The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1926, Page 2

Page Two BOSSES OPPRESS GARMENT LABOR; B. A'S STAND BY A. Cc. WwW. Officers Do Not Protect Members By a Worker Correspondent, There seems to be very little hard- Ship in the collaboration tactics of Business Agent Spivak of the Amal- “gamated Clothing Workers Union and the foreman of coat shop No. 9 of the Alfred Decker & Cohn Tailoring Co. The business agent and the foreman, _ work very harmoniously to keep the workers well in hand. The foreman Teigns supreme in that shop. He hesi- tates very little in giving a suspension to a worker. He is quite sure that Business Agent Spivak will support him in his stand against the workers, in ninety, out of a hundred cases. Fired For Lesson. The other day a worker was sus- pended for no other reason, as the foreman expressed himself, than to give him a proper lesson. The busi- mess agent, Spivak was called to settle the case. After hearing the argu- ments of both the worker and the fore- man, he dramatically exclaimed, “I myself would have given him a sus- pension for that.” Tm another instance the job of a tailor in the shop was threatened, The tailor was supposed to have insulted @m examiner when the latter got on the tailor’s nerves. When the case of the tailor was finally taken up, the Business Agent Spivak was not at hand to defend him, nor did the man- ager of the joint board, Levin, send an other business agent to handle the case, . * Hiliman'’s Harmony. President Hillman’s golden rule of peace and harmony is also very ar- dently being practiced by the foreman and shop chairman in the overcoat Shop No. 4 of the aforementioned firm. The shop chairman, a very devoted and willing disciple of the business agent at large Rissman and his tactics, doubts very little in the infallibility of the judgement of his foreman. ‘When complaints are brought to him against the foreman he discreetly manages to make nothing out of them. Even if he does agree to hear the arguments of the worker and his idol, the foreman in certain cases, he is al- ways found on the side of the latter. A “Torquemada.” A most serious case of intimidations against one of their fellow workers, was brought to this writer’s attention ‘bythe tailors of the vest shop No. 11, located in the same building with the coat and overcoat shop. A tape sewer was ruthlessly bothered by a “Torque- mada” of an assistant foreman. The only difference between the Spanish inquisitor Torquemada and the assist- ant foreman is that while the former confined his cruel methods of torture mostly to Jews, the latter applies his Savage methods of treatment to both Jews and gentiles alike. ‘When the worker could stand it no longer he complained to his shop chairman. The shop chairman listened to the worker’s complaint and let it fo at that. A stool pigeon in the shop conceived the idea of dealing that worker a severe blow. On the next day that worker was taken to task by his foreman. The foreman accused him of conspiring with the shop chair- man to beat up the assistant foreman. ‘The worker categorically denied that charge. His case was a few days ater taken up for a hearing before higher authorities. The charge against him was naturally not proven. How- ever, he is now well looked after by the assistant foreman. Firestone Company of Fall River to Bring Scabs to Cotton Mill * (PALL RIVER, Mass., June 24. —It is understood that the Firestone Cot- ton Mills plans to bring in strike- breakers to take the places of 175 workers in its twisting department ‘who have walked out. The company has refused to recognize the unton or Ao permit establishment of shop com- mittees. One grievance of the strikers is the speed-up system which has been in operation; the plant has been running 24 hours a day with three shifts. Pickets are on duty. The strike is being directed by the United Textile Workers of America. PF ifth Annual JULY 4TH PICNIC Held on Legal Holiday MONDAY, JULY 5 Chernauskas’ Grove, 79th St. and Archer Ave. Large Dance Floor Refreshments Speakers: C..E. Ruthenberg and Alexander Bittelman. ADMISSION 60 CENTS. ‘ Election Statement of the T. U. E. L. (Continued from page 1) ments—wage cuts—and the reduction of working forces in shops by mini- mizing the actual consequences that have resulted from such policies, Bitter Experience, The bitter experiences and the con- crete facts and results embodied in those experiences are still fresh in the minds and hearts of our membership. The readjustments, wage-cuts, and the general loss of working conditions in the shops, are the experiences gained by our membership thru thes policies of the administration. The price paid by the toilers of Chicago in the read- justment scheme is far too steep to permit another venture of its kind to return in the near future. Convention Actions, The last convention passed many resolutions dealing with the immedi- ate salvation of the other problems of the organization. These resolutions were given over to the incoming G. E. B. to put them into effect. Ques- tions, such as the 40-hour week, week work, amalgamation, and the organ- ization of the unorganized, the reduc- tion of hours, the amalgamation of all needle trades unions into a de- partmentalized industrial union, as the only effective means to organize the unorganized and to establish con- trol over conditions in the industry. An immediate and energetic organiza- tion campaign of the unorganized, are at present the leading factors involved for the salvation of the many ills that we are suffering from today. Here again our past experiences teach that the present G. E. B, who are candidates for re-election are not the people to perform this task, jun- less there is sufficient pressure within the G. E. B., as well as from without, by the membership. Unless the com- position of the G. E. B. changes, we POLICE CLOSE HALLS IN FALL RIVER TO ILD, Protest Meeting for Anarchists Barred BOSTON, Mass., June 24. — The In- ternational Labor Defense protest meeting at Fall River, Mass., was stopped by order of the police. Prof. Dana H, Canter and Robert Zelms of Boston, who were to be the speakers, found the hall closed and police guard-) ing the entrance, telling them ‘that the meeting cannot be held. The meeting was called in behalf of Diamantino Texira, Antonio de Costa and Alver Pereira, three Portugese radicals ar- rested several weeks ago and are being held for deportation on charges of publishing a monthly anarchistic newspaper. The chief of police of Fall River told the speakers that he advised the hall keepers not to rent the halls for such meetings. The hall keepers told the committee that the advice was in a form of an instruction. The Fall River and Boston newspapers carried big headlines before hand, telling that police would prevent an anarchist meeting. Police guards were stationed near all the other halls of the city. The In- ternational Labor Defense branch is determined to fight for the right of free speech and will try to hold an- other meeting. Lakeview Workers’ Club Will Hold Street Corner Meetings Every Tuesday The Lakeview Workmen’s Club will hold meetings this summer on every Tuesday night that weather will per- mit on the corner of Wilton and -Bel- mont Aves.’ The speakers will be variously from the Workers’ Party, International Labor Defense, Interna- tional Workers’ Aid and other work- ers’ organizations. The first meting was held last Tues- day with Dora Lohse of I. W. A. as speaker. The subject was the Passaic strike. Thirteen dollars was collected for relief of Passaic families, You do the job twice as well— when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your story in it. Good Music Games _ Auspices: Workers Party of America, District No. can expect that for the coming two years the Amalgamated will follow a policy of the prolongation of wage- cuts, readjustments, reduction of working forces, with consequent de- terioration of working conditions, Four Pledged Candidates. Among the 19 candidates, 4 of them, Brother Anthony Capraro, Local 63, N. Y.; Joseph Platti, Local 202, Roch- ester; Anthony Ragmilia, Local 24, Newark and Peter Teems, Local 200, Rochester, have pledged themselves, both at the convention and in con- sistent and persistent fight in their re- spective localities to be in favor of taking immediate steps toward the attainment of the 40-hour week, week work, amalgamation, and the organ- ization of the unorganized, as against the present administration collaborat- ing schemes with the employers, Brothers and Sisters: The G. E. B, election is the most im- portant duty of the membership be- cause the G. E. B, lays out the pol- icies that in turn control the destiny of our membership. Support The Four. The Chicago Group of the Amalga- mated Section of the T. U. E, L. calls upon you to support these four broth- ers above mentioned. A vote for them is a vote against the present policies of the G. E. B., as well as & sound warning to the incoming G. £, B. that the membership is categor- ically opposed to the present policies pursued by the administration. The brothers mentioned above de- serve your support. They have ac- knowledged and propagated a pro- gTam that would tend to develop a fighting union worthy of the best tra- ditions of the Amalgamated, (Signed) Amalgamated Group of the Trade Union Educational League of Chicago. [FIREMEN AND POLICE MAKE WAGE DEMAND Ask More Money and Present Reasons THE DAILY WORKER SEGREGATION OF NEGRO ASSAILED AT CHICAGO MEET Delegates Hit the Bars Against Colored (Continued from page 1) When the cases are presented, the courts invariably claim that “there isn’t jurisdiction,” but with a hard struggle these cases are being slowly driven into, court. Review Sweet Cas®. The report of Moses Walker, vice- president of the Detroit local gave a thoro review of the Sweet case and the entire situation in Detroit that led up to the case, The significance of the case as a victory of the Negro race over residential segregation was emphasized. ny Industrial Segregation. During the period allowed for dis- cussion, B. Borisoff of the American Negro Labor Congress took the floor and made a strong talk against indus trial segregation as one of the great- est menaces to the Negro race, He described the elimination of the Ne- gro from various labor organizations; the dumping of the worst jobs on the Negro worker at the lowest wages and said: “Every intelligent man and woman will realize that we cannot eliminate rez!?ential segregation and segregation in schools without the elimination also of industrial segrega- tion. And I firmly believe that this great convention before it finishes its sessions will give time to this very important question and will formulate its position on this question which af- fects the lives of millions of the race.” Borisoff further described how this industrial segregation was used te) breed race hatreds and keep the races in combat. “We must fight this in- dustrial segregation and finally abol- ish it.” Gary. The explosion in Gary, Indiana where segregated residential districts and schools are in existence, was thoroly reviewed and the treachery of the officials of the United States Stee? corporation and the city authorities was exposed. The fact that thousands of Negro workers are employed by the United States Steel corporation was Representatives of the city firemen and police of Chicago yesterday pres- ented their arguments to the city council’s finance committee to show why their wages should be raised $300 @ year. Most large cities wh many smaller ones pay more wages than Chicago, which pays only $2,200 a year. New York pays $2,500; so Jersey City and Passaic, Even in Oakland, San Fran- cisco, Los Angeles and Detroit the firemen and police get $2,400. Of 249 cities investigated, 68 gave the firemen a raise last year and 86 are expected to grant firemen a raise this year. The Chicago firemen show that their work is more dangerous in Chicago than in other cities, 253 being injured last year in line of duty. Tho there are fewer firemen killed than policemen, there is a greater average number, by 70 per cent, of firemen than policemen killed while at work. There are less firemen employed per square mile in Chicago than in most cities. Chicago has 12.5 firemen per square mile; New York 19.2; while others have as high as 29.7 as in Bo- ston, and Milwaukee with 24.6 men per square mile. Moreover, the national board of fire underwriters states that the effective- ness of the Chicago firemen is high, the per capita fire loss in Chicago being $2.25 a year; while in New York it is $3.16; and Boston, which has 29 firemen per square mile, has a per capita loss of $6.19. Shoe Workers’ Union Continues Strike in Part of Struck Shops BROOKLYN, N. Y., June 24, — Be- cause of existing conditions in the shoe trade, the executive board of the American Shoe Workers’ Protective Union has called off its strike in all but six factories here. The strike con- tinues at the plants of the Premier Shoe company and five other com- panies which obtained temporary in- junctions against the union. Argu- ments on these injunctions are to be made in court shortly. Workers still on strike total 2,000, Six thousand had been out. The strike began seven weeks aj following refusal’ of members of the Shoe Manufacturers’ Board of Trade to arbitrate differences as provided by the prevailing agreement with the union; this amounted to an abrogation of the agreement by the manufactures. Moves to extend and strengthen its organization are to be made im- mediately by the union, European Labor to Aid Passaic Strikers PASSAIC, N. J., June 24, — The General Relief Committee of the Tex- tile Strikers, is in receipt of a letter from the Berlin office of the Workers’ International Relief. The letter prom- ises that every effort will be made to arouse European labor to the need of contributions, no. matter however relief. given as one reason for the necessity of the Convention of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Col- ored People recognizing the impor- tance of this situation and taking an active part in the in’ igation now led by the American “"egro Labor Congress. id Other talks were niet’ by delegates from various parts of th® country at- tending the convention,’ all of whom brought their story of struggle against the menace of discrimination and ses- regation as experienced in their par ticular locality. ? Militant Negro. A brief talk with Walter White, as- sistant secretary of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Col- ored People brought out an expression of the militant spirit among the Ne- gro masses which is not recognized by the general mass of white people. Mr. White commented on the fact that The DAILY WORKER was aware of this fact. From the world war and post-war period the Negro masses are making more militant struggles against their oppressors and learned by their actual engagement in the front line trenches that “bullets will go thru white skins as well as black ones.” The old tendency to hold the con- vention in the line of a “upper-class” struggle responding principally to the demand of the business and profes- sional class, and to plead on the basis that the Negro with “ability and means” should be given his rights— which might be taken that the unedu- cated worker's rights are not so press- ing—is already reflected in the speeches of the delegates. The hope of receiving a fair deal under the present government seems to predom- inate. Elaborate Program. An elaborate program is planned for the convention at which the leaders of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People will make speeches and musical entertain- ment will be provided. The conven- tion will be in session until June 29 at the Pilgrim and Ebenezer Baptist churches; with special meetings at the Auditorium Theater, on Sunday, June 27, and the Wendell Phillips Au- ditorium on Tuesday, June 29. Reichstag Committee Seeks Compromise on Kaiser’s Vast Estates BERLIN, June 24.—The reichstag committee, which is endeavoring to find a compromise law to deal with the property of the former royal fam- ily, made a concession to the left bloc when it agreed that rents from the royal property would not be consid- ered private property but would be held to be state property. The na- tionalists are baeci9 | this conces- sion, Fire Destroys Schooner, GLOUCESTER, Mass., June 24,— News was received here by the United their Seek Unity of Greek and Roman Catholics in War on World’s Working Class ree By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL: ——_ NE of the big indications that the catholic church is on the de- fensive against the world’s awaken- ing workers, is the fact that the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago saw ‘open efforts being made to secure unity between the Greek and Roman branches of the catholic faith. The schism that resulted in de- veloping two wings of catholicism, took place in the early dawn of the christian era. That it has continued to the present day is testimony to the seriousness of the breach, which had its basis in an interpretation of religious dogma, * But the Greek catholic church had the foundation practically blasted out from under it when the Bolshe- vik revolution swept the czar, “the little father” of the Russian ortho- dox creed, out of power, and shook off the mental straightjacket of reli- gion that had helped to hold the Rus- sian masses in darkness. The Greek church got another push into oblivion when the sultan lost his job in Constantinople. This was followed shortly by the escape of the Greek catholic ecumenical patriarch, Gregory, hurriedly taking hig leave on a British warship. He is now domiciled on Mount Athos (The Holy Mount) at Salonica; Greece, It is Greece that British im- perialism uses as a catspaw for its attacks on the Angora Turkish gov- ernment and to maintain its position in the Near East. Thus the Greek catholic church survives as an instrument in the hands of British imperialism. The Ecumenical: Council at Constanti- nople, with patriarchs at Alexandria, Egypt; Jerusalem, Palestine, and Antioch, in Syria, indicate the cen- ters in which the Greek church stfil operates as the agent of British tory tule. .* This was the background of the joint religious ceremonies held, for the third time in the history of the christian world, this time in the Greek catholic church of St. Nich- olas, on Chicago’s northwest side, about which cluster human rem- nants of the deposed czarist regime. There is no dispute but that the Greek catholics are about ready to acknowledge the supremacy of the pope at Rome. Here in the midst of Chicago’s Russian colony, arch- bishops, bishops and lesser lights of ‘both churches shouldered with those who once called themselves dukes and generals in the gone czarist Russia, and still try to maintain the fiction in this country, Altho, the churchmen present were from many Meeting Tonight to Protest Jailing of Pickets of I. L. G. W. (Continued from page 1) Speakers. Professor Robert Morss Lovett of the University of Chicago; Mary Mec- Dowell, head of the Public Welfare Commission; J. J. Ullman, chief busi- ness agent of the Machinists’ District Council; Miss Maud McGreary, J. Levine, manager of the Chicago joint board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers; I. L. Davidson, or- ganizer of the joint board; Ida Roth- stein, head of the women’s department of the organization committee of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, have agreed to speak at the mass meeting. B. Soll, chairman of the joint board, will preside at the meeting. John Fitzpatrick, president, and Edward Nockels, secretary of the Chi- cago Federation of Labor, have been invited to speak. Pickets to Speak. A number of the girls that have served their sentences and have been released ‘will greet those assembled in the name of the girls still in jail, All their sentences will be seated on the platform, New Haven Sacco and Vanzetti Meeting on Monday Night, June 28 NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 24, — A mass meeting to protest the attempt being made to railroad Nicola Saeco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will be held Monday, June 28 at Hermanson Hall, 158 Crown St. The speakers will be Robert W. Dunn and Arturo Giovannitti, The meeting is arranged by the Sacco- Vanzetti conference, Joliet Prison Clerk of conditions in the Joliet was given as the cause tor muieide: Richard 8. Jones, former. ™ fe ta eo ba G who have been released after serving’ Commits Suicide Despondency over over the investigation LORRY lands, the ceremony in which the Greek and Roman chtirchmen joined was carried on in Russian, yet it was in fear of and preparation against the great Russian masses of workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, lest their victory will spread to other lands. - * At the same time in another part of Chicago Dr. Silvio D'Amico, edi- tor of “La Tribuna” of Rome, before reactionary Chicago Italians and at- tending bishops of the Eucharistic Congress, was proclaiming Mussolini, the fascist tyrant, as “a great pa- triot and the saviour of Italy.” This ts just an indication of what the unity of the Roman and Greek Catholic Church means for labor, —unity in support of the fascist terror that rules in Spain, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria and other Catho- lic countries. . * * Not only the super-display of pomp at the St. Nicholas Church of the Russian . counter-revolution- ists, but in wordy arguments ad- vanced at numerous meetings, the desperate need of religious unity ‘was urged by many speakers. It is declared the Baltic states, that often maneuver toward a Baltic combination against the Union of Soviet Republics, including Lithu- ania, Latvia, Esthonia and Finland, are ready for the unity move. Unity does not meet with such favor however, in the Balkans, among the Greeks, Serbs, Bulgars and Rou- manians. This is due to the fact that the Baltic states are overwhelmingly Roman Catholic and some form of unity has already been achieved, while in the Balkan States the "Greek Catholics: predominate and enjoy considerable: autonomy that would not be theirs under the rule of Rome. 7- e 8 Yet the extreme efforts put forth during the © Eucharistic Congress shows the desperate need among Catholics for unity. This need is aggravated by the fact that in Eu- ropean countries, the Catholic Church ; enters \ otively into the struggles of the p. “tical arena, In the United States it tries to hide its political pir sseraard 7 ¢ Against the ter of the Catholic Church (Greek and Roman), seek- ing strength to better lure the work- ers atid farmers into the capitalist abyss, labor must unite as a class, irrespective and in spite of all re- ligions. Seven-Year-Old Son of Comrade Bloom Is Killed by Automobile CLEVELAND, Ohto, June 24,—The seven-year-old son of Comrade Bloom was killed by an automobile. Comrade Bloom and his wife are active mem- bers of the Workers (Communist) Party. ‘When Comrade Bloom received the sad tidings at a party meeting he not only remained calm but inspired to his family his courage, ' Debs Will Help on the hearty sympathy with the strike. HURRAY FOR CHICAGO! CHI PIONEERS BEAT PHILLY BY $4.00 PHILLY GOT A HEADSTART! The Chicago Pioneers wouldn't stand for it! So they began col- lecting and they collected $24.00 on the ———— Let's Ail Contribute, Five Thousand Dollar Drive, Young Pioneers of America, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, HI. to help insure the Young Comrade , Passaic Strikers PASSAIC, June 24.— Eugene V. Debs in a telegram to the Passaic strikers relief committee accepts the invitation of the committee to serve Passaic strikers’ milk fund committee and declares himself in The Five Thousand Dollar Drive of the Young Pioneers of America. : Tam ‘sending you a contribution of §... TROOPS ASSIST HIERARCHY IN CATHOLIC MEET 700,000 Attend Last Event: at Mundelein Armed sentries patrolled Mundelein, Il, and all roads leading into the arch- diocese center in which the crowning celebration of the Eucharistic Con- gress was held yesterday. Grig. Gen- eral John H. Garrity, in command of 1,400 national guardsmen and Col. Frank BE, Rand, commanding the 132nd infantry, established headquarters near the railroad station that was swarmed with thousands moving in for the 10 o’clock mass and the Eucha- ristic procession. 700,000 Present.’ Cordons of troops and’ police stretched from Chicago’ to Mundelein on all main roads regulating the,trat- fic, The grounds were completely clear- ed the night before aud at sunrise yesterday the vast multitude began to flow. The crowd was estimated at between 700,000 and 800,000, Medieval Show. At ten o’clock the medieval show began. The “procession of the blessed sacrament” beginning at St. Mary’s On The Lake, stretched for more than” a mile. The brilliant robes of the 600 mitred archbishops and bishops flut- tered in the wind, while 8,000 nuns (women are barred from such proces- sions) stood on the side lines. “The sacred host” was carried by the pope's representative, Cardinal Bonzano, Behind him came the ten cardinals robed in red, while all around were church banners, golden candlesticks and shining mitres. Huge Propaganda. Thus ended the climax of the greatest and most stupendous religious gathering ever recorded. Never has the catholic church been so successful in its propaganda, The whole Chicago press opened wide its columns. The city was turned over to the hierarchy for four days. Police, state and na- tional troops, were at their service, Public men from the president to po- lice magistrates paid homage to the papal power. The attention of the world was riveted on the middle ages pageantry of the best press-agented religious spectacle of all time, New Haven Weavers i Club Holds Picnic for Passaic Strike NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 24. — A picnic and dance has been arranged by the Weavers’ Social Club for the benefit of the Passaic Strikers on Sunday, June 27, at Grassy Hill, on Derby Turnpike, between New Haven and Derby. Music will be furnished by the Union Orchestra, “Spoynello.” Directions:—By trolly, get off at Grassy Hill station. By auto, turn off at Grassy Hill road. Look out for pic- nic signs, Rejected Jurors for Durkin Called Slackers Judge Harry B. Miller, presiding at the trial of Martin J. Durkin, charged with the murder of federal agent Ed- win ©. Shanahan, today called in seventy veniremen of the tenth panel of 100 and heatedly declared that un- less they accepted jury service as a duty to their country they were as much slackers at the slackers of the world war. Of almost a thousand veniremen who have been examined thus far in the trial of Durkin, only eight have been sworn in. Judge Miller has threatened counsel for both sides that unless the jury is completed today he will hold night sessions. Your nefghbor will appreciate the favor—gtve him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. Fill Out the Blank Below — — —— oenenene and help the Young Pioneers to grow, -