The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1926, Page 2

Page Two lA. OF M. HEAD INSTALLED HERE; OUTLINES POLICY ‘Organization of Skilled Main Aim A. O. Wharton, successor to William Johnston, was installed last night as president of the International Associa- tion of Machinists at a joint meeting of international officers, delegates to the railway department eonvention here, and active members of the Chi- cago District Council, at Machinists headquarters, 113 South Ashland Blvd. President Wharton, in giving a brief outline of the policy which the ex- ecutive board will support under his direction stressed two main points; Two Points of Policy. 1. Abolition or modification of the existing referendum election law. 2, That the administration was not interested in building a large organiza- tion of metal workers but a compact body of skilled workers. Thorpe, representative of the Pa- cific coast district, took a somewhat different position in his speech, ex- pressing the belief that the union must pay attention to the organization of the semi-skilled and unskilled work- ers-“specialists.” To Watch Chicago. That the new administration is going to keep a keen eye on the Chi- cago district was intimated by Presi- dent Wharton when he stated that op- position would be met by a divorce from the payroll of such elements. Chicago was an Anderson stronghold in the last election and is generally known as ant!-administratton territory. Charles Frye, business agent of Lo- cal 126, outside machinists, identified himself with the administration by an- nouncing to the assembled members, in reference to the array of interna- tional officers on the platform, “This is my gang. They were with me and not with you in the last election.” No direct reference to the Watson- Parker bill or the B. and O. plan was made by any of the speakers altho President Wharton stated that “the union would co-operate with employers that were ready to go along with it.” 400 members of the union were at the meeting. Boston July Fifth Picnic to Be Held at the Unity Camp BOSTON, July 1—Boston will hold an outing Monday, July 5, at Unity Camp. The program committee re- ports that this affair will be one ot the finest which has ever been run in Boston or vicinity. In addition to Bruno’s famous jazz orchestra, there will be contests, sports and games of every possible kind. A beauty contest has been ar- ranged and many of the women com rades are greatly excited about this particular feature of the program. The outing will be held a short dis- tance from Boston and the grounds may be reached by taking the L to Everett, the car to Malden Square and the bus from there to the picnic grounds themselves. The grounds open promptly at 12 o'clock and the program committee reports that the numbers of the program will go thru no. matter what the weather will be Tickets are on sale at the Freiheit office, 36 Causeway St., 113 Dudley St., New International Hall, Chelsea Labor Lyceum, and in all the lead- ing workers’ centers thruout Boston. Val 7 The latest and a most in- teresting book on Russia— A MOSCOW DIARY By ANNA PORTER. A record of vivid impres- sions of the first workers’ republic gathered on a re- cent visit. Clothbound to make a splendid addition to a workers’ library. $1.00 PEERS sna The Daily Worker Pub. Co. Agents Before present without fail. The m FRIDAY, JULY 2, Last Meeting of the Chicago Daily Worker (Continued from page 1) ternational union elaborated the de- | tails of the negotiattons and the un- jion's demands. Arturo Giovanetti of |the Italian Chamber of Labor, and Sid- |ney Hillman, president of the Amal- }gamated Clothing Workers, greeted the members of the I, L. G. W. and Hillman pledged that: “Whatever is in the power of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union to make your struggle a success will be done.” Abraham Baroff, secretary-treasurer of the I. L. G. W., Hugh Frayne, gen- eral organizer of the A. F. of L., who read the message of William Green ad- vising the workers to fight solidly, if they had to fight, and pledging his support; Ben Gold, leader of the recently successful strike of union fur- riers, and Louis Hyman of the New York Joint Board of the I. L. G. W. were among the list of speakers at the meeting, I, Steinzor, president of Local 2, presided as chairman. Ovations to Left Wingers, The great audience cheered every speaker who urged struggle for their demands, and gave especial ovations to Ben Gold of the Furriers and Louis Hyman, manager of the New York Joint Board of their union. Gold as- MILL BARONS RECRUIT SCABS FOR PASSAIC Offer Strikebreakers $50 a Week (Continued from page 1) owners want to replace foreigners with Americans, that is all,” the Pas- saic agent told them. It was not until the weavers heard the conductor call the station that they knew they were being brought to Passaic where there is a strike. It was almost midnight. No sooner had the men stepped off the train than they were snatched into taxicabs and before they could protest were driven to the gates of Botany mill. “You are to sleep and eat in the mill,” said the agent. Weavers Refuse. Strike-Breaking. That was where the weavers got wise. They knew that bosses do not shut up their workers (behind the walls of the mills unless they are afraid of something. They then real- ized the offer of the bosses for what it was,—a bid for strikebreakers. “You can’t make scabs out of us,” they said, and in spite of the coaxing of the Botany agents they stuck to that declaration. They left the mill with no money to get back home, no job and no place to sleep in a strange town. Agencies in cities all over the country are recruiting gunmen and gangsters and bringing them into Passaic to break the strike. “The mill owners are determined to take the law into their own hands and create a terrible reign of terror in the strike area. Gangsters and bums roam the streets at night fully armed, beating, stabbing and shoot- ing strikers while the police look on and laugh”—pointed out Albert Weis- bord, Passaic strike leader, in an in- terview. “The extent to which the mill owners are ready to go in de- bauching the city in order to crush the strikers is unlimited. When these mill owners have women sleeping in the samewmill in the next room to sey- eral hundred men of the character that these bums and gangsters are one may be sure that the mill owners, having promised these gangsters “en- tertainment” are amply living up to their promises. Workers Must Fight Bosses. “The very high wages paid the out- side gangsters and thugs shows how these powerful mill owners are ready to spend their millions to see that their workers do not get a decent standard of living. Here are these mill owners, who have amassed hun- dreds of millions of dollars thru the sweat and labor of their workers, cutting the wages of these already miserably paid workers, and then spending twenty times the amount on gangsters and thugs that would be necessary to maintain the workers decently. The workers receive $12 to $20 a week. The gangsters $50 a week and ‘entertainment’.” Amundsen In Minneapolis, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 1, — Captain Roald Amundson and nine members of the crew of the Norge, in which he flew over the North Pole a short time ago, arrived fn the Twin Cities today from the Pacific coast for a day of entertainment and sightsee- ing. The explorer and his party will leave for Chicago tonight, SEND IN A SUB! the End of the Subscription Campaign Every Daily Worker Agent in the city is expected to be eeting will take place at the Workers’ Book Shop, 19 So. Lincoln St. 8 P. M. SHARP 40,000 N. Y. Garment Workers Strike sured them the full moral and finan- cial support of the Furriers’ Union and stressed the importance and need of amalgamation in the needle trades uinons, while Hyman called for com- plete unity in action against the ex- ploiting employers, The meeting enthusiastically adopt- ed a resolution protesting the court decision in Massachusetts which menaces with death by electrocution the two framed-up workers, Sacco and Vanzetti, and demanded a new trial. Strike Begins, At once following the passage of the strike resolution the general strike committee of the joint board issued the call to all operators, bushelers, cut- ters, samplemakers, skirtmakers, de- signers, examiners, finishers, pressers and buttonhole-makers at 10 A, M. Thursday, July 1. Fourteen halls are arranged for sec- tional strike headquarters. The Jewish daily Freiheit has published a special edition containing the strike call and union instructions as signed by the general strike committee. These pa- pers are being distributed at the shops. The spirit of the workers is excellent and 100 per cent response is expected. WATSON-PARKER - BILL DISCUSSED AT RAIL MEET Four Year Convention Proposal Defeated The convention of the Railway De- partment was addressed by Donald Richberg, attorney for the railroad unions at the session Tuesday. Mr. Richbkerg spoke on the wonders of the so-called Watson-Parker Law which he claimed was a revision of the Hovard Barkley Bill and said that under this law self government would be established in the railroad industry (whatever that means). For “Public Interest.” This law, according to Richberg, forces both employes and employers to realize their duty to the ‘Public” on the question of mediation boards. Mr. Richberg claimed that it not exer- cise any power until the carriers and the men could not come to an agree- ment and that arbitration would only be resorted to when they could not agree. He also made the statement that if a committee appointed by the Presi. dent of “Our country” can not make a fair decision he could not see who could. He claimed further that courts would not be resorted to under the act but contradicted himself by the state- ment “that this law is based upon con- tract and courts are very effective in enforcement of contracts.” Peace Is Slogan. “Peace on the Railroads” and faith in government institutions, resorts to arbitration, etc, “the days of indus- trial warfare is over,” was the general theme of his speech. A number of questions were asked him relating to the meaning of certain passages. A general discussion will no doubt take place when the committee reports on this subject come before the conven- tion, Two Year Convention Proposal Wins. The committee on law brought in a proposal to change the laws for a con- vention every four years instead of two years as provided for in the old laws. This attempt on the part of the officialdom was defeated by the convention. Delegate Henning of the machinists moved an amendent to insert the two year instead of the four year and stated that due to new and rapid changing conditions it is neces- sary to have conventions more fre- quently and also that the new rail- road legislation makes it necessary to have a convention to deal with experi- ences gained, The overwhelming ma- jority of the convention supported this progressive proposal, Proposal for Proportional Representa- tion Defeated. A proposal to change the present laws to give the various f&ffiliated unions representation according to numerical strength was brought into the convention in the form of a minor- ity report and supported by the Execu- tive Council of the machinists, but was defeated after long debate and strenuous effort on the part of the officials of the small unions, Law Committee Proposal Adopted Wednesday session and today's ses- sion witnessed a spirited debate on the question of proposals to give more power to the international officers and the contradictory proposal to let the delegates from the system federa- tions vote on aye and nay vote, but not on roll call, An amendment was offered by Delegate Wright of the blacksmiths to have respective dele- gates determine the vote at the con- vention and another amendment that all questions decided upon by the de- partment oonvention shall be the law providing it does not interfere with the constitutions of the various affiliated International unions, Both the amendments were lost and finally the recommendations of the law com- mittee was adopted, Yesterdays session was addressed by John Fitzpatrick, president Chi- cago Federation of Labor, and Ed Nockels, secretary,,. who extende nvitations to visit the radio stati ‘stablished by the Federation, THE DAILY-WORKER ‘COMPANY TOOLS TESTIFY AGAINST PAPCUN IN TRIAL Inject Religion Into Case for Prejudice (Special to The Daily Worker) UNIONTOWN, Penn., July 1—The third day of the Papcun trial witnessed a continued battle between the attor- neys for the defense and the prosecu- tion, while the case assumes greater and greater proportions. “Cross-Examine Willar. Corporal Willar, _ Who testified against Papcun, was;subjected to a long cross-examination.in regards to applying third degree methods to compel Papcun to answer questions. When Papeun wag arrested last January Willar presented to him a list of questions which Yon refused to answer. Willar himsé@lf filled in the answers. Willar testified that he was receiving the “Young Worker” by mail during the last several months but never called the attention of the au- thorities to the paper; Testimony of state witnesses shows that the state police were paying spe- cial attention to the miners’ strike in Republic last fall and were used to spy on the strikers, Inject Religious Issue. William Nelson, twenty three, em- ployed by the Hillman Coal Co. testi- fied for the state about a meeting held last December at Cardale, where Pat Toohey and Papcun spoke. He charged the defendant with saying, “We must get a new government and after we get our new government, we would not have to live in dirty filthy cow- sheds.” The same witness charged Papcun with attacking the ministers by calling them bible, pounders and Jesus-Jazzers. This was brot in to prejudice the jury. The attorney for the defense, Isaac E. Ferguson, strenu- ously objected against bringing reli- gion into the case but was overruled by the judge. Assistant District Attorney Newels asked the witness to refresh his mem- ory in regards to Mil statements made by the defendant. Refreshes Memory. This was a signal to Nelson who ad- ded, “Since you refreshed my memory I wish to add that Papcun said that they had a way of training these young men with guns and ammuni- tion.” This statement was necessary for the prosecution as the testimony of all previous witnesses was too weak to get a conviction. It is remarkable that this witness happened to live in Croatian Hall where the strike head- quarters were located be where Pap- cun was arrested. He lived there fo# four months apparently to get informa- tion. One of the witnesses;|Stanley Kitta, made every effort possible to show that Papcun was against. the United Mine Workers’ Union and that during the strike Papcun did not want to have anything to do with the union. This soon fell flat when the next wit- ness for the state, Frank Terrace testified as a farmer, but in reality a well-known bootlegger in Republic took the witness stand for the state. This is the same Frank Terrace who attempted to frame-up Tom Ray and who was quickly exposed as being a spy himself. During the miners’ strike he managed to get elected as chairman of the strike committee, He testified that Papcun in a speech said, “If these yellow dogs, meaning the deputy sheriffs, happened to stop you from picketing, club the hell out of them,” and that Papeun wanted leaflets and papers distributed near company houses, He quoted Papcun as saying that they would overthrow the government and incorporate it with Russia. Under cross-examination he had to admit ‘there was no violence and that the whole purpose of the’ strike was to get a better scale of wages. He was one of a committee of three with Pap- cun to negotiate with the district of- fice of the United Mine, Workers about organizing a local in the striking re- gion, The prosecution, tried to make an issue that at the meeting at Cardale no American flag was displayed. This was stricken out of the minutes by the insistence of the defense attorneys. Use Red-Balter Lennon. The prosecution thought they sur- prised the defense when they produced the infamous Harry J. Lennon to testi- fy as an expert on Communism. This is the same Lennon who testified in other sedition cases. He is a clerk in the office of the department of justice in Allegheny County and formerly was connected with the bureau of investi- gation of the department of justice. He has been seen in Uniontown for the last two weeks apparently. preparing for the case, He began his testimony the same way as in previous cases, giving a detailed history of the Work- ers Party since 1919, The case is ex- pected to continue for several more days, Livingston Miners Donate $200 for Sacco-Vanzetti Case LIVINGSTON, Ill, July 1, — Local 2656 of the United Mine Workers of America here donated $200 to the de- fense of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti at its last meeting, Why Not Become a Worker Correspondent? le Fess Bill Revealed How Coolidge “Farm Relief” Was Attack on Farmers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. —_ HE present session of congress is dying and on the issue of farm relief alone the Coolidge administra- tion ought to die along with it, There ought to be joint obsequies. Defeated by a vote of 26 to 54 on its own pet Fess bill, for aiding the bankers, food speculators and other profiteers, the Coolidge administra- tion’ ought to resign and get out, thru ordering new elections imme- diately. But the particular form of Wall Street tyranny that exists at Washington permits of no such res- ponse to the wrath of the masses. Coolidge will hang on, even by the skin of his teeth, for two years more, while some of the dollar sen- ators will stick to their seats for even four years, * ** If the workers and farmers of the corn and wheat belt in the north, and the cotton belt of the south miean business, however, they can take a wallop at Coolidgeism in the November congressional elections, This cannot be done, however, by losing themselves in the old parties, They can do it with the club of in- dependent political action, oie This is being written as the work- erg and farmers in North Dakota are going to the polls casting their ballots in a state-wide primary in which the farmer-labor party has a ticket in the field. There is no con- test among the farmer-labor candi- dates. They will be nominated. The fight comes in November against the republican party. North Dakota is a republican state. Labor has tried to function within the republican party, enter- ing its primaries and seeking to elect “good men” to office under this Wall Street standard. The non- partisan league was organized for this purpose, After many bitter ex- periences, the result of this hopeless “experiment” is announced in the declaration for the farmer-labor can- didates in the following words: “No headway in their fight against the capitalists who exploit them is possible by working thru this party (the republican party).” se The above is good advice for every other state, whether it is dominated at the present time by republican or democratic politics. The non-partisan league made a little organizational headway in Min- nesota, but the farmer-labor move- ment in that state outstripped it by far, with the result that Minnesota labor now has the leading, and prac- tically the only state mass move- ment for independent political ac- tion in the nation. Minnesota labor refused to waste time with the non- partisan league “experiment.” It drove directly toward action inde- pendent of the two old parties. Fol- lowers of the league “idea” of work- ing within the old parties now con- stitute the reactionary right wing CROWE BACKER OPENS WAR ON COURT JUDGES Seeks to Put Over Anti- Union Judges Edward BE. Gore, of the Chicago Crime Commission, of which union smashing State’s Attorney Robert B. Crowe is a principal member, is now in the midst of a controversy with a number of court judges. In a pub- lic statement Gore declared that many of the judges now sitting on the bench were unfit for their office. Judge Wiham N. Gemmill, imme- diately sent out an interview declar- ing that Gore should not make blanket charges but that should tell who the unfit judges were, Gore countered with a slanderous attack on Gem- mill, Gore it seems has already started the Crowe-Barrett-Thompson propa- ganda drive to gain control of the county and municipal judgeships. The Crowe machine seeks to discredit the present incumbents and make it easier for them to put over the Crowe hench- men, He is seeking to make himself the political boss of Chicago and Cook County. He is aided in this dream of becoming political dictator of the coun- ty by the open-shop employers’ asso- ciation and the aggregation of “labor” leaders in the Cook County Wage Earners’ League. ——$—$_—$——= More Money for Inquiry. WASHINGTON, July 1.—The senate today authorized an additional $40,000 with which to carry on its special in- vestigation of primary “slush funds,” “In the light of the committee's dis- closures, I don't think a total of $50,000 is too much to spend on this investigation,” Senator Reed, dem- ocrat, of Missouri, chi an of the investigation committee ~ _ Ly eget | of the farmer-labor movement, where they have not actually return- ed to capitalist politics, +e * The Fess bill for “farm relief” ' sponsored by the Coolidge adminis- tration exposes the real character of the republican party’s alleged legis- lation on behalf of the farmers. It is in reality merely legislation in support of the profit-taking interests that fatten off the farmers. It is im- possible for the Coolidge administra- tion even to think in terms of aid to the actual dirt farmer. The Coo- Mdge-Hoover-Jardine-Mellon sponsor- ed “Fess bill” merely proposed loan- ing $100,000,000 to so-called farmers’ co-operative marketing associations. It is the Coolidge gang in Washing- ton that would have dictated how that $100,000,000 was to have been spent and it would have gone into their own pockets. Even the conservative farm spokesman, William Settle, presi- dent of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, was forced to declare that the brain behind the Fess bill was the same scheming brain that foisted the Armous-Rosenbaum spon- sored Grain Marketing company on the farmers, attempting to unload on them a number of worthless grain elevators. Sec’y. of Commerce Hoover and’ Sec'y. of Agriculture Jardine joined with the Armour Co. and Manny Rosenbaum in this hold- up of the farmers, putting forward the Grain Marketing company as a prospectively farmer-owned agency for the marketing of grain products, The deal was so rotten that even the state of Illinois stopped fhe sale of stock as a swindling proposition. Other states had to follow suit. The scheme blew up and now this same gang of burglars is trying to unload on the government. They were abetted in this fefarious scheme by the Coolidge-Hoover-Mellon-Jardine regime in Washington, but the deal was too raw even for the senate, and the thieves were temporarily foiled in their venture. Under the Fess bill the Grain Marketing company could have annexed $26,000,000 and gotten a new start to profiteer off the farm- ers, ; eee This is just one isolated example of how the republican party “helps” the farmers by robbing them blind. Yet LaFollette, Jr. and Blaine in Wisconsin; Brookhart, in Iowa; Frazier and Nye, in North Dakota; Norbeck, in South Dakota; and Nor- ris, in Nebraska, all remain within this republican party of the land- lords, the food gamblers, the bank- ers and the great industrialists. - That is treason, And the treason is just as great for Wheeler to remain within the democratic party. Let the workers and farmers be loyal to themselves by increasing their struggle to “Build the Labor Party!” by calling on all who toil to, “Leave the capitalist parties!” Many July Fourth Meetings Planned by Workers Party New York, New Jersey, Connecti cut.—There will be a mass encamp- ment at a beautiful spot on Long Is- land. Jay Lovestone will speak on July 4 and J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, on July 5. Boston, Mass, July 4.—Boston Com- mons, Bertram D, Wolfe, Utica, N, ¥., July 3. Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 4.--Ru- dolph Katz. Jamestown, N. Y., July 5.—Herbert Benjamin. % Syracuse, N. Y., July 5.—S. Essman. Philadelphia, Pa., July 3. — J. Louis Engdahl. Baltimore, July 2.—J. Louls Eng- dahl, Pittsburgh, Pa. July 5,—Robert Minor, at Gajdas Farm, Cheswich, Pa. McKeesport, Pa., July 4.—Robert Minor. Erie, Pa., July 4. — Herbert Benja- min. Cleveland, Ohio, July 4.—Ben Git- low. Akron, Ohio, July 5.—4:30 p. m. Ben Gitlow. . Youngstown, Ohio, July 5.—Ben Git- low. Chrisholm, Minn., July 2., Finnish pera House, Wm. Z. Foster. Superior, Wis., July 8.—7:30 p. m. Workers’ Hall, Wm. Z, Foster. Duluth, Minn., July 3.—8:30 p. m. William Z, Foster. Grand Rapids, Mich., July 2,—Stan- ley J. Clark. Detroit, Mich., Monday, July 5, Yo- hoo Park, 18 Mile Road, near Main St. Stanley J. Clark, Chicago, Il, July 5—-C. EB Ruthen- berg St. Louis, Mo., July 4.—C. B. Ruth- enberg. Sonera nr ne PRL ay CIS nie SENSE WO STs one ee Ce aE Seed la ee ree ee ee ‘Too Many Workers In Cities, NEW ORLEANS.—(FP)—Frank EB. Wood, commissioner of labor for Louisiana, reports @ surplus of un- skilled labor in the cities, with an alarming shortage on the farms and plantations, Farm labor receives an average of $10 a month with hours from sunup to PLOT AGAINST « CO-OPS SEEN BY FARM SENATORS Fess Amendment Is Coolidge Ruse By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press. WASHINGTON, July 1—(FP)— Charging that the Fess substitute for the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill was designed to utterly destroy the farmers’ co-operative marketing as- sociations, democratic and republican senators alike riddled that measure in debate. Thereby they defied Prest- dent Coolidge, who had issued a formal statement endorsing Fess* scheme. While these opponents knew that Coolidge’s public endorsement was given before Fess offered the most destructive clause in his measure, they assumed that the Ohio standpat- ter did not act in any instance with- out orders from the White House. The whipping administered to Fess was given in the belief that Coolidge would wince, ae | Robinson of Arkansas, democratic floor leader, analyzed the so-called amortization plan which Fess added to his $100,000,000 federal loan fund measure. He showed that it directed that when a farm co-operative mar- keting association got a loan from this fund, to handle a crop, the associa~ tion should lay an amortization tax on its members, covering a term of 33 years, for repayment of the loan. The effect would be to have the as- sociation spend or lose the money borrowed, whereupon its individual members would begin to drop out and no new ones would come in, since they would be bound for 33 years to pay back the lost loan, This, said Robinson, would be the most effective way that could be devised to destroy the co-operative marketing movement among American farmers. For Armour Co. Then a clause authorizing the use of loans for acquiring marketing fa- cilities was shown up. Caraway and Hiram Johnson described this as be- ing a scheme to use government money to pay the Armour Grain Co. and other corporations some $26,000,- 000 for obsolete or useless storage im" bi Paani warehouses -worth about $3,000,000. He was referring to the properties that the Grain Corporation, headed by Gray Silver of the American Farm Bureau Federation, tried to induce the farmers to purchase last year. SENATOR NYE WINS IN NORTH DAKOTA OVER COOLIDGE CANDIDATE BISMARCK, N, D., July 1.—Formei Governor L, B, Hanna, independent, or Coolidge candidate for the repub- lican senatorial nomination in North Dakota's primary, is leading United Senator Gerald P. Nye, non-partisan incumbent for both the short and long term nomination by a lead of 4,000 votes, returns from 371 pre- cincts out of 2,167, giving Hanna 16,- 403; Nye, 12,803, for the short term, and Hanna 19,817; Nye 16,670 for the long term. The Fargo Forum, North Dakota's leading independent newspaper, has conceded that complete returns will show the defeat of Hanna by Senator Nye. It is expected that returns from out- lying country districts will give Nye @ lead of approximately 20,000. Ussevnveecevsceneesenetsneagneeatsenssanimsnisuin Order Now! _JULY10 SATURDAY A Special Anti-Injanction Issue Ses of great interest to every worker in and out of the organized labor movement. HOW TO FIGHT THE IN- JUNCTION MENACE? READ what prominent figures in all sections of the labor Movement have to say about it, statements by trade union leaders, and a “Short History of the Injunction in America” tog fight on this is- sue in the present struggles of the I. L. G. W. will a a feature, Order 2 Bunille Batic Mo cnct Mrnn a