The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1926, Page 3

ee ee TEE THE DAILY WORKER I. R. T, STRIKERS STAND FIRM FOR THE REAL UNION Fierce Fight Made to Spread the Strike (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, July 19. — Following The attempt to induce the strikers of the Interborongh Rapid Transit com- pany to go back to work with mere re-instatement at their old pay, the Consolidated Raflroad Workers’ Un- fon announces its terms thru John iL. Sherman, the strikers’ publicity director, as follows: “We have announced certain cond tions on which we will remain firm, including the recognition of the Con- solidated. But regardless of what may develop in conference we are open to mediation, The strikers are un alterably opposed to an increase of fare on the subway, In their own tn. terest and in the interest of the pud- Iie.” A Few Timid Yield to Threat. The company goats over the re turn to work of a few men who havo been intimated by the company’s unheard of threat to take away tho personal property of the strikers, One of these was Harry Post, father of fourteen children, sdle support of his aged mother and owner of a farm tn Columbia county, He was one of the defendants named in the Inter. borough suit, and feared the loss of his little farm for “damages to the Interborough.” Five of thé striking motormen, act- ing as a committee, have called on Mrs. Lillian R. Sire, head of the alien division of the State Department of Labor, and complained that the com- pany was withholding pay due them in vidlation of the labor law and the penal code. Company Selzes Pay Due. Mrs. Sire said the case was clear and that the company could be forced to pay the wages, impounded by court order at petition of the Interborough in its suit against the strikers “for $239,000 damages. The amount of the wages impounded is $2,000. Mr. Quackenbush, attorney for the company, however, states that this is a@ mistake, as the law provides only that wege payments shall be made in cash in order to prevent firms paying men in “company orders,” but that thefe is no law to prevent companies from seizing pay due for damages in a suit brought against strikers. He will appear before the Labor Depart- ment Monday to uphold this seizure of wages. os Bosses Protect Company Union. The company is steadily protecting its company union, and when asked if the strike leaders Lavin, Bark and Phelan might come back to work, Suackenbush hinted that this would not be allowed as it “would antagon- ize the brotherhood. No matter what may happen, we are not going to do anything offense to that general com- mittee,” he said affectionately of his scab company union. Men must return to work as indivi- duals, he stated, and not as members of the real union, the Consolidated, and would be accepted only by con- sent of the company union. Strike Spreads. Meanwhile, more men from the power houses have been walking out, and the power is failing in spite of the scabs rushed into the power houses where they are housed and fed. “Mechanical trouble” on the Lex- ington avenue line caused a delay of nearly an hour to those who were daring enough to ride behind scabs running trains with faulty power. Thirtyfive men from the East Ninety-eighth street barns marched in a body to the headquarters of the Consolidated at Manhattan Casino ‘amd joined the strike. Pickets are bringing in men continually. Three. water tenders at the East Fifty-ninth street power house, joined the strik- ers when ordered to serve“as scab firemen at the Seventy-Fourth street plant. All Vote Against Company Union. The Consolidated union is jubilant over the referendum returns from 9,000 transit employes, dealing with the question of a real union as op- posed to the company union and im- proved working conditions. “Substan- tially less than 200 of the men who voted did not favor these demands,” said the strikers’ publicity director. “We believe that most of these 200 were fakes sponsored by the com- pany. We consider this to be ex- tremely significant of the support of the strike by the transit employes.” May Tle Up 8. M. T. and Edison The strikers intimate that they have conferred with workers of the Edison power plants concerning attempts being made by the Interborough to get scab power from the pow- er houses. Also, a ittee has been in conference with employes of conferences, as the B, M. T. lines were tied up for some time Friday morning by failure of power. er Chicago Workers Greet Victims of Open Shop Injunction Freda Reicher, Evelyn Dornfield, Florence Corn and Oscar Simons were greeted with wild cheers as they left Cook County jail after serving 30 days for defying Judge Sullivan’s anti-pick- eting edict in the dressmakers’ strike of 1924. After the demonstration be- fore the jail they marched down thru the garment shop district to the head- quarters of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union. Delegations representing a number of shops, the Shook the Worl By JOAN REED mike ASK ACTION OF CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL OF N.Y. Furriers’ Union Wants Labor Candidates (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW CITY CITY, July 19.—A com- munication from the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union, signed by Ben Gold, manager, requesting the. Cen- tral Trades and Labor Council to call a conference to nominate labor candi dates for the coming election, was read at the regular meeting of the Central Trades and Labor Council. It was referred to the executive board for action. Government in Hands of Enemies. The communication recited in de- tail how both the republican and dem- ocratic parties have in the past acted against the interests of the working class. It pointed to the fact that dur- ing the present democratic adminis- tration over 700 members of the Fur- riers’ Union have been arrested for strike activity. Also that 7,000 mem- bers of the police force are now being used to protect scabs in the Inter- borough Rapid Transit strike. It also showed how the republican majority in the New Yor: state legislature has opposed the interests of the workers. On the basis of these conclusions it urged the nomination of labor candi dates as the only remedy. Protest to Walker, A committee of five, headed by President Joseph Ryan, was appointed to visit Mayor Walker and protest against the action of the board of su- perintendents in eliminating the name of Abraham Lefkowitz from the list of the eligible Zor appointment as first isaistant teacher in history and civics. The board of superintendents made its decision on July 1. Its action fol- lowed charges dating back six years, when the teachers’ union, in which he is active, was attacked for alleged rad- ical tendencies. The committee cons! of Joseph Ryan, Joseph S. McDonegh, Edward J. Hannah, Jerome B, Keating and Thomas J. Curtis. Every Worker Correspondent must be a subscriber to the American A BIRD OF PREY Oliver Harriman, banker, back from Europe where he studied the possibilities of profiting from the perilous financial condition of Eu- rope. BERMAN PRESS ASKS REVISION OF DAWES PLAN Threatens America with Economic Reprisals BERLIN, July 19.—Overtures are being made in the German press for a revision of the Dawes plan. For some time the German press has in Spasmodic attempts called for a re- vision of the Dawes plan. Now since the Anglo-French debt settlement the German press is carrying on an in- tense campaign in that direction. It is stated that France agrees to reduce the indemnity annuities if England reduces those of France. England, in turn, declares that she is prepared to do so if the American bankers will give her like considera- tion, The German press points out that unless the United States takes steps to cut down the war debt annuities that she will be faced with an econom- leally whited Europe bent on repri- sal’s for America’s “Shylocklike atti- Worker Correspondent. Are you one? | tude.” NEW YORK CITY—This injunction like other injunctions against strikers drastically invades the constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and press. It abrogates fundamental American rights and turns the strikers over to the usurped power of the ty- Tannical equity conrts. a It is another strike-breaking weapon used by Hedley and the I. R. T. to break this magnificent revolt of sorely exploited workers. This injunction suit is based squarely upon the company union and its accompanying “yellow dog” con- tract both of which deprive workers Tho classic on the Russian Revolution, with introduction by LENIN Statement on I. R. T. Injunction of the right to belong to unions of their own choosing and the right to bargain collectively as independent trade unionists. It must be remembered always by labor that the “yellow dog” contract chains the worker to the company and the company-controlled union, This contract is signed by workers under duress and the bludgeon of starvation and job-fear. A labor contract thus induced by coercion and fraud should be no more enforceable than any other contract so procured, These “yellow dogs” and labor in- Junctions, based upon them exist in no other “civilized country.” Both of these strike-smashing and worker-en- slaving processes are a challenge to the Amefidan workers. Organized la- bor should stand behind the Consoll- dated Rail Workers of Greater Now fot ighting those who usurp the’ the courts to break MORE BANKS IN GEORGIA CLOSE IN BIG CRASH Four in Florida Shut; Checks Refused ATLANTA, Ga., July 19. — Four Florida banks have closed their doors in addition to the long list of those in the hands of recetvers in Georgia, to which 15 were added Thursday and four more Friday morning, according to the state bank’ examiners. An amazing @tyte of affairs’ is dis- closed by the Hsting of the banks’ to- tal resources and liabilities, illustrat- ing the unsoundiess of their financial dealings. Those. made public Thurs- day are as follows: Taylor County Bank, $15,000, Mabilities $224,679; Bank of Lyerly resources $15,000, liabilities $236,670; Bank of Cusetta, resources $15,000, liabilities. $174,236; Rock Mart Bank, $30,000 and $412,989; Bank of Smyrnia, $16,300 and $204,179, and a long list of others with similar small resources and immense liabilities. ee 8 WASHINGTON, D. C., July 19. — Only by intercession of J. W. MclIn- tosh, comptroller of the currency, have the eastern financial corporations of the big bankers agreed to take checks on Florida banks. They have previously been using stickers at- tached to their correspondence stating “We do not accept Florida checks.” resources Re-elect Officers of Butcher Workmen; Plan Drive.on Big Packers LOUISVILLE, , July 19.—The con- vention in Louisville of the Amalga- mated Meat Cutters & Butcher Work- men of America re-elected Patrick Gorman president and Dennis Lane general secretary4reasurer. Per cap- ita to the union was increased by con- ventior, action to permit greater or- ganizing sctivity, in the middle west. The larger partot:the membership is now employed in, retail butcher shops and the packing. plants need union attention, it was declared, “Peace Agteemen Is Followed with Attack by 20,000 in Morocco PARIS, July 1§.—The signing of an agreement here between France and Spain which “% res peace in Mor- occo” was followed by an offensive by the French forces against the Moors who are stubbornly holding out against both Spanish and French in the upper Atlas region. Twenty thousand French troops are taking part in the drive centering around the Taza district. The com- mnader claims that the drive so far is successful and will be completed within a week, Bakers’ Convention Meets in N. Y. Aug. 9 The 19th con¥éntion of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers’ Int yrna- tional Union wéjiropen in New York City August 9, the union headquarters in Chicago announce, —h— WRITE A¥’YOU FIGHT — BE: Women's Trade Union League, Local 52 of the Millinery Workers’ Union and members of the Furriers, Painters, Carpenters and Typogra THE KING OF JAZZ King Alfonso of Spain, shown leav- ing Oxford University where he was given an honorary degree, in honor of his terpsichorean accomplish- ments, perhaps. Alfonso is having a gay time at the expense of his sub- jects. He is very popular with Amer- ican ladies of wealth and leisure. They also have a gay time at the expense of their American slaves, SOVIET FINANCE ° EXPERT REFUSED AMERIGAN VISA : Og Feats | Lone Red May Upset Nation WASHINGTON, July 19.—-M. Sékol- nikoff, former people’s commissar of finance in the Soviet government, will not be permitted to come to the United States as a representative of the Russian State Bank, the state de- partment has determined, Its reason for refusal to issue a visa to him is that he is a member of the executive committee of the Third International, The Coolidge administration claims that the Third International ig trying to foment revolution and the over- throw of all capitalist governments, and especially that of the United States. On the other hand, it is understood that the department has no intention of stopping the coming of any other official of the Soviet government, if he comes on an errand of trade or finance and is not identified with Com- munist propaganda organizations, Soviet trade with the United States has grown so large and the American business interests favoring its encour- agement are so important that the ad- ministration is embarrassed by the conflict between its political boycott of Moscow and its ecohomic wooing ‘of the Soviet state, participated in the demonstration. The above picture was taken on the jail steps and doors, part of the re- hical unions | ception throng. FIND TWO MORE DEAD IN RUINS LEFT BY BLAST Protests Pouring in to Government (Special to The Daily Worker) DOVER, N. J., July 19. — Patching together the pieces of human bodies found in the debris of buildings at the naval arsenal where the great explo- sion took place recently, searchers have managed to assemble two more vietims,-one of tifem -a ‘woman, Mrs. Ida M. Wadhams, wife of the chief clerk, The other body’s fragments were unidentifiable. Shell Shocked Appear. Three more marines, missing since the explosion, came staggering into the arsenal, cut, bruised, dazed and muttering unintelligibly from shell shock, clothed in tattered rags and unable to tell where they had been. Evidently two had been wandering in the woods, the other one appears to have come back from a hospital, grop- ing his way half-conscious and stumb- ling back to the place. Meanwhile, the work of salvaging ull material from the ruins began, slong with an official investigation by gold-braided higher officers, whose ‘expert judgment” before the explo- sion was that it couldn’t happen. The board will make recommendation as to where such explosives will be stored in the future. A large tent has been rigged up near the arsenal at which the civilians who suffered damages may file their claims, ene Protests Pour In. WASHINGTON, July 19. — The en- tire question of location of arsenals of the army and navy along the Atlantic seaboard may be thrown into the next congress, it was indicated today. With Secretary of War Davis de- claring that congress alone has the power to authorize removals and make funds available and Secretary Wilbur remaining silent upon the navy’s policy, protests from populous centers continued to grow. Senators To Act. Both Senator Edge of New Jersey and Senator Bruce of Maryland, who have complained to the war depart- ment in the past of the nearness of arsenals to New Jersey towns and to Baltimore, were reported determined to force action in the next congress if the war and navy departments adhere to their present policies. The report of boards investigating the Leke Denmark and Picatinny dis- asters is expected to have a strong bearing on the future arsenal location policy, Western States Lead in Locals of Hotel and Restaurant Int. CINCINNATI, July 19.—Four west- ern states are among the six leaders in the number of locals organized in the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ International Alliance, union head- quarters {n Cincinnati announce. Cal- {fornia leads with 34 locals, and then, after New York with 21 and Illinois with 20, come Washington state with 16, Texas 16 and Oregon 14, The al- Mance has 259 locals. The next con- vention will be held tn Portland Ore. the summer of 192f , ete Page Three FIRESTONE FIRM TRIES FRAME-UP MOVE BUT LOSES Strikers Stand True to Their Demands BOSTON, Mass., July 19.—The bosses of the Fire e Apsley Com- pany of Hudson f: i to trick the strikers into going back in spite of all their efforts. It seems that: they made a frame-up with the owners of the Art Theater of Hudson to give the theater free for the strikers’ meeting. The object of this trick was to stack the meeting with everybody in towa, including the business men and petty bosses, tn order to stampede the strik ers into surrender, Strike Leader Wins Ground. The meeting opened with a stirring speech by Andrew Marchant, the mile tant strike leader, who exposed the frame-up by saying that the business men want to get the workers’ dollar, but that they do not care whether they got a cut in wages or not. Mar chant said they wo: fight until they ¥ was enthusi workers, ™ a were already under for the cok ection of money to finance the strike, He called upon the audience to make a collection the silver and the dollar bills came pouring in. Priest Attacks Strikers. Part of the frame-up was the ef dress of Father Mullen, who while pleading for peace in the town at the same time attacked those who were defending the rights of the workers. While Mullen said he was impartial he took pains not to step on the corns of the bosses, but he did not hesitate to rub it into the workers on strike, Following this one of the company suckers proposed that as a reward for Father Mullen’s hypocritical speech he be placed on the strike committea, The scheme was that all the assem bled business men and bosses were to See ee vote for this scheme and raitroad it : thru, but the workers indignantly re fused to have anything to do with this proposition and left the hall. Stand By Demands. The bosses are already trying in every possible way to settle the strike thru the intervention of various peo- ple in the town, But the workers will not go back until they get their de mands of the 70-cent rate in black and white and no discrimination against any of those who were active in the strike. Mr. Firestone is offer- ing the workers 6214 cents and an adjustment “in a few weeks,” which means never, The workers will not be fooled by this sort of strategy; they will fight till they win. Eight Out of Ten of Minnesota Districts for Magnus Johnson ST. PAUL, Minn., July 19—@ight out of 10 Minnesota congressional dis tricts were carried by Magnus John- |son in the Farmer-Labor primary for governor June 21, as shown by com plete returns. He carried 56 out of 87 counties against Tom Davis, his rival. 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