The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1926, Page 1

ea / ~- The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government oe — Vol. Ill. No. 144 7) a Sy EXPECTS Snfe’22 TO ORGANIZE Eastern Man Demands a Fight for Members By ESTHER LOWELL,- (Federated Press) BOSTON, June 28—A real union organization drive among railroad shop workers thruout the country is looked for by Robert Fechner, vice- president of the International Associa- tion of Machinists, from the A. F. of L. railway employes’ department con- vention in Chicago, Fechner has charge of the railroad machinists in New England, New York, ‘New Jersey and’ Pennsylvania. He expects this, the first convention of the railway employes’ department in several years, to formulate a gen- eral plan in which al) unions involved will make a concerted’ unionization drive. - 4 Eager to Organize, In a survey of conditions in upper New York, Fechner found railroad shop craft workers everywhere eager for a real organization drive. -The company union dope tried on most of the roads from the time of the big strike in 1922—and before—has stuck in the throats of the men and so sickened them that local outbursts against the company-controlled unions are increasing. The situation at Billerica shops on the Boston & Maine has been told by the Federated Press. The regularly elected company union committee of five tried thru the channels provided to get action. Failing, they pyesented their case to the fedgral labor depart- ment, Conciliator Charles G, Wood. was sent to the scene. Thru Wood the company asked for a list of. the en’s grievances. When the list was received, the five men were summarily discharged. Wood was denied access (Continued on page 2) ANOTHER 1924-—~ STRIKE PICKET ENDS SENTENCE Garment Workers Cheer Released Member Wild cheers and applause greeted Theresa Rhode as she left the Cook County jail Sunday afternoon after serving her 10-day sentence, A committee representing the Chi- cago joint board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, Lo- cal 100, of the Women’s Department of the organization committee of the Chi- cago joint “board and a number of friends and sympathizers greeted this 1924 strike picket. She was presented by the union with a large bouquet of flowers. Tyo more strike pickets are to leave the county jail Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock, Yetta Hornstein, who has served a.twenty-day jail sentence and has a sick mother dependent on her, and Lena Movich, who’also served a 20-day jail sentence; are the ‘two that are to gain their freedom Friday. A reception committee of: the union will be present at the jail to meet the pickets with large bouquets of flowers. Your uefghbor will appreciate the favor—give him this copy of the DATLY WORKER. °.cription Rates: In Chicago, by . “SS ae PERS) pre TWO DAYS Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. FUR ONE Forr WGTey WEEK ONO Dany aie Abeft Py MAM eos, Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, wt the Post Office at Chicago, Minois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. mail, $8.00 per year. And Still There Is No Help Me, ry ne) avid *— HOME PREMIERS hime PREMIERS LT NEGRO LEAVING THE SOUTH AS PROTEST — AGAINST LYNGHINGS --BIRMINGHAM, Ala. June 28. — Thousands of Negro families are~ packing up their belongings and leaving the farms of Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. These families are moving north of the Mason-Dixon line as a -protest against the lynch law and the vic- ious Jim Crow laws now prevailing south of the Mason-Dixon line, More than 50,000 have joined in the trek from the states south of the Mason-Dixon line to the north. Many of the southern plantation owners have become desperate as they see the Negro moving north- ward. Many of the plantation own- ers are being forced into bankruptcy because of the lack of a cheap labor supply. Some of the plantation owners are seeking to have immt- gration bars let down so they can import either Chinese or Mexican labor to care for their cotton. Seek Murderer of Worker and Family TAMPA, Fia., June 28.—Police this afternoon were working to locate the murderer who killed Ora Rowell, 22, an iron worker, his uncle, D. B. Row- ell, 40, and “Grandmother” Rowell, said to be 104 years old, and then as- saulted Lena Rowell, 18, before almost decapitating the girl. Lena, sister of Ora, died at a hos- pital after the bodies of the other three victims had been found ineheir beds apparently killed by blows from an axe, “ILLINOIS MINER” COMMENDS FIGHTING SPIRIT OF JAILED 1924 GARMENT STRIKE PICKETS The following editorial taken from the Illinois Miner for Saturday, June 26, 1926, expresses its sympathy with the jailed International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ 1924 strike pickets that are now in the Cook county jail serv- ing sentences of from 10 to 60 days for defying the anti-picketing edict is- sued by “Injunction Judge” Dennis KE. Sullivan: IN JAIL FOR LABOR Hats off to the girl pickets in Cook county jall, imprisoned by a labor- hating judge for no other crime than loyal service to their uinon. ‘These girls, and some men as well, members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ union, were sentenced in 1925 for violation of an injunction, and in 1926 the employers were still found demanding their pound of flesh. Injunctions are one of the weapons of the employers for breaking strikes and preventing organization, the courts that enforce them are the agents of the employers, and the workers who defy them are standard bearers of labor's protest against the rule of money-lords who can use the courts as their hingg strikebreakers. Anti-picketing injunctions make of Justice a leering hag, bribed to weight the scales against the human welfare of thousands of workers in __ favor of the profits of union-fighting bosses. The pickets in the loathsome Cook county Jail may well hold their heads high, for they have refused to bow them before the judicial tyranny of the ‘employing clase. * Members of the International Ladies’s Garment Workers’ Union are still in Cook County jail for violating an injunction in 1924. The officials of the Chicago. Federation of Labor and the State Federation of Labor have to date mate no public request to the labor unions to rally to the assistancecéf these persecuted workers and demand their release. Governor Small has not pardoned the jailed workers as these union officials gave the I. .L. G. W. reason to believe he would. President Walker and Secretary Olander of the State Fed- eration of Labor helped to elect Small. They likewise helped to nominate Frank L. Smith who was the candidate of the Chicago Rapid Transit Company for the republican nomination for U. S. senator. John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of, abor, and Edward Nockels, secretary, supported Small and Smith. Why has no real fight been made for pardons for the im- prisoned trade unionists by Walker, Olander, Fitzpatrick and Nockels? Why did Olander oppose any campaign of publicity for the release of the |. L.G. W. members? Why did the rest of official- dom agree with him? Because labor officials in Chicago and the state of Illinois are part of the Small-Smith republican party machine. They supported Small and Smith but Small and Smith are not THEIR men. The reverse is true. THEY are the henchmen of Small and’Smith and they are afraid to fight openly this injunction case which has involved 91 members of the labor movement. Never has there been a clearer case of the disastrous effect upon the trade union movement of the “nonpartisan” political policy. Tied to the republican party, the chiefi.instrument of the open shop interests in Illinois, the heads of the labor movement have allowed trade union victims of an opemshop injunction to be jailed without protest. The rank and file of the Illinois trade anions should ask now and insist on an answer to this question: What is the connection between the Small-Smith slush fund, the open shop interests, the support of capitalist party can- didates by labor officials, their hostility to adabor party, and the complete failure of the labor federation officials to wage an open struggle against the jailing of the members of the I. L. G. W. by an open shop judge? / WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1926 *” SECRET POLICE MAINTAINED BY PRIVATE FUNDS Gov. Pinchot H as Secret Force at Work (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 28, — Gov. Gifford Pinchot has maintained a secret staff of private detectives to investigate prohibition enforcement conditions in Pennsylvania for the last four years, thru funds furnished by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, Major William B. Wright, Jr. the governor’s special counsel, told the senate slush fund committee today at its inquiry into Pennsylvania’s recent $3,000,000 sen- atorial primary. Private Funds. The secret investigators, holding no commission under the state and paid sut of private funds, reported upon prohibition violations, instigated raids und waged war upon bootleg rings, Wright told the committee. None of the investigators, it was revealed, had any power to make arrests and so were compelled to call in the state police whenever arrests were made. Secret Oorganization, This secret organization has spent $110,000 in its work to date, Wright testified, while the Women’s Christian Temperance Union raised a total of $130,904 to finance it. “Morale” Officer, Wright told of his experience as a morale officer in eastern cantonments during the war. He joined Governor Pinchot in February 1923. “The governor asked me then to help him for a few weeks and my service has stretched along until to- day,” Wright added. “To help him do what?” queried Reed. “In enforcing the prohibitory laws, both state and national.” Wright said his salary was $8,000 a year and traveling expenses. Pitiless Publicity. The committee meanwhile decided to Gontinue its*policy of “pitiless pub- licity.” whenever any organization is» found collecting or spending campaign funds, the names of contributors and recipients will be made public. “I feel that contributions to a pub- lic agency to be used for political pur- poses should become a. public record,” Senator LaFollette, republican of Wis- sonsin, announced, To which Senator Reed, democrat, of Missouri, chairman, added: “Any man who monkeys with politics can expect to have his work bared to the public.” Illinois Next. This will be the attitude of the com: mittee when it plunges into an investi- gation of the Illinois senatorial pri- mary sometime early in July. This inquiry will be held immediately after the adjournment of congress, the com- mittee decided, and it will be as thorough as the present investigation of Pennsylvania's “spendthrift.” Both wet and dry witnesses inci- dently were under subpoena for to- day's session. On the wet side there was captain William H. Stayton, head of the association against the prohibi- tion amendment, On the dry side, there were Attorney General George B. Wooddruff, of Pennsylvania, and Major W. B. Wright, Dr., a state in- vestigator. Revoke Fines Against Machinists’ Members Who Failed_to Strike WASHINGTON, Jung 28. —(FP)— Preparing for the administration of its new president, A, O. Wharton, who assumes office July 1, the executive council of the International Associa- tion of Machinists has issued a cir- cular cancelling all fines placed upon members who disobeyed the railroad shop strike order of June, 1922, This action was taken in order to induce large numbers of men to re- turn to the organization, who either failed to strike or who returned to work before the strike was declared off on their respective roads, An or- ganizing drive is now under way. ‘A BUST OF LENIN “WITH EACH 500 Ponts PUBLISHING CO., enforcement | Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Washington Biyd., Chicago, IL 1113 W: (Special to The LONDON, June 28.—Labor The government is meeting 11 o'clock tomorrow night. The Trades Union Congress largely take the form of publicity (Special to The an appeal to the trade unions of all to Great Britain, agreement; 3) the maintenance the wages paid before the lock-out, jand 4) the maintenance of the seven- {hour day. Mines Show Big Profit. The appeal points out that the mine owners and the royalty owners have in the last twelve years with a capital Of 189,000;000 pounds" matte 287,000,000 pounds profit and proposes the “fol- lowing for the reorganization of the coal industry: | 1, The scientific reorganization of | |the coal and allied industries on a na-| | tional basis, with the closing down of | tineconomic pits, and provision for | {the miners thus displaced. { 2. The elimination of the middle-| man by the municipal distribution of coal at home, and by the formation of | co-operative selling agencies for the| export trade, thus increasing the net} proceeds re@eived by the collieries, | without increasing the price to the consumer, 3. The removal from the industry | of the burden of royalties and way- leaves, which now absorb 6,250,000 | pounds per year. PASSAIC POLICE ARREST SEVEN STRIKE PICKETS Jailed for Distributing Strikers’ Appeal (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., June 25.—Paterson police arrested seven United Front workers for distributing leaflets which call on the dye workers of Paterson to stop scabbing on their striking broth- ers in Lodi, Joacchino Salerno, Raf- faele Coviella, Salvatore Ribardo and Riaglia Guglincei were fined $5 apiece tor this “crime” and Thomas DeFat- aio, Francesco Coco and Jack Grabin- ski were released without a sentence. The striking and effective booktet, “Hell in New Jerfey,” made up of ac- tual pictures of the strike, is arousing the ire of the Passaic police. Anthony Gallo was struck by Officer 74 of the Passaic: police and his six copies, which he was selling for relief benefit, were confiscated, A deliberate frame-up resulted in the arrest of George Weicz, of Clif- ton, who is charged with breaking the windshield of an automobile belong: ing to a scab. Weicz has produced wit- nesses to prove that he was no place near the scene, but he is still held in jail under heavy bond. A report that 1,400 families have left the strike area has been circu- lated in the capitalist press recently. Passaic authorities deny that any such exodus has taken place and set an estimate of not more than fifty families. The Public Service Gas\and Electric Company, which 1s able to check up on the shifting ‘of the popu- lation by its meter readings, has_de- clared that the number does not ex: coed this amount, . Longer Workd in British Min Fought By Lab mons launched violent attacks upon the proposal to setth | British coal strike by increasing the miners’ workday, debate on the question opened in parliament today. The laborites demanded that the measure, which is sored by Premier Baldwin, be withdrawn on the ground thi would aggravate gather than end the coal dispute. Executives of the Miner's Federation were scheduled to h here tomorrow to consider the new situation that would be prerhas voked by the prospective action of parliament. r for the executives stated that “even the passage of the bill fail to affect the adamant attitude of the fighters.” ; A. J. Cook, secretary of the federation, bitterly attacked measure in an address yesterday, declaring that forcing of » fonger day in the mines “would light a flame. which would not! extinguished until capitalism was swept out of England,” paring measures for the support of the strikers. These BRITISH MINERS’ UNION APPEALS TO WORLD’S TRADE UNIONS FOR AID; EXPOSE BIG COAL PROF. Daily Worker) financial aid for the strikers and for the complete boycott of coal The federation declares that an agreement with the mine owners. only possible under the following conditions: 1) the immediate re : j tion of the coal industry}. 2) maintenance of the national basis of the wage of+ re }tiated in the newspapers during | infamous names: Botany Conso NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Dally Worker) members of the house of the opposition cautiously : | | determined to have its way. The question will come to a but Ste | A spo today was again at work work, LONDON, June 28.—The Miners’ Federation of Great Britain has, issued | countries f ot ce: s for a continuation of the transports PASSAIC MILL BARONS LAUNGH CHURCH DRIVE Open Shoppers Me “Christian” Phrases (Special to The Daily Worker)” PASSAIC, N. J., June 28.4) church-going campaign has be last few weeks. Each week a | advertisement has been appe the local papers preaching the sity of going to church regularly, At the bottom of the page tisements is the enlightening |that “this page is made possible thm j the 0 co-operation of the folloy firms,” and among them we find | Mills, Inc., Julius Forstmann Inc. (of company union stench); Mills, United Piece Dye Works, Most significant is the form campaign pf holiness takes, Fol stance, we read: i “Other things have been tried times and failed. Legislation has tried, but laws are only eurbs the rebels against society and good only insofar as they teach 4 point out the proper way. 0 has. been tried, but leaves too n the weak will of man. The with its divine teachings hag time and again thru the cent it has the real food, the sincere m of the Word whereby men’s souls grow and flourish. The man who & away starves himself.” A directory of churches in and the suburbs is given, synagogues are included, re Auto Crash Kill SHAWNINIGAN « June 28.—¥our men were ki today when the motoreycle a1 car in which they were ri struck by an automobile an into a ditch. The dead are Boisvert, 32; J. Boisvert, 23 nard, and F, Beaulieu, 25, — Four, NEGLECTS EDUC OF THE NEC CHARLESTON, South © June 28. — The annual report board of education of this at veals that a per capita exp of $9 is made for d the Negro child Pupils to a teac small sum: of $26