The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1926, Page 1

4 vi Vol. Ill. No. 151. ELECTION FUND PROBE IS ONLY HALF STARTED Committee R Re Q iews Work During Recess WASHINGTON, July 8 — Altho marking time until It launches an in-/| quiry into the recent Illinois election, the senate slush fund committee to- day faced a busy summer investigat- ing senatorial primaries in a dozen) states. 3 Weks Rest. With the Pennsylvania $3,000,000! election behind it, the committee in-} tendei to rest for the next three weeks before it opens the Mlinois inquiry July 26, After that, it will keep a wary eye on the republican senatorial campaigns in Oklahoma, August 3, Kentucky, August 9, Ohio, August 10, and California, August 31. During September, it will be even busier, with ten more senatorial primaries to be watched in Nevada, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Arizona, Massachusetts, Maryland, Colorado, Vermont, Wash- ington and New York. In November, when 34 senatorial seats are at stake, the committee's ac- tivity will-range from coast to coast, without regard for party lines. At present only the Illinois inquiry has been fecided upon, while two more requests for investigations—one from former Senator Brookhart, insurgent. in lowa, and thd otLer from Senator Gerald P. Nye, in North Dakota—are’ still before the committee for decis- jon. 5 pcan SMM ; ‘Members of the committee vy began summarizing the revelations brought out at the Pennsylvania in- quiry. As the committee sees it, the most important development was the testimony showing the campaign had cost Pennsylvania republicans ‘at ieee $3,000,000. The DAILY WORKe “¢¥ ne be the Standard for a Worke. 2 Pe | and Farmers’ Government Lis r Subscription Rates: an & FRENGH CRISIS DUE TO CONTINUE INDEFINITELY AS FRANC DROPS AGAIN PARIS, July 8—The franc reach- ed a new low level of 38.95 to the dollar today. Opening this morning at 38.35, the currency dropped stead- ily until it reached the, new low | record at three o'clock. At the opening, the franc was quoted at 186.50 to the pound sterl- ing. At three o'clock it had dropped to 189.50 to the pound. ALF OFL MAILS MINER RELIEF Circular Cites Threat to U. S. Workers By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press Correspondent. WASHINGTON, July 8. —(FP)—A circular appeal from the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, for financial support for the strike of the British miners, is now being printed. It will be mailed out from Washington by July 10. It is the result of action taken by the coun- in Cincinnati, and was drafted by President G . This circular, aadressed to alt affi- Mated national and international un- Tous, atte and local central bodies ae grade the’r living standards by cutting wages and lengthening hours of work }in the coal mines, The families of more than a million strikers are suf- fering privations of the most serious FIFTEEN MORE SHOPS SIGN UP WITH FURRIERS Rift Widens in Bosses’ Camp . Fifteen more bosses have signed up with the fur workers union granting the demands of the strikers, A rift has developed in the Fur Manufac- turers Association. Many of the fifteen bosses that have signed now were members of the Association for about five years. Two strike pickets were arrested but were dismissed when they appear- ed in court on a disorderly conduct charge, Thirty of the union pickets were threatened with arrest by detectives stationed in the Elliot shop when they sought to get the workers in that shop to join the strike. So far 34 shops have signed agree- ments with the union, The fact that “Yhe Malter shop went into a confer- ence with the fur workers, was due to the activity of the progressive Finklestein and the president of the local Goldberg. It is declared that the victory of the New York furriers in their strike has made the task of Local Union No, 45 of the fur workers much easier. FROM HIS SUMMER HOME DAVIS SHOWS A DESIRE TO STOP TUBE STRIKE WASHINGTON, July 8—Indicat- _ing a possible intervention by the federal government in the strike of Subway employes in New York, Secretary of Labor Davis, from his summer home at Mooseheart, Iil., ition Thomas J. Williams to pro- ceed from Chicago to New York “to look over the strike situation and keep the department fully advised of developments.” Williams is one of the most “ex- inced conciliators” in the de- partment’s service: He will take no ‘official action but will be ready to offer the “good offices” of the labor nt, if they are desired by of the contending parties character, the council, is convinced, .and. it asks the American labor move- ‘ment to meet the crisis generously rand promptly. European labor organizations have been donating to the support of the strike in accordance with their means, which are slight in comparison with the funds handled by American trade unionists. The action taken by the A. F. of L. sxecutive council, endorsing an appeal ‘o American labor to help finance the niners of Britain in their defensive strike, is based on the view that a reduction in living standards in the British coal industry will seriously affect the liying standard of coal miners in the United States, If an hour gan be added to the working day in British mines, and if British miners’ wages can be cut, then American coal operatots can imitate the British. International competition in the marketing of coal grows keener; com- mon defense of labor standards thru- out the industrial world becomes more an@ more necessary. Fascists Try to Halt Revolt by Abolishing ROME, July 8, — The fascist gov- ernment in an effort to stifle internal opposition is suspending indefinitely cipal elections, Reports rigidly censored by the fascists indicate that the labor dis- mtent at the fascist order to length- on the workday to nine hours is grow- ng into signs of a revolt, Especially ‘re the workers angry at the fascist nions. Thousand Workers Strike. At Carrosi, near Turin, a tried to enforce the longer workday Fascist militia and police occupied the mills and arrested numerous strikers. the fascist union: Rebellion against the Tenger work- scandal involving high fascist of- ficers in bank embe; account for the suspensions of the elections. Importations in the last five months increased from 11,541,000,000 lire to 11,601,000,000 lire, while exports de- creased from 6,806,000,000 to 6,684,000,- 000 lire.’ SWITCHMEN. Experienced only, on air brakes; for out of town; open shop; highest wages; free board and transportation. GEORGE W. HEASLIP, 117 8S. Halsted St.— In Chicago, ‘by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, CALL JULY 10 cil in its recent quarterly session held’ ish minéts have por on pit against an attémpt by their employers to de- ag stonger hours, thus bringing labor All Italian Elections all provincial, communal and muni- thousand workers struck when the employers Agricultural workers fn the Molinella district also are refusing to recognize day and the trade statistids showing a further weakening of the Interna- h al trade balance, together with the ments, probably In place of elections the are appointing city and pro- vinoial offictals responsible only to Apply 7 a. m. and all day. Chicago Tribune. Inquire Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America, Chicago Divisions 241 and 308: Why not picket and prevent the shipment of these iene. who are being hired to break the strikes of motor and switchmen in New York and Indianapolis? ORRE 2. Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Minois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. CE 3 ; DAILY SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1926 Strike Ties Up I. R. T. Subway ee by mail, 36.00 per year, HALT LONGER HOUR BILL 10 SAVE BALDWIN Thomas Holds Railway GOVERNM LAW AG FAILS AS M (Specia! to LONDON, moveme: NST MINERS STAND SOLID Daily Worker) 8—There is no ; after the 8-hour Experienced only, on air brakes; for out of town; open shop; highest wages; free board and transportation, GEORGE W. HBASLIP, 117 S. Halsted St.—Chicago Tribune. Crowds Swamp f ifth Ave. Br Ave. Busses: cuT-HouR | |COMPANY UNION SHOWN UP AS A the miners to re- |Worried at Company’s held a meeting in the “Brotherhood MOTORMEN. Apply 7 a. m, and all day, Inquire EDITION NEW YORK Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., i113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. | (Predict Spread of |. R.T, Tie-Up By N.Y. Strikes Elevated Men Join Attack on Company Union, BULL ULLE TIN. : NEW YORK, July 8.—Edward P. Lavin, head of the strikers’ union, t asserted at a meeting of the strikers that within the next forty-eight hours he would announce plans which would change materially the entire aspect of the strike, He declined to disclose the details in the plan in advance, however. Other developments today included the assertion by the strikers that many maintenance of way men were preparing to secede from the |. R. T. company union and join the new union. Price 3 Cents By H. M. WICKS. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK.CITY, July 8.—Before the end of the week the traction strike in this city will paralyze not. only the subway lines of the Interborough Rapid Transit, but also the elevated lines, according to Edward P. Lavin, leader of the striking motor- men and switchmen. Last night’s mass meeting of the strikers at Manhattan 4 Casino, 155th street and 8th avenue, proved that the strike is . rapidly spreading when 179 of the 230 motormen on the 6th and 9th avenue elevated system walked into the hall after a short meeting of their local of the former company union and an- nounced, thru their chairman, Patrick Courtney, that they were thru with the Brotherhood (company union) and henceforth would fight with the newly or-+- ganized Consolidated union to establish a real trade union POLICE TERROR among the traction workers of oe BEGINS IN CAR Stage Demonstration. Arrest 12 "Strikers in More than 150 motormen, belonging notorious head of the company union, Union Convention Fi N M ’ Hall,” 162nd street and Anderson Ave., _} lawelt becomes ef. | X'Inances, jot Men's | the ronz, and their chairman, Patrick ee li Tobe ‘ . peor sina vieraetes, Seat nte so tan roma Seem cy Courtney, sent a communication to Hanapolis ‘at July 8.—Fearing that its| cated today. (Special to The Daily Worker) the strike * Reatduarters: Yor A tew — > forcing of the bill for longer hours in the coal mines to immediate pass- age would appear altogether too ob- vious support of the mine owners who were posting notices at their mines for a heavy wage cut as well It is expected however, that the new legislation will stimulate the Miners’ Federation to move for the reopening of nagotiations with the owners. The &-hour bill is scheduled to go into effect tonight when the house of lords will approve it and the king will affix his signature. opposition into such wide favor as to threaten the life of the govern- ment, the cabinet suddenly interrup ed the discussion of the bill in the house of lords and announced that N Y GARMENT the bill would not be pressed owing 1 ' to the mine owners’ acts. SHOPS OUT IN Owners Overplay Their Power. The coal owning peers were some- what taken aback, Lord Cranford showing agitation as he asked for details, saying that if the bill were withdrawn the mine owners who had posted would be quite disappointed and not know what to do. Lord Salisbury, speaking for the cabinet replied that the terms posted in one district were so severe that the government could not sustain |strike of 40,000 cloakmakers of the | them by pressing the bill for longer | International Ladies’ Garment Work- hours. ers’ union is admitted 100 per cent Greedy Yorkshire Owners. effective even by the employers. Mass The district referred to is thatot | Picketing in which thousands of work- Yorkshire, where the owners posted |°"S surround the few shops attempt- not only a notice for longer hours, | 8 to operate quickly puts them out but a wage reduction to the scale of of business. Strike supervision is car- 1921, which is below the scale paid ried on from the union headquarters at the time of the lockout and strike, |@t 3 West Sixteenth ‘street. It is probable fhat the present de- velopment may indicate a return to the question of wage reductions rath- er than a longer work-day, oa J. H. Thomas Grilled. WEYMOUTH, England, July 8.— The opposition to the J. H. Thomas leadership in the National Union of Railwaymen, subjected him to scath- ing criticism in the union’s conven- tion meeting here, altho Thomas man- .Not Try Operation (Picture on Page Two) against the jobbers, to make them re- employ labor. work to non-union shops. Bosses’ Association to Meet. in his support. in negotiations with the national rail ]4#sociation will be announced. wage board, a motion was made to demand his resignation. defeated, Criticized on Strike Betrayal, til the union comes to us.” attack on the conduét of Thomas as | Valls. the union's representative on the gen- strike, including C, T, Cramp, who ne- gotiated the railwaymen’s settlement following the strike, a settlement which allowed the companies to vic- Thomas spoke for two hours in his | miners: defense, chiefly an attack on the left wing and the Communists, A pro- posal expressing lack of confidence in thegsdttlement, wag de-| "Union officials obtain O. K. of loan npart 280 local unions and start nation-wide cay Se eet » ine sponsible NEW YORK CITY, July 8. — The |speakers to address the fight of the workers for the Inter-|on the issues involved in the strike. borough Rapid Transit system against |Instead of a handful of speakers ai the company union is well illustrated |1east 100 of the strikers, comprising by the folowing appeal by the 20 towermen employed by the company on both subway and elevated lines: Show Company Union Fake. Do you realize that the opportunity you have been waiting for the last {ten years has arrived. The time has come to overthrow |i28 hall of the strikers. As they en- the brotherhood that is run for the | tered the audience of fighting motor- interest of the I. R. T. company, For /men and switchmen that filled the the last ten years you thought that | large Casino went wild with enthusi- | 00 STRIKE your delegate was to abide by your |asm and staged a demonstration that vote. Remember that at your last | lasted for ten minutes, meeting you voted for a 10 per cent better working condi- you did not get it. Remember the general trick which was put over on you after you had y . Nehean tata ne call and Harry Bark who acted as chair- Remember you are all able-bodied |™4" of the mass meeting. WATSON-PARKER During the day feverish attempts men and can use your brains; now is the time to use them. Come to Man-|t® man the trains were made by the Casino at 155th Street and |COMPany, but the handling of the tube notices for the longer day|Bosses Say They Will | increase tions; voted it down. NEW YORK CITY, July 8.—The | "id not get hattan Kighth Ave. and be convinced, Open trains 1s too intricate a task for the all the time. FRANK J, CHRISTIE, J. MeNAMARA. (P, S.—If we stick together, we will vam the fight against the tyrants of As the strike is being fought mainly | the I. R. T.) The flunkeying of the company un- sponsible for the contractors to whom | ion is well illustrated in the statement and sudden death and mutilation in they let out work, the union will be-|of P. J. Connolly, chairman of the so-|the underground railways, were re- lata picketing the jobbers’ plants soon, | called “brotherhood,” who called the | moved. Ed. Lavin, the president of Previously in strikes they were not|POlice to eject subway strikers in-|the ngwly formed union, charged that picketed because they do not directly | Vited to the elevated men’s hall, The |the safety “tripper,” a device which This time they will be | ‘roubles of Mr. Connolly are the trou- regulates the speed of trains, has watched to see that they send no| bles of the company. He said: Mr. Connolly's “Of Course.” “Of course, Harry Uviller, general manager of |hard proposition aged to conserve a majority of votes |the American Cloak and-Suit Manufac- | rising costs, and I think the men are turers’ Association, the organization | entitled té™more pay. But the Inter- Protesting that Thomas as the un-}0f the sub-manufacturers, announces | borough has maintained that it is un- fon’s representative, had not secured |that a general meeting will be held /able to pay us More and backed up its a proper wage scale for the workers before long at which the policy of the | contention with financial figures which have been shown to the members of Samuel Blymberg, counsel for the| the general committee. Of course, the This wag |Jobbers satd that they would wait “un-|fare question is not our business, but about the-strike and inclined to view | Maryland railroad, who are asking for the company has told us about it, and | it as one of the many attempts of the |!ncreased wages and better working we are up against a matiéally brings the train to a stop Strikers’ meetings are being held in| 1 believe that the real situation is that }Company to raise fares on the pretext conditions. The opposition then began a hot|#ll sections and excellent spirit pro-|the five-cent fare is not sufficient toot labor troubles, practically all or- Is the principal stockholder of this run the organization.” penedigeg rd nue one es ane UPTON SINCLAIR URGES UNIONS TO regulatory board, the railroads and LOAN BRITISH SH MINERS $1, 000, 000 ibs dec donuiva:tevelitdeaiion a 100%, representatives of the employes must The International Workers’ Aid en ey the following telegram from timize the militants among the strik-| Upton Sinclair in which he urges labar unions and the International Work-| American Federation of Labor, said ers. ers’ Aid to start a campaign to raise a $1,000,000 loan for the striking British ‘Mt at first he thot It a company |ine two sides shall be agreed upon “My recommendation is that we appeal to the American labor movement and individuals for a $1,000,000 loan to British miners. ‘Thomas, Cramp”diit Other leaders re- gifts. They prefer loans«No credit could be better. ‘oposition and a aign—-UPTON SINCLAIR, By a Worker Correspondent. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 8.—The {| Police last night took the first step to break the strike of 500 street car a “missionary committee” visited the |™otermen and conductors when they meeting of the company union local rounded up and arrested a dozen strik- ers or sympathizers. The arrests fol- and after addresses on the strike i situation the “L” motormen voted un- lowed clashes between strikers and animously to break with the com- scabs yesterday. . Some of the — pany’s urion and "join the Consol: |fere cheteed with tampering with idated. per’. Fats altho piace betas ments have been repeatedly deciar- Ta. # body. they: mapowed $0 the meet ing that service is not being ham- pered by the strike The strike was begun in violation of a federal injunction which had been handed down in favor of the company during a dispute Over wages and working conditions. Action on the Ignore Safety Devices. part of the federal authorities was ex Reports on the breakdown of the | pected today to determine whether or subway service were made at the|not to proceed against officials of the meeting by the leaders of the strikers,| union who called the strike. od Lavin, Joseph Phelan, the secretary, —_—_—_—_—_——— meeting imported thugs and gangsters recruit- ed from the underworld of Chicago, “ay (which to date has sent in over 200 plug-uglies), Cleveland, Philadelphia and Washington. In order to expedite Rockefeller Road Case matters safety devices calculated to + protect the public against wholesale Up First WASHINGTON, July & — De signed to take the place of the de funct railroad labor board, the United” States railway mediation board came into existence today with a number of intricate railroad labor disputes con- fronting it. Created by the Watson-Parker bill, the board met today to select former Representative Samuel ©. Winslow, in case of accident to the motorman | of Massachusetts, as its chairman, The rendering him unable to operate the | other members of the board are W. W. train, has been removed because the | Hanger, Carl Williams, E. P, Morrow scabs did not know how to work with |and Hywell Davies. % it on the car, Rockefeller Road Dispute. Backed by Labor, Their first case will involve the dis- While at first many were dubious|Pute of trainment of the western been taken from the cars. One of the other officials, charged that the “dead man’s buttep,” a device that auto- now, what with John D. Rockefeller, Jr., ganized labor is unanimous in the con- |4. The senate, under a resolution, viction that the men are engaged in & Wished” this case upon the board. a genuine strike and one of the most| , The 30-Day Clause. significant in the annals of American} Under the law creating this new give at least 30 days notice of an in- tended change affecting pay, working conditions or rules. The time and place for the conferences between organized company union. Hugh Frayne, organizer for the trick to bring about an increase in fares, but that later investigation led him to belfeve the strike an inde- They do not.want | pendent move for increased wages. Suggest that trade} s. H. Coleman, general organizer of Williams is rated as a farmer rep H ign quotas to all/the Amalgamated Association of! resentative who sympathizes with (Continued on page 2) [Jabor, within 10 days. Appointd by Coolidge the antilabor majority on the board consists of Wine slow, Davies, Morraw and Hanger. he