The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1926, Page 3

SS ene es ener ARR A PASE SU IIA RY HNN MN EP EN NEY 9) CaSO mA ean Rema me — ees INDIANA 6. 0, OPPOSES CAL'S “WORLD COURT Fear Defeat of Senator Cummins of Iowa (Special to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 31. — The Indiana state convention of the openshop republican party by unan- imous approval indorsed a plank in its platform opposing participation in the league of nations or the world court, The state ticket endorsed by the convention ‘is United States senator, long term, James E, Watson and Unit- ed States senator, short term, Arthur Robinson, se * Cummins Fears Defeat. AMES, Iowa, May 31. — Campaign Managers for United States Senator A, B, Cummins, a staunch supporter of the Coolidge administration, fear that the indignation of the Iowa farm- ers toward the administration attitude toward farm relief may send ex-Sen- ator Smith Wildman Brookhart back to the senate and defeat Cummins. The farmers view Coolidge as the representative of the eastern bankers and manufacturers. Cummins’ hegchmen are circulating a@ poster bearing a photograph of Brookhart shaking hands with LaFol- lette in an attempt to get the repub- lican party voters to back Cummins as a real party man and defeat Brook- hart whom they declare is an insur- gent and one who seeks to destroy the republican party. Pretty Girls Used As ‘Lure in Latest New York Swindle (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 31.—Pretty dam- sels were used as come-on bait in one of the latest confidence games oper- ating in New York state. A number of the ringleaders and pawns in this confidence game have been arrested and evidence which they have divulged shows that over 1,000 persons ‘were cheated out of a sum of at least $5,000,000, Pretty girls were used to get house- holders to put their money into a sav- ings bank left at their home. After a number of weeks had elapsed these, girls would call at the homes of those who had taken banks and take ‘the banks, open them,» count out the money, which often amounted to sev- eral hundred dollars, and give a worth- less stock certificate as a receipt, Lousiana Secrecy Law _ Used Against Unions NEW ORLEANS. — (FP) — Louisi- ana’s anti-secrecy law passed by the legislature of 1924, aimed ostensibly at the klan, but fostered by the open- shop interests, has been attacked in the courts of Shreveport by J. T. Dud- ley, chief conductor of division 419, Order of Railway Conductors, who has been charged on two counts for fail- ure to file a list of his union with the secretary of state. The law makes it a misdemeanor for any secretary of a labor organization, fraternal society or organization of men or women, pun- ishable by a fine or imprisonment or both, to fail to file a complete list each year. The list is open to public in- spection and has been used by organi- zations hostile to organized labor to weed out union men in their employ, Discharged Sailor Collects Full Pay NEW ORLEANS.—(FP)—A sailor wrongfully discharged before conclud- ‘ing a trip he has contracted ‘to make must be paidefor the full trip, accord- ing to a decision of the U. 8. court of appeals in New Orleans. Plumbers Helpers’ Club of Brooklyn, New York calls on all helpers to join the club. Meetings every FRIDAY night, 8:30 p. m., / at 7 Thatford Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. THE DAILY WORKER Company Statement: ONLY One Killed The New Haven Road’s crack “Owl” flyer from Boston to New York crashed into the rear end of the freight near, Mansfield, Mass. Three Pullmans and the engine were derailed, the fireman was killed and the engineer seriously injured. . PAINTERS FIGHT FOR 5-DAY WEEK IN CLEVELAND, 0. Building Laborers Go Back to Work CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 31— The painters are still out for $1.37% an hour and the 5-day week. The ma- jority are working for independent contractors, while hundreds have left the city. The British settlement was dupli- cated in miniature in Cleveland when 5,000 building laborers, on strike for 10 weeks and on the verge of vietory, were sent back to work without even an agreement. Asking $1 an hour, the laborers had tied up construction work on the bigger jobs and had won their demands from the independént) con- tractors. In retaliation, the building interests closed down all supply houses, thus forcing independent con- tractors to stop work. One of the two local building trades councils sent the men back to work “to protect the public against incon- venience.” The other council has ¢alled for an investigation of suspicious cir- cumstances surrounding the settle-)| ment. The laborers union was not al- lewed to hold a meeting during the: entire strike, full control being vested in officials from skilled crafts, Gov. Donahey of Ohio had called for. a probe of the building supply con- spiracy that refused to sell materials to union contractors which precipi- tated an investigation into the strike by the local prosecutor, The union walkout abruptly terminated. Grand Jury Probes Strike of the San. Francisco Carpenters SAN FRANCISCO. — (FP) — With both sides eager for investigation, the grand jury is examining the carpenter strike in the bay district. The union and the openshop Industrial Assn. blame each other for the increasing violence. Union Favors Investigation, “We favor an investigation of the situation,” said Norman McLean of the carpenters union. “We never have been able to find out under what guise Black-Jack Jerome and his guards were brought into San Francisco to intimidate union workers who are citi- zens and taxpayers. The charges that the unions have brought armed men into San Francisco to aid them are without. foundation.” The independent Amalgamated So- ciety of Carpenters and Joiners has entered the fray, claiming that this is a jurisdictional dispute with the Bay District Council of Carpenters, Company Union Aids Bosses. The strikers state that the Amalga- mated is a blue-card company union and that its charges are instigated by the Industrial Assn. to stir up further trouble. Policemen continue to guard openshop jobs and to arrest union car- penters for picketing. Succeeds Herself As President of Club Federation Mrs. John D,. Sherman is unopposed as candidate for re-election as presi- dent of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, now in conference at Atlantic City. Altho the Chicago Women’s Clubs have delegates there, Miss Nolan of the Chicago Club would not say how the Chicago Club views the reactionary movement for “equal rights for women in industry,” which means to abolish protective laws on hours and wages for female labor. Miss Nolan remarked that “there is a division of opinion on that ques- tion.” Now isn’t that surprising—for lass lines to disturb the ladies? Per- haps we can look for a left wing! The “progressives” at Atlantic City ex- pect an assault by the southern dele- gates who object to the federation championing the child labor amend- ment, Australian Fascists Organize Crews to Be > Used Against Strikers MELBOURNE— (FP) — Following In an address} the refusal of the Australian govern- to the Public Spirit Club, the manag-| ment to discipline them, fascist organ- ing director of the Industrial Assn., Albert Boynton, blamed judge Golden for the disorder, Golden had said that the imported strikebreakers should be tarred and feathered and ridden out on a rail, ‘Auspices T. U. B. L. ‘WILLIAM Z. FOSTER “Russian Workers and Workshops in 1926” FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 8 P. M. Central Opera House; 67th St., near 3rd Ave. New York City Admission 25 Cents izers of the Australian Command of British Fascists are enrolling recruits, From the answers to questions on the enrollment forms will be prepared a classified list of strikebreakers. For these strikebreakers there will be as- sured, according to information on the enrollment forms,’ an efficient system of transport, enabling them to terror- ize districts and establishments which the Fascists sel Presumably the raiding of worker clubs and union halls, go fashionable in Italy, is to be repeated in Australia. Senator Lenroot Uses Non-Union Printing MILWAUKEB. — (FP) — Campaign printing being circulated by U. 8, Sen. Lenroot for renomination in the Sep- tember primaries in Wisconsin bears no unjon label, In view of the pri- mary defeats of three Coolidge stand- patters, McKinley of Illinois, Pepper of Pennsylvania and Stanfield of Ore- gon, Lenroot may find such blunders costae” AMR MOY, hr idee ; DISCOVER IRON ORE DEPOSITS IN KURSK PROVINCE 16,000,000 Tons of Pure Iron Found MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (Tass), May 27.—With the completion of the work of surveying the iron ore beds tin Kursk, a central province in Soviet Russia, one of the greatest magnetic anomalies known to science and which has engaged the attention of the scientific world since the seven- ties of the last century, has been ex- plained. The magnetic anomaly was due to the presénce of iron ore at consid- erable depth over an area of 300 kilo- meters atl the investigations made indicate ‘tat the deposits contain no less than from 16,000,000,000 to* 20,- 000,000,000‘tons of pure iron. In the bourse of the surveys of the Kursk magnetic anomaly 15,000 meas- urements' Were taken, on the basis of which an'éxact chart of the beds has been drawt. The various economic departments of the Soviet Government are now considering? the question of developing these endérmous iron deposits in the Kursk province. ‘y loan have your bust, Cad MONTANA LIBEL SUIT TO BE HEARD IN SUPREME COURT Fail in Attennt to Jail Winterrowd By JOHN GABRIEL SOLTIS. GREAT FALLS, Mont., May 31. — The transcripts and briefs in the Win- terrowd libel case, have been pre- pared and ‘are ready to be filed in the supreme court of this state, in a few days. Attorney J. Ryan, who fs handling the case, together with Harlo Pease of Butte, is of the opinion that the ease will be heard some time next month. 1. L. D. Contributes $100 The appeal of this case was made possible by the assistance of the In- ternational Labor Defense, in the form of $100 Had it not been for this timely contribution of the I. L. D., it is certain that Winterrowd would have been compelled to serve in the county jail in lieu of the $200 fine ren- dered against him by the jury here last month. However, the aid from the I, L, D saved him all that. Wanted Him in Jail Information in my possession dis- closes the fact that it was all.a frame- up to send Winterrowd to jail, on the part of the minions of the A C. M. company. They figured that he stood alone and coud not get financial help to pay the fine Appeal Is Blow. But not only has Winterrowd not paid the fine, but what constitutes a blow to the lackeys of the A. C. M., the case has been appealed to the highest court in the state. This is a staggering blow to the sycophants of the Copper Company. The I, L. D. has set a fine object lesson in the Winterrowd case for the workers of Great Falls. They realize the important field in which it functions as the defensive arm of the working class. Over forty workers have already joined the branch of Great Falls. Colgate and Company Can Use Burnham’s Photo On Its Ads NEW YORK, May 31,—Miss Ella C. Patterson, of Milwaukee, lost her suit against Colgate & Comany to restrain them from featuring the whiskers of General Ambrose E, Burnside in shav- ing cream advertisements and collect $150,000 damages when the supreme court here dismissed the case. LABOR HISTORY IN “PASSAIC,” STORY BY MARY HEATON VORSE Labor;history in the making. Graphically and vividly told by the pen of an artist, Mary Heaton Vorse. That is “Passaic,” a story of the out- ness. fighting labor. Everyone remembers her epic of the steel strike, and her numerous stories of life and struggles of the under dog. In “Passaic” she has once more set down the telling story of this fight for life, for life that is more sweet and comfortable than the miserable existences afforded by the iron fist of the textile barons. You will see there the beginnings of the fight, how the workers poured out of the big“mills, hesitantly at first but determined; and how-they were soon joined by their comrades until sixteen thousand of them presented a mighty front against the wage-cutters and ex- ploiters. You will swing into their picket marches around the mills and see the clubs of the brutal police crunching down upon men and women and children; the gas bombs; the showers of cold water. And you will also join in the songs of solidarity and victory from the throats of cheerful thousands $f workers of every nation- ality who’ have been fused into a powerful force by the heat and order of the struggle, With the documents of the pen you will find documents of the lens. The pamphlet is filled with pictures, photo- graphs which will help to make labor istory. Scenes of marching, picket- ng, clubbing, meeting, and of the lead- ing figures ‘in the strike. You will want to get this pamphlet and read it with rising interests. And you will want to keep it when you're thru. It costs 15 cents per copy from International Labor Defense, 23 8. Lincoln St., Chicago, Il. Or take a bunch of them at ten dollars a hun- dred copies. 1,200 New York Barbers Strike for Increase NEW YORK, May 27,— The 1,200 barbers of Local No, 752, lower Hast Side New York, are striking for a wage, increase from $35 to $38 weekly with Sunday and Monday off. About 800 shops are closed—all in the con- gested working class district, Moscow or bust! Don’t bust before you get a sub—but get 5 subs and you nS in ae standing labor struggle in 1926, and perhaps of recent years, written in a pamphlet just published by International Labor Defense. To read the pamphlet, with its moving and vivid style, is to feel the masses power of the solidarity of workers in movement, their fine spirit of unity and ‘self-sacrifice, their determination and courage and single-minded- Mary Heaton Vorse is not a reporter, but a secretary to social events, with a warm sympathy that comes of years of contact with exploited and New South Wales Police Win 44-Hour Week Thru Their Union SYDNEY.—(FP)—Members of the police force in New South Wales have been granted a 44-hour week, the same as all other workers. The Labor gov- ernment has notified the police that any dealings with the government must be through the union and sug- gests that policemen who are not unionists should enrol in the Police Union. Fidi Amici Club Bests Pitt Lyceum in Debate PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 28.—In the debate between the Fidi Amici and Pitt Lyceum teams, the Fidi Amici Club, which upheld the affirmative on the issue, “Resolved: That the Negro should joip the American Negro Labor Congress for the improvement of their economic conditions,” proved con- clusively that the Negro and the work- ing class had nothing in common with the capitalist class and that the in- terest of the Negro is with the work- ers as a class. The argument of the Pitt Lyceum team, which upheld the negative, was based on the old balderdash of red scare and that the American Negro Lbaor Congress was Communistic. After a long harangue along these lines the Pitt Lyceum began to appeal to the individual Negro declaring that the Negro had all to lose by sticking with the working class and had all to win by acting the part of strikebreaker during strikes and by being faithful to his employer. After the rebuttal two of the three judegs voted for the affirmative while ‘one voted for the negative, The meet- ing, which was attended by 500 young Negroes, adjourned with three cheers for the affirmative, ° Page Three ARKANSAS MOB OF 2,000 LYNGHES NEGRO FOR AN ALLEGED ATTACK ON GIRL (Special to The Daily Worker) WILSON, Ark., May 27.—A mob estimated at 2,000 lynched Albert Blades, Negro, who was accused of an alleged attempted attack on a young white schoolgirl. The mob took him from the sheriff and his deputies and lynched ‘him. The Negro had been taken from the jail to a warehouse by the sher- iff and his two deputies. The sheriff gives as his excuse that the mob which had gathered from several surrounding towns had threatened to break into the jail and he, in his anxiety to save the prisoners, took Blades to a warehouse. NEW YORK FUR STRIKERS SEEK LABOR’S AID Appeal Is Sent to 31,000 Groups NEW YORK.—(FP)—An appeal for help has been sent to 31,000 labor groups throughout the country by the striking fur workers of New York, asking fellow unionists for financial aid in the fight which has already lasted 14 weeks. Only 2000 of the 12,000 strikers are at work in settled shops. A 40-hour week dodger has been printed by the striking fur workers to spread the shorter work week idea. We need more news from the shops and factories. Send It in! FENG IN MOSCOW SAYS FIGHT FOR CHINA WILL GO ON Denies Story That His Cause Is Lost (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 31.—Gen. Feng Ya Hsiang, commander of the Chinese “People’s Armies,” recently driven from Peking and Tientsin by the coali- tion of Chang Tso-Lin of Manchuria and Wu Pei-Fu of the central prov- inces, has arrived in Moscow and made a statement to the press. He denies that his forces have been crushed or his cause lost. He de- clares his armies are keeping their full strength in men, munitions and fighting capacity, in the northwestern Provinces to which they have retreat- ed, and that they are carrying on the educational work which will result finally in expelling foreign imperialists from China. Kuomintang Will Win. He predicts that Chang and Wu will be unable to agree, and hence cannot form a government at Peking, alttho he charges that they both are servants of the Japanese and British. His own party, the Kuomintang, he asserts, is in harmony with the Canton govern- ment, and is determined that all for- eign special privileges and all foreign troops shall go. His visit to the Soviet Union, Feng says, is for the purpose of study of “the first progressive revolutionery state of the world.” He was received by Foreign Minister Chicherin on May 9. SEND IN A SUB! Pe a AAA Walter M. 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