The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1926, Page 1

‘t t The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government | {HAF = 30 Gp Ps Vol. II. No. 14) ("Kk wy Rates: Susiae Ericaze, : 6 Garment Workers on Strike in N. Y. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, July 1.—Forty thousand garment work- ers pouring out of 1,600 New York shops at ten o'clock this morning in one of the greatest needle trade strikes in history, was the answer of these workers to the supposed “impartial” media- tion board of Governor Smith that took two years to quibble over and finally deny the most vital demands raised by the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in 1924. The general strike call was authorized at Tuesday after- noon’s huge mass meeting at Madison Square Garden, where twenty thousand union members packed the great auditorium and unanimously, declared their readiness to fight on the picket line for the full demands of the union. After reports on the negotiations were given by the I. L. G. W. officials and pledges of support from other needle trade unions and from the trade union movement generally by their repre- sentatives, the following resolu-*+ 4 tion was adopted: Strike Resolution. “Whereas, the cloak manufacturers have-refused to negotiate with rep- resentatives of our union an agree- ment which would enable workers of our industry to earn a decent liveli- hood, and “Whereas, the jobbers of the in- dustry have entirely ignored an in- vitation for conference with our unidén to discuss the question of agreement, and have attempted to evade respon- sibility to the workers who are pro- ployers two years ago, which demands aim to do away with chaos and ir- responsibility in industry where con- stant unemploymemt and . cut-throat competition is the lot of the cloak- makers, and “Whereas, during the past few°years'}* standards and conditions’ ‘of cloak- makers have been continually reduced so that workers are faced’ with most dire need and misery due to eagerness of employers to increase their profits ‘at the expense of the workers; there- fore, be it “Resolved, in view Of ‘refusal of various groups of employers to grant the demands of our union thru peace- ful’ negotiations, that we hereby authorize the officers of our joint board and international union to call the workers of our industry on gen- era] strike for the purpose of secur- ing the demands formulated by our union. “We pledge ourselves to stand loyal- ly by our union, and do all in our power to co-operate with our offieers in bringing the strike for our justified demands to a successful conclusion.” A. C. W. Pledges Support. President Morris Sigman of the in- (Continued on page 2) 75 FUR WORKERS JOIN UNION AS STRIKE BEGINS 40-Hr. Week Big Issue; Bosses Negotiate 800 members of the Furriers’ Union struck this morning at ten o'clock for the 40-hour week, full recognition of the union and other standard provi- sions of the national agreement, 75 nof-union workers have already registered to join the union since the strike was called, a The union states that only 29 shops have refused Yo negotiate and that a number of the manufacturers are ready to sign up for the 40-hour week for a portion of the year. 600 Furriers Attend Meeting. The union, however, {s standing firm for its original demand. Nearly 600 furriers- attended the meeting held previous to calling the strike and enthusiastically endorsed the proposals and plan of campaign proposed by the executive cgminittee, The struck shops are being picketed. Furriers reported yesterday after- noon that 12 shops had already signed up on the union terms, There, are about sixty union shops that respond- ed to the strike call. AILY WO } ; Five | ducing their cloaks, and “Whereas, the workers of the indus try formulated demands to these em- ¢ NEW YORK AKER ENCAMPMENT. WHAT GLOAKMAKERS OF © NEW YORK DEMAND FROM GARMENT TRADE BOSSES NEW YORK CITY, July 1. —The strike demands of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers on which the walkout was orgered this morn- ing are practically the same as those raised two years ago, modified some- what by the two years’ time wasted by allowing the governor's commis- sion to “mediate.” The present demands, while fol- lowing the commission in the few things upon which the commission yielded a point, revive and stress the important demands ignored or denied by the “mediators” and are as followss 1. Limitation of contractors to be. worked-out on basis of commission's recommendations. : 2. Upward revision. of the min- imum wage increases recommended by the commission, 3. The guarantee of 36 weeks’ work a year. 4. The forty-hour week. 5. Examination of employers’ books by union representatives to check up on observance of agree- ments. fs 6. Recognition of the designers’ and examiners’ unions, 7. A labor bureau to equalize work. 8. Limited use of labor saving machines, specifically basting, fell- ing, button sewing, and pressing machiners. 9. No so-called “reorganization” rights for employers. Reichstag Stormy as Communists Demand End of Royal Graft BERLIN, July 1. — The reichstag was the scene of a stormy debate yesterday when the compromise bill so-called on the matter of expropri- ation of the property of the German royalty came up for sé@cond” reading. The Communists led\ an attack on the monarchists and declared that the kaiser wags a coward who fled to Holland to escape his own people, while Hindenberg had broken his oath of effice. Yells and cat calls marked the whole session. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, by mail, iF orty ThousandPARrty LINES 10 The Taegliche Rundschau, control- led by the government, remarks re- garding the Geneva ‘disdrmament” conference, that “the events at Ge- neva show only too.clearly\ that th, conference will be a comedy of de ceptions and deceit.”. + 110 KILLED IN SERIES OF EARTHQUAKES THAT SHOOK EGYPT LAST WEEK CAIRO, July 1. — One hundred and ten persons ‘¢ killed in the series of earthquakes which shook Egypt last week, a complete check- up revealed, Sixty-six persons were injured, most of them by falling walls. More than four thousand houses were completely destroyed by the tre- mors, and many damaged. The shocks were felt in virtually all sec- tions of the country. $6.00 per year, BE SMASHED BY FARMER GROUPS Spokesmen Bitter at Coolidge Stand (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, July 1.—The farm bloc, bitter over the defeat adminis- tered to its cherished McNary-Haugen bill by the Coolidge administration, threatened today to copy the tactics of the Anti-Saloon League and deal out punishment or reward at the polls, irrespective of party affiliation. If carried out—and corn belt spokesmen say it will be-—it means that the fight for farm relief has out- grown party lines, just as the wet-and- dry issue has, or the fight for and against the world court, and it con- stitutes a real menace to the repub- lican domination of the grain states of the middle west. Dickinson Breaks Loose. Representative L. J. Dickinson, re- publican, of Iowa, is leader of the farm bloc in the house. He is “regu- lar.” Today he made this announce- ment: } “We are going to advise the farm organizations to see that members of congress elected in November are committed to a program of real farm relief, which must embody the prin- ciple of equality for agriculture under our economic system.” “Real farm relief” means the Mc- Nary-Haugen equalization bill, which was endorsed by Vice-President Dawes and Ex-Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, both- potential presidential candidates in 1928, and which Presi- dent Coolidge and Secretary Mellon both “denounced as “economically uh- sound.” CITY ENGINEERS WIN RAISE BY A ONE-DAY STRIKE Firemen and Police Hold the Sack The city council of Chicago has had to pull in its horns and reverse the refusal of the finance committee to grant wage raises to the “white col- lar” technical engineers’ union which thus won its strike in 24 hours. The council meeting Wednesday night was a rough and tumble battlefield where perspiring politicians wrangled until four o'clock Thursday morning over the wage raise demands of the city employes. The session lasted for fully 13 hours, the first vote in favor of grant- ing the wage raise of 30 per cent de- manded by the 600 technical engin- eers, being 23 to 13, with two votes lacking to get the legally required three-fourths majority, Aldermen Oscar .F, Nelson and Donald 8. Mc- Kinlay led the fight for the raise. The finance cormittee, finally despairing of stalling any longer, held a Secret meeting and at 3:45 in the morning agreed to give the strikers. their demand. To do so, the commit- tee said it had “to slice $75,000 off other appropriations to give $60,000 to the city engineers,” It is not disclosed who or what is to suffer from this division. Nor does it appear what becomes of the wage demands of the city firemen and police, whith were likewise turned down by the finance committee at the same time as the engineers. The en- sineers struck and got their raise. The firemen and police have not yet struck—nelther have they got any raise. Reports that a subpoena had been issued for Samuel Insull, Chicago traction magnate, as the first step in the Illinois investigation, were denied by Senator Reed, democrat, of Mis- sourl, Reed said that Illinois inquiry would not be started until the middle of next month and that no subpoenas would be issued until then. ON THE North Shore of sland . Entered at Sctond-clags matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Co‘cago, Iitnols, un SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1926 y the Act of March 3, 1879 EBB" Publish LIBERAL GOVERNMENT IN CANADA FALLS ON RUM SMUGGLING ISSUE LABOR PARTY FIGHT STIRS THE COMMONS Wheatley ‘Hits Out at the Dawes Plan (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, June 30, (Delayed) —The solemn hall where centuries of time have hallowed the British parliament rang to the epithets of “Coward” and | dented in England’s history when the | Baldwin government advanced and | financially passed the longer workday mining bill thru its second reading. | The riot started when Colonel Lane- Fox, secretary of the mines depart- ment, speaking for the government, jsaid that the miners who thought of the welfare of their wives and chil- PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, | “Liar” in turbulent scenes unprece, NEW YORK EDITION ed Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents ID BRITISH STRIKE Green Urges Aid; Jail 1,000 British Striking Miners BULLETIN. CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 1-—That an appeal will be made to organized labor thruout the United States for funds for the relief of striking miners of England was announced today by Wm. Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. Green said the plea will be sent from Washington next week. * * * * (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, July 1.—A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Fed- eration of Great Britain, estimates that no less than 1,000 union coal miners are in prisof, and that the majority of these are men who have been arrested because they were active in the strike, |were serving on strike committees, local union executives or standing guard for the union on the picket line. Even more workers have been persecuted for working class activity during the whole strike period including the general A-cabinet crisis in Canada has caused the collapse of the liberal government MacKenzie King... above, who ‘resigned and was suc- ceeded by Arthur Mieghan, below, leader of the conservatives. For the first time in Canadian history the king’s representative was assail- ed by a premier when King crit- icized Lord Byngg for refusing to dissolve partiament at the former's request. When King resigned he said that if the advice of a prime minister As not to be accepted by the governor-general to dissolve parlia- ment, then Canada has descended in its status from a_ self-governing dominion to a crown colony. MACHINISTS DEMAND SMALL FREE PIGKETS Dist. Council Seeks Gar- ment Workers’ Release Local unions in Chicago are. adopt- ing resolutions «protesting the jailing of 46 International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union 1924 strike pickets and calling on Governor Len Small to pardon the strike pickets. that are still in! the Cook county jail. One of the datest organizations to send its protest to Gov. Small is the Machinists’ District Council. The Ma- chinists in their telegram demand that Gov. Small: immediately free the pickets. The Chicago joint board of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is making every effort to tree these garment strike pickets that are still serving sentences in jail, An ap- peal has been addressed to various unions in the city calling on them to send telegrams protesting against the errest and demanding the release of the jailed garment workers. / Mrs, Wanda Kaleta, who hag a seven-month-old baby; Mrs. Victoria Cieslakiewicz, mother of four children, one of them a cripple needing ¢on- stant attention; Mrs. Eleanor Sal lowsko, mother of a 10-year-old boy; Frieda Reicher, who returned from a tubercular sanitarium in Colorado; Mrs. Florence Corn and Evelyn Dorn- field, whose parents are dependent on her, and five men pickets are still in jail serving their sentences, Many of these have about thirty more days to serve, Two Miles of Beach and Woods Bathing, Boating, Fishing, Dancing Athletic Contests, Water Sports Musical and Lecture Program i 4 dren would not object to working lon- ger hours. This brought a storm of laborite denunciation about his head. Regular Shindig. “The dirty coward,” shouted Mr. Westwood, “he says that my father does not want to defend my mother! He is coward! He is a dastardly cowar Mr. Kirkwood vociferously seconded the idea and added some amendments of his own, When they finally finished telling part of what they thought of the col- onel, this gentleman said that if he thad said anything offensive, he would withdraw it. John Wheatley, leading jlabor party member voiced the signifi- cant features of the attempt, interna- tional in extent, to lengthen the hours of labor, pointing out that the Dawes plan started the world wide attack jon living standards of the working class. He said: Dawes Plan Started. “Germany having lost*the war, we decided that the losers must pay, and to compell Germany to pay, the German miners have to work longer hours,” he said. “You cannot have the victor and vanquished on the same economic footing so the direct result of the present bill must be to extend the hours of labor in Ger- many. “If the Germans adopt the nine- hour day the coal miners of this country will experience difficulty in competing with the German mine owners and will again say that the miners of this country must face the economic facts of the situation, “With the German working nine hours they will say that the mines of this country must work nine hours. We are drifting toward a state of society in which no people will have an interest in preserving the social order.” A new uproar began when Bridge- | man, first lord of the admiralty, tried to act as spokesman for the govern- ment. “Baldwin, Baldwin,” the labor- ites began to sing out at the top of thei voices and continued in spite of the assurance of the chair that Bridge }man was “a responsible member of | the cabinet.” The Glasgow laborite, G. Buchanan, | answering the chair'’s demand for fair The miners are not get- the miners are getting | bell!” | Prodded by a labor party speaker who challenged’ the right of Stanley | Baldwin as a holder of 200,000 shares jof stock in the firm of “Baldwin's | Limited” coal and iron corporation, to |appear as the Stanley Baldwin who {claims to be impartial in the govern- |ment he heads while forcing longer hours on the miners, Baldwin finally was forced to get on his feet. Baldwin Admits Owning Mines. “It is absolutely frue and represents the bulk of what I own.” said Baldwin, “I have always been, for good or evil, in British industry. It is for that I am being attacked. But for five years I have received nothing from these ishares.” (Ironic howls from the labor benches). ‘ “Whether it be that the honorable members believe that this old family business of ynine, because it happens, as a portion of its property, to contain some coal property; whether they think that-Decause of that I shall fall so low in my own estimation...” But the rest of his remarks were drowned in contending jeers and cheers from both sides of the house. A sub a day wilt help to drive capital away. NOW en EL nl bails Wie yee MCs strike. The Home Secretary, Sir Wi of these 632 were sentenced tof various terms in prison. Sir William added that altho there were many appeals, he “could not hold out any hope that the number of suc- cessful appeals would be large.” Mr. J. Lawson, the miners’ member of parfament, speaking in parliament on the so-called “emergency regula- tions,” tells of the manner the sup- posed British democracy. has been working for the capitalists au« against the workers. He said: At Burton a large number of men gathered together. There was no trouble at all, but a great lorry loaded with police came along, and, without warning of any kind, leaped out and began clubbing the men.’ MILL BARONS RECRUIT SCABS FOR PASSAIC Offer Mittin deities $50) a Week PASSAIC, N. J., July 1—The Pas: saic textile barons are seeking to break the strike thru importing istrikebreakers and gunmen to terror. ize the workers of Passaic. Thousands to Defeat Strike. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are being spent by the bosses in this attempt to defeat the union. Strike: breakers are promised wages of $50 a week and free board an@ room in the mills. Agents are paid to lie to them and trick them into coming to to work in the mills on strike. Newspapers are being paid to adve' Ii thru New England for ‘weavers and spinners” for a mill in “Long Island.” Police permit armed gangsters to parade the streets in so-called “citi- zens’ patrols” and attack and beat up strikers with impunity. Recruit Scabs. An amazing story of the trickery {of the bosses in obtaining strikebreak- |erscame to light when some workers |refused to become scabs and told of | \the methods by which they were fool- Jed into coming to Passaic. These experienced weavers answer- jed. an’ advertisement of an agency tor workers. In the agency office} they were told that they were needed | in a mill in Long Island, and were of- | fered $50 a week. “Is there any trouble in this mill?” the workers asked suspiciously. “No, there is no trouble at all, The (Continued on page 2) Passaic Rob Roosevelt Hospital. NEW YORK, July ve armed bandits today held up the girl cashier of the Roosevelt hospital in broad daylight and escaped with $9,510 in a stolen automobile, The money was part of a $24,000 payroll, but the re- mainder of the money been paid out. The American Worker Correspond- ent Is out. Did you get your copy? Hurry up! Send in your sub! it's only 50 cents, had already | a New Room 32, 108 East Fourteenth Stre liam Joynson-Hicks, has admit- ted in the house of commons that there were so far 1,760 work- ers prosecuted under the E. P. A. (Emergency Power Act), and Ss CAPMAKERS IN GOOD POSITION TO WIN STRIKE Bosses’ Association Has But Few Shops The 500 striking capmakers of Lo- Chicago, held their first mass the I. Van cal 5, meeting Thursday. morning at L. G. W. headquarters,’ 328 W. Buren street. The workers were en- thusiastic and pledged their support to fight for the union demands. Percy Ginsburg, local president, re- ported on the situation, which appears very promising for the union winning all demands. Of the 26 shops in the city, the bosses are resisting in only by ciation, shops being in the most part unionized only last August with agreements terminating only next Au- gust, while some of the 17 héve ac- cepted the proposal of signing any terms the union finally settles upon. nine yshops controlled their asso Three Demands Equally Just. The demands of the union are three in number: (1) Full control of work by the union, the bosses being de- manded responsible for seeing that no work is given out to nonunion shops and home sweatshops. (2) The 40. hour week. (3) A wage raise of $5 a week The strikers’ meeting elected Percy Ginsburg as strike leader with an ad- visory committee of seven as follows: A. Schiffman, J. Stavitsky, M. Sigman, George Bare, and Brothers Buslavich, Lichten and Michels. Other committees elected are: Strike Machinery. Finance Committee: George Bare, Paul Rapport and M. Schlessinger Law Committee: Percy Ginsburg and Joe Sta ky. Organization Commit- tee: Brothers Michels, Dorfinkel, Schlessinger, Winn, Zeff, Lichten, Heltelbaum, Kirschner, Rose Vollock, Buslavich and Silverman Press Committee: Max Brody, Picket Com- mittee: Mike Rumock, Paul Rapport and Brothers Wright and Winn. lief Committee: Ginsburg, apd Michels. Developments in the strike are ex- pected to await the return of some of Re- Stavitsky |the bosses to the city from over holi- day vacations about Tuesday. The workers will have a nice strike ma- chinery waiting for the bosses’ re turn, Housewives Form Mount Hope Council NEW YORK, July 1. — A Mount Hope chapter of the Council of Work- ing Class Housewives was organized here, Temporary officers and an @e ecutive committee were elected, The chapter meets every Monday night. Celia Zimmerman is temporary sec. retary. All communications should be addressed to her address, 1739 Weeks Ave., Bronx, New York ————__—__. Register DAILY WORKER EASTERN AGENCY York City 2