The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1926, Page 1

(ne me i ae The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Worke’ and Farmers’ Governme ¢ En NEw Vol. III. No. 134. Sussef?* y ei ae ah i Te By THOMAS J, O'FLAHERTY O begin where I left off several months ago, I “see by the papers” that Sheriff Hoffman, the honorable republican custodian of the Cook coun iy jail, has commenced a thirty-day rest in Dupage. Wenders will never cease. To convince a skeptical public that Hoffman actually went to jail, photographers were on the job to snap him as he entered the pen. A few more instances like this and the capitalist press will be telling us that there is only one kind of a law in this country for rich and poor. Quite true. The trouble is that the poor get more of it than the rich. UITH a@ number of the good fellows in the republican machine in the great state of Pennsylvania should be able to make that long-wished-for European trip on the proceeds of their efforts to nominate their respective political employers in the recent pri- mary contest. We always had a lot of respect. for Andrew Mellon as a financier, but he also seems to be a good spender. He dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not a few millions, in trying to keep his man Pepper in the millionaires’ club in Washington. Which lends color to the suspicion that Andy has something to gain by sending a fearless god-fearing, semi-dry solon to the senate. ** # PRISON warden who is alleged to have accepted a $20,000 bribe from a couple of bootleggers in return for permission to have unlimited dental repairs performed on their molars, gets four months in prison, while the secretary of the treasury, who de- bauches hundreds of thousands of 100- per-cent Americans will millions of dollars, still remains secretary. In fact, nobody will think the worse of Andy, privately, for his financial ven- ture, except a few crazy people who still think the earth js as flat as it used to be when the declaration of independence was written, Of course the revolutionary workers will say: “Capitalism is rotten to the core. It feeds on filth. If you want a real san- itary job performed, drop the capital- ist.system into a wide sewer and run a lake thru it.” ee ee YOUNG lady, who left the legiti- mate stage for the illegitimate pul- pit, succeeded in converting a house- ful of Gothamites to the lord after a two-hour exhortation last Sunday. The cautious reporters did not elucidate on the arts brot into play by the young female to squash the brains of her audience. About a dozen listen- ers remained unvonvinced after the |- lady flashed the last bit of her spirit- ual hosiery on them.~But half of them were bullied into imbecility before the show was over. oe ¢ 'N this way beauty serves the lord, tho god knows how many erstwhile god-fearing and still more devil-fear- ing christians have been seduced from the beaten path of conventional vir- tue by the wiles of the female sex. The fact that the young evangelist was accompanied by her father and mother is almost conclusive proof that a Spiritual Hocus Pocus Company is about to be formed. Now that Billy Sunday is living peacefully on the mil- Mons he made fighting the devil, there should be a splendid opportunity for making alittle easy money worrying Old Nick. eee HREE hundred thousand people bared their heads as the pope’s legate passed up Fifth avenue. He is here to attend the cucharistic con- gress in Iilinois, one of the slickest pieces of advertising and propaganda that the Roman church ever put over. Several hundred thousand kluxers will gnash their teeth regularly while the big publicity stunt is on. Their case is hopeless, however. The Roman cuureh has the inside track with big business, and while. the. kluxers are usetul for breaking strikes in. small communities or tarring and feathering Negroes, the pope's organizatien gets the Uig-paying ‘jobs from those who own this country. ae 0’Flaherty Goes . and Returns {, J. O'Flaherty, who changed the name of his popular column from “As We See It” to “Current Events” under the influence of some evil genlus, has been ordered by his doc- tor to ind the summer in the open alr in an effort to overcome heart and lung trouble which has been, bothering him for some months, ~ He will, however, contribute his column to the DAILY WORKER with such regularity as his health permits and in ition furnish some special featu for the daily and the magazine section, WSTALLMENT OF SH pia GARY WORKERS FAVOR PROBE OF DISASTER “Official” Death List Remains But Twelve Special to The Daily Worker. GARY, Ind., June 16.—‘Officially” the list of dead in Monday’s explosion at the by-products plant of the Illinois Steel Corporation remains at twelve, but there is not a steel worker in the whole city of Gary who believes there are less than fifty dead. * No investigation other than that be- ing conducted by the steel plant offi- cials, who maintain their own police and fire departments and are a law wnito themselves, is under way. Deputy Coroner Robert Marshall is supposed to be investigating the catas- trophe in pehalf of the county of Lake and the state of Indiana, but seems to know much less about it than even the newspaper men who, with the ex- ception of the Gary Post-Tribune re- porter, who takes orders from the cor- poration, are not given any informa- tion from the company. The hospital reports the number of injured within its walls as 43, while the deputy coro- ner gave the number as 49. Evident- ly the agents of the trust have not been able to get together on one story. “Company Is Satisfied.” The Gary Post-Tribune reporter, tel- ephoning his paper from the hospital telephone, was heard by one of the DAILY WORKER representatives say- ing: “We handled the case very well and the company is satisfied.” The Gary reporter told his office that he was sorry that he was not permitted to see some of the more serious cases in the hospital, but that they were in a separate department. * Bodies Sent Home. The bodies of four of the Negro workers killed in the blast have been sent to their former homes, some of them to Mississippi and others to Lou- isiana. Like many of the other work- ers in the great mills they had come north from the small farms and plan- tatio, the south. E> mand Investigation, umber: Gary, including the Universal Negro Improvement Association (the Garvey movement), have @xpressed their de- sire to co-operate in demanding a con- gressional investigation of the disas- ter and the storage of highly explosive material in close proximity to the coke ovens, which was responsible for the disaster of Monday. Meeting Saturday. Arrangements are being completed for the mass meeting to be held at Turner Hall, 14th and Washington street, at 7 o’clock Saturday evening, aq which time speakers from various organizations will discuss the explo- sion and measures for preventing such appalling loss of life in the future. se. Negro Toilers Hear of Steel Trust’s Disregard for Lives of Workers H. M. Wicks, of the editorial staff of the DAILY WORKER, spoke before the meeting of the U. N. L. A. last night, exposing the murderous respon- sibility of the steel trust and the utter disregard for human life shown by the so-called “safety experts” of the mills. His remarks were received with great enthusiasm by the audience, composed largely of Negro workers and their wives. Heywood Hall and L., Dunjee, of Chicago, representing the American Négro Labor Congress, spoke on the necessity of the Negro. workers get- ting together with the other workers in the steel mills to create organiza- tions that will defend the interests of the workers against just such disas- ters as that of Monday. “INVESTIGATE” DEATHS OF FIVE WORKERS AT STANDARD QML PLANT EDWARDSVILLE, TH, June 15.— Coroner George Bauer’ of Madison county and officials of the Standard Oil refinery at Woodriver, Ill, were conducting an “investigation” into the explosion of the pitch-tar still at the plant which resulted in the death of five workmen and injury to four oth- ers, Two of the injured are in a seri ous condition, The death toll reached five shortly before last midnight when Bert E, Huff, 25, succumbed to injuries. Wil- liam H. Koehne and Joseph Luppens, both of Wood River, were almost in- stantly killed and Frank M, Giard of ‘Wood River and Harry Kingery, Bast Alton, died in @ hospital a tew hours after the accident, ign 29 ‘ vale XC ee eS yea , JUNE 18, 1926 Which Does Chicago Labor Choose--Power or impotence? The sixth day of the imprisonment I. L. G. W. U, rolls round and still no p from the officials of the Chicago trade | case, the members of the s statement has come jon movement on the of rumors that an tttention from its lack of decisive activity, rumors of pardons, Fumors of this and that politician being friendly, rumors of “som! hing going to break soon,” etc. y There are plenty of rumors, the But if the prisoners are pardoned their sentences it will be no tribute to labor because Chicago labor has made their release. fore the expiration of strength of Chicago 19 public demand for The secretive policy pursued by labor officialdom in this case results only in putting these courageous trade unionists in the same class with Cook county crim who when surprised in some midnight stick-up by a police who is accidentally awake, have only to appeal to the war ler of the democrat, or republican party, as the case may be, Why should men and women who f e been sent to jail for their activity in the trade union mo it, men and women joppers, be placed on he underworld and be agents of the Illinois who have been persecuted by the open the same plane as the depraved elements forced to beg favors from the labor-hating bosses? Yet This is What is Happ What capitalist politician can hav atom of respect for a labor movement which has no respect for itself? There are two alternatives for.the They can lift the Chicago trade u the mire of capitalist politics by makin these garment workers a political issue ings and demonstrations or by waging ap the use of injunctions with this case as organizing for a united labor ticket © parties in the next elections, or— They can continue their hole-and-cort conversations with gangster bosses i for favors and sink the Chicago trade deeper into the pit of compromise and more than two-score women workers ing its voice above a whisper. ~~ ago labor officials: on movement out of e imprisonment of jeans of mass meet- ic campaign against ‘cenrtal point and by ised to the capitalist policy of back room at-in-hand requests in movement a little ence which allows jailed without rais- § SUPPORT OF ALL LOCALS FOR RESOLUTIONYON FORWARD Characterizing a statement published in. the Jewish Daily Forward of May 28 as “detrimental to the organization campaign” in which the union now is engaged and as “an act to bring disharmony in the union,” the Chicago joint board of the International Ladies’“Garment Workers’ Union has passed a resolution setting out in detail its refutation of the Forward’s charges, The Forward’s Charges. The article published by the Forward charged that the rank and file organization committee of the union was a fakey that besides Organizer ing paid, and in the article mentioned the Forward claimed to speak in the name of the Chicago cloakmakers. Locals Support Joint Board. The Chicago Joint Board has re- ceived no protest from the local unions since the adoption of its reso- lution, many of them have endorsed it, and the one local of dressmakers which the Forward depended upon for opposition has voted for the reso- lution in a recent meeting. The Forward thus finds itself con- victed of inexcusable misrepresenta- tion and without any local to defend its baseless accusations against the left wing forces who are taking an active and leading part in the suc- cessful organization drive. The Resolution. The resolution is as follows: Whereas, our union is now en- gaged in an intensive organization campaign to organize the thousands of unorganized workers working un- der unbearable conditions in the nonuniean shops, and Whereas, the organization work is conducted in the ist expensive manner ever practiced with the best possible results obtained, and Whereas, the Jewish Daily For- wards, a newspaper supposed to help in the organization work, print- ed an article in their issue of May press and to the general executive 28th discrediting this organization board of the International Ladies campaign, challenging the existence G ent Workers Union. BALDWIN’S ACTION PROVES HIM A LIAR, DECLARES SEC’Y COOK LONDON, June 16,—When Premier Baldwin declared yesterday to the house of commons: “We have come to the definite conclusion that a re- turn to a longer working day is necessary,” he is admitted by everyone to have aligned the government squarely on the side of the mine owners and against the miners, This was at once pointed out by Secretary Cook of the Miners’ Federa- tion, who spoke at Aylesbury last night. Quoting from the speech of Baldwin broadcast over the radio durtng the general strike, in which Baldwin de- olared solemnly that his whole desire was to maintain the standard of liv- Ing for everyone, Cook cried dramatically, “Baldwin, you lie!” Baldwin frequently had to appeal for a patientshearing when he made his proposal to the commons for an increase in the-working hours. of an organization committee and charging the present administration with spending large sums of money for extra people on the organization staff who do nothing and receive pay, and Whereas, to the knowledge of the union the expenditures of the organ- ization drive, including salaries, printing of circulars, etc., do not ex- ceed the average of $75 weekly, and Whereas, it is known to the union that during the period the work has been going: on a number of non- union shops have been organized and many members have been add- ed to the warious locals involved; Be it therefore resolved, that we, the Chicago, Joint Board of the In- ternational Ladies Garment Work- ers Union;-brand such irresponsible action as ‘an act to bring dishar- mony in the union in the phase of the activity now carried on, is detri- mental to the organization campaign and tends to harm it, and Be it further resolve call upon the responsi ment and editors of the Forwards to see that such a detrimental act is not repeated again, and Be it futther resolved, that this resolution be sent to all the labor of scrutinizing the source of the huge | Davidson six other persons were be-¢———————____| ¢rn,” was the way Mackey put it. > | NEW YORK EDITION Entered at Second-class matter September 23, 1923, the Post Office at Cutcugy, i)nols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ep PUBLI} ILL. ELECTION SLUSH FUND IS NEXT ON LIST Smith and M cKinley Spent $1,000,000 (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 16,—An paign, in which Col. Frank L. Smith defeated Senator William McKinley, rivaling the sensational slush fund quiz now turned on the Pennsylvania elections, is foreshadowed by the Reed senate investigation committee. Senator McKinley is reputed to have spent $400,000, while $800,000 or more is known to have been expended to elect Smith, Public Service Corporations, The senate investigating committee | has already made known its intention funds used in Smith’s campaign. Aj| searchlight will be turned on certain | public service corporations said to have benefited while Smith was chair- |/ man of the Illinois commerce commis- sion, Samuel Insull, Chicago utility mag- nate, is slated for examination by the committee to determine if he knows | anything about the Smith war chest. | | | Smith’s Money. Public service corporations officials | with applications for securities appro- priation before the state commission | are to be examined for knowledge of | where some of Smith’s money might have come from. The Crowe-Barrett machine, which supported McKinley, claimed — they were helpless before the flood of funds poured into the contest in Chicago in the last few days efore the election. Incidentally it should be remembered that the Chicago Federation of Labor supported Smith. H Quiz Next Week. The senate committee is expected to finish the Pennsylvania investigation by the end of this week and will then start on Illinois. In the meantime the Reed committee is discovering that it has only scratched the surface of the Pennsylvania slush fund. Harry A, Mackey, chairman of the Vare committee, was on the stand to- day. He told an inside story of the campaign that caused the committee to issue a new batch of subpoenas. Both Ends Against Middle. Mackey accused Senator Pepper of | playing both ends against the middle; in the election on the wet and dr issue. “He was wet in the western | part of the state and dry in the east-| Jensen Beaten, Say Progressives in a | Warning to Machine | | | Members of the Chicago carpenters’ united progressive caucus declare def- initely that their candidate, Fred Bob- zin, has been elected and the former president, of the district council, Har- ry Jensen, defeated by an ample ma- jority. While a very few of the locals in outlying territory have not yet report- ed their ballots, the progressives, reck- oning from Jensen's entire vote last year and the known strength of locals remaining unreported, assert Jensen is defeated and that his cautious at- tempts to claim re-election are ridicu- lous. Bobzin’s majority in Chicago city proper was over 1,000 and no matter what the outlying few locals left may report, Jensen will be several hundred short of being even with Bobzin. No monkey business with the election by the Jensen machine will be permitted, declare the progressives, Important Durkin Witness Is Missing Hartow George, witness on whose testimony the defense counted most heavily in the trial of Martin Durkin, charged with the murder of the red- baiting federal agent, Edwin ©. Shan- ahan, has disappeared, Eugene Me- Garry, attorney for Durkin, told Judge Harry Miller who is presiding at the trial. ' George testified at the coroner's in- quest that Shanahan fired at Durkin before the latter shot and killed him. | It is on this testimony that the de- fense has relied to build up a case of self defense. The defense rejected a panel of four jurors tendered by the state in an eflort to complete the jury in the Durkin case. Thus far 354 veniremen have been examined and eight wit- nesses sworn in, : OIL,” A NEW NOVEL BY UPTON SINCLAIR APPEARING EXCLUSIVELY IN THE DAILY WORKER, ON PAGE 5 Wehbe’ Published Dally except Sunda; in- J+ vestigation of the Illinois primary cam- TO ADJOURN SOON jon by THE DAILY WORKER ISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, UL MINERS DEFY BALDWIN ON LONGER HOURS : ; Lome : : Shbeee House as Labor Members Heckle (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, June 16.—The striking miners will not accept the plan pro- posed by Premier Baidwin yesterday in the house of commons to force longer hours upon them as a term of settlement, declares A. J. Cook, secre. tary of the British Miners’ Federation, “Mr. Baldwin has now unsheathed | the sword,” said Cook, ‘and we will fight.’ The session in the house of com- mons was a stormy one when Baldwin made his statement of the govern- ment’s proposals for breaking the strike. Demands General Election. “I have laid before the house the steps which the government proposes to take whether a settlement is reached or not. We are going on.” “You're going out!” yelled a labor party member, amid similar cries of his colleagues. ‘This means a general election.” The points Baldwin proposed were four in number: Baldwin's Policy. 1. To leave the seven-hour law for mine work on the statute books but make another one providing that it need not be obeyed for an indefinite Period, thus permitting a lengthening of the day to eight hours. 2. After three years of study by a special commission, it is to be em- powered to amalgamate the manage- ment of only those mines which it deems desirable. 3. Increased tax on royalties to go to welfare work at the mines. 4. No subsidy by the government to the industry to permit a maintenance of the wage scale. Baldwin got a vote of confidence in his policy by a yote of 299 to 138, INMATE OF INSANE ASYLUM 1S BEATEN TO DEATH BY GUARDS KANKAKEE, IL, June 16— Charles W. Olson, an aged inmate of the Kankakee hospital for the insane, was brutally beaten to death. Three guards were arrested re- sponsible for the death of this pa- tient, who was committed to the asylum several years ago. All of the guards were released following a questioning by the hospital head: An “investigation” into the p: sons that inflicted the beating on the aged inmate will probably be start- ed by Superintendent W. A. Stoker, Price 3 Cents Latvian Premier Premier Arthur Alberings of the Re- public of Latvia, is the head of one of the most reactionary governments in the smalier ‘states of the world. The Latvian white terror has confin- ed thousands of workers to prison and played a consistent role as a tool of England and France in constituting a buffer state against Soviet Russia. FARM BILL FACES DEFEAT; SENATE Expect Final Action to- night (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 16.—Congress probably will depart on its annual summer vacation within ten days, it was reliably reported today in admin- istrative circles. The McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, and the new rivers and harbors ap- propriation bill remain on the repub- lican program for action before ad- journment... The farm bill, facing de- feat, will be disposed of by Thursday night, according to farm bloc spokes- ™men, and the other measure will be given the right of way in the closing hours of the session. May Filibuster. The demand for final action on the rivers and harbors bill originated among house leaders, it was learned. They sent word to senate leaders that the house would not agree to a date for the adjournment until the approp- iations were authorized. Unless an agreement is made to postpone action the measure until December, it will be considered in the senate early next. week. Its opponents however may force the postponement by organ- izing a last minute filibuster. VOTE FOR THE LEFT WING IN A. C. W. OF A, ELECTIONS (Statement on the Elections to the General Executive Board.) TO THE MEMBERS OF THE AMALGAMATED CLOTHING WORKERS, Fellow Workers! You are called upon to vote for members of the General Executive Board of your union, Unfortunately the conditions prevailing in the Amalgamated at this time made it impossible to put forth a complete ticket against the Hillman-Beckerman-Levin bureaucracy. Of the candidates running for the General Executive Board only four—Anthony Capraro, of Local 63, New York, Joseph Platti, of Local 202, Rochester, Anthony Ramuglia, of Local 24, Newark, and Peter Teéms, of Local 200, Rochester—are of such a character that they can be endorsed without reservation by the Left Wing of the needle trades, These four candidates stand for a militant struggle for the forty hour week, for amalgamation and no contracting. They are opposed to the Hill- man-Beckerman-Levin policy of co-operation with the employers (class- collaboration), which results in the reduction of working forces, so-called readjustment schemes aiming to reduce the Income of the workers and in- tensify production for the benefit of the employers. They will fight the entire program of trade union capitalism of the Hillman bureacracy which Adopts the various financial, banking, insurance and other business schemes of the A. F. of L. These four candidates have fought and will continue to fight for complete internal democracy in the Union, for full amnesty of members expelled or Suspended for political reasons, against any unnecessary increa’ in dues and a ments, especially when they are levied without the consent of the membership. On the political field these candidates will oppose any co-operation with capitalist parties or capitalist party politicians of the type of Wheeler and LaFollette and will stand for clear cut working class political action thru a Labor Party. We call upon you to vote for these candidates on the basis of the above program and @ protest against the expulsion and the growing reaction in the Amalgamated. Make sure to cast your vote. Each vote is a blow against expulsion, gangsterism, corruption, reduction of working forces, re- duction of wages, and for making the Amalgamated once more a clear, militant working class organization, VOTE FOR ANTHONY CAPRARO, JOSEPH PLATTI, ANTHONY RA+ MUGLIA AND PETER TEEMS, National Committee of the Needle Trades Section, Tradé Union Edu cational League, »