The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1926, Page 1

SS_ The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 158 > na os By THOMAS J, O'FLAHERTY | HE motto of this great city of ours is “I Will.” Indeed we are ready to do most anything. We have even gone to the extreme of exposing our- selves in the favorite outdoor sport of stealing elections. This is to giggle rather hilariously. Because Jarecki, the pure souled judge of county elec- tions and democrat to boot, after braving the hyenas of gang politics in the interests of civic purity was amazed to learn that his friends prac- tically stole votes in his own behalf. This was a surprise to the judge. Watch him swat his friends! + ee UT that is not what we were going to get you excited about, The Elks are here. Mr, O’Brien, subbing for the mayor, who is boosting Dever in Denver, informed the assembled Elks that by the time they get thru examining our great city they wil realize that “I will” does not mean maybe. Acting gn this assumption, ‘hscription Rates: ._« BOSSES IN LLG. STRIKE Clothing Employers. in Terrorist Campaign (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, July 15.—The Tam- many district attorney, Mr. Banton, organized a special bureau to handle cases growing out of the strike, after officials of the industrial Council of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt -Manufac- turers, Inc,, lodged complaints against the alleged acts of violence of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, It can be easily imagined on 1 | Which side the fist of the district at- torney’s office will hit, This action was taken by the dis- Elks should be seen whispering to bell | ‘ict attorney at the instigation of the boys in several Chicago hotels and employers, disconnecting their lips from the ears of hotel detectives while their faces beamed with smiles. And then they could be observed hitching their galluses and asking the elevator girl to let them off at room... Cvs OR the benefit of those who have heard about Chicago for the first time, we will explain that everything goes in Chicago, provided there is a vote or a dollar at the other end. The whispering Elks in the hotels wanted something to protect their lungs from the bituminous dust and Mr. O’Brien showed by his kind words that in the event of his running for Tayor those who cater to the wants and desires of guests. whether they be Elks, Moose or just plain donkeys, can vote for him with the assurance that laws were made to be obeyed only by those who do not make them. a + * ‘ HAT a little fighting can accomp- lish in the way of reform was amply demonstrated by the action of | the imperialist powers in i MAND ing from the “rights” hitherto ex- ercised by them in China to have their citizens tried- by their ora MAHO the country whose laws they violated. The Chinese nationalist revolutionists supported morally and perhaps other- wise by the workers and peasants of Russia, have for the past few years tried a little gentle persuasion on the imperialists. Instead of praying to Confucius they hauled forth their trusty swords and playfully poked them into the anatomies of their foes. er ees courts..rather. than by the courts. of)... ah tho four strike pickets were shot ‘last Monday, by enemies of the union. Both Morris Sigman, president of the I. L. G. W. U., and Louis Hyman, chairman of the joint board of the cloak unions, declared that the em- ployers had embarked on a campaign of terrorism to destroy the unions. 100 Shops Sign Up. The union has announced officially that one hundred shops have already. applied for settlements with the or- ganization. The applicants are not members of the employers’ associa- tion. The latter has a secret “inside” clique which maps out policies for the entire industry. It is alleged that it is equipped with a strong arm squad which does not hesitate to shoot, con- fident in the belief that it has friends in court. Strike pickets are being arrested wholesale on charges of obstructing traffic. Despite the united front be- tween employers and government. forces, success, IN WAGE FT William “D.. Mahon, international president of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America, arrived in the city yesterday morning to take charge HE regult of this diversion has | of the dispute over wages and work- been interesting for the student |ing schedules and rather fruitful for the Chinese. between the electric transport employers of Chicago and At first the imperialist got angry with | their employes. the Chinese and slaughtered many of Mahon went into conference with them. But there are four millions of | officials of the “L” and surface lo- Chinese in China and to slaughter | cals as goon as he arrived in Chicago. them all would be a costly business, particularly since the Chinese insist- ed on having two eyes for one and a whole set of ivory molars for every one knocked out by the invaders. The officials of the North Shore Lines local were not present at the meét- ing. Mahon Was Out. When the conference _ adjourned Then the imperialists got to blaming | My, Mahon and the executives of 1lo- Soviet Russia and bribed Wu Pei Fu | cals 241 and 308 left for the Briggs and Chang Tso Lin to unite against the “Bolsheviki.” * ee OWEVER all the were not in Russia, that the Chinese revolutionists were defeated so often on paper and staughtered in such large nubers that one wondered how even four hundred millions, no matter how fast they multiplied, could stand the strain. But now we learn, not in the news columns of the capitalists sheets, but surrepitiously thr uthe editorial cot- | umns of the Chicago Tribune, that ‘Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso Lin, the two tools of foreign imperialism, have recently suffered heavy defeats at the hands of General Feng and the natio- nalists, armies. Please note that this news did not appear in the news columns of the Trib, It was deliber- atedly “killed.” But trath will out as they say in murder trials. How nice the imperialists can be when they have to? CCORDING to reports from quart- ers usually considered reliable, (Continued on page 2) “Bolsheviki” Hotel where Mahon has his headquar- ters but up until’a late hour in tho afternoon the carmen’s president was not in his rooms sititeisg)” to the It is true | hotel management. Members Strong For Increase. Union officials admit that there is o strong sentiment among the rank and file for a return to the old wage schedule which was in vogue before the last wage agreement. During* that controversy Mr. Mahon cast the weight of his influence in favor of accepting the lower wage scale and as a result was bitterly attacked by members of the elevated local ‘who twice voted against acceptance of the agreement. Los Angeles Needle Trades Help Passaic Strikers to Victory PASSAIC, N. J, July 16, — The Needle Trades Council of Los Angeles, Cal, donated a check for $82 to the striking Passaic textile workers, AMALGAMATED CLOTHING WORKERS ‘ MAKE DEMA NEW YORK, July 15.—Formal demands, as a bi working agreement, have. been submitted to the New York Clothing Manu- Exchange by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. facturers’ NDS ON N. Y. BOSSES for a new collective In Chicago, by mail, Outside Chicago, by’ mail, the workers are confident of | These demands are: 1. All work cut, made and carted to be handled by union labor only; 2. Immediate institution of minimum w ination of superfiuous contractors; 4. Complete registration of contractors and manufacturers for whom they work; 5. To clearly define grades of quality in garments, a demarcation line of 25 per cent difference in price between grades shall be set; 6, Manufacturers who send work to non-union or non-registe: hops shall be fined. ¢ To these demands the manufacturers’ spokesmen gave a vague reply, speaking in generalities about “competition with the Ron-union markets,” complaining that business has been bad, One of the employers’ representa- tives, however, conéeded that the union demands were largely just, but said that this was not a proper time for the employers to grant such dema Entered at Second-class miatter September a 92a, sat, the'Post Office at Chicago, Mlinois, undet the Act of March 3, 1879. $8.00 per year, 36.00 per year. . Lastie Wells EW YORK, where they started from, places. girl in the crowd giggled. | pathy, and pressed forward to help tion thruout SE EEBES OMS ARR hy “abel grte na, and algo of our re eception by, the ARES [cay O scuk ROUND-THE-WORLD FLYERS TELL _ OF FRIENDLY RECEPTION GIVEN “ THEM IN THE SOVIET REPUBLIC July 15.—“f shall reception in Russia,” says Edward S. Evans, speci: respondent who accompanied Linton Wells in a trip afound the world that took 28 days and 14 hours, beating the record by as they dashed in an automobile up to the Pulitzer buil “We were excellently treated by the Russians,” he did everything they could to facilitate our journey, establishing special landing fields for us and gave us official “Three thousand persons met-us at Krasnofinsk Jess we did many things amusing to them, but not All looked at us with frie “SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926 5 Evans, always remember our surprising newspaper cor- ¢ than a week, in Park Row intinued. “They welcomes our stopping iberia. Doubt- jiddiest school iness and sym- il of our recep- anh “ts us. That was ty! L 194, PAINTERS’ UNION % ARMENT Chicago Palhters ‘Local No. 194 sent the following greeting to the jailed 1924 International Ladies’ Garment. Workers’ “Union. strike» pickets: “We convey to you our appreciation tor the splendid battle your organiza- tion has carried on and our sympathy for those who have been compelled to suffer an unjust imprisonment for the cause of labor. “Your membership has set’ a splen- did exgmple of courage and determina- tion for others to emulate and we feel assured that the struggle and sac- rifice has not been in vain. “Local Union No. 194, Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper- Hangers of America,” WM. B. WILSON BECOMES OWNER OF SCAB MINES Once Sue’y of Union; Held Cabinet Post (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, July 15.—Winliam: B. Wilson, former secretary of labor, who is playing for labor support to his candidacy for senator on the democratic ticket.in Pennsylvania this fall has become a coal operator in non-union Virginia. This fact comes out in Coal Age, which an- nounces that Wilson and Daniel Mil- son of Allport, Pa., have leased from the Bingley coal tract at Robious, near Midlothian, in Chesterfield coun- ty, Virginia. Production is to start at 300 tons a month. All Seab Territory. The Chesterfield county coal lands depend for their market largely on preferential freight rate treatment by the Interstate Commerce Commission, It is a completely non-union field, Vir- ginia never having had a district or- ganization of the United Mine Work- ers, Was Head of U. M. W. of A. Wilson started as a coal miner and rose in the union to international sec- retary of the United Mine Workers of America, Later he became a Penn: sylvania congressman, then secretary of labor in the Woodrow Wilson cabl- net. He held that position “during the “deportations delirium” of 1920, altho undersecretary Louis F. Post hid acting-secretary part of the per- — . Pris ers to Cease Making firvonie scene Pa.—(FP)—Broom- mi by state prisoners is to be dis- continued-by the state department of welfare to leave this field open for blind Werkegg "ose FORMER SECRETARY OF LABOR NEW OWNER OF NONSUNION MINE WILLIAM Be WILSON, CLEANERS AND DYERS STRIKE NEW YORK SHOPS) : Aim to Completely Or- ganize Industry NEW YORK, July 15.—In order to thoroly. organize the cleaning and dying industry, the Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Union of this city called a gen- eral strike, which has completely closed down the business, Ten thou- sand workers are involved and the logs of the employers is estimated at almost one million dollars a week. The Master Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Association claim that the initiative was, theirs; that they locked out the workers in order to enforce a wage reduction of 20 per cent. Union officials declare that the naster dyers never discussed. a wage cut with them, Aa» 290 BROPHY DOES NOT FORGET MAIN ISSUE Talks Nationalization of Mines in Dist. 2 By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press. DAGUS MINES, Pa.,—(FP)—Na- tlonalization Is ‘the hope of the coal miners and their families, John Brophy, president District 2,, United Mine. Workers, told the Labor Chau- tauqua at Dagus Mines, Elk county. Without public ownership and work- ers’ share in management, there is no future for the miners, he said. Brophy was speaking to a union hall packed with men, women and. chil- @ren who have been bitterly suffering from the evils of private ownership and mismanagement of this basic in- dustry. Their employer, the: North- western Mining & Exchange Co., a subsidiary. of the Erle railroad, shut down the mines three and a_ half months ago. Must Fight For it. International conventions of the miners’ union have gone on record for the priciple of nationalization, said the speaker. But he warned. the workers that the new system will not come down like manna from the skies. Much hard, earnest work is | necessary. Nationalization must be made a po- litieal issue, he said. If the two old parties fail to support the program, then the miners must get together with the rest of the workers and the public and take steps to reorganize the industry. Brophy urged study classes be formed in Dagus Mines to acquaint the workers with the larger program. Such classes will be started there, it was announ: ed at the close of the meeting, by Paul W. Fuller, educational director for the district uniop, Will Fight Bosses on Wages. With the vision of the larger pro- gram before the workers the central Pennsylvania district head believes they will be able to fight their union battles more effectively and wrest larger concessions from the operators. Dealing with the wage fights now in progress Brophy said that every at- tempt of operators to modify or evade the contracts they have signed will be*resisted. Nationalization was the keynote of other Chautauqua addresses. Vice- President James Mark urged the miners to press forward for the full produce of their toil, a condition age could be realized more easily hen industry was nationalized. Faller likewise gave a spirited na- tionalization talk, calling the miners to make a “New Declaration of Inde- pendence.” G. O. P. Progressive to Help a Democrat in Penna. Election WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15—Not only has Senator Norris, floor leader of the senate. progressives, written a powerful endorsement of W. B. Wil- son, democratic nominee against Vare for senator from Pennsylvania, but he says he may go into the state to speak directly to the voters during the cam- paign. The senate is due to begin the trial of Judge George English on impeach- ment charges on Nov. 10. Norris may return from Nebraska some time in October and help the former secre tary of labor to give a whirlwind fin- ish to the state campaign. that } O., 1113 W. MULTI-MILLIONAIRE STRAP HANGER FORCED T0 RIDE IN AUTO DURING STRIKE John Emory Andrus is a multi- millionaire who is eighty-five years old and has been going to his office every day in the subway, This ec- centric old capitalist has been caused considerable “discomfort” by being forced, because of the strike, to ride to “work” in one of his pala- tial limousines. HALF MILLION N.Y. WORKERS NEW YORK, July 15.—A program of intensive action to save Nicola Sac- co and Bartolomeo Vanzetti from the electfic chair in Massachusetts is to be worked out by a group of 35 dele gates from labor organizations, to be known as the Sacco-Vanzetti Emer- gency Committee of New York and vicfnity. This committee will meet July 19 to map out a campaign, which is to include a mass demonstration and @ parade in protest abainst the jconviction of the two Jtalian labor | champions for murder. Five hundred thousand workers | were represented by 400 delegates who met July 9, in the 84th street Labor Temple to form the new com- mittee. These delegates spoke for 250 unions and 46 branches of the Workmen's Circle. Elizabeth Gur- ley Flynn presided. Greetings and cheer were telegraph- ed by the meeting to Sacco and Van- zetti, “We are in the fight to ef- fect your unconditional release,” said the messages. A long wire was sent to Goy. Alvan T. Fuller of Massa- chusetts. This pointed out that the defense had asked for a rehearing by the supreme court on the basis of fresh proof that the prisoners were innocent; that the A. F. of L. had branded their conviction as “a ghast ly miscarriage of justic and the new committee called upon the state of Massachusetts to grant the new trial which common justice demand- ed, Rose Baron, New York secretary of the Internationa? Labor Defense, told the gathering that the I, L. D. had organized provisional committees and arranged mass meetings in be- half of Sacco and Vanzetti in many cities and would arrange others; and lected. for this cause to the Sacco- Vanzetti defense without deducting a cent for expenses. JOIN PROTEST that, it was sending all funds co}-| except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Washington Bivd., Chicago, IL | jto Mayor | condition dire NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents (SEIZE WAGES OF STRIKERS FOR DAMAGES Scab Wrecks Train; 13 Hurt; Men Ask Action BULLETIN NEW YORK, July 15.—The wages due for past work of sixty-two strike ers.on the subway and elevated lines of the jInterborough Rapid Transit company, have heen im- pounded by court at the re- quest of the company, which has brought suit against the strikers for the sum of $239,000 damages. The amount impounded is $2,500. While the referendum vote on wage demands in all departments of the I. R. T. was being conducted in defiance of the company’s efforts to prevent it, the announcement was made from the offices of the Brook- lyn Manhattan Transit corporation, that increases in wages will be granted that company’s men, effect- ive in August. This is clearly the result of the fight made by the Con- solidated Railroad Workers’ Union on the interborough fines. Union Demands Walker Action By H. M. WICKS NEW YORK, July 15.—In a letter Walker, the Consolidated Railroad Workers’ Union of New York calls attention to the third crash on the scab-Operated subway lines, and brands the recruiting of scabs, thugs and gangsters from other cities and the entrusting to them the safety gnd lives of the people of New York as a menace to public welfare and a crime which camnot be permitted to con- tinue unchecked. It places the for thi Waiker responsibility tly upon M and remind: n that the city of New York you a ed with safeguarding the the people of this great city.” Ask Police Be Withdrawn. Atfer* reviewing the ayor s mayor o ditions of the men on lines, the letter nues of the menace’ to the public of trains manned by incompet inexperienced help, we ¢ city to remove all scabs breakers; to withdraw police prot tion for thugs recruited from the derworld to break t strik “If the city takes no step for the thousands of traction we an improvement in the conditi then only one conclusion will be drawn from this n: That the city is not interested in the welfare of thousands upon whom decent transit ior the millions of New York depend, and that the city is allowing itself to serve in the capacity ¢ ing agency against org “If the city fs not to bility, then it must steps: 1. Stop importation of thr minal strike-breaking eleme “2, Withdrawal of police tion of these elements ‘3. Immediate tion fixing of responsibility for the green motormen, switchmen, ete. City Must Insure Living Wage. ollowing and protec- and e of invest “4. The city to take immediate steps to secure a living wage and pro- per working conditions for the trac tion employes on all lines of Greater New York. “Expecting an imme: diate and favor- able consideration of this communica- tion, we are, etc.,—Consolidated Rail- road Workers’ Union.” Hedley and Quackenbush, company (Continued on page 2) At Least They Have a Place to Lay Their Heads! A working class | imily seeking rellef from the Whie te Sunday. ny Tomorrow the father returns to the sw .atshops op ore ive heat at the beach on Coney Island, New York, mother and children to the sium dwelling. } - —— ——