The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 3, 1926, Page 4

Page Four . THE DAILY WORKER COMPLETE F.-L. P, TICKET IS FILED IN NORTH DAKOTA Primary Election to Be Held June 30th (Special to The Daily Worker) BISMARCK, N. D., June 1.—Satur- day, May 30, was the last day for filling candidates in North Dakota to be voted on at the primary election, June 30. The farmer-labor party in the state has the following candi dates: William Lemke, U. S. senator; Ralph Ingerson, governor; D, I. Todd, commissioner of agriculture; C. W. Reichert, congress 2d district; Donald C. McDonald, congress 1st district; Allen McManus, state auditor; Char- ley G. Johnson, secretary of state. Reichert’s petition was not filed but it is understood that he will run on stickers along with the rest of the farmer-labor men. There are three candidates; as far as is known now, for U. S. senator, namely: ‘Gerald P. Nye, non-partisan leaguer, L. B. Hanna, oldtime stalwart republican and C. P. Stone a “wet” candidate. All three are republicans but they run without party designation. For gov- ernor there are: A. G. Sorlie, incum- bent; J. M. Hanley, the I. V. A. candi- date and J. A. McGovern, non-partisan leaguer and former manager of the State Mill and Elevator Association, May Defeat Nye. It is quite probable that both Nye and Sorlie will have rough sailing and their defeat is not unlikely. Stone will get some league votes and so will McGovern, and owing to the usually close vote in an election in North Dakota enough votes may be filtered away from Nye and Sorlie to defeat them, j » The farmer-labor candidates are not putting on an active campaign before the primaries for fear of “alienating” league support later on. They feel that both Nye and Sorlie will be elim- inated in the primaries, giving them an open road against the reactionary candidates in the fall election. Whether they put on an active cam- paign or riot chances are that they will get the blame anyhow in the event Nye and Sorlies are defeated. 35,710,829 WORKERS New York and United Labor Ticket ARTICLE Ill. By LEONA SMITH. A few months ago, Governor Smith's recommendations and policies set his republican legislature agog. were the epithets hurled at his projects by indig- Erection of houses for the poor financed by a state “Socialistic” nant fossils. “Paternalistic,” even housing bank, workmen's compensation and minimum wage laws, the forty-eight hour week for women—these were his paternal- istic policies. Governor Smith admits that he is protecting the “rights of the people the old party politicians. ”: he stands for the “service of the people.” In a country where universal suffrage So do all prevails, it is necessary for all candidates to win the support of the masses by appearing to advocate their demands. Even the blackest reactionaries, fresh from the conclaves of capitalist pay- masters, mount the campaign platform to fawn upon the “‘peo- ple.” It works. The working class believes them; the votes roll in. Policy of Smithism. Al Smith, however, in addition to pre-election promises, has stood for certain measures heralded as tending to improve the conditions of the work- ing class. If a worker hears that Smith wants to tear down whole blocks of mouldy tenements and put up fresh, sanitary homes at low rents, he may very well think, “This man is for me; he is the one for me to follow.” Hence the policy of Smithism demands a close scrutiny. Can Smithism fulfill the needs of the workers? Very few Smith’s reform measures haye been actually enacted. Wie have some workmen’s compensation acts (most of them with strings tied to them); we have compulsory education laws. But where are the forty-eight hours a week for women, the mini- mum wage law? These have not been enacted by the legislature. Is,He Workers’ Friend? And is Smith a sincere friend of the workers? In April, 1925, and again in May, 1926, he vetoed the Ricca bill raising teachers’ salaries, which had recgived such wholesale support from the voters of the state that in 1925 the legislature passed it unanimously. During Governor Smith's encumbency we have seen a state police force giv- en the right to interfere in case of riots. What does this mean? That these state troopers can be brought out in a strike to crush the workers. ORGANIZED IN TRADES UNIONS IN 23 COUNTRIES The United States, with about 18% of its industrial and commercial ‘workers organized, ranks at the bottom in the proportion of trade uniomtsts to the total working population. Russia leads with its workers nearly 100% organized. ‘These comparisons are for the first thru a study of international statistics time possible for a majority of nations of working populations by A. Voytin- sky, summarized by the United States¢——————— bureau of labor statistics. In the working population he includes all who derive their living from salaries or wages except managers, gdminis- trators and higher officials. Figures for trade union membership are those issued by the International Federation of Trade Unions (Amstedam). The total trade unionists in the 23 countries covered by the survey were $5,710,829. Voytinsky finds that the working population of these countries totaled 120,674,000 and that 69,397,000 were employed in industry, commerce and transportation. The remainder were employed in agriculture, the pro- fessions and in public service. Taking these world figures it ap- pears that trade unionism has reached about 29.6 per cent of the entire working class and about 51.5 per cent of those employed in industry, com- merce and transportation. Voytinsky gives Russia’s working population in 1920-21 as 6,000,000 but states that there has been a consid- erable increase since that year. Aside from Russia, Austria is the only country with more than half its work- ing class organized in trade unions. Austria boasts 58.6 per cent of its en- tire working class organized. Mem- bership in Austrian trade unions amounts to 97.7 per cent of the total workers in. industry, commerce and transportation. Germany follows Austria with trade union membership equal to 47.1 per cent of its working class and 70.9 per cent of its industrial and commercial workers. For other important countries the percentages are: Great Britain, 33.1 per cent and 45.6 per cent; Czecho- slovakia 39.9 per cent and 66 per The basic figures showing union membership, total worker population and number in industry in these coun- tries are: Strength of Organized labor Austria Belgium Czechoslovakia .. Denmark France .. Germany Great Britain . Holland Italy ... Norway Poland Russia Spain .. Switzerland Other European Nations United States cent; Sweden 30.8 per cent and 83.3 per cent and the United States 12.6 per cent and 18.2 per cent, + Union Working In Industry Member Class Total & Commerce 1,117,192 2,000,000 1,200,000 744,998 2,265,000 1,655,000 1,504,923 3,775,000 2,280,000 02,904 959,000 435,000 1,495,847 10,000,000 4,240,000 9,193,359 19,500,000 12,960,000 5,405,000 16,330,000 11,860,000 544,900 1,900,000 1,070,000 2,234,520 8,200,000 3,715,000 90,497 590,000 285,000 769,811 4,000,000 1,170,000 6,859,000 Cosecncstned oven oa 452,936 3,400,000 770,000 400,022 1,300,000 480,000 298,901 1,155,000 825,000 480,534 8,800,000 2,778,000 3,815,485 30,500,000 21,000,000 Nome Man Claims He Bought Arctic Isle Claimed by Soviet SEATTLE, Wash., June 1.—Car] Lo- men, Alaska, says that the Lomen Reindeer and Trading Corporation of Nome has filed a claim with the U. 8. state department for the owner- ship of Wrangel Island, off the Arctic coast of Siberia, Lomen declares in his claim, that he bought the island from Hjalmar Steffenson, explorer, who organized an expedition of four men in 1921 and took possession of the island. At the time the Soviet goverrment an- nounced that it would not permit the island to leave its soverignty. Lomen Bdmits that the matter is complicated by the lack of relations between the United States and Russia, ee t AMALGAMATED CLOTHING WORKERS’ UNION SENDS $10,000 10 MINERS, NEW YORK, June 1—The Amal- gamated Clothing Workers of Amer- ica today cabled the $10,000 voted by the Montreal convention to be sent to the striking British miners, Other funds are to follow as soon as they come in from the member- ship. Sidney Hillman, president of the union, expressed his regret that the union was not able to give more at this time because of the $40,000 donation that has been made to the Passaic striki and the New York fur strikers. The money was sent to A. J. Cook, secretary of the British Miners’ Federation, ee on pal ras cule etc i aN Se We have here the beginning of such an organization as the murderous Pennsylvania state constabulary. Who Does the Clubbing? In the big cities, workers are club- bed on the picket line, by whom—by the gangsters hired by the bosses? Yes, but also by the policemen who are the servants of that state of which Al Smith is governor. The garment workers and the furriers of New York can show with broken heads and bruised bodies what protection Gov- ernor Smith has given them. Injunc- tions granted by the courts to em ployers against striking workers are commonplace. One can hardly pick up a newspaper, without seeing this or that group of workers enjoined from striking, from collecting funds, from picketing. That governor is quite a “friend” of the workers who shuts his eyes to such trampling upon their rights. Labor Party. The workers have been fooled long enough by such officials. The only representatives of the workers are those eletted by a mass party of: the workers, by a labor party. On the economic field, whatever rights or im- provements the workers have won for themselves have been won thru the trade unions whose organized power has combatted the industrial power of the employers. So, on the political field, a labor party, composed of mil- lions of workers, can send their own representatives to the legislatures. Only when the workers act for them- selves can they fight the mighty forces against them. CONVICT PAYS $1200; LEAVES JOLIET PRISON Jail Officials Aid Mur- derer to Escape Thomas Ivers, when arrested by Chicago police ag an escaped convict, declared that he had not escaped but that it had been arranged by a g0- between to have him walk out of the “front office” for $1,200. Leaves by “Front Office.” In his testimony he brot out that he stole a suit of clothes while in prison and that after the necessary preliminaries had been made with the “front office’ by his go-between, he walked out with a number of visit- ors. “I got out of Joliet becatse it was all framed for me to get out, thru the front office,” said Ivers.' Serves Month and Half. “I was in for eighteen years for manslaughter and got out in a month and a half. A go-betweeh had come to me and told me it would cost me $1,200 to get out—$200 for himself and $1,000 for a certain official. Look Other Way. “On August 29, 1925, I joined some visitors and walked out with them thru the front office. Two officials were there and I know they saw me go out. But they looked “the other way when I walked past them.” He told of how the prison officiais gassed tunnels and sewer outlets lead- ing from the prison to make the “out- siders” believe that a real effort was being made to find him. While all these moves were being made, he was walking the. city streets a free man and tho the jailers knew where he was, he declared, they made no at- tempt to arrest him and bring him back to prison. The records at the Joliet peniten- tiary show that since May 1, 1923, 98 convicts escaped, 55 of whom were sentenced to life or long jail sen- tences, and are at large. It is not known how many of these were able to pay out ‘sums to go-betweens to fix their escape from the prison as Ivers did. RENEGADE SOCIALIST, 6. E. RUSSELL, BARRED FROM ENGLAND, LAUDED BY T. P, (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, June 1—“Tay Pay” O'Connor, reactionary M. P., praised Charles Edward Russell, ‘0 was barred from England and Irele by request of the Free State govern- ment, in the following words: “ have known Mr, Russel for 30 years. During the world war no- body did bigger service in rallying American opinion on the side of the allies.” The Free State government had refused to vise Russell’s passport because it claimed to have accurate infromation purporting, to show that Russell was coming to Ireland as an associate of what the govern- ment terms “irregularism.” How- ever, if Russell can shew that he is an “innocent journalist” he will be permitted to enter. Reports from Paris say that Rus- sell has refused to go to England un-, less he can also go to Ireland. The former member of the socialist party of America, who deserted for jingo- ism during the war, had intended to write articles about Ireland. Baptists Adopt Weak Resolution Against Military Training WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1.—The Northern Baptist convention adopted a mild resolution opposing compulsory military training in high schools and colleges. The convention also adopt- ed a resolution supporting the Anti- Saloon Yeague in its fight against any attempts toemodify the present Vol- stead amendments and urged the en- actment of laws that would put more teeth in dry act enforcement. The endorsements of the Anti- Saloon League followed a speech made by Wayne-B. Wheeler in which he urged the entactment. of stricter enforcement laws and pointed out the need to these ministers to intensify their fight on the “wets” as next month would be a hard month for the “drys” on Capital Hill, Rey. Samuel Judson, vice-chairman of the resolutions committee, in re- porting the mild resolution against compulsory military training in an apologetic tone declared that the reso- lution was not intended as a con- demnation of West Point or Annapolis but applied “broadly to schools and colleges of states and denominations..” New York City and Saratoga Barbers Need Not Work on Sundays ALBANY, N. Y—(FP)—New York City and Saratoga Springs barbers are at last freed from Sunday work. Gov. Al Smith signed the Winters bill prohibiting Sunday work for barbers, Mail Trains Race from New York to: Ithaca with Snake-Bite Serum. ITHACA, N. Y., June 1—Speeding a mile a minute, five men won a sensa- tional race with death, bringing serunr to save the life of Leoiiard Spears, merchant of this city, whd ‘was bitten by a diamond back rattlesnake in the Cornell laboratories last ‘hight. Dr. John Warren, of the City Hospital, says Spears has an evew chance to live, tho he has been in —- since he was bitten. The serum, sent from New York by Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars; curator of reptiles at the~Bronx Zoo) was inject- ed into Spears eleven hours after it had been dispatched on two fast mail trains. Spears, who is proprietor of the college store attached to Cornell Uni- versity, is known to hundreds as just “Len.” He was examining a shipment of snakes received at the laboratory. Spears accidentally passed his arm over one of the boxes just as a large rattler put its head thru. The reptile sunk its fangs in Spears’ right arm. Raid on German Ship in U. S. Harbor May Cause Complications LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 1.—In- ternational complications. of a mild sort are expected from the prohibition agents of the United States raiding the German warship Hamburg in Los Angeles harbor, according to dis- patches from Germany, where it is said the nationalist press is deeply in- sulted by the trespass on extra-terri- toriality rights of Germany by dry officers of the United States, The naval ships of foréign nations have an extra-territoriaf right to liquor identical with that’ of embas- sies, and it appears that'the canteen of the cruiser Hamburg was kept busy in Los Angeles harbor supplying thirsty Yahkees at the remunerative rate of one dollar per bottle of beer, perhaps thus seeking to Steck repa- ration funds. 1 Vare Will Support Cal: WASHINGTON, June 1.—Rep. Will- jam 8. Vare, Republican, senatorial nominee in Pennsylvania, has assur- ei President Cooldige that he would support the national policies of the administration in his campaign for election. In the primaries Vare ran as a wet, he also opposed the world court, which President Coolidge so heartily endorsed. CHICAGO WORKERS PARTY TO HOLD MEMBERSHIP MEETING ON JUNE 4 Chicago Workers (Communist) at the Northwest Hall, corner North and Western Ave., Friday night, June 4. William Z, Foster, C. E, Ruthenberg and William F, Dunne will be the speak:| y ers. A report on the work of the plenum and on the role of The aga iit kina will be made, Admission will be by membership card ONLY. 4 ’ i CLARENCE DARROW TO SPEAK FOR PASSAIC DEFENSE HERE JUNE 16 Clarence Darrow, famous criminal lawyer, recently added to the Na- tional Committee of International Lahor Defense, will be the principal speaker at a Passaic defense meet- ing to be held on June 16 in Temple Hall. Stanley Clark, well known speaker and organizer, will come direct from Passaic to tell the in- spiring story of the struggle of the 15,000 textile strikers. Darrow’s subject will be, “The Courts, the Law and the Workers.” Modification of the _ Immigration Law of 1924 Sought in Bill WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1—A bill to modify the provision of the im- migration law providing for an: ad- mission of immigrants after July 1, 1927, of two per cent quotas based on the population percentages of aliens taken from the census of 1890, has been . introduced by Congressman Sabath of Illinois. The bill retains the two per cent quota arrangement, but provides that it shall be based on the census of 1900, thus allowing a larger basis from which to figure the two percent. This would admit some. 28,000 more immigrants than under the original act, which is calculated to admit only 150,000. The Sabath bill also would provide for admission of wives, and children under age, and the fathers and mothers over 55 years, of American citizens, besides the children under 18 years of those who have declared their inten- tion to become citizens who have re- sided in the United States for over three years and had their declaration on file for over a year. Notable Lay Speakers at Catholic Congress; $8,000,000 Expense A rear admiral of the United States navy, an associate justice of the Unit- ed States supreme court and a United States senator will be a few of the notable lay speakers to address the International Eucharistic Congress in Chicago, June 20-24. The financial outlay for the con- struction of buildings, thrones and sta- diums to house the thousands of clergy and hundreds of thousands of Catholic visitors has already topped the $8,000,000 mark. It is expected that $10,000,000 will be required in all to cover the expense of the international Catholic congress. Anti-Pilsudski Move in Galicia Draws a Martial Manifesto BERLIN, May 31. — The Pilsudski dictatorship has declared a state of siege in Lemberg, Cracow, Przemysl and other towns as a result of a revo- lutionary movement having broken out in East Galicia. The‘former regent Bobrzynski of Galicia, tho backed by a big deputation of land owners who called upon him to run for the presi- dency, yestreday refused to accede to the proposal. Pope Bestows His “Blessings” on ~ Marshal Pilsudski LONDON, June 1.—The blessing of the pope was bestowed on Marshal Pilsudski, according to a Central News dispatch from Warsaw. Pilsudski, who now is practieally dictator of Poland, received the bless- 4 Monadnock Building, Chicago, for a ere tr en erent eee NEE OPEN SHOP EMPLOYING PRINTERS PROMISE STRIKEBREAKING AID TO INLAND DAILY PRESS ASSOCIATION CHICAGO,—(FP)—Assurance that strikes in American newspaper offices would be smashed promptly by scabs was given to the members of the In- land Daily Press Assn.,.an organiza- tion of 246 newspapers with a com- bined circulation of over 4,000,000 cop ies, by Secy.-Treas. Wil V. Tufford at the May meeting in Chicago. . It was a distinct but unacknowledged tribute to the shutdown of newspapers in England by e Tecent general strike. Tuffer® discussed the asso- ciation’s progress in arranging for strikebreakers to insure continuous publication of American newspapers. Tufford declared that the Inland as- sociation has made a deal with the Open Shop Employing Printers Assn., a corporation with headquarters in the sufficient labor supply. \ Will Furnish Strikebreakers “This means that if you have a strike on your hands they'll fill your shop with printers for you,” he ex- plained. “We're sitting pretty on the labor question, we have connections with the Open Shop league and with the bureau at Indianapolis.” Other newspaper secrets were more or less naively blurted out by speakers on the program, not reported in the daily press, “All newspapers and all their de- partments are run on the same plan,” said Edward W. Cochrane, sports ed- itor of the Kansas City Journal-Post. “That plan is to get circulation in or- der to get advertising.” | Friendly to Big Business All big business organizations now have their public relations depart- ments because they realize that news- papers want to treat them fairly, Mary Dougherty, Chicago Evening Ameri- can writer, told the Inland. The inevitable rose-window “‘ideal- ism” of the canting big business news- paper was furnished by Walter A. Strong of the Chicago Daily News. “There is always a danger of too rapid advancement of ideas and ideals,” he said. “The newspapers are working toward some goal almost too dim to be discerned.” Besides the Chicago Tribune and the News, the Inland has members in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebel Cali- fornia and Ontario. Gate? SEND IN A SUB! ON THE JOB SUBS RECEIVED MAY 22, 24, 25, 26. “ Points Total] PITTSBURGH, PA BOSTON, MASS. Harry Canter 100 Alex Carlson 100 H. Gage .. 295 Clara Halpern 45 145 Bessie Lief 30030 . Lift 10 10 s. Ny 100 100 Herbert Newton 10 , 10 Elsie Pultur 200 Ty730 R, Shohan 285755 100 10 200 100 JERSEY CITY, N. J— A. F. W. Bakers Union, Local 6 7 H. W. Schmidt 30 100 NEW YORK CITY— D. Amariglio .. 20 20 G. Ashkenudse 100 © 100 2 Os 100 1 H. 20 20 Da 20 «40 J. 40 40 Charles Burns 100 P. B. Cowdery 150 John A. Fitch 30 Zolton Fre 120 Joseph Gaal 500 L. Goodman 30 Morris Gottf 100 Rearl Gottlieb 3030 J. Gralton 100 290 Leo Granoff 10 10 100 110 75 (195 20 20 L. Hirshman / 780 Helen Horn J. Josephson Leo Kling Norman Ki G. Konowaloft May Lebow S. Leibowitz Simon Lipshitz R. A. Martinez Sam Mepdelovite 3Bscasense8sasseasasscsssazezdassaceses A. Garfinkel J. Mankin W. H, Scarville Wm. Schmidt Ernest Hill, tL pode J. Casper, W M. Esterkin, Cincinnati, Ohio CLEVELAND, OHIO— Scott Wiinine, Lima, Ohio wun NEFFS, OHIO— Kon -Okraska_ .. Charles Perunko TOLEDO, OHIO— Cc. E. Beuhler 100 20 100 e Si * ville, Ohio 100 W. B. Landell, Springfield, O, 55 155 DETROIT, MICH M. Buch 45 30 20 100 100 45 100 5 20 Emil Sobol 45 James Sutton 20 Sarah Victor 3s ey SuasdeSéuge Amos E. Kirk, B CHICAGO, ILLc— L. H. Gruene: John Heinrichson 145 = 2,200 Anna Lawrence 45 180 Ee. bu 45 45 “4 155 45 65 J. Pajouja D. Rodin Sonia Neiman 48]. L. May, Springfield, 11 ing from Cardinal Kakovski, Parone fs 3; Lorem, rie Mint bs] ize Podol 110 at zi Moro Bands Rebel Mark Poiner’ 4 na * eyes in the Philippines 95 180 J. Rosenzweig i 110 MANILA, June 1.—Seven members| 0D. Ross 130 20 of the Philippine constabulary have Bi," ne been killed, 34 wounded and more 165 14 than 100 Moros were killed in the of- oon % 2 fensive of the American troops against} L. 10) J Afrepp. . Dal 100 rebellious Moro bands, 4 bag Emma <4 yas 4 . — r 20 20| H. McDonald ry ata Wyo. oe 3 : . 40 -85| 0. Kaatta’ Mont. Russian W. P. Fraction BBL k Hinks sie ae 2 2 im, fe ha le, Meets Wednesday Night| 4. "Yous 2) 2 rd, Bayview, Wash. 48 48 PATERSON, N. J ogc! 4 ° S. penish, 4 “ The Chicago Russian fraction of the Lig a Seanecey” eke Workers Party will meet Wednesday, | 7. ® Bote cee 0 i June 2, at the Worker's, House, 1902 o W. Division St. 100 = 100 io 4 Final preparations for the picnic to |p, is E90 beheld Sunday, June 6, at Marvel Inn SoS 0% Grove, will be made, . Ze 10 30 85 (185 All comrades are requested to come nga 100 100 45 45 on time, at 8 p. m. . mf 2 20 i Tae ‘ 45 45 1 = 10 130455 Moscow or bust! Don’t bust before 20 20 2 862 you get a sub—but get 5 subs and you 7 \t 3:3 can have your bust, 20 «20 20 20 30 30 yet 100 100 hadith ned 45 46 46 65 190 1,020 tines 45 100 2 2 100 100 aa %0 % rty membership meeting will be held) “0 amated Clothing Workers rwseronseenone 100 Bi 80 wo Emil Hone ir 465 «0 “0 M. 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