The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1926, Page 2

“Enance Page Two a rence monet yer re mene TE IT NT NE REP, UNDERHILL IS ANTI-LABOR INSURANCE TOOL Sacco-Vanzetti Enemy a Butler Man (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 27, — (FP)— Rep. Underhill of Massachusetts, who has recently gained press notoriety by claiming that the Sacco-Vanzetti dg- fense agitation is a Moscow plot, has for years been a cinder in the eye of organized labor at the capital. He is the leader of the opposition—regular republican and bourbon democrat alike—to the workmen's compensation bill for the District of Columbia which is backed by the American Federation of Labor. Insurance Company Man. ‘This measure, patterned after the state-fund insurance plan of work- men’s compensation legislation in Ohio has the active hostility of the private insurance companies, Under- hill has introduced, session after ses- sion, his own bill which gives the field to these private interests. Butler Machine Member. Underhill has frequently been charg- close intimacy with the in- companies’ lobby. He plays fame. He has had the support the Butler machine which has ily opposed the granting of a Rew trial to the prisoners. Teocent outburst is estimated at @apital as an awkward attempt to anti-Communist fervor in behalf ‘the Butler senatorial candidacy, and igoidentally to help in putting to death two fabor radicals. se 8 Seattle Conference. QHATTLH, Wash. June 24.—Final preparations are being made here for the holding of a big conference, rep- resenting all labor organizations in the city, for the support of Sacco and Vangetti, says John Stovel, secretary of International Labor Defense of Se- attle. The conference will take place at the Labor Temple on Monday night, June 28th. The speakers at the conference will include Carl Brannin, well-known labor journalist, John C. Kennedy, of the Seattle La- bor College, and James P. Thompson, former class war prisoner and well- known organizer for the I. W. W. The Seattle labor movement has been on record for Sacco and Vanzetti from the beginning of the case. se 8 mess New Haven Meeting. NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 24-——A mass meeting at Hermanson Hall, 58 Crown Street, will take place here m Monday night, June 28th. Among the speakers will be Robert W. Dunn, of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Arturo Giovannitti. All workers are urged to attend in order to voice _ their protest against the possible exe- eution of the two innocent Italian workers, Sacco and Vanzetti. eee Grand Rapids Picnic. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 24.— A picnic, for the benefit of the cam- Paign for Sacco and Vanzetti will be held nere on Sunday, July 11th. by In- ternational Labor Defense. The pic- nic grounds are at Miller's Grove, 60th avenue and Beloit Road. The @rove can be reached by taking a Third-Burnham street car marked “77th Ave.” or “Woodlawn,” and rid- ing to 60th avenue and George; walk two blocks to the park. Max Shacht- man, editor of the Labor Defender, ‘will speak at the picnic on Sacco and ‘Vanzetti. Refreshments, music and dancing, together with games and sports, will be features of the picnic, Admission is 25 cents. 4 SEND IN A SUB! SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2 P.M. (Postponed from June 5th) FIFTH FREIHEIT EXCURSION Day Wonderful =< ICKETS $1.10. All Tickets of June 5th Will Be Good on July 10th. WHAT AMERICAN OF PASSAIC LABOR THINKS TEXTILE STRIKE The following editorial on the strike of 16,000 Passaic textile workers appeared in the June issue of the Gran: The continued resistance of the inspiring. ite Cutters’ Journal: * textile workers in Passalc, N. J., is Lying propaganda, the hatred and opposition of the con- stituted authorities, and the want that must be among the strikers and their families have been powerless to It is said that the strikers break the solidarity of the strikers. re existing on a dole of $1.67 per week. This money is being contributed by sympathizers. The arraying of churches and Slavic societies on the side of the strikers is a recent development in Passaic. have a wholesome effect. Altho belated, this manifestation of public sympathy will It ought to silence those who have been charging that the strike is the result of Soviet influence, The fact is going to be recognized some day that agitators cannot bring on strikes and that the real cause of strikes lies in working conditions, A peculiar thing about this accusation of foreign influence is the absence of similar statements concerning the owners o of the mills where the employes are italists. It is doubtful if American stock in the mills and the managers ican citizens, this case seems to be a very foolish f the mills. The entire ownership on strike is vested in German cap- citizens own one dollar's worth of residing in Passaic are not Amer- To say the least, waving the flag over the employers in proceeding, Farrington and Walker Under Fire (Continued from page 1) out his primary campaign and will do likewise during the campaign for elec- tion this Fall. “Small, with the aid of the Chi- cago crowd, including the state’s at- torney of Cook County of which Chi- cago is the seat of government; the Chicago sanitary district, whose board is appointed by the governor, and the Chicago machine, was re-elected gov- ernor in 1924, nothwithstanding the supreme court has decided he owes the state over $1,000,000 in interest on funds he had collected and retained on state money he had unlawfully used for his own gain while it was in his custody gs the treasurer of the state.” Payroll Army. “I want to know whether the charge is true that an army of state payroll- ers and a like army of federal job holders deserted their offices, and at public expense went into the highways and byways of Illinois to nominate a candidate for United States senator. If it is true, as charged, that John Flanigan boasted ot lining up the rail- road and public utilities, many of whom he represented, to contribute to a senatorial primary fund, we want to know it as a part of our information in determining the course of railroad legislation in this body, Bought Negro Vote, “A man by the name of Dan Schuy- ler is said to have spent vast sums to collect votes in the so-called colored wards and foreign language groups in Chicago, I find only a few years ago this man Schuyler was under indict- ment for making false income tax re- turns, that his real defense was that the money he was shown to have re- ceived from Insull and other corpora- tion heads was really only contribu- tions to the Thompson-Crowe-Barrett- Lundin campaign fund. National Scope. The senate’s investigation of the Pennsylvania $3,000,000 primaries has assumed national proportions. Senator Reed announced that the funds used in political campaigns everywhere would be ldoked into with particular reference to money raised by wets, drys, the ku klux klan, the anti-saloon league and the churches. To Unseat Vare. The basis for a battle to unseat Rep. William S. Vare for his part in spend- ing $615,000 to win Pennsylvania's re- cent $3,000,000 senatorial primary, was laid today while the senate “slush fund” committee returned to an in- vestigation of the funds used in Amer- ica’s costliest election, New Election Rule. A resolution by Senator LaFollette, jtional Association, when a southbound Jackson Park ele- jouth Side republican of Wisconsin, amending the Tules of the senate to bar from its membership any candidate spending more $25,000 in his primary, was be- fore the senate rules committee with both democratic leaders and insurg- ents demanding early action on it. LaFollettee announced he would press for a vote upon the resolution before adjournment and in this, he was known to have the support of dem- ocratic leaders. Unless amended to prevent its ap- plication to the Pennsylvania primary, adoption of the resolution would auto- matically bar Vare from the senate if he is elected next November, Continue League Probe. A sweeping investigation of the $35,- 000,000 “war chest” used by the anti- saloon league of America to write pro- hibition into the constitution was as- sured today when the senate “slush fund” committee called for the league’s financial records for every year since 1917. The request was made of Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the league, by Senator Reed, democrat, of Missouri, chairman. The records, which the committee will examine, in- cluding all contributions, subscrip- tions, the payroll of the national or- ganization and the campaign and edu- cational expenditures for the last ten years. “I want the financial records for every year since the league began its national campaign to put the prohibi- tion amendment in the constitution,” said Reed. Expose “Angels.” Wheeler requested that the names ‘of contributors to the anti-saloon league be kept private but the com- mittee immediately overruled him. Senator LaFollette, republican, of Wisconsin, protested against any sec- recy in handling the names of dry ‘Angels.” “I feel that those contributions to a public agency, used for political pur- poses, should be spread on the public records,” LaFollettee declared. “I am for making them public.” ‘So am I,’ agreed Reed. “Any man who monkeys with politics can expect to have his work bared to the public.” THE DAILY WORKER WORKERS RAISE VOICES AT NEGRO CONGRESS HERE Labor Speaker Ahead of Chicago Millionaire (Continued from page 1) white into trade unions will help to remove this condition of mind. Class Conciliation Plea. Randolph then proceeded to make a class conciliation plea pointing to the Watson-Parker bill, which he thought was an example of the recog- nition of organized labor and the “legitimate rights to organize.” Mr. Randolph showed his lack of knowledge of tha role of the labor movement by highly -praising the Watson-Parker bill which is in fact disruptive to the labor movement, but which he thought was a concession to labor. Randolph described the purpose of the labor unions as being collabora- tion of wrokers with @mployers for the improvement of indystfial service to the public. George M. McClellan spoke very in- terestingly on the teaching of the Negro. Home Conditions of Negro. Miss Elizabeth Griffin | spoke on conditions of the Negro in their homes declaring that low wages and bad con- ditions of work were responsible for miserable homes. Miss McDowell read a paper from Mrs. Pannady of Portland, Ore, in which it was pointed out that the present migration of Negroes was in- to the states of Oregon and Washing- ton. Miss Kathrine M. Johnson of Brook- lyn spoke on the question of the dis- semination of books and literature of 'egro people. Criticize Agenda. Lovett Fort-Whitman, president of e American Negro Labor Congress, made a few criticisms of the agenda and pointed out that it was insufficient overbalanced as it qade prac- tically no allowance for labor organ- ization problems and the problems of the farmers, Monday Sessj Dr. W. E. B. a to arrive Monday mofhing. He will pre- side over the business séssion in the Pilgrim Baptist Church, 33rd and In- diana Ave. he Addresses will be ‘migde by Dr. Dubois, Mrs, F. P, Brown of Chica- go, Mrs. Myrtle P. Cogk of Kansas City, Miss Martha Browii of Baltimore and Archie L. Weaver og )Vhicago. Coming Electidns. In the afternoon the} subject will be the supreme court} decision ex- cluding the Negro frojix’ voting in Texas. L. W. Washington of El Paso will speak. The attitudepof the Negro toward the coming congressional and state elections will alsotbe discussed. William English Walling, renegade socialist, who became an ardent sup- porter of Woodrow Wilson during the world war and is now séeking to foist the Gompers policy of “rewarding friends and punishing enemies” on the Negroes, will speak on‘“Nonpartisan Voting” at the mass meeting to be held at the convention hail in the evening. It is also announced that Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., will also speak at the evening session. SHOP CRAFTS 10 DISCUSS PARKER- WATSON R. R. LAW = Devertment ¢ Convention Si T=. i to Take Up! Problems The unions Mehositae the Railway Employes’ Department of the A. F, of L. will meet here in convention for the first time since 1922 today to dis- cuss wage demands and determine what their attitude should be toward the new Watson-Parker railroad labor law, under which they are supposed to take action in regard to forming regional boards of adjustment. The whole matter of what the law means to labor is expected to come up and find considerable discussion, since by no means all unions and unionists regard the law as friendly to their interests. In fact a great many are completely opposed to it as a company union, clasg collaboration plan. Representation in the convention will be on the basis of one delegate from each railroad system of the fol- lowing international unions; Interna- tional Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers, Inter- national Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers, Interna- tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work- ers, Sheet Metal Workers Interna- Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America, Switch- men’s Union of North America, Broth- erhood of Stationary Firemen and Oilers and the Brotherhood of Main- tenance of Way Employes, “LY” Crash Injures, Three persons were injured today GARFIELD POLICE BEAT STRIKER IN CITY JAIL CELL Jack Rubenstein Is At- tacked by Brutal Cops Charges Against Walker and Farrington Concern Whole Working Class By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. |"; ‘OHN H. WALKER, president of the Illinois Federation of Labor, and Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois Mine Workers’ Union, are charged with getting and spend- ing a good bit of the huge corrup- tion fund raised by the public utili- ty interests of Illinois to give Col- onel Frank L. Smith the republican senatorial nomination, It. is declared that Samuel Insull, one of the biggest light and power kaisers in the nation,” personally raised $500,000 for the Smith Cam- paign fund, and that $100,000 more came from BE, H. Rollins and Sons, Chicago investment bankers, in- terested in a $20,000,000 utility merger pending before the public utilities commission headed by Sen- atorial Candidate Smith. It is part of this money, that to- talled far into the millions, that Walker and Farrington are charged with spending in their political ac- tivities for the enemies of the work- ers, not the. money of the workers, raised by themselves to fight their own battles. But this slush fund was to be used, and was used inan effort to corrupt working class voters into casting their ballots for Insull’s candidate, sn @ It is very important that this con- dition be realizéd by all workers, since it was their officials, that they had put in power, who tried to line them up for Mr, Insull’s Smith. Mr. Insull has always bitterly fought labor. He is head of the Commonwealth Edison Co. that wars on the the electrical workers. He is the biggest figure in the People’s Gas, Light and Coke Co., that is con- ducted on an “open shop” basis. He is chairman of the executive com- mittee of the Chicago Elevated Rail- ways, that never rests in its strug- gle with the Street Carmen’s Union, He is also a dominating figure in the surface lines and the phone trust, in Chicago, at the same time ‘being interested in traction and power interests thruout the entire middle west. These huge interlock- ing interests have but one policy and that is to keep wages down for the workers and prices up tor the consumers. eee The exposure of the relations between Insull and Smith was made by Senator Caraway, of Arkansas, a democrat. It was very evidently called forth in an effort to discredit the republican nominee, Smith, in his struggle with George T. Bren- nan, the democratic boss, who wants to go to the United States senate as a prelude to the nomination of Governor Al Smith, of New York, as the democratic candidate for president in 1928. Brennan's predecessor was Roger Sullivan, who helped make Wood- Tow Wilson, but who was also one of the dominant public utility kai- sers of Chicago, close ally of Samuel Insull, who now supports a repub- ean candidate. When Caraway, therefore, attacked Smith as the agent of the public utility interests, he could just as easily have put Brennan in the same boat and sunk the together. But old party pol- itics isn’t played that way. Ex-Pugilist’s Wife Wants Disinterment (Special to The Daily Worker) GARFIELD, N. J. June 27.—Jack Rubenstein, one of the leaders of the Passaic textile strike was severely beaten in the Garfield jail by the po- lice. He had been arrested for “dis- orderly conduct.” After he was thrown in a cell he was beaten) by police of- ficers. When he was released yesterday, Rubenstein’s face was battered, his shoulders bruised and ‘his right eye swollen, A physician ogdered him to bed. The beating was denfed by Police Chiet John A, Forss who said, “I don’t care if a doctor found a broken leg on Rubenstein, he didn’t’ get it here,” Rubenstein had been arrested ten times in the past 22 weeks. He is one of the picket leaders. Two other ar- rests were made yesterday. They were Mrs, Mary Sabo and Thomas Re- gan, Mrs. Sabo was fined $12 for an alleged refusal to obey a police order to “Move on.” Regan will be ar- raigned today, . STL LLU LLL LLL LO LULL LLU LLL CHINESE MOT for Diamond Fillings Frank L, Smith made a good can- didate for the Insull interests be- cause he had proved an obedient tool of the power trust as head of the Illinois Public Utilities Commis- sion, a job given by Governor Len Small, who also has the support of wide sections of the labor official- dom. For this very reason all labor should recognize him as its class enemy. It is significant, however, that. the only section of labor or- ganized in the trade unions that fought Mr, Insull’s Smith was the Street Carmen’s Union. In speaking of the wage and hours’ struggle in 1922, this union, thru resolutions “adopted at a mass meeting April 5, 1926, officially declared: “At the conclusion of this hearing, when the employes’ representatives presented a statement of the em- Ployes’ position to the commission, Frank L, Smith told them that the employes would have to accept a reduction in wages, and he attempt- ed to get them to agree to a wage reduction of 12 cents an hout, from 80 cents to 68 cents. He insisted that 68 cents an hour was a fair wage for the street carmen of Chi- cago at that time, when the cost of living was abnormally high and prices on the whole had not receded much from war standards. Our rep- resentatives refused to concede to this, and the result was that Frank L, Smith, and the members of the Illinois Commerce Commission en- tered an order reducing car fare, which was reflected in the employ- ing company attempting to cut the wages of employes nearly 19 per cent, and to take away their basic eight-hour day and other favorable labor conditions. The way was paved for the company to pass the decrease in revenue to the employes by the action of Frank L. Smith and the commission. Volumes of unrea- sonable and unfair evidence against the wages and labor conditions of the employes were permitted to go into record by Chairman Smith. As a result the strike against the wage reduction and abandonment of the eight-hour basic day took place in August, 1922, involving 20,000 of our members in Chicago and affecting all its citizens. Among the pol- iticians that forced that strike on the electric railway employes and citizens of Chicago, Frank L. Smith was as responsible as any.” See Not only the street carmen, but all labor, must join in the demand that the Farrington-Walker-Olander- Fitzpatrick officialdom of labor ex- plain this alliance with the Insull- Smith combination of great business with republican politics, The pri- maries may be over but four months Ne ahead before the general elec- tions. There is.yet time for the workers and farmers to unite their power and turn their strength against the capitalists and those la- bor officials who accept bags of gold from the employers’ corruption funds to bribe workers to fight against their own interests, The charges hurled at Farrington and Walker are the concern of the whole working class. Street Meeting Held Each Tuesday by the North Side Workers FIRST IN CHICAGO EIGHTH STREET THEATRE, Wabash Ave. and Eighth St. “THE LOVER'S DREAM,” acted and produced entirely by Chinese. in English ard Chinese. American and Chinese Pe rapiel and Mrs. Robert Fitzsimmons, wife of Bob Fitzsimmons, once world’s heavy- weight boxing champion, today re- quested that the body of the pugilist be disinterred from a grave here so that two diamond settings in the old fighter's teeth might be removed, ac- cording to a statement made by chief of police, Morgah A. Collins, Chief Collins said that a woman who said she was Mrs. Fitzsimmons had requested him to exhume the body so the diamonds might be ex- tracted. If you are a worker living in the vicinity of Wilton and Belmont ave- nues, or anywhere else for that mat- ter, the Lakeview Workmen's Club in- vites you to the street meetings held every Tuesday evening at the street corner when weather permits. The club provides speakers from ya- rious labor organizations upon many questions of interest to workers. This week on Tuesday, June 29, the speak- ers will be Fred C. Biedenkapp and Dora Lohse, both of the International Workers’ Aid organization, and the subject will be the great strike of the British miners, Remember the day of the week, each week on Tuesday, and the place—the corner of Wilton and Belmont. Noted Engineer Dies, NEW YORK, June 27. — Charl E. Scribner, 68, noted inventor and electrical engineer, for 20 years the chief engineer of the Western Electric company, died at his summer home at Jericho, Vermont, of apoplexy yesterday, according to advices re- ceived today. We need more news from the shops and factories, Send It Int ION PICTURE MEETING URGES | LABOR WAR ON INJUNCTION EVIL. Militant ‘Action Needed to Free Chicago Girls (Continued from page 1) captain, was instructed to collect votes. for the republican “Injunction Judge” Denis E. Sullivan and that he followed the instructions and gather- ed together 250 votes for Sullivan, who has now issued an injunction against the union in a strike in which this precinct captain is participating. “The workers must get together and put in men that will serve the work- ing class and not the bosses,” declared Uhimann, Must Fight Injunctions. “The entire labor movement should fight injunctions. It is the job of the Illinois Federation of Labor, the Chi- cago. Federation of Labor to get be- hind this present campaign and put it over with all their power. “If every organization that had an injunction issued against it would get together and protest this hall would not hold them. We would fill not only this hall, but also the Coliseum. Then they would not be so free with in+ junctions.” Cheer Released Pickets. Seven of the released garment strike Pickets sat on the platform with the speakers. These seven pickets elected three of their number to speak. Tha speakers for these pickets who were released, because they had served their sentences were: Sara Schneider, Fannie Goldberg ,and Minnie Seidel, Their expressions of loyalty to the union and their determination to defy injunctions if used in future strikes, were greeted with thunderous ap+ plause and cheers. Telegram From Pickets. A telegram from the garment strike pickets in Cook County was read amid great applause. The meeting decided to send a telegram expressing its sym+ pathy and solidarity with those that are still in jail. Among the prisoners that sent the message urging the entire Chicago la- bor movement to fight the use of in- junctions in labor disputes are: Mrs, Eleanor Sadlowski, mother of a 10- year old boy and Mrs. Victoria Ciesla- kiewicz, mother of 4 children. Mrs, Cieslakiewicz’s 16-year old daughter is a cripple and needs her mothers’ care continually, Jalil Better Than Scab Shops. Mrs. Victoria Cieslakiewicz on enter- ing jail declared, “I would rather go to jail than go to work in a scab shop.” Freda Reicher, who is the rep- resentative of the prisoners, returned to Chicago from a tubercular sanitar- ium in Colorado to serve her sentence, Ida Rothstein, head of the Women’s Department of the Chicago joint board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, I, L. Davidson, or- ganizer of the joint board, and J. Le- vine, manager of the joint board, point- ed out the necessity for the entire Chicago labor movement to get behind the drive to free the jailed pickets and to fight the issuance of injunctions. Organization Drive. “The attempt of the bosses to kill the organization campaign by insist- ing on the pickets going to jail has failed. Many non-union workers have not only joined the union, but they have declared their willingness to aid in the organization drive and to go to jail if necessary for organizing the in- dustry,” declared Davidson. A telegram from Professor Robert Morss Lovett of the University of Chi- cago, now in New York, was read, in which he regretted his inability to speak at the protest meeting. A letter was read from Mary Me Dowell, urging the garment workers to carry on their fight until the conditions prevailing in New York market were established in Chicago, Learn Two Lessons. “We should learn two lessons,” de- clared. Maud McCreery, “from this situation. We ought to learn that there are no friends of labor on the capitalist party tickets. “The other lesson we must learn, is that we are not going to solve the problem until every man and woman in the industries belongs to the or- ganization. And not only must they belong to the organization and hold cards, but they must be responsible, militant, fighting members of the or- ganization, “Until every one of us will violate these injunctions,” continued Me- Creery, “and they find it necessary to put up Billy Sunday tents to hold all of us, they will continue to issue injunctions.” * SAN FRANCISCO-BAY CITIES : PICNIC Eastshore Park, Richmond } (Take Key Ferry and San Pablo Car)