The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 143. WIS LABOR “ey : ;: "NDER “AE : oe, sie Stine’ > “4 Asks How Mucn Walker and Farrington Got (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 27, — “I want to know how much money was given | te John Walker and Frank Farrington, the men who are said to have handled the labor vote in Illinois,” Senator Caraway of Arkansas said on the floor of the senate yesterday while demand- ing investigation of the Illinois primaries race between Col. Frank L. Smith, who won the senatorial nom- ination and Senator Wm. McKinley, who was defeated. John H. Walker is the president of the Illinois Federation of Labor. Frank Farrington.is the president of the Ili- nois Mine Workers’ Union. They both supported Smith. Spent $3,000,000. Senator Caraway demanded that the slush fund committee turn its atten- tion to Illinois. He said that Samuel insull, Chicago traction magnate, gave $500,000 to the campaign of Col. Frank L. Smith. Caraway charged that Smith spent $2,000,000 to get elected, while ‘Senator McKinley spent $1,000,000 on his campaign. Replete With Fraud. “The Illinois campaign was replete with fraud, corruption and the buying of votes,” Caraway said. “It is openly charged that being chairman of the utilities commission, Col. Smith fe- ceived enormous contributions from the heads of public utilities in the state.” Turning to Chicago, Caraway con- tinued, “Recently the mayor of Chi- cago appeared before a senate com- %0 | city against the charges of corruption ‘and crime made by Chicago citizens ‘of influence, some of whom were in public office. “Some rumors that have come to my ears have led me to believe that the conditions in, Chicago have their root and foundation in the politica? practices that. prevail there, 35... “' have made some investigation of the political methods and prac- tices that exist in Minois, and if my information is correct this body ought | to be advised of the facts and take cognizance accordingly. Reviews Some History. “l was somewhat impressed with the Illinois situation in 1920 when Frank 0. Lowden was governor, with a fine and high type of business or- ganization about him. Opposed to him was ‘Big Bill’ Thompson, then mayor of Chicago, and a bunch of profession- al politicians, including Len Small, Fred Lundin and Frank L. Smith. The anti-Lowden gang succeeded in mak- ing Small the governor of Illinois, just missing making Smith their United State senator, and Thompson and Lun- din became chief patronage dispens- ers. mittee to defend the reputation of or Raps At Small. “Small made Smith the chairman of the public utilities commission, the most powerful body in the state, with jurisdiction over billions of dollars of property employed in the public ser- vice. Samuel Insull. “Senator McKinley was the head of one of the largest utility corpora- tions in the state and Samuel Tnsull was the real utility monarch, who is reputed to have poured millions into primary and election compaigns in » the last few years. “Iam told that his contributions have not always been made willingly, but as he operated utility properties with a gross income of over $100,000,- 000 a year, he found it more profitable ‘to ‘come across’ whenever he was asked thaw to refuse to pay and take the chance of losing millions in ‘de- creased rates at the hands of untriend- ly public officials. t Held To Job. “L have Been astonished to learn that Smith held onto his job as chatr- man of the utilities commission. thru- (Continued on page 2) Gary * Workers! ‘The DAILY WORKER is oh sale at the Workers’ Co- operative Restaurant, 1733 Broadway. Step over for a copy—you'll find YOUR paper there every day. _ GET A COPY! Subscription Rates: | that labor in order to effectively fight | that weapon of the bosses to break | had become & common oceurrence, He In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. —— The Labor Movement Can Aid the Gary Steel Workers The DAILY WORKER and the Gary Workers’ Investigation Committee have received favorable replies to the request for an investigation of the Gary disaster from Senator Wheeler, of Montana; Senator Frazier, of North Dakota; Senator Norris, of | Nebraska, and Congressman Victor L., Berger of Wisconsin. That the Gary holocaust has focused attention nationally ‘on this hell-hole of the steel trust, in spite of the scant publicity it received in the capitalist press, is shown by the offer of these legislators to take some action leading to an investigation if Ha are furnished and a concrete method of proceeding outlined. Doubtless, with the customary caution of old party politic ians, they are waiting also for a stronger demand from the labor | unions in Chicago and Gary. With all the discontent in the rural regions, and the exposures of open corruption in the steel trust stronghold of Pennsylvania, it is certain that nothing could be more popular or useful than the evidence of the murderous prac- tices of the steel trust towards the workers, which a real investi- gation of the Gary disaster is sure to disclose. It seems to us that the Chicago Federation of Labor, and the State Federation of Labor as well, has the clear duty of demand- ing officially an investigation of the causes of the Gary disaster and the further inquiry, which is a necessary corollary, into the methods by which the steel trust keeps the thousands of its em- ployes in virtual slavery. The fact that Gary is in Indiana should not stand in the way. The blood of the workers killed in the Gary disaster has flowed over the state line. J It does not speak very well for the officials of the Chicago and Illinois labor movement that republican, democrat and so- cialist legislators are in advance of them in preparing the way for an exposure of the steel trust at a time when the organization of the workers in basic industries like steel is the foremost question before the American labor movement. MEETING GREETS JAILED STRIKE PICKETS FOR PLACING LOYALTY TO UNION ABOVE JUDGE-MADE LAW The following telegram was sent to the? jailed 1924 garment strike pickets now serving Sentences in Cook county jail for defying the injune- tion issued by Judge Denis H, Sullivan, judicial tool of the bosses, by the workers assembled at a meeting in Temple, Hall, Marshfield Ave. and Van Buren St. protesting the imprisonment of 46 strike pickets and against the use of injunctions: “Workers in mass meeting assemb- MEETING URGES led at. Temple Hall greet the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers 1924 Militant Action Needed strike pickéts jailéd t6r placing loyal- ‘ty to union above jiidge made ‘law. to Free Chicago Girls “We realize that the only way these ‘Your telegram to the mass meeting girls can be freed is when the or- expressing your loyalty to the cause of labor was met with the. greatest ganaized labor movement of Chicago and allover the country demands enthusiasm by the meeting and has in- their release,” pointed out Benjamin créaséd our determination to struggle agaist injunctions and for your free- dom.” Soll, chairman of the meeting called at the Temple Hall; Marshfield Ave. and Van Buren, to protest against ) “Benjamin Soll, Chairman.” : . Soviet Union Plans the imprisonment of 46 International Ladies’ Garment Workers strike pick- the Electrification of Agricultural Sections ets. “4 “We have tried our best to release MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., June 27.— the pickets. We lost in Judge Sulli- The following appropriations were made by the State Planning Commis- vans’ court. We appealed. Again we lost. A committee then went to see sion for agricultural eleetricfication: In Soviet Russia, 4,150,000 roubles; in Governor’ Small. “Tho Small after listening to the the Ukraine, 1,600,000 roubles; in the Trans-Caucasian Federation, 700,000 roubles; in White.Russia, 440,000 rou- arguments of a committee that went to see him declared these pickets deserved to be pardoned, he has not bles; in Uzbekistan, 700,000 roubles, and in Turkmenistan, 260,000 roubles. pardoned them. It does not seem as tho he will. We have waited long GREEN IS “PLEASED,” NO STRIKES ARE ON esi ; AND BOSSES PROSPER CINCINNATI, June 27.—“1 am entire Chicago labor movement to the pleneeds” sald William Green, b iaee need ‘of demanding the freedom for Leia of ile! se literal 4 these girls. The members of organ- ate ds the 7 a a sas af eae ized labor must be aroused to fight Seaauitts saledlt os tea ti wilt 4 injunetiong. It {6 only in this hog “| am pleased with the ponte that these pickets will be released. ence of large strikes.” Injunction Menace. “! feel that industry is on the up- Speaker after speaker pointed out "he added, “There hag been the menace of the injunction in strikes kening up in the bituminous showing that regardless of which of shoe and pottery lines, but 1 the old-party judges took office they 4 were all the same, They pointed out | look for them to improve. Most of the existing trouble is due to the stimulation caused by the war, but this condition is rapidly being ad- justed.” “JAIL SENTENCE HA these edicts against’ picketing, must organize strongly on the political field into a labor party. ‘Speaker after speaker brought out forcibly the need of awakening the entire Chicago labor movement to fight injunctions and that a concerted drive against injunc- tions would mean the destruction of strikes for better conditions. Machinists Union. “The machinists’ union has had many strikes. Their strikes were not lost because the men went back to work or gave up the fight, but because of the injunction issued by the notor- jous ‘Denny’ Sullivan,” declared Busi- ness Agent J. J. Uhlmann of the Ma- chinists District Council. Uhimann pointed out that injync- tions had been issued so frequently against the machinists union that it Garment Workers’ Union 1924 strike “Fellow workers’ jail sentence labor's cause. We are ready to defy tions. The unity and idealism of the also brought forward tions are issued ag hat tho injune- “We, tl i nition y the jailed garment porns to join the International Ladies’ paign’ against the injunction pest. We oA} our courts of justice into a strikebreaking agency for employers’ associa- inspire the labor movemen: thruout the country to carry on an active campaign against injunctions in labor disputes, Garment Workers in an active cam- “Fraternally, — 30,000 Australian Miners Idle as ¥.—(FP)— Engineers ani firemen employed at the coal mine | throughout Australia are on strike for \higher pay. They refuse to accept | the last aWwatd of the coal tribunal in- sofar as the Marginal rates for skilled labor are tot raised in proportion to | the increase for unskilled labor, With | the enginemen on strike, work at all coal mines\‘has ceased and 30,000 min- ers are idle. Mass Meeting to Back Joint Board Demands (Special) fo The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, June 27. — A giant mass meeting of the New York {membership of the International La- dies’ Garment Workers’ Union at Ma: dison Square Garden Tuesday is ex: pected to be the mobilization of the workers in that industry for battle on, the picket lines of the New York market when 40,000 trade unionists | vote approval of their joint board's action in rejecting the recommenda- tions of the mediation commission ap- pointed by Governor Smith and sup- port the nine demands, made by the joint board on the employers’ indus- trial council, by a vote to strike. The strike, which may be called at once and with vigorous action, such as brot victory to the furriers, fought thru to a vietory against the bosses, will take place over the nine demands, without the granting of which the union has declared “the industry will inevitably g6 back into the disgrace ful system @f sweating and semi-star- vation.” These demands modified by mts of two years during "s.commission was worked onutron basis of commission’s recommend: ns. 2. Upwardrevision of the minimum wage increases recommended by the commission. 3. The guarantee of 86 weeks’ work a year. 4. The forty-hour week. 5. Examination of employers’ books by union representatives to check up on observanee of agreements. 6. Recognition of the designers’ and examiners’ unions. 7. A labor:bureau to equalize work. 8. Limited use of labor saving ma- chines, specifically basting, felling, button sewing and pressing machin- ers. 9. No so-called rights for employers, Commission Ignored Real Issue. The governor's commission, while it tried to placate the workers by grant- ing some minor concessions, simply ignored the really vital demands, suchas the demand for sufficient em- ployment each year to permit them to earn a living and for measures of control over the work that would stabilize it and prevent unending competition (between workers driven like slaves in the contractors’ sweat- | shops. The 36 weeks’ work guarantee and the 40-hour week are particularly the outstanding demands along with meth- ods to enforce them by a limitation of contractors. Tuesday's meeting at Madison Square Gafiten will show that the workers in the cloakmaking trade, no less than in the furrier shops, are de- termined that their demands shall be granted or the shops of New York will be closed by a picket line of 40,000 workers until they are granted. “reorganization” The June issue of the American Worker Correspondent is out! S NOT CHANGED OUR DEVOTION TO LABOR’S CAUSE,” \ DECLARE JAILED STRIKE PICKETS The following telegram was sent by the jailed Intefnational Ladies’! pickets from Cook county jail to the! protest meeting at Temple Hall, Marshfield Ave. and Van Buren St., urging the Chicago labor movement to join the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers in a campaign on the injunction pest; “ has not changed our devotion to capitalist politicians who have turned ntenced garment workers shall rs, urge organized labor of Chicago | sions of the National Association for | jthe Advancement of Colored People| _ Ave. and 116th St, a distance of Entered at Sccond-class matter September 21, 1928) At the Post Office at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act of March 3, 1379 WORKERS RAISE VOICES AT NEGRO NGRESS HERE Labor Speaker Ahead of Chicago Millionaire Sharp contrasts of opinion were| shown coming from representatives | of different social classes at the ses- conference when James W. Ford, a} labor representative, followed by Julius Rosenwald, millionaire head of the Sears Roebuck company, and later | by A. Phillip Randolph, organizer of the Brotherhood of Pullman Porters, gave the convention views of the ques- tions relating to the equality between the races, Miss Mary McDowell, commissioner of public welfare’ of the city of Chi- cago, presided at the session. In a speech she gave some statistical in- ‘ormation regarding the Negro in in- (istry. James W. Ford, a local leader of the American Negro Labor Congress, fol- lowed with a very vigorous speech re- minding the conference that the peo- ple with whom they were dealing are | almost entirely wage workers in the | city and in the agriculthural districts. | Ford demanded that attention be/ given to the question of equality of the Negro as a worker in industry especially emphasizing that equality in doctors’ associations and lawyers’ club was not sufficient, but that the Negro masses must “have equality in the workshops where they are em- ployed. Industrial Equality. This Means equality in the kind of employment at which Negroes are now forbidden, it means ‘equality on Sat- urday night in the pay envelope and | above all, equality im the trade unions. | Ford regretted that the convention | was giving/ practically no recognition | to the biggest field of life of the Negro | masses,’ | After Fdrd came Julius Rosenwald, | NEW YORK EDITION . ~ Sunday by THE DAILY, WORKER W, Washington Blvd,, Chicago, Ill, Urge Support By | World Labor to British Strike By JOHN PEPPER. (Special Cablegram to The DAILY \WORKER,) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., June 27. — An appeal issued here by the Communist International to the workers of England and of all countries emphasizes that the British miners’ strike is in the greatest danger in view of the agreement of the miners’ leaders with the General Council for the postponement of the conference of the executive committees, and in view of the refusal to criticize the policy of the General Council which frustated the genera} strike. The assertion in which it is alleged that the agreement was due to the necessity to support the miners’ srtike and to create a single front in the trade union movement for the purpose of Price 3 Cents: CO. Republics, is false. As a matter of fact, the agreement enables the leaders of the General Council to gain time and slightly raise its shaken authority and, under the guise of a campaign tor the defense of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, to prepare for the failure of the miners’ strike. The declaration of the lead- ers of the transport and railroad workers, that, in the matter of the effective aid to the miners, they are tied by the ment with the owners which was concluded after the general strike, poves the falsity of the assertions of support of the miners’ strike by the General Council, J “Whoever wishes to aid the English miners’ strike should not cover up the crimes of the General Council leaders, but must ap- peal to the wide circles of the working masses and must prepare for the extension of the miners’ strike, attracting new detach- ments of workers for possible direct participation in the strike.” The Communist International urgently demands that all of its sections increase the campaign for effective aid to the British miners’. strike in view of the insufficiency of the assistance hitherto given. The Communist International emphasizes the necessity to accomplish the cessation of the export of coal to England and to surround the miners’ strike which is of tremend- ous political importance to the workers of the whole world, with the atmosphere of international proletarian sympathy and sup- port. SOUTHEASTERN CHINESE ARMY PLANS ATTACK ON CHANG’S SHANTUNG FORCE SHANGHAI, June 27, — A new who. was introduced by James™Veltion | -¢ivif War léoms Th China. Sun Chuan Johnson, secretary of. the executive council. After Rosenwald came Randolph, who made a speech. telling how or- Fang, overlord of the Southeastern provinces is preparing for an attack on Chang Tsung Chang’s Shantung ganization of the porters had been ac- complisited. He described the modest support which he had received from the labor movement. He declared that it was absolutely essential that the black and white workers join hands for the benefit of labor as a whole. Race Riots, He pointed out that race riots are made possible ‘because of the friction that is generated between white and black workers. He declared that it Was necessary to change the minds of those that were involved in such rioting if the rioting was to end. Those who participated in race riots are largely people of the working class. Organization of black and (Continued on page 2) POLICE AND AMERICAN LEGION SEEK TO DISRUPT |, W. A. STREET MEETINGS (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 27,—Attempts to break hp the open air meetings conducted by the _ International Workers’ Aid for the benefit of the Passaic textile strikers has taken place by the police and a member of the American Legion, When Sylvian A. Poljack of the International Workers’ Aid was ad- dressing a meeting of several hun- dred workers at the corner of Lenox Ave. and 116th St., he was stopped by a policeman and told “if you don’t get off that platform at once, "ll lock you up.” Pollack protested to the officer, but to no avail. He then telephoned to the local station house who sent two sergeants and two patrolmen to the meeting. “They told Pollack that he could not continue the meeting because “he did not have a permit. from the chief inspector.” The po- lice drove the crowd away and thot that they had killed the meeting for the evening. In this they were mistaken. platform wi The moved to Madison several blocks, where Pollack, after ying a few words, introduced Nancy Sandosky. She told the as- sembied workers about the attempts of the American Legion to break the strike by opening a relief store, where, before any worker was given relief, they had to promise to go back to work, ‘ Amreican Legion troops. He is believed only to be waiting the inevitable defeat of the Shansiites by the Kuo Min Chum in the Northwest before making the attack. FOSTER SPEAKS TONIGHT ON NEW RAIL LABOR LAW All Railroad Workers Especially Invited The delegates to the Railway Em- ployes’ Department of the American Federation of Labor meeting here to- day, are particularly invited to attend the meeting tonight at which William | Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Educational League, will speak on the new Watson-Parker railroad law and what it means to railway la- bor. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the local section of the T. U. E. L., whose regular meeting date on the first Wednesday of each month has for this occasion been merged with the Foster meeting to- night, at which the new rail law, which has roused wide interest among labor | unionists generally and particularly the railroad workers. Foster will analyze the new Jaw and the: motives of its supporters, among whom are such open shop chiefs as Atterbury of the Pennsylvania rail- road and Ralph M. Easley.of the Civic Federation. The speaker will also deal with the condition of rail labor thru the last few years and the pres- ent tasks confronting the workers in that industry. The Chicago section of the T, U. E. L. under which the meeting is ar- ranged will hold its next regular meet- ing the first Wednesday in August. All unionists are invited by it to attend tonights’s meeting especially devoted to the railroad workers. The meeting tonight is at 8 p. m., in Italian Hall, 645 North Clark street. A good crowd is expected, YOUR LAST CHANCE ! |S eee of the fact that July 4th falls on a Sunday and J BRITAIN TRIES TO CHECK LOSS Imperial Council to Dis- cuss Defense (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, June 27. — British im- perialism, faced with a rapid decline | of its grip on the business of the | world, tho its power are yet vast and |far flung, preparing a scheme to lcheck the dissolution of the empire by defensive movements to be adopted at the coming October imperial con- ference. The cabinet 1s now preparing all jquestions to submit to the empire | premiers, all hinging around the de- {fense of the empire. This question is divided into three phases: (1) Defense of Britain, the heart of the empire; (2) Defense of the imperial routes be- |tween \the home country and the col- onies; (3) Defense of the dominions jand colonies. The first problem is, so rumor goes, | to be settled as much as any imperial jist puzzle can be settled, by an al- |liance with France or with Italy, pre- ferably France, beeause France has about all the territories it can handle, while italy wants much more and | would demand what it wants as @ price of support. But if the alliance is made with France, | trouble on the second question of itm- perial routes, particularly the Mediter- anean sea, which is the backbone of British communications with her col- onies and dominions. Italy, realizing that her own im perialist ambitions can be limited by British hostility, and very ruinously ignored by any Franco-British alliance, is trying to find a solution between the clashing interests of Italian and British imperialism and is offering small favors to prevent England mak- ing its alliance with France. This ts the reason Mussolini recently aided | Britain to get its will on the Mosul treaty. { More Illinois Militia, te SPRINGFIELD, Il, June 25,—Ib nois is to have a new company of militia, which will be sworn in at Sterling next Monday evening, ‘The unit will be designated as o. M, 12th® InfCantry. Italy will be sure to make °), resisting the die-hards’ attacks on the Union of Socialist Soviet OF HER EMPIRE: ee