The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1926, Page 2

Page Two [re THE DAILY WORKER TEXTILE BANKS AND BOSSES IN WAR ON 1.L.G.W. Join Garment Bosses to Fight N. Y. Strike (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, July 21.—That the need of unity in the ranks of labor to equal the combinations of capital is clear in the statement issued by Henry H. Finder, president of the Industrial Council of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers’ Association, one of the employers’ groups against which the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union is striking. Mr. Finder yesterday gave out the following: “A group of fourteen executives of g textile concerns and tex- houses, believing that the stand of the Industrial Council in the present labor crisis is for the best interests of this industry, have agreed to give extwa consideration in the granting and e: ion of credits to those of our members who may be hard pressed in course of the present controvers In addition, the police who acted as the employers’ agents in arresting without cause 400 pickets in the mass picketing demonstrations extended their activities without any reason or even an excuse by raiding the employ- ment office of the Furriers’ Union at Sixth avenue and Twenty-seventh street and arresting all the furriers waiting there for jobs, REED HITS AT MELLON OVER DEBT DICKERS Proves Himself a Liar, Says the Senator (Special to The Dally Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 21. — Se- cretary Mellon’s previous claims made for consumption of Americans, contradict his recent letter on the war debts written for consumption in Europe, according to Sen. James A. Reed, in an interview here. Mellon a Liar. “Tt gives the lie direct to the claim So persistently made that France is paying in full but only receiving fa- vorable interest rates. It equally proves the falsity of the claim so of- ten made on the floor of the senate that the Italian debt settlement was not in fact a cancellation of 75 per cent of the Italian debt. “It will be remembered that it was insisted by the proponents of the Ital- ian debt settlement who represented Mr. Mellon and the administration on the floor, that Italy was paying in full and only receiving a low rate of interest. Italian Debt Cancelled. “Mr. Mellon has torn the mask from his own face and from the fac- es of those senators who voiced his false pretenses in the senate debates. The truth is now plain that we have cancelled a large part of the Italian debt and that we are asked to can- cel substantially 50 per cent of the French debt. Against the completion of this outrage at least some of the senators will wage a vigorous oppo- sition. Aided Bankers, “The whole business was in my judgment engineered in the interest of international financiers who desir- ed to stabilize and advance their own Privately held foreign securities by cancelling the debt due our govern- ment.” Fifteen More True | (Continued from page 1) CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. ———- | cording to the movies and scripture, but real life is sometimes different to reel life. oe * | | UBLIC attention is attracted now- | adays more to the law violations | of law enforcement officers than to the | activities of those who make a living |thru certain kinds of effort that in- volve infractions of legal statutes. One of the most ng examples of dis- | regard for law was the recent primary | contest in Cook County. States Attor- |ney Crowe, the principal law officer in the county, appears to be the prin- |cipal law violator, Votes were stolen |in bales by Crowe’s lieutenants, But |listen to Crowe deliver a lecture | against law violators before a meet- jing of the chamber of commerce! | SAVAGE LOSES HEAVILY IN CROWE'S WARD Special Judge ‘Asked to Try Vote Fraud Cases Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph P. Savage, union-smashing State’s At- torney Robert E. Crowe’s nominee for Cook county judge, in the recount of votes in Crowe's home precinct lost heavily to his opponent Munici- pal Judge Daniel P. Trude on the Deneen-Lundin slate. It was found in this precinct that 60 votes were given Savage that did not belong to him. Forty votes that had been cast for Trude had not been counted. In this way Savage lost an even 100 votes. Average thefts for the 17 Crowe- Barrett-Thompson candidates in the republican primaries in the 363 pre cincts so far recounted were 4,841 each. Deneen-Lundin-Small candi- dates had an average of 2,258 stolen votes apiece. Democrat Primaries. In the democratic recount the 13 Brennan candidates concerned ‘had 2,635 stolen votes apiece in the 170 precincts counted. Their opponents in the Dunne-O’Connell-Harrison ranks have gained an average of 1,018 votes each. Special Judge Asked Special State’s Attorney Charles A. McDonald, who was in charge of the special grand jury investigating vote frauds, announces that a request will be made for a judge of the criminal court to hear nothing but election fraud cases. Fifty-six have been in- dicted so far. All of the accused are faced with prison terms of from one to flve years and a fine ranging to $2,000 or both. Attempts are being made to have these cases heard so that an example may be made to election judges and clerks that might seek to steal votes in the November elections, 95 Degree Heat Wave Fatal to 24 Here as City’s Poor Suffer The intense heat of two sweltering days in Chicago during which the mercury hovered around the 95 mark resulted in the deaths of twenty-four persons. Tuesday was the warmest July 20 since 1901. The suffering was particularly in- terise in the baking Maxwell St. dis- trict, where thousands donned improy- ised summer costumes and made the best of the shady spots on porches and sidewalks. Children found some re- lef from fire plugs that were turned on, Some 250,000 of the more fortun- ate spent the day at lake beaches, Workers Overcome by Heat in Gary Mill GARY, Ind., July 21. — Raphael Crisp, while at work in the tin mill MEXICAN PORT WORKERS POKE FUN AT POPE Congratulate Calles on Catholic Stand (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, July 21.—President Calles has given to the press a letter from Vera Cruz longshoremen, signify- ing approval of the government’s stand to force the catholic church to get out of politics and commenting on the pope’s condemnation of Mexican policy. The letter says: “Your having fallen under the papal excommunication fills us with joy and obliges us to congratulate you sin- cerely. The excommunication we re- gard as a pure pontifical bluff, exer- cized to disguise their defeat, now that the efforts put forth by the ex- ploiters of religion to avoid the opera- tion of our laws have been brought to naught, A “Decoration” “This is the decoration of greatest value that you have received as a token of your incomparable work as a revolutionary. Further, it relieves loyal Mexicans of any obligation to treat with the Vatican, which does not understand honor, patriotism and lib- erty. “The Mexican people, far from re- proving your dignified attitude, ap- plaud; and when their’ legitimate rep- resentative is excommunicated, the whole people is excommunicated—a people which, when divorced from Roman exploitation, may fulfill its national life by exercising Christian activity with more liberty. Genuine Blood Intoxicates. “When the Mexican people have the good fortune to dwell under Papal ex- communication, they may proceed to enjoy true independence and feel like Christians—true Christians, whose feelings come from the heart, reveal- ing the soul and spirit of each citizen —not those who import from the Vati- can a barrel of wine to consecrate, which drugs the brain and conscience and mystifies faith. “What can our union do to enjoy, as you do, this excommunication? “(Signed) ALONZO MARTINES,” Chief of the Longshoremen, Vera Cruz, ‘A DICTATOR’ CRY FRENCH CAPITALISTS (Continued from page 1) talists, the demand for a dictatorship that will “save France.” This cry for a regime of reaction for the protection of capital comes from several sources, all wishing the dictatorship for themselves. Caillaux wanted it, but was overthrown by Herriot who argued against dictator- ship. But now Herriot’s finance min- ister, De Monzie, demands the same powers, with some different program. Fascism Rises Up, Expecting Herriot to be overthrown Poincare is asking his chance on the basis of a dictatorship. The French fascists have placarded the walls of Paris with posters reading: “Fascism is ready to assume all po- litical, financial, economic and social responsibilities in the endeavor to avert a financial catastrophe. Tiere is still time to avoid a catastrophe by constitutional methods. If there is a delay, however, fascism will call up- on all Frenchmen to enter effectively into a national revolution, the result of which will enable us to give France a new leader, a new constitution and new institutions.” A Reactionary Revolution. The “Echo de Paris” a militarist organ and the Nationalist “L’Avenir” hint of a revolution by reaction if eee o Will Support Iowa pc | Not Get G. Oi P. SMITH W. BROOKHART BROOKHART MAY DINE ON 6, 0,P, FATED CALF Republican Chiefs See Writing on Sky (Special te The Daily Worker) DES MOINES, July 21—As dele- gates to the Iowa state republican convention met here today there was small doubt evident that Smith W. Brookhart as nominee for the United States senate would be received into the official bosom of the Iowa republi- can party, whose state central com- mittee two years ago repudiated him for his indorsement of LaFollette and fought against him in the Steck- Brookhart contest. Hopping On the Wagon, The heavy majority that gave the primary victory to Brookhart over the old guard republican, Cummins, in the recent primaries has, gonvinced the old stalwarts that disvvetion is the better part of valor and that it is wiser to step on the Brookhart band- wagon than butt a vulnerable head against a stone wall. The farmers are hot under the col- lar, so the reactionary republicans be- lieve it is better to swim with the tide until the expected improvement in agricultural fortunes takes place. Ready to Ditch Cal. The politicians in the Iowa G. O. P. machine are not so crazy about Coo- lidge that they are willing to commit hari kari for him. Neither will Wall Street be able to do anything for them unless they are able to fool the masses, So they proceed to fool the masses. And the best way is to swim with the tide and pose as champions of the farmers. —asked for penalties for Frenchmen who refuse to bring back to France the capital they have taken abroad. “This government intends to insti- tute a tax upon all assets now in the service of public credits,” he declared, intimating a capital levy. As to for- along without loans, the necessity of ratifying the agreement on the debt owing to the United States disappears, was his intimation, Hints at Repudiation, eign debt, if Francé means to get —— Bore the old political parties are desperately trying to cover up their failure to provide relief of any kind for the suffering farmers, Their agents are as busy as ever at the gathering of farm representa- tives now being held at Des Moines, Towa. The republicans are trying to put the blame on the democrats. The democrats attempt to plaster the onus of failure on the repub- licans. The tendency to hit both of these enemies of the farmers is not strong. Its futility can be meas- ured by the extent of this weak- ness. se * Thus the special correspondent of the New York Times (democratic) points out that: “Deep resentment over the al- leged betrayal of both political par- tiés of their campaign pledges to the farmer was evident in the dis- cussions of agricultural leaders to- day, but their bitterness was espe- cially directed against the repub- lican administration because it is in power.” That conclusion is inspired to some extent by the political affilia- tions of the New York Times. But it nevertheless states an accepted fact. Too often the blame is put merely on the party in power, which now happens to be the republican party, and support thrown to the ex- ploiters’ party which happens to be waiting for a place at the pie counter, which is now the democra- tic party. Then with the democrats in power the same insane proceed- ing is reversed, with labor continu- ing its ceaseless toil upon industry’s treadmill. ‘oe It just happens that the democrats in the congress just adjourned gave the republicans giant support in re- jecting the meager demands of the farmers. There is no escape for the demo- crats. Under the direction of Speaker Nicholas Longworth, who wants to be a presidential candi- date in 1928, the Haugen bill that received the support even of Vice- President Dawes, was defeated by 45 votes. It is shown that 89 demo- , crats voted against the Haugen bill, with only 66 voting for it and 27 not voting at all. Here was a clear majority of the democrats voting against “safe and sane” legislation that some democratic leaders claim- ed would give the farmer the relief to which they condescendingly claimed the farmer is entitled. It was not alone the democrats from industrial districts, but also the de- mocrats from “The Solid South” who stood by the Coolidge-Mellon- Hoover republicans to fight the farmers. see ‘There is another section of Iowa Politics that is being driven into the open at the present meeting in Des Moines. It is the following of Smith W. Brookhart, who recently Traction Czars in New York City to Use the Blacklist (Continued from page 1) at the close: Rey. Edward Lawrence Hunt, of the so-called “American Good Will Union.” The Transit Commission announced “Representatives of the Consolidat- ed Railway Workers of Greater New Class ‘Fighters Must Raise Their Voices in Farmers’ Organizations By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. took the republican nomination for United States senator away from the administration candidate, Sen- ator Cummins. While the representatives of the farmers are discussing the problems of the land the Iowa republicans are gathered in state convention building their congressional plat- form. It was taken for granted that the Brookhart followers would lay down @ barrage of bitter attack against the Coolidge gang, that ousted Brookhart from the senate displac- ing him with a democrat, But the Same loyalty that keeps LaFollette, Jr., in Wall Street's republican par- ty in Wisconsin, silences Brookhart in Iowa and it is declared that all attacks on the national republican administration will be soft-pedaled. Shafts may be levelled at Secretary of Agriculture Jardine or Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, but “the party” must be protected. It is therefore inconceivable that any farmer, studying the Iowa ex- perience, should be able to find friends in the old parties, The whole crew of political parasites, down to Brookhart, stands unmasked as a flock of hungry buzzards trying to Set political sustenance out of the woes of the agricultural section of the population, There is material enough here for any fighting elements that may exist in the organizations now gath- ered at Des Moines to blast this whole outfit of republican and democratic political mountebanks sky high. It is not enough to talk about “the’ sinister plans of the Coolidge administration to reduce agriculture to a state of peonage.” That ten- dency must be fought bitterly. The fighting must come from the rank and file who suffer aud carry all the burdens. eee Included in the Des Moines meet- ing are the Corn Belt Committee, constituting the joint legislative council of 28 Middle West farm or- ganizations; the “Committee of 72,” which includes representatives from 11 Mid-Western states, and in addi- tion representatives of the cotton states. This gathering claims to Speak for 1,000,000 farmers, But there are also in attendance spokes- men for the banking and business interests who have too often dominated such gatherings in their own interests. It is only the voice that is raised for the organization of exploited farmers and farm workers as a class, against the well organized class of exploiters, that can really claim to speak for the farmers. That voice will not be heard at Des Moines. It will come from the farm- ers where the struggle grows ever greater. It alone will be an indica- tion that the farmers are really travelling in the right direction, a that every striker who comes back would have to deal individually with the company union, and if the com- Pany union approved it, they would How Hedley knew in company union would have a “few exceptions” if the company does not control the “broth- erhood,” was a question on which Quackenbush and Hedley had nothing to say, “But there will be no black- be taken back, advance that the list,” protested Quackenbush, Herriot, “the representative of the are te entre gence enigma te eae RTE RY eg aig HA DEPT, OF LABOR WILL NOT PROBE GARY EXPLOSION “No Authority” Is the Claim Raised (Special to The Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., July 21. — The Gary Steel Workers’ Investigating Commits tee recently inquired to the depart- ment of labor concerning the authen- ticity of the press report that an in+ vestigation of the causes of the ex- plosion in the by-products plant of the Illinois Steel company, subsidiary of the United States Steel corporation, on Monday, June 14 would be ordered by the department of labor. The department of labor in replying to this inquiry in a letter to Mr, James Garnett, chairman of the Gary Steel Workers’ Investigating Committee, states the following: “Mr. James Garnett, “Gary Workers’ Investigating Com- mittee “1950 Washington Street. “Gary, Indiana. “Dear Sir:— “In the absence of Secretary Davis 4who is attending the funeral of a friend in New England, I acknowe ledge receipt of the your letter of July 12, No Authority For Probe. “The federal department of labor has no authority to conduct an ins quiry. The matter comes under state supervision. The secretary had, how- ever, requested the Commissioner of labor statistics to get him all informae tion possible in connection with tha disaster at the plant of the Illinoig Steel company in Gary, Accident Prevention, “At the present moment an accident prevention conference called by Sew retary Davis is in session in this city, and it is the hope of Mr, Davis that thru this conference, which is attend» ed by representatives from practically all the states, may come a standardb zation of accident statistics and alsd uniform legislation to prevent indus- trial casualties. The Commissioners of Labor Statistics would welcome any information you have on the Gary ex Plosion. “Very truly yours, “H. L. KERWIN, “Director of Conciliation,” $16,000. Loot In Hold-up. ST. LOUIS, July 21—Two automoe bile loads of bandits today held up a messenger for the City Trust com pany and took $16,000 from him after firing a fusilade of bullets. One of the bullets struck the messenger in the head, injuring him seriously. —— On one-sivth of the globe— a hundred and fifty million people are building a new and different kind of a world for Labor. These books will give you the FACTS of what is hap- pening there “for the first time in history.” A CHOICE SELECTION Russian Workers and Work- shops In 1926, By William Z. Foster, $ 10 Glimpses of Soviet Russia, By Bills Issued Here of the Illinois Steel company, sub- for Election Fraud sidiary of the Gary-controlled United States Steel corporation, before one Fifteen additional indictments on of the furnaces was overcome by the vote fraud charges growing out of the | heat and fell to the floor. Cook county April primary were re- He was taken to the hospital and ported drawn by the special grand|jater was sent home, A number of Jury in session here today. other workers were overcome by the All of the new true bills, it was | heat in the steel mills. They received said, are against judges and elerks|no hospital care. Cold water was of election. Forty-four indictments | merely splashed on them, and as soon have been returned in the investi-|as they recovered they went back gation thus far. to work, TEN STRIKE PICKETS STILL IN COUNTY JAIL AS LABOR GATHERS IN PROTEST MEETING TONIGHT Mrs. Victoria Cleslakiewicz, mother of four small children; Mrs. Eleanor Sadlowsk!, mother of a 10-year-old boy, and about eight other 1924 Inter. national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union strike pickets are still in the Cook County jail serving their sentences. Mrs. Cleslakiewicz has two children that are ill. made to Gov, Small to r se these pickets, serve to be pardoned they are still in jail. sentences since Small made that declaration, The reasons for the inactivity of Small and the officials of the Chicago Federation of Labor in behalf of the imprisoned garment workers will be discussed at the protest meeting to be held in the Temple Hall, Marshfield Av ind Van Buren St., tonight at which Dr. John.A. Lapp, president of the Chicago Liberal Club, and William Z. Foster, will speak, L ¢ ‘ Appeals have been Tho Small declared they de- About thirty have ended their party of disorder” remains in power. Perhaps the most significant cry for a capitalist dictatorship to over- throw the constitution, destroy parlia- ment and hold back the possible re- volt of the workers comes from par- liament itself, where 250 deputies have petitioned President Doumer- gue to appoint a “Committee of Safe- ty"—a name which has for France the grim connotation of Danton and Robesplerre in the days when capi- talism fought its way to power over feudalism with a dictatorship. But the enemy today of the French bour- geoisie is not feudalism. Treasury Has Only $125,000, Herriot called the parliament to- gether this afternoon to present his program, It is rumored his cabinet may resign after doing this to prevent certain overthrowal in the chamber. De Monzie frankly told the parliament the French treasury is empty, having only $125,000 on hand with which to Tun the nation. “We refuse to increase the limit cir- culation,” he said, “Our aim is to sta- bilize our money, but we intend that effort shall not be accomplished alone by external aid.” He promised that the parliament would not be ad- journed, but that the government would ask it to sit all summer, if nec- essary. The Flight of Capital, Herriot, in his address as premier —he having been removed by a ma: jority vote yesterday from his posi- tion as president of the chamber on the grounds of his now being premier " a a , “France intends to pay the debts she contracted in defense of her lib- erty in a measure and form. She will be sure and able to keep the engage- ments she will take. But we retain absolute independence of action in all spheres.” This is takén also as a hint at repudiation. Banks are crowded by depositors de- manding their money and liquidating bonds, while the whole population is buying anything tangible to crystallize the value that is vanishing from the money. Masses Murmur, Retail prices incredse by leaps and bounds and in the layge cities a deep anger is growing against speculators in foods and exporters of wheat and sugar, 4 The word “American blackmail” is heard on every hand, showing the wide resentment felt at the way Amer- ica is bludgeoning France to force rat- ification of the debt agreement, while Americans touring France are being assaulted in many places, with the press expressing the feeling that “it is only natural.” Farmer Electrocuted, POSTVILLE, Iowa, July 21.—Carl Schroeder, a farmer, was electrocuted near here today when a pitchfork with which he was unloading hay from a wagon came in contact with a power line on ht farm, A son, Verne, was burned #@riously but will recover, z cease SEND ine SUBL York stated that notwithstanding the rejection by the Interborough of their two previous offers to arbitrate their Scott Nearing. $ .10 Russia Turns’ East, By Scott Cleaners and Dyers differences with the railroad company, their men were still willing to agree to any fair arbitration in the interests of the riding public, and they renewed to arbitration.” Company Refuses to Arbitrate, heard of this, he snorted, Give us the issue.” When shown that the question is the recognition of the union as against the company union, Quackenbush again expressed nid pany union, Protects Company Union. / “We will not even discuss such a thing. Everyone knows our position is to stand by the brotherhood. We will not budge an inch,” Frank Hedley of the Interborough expressed the same mind of protecting the company union and giving it and not the real labor union, the right to discuss working conditions. Hedley added that the strikers could come back to work—“with a few excep- tfons,” The Very Ideal Asked if “a few exceptions” implied a blacklist, Hedley became angry, “We have no such thing, and we never did have any such thing as a blacklist; and we don't know what it is!” Quackenbush spoke” up and said , their offer to submit these differences When James L. Quackenbush, gen- eral counsel for the Interborough, “Arbitrate what? Define the term. love tor the com- Strike 500 Strong By WILLIAM SCHNEIDERMAN, dying industry, strike this morning, increase in wages and a union shop. 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