The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1926, Page 4

Page Four ~-—-- a THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $8.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ilinols J. LOUIS rage WILLIAM F, MORITZ J. LOEB. see Editors «Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, the post-office at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. ‘Advertising rates on application. = = = ——s 40,000 Cloakmakers Strike Forty thousand cloakmakers, members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, have struck in New York. The beginning of the strike was spectacular as are all needle trades strike actions—20,000 garment workers packing Madison Square} Garden to endorse unanimously the resolution calling them out. | As in the Furriers’ strike, the 40-hour week is an outstanding issue and the cloakmakers also are demanding a 36-week yearly} minimum of employment. ’ | Limitation of contracting, the development of which threatens | to become a menace much the same as the old sweat-shop system, is | another demand of the union. | The union demands further the right to examine the books of | employers to determine the extent to which these and other pro- <a 290 = visions of the proposed agreement are being lived up to. These demands alone indicate that the International Ladies’ | Garment Workers, at least in New York where the joint board is in} the hands of the left wing, are trying to secure a large measure of industrial control. Their method of securing it is the only one by| which this can be accomplished—exerting the maximum pressure | upon the boss | This strike is therefore of more importance than such strikes} usually are because it comes at a time when the heads of many | large unions are following the will of the wispsof B. and O. plans, | Watson-Parker bills, mediation and arbitration—co-operation with employers in many forms and under many guises, telling the union| membership that this is the road to industrial control, but— Always with the boss as a partner. The New York Garment Workers reject such schemes and in so doing they show that as a union they have developed to a point| far in advance of the A. F. of L. unions in other trades. Not only because we want the garment workers to get their de-} mands and defeat the bosses, the police and the agents of the bosses | within the ranks of workers, but because such a militant struggle when crowned with victory cannot help but be a powerful factor in arousing the workers in other industries, do we want to see the 40,000 cloakmakers, backed by the rest of the needle trades unions, win this strike. . Police Torture American workers read with horror of the tortures inflicted upon Polish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Finnish and Italian workers charged with and imprisoned for carrying on a reyolu- tionary struggle against their capitalist governments. But in the United States one needs only to be a.strike picket. or just a striker to be tortured by the police. It is only necessary to be arrested and the police and special | deputy sheriffs are very accommodating in this respect. } Word comes from Passaic, for instance, that a picket captain | has been arrested for the tenth time and horribly beaten after his | arrest. He was charged with disorderly conduct and released on bail, but only after he had been pounded into unconsciousness with | a rubber hose by two police thugs. ; The weakness of the labor movement nationally alone makes it possible for the police to satisfy their sadistic instincts and please the bosses by beating up workers. fe Part of its weakness comes from the fact that labor official- dom is tied up thru the democrat and republican parties with the | political machines to which the police belong. | Once labor charts its own course on the political field and an- nounces its determination to hold responsible and punish the per- petrators of these outrages, there will be a sudden decrease in the | total. But one of the preliminary necessities fér this is the organiza- tion of the unorganized. Much is being done in this direction in Passaic, but a national | drive with the full force of the labor movement behind it alone can prevent such outrages as the one mentioned—in itself only an in-| cident in,a deliberate campaign of brutality against the Passaic | strikers characteristic of all American industrial struggles. | The most dangerous tendency for the labor movement would | be to accept official violence as something which cannot be stamped out. War against it should be a major part of all struggles of the workers. |had asked Berger to demand a federal | | board and is’ appealing to all workers meeting held in connection with the BERGER EFFORT ‘TO GET FEDERAL | - ACTION REBUFFED | | Davis Refers Gary Probe| to State Board | (Special to The Daily Worker) GARY¢ Ind, July Gary | workers’ investigating committee, | formed to place responsibility for the | |explosion in the Illinois Steel Com- | |pany’s by-products plant that resulted | |in the death of 14 workers on June 14, |has received word from Congressman | | Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin that it | is practically imp ble to get federal }action on the case. The committee investigation of the disaster. Berger’s efforts in this direction and their results are summarized in the following telegram received by James Garnett, secretary of the investigating committee: Berger’s Telegram. “Secretary of Labor Davis informs me that since the disaster was not one resulting while transporting explosives no federal action can be authorized He states that the labor department is without authority to take any action and that since the establishment in question is within jur! tion of the workmen’s compensation law of In- diana it would be wthin the jurisdic- tion of the industrial board of that state to make a thoro investigation. “Please let me know whether the appeal has been made to that agency. Would introduce resolution, but con- gress will adjourn this week and such | action would not be taken seriously, | coming so close to adjournment. I will help in some other way, if pos- sible, Victor L. Berger.” Committee Continues. | The committee will now endeavor to get action from the state industrial in general and to the American Fed- eration of Labor and the Indiana State | Federation in particular, to assist it in | making a thoro exposure of the con-| ditions that led up to the death of the | workers on June 14. | Stanley Clark Will) Address Grand Rapids) “July 4th” Meeting| By EUGENE BECHTOLD. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 1. —| An, opportunity for the workers of| Grand Rapids to listen to one of the| best speakers in the labor movement | will be afforded on Friday, July 2, when Stanley Olark addresses a mass 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The meeting is arranged by the! Workers Party and\will be held at its| héadquarters at 211 Monroe Ave. The mebting will start at 8:00 p. m. Ad-| mission is free. Al Iworkers are in-| vited. Shop Nuclei Hold Conference at the Northwest Hall Friday| The place of the Chicago Shop} Nucleus Conference has been changed to the Northwest Hall, Friday, July 2, at 8 p.m. All shop nuclei members | must. be present as the proper func-| tioning of shop nuclei and in parti-| cular factory papers will be taken up| in detail, Greek Workers Hold Mass Meeting in Gary GARY, Ind., July 1. — A mass meet- ing was held in Gary under the aus- pices of the Chicago Greek Workers’ Educational Society. At this meeting B. Kalfides, business manager of the Greek Empros, Nick Boubous and Nick Stratus were the speakers. The importance of working class or- ganization was urged on those that at- tended the meeting. Plans are being made to organ a Greek workers so- cial-political club, Clinton S. Golden Brookwood Manager BROOKWOOD, Katonah, N, Y., July J.—(FP)—Clinton S, Golden 1s Brook- |wood Labor College’s new busitiess “Hie Majesty” on the job trying to get out the scabby British Gazette during the recent general strike —__— manager. Golden has been the school’s | field representative for the last two | years and will continue-in that capac- ity. He has been Philadelphia busi- ness agent for the International As- sociation of Machinists and an organ- | iz for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. ENDING OF CLEVELAND PAINT- ERS’ STRIKE FALSE REPORT. CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 1,— Altho all the newspapers of this city a few | days ago announced-that the painters’ strike which hag been in progress since March 1, was de ‘ed off—ana jeven stated the terms of the prelimi- |nary settlement, the union officials have now made a declaration that there has been no settlement what- ever, A resolution was adopted at a meeting denouncing the statement in the local press and declaring that the | strike is still on, A representative of, the international brotherhood has come to Cleveland, evidently to effect » settlement, Hence it appears as if HONOR ROLL - OF WORKERS AIDING PRESS | Wm. C. Eggeling, Hoboken, 'N.IJ.....8 2.00 Street Nucleus No, 26, Chicago, Ill— Vazelis . $5.00 Wlassvitz Gubar Olexiuk Menzinski Kudrensky Pleck A. De-Capua M. Miezwa Total Hugo Garke, ago, Mrs. Kalousek, Cicero, II Street Nucleus No. * Street Nucleus No. 2, Astoria, Ore Street Nucleus No. 4, Astoria, Ore. Seattle and Jaunita Finnis' ers’ Clubs George Lavallee, a L. Petroff, Seattle, Wash A. B. Elson, Eeattle, Wa: E Alex Kekoff, Seattle, Was! 1.00 | K. Kuseff, Seattle, Wash. 1,00 D. Chamakaeff, Seattle, 1.00 A. Legaff, Seattle, Wash. 1.00 | Gugo Bakoeff, Seattle, W. 1.00 PAPCUN TRI OPENS TAKING OF TESTIMONY Penna. Cossacks Piskity Against Union Miner UNIONTOWN, Pa. July 1—The jury that is to try George /Papcun un- der the criminal syndicalist law of Pennsylvania. was completed this morning and the state began to pre- sent its case against the young union mine worker, the offense being based on his attempt to organize coal min- ers into the United Mine Workers of America, Of the eight veniremen examined, the defense challenged two and the state three, the three finally selected being Mary Ralston, a housewife; L. V. Lepty, ticket agent of the Balti- more and Ohio railway; and E. E. Williams, a farmer. Union Breaking Police on'Stand. District Attorney Brown opened the case by reading the indictment. The first three witnesses for the state were all state troopers—the notorious coal and iron police. These were subjected to telling cross-examination by the defense and their conflicting testimony shown up. The testimony by the prosecution was directed to showing that Papcun was active in the Republic miners’ strike, trying to organize ‘them into the U, M. W. of A., urging ‘the miners to strike and fight for higher wages. Testimony Needs Corrections. The first witness was State Police Onko, who had to be recalled to the witness stand several times to make “corrections,” after conferénces with Assistant Prosecutor Newéll. The third witness was State Trooper William J. White; who ar- rested Papcun on January 24. White created a sensation when he began to give testimony from previously pre- pared notes. Defense counsel object- ed but was overruled by the judge. Under cross-examination ‘White was compelled to admit that the major part of his notes as to what Papcun had said before arrest, were prepared at police headquarters -after Papcun was arrested. White contended that he had heard Papcun’s speech, altho membership and there is every reason | to believe that a great portion of the | more than 3,000 sympathizers that at- tended the picnic will become mem- bers of the party. | ing June 28. SECRET MEET OF SENATORS 0.K,’S NEW RAIL BOARD Anti-Labor Men Given Committee Approval (Picture of Carl Williams, Oklahoma Editor, on page 6) WASHINGTON, July 1, —(FP)— All five of President Coolidge’s selec- tions to the railroad mediation board, which is soon to begin consideration of | the wage increase demanded by the | train service brotherhoods were favor- {ably reported by the senate committee on interstate commerce, after a meet- This meeting was held behind closed doors. In the room were Chairman Jim Watson and Senators Cummins, Sack- ett, Pittman, Bruce, Fernald, Pine and Couzens, Sen. Howell arrived after confirmation had been voted, and did not know of it when the meeting broke up. Senators Wheeler and Dill were at the capitol but did not come to the meeting. Without A Fight. Thus the four anti-labor men chosen by the White House to deal with a na- tionwide wage movement have been recommended to the senate for its i ’ New York City at the present time we find part of the labor movement being used as an instrument of Tam- many Hall. The New York Central Trades and Labor Council is primarily at the pre- sent time nothing more than a rubber stamp which is being used to give a labor character to all of the actions of Tammany Hall. Its emissaries who are delegates to and control that body introduce motions and resolutions of praise and support of Tammany which are usually passed without any discus- sion whatsoever. In this way the local democratic party is able to come before the New York City toiling masses and claim to be the party of the workers, showing their. indorse- ment by the “official and bona fide labor movement” as their “bill of health” and recommendation, which means on the surface that Tammany Hall is the party of the workers, Democrats—Not the Party of the Workers, formal ratification, without a fight. Development of sérious opposition in the senate itself is deemed unlikely. Samuel Winslow of Massachusetts, former chairman of the house commit- tee on interstate and foreign com- merce, will be chairman of the board, with a five-year term. Former Gov. Morrow of Kentucky, member of the old railroad labor board, gets a four- year term, Carl Williams of Oklahoma, editor of a farm paper, gets three years; G. Wallace Hanger of the Dis- tuict of Columbia, member of the rail- road labor board, gets two years, and Hyvel Davies, former president of the Kentucky Coal Operators’ Association, gets one year. In the same meeting of the senate committee action was taken on the shipstead resolution calling for in- vestigation of the strike of locomotive engineers and firemen on the Western Maryland road. This is the coal road whose dominant stockholder is John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and whose engine crews struck when the company tried to force them to sign “yellow dog” contracts last October. Hearings were had on the resolution a month ago, at which mayors, preachers and other prominent citizens of towns along the line demanded federal intervention against the company. Officials Still Have Hopes. The senate committee recommended that the mediation board take up this matter at an early date. Because of the committee’s action on the West ern Maryland case, opposition to con- firming the members of the board is still further diminished. Many of the rail labor officials be- lieve that the senate committee has indicated to the new board the policy it will be expected to pursue—one of vetoing the refusal of certain rail executives to discuss grievances with their organized employes, ON TO MOSCOW! SUBS OF JUNE 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25. (Continued from yesterday) Z i M. Vetingel ..... 00-100 he admitted that he was standing out- Max Sonem Peorio, Ill, . 50 1,080 side the hall and the windows and| Anthony Minerich, St. L vil a doors wi clos MO. crveeeeso nse Ba igh > Bia sgcas A. Schauer, West, A 00 100 White caused general laughter when | John Mackovich, Whiting, In 00 = 100 he stated that Papew 2 B. F. McClure, Danville, III. 20 20 vill send ¢ 8 ie Had wala; ‘We J. Kunzelman, St. Joseph, Mo..... 20 20 w | send a delegation to Russia to or-\E. B, Ford, Faribault, Minn. 45 45, Sanize the workers there” and that— "ihe wi 6 1,880 We will have to bust this imperial- ST, PAUL, MINN. ized capital and bust it right.” Strong Broms .. .10 10 Various copies of labor papers, in-| ©. B. Hayden .. 220 = . enn i 1454 cluding ‘The DAILY WORKER were| W: Hurvitz 100 100 introduced by the state. G. Skandara 140 330 of 10 110 It 1s expected that Bust Legger, who} Gy/*t Swenson 4548 was exposed as a spy on’the strike| J,’ Yncovich ..... . 100 100 committee, will testify for the prose-|Jehn Miller, Superior, Wis. - 28 55 cutton tomorrow. Waino Mykkanen, Stambaugh, ps aN comrernenedl P, Locsin, Gleason, WIS. vnmn 20 R._E. Rooney, Grand Forks, N. 5,000 Attend New apesaited aici 100 «4 |Dr. A, H. Sissakian, Verdel, Yor Nebe. e ieee wie 20 30 k Party Picnic Wm, Deitrich, Denver, Colo. ... 65 185 2 A aoe ’ Adolf Maatta, Rock Springs, NEW YORK, July 1. + Over five} Wyo. sesesneensan 45 45 thousand Workers (Communist) Party |¥ Wiktowar Blazon WYO. wu 4B 48 members and sympathizerg attended J. Ganopole isn. eee 230 730 the first picnic arranged this season | Joe Newman » 30 30 by District Two. This is ‘gest | SEATTLE, WASH.— aril ct Two. This is the largest | "Miron, Fislerman 200-755 picnic in the history of the. party. Soin pat oti “4700 400 This influence of the patty is a re-| Mary Sanders seereeeeee 20 60 e re { F | W. Brown, Kennewick, sult of the reorganization of the party |“Wyann on” 100 100 | that brot the membership into direct |N. Bursler, Berkeley, Calif........ 30 570 contact with tens of thousands of |A. Kerr, Eureka, rent 145 165 workers that it had no cdntact with |“OS ANGELES, CALIF. 106 before. This growing influence is also| Erivan Club 10 ar § the treme: op Paul C, Relss. 708 esult of the tremendous influence Oi. Bheekal.. 1" of the party in this city in the trade| Frank Spector .. 3,26 unions due to the fact that in every | G00. Stula -innmins: 100 10 strike in every struggle, the Commun- |¥, decker, Oakland, “ait. nm ee ists are recognized as the most mili-| Fred Larson . 20 20 tant @nd best fighters e arrests | As SOGAL svssmsves 00:87 of the workers ns im the interests | iy Muniberg, San Pedro, Gal. 30 190 j talon C. Desmond, Oakdale, Ca 20 20 The Workers (Communist) Party is |J. M. Haggard, Langview, Tex. 20 20 now beginning a drive to double its | + 4+ Peterson, Mesa, Arizona..100 100 You do the job twice as well— | when you distribute a bundle of | The DAILY WORKDR with your | story in it. he announcement ' ! ture, may ie was*a litle pre} By JOAN REED Ten Days Tha Shook the World” The classic on the Russian Revolution, ith introduction by LENIN $1.50 This is selling ‘out to capitalism with a vengeance! Tammany Hall, which is synonymous with the lowest and crookedest in politics, a party of graft and corruption, is not and never can be, the party of the work- ing class. As a part of the democratic party it is allied with the southerf democrats, most of whom do not even today recognize that amendment to the constitution which gave the Negro the right to vote as anything more than “a scrap of paper,” to use the phrase that made the former kaiser of Germany famous. The democratic party is an open enemy of the work- ers who can never expect anything but betrayal from it. Under its regime 700 furriers were arrested for picket- ing in the recent strike and Tammany judges issued the infamous Interna- tional Tailoring Co. injunction, But what do we find? The John Sullivans, James P. Goughlins, the Abraham Lefkowitzes and the rest of the tribe, go the entire length of ser- vile and menial servitude t} the Tam- many Hall machine, congratulating Gov. Smith and Mayor Walker on practically every important speech and action that they take irrespective of the fact that almost all of the elec- tion promises to labor of these gentle- men are nothing but election “prom- " to be forgotten the day after se “vnc FIRST Outing and Picnic BY WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY CLEVELAND : Sunday, July 4, 11 a. m. MINONA PARK GAMES — BALL GAME — DANCING — REFRESHMENTS Speaker: BENJAMIN GITLOW. New York and the United Labor Ticket ARTICLE X. The New York Central Trades and Labor ‘ Council and Tammany Hall. By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. they take office and to be resurrected the following November to be used once again for the same purpose—fool- ing the workers and gathering up the labor vote. Year in and year out, it is the same story which the workers must themselves ultimately stop. Bowing to Tammany. Some df the latest manifestations of this “kowtowing” to Tammany Hall is the congratulating of Gov. Smith on his recent message to the New York state legislature and the admit- tance of Mayor Walker to honorary membership in the International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen and Oilers. Countless other examples could be given but these two are enough to show the attitude of the local labor leaders, Need for a Labor Party. This kind of action on the part of the New York City trades unions must be stopped. The rank and file should demand. the cessation of support of Tammany Hall and expecting favors and privileges ‘fora few labor coun- cil leaders from the political party that is supported by the bosses of thesee same workers. These bosses are the ones who furnish the money to carry on the political campaign of Tammany Hall and as such demand and obtain its support for any anti- working class’ legislation and activity that they deem necessary. A labor party based upon the trade unions which will include all working class political parties and organiza- tions who can agree on a common platform is the remedy for the situa- tion sketched above. Let all workers raise this issue at their union meetings: No support of Tammany Hall, and the formation of a labor party in New York! YOU CAN EAT WELL IN LOS ANGELES at GINSBERG'S VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 2324-26 BROOKLYN AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CAL. FOR RENT: FURNISHED ROOM, for one or two girls. For appointment call Bel- mont 9252. 3341 W. Division St. 4 = é Hy a = Hy 2 = = Hy AgLLLU LETTE Take West 14th Brooklyn or West 26th car and get off at car barn. Then take State Road car and get off at end of line, to picnic grounds, ore MLU LLM LLL LOLOL MOO PTT 3 minutes’ walk UUUUNAEUUANUBUGAUESOUUAUAUCGENAAHAUSEnCOAUAUU EAN il ew] AeD — WORKERS WAaRKSHOPS SSE! TNE VRNDE. UNH FOUCATIONAL LEAGUE WING ni ese rT nol * Fhicaga fie Peak inno