The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1926, Page 1

| - ‘| The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government THE # ( eq Psy "AF ep Vol, Ill. No. 148. Subscription Rate "Ew yy. °°% 156° 8S va, Uphold the Revolutionary Tradition! _ ‘By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. mer FOURTH OF JULY is the anniversary of the decision of the American colonists to secure by any and all means, at the price of war and death if need be, their freedom from the English monarchy and establish themselves «as a nation. The tradition of the United States of America in this respect isa revolutionary tradition. More than that, it is a revolutionary tradition of which the workers and farmers of America are the bearers because it was the oppressed, descendants of the Eng- lish, Irish, Scotch and Dutch peasantry which had been beggared first by the breakdown of feudalism and on. whose backs were laid the unbearable burdens of a rising capitalism, who made up the revolutionary armies, who fought, starved and died for American independence only to,be thrown into debtors’ prisons and have the felon's brand placed on them when the revolution- ary -war had ended. HE “founding fathers” were the early aristocrats who took to themselves the fruits of the revolutionary struggle and framed a constitution based on property rights. They were the representatives of the landlord, trading and commercial groups who held and drove to labor from sunup to sundown black and white slaves—the nucleus of the modern American workingclass. The farmers and workers got nothing from the war for inde- pendence. What progress they have made as a class since that time has been made in the face of the most determined resistance on the part of the exploiting class which seeks now to disguise and distort the history of the revolutionary struggle. As in France, where the fall of the Bastile marked the rise of the third estate—the trading and commercial class to power— but was achieved by the bloody sacrifices which the young work- ingclass laid on the altar of freedom, so in America the revolu- tionary war, fought by workers and farmers, marks the opening of what appears as an endless Jane of opportunity for the exploit- ers of the masses to consolidate and increase their wealth and power. oe the issue of The DAILY WORKER for today the tale of the “early history of the United States, of the revolutionary strug- gle for independence, the role of worker and farmer, landlord and merchant, aristocrat and commoner, is told as it should be told. These articles shatter the conventional capitalist analysis of the revolutionary epoch in our history and give to the early American workingclass its:proper place in history. We are proud of the part our class played in the stern strug- gle for independence and we say that the truth about 1776, the truth about the revolutionary period, both before and AFTER the war for independence was over, shall conquer the lies of the present American ruling class. The United States, like all other capitalist nations has been built by workers and farmers. It is Sheice abe they should take ers ee it. a VERY Fourth of July, celebration should be t ganalen- tos 5 strengthening the revolutionary ead ae is nation which the workers and farmers alone can carry out to its final and inevitable conclusion—a workers’ and farmers’ government. Some immediate tasks face the American masses. HEY may appear as small chores when compared with the gi- ‘gigantic and world embracing nature of the class struggle but of such smail tasks, successfully accomplished, is the vic- tory of the masses made. year betier day than the Fourth of July, the anniversary of American independence, achieved by hungry and ragged workers and farmers, for American labor to pledge itself to: (1) Free Sacco and Vanzetti. (2) Release of the Chicago garment workers and a renewal of the fight against injunctions. (3) 100 per cent support of the strike of 40,000 New York cloakmakers. (4) Defense of and relief for the heroic Passaic texe tile workers, (5) Freedom for Tom Mooney and Billings, the 1. W. W. prisoners in California, the Centralia defendants in Wash- ington. (6) Abolition of all racial discrimination thru the united efforts of the labor and farmer organizations. (7) Organization of the Unorganized. (8) A united labor Ticket for the fall elections—A Labor Party for the 1928 elections. EVOTION to the above tasks will make the Fourth of July a workingclass holiday characterized by the same high purpose and stern determination to stop nowhere this side of victory which actuated the colonial workers and farmers of the revolu- tionary colonial period and will establish the claim of the Amer- ican workingclass to July the Fourth as ITS holiday—tak from it by the present American ruling class just as the colonial workers and farmers were robbed of their inheritance by t colonial exploiters. BRITISH MASSACRE TWENTY-SIX CHINESE UNION STRIKE PICKETS CANTON, China, July 2.—Chin strikers against British shipping here were fired upon by British motor boats armed with machine guns and twenty- six strike pickets killed, The strikers have made a complaint to the Canton government in protest against the massacre of the pickets by the British, who as civilian busine: enterprises violate international law by using their own private armed forces, FREE STATE GOVERNMENT SENDS TROOPS TO COLLECT ITS TAXES DUBLIN, July 2.—Free State authorities are sending troops into various districts of Ireland to collect taxes. The Galway county council, upon ap- plying to the Free State government for aid to collect taxes, has been promised military assistance. The ministry of justice has also promised to provide a boat to take away livestock seized for taxes from the farmers on the island of Eddy, near the head of Galway Bay. Fifth Annual JULY 4th PICNIC | be de DAILY bi ie ‘ered at Second-class matter Septemae 21, 2923, at tle Post Office at Chicago, ‘lin>is; 1 Publishe PUBLIS TRADE UNION OFFICERS IN BiG BUSINESS Form N. Y. Real Estate Holding Corporation (Speclar to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, July 2.—With the statement that the trade union of- ficials involved are acting as indivi- duals and that the unions have taken no action in the matter, according to Luke J. Murphy, formerly executive vice-president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers’ Trust company, comes the announcement that a group of labor bankers, trade union execu- tives and capitalists have acquired control of*the G. L. Miller company, one of the largest real estate inygst- ment firms of New York City. The labor union officials propose forming a holding corporation con- trolled and operated jointly by bank- ers and trade union officials, particu: | larly the building trade unions’ of- ficers. * .,Murphy will take the presidency of |‘ founder. | The trade union capitalist group which has taken over the controlling interest upon financial arrangement yet undisclosed, includgs Theodore M. Brandl, president of the New Jersey Building Trades Council And president of the Labor National Bank of Jersey City; John J. Dowd, international vice- president of the International Brother- hood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuild- ers and Helpers of America and dir- ector of\the Union Labor Investment corporation of Jersey City; Joseph F. Hurley, director of the Labor National Bank of Jersey City, and S. W. Gut- tentag, vice-president of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers’ Securi- ties corporation. Hughes and Mussolini Hold Confab But Will Not Tell What About ROME, July 2. — Great curiosity | 2xists over what the subject of con- versation was’ between former U. S. See’y. of State Hughes and Premier | Mussolini when they spent some hours together at the fascist chief's resi- dence in the Chigi palace. Both men refuse to say what was discussed, * “We had a most pleasant interview,” said Hughes, who insisted that he is “only on a vacation without any, par- ticular schedule.” WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! BARONS RUMOREG AS PLANNING FRAME-UP ON WEISBORD A PASSAIC, « J. July 2.—Rumors have been ¢! it for the past week that Passaic textile barons, driven near to. madpess with their in- ability to break the textile workers’ strike were planning to implicate strike leaders in bomb conspiracies and other similar schemes. One of which was to frame-up Weisbord, the strike léader, in a breach of promise case, thereby discrediting him. 4 Mill owners and agents, it is re- ported, were worrying about get- ting a wo! willing to file suit and who w immediately disap- pear. ne ati was spilled today when a Miss Rosalind Capnora filed suit in the New Jersey supreme court for CAPMAKERS TO | POST PICKET LINES TUESDAY ce on Eve “Buby Season Capmakers Union Local 65 is planning a series of shop meetings at which representatives of the anion will prepare these shops for strike duties. Picket lines are to be estab- lished around the struck shops on Tuesday morning. Every member of the union was instructed at the membership meet- ing in the headquarters of the Chi- cago Joint Board of the International Ladies Garment) Workers Union, 328 West Van Buren, to appear at the union meetings every morning at 10 o'clock, At these meetings a regis- tration of the strikers will be taken and strike cards issued. Ten shops are*on strike at present involving 250 members. The Howard Capmaking Company, | which ‘had signed an agreement with the union has broken the agreement again, The workers are now on strike. The Mutual Cap Company, has | broken its agreement with the union. |The agreement was to run to Aug. 1 The strike of the Chicago capmak- son in that industry. The busy sea- son starts on July 15 and continues |thru the summer months to Septem- ber. | No attempts are being made by the bosses to recruit strikebreakers as yet. It is expected that attempts will be made by the bosses to operate the shops with scabs Tuesday morning. |: Business Agent Dubinsky of Cut ers comes on the eve of the busy sea- | 40,000 CLOAK MARERS DOWN TOOLS IN NY. Empty 1,800 Shops in Short Order (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, July 2.—At ten o'clock yesterday morning forty thousand cloakmakers of New York downed their tools and left 1,800 garment shops, like a well trained army, in response to the strike call issued by the general strike committee. of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, The garment district, boiled with life as the workers filled the streets in long unbroken lines leading to four- teen halis prepared in advance fo strike meetings. Registration and rol! call of the strikers took up most of the day. The first mass picketing demonstration is planned for Tues- day morning, July 6. Right Wing Busy. Right wing officials of the union are not co-operating with the strike ittee as indicated by the action ters’ Local 10, a Sigman stronghold, arranging a separate hall apart from those provided by the general strike committee. The object in this was very obvious and Louis Hyman, chair- man of the New York joint board of the union and leader of the strike committee, has issued a statement to the members declaring that such maneuvers must be stopped. It i& understood that rearrangements will be made on Tuesday. eee NEW YORK, July 2.—The biggest conflict in the history ®f the needle ades in New York City was in full swing today. Almost to a man, 40,000 garment workers, members of ‘the New York Cloak .and Dressmakers’ Union, af- iliated with the International Ladies’ | Garment Workers, have answered the general strike call. day in the 1,600 shops affected by the walkout, which most important industries in the state “The strike is practically 100 pe cent perfect,” Louis Hyman, chairman of the strike committee, announced. “We hope for an early peace, but we are preparéd for a long struggle.” As their first move, union leaders announced, picketing of the ware- rooms of jobbers, who control the manufacture and sale of 75 per cent of the etoaks made in New York, will begin Tuesday. Mobilize All American Workers In Support of Striking British Coal Miners (Statement by the Central Exec HE executive council of the Amer-, ican Federation of Labor has voted to issue a call to the trade union movement of this country for support of the British miners, Altho this action comes somewhat tardily (the miners have been on strike for two months) it will be welcomed by every worker who is conscious of the splendid fight the British miners have been making and the issues involved in their struggle. , HE International Workers’ Aid, more than a month ago, mobilized H AY utive Committee of the Workers its forces to arouse the American | workers and secure their support for |the British miners. It has already | sent substantial help, Realizing that its forces alone were not sufficient to meet the emergency, it called upon the executive council of the A. F. of L. to issue an official call for help. Now that this call has been prom- ised the whole trade union movement and the whole of the working class of this country can be more com- pletely aroused to help the British (Communist) Party of America) | .HE British miners have been fight- ing for more than two months. They continued their struggle against |reduction of their already pitifully low wages and the lengthening of their workday even after the betrayal of their cause by the General Trade Union Council when the latter called | |off the general strike. They have| |stood like a rock against the mine |owners and the Baldwin government | | which is fighting the battles of the mine owners. Not a machine was in operation to- | cripples one of the | THE DAILY 1 Dally except Sunday by HING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., NIYE’S VICTORY BLOW AT CAL'S CONGRESS GRIP May Indicate Losing of Next Senate (Special to The Daily Worker) Janother administration defeat, simi to that suffered in Iowa, when the surgent of the corn belt, Smith W Brookhart, ‘triumphed over Albert B. Cummins. While not as spectacular in is insurgency as his Iowa colleague, Nye has been just as consistent in his opposition to nearly all of Coolidge’s polic Washington Backing. The administration had not been confident of defeating Nye, but it had been hopeful. , With White House ap- proval, L. B. Hanna, who was the Coolidge manager in North Dakota in 1924, was put up against the youth- tul Nye and was backed solidly by the powers in Washington. the president had hoped for a Hanna victory to offset that of Brookhart in lowa. The saw today but little hope of preventing Ny return, for a re- publican nomination in North Dakota aditionally equivalent to election veen now and November a de- cision will be made whether to put up a regular to oppose the insurgent in the election. Nye Young. Nye’s political career is without re- ent parallel in senate history Barely ars old, he was an ob- seure coun editor when senator jLadd died a year ago. Gov. Sorlie |rejected all the advice received from Washington to appoint a “regular” jand selected Nye for the unexpired | term, which so nettled administration leaders here that for weeks they with- held his. credentials, and refused to seat “him: Ultimately, after a bitter fight, he was given his seat—largely through democratic votes. Farm Bloc Glad. Farm bloc leaders hailed Nye’s nomination with joy today. They in- terpreted it as another “warning voice” from the grain belt to the ad- ministration that something must be done for the former. Nye supported | . |the MeNary-Haugen Bill and all other measures for agricultural aid. His victory, incidentally, marked another for the anti-world court in the senate. FUR BOSSES FEAR SOLIDARITY OF CHICAGO UNION Union to Establish the Picket Line Tuesday The enthusiastic response of the Chicago fur workers to the union's jcall to strike for the 40-hour week, recognition of the other union and the other demands of the national organ- ization has caused anxiety in the ranks of the fur shop bosses, Four Shops Sign Up. Feur more shops have signed their agreements with the union. This makes 16 shops that have accepted the terms of the union. About 60 shops are still holding out. Workers Join Union. Workers in department stores and in many of the small shops of the city that are as yet unorganized have joined the union and have declared their willingness to go on strike with the union shop workers. Picket Lines Tuesday, The fur workers are holding strike meetings in the West Side Auditorium, Racine and Taylor, every morning at 10 o'clock, Picket Hnes have not been established as yet. Union committees are visiting shops that are still work- ing to bring out the workers. Picket lines are to be established about the holiday. Strong picket lines are to, be put before the 60 odd shops on strike Tuesday morning. President Schactman of the Inter (Continued on page 2) on Legal Holiday , miners in their fight. YO Chi WASHINGTON, July 2.—President Coolidge’s chances of controlling the senate of the seventieth congress, to be elected in November, were dis- tinctly more slender today as a re- sult of the victory won by Senator | Gerald P, Nye, in the North Dakota {1 ry | e’s nomination was accepted as | Friends of | This Issue Consists of Two Sections. SECTION ONE. Price 5 Cents | | | | { | George Papeun GEORGE PAPCUN CASE WILL END IN COURT TODAY Prosecution Tries Red- Baiting Stunt UNIONTOWN, Pa., July 2. — At- torneys for the defense’in the case of George Papcun recorded a victory this afternoon when Judge John Mor- row sustained the request of Defense Attorney |. E. Ferguson that certain literature should not be allowed as evidence against the defendant. The literature included the Com- munist Manifesto, written some three score ago by Karl Marx and Frederick gels, the Theses ant Statutes of the Communist Interna- tional, pamphlets published by the Trade Union Educational League, the State and Revolution by Lenin, the A B. C. of Communism by Bucharin and Preobrazhensky, and others. These were brought from Pittsburgh by Lep- non, a former department of justice agent, now star witness for the state and “expert” on Communism, The ruling of Judge Morrow threw Len- (Continued on page 2) GREEN ASKED TO AID PROBE IN GARY MILLS State Inspector Made a Confidential Report (Pictures on page 2.) (Special to The Daily Worker) GARY, Ing., duly 2. — The Gary Workers InVestigating Committee has sent the following telegram to William Green, president of the American Fed+ eration of Labor: “Fifteen workers are dead and sixty injured as the result of an ex- plosion in a Gary steel mill on June 14th, The coroner’s inquest was a farce. Only mill officials were ques- tioned. No workers were called to testify. A mass meeting of over 1,000 workers and citizens of Gary on June 20th passed a resolution for a congressional investigation. We urge the American Federation of La- bor to use Its influence in securing a public and thoro investigation, Another mass meeting will take place on July Fourth and we will read your message of encourage- ment to the workers at this meet- ing.” The telegram was signed by J, Gar nett, chairman of the Workers Invest- igating Committee, Interview Industrial Director, This morning, Garnett, accompanied by B. Borisoff went to Hammond to discover what the State Industrial Board has done about the explosion. They spoke to Ephraim Daily, Federal and State director of labor. He is a member of the State Industrial Board consisting of, in addition to Dailey, Dixon A. Bynum, chairman, Edgar A. struck fur shops after the July 4th [Burton Jr, Henry L, Humrithouser and Thomas A. Riley, The headquarters of the board are at Indianapolis, Dailey stated he was at the scene national Fur Workers’ Union spoke to the strikers’ meeting yesterday. CHERNAUSKAS’ GROVE, 79th St. and Archer Ave. Large Dance Floor Speakers: C. E. Ruthenberg and Alex. Bittelman i Admission 50 Cents uspices: Workers Party of America, District No. 8, vr Good Music of the explosion the following morn- (Continued on page 2) Refreshments Games