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7 The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 125. lage Pe eS COMMIT ° AND 4 4 by £5 So &e OVER CONFISL Ay rs ° 4 yp Subscription Rates: by Op In Chi Outside 70, by FASCISTI IN ,,. STRUGGLE JN REFERENDUM (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, June 6.—Communist and fascist forces are girding hicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, themselves for the great struggle to come following the referen- dum June 20 on the dispossession of the kaiser and his family, with numerous other members of the deposed German royalty. Fascisti bands are organizing thruout the nation declaring that if the referendum passes they will seek to overthrow the republic and institute a monarchy. The German workers and farmers, under Communist leadership, are preparing to battle the fascisti when the black-shirted gangs attempt to seize power. st +> MAGNUS OPENS | FL CAMPAIGN IN MIRNESOTA Davis Forces Attempt the dispossession of the royal family will fall on the following proposal: Confiscate Entire Fortunes. ARTICLE 1. “The entire fortunes of the prin- ces who have ruled in any one of the German states until the revolu- tion of 1918, as well as the’ entire fortunes of the princely houses, their families and family members, are confiscated without compensa- tion in the interest of the general welfare. 2 Will Aid Workers. The referendum calling for} to Split Ranks (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 6. — Mognus Johnson opened his primary campaign with a speech at Willmar on June 3 and it is possible now to draw some conclusions as to the strength of the contending forces in a struggle from which the farmer- Inbor movement in this state will emerge greatly clarified and strength- ened no matter what the formal out- come may he. Thomas Davis, the Minneapolis at- torney who was overwhelmingly de- feated by Magnus in the convention of the Farmer-Labor Association, enter- ed the farmer-labor primary in defi- ance of the decision of that body and ARTICLE Il. “The confiscated property is to be used to aid: (a)—The unemployed, (b)—The war invalids and war widows and orphans. { (c)—Those dependent upon the public. (d)—The needy victims of the inflation, (e)—The tenants and pe: creation of fre confiscated estates. “The castles, residences and other buildings are to be used for general welfare, cultural and educational purposes, especially for conv: cent hospitals and homes for war in- valids, war widows and orphans, and for the socially dependent as well as agricultural laborers, ints, through the rm land in the * (Continued on page 2) (Continued on pagé 2) sapien (Copyright, 1926, by UptonSinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. : Dad and his young son, both dressed alike, and richly, are motoring over @ smooth and flawless concrete road hl father is his hi ins and climb higher ‘and higher. Then down the other side at a good clip, with a weather eye for speed cops, whom Dad ha As Dad drove he mused to him: thinking of altogether di They it, we painted, California town. The only hint of itary cow-boy in “chaps” and an old indian mumbling his lips. For the rest, it wa othe tionally advertised magazin tisements of the nationally, a ined ar i “Elit fe’ for a bite , Me go Mg they tee drive carefully thru another the waitress. They leave the town, full ~~ and hit it up on a board boulevard called Mission Way. Th © with queer Spanish names indicating a history behind each one. d in “Verdrugo (Executioner) Canyon.” fo ra Ne aplales of the Sranufacturer of a nationally advertised auto- is mostly “bunk.” mobile—that history is mg My > . ° VII The road was asphalt now; it shimmered in the heat, and whenever it fell away before you, a mirage made it look like water, It was lined with orange-groves; dark green shiny trees, ** golden with a part.of last year’s crop, and snowy white with “the new year’s blossoms. Now and then a puff of breeze blew ~~” out, and you got.a ravishing sweet odor. There were groves of walnuts, broad trees. with ample foliage, casting dark shadows on the carefully cultivated, powdery brown soily There were hedges of roses, extending for long distances, eight or ten feet high, and . covered with blossoms. There were wind-breaks of towering - thin eucalyptus trees, with long way leaves and bark that scales off and leaves them haked; all the world is:familiar with them in the moving pletures, where they do duty for sturdy oaks and ancient elms and spreading chestnuts and Arabian date-palms ‘and cedars of Lebanon and whatever else thie scenario calls for. * You had to cut your speed down here, and had to watch in- -cessantly; there were intersections, and lanes coming in, and warning signs of many sorts; there was traffic both ways, and delicate decisions to be made as to whether you could get. past the car ahead of you, before one coming in the other direction would bear down on yéu and shut you in a pair of scissors. It was exciting to watch Dad’s handling of these emergencies, to read his intentions and watch him carry them out. - “Railroad Crossing,” proclaimed a sign, two white boards ssed and painted in black letters. The road made a jog to the t to get across, and there was a big red sign, “Danger: Listen r the Bell.” Dad took his swift glimpse backwards and then ung across the track, a turn to the left and then one to the : fad (Continued on page 5) ginning Toda uw A 1) * J, on Page 3 Entered at Second-class matter September 2), 19 mall, $8.00 per year, SENATOR BUTLER, BOSS OF MASS., CAN SEND SACCO AND V TUESDAY, Capitalist Politics If he picks up one bucket he gets doused Wit! s, at the Post OMice at Cuicacs —_ the other. ZETTI TO DEATH OR SAVE HEIR LIVES By LAURENCE TO WASHINGTON, June 6.—Most po because he had succeeded the late M Political machine in the state. This machine made Calvin Coolidge and it made the present governor of Massachuset' ernor of Massachusetts, elected on the republican ticket, does not ordinarily Tefuse to do. With these facts in mind, The Fed- erated Press has sought an interview with Senator Butler on the Sacco- Vanzetti case. It has asked him what the governor is likely to do, since the court of last resort in Massachusetts has declined to interfere with the execution of these two working class radicals on the charge of murder, of which they were convicted when pub- lic feeling against labor radicals had been brought by organized employers to a fever heat. It has tried to smoke out Butler as to any human feeling he may have— now that he is a candidate before the people for election to the senate— d&-to the proposed execution of these two Italian-Americans on evidence which appears as unreliable and fanci- ful as that perjured testimony upon which Tom Mooney was convicted in California. Would Butler say one word indicating that the convicted men, fighting against his group in the industrial war in Massachusetts, should be saved from death? Butler's soft little hands fumbled his ‘watch chain while he hunted for safe words in which to evade the is- (Continued on page 2) GARMENT STRIKE PICKETS MUST GO TO PRISON Thirty men and women pickets ar- rested during the 1922 International Ladies’ Garment Workers strike for refusing to obey the injunction issued by “Injunction Judge” Denies 1. Sulli- van must start serving their jail sen- tences either today or tomorrow, Attempts were made to quash the sentences against the strike pickets by various organizations. These at- temps proved friutless as Judge Sul- livan, lackey of the open-shop inter- ests in Chicago, insisted that the pickets must serve their sentence ranging from 10 days to 60 days in the county jail, Keep July 3rd, 4th Daily Worker Encampment, on North Shore of Long Island. it can unmake the] ” or it tan prométe him. What Butler decrees, the gov- “THE STORY OF A PROLETARIAN LIFE” DD, Federated 8s. werful of all mén in Massachusetts just now is William M, Butler, United States senator, chairman of the republican national committee, and textile mill magnate, at the hands of the republican governor of the st He tor by appointment and he was appointed urray Crane asjruler of the republican 4 , ais NEW YORK, June 6. —- The co- operation of fur workers in the settled shops was pledged to the Forty-Hour Liberty Bond. committee of the New York Furriers’ Union this afternoon at a meeting of-chairmen of ‘signed-up shops which ‘was ‘held in Webster Hall after work. 2,500 Back. These representatives of the 2,500 workers who have already returned to their jobs—wnder the terms of the new agreement+-subscribed for sev- jéral thousand dollars worth of bonds and brot the total of bond sales above the $25,000 mark, They will go back to the members of their shops with the report of the remarkable success of this loan and will urge their fellow-workers to buy more of the bonds which will help all the fur workers to win the forty-hour week which these workers in the set- tled shops now have. $100,000 Issue. The members of the Forty-hour Liberty Bond committee are now to be found in the strike meeting halls every day administering the sale of the bonds and@ the response of the furriers so farcmakes® it certain that the whole $100,000 bond issue will be subscribed very ,soon. “Get Into the Union!” Call to Sleeping Car Porters by Unionists NEW YORK, June 6—A month's grace has been sgiven all Pullman porters and maiés who ‘have not yet joined or who have only paid part of their fees to theBrotherhood of Sleep- ing Car Porters. The organization drive is to be wound up so that the union can go before the new rail labor machinery as strong as possible. “With 51% wewill get 51% con- sideration,” says A, Philip Randolph, general organizer. “But with 80% or 90% organized, we can and will get a much higher consideration.” Back dues will not be required of all who join before the end of June. The union claims well over half the 12,000 porters and maids already in its ranks. and 5th open for N. Y. , JUNE 8, 1926 WORKERS GROWS iunols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. QE 290 PASSAIC STRIKE CONFERENCE IS CALLED IN N.Y. Object (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, June 6.—To or- ganize the Passaic strikers’ relief work in this city a delegate confer- ence has been called to meet here dur- ing the present month. The call has been sent to the labor unions, work- ers’ fraternal organizations and to all sympathetic associations inviting them to send delegates to this conference. Every effort has been made to cover all organizations, but any organization not receiving an invitation to the con- ference is asked to communicate at once with the local ‘office of the Gen- eral Relief Committee, Textile Strik- ers, 799 Broadway, Room 508. Support the 16,0000. The call for the conference cites the periodic and spontaneous strikes in the textile industry, and tells how the unorganized textile workers, driven and exploited beyond endurance, have had to revolt time and again againsi further wage reductions and inhuman conditions. The big Passaic strike is such a revolt. And it tells how spy sys- tems, persecutions, suffering from vocational diseases and further wage reductions compelled 16,000 textile workers of Passaic and vicinity to leave the mills and enter the most heroic and courageous struggle that labor hsitory knows. Against Company Unions. The call states in part “the textile mill owners, having organized them- selves into their employers’ union, have now issued an ultimatum that their own union. Worse than this— they have offered the workers poison in the form of a bosses’ union—a com- pany union. The fight is now for a real workers’ union for these strikers. In this battle your organization must stand by and lend a hand. All CanHeip. “Your organization cannot, of course, help-on the picket line in Pas- saic, withstand the violence of the brutal police, brave the jails and riot guns, the tear gas bombs and other, forms of cruelty invented by the bosses. But you can help the textile strikers to victory, you can help them to win their union, if you will help them and their families to bread, their babies to milk.” All friends of the Passaic strikers are called upon to work energetically for the sticcess of this conference. The babies of the textile strikers must have milk, and the strikers staunchly backed up in the fight they are waging for*the right to organize— the fight of all labor. JUDGE VACATES WRIT AGAINST SHOE WORKERS Brooklyn Court Quashes Injunction _ By SYLVAN A. POLLACK, (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, June 6,—Justice Carswell, sitting in supreme court, Brooklyn. vacated a temporary injunc- tion issued against the Shoe Workers Protective Union, under which P. Pascal Cosgrove, organizer, was fined $250 for contempt of court, and six pickets were sentences to 10 days in Jail. The fine and conviction of the shoe workers is a result of a strike called in the Weismann Bros. Shoe Co. fac- tory in Brooklyn, five months ago. It followed the discharging of all the male workers in the fitting room. In spite of the injunction order the union kept up the fight and maintained a picket line which resulted in the tem- porary injunction being issued by Judge Selah B, Strong. The dismissal of the suit canceled the penalties for contempt against Cosgrove and the six pickets, More Determined Than Ever. “Altho the pickets have been on duty for the past five months they are now more determined than ever to carry on the fight until the shop is organized 100%,” declared Cos- grove, Moscow or bust! Don’t bust before you get a sub—but get 5 subs and you can have your bust. United Relief Efort Is| PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. | the textile strikers are not to have chairman, invited Herbert Smith, th: BY VANZETTI 2: Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. | NEW YORK | EDITION Price 3 Cents British Miners Battle Bravely In Victory Drive Weer eae began the sixth week in the great battle of the one millien British coal miners. Never has such a large con- tingent of labor's hosts struggled more valiantly and doggedly than the coal diggers of England, Scotland. and Wales. Their fight is not one merely of the weeks since the first of May. It has been going on for years. They faced “Black Friday” with a determined grin and fought on. When they were deserted by the reactionary right-wing leaders of the British Trade Union Congress, who maliciously destroyed the solidarity of the whole British working class who were supporting the miners to a man —the miners fought on alone. The whole force of capitalist Britain is arrayed against them. Their funds are all but depleted. Their wives and children are starving. But they have not weakened. The rank and file of British labor is still with the miners. The workers of the continent are doing their best to help. The workers of America must do their share. It is a first charge upon the labor movement of the world, America included, to render every possible assistance to the British coal miners. COOK BLASTS COOK, PURCELL TALK OF MINE APPEAL TOU. S. STRIKE BREAK Shatters Owners’ Hope by Clear Statement (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, June 6.—A. J. Cook put an end to talk that the deadlock be- tween the miners and the mine owners was thought to have been broken when Evan Williams, the owners’ miners’ president, to an informal con- ference. The latter two have become sort of friendly enemies thru years of negotiations and it is recalled that Smith gave Williams a very sharp cross-examination at the time of the meeting of the royal coal commission. But-Smjthveft for-Wrussets to-at- tend a meeting of the éxecutive of the International Miners’ Federation. Cook stayed over until today and then flew to Brussels by plane, Before he left he restated the miners’ position as followss* “We shall consider any proposal that comes from the. owners with atl earnest desire fo ‘try to reach a settle- ment on the»basis*of what the miners have declared to be the only reason- able terms they can entertain.” And so hopes of a strike settlement have again gone glimmering. The coal owners have latterly shown a desire to compromise in the matter of higher wages. But they hope at the same time to effect a lengthening of hours. It was for this purpose that Williams invited Smith to meet him. But the miners’ executive is as firm in their demands as the men in the coal fields. Whatever they do in any case will have to be sanctioned by a ballot among the coal diggers themselves. It was reported today that the mine owners are considering a new tactic. There are rumors that they are going ,{to dissolve their association to force the miners to deal with them by dis- tricts. The miners’ struggle for a national agreemént ‘as Opposed to dis- trict agreements has been one of the central battles of the present fight. The miners stand solid, however, and would not be intiniidated by such a move. ‘ CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR SUPPORTS SACCO AND VANZETTI At its regular meeting yesterday afternoon the Chicago Federation’ of Labor passed a resolution calling for the support of the Chicago labor movement behind the campaign to save Sacco and Vanzetti from death in the electric chair. Members of the International La- dies’ Garment Workers’ Union in- troduced a resolution asking all sec- tions of organized labor in the city to mobilize in defense of the 91 members who have been sentenced to jail terms by Judge Dennis Sul- livan on contempt charges for viola- ting an injunction issued by that judge during their strike two years ago. This was passed with the provi- sion that Chicago locals be appealed to for funds to support the families of the defendants in case the strug- gle to free them fails and they are forced to go to jail. FOR MINE AID Two Cables Ask Quick | Help for Strikers The national office of International Workers’ Aid received the following cablegram from Great Britain: CAN {YOU HELP BRITISH MINERS AT JONCE. SEND IMMEDIATELY TO | PREVENT STARVATION. Thie cable was signed by A. J. Cook, secretary of the British Miners’ Federation. George Lansbury, labor M. P. and editor of Lansbury’s Weekly, and Marion Craw- ford, secretary of the British section of Workers’ international Relief. National Appeal. « “Fr G, Bieaenkapp, national secretary of International Workers’ Aid, replied that the organization is making an urgent appeal to all workérs’ organiza- tions and 60,000 individuals in this country by mail immediately, to for- ward funds to 1553 W.. Madison St Chicago, ll, for transmission to the British Miners. Purcell Cables. A. A. Purcell, president of the In- ternational Federation of Trade Un- ions and a member of the General Council of the British Trade Union Congress forwarded the following ap- peal to American Workers thru In- ternational Wofkers’ Aid. “On behalf of the struggling mass of British miners and their families | appeal to all workers the world over to respond to their appeal for aid and sustenance. Their struggle is not merely one of the past few weeks but one expending over a period of four years, Their persist- ence has been continuous for a long period and their resistance is now at a low ebb. Nevertheless, their long agony has in no sense broken their spirit, on the contrary they are firm to a high degree.” Stiliing Furriers: Help to Send Daily Worker to Passaic NEW YORK, June 6.—The striking furriers of New York haye just given another splendid example of the spirit of class ‘solidarity. The New York office of The DAILY WORKER issued collection lists for the purpose of securing-eontributions with which to pay for The DAILY WORKER to be sent to the, Passaic textile strikers. There was no thought of collecting money from strikers themselves. But when one of these lists got in- to the hands of furriers in their strike meeting in Beethoven Hall every one present contributed from meager funds in order that The DAILY WORKER might spread its message of hope among the striking textile workers of Passaic, The list circulated by M. Spivak, secretary of Beethoven Hall, contained $18.20 when it was brought in The DAILY WORKER of- fice, and was headed “From Furrier Strikers Of Beet- hoven Hall to Comrade Strikers of Passaic.” This is the first list to be returned of all those that were sent out, and will pay for The DAILY WORKER to be sent for two months to 18 striking textile workers. life story of a worker, sentenced to death with Sacco, for his battles for his class, éi