The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1926, Page 2

JARMENT STRIKE 10 FOLLOW MASS MEETINGS IN N.Y. “NEW YORK CITY, June 28. — Ma- @ison Square Garden is the mobiliza- speakers the union has invited THE vaicy WORKER ———LLLL——L————L—L—L$L<L<<<=L=L—EL— FORWARD FOLLOWS MILSTEIN IN DISCOVERING THAT THE T. U. E. L. HAS AN OFFICE WITH A DOORWAY self in particular, The whole yarn is |self anything but progressive, was Np * William Green, president of the | compelled to support the organization ‘ “eth first hearing on their case and one merican Federation of Labor, Sidney “Wiiman, president of the Amalga- Colthing Workers, John F. h in of the New York Central thor Council, Morris Sigman, presi- ‘nt, and Louis Hyman, vice president the I. L. G. W., and Ben Gold of Furriers’ Union. Fight On Nine Demands. The meeting begins at four o’clock lay and is expected to pack the it auditorium and still leave thous- outside. @ union joint board of New York, which has rejected the recommenda- ons of the governor’s commission ‘nd placed nine demands before the ¢@mployers’ industrial council is pre- ering for immediate strike action. ‘Leading these nine demands are the 40-hour week, the guarantee of 36 weeks’ work a year, and the limitation of small manufacturers by making the jobbers responsible. The entire union “membership is one in the demand that numberless petty sweatshops be abol- ished and decent standards maintain- ed. Appeals For Unity In Action. In a leading article appealing for teal unity in the fight against the bosses, Pres. Sigman states: “In order to win this fight it is imperative that, without exception, we should all—no matter what political preferences we may have or what so- cial ideals and theories we may cherish—in this general strike be united wholeheartedly and inspired by one central objective, to secure as speedily and as completely as possible the winning of the vital demands for which it is fought.” Organization Drive Is Demanded for the Railroad Shop Crafts (Continued from page 1) the men qilit the conference. Government Conciliator a Stoolpigeon. ~The five men are still discharged, Fechner reports. T. H. Condon of the independent industrial union, the American Federation of Railroad Workers, has been trying to assist them. T. H. Collins, vice-president of the Railway Carmen, affiliated with the A..F, of L., has been at Billerica for some time and is scheduling meet- ings for Lowell, near by. “Not a single 1922 striker has been taken back by the New York, New Haven and Hartford road, says Fech- ner. “The strike was officially called ‘off about a year and a half ago, but the company has issued orders not to take any of the old men back. At the Chicago convention we will have | to consider whether we will wipe the -'¥ Slate clean and take in the men who took the jobs during our strike and now have them. The Railway Car- men’s convention already has gone on record for such action.” of the present progressive group in the Chicago Furriers’ Union a year or so ago to oust Milstein, whom he at that time denounced. Courting Trouble. Now Milstein is standing before a new election in “the union. His plan is to arbitrarily eliminate the opposi- tion. He is proceeding to do this with methods popularized by Kauffman in New York, to the latter’s undoing. He has set up a little reign of terror in the union, marked with removals of ieft wingers from office, the placing of others on “probation,” sluggings, etc. He wants to so cripple the progres- sives that they cannot put up a ticket against him in the coming elec- tion. He worries little about the in- terests of the organization meanwhile. The natural result of Milstein’s tactics, a further example of which was to have an employer representing the union in negotiation with other employers, was to develop a militant opposition. The membership are in protest against Milstein’s policy. Now comes the “secret” meeting, which Seskind talks about, This.did not hap- pen. We, in the T. U. E.L, office, one day recently, were surprised at the sudden appearance of Milstein and a By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, In the Forward of June 24, a certain Seskind ran a lurid story of a supposed “secret” meeting of fur workers in the Trade Union Educational League, and making wiki charges against the left wing in general and my- a tissue of misrepresentations, typical of the bankruptcy of the right wing leadership in tha Chicago needle trades unions for whom Seskind is a spokes-+ it He and his crowd were quite evi- dently bent on being “rough.” But, | after seeing their reception, they jdeemed that this might not be alto- gether profitable. They considered discretion the better part of valor, and withdrew ‘by request. This is the | story of the “secret” meeting. The way Seskind twists and distorts it in- dicates the extent to which the bureaucracy is hard put to find ar- guments against the left wing in the Furriers’ Union, Seskind makes a number of sneer- ing allusions that the left wing is in- juring the union in the coming strike. Such slanders do not merit a detailed reply. Suffice to say that in the strug- gle now before the union the left wing does its duty to the utmost. It is Milstein and his crowd, with their stupid persecution of the jeft wing and the denial to them of membership in all of the strike committees, who are weakening the morale of the union, The strike of the New York Fur- riers shows how the left wing leads a struggle. The left wing in Chicago will make the same kind of a fight, in spite of the opposition of Milstein. The latter should study carefully what happened to Kauffman. Then he would realize the natural result of his own policies, PROGRESSIVE CARPENTERS WILL APPEAL JENSEN’S CLAIM TO BE PRESIDENT; TO PROBE No. 1786 When the Chicago Carpenters’ Dis- trict Council met last Friday night, the tabulation committee’s report showed that Harry Jensen was re- elected president of the council by 109 votes over Fred Bobzin, his pro- gressive opponent. As was expected by the progressives, neither Local 1128 or 1786. were counted in the returns. If La Grange’s 1128 had been counted, Jensen would have lost by seven votes. If Local 1786 had been counted, he would have lost to Bobzin by 250 more votes. Naturally, since Jensen con- trolled the tabulation committee, these locals were not counted. Committee Will Investigate. A motion was made to elect a com- mittee to investigate the disappear- ance of the ballots from Local 1786. This motion carried after stories were told of a mysterious person who called himself John McCormick, whom the local secretary is reported to have said came to his office the day after the election and asked for and obtained the ballots. President Novak of Local 1786, de- clared that he, personally, had told the secretary to abide by the law and mail the ballots in, but it appeared the sec- retary had acted irregularly, and given them to the mysterious stranger, who disappeared with the ballots. The other delegates were surprised at President Novak, who voted to accept + (CONFERENCE OF STUDENTS ENDS; ‘RACE’ WAS TOPIC Getting Ready for Next Year (Special to The Daily Worker) WAUKEGAN, Ill, June 28.— The fourth annual student conference, sponsored by a number of liberal stu- dent organizations, has ended its four- day session held at the Bowen Coun- try Club near here. The conference was devoted to the consideration of the problem of racial antagonism and discrimination under the formal title “World Shibboleth Race.” The racial question was cov- ered from the standpoint of the na- tives of India, Africa, China and the American Negro. Reports were given by members of the various races in connection with their special prob- lems. Groups Taking Part, The organizations taking part in the conference were The Liberal Club CHICAGO NEGRO MEET DISCUSSES ROLE OF PRESS Worker Shuck Need to Discuss Labor Problems The conference of the National As- “Crisis,” delivered a short address, pointing out the need for carrying on propaganda and for getting the organ of the association into the hands of the greatest number of people pos- sible. Following DuBois, Mrs} F; P. Brown of Chicago, traced the history of the “Crisis” from the time its Circulation was 10 to the 2,000 of today. Visit Trade Unions. Mrs. Myrtle F. Cook of Kansas City spoke on the distribution of the “Crisis” and pointed out that it was necessary not only to place copies of the “Crisis” in the public libraries, clubs and other such places but that it was highly im- portant to get the organ before the labor unions. She, as the Kansas City agent of the monthly magazine, pointed out the need to visit trade unions and get them to subscribe for the “Crisis,” James W. Ford, representative of the American Negro Labor Congress, gave a short and well-received talk, pointing out that as the Negro workers comprise 98 per cent of the Negro population that it was necessary to get the “Crisis” to these workers. Deal with Workers’ Life. He pointed out that not only must it be brought to the workers, but that the “Crisis,” editorially and inarticles, carry details and descriptions of the conditions that the Negro workers must work under in the stockyards, the steel mills, the garment shops, textile mills and other industries. He pointed out that the conditions under which the Negro workers are forced to labor are of the worst and that if the Crisis” dealt with the problems of these workers the “Crisjs” would find ready and willing subscribers. Mr. Robert J. Seligman, publicity director of the National¢ Association for the Advancement.of @olored Peo- ple, then told of the netd’to carry on agitational work and ofjtfie tasks be- fore the association to get their sto- ries into the press. gy DuBois ended the seggion with a summary of the variow topics dis- cussed. 2 Oscar De Priest, well-ktpwn Chicago Negro broker and reptiblican party politician on Chicago’s south side, ad- vocated the policy of non-partisan vot- ing in elections at the Monday after- noon session. ¥ De Priest urged thé Negro to fol- low a policy similar to that of Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor. In his speech, he made no mention of the similarity between what he called his idea and thet of Gompers. He then described the failure of the Dyer anti-lynching» bill and de- clared that no man that obstructed its passage should receive a single black vote in the future elections. His speech conveyed the idea that the appointment of colored politicians to office would be a solution of the Negro problem. Rousing Open Air Iowa Labor Must Turn Its Face Toward North Dakota and Minnesota By J. LOUIS Speen pass such legislation would react against the republican party in the fall elections and crush it in the 1928 presidential campaign. Second: Realization that the bank- ruptcy of the farmers would injure the “prosperity” of great industry and high finance. The refusal of the Coolidge ad- ministration to concede even to the legislative demands of the well-to-do farmers, who had the support. of Vice-President Dawes, himself a Chicago banker, indicates that the Politicians at the head of the goyv- ernment in Washington fear for neither the dominant power of the republican party nor the ability of the business interests they rep- resent to continue producing enorm- ous profits. The national industrial conference board of New York issued a state- ment March 6, 1926, declaring that the farm failures had increased by more than 1,000 per cent from 1910 to 1924, while commercial failures remained about the same, Richard B. Mellon, the Pittsburgh banker, brother of “Andy” Mellon, secretary of the treasury, declared that the existing higher prices for steel and other commodities and lower prices for agricultural pro- ducts was as it should be. Hearst’s writer of financial ques- tions, George W. Hinman, declares that general prosperity no longer depends on agricultural prosperity. He holds up the general prosperity of the last five years as against the general agricultural depression. Then there is Smith W. Brook- hart, who recently won the repub- lican senatorial nomination in Iowa, who concludes from the above that Wall Street considers “a farmer bankrupt of just as much value to them as a farmer prosperous.” ee ‘The farmer prosperous means that he is getting more for his products, which means less profits for the landlords, food speculators and bank- ers, while bankruptcies and mort- gage foreclosures give the profit vultures something to feed on and grow fat. No banker ever felt badly in his pocketbook thru foreclosing a mortgage on some rich farm. The tenant farmer can always be secured to take the place of the bankrupt farmer owner. Brookhart claims that Iowa pro- duces more from Mother Earth than any other spot of like size in the United States or in the world. He therefore draws the oonclusion that “df the farmers got a fair exchange in value from transportation serv- dee and industrial products, her wealth increase would be greater than ‘the average of the United States. But Mr. Hoover's (secretary of commerce) bulletins show that Jowa’s wealth increase was only about 2% per cent at the time the whole country was increasing at the ENGDAHL. deal” for the farmers from this Profiteers’ government. Brookhart amgues that if the Iowa farmers got “a fair exchange in value for trans- portation, credit service and indus- trial products, her wealth increase would be greater than the average of the United States,” and that they would be getting about $300,000,000 more annually than is now coming into their pockets. a ee The great capitalists are not wor- ried about old party politicians who talk about “fair deals” and “fair exchange,” especially when they continue to remain within the ranks of the capitalists’ parties. That is the greatest reason why the Coo- lidge administration can snap its fingers at the pleas of the Iowa farmers and mot worry much about the elections, As long as there is no great independent political power of the workers and farmers darken- ing the horizon, all is sunshine for the plunderbund. It counts its‘own flow: of profits with great and in- creasing satisfaction and sees no . effective challenge against the gov- ernment at Washington that pro- tects its loot. It is in favor of the status quo. se @ The Iowa farmers need a powerful labor party to fight for their econ- omic interests. Such a party must inevitably grow out of the present crisis, unless the farmers of that State continue to crawl on their -bel- lies before ‘the capitalist political powers that jeer at them in their misery. The farmers of Iowa must follow in the footsteps of the city and land workers in Minnesota, who showed in’ the recent fariner-labor Party primary in that state that they are’ fighting any attempt at old party domination of their independ- ent political struggle, The city workers and wheat farmers of North Dakota similarly go to the pollg in the state-wide primaries on Wed- nesday, June 30, to ballot, not for “the best man” in the republican party, nor “a good man” on the democratic side, but for the candi- dates chosen by the farmer-labor party because of their fitness to battle for the class interests of city and land labor in their state. The plunderbund will start wor- tying when the workers begin to fol- low the advice of “The United Farmers to North Dakota voters for Wednesday's election when it says: “The workers and farmers of North Dakota have for a long time supported the republican Party in the state. No headway in their fight against the capitalists who exploit them is possible by working thru this party. The time has come for the workers and farmers to support their own party and fight for farm relief within this party. The time has come for the workers and farm- ers of North Dakota to join forces CARPENTERS OF PHILADELPHIA SiiOW PROGRESS Members Lose Faith in Conservatives (Special to The Dally Worker) man. gang of his followers. It being after|s0ciation for the Advancement of HERE are two factors that might q 4 PHILADELPHIA, June 28, — The es f° 40.000 meri keting Seskind, in his manufactured story, | work hours, there were a number of | Colored People at the Pilgrim Baptist have chases the Coolidge wy ee oe panda eee eine elections recently held for officers of ers’ Union in Tuesday's mass meet- carefully ignores the real state of | union men of various trades in the of- church, 83rd and Indiana Ave., gave] ministration to enact some sort of | relief to the ‘corn belt farmers. It | the district council, and especially the ing which is to vote on a general affairs in the local Furrlers Union. fice, some needle workers among} Considerable time to s Giscuasion of} farm relief legislation to alleviate | takes care of its own. elections in Local 1073 proved that trike in the trade to enforce demands | Th? business agent ds Milstein. Ho is/them. ‘The doors of the office were|how to improve the “Crisis” and in-| the grievous condition of land labor, The great profiteers, and their | the progressive group in Philadelphia Wenored, for the most part, by the |% tYPical reactionaty. So much so/open and Milstein came in es might Crease its circulation, especially in the corn and cotton | government agents are not afraid of |W@S @ powerful factor. In Local “mediation commission of Governor | ‘at even the present international /anyone heving business there. Need For Propaganda. belts. These are: “insurgents” as long as they con- | 1073, in spite of the bitterly contested Smith. president, Schachtman, who is him- Left by Request, Dr. W. BE. B. DuBois, editor of the First: Fear that the faflure to | tinue to talk about getting a “fair election in which the present admin- istration, under the leadership of Sloan, made the wildest accusations against the progressives, the mem- bers of the local refused to be stam- peded and again showed their con- fidence in the leadership of the pro- gressive group by voting it into power. : For the progressive group this is a comeback. Barely @ year ago the con- servatives under Sloan’s leadership wrested control of the local from the progressive administration by what is commonly called “strong man methods.” This year these methods were futile In spite of every attempt to eject the progressive tellers when the votes were counted, they failed, for the vote was overwhelming. Brother Sam Leckerman was elected chairman; Brother Ellman, vice-chair- man; Brother Louis Caplan, business agent. Three delegates to the district council and a number of minor offices were also captured. Opposition Popular, In the election of officers for the district council every anti-administra- tion candidate polled a heavy vote, Brother Joe Baldessare, nominated by the progrsesive Italian Looal 1060, running for business agent of the dis- trict council, polled almost 1,000 votes. This by the grace of the administra- tion tellers. The candidates for presi- dent and other offices of the council received a much higher vote. Most of the anti-administration can- didates are members of Local 277, which is being. reorganized now by one of Hutcheson’s “neorganizers” for being out of step with the rest of the machine, Of the 9,000 members of the Broth- erhood, about 5,000 participated in the election and of that number fully 30 per cent were recorded by the ad- ministration tellers ds being in op- position to the administration, Need Organization, The council election should be a valuable lesson to the anti-administra- tion forces in Philadelphia. Without a common program, without so much as @ verbal understanding, without a campaign for the anti-administration ticket, one-third of those who voted expressed their disapproval with the present leadership of the council, What is needed in Philadelphia is a broad progressive bloc, including every genuine antiadministration ele- ment, based on a program answering the {mmediate needs and demands of the thousands of carpenters. Fireworks Cause $200,000 Fire in ; Gary, Indiana (Special to The Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., June 28.—Efforts under way here to establish definitely the cause of Indiana’s third and most dis- astrous fire originating in fireworks Pia for Independence Day celebra- ion, a the tabulation committee's report, |f the University of Chicago, the In- rat 5 nt.” Birmingh U; F which shut his local’s vote out and |terractal Discussion Group, the Chi- Meeting for Sacco ities Ye heath SS ee i with the workers and farmers of The fire here, starting in a $5,000 am Union thus defeated its members’ wishes. nese Student Club, the Interracial dV. tti H. ince Iowa is rich, she furnis! other states thru the building of a |®tock of fireworks in the basement of Demands Freedom for Staleats’ Ansotalion and the Fellow. an anze' re} an excellent spot for the profiteers | virile, national farmer-labor move- |the building, destroyed the famous Sacco and Vanzetti BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June 28, — Iron Shipbuilders’ y-Botlermakers and Local Union No. 4, at its last regular ' meeting, adopted a resolution to railroad) con- demning the attempt Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzet- _ ti to the electric chair in Massachu- setts and demanding the governor free these two Italian workers. Gavel Rule. A motion was made by the pro- gressives to hold up action on the re- port until the committee to investi- gate the vanishing votes of Local | 1786 would report. But Jensen ruled | all such things out of order, and stated that any appeal would have to be | taken to the general president, Hutche- son, So the machine carried the ac- ceptance of the tabulation commit- tee’s report certifying Jensen's elec- tion, Jensen winning in the council on this by 65 to 55 votes. In the discussion of the election, af- fidavits were presented by watchers showing irregularities in Locals 58 and 272. A recount was asked on that. Jensen, of course, had some counter charges against Local 1784 and others, John Steffen, Jensen's leader in the tabulation committe@, rather opened the bag for the cat when he said they ignored the irregularities in Local 1784 “because they wouldn't change the results of the election.” Bobzin to Appeal. The progressives pointed out many places of peculiar election manage- ment. In Local 504, where last year the vote went against Jensen by four to one, the business agent had worked so well that Jensen got it this year by a narrow but sufficient margin. The council meeting was all pre- pared to overrule the progressives and Jensen worked his gavel to uphold his ship of the Youth for Peace of the University of Chicago. The conference seemed to suffer from lack of competent organization and this is to be regretted inasmuch as such conferences can be of great aid in stimulating thot among college students along lines differing radical- ly from orthodox educational meth- ods. i A Field Fot Such Conferences. The very perceptible resentment against compulsory miltary training in the colleges and schools, the skep- ticism which is developing among various elements of the student popu- lation relative to the social value of the tendency towards regimentation of students, and indications that with the proper preparation such confer- ences can be made to play an im- portant part in shaping college opin- ion and promoting a healthy spirit of inquiry. Preparations for the fifth annual conference were the subject of dis- cussion at the last session after the conclusion of reports and discussion under the general heading of “Impe- rialism and Race Exploitation,” the last item on the order of business. William F. Dunne spoke on ‘The Communist Solution of Race Prob- lems” on the last day of the con- ference, A rousing open air meeting in be- half of Sacco and Vanzetti was held Sunday afternoon by the Chicago 'In- ternational Labor Defense at Clark and Newberry streets, with speakers J, A. Holman, A. S. Embree, Stanley J. Clark, John Loughman, and George Maurer as chairman. « ‘ Hundreds of workers crowded about the platform and heard’ the story of the frame-up in Massachusetts. <A collection of $50 was taken up after John Loughman, who “is a popular speaker at that corner,’ made an ap- peal. The meeting was an excellent demonstration against the continued threat of death held o¥er Sacco and Vanzetti. Rochester Will Hold Sacco-Vanzetti Mass Meeting on Wednesday ROCHESTER, N, Y., June 28, — Local No. 202, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, in conjunction with a Sacco and Vanzetti Conference Committee, will hold @ big Sacco-Van- zetti protest meeting Wednesday, June 30, at 8 p. m., at the Amalgam- ated Hall, 476 Clinton Avenue N, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! to feed on. TBe railroads, the banks and the privately owned in- dustries are in business to make profits for themselves and not to enrich farm owners, or farm ten- ants. That is the reason that the Coolidge administration, which is 3 Slovak Workers Are Arrested for Selling Their Paper at Hall The Chicago local of the Interna tional Labor Defense reports the latest case of police interference with the sale of working class Hterature. On Sunday, three Slovak workers were arrested for selling their labor daily, Rovnost Ludu, at a meeting at the Ashland Auditorium. When they appeared in court Monday morning, after having been released overnight on $60 bail each, they asked for a jury trial and their bail was promptly raised to the ridiculous figure of $400 each, and not having this sum avail- able, they were sent into cells again. The I. L. D, attorney is working on the case, endeavoring to get these workers dismissed, FOREIGN EXCHANGE. Country Currency Demand Cables Great Britain, pound ment.” Capitalism’s agents at Washing: ton have slapped the corn belt farm- ers of Iowa in the face once more. Let Iowa labor turn its face toward Minnesota and North Dakota and learn the Jesson of its failures, POSTOFFICE RULES JULY ISSUE OF MASSES MAY GO THRU THE MAILS (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 28, — The July Issue of the New Masses has been admitted to the mails and a new ap- plication for second class mailing privilege accepted according to New York postmaster J, J. Kiely, Following announcement from the Postoffice three weeks ago that the May issue and the June number which already reached subscrib- ers was unmailable, the New Masses was instructed that before its July issue could be placed in the mails it must be passed upon by the Was! ington authorities. Complete Recount of Republican Ballots “Tribe of K” stationery store, entail- ing a total loss of $200,000. Two previous fires in Indiana result- ing from fireworks explosions were at Clinton and Noblesville, both of which were attributed to the sun’s hot rays thru display windows explod- ing firecrackers, Chicago July 5th Picnic Committee to Meet Tonight The Chicago Workers (Communist) Party July 5th Picnic committee meets in the district office headquar- ters, 19 South Lincoln St., tonight at 8 o'clock, ONLY Is left for prizes and | votes for the Trip to Moscow office, He would not even hear an EK ; terling ... 6 3-16 4.86 11-16 or a can ring.’ The pro: | CHICAGO TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION France, franc Stargs on July 7 | Get at least one sub d as determined . Thelr can- Belgium, franc hi this Mis ccomet Hees oer eee No. 16 AIDS PASSAIC STRIKERS \iis\ ‘ira: County Judge Bamund XK, Jareck! || week. , notified Jensen of an appeal, a ba Sweden, krone bt peices le ns ou Oy | a8 cago Typographical Union No. 16 unanimously voted to give the Pas-| Norway, krone | NIN, with | See " pont Duals tacked sak: Will share apartment. Modern, | °2l° strikers its constitutional limit of $60 at its last’ meeting, and that at|Denmark, krone Eo Riars would be ordered ‘to start | the next meeting a motion for $500 is to be presented, The Typographical Union also decided to send two del saic strike relief conference that is held Thursday night ivory finish—ie the work) $15, 18 Forest E. Apt. C. 6. Detroit, Mich, SL LT, On that day, he said, ten teams will stant counting all the ballots of | the republican ticket, | ~~ July 4 to the Pas- ly 8 ors nme =