The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1926, Page 3

PASSAIC. THUG SAVAGELY BEA MILL STRIKER Police Beat U p Strikers While in Jail (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., May 25.— Weak from exhaustion, Jack Rubenstein, picket captain, framed up and arrested for the eighth time, came out of jail late Saturday afternoon under $10,000 bond for two charges. John Prelich, who was blackjacked, beaten and ar- rested when he tried to go to Ruben- stein’s assistance, was also released under $5,000 bond. Still bearing the marks of a brutal beating fn jail, Jack told his story sim- ply. “When they first put me in the cell in Garfield I got this," pointing to the eye still black and half closed, “and'a couple of .punches in the back of the neck. ‘You will come out here to Garfield to make trouble,’ the officer said, and hit me again. I hollered as loud as I could, so the judge in the courtroom must have heard me. Then they went out and charged me with assaulting a jail keeper.” ® Jump on Striker. “It was the same day that they gave it to me real. Just when they got the order to take me to Hacken- sack they led me into the garage and handcuffs on me so tight that they cut into my flesh and bones. As soon as they had me in the garage they jumped on me, about ten of them, and kicked me and hit me with a rubber hose. I got away once and ran in the street. ‘Come back here, the cap- tain wants to see you,’ they said, and took me ‘back for the rest of it.” BlackJack Storekeeper. Rubenstein was arrested on “Bloody Friday,” after Officer Brown had de- Uberately tried to pick a fight with him end had failed. When John Pre- lich, a storekeeper near, who was pass- ing, saw how the policeman was beat- ing and abusing Jack, he protested, and received two terrible blows in the face from a blackjack and was knocked unconscious and arrested. “Observation” Fake. A kind of frameup that ts becoming popular in darkest Jersey is the “held for observation” bunk. Bill Sroke, arrested Thursday on framed-up charges of assautling a mill detective, was given a sentence of thirty days and “held for observation” during that time, so that he may not be released on appeal. A neat way of forcing strikers to serve unjust sentences, but its patent abuse is likely to spoil the scheme, and strikers continue to gain their liberty by the habeas corpus route, Judge to Hand Down Decision on ‘Frat’ Cases on Thursday Whether or not 53 Oak Park High Bchool boys, who were suspended May 7 because of membership in fra- ternities, will have to go outside of the state of Illinois or be allowed to finish their education at all will be decided Thursday afternoon when William Frenk Kraft, attorney for the school board, will answer an amended petition for the reinstatement of the boys filed by Frank B. Cantwell and Robert E. Cantwell, Jr., attorneys. The court will decide whether or not the state law requiring suspension or expulsion of members of high school fraternities can be applied to those who have ‘severed their connec- ‘tions with such organizations. The boys at Oak Park resigned from ‘their frats on May 4, They were sus- pended on May 7, Carpenters’ Union Hold Referendum on New Wage Scales Over 25,000 carpenters are voting in the Chicago district on a 8-year agree- ment offered by the employers. The referendum ‘will be tabulated in an- other week. The present wage is $1.87% an hour. District couneil offi: olals refused to say whether a raise is tneluded ‘but gossip says the rate is to go to $1.50 an hour Oct. 1, THE DAILY WORKER ~— Bootleggers Need Not Keep Record of Sales, Supreme Court Rules WASHINGTON, May 25.—Bootleg- gers cannot be compelled to keep a record of their sales for federal in- spection, the supreme court held to- day. The decision was rendered in a case involving three Philadelphia men, who were charged with conspiracy to vio- late the dry law, and with failing to keep records. Justice Stone, in delivering the opin- ion, held that the law plainly intended records to be kept by authorized liquor dealers and not by unauthor- ized liquor dealers, ¥ DENIS SULLIVAN EXCELLENT TOOL OF THE BOSSES Labor-Hater Refuses to Pardon Strike Pickets Next week 40 women and 7 men pickets of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union will know what their last chance for freedom amounts to, Attorney Peter Sissman for the Union will then explain to Denis Sullivan, the injunction czar of the Chicago bench, that it Hes with- in the judge’s powers to keep the defendants, most of them mothers of, infants, out of prison. Sullivan had’ angrily senteced them during the 1924 dressmakers strike for contempt of court because they had continued to picket vigorously in spite of himself, the police and the bruisers employed by the factory owners. Sullivan Turns Down Liberals, “I have no power to lessen their punishment,” Sullivan told a group of women headed by Jane Addams who asked him to keep at least the mothers of babies and young children out of the cells. “Even if I wished I could do nothing for these women.” The attorney maintains that the judge can keep them out of jail if he likes, simply by withholding or with- drawing the commitment papers, even tho the sentence has already been af- firmed by the state supreme court. Refuses to Pardon Pickets. The judge further has the right to pardon them, Sissman declares, be- cause the pardoning power always Tests somewhere and in this case it must rest with the judge since it has been decided that the governor does not have it In contempt cases. The strike was carried on in the west end of the loop in the dress and cloak district and for many weeks in the spring of 1924 there were clashes between police armed with heavy clubs and the girl pickets. The state's attorney also loaned his roughnecks to the employers while Sullivan issued more drastic injunctions than had ever been known before in Chicago indus- trial disputes. Because of this com- bined opposition the strike was even- tually lost. The union is now engaged on @ new drive to organize the same shops. Civil Service Pension Bill Strikes Deadlock WASHINGTON, May 25— (FP)— Obedient to the wish of President Coolidge and Budget Director Lord, the administration majority in the house refuses to grant to the senate a conference on their differences as to old age retirement pensions for federal employes. The house major- ity demands that the Coolidge bill, which ft passed, shall be accepted by the senate without any change. The senate has passed a substitute which is slightly more liberal in ite terms than the house measure. It asks for a conference and a compro- mise. The house bill makes the maximum pension $1,000 a year; the senate bill would permit a maximum of $1,200. The administration has warned sen- ate leaders that they must take the $1,000 limit or nothing at all, as the house will stand out until adjourn- ment, against compromise, A book of cartoons with every hundred points. Get the point! On Se Piss! HELP ONE MILLION LEAFLETS ON THE CASE OF Sacco-Vanzetti $1.25 A THOUSAND 10,000 FOR $10 Send Your Order uu to i INTERNATIONAL PK 58 ip id Wh 4 * 23: S, Lincoln Street, Chicago, III. ‘eter dr sg tas et Pa LABOR DEFENSE yy hea yr one oe GENEVA PARLEY ON DISARMING ENDS A FARCE Imperialists Wish to Dis- arm Rivals (Special to The Dally Worker) GENEVA, May 25. — Representa- tives of the powers here at the preh- minary arms conference are greatly depressed at the failure to agree on even the few things required to get @ report before the next session of, the assembly of the league of nations. Between themselves they do not try to conceal the fact that they view the league of nations as bankrupt. All nations plead that they desire limitation of armaments, but their fears for their own safety drive the smaller nations to seek protection from the great powers, while the great powers themselves strive to dis- arm their potential opponents. The disarmament talk is for home con- sumption, All Right—But. The United States and Japan hold that disarmament in general is all right, but, of course, it must begin by disarming Europe. The French on the other hand approve general dis- armament “in principle” but say that before France can disarm the man power in reserve and the industrial resources which allow for chemical warfare by such nations as the United States must be figured into the things to be classed as armaments. The Unit- ed States, Hngland and Japan will not hear of this formula and wish to class- ify as armaments only such things as ships and guns, and to start disarm- ing with France. Just as in this conference for gen- eral disarmament where each seeks to disarm the other nation but not itself, so America, Britain and Japan are proposing a conference on naval dis- armament to reduce the naval power of each other. Not Interested. America, thinking that it can dis- guise conscription to its population by calling it “selective service” has pro- posed that every other nation abolish military conscription, knowing that the others would not accept and thus getting a reputation for a desire for peace when Japan refuses. Japan holds that volunteers are too ex- pensive. So the game of hoodwinking goes merrily on. ‘When the league of nations commis- sion brought up the tough problem of how to determine who was the aggres- sor in the event of an “unprovoked” attack, the “United States delegate Seek Referendum on Dry ‘Act Modification in State of Illinois Petitions are being circulated in Illinois to place the question of the Modification of the dry act on the ballot for the forthcoming ¢all elec- tions. The Brennan group in the democratic party are behind this move. ‘These petitions must be signed by ten percent of the voters of the state if the proposition is to be placed on the ballot. MILITARISTS OF SPAIN SEEK TO EXTEND POWER Primé de Rivera Wants to Grab South America MADRID, May 25. — All scientific progress is used as propaganda me- diums by the capitalist class. The use of science as their propaganda medium tan eaily be seen here where they are exploiting the “Palos-Buenos Aires” flight to strenghten the ruling class and ‘stir up national ambitions ‘and hatreds. H Recently the airplane “Plus Ultra” made a successful flight across the Atlantic’ Ocean. The airplane was managed by airmen of the Spanish army who sought to fly from Madrid to Manila, Nationalist Demonstrations. Following the success of the “Plus Ultra” flight, the Spanish government organized nationalist demonstrations all over Spain. Government officials amd many of the leading bourgecisie in the South American countries spoke of new empires and attempted to stir the nationalist ambitions of the Spanish people to become an imperial- ist power. The speeches of Primo de Rivera and King Alphonso XIII were of such 4 rabid militarist nature that the military censorship refused to allow them to be printed in any of the newspapers of Spain. The “Palos-Buenos Aires flight was organized!to influence Spanish emi- grants ip South America to look to- wards Spain as their nation and to do all ip their power to bring those natio&s they were in under the domi- nation Primo de Rivera. Wall Siet Beats Primo de Rivera. This of Primo de Rivera will not meap.much as the interests on Wall | ‘at have already gone a long = zubjugating the South Hugh Gibson, said that the United States government was “not inter- ested” in such questions. D a Leaders : ERIE HAT Kk to Abolish Government Backs T * { ‘wo-Third Rule Down on Its Dry Act Enforcement Methods), N&W YORK, May 25.~Out of 28 members of the democratic party na- tional committee answering telegrams WASHINGTON, May 25.—The fed-| asking them to state their views on eral government, it was reliably re- ported today, is going to backtrack on its ambitious project of giving fed- eral prohibition badges to thousands of county and municipal officers, even before the plan is put into active operation on a@ national scale. Aghast at the storm of controversy which has been kicked up by Presi- dent Coolidge’s drastic executive or- der ,and seriously concerned over the fact that some of the country’s leading legal authorities have denounced it as unconstitutional, prohibition officials are prepared to abandon the whole un- dertaking. There probably wr be no formal announcement of the government's re- treat in the matter. Rather, it was said, the experiment with it will not the two-thirds rule for nominating presidential candidates, 20 declared themselves in favor of abolishing this rule, seven opposed and one was non- committal, Four others expressed themselves previous to the telegraphic quiz as favoring the abolition of the two-thirds rule. Ford Seeks to Grab Muscle Shoals Power DETROIT, May 25.—The inference that Henry Ford will push action on wis bid for the Muscle Shoals power development was contained in an edi- torial which is to appear in the June 5 issue of the Dearborn Independent, be allowed to get outside the borders | it was learned today. of California, where it is receiving its “Farmer not fooled, but buncoed,” baptism, and it probably will be “neg-| is the title of the editorial which lected to death” rather than killed | Charges that the “power trust” the outright. a A California Resents Coolidge Plan. “aluminum trust” and the “Chilean ni- trate combine have deliberately tried to halt development of Muscle shoals SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 25.—| by entering a bid which will auto- President Coolidge’s executive order | matically prevent economic production legalizing use of policemen, deputy ;of power and fertilizer. sheriffe and rural constables thruout the country as prohibition agents in a drastic effort to enforce the eighteenth amendment was apparently not being received with any too much enthu- siasm in California, where the plan is to be given its first tryout. Claim Attempt Made on Life.of Croat Leader PARIS, May 26. — An attempt has been made’to assassinate M. Raditch, A checkup revealed that sheriffs, | leader of the Croatian peasant party police chiefs, district attorneys and |snq member of the Jugo-Slavian cabi- other officials in the larger cities and | net, according to reports received here | Buren and Marshfield, * more populous counties of the state |from Serbia, vigorously opposed the plan, Asks Baptists’ Help for Child Workers. WASHINGTON — (FP) — William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, in an address béfore the Northern Baptist convention in the capital, May 25, pleaded with the Baptists as cuhchmen to stand with The police placed a Jugo-Slavian nationalist under arrest, just as he was about to hurl a bomb at Raditch, it is reported, Mexican Army Seeks to Wipe Out Bandits WASHINGTON, May 25.—Mexican organized labor for the ratification of |‘ederal troops are pursuing the ban- the child labor amendment to the|dits who captured two American min- federal constitution. Congratulating | {ng engineers in the state of Durango, the Baptists on the fact that their|the state department was advised by membership is drawn common people, he urged greater ac: tivity by the churches in applying to life the principles of human broth Come to the Sacco-Vanzetti meeti: Friday night, at Temple Hall, Vi {SEND INA SUBL ee a ed ‘ely trom the} Bartley 8. Yost, American consul at Torreon, ‘Four Killed When Train Strikes Auto ol BUFFALA, N, Y., May 25.—Four of five occupants of an automobile were killed when,a New York Central ex- Now the fight is on in real earnest! OW THE FIGHT IS ON!! Not that the Passaic textile strik has not had its earnest moment. The sound of policemen’s clubs on th heads of the men, women and children on strike, has been heard all over th world. We have just had our BLOODY FRIDAY! Strikers, walking hom peacefully from a hall meeting, were assaulted most brutally by whiskey maddened police. They're doling out whiskey now to keep up the courag of the arms of the law! But the fight is on in real earnest now because the bosses have orgar ized their union. Up to now the six textile mills have followed an alon strike policy. Of course, the same arms of law and order worked for all th mills, yet, up to now each single mill laid claim to ‘its own workers” an itched to deal with “its workers” singly, one at a time. Now the textile bosses have a union! They have decided to unite t beat the textile strikers, and the first decision made by the new textile bor ses’ union was that the textile workers shall never have a union! And We Say They Shall We say that the textile strikers shall have a union to protect themselve and their families and children. How do you vote? We also say that the steel workers, oil workers, auto workers, all un organized workers should have a union. That's the point, by the way. Al the bosses know that if the textile strikers get their union, then the othe millions of unorganized workers will want one too. So this is a fight for UNIONISM! And in this fight every worker mus take part. You See—the Strike is Not Over! Now the fight is on in real earnest. Now you must get down to th work of helping win the ‘textile strike in real earnest. You may not ge within slugging distance of a Passaic policeman’s club, but you can encom age the 16,000 textile strikers in their struggle by aiding financially. Mone from you will be the club with which we, the textile strikers, can use mos effectively against the bosses. 7. WHAT YOU MUST DO! Organize a Passaic Strikers’ Re- lief Conference in your city AT ONCE. Hold a TAG DAY in your city. Make a HOUSE-TO-HOUSE COL- LECTION in your city. Make a collection in YOUR SHOP. Request your union and fraternal organization to vote a sum of money out of its treasury. Organize a bazaar, mass meeting, concert or other affair for the benefit of the Passaic strikers. Send to address below for contri- bution lists and collect EVERY- WHERE. WHAT WE ARE DOING! 1. We are now giving relief to 14- 500 strikers and dependents. 2. Four food relief stores are funo- tioning to capacity. 3. One clothing store distributes contributed wearing apparel, ' 4, Five picket line lunch oot serve coffee and sandwiches to strikers on picket duty. oe 5. Two children’s kitchens feed @ thousand children daily. ie 6. Three physicians take care of the sick and the clubbed strikers, 7. A total of 125 strikers perform all details of this relief work without remuneration, And now tip-toe everyone for the Special Children’s Relief Campaign Milk for the textile strikers’ children! Another Children’s Kitchen where five thousand hungry strikers’ kid dies may be fed! ‘ We must send hundreds of children to the homes of friends and a tional thousands to camps so we may give them health and strength to with stand the merciless exploitation of the textile bosses and make them 4 power in the future ranks of organized labor. eae | Aid Us in Every|Way and — Help Us Build a Union!! GENERAL RELIEF COMMITTEE