The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Fal Kin beairrerf Stent By THOMAS J. O'FLAHERTY HE latest report of the Aimee Mc- Pherson episode is that the grand jury refused to issue any indictments against the “John Does” who are alleged to have kidnapped the bathing beauty evangelist and held her for ransom. This is a way the polite Californians have of saying that Aimee is a liar. California grand juries are rather liberal with indictments, particularly against radicals and trade unionists, Wut despite Aimee’s loud howls there was nothing they could do for her. ‘ee T is very likely however that the in- cident has served its purpose. A government solicitous for the welfare of those under its jurisdiction would have Aimee arrested and indicted as a public nuisance, for operating a con- fidence game. She has swindled more people thru her bogus schemes than many real estate operators who are now behind the bars. The famous financial wizard Ponzi, at least spent some of the money he took from the public in a royal reckless fashion. But what Aimee spent is between herself and that very convenient lord of hers. rm HE Rev, Norris of Fort Worth, Texas, who slaughtered a fellow townsman during, the course of an argument declares that he is thru try- ing to save the public. The public should not be sorry over this decision unless the divine uses less deadly de- bating weapons in the future, provided he does not spend most of his future in a penitentiary, The ways of the lord’s anointed are hard to fathom. Another clergyman was recently ar- rested during a raid on a disorderly house. His alibi was that he had a “seigure” and walked into this house ‘ pending recovery. He was acquitted! *e © : Y the time these lines appear in print it is likely that Herriot’s cabinet will have passed into history. Hig successors are not likely to have better luck until the international bankers decide the time is ripe to perform a little surgical operation on the franc, It may be noted that france’s financial difficulties did not hinder campaigns of extermination against the nationalists of Morocco and Syria and it is also worthy of note that the so-called redical Herriot did not protest against those cam- | ‘paigus which cost millions of dolars. **# © | HE death of Felix Dzorjhinsky re- | moves from Russian public life | one of the most powerful personal- | ities produced by the ‘revolutionary movement that led the Russian work- ers and peasanis to victory in 1917. The capitalist press overdid itself in maligning this man. His position as head, of the state political police, | which had a\difficult duty to perform, z enabled the dime novel ink-slingers of the capitalist press to draw on their imaginations for bloodcurdling. and fantastic stories calculated to make nen Vol. Ill. No. 164. S7 » : In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. on Rates: Susie Sticago by Sain $eb0 Gas year. 4 ©? There Is No Gary Investigation GECRETARY OF LABOR James J. Davis, who boasts that he was once a “puddler” in the steel mills, this being before he found an easy way to fame and furtune in steel trust politics, is showing very slight signs of desiring to investigate the Gary disaster jn which 14 workers are known to have been killed and more than 40 injured. The reluctance of the secretary of labor to do anything to embarass Elbert H. Gary and the steel trust can be ascribed to the close relations which the honorable secretary maintains with the equally honorable head of the steel trust. The relation- ship is undoubtedly that of master and man, the honorable sec- retary with his old-world admiration for this relationship having put into writing his humble sentiments of love and respect for the great and good Gary who allows thousands of men to work for his company providing they do not belong to a union and keep their mouths shut about such annoying occurrences as the recent Gary disaster. Secretary of Labor Davis, on March 9, wrote to the “Honor- able E. H. Gary” a letter which we reproduced in The DAILY WORKER for July 3. ‘ The opening paragraph of the letter is as follows: Dear Judge Gary: | have just been going over the records of the United States Stee! Corporation in the matter of accident prevention and safety work. The record is such a remarkable one that | cannot refrain from telling you how exceedingly gratifying it is to me or from complimenting you upon a really wonderful achievement. The first sentence of the fourth paragraph reads as follows: What especially pleases me Is your reported statement that the United States Steel Corporation has found that accident prevention and safety work really pays from a dollar-and-cents point of view, The last paragraph reads as follows: Once more, | wish to compliment you on this splendid record, and to assure you of my highest regards and esteem. We offer the above as evidence showing why the secretary of labor, in spite of the fact that a half-dozen senators and con- gressmey have ufged an investigation, has not taken any action in the matter, Now let us come a little closer to home: Chairman Bynum of the Indiana Industrial Commission was in Washington last week attending the sessions of the National Industrial Accident Prevention convention addressed by Secre- tary of Labor Davis, who failed to mention the Gary disaster in his speech. : Interviewed by the Federated Press correspondent relative a the investigation of the Gary disaster Chairman Bynum spoke us: 4 They are such @ fine concern that | did not want to trouble them now, when the Inside of the plant is all blown out, but when Super- intendent Gleason has completed his investigation | shall look into it, and shall make a report. Chairman Bynum'of the Indiana Industrial Commission should go far in the Service of the steel trust. His fine regard for the feelings of the steel trust and its officials is matched only by his complete disregard for the welfare of the families of the workers who were kijled and injured in the explosion. “Superintendent..Gleason” will have a fine report already made out for Mr. Bynum. All he will have to do is to sign on the dotted lipe, The United States Steel Corporation was named by wise men—men who knew their power.: It uses the United States government when ft needs it—as it used the department of jus- Dzerjhinsky’s name a bugaboo among the unknowing. . J dee S a matter of fact the deceased was a kindly man as everybody who had the pleasure of having rela- tions with him will testify. Under his direction Russian prisons have been turned into schools and no matter what crime a prisoner may have com- mitted, its character is not permitted to affect the attitude of the prison officials towards him. A Soviet offi- cial speaking to a visitor who ob- served that Dzerjhinsky’s name was played up to inspire terror in Amer- fea, said that on the contrary he was kind-hearted to a fault. When a pris- oner Was about to be released Dzer- jhinsky invariably wrote to the prison offitials urging that the prisoner be given money and that a job be secured for him. His death is a great loss to Russia and to the world. Worker Electrocuted, CHAMPAIGN, ML, July 22.—Otto Biever, of St. Louis, employe of the Otis Elevator company, today was electrocuted here when he came into contact with a high-tension power line. Biever was installing an elevator in a factory. Tomorrow! Be sure to look ers these features in ie NEW MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT HISORY OF THE WEALTH tice in the steel strike of 1919-20. When it does not need the government or when the exercise of the normal bureaucratic functions of a department like that of labor might needlessly embarrass the United States Steel Corporation, it tells its government to think of something else— of what “a fine concern” the steel trust is for instance. The steel trust feels safe as long as the only organization in its industry is its own and as long as the heads of the Ameri- can labor movement keep labor lined up for one or the other of the steel trust political parties. Only under such conditions could a disaster in a basic indus- try like that which occurred in Gary be hushed.up without one single protest coming from the official labor movement. The organization of the steel industry is a big job—one of the biggest in the United States. But the size of the job makes it all the more necessary that it be done. : It cannot be denied that as long as the steel industry re- mains unorganized, its hundreds of thousands of workers at the at of the corporation, that a real labor movement cannot be uilt. For that reason any work in the steel industry which stim- ulates desire for organization among the slaves of the steel trust and which gives publicity to the evils of steel trust control of government, press and officialdom is valuable work. The DAILY WORKER is proud of what it has been able to do in this respect in cooperation with the Gary Workers Investi Committee. ad ee ——_——e—n en keer FILIPINOS PASS {STRIKERS HIT PLEBISCITE ACT | LABOR LEADERS’ ‘)) Bntered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at th® Post Office at Chicago, Ulinois, under the Act of Masch 8, 187%. SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1926 democrats and republicans in the re- iL LG. PICKETS TO PAY NO FINE AND FILL JAILS Give Police T yrants Trouble; Not Cash (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, July 22, — Ao ceptance of jall sentences instead of payment of fines growing out of pick- eting activities is likely to become the policy of 40,000 striking cloak- makers, if the police continue their wholesale arrests, This was gathered from the ap- plause which greeted such advice given by prominent union leaders at a series of strik@ mass meetings held throughout the ¢ity yesterday, “Let us use ah funds to wage our strike successfully instead of paying fines. Two or three days in jail do not matter.” This was the sehtiment expressed and applauded when first brought up by Abe Zirlin, strike lead- er. M . Morris Sigman{ president of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, speaking at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Hast 4th Street, gave ex- pression to the same sentiment when he declared: What Are A Few Day's Jail. “As workers you spend a life time in the factories, which is equivalent to a jail sentence. What if you have to spend a couple of hours in jail, Our enemies, the employers, can only feel our strength on the picket lines and you must, by all accounts, maintain them.” It is urged, however, that, in ex- ercising their legai right to picket, the strikers should net congregate in any one spot and should constantly keep moving. Bosses Feel Strike. Speakers said) the manufacturers were showing signs of weakening. Their appeals toyGovernor Smith, Dis- trict Attorney Banton and Police Com- missioner McLaughlin, as well as their pleas, thru adveitfsements in the Jew- ish press, to the ¥trikers to return to work were evideégee that they were pressed to the iM. The fact, also, that textile cort jrations and banks have been extend eradit to even some of the: larger manufactur- ers was another “indication, strikers claimed, of theif defeat. “The bootleggers in the industry must go,” Sigmam told his audience. The industry mmst quit forever of those who come into it to make money and then leave to enter a ‘respectable’ business. We do: not want our beauti- ful, artistic work, the work of our hands, at the mercy of irresponsibles.” Shut Out Of Town Shops. Other prominent speakers were Louis Hyman, chairman of the general strike committee; Algernon Lee, dir- ector of the Rand School of Social Science, an¢ Ben Gold, manager of the furriers’ joint board. Out of town activities of the ood | ers are proving productive of results. Two non-union shops, were closed this week in Hackensack, N. J., two others in Butenberg and West New York and one shop, operating 50 machines, in Millville, N, J. SMALL’S HIDDEN BOODLE MAY BE BROT TO LIGHT Two Labor Leaders Are . A : Mentioned in Quiz The senate committee investigating into the vote-purchasing activities of cent Illinois primaries may devote most of its time to probing the depths of the Len Small slush fund which enables him to ‘hold office, tho most of the Illinois bankers, a strong fac- tion of the GO. P. and the demo- crats are arrayed against him, The committee is headed by the acid- tongued Missourian, James A. Reed, Digging For Dope. The leading. groups in both demo- cratic and republican circles are for Boo 290 PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., A Hole in the Pocket Book of the Republic of France By William Gropper One ministry after another dives thru in rapid succession. Herriot’s cabinet was the last to take the plunge. LOWELL WEAVERS, STRIKE AGAINST -WAGE REDUCTION 200 Display Fine Spirit in Walkout (Special to The Daily Worker) LOWELL, Mass., July 22.—About 200 weavers and loom-fixers went out on strike here yesterday at the Lowell Silk company's mills, The strike is caused by the company’s clever “re- adjustment plan” whereby the workers would be inhumanly speeded up to in- crease their production 50 per cent and at the same time their wages would be cut about 33%. Show Solidarity. This was to affect only about 20 weavers, at first, but the other work- ers understood that their turn would come soon. When the 20 walked out on strike, the other 150 weavers came out with them, at once followed by the loom-fixers, and several of the feeders, so that in all dbout 200 walk- ed out. CLUB RAPS BOSSES’ “CITIZEN'S COMMITTEE’ PASSAIC, N. J., July 22—In an official proclamation the Ukrainian Citizens’ Club here denounces the strike-breaking chamber of com- merce Citizens’ (Vigilante) Commit- tee and calls upon all residents of Passaic and vicinity to get behind the strikers and hétp them to win their strike. 78 SHOPS HAVE SETTLED WITH THE FURRIERS Bosses Seventy-eight shops have already signed up with Local No. 45 of the Chicago Fur Workers’ Union grant- ing the demands of the striking fur Bad Conditions. The situation requiring only this " workers, About 300 workers have small spark to set off the explosion gone back to work under union con- was long brewing. The mill was al-| ditions, ways without ventilation, so that even in winter, the temperature of the work-rooms was 90 degrees and In summer, @ltogether unbearable. The mill is insanitary, has no rest rooms, and is a veritable prison pen. The workers in this mill were never organized; they won a strike a year Many of the fur bosses broke with the Fur Manufacturers’ Association. Those bosses that are still in the as- sociation are appealing frantically to those that are about to sign up to get back into line for a drive on the union. Published Datly except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER UKRAINIAN CITIZEN'S | | Split Grows in Ranks of | NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents POINCARE ON ANXIOUS HUNT FOR CABINET | More Inflation Comes | Before New Fall | (Special to The Daily Worker) i | Gideago, IL | PARIS, July 22.—While Raymond Poincare is trying to form a so-called “union cabinet,” the parliament, at the demands of M. De Monzie, who is serving as finance minister until an- other appears, voted to turn over the balance of $24,000,000 remaining from the Morgan loan of $100,000,000 nego- |tiated several months ago, to the | Bank of France. | More Inflation: The bank demanded the legal |limit of advances to t government lin plain English inflation, must be raised another ances, and de manded the remainder of the bor- rowed money to back up the increase in its advances. This means a cer- tain fall still further in the value of he franc. The people who have pap or bonds, are mobbing th liquidate bonds and turn paper francs into commodities that, at least, rep- jresent some value. Crowds of fran- tic and jeering stock gamblers sur- rounded the chamber to hiss at Her- |riot when he went to President Dou- |mergue to resign. Occupationist In. Poincare, called “‘the man of the Ruhr” because of his policy of occu- | pation of the Ruhr which brot France eavy expenses with little results in getting coal, is finding it no easy task {to find a ministry, but he is busily | engaged at it, ISURFACE AND “L" EMPLOYES REFUSED RAISE ‘Rumors of Settlement on Present Terms The Chicago Surface Lines today refused to consider employes’ de- mands for a 5-cent hourly wage in- crease. | The rejection capped a series of | meetings extending over a week, and iwas based, company officials announ- ced, on the ground that to grant the raise would eliminate its annual net earnings. Leaders Say Nothing. The union officials made no com- ment when the employers issued this announcement. The general belief is that there is an understanding be- tween the company and the leaders of the traction employes, to maintain the Present scale. Color is lent to this supposition by the fact that since fahon's arrival in the city to lead the negotiations he has not stressed the mens’ demands for a wage raise but introduced a proposal on sickness and death insurance. According to a statement recently made by William Quinlan, pr local 241 of the surface employes, men have unanimously gone on record for a 5 per cent increase. Indian Religious Clash, CALCUTTA, July Six persons were killed and thirty-th seriously injured in rioting t the com- th the mencement of the Mu ‘am festival opening the Mohammedan year, when Hindus and Moslems clashed. ago, but since they returned without a union to enforce their victory, they lost it completely during the next few months. They have learned that les- son well; they are now determined to return only when a union is recog: nized. Thetr spirit of grim determina- tion is inspiring to behold, With the aid of an organizer from the United Front Committee in Lawrence, they organized strike and picket commit- tees, Industry Prosperous. The silk industry is prosperous; the mill showed a profit of 140% on well watered stock; but the company agent THE OF . MORGAN—The first of Seek Vote on Question of Independence MANILA, P. L, July 22.—Despite the veto by Governor General Leonard A, THE RED SAVIOR—A play by Her- mina Zur Muehien, who wrote ry Tales for Workera’ Chil- DESPITE WOOD) TAMMANY TIES Party to Fare-Raising Plot, Charged NEW YORK CITY, July 22. — Tho the probe, for public consumption. But when the excavators under Reed's leadership begin to wield their picks and shovels it is probable that (Continued on page 2) sings the age-old song: Business is bad; competition stiff; you must help us make more money; and this to workers who average $20, and $21 dollars a week, All Forces to the Support of the British Miners! An appeal to the workers of all countries to support the British coal miners’ strike, recently issued by the Evecutive Committee of the Communist International, was described ina special cablegram to The DAILY WORKER, published on June 28. The DAILY WORKER is now in reecipt of the full text of this extremely important appeal which is published below: . . . . OME new circumstances convince cutives in order not to be compellef the Communist International that to answer publicly for their treacher- POEMS BY MIKE GOLD and ot! Fred strikers from the Interborough Rapid Wood, the Philippine senate passed a| Transit lines are, following the refusal bill providing for a plebiscite on the Thousands of Workers and Peasants the miners’ strike 1s in the greatest danger. The leaders of the miners have entered into an agreemont with ous behaviour on the occasion of the general strike, and in order to gain CARTOONS b; A irger, question of independence, Last year a similar bill was vetoed by Wood on the grounds that it ex- ceeded the powers granted to the islature. The plebiscite bill will now go before the house, where it is ex- js, Hay id other—and SECOND ON IN HOW AND WHAT TO READ—Be sure to st this article by ARTHUR W, ALHOUN. COMING SOON! re pected it will be passed with but few RN {| dissenting votes, ty LY and author of “The Another bill passed over the veto of init! Look for this in th 4 next lenue of the “Saturday Maguaige Wood was one for the dividing of fi Supplement. Subscribe! province of Misamis into sma! f provinces, made by the company to arbitrate or meet the strikers, meeting with the city board of transportation, the city’s legal department and engineering de- partment, This is the result of the visit to Mayor Walker, But the leading news ‘of the day is the statement issued by the strikers before meeting Mayor Walker. The statement said: . Broadside At Tammany, hk’ "It is now evident that Tammany is (Continued on page 2) ~. . . he the general council to postpone the View Body of Felix Dzerjhinsky conference of trade union executives convened for the 25th of June. only that, agreed to cease criticizing the actions of the general council who betrayed MOSCOW, U. &. 8. R., July 22.—An_ endl stream of workers and Peasants filed thru the Hall of the Trade Unions to view the body of Felix Dzerjhinsky, chairman of the supreme economic council, On constant vigil at the bier was Dzerjhinsky’s grief stricken widow and his 16-year-old son. |t The funeral will take place this afternoon and not on Friday. The govern- ment announced that it believes it would mot be Dzerjhinsky's wish that 1 industry stop for his funeral, The procession will be held, therefore, late in the afternoon to afford the workers an opportunity to attend and pay their last respects to the revered leader. } c the greatest importance. ment, have exposed the miners’ strike |to exceedingly great dangers, general council palling of the conference of the! exe time so as to strengthen to some ex- tent their authority which has been considerably shaken among the work- ing class. The miners’ leaders are now, either consciously or mistaken- ly, helping the general council to gain time in order that the latter can bet- ter deceive the workers and that everything shall continue to remain as ft was before with regard to the leaders of English trade unionism. ‘The agreement of the general council with the miners’ leaders, which is os- {Continued on page 3) Not the miners’ leaders have he general strike. This fact is of The miners’ jeaders, in entering into this» agreo- The have postponed) the