The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1926, Page 4

Pege Four ~—-—— IRAN THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 3118 W. Washington Blvd., ©hicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 (aR oreannies statherin aetay SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 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, Ilinots J, LOUIS ENGDAHL { WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. Editors ...Business Manager Advertising rates on application. =) = 0 The Injunction and the Labor Party By C. E. RUTHENBERG, General: Secretary Workers (Communist) Party. | THE use of the injunction in strikes against the workers is the best proof of the class character of our government. The injunction also gives the lie to the shouters who praise our “democratic institutions.” In the railroad shopmen’s strike of 1922, the government se | oured the infamous Daugherty injunction which violated every right | Supposed to be guaranteed to the railroad shopmen, among others, | by the American constitution. The Daugherty injunction denied | the right of freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom to as- | semblage. It denied the right to the railroad shopmen to use the money of their own organization. And all this ‘new law for the | railroad shopmen was made by decision of one man. N 1919, the Wilson administration secured an injunction from Indge Anderson at Indianapolis against the United Mine Work- ‘ ers of America thru which the government, had the case been pressed ' to a final issue, could have completely destroyed this labor union. The imprisonment of the Chicago Garment Workers for viola- tion of the injunction of Judge Sullivan was the latest expression of an arbitrary power which is as great as any king or kaiser wielded during the absolute rule of the past. ‘T is labor that suffers from this arbitrary use of the power of the government.” It is labor which in a thousand strikes has felt the weight of the blow of injunctions. The Chicago Garment Workers are the latest of thousands of workers who have gone to prison for contempt of court because they violated the one-man rule of.an in- junction judge. The injunction must be fought thru the method of defiance of the injunction judge as was done by the Chicago workers. But send- ing strikers to jail for contempt of court is not the best method of ' fighting the injunction nor does it bring to bear labor’s greatest strength. ast THE use of the injunction as a means of strikebreaking Sy é clarion call to the American workers to organize their pha stica power on a class basis and to fight against the capitaligé class and the capitalist parties for control of the political POWPE So long as ‘the workers leave unchallenged the absolute rule3e the capitalists politically, leaving the government in their Mian. it must expect that that government will deal blows in SY port of the capitalists and against the workers, by enjoining they when they dare strike and putting them into prison if they dare, violate the injunctions. Business Agent Metal Poli: The injunction is the mosty brought to bear in.a strike ¥, It has no basis in ording Legal rights and cong out with the judges’ str As practiced by the hers’ Union, Local 6. paralyzing influence ever ituation. ry legal procedure. titutional guarantees are wiped ke of a pen. Fnotorious Judge Denis E. Sullivan ; no conclusive evidencg’ 4+ ouilt is necessary in order that an injunction be issuec against a labor union. le frame-up by employers’ agents is suf- ‘e for the issuance of an injunction against fn of Overcoming this vital difficulty by labor election of:labor’s own candidates for judges. ff J. B. Myers a Member of Local No. 478, International Association of | Machinists. * Injunctions are tools” of the employers.and.are used zainst labor when it goes on strike for an improvement of jaeir conditions. In 1922-,the railway shopmen learned ir lesson. They learned to recognize what an injunction \ mt. That injunction, was one of the causes for the are of that strike. The only remedy for labor is to form a political party of a own and see to it that these injunction judges are defeated. " Open-Shopper Jails Mother i’'Was sonienced to 60 days in Cook Judge Denis E. Sullivan By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, HE title of this article is mislead- ing. The case is not the case of George Papcun at all, but the case of the coal miners, the steel workers nd their families against’ the Mellon-Morgan- Gary steel, coal and Wall Street gov- ernment of Pennsylvania, The title is misleading because even working class journalists find it hard to overcome the individualistic tradi- tions of the United States sufficiently to speak always in terms of economic forces and political movements rather than in terms of individuals, N Pennsylvania the ease of George Papeun has another name—a title which is part of the official records of the state government. It is; “The People of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania versus George Pap- cun,” 2 The worst thing I know, about George Papcun is that he chews tobac- co because he thinks it emphasizes his working class character, The best thing I know about him is that he is am energetic and fear less young worker who has an intel ligent hatred for capitalism and all its works, He ie intelligent enough to be a Party of America, opposition from the coal operators, the Steel trust and certain miners’ union officials who are altogether too friend- ly with the bosses, is the reason why his name and a long list of alleged vio- lations of the anti-sedition law of Pennsylvania, are in ‘the official rec- ords together with the evidence against him and the fact of his con- indictment. Reading over the above sentencgr*] find that it, too, is mote Th is my opinion that rge Papcun continued the $n tenor of his way as a tobace *nber of the Workers (Com- | viction on six counts of the pea 7 munist) Party, had he not tried to or- ganize miners, had he»not exposed some of the more flagrant* violations of the very elastic code. of Pennayl- vania trade union ethics on the part of “labor leaders,” he would have not been arrested, tried and convicted. ‘EN in Pennsylvania chewing to- bacco is not considered e violation of the criminal syndicalism law, But agitation and Organization among the workers in heavy industry is, Very decidedly so. | The steel trust is prosectiting George Papeun in the name of “the people of | Pennsylvania.” There ig nothing sur-| prising in this.to anyone who has fol-| lowed the history of government in America, but it serves t6 contuse the | issue and that is whit the United States Steel corporation desires. Of course, “the people of Pennsyl- vania” have nothing against George Papeun. But their rule: jave, so the rulers attempt to i “themselves with the interests of tHe “miners and steel workers and proye that George Papcun is “an enemy “society” in Pennsylvania, : Wt they have proved is that George Papoun is am énemy of the form of society whi steel trust and Wall Street organti ef and domin- ates. The real job of the International member of the Workers (Communist) Tabor Defense is to showito the work- ers and other decent people in Penn- ps and the fact that he tried and) sylvania that George Papgun ought to succeeded in organizing coal miners} be kept out of jail to Keep on fighting in western Pennsylvania in the face of| for the workers and against the steel trust, its $65,000,000 election slush funds, its “company towns” and “‘com- pany unions,” its “company officials” —state, county and city—and its com- pany agents in the labor movement, ./” HE list of witnesses and tho~eyi- dence in thie” case furnish a strik- ing a Jr steel trust stoolpigeonism, It shoyf that the steel trust and its Kpyiited agencies, Mellonism, Vareism and Pinchotism, are debauching de- liberately whole sections of the popu- tation of Pennsylvania, that few organ- izations remain free from their con- trol, whether they be of a political, hewing but otherwise in-| cultural or trade union character, The record of the colirf proceedings > Editor The DAILY WORKER:— O’Flaherty writing again in DAILY WORKER! Three cheers for him! Tell him for: me “best. wishes” and here’s hoping he continues to get stronger and stronger both physically and otherwise and continues to ham- mer away against graft, corruption and capitalism—R. Wight, Clinton, Ohio, see Editor The DAILY WORKER:—I beg to suggest that a subscription be raised for the purpose of striking a | special gold medal for all class war prisoners such as injunction victims and others and be presented to them either on conviction or release from prison, They deserve it—a great deal more han the professional butchers.—A. J. , Los Angeles. are ae Dear Comrades, Your DAILY WORKER is getting LETTERS FROM OUR READERS better and better. I léked very much the “With the Staff,” last page last column. It is a gem and hope you keep on in the same way so that we sympathizers with Communism, can read a real working class paper—J. N., New York City. Resumes New York Flight. BELEM, Brazil, July 9. — Bernardo Duggan hopped off at 7.15 this morn- ing in his seaplane for Maranhao, re- suming his attempted flight from New York to Buenos Aires, 7 Die In Czech Floods. AUUSIG, Bohemia, July 9. — Heavy rains and thunderstorms have lead to floods here which have worked havoc and cost seven lives. The seven per- sons who lost t‘¢ir lives were engage¢c in rescue work in a factory which had been flooded, : GEORGE PAPCUN for one day alone is enough to show the truth of the above statement. IRST there appears one Corporal Willar, a member of the state constabulary, the familiar Pennsyl- vania “cossacks,” fought by the trade union movement for years, but which the “friend of labor” and ardent pro- hibitionist, Governor Pinchot, has al- lowed to exist under his regime. His, and other testinmony, shows that the state police were watching closely the coal miners’ strike in Re- public, where Papeun was active, At the time of Papcun’s arrest,.the. cossack corporal gave him.-% list of questions to which -Papeun was or- dered to give “Written answers. Pap- cunéfused, so the obliging corporal filled In the answers himself. HEN comes William Nelson, an employe of the Hillman Coal Co., who lived in the Croatian Hall, the headquarters of the strike committee, for four months. Why an English speaking person should want to live for four months in a hall where con- versations, as a general rule, are car- ried on in the Slav languages, is a mystery—uniess he had instructions to do so from some one connected with the “company.” This American patriot, who lives in Croatian halls, testified that Pap- cun said, “we must get a new gov- ernment,” and that there was “a way of: training. these young men with rifles and ammunition,” This is damaging testimony in Pennsylvania. Everybody knows that the way to get a new government in Pennsylvania is to buy it. ‘EXT is one Stanley Kitta, another union spy, who tried to show that Papcun was “against the union.” The steel trust, of course, is never against the miners’ union except when some- body tries to organize one. Kitta is followed by Frank Terrace, who gives his occupation as “farmer,” but who is known as Republic’s most promineng bootlegger. He had been shown as a company spy in a previous case when Thomas Ray, a militant old member of the U. M. W. of A, had been the victim of a frame- up. Terrace, in his capacity of stool- pigeon, engineered his election as chairman of the strike committee, of which Papoun was a member. He was also one of a committee of three to confer with the district officials of the United Mine Workers as to the possibility of getting a charter in Re- public, T is evident that with a stool- pigeon as chairman of the strike committee and union officials who had shown little, if any interest in organ- izing these miners, that thé bosses did “not have much to worry about except active and insistent George Papcun who was spilling all the beans by actually “trying to do some organ- ization work, Terrace steps “down after telling of some very spirited but sound ad- vice given to the strikers by Papcun relative to the manner of handling de- puty sheriffs who tried to stop le- gal picketing, and which Papcun may or may not have worded as stated, and his seat is taken by Harry J. Lennon, a department of justice clerr in Allegheny county. ENNON is not asked how much he got out of the campaign for liberty’ and democracy wagéd by the THE CASE OF GEORGE PAPCUN Mellon interests in the recent pri- mary because this es Gilbert and Sullivan have it, “has nothing to do with the case,” But he does tell a lot of things . about the Workers (Communist) Par- ty, which have nothing to do with the, case of “the People of Pennsyl- vania versus George Papcun.” He wants to tell more put the judge is getting tired, probably feels that this so-called evidence makes but little difference anyway when the steel trust, in the name of “the People of Pennsylvania,” has indicated so plain- ly its wishes in the matter of the disposal of Papcun’s time and place of residence for the next ten or twen- ty years, and decides that it is not necessary to read the Communist Manifesto, Theses and Statues of the Communist’ International, pamphlets of the Trade Union Educational Lea- gue, some of the works of Lenin and Bucharin, ete, HE judge was right, Papeun was convicted altho the defense: sent out a story claiming that the ruling out of the above evi- dence was a victory for ft. These legal victories doubtless give lawyers a great deal of satisfaction, but the case of “the People of Penn- sylvania versus George Papcun” will not be fought out in the Pennsyl- vania courts. or the United States courts... The courts will reflect the political ‘struggle now centering around the question of trade union or- ganization. It will be fought out in the mines and mills of Pennsylvania by workers who know that the real name of the case is the “Steel Trust of Pennsyl- vania versus the People of Pennsyl- vania,” T seems to me that the Pennsylvania rulers have picked a poor issue. It is so clear that workers can under- stand it easily when it is brought to their attention. In the course of the struggle going on in Pennsylvania there will be developed many more George Papcuns. ‘ When the Papcuns outnumber the paid spies of the steel trust, Pennsyl- vania will have a real labor move- ment. The Beast of Steel By B. BORISOFF. Bur things happen in the steel town of Gary, Lives are crippled and destroyed and the story-of the lives crippled and of the lives lost is never told to the world. Silently people suffer and silently they die under the iron heel of the steel trust. Here is a typical story. OSE QUIROZ, a Mexican, 31 years old was working in the Merchant mill, a department of the Illinois Stee} Co. for only two months when the accident happened, He was working ts a lavorer, hand.ing heavy steel bars. On August 11, 1925 when the accident happened he was standing on top of the rolls pulling with his hook the steel bars, The hcok sli, ped, Jose fell elght The Story of Jose Quiroz—Jose’s Bad Luck With a Stecl Bar—He Becomes a Cripple—His Friend “Willie’—The “Bambino” in Old Mevico—He Tries For Witnesses Needed—Jose is Big But Broken. “Compensation” —Four was again put to sweeping the floors feet down on the iron floor. He struck fof the mill, the floor with his right side. There was but one witness to the accident, another Mexican working nearby. INFULLY Jose rose from the floor and... went on with his work for 3 hours... A giant of a man as Jose was he could not stand the pain any longer. He went to the foreman and tried to explain what had happened. The foreman did not try to find out what happened, but he changed Jose to an easier job of sweeping the floor. Jose finished his day’s work and went home. H® came back the following day, his arm swollen and hurting and I. R. T. Scabs Entering Company Barns; Below, Company Buses Jose had to work hard. He had left his wife and child in Mexico, they needed his support. He could not afford to go to the doctor. His hand pained more and more with each day’s work until he could hardly move it. O* September 19, 1925 he was fired. The Steel’company has no use for sick men, be There are enough people at the gate to take the place of. an invalid. Jo: was now out ofa job, sick, and with- out any medical.attention. : In November his means gave out and he began to look for a job. There is a man, a Mexican, bythe name of Guillierns keeping a boarding. house at 1049 Adams street, Gary. He is known as “Willie.” He has connections in the mills, To him Jose went, rented a room as many did who sought a job thru “Willie” and “Willie” placed him in the mills on some construction job. F baie worked only one week and was fired again. ; After thiS\happened “Willie” asked him what the number of his mill check was, went to the mill office and with out his knowledge or consent received his pay giving Jose only $13.00, Jose felt entirely helpless, There was no place to go. “Willie” offered him a job as a janitor in bis house. Jose accepted. He was prom- ised by’ “Willie” a ticket home and $80.00 cash and for this he worked from November 6, 1925 to March 1926. . ‘ B acoeee gave him room and board, gave him $5.00 to buy a pair of overalls and a shirt, $3.00 to buy shoes and at times gave him 26 or 30 cents for a show, He fired Jose as soon as he learned that Jose was trying to secure some assistance from the Mexican counsel, to whom he wrote several letters. OSE is illiterate. He had to depend upon other people to write his letters. He applted to a@ certain notary public who knew the, Spanish lahguage and was hand. Jing compensation cases for the Mex- ican workers, This notary public went to the foreman and the paymaster of the mill and came back with the news hat Jose’s case was a hopeless one since he needed four witnesses to his injuries while he had only one. E lives now in the Roumantan _ Hall doing little odd jobs, This keeps him alive, . From his home in Mexico come piti- ful letters telling of the suffering of his wife and boy tor Whom he can do nothing, Jose is now a broken man, ‘It 1s pitiful to look at this man so powerfully built and so helpless, © -In two months the steel mill ¢ his ite and threw him out as useless rubbish. . R ‘ How many more suffered the same