mon among needle trade workers. In justice to them, since the manner of | working itself! cannot be materially changed, the working week should be | shortened, “Another reason for asking the shorter week lies in the seasonal na-| ture of all needle trades, Under pres-| ent conditions, with the long periods | of unemployment, it becomes neces- sary to spread the work out,” The short season, averaging only) 34 to 36 weeks now, makes necessary | in addition to the The union asks a stricter union shop in order to pre-| vent the opening of countless smal! | shops where the employer is a work- | Publish ARO 290 MANY INJURED IN CLASH BETWEEN FASCISTS AND COMMUNISTS IN BERLIN BERLIN, May 17. — About thirty to forty were injured in a clash which took place between monarch- ists and Communists »here. The mon- archist, many of them dressed in fasc- ist uniforms, staged a demonstration against the referendum exproprjat- ing the kaiser and the royal family and using the funds raised from their vast estates for the relief of orphans and widows of the victims of the imperialist world war, The Communists staged a counter- demonstration. This angered the monarchists and the two demonstra- tions clashed. E Police charged the 15,000 ‘that were involved in the clash, A num- ber of those in fascist uniform were arrested. Several Communists ar- rested were immediately taken away from the police by the workers. WEISBORD NAILS LIES OF PASSAIC TEXTILE BARONS Assails Joint Statement of Mill Owners (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., May 17.—Albert Weisbord, leader of the 16,000 striking Passaic textile workers, attacked the joint statement issued by the textile bosses here that their industry was so poor that It might not be possible to employ all of the workers on strike if the strike were called off. In his statement he brought out that the bosses have made enormous profits, year after year in Passaic at the ex- pense of the mill workers. The statement of Albert Weisbord follows: Rule or Ruin, “In their statement issued today the mills have definitely decided that they will eithér rule the city of Passaic or ‘ruin it. The éity of PasSaic"has givén of her best to these mill owners, The reports show that these mills in Pas- saic have never had a single poor year. The workers of Passaic have enabled absentee mill owners. to amass fabulous fortunes so that some of them stand in the very forefront of the textile magnates of this country. “The year 1925 was no exception to he years of prosperity that the mills have enjoyed. All indications are, as government reports show, that the year 1926 will be still better than the year 1925, The cry of poverty that the mills have raised is a case of deepest duplicity and hypocrisy. Horrible Condition. “What have the mill owners given the workers in return for the loyal and faithful work which the workers have done for them? An unparalleled system of terrorism and esptonage has been instituted in the mills. Night work for women has been forced on the helpless workers. The city of Passaic has one of the highest rates of illiteracy in the country. With the miserable low wages that the workers have received has gone a terribly high rate of crime and vice, disease and death, Bosses Fear Investigation. “If the mills ate as good as the mill owners claim they are, why is it-that they have blocked the senate and con- gressiona) . investigation that was pending. We have always been ready to have the senate investigate the question of Communism in this strike, but the mill owners who proclaim they are such angels, do everything in their power to prevent an investiga- tion as to their angelic character. “Even the local papers have said in their editorials that if the mill own- ers do not move for peace they are responsible for the continuance of the strike and all of the consequent suffer- ing. If ruinous conditions face the community it is the mill owners who are fully and plainly responsible, They are responsible for the violence.*They /are responsible for the misery. They Jalone are responsible for the black stain which has besmirched the name of the city. It is these self styled humanitarians that have flanily be- jcome exposed for the despots they are, “Long ago the workers raised the slogan, ‘If we have to starve, we shall not starve working in the mills, but rather we shall fight on to the end,’ ‘fight for a decent standard of living in the mills for which the workers give their entire lives. The union \knows that the statement of the tex- tile czars is the last desperate bluff on the part of the mill owners, The bluff shall fail, and regardless of what the mill owners may do the union shall er and expects/all to keep up to hiS|remain to challenge forever their un- pace, altho they do not share in the| principled, irresponsible power.” profits accordingly. Small shops, tho curse of the meedle trades, are most ®angerous to union standards. SENQ INA S| Plumbers on Strike, LOCKPORT, N. Y.-—(FP)—-Union plumbers are striking in Lockport. for $10 a day. The scale has been $8. ‘ PUBLISHING CO., NEW YORK - EDITION hed Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IL [Open New Drive For Probe of the Passaic Strike By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press. WASHINGTON, May 17.—Frank P, Walsh, volunteer coun- sel for the Passaic wool textile strikers, has notified Senator La- Follette that he is returning to the capitol to take up the fight for investigation by a senate committee into the economic situa- Price 3 Cents tion which caused the struggle. on manufactures. sincere in their statement, a mo gress to investigate, has been sho and who are anti-labor, ar wholly opposed to any action. Sen. Edwards of New Jersey, pro- claiming himself a high-tariff demo- crat, has told his fellow-members “i the committee ‘that the strike is “a Communist uprising,” and that all de- cent citizens in New Jersey stand by! the Passaic authorities in resisting | the strikers. Since an injunction has been secur- ed by the strikers against the inter-} ference of the police and sheriffs with | their meetings, the attacks against Communism have died down. How-} ever, the return of Walsh to the capi-} tol is expected to revive the activity| of Edwards and his friends. | The anticipated battle in committee will lie between LaFollette and Wheel- er, and possibly Reed of Missouri, on the labor side, and Chairman McKin- ley, Edwards, Tyson, Metcalf, McLean, Weller and McNary on the other. When the anti-labor element wins, the labor group will transfer the conflict to the senate floor. Borah has prom-| ised to join them there, and Norris,| Howell and other progressives will| help them if the issue is clearly} drawn. Walsh’s ‘errand in the capitol | is the drawing of this issue so that} nobody can evade it. ‘ New Question to Raise. When the majority shall have shown that they will not investigate | the Passaic struggle because the strik- ers’ leader is a Communist, a differ- ent question may be injected into the debate. Sen. Sheppard of Texas, mod- erate democrat, will bring forward his resolution, offefed early in April, for investigation of the textile and metal industries in general, with. the pur- pose of ascertaining the effect. upon their wage scales of the high protec- tive tariff. This resolution is before the committee on education and labor. of which Phipps of Carnegie Steel is chairman. In support of the Sheppard measure the presidents of the Amalgamated | Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and the United Textile Workers, among other labor officials, have promised to come to Washington to testify. These affili ated members of the American Fed- eration of Labor are as hostile to the textile and steel barons’ tariff graft as are the leaders of the Passaic strike, with whom they will not deal. Tariff No Aid to Wages. It is pointed out that labor in near- ly every line of highly protected manu-| factures received as wages a smaller | Proportion of the value of goods pro- duced in 1923, under high tariff rates| of the Fordney-McCumber law, than; in 1921 under the Underwood-Simmons | tariff rates. Wages paid in 1921 were 21.2 per cent of the product, in fac tories producing textiles and similar goods, while in 1923 wages were only 18.4 per cent of the value. In fac- tories producing ‘women's clothing in 1923 valued at $1,406,684,000, labor got only 12.5 per cent of the product, while in 1921 it received 18.2 per cent | of the total value, Factories producing aluminum goods paid labor only 185 per cent of the value of goods made in 1923, as against 23.6 per cent in 1921. ' Marsh reported that the average wage in cotton goods factories in 1923 was only $844; in cotton smail | wares $973, in woolen goods $1,205, in aluminum manufacturing $1,217, and in factories manufacturing metals and metal products, other than iron and steel, $1,329. LITHUANIAN TROOPS CROSS POLISH FRONTIER IN MOVE TO RETAKE VILNA BRESLAU Silesia, May 17—Po- | lish-Silesian newspapers report that the Lithuanians, taking advantage of the Pilsudski uprising in Poland, have crossed the Lithuanian fron- tier at Vilna to reconquer this ter- || ritory, which was annexed by Po- land. ‘ If Lithuania holds this territory it forms the connecting [ink be- tween Germany and Soviet Rus sia and as Lithuania negotiating a treaty with both of them it will break the buffer states formed be- | ment today The LaFollette resolution de- manding such an inquiry is still pending before the committee That.the textile manufacturers in Passaic were utterly in- nth ago, that they wanted con- wn by the fact that the senators who domjnate the pease 2 "WARSAW QUIET. NEW CABINET TAKES OFFICE | 205 Dead, 966 Wounded in Street F ‘ighting BULLETIN. POSEN, May 17.—The Polish par ties of the right have decided to ab- stain from the national assembly proceedings for the election of a new president, thus rendering the constitutional election of a president impossible. * 6 * (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, May 17. — The new Pilsudski government h issued an order for all fighting to cease. The martial law that{had beén declared in Warsaw and other larger cities of the country has been declared off. “The new cabinet headed by Charles Bartel has taken the oath of office before M. Rataj, speaker of the Siejm and now acting president. The new government issued a proc- tamation” which said it would carty on the government under the consti- tution until new elections are called for the selection of a permanent presi- dent. An emissary was sent to troops on the march from Posen in support of the deposed government and it is reported that a truce has been ar- ranged. Many Killed. Much damage was done in Warsaw the street fighting. The govern- ued figures on the num- ber kilted and wounded. These gave 205 killed and 966 wounded. Former cabinet members who had been cap- tured and held under arrest have now been released Marshal Pilsudski gave a brief inter- view to the press today in which he said it was his opinion that peace had been restored. Just what the situa- tion is outside Warsaw has not yet become clear as communications have not been fully re-established. It is re- ported that Gen. Haller is continuing his efforts to rally troops against Pil- sudski, but the rumor discounted in Warsaw. One report says that Haller has already sided with the new { government, Industry Low. What the program of the new gov- ernment will be regarding Poland's dire economic circumstances .cannot be determined. Certainly Poland’s in- dustrial chaos has not been in any way aided by the recent fighting. 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