The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1926, Page 2

Page Two [SESE NEGRO WORKERS | JOIN UNION IN PASSAIC STRIKE Races Must Unite to Win Better Conditions PASSAIC, N. J., June 18.—Partict- pating in the great textile strike in New Jersey are many hundreds of Negro textile workers. Quite a num- ber of these are playing a leading part in the strike, being delegates of the unfon and captains on the picket lines, They are showing a splendid spirit. 800 on Strike. There are nearly 800 Negro men, women and children among the strik- ers, and they are making it pretty hot for those workers, white and Negro, | who have sneaked back to the mills to | Seab on the union. At Lodi alone there are fully 400 Negro strikers. At Passaic and Garfield are other hun- dreds, They have been addressed sev- eral times by leaders of the American- Negro Labor Congress. ‘The following letter from one of the Negro strikers of Lodi gives a graphic description of conditions in the mills before the strike, and of the splendid spirit which possesses all of the strikers, and makes victory as- ured: Rotten Conditions. “Tam a worker of the United Pieco and: Dye Works. The conditions were very bad and I had to work long hours and poor Willie and I couldn’t eat nor wear clothes I needed. I couldn't, get any vacation. I couldn’t get any fresh air nor fresh food. I didn’t have any strength. I felt ill all the time and worked like a slave there. There was not any enjoyment at all. Ycame out on strike and since I came out I get plenty of fresh air and plenty of sunshine, I get clothes and shoes for myself, “T learned a great deal about the bosses. They don’t care at all about the workers, for if they did they would give them a living wage and realize that the workers want to be organized into a union, and not a company union either. Stick Together. “We are going to stick together and listen to our leader, Weisbord. I have studied the history of the bosses and I know how they used to treat the slaves in olden times. But now they cannot fool them any more, I know, because, altho I am a colored worker, I stick together with the white work- ers, because I see that all workers slave alike. The bosses tried all kinds of tricks to break us, but instead they united us. Fellow workers, stick to- gether! White or colored, Italian or Polish!” Rochester Capmakers Win Strike; Union in N. Y. Talks Agreement ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 18— Rochester cap makers won their strike against the Ontario Cap Co. and for the third successive year have a union agreement signed. The workers are guaranteed 48 weeks minimum of em- ployment yearly and a $2 flat increase in pay for all. Cloth hat and cap jobbers in New York City are considering the agree- ment proposed to them by the cap- makers’ union. The union has not previously had an agreement with the jobbers, but only with manufacturers. The jobbers propose to deal with the | organized jobbers, to the mutual ex-| clusion of other jobbers, who are | blamed for the multitude of small competing shops so destructive to union and business standards, Webster Pays Fine of His Boss, Hoffman George Webster, acting sheriff of Copk county, appeared at the federal buflding and paid the $2,500 fine as- sessed against Sheriff Peter Hoffman, Puppet President of Haiti | RE President and Madame Louls Borno of Halt! who demanded and received many social entertainments from the Coolidge administration as an offset to his extreme unpopularity. He is a tool In the hands of General John Russell, military commander of Haiti. WISHES FOR HIS EARLY DEATH GREET HAITIAN PRESIDENT AS HE MEETS COUNTRYMEN AT PIER By HENRY C. ROSEMOND, First Advisor of the Haitlan Patriotic Union of New York and Sec’y. of the Haltian Society of (Written Especially for Last Friday. at Pier. 65, North Rit despicable Mr. Louis Borno, alleged National Welfare, The DAILY WORKER) iver, in New York, there landed the president of Haiti, accompanied by his accomplices, among whom was Dr. W. W. Cumberland, so-called “financial advisor” to the Haitian republic, known by all as the special agent of Wall Street imperialists and the representative of the American government in Haiti in negotiations with Mr. Borno. What a disappointment for Mr. Borno was his reception, No doubt when he planned to visit the United States he thought he would be welcomed + FILIPINOS HAVE LITTLE HOPE iN | THOMPSON TRIP Expect Usual Report Against Freedom WASHINGTON, June 18.—‘We're Pessimistic” is the headline on the leading editorial in the current “Phil- ippine Republic,” organ of the Filipino independence mission in America. This pessimism relates to Carmi Thompson of Ohio, national com- mander-in-chief of the United Spanish War Veterans, whom President Coo- lidge has sent to the islands to report on their condition, They assume, in view of the vague statements issued at the white house, commerce and war departments, that he will make such a report on eco- nomic and other matters in the islands as will please the American commercial imperialists. They expect him to “not disappoint his friends.” As an apparent counter-move, the Filipino people have sent Jose Abad Santos, former secretary of justice of the islands, to take charge of the pub- who is now serving a 30-day sentence in the DuPage county jail. \y ED FETOONS axes nose 100 POINTS licity department of their independ- ence campaign in this country. Bette RATES: Outside of Chicago Per year Six months Three monthi In Chicago Per Year ssuruou$8.00 Six months 4.60 Three months., 2.00 EVERY POINT COUNTS FoR. ¥ OAILY WORKER 113 W, WASHINGTON BOUL. Chicago, Iii NAME .. STREET. CITY. etme ees ow esemnes cee, red + Asean eeemanerneastemmnceme sesneeees “teen sem ashes tensesesssoueensem ee a #Aee tenes onan aommese: STATE as were Lloyd George, Clemenceau, General Joffre, the Crown Prince Adolphus of Sweden and many other personages of renown. Welcomed by Nobody Important. But guns failed to salute him, and instead of the secretary of state or Mayor Walker of New York city, the only friendly faces in sight belonged to Butler Wright, an assistant secre- tary of state, his friends and the rep- resentatives of the Haitian govern- ment in the United States and in New York, Anilal Price and Leonce Borno, together with their employers. It seems that Mr. Borno forgot that he is the one who completely sold our dear Haiti to the American govern- ment and who recently has written in the newspapers the most vile things a president of any republic ever write about his own people. Pleasant Wishes for a Traitor. As expected, then, Mr. Borno was received with great coolness by and a hostile demonstration at the pier by over one hundred Haitians from all over the United States, men, women and children, protesting noisily with the most uncomplimentary language and wishing him the fortune of drop- ping dead at his arrival, They were all carrying black flags and placards, telling the American people the truth, wearing black arm- lets of sorrow and bearing high the Haitian flag with long shrouds of black ribbon in sign of national mourn- ing. We true Haitians, unceasingly re- membering the high ideals our ances- tors held for their country’s future, we see with anger the effrontery of this individual of suspicious origin, coming to parade the streets of the United States as the representative of the land that gave birth to great men like Toussaint L’Ouverture, Jean Jacques Dessaline, Henri Christophe, Alexandre Petion, Capois La Moit, the hero of Vertiere, and many other not less great who, 122 years ago, shat- tered the chains of slavery, not think- ing that some day a Judas named Louis Borno would come to betray the glorious independence they won for this little colored nation, whose mem- ory thrills all our hearts. 2: ae Borno Lunches With Coolidge: WASHINGTON, D. C., June 18— President Louis Borno of Haiti, whose fellow Haitians in this country regard as a traitor to their country for hav- ing surrendered its independence to United States imperialism, was @ luncheon guest yesterday of President Coolidge after a hasty trip thru the government buildings, Especial ceremony marked Borno’s reception at the white house, the ob- scurity of little Haiti among many other colonial victims of American im- perialism having caused the United States to completely overlook the for- mal salute of twenty-one guns when Borno arrived in New York. On % Wirwcour THE DAILY WORKER VOTE IN LABOR WARDS STOLEN BY VARE GANG Ballots Are Simply Not Counted (Continued from page 1) state manager for Vare, testified that in the first 20 wards of the city it was not customary for the organiza- tion to spend any money on literature. He said the organization was all-pow- erful, and the vote was almost unani- mous for its candidates, year in and year out. The Fourth ward, he testified, re- turned 4,547 votes for Vare, 45 for Pepper and only 6 for inchot. He then handed Chairman Reed a copy of the official count, which Showed that Vare was credited with 4,589, Pepper with 89 and Pinchot 3 votes. Working-Class. Ward. This Fourth ward, sald Mackey, is a working class ward. Its people are mostly Jewish and Italian. When they get enough money to do so, they move away. 6 “Do you vote them/in a block?” Reed asked, “No,” replied the boss, “I am sorry to say that they are more tenacious of their political rights than the na- tive born Americans.” Supported Pinchot. Since Governor Pinchot had the in- dorsement of the Pennsylvania Feder- ation of Labor, and since ‘trade union- ism is a strong factor in these wards, and since the labor vote as a rule throws 25 to 50 per cent of its strength to the candidates its unions have endorsed, the crediting of only three votes to Pinchot from a ward where thousands of wage workers cast ballots told its own story. The pro- portion of votes returned from other wards of like character was much the same. Mackey said it had been so for 20 years past. Charity Stunt. When Reed asked how ‘the machine secured this almost-unanimous sup- port from the poorest class in the city, Mackey declared that the Vare brothers had “given them jtheir schools and playgrounds” and. had provided numerous public charities. Reed asked whether the schools were not in fact built with public funds, at the direc- tion of public bodies, at, the demand of the public sentiment of the city regardless of the personal attitude of Vare or any other individual. Mackey admitted that this was true, but claimed that Vare and his brothers, now dead, “used their powerful infiu- ence” to have Loy seed in the poorer wards, and that,.Vare person- ally paid for the plans for one high school in his native ward. Vare Control. Reed then forced him'to admit that Vare thru his organization had abso- lute control of the judges who appoint the school board who néglect the con- struction of school buildings until Vare appears as the champion of the poor and compels his! own puppet board to build them. In gratitude to Vare for thus giving with his left hand what he has taken from the children with his right, Vare is acclaimed a hero and is granted further power to withhold further rights from the peo- ple. s Then the sweet charity argument was dug up. Mackey told of the ‘line of poor people three blocks long, wait- ing to receive food in the winter time from the ward leader, Jim Sheehan, “invincible in the Thirteenth ward.” Sheehann has a small salary on a city job. He returned 4,999 votes for Vare, granting 106 to Pepper and 38 to Pin- chot, Votes Not Counted. “Doesn’t that indicate very clearly,” asked Reed, “that the votes are not counted at all?” Mackey and his lieutenants did not use bank checks in this campaign. They had no check stubs, because they had done their work with rolls of currency, which leaves no trail. Joseph Mackell, register of wills, could not explain anything about how he happened to be possseiag of $5,000 in cash, which he turned*into the cam- paign fund in Pittsburgh, except that he had been saving up that $5,000 gradually for two years. He had been overheard saying to one Cooper who called him on the long-distance telephone in the commit- tee’s anteroom: “I understand noth- ing from nobody.” Senator King tried to make him admit that this was a promise that he would not confess anything to the committee, Mackell perspired, writhed, but admitted noth- ing. Three Drown in Lake Michigan, HONOR Mich., June 18, — Three men were drowned today when their fishing boat overturned in Lake Michi- gan, The dead: George Sheriff, 30; Harry Farquahar, 24, and Harold Cox, 26. Sheriff's brother, Harry, 23, was rescued by a life saving crew but it is feared he may not live, Your uefghbor will appreciate the favor—gtve him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. age eenreat on Coolidge Paves Way for Rule of Rubber Tyranny Over the Filipino People||,,,:1. wea Under « “By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. — Coes CARMI A. THOMPSON, “successful” lawyer and busi- ness man, of Cleveland, Ohio, is now on the Pacific Ocean, bound for the Philippines, “the eyes” of the Coo- lidge administration to investigate into the political and economic con- ditions in the far eastern colonial empire of American imperialism, Independence loving Filipinos are skeptical of the purpose of his com- ing. They believe it is only another move to shackle the islands more securely with Wall Street rule. Thus the Philippine Independent News, of Salinas, California, de- clares: “Colonel Thompson will naturally get in touch with Governor General Leonard Wood first. General Wood is claimed by the present adminis- tration as the best governor general the Philippines ever had. He has already expressed himself as being opposed to granting the Filipinos their independence, claiming that if the Filipinos are set free America’s work in the Philippines would be ‘undone.’ Colonel Thompson may emphasize General Wood’s opinion when he comes back in August to report his findings to President Coo- lidge.” eee The Filipinos should have no doubt amout it. The colonel will echo into the ears of “Silent Cal” the views of the governor general, which are just as hostile to the lib- erties of the Filipinos as they were to the rights of the striking steel workers of Gary, Indiana, against whom General Wood led the United States army in 1919. Wood believes in tightening, not loosening, the grip of the mighty American dollar on the rich archipelago in the far southern seas inhabited by 11,000,000 people. Here is a tremendous wealth of nat- ural resources with an inexhaustible reservoir of human labor ready for the lash of the American exploiter. Great Britain has its India, France has its Indo-China, Holland has its Java, and the United States must have its Philippines in the Orient. e,* Ss The Cleveland “colonel” is the commander-in-chief of the United Spanish War Veterans, who fought to drive Spain out of the Philip- pines, Cuba and Porto Rico, and to bring these dependencies under the Two Killed, Scores Injured When Tornado Sweeps Clarinda, Iowa CLARINDA, Iowa, June 18.—Two were killed during a tornado that swept over the town. A score of men, women and children were in- jured. Property damage was placed at $150,000. About twenty-five or thirty houses were partly demolished. One of the towers of the radio station KSO was damaged, and buildings at the fair grounds were moved on their foundations. The twister cut a patch about forty feet wide, hitting the grounds at inter- vals for two miles. One of the dead, J. D. Douglas, 80, a paralytic, was killed when the wind picked him out of his son-in-law’s arms and carried him two blocks. The son-in-law was trying to carry the aged man to safety at the time. Dennis, Usher, 13, was killed on the ground. When Mrs. J, C. Morrison, one of the more seriously injured, was ex- amined, it was found that a nail had been driven into the back of her head by the wind. Len Small and Local Capitalists Greet Governor Len Small arrived in Chi- cago today to attend the official civic reception tonight for Cardinal John Bonzano, papal legate, and other vis- iting princes of the Catholic church, at the Coliseum. Governor Small, on behalf of the state, will welcome the emmisary of the pope, and assure him of the grati- fication of the people of Illinois, some of them at least, at the selection of Chicago as the site of the first Bu- charistic congress to be held in the United States, and at this selection as a representative of his Holiness, Pius xt. Other speakers will include Mayor Dever, Samuel Insull, Chicago capi- talist, and county clerk Robert M. Sweitzer. Cardinal Bonzano will re- spond to the addresses. Gace? INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID SEND BOX OF FRUIT TO JAILED PICKETS The International Workers’ Aid sent a box of various kinds of fruit to the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union 1924 strike pickets serving 10 tg 60 day jail sentences in the Cook county jail, American flag. “The colonel” spent two weeks speaking before the local camps of the Spanish war veterans along the Pacific Coast before he set sail, claiming that he discovered a universal public opinion in this part of the country in favor of the United States keeping the Philippines for commercial reasons, Sugar, hemp and copra flow across the Pacific to western ports, which in turn ship back export flour and other commodities needed in the islands, a lucrative trade that is steadily growing. see But the great hope is that the Philippines may be mide to produce great quantities of rubber so that the United States will be able to compete successfully with Great Britain in the world rubber market. Under the present Filipino land laws no person or concern can pur- ohase more than 2,500 acres of pub- Uc land, It is claimed that this would make impossible the produc- tion of rubber on a large scale, since at least 500,00 acres are needed for a profitable plantation. The colonel has already ‘been informed of all this, A solution of this problem is al- ready offered. It is the usual solu- tion of “divide and conquer.” It is declared that there is a basis for dividing the Philippine archipelago into two states, one to include the northern islands, inhabited by the Christian Filipinos, who it is claimed constitute a majority of the popula- tion, and another to embrace the southern islands, occupied by the Mohammedan Moros, numbering only about 300,000. It is claimed that the potential rubber district is in Mindanao and other Moro Islands. It is, therefore, only necessary to conquer this Mohammedan popula- tion and force it to submit to the will of an American rubber despot- ism, eee That the Filipinos already feel the burden of Wall Street rule is shown by the fact that the national supreme council, a coalition of all Filipino political parties, has disap- proved of the proposal made by the American Firestone Tire Corpora- tion, \of Akron, Ohio, that public landg be leased in tracts of half mil- lion acres or more for 50 or 75 years as rubber growing plantations. The Filipinos know that the plant- ing of rubber trees means the plant- ing also of American imperialism a great deal deeper into the soil of their islands. ; eee It seems, therefore, that Colonel Thompson’s job really consists of twofold effort: First: To prepare the way for the division of the Philippine Islands into two opposing groups. Second: To bring the group inhabited by the Mohammedan Moros under the whip of an Amert- can rubber tyranny that will invoke the atrocities and horrors of the Belgian Congo rubber plantations in order to force servile obedience from the resentful population. se 8 It is claimed that United States troops slaughtered 600,000 natives on the Island of Mindanao in the war against the Filipino people led by Aguinaldo, following the ousting of the Spaniards in 1898. Colonel Thompson goes to the Philippines, not to pave the way for the libera- tion of the islands, but to prepare new blood baths to force the free- dom-loving Filipino masses into the role of rubber slaves. WATCH US GO! Philadelphia Leads the Way! SENDS TWENTY DOLLARS AS A STARTER! “We want to help you get strong, that’s why we're sending you ten dollars,” says the Lithu- anian Women’s Workers Alli- ance of America Branch 18 of So, Boston, Mass, ‘rive Thousand Dollar Drive, Young Pioneers of America, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Hl. NIE sosessssinnsoreeseeenseeen Everybody Is Contributing to The Five Thousand Dollar Drive of the Young Pioneers of America. _—_— — — —Be In Style: Fill Out the Blank Below— Dear Comrades: I am sending you a contribution of to help insure the Young Comrade and hi AGATOBD sessssssseresersessssernensssnssunssnssorensoenvennessensesevenamnansssten CILY: sssesecerseersmneornsseennrseeserensniovennatsosvusersornnvessvionseens BEA bach) CARPENTERS AND METAL WORKERS IN PEACE PACT New Agreement WASHINGTON, June 18.—General Secretary Sullivan of the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association, at headquarters in Washington, con- firmed the announcement by Presi- dent Hutchison of the United Brother- hood of Carpenters in Ind{anapolis that the executives of the two unions have signed a peace agreement cover- ing their jurisdictional differences. The Sheet Metal Workers’ execu- tive board has not yet officially re- ceived the text of the settlement, and its action upon it may not be taken for a week or ten days. President Hynes of the Sheet Metal Workers is now in Canada. Will Divide Work. If and when the agreement is rati- fled the two organizations will divide work in conmection with the laying of floors, setting of windows and fixing of hollow forms for concrete columns, involving changes in methods of build- ing construction which have been es- tablished in recent years. The point in dispute which has been most often discussed in conventions was the jurisdiction over setting of metal win- dow frames, Adjustment of the differences ‘be- tween the Carpenters and the Sheet Metal Workers will probably bring the Carpenters back into affiliation with the building trades department of the American Federation of Labor. They withdrew from affiliation with that de- partment five years ago, due to the award of disputed jurisdiction to the Sheet Metal Workers. Bosses Sit On Award Board. Peace will to that extent strengthen the financial and jurisdictional condi- tion of the department, and will facili- tate the work of the National Board for Jurisdictional Awards, in which the organized employers are repre- sented with organized labor. This board tries to handle the technical problems of labor connected with the introduction of mew materials and processes in building. To the American Federation of La- bor the news of signing of the agree- ment was most welcome, since it re- moved the most important dispute re- maining between international unions affiliated in the federation, Free Editor Whose Contempt of Court Led to a Shooting LAS VEGAS, New Mex, June 18.— Carl C, Magee, an editor of Albu- querque, was freed by a directed ver- dict from the charge of manslaughter arising from the death of John B. Las- seter, a state employe and friend of Magee, who was shot by the latter during a fight between Magee and Judge David J. Leahy, a political enemy. ¥ It was shown that Leahy had knocked down the editor, whom he had jailed twice for contempt of court, and was beating and kicking him when McGee drew a revolver and fired, by mistake hitting his own friend, Lasseter, who was trying to pull Leahy away. The case has ex- cited great political interest thruout the southwest. Amend Pure Food Act to Use Corn Sugar in Place of Cane WASHINGTON, June 18. — The house passed a bill amending the pure food act to permit the use of corn sugar in confectionery, bakery and meat products. It already has passed the senate and now goes to the white house for the signature of the presi- dent. iy i elp the Young Pioneers to grow.