The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY“WORKER EASLEY EXPOSED AS AN ALLY OF SLEUTH BURNS Hit Head of National Civic Federation (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND—(FP)—The unsavory National Civic Federation, in whose ranks no union miner or machinist may enroll himself, comes in for re- newed unflattering attention in the July Locomotive Engineers Journal. The civic federation professes to fimd common ground between labor and capital. A number of labor men have belonged to it at various times, inéluding the late Samuel Gompers. President William Green of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor is forbidden by his union constitution from joining. Called False Friend. In the June Engineers Journal edi- tor Albert F. Coyle had denounced Ralph M. Easley, secretary of the civic federation, as a “fake friend of labor.” In the July issue Robert W. Dunn pulls the hide off Hasley’s record. “Basley and his organization have for the past 20 years existed chiefly for the purpose of spiking all progress in the trade unions as well as in other flelds of social actfvity,” Dunn writes for the engineers. ‘‘Most of the sup port comes from the large propertied interests, chiefly in New York City, and no public accounting of receipts or disbursements is made. There is no doubt that the relations between Mr. Easley and Mr. (William J.) Burns, late of the department of justice, were very intimate. Mr. Easley is a tool of the big industrialists who own and tule America. He is a 100 per cent plutocrat patriot.” States His Case, “Coyle is an obscure fellow and his attack on me is unimportant,” said Secretary Ralph M. Easley of the Na- tonal Civic Federation when question- ed on the unsparing denunciation he has been subjected to in both the June and July issues of the Locomotive En- gineers Journal, of which Albert FP. Coyle is editor. Easley is in Chicago attending the Elk’s convention, “Chester Wright has written me,” Easley consoled himself, “that Coyle’s attack was given comparatively little publicity. I have over 500 labor men connected with the civic federation, in- eluding Président William G. Lee of the railroad trainmen and D, L. Cease, the editor of the Trainmen’s Journal, President William D. Mahon of the streetcar men and others, “I shall use this attack on me by Coyle to publish some correspondence I had with the late Warren S. Stone, who used to be on my board. I shall also publish some letters from father Ryan who now attacks me. I have been waiting for this opportunity.” Their Stomach’s Turned. Stone together with Pres, Tim Healy of the firemen and oilers resigned in disgust from the civic federation when Easley made slanderous attacks on the British labor party, minimum wage legislation and other progressive labor measures. Tho 68 years old, Easley is jaunty and vigorous in manner. He says his federation does not depend on pay- ment of dues for support because you can’t get enough money that way. “We are supported by voluntary subscrip- tion,” he asserts. Remember July 18! I. W. W. Picnic in Lyons, Il. (ZAHORA’S GROVE) SPEAKERS: RALPH CHAPLIN And A. S. EMBREE Arrangements are being made for speakers in other languages MUSIC BY AMBASSADOR ORCHESTRA DANCING—ENTERTAINMENT Admission 50c, which includes admission to the dance floors. How to get there: Take 22nd St. or Ogden Ave. car; trans- fer to Berwyn-Lyons car, and go to end of line, and then take bus to grove. Everybody Come! Mother Curse.” houn, And other features, others, In the Next Issue of the Magazine: Sherman H. M, Chang will relate the stary of China's recent struggle for liberation, Michael Gold will have a poem entitled, The Red Savior, a splendid little play by Hermynia Zur Muehlen, author of the Fairy T: the Daily Worker Publishing Co, The Second Lesson in Reading, by Arthur W. Cal- Drawings by Fred Ellis, Bales, Jergers, Vose and POLISH WORKERS VOICE PROTEST AGAINST ATTEMPTS TO LEGALLY MURDER SACCO AND VANZETTI WARSAW, Poland, July 16.—Iin a cablegram signed by a member of the Sejm, Ballin of the independent peasants’ party, to Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, the Pollsh workers vi to legally murder Nicola Sacco and never committed. The cablegram follows: ‘olce thelr protest against the attempt Bartolomeo Vanzetti for a crime they “Six political organizations, representing Polish, Ukrainian, White Rus- sian and Jewish working people, united in a non-partisan committee to fight for amnesty for political prisoners in Poland, send greetings to Com- rades Sacco and Vanzetti, victims of capitalist terror in America, and add their voice to protest of American working people against preparations to legally murder those brave fellow workers. “Committee, “Ballin, Member of Polish Sejm.” SUBWAY STRIKE SPREADING TO POWER HOUSES LIKELY TO SHUT DOWN ALL INTERBOROUGH LINES By H. M |. WICKS. NEW YORK, July 16.—While all the reptile press was exulting over the “fact” that the strike on the Interborough Rapid Transit lines would soon be over, the power house men to the number of 105, employed in the 74th street power house, walked out and reported at strike headquarters at nine o'clock this morning before the strike leaders came in, Go After the Rest. The 105 will organize committees for an immediate drive to close down all power stations, thereby completely shutting down the traction system. The vicious injunction proceedings started yesterday by the company regarded as bluff by the men, who feered at ft in the strike meeting. Tho the company lawyer cites the Danbury hatters’ case as precedent, it has no relation to that case, which was based on the Sherman “anti-trust” law and related to interstate com- merce. * No such construction can be placed upon the present strike as the lines operate exclusively within New York state and carry nothing but passen- gers, therefore it cannot be brought under the jurisdiction of the federal courts as in the Danbury hatters’ case. i dal (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, July 14.—Frank Hedley, president and general man- ager of the Interboro company, tried “vainly to terrorize the strikers into yleiding again to the yoke of the company and its spurious union by is- suing a final ukase that in case they were not back on the job by noon Monday they would lose their seniority rights. The capitalist press, without exception, set up a loud clamor in an effort to ald Hedley break tue strike at the end of the first week. Yesterday G. G. Camp; a motorman and one of the former strikers who had played a minor role, went back to work, taking half a dozen with him, and everyone in an official position in the company, or who had held a position in the defunct company union, predicted that the ranks would break. All attention of the leaders of both the workers and the traction magnates were centered upon the meeting hall in the morning. The results of the propaganda to break the ranks would be known at noon. When the hour arrived that Hedley and his cheap, boot-licking lieutenant, Patrick Con- nolly, head of the company union, predicted would see the strike vanish into thin air every man, except those who returned to scab on their fellow- workers yesterday, was in the hall, and when Edward P. Lavin, the leader of the strikers, rose to speak his first comment was upon Hedley’s disap- pointment at the manner in which the ranks were holding, which was greeted with thunderous applause. Slowly Organizing. Organization work is proceeding very slowly, mostly due to the fact that the leaders of the strike have had no experience in that sort of work, j most of their experience having béen obtained in the company union, where the principal “work” consists of lis- tening to company hirelings apologize {for the miserable wages received by the men. The splendid spirit of defiance and almost reckless abandon manifested by these motormen, switchmen and electricians who have broken away from the thralldom of the Hedley- Connolly combination will carry them a long way. For the first time since the strike began a week ago definite steps are being taken to picket the various ter- minals and appeals are being sent to all workers on the lines to join the strike. Vote on Demands. One of the most telling blows against the company was started Sat- urday when the strike committee de- cided to expose the fake nature of the “The published by SOMETHING CROOKED IN N. G. SURVEY OF WOMEN IN INDUSTRY APPEARS (Special to The Dally Worker) CHARLOTTE, N. C., July 16, — Suspicion has been cast upon a sur- vey of women in industry in this state, arranged for by Governor An- gus McLean, because the North Ca olina Cotton Manufacturers’ A: ciation has unanimously voiced ap- proval of the project. In a resolu- tlon the textile men recognized this survey as “legitimate and well ad- vised,” in contrast to other surveys proposed here which they fear “may be mere agitation in one form or anothet.” company union by issuing a call for those still working on the lines to vote on the demands presented by the union for the various departments not yet affected by the strike. Connolly and Hedley and the others whose company union has been broken by the strike now in progress have not dared try to call meetings of the remaining groups of workers for fear they would vote to go out with the new union. The proposal for a refer- endum is calculated to force the issue upon the other workers and extend the strike to make it general on the lines, r Even Scabs Quit. According to a notice posted on the bulletin board at strike headquarters, the company paid some of the im- ported scabs but $32 for the first week's work and 150 of those have returned to their old haunts in Chi- cago, Cleveland and other cities. Tear Up Messages. At the mass meeting Sunday when the strikers discussed the threat of Hedley and James L, Quackenbusch, the attorney for the company, that unless they returned to work they would lose their place in the list of workers and have to start all over again the same as new and inexpe- rienced workers, a number of them read telegrams they had received from thé company. As they read the tele- grams they tore them up in front of the other strikers, and when the meet- ing was over the floor was littered with the remnants, Must Extend Strike. Experienced. strike leaders who are aiding the strikers and advising some of the leaders are unanimous in the opinion that the strike can be won only if sufficiently energetic measures are taken to extend it and tie up every department, thereby stopping trafic on both subway and elevated lines of the company. They are like- wise convinced that the strike cannot be won unless the others do go out with them, To reach them it is essential that every terminal be systematically picketed and arrangements are being made to inaugurate this work tomor- row. Thus far the strike has proceeded on the spontaneous outburst of fury of the men whose demands were turned down by the company and its bogus union, On every hand the men declare that they will stick until their demands are granted. and that until that time they will not enter the em- ploy of the traction company. Forty-Four Charged with Election Fraud Indictments against forty-four per- sons, five of whom are women, were returned here today by a special grand jury probing frauds in the April Cook county primary election. All are charged with conspiracy to make a false return of votes, Hight of the true bills were directed against Judges and clerks of the twentieth ward, where the inquiry has reveal- ed gross irregularities. 102 Young Women Wanted to Attend Domestic Science School Illinois State Fair Write for Particulars. 'L’ EMPLOYERS REJECT MEN'S WAGE DEMAN Further Negotiating Is in Progress Demands of elevated and surface street railway employes here for a five per hour wage increase today were rejected. Britton I, Budd, president of the Chicago Rapid Transit company, an- nounced it would be impossible to con- sider the increase, following a con- ference with William D.’ Mahon, presi-, dent of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Hm- ployes. Aonther conference’ was scheduled for July 19 between: officials of the railway companies and the employes. Mahon Is Satisfied. William D, Mahon, ‘president of the international union, declared in an of- ficial statement that he was well satis- fled with the progress of the negotia- tions. He decried “strike talk” and declared that the electric railway em- ployes of Chicago are conservative cit- izens, many of them “working to pay for their little homes” and “to rear their children as American children should be reared.” No thought or consideration will be given to a strike, said Mahon, until all avenues of settlement are ex- hausted, A conference between the union ex- ecutives and the officials of the sur- face railway is being arranged. REPORT HUGHES IS IN RACE FOR WHITE HOUSE PAUL SMITH’S N, Y., July 16.—The cough drops made famous more thru the artistic display of chin foliage supplied by the Smith Brothers rather than the curative qualities of their pills, may look forward to a new era of prosperity, if the prediction that Charles Evans Hughés, ‘of hirsute re- pute, runs for the U.S. presidency in the next election. The rumor comes from Smith’s and may~be discounted as astute advertising, ‘tho we learn that Calvin Coolidge’ haven of refuge is not owned by either one of the gentlemen who made«a fortune out of the throat ailments 9g their fellow countrymen. adi Cal Catching Fish. The report that Mr..Hughes may be a candidate for president did not pre- vent the present white house incum- bent from catching several fish. It is even rumoured that Mr. Coolidge bait- ed his own hooks and took off the fish. If this is true he may. be angling for the G. O, P. nomination for a second term and a half, Everybody Invited to I. W. W. Picnic Sunday in Chicago’s Suburb Chicago workers are promised a treat at the big I. W. W. picnic to- morrow, Sunday July 18, at the suburb of Lyons, Illinois, where Ralph Chap- lin, famous Wobbly poet and A. 8S. Embree, organizer and editor, will speak, as will other workers in various languages. Besides this, there will be, of course, dancing, entertainments and refresh- ments galore, The admission of fifty cents includes admission to dancing floors. o The picnic is held at Zahora’s grove, which is reached by taking the 22nd street or Ogden avenue surface cars and transferring to the Berwyn-Lyons car, Go to the end of the line and take a bus to the grove, Everybody is welcome and a good time is assured. Markham Police Officials to’ Face County Indictments Indictments were to be sought against officials of Markham for illegal arrests of motorists, Willlam Stein- berg, assistant state’s attorney, an- nounced, 2 Steinberg said George J, Liesen- feldt, Markham justice of the peace, and Charles Morley, chief of police, had admitted an agreement under which autoists were je victims of speedtraps and excessive fines col- lected. Another Injunction Issued Against Greek Waiters in Newark NEWARK, N. J., July 16, — The Greek restaurant strikers of Newark on strike for seventeen weeks received their eleventh injunction, when a strike was called in the Essex Restau- rant, 919 Broad St. ‘Tho a law went in effect in New Jersey, allowing peaceful picketing it ig being disregarded by the courts, in an attempt to serve, the bosses, Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your unin meeting, sss sss‘ ggg gg ng gg gg AACA SOE Pe EE ae eee aay Workers Cannot Wage p| Lone Struggle Against Tyranny of Capitalism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. — HE American Bar Association is meeting at Denver, Colo., and an- other National Crime Commission is in session in New York City trying to discover the cause of crime, or, as the case is stated, “the reasons and remedies for America’s great crime rate,” It is declared that Mayor Dever, of Chicago, made the most impressive presentation of the entire matter in his address on “Volsteadism,” and as a result the bar association is planning to move to “the Windy City,” “in order to be closer to the center of things.” Cicero would be an even better location, esr 8 The American Bar Association is the aristocratic organization of the legal profession of the United States, All lawyers, who can afford to do so, belong to it. It is from this crowd that all judges, from the lowest police court magistrate up to William Howard Taft, chief justice of the United States supreme court, are chosen, They are the crime de- fenders, It is their job to get criminals off as easily as possible. That is thelr business. Some of the things they were told at their Den- ver gathering follow: “Crime is costing America three billion dollars per year. “More murderers and robbers are loose in the land than there are sol- diers in the regular army or police- men in American cities, “The cause of the scorge is the mental attitude of the people, © “The national sore is not healing. Education is not checking it. Re- peaters are increasing in every peni- tentiary. The bald facts are so hideous as to chill the blood.” But it does not chill the blood of the lawyers. It gives them more business. It does not frighten the judges. It gives more of them jobs. It does not startle the newspapers. It gives them exciting news that in- creases the circulation, that boosts the advertising rate, that results in profits mounting higher and higher. Every crime wave is a prosperity wave for the press of capitalism. eee Most crime is a product of cap- italism. Every crime wave can be traced to some cancer in the cap- italist social order. Crime does not seriously menace the capitalist sys- tem. It is therefore the cause only of intermittent hysteria among the defenders of capitalism. No serious effort is made to exterminate it, “Volsteadism!” is the cry of the wets, who think more of the return of light wines and beer than they do of murder statistics. it was while Mayor Dever was making his Denver speech that an- other gun went into action in Cicero and before the smoke had cleared away, One woman and two men were dead at the hands of James Granite, a worker. Granite was not connect- ed with the war of rival political tac- tions or bootleggers, He only had a grudge, deep-seated and urging. PHILIPPINE CONGRESS OPENS WITH A DEMAND FOR FREEDOM FROM U. S. MANILA, P, 1, July 16.—Address- ing the opening of the Filipino le- gislature today Manuel Quezon, po- litleal leader, voiced a strong ap- peal for independence of the Philip- pines. “The Filipino people, now more than ever, aspire to their freedom, which to them Is a paramount con- sideration in their relations with the United States,” Quezon told the legislature which was also address- ed by Carmi A. Thompson, Presi- dent Coolidge’s special representa- tive to the Islands. Philippine Congress, The firet act of the legislature wae to request Col, Thompson to transmit an Independence resolu- tlon to President Coolidge. Governor Ge | Leonard Wood who delivered nual message to the legislature was received for- mally and silently, \ U. S. Envoy Refuses to Hear Germans’ Appeal for Sacco-Vanzetti BERLIN, July 16—A delegation among whom were members of the German reichstag visited the Amer! can Ambassador Schurman here to place a plea before him for the re lease of aScco and Vanzetti, two'work- ers who are doomed to die in Massa: chusetts as a result of a frame-up by which they were convicted of 4 crime now confessed by others, Ambassador Schurman refused to see the delegation, according to the reports in the German press, and the lorem refuses to talk about the mat- er, Granite had ‘been a loyal slave of the American Flange and Manu- facturing Co,, 4646 Arthington -St. Sol Schwartz, the son of the owner, according to Granite’s story, forced him to work on a lathe known to be defective. There was an accident. He lost his thumb. The workmen's compensation act didn’t seem to operate in his case, The company refused to compensate him for the injury. He was fired. Workers without fingers have difficult times getting jobs. Granite soon found this out. As months passed his funds be- came exhausted, he was forced to sleep in Grant Park, the home of the homeless, and to seek refuge in cheap lodging houses. In the dark hours of his struggle he developed the idea that he needed a lawyer to fight for him. But lawyers demang money, especially those of the American Bar Association. So Granite got a gun and set out to get the money. He turned high- wayman. He became an enemy of society, but he conducted his war alone, He determined to get revenge by killing Sol Schwartz. But be- fore he found Schwartz, the inci- dent occurred in Cicero as a result of which a Sunday school teacher, a superintendent and chauffeur were shot down in a taxicab. Granite im- mediately became a hunted animal. The police were on the trail of the man without a thumb. They caught him. Granite is now in the county Jail facing a triple murder charge. His role as a lone fighter seeking justice for himself against capital- ism nears the foot of the gallows. ue If Granite had accepted the loss of his thumb, blamed himself for the accident and got a permit from the city to beg alms at street cor- ners in order to keep from starving, he would ‘be at liberty. Satisfied slaves are rewarded a little. But Granite wanted to fight.’ He wanted to satisfy his outraged feel- ings by killing the exploiter, Sol Schwartz, responsible for his woes. Granite’s courage is to be lauded. But he took the wrong road. Such a struggle can only ‘by waged by all class conscious workers banding themselves together, politically and economically, and fighting capital- ism itself. Capitalists are happy when in- dividual workers seek satisfaction following in Granite’s footsteps. Such workers are harmless, Capitalists would stand aghast, however, and behold, their own doom at the sight of all workers, with Granite’s courage, uniting for the struggle to abolish the rule of the exploiters thru establishing their own governmental power to in- augurate a new social order to satis- fy the needs of the workers and usher in a wave of happiness for all who toil, Capitalism is itself the great crime wave that is sweep- ing the world today. It must be engulfed in and obliterated by the Soviet power of labor. BANK ROBBERS ARE ORGANIZED, SAYS CARLSTROM DENVER, Col., July 16,—Delegates attending the annual convention of the American Bar Association here were discussing the speech of Oscar Carlstrom, attorney general of IIli- nois, in which Carlstrom declared there existed in the United States an organization of cracksmen known as the Bank Robbers’ Association of America, whose activities are pro- tected by one of the most brilliant lawyers in the east. There are only 300 first-class bank robbers and safe crackers in the United States, declared Carlstrom, and these are banded together in an or- ganization which provides for the de- fense of any member who may be ar- rested and provides measures in aid- ing them to escape from the scenes of their crimes, Its headquarters, Carlstrom said, are Syracuse, N. Y, It closely paral- lols the association of the bootlegging gangs in Chicago. While this statement fell like a bombshell in the ranks of attorney generals of the United States and Can- ada at the meeting of the international association, Mr, Carlstrom would not go into detail on the matter, being. con- tented merely with stating the “bare facts” and declaring that he knew such an organization exists, Reject Calliaux's Proposal. Paris, July 16—-The finance com- mission of the chamber of deputies to- night rejected M. Cafllaux’s demand that he be given dictatorial powers to deal with the financial situation, MALTER BROS, SHOP WORKERS “GO ON STRIKE Bosses Frantic; Loss of Orders The workers in the Malter Brothers shop, 4751 Sheridan Road, have gone out on strike demanding that this firm sign up with Local 45 Chicago Fur Workers’ Union. This shop has been nonunion up to the present: time. Every attempt to organize the shop was met with a strong opposition on. the part of the bosses. Due to the activity of a number of progressives in the local the Malter Brothers’ shop went into negotiations with the union last week, When the shop refused to sign the’ agreement put before them, the work- erg went out on strike. This is one of the biggest shops in the city. Three more shops have settled with the union, The rift in the Fur Manu- facturers Association is growing great- er each day. The group that demands an immediate settlement with the union is gaining in strength. Many of them fear the loss of many orders they have on hand. The strike has come at the start of the busy season and they fear that if the strike continues orders they have on hand will be cancelled and shipped elsewhere, A mass meeting of the workers in the settled shops was held late yester- day afternoon, At this meeting the main question was the levying of a 15 per cent assessment to aid those still on strike. Fear New York Traction Trust Would Make Strike Heads Paupers (Continued from page 1) after ten years of a legal struggle, The I, R, T. intends to ask the courts to restrain the men from holding meet- ' ings. The strikers are yet waiting for Mr. Hylan, ex-mayor, and other alleged enemies of the I. R. T, to say a word in their behalf. The strike committee declared they are not terrorized by the company’s suits. The strikers have laughed at the injunctions and say that witheut powerhouse employes and motormen the company is helpless. The men are determined not to return to the I. R. T. as long as the company union, head- ed by Connolly, exists, Labor Leaders Talk, Labor union officials who hitherto only took an academic interest in the strike got excited over the injunction issue. Joseph Ryan, President of the Central Trades and Labor Council, de- clared that this injunction of the I. R. T, against the strikers was a notice to labor that it must push its fight to limit the rights of the courts in in- junction maters in industrial disputes. There is no improvement in I. R. T. service despite announcements to the contrary. Even the capitalist papers admit this. Even the transit commis- sion declares that the service is only 64 per cent normal. The company has lost approximately $300,000 since the strike started. More Workers Join Strike. Strikebreakers are receiving wages of $1 an hour. The ranks of the strik- ers were increased yesterday by the addition of 62 engineers, boilers, clean- ers, water tenders and firemen from the East 74th Street power plant. Elevated repair men are joining the union. Feeders from the Edison power company are now being used by the company. U. S. Rubber Trust in Philippines Boosting Division of Islands MANILA, July 16.—“The Moros of the southern islands,” say the repre- sentatives of the American rubber trust, “hate the Filipinos of the north< ern islands and want a continuance of American rule.” If the Filipinos won't help the Americans to grow the rub- ber necessary to break the British monopoly the Moros are: ready to welcome the rubber men, they say. * Rubber Trust Propaganda. ‘Therefore the Moros are reported as clamoring for the passage of the Ba- con bill in Washington, to separate them under a different administra- tion, But the ardor of the Morog may be discovered to have cooled if Colonel Carmi Thompson, envoy of Coolidge, can persuade the Filipinos to agree to pass a law repealing the present limi- tation on the size of land holdings, so that American rubber men may get hold of the 1,500,000 acres of suitable land in the south, It is rumored that partisans of com- plete independence, including Senator Alegre, have agreed to this. Concur- rent reports say that it may not be necessary to divide the islands, 5 and 10 Magnate Seeks Divorce from His Second Wife DETROIT, July 16—Gebastian 8. Kresge, millionaire chain store opera- tor, filed suit for divorce here against his second wife, Doris Mercer Kresge, WRITE AS YOU FIGHTI Every Worker Correspondent must be a subscriber to the A Worker Correspondent. Are you one? RS eines” elses ssp sess nnn SING AEND