The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. HI. No. 115. BRITISH COAL STRIKE TO BE SILLINSKY FOR SECRETARY-TREASURER PARADES BERLIN ‘ond-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1926 o Outside Cnn, - In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. hicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. ‘ TAILORS’ UNION GIVES Entered at UNANIMOUS ENDORSEMENT TO MAX J. >” RED FRONT ARMY Published Daily except PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. I. W. A. RAISES FUNDS FOR MINE STRIKERS OF ENGLAND International Workers’ Ald is out to help the strike of the British miners. NEW YORK | EDITION | ER. | by THE DAILY WORKER shington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. MANY SPEAKERS TO AID SACO Price 3 Cents Sunda; It will do this by acting as a center for the collection and forwarding of funds | | to the English coal diggers thru the British Miners’ Federation, The |. W. A.| CLEVELAND, May 21.—At the local meeting of the Journe i; y S68 8 i Journeymen Tatlors has become known to workers thruout the country for its splendid work in Union here on May 3, the following statement was unanimously endorsed and the decision made to send it to the national office and to all locals of the (Special to The Daily Worker) | LONG STRUGGLE Cook Condemns Mac- Donald and Thomas (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, May 24.—Week-end con- ferences by miners and operators fail- ed to produce any decisions looking towards a settlement of the coal strike.. There is no indication that either’ the miners’ executive or that of the coal owners’ association had altered their views about the coal situ- ‘ation and points to a long drawn out struggle. A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federatiaon, speaking in the Rhondda ‘Valley, the heart of the Welsh mining district yesterday, bitterly assailed Ramsay MacDonald and J. H, Thomas for calling off the general strike. He said that he had never been bullied by government officials or operators as he was by right wing leaders of the general council in their efforts to persuade him and the other miners’ leaders to accept a reduction in wages. He characterized the calling off of the strike as a shameful betrayal and said that the speeches of MacDonald and Thomas to parliament, when they are read by the workers, will cause them to be ashamed of their so-called spokesmen. Miners Firm. Cook is more popular than ever in the coal fields. The miners stand solidly behind their executive in hold- ing out for no reduction of wages. The suffering in some parts of Wales is very great, but the miners and their families bear it grimly. The train service is seriously affect- ed by the shortage of coal and there are rumblings among the rank and file of the transportation union, first, because of the ill-treatment accorded them by the roads; second, because they feel they should help the miners, and “third, growing distrust of_their wouders 4 anaes cae OBJECTIONS T0 NO STRIKE CLAUSE IN U,B. OF C.& J. PACT Members Oppose Work- ing with Non-Unionists Voting is now going-on ‘in the Chi- cago carpenters’ local unions on the agreement with the bosses, to replace the one which expires June 1. The proposed agreement is almost the same except for two minor points as the Uniform Agreement signed two years ago, which many branded as a Landis award agreement. The basis of the last agreement, an arbitration board and an umpire to settle disputed points, and no strikes, is carried over into this agreement. Does Agreement Compel the Closed Shop? Sentiment among the progressive carpenters is to the éffect’-that the agreement does not satisfy the needs of the carpenters. The’ carpenters of Chicago have maintained their opposi- tion to working with non-union men of any trade, even after’ this was slipped over on them without a referendum in the expiting agreement by International President Hutcheson and Harry Jensen, president of the Chicago Carpenters’ District Counéil. For the past two yeara the carpenters have heen, kicking against that clause, and the officials finally, agreed that it (Continued. on. ,page 2) Haney Leads Watkins in Democrat Primary Race for U. S, Senate PORTLAND, Ore., May 24.--With less than a hundred precincts out of 1847 in the state still to be heard from, Bert E. Haney, former member of the United States Shipping Board and democratic candidate for the nomination to the United States sen- ate, was leading Elton Watkins, for- mer congressman, 16,315 to 15,102. Watkins has conceded the nomination to Haney. ’ Frederick Steiwar, who landslided into the republican senatorial nomina- tion ‘over Senator R. N. Stanfield, had a majority of more than 13,000 votes. Win a Bust of LENIN organization: 7 * To the Membership of the Journeymen Tailors’ Union of America: Brothers:—Local No. 162 is issuing this appeal to. you in support of Brother Max Jy Sillinsky for secretary-treasurer of the Journeymen Tailors’ Union of America, is supported in this election by a very large number of progressive members of our organization. We are sure you will help us with your vote to elect Brother Sillinsky to this office, The following are short excerpts from his platform, which we heartily endorse: ih 1. The district plan or organiza- tion should be adopted: The general organizers should ke made responsible for the work in their districts, The general secretary-treasurer should go out on the road to acquaint himself Brother Sillinsky¢————____ with conditions of the organization. 2. The vast number of unorganized tailors must be brought into the union —wWe must embrace the workers ‘on $170 suits as well as those of $30.00 suits. 3. Weekly work is the goal of our organization. Constant education must be conducted to make the membership understand this fact. 4. Amalgamation must take place and jurisdictional disputes avoided. A conference of all unions of the needle (Continued on page 2) GARDEN MEETING SEEKS SHORTER DAY FOR LABOR Demands New Trial for Sacco and Vanzetti (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, May 24. — The 22,000 workers who filled Madison Square Garden this afternoon to launch the drive for a forty-hour week for all workers, passed unanimously a resolution demanding justice for Sacco and Vanzetti, the two persecut- ed fighters for the rights of their fellow workers. The great gathering which met at the call of the striking furriers was )@n,inspiration to all labor, and a, proof that this slo “A ferty-hour, 5-day Week Tor all “workers” 13° goitig “to spread rapidly thruout the country, A. F, of L. Backs Fight. The chairman of the meeting, John Coughlin, secretary of the New York Central Trades and Labor Council, NEWSPAPERS OF CHICAGO FACE —ASHUT-DOWN ‘Contracts Have Ex- pired on All Papers Chicago daily newspapers face the danger of sudden suspension at any time as the newspaper scale contract with Chicago Typographical Union No. | 16 expired last Friday at midnight and no new contract has been signed. With no contract in existence, there jis nothing to prevent the workers in |the composing rooms taking vacations and there is much talk among the members of forcing the hands of the employers by holding continuous ses- Sions of the union in order to discuss their. problems.....gie! 4. While it is against the procedure of the International Typographical Union to call a strike without the | is nothing to prevent continuous meet- ings of the union, which will have brought official endorsement of this the effect of closing the composing forty-hour campaign from the Amer- ican Federation of Labor unions in this city, and he congratulated the furriers on standing firm for this de- mand and for the equal division of work, which would make them more nearly masters of their jobs. Must Reduce Hours. John Sullivan, president of the New York State Federation of Labor, also gave heart} endorsement to the fur- strike, and Abraham Lefkowitz of the Teachers’ Union predicted victory not only for the forty-hour, but eventually for the 36 and the 30-hour week. This was greeted with great enthus- iasm by all the workers, Who also ap- plauded his statement that industry must come into the control of the workers. This same point—control of the job and eventual abolition of the boss-— was stressed by Louis Hyman, gen- eral manager of the joint board of} 94 ny determi the Cloak and Dressmakers, who (Continued on page 3) CARPENTERS IN FRISCO STRIKE BUCK THE BANKS Strike-Break by pageof Credit OAKLAND, Calif., May 24 —- With police guarding many jobs, arrests continue under the local anti-picket law in the 7th week of the Carpenters’ strike, / According’ to acknowledgments of inquiries sent to the banks by the district council of the Carpenters’ Union, they with one exception, assisted in raising funds to aid the Industrial Association establish the American plan in 1921, At this time the banks ‘secured control of the cement manufacturing companies and, as most jobs are conducted on a credit basis, are thus enabled to refuse credit to retailer dealers who might other- wise be willing to sell cement to con- tractors employing all union carpent- ers, The business agent of the Builders’ (Continued on page 3) Stop- rooms and thereby stopping the pub- lication of the daily papers, In case of a stoppage of the capital- ist press of the city The DAILY WORKER will not be affected, as we will immediately sign any agreement demanded by the union. SOVIET UNION PLANS TO HOLD TRACTOR TESTS Contests to Last Thru the Year 8. S. R. (Tass)} May ine the type of trac- tors most suitable for the varying conditions of agriculture in the dif- ferent parts of the Russia, the state planning committee has decided to organize an international tractor con- test. The contest wil! Jast from July this year to July next year, and each machine will be tested in the course of each of the seasons of agricultural operations. Special arrangements will be made to encourage foreign firms to enter the contest. The tractors satis- factorily passing the tests will be placed on the list of machines per- j mitted for import into Russia, |Farm Bureau Federation | Seeks: Completion of Lakes to Gulf Waterway | (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24.—-The |American Farm Bureau Fedération \calls upon representatives in the [house to support the Illinois water- | way project. Between fifty to sixty members of the house, centering around Repre- sentative Burton of Ohio, are fighting the passage of the $36,00,000 omnibus |rivers and harbors bill because of the appropriation of $1,350,000 in the bill tor the completion of the link that MOSCOW, U. consent of the executive council, there j 60,000 STRONG Support of the Passaic textile strikers. AND VANZETTI A state on the new task of the I. W. A. was issued today by its national secretary, F. G. Bledenkapp, in the name of the national committee of the organization, The statement follows: “The International Workers’ Aid calls upon all ind/¥iduals, labor unions, fraternal and social organizations to dig deep into their pockets and treasuries in support of the British miners. At no time in the history of the labor movement of any country has a strike been of such significance to the world’s workers as is the present British miners’ strike, It is not only a strike for wages and hours, but a struggle for the very existence of militant organized labor the world over, “Their defeat means the crushing of organized labor as in fascist Italy, and America ie the next on the list. Every worker and work- ers’ organization and their friends must rally to the full support of the British miners. “The International Workers’ Aid National Office, 1553 W. Madison street, Chicago, Ill., will receive and forward contributions. “National Committee |. W. A., Great Demonstration Is Warning to Fascists | “(Speclbf to The Dally Workerd | BERLIN,/May 24.—“The Red Front! Fighters,” 69,000 strong, formed a} procession four miles long as they| marched, well disciplined and in mili-| tary formation, thru the streets of Berlin on Whitsuntide Sunday. They had come the.day before from Ham- burg, Saxdny, the Ruhr district and other parts. of the country. The| paraders were members of the work- ers’ defense corps, the “Rote Front- Kaempfer,” composed largely of Com- munist workers. * The ‘Communist Salute, “Executive Secretary, F. G. Biedenkapp.” Leaders of'the Communist Party of Germany headed the procéssion in open auto! fles. Banners with revo- FRENCH ANNOYED lutionary legpnds were held aloft. Red i flags were Qosted along the line of march. As ie lines passed a flag, the marchers safited—with the Red Front salute, fist @enched and arm up at a right angle. 60,000 Berlin Communists stood at attention along the route of the May Prevent Peace with Druses COMMUNIST GREETINGS (Spevia! to The Dally Workerp BY RED FRONT FIGHTERS | | ..oNDo% oysters ron ex" TO THE CAPITALIST FOE | CHICAGO MEETING WILL PROTEST EXECUTION OF SACCO AND VANZETTI Prof. Robert M. Lovett of the Uni- versity of Chicago, William Z. Fos- ter, Ralph Chaplin and James P.Can- non, secretary of International La- bor Defense, will be the speakers at a Chicago demonstration against the execution of death sentences up- on Sacco and Vanzetti. The meeting will be at Temple Hall, Van Buren and Marshfield Sts. on Friday at 8:00 p. m. All the Speakers are nationally known and familiar with the six year case that has, thru a bare frame-up, confront- ed the two Italian workers with the parade for two hours, cheering greet- ings to the ranks of the marchers. the British press telling of the mas-} Sacre of women and children by Added to these were thousands of social-democrat and non-party work- Foor ane acon t anna:| electric chair for their activities in Le ee ere eee S the workers’ movement. | cus on May 6. . Alibis written by American reporters DENY FARM BLOC porter’s version that the Syrians were if the 80,000 were mobilized and ready | C@Pital are seeking a compromise with jare arriving which naively express great indignation at the claim that 200 were slain when, as the reporter Says, there were “only 150.” s SEEKS 10. DICKER Warning’ Not-Meant to Works ~~ More distorted is the American re- WITH COOLIDGE “given warning” before the bombard- ment. With 80,000 natives in a con- siderable area, the French gave them} Two telegrams were received by the only one huor to leavé their homes] llinois Agricultural Association here and get to another section of the city,|from Washington, denying press re- This would have been hard to do even! ports that “farm bloc” leaders in the to march away, but it was completely | the administration on a farm relief impossible to inform all the §0,000/ PFosram, as a result of the defeat in men, women and children in the city,| the house of the §175,000,000 Haugen let alone permit them to get their| frm subsidy bill. families together and evacuate the| One of the messages, from R. A. city entirely in such a ridiculously | Cowles, treasurer of the Illinois Agri- ers, impressed by the wording of the banners andithe slogans cried out by the marchers. The object of the demonstration was to warn the fascist and monarchist ‘Messages of Accept- | ance Pour Into I.L.D.. Messages of acceptance to speak at Sacco-Vanzetti mass meetings thruout the country continue to arrive at na- tlonal headquarters of International Labor Defense from prominent men in the labor and radical movement. | “Wl endeavor to participate in | meeting June 4,” wires Max Hayes, edi- | tor of Cleveland Citizen, the official or- gan of the Cleveland Federation of | Labor. Hayes, who is a prominent | figure in the International Typograph- ical Union, will speak in Cleveland to- | gether with Albert F, Coyle, editor of jthe Locomotive Engineers’ Journal, | the official organ of the Brotherhood jof Locomotive Engineers, Elizabeth |Gurley Flynn, well-known strike | leader, and J. P. Cannon, secretary of | International Labor Defense. 4 Giovanitti and Gurley Flynn. Arturo Givoannitti, labor poet, well known not only to Italian workers, but to labor in this country in general thru his active participation in the Lawre- ence textile strike of more than a dec ade ago writes International Labor De- fense that he has already accepted an invitation to speak at the Philadelphia protest meeting. Elizabeth Guriey Flynn also wires: “Glad to speak at any meetings you arrange for Sacco-Vanzetti.” And only a long list of speaking engage- ments, according to a message from James Addams, prevents her from tak- ing the platform on behalf of the two | condemned Italian workers. From Pacific Coast. Robert Whitaker, a clergyman who is known thruout the west for his work in behalf of progressive and la- bor causes, wires that he is working for the holding of a big meeting In Los Angeles and after his services, which will be free from pressing business in a short time, to be used by Interna- fttonat Taebor Detense! |. From the Pacific coast.comes word from John C. Kennedy, former social ist alderman in Chicago, and known |thru the northwest for his activity in jlabor education and political action. |Kennedy will speak in Portland and Seattle for Sacco and Vanzetti. It j's very likely that William Bouck, head of the western Progressive Farm- ers, will join him in the platform. | Robert Dunn. | Robert W. Dunn, author and lee- ,turer, himself under indictment in the | Passaic textile strike cases, sends | word that he is “glad to help in any elements in« the republic that they could not attack the workers of Ger- many with impunity. The Red Front Fighters are organized for the pur- pose of defending the workers against attacks by the fascisti and to defend short time. The people had no arms to compel the few Druses who were hiding in the city to surrender. So they asked the French to enter and capture them themselves. The French chose to bom- cultural Association, declared that r9-} way the Sacco-Vanzetti campaign.” He ports of efforts to bring about a com- | will speak to a ‘number of meetings in promise, were unfounded, and that/the east: Buffalo, Baltimore and Wash- “farm bloc” léaders are not even seek-| ington. John Hornback, the liberal ing to negotiate with the administra-| lawyer of Washington, will speak with tion leaders. |him at Baltimore. Hornback has striking workers even against govern- ment troops. bard the whole city for fifteen hours, | destroying hundreds of homes and kill-} ing scores of women and children. May Prevent Peace, This massacre is expected to in-| fluence Dr. Shabander, the Druee| leader and Sultan Al-Atrasch to reject | the peace terms of French Governor Jouvenelon the ground that the French; By ALBERT F. COYLE, cannot be trusted, altho the terms | Editor Brotherhood of Locomotive En- have been accepted by nationalists of | gineers’ Journal. Damascus, (i. L, D, Press Service.) SEND IN A SUB! The Expropriation. Nor can the expropriation movement be separated from yesterday's demon- stration. It was largely thru the ac- tivity and the initiative of the Com- munist Party that the petition drive for a national referendum on the ex- propriation of the property of the the former \ royalty and nobility of Germany got 12,500,000 signatures. The registered voters number ap-| The terms include the clause: Every worker in America ought to proximately 30,000,000. “France grants a general amnesty toy feel his blood boil in deep indigna- The referendum is to be held on|the rebels in the field and will open|tion at the thought that two innocent the political prisons provided that |men, whos® sole crime has been loy- after June 15 not a single shot is|@!ty to’their fellow workers, are soon fired.” |to be j:idicially murdered in the civil- Ws | ized state!of Massachusetts unless the combined protest of organized labor |thruout the land leads the governor lof the state to interpose his power in behalf of violated justice. No fair-minde@-man can dispute the facts In the case of Sacco and Van- zetti, The prosectiting attorney not only suppressed evidence that would prove their innocence, but framed up other evidence now admitted to be |false, Niven some of his own witness- |es have turned against him, and the |sworn statements of experts prove. that these men did not fire the fatal | bullets in the: payroll hold up, For Being Organizers, Sacco and Vanzetti are being herd- led to the agony of the electric chair June 20. The! fascist and monarchist elements arecfighting bitterly against the expropriation. There is every chance that’ they will invoke violence — gg if necessary to defeat the referendum, Come to the Sacco-Vanzetti meeting Yesterday's parade showed them what|Friday night, at Temple Hall, Van to expect, Buren and Marshfield, COUNCIL FOR PROTECTION OF THE FOREIGN-BORN LAYS PLANS FOR NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN FALL PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 24.—-The national committee, elected by the national conference of the Council for the Protectoin of Foreign-Born, -is laying the basis for another national conference to be held during the fall soon after the next session of congress opens. In the meantime efforts are being made to bring more of the working class organizations behind the drive against these bills, aimed at the organ-| ror one reason, and one reason only. ized workers of America, State ande—— es They have dared to interfere with the district conferences are being ar-| Petitions are being circulated pro-| profits of the big non-union mill own- ranged to lay plans to crary on the|testing against these bills and calling | erg of Massachusetts by endeavoring agitation against the damnable anti-}on the senators and congressmen to/to organize their employes into bona labor and anti-foreign-born bills that| fight any attempt to make these bills | fide trade unions, are to come before the next session of | law. Some months ago a reader of our congress in their respective terri-}] The first national conference of the | journal wrote me\complaining that will,allow boats to go from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, VA 4 ae tories, Connecticut is the first to hold| Council for the Protection of foreign-|we should not interest ourselves in such a conference, (Continued on page 3) \ © BEGINS JUNE 1 the fate of “radical foreign agitators.” !horty as an act of belated justice, wired I. L. D. that he “will be glad (Continued on page 3) FOR SACCO AND-VANZETTI! My reply was that Sacco and Vap- zetti were no more radical than the labor movement itself, since they were merely striving to improve the lot of | their fellow workers by organization, ; and the fact that they are of foreign b is all the more reason why our coyris should be above suspicion in | meting out justice to them, for the | true test of liberty in any government is not the justice given to the strong and powerful, but rather the justice received by the weakest and humblest members of the community. Higher Marks, The skilled workers of America shenld also remember that once antl | union employers are allowed to use | the courts to murder labor organizers |like Sacco and Vanzetti without a ve- hement and effective protest from ev- ery worker in the land, soon these same enemies of labor will strike for higher marks, and filch freedom and even life itself from those organized workers who now think themselves save and comfortable. .Tyranny grows by what it feeds upon. Its victory in” doing to death Sacco and Vanzetti will cost the whole labor movement dearly, t United Voice. Only one way is open to us to save the lives of these two innocent men, We muet call with united voice upon the governor and the supreme court of the state of Massachusetts to re- view the false framed-up evidence on which these two workers have been convicted, and to give them their li ef