The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Gavemnment —o Vol. Ill. No: 119: Subscriptio JANES M1. LYNCH DEFEATED AS LT.U, HEAD Progressives Claim a Howard Victory Reports received at the Chicago headquarters of the Hpward progres- sive campaign committee, indicate that. Charles P. Howard of Chicago defeated James M. Lynch for presi- dent of the International Typograph- ical Union by a majority of upward of 3,000. A préss dispatch that wag received at the Chicago Tribune, tho not pub- lished, reports that administration headquarters at New York, concede the election of Howard. Carries New York and Chicago. New York gave Howard a tremen- dous majority. The vote for the heads of the ticket was: Howard LYDECN | sssssssssosasenesees Howard's majority ... 900 This gave him a lead that he almost maintained thruout the rest of the ‘United States and Canada, according to reports given out by the progres- sive headquarters. In Chicago the vote was, Howard, 2,658; Lynch, 1,511. Boston, Washington, Albany, Kan- sas City, Denver, San Francisco and Los Angeles all went progressive as far as the head of the ticket is con- cerned. Hays Probably Elected. John W. Hays, for many years sec- retary-treasurer of the I. T. U., ran ahead of the Lynch reactionary Wah- neta ticket and is probably reelected. Official reports will not be available until the complete tabulation of the votes at Indianapolis, headquarters of the International Typographical Un- jon. Howard Defeated Last Time. Two years ago Charles P. Howard, who became acting president of the ‘union after the sudden death of John MacParland, the first progressive president of the International Union, “wag deteated-tor president by Lynch two years ago. While in office he did not uphold the measures of progres- siveism he was pledged to support which accounted for his defeat at that time. Lynch was president of the union from 1900 to 1914, when he. resigned to accept a political appointment at the hands of Tammany Hall in New York. Losing his political job he again managed to get back in office two years ago. His autocratic con- duct of the union and his attacks upon the record ‘of the late President Mac- Parland had a great deal to do with his present defeat. ‘oe INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 28.—Of- ficials of the International Typograph- ical Union announce that the-results of Wednesday's election will not be made public until after mail ballots have been received from each local and properly tabulated. If the vote is close the ballots of locals in Hawaii, Porto Rico and dis- tant parts of Canada may decide the outcome. The Lynch administration forces claim that the vote from the smaller centers will overcome the Howard lead in the big ‘cities. BEGINNING JUNE FIRST TUESDAY Be sure to read, the first installment, of this: grip- ping story of the Califor- nia oil fields. STRIKE “OIL!” Aalscrcte/ - FOSTE JUST RETURNED FROM RUSSIA GAMES {further ploit. t eg 6 Ox Shap ‘ae Chicago, Ney Ae) i PPR: ABB-__°°1 83" #2 Fon... Though Krim himself has surrender- ed, the Riffians, especially in the west around Tetuan are stil! battling fierce- ly against the imperialist troops. Krim’s name is being officially cursed in the mosques for giving up the fight and he is surrounded by French troops to guard him from assassination by his former followers. His correspond- ence, also surrendered, contains evi- dence of British imperialist backing, which sought to obtain mining conces- sions if he could win out against the French and Spaniards. Rich mining re- sources caused the imperialists to ‘fight ‘each other as well as fight the Riffians. Krim will probably be exiled to Madagascar, where he will be given a palace, money and plenty of wives. PASSAIC STRIKE COMMITTEE RAPS COMPANY UNIONS Workers Reject Bosses’ Proposals (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., May 28.—The Unit- ed Front Committee of Textile Work- ers of Passaic and Vicinity in a state- ment to the mill owners raps the idea of the workers goigg back to work un- der the company union scheme and shows in its statement how company unions ate used by the bosses to their own ends and better ex- RS - WOT IG i, pcm etme y The stateme: lows: WHO SHALL CONTROL OUR UNION? “To the Mill Owners: “For seventeen weeks you refused to recognize our right to organize. We have now compelled you to say you concede that the workers have the right to form a union. We have form- ed our union, the United Front Com- mittee of Textile Workers of Pas- saic and Vicinity. But you still refuse to deal with it on the protext that it cannot cope With the problems of the industry, ) Rap Company Union. “You have always been the most bitter enemies of unionism. What do you care if the union can succeed or not? You have done your very best to crush unionism in every form. It is ridiculous for you now to come forward as experts on which form of unionism is best calculated to serve the interests of the workers. We do not form a union for your protection, we form\a union for ours. “However, this union has proved itself, to our satisfaction, capable of coping successfully ‘with all of the large-and complicated problems of the strike. And we are sure that this union can meet all of the ‘technical’ problems that arise from the needs of the workers in the industry. “Our union takes care of the prob- lems of every mill and every room and division of the mill separately. It gives ample representation to the workers of every craft and every process. In short, it has the most (Continued on/page 2) TEXTILE WEAVERS WALK OUT IN JERSEY PLANT FOR RAISE IN WAGES (Worker Correspondent) JERSEY CITY, May 28.—The Lib- erty Woolen Mill Co.’s weavers went on Strike today in protest against low wi and were joined by the loom fixers, who walked out in sym- pathy. The strike was called by a committee that had been elected by the workers in the mill. At a meeting following the walk- out the textile workers of the plant decided 100 per cent not to return to work until their wages are raised and until the mill company recog- nizes their committee, oe BASE BALL DANCING SPORTS "a, Chicago, by mall, $8.00 per year, [CONGRESS AFRAID by mail, $6.00 per year. ('RUGGLE Feels Avenged with Death of ‘Petlura PARIS—Samuel Schartzbar, the Ukrainian Jew who killed Simon Pet- lura, the Russian counter - revolution- ist, had _ suffered along with the rest of his race in the Ukraine while Pet- jlura’s white guard j troops ravaged vil- jlage after village, including Schartz- | bar’s, and murdered | thousands of the | Jewish population| i during 1918 and 1919. GEN. PETLURA |Schartzbar is now under arrest. He |He will probably pay the penalty for the deed, But Schartzbar is satisfied, according ..to...his.,.ewn-. Petlura, the murderer of is no more, his people, TO ADJOURN AND FACE SUPPORTERS Election Year Raises Serious Problems (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 28.— Hung high on the hooks of controversy, con- gress is struggling but feebly to free itself of the obstacles that stand in the way of adjournment. A.month ago there was a general agreement among the leaders to ad- journ by June 1. Today the leaders confessed they had no idea when con- gress will get away. They are now talking of June 15, July 1, and even August 1, but so involved has the po- litico-parliamentary situation become that they admit they do not know. Afraid of Record. Congress wants to go home to see about getting itself re-elected, Yet the westerners, particularly those from the corn belt, are chary of re- turning to home firesides without pre- tending to do something for the relief of the agricultural districts. They say they won't. President Coolidge wants congress to adjoura. Yet he does not want the final gavel to fall until congress has ratified the French debt settle- ment and cleaned up a few odds and ends of legislative detail. Shy at French Debt. Congress is in no hurry to ratify the Freneh debt. There are many members, perhaps a majority, who are keenly anxious to avoid a vote on the settlement_prior to facing the voters at the polls, Settling an obligation for fifty cents on the dollar, with the opposition charging “robbery of the taxpayers,” is an issue that does not appeal to sorely harassed candidates, already worried by the fate that has overtaken McKinley in Illinois, Pep- per in Pennsylvania, Stanfield in Ore- gon and some of the regular adminis- tration supporters in the lower house in those states. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Entered at Second-class matter September @a, 292%, ‘eit 141 je Daily Worker) ich. May 28. — A raking committee is ition in the Michigan of the American Legion. Petty politi¢iins have squandered thousands and thousands of dollars.of the so-called American Legion “wel- fare fund.” Star mothers do not Such things can be— sta § Legion, Rotary Club thembers are saying it is shockingly; poor taste and poor judgement for; the legislative and journalistic m ‘Takers of the cap- italist press tajgive publicity to such disclosures—apbeut the American Le- gion. wee Members of legion and the army and navy who belong to the working class will som@day open their eyes. Class consei@us workers who have already opened their eyes are reading of these and @jqmilar disclosures and are remember! Centralia. By a fortumate coincidence these disclosures Deing made at the con- clusion of a t significant speaking tour. Walter Paimbull, court-martialed Communist soldier from far-off Hawaii, in his speechés, from coast to coast, foctised the attention of all workers who heard on the fascist-militar- ists of the United States. Received Large Fund. Since the legion was organized it has received $998,151.96 from the state of Michigan, Which $298,151.96 was to be used general welfare work and $700,000 fer the legion hospital at Battle samen Children’s Billet (Conti on page 2) HUGHES APPEARS FOR OL DEMANDING Pik Chiito ‘et Chitogs, Ultnols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1926 Sd 290 Published Daily except Sunday PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chieago, IL of Two This Issue Consists Sections. - SECTION ONE, UNEMPLOYED WORKERS STAGE SPONTANEOUS DEMONSTRATIONS | MORE SUPPORT AGAINST POLISH GOVERNMENT) Tf) SACCO AND (Special to The WARSAW, Poland, Poland are growing more and more f May 28.—Demonstrations Daily Worker) the unemployed in} The army of unemployed in| of requent. Poland numbers over half a million—half of the whole industrial proletariat. | The other half works but two or three day a week, | 40% Receive Dole. | Only 40% of the unemployed receive the of bad flour amd rotting potatoes. In DRAW GUNS CN FUR PICKETS miserable dole which consist} Stryz, according to the central organ} ‘of the social-democratic party, Robot-} nik, only 42 of the 750 registered un-| employed receive the dole | | for these great/ masses to get wo In the agricul-| tural sections the are great num-j bers seeking work. The cities are fill-| ed with unemployed. It is impossible} for those that emigrate to Germany or | Impossible to Get Work. It is impossible by THE DAILY WORKER Price 5 Cents VANZETT] FIGHT Battle for Freedom Gets Widespread Aid (Special to The Daily Worker) Three more united front conferences for the support of the cause of Sacco and Vanzetti are being organized in cities as widely apart as Los Angeles, California, and Perth Amboy,)N. J. The other conference is to be field in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Grand Rapids confezefice, call- ed by International Tabor Defense of | IN N. Y. STRIKE number of workers unemployed in| that city, will be held on June 183, at Report Compromise) Offer of Bosses (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 28.—One hundred fifty fur strikers crowded in front of a fur factory in W. 29th street yes- terday where scab furriers were known to be working. TheiF attempt to picket the shop was challenged by two private detectives who stood at the door with drawn pistols and threatened the pickets. Later the police industrial squad ar- rived and drove the strikers away with drawn club. At the same time four strikers were being indicted by the grand jury for activity in a previ- ous picket line. Three were charged with “first degree assault” and the fourth with “malicious mischief.” These are only a few of the many the police during this strike. Meet Bosses. Representatives of the fur manufac- turers met with Ben Gold and another member of the strike committee of the furriers at the Hotel Pennsyl- vania, The exact terms of the offer WASH! D. 6. May 28— Ex-Secretaryiof. State Hughes ap- peared beforesthe “oil board” ap- pointed by Conlidge, and on which Secretary ofiithe Interior is chair- man, to argue for a “relaxation” of anti-trust lawe@,as respects the oil trust. The argument advanced is that the conservation of the national supply demands that the oi! com- panies be notirestrained from what Hughes calls «“co-operation,” the blessing of “which, according to Hughes would®not at all involve any monopoly‘ but merely a benefit to society by conservation of the supply of 26,090,000,000 barrels of oil, supposed to be the extent of national resources. Count D’ Y’Anville | ationa’ The count hasrjust arrived from France to take charge of the arrange- ments for the International Euchar- istic Congress to be held latter part of June in Chicago. These catholic congresses are held every two years in different parts of the world. D'Y’Anville has been secretary for many years and has earned a reputa- tion’as a good catholic publicity man. This years congress will bring a mil- lon catholics to Chicago. The ar- rangements are gigantic and costly-— but it is well worth the expense in propaganda—ask the count, learned but it is understood that a strikers that have been framed-up by} made by the bosses has not yet been) other border countries to get work as/ those border states are great. } Because of this situation the unem ployed workers are holding ma‘ demonstrations in the big industrial | centers demanding that the govern-! 4 i ment take some steps to aid them.} Demonstrations within the past few months have Keen held in Lodz, Dom- browo, Upper Silesia, Vioclavek, | Kalish, Lublin and many other smaller towns. ° Bayonets Not Bread. The government instead of giving these demonstrating workers bread has given them bayonets. At first the demonstrations were a request for aid, When the requests of the ‘workers were ignored they demanded im- mediate relief. When relief was not forthcoming, they began to break the windows of municipal buildings and | in a number of cities assailed the jails demanding the release of the polit ical prisoners. Kalith Demonstration. ‘A typical demonstration took place in Kalish, 800 unemployed workers +marched to the municipal council building demanding work or support. Nine workers were killed and sixty j injured and two policemen were killed {in the clash that took place during the | demonstration, } | When the 800 unemployed workers | jreached the council building they compromise was held out. Compromise Offer. It-ig understood this the 42-hour week, a previous offer'of the bosses that had been withdrawn was again offered to the strikers. The furriers are out for a forty-hour week. One of the manufacturers said, “There is somethingf to it” when asked about the truth of the offer. Strikes Strong. This is an indication'that the manu- facturers are weakening. strikers have kept up a continuous picketing shops that have not signed up. In their forty-hour week campaign they are receiving good support from other unions and funds have also been con- tributed by labor organizations to help them win their strike. Report Green Has No Intention of Issuing The fur; | activity and have almost} completely stopped operations in te WU AND CHANG elected a delegation to see the mayor. } |The mayor sneered at their requests j and refused ‘tow consider their de- ;mands. The delegation reported this {to the other workers. The unemployed | then began to shout for the mayor to jappear. When the mayor appeared on {the balcony they demanded that he come down to them. The mayor then called on the police to attack the demonstrators with drawn sabers, The unemployed then picked up stones and (Continued on page 2) SEEK TO.CRUSH | THE KUOMINCHUN, Imperialist Tools Hold! Conference in Peking Call for Miner Aid WASHINGTON.—(FP)—While the Federated Press correspondent has been unable to see personally Presi- dent Green of the American Federa- tion of Labor as to what help for the British miners he will recommend to the A, F. of L, local and international unions and councils, the correspond- ent is informed that probably no aid will be recommended. The source of this information is one of Mr. Green's official staff, familiar with hig policy from day to day. The suggestion is given that Mr. Green does not now feel that the.trade unionists in the United States have any spare funds to be sent to the striking miners in Britain, but that every dollar is needed in Ameriga. We need more news from the ‘shops and factories. Send it In! Seek to Organize the Laundry Drivers NEW YORK, May 28—(FP)-— Or- ganization of the 11,000 drivers, chauf- feurs and helpers employed by wet wash laundries in New York, is pro- posed by tle International Brother- trood of Teamsters’ locals, Two mass meetings of laundry wagon drivers are opening the drive. Workers are joining rapidly in East New York and Brownsville and want union recog: nition, New York Teamsters T.U.E.L. PICNIC - MONDAY, MAY 31 -CHERNAUSKAS GROVE Take Archer Ave, car to end of Line, then Joliet, Justice Park or Willow Spring car to grove, ‘ \ Admission 50 Cents PEKING, May 28.—General Wu Pei- Fu, Chili war lord, and Chang Tso-Lin, Manchurian military dictator, are plan- ning to hold a conference at which they will lay plans for a united attack on the Kuominchun and for the “ex- termination of other bolshevistic” movements. These two. imperialist tools seek to root out all anti-imperial- | ist movements in Chine | About 30,000 Kuominchun forces are | engaged in a battle at Nankow Pass 0 p. m. at 211 Monroe Ave, The conference will take in all labor un- ions, labor fraternal organizations, and other working class bodies, for the purpose of uniting the sentiment against the threatened legal execu- tion of the two innocent Italian work- ers, Sacco and Vanzetti Perth Amboy. Perth Amboy, New Jersey, holds its conference on June 6. Together with the conference will take place a mass meeting of protest and_ solidarity which will be addressed by prominent speakers. This conference will be of the same nature as the others, Los Angeles is f hold a conference Thursday evening, June 3, at 506 Tajo Building, according to é nation re- ceived from Manya R y of International Labor Defense there. Oakland Forum. From the Oakland open forum comes the news that at their meet ing on May 23, the audience passed unanimously a resolution, introduced by Anita Whitney, pledging its aid to International Labor Defense “in whatever plans they may take to save the lives of these two class conscious workers,” Sacco and Vanzettj, Check, From the same city in California comes a check for fifty dollars from Charlotte Anita Whitney to help de. fray the expenses of the campaign of International Labor Defense. “I think,” she writes, “there is nothing in this country today more important at this juncture than to save Saeco and Van zetti. I am, therefore, sending you the enclosed check to help the work you are doing, and I will help all I can out here.” Carlo Tresca, the editor of,the well- known Italian syndicalist weekly “II Martello” in New York, who has par- ticipated in numerous labor struggles, wires James P. Cannon, secretary of thé International Labor Defense. “Will do all I can to speak in meetings ar- ranged by International Labor De. fense. Congratulations to you and your organization for the good, enco- miable work in defense of Sacco and Vanzetti.” The spirit of this message from Carlo Tresca is another indica: tion of the unity of action which the Sacco apd Vanzetti cases have in- spired. Message From |. W. W. From John I, Turner, General sec- retary-treasurer of the Industrial Workers of the World, comes the fol- lowing message: “The indifference of so many American workers regarding the case of Sacco and Vanzetti is dis- gusting to every red-blooded man and Woman. Everything possible must be done to save these victims of class persecution, from execution at the hands of the employing class hirelings You may depend on the I. W. W. now, as inthe past, to give its full support in every way it can, whfle regretting that their release cannot be immedia: tely secured thru the power of a gen- eral sthike by an aroused . working in their drive on Peking. class.” TTI AND By A. C. MILLER, . Farmer Member of North Dakota Legislature. The state of Massachusetts, at the behest of the Manufacturers’ Association and all it represents, are trying to Send Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair. by Coolidge, stands idly by and al | want to say that if the administration, headed lows this dastardly crime to take place, the citizens of this country have a right toi proclaim that govern- ment in the United States of Ameri: ditch. ica has relegated justice to the When those in power can no longer combat argument with argu- ment; when they must rely upon f. when they are put to the necessity of jailing and murdering those who oppose them—it is plain that we government and that that governm: ¢ living in the last stage of so-called constitutional ent has become incompatible with the needs and right of the majority of those who reside under it. -If the electrocution of Sacco and Vanzetti takes place, the workers will have one more reason in their struggle to land the present social order in the oblivion in which it belongs. SACCO AND VANZE erro rcoce WALTER TRUMBULL Hawaitan Soldier, Militant Worker, errr rere rere DUNNE JUST RETURNED From ENGLAND Naa