The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1926, Page 4

Dae oo) ci eer tat a RK OWE IH ans THE DAILY WORKER ~ New York and United Labor Ticket ARTICLE I. Why a United Labor Ticket? By BERTRA (Editors Note.—The article by Labor Ticket,” is the first of a ser M D. WOLFE, Bertram D. Wolfe on “Why a United les that will be published in the col- umns of The DAILY WORKER under the general title, “New York and the United Labor Ticket.” Other a rticles in the series Include: Trustl- fication and the American Working Class,” by Robert Macklin; “the Labor Unions and the Tammany Bureaucracy,” by Robt. Dunn; “Woman and a Labor Party,” by Rose Pasto: Labor Ticket,” by Leona Smith; ‘ r Stokes; “Smithism and the United ‘The Bread Trust,” by J. Sorenson; “Injunctions and the Labor Party,” by Belle Robins; “Conservative Trade Unions and the Labor Party,” by a York Central Trades and Tamman Against Imperialism,” by Edward prominent trade union official; “New yw,” by Sylvan Pollack; “The Battle Royce; “Labor Protection and the Labor Party,” by Pauline Rogers; “Lenin on the Labor Party,” by A, G. Bosse; “The Republican Party and the Negro,” by Jose F, Sobers; “The Senator from New York,” by Bertram D. Wolfe, and many other impor tant articles. These articles, altho prepared by the New York Agitprop Department and being written with specific reference to the political problems of New York State, have, all of them, a WORKER is glad to offer them to i * * ILL there be a United Labor Tick national interest, and The DAILY ts readers.) * * ket in New York this year? This is-a big question being asked in the New York labor movement. Unions Favor Labor Ticket. The situation in New York is highly favorable to the accomplishment of this aim. Various powerful unions are The joint board of the International many large locals affiliated with it, t and all of its New York locals, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and many additional unions in New York rpenters, the ades unions, Bakers, Barbers and various miscellaneous trades, are also in favor of the uniting of labor's forces politically. As far as the Needle Trades Unions and the Shoe Workers’ unions are concerned, bitte experience ha: taught them t h unity as a towards a labor government in New York City and state is a cryitig neces- sity. During the furriers’ strike, which is still in progress and which is regarded as a “peaceful strike,” over 600 separate arrests have been made by the police of New York City. These are the police of the Tammany government, endorsed by various la- bor fakers of the Central Labor Coun- cil of New York City. Fight Injunctions, The I. L. G, W. U., altho it has not been on general strike during the past year, has ample experience to justify it in fighting with all its strength for a labor government in the city and state. The interference of the gov- ernor of the state of New York, in the so-called governor’s commission; the series of injunctions levelled at the Needle Trades unions culminating in such astounding injunctions as that issued to the International Tailoring Co.; terrorization by gangsters employ- ed now by the bosses and now by reac- tionary bureaucrats and always pro- tected by the New York police—these are only a few of the experiences that have taught the Needle Trades work- ers the necessity for a labor party and the general srtike which is about to begin will bring many more such ex- periences. The shoe workers, in their recent strikes and in the strike now fm progress, have again and again faced police intimidations, clubbings, injunctions and arrests, and a new crop of assaults and arrests is now be- ing harvested in the strike of the American Shoe Workers’ Protective Union. The Building Trades Council has had a long battle for legislative meas- ures, introducing the “prevailing rate of wages,” and altho it has spent thousands of dollars in court and-al- tho some of its officials have endorsed Hylan and Walker and Smith. 4s “friends of labor,” their fight still re- mains to be won. They are at last realizing that only a labor government will give them what they want, The Forty-Hour Week. Now the labor movement of New York is assuming the leadership in a nation-wide campaign for a 40-hour MARX AND ENGELS REVOLUTION IN AMERICA By Heinz Neuman _ One of the most important little nymbers of the Little Red Li- 8 of the Little Red Library, by one of the leaders of the German Communist movement, The views of Marx and Engels on American labor, written fifty years ago ain of great value to all workers today. 10 Cents Each Twelve Copies for One Dollar, Reag also PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNISM The original dratt of the Com- munist Manifesto—10 cents LRNRIREIRNARE RAMA HR DG AERIS SSE Pi} © undoubtedly in favor of such a move. Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and he joint board of the Furriers’ Union | ane week. Strikes~will be supplemented by political agitation for legislative action‘and a combination of a power- ful economic movement and a power- ful political movement will be the |most effective method of winning the struggle for 40 hours for the American workers, The enormous progress of trustifica- tion during the past year, in which every day was merger day,” has astened the grip of finance capital upon the government of state and na- tion. The democratic and republican parties have again and again united to put across the measures of big business in the United States senate and house of representatives. Party lines were completely swept aside and capitalism had a United Labor Ticket, or rather a United Capitalist Ticket, on every measure that seriously affect- ed the interests of finance capital. Thus on the question of the debt fund- ings, of the enormous gift to the Mus- solini government, of the shifting of the burden of taxation from the big interests to smaller tax payers, of the entragce into the world court, of the approval of mergers and the ap- pointees of big business, of the killing of farm relief and a dozen similar measures republicans amd democrats were united in their support of the d€mands of the financiers. Find Your “Friends” In the state and city of New York, Governor Smith and the republican and Tammany machines have deliver- ed some rude blows to the illusion of “non-partisan politics.” It is impos- sible to “reward your friends and pun- ish your enemies” when the politicians of both parties unite and openly prove themselves enemies of the labor move- ment. The republican majority of the State legislature defeated all measures for labor protection. The democratic governor and mayor united to kill the bill for an increase in teachers’ sala- ries after this same republican major- ity had passed it. Republigans and democrats. united to put across ,the big business scheme of government called “The Hughes Reorganization Plan,” inchiding the state police fea- ture which will bless New York with a group of Cossacks similar to those that have terrorized the Passaic strik- ers or those made famous in Pennsyl- vania under the name of the*Pennsyl- vania state constabulary. Expose ‘Friends” of Labor. To sum up them—the fight against gangsterism with its police protection, the fight against police brutality and strike breaking by injunction, the fight for the 40-hour week and the passage of labor protection measures—indeed the fight for any of the necessities of the workers of New York requires a United Labor Ticket. The capitalist parties have frankly formed a United Cap! Ticket on every measure affecting big business for the workers, Nationally and locally, party lines have been wiped aside and the labor faker who tries to offer the formula “reward your friends and punish your enemies” will need a telescope to find a single friendly act of an old party politician, Even ‘a telescope will not help him. The experience of the unions of New York City and the needs of these unions are such that a genuine labor base is provided for a broad United Labor Ticket. Among the rank and file of the socialist party there is a strong demand for such a move and the Workers (Communist) Party stands 100 per cent committed to its realization, The Workers (Communist) Party stands pledged to devote all its energies to the unifying of the labor movement politically as well as in- dustrially, to the separation of the American workers from the support of the capitaMst parties and the for- mation of a labor party of their own, A United Labor Ticket would mark a tremendous step forward in the direction of a labor party. Therefore, the Workers (Communist) Party is determined to spare no efforts to bring about a United Labor Ticket in the city, state and national electoral cam- paigns. That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. itn Sg to their death. The illustration shows the wreckage. SOVIETS GIVE LIE TO TALE OF MONEY COLLAPSE State Bank Report Nails Falsehoods MOSCOW, U. S. S. R, (Tass), May 26—Rumors as to the instability of. the chervonets and the approaching collapse of Soviet current yy are com- pletely dispersed by the report of the emission department of the State Bank, which shows that during March the amount of notes issued was reduced by 34,800,00 roubles, while during the last two weeks of March chervontsi to the amount of 18,100,000 roubles were withdrawn from circulation. On April 1, according to the report, banknotes were ttransferred to the State Bank to the amount of 742,- 100,000 roubles, leaving a safe margin of emission right of 55,900,000 roubles. The gold and other backing of the chervontsi increased during March from 225,500,000 roubles to 228,300,000 roubles. With the reduction of emis- sions the backing has increased rela- tively and absolutely. On April 1 the total securities of the State Bank }amounted to 1551,700,000 roubles as against 554,600,000 roubles on March 16. With firm control being main- tained on the issue of banknotes on the one hand and the weight of the state and co-operative trading organi- zations being thrown on the side of keeping down prices on the other, no fears are entertained as to the sta- bility of the currency, \North Platte Valley Farmers’ Crops Suffer from Lack of Rain SCOTTS BLUFFS, Nebr., May 26.— Their crops suffering from lack of Tain, farmers living {n the North Platte Valley are threatening to blow up the federal reservoirs in Wyoming unless the flood gates are opened within a week, according to word re- ceived here, Representatives from this section are en route to Washington to appeal to the secretary of the interior for re- lief. ‘National Fireproof Plant Workers Strike for Wage Increase PERTH AMBOY, N, J., May 26.— Over 1,200 workers at the three Na- tional Fireproof plants are striking for 15 cents more an hour, Eastern district manager of the concern claims the men make $5.00 a day average. The strikers say that would be little enough but they are actually making less. New York City Must Pay Labor Union Scale NEW YORK, May 26, — Now York City is ordered to pay its municipal employes the-prevailing rate of wages by decision in'the municipal court awarding Frank Campbell back pay with interest, Campbell wag hired at $9 a day when the union scale was $10.50. The worker gets $651.35 back pay and interest by the ruling. Find Valuable Old Coins. MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R. (Tass), May 26.—While some excavations were | being made in the Erivan an urn was found containing a number of ancient gold coins, The coins are mostly of the Byzanthe period of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, There are among the coins found a number of Arabian coins of the eighth and ninth centuries and some Dutch coins of the sixteenth century. Ny Industrial Accidents on Increase Despite Many Safety Devices NEW YORK, May 26.—“In spite of fifteen yeafs of highly effective work in the safety movement, the number of industrial accidents in general still seems to be increasing, a result that is due appatently to the increasing mechanization of industry,” says the president of the American Engineer- ing Council, Dean Dexter 8, Kimball of Cornell University. “Some means of getting an effective control of the situation must be found,” he added. “Industry can and must devise ways te. carry its opera- tions on more safely:”, GEORGIA SEEKS RETURN OF LASH TO PRISON GAMP e i s Medieval Tortures Used on Road-Gang aa By JACK METTE, Federated Press. SAVANNAH, Ga.---(FP)—A_ strong appeal is being made for the return of the lash in the Georgia road camps. Flogging was abolished in 1925 by the legislature. fs Every imaginable ‘substitute pun- ishment has been resorted to by chain gang officials. In one prison camp they tie a prisoner in a shallow box and' smear molasses: over his face, leaving him powerless to brush away the mass of flies. In another camp visited by The Fed- erated Press they tie a prisoner with his back to a post, the hands tied just igh enough to make him stand on his toes. In other camps were found stocks such: as were used by the Puritans. Some had devised sweat boxes where the convict was locked in @ box just large enough to hold -him and with one or two holes through which to breathe. When the convict was re- leased from his torture chamber he would be in a state of near collapse and in many cases would have to be carted off to the hospital, A large number of the prisoners are mere boys often from northern states, Picked up for tramping or hoboing and given three to six months at hard labor on the public. roads. ‘Croat Peasant Leader Loses His Popularity As Friends Turn Foes PARIS, ‘May 26.—From dispatches from Serbia, it-appears that Stefan Raditch, once the popular leader of the peasant party of the Croats, is losing his popularity, At a meeting at Sombor, Jugoslavia, supposedly of Raditch’s own followers, he was shout: ed down amid violent demonstrations against him, which police could not quell, Many of the opposition were arrested. He was recently reported to have had his life threatened by a young nationalist, Unemployed Worker A ee Commits Suicide CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 26—An unidentified man about 60 years of age committed suicide when he threw him- self in front of the engine of Colorado & Southern passenger train No, 81. A wheel of the engine severed his head. A note found on his body read: “I am. broke, no work, too proud to beg, and too honest to steal, so I am going back to where I came from.” Bye-witnesses of the suicide declare that he sat beside the tracks for about fifteen minutes waiting for the train, Two Meet Death Seeking Aerial Thrills William H. Moyer, a Coatesville, Pa., lad was looking for a thrill and paid pilot Harry Jones of a flying circus $5.00 extra to take him in the air and show him everything in his bag of tricks by way of stunt flying. As Jones went into a loopjthe-loop the plane crumbled and both crashed SMALL ATTEMPTS TO WHITEWASH HIS HENCHMEN Will County ‘ Jury May Ask Whitman to Resign JOLIET, Il., May 26.—Abolition of the Joliet. prison honor farm and a demand for the resignation of Warden John L, Whitman may be made by the Will county grand jury following the testimony of Governor Len Small. Len Small before the jury denied that any of the prisoners had received paroles or pardons for stipulated sums and brought statisticdl charts before the jury to show that less prisoners were paroled or pardoned during his administration than in any previous adminstration. He also brought out that the number of convicts that must serve their maximum sentences had increased. Small Assails Whitman, He assailed Warden Whitman, who is exposing the connections of the Len Small appointee on the pardon and parole board with pardon mills and parole fixers in one of the Chicago papers, declaring that if the prison discipline had not been so lax under Whitman’s administration, Deputy Warden Peter Klein would be alive to- day. Whitman in his testimony be- fore the Crowe-Carlstrom special grand jury in Cook county pointed out that he had repeatedly protested to Chauncey Jenkins, head of the state welfare department and supervisor of prisons against tre lack of discipline due to the actions of the Deputy Warden Klein assuming the functions of warden. He pointed out that poli- ticians threatened him with loss of his job if he did not allow Klein to do as he pleased. Demand Whitman Resign. The Will county grand jury after listening to this whitewash issuance of the paroles and pardons by Len Small is expected to draw up a re- port in which it Will recommend that the prison farm be abolished and that Warden Whitman be asked to resign. Whitman has now been barred from access to any of the records of the parole and pardons board. The com- binations on the safes . containing these records have been changed at the order of Chauncey Jenkins. Fear Publicity on Paroles. This ‘method was resorted to by Jenkins in an effort to keep Whit- man from making public some of the records of the thousands of paroles and pardons granted and also to cover up connections between the Small ma- chine and notorious gangsters and gunmen that have been released for stipulated sums of money. State Constabulary Is Used Against the Brickmakers in N. Y. HAVERSTRAW, N. Y., May 26.— Brickmakers are striking at Dutchess Junction and other Hudson Valley yards, Officials at Troop K, state con- that four troopers are stationed at Haver- Stabulary headquarters, affirm straw brickyards to prevent strikers from other sections picketing to get out local workers, Manchester Cigar Makers Seek Increase MANCHESTER, N. H., May 26.— Following the successful six weeks’ strike of Boston cigarmakers for a share in remitted federal tax, Man- chester union clgatmakers are séek- ing $1.50 per 1,000 more than the present scale, About 1,500 workers are involved, felt eke, WITH THEY CONDUCTED = BY TH The Workers’ Health Bureau, which sent out a call to hold its meeting in Erie of the delegates to the Federa- { tion convention, made some Very in- teresting statements on the amount of lives sacrificed in building up the in- dustries and making profit for the coal and steel barons. It stated that Pennsylvania has the record of twice as many workers killed in 1925 as in any other state in the union. Industrial deaths were 2,309, 175,000 non-fatal accidents, 79,- 000 compensable ‘accidents. In the mining industry alone there are 29,000 accidents in the anthracite field and 23,000 in the bituminous coal field. Young Farm Hands Exploited in Canada WINNIPEG, Canada.—The condi- tions of young farm hands imported into this country thru luring promises is partly described as follows: There are many cases known to us personally of boys who have worked for months and got no wages, and the board and room provided on the farms is often worse than anything any de- cent boy has ever known. The hours are long and the work hard and heavy, the pay small and in most cases irregular. And this not always because the employer is more or less unprincipled, tho that is only too often the case, but becattse his economic status is often so low that he is glad to take advantage of a boy immigrant and set him to do a man’s work at such wages as $6, or about 24s, a month, Just imagine how far $6 will go in this country of high costs: Boots at least $4.50, overalls $3.50, shirt $2.50, and socks $1. In addition, he must pay back the cost of transportation to the charitable society to. which he owes it. Bob Minor Speaks to Youth Robert Minor, nationally known la- bor cartoonist and the editor of the WORKERS MONTHLY, will speak at the Young Workers’ League Picnic on Sunday, June 20, at the Chernaus- kas Grove, 70th and Archer Ave., Justice, Ill. Other speakers are being secured as well as entertainment provided for. Admission tickets are 35c in ad- vance. They can be secured at 19 S, Lincoln street, the distfict office. At the gate the price will be 50c. For a Mass Organ Thru Worker Correspondents Every Worker Correspondent must be. a subscriber to the American Worker Correspondent. Are you one? SEND IN A SUB! Prominent Prof. Robert M. Lovett L. Candela YOUNG WORKERS OF PENNSYLVANIA VICTIMS OF INCREASED DEATH TOLL SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI FROM THE ELECTRIC CHAIR! They have just been denied a new trial in spite of new evidence proving their innocence. MASS PROTEST DEMONSTRATION TEMPLE HALL, 1644 W. Van Buren St., Chicago, III. ‘May 28—FRIDAY NIGHT, 8 P. M.—May 28 James P, Cannon All-Together to Demand the Release 6f Sacco and Vanzetti!, Bring Others—LAdmission Free, f ~ = Maybe on Some Other but it's going to be the trip of a lifetime for the winners of the TRIP TO MOSCOW! These records. were taken from the year of 1924. All indications show that the accidents and industrial deaths are on the increase in the state of Pennsylvania. This affects the young workers very much, for they are usually the ones that are inexperienced, young and overworked. The conference decided that the present $42 a month be re- pealed and that a union wage, instead, t should be established, not only for ac- cidents in industry but each and every one of the occupational diseases which the workers get in slaving to create profit for the ruling class in Penn- sylvania, | { Young Miners Have Dangerous Jobs The young miners, because of the importance of their work, deserve the very best of conditions, but in reality endure the worst. This can be seen, ‘ for instance, from the fact that the ~ United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company of Baltimore, the largest and pioneer bonding and casualty concern in this country, has announced that dt will accept no more workers’ compen- sation and employers’ liability risks from the coal mining industry. There are two many hazards for the young miners to make this business profit- able. Youth Broadcasts International Picnic . DENVER, Colo., — Listen in on the station Y. W. L. of Denver broad- casting the International Picnic, to be } held at Golden Park, Sunday June 6th. f Proceeds of this picnic go to the bulld- ing of new Labor Lyceum and local Y. W. L. If you have ever missed a good time and were sorry, don’t miss this picnic, eee | DENVER Y. W. L, ORGANIZED A SPORTS CLUB. Denver Y. W. L. organized a sports club at a “wienle fry,” held May 15 at Inspiration Point. Everything was great even though a.member lost half of the wienies when he fell over a small cliff. A short informal debate between four members of the club was held, while sitting around the fire. The subject debated was, “Resolved that jazz is a menace to youth.” The affrmitive won by a great margin. a Room For Rent os | Large, steam heated, in a new bulld- ing. Good transportation. Suitable for one or two. 3458 W. Monroe St. » Phone, Nevada 10347. FURNISHED ROOM FOR RENT Modern conveniences, near Humboldt Park. 3341 W. Division St. For ap pointment, Phone Belmont 9262, e Speakers: William Z. Foster Ralph Chaplin It May Be on This Ship! to l