The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1926, Page 1

| 1 | "UNION AND FOR WAGE INCREASE Stop Shipments of Scabs to New York! Chicago newspapers are carrying advertisements for scabs to break the strike of Interborough subway workers in New York. The Chicago Federation of Labor and the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes’ Union here should picket the employment offices and prevent these scab shipments.. Aid the men who have quit a company union and are trying to build a real union! The DAILY WORKS the Standard for and Farmers" ys & tes: Outside Chicago, NEW YORK SUBWAY WORKERS 60 QN STRIKE AGAINST COMPANY (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, July 6.—New York City was today in the throes of a great subway strike. At 12:01 this morning motormen and switchmen of the In- terborouigh Rapid Transit, one of New York’s two big subway lines, went on strike for higher wages. By 9 o'clock, peak hour of the morning rush, service on the Interborough, which operates from the city limits of New York to the limits of Brooklyn, was seriously crippled. Some trains were running—at half speed, and manned by strikebreakers im- ported from Chicago, Cleveland and other points west, Police guarded all subway stations. men were assigned to duty at stations and on the trains guard- ing the strikebreakers. Several arrests were.made up to 9 o'clock, but no violence ee was reported. Claim 1,300 Out. Strike leaders say the number of switchmen and snotormen out, total 1,300. The company will not say how many are out, but Frank Hedley, man- ager of the company admitted that the service was 50 per cent off. Earlier he had claimed. that it was 75 per cent normal, Confusion prevailed on all sides as the hundreds of thousands tried to get to their places of employment. Under normal conditions 2,400,000 habitually use’ the Interborough. “The huge throngs used every means of conveyance to get.teswork..,.They took street cars, taxi cabs, automobiles and busses and the “L” lines, Some even used bicycles. The other main subway, the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, was running as usual but it was taxed far beyond capacity. Thous- ands walked to their places of em- ployment. Few Trains Run. By nine o’clock the strike had made itself felt with terrific emphasis. Thousands milled in confusion at the principal subway stations, unable to get on the few trains that were run- ning on the Interborough line. A drizzling rain fell during the morning, adding to the inconveniences of the thousands struggling to get to work. Office routine was disrupted as al- most every employe in the’city was late in getting to work, some of those’ who pad to walk being several hours late. Strike May Spread. Early reports were that 752 motor- men and switchmen of the subway had responded 100 per cent to the strike call. Leaders of the union declared that the strike would spread. Some of them asserted that a total of 1,500 employes of the Interborough, includ- ing powerhouse men, station agents, porters, guards and conductors, had joined the ranks of the strikers, Recruit Scabs Here, Non-union traction workers were being recruited in Chicago today for strike-breaking at New York in the subway strike. A special train carry- ing more than 150 scabs was reported to have left here for New York late Monday. Other trains loaded with strike-breakers are expected to leave today. STREET. CARMEN STRIKE IN SPITE OF INJUNCTION Indianapolis Men Walk Out in Protest (Special to The DKily Worker) ‘ INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 6.—In the face of a federal injunction issued Saturday, between four and five hun- dred street railway employes went on strike here today, according to figures announced by officials of the Indian- apolis Street Railway Company, The holiday schedule, they said, made it difficult to determine the ex- tent of the strike at present. The of- ficials estimate 95 per cent of the schedules are being maintained, Although the president of the com- pany claimed that he never received any demands from the employes, it ‘Wag stated the cause of the trouble Grose over the discharge of several men recently, No violence has been reported, : More than 2,000 police- ANOTHER |, L. 6. W. STRIKE PICKET ENTERS PRISON Five to Be Released Next Week Sophie . Rudell entered the Cook county>“hul yesterday -afterncor to start serving a2 25-day jail sentence’ for defying “Injunction Judge’ Denis E. Sullivan’s anti-picketing edict. | Max Novak is to be released Suan-/ day afternoon at 4 o'clock, Osear Simons, Freda Reicher, Evelyn Dorn- field and Florence Corn will end their sentences Monday afternoon, Mrs, Wenda Kaleta, mother of a seven-year-old babe was released Sat- urday afternoon after-a most harrow- ing experience in the jail. On visit-/ ing day her husband came to the jail with her seven-month-old babe. At- tempts were made to have the warden and the matron allow the mother to see the babe. The jail officials would only allow Mrs. Kaleta to see her babe thru a heavy mesh screen, Mrs, Kaleta un- able to see the baby, fainted. She was then taken to the hospital where she was given what was supposed to be a thoro medical examination. After the examination the doctors declared that she had a social dis- ease, She was then taken to a sep- WHE DAIL Entered at Second-class matter September 2g, 1923, at We Post Office at Chicago, Mlinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879, a In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. WORKER LOSES HAND AND TWO. FINGERS IN DIE STAMPING MACHINE BOSTON — (FP) — July i.—A crushed and mangled left hand and the loss of two fingers are the toll of a dye stamping machine from Edward Crosby, a worker at the New England Annealing and Tool Co. GARMENT WALK- OUT 180 PER CENT PERFECT Watch for Scab Work in Other Cities NEW YORK, July 6.—On the sec- ond day of the cloakmakers’ strike here, not one of the 1,800 shops in New York City and vicinity remained in operation. Forty thousand workers walked out on July 1. This is the eighth striké since the tie-up of 1910. when the organized werkers won rec- ognition for the principle of/collective bargaining in the industry, In past strikes, strike leaders of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers Uniol point out, it was nécéssa to send out committees ¢o cover weak spots here and there; but this time such a procedure is unnecessary, And this time there is no argument! as to the completeness of the walkout; the“two trade dailies, the News Rec- ord and Women’s Wear, and the reg- ular dailies, all report a 100% strike. Had to Strike, “This strike was inevitable,” declar- ed union officials. “The jobbers who control most of the trade, and the manufacturers who are half jobbers, have made it unavoidable. The misery of the cloak workers, their inability to make a living in the shops, their intolerably long periods of unemploy- ment, and the general demoralization in the industry fostered by the jobber System of production, have left for the cloakmakers no other avenue of relief but to strike for their demands. “These demands are moderate and reasonable, The cloakmakers want a Mmitation of the number of contrac- tors to be employed seasonally by the jobbers; that would regularize and arate cell, Freda Reicher, head of the jailed garment workers’ committee, stabilize the trade. Cloakmaking does ee THURSDAY SACCO-VANZETTI CA | defraying its initial expenses, protested against this procedure and| "Ot need thousands of petty, wasteful, demanded another examination of] ™ushroom-growth shops to satisfy its Mrs, Kaleta, legitimate demands. The good of the It was later discovered in the hos-| industry, welfaxe of the workers, and pital that the blood taken from Mra.| 2¢eds of consumers can be satisfied Kaleta had been exchanged with that| by half the number in existence, of a prostitute. She was then allow- What Strikers Demand, ed to leave the separate cell. Qn her] “The cloakmakers want a/guarantee release Saturday she was very. nerv-| of 36 weeks of employment per year, ous due to this harrowing experience.| which is certainly not an exorbitant lemand for supporters of families to ask. They want a wage increase and a 40-hour week as measures that BENEFIT WORK would tend to raise their earnings and lengthen the incredibly short work | (Special to The Daily Worker) * RY, Ind., July 6.—A thass meet- seasons in the shops. ing under the auspices of the commit- tee formed to secure le financial support for the workers, and their dependents, killed and injured in the disaster here June 14, was held i am GREEN, president of the in Turner Hall Sunday evening, at- American Federation of Labor, tended by about two hundred steel} speaking for the executive council, workers and their wives, has issued another statement de- About half the audience were Ne-|nouncing the Communists, From a groes, reading of this statement it appears There was a program of instru-|that the reason the Communists are mental and vocal music and a number | denounced and the trade unions warn- ‘of workers, actively identified with|ed against them is because they are the labor movement in Gary and Chi-| helping to fight the battles of the cago, spoke on the need for organiza-| worke against the bosses. tion and protection for the lives and The burden of President Green's living standards of the steel workers. | complaint is that the Communists are Among the speakers were Toohey,| actively supporting the efforts to Griffin, Plston, Whiteman, Borisoff,| raise funds in the trade unions for Fisher and Marocovic, support of the 16,000 striking work- Bob Garnett acted as chairman, ers at Passaic, New Jersey, and for Seventeen membership cards in the | support of other Jabor struggles, protective orgamization were signed| How does itihappen that the exe- and @ collection taken up to assist in| cutive connell ofthe American Fed- eration of Labov'has just discovered ao f 4 Bartolomeo Vanzetti JULY 8, 1926 DAILY. Published except Sunday PUBLISHING CO., 1112 W by THE Washington Bivd., > That the flood of sentiment by a deluge of cables from the Loebe, president of the German democratic leader: MASSACHUSETTS: Chicago, Il. and members of the Reichstag. The DAILY WORKER has received the : The two Halian workers, framed-up and facing the electric chair, in whose behalf the whole German labor movement is uniting in protest, Nicola Sacco TION IN HOUSE FOR THORO YIRY OF SACCO-VANZETTI CASE WASHINGTON, July 6.—On the day prior to final adjourn South Braintrees in Massachusetts. der death sentence in signed a ,confes- chis gang committed the crime inuguestion, and that Sac- co and Vanzetti—radical workers, ac- tive in strikes agitation—had nothing to do with the :caffair. Berger issued a statement saying that his resolition was offered be- cause he fearedva “grave miscarriage of justice willcbe perpetrated if these men are executed.” Berger Statement. “Sacco and Vanzetti were labor or- ganizers,” he said, “and as such they incurred the enmity of the mill own- ers ... In 1920, when the feeling against them was running high, they were tried and: convicted of murder, and sentenced to die. Many things oc- curred at the trial, and some have oc- curred since, that have .served to create a serious doubt in the minds of those who have studied the facts that these men are guilty. The reported admission by the state’s star wit- nesses who identified Sacco as a gun- man, that they perjured themselves, has served to increase the doubt. “The impression has been created that only a handful of radicals, of the most extreme type, are agitating the question and are protesting the in- nocence of the‘two men. That is un- true, “The organized labor movement as represented: by the American Fed- eration of Labor has repeatedly gone on record ag favoring a new trial, characterizing the original trial as ‘a ghastly miscarriage of justice.” SEATTLE. (PP) —'The average daily wage for ‘adi industries in Wash- ington state during 1925 was $4.93, a gain of 4c a day over 1924, the state department of labor and industries reports, Why Does Not the A. F. of L. Fight the Workers Battles? wal aid and! Statement of the Central Committee of the Workers (Commun tive Council of the A. F. of L. the Passale strike after the workers have been heroically fighting for a liv- ing wage, decent working conditions and the right to organize FOR MORE THAN TWENTY WEEKS. How does it happen that even now the executive council does not issue a ringing ap peal for support from the trade union movement for their splendid struggle, but merely grudgingly states that money may be sent to the local labor council in Passaic? How does it happen that it took the executive council two months to awaken to the fact that the great struggle of “the British miners de- served the support of labor the world over? In those two months the Rus- sian trade unions raised two million dollars for the British miners and the executive counciliof the A, F, of L., ment for the summer, Representative Victor Berger, socialist, intro- duced in the honse a resolution directing the house judiciz mittee to conduct an investigation into the circumstances surround- ing the trial and conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti, now under death ———_______ com- THREE MORE SHOPS SETTLE WITH FURRIERS Bosses Sek. to Break Strike with Injunction Three_ more shops with the striking fur granting the demands Picket lines have been established be- fore ,the struck shops. Yesterday morning the pickets entered the shops to see if any of the workers were at work. The picket committees were in- structed to bring union workers out of those shops that had not settled with the union. The union has ben served with a no- tice to appear before Judge Oscar Hebel in injunction proceedings. The bosses seek to break the strike thru an injunction. The date for the in- junetion case has not yet been set as yet. Borah Seeks Early Opening of Quiz of Alien Property Office WASHINGTON, D. C., July 6.—Sen- ator Borah, chairman of a committee appointed to investigate the admin- istration of the alien property cus- todian’s office, announced that he will immediately begin hearings if it is possible to get a majority of the com- mittee together, have settled workers here of the union, If you want to thoroughly un derstand Communism—study it. _ ist) Party in Reply to the Execu- the supposed leader of the trade uinon movement of the richest coun- try in the world, did not move a finger nor raise TWO CENTS for the British miners? The executive council denounces the Communists for trying to arouse organized labor and mobilize it in sup. Port of these workers’ struggles, Why does not the executive council of the A. F. of L. take the initiative and leadership in mobilizing unorganized labor of the United States in support of all of the workers’ struggles? It should be the leader in defending the interests of the workers. No struggle of the workers should be too small for it to participates actively in winning the struggle\and to use all of labor's power toowin the struggle. (Continued on page 2) aan Pg NEW YORK EDITION WORKER Price 3 Cents —— STIRS ALL GERMAN PRESIDENT OF GERMAN REICHSTAG HEADS LABOR LEADER'S DEMAND FOR SACCO, VANZETT! NEW TRIAL among the workers of Germany for the release of Sacco and Vanzetti is running high is indicated leading German trade unionists following from Paul Reichstag and prominent social- FOLLOWING CABLEGRAM SENT GOVERNOR OF RECOMMEND STRONGLY ABOLI- TION OF DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST SACCO AND VANZETTI AND THEIR RETRIAL AS JUDICIAL ERROR IN FIRST TRIAL APPEARS POSSIBLE. PAUL LOEBE, PRESIDENT GERMAN REICHSTAG, International Labor Defense is in receipt of another cable from Germany announcing that the following telegram: GE Re MAN TRADE UNIONISTS VERY EXCITED ON SACCO-V: N- ZETTI SENTENCE. JUSTICE. EXPECT RETRIAL; ARE CONVINCED OF MISCARRIAGE OF was sent to Governor Fuller and signed by the following outstanding trade union and political + igures in Germany: Autheter, M. P. (Member of the Reichstag) Social-Democrat, President of the Federation of Unions of Salaried Employees; Johannes Becker, M. P. Center Party; Bender, M, P., Social- Democrat, member of the Central Committee of the Transport Workers Union; Dr. Bruening, M. P., Center Party, member of the central body of three federations of Christian unions; Dissman, M. P., Social-Dernocrat, Pr dent of the Metal Workers’ Union; Ehrhardt, M. P., Center Party; Erh- sing, M. P., Center Party; Imbusch, M. P., Center Party, resident of tne Christian Miners’ Union; Janschek, M. P., Social-Democrat, Secretary of the Miners’ Union; Member, M. P., So- cial-Democrat, Secretary of the Trade Union League of Civil Service Work- ers’ and Employes’ Unions; Paeplow, M. P., Social-Democrat, President of the Building Operatives’ Union; Schmidt, M. P., Social-Democrat, Pres- ident .of the Agricultural Workers’ Union; Simons, M. P., Social-Demo- crat, President of the Shoemakers’ Union; Stegerwald, M. P., President of the German Association of Chris- tian Trade Unions; Dr. Tremmel, M. P., Center Party, member of the exec- utive of the Factory and Transport Workers’ Union; Zigler, M. P., Demo- crat Party, Trade Union League. Other Cables Follows, Every one of the senders of the above telegram is a’ member of the Reichstag. Other cables are being sent by Reichstag members and trade union leaders not listed above. A gen- uine mass movement has been begun in Germany for the release of Sacco and Vanzettti. Coming from the very top of the en- tire organized labor movement of Ger- many, the protests being cabled to Governor Fuller represent a move- ment voicing the protest of every union man and woman in the republic. While the cable from the President of the German Reichstag is sent only in his own name, it is nevertheless in- dicative of the feeling among the la- bor members of the German house, COLVIN RETIRES FROM HIS OFFICE AS PARDON HEAD Will Colvin, head of the paroled and pardons board and who was charged with the sale of pardons and parols to bootleggers and criminals, in a let ter to Gov, Small formally notifies the governor that he is retiring trom his office. « BERLIN, July 6.- joined in telegraphic appeals prisoners. . German Unions Urge A. F. of L. to Act jolal to The Dally Worker) Leading German socialists and demo- crats including the president of the German reichstag, Paul Loebe, and the famous publicist Maximilian Harden, have of Massachusetts for the release of Sacco and Vanzetti, The German Federation of Trade Unions hag also urged the American Federation of Labor to intercede gwith Governor Fuller for the release of the two workingclass \ STEEL COMPANY COURT DECLARES PAPCUN GUILTY Convicted of Sedition on Six Counts (Special to The Daily Worker) UNIONTOWN, Pa., June 6.—George Papcun, district organizer of the Young Workers’ League, was found guilty of violating the Anti-Sedition act by the jury today on six counts. He was found not guilty on the charge of membership in or organiz- ing of the Workers Party. The jury wes out for more than 16 hours and finally returned with its verdict. Attorney I. E. Ferguson made a mo- gued in September, released in the meantime $7,500. and Papceun was on bail of Troopers Intimidate. Papeun was arrested for speaking to miners on Lenin Memorial day at Republic, Penns} nia, after at- tempts were made by state troopers to intimidate him. speaking in the coke regions quite a number of times, especially during strike periods when he urged the min- ers who went out for better condi- tions to stand firm and not to permit the operators to divide them becaus2 of differences in color or creed. Because of his activity in the coke region, union and nonunion, Papeun incurred the enmity of the coal op erators and the steel trust which con- trols many of the mining properties, The meeting in Republic was used as the excuse for arresting him and at- tempting to railroad him to the pent tentiary. Papeun had been Hand of Trust. The trial itself was an indication of the influence whieh the steel trust exercises thruout the western part of the state. Troopers, the state cos- sacks, bootleggers, spies in unions whom Papeun had helped to expose, crooked officials, a well-oiled legal machine and local politicians com- bined to “send up” Papcun. The fact that no overt act was committed, and practically none was charged against Papcun, does ont seem to have swayed the jury very much, Pap- cun was indicted and convicted for (Continued on page 2) being sent to Governor Fuller tion for a new trial which will be ar- |