The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1926, Page 2

{enndl fi Page ‘5-4 CAL WON VOTE BUT BROOKHART GOT MACHINE Towa Farmers Turn Down Administration (Special to The Dally Worker) DES MOINES, lowa, July 22.—Per- | haps few lowans, outside of those who | read The DAILY WORKER and the American Mercury, have ever heard of a “'Phyrric Victory.” Two such | triumps have been achleved In re- cent history. One by Edouard Herriot, president ef the French chamber of deputies, who walked down from his seat and rylned a perfectly rotten cabinet in two paragraphs and a half of tepid speech. Herriot became premier, enly to hear his death warrant read ae a factor In French politics for at least a few weeks, a few days later. The other victory of the Phyrric brand, may not receive so much pub- Hetty, but @ silent angler on Lake Osgood, New York, may tremble at the thot of it as be fumbles with the slippery worms. Tho angler is Calvin Coolidge, To Praise Calvin, Hig cohorts gathered at the repub- ligan convention in Iowa to praise the Coolidge administration as diplomatic- ally as they could without running the risk of getting mowed down by the irate farmers. They also intended to sow ¢ares in Brookhert’s fertile poli- tieal flelds. The Voters Were Few. They did all those things so well that when the vote was taken on the resolution endorsing the Coolidge ad- ministration, all those present voted for it, But all those present included the janitor, the newspaper reporters and @ few others who were so weigh- ed down with the burden of years and surplus fat that they could not get away in time. A few more victories Ifke this and Cal may decide to fish for crickets in Vermont the rest of his life. ‘LABOR’ DEPT, OPENS WAR ON | bord, | jand other t | ers’ organizations, | clubs thruout the indus | movement is amalg organize the industry, The call is signed by Albert We airman of the central bur , and J, J. Ba n, Secretary, It follows: To All Unattached Textile Worke ions, and To All United Committees of Textile Work- ry into a solid Greetings, The movement to unite all textile workers and all textile workers’ or- ganizations into United Front Com- mittees has been carried on for the past eighteen months. This move- ment has met with considerable suc- cess and has been the means of res- istance to the mill owners’ vicious campaign of wage-cutting and speed- ing-up. We have created a wide- spread sentiment for organization among thousands of our fellow textile worlfers. Third Conference. ‘We have already held two national textile conferences, in April 1925 and in February, 1926 at which this Cen- tral bureau was elected. The heroic struggle of our textile workers of Passaic has been conduct- ed by our United Front Committee of Passaic and vicinity under the lead- ership of our organizer, Albert Weis- bord. The Passaic strike has called the attention of our fellow textile workers to the need for organizing the unorganized men and women in every center of this industry. Our movement has inspired the tex- tile workers to organize and many un- attached textile organizations and clubs have been formed in New Eng- land and elsewhere. These have no Present affiliation and we invite all such organizations to which this call is addressed to send a delegate to our organization conference. For One Union. ‘We must be prepared to crystallize the growing discontent of our fellow textile workers and organize them for resistance and for bettering condi- tions of work and wages in the in- dustry during this coming Fall and Winter. It now becomes necessary to consolidate and to centralize into one body all present unattached tex- tile units and to change the name of the “United Front Committees of Tex- FOREIGN-BORN 1,283 ‘“Undesireables” Face Deportation As a part of a general attack on the foreign-born by the Department of Labor at Was , Chicag and its surrounding district is to experi- ence a snooping expedition of Chief Immigration Inspector Howard D. Bboey. All “undesirable ed, and the Ch are to be deport- Zo district, which incindes all of inois and parts of Wisconsin and Indiana has no less than 1,283 of these “undesirables*— alleged to be such because they are victims of social injustice by having been found in poor houses, insane asy- iums, jails, prisons, orphanages and sanitariums. Most Prisoners American. ‘The proportion of allens among the Prison population is known to be small in proportion to the alien popu- lation outside of prison, and the “de portation” department of the govern- ment {is concealing this fact while making a hue and cry about the ones it does find in institutions. It gives out figures on aliens only which show that even the majority of the aliens held, are not in institutions for crime but from misfortune and disease, The ist is as follows: State prisons .. a State reformatories —......... 4 POOK LOWS ences —eenneene Allens Unfalriy Imprisoned. It 4s thus seen that the first three categories, which include all so-called “criminal elements” total up 1,299; while the other noncriminal elements make up the balance of ‘the total of 2,768. And this is without regard to the fact that many of the so-called “alien criminals” are, thru tack of money or ability to use English in their defense, sent to prisons regard- less of their innocence by prosecu- tors trying to make a record. What Is an “Undesirable?” How the government’s Department of Labor is to say whica of the so-! called “criminals” are “undesirable” and which are “desirable” remains a secret. Eleven Youths Drown When Canoe Capsizes | (Special to The Dally Worker) | PETERBORO, Ont. July 22, — Elsven of 15 youths, camping at Bal-| sam Lake near here, were dead to- day as result of drowning when their large “war canoe” capsized in a squall in Balsam Lake near here, The remaining four clung to the over- turned craft for four hours and were Tescued in an exhausted condition, RAKOS! AND 54 OTHER WORKERS 60 10 TRIAL AGAIN IN BUDAPEST Mathias Rakos! commi. (above) former jar in the short lived Soviet government of Hungary and Soltan Weinberger, leader of Hungarian re- volutionary youth, are the principle defendants in the trial that opened In Budapest on July 12th and in which 56 workers are the defend- ants, Now that the farcical French franc counterfeiting trial is over, the Horthy regime again turns its attention to the Rakosi case which was temporarily dropped because of the world wide protest that followed Rakosi’s danger of execution. Once more the voice of the world prole- tallat might have to speak out to save Rakosi and his comrades, That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. UNITED FRONT TEXTILE COMMITTEE | ISSUES CALL FOR,CONFERENCE TO CONSOLIDATE BIG ORGANIZATION N ’ YORK, July 22.— The Central Bureau of the United Front Com- | mittees of Textile Workers that have been organized at Passaic, Lawrence centers has issued a call for @ conference of textile work- The gathering will be in the nature of an organization conference the object of which is to consolidate the varlous united front committees and organization. The ultimate aim of the on of all textile unions into one powerful union and to + tile Workers” into one more in harm- ony with our aims and purposes. he purpose of this organization conference is to affiliate as a sihgle body with all other independent tex- tile unions with the ultimate aim of amalgamation of all textile unions in- to one powerful union, Sunday, August 1st. Therefore, the central bureau of United Front Committees of Textile Workers has decided to issue this call for an organization conference to which all unattached textile organiza- tions and clubs are cordially invited to send delegates, to be held at the Continental Hotel, Broadway and 41st St. New York City, at 9 a. m., Sunday August Ist, 1926. The following agenda will be sub- mitted to the conference: 1, Report of the central bureau: (a) On negotiations with the American Federation of La- bor. (b) On negotiations with the Federated Textile Unions, (c) On changes in form and structure of our organization. 2, Report of the Passaic United Front Committee: (a) Passaic strike. (b) Organization, defense, relief. 8. Report from other units and or- ganizations. 4. Report on August 14-15, amalga- mation conference. 5. Election of a national executive committee and officers, Fellow Workers: Now is the time to prepare for future struggles. Now is the time to lay the basis for the amalgamation of all textile unions in order to organize the unorganized into one powerful union capable of resist- ing the exploitation of the millionaire mill owners, Every organizations receiving this call is urged to send a delegate. Out of town delegates are asked to be on hand early Sunday morning. Fraternally yours, Albert Weisbord, secretary, John J. Ballam, chairman, Central Bureau of United Front Committees of Textile Workers. COAL OPERATORS GET INJUNCTION AGAINST MINERS Scott’s Run West Va. Strikers Object of Writ (Special to The Daily Worker) MORGANTOWN, W, Va., — All at- tempts of the combined forces of the coal operators of Scott’s Run, West Virginia, to break the strike here have met with complete failure. The min- ers, their wives and children continue to picket the scab mines and with great success, Many new men join the ranks of the strikers every day. The companies are now beginning to resort to injunctions. An injunction was granted last Saturday by the circuit court, over which Judge 1. Grant Lazelle presided, to the Monon- gahela Valley Coal company, the oper- ating concern of the well-known scab Gilbert-Davis Coal company, Company Judge. Judge Lazelle is the same one who only a short while ago refused to grant an injunction to the miners against the companies who broke the agree- ments which they signed with the union, This is the same Lazelle who is charged by the union as being “guilty of corruption and who is inter. ested in coal lands in the striking re gion,” Typical Injunction, The injunction is issued against all the international, state, district and local officers of the United Mine Work- ers and a large number of individual miners. It restrains these defendants and all others “from entering upon the company's property, interfering or molesting employes in the lawful, pur- suit of their labor and from congrega- tion on or near the company's pro- perty, on the public or private roads or from assembling in mobs and groups for the purpose of injuring, intimida- ting or*insulting the men employed in the company mines,” It is reported that the other com- panies in Scott's Run where the strike is on have applied for similar injunc- tions to prevent picketing of their mines, The injunction was granted by Judge Lazelle despite the fact that even the state and county authorities had to admit that the picketing was most orderly and that the strikers were fully within their rights when trying to organize, New Haven Train Kills Child, FITCHBURG, Mass., July 22. — While sitting on a railroad tie playing with her two young brothers, two- year-old Mary Brown was struck and instantly killed: by a New York, New Haven’ & Hartford train near her home Here today. The boys scram- bled to safety, stu oe ne WORKER "ae ii ae ee Even Washirigton Fears TAMMANY TIES| Restless Throngs that mo Haunt Streets of Paris Party to Fare-Raising Plot, Charged By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, (Continued from page 1) working for a 10-cent fare, in spite of the smoke-screen of contradiction with which his organization has hidden its position, The direct suggestion of one of the city hall officials proves this fact, “Not only Tammany, but also the republican organization as well, Is united In this move. Very signifi- cant, too, is the silence of the so- called labor leaders in the aristoc- racy of labor from which Tammany Hall derives one ofits main sources of strength. Labor Leaders with Tammany. “This silence can only be construed to mean that they, too, are a party to this vicious conspiracy, as a result of which the people of New York are to be held up for over $58,000,000 yearly.” At the meeting with Mayor Walker, THE DAIL! oe pe mmm tea eT POLICE CHIEFS VIEW NEW TOOLS. OF DESTRUCTION Cop Pp ers’ Convention! Hears D. of J. Man Police chiefs from all over the country meeting in the 38rd annual! convention of their International As- sociation of Police Chiefs have been; listening to new improvements in’ methods of baiting the elusive crook. They also heard that during the year! 1924 a total of $3,620,000,000 fell into: the hands of yeggs and swindler. The figures ‘were not itemized to show whether defaulting bank presidents or second story men. came off with ¢he’ honors. —— AURENCE TODD, the usually cautious and sometimes timid correspondent of the Federated Press in Washington, lets himself go on the present French situation when he writes: “State, treasury and commerce department officials in Washington are watching with almost breathless anxiety the approach to France of Secretary Mellon, J. P, Morgan and Morgan's partner, Steele, who have sailed to Europe to have a hand in the deflation of France. “This anxiety is based on reports that the French public is becoming panicky and angry, and that the col- lapse of the franc may lead to riot- ing and even revolution,” ere. That is a Washington viewpoint Bolshevism. Instead Wilson helped write the Versailles peace that, launched upon their careers many of the troubles now besetting Europe, “Andy” Mellon in co-operation with Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England; Benjamin Strong, governor of the Federal Re- serve Bank of New York, and J. Pierpont Morgan may write another “Dawes plan” for France, in an effort to help her out of her financial difficulties, but in fact it will only be the beginning of new woes. 2858 Another Dawes plan for France means stabilization resulting in gen- eral industrial depression and grow- ing unemployment. The longer work- day and the speed-up, introduced in- to Germany by the Dawes commis- New Weapon The “town clowns” have also been, entertained with an exhibit featurin, the latest inventions for police use, These include a “fountain pen” that spurts a stream of blinding gas and a! “suit case” that has a knob which,| when turned, projects ‘‘pain gas” that! contorts its victims into cramping; pains before it renders them ancoa sion, will spread into France like an infectious disease, resulting in over- production for which no markets can be found, A million jobless Frenchmen will constitute a heavy battering ram pounding away at the pillars upholding the capitalist state. At the same time great masses of the middle class, holders of govern- ment bonds that have become worth- less and caught in the maelstrom of the melting franc and the increasing cost of living, will be hurled into the ranks of the proletariat in growing numbers, Edward P. Lavin, ds the spokesman, outlined the seven points: Right of collective bargaining, with a fair method of representation; elimination of the company union; impartial in- vestigation of the company’s ability to give a wage raise; danger to the pub- le in the present operation of lnes with scabs; violations by the com- pany of service provisions; an eight- hour day, time and 4 half for over- time and “such wages as will enable us to live on the American standard of living.” “Helpless” Mayor Walker. Mayor Walker said he sympathized with workers, because “my father was a laborer.” But he said the state of ‘New York controlled matters thru the state transit commission, and that all the power left with the city was in the transportation board of the city. He said that he thought the company would pay a raise and do it on the present fare of 5 cents, The board of transportation of the city is headed by John H. Delaney, a prominent Tammany’ man, as is also the transit commission of the state with John F, Gilchrist as chairman. The attempt to getthe I. R. T. to ar- bitrate was refused, and the company union upheld by ~€ompany Managor Frank Hedley in the following letter to the mayor: a Upholds Company Union. “Dear Sir: This i$ to confirm the statement made to you this afternoon in my absence by Mr. Quackenbush. In reply to the reqfest that I attend @ conference next ursday between members of the city law department, the board of transpértation and repre- sentatives of the strikers, who haye organized the so-clled Consolidated Railroad Workers of Greater New York, I beg to say most respectfully to his honor the mafor that such con- duct on my part would rightfully be regarded as a breagh of faith and a betrayal by about :13,000 loyal em- ployes who are members of the Broth- erhood of Interborough Employes, “Loyal Men, “These loyal men are faithfully ren- dering service to the public in the operation of the Interborough system, while the delegation: which called at the mayor's office is engaged in an ef- fort to cripple the railroad and de- stroy the brotherhood which they themselves belonged to up to the time of their strike. I can have nothing to do with them unless and until they return to their jobs and rejoin the brotherhood. . “It is superfluous to add that, of course, I shall be glad at any time, or that is supported by the latest news from France where the crisis grows hourly more acute. . When the Herriot cabinet fell on Wednesday great crowds gathered before the old Palais Bourbon, where the chamber of deputies meets, and at the Elysees Palace, the home of President Doumergue, crying out, “Herriot has fallen! Down with Herriot! Shoot Herriot!" Other. crowds gathered everywhere in the streets, When the deputies stuck their heads over the spiked wall of the Palais Bourbon, numerous in- sults were hurled at them by the throngs. Those spikes and those heads are symbolic. Reports are that the throngs were made up of many elements. The Communists thundered the “‘Interna- tlonale” against the songs of the fascisti. There is no doubt of the revolutionary ferment at work among the seething, restless masses. Here are the beginnings of some- thing more than singing. se 8 Hatred is being vented on Amer- icans in numerous ways. Visiting American spenders typify to the French the greed of American cap- italism, Thus the French find a temporary outlet for their feelings. scious. It must have occurred ¢o not’ a few of the police heads that those! instruments would serve in good stead{ during strikes. Government Finger-Prints, Yesterday the coppers were talked: to by J. Edgar Hoover, chief of th bureau of investigation of the 4d partment of justice. He told the delo~ gates that the bureau jas on recor more than one million taken by government agents thrnout! the country. Brigadier Gen. M, A. Reckord spoke urging the army sy*' tem of paying extra to good marks- men on the police forces, SHOWERS BRING RELIEF TO HEAT STRICKEN CITY So Hot Workers Had to Quit Jobs Chicago's record heat wave had moved eastward yesterday, leaving fn {ts wake more than a score dead and hundreds of cases of prostration, Worst In 26 Years, The heavy blanket of heat, the most severe to envelope the middle west in a quarter of a century, was routed. by cooling showers that fell during Wednesday night. With the mereury hovering around 90, rain began falling at ten o'clock and within an hour the temperature had fallen 12 to 15 degrees. A mean temperature of 70 was predicted for today. The torrid wave reached its peak here Wednesday afternoon when the official reading registered 96 degrees. Workers Quit. The heat was so intense that as- phalt melted in the streets and in- dustrial workers had to leave their jobs, the iron work becoming @o hot they could not handle it. The heat was general thruout the country, the wave originating in the Rocky Mountain states and spreading eastward to the Atlantic seaboard. 96 Degree Peak, It struck Chicago like a furnace blast Monday, tha mercury rising to a high of 94.2. Tuesday it climbed to 95, and yesterday reached the peak at 96. he ee. These developments in France will have their resounding echoes in the United States. Bankrupt France, producing cheap goods will attempt to find a market for them in the United States on an increas- ing scale. This is already taking place to some extent. It will bring a slowing down in American indus- try. Bankrupt countries also provide poor markets with the result that the United States will be unable to sell to France, This condition al- ready affects unfavorably Amer- ica’s balance of trade. The politi- cians at Washington no doubt have this situation in mind. Coolidge must also be thinking of it when his pol- itical agents declare that he will be It is a safe outlet for the time being. a candidate for re-election in 1928 It will not be so safe when the “if the country is prosperous.” French turn their*hatred directly eee against the oppressors at home, The crisis in France, therefore, no There will be plenty of opportunity | matter how it develops, is not alone for them to do this. a French crisis. It is an interna- Andrew W. Mellon, the multi- | tional crisis that will have con- millionaire secretary of the United siderable effect on future develop- States treasury, is due to arrive in | ments even in the United States. London Friday night, It is said he That is why Mellon and Morgan are is the most important visitor since | not in Europe on a “vacation.” They Woodrow Wilson, as Wall Street's are engaged in a desperate struggle president, carried his 14 points | to save the capitalist social order of across the sea to save Europe from which they are responsible heads. place, to meet the ntayor or any rep- resentatives of the city administration for a discussion of the existing situa- tion. New York Nature Friends to Hold Hike on Sunday (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, July 22. — Sunday, July 25, the ‘Nature Friends Tourist Club plang to hike to Woodbury Falls, Sutherlands Pond and Monroe, N, Y- This hike will be thru the upper Romano Mountains. All are urged to bring their pup tents and bathing suits along. Meeting place:, Erle R. R. Ferry, Chambers St, and Hudson river; time, 3:45 p. m. (Saturday afternoon); fare, $3; walking time, 5 hours. Leader, Herman Ursprung. Your uefghbor will appreciate the favor—gtve him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. Directors Back Him. “It so happened that immediately after the telephone conversation be- tween you and Mr. Quackenbush, the regular Tuesday meeting of the ex- ecutive committee and of the board of directors of the company was held. ‘ am authorized to say that the posi- ion here taken met'with unanimous \pproval of the directors of the com- any present at the meeting, “Respectfully yours, “Prank Hedley, “President and General Manager.” Len Small’s Boodle May Be Exposed (Continued from page 1) enthusiasm for open, covenants and tacts will preceptibly, diminish. Reed is a democrat.and Small is a thorn in the side of the democrat It is Mkely that Reed will find some excuse to resurrect the incident of the mythical Grant bank which Small claims was blown away by an accommodating cyclone, This is the bank that held some of the treasury funds, that were blown away with the shack. Basis of Love for Small. There is a deep suspicion in cer- tain quarters that this mysterous fund is responsible for the great love some of the politicians have for Small, de- spite his unsavory financial dealings. Among those mentioned as having profited in the recent primaries are Frank Farrington and John H. Walk- er, prominent labor leaders. It 1s reported that Sam Insull, traction magnate was compelled to cough up half a million dollars in the primaries, + Farmer-Labor Summer School Held in Colo. (Special to The Dally Worker) IDAHO SPRINGS, Col., July 22.— Excellent instruction in a great va- riety of labor subjects characterized the Colorado Farmer-Labor’ Summer School which closed its nine-day ses- sion at Idaho Springs July 5. Worker education, co-ooperation, the race Problem, labor economics, public speaking, labor history and labor poetry were the principal themes, JULY 24 AND 25 SET ASIDE FOR PASSAIC RELIEF “Bread and Milk Days” for Strike Children (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, July 22, — The Gen- eral Relief Committee of the Passaic tetxile strikers, 799 Broadway, Room 512, New York, hag issued the follow- ing appeal for assistance to the chil- dren of the strikers: For 26 Weeks. “For twenty-six weeks the children of the textile strikers in Passaic and vicinity have been the innocent vic- tims of a bitter industrial war. These kidd: must have your assistance, Their urgent cry for help must be answered. Will you stand idly by or will you respond to their appeal. “Give to the utmost! Get Behind Them. “All the money collected will be used to buy milk and bread for the children, Workers of Greater New York prove by your liberal respon: ou stand solidly behind these Answer the strikebreaking of the textile barons with money for their relief. i “Don't Forget July 24 and 261" ONE INDUSTRY! All Workers in the METAL, MACHINE AND MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY are Invited to attend the OPEN MASS MEETING TUESDAY, JULY 27th, 1926, 8 P. M. LABOR TEMPLE, FOURTEENTH STREET, Corner 14th St. and Second Ave., Main Auditorium. Industry is prosperous, The metal and manufacturing workers are determined to get their share. Only thru ORGANIZED EFFORT is this possible, The workers in other industries gained their demands thru ORGANIZATION,—-SO CAN WBE. No initiation fee. 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