The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 15, 1926, Page 2

Page Two FOUR GARMENT STRIKE PICKETS LEAVE PRISON Parade Thru the Mar- ket Street District (Continued from page 1) “committee of fifteen” the Chicago ‘of- ficials refused to aid them in defying CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) per for a few cents? Because it is mostly advertising, And why? Be- cause the workers purchase the capi- talist papers and those who have things to sell pay to reach them. se 8 ARROWED housewives, after long threatening, hike to the Indiana N THE DAILY WORKER COUNT DEAD AS ARSENAL BLAST FINALLY STOPS 1800' Families, Homeless from Holocaust (Special to The Dally Worker) | DOVER, N. J., July 13—The orgy INTERBORGUGH RAPID TRANSIT LOSES $184,738 IN FARES FIRST FIVE DAYS NEW YORK, July 13.—The strike on the Interborough Rapid Transit lines has cost the company $184,- 738.10 in loss of passenger fares for the first five days of the strike, ac- cording to a regort Issued by the company. The loss in. passenger fares is increasing as accidents on trains manned by scabs are becom- ns 'VEN the New York Times is for- the injunction. When wholesale viola- tion of injunctions was urged by Freda Reicher, John Fitzpatrick, pre- sident of the Chicago Federation of Labor, beloved that if they did that “not only the state troops, not only the national guard but the fepleral troops would be called in and the pick- ets blown off the streets.” Refuse To Help Pickets, Tho the pickets pointed out that the inactive policy of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor officials was aiding the bosses and would lead to the injunc- tion raising havoc with the strike and dunes when their eyesight is almost |of destruction which for more than ruined from mending damaged hus- | three days has raged over this sec- bandly pockets. But that is not the worst feature of this scandalous lack of commonsense on the part of the workers, The worst is yet to be told. ‘*e © HE ~workers could economize on pockets by buying a labor paper: The DAILY WORKER for instance. ‘Perhaps they might need larger hats due to brain expansion, but a few sizes extra does not cost any more and a decently large head, if not too swollen, adds dignity to the figure. breaking the strike these officials re- |The Chicago Tribune usually ruins 30 fused to aid the strikers. Freda brot/or more pages on week days because out that because of the inactivity of |department stores, banks and other these officials in arousing the labor | pusiness institutions know it has a movement of the city to realization | daily circulation of over 700,000. Most of what was going on the strike pick-|o¢ its readers are workers, tty were forced to go to jail. ah tie Bhe also brought ont thet thosevery ‘OU can almost pack a copy of The effort was made to get Fitspatrick and Olander to speak at the protest meet- DAILY WORKER into a watch ing in the Temple Hall demanding the fob, yet there is more information of release of the strike pickets they |Value to the workin§class in one is- Muntly refused to do so. sue than there is in @ box car load of “Why doesn’t John Fitspatrick or Tribunes. Some day the workers will Wwerd Nockels of the Chicago Fed-| realize that fact and our plant at 1113 eration of Labor do something? Why | West Washington street will be send- @eean't John Walker and Victor Olan- |ing hundreds of thousands of copies to er of the Llinois Federation of Labor |the hives of heavy industry that sur- @o-eometixiing? Why don’t they want |round this hub of industrial America. te-carry on a fight? “May Embarrass Small.” “It is possibly as ‘Schengel,’ Mrs. Wleahor Sadlowski said in the jail. fear to embarrass the Len Small “It ig true they jailed our bodies but % is also true they never touched our spirits. We are’ stronger today in spirit than we ever were, We are proud to ‘be pioneers in labor’s fight against injunctions.” Will Continue Pight. “There is not an injunction estab- lished as yet, not a judge elected as yet and not @ rule made as yet that can keep us girls back from fighting KANSAS PRISON HEADS TO PROBE THE JAIL STRIKE To “Investigate” Cause of Mutiny (Special to The Dally Worker) LANSING, Kan., July 13.—An in- for better conditions,” declared Flor-|vostigation wag launched in Kansas ence Corn, who Reicher. No Jali To Stop Her. Evelyn Dornfield expressed her de- termination to carry on the fight that she had begun for better conditions and that in this fight no jail would stop her. Oscar Simons spoke in Jewish, He pointed out that tho conditions in the jail were far from what they expected their ideals for a better society had kept them in good spirit and strength- ened their determination to carry on their struggle. Solidarity. Yetta Hornstain, who was released a few days previously, brought out the wonderful spirit that prevailed among the jailed kets and which even spread to the other girls imprisoned in the jail. She told how a number of these other girls had declared that since the strikers had come into the gail the jailers were serving better food. Jail Food—Rotten, “The food was so rotten in the jail,” declared Yetta Hornstein “that if it wasn't for the meals furnished by the union we would not be as healthy as We are.” “Everyone of us have come out with a better spirit to fight injunctions than before. The girls will go to jail in spite cf the fact.that they know jail “awaits 7m. I. L, Davidson, organizer for the Chi- cago joint board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, pointed out that tho the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor and the Illinois Fed- eration of Labor officials refused to fight to relesse the jailed garment strike pickets the joint board would carry on its fight. To Hold Mass Meeting. “We will hoid a mass meeting to demand the release of these prisoners. If the C so Federation of Labor and the Ilino!s Federation of Labor officials at to speak they can. If they don’t, we'll get those to speak that want to fight injunctions and we will fight injunctions despite their refusal to fight them.” Lillian Herstein of the Chicago Teachers’ Federation in a short talk complimented the girls on their fight- ing spirit and bitterly rapped the “tired radicals” as being a greater danger to the wor! than the bosses, She assailed those who had grown “old” in spirit and sought to block évery progressive move whether it was a strike, the defying of an injune- tion, the formation of an independent political party of labor, by their “de- featist” theorizing it can’t be done, “The injunction is a device that allows an upstart like ‘Denny’ Sullivan to condemn to jail any man without a trial,” declared Miss Herstein, “I see in your fight against injunctions a fight for a better society. We must never admit that the injunction is legal. “I’m glad these girls put up a fight.” Nice Front Bedroom followed Freda | state prison by Warden W. H. Mack- ey, to determine who was responsible for the coal mine mutiny that Friday and Saturday assumed proportions of a “starve it out fight” with 372 min- ere self-imprisoned 750 feet below the earth's surface. Thirteen guards who were impris- oned with the striking convicts, could give little information on what had ‘transpired among the prisoners dur- ing the 32 hours they carried on the strike. They were herded into a mule pen in the long tunnel, and kept un- der guard by a squad of striking con- victs. Wardén Mackey, who earlier. had intimated he would not punish the miners yesterday, ordered a full in- vestigation made with a view to met- ting out punishment to the ring lead- ers of the revolt. Franc at 40 to $1 Forces France to Sign (Continued from page 1) would stop the falling of the franc Caillaux replied, “I sincerely hope per : 0:9 To Club France Into Line. WASHINGTON, July 13.—It was pointed out today that there are now in the treasury demand notes on France totalling $2,997,477,800, the principal of the original debt, bearing interest at 5 per cent. Under the terms by which the United States advanced the money to France, there was reserved the right to dispose of her notes as this gov- ernment saw fit. Therefore, it was pointed out today, there is no barrier to the treasury selling this paper for |tion is ended at last, leaving its ter- lrible marks of death and agony. The |boom of great shells and the bursting |of shrapnel is stilled; and quict reigns in the valley of the dead. There are 450 houses destroyed’or mostly wreck- d, 20 dead, 300 injured and 800 fam- jilies are homeless, | For the first time today a complete | survey of the almost. demolished naval jarsenal buildings wag made, and the completeness of the disaster was real- ized. 4 High Officers Appear-—it’s Safe, A train consisting of flat cars and one coach bearing high officers of the government forces trailed its slow dis- mal way over the three miles of track running thru the reservation, stopping now and then to allow mechanics to repair the torn rails. The scene of devastation recalled the village of Ypres, wiped out during the world war by the shells of German artillerymen, but still fectively razed than this once busy little valley. Sea “Best Arsenal Known.” WASHINGTON, July 13.—Secretary of War Davis today denied statement attributed to him by a press associa- tion to the effect that “The govern- ment must change its methods of building arsenals.” He denied also that he had said the buildings were too close together. “On the contrary,” said Davis, “the best known methods of arsenal construction wera used at Picatinny.” From his summer vacation home at White Pines Camp, New York, Presi- dent Coolidge has issued a statement of condolence-to the widows nad fam- ilies. of those who died in the explo- sion, saying in part: “Devotion to duty and heroism are not confined to the battlefield.” Battlefield “Not Confined” to War. Evidently the men, women and chil- dren of civilian life who were subject- ed so far to a rain of high explosive shells for three days in the peaceful Jersey countryside feel the same way about it, as the residents of Dover.are | Preparing a petition to the navy de- partment against the rebuilding of the arsenal, while the New Jersey state officials have also declared them- selves opposed to having the arsenal within the confines of that state. Ten of the seventeen bodies, recoy- ered before the renewed explosions stopped the rescue work, have been identified. It is doubted if the other seven bodies will ever be identified, because of their being but bundles of charred flesh. “Shells were popping all around,” said a marine who worked at bring- ing out the dead, “when we dragged the bodies out we couldn't recognize any of them. It was terrible.” Seven Unknown Soldiers, The unidentified will probably be buried in a common grave at Arling- ton national cemetery. The ten identi- fied will be shipped to their relatives. They are lying in coffins beside the victims of the submarine S-51 in New York. The bodies were so blown to pieces and burned that even when identification was made it was only by batching pleces together and using such minute methods as taking fin- ger prints from dead hands. Typographical Union No. 16 Seeks Receiver for Russky-Viestnik Attorneys for the Chicago Typo- what it will bring in the open market.| graphical Union No. 16 are going into The present law provides that the pa-| court this week to ask that the Russky per shall not be sold at less than par value, but in the event of repudiation by the French of thg Mellon-Beren- ger agreement it is not doubted here that congress would be in a mood to change that feature of the law in short order. The effect of throwing this French paper on the world market would be, of course, tremendous. Financial ex- perts hesitate to predict the effect it would have on French credit and the already tumbling franc. It is significant that a treasury spokesman cited this reserve weapon today as one way in which the United States might club France into ratifica- tion of the new agreement M. Beren- ger signed here some months ago, Body of Young Woman Is Found Crammed in Two Cardboard Boxes BOSTON, July 13.—Crammed into two cardboard boxes and a burlap bag, the dismembered body of a young woman, apparently in her early twen- ties, was discovered near @ cemetery Viestnik-Rassviet (Russian Herald- Dawn) be put in receiver's hands, The daily, which pays its ‘printers about half the union scale, fired its compos- ing room when they protested a fur- ther cut. It is now operating with strikebreakers from New York, The union has judgement notes against the company for wages due its former employes. The paper, while pretending to be the organ of the Rus- sion trade unions in the United States and Canada, is in reality the mouth- piece of counter-revolutionaries. Over a dozen Russian workers’ organiza- tions in Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwau- kee and elsewhere have protested against the paper’s pretensions and labor policy, Foreign Exchange, Cables British pound 4.86 6-16 French francs 2.55 Belgium francs 2.238 Swiss francs .. 19.36 Italy lira... 3.40 Sweden krone 26.81 Norway krone ,, 21.95 Denmark krone 26.50 Shanghai taels 72.50 ing prevalent, Tuesday, the first day of the strike, 2,207,690 passengers used the subway or elevated. ti of the In- terborough Rapid Transit as against 2,845,659 on the same day last year. The loss in fares was 641,969, Wednesday 2,079,856 rode, . as against 2,868,633 last year. The loss was 788,310. i} Thursday 2,138,633 rode, as against 2,982,352 last year. A los: 842,-719. Friday 2,157,430 rode, against 2,814,431 last year. Loss 657,002, Saturday 1,819,213, as against ced to admit that 10,000 striking textile workers were numbered at the gathering held in the open air at Belmont Park, near Passaic, New Jersey, the other evening, Probably in no other American la- bor struggle hag it been possible to rally such a large percentage of the strikers after six months of bitter industrial war. The usual experience has been that interest lags as the battle for, bread lengthens into the weeks and.months. Not so in the Passaic textile strike, There all tne enthusiasm of the early days of the no more ef-| 2,583,975 last year. Loss 764,762. walkout still burns with all the zeal of fiery crusaders immune to every 5 discouragement. é It is all the more regrettable, (HIS BECAUSE therefore, that at this stage-of the y | struggle the executive council of By OUR RETIRING REPORTER. the American Federation of Labor should officially place itself on record alongside the mill owners Bug House Fable—No. 1 SMITH’S New York, July 13.—As I was on my way to interview our loqua- citizens’ committee thru again and very futilely denouncing the strike cious president, an amazing scene con- fronted me. as “a Communist move.” They blind- Six capitalist reporters were beat- ly take it for granted that workers do not appreciate the efforts of the Communists in their midst. They can make no greater mistake. Instead of rendering service to the American working class, the A. F. ing a hurried retreat from the ‘presi- dential presence, while the guts of a dead wall-eyed pike vainly strove to connect with their straw hats, I was more confounded than a laun- dry check, tho I heard that the presi- dent had caught a fish and I surmised that he was giving the reporters and the country a lesson in economy. What better use could the insides of a dead fish be put to than to hurl them at méndacious reporters? Thinking of what happened to the three Hebrew visitors to the Bey of Algiers, I turned to flee, but my pocket radio began to buzz and, putting the receivers to my ears, I heard the pres- ident calling. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said, “a pro- letarian reporter is always welcome. Those lying tools of the bourgeoisie simply cannot be trusted.” “He's a brick,” said I to myself, as I turned back. Soon I was ushered into a little shop where Cal was mani- curing. ##‘ elephant’s\hind foot. He greeted me cordially: “You see I am a. blacksmith by trade,” he observed, “and this animal is in pretty bad condition. He limps painfully. He was on exhibition in Pennsy recently and had a little too much. A dose of poisoned ivy in North Dakota almost finished him. Still he is a good beast and faithful. He's no jackass to his friends.” The president bit a chew off a wad of black twist and resumed the con- versation, “Please tell the working class,” he said, “that I am still fighting for them. I appreciate the honors they have al- ready conferred on me and hope to be in the White House four more years, unless the odor from Charley Dawes’ pipe drives me to seek cover. “Ever since I led the Boston police strike I have had the ambition to do something big. I have been kidding those Wall Street boys right along, but I am now ready to do the right thing by the farmers when you fel- lows say the word, You know my stand on class-collaboration and com- pany unionism. Tell the workers from me that capitalism must be over- thrown, .. .” The End. Aimee Paid $3,000 to Leave City in Plane Says Calif. Aviator LOS ANGELES, July 13. — It now appears that Aimee Semple McPher- son, female evangelist who told a story of being kidnapped and taken away from Los Angeles beach in an automobile to a shack in the Mexican desert, where she asserts she was held for six weeks, left in an airplane. Clyde Develliers, an aviator will ap- pear today before the grand jury in- vestigating the affair and tell the story he yesterday related to the police, of Mrs. McPherson's hiring an airplane, paying $3,000 to an aviator he declares he will produce along with the un- cashed check, who took the woman away from the city in a plane while she was clad in her bathing suit and @& cape, Dictator of Greece Exiles Labor Unions’ Heads to Prison Isle ATHENS, July 13.—Greek labor or- ganizations are suffering practical destruction by the dictatorship of Theodore Pan; 1s Who openly takes sides with employers in all disputes, exiling strike leaders to an island in the Aegean sea‘ and holding them prisoner until the’strike is broken, of L. officials thereby only give aid and comfort to the class enemy of labor. This can clearly be seen by the reception immediately given to the A. F. of L. attack on the “United Front Committee” that is conduct- ing the strike. First, in spite of this latest of- ficial A. F. of L, broadside the strik- ers remained as loyal as ever to their leadership, proclaiming re- newed faith in their cause, which is stone wall resistance to wage cuts by fighting for wage increases. That is the strikers’ answer to the denun- ciation of President William Green and his fellow officials. It is out- standing testimony to the fact that the strikers repudiate the attack of the Green regime, looking upon it as an attempted stab in the banck against themselves, Second, the attack of the Green officialdom was immediately adopted by the mill owners as their own. The ku klix klansmen leadership of' the citizens’ committee seized on the A, F, of L, declaration as a new weapon with which to club the strik- ers. Thus instinctively they pro- claimed the A. F. of L. officialdom was playing the employers’ game, It Is Dangerous to Hurl Boomerangs Since They Always Come Back Again By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. “Citizens’ committees” are often the most vicious instruments of des- berate employers unable to defeat and crush their striking workers. These committees, constituted of la- bor-hating elements, do the dirty work of the bosses in the name of “law and order.” They pave the way for the calling in of the militia and the shooting down of the strik- ers. They carry out the lynching and jailing of strike leaders. The frame-up and the hangman’s noose are the committee’s favorite weap- ons. It often works thru kidnaping and deportation parties. It is the worst possible company that the A. F. of L. officialdom can find itself in. The striking Passaic textile work- ers realize this, 4 the The summer days are rapidly passing and October will soon be here with, another annual conven- tion of the American Federation of Labor. It will be a time when Pres- ident Green will have to make an ac- counting for the past year, not only to the few hundred delegates, the high officials of the various inter- national unions, but to the whole American working class. A gesture was made last year at Atlantic City, when promises of an organization drive in the automobile industry were inserted in the official proceed- ings, and general organization work pledged, especially thru a “labor movie.” The automobile industry drive was quickly dropped soon after the convention adjourned, the “movie’ and its mission well-nigh forgotten. All that remains, therefore, by way of an A. F, of L. achievement under the Green regime fs this at- tack on the recently unorganized Passaic textile workers who are making a brave fight and seek ad- mission to a unified organization of all textile workers under the ban- ners of the American Federation of Labor.. But even the inertia of the Green administration cannot always resist the pounding of. these 10,000 Passaic strikers, loyal to their own fight, part of the developing and courageous vanguard of American labor that demands militant union- ism always fighting on the side of the workers’ interests, and at no time giving aid and comfort to la- bor’s enemy, When President Green put his signature to the attack against the Passaic strike, he hurled a boomerang that will return to give agony to the labor offictaldom of which he is the executive head. BRENNAN-CROWE =f BANGS UNITE TO STEAL ELECTION 177,627 Votes Stolen in > 118 Precincts The Brennan faction in the demo erat party and the Crowe-Barrett- Thompson gang in the republican party worked hand in hand to cheat the Dunne-O’Connell machine of the democrat party and the Deneen-Lun- din-Small outfit of the republican party in the April 13 primaries. In the twelve 20th ward precincts where both democrats and republican votes have been counted it was found that the election judges and clerks juggled figures so that these two ma- chines, that have entered into a “bi- partisan understanding” were able to carry the ward by big majorities. This condition, point out some of the election judges, has existed for many Years, A total of 177,627 discrepancies have been found in the recount to date of the republican vote in only 118 pre- cincts. .This makes an average dis- crepancy of 1,590 votes for each pre- cinct, In the present recount a num- ber of the Deneen-Lundin-Small can- didates have forged ahead and are leading for offices they sought to be nominated for. ? Twenty-five indictments of election judges and clerks it is said will be voted by the special grand jury in charge of Special States Attorney Charles A, McDonald, vice-president of the Foreman Trust and Savings Bank. None of the “big” fry are named in the indictments, Civil Liberties Union Cancels Offer of Aid to Ind. Klan’s Victim MUNCIE, Ind., July 13.—George R. Dale, editor of the local Post-Demo- crat, who faces prison for “contempt of court” under sentence of a ku klux klan judge for criticizing him in Dale’s paper. is dismayed by the sudden withdrawal of. support offered him by the Civil Liberties Union of New York in carrying his case to the supreme court of the United States. A telegram from the Civil Liberties Union withdraws the offer made last Saturday to aid Dale’s fight, express- ing regrets but saying that his case did not come under the scope of its organization and charter, “This withdrawal of the Civil Liber- tles Union places me in a very pre- carious and embarrassing posftion,” said Dale. “Since receiving the offer, I have turned down all other offers of financial assistance. As a result I am again left high and dry. It looks as if I must go to the prison farm after all.” Wrecked Houses and Exploded Shells Found Miles Away, . ~ Tell Story of Force of Explosion at U. S. Naval Arsenal | j When a chance bolt of lightening struck a naval ammunition magazine near Dover, N. J,, it struck off an exp Plosion that caused the whole base to fesemble no man’s land, Evidences of the blast are being found miles away as mute proof of its terrific force, Above is seen a general view of the inferno created by the explosion. Army men likened it to the western front during the war. Below, left, is a house which was Partly destroyed even tho located four miles from the scene of the explosion, Right, Peter Sabo, of Mt, Hope, a village six miles away {rom the arsenals, exhibite two shella which fell nearby, ———— ti at Mattapan, a suburb. The same sort of treatmont is meted out to any polftical opponents who Twenty Fishers Die. seek to eatablishin constitutional gov- OPORTO, Portugal, July 13.—Twen-| ernment. ‘af ny ty were drowned today when a fishing SEND IN A UBL © = achanilgan eos All modern; shower bath. Suit- After a preliminary examination by able for two. In a small family. Medical Examiner Linke police ex- Mrs. Ellman, 1657 No. Spauld-| pressed the belief that the girl had ing Ave., Ist Apt. Phone Albany |peen siain, The body was taken to 7035. the city morgue for an autopsy, smack #unk off Gaya, ¢ eam oh MI gpt— A