The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1926, Page 2

eer Page Two SE ere een ee ae Sa NNN | HUTGHESON TAKES CHARTER FROM NY. LOCAL 376 Rosen, Progressive Can- didate, Is Member (Special to The Daily Worker) ‘NEW YORK, June 25. — The char- ter of Local 376, Carpenters’ Union, has been revoked by President Hutch- eson. Morris Rosen, business agent of Lo- cal 376, was the candidate for Presi- dent on the progressive ticket against Hutcheson in the last general election. Following the election Local 376 was @laced on trial by the general execu- tive board, and the local was notified that the progressive program, upon which Rosen ran as candidate, was unconstitutional. The Progressive Program. The program was a very thild one. It called for more job control, curtail- ment of the right of the employers to indiscriminately discharge the work- ers, it proposed that all agreements be ratified by the rank and file, it demanded the right of minority ex- pression within the union and other trade measures that would aid in strenghtening the union. This the G, E. B. declared unconstitutional and notified Local 376 that they must cease from propagating such a pro- gram, or their charter would be re- voked. This the local refused to do. Wholesale Expulsions. In the meantime Hutcheson expelled Bud Reynolds of Detroit because he militantly supported Rosen. The locals in Detroit refused to recognize the ex- pulsion with the result that the dis- trict council was broken up and two of the largest locals had their charters revoked. In Chicago, five members were ex- pelled because they too were guilty of supporting the program of the pro- gressives, In Philadelphia Hutcheson expelled Burgess, the campaign man- ager of Brown, another candidate for president against Hutcheson. Burgess was not expelled because he was Brown's campaign manager, but be- cause he refused to follow Brown’s lead and remain silent on the election frauds. In Los Angeles sixteen mem- bers were expelled on the same charge, namely, being progressives and against the Hutcheson administration. Expulsions and revocation of char- ters is the answer of Hutcheson to any member, or local that dares to raise their heads above the political level of the. Hutcheson administration. Coolidge Mobilizes Campaign Committee at Breakfast Table (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 25. — The firsi real political conference of the current season was held at the White ‘House this morning when President Coolidge had as his breakfast guests all of the members of the republican senatorial campaign committee. Those present were Senators Butler of Massachusetts, chairman of the na- tional committee; Curtis of Kansas, leader of the senate; Phipps of Colo- rado, chairman; and Edge of New Jer- sey, Deneen of Illinois, Fess of Ohio, McNary of Oregon, Gillett of Mass. and McMaster of South Dakota. European Decline in Imports Causes Fall in American Exports WASHINGTON, — (FP) — Europe purchased 28 percent less goods in the first quarter of this year than in the same period a year ago, and as a consequence there was a drop of 12 per cent in American exports, the U. S. chamber of commerce declares. Less cotton and foodstuffs were taken from America by European buyers. LATIN AMERICAN LABOR UNIONS DEMAND GREEN GET RESULTS IN STOPPING PERUVIAN TYRANNIES (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 25. — What will William Green, who is not only head of the A. F, of L,, but also president of the Pan-American Fed- eration of Labor, do to bring pressure upon the Peruvian government to re- yoke the labor conscription law of Peru and cease the persecution of or- ganized labor of Peru which has op- posed this conscription? The Pan-American Federation of La- bor is being put to the test by the demands of the Mexican Confedera- tion of Labor, the Argentine unions and Peruvian labor itself, to not only pro- test, but make its protest effective up- on the government of Pres. Leguia of Peru, which is the mere puppet of United States imperialism, The appeal originates from the fight of Peruvian labor against the conscrip- tion law which demands that all work- ingmen be drafted to work two weeks without pay each year on public works, The Peruvian Typographical Fed- eration printed a manifesto opposing this law, and for this “crime” was deported from their country by order workers have been deported, black- listed by order of Leguia, the head of the nation, others jailed and many shot and beaten brutally by the puppet president for taking part in protest demonstrations against the law. The unity of Mexican, Argentine and Peruvian labor unions to demand that the Pan-American Federation of Labor accomplish something, puts Green in the position of being required to deliver something more than speeches of protest, and to get results or ack- nowledge the Pan-American Federa- tion of Labor has no power and is worthless as an instrument to protect Latin-American workers against per- secutions by agents of Wall street im- perialism. PRESIDENT FITZPATRICK, WHAT DID YOU DO WITH TELEGRAM OF JAILED GARMENT STRIKE PICKETS? A telegram sent by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union 1924 strike pickets thru their stewardess, Freda Reicher, to President John Fitzpatrick of the Chicago Federation their opposition to dickering with pol: The telegram of these jailed girl Dickets calls on the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor to openly fight the in- junction" menace and not to seek to free victims of anti-picketing edicts thru back-door political machinations, The jailed workers sent this tele- gram to Fitzpatrick as the head of the Chicago Federation of Labor with a request that he convey this informa- tion to the delegates at their meeting on Sunday, June 20. This telegram was sent to Fitzpat- rick on Saturday, June 19, Fitzpat- Tick received the telegram. As the paid servant of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor he should have read the telegram. He failed to do so, A copy of this telegram, which is the property of every delegate of the Chicago Federation of Labor and which President Fitzpatrick sought to keep from these delegates, is re- printed below: “June 19, 1926. “John Fitzpatrick “President Chicago Federation of Labor. “166 West Washington St. “Chicago, “Convey to delegates Chicago Fed- eration women garment workers ser- ing sentence Cook county jail that or- ganized labor's appeal to capitalist Politicians for clemency in injunction cases has proven futile thruout, his- tory. “We feel elimination of the injunc- tion pest could be accomplished by open defiance and not iby back-door po- litical schemes. Time for labor to speak up. Freda Reicher “Speaking for Garment Workers in Jail.” British Hold Down Sudan with Planes Bombing Villages LONDON, June 25.— It is reported from Alexandria that the British are using all forms of weapons, including alroplanes, against the tribes in the Sudan which have now been over three months in insurrection. The in- surrectionaries number several thou- sands and are well armed. The bomb- ing of villages by .aeroplanes has caused many casualties, The June issue of the American Worker Correspondent is out! Only 1 More Week for Prizes! & B.. fire oe POINts A Year's Sub to +4 The Dally Worker fir noneha’ 3:50 Three months. 2.00 Outside of Chica: 's cleaned and blocked—Sh Ww Work Guaranteed, of Labor states in no uncertain terms iticilans for their freedom, MILLION DOLLAR ORGANIZING FUND N. A. A.C, P, PLAN Speakers Assail Racial Discrimination (Continued from page 1) of the condition under which the Ne- gro women worked as a part of in- dustrial life. Sweet's Courage Praised. The second speaker was introduced as one having fought his way thru to the state legislature, Senator Adel- bert Roberts. Roberts based his claim for the rights of the Negro principally on his military record as a soldier in every battle fought by the United States. Then with reference to the Sweet case the senator said that the bullets from Sweet's rifle did more than pen or tdngue toward stopping residential segregation in Detroit. Seemingly startled by his hitting so close to the truth in these two statements, Roberts apologetically remarked that “I am afraid that you will think I am rad- ical.” Assalls Church Discrimination, Robert W. Bagnall, in his onslaught against the organized churches bitter- ly criticized the discrimination prac- ticed on the grounds of race or color. “In my own church, the Episcopal,” deolared Mr. Bagnall, “Negroes are herded in Jim Crow conventions that are largely mock conventions. Only the most pliable and cautious type of Negro can be made bishop, and he a suffragan bishop—we would call him ‘suffering bishop’—without vote, whol- ly under a white diocesan. In this and the other denominations, when- ever numbers of Negroes invade a ‘white’ church in the north it is very earnestly requested that they form a mission of their own. Negroes and Unions, In answer to the question by The DAILY WORKER reporter as to whether or not the convention would take steps in appealing to the Amer- ican Federation of Labor for admit- tance of the Negro worker, the pub- licity manager, Herbert J. Seligmann, said: “I think probably in the con- ference resolutions or message to the public. We made @ definite appeal to the A. F. of L, last year or the year before which they evaded by dis- claiming responsibility for the acts of constituent unions. We had asked for the appointment of a joint com- mittee,” Test Case in Washington, In the struggle of the N. A, A, ©. P. Hons RATES: Pressing—Repairing—Remodeling \812-14 Fullerton Ave., Chicago, Ill." Phone Lincoln 3141 against residential segregation, they have begun‘a new case in Washington to test the constitutionality of segrega- tion by white property owners’ agree- ments. The supreme court has de- clared its lack of jurisdiction in the Curtis case thus avoiding the neces- In Chicago Counts For One | sity. of passing upon the merits of tho Biz jnontna "469 Hundred Points | case. Three months., 2.00 Henry E. Davis, former U. §. at: torney for the District of Columbia has been retained by the N, A. A, C. P. With him will be associated the legal committee. Move to Curb Senate Election Expenditures WASHINGTON, June 25.—The first move to curb excessive campaign ex- penditures, following the revelations before the slush fund committee of huge funds spent in the Pennsylvania primary, was taken in the senate this afternoon, Senator McNeely, democrat of West Virginia, introduced a resolution which would bar from the senate any candi- date who spent more than $10,000 on his election, = oe Shining Parlor—Laundry We Call for and Deliver, aie THE DAILY WORKER SENATOR NORRIS URGES PUBLICITY ON GARY BLAST “Public Should Know Facts,” Says Solon Sen. George W. Norris of Nebraska, chairman of the senate committee on agriculture and forestry, in a letter to The DAILY WORKER in reply to the telegram sent to various senators and congressmen urging a congress- ional probe into the blast at the by- products plant of the Illinois Steel company, subsidiary of the Gary con- trolled steel corporation, urges the most widespread publicity so that such occurrences may not’be possible in the future, The letter of Senator Norris fol- lows: “The Editor, “DAILY WORKER, {| “Chicago, Ulinois. “My dear Sir: } | received your telegram of June 16th and have taken ‘up the matter suggested with the secretary of la- bor, with a view to ascertaining whether they would not make an in- vestigation. The department, how- ever, holds that it hag no jurisdic- tlon—that the matter Is one of state control, “I have thought some of Introduc- ing a resolution in the senate, with a view of having a senate investiga- tion, but I have not done so because it looked to me as tho, it would prob- ably be impossible, at this session at least, to have the senate pass such a resolution. “1 think the matter should be in- vestigated by somebody In author- ity, on the broad principle that even tho no one can be found technically to blame, the fact that such an ex- plosion should take place is practi- cally conclusive evidence that there Is something wrong somewhere, and that an investigation might, at least, even If it found nothing wrong, sug- gest a method by which such a catas- trophe could be avoided In the fu- ture, <¢ “In some way the public ought to know the facts connected with it. “Very truly yours, “G. W. Norris.” Senator Lynn Frazier of North Da- kota, Congressman Victor L, Berger of Wisconsin, and Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana have already an- swered the telegram demanding a con- gressional probe. PRIMATES STAY AFTER CONGRESS TO CINCH JOB Cardinals to Cover Im- portant Points Not satisfied with the big propa- ganda disseminated for the Catholic Church during the four days of the Eucharistic Congress, visiting pri- mates will remain in the country to go to various sections to carry on the program of religious agitation be- gun in Chicago. Bonzano Busy. Cardinal John Bonzano, papal. le- gate to the congress, tomorrow will go to St. Louis to participate in the consecration of a new cathedral and seminary. Cardinal Bonzano will re- turn to Chicago next week and be the guest of Cardinal Mundelein for about two weeks. Cardinal O’Donnell, primate of Ire- land, will remain in Chicago for sev- eral days, visiting nearby points. Car- dinal John Czernoch of Hungary, will leave for visits to Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit. Cardinals Cover Country, Cardinal Piffl of Austria, plans to drive to Springfield, Il, tomorrow to attend a meeting of the German Catholic Central Verein, Monday he will be the guest of Archbishop Mess- mer in Milwaukee and Wednesday will start east. Germany's chief representative to the Eucharistic Congress, Cardinal von Faulhaber of Munich, will stay here for several days! Cardinal Reig y Casdnova of Toledo, Spain, left Chicago today for Buffalo and Niagara Falls, and will sail for home after spending two days in Washington, e ae me meme Coolidge Will T: to Save Face on Farm Relief Action (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 25.—It was strongly indicated at the White House this afternoon that President Coolidge is going to make an effort to put an administration farm relief bill thru the dying session of congress. After today’s cabinet meeting, at which the situation was discussed, the president remained in conference with his chief advisers on agricultural mat- ters, Secretaries Jardine and Hoover, for an hour and a half, in the cabinet room, and later the discussion was transferred to they White House 1 i $15. 18 Forest E. Apt. C. 6, Detroit, Mich. « Pittsburgh Police Chief Did His Duty in Aid of Steel and Coal Barons By J. Louis — ETER PAUL WALSH, superin- tendent of the Pittsburgh, Pa., police department, is a little kaiser in the capital city of steel, the office boy of the great anti-labor industrial interests, Walsh uses every possible tech- nicality of the law to interfere with the activities of the workers. Where technicalities are lacking, he goes ahead and does as he pleases just the same. On International May Day, May Ast., he closed the doors of Carnegie Music Hall against the workers’ ce- lebration of their holiday and ar- rested the speakers. When sub- poenaed to appear in court to ex- plain the reason and basis for the arrests, “Kaiser” Walsh remained discreetly away. The court refused to take notice of his absence. eset Walsh is now jin Washington ap- pearing before the senate committee investigating expenditures in the recent primary election, Highly excited senators question him in great detail as to his activity in behalf of the Pepper-Fisher ticket, in support of which nearly $2,000,000 was spent with the hope also of maintaining control for the Mellon interests over the republican party machine in this important state. Nt, Ae. ‘When the Communists arrested at the Pittsburgh May Day meeting ap- peared in court the judge gave them a long lecture, The burden of the talk was that meetings should not be held in defiance of law to protest against statutes held to be oppress- ive, The judge declared that efforts should ‘be made only to repeal of- fensive laws thru the election of the right kind of candidates at the next election. But in the May Day case he refused to even point out what law had been violated, 06 ke Superintendent of Police Walsh, however, in his testimony at Wash- ington, showed how the Mellon in- terests try to maintain their politi- cal and industrial tyranny over the steel workers and coal miners. They do not bother about any appeal to reason. It is the rule of the mailed fist. While Pittsburgh’s mayor was de- manding that all city employes not only vote for but energetically join the campaign to elect the Mellon- Pepper-Fisher candidates or lose their jobs, Superintendent of Police Walsh was similarly active in his department, calling on all the police captains to demand that their sub- ordinates join in the campaign “to line up the boys.” The letter read into the senate record stated: ENGDAHL. “With reference to the attached list of employes under your com- mand, you will instruct them that we expect a large majority in their respective districts for the Pepper- Fisher ticket tomorrow.” Then they were ordered to per- sonally bring in a report the next day of their achievements at the polls, This was done in spite of the civil service laws, hailed as cure- alls by reformers who declare they will take public employes out of ‘politics. In spite of these laws the Mellon-Pepper-Fisher crowd lined up the tremendous army of municipal employes for the candidates of the steel and coal barons. Workers and farmers, understand- ing these expected activities of the capitalist state, will not join the democratic senators, King, of Utah, and Reed, of Missouri, in expres- sions of surprise and indignation that such things should take place in these “democratic” United States of America. Over the broad expanse of “‘the Solid South”, where the democratic party rules practically unchallenged, the crimes of the Mellon-Pepper in- terests in republican Pennsylvania are repeated, and not only against egro voters but against white workers as well. 5 Labor is the loser if it believes that the democrats throwing mud at the republican party in the exposure of corruption in Pennsylvania, are not also knee-deep in the same mire. se * The Pennsylvania exposure is of No benefit to labor unless it arouses new masses in the cities and on the farms to struggle for political action independent of both the old parties. Only thru their own strength will the workers under capitalism be able to expose the tyranny of the capitalist state and ultimately rally sufficient strength to destroy it. When Superintendent of Police Walsh stopped the Communist May Day meeting and when he ordered all his subordinates to line up for the mine-steel-railroad oligarchy, he was carrying out his duty as an in- strument of the capitalist social order that he supports. His kind will exist as long as capitalism lasts. Workers and farmers will not make the laws until they become the dom- inant power. This they should learn from the Pennsylvania slush fund exposures. Chief of Police Walsh did his duty, and will continue-to do it for his cl: The workers and farmers must learn to do their duty by their class —the working class. KELLOGG GIVES LEAGUE NOTICE NOT TO BUTT IN Reply on Armenia Has a Double Meaning WASHINGTON, June 25, — Seeking to keep the Monroe Doctrine promin- ently on display, and probably remem- bering that Armenia has no attractive oil fields, either, the state department replies to the protest signed by 110 Episcopalian bishops against ratifica- tion of the Turkish-American treaty of Lausanne on the grounds that Tur- key is oppressing the Armenians, by declining to interfere, Secretary Kellogg cites President Monroe’s giving no more than sympa- thy to the Greeks in 1823, and the U, S. instruction to consuls to give no protection to christians in Turkey in 1830; then quoting Elihu Root in 1904, Kellogg puts the Monroe Doctrine right under the noses of European im- perialists and reminds them that the United States still claims to be the Tepublican party here adopted a resolution calling for a referendum on the modification of the Volstead prohibition act to permit the manufacture and sale of light wines and beers. denounced by a number of delegates from Milwaukee as side-stepping the issue and fearing to take a stand on the question. These delegates urged the convention to go for a “wet” or “dry” platform, Alienists Present ity of Russell Scott, convicted mur- derer of Joseph Maurer, Chicago drug clerk, marked the second hearing into Scott’s mental condition. WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS FOR REFERENDUM ON DRY ACT MODIFICATION (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 25.—The state convention This action of the convention was Testimony in the Scott Sanity Case Testimony of alienists as to the san- The alienists were divided into | overlord of the Western Hemisphere in the following quotation given from Root in that year: ‘The fulfillment of treaty obligations between European states is a distinctly political question, as to which the Western Hemisphere can have no voice or part beyond expression of sympathy within appropriate bounds, The proposition that the president take the iintiative in convening a spe- cial conference to settle the Armenian question could not be admitted unless it were admissible that an Buropean power could rightfully take similar action to bring about a special confer- ence for the settlement of a question of the internal administration of an American republic, or of the treaty re- lations of other American republics thereto.” : This citation dug up by Secretary Kellogg is a reminder to the league of three groups—those appointed by the state, those retained by the defense, and those appointed by Judge William V. Brothers at the request of Judge Marcus Kavanaugh, presiding at the trial, Nine letters, purporting to have dealt with an alleged plot to escape and declared to have been intercepted before they were mailed, were read by Elmr Moore, guard at the asylum, to whom they were intrusted by Scott. If Scott is found sane at the pres- ent hearing he will entenced to hang. If declared insane he will be returned to the Chester Asylum, COMRADES ON VACATION Should see Comrade P. B. Cowdery at the Daily vont: office who has auto and ou for such purposes, or for trip to Pacific coast. Co-operative ar- rangements can be made, nations, given thus indirectly, that the Tacna-Arica dispute is none of its bust- ness and that the United States wauts no meddling by British imperialism in “our empire” in Latin-America, The June Issue of the American “ Worker Correspondent is out! .. aS Get a bundle to sell at the pleniol | . COOK COUNTY S. P. JOINS FIGHT FOR SACCO, VANZETTI Socialists Send Letter to Mass. Governor ‘A resolution, in the form of an open letter addressed to Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts which urges him to intervene against the attempts to railroad Nicola Sacco and Bartol- omeo Vanzetti to the electric chair on framed-up and perjured evidence, has just been adopted by the county executice committee of the socialist party of Cook county (Chicago) Illi- nois, according to Florence Hall, county secretary. “Would Massachusetts convict or put to death John D. Rockefeller on such evidence as now stands against Sacco and Vanzetti, a part of which 1s confessedly perjured testimony?” asks the resolution. “Likewise, on such evidence—an important part of which is by two witnesses who have confessed perjury—would not the lives of J. P, Morgan, Henry Ford, Andrew Mellon, Charles Schwab and Judge Gary be perfectly safe in Mass- achusetts against the hangman's noose or the electric chair? .. .” The resolution was also adopted at the annual socialist party press. pie- nic held at Riverside Park recently. ee @ Evidence of United Fight. “The action of the Cook county so- Cialists,” said James P. Cannon, sec- retary of International Labor Defense today, “is further evidence that alt forces are uniting in the fight for life and freedom for Sacco and Vanzettt. The report from the local Sacco-Van- zetti conferences now being organ- ized thruout the country show that all elements in the labor movement are alive to the necessity of united working class defense of the two rebe? workers of the rank and file who face the electric chair in Massachusetts. “The defense of Sacco and Vanzett? is the burning issue before the work- ers of America today. It is not a partisan issue but a class issue and the workers as a class must take itt up more unitedly and aggressively. The strong arm of the working class alone can halt the ‘executioners and liberate our brothers in the Massa- chusetts prison. Conspiracy of Silence. “The staggering revelations of the Madeiros’ confesston, which Pile still higher the proof of the innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti, are being met by the capitalist press of Massachusetts, which only yesterday was clamoring for ‘immediate execution’ with a con- Spiracy of silence. This confession compelled a delay in the murderous plans of the capitalist hirelings in Massachusetts, but has not altered their determination to have the blood of Sacco and Vanzetti. The new tactics of ‘silence’ call for stronger agitation, and louder protest from the workers. The International Labor Defense will continue to put the case of Sacco and Vanzetti in the forefront of its work and will continue to strive by all means to extend the battleline until it includes the entire working class of America.” eee Wyoming Mine Workers Protest Sac- co-Vanzetti Frame-Up. . SOUTH SUPERIOR, Wyo.—Local Union 2328, of the United Mine Work- ers of America here, has passed a resolution demanding that the govern- or of Massachusetts intervene in be- half of Sacco and Vanzetti and pro- testing against the conviction of the two innocent workers, according to Joseph G. Gall, the local secretary. Your uefghbor will appreciate the favor—give him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. GRIGER & NOVAK @ENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS Union Merchandise 1934 West Chicago Avenue (Cor, Winchester) “Phone Humboldt 2707 To those who work hard for thelr money, |! will save 60 per cent on all the’> dental work, DR. 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