The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1926, Page 1

| | | | | | cee The DAILY WORKER Raises | the’ Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government | Vol. Ill. No. 133. MOVE ON FOOT TO OUST SLUSH FUND SPENDERS Almost $2,000,000 Is Unearthed So Far (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 15.—The im- mediate ousting of Senator George Wharton Pepper, defeated senator trom Pennsylvania; the unseating of Senator-Elect William S. “Boss” Vare, who is now a member of the house of representatives, and the impeachment of Governor Pinchot—the three be- grimed aspirants for the republican nomination for senator in the Quaker State—is the demand being made both in Pennsylvania and Washington. ‘Progressive and democratic senators in Washington have declared their in- tention of removing Pepper from the senate and denying Vare a seat after his election. (Nomination on the re- publican ticket in Pennsylvania amounts to election.) Anti-Pinchot Move. Pinchot spent as much as the ousted Senator Newb: of Michigan, on his campaign. This h aused sentiment to stir in his state, since it will be #9 Box New Subscription Rates: Pinchot who, as governor, will have to appoint a senator in case Vare is not seated. And Pinchot’s skirts are as dirty as the rest. The “slush fund” committee mean- while continued probing into the ex- penditures made on behalf of Repre- sentative William S. Vare, who won the Pennsylvania senatorial nomina- tion over Senator George Wharton Pepper and Governor Gifford Pinchot. A number of Vare lieutenants were subpoenaed for today’s session to fol- low Thomas F. Watson, the Vare treasurer, who appeared last night. Watson revealed that the Vare organi- zation spent a total of $596,892 to nominate the congressman. “Almost Two Millions. The expenditures of this ‘costliest campaign in history,” as revealed in sworn testimony before the committee, now total $1,837,321. This includes’ $1,045,429 spent on behalf of Pepper and his running mates, $195,000 by the Pinchot organi- zation and the 2 used by the Vare machine. The Vare expenditures, as described by Watson, included $71,- 435 spent by the congressmen, $110,- 703 by the western (Pittsburgh) or- ganization and $484,754 by the Phila- delphia Vare* committee, whicy sent $70,000 to the Pittsburgh faction. Compared to Newberry. The revelations thus far show that Pepper spent five times as much as the amount which cost Truman H. Newberry (R.) of Michigan his sena- torial seat in 1922, while Vare out- Spent him by more than three dollars (Continued on page 3) In Chi FRANG TAKES A NEW DIVE TO LOW RECORD AT 37 TO A DOLLAR (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, June 15.—The French franc tumbled to a new low when the foreign exchange market opened today, being quoted at 37 to the dol- lar, As trading continued the frane improved slightly, going to 36.52 to the dollar, SEND IN A SUB! into a conference this morning on the financial situation and the weakness The franc reached a new low record dropping to 36.57 to of the franc, the dollar. $ CLARENCE DARROW MONSTER PROTEST DEMONSTRATION Militarism Costs Money Famous Attorney and Orator ALB » by mail, $8.00 per year. ad Outside Chicago, by math, $6.00 per year. “Quaker” Oats! the Post Office at Culcagy, JEWELRY UNION {POLICE DISRUPT PROGRESSIVES | SACCO-VANZETTI ~ WANT 8 HOURS) BUFFALOPROTEST Need Revival of the Spirit of 1916 NEW YORK, June 15—The Pro- gressive Jewelry Worker, the organ of the progressives in that industry, comes out strongly for a revival of the “spirit of 1916” in a fight for the real eight-hour day. In February, 1916, the jewelers made a long, hard fight for the eight-hour day. Thru practically starvation and bitter struggle in a 13-week strike, the demand was won. On May Day of that year 2,000 union jewelers marched in a parade singing: Put this card in your bonnet, With the “Hight Hours” on it, And we don’t care what the bosses say!!! When the strike is over We will all be in clover, And will work eight hours a day. But that was in 1916. Now there is no extra pay for working over eight hours. in slack times it is -six hours ani rush time ten and twelve hours with no overtime rates to make the eight-hour day effective. Some, to hold their jobs, work overtime without any pay at all besides the regular day’s pay. Piece work and home work are coming back, All jewelers who want to make the eight-hour day real are urged to ally themselves with the progressives to make a drive for it. WASHINGTON, June 15, — The headquarters of the air mail service will be moved from Omaha, Neb., to Washington, on July 1, under orders issued by the post office department. Against Persecutions and Imprisonment of Hundreds of Textile Strikers in Passaic _ ERT WEISBORD '» Leador of Passaic Strikg 9 Seer fn But Open Air Meeting Is Held Anyway ai (Spectal to The Dally Worker) BUFFALO, June 15.—The Interna: tional Labor Defense yas holding a street meeting) of protest against the frameup of Sacco and Vanzetti here to advertise am indoor mass meeting which had been arranged for the Elm- wood Music Hall for the same even- ing, when the police of the Pearl street station ‘forced Franklin P, Brill to leave the platform and rough-housed Herbert Benjamin, district organizer of the Workers Party. Benjamin, in addition to being roughly pulled off the platform,*was marched to the po- lice station and detained, in spite of the fact that the necessary permission to hold the meeting had been obtained from Deputy Chief Marnon. Close Hall. In addition to their attempted dis- ruption of the street meeting, the po- lice, acting on some hitherto undiscov- ered official's orders, barred a crowd from the Elm- ite the fact that all the proper arrangements had been made for the use of the hall on that evening. By this last-minute refusal of the use of the hall the city officials hoped to put a stop to the protest demon- strations. In this they were unsuc- cessful, for the crowd marched down to the corner where the street meet- ing was under way, where Benjamin spoke again, after being released from the police station, James Campbell also spoke. . COME Minis. , iilinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. PUBLIL COURT JALS MOTHER OF 4 AS STRIKER Labor Injunction Czar Breaks Up Families By CARL HAESSLER. Federated Press. A 16-year-old invalid requiring con- stant skilled attention from her moth- er is being left with three other chil- dren to the mercy of strange hands while her mother spends 45 days in the Cook county (Chicago) jail. The thild will be a permanent cripple un- less given the greatest care. Other mothers are separated from their in- fants, wives from sick husbands, girls from the families they help support. All, to the number. of 44, including several men, are a sacrifice to the ma- jesty of the injunction in industrial disputes decreed by Judge Denis Sulli- van, They had violated his extreme writs against picketing in the 1924 dressmaker strike and had now ex- the last legal resources hausted against serving the 10 to 60 days and paying the $100 to $350 fines imposed on them for contempt. Judge Out for Vengeance. Two were excused at the last mo- | ment by Sullivan, one because she was in advanced pregnancy and the other because of critical illness. The judge did not want his pound of flesh to re- But short of that he sult in death, was inexorable. He scorned the plea of Jane Addams | and other social{workers who pointed éut the just demaids of their families upon the women who had displeased | him more than two years ago. He de- | clined to follow the suggestions of the | defense attorney. Even Freda Reicher, | who had been sent to Colorado to re- cover her health, was forced into the prison for 30 days. Cheered by Hundreds, So the erstwhile pickets proceeded | to the county. jail, seven a week ago, twenty last Saturday, two on Monday, and so on. They were accom-/| panied to the gates by their staunch | union friends, hundreds cheering for them for their loyalty to the Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers, which they had placed above the sanctity of | judge-made law. Flowers from the union heartened | the prisoners. Assurances that ins union organization is continuing against the employers the campaign for which the girls had defied Denny Sullivan fortified their spirit. Show Solidarity With Furriers. Just before they started to the cells théy unanimously adopted a resolution of congratulation to the victorious fur workers of New York city who had obtained a wage increase and the 40- hour week for which they had been on months, The con- demned pickets wired: “We send you our heartiest congratulations on achieving the 40-hour week in the fur industry. Your victory is a great en- couragement to dabor. On the eve of being cast in jail for demanding the same 40-hour week we greet your vic- tory.” The International Ladies Garment Workers, the Chicago Federation ot Labor and the Hlinois State Federa- tion of Labor are continuing their ef- forts to obtain the release of the pick ets. The families of the victims are being cared for by their union, strike for four VISIT INTERNATIONAL LADIES’ GARMENT UNION PICKETS AT COUNTY JAIL Visitors will be allowed to see the International Ladies Garment Work- ers Union 1924 strike pick it the Cook county jail, Austin and Dear- born, tomorrow from 9:30 to 1:30 o'clock in the morning. The American Worker Correspond- ent Is out. Did you get your copy? Hurry up! Send In your sub! it's only 60 cents, a Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER ;ribly mangled and burned that they cannot p ah edi f ~ Peete NEW YORK | EDITION Price 3 Cents TER Congress Urged to Help Get at F acts of Horror If all the facts are to be made known about the murder and maiming of scores of workers Monday, at the Gary, Indiana, plant of the Illinois Steel company, then an investigation by forces outside this stronghold of the trust must be set in motign. It is only upon these facts that an effective struggle can be SHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il, waged for remedying some of these conditions thru organized action by the workers themselves. , Demand Investigation by Congress. In an effort to start such an investigation, The DAILY WORKER yesterday sent telegrams to United States Senators William E. Borah, of Idaho; Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., of Wis- consin; Hendrik Shipsted of Minnesota; Lynn Frazier, of North Dakota; George W. Norris, of Nebraska; Burton K. Wheeler, of Montana, and Representative Victor L. Berger, of Wistonsin, as follows: “Demand growing here for investigation of Gary disas- ter believed to have been caused by violation of state and in- terstate laws governing storage of explosive chemicals. Urge you to initiate such an investigation in behalf of wives and families of dead and injured employes of steel trust.” TIGHE IS URGED TO ACT. ’ President Michael Tighe, of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tinplate Workers’ Union, with headquarters at Pittsburgh, Pa., was urged to join in this demand_in another telegram read- ing as follows: “Will you join in demand upon Congress to investigate disaster in Gary in which death and injury of 240 steel work- ers believed caused by violation of interstate and state laws governing storage of explosive chemicals?” Ai de ee GARY STEEL WORKERS PLAN HUGE DEMONSTRATION SATURDAY NIGHT __ “TO PROTEST DEATH OF WORKERS BULLETIN. Preparations are being made in Gary for a mass protest meeting Saturday evening at eight o'clock in Turner Hall, 14th and Washington. Prominent labor speakers will ad- dress the meeting and expose conditions in the steel mills that regularly take a frightful toll of life. Steps will also be taken to see that the families of the victims obtain relief. ° * . e (Special to The Daliy Worker) By H. M. WICKS. GARY, Indiana, June 15.—The working class sections of Gary today are still stunned by the by-products plant explosion yesterday morning that wrecked the two-story building cover- ing almost a city block that was filled with sweating human beings working for the miserable sum of from $4.18 to $4.40 a day. The “official” number of dead was finally fixed today at twelve, while from 160 to 180 are injured, many of these so ter- ibly recover. There is not a worker in all the industrial inferno of Gary who believes there are less than fifty dead. Relatives of the injured, who lie at death’s door in the steel mill hospital that sits upon a rising piece of ground just outside the mills, declare some of the¢————————_—__________. victims told them they saw more than thirty dead at the time of the explosion. Steel Agents Suppress Facts. It is the policy of the steel corpora- tion agents to suppress the facts about disasters~in the mills. It is not at all an unusual thing for from one to three men to be slaughtered in the mills without a word appearing in any newspaper concerning the matter. Disasters that claim heavy death tolls are considered trivial matters (Continued on nage 2) “OFFICIAL” TOLL OF THE DEAD IN GARY STEEL PLANT HORROR / MARVIN KIMBRO, laborer, 1545 Van Buren St. LLOYD COLLIER, laborer, 1709 Jefferson St. HARRY FERRIS, address unkonwn. J. PEREZ, address unknown. FELIX RENICK, 645 Adams St. JOHN GADDIS, address unknown. JOSEPH HARRIS, 1538 Virginia St. ROBERT LITTLE, address unknown. NOAH KEIGER, address unknown. LESLIE R. RICHARDSON, 560 Delaware St. fore- man of the day shift. Two. unidentified workers. Wednesday, June 16, 1926, 8 P. M. Ashland Bvld. Auditorium, Ashland-and Van Buren Other Speakers: STANLEY J. CLARK, JAS. P,. CANNON D RAISE YOUR VOICES IN PROTEST!