The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1926, Page 2

Page Two GRUNDY POURED FLOW OF GOLD INTO CAMPAIGN Rich Manafacturer Gave $307,575.00 (Special to The Daily Worker) Pictures on Page Three, WASHINGTON, June 14. — Joseph R. Grundy, president of the Penn- sylvania Manufacturers’ Association, poured a golden flow of “loans” into the campaign funds of Senator George Wharton Pepper in Pennsylvania’s re- cent “million dollar” senatorial race, receiving only “rubber stamped” re- ceipts for his money, William H. Fol- well, treasurer of the Philadelphia re- publican citizens campaign committee told the senate “slush fund” commit- tee today. The “loans,” 18 in all, totalled $307,- 575, Folwell said. He produced the receipts which had been given Grundy by an assistant clerk of the committee, which the Pepper “angel” described last week as “unsecured notes.” All had been rubber stamped with Fol- well’s name, Fake Dates. When Folwell turned the Grundy notes over to the senate committee, Senators Reed, democrat, of Missouri, and Kind, democrat, of Utah, expres- sed surprise that all the receipts had been written on the same typewriter and apparently at the same time, des- pite the difference in the dates of the loans. The receipts were in a tiny pack, all uniform in size but not on a printed form. Frank J. Gorman, Folwell’s assist- ant, later told the committee he had given Grundy all the receipts or “un- secured notes” at one time, several days after his final contributions. This testimony was in conflict with Fol- well’s. All records of the “loans” were kept by a girl clerk, named Marie Howard, in Gorman’s office, the latter testified. It was from her records, Gorman said, that he later made up the list of re- ceipts for Grandy. Reed cross examined Fotwell closely as to how he expected to get back $90,000 which he and Grundy had ob- tained from the Corn Exchange Bank of Philadelphia for Pepper watchers on election day. After a number of evasive replies, Folwell finally said he expected Grondy to “make good” on the note “if republicans failed to meet it with contributions.” Depend on Business. “You expecte@the manufacturers to contribute something as individuals, didn’t you?” “Yeu” |. “Name some of those individual manufacturers you expect will help pay this note” “I don’t recall any from memory.” “Was Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, one?” “No.” “Was W. lL. Mellon, his nephew” “No.” “Do you expect to get any of this Money back now from the Mellon family?” “T can’t tell.” “Harmony” meeting. “Do you think the harmony meeting on Saturday between the Mellon-Pep- per and Vare forces was intended to facilitate the collection of this money?” “I don’t know.” Of all the money advanced the com- mittee by Grundy, the witness said, added that the committee had “borro only the $90,000 was borrowed. He added that the committee had “bor- Towed” no money except that ad- yanced by Grundy. Somebody has paid interest on the $90,000 note since it was made, Fol- well said, but he didn’t know who. If it hadn’t been paid, he explained, the bank probably would have notified him. Raised $650,000 for Coolidge. In the 1924 presidential campaign, Folwell said he and Grundy raised $650,000 for Coolidge. “Did you sent that to the Coolidge campaign committee?” “Most of it, but a little was sent to the repnblican woman’s committee,” said Polwell VIOLENT RAIN STORM DESTROYS FARM GROPS, TAKES MANY LIVES Ten persons are dead and thous ands of dollars worth of property damage has been done in the mid- west, following a serles of violent rain storms. Flyve persons were drowned in Texas, storms ended the lives of three In lowa and two are dead In Iineis. In the Chicago area the rainfall totaled more than two Inches. In Chicago hundreds of homes and basements were flooded. Many fami- Hes forced to vacate thelr resi- dents, Crops thruout the storm country ‘ave been damaged. In Kansas, Oklahoma and West- ern Missourl the damage done ripen- Ingpyheat was reported extensive, HE forty-hour week is won for the fur industry! With the conclusion of the settle- ment conference in the Hotel Penn- sylvania an agreement went into effect between fur workers and fur manu- facturers which gives the forty-hour, five-day week to the furriers for the full year. Victory has crowned the 17 weeks’ bitter struggle of the 12,000 fur workers of New York City, and the Union has won its most important demands, With the forty-hour week the work- ers have gained a 10% increase in the minimum wage scale, with extensive reclassification of the minimum; no overtime; no sectional contracting, and limitation and control of sub-con- tracting; no apprentices in the trade for 2 years; no discharge of workers on a week preceding a holiday. It was agreed that during the months of Sep- tember, October, November and De- cember the furriers be permitted to work for 4-hours on Saturdays with additional pay. The agreement is to run for 3 years. The announcement of the pending setflement came at 10:30 p. m. after the conference had been in session for six hours. The strikers were gathered in the lobby of the Hotel, Pennsylvania all eyening, and crowded into the headquarters of the joint board waiting for news from their rep- resentatives. The rumor that it was good news had spread thruout the ranks, and confidence in their leaders made the workers certain that there could be no other result of the con- ference. Since February 19, the fur workers have been working night and day, enduring the brutalities of the police, their arrests and the fines and prison sentences of the courts. But all these things are forgotten now that the forty hour—five day work week is won together with so many other of the workers’ demands. Today’s conference followed an all- night session between the strikers and Motty Hitlingon, a fur merchant, who acted as mediator between the union and the manufacturers. Mr, Hitlingon also held conferences with the bosses, and as a result of the conversations the basis of a settlement was agreed upon and today’s settlement confer- ence was called with Dr. Paul Abel- son, impartial chairman in the fur industry, acting as chairman. Those representing the strikers at the meeting were Ben Gold, manager manager of the joint board, Aaron Gross, I.' Shapiro, Louis Cohen and Mrs. Fannie Warshofsky. Ben Gold announced that no agree- ment would go into effect until it had been ratified by the strikers, but there is no doubt of the strikers’ verdict on the forty-hour week victory. It is expected that the majority of the strikers will return to work by VICTORY FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK Story of How New York Furriers’ Strike Ended. the middle of next week, and the rest will be back in the shop by the begin- ning of the following week. So will close the greatest strike in the history of the furrier’s union. eee Long Strike Brings Real Gains to the N. Y. Fur Workers By ESTHER LOWELL Federated Press Correspondent, NEW YORK — (FP) — The 12,000 fur workers of New York are breath- ing more freely, Their four months’ strike is over and they consider that they have come out the victors. The basic 40-hour week, which is so important to them for the protection of their health, has been won. They still have their ten legal holidays, only three without pay and these in the dull month. They have a 10% in- crease in their minimum wage scales and a reclassification. of work which makes a further pay raise for a great many of them. No workers can be dis- charged the week before a holiday— the employers’ old trick to avoid pay- ment for the workers’ day off. No ap- prentices are to be taken on for two \years, Contract Runs for Three Years. Overtime is not allowed, except dur- ing the four months from Setpember to December, inclusive, when employ- ers may hire workers for four hours extra on Saturday — at extra pay. There is to be no sectional contract- ing. Other points agreed upon deal with the more technical phases, The contract runs for three years, retro- active to Feb. 1, 1926, when the old agreement expired. So ends one of the most determined fights any union has put up for its demands. Ben Gold, joint board man- ager who became strike committee leader, and his associates have the enthusiastic support of the workers to whom they brot such real gains by the long fight. The only mass demonstration left for the fur workers now, after so fre- quent mass picketing marches thru the manufacturing district, is the march of the workers back to the shops when they reopen. About 2,000 of the strikers went back in settled shops weeks before the main body were thru with their fight. Those who went back donated liberally from their earnings to the strikers and at all times showed their staunch support to their fellow workers. Victory Enthuses Other Workers. The 40-hour, week slogan under which the fur strikers fought so val- iantly will soon be picked up by the cloakmakers and the capmakers, both of which union groups are now seek- ing new agreements, but for which they will doubtless have to strike. GERMAN CRISIS LOOMS AS JUNE 20 VOTE NEARS Rights Threaten; Work- ers’ Demand Grows (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, June 14. — It is only a few days until the referendum calling for the expropriation of the property of German ex-royalty and nobility will | go to vote on Juno 20th. In the mean- time the country is agitated by the threats of the right parties foretelling dire results if the referendum passes and the widespread demand from the workers, led by the Communist Party of Germanw, for quick expropriation. 20,000,000 Needed. Twenty million votes are needed to carry the referendum, Thru the activi- ty of the Communist Party in a united front movement with the social-dem- ocrats, the petition that made the referendum possible. was signed by twelve and a half million voters. This referendum puts the issue of monarchism and the right of the state to expropriate private property square- ly before the German electorate, An extremely bitter contest is foreseen. There is little doubt that the neces- sary votes in addition to the twelve and a half million already pledged can be acquired to pass the referendum. Up To Hindenburg. Then it remains for Hindenburg to sign. He is against the referendum. He will have to either sign it or re- sign. The present Marx cabinet also hangs in the balance on this question. The important sections of the bill being put to referendum are as fol- lows: reads: “All possessions of the reign- ing houses who, until the 1918 revolu- tion, ruled in Germany, including the personal fortunes of all members of such houses, shall be confiscated for the common weal, without indemnifi- cation. The ownership of said proper- ties shall be vested in the various states ruled by the said reigning houses, respectively.” For War Victims. Article Il provides: “The proper- ties to be sequestered shall be applied in support of the war victims, widows, and orphans; pensioners <*™ stall an- nuitants; needy victims of the infla- tion period; small farmers and small laborers who will be granted allot- ments of land out of the confiscated landed properties.” Article I of the confiscation bill | PARLIAMENTARY CRISIS GROWS IN CZECHO-SLOVAKIA Government nt Tariff Bill Causes Rioting (Special to The Daily Worker) PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, June 14. —Prolonged rioting in the parliament | marks the opening of a new crisis for the government. Beginning in par- |liament the rioting spread to the streets and a number of persons were wounded when the police fired on the crowds. The introduction of the government bill for a grain tariff produced an uproar without parallel. More than 1,000 amendments were introduced to the tariff bill but the president made use of the standing rule and forced a vote on the bill as a whole, United Front Against Bill. The Czech party, the Communists and social democrats all took part in the demonstrations against the Dill which the opposition parties believe will bring reprisals in the form of boycotts on Czecho-Slovakian goods by neighboring countries, The bill was passed in its first reading but the opposition to it is continuing. Bomb Explodes at Mexican Political Meet; Sixty Hurt (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, June 14. — Sixty persons were Injured, when a bomb exploded at a political meeting yester- day in the village of Union de Tula, state of Jalisco, it was learned today. Among those seriously wounded was Recardo Robles, who was speaking in behalf of his own candidacy for the federal chamber of deputies. Seek New Oil Fields, Mexico City, Jute 13. — Mexican government oil experts hope to find deposits in the state of Neuvo Leon, Tampaulipas and Coahuila rivalling those of the celebrated Panuco fields in Tampico, If oil is found in these states concessions will be given oil companies in an attempt to stem the exodus of capital from Tampico to 'Veneziela, THE DAILY WORKER TWO MORE UNION | oO, Onea Woman Who Was Beaten Before Arrest Two more members of the Interna- tlonal Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union went to the Cook county Jail to begin serving time for their part in the garment workers‘ strike here in April, 1924, when they were sentenced for violation of an Injunction issued by the labor-hating Judge Sullivan. More victims will go to the jaii during the week. The two who turned themselves over today were Mrs. Victoria Cieslakie- wicz, mother of four children, who must serve, 45 days and pay a fine of $200.00, and Meyler Krantz, who has 20 days to do and a fine of $50.00. Beaten Before Arrest. Mrs. Ciseslakiewicz was arrested on the picket line during the 1924 Strike after having, the night \previ- ously, been dragged into a doorway and severely beaten by two hired slug- gers. She was then taken to a room and held a prisoner for seven hours, after which she was thrown out into the street in a dazed condition. When she was taken up before Judge Sulli- van the following morning he gave her 45 days for violating his anti- Dicketing injunction, Four Children, One of her four children is a girl of fitteen years, a cripple who needs her mother’s atention daily. The two smaller ones have been taken by neighbors and the oldest boy, a lad of 17, 1s being cared for by his father, Mrs. Cieslakiewicz has been out of the clock making trade for two years and has in the meantime run a small dressmaking shop. Better Jail Than. Scab. When asked about her attitude to- wards serving her sentence she said: “I would rather go to jail than go back to work in a scab'shop.” Altogether there are Ifty-six defend- ants who have been sentenced to va- rious terms in the county jail. While a large number have already arrived, more are due to start their sentences this week and will be going in for the next few days, Union Pays Fines. The union has elected a committee of seven to supervise the work of tak- ing care of the dependents of those in jail. Most of them are women, many of them mothers. The union will pay the fines out of tts own funds. The women and the fewer men who are in the county bastfle are taking their jail experiences with a light heart. None of them t the part they played in the striké of April, 1924, for which they are now serving time. They express the utmo: it contempt for the judge and his injunction and call themselves pioneers of the working- class filling out a sort of apprentice- ship for bigger fights to come. Canton Steel Workers. Demand Freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti CANTON, O., June 14—The Nimi- shillen Lodge No. 32 of the Amalga- mated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers at its last regular meeting adopted a res- olution protesting against the further imprisonment of Nicola Sacco . and Bartolomeo Vanzetti and demanding that a new trial be given these two Italian workers, who are victims ofa frame-up. Ask City Council to Use Whip on Town Drunkards HANCOCK, Md., June 18.— A move is being made by dry,elements here to have the city couneil establish a whipping post for the town drunkards. Boston Will Hold Picnic July 5th BOSTON, Mass., June 14. —, The International Labor Outing ‘will be held Monday, July 5, at the Unity Camp at Saugus by the Allied Work- ers’ Clubs, Hight Rents Cause Overcrowding in St. Louis Houses 8ST. LOUIS.—(FP)—High rents in St, Louis have driven numbers of fam- ilies to group in single-family dwell- ings, under conditions menacing health, declares health commissioner Starkloff. Dry Agents Must Buy Own Gasoline. WASHINGTON June 11.—J, R, Me- Carl, comptroller general, ruled that the government cannot buy gasoline and oll for private automobiles used by federal dry agents in their work. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Open your eyes! Mowe around you begging to be writen up. Do It! Send Ie int Write Organize Machinery of BRAZIL QUITS PICKETS ENTER| Literature Distribution; || LEAGUE AS SHE THE COUNTY JAIL Then Keep It Working By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ee, HERE is no better test of Com- munist activity than the amount of literature distributed among the workers. The months between today and the congressional elections in No- vember will put all Communists to this test. It is not only the amount of lit- erature put forth in a single dis- tribution, but the frequency of dis- tribution that also counts. wileicg It is well for all Communists, and sympathizers as well, which should include all readers of The DAILY. WORKER, to consider these facts as the Workers (Com- munist) Party calls for the distri- bution of 1,000,000 copies of the first campaign leaflet, entitled, “For a Labor Party in the 1926 Elections.” see The leaflet is the best method of Communist contact with the masses at the present time. Our daily press has not yet become a mass press. Our demonstrations do not yet assume a mass character, ex- cept in a few instances. Even the left wing in the trade union move- ment has not yet been able to win any great mass following. It is therefore necessary that all possible weapons for reaching large numbers of workers be exploited to the utmost. The leaflet distribution is one of these weapons. Lenin placed such great impor- tance upon this work of literature distribution that he declared, even in the illegal days of the Russian party, in September, 1902, that: “To train a network of agents for the rapid and correct distribu- tion of literature, leaflets, procla- mations, etc., etc., is to perform the greater half of the work or prepara- tion for an eventual demonstration. Labor must be prepared now for the demonstration at the polls in the November elections. Just how this is to be done is set forth in this leaflet pointing out in definite and clear terms how, “Labor Must Unite for Independent Political Ac- tion in Support of a Labor Pro- gram.” It is only as labor demonstrates it strength independent of and op- Posed to the employing, robber class, that it really enters the po- litical struggle as a working class. This leaflet not only sets forth how and why this must be done but on what basis the fight must be made. It is the first duty of the vanguard of labor to bring this message to all labor. ee This literature distribution must be carried on at the factory gates, in the shops and mills, at the pit mouths of the mines. It can be carried on at’the meetings of trade unions and other gatherings of la INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID OPENS SUMMER CAMP FOR STRIKERS’ CHILDREN NEW YORK, June 14.—Local New York of the International Workers’ Aid is conducting.a campaign for a camp for the children of the Passaic . strikers, Plans are under way for the pur chase of the necessary tents, cots, ~ blankets, etc., so that hundreds of children who are now Pale and un- dernourished can be comfortable and will be cared for. Send all con- tributions to the International Work- ers’ Aid, Local New York, room 237, 799 Broadway, New York City. Tacna-Arica Dispute Critical; U. S. May Withdraw aw Arbitrator ARICA, Chile, Tana 14.—The Tacna- Arica plebiscitary commission is due to meet here today by request of Chile, The motion of General’ Lassi- ter, who took Pershing’s place, will be debated. ‘This motion is to abandon the plebiscite. Chilean’government in- structions to its delegates are wun- known, but if Lassiter’s motion is voted down the United States will be- gin to withdraw from the whole dis- pute. The whole question may, be de- layed by negotiations taking place in Washington, Working-Class Women . Plan Conference to Aid Strikers’ Children NEW YORK, June 14.—All women’s organizations of New York and New Jersey are urged to send two dale- gates to a conference called by the United Council of Working-Class Housewives of New York and the Workingmen's Councils Passaic, at which plans will be laid for the relief of the Passaic sgrikers, children, Th conference will take i afternoon, June 19, at Main Ave., Passaic, bor, There is also the house-to- house distribution in working class districts, This, the first big literature dis- tribution of the campaign, should be but the rehearsal of future and frequent distributions, Lenin again points out, in speaking of literature distribution, that: “The distributing machine must in no case be allowed to remain idle. We must try to bring the ma- chine to such a pitch of perfection that the whole working class popu- lation can be advised, and, so to speak, mobilized overnight.” se 8 A million leaflets is not a reaily great number. It should hardly suf- fice for New York City alone, Chi- cago should be able to take care of nearly that number, when the work- ers are really organized for this important activity. Every large industrial state should prepare now for the day when the distribution of a million leaflets should be but an ordinanry task, to be repeated at frequent in- tervals. The great farming states should not be far behind. - * © There should be a leaflet right now, distributed in lots of many millions, on the farm crisis. There should be another leaflet, going out at this instant in like numbers, on the expenditure of the huge slush funds by the coal, steel and railroad interests in the recent primary elections in Pennsylvania. There should be another leafict, for distribution immediately among the steel workers, on the great dis- aster that at this moment is sniff- ing out the lives of workers in the great inferno of the steel trust at Gary, Indiana. There should be another leaflet telling the real meaning of the very significant Eucharistic Congress that is mobilizing the world strength of the Catholic church in Chicago this week. There should be another leaflet on the significance to the wholé working class of the victory of the 40-hour, five-day week in the New York turriers’ pttike, There should be these and many more. But there cannot be many before a start has actually been made. That start is belng made now in the mobilization of the workers for the distribution of the campaign leafiet, “For a Labor Ticket in the 1926 Elections.” The press is now Tunning on this leaflet. Keep it busy. Send in your order to the National Office, Workers (Communist) Party, 1113 West Washington Blvd., Chicago, lll. Labor’s fight in the 1926 con- Sressional campaign is now on. Join a en ea Many Are Dead and Injured in Gary Blast At Steel vel Trust Plant (Continued tron from page 1) tention to checking the menace to the surrounding property than to rescue of the workers, and altho the explo- sion occurred at 8:30 in the morning, it was nearly noon before the first eight bodies, burned beyond recogni- tion, were brought out of the guarded gates, But a few minutes before, the offi- cials of ‘the Illinois Steel company had issued a statement saying: Company Conceals Number of Dead. “Five bodies were found in the ruins of the building. One man is known to be missing and possibly some other bodies may be found.” Be- cause of the condition of the bodies of the dead so far found, their names have not yet been learned. One is reported to be that of a man named Henderson, The list of injured is likewise incomplete, but the police give out the names of the following: Known Injured, Henry Richardson, a gang foreman, John Gaddis, a Negro worker, Frank Kinnell, a Negro worker. John Kozak, of 2385 Massachusetts avenue, Gary, Charles Holland, 314 Van Buren street, Gary, Felix Renick, 641 Adams St., Gary, James Floyd, 769 Tyler street, Gary, Lloyd Collier, 1709 Jefferson street, Gary, Harry Farris, too badly injured to sive his address, Russell Phillips, Gary, The blast shook the whole city of Gary and broke windows buildings, The DAILY WORKER learns trom the city morgue at Gary that twelve bodies had arrived from the Illinois Steel plant at the time we go to prei ET eA Every Worker Correspondent must be a subscriber to the American hte Correspondent. Are you ric in many IS DENIED SEAT See Hand of the U.S. Against Britain (Special to The Dally Worker) GENEVA, Switzerland, June 14, — Brazil has followed the withdrawal of its representative from the league council by complete withdrawal from membership in the league of nations itself, Altho theoretically membership in the league does not finally expire until two years after date of formal resignation, for all practical purposes Brazil is out of the league. - Brazil's envoy Saturday handed Sec- retary General Sir Eric Drummond the official resignation, altho it was: not made public until late yesterday. See Hand of U, S. ‘While the delegates from other na- tions, particularly the group support- ing the imperialist policy of Britain, ‘ do not talk for publication, none of them try to conceal their fury at the action of Brazil which they consider prompted by the imperialist policy of the United States government working thru diplomatic agents, Brazil's resignation was the direct result of the controversy over seata in the league council. Britain and the heroes of Locarno wanted to bring Germany into the league in the hope of strengthening the waning power.ot Britain in Europe. American imperial- ist rivalry is charged with instigating Brazil to raise the question of a per- manent seat on the council in order to bring a split into the league and dis- , rupt it. Everyone recognizes the fact that the United States follows a double policy in relation to the league; one to control it thru subservient states securing membership on the councils, (the other to destroy it. Hither even- tuality will suit its purpose, but it will not tolerate Britain using the league in attempts to build up a European bloc against Wall Street. U.S. MINERS ASKED TO AD BRITISH STRIKE All Must F: Fight Any Lower Standards HAZELTON, Pa., June 13.—Thomas Kennedy, international secretary-treas- urer of the United Mine Workers of America, announces from his office here that all local unions of the U. M. W. of A. are asked to make donations to relief funds to be sent to the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain in aid of the British miners’ fight against wage cuts and longer hours, This is in addition to what the an- nouncement states is a “substantial sum” already sent by the internatio- nal office. The amount of this sum is pr [ct announced, but the U. M. W. of A, often assesses the membership one or two dollars for support of strikers, and if this were to be done by the organi- zation in this instance a fund of about $500,000 could be sent to feed the” British miners in this hour of strug- gle. It is felt that aid to the British in resisting wage cuts and longer hours is a matter of vital interest to Amer- ican miners, as any lowering of standards abroad, would help the American operators fo beat the Amer- ican miners down below their present standard, bad as this is. Funds Badly Needed for British Mine Strike (Continued on uage 2) his policy is one of leaving the mat- ter wholly to the discretion of each union. News from London states that A. J. Cook, secretary of the British Min- ers’" Federation, announced that the U. M. W. of A. has promised $50,000 and sent a first installment, also that the Amalgamated Clothing Workers have sent $10,000. This is expected to awaken some realization of their duty among more unions, in spite of the apparent in- difference or hostility of Green, and should influence the more prosperous unions, such as the building trades, the railway brotherhoods and print- ing trades unions to give generously and quickly to their British brothers who are fighting a life and death struggle against lower wages and shorter hours, State Supreme Court Denies Scott Petition SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 14, — Th supreme court denied Russell Scott't petition for a writ of habeas corpus tor his removel from Cook county jail to the Chester Asylum for the criminal insane and, to permit Scott to file mandamus proceedings against Judge Marcus Kavanaugh to compel, Kavanaugh to grant Scott a change of venue and to expunge the cqurt order paming J nd Aldrich as Liar 7