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

LABOR PARTY DARES TORIES TO ELECTION Shows Hypoctlay of the Baldwin Cabinet (Spéolal to The Dally Worker) LONDON, July 2.—The Independ- tt Labor Party in the notes sent out party speakers, formulates the case labor against the Baldwin govern- ent's fight to break up the Miners’ Federation by forcing longer hours ‘end lower wages on the locked-out Nminers and challenges Baldwin to an lection. It quotes from the “Hans- Yard,” the official record of parliament, the statement of Baldwin on June 15, @s follows: “We have come quite definitely to the conclusion that the return to a Yonger working day is necessary.” Was Tory Polloy Before Strike. The L L. P. shows this is the open @xpression of what had been, adopted the policy of the Tory party bo- the strike, quoting again frem private and confidential” issued by fhe Tory party to its propagandists ®n April 26, as follows: “The governmnet is partciulerly @nxious to draw the aftention of the Public to the serious econdmic posi- tion of the coal industry. Reference q@may be made to the question of ours, upon which it is desirable to ©Goncentrate rather than upon the re- @uction of wages.” Baldwin Ignores Commission, The L L. P. shows that lengthen- ing the hours ts contrary to the gov-| ernment coal commission's report and | really means an eight-and-a-half hour day for the miners. Here it quotes from the commission’s report as fol- dows: “Extension of working hours at this time of depression is not a natural but an unnatumgl way of reducing coal costs and meeting the immediate dif- ficulty. It would make the working day of the British miners longer by halfan-hour to one hour than that of miners in any European coal field of importance, except Upper Silesia.” Pointing out that the result would be either an increased production of ¥80,000,000 tons of coal for which no lamarket is assured or the unemploy- Neen of 130,000 men, the IL, P. r quotes the coal commission's a6 follows: No Market for More Coal, }' “While it cannot be said that there no possibility of ever finding a for 30,000,000 tons of coal than present, it is exceedingly difficult suggest where that market is to |be found. The alternative is one ftinth fewer men.” Pointing out that the owners and the government are working hand in hand to break up the Miners’ Fed- ,eration, the I. L. P. shows that Bald- win is belittling and opposing the basic demand of the «union to reor- Banize the mining industry as recom- mended in the government coal com. mission’s report, altho Baldwin is trying to make the country believe that the union and not bis own cabi- net, is opposing the commission's re- port. Quoting again from Baldwin's speeches in parliament published in the “Hansard” of June 15: Opposes Reorganization, “The coal industry might be better organized. There is no industry in the world of which that might not be said. I do mot want the house to form an exaggerated view of the pos- Bibilities of reorganization. To ex- fggerate the lower cost which can be gotten by reorganization is, I fear, lay- ing up possible disappointments.” Showing that the government de- clared the general strike illegal and ts acting entirely in the interest of ‘wealthy mine owners, the I. L. P. de- clares that the people are for the miners and against Baldwin’s policy, and dares the Tory party to go to the country in a general election. og: : ‘British and Italian ary Plunder of Abyssinia A : A Excites Their Rivals (Special to The Dally Worker) GENEVA, July 2—The September Bssembly of the League of Nations mill have one more ticklish problem to dodge when both France and Ger- many will, so it is expected, challenge the British-Italian treaty dividing up jéhe spheres of imperialist influence in (Abyssinia, The British and Itallan governments Mave registered the treaty with the ‘Jeague under different titles, the Brit- ish filing their document under the in- mocent title of—‘Exchange of notes between Great Britain and Italy.” Stage Employes’ A A Unions Aids the . . ' Passaic Strikers CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 2.—Seven hundred delegates to the convention of the Theatrical and Stage Pmployes’ Union held at Hotel Winton, this city, fave a rousing welcome to several ~ Passaic textile strikers who appeared before them. A collection started at the instance of William F. Canavan, * president of the union, netted a sum (et $555.81. ID IN A SUBL MELLON CABLES FRANCE}: U. S, WILL NOT DEMAND DEBT PAYMENT BY BOND (Speolal to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, July 1,—Secre- tary of the Treasury Mellon author Ized a denial of a story cabled from Parls that he had been In private communication with Finance Min- ister Calllaux and had given him assurances that article 7 of the Franco-American debt agreement would not be enforced. Secretary Mellon sald he had neither received nor sent Caillaux any communication regarding the terms of the debt pact. FRANC HITS A NEW LOW RECORD WITH INFLATION Stories Coniflict Upon Secret Dealings (Special to The Dally Worker) PARS, July 2.— Tho franc went down to @ new low record at 37 to the dollar yesterday following pub- lication of the Bank of France's weekly statement that near- Ty 1,000,000,000 francs ($27,900,000) have been put in circulation since June 24, increasing inflation that much. Together with this was the announcement of Caillaux’s finance ministry that dt was impossible to sta- bilize the franc without foreign cred- it and that the $700,000,000 gold in the Bank of France elone was not sufficient if it were used to save fur- ther the franc from further deprecia- tion. On this basis Briand is warning members of the chamber that the present majority against ratification of the Mellon-Berenger debt agree- ment must be changed if the franc is to be saved, apparently showing that this must be done to get credits from the United States. Somebody is Lying. Opposition to ratification is based principally on Article 7 of the agree- ment, providing for a form of pool- ing of all French debts in a holding corporation which under American control can market bonds to U. S. and other investors. Caillaux states that an “unofficial” cable signed by Mellon of the U. S. treasury, has been received saying that the United States will not enforce Article 7 of. the agreement. Caillaux is to hold conversations with both Benjamin Strong, governor of the New York federal reserve bank and Montague Norman, governor of the Bank ‘of England, both now in France, but not in Paris. The American embassy announces that Strong is expected to come to Paris from the Riviera at once ani that communications on the French financial problems are being sent him hourly. eee More Contradictory Storles, WASHINGTON, July 2— Andrew Mellon’s treasury department insist- ed that Benjamin Strong of the fed- eral reserve bank is “only on a vaca- tion in France, being in ill health.” It is also officially denied that Mellon has communicated directly or indi- rectly with Joseph Caillaux, finance minister of France, concerning Ar- ticle 7, of the Memamersngcr debt agreement. The statements from the treasury are probably issued to. quiet the demo- cratic opposition in the senate which threatens to begin an attack before congress adjourns against what is regarded as the use of the federal reserve bank's resources to bolster up the falling franc in the interest of international bankers, Democratic party campaign manag- ers are planning to make political cap- ital during congressional elections of the activity of the treasury depart- ment and federal reserve working with the Bank of England officials to use the reserve bank’s resources as charged, New York Office Workers Seek the 35-Hour Work Week NEW YORK—(FP)—July 2.— The 35-hour week from Decoration Day to Labor Day is the demand of the New York bookkeepers, stenographers and ants’ union, No. 12646. The union office workers now have the 39- ‘hour week but are asking offices with which they have agreements to give them the five-day week beginning next May 30, says Secretary Ernest Bohm, Painters’ Union Demands Small F _ Free Pickets Painters’ Unlon Loc Local ‘194, Chicago, is one of the latest unions to send a telegram to Governor Len Small pro- testing against the jailing of the 46 International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union 1924 strike pickets for de- fying “Injunction Judge” Denis E. Sul- The large pictures are those of leaders of French capitalists who have failed with 13 different cabinets to stabilize French tinance. Below are leaders of the French Communist Party and its parliamentary bloc. W. VIRGINIA MINE STRIKE CALLED BY U.M. W. JULY STH Drive to Gueniea Open Shop Fields FAIRMONT, W. Va.—(FP)—July 2. —Every miner in northern West Vir- ginia not under contract is called to join the United Mine Workers union in a “fight for independence.” The third call for a general strike begin- ning July 5 has been issued. The two previous calls were made on April 1 and October 26, 1925. Practically all of the mines in this district are operating non-union on the 1917 wage scale or jess. The un- ion is attempting to have Judge I. Grant Lazelle of Monongalia county circuit court impeached on various charges, including one that he was “interested in the results” of litiga- tion of union officials and coal com- panies on lands from which he was getting an income. The union is also planning an appeal from ‘his denial of its effont to get an injunction pre- venting operators from paying any but the 1924 contract rate, Department Head Threatens Members of Teachers’ Union (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, July 2—David Melt- zer, member of the New York teach- ers’ union appointed to the history department of New Utrecht high School, will be protected in his new position from the attacks of the de- partmental head, Sidney B. Brum: mer, Associate superintendent of high schools, Harold G, Campbell promises to safeguard the ‘teacher who was threatened by Brummer for belonging to the union, Brummer overstepped his authority and showed bad judgment, Campbell asserts, in telling Meltzer that he would give the union man “a very unpleasant time” at the school. Brummer based his opposition on his belief ‘that the union is “un-American and pacificist.” The New York teachers’ union is a local of the American Federation of Teachers and affiliated with the Amer- jean Federation of Labor, Townley Boom in N. D. Fizzles Out with One Vote from 102 Counties FARGO, N. D., July 2—The boom for governor of A. C. Townley, orig- inal organizer and former head of the non-partisal league in North Dakota, proved to be a dud in the North Da- kota primaries when returns from 102 available counties today gave the former non-partisan head only one vote, The Townley campaign was started a few days ago when his friends sent s THE DAILY WORKER ee ereeenneneeneeeennneeeene Soe Page Three ALEXANDER, JMILLERAND Top: Doriot, knecht of France”; bottom, from left ‘hailed as the Lieb- to right, Monmoseau and Marcel Cachin. RUSSIAN COLONY FAVORS UNION; OPPOSES SCABS The strike in the local Russian counter-revolutionary paper Russky Viestnik-Rassviet is awakening the Russian colony of the United States to action against the scabby outfit that is masquerading as the publication of the “Russian Trade Unions and Cul- tural Organizations of the United States.” The Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 receiyed resolutions against the publisherg from a mass meeting held in Detroit last week, from the Milwaukee sian Workers’ Progres- sive Club, the Russian Workers’ Club of Philadelphia, the Russian branch of the Internati Labor Defense of Chicago, ete. The scabby sheet denies that a strike is on, and at the same time the publishers refuse to pay the strikers the wages they owe them. The union will be forced to go into court in order to secure the money of the strikers, p Chicago American Negro Labor Congress Meets On Sunday, July 4th The Chicago local of the American Negro Labor Congress will meet at 3518 State St. Johnson's Hall, at 4 p. m, Sunday, July 4, During the summer months the Chicago local will meet the first and third Sundays of each month instead of every week, Members are urged to be present. Hamtramck Workers Home Association Meets Sunday, July 11 (Bpecial to The Dally Worker) HAMTRAMCK, Mich, July 1—A general membérship meeting of the International Workers’ Home Associa- tion of Haméspinck will be held Sun- livan’s anti-picketing edict and de-|out stickers bearing Townley’s|day, July 11 at 9 a. m,, at the I. W, W. pm sec lltny that the governor tamety, name. Townley has not been in this |Hall, 8014 Y St. All members ee state for more than one yean must be ‘| santana sh cinta, a (Heneor t Sam ITALIAN TROOPS OUT TO ENFORCE LONGER WORKDAY Labor Discontent Hid by Strict Censors (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, July 1.—Armed soldiers of the carabinieri are patrolling the streets of Rome and the industrial centers, as the new law increasing the Italian working day from eight hours to nine becomes effective, The capitalist papers are feverishly advo cating labor to submit to the fascist decree. No opposition is allowed publication. The orders for limitation of Italian newspapers are most drastic and it is now planned to permit only one newspaper to be printed in each prov ince. The newspapers will becom? hardly more than official gazettes, for they will be confined to state- ments of the fascist party actions, officials communiques and details of the construction work that is going on. Foreign news will be limited to the briefest dispatches. Features will be wiped out almost entirely and per. sonal journalism, which has long been a feature. of Italian journalism will be killed off. International Shoe Co. Seeks to Recruit Strikebreaking Vampers |: (Special to The Daily Worker) CLAREMONT, N. H., July 2. Twelve vampers who struck for a higher piece rate on a new style shoe have been discharged by the Interna- tional Shoe plant here. Company of- ficials claim they will put in strike- breakers. SEND IN A SUB! RELIEF WORKERS DARE DENIERS OF HUNGER IN ‘THREE AGRIGULTURAL WORKERS LOSE LIVES IN BUNK HOUSE FIRE (Special to The Dally Worker) SACRAMENTO, Callf., July 2. — Three men were burned to death and five or six seriously Injured jJump!ng from second story windows, when a bunk house on a Sutter Island ranch, housing asparagus pickers, burned today. The men who lost their lives were cut off on the second floor when the flames swept up the one staircase. The blaze is believed to have been started by one of the thirty men in the house dropping a lighted clgarette from his bunk, The iden- tity of the men burned to death has not been ascertained, PASSAIC GUNMEN SHOOT BRUNKO, PICKET LEADER Police Jails Strikers for Talking to Scab PASSAIC, N. J., July 1. — Walter Brunko, a strike from United Piece Dye Works, was seriously wounded in the right arm by an armed scab. When Brunko, Thomas Regan, and | Phillip Maddalena, all active on the picket line, spoke to Thomas Branch, a Negro scab in the Lodi mill, asking him to come out of the mill on strike, he drew a revolver and fired four shots at the strikers. One of them lodged in Brunko’s right arm, shatter- ing the bone of the forearm and tear- {ng the flesh to shreds as it ploughed thru and broke into three pieces. Then the police joined the game. A “special officer,” another name for a “hired mill thug,” took it for grant- ed that if there had been shooting the strikers were to blame. Without a word of warning, he began shooting after the three men. Maddalina and Regan, who were hurrying the wound- ed man to a home for treatment, stop- ped when the bullets began to fly, and all were taken to the police station in Lodi. Too seriously wounded to admit of any delay, Brunko was rushed to a Hackensack hospital to receive treat- ment. Thomas Branch, the gun-toting scab, was also arrested and charges of assault and battery and threatening to kill were lodged against him, and he was held without bail. Regan and Maddalena were released. No charges were made against any of the strikers, who were held by Judge Wallace Ley- den of Hackensack to be within their rights in addressing the scab. No ex- planation as to why the “special of- ficer” shot without the usual formality of calling upon the men to halt, was given, SMALL REFUSES TO KICK COLVIN OUT OF OFFICE Will Give Henchmen New Job (Special to The Dally Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Il, July 2.—Will Colvin, state superintendent of pa- roles and pardons, is to be “replaced by another” as soon as a “suitable man is found for his place” accord- ing to, Governor Len Small. This action is taken by Small following the demand of the Will County grand jury as to the reason why Small did not follow out the recommendation of the jury to remove Colvin from the pa- role and pardon board. Governor Small in an interview with the press declared that he was determined to keep Colvin in his administration and that Colvin was to be given another office. Colvin was implicated in the parole mill scandal when the Anti-Small, Crowe-controlled Cook county grand jury unearthed the Major Engineering Co., headed by Major M. A. Messlein as selling par- dons to criminals and bootleggers. Colvin was found to be an important stockholder and director in the con- cern. MINE CAMPS TO PROOF LONDON, July 2—Angered at the report made by the National So- clety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, which stated that want and privation are not pre’ nt in the families of the British miners and that therefore, there is no rea- son for asking assistance from America to feed the wives and chil- dren of the locked out miners, the British Women’s Committee for re- lief of miners’ families has denounc- ed the society's report as wholly false. The relief committee of women, known as the Wilkinson committe proposes to the London Times, which published the society's re- port, that repr itatives of the newspaper and agents of the so- ciety go together In a visit to any coal mining district of the country and see for themselves that what they have reported Is false, Category of Crimes Charged to Election Fraud and Vice Ring CHICAGO, July 2. — Eleven men, including the Capone brothers, Al “Scarface,” and Ralph, and Earl DICTATOR OF SPAIN FACES HUGE REVOLT , De Rivera Uses Police Against the Army (Special to The Dally Worker) PAR nued reports fron ose from travel- 1 show that tator of Spain of over- and opposition the most extra- of repression to relying almost en- e. the army is prevents any pub- at is transpire Generals Jalled. of the army are-fm- juntas, or 2 issued a rev- against de which Rivera, ts “suppressed by the police. General Aguilera, upon ar rest, refused to tions made 8 correspondent, as arrested ot e of trying to send uncensored dispatches. Requests to the police for his release have been sed, Report Alfonso Hunted, King Alfonso and the royal famfly are in London, ng a helifay” acc ng to but closely guarded by S Yard detectives. Numerous alleged plotters against the king’s life, two of whom were en rested by the F ch police, are. rumored in Pa papers to have left France, supposedly to pursue the king to England, TWO CANADIAN GOVERNMENTS FALL IN WEEK Rap Governor General to Force Elections repo (Special to The Dally Worker) OTTAWA, Ont., Canada, July 2— With two Canadian premiers over thrown within a week, the governor general of the dominion is being forced to ord dissolution of parlia- ~ ment and al election. Three ago, former prime min- ister, MacKenzie, king of the Liberal party was forced to resign under fire on charges of a scandal in the cus toms. The governor general called upon the Conservative party to form a ministry under Arthur Meighen. Yesterday the Meighen ministry went down under a vote of lack of confidence passed by 96 to 95, proposed by the Lib on the ground that the Meighen ministry existed in violation of the constitution and the privileges it holds for the parliament. MacKenzie King, now in opposiéien, declared that the “Meighen govera- ment of temporary ministers is uncom stitutional and nothing that it does will hold in the law courts.” Representative Garland, progres- sive, denounced the governor general for refu former Premier King’s request for dissolution of parliament and a new el a: “Are we to assert in Caneda,” he demand the governor general poss a right over the peopit that the king himself does not possess?” Fi adsl AE to Entertain at the Camp Saugus Picnic BOSTON, July 2.—One of the most extraordinary features of the big out- jing to be held Monday, July 6 at | Unity Camp, Saugus, just outside of Boston, will be the dancing and gym- nastic team of the Finnish Club. This team has a reputation thruows the country for its skill. It probably one of the most outstanding clubs in the entire workers’ sports movement in this country. This team will give some of its best numbers in the huge pavilion which is located at the Unity Camp. The grounds can be reached by taking the “L” to Everett (Station) the car to Malden Square, the buss from there to the picnic grounds, “Hymie’ 88, lieutenant of the late Dean O’Banion, beer baron, today were indicted here on election fraud charges. All of the indictments re- sulted from disorders in the April primary in Cook County, Those named by the true bills face a variety of charges such as seldom encountered even in outstanding elec: tion fraud cases. Gunplay, kidnaping, fighting, attacking police officers, shooting, wounding, illegal voting, as- sault to do bodily harm, assault to kill, conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit perjury, inter- ference with polling place workers and conspiracy to commit perjury are the basis of the indictments, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! SUFFER PILES When a few PAINLESS treatments will permanently relieve you. Twenty yeare of experience curing PILES without outs ting, burning or disability. Write for free booklet or call on aa Cc. MeCowan, M. 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