The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1926, Page 2

Page a, THE DAILY WORKER CHIGAGO LABOR DEMANDS SMALL FREE PICKETS Protest Against Use of | Injunction The use of injunctions against un- fons in their battles with the employ- ers and the refusal of Governor Len} Small to pardon the 1924 International | Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union strike pickets were bitt y assailed | at the protest meeting arranged by the Chicago joint board of the Inter. national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ yUnion at the Temple Hall, Marshfield Ave. and Van Buren street. Speaker after speaker pointed out the menace of the injunction to lab unions and urged the workers to vio- late injunctions in mass whenever their organizations are faced with these restraining orders. Dr. John A. Lapp, president of the Chicago Liberal Club and president of the National Conference of Social Welfare; William Z. Foster, Ida Roth- stein, head of the women’s depart ment of the Chicago organization com- mittee; Emff Arnold, vice-president of Painters’ Local 275; Freda Rushec Oscar Simons, Max Novak and Flor- ence Corn were the speakers at the meeting. The last named four serged sentences in the Cook County jail for defying the injunction issued by Judge Denis BH. Sulliman. Miss Mary Mc- Dowell sont a telegram to the meeting regretting her inability to be present. Barnett Sollm, chairman of the Chi- @ago joint board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, pre- sided at the meeting. A resolution protesting the inactié- A resolution protesting the inactiv- fty of Gov. Len Small to free the ing that he free them immediately and calling on the trade union move- ment of Chicago to join in a drive against the injunction pest was unani- mously passed at this meeting. A telegram of greeting was sent to the prisoners that are still in fail. A telegram was also sent to the 40,000 militant garmetn workers in New York City congratulating them on their militant fight. SURFACE LINES MAY 6O INTO RECEIVERSHIP The protective committee of the Chicago Railways company first mort- gage holders predicted that the major part of the city’s surface lines might go into the hands of a receiver, in a letter to the bond holders asking them to deposit their bonds and securities with the protective conimittee, The company franchise expires on Feb. 1. Street railways have always been considered juicy morsels for the jug- @ling operations of financiers. While transportation in Chicago is perhaps @e worst in the United States, the Hoeliticians who are the puppets of the bankers refuse to take the first step fy providing adequate service—the @municipal ownership of the elevated Gnd surface lines. Weisbord Speaks in Cleveland, O., Saturday Night @@pectat to The Daily Worker) QLEVELAND, July 23.—The Cleve- lata Conference for Passaic Textile Relfef, which was organized a few weeks ago, is making it possible for the workers of Cleveland to learn the truth about the situation in Passdic from one who has been connected with the strike from the very beginning. Albert Weisbord, organizer and leader of the Passaic strike, will speak at the Engineers’ Auditorium, Ontario and St, Clair, on Saturday, July 31, at8 p.m. Albert Coyle, editor of the Leoomotive Engineers’ Journal, will also speak. Max Hayes has also been requested to speak. Tickets are 15 cents. All Our Work Guaranteed, Phone Lin and author of “Bars and Shadows’ the heretic bishop and author of Games-——Sports——C DANCING The Labor Auspices: Local Cleveland, I se eeeee SSE Dd SEMINARY TAILORS CLEANERS & DYERS Pressing—Repairing—Remodeling Hats cleaned and blocked—Shoe Shining Parlor—Laundry GRAND ANNUAL PICNIC at SACHSENHEIM GARDENS, 7001 Denison Ave. JULY 25, 1926, Beginning at 10 A. M. Speeches beginning at 3:30 p,m, by RALPH CHAPLIN, workers’ poet Union Orchestra 6:30 to 9:30 Admission 60 Cents. This includes a three month subscription te 414 W. Superior Ave, CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. —- (Continued from page 1) noise with it than even young Vander- bilt G ORGE BRENNAN, democratic candidate for United States sena- tor is for the Haugen farm relief bill. George admits that he does not know what it is all about, but as the farm- ers are for it, he said, there good reason why he should be against it, since he has nothing to lose by| being generous and many votes to in, The s of a capitalist poli- are obvious to those who think, ately for the polls, the num- ician but, for ber is few “ee V HY delegates to the state confer- ence of sheet metal workers in California were invited to dinner at the home of Mrs. Peabody, wife of a y shirt manufacturer, was the subject of considerable discussion among the Oakland members of the union, according to a story in the Labor Journal of that city. Two dele- gates who partook of Mrs. Peabody's bounteous fare were not at loss for an explanation. The lady was once “even as you and I,” an ordinary mortal. Her name was Katherine Burke, which proves she did not arrive on the May- flower, even in a protoplasmic state. ose ATHERINE heard her country calling her when the great war to abolish the French franc gave her the word. Being good to look at, she at- tracted the attention of doughboys “among whom were many metal work- ers.” She must have been a com- munal charmer. How she got to be Mrs. Peabody the delegates did not divulge. He may have been an elderly or something in a hospital. Miss Burke was a Red Cross nurse. As the story goes, one of the delegates to the state convention went to renew ac- quaintances with Mrs. Peabody and a mass invitation resulted. Now, how can delegates lose sleep over wage scales, long hours and short pay, while basking in the ultra-violet rays of a millionaire beauty. HO one million British miners have been on strike for almost three months and Britain is long over $40,- 000,000 monthly in foreign trade, King George can afford to throw a nice party. Thirteen thousand guests gath- ered in the gardens at Buckingham Palace, drank the king’s tea and guz- zled his champagne. Many Americans were there and we are told that they were deeply impressed by the king’s dexterity in negotiating his tea with a gloved hand. Labor representatives were there. So was Mr. Oswald Garri- son Villard of New York, editor of the liberal-pacifist magazine, the Nation. Thompson Plans to Suggest Changes in Philippine Government MANILA, P. IL, July 23—A few} changes in the form of government of the Philippine Islands will be suggest- ed by Colonel Carmi A. Thompson, President Coolidge’s personal repre- sentative investigating the economic situation in the Philippines. Thomp- son in his speeches has shown that he will not recommend independence for the island. He will probably recommend the substitution of a Filipino governor un- der the supervision of an American resident commissioner in place of the present American governor-general. It has been made plain to Thomp son the impossibility of making the island a vast rubber plantation for the American rubber interests without first giving the Filipinos a sop in the form of a gesture at independence. Rail Mediation Board Establishes Permanent Offices WASHINGTON, July 23, —(FP)— Permanent offices for the Railroad Mediation Board have been establish- ed in the Earle theatre building in Washington, just across the street from the headquarters of the Southern Railway. Furniture of the old Rail- road Labor Board is being shipped from Chicago to outfit the rooms. Only 6 of the 50 employes of the old board have been retained, We Call for and Deliver, 812-14 Fullerton Ave., Chicago, Il. coln 3141 ’, and BISHOP WM, M. BROWN, “Communism and Christianism,” ontests———Tug-o-War Defender, nternational Labor Defense, is no| FUR BOSSES THREATEN TO G0 OPEN-SHOP Association Members to Fight Union The members of the Chicago Fur Manufacturers’ Association are send- ing out letters to all of their strik- ing workers threatening them with | the loss of their jobs if they do not appear for work Tuesday, July 27. The letters also state that the bosses have decided to operate on an open- shop basis and will not have anything to do with the union, This letter was sent,by the Fur Manufacturers’ Association to each of its members with the instructions that each boss was to have the let- ter copied onto his stationery, signed with his signature and mailed to each worker that left the plant to fight for better conditions. The letter follows: “We have exhausted every possi- bility of getting together with your union officials on a wage and working condition basis that will permit this business to live. “Thus, we feel that we have reach- ed the point when it is necessary that we ‘eliminate union interference in our affairs or we will soon be out of business and thereby unable to pro- vide employment on any basis. “Just as you are dependent upon what you earn at the job so are we dependent on what we can sell our garments for. If the cost of manu- facturing a garment is so heavy that the public will not buy it then we cannot long exist as a business or con- tinue to provide you with employ- ment at good wages, for your new agreement would force prohibitive cost. “We have, therefore, decided to op- erate on the open shop basis, which will be a protection to you as well as to ourselves, and will do away with the outsider who knows nothing of your needs and ours anyhow. We want you to come back to work, but Wwe cannot longer submit to the dicta- tion of outsiders. We are going to operate our shops at once, UNDER FULL PROTECTION, and we want to give you a chance to work for us. You are invited to return to the job you held before the strike. If we do not hear from you on or before Tues- day, July 27, we will be forced to con- sider that you have left us perma- nently and we will have to proceed to fill our shops with steady em- ployes. “This same letter is being sent by all members of the Chicago Fur Man- ufacturers’ Association to employes who are on strike, because we want you to know that our association is together on this matter, “Yours very truly, “McElroy Company, “O, J. McElroy.” Swift Gets Million for War Bacon the Soldiers Never Saw Swift and company, packers, today brought home the bacon here— $1,374,849 worth of it, to be exact, A check for that amount was re- ceived by the company from the gov- ernment, in payment of a claim for bacon ordered but later refused. Settlement of the claim closed a case which had been in the courts since shortly after the world war arm- istice was signed, November 11, 1918. It took the company that long to get the government to pay for something it never got—the nerve of the gov- ernment! “Sixth Sense” in Plant Life Is New Discovery (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, July 23.—New revela- tions concerning the private life of plants, baring their habits, vices, van- ities and even their hours of sleep, have been brought to light by Sir Jagadis Bose, one of Britain’s great- est scientists and authorities on plant life, who recently startled the scien- tific world by announcing that flow- ers communicate and carry on family life not unlike human beings, Now Sir Jagadis comes forth with the information that certain species of plant life possess a “‘sixth sense,” @ mysterious force which permits them to detect minute changes in the intensity of light, unnoticed by the human eye. He has found that plants react remarkably to certain light waves, far above the limited scale to which the human retina responds, Jail Unfit for Prisoners, SPRINGFIELD, Ill, July 23,—Ree ommending that federal prisoners be committed to other than the Sanga- mon county jail until the county has an adequate one, the federal grand jury today reported to Federal Judge Louis Fitzhenry on its investigation of the prison. The jury also urged county authorities to refuse to accept federal prisoners in the present prison. SEND IN A SUB TODAY TO THE DAILY WORKER, FOR RENT Chicago 4-ROOM FLAT. $16 a month. 4512 Lowe Avo. AR eR U, §. TOURISTS, SEEING PARIS DISCOVER THEIR SNOBBY AIRS DETESTED (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, July 23-—Parisian night life no longer has attractions for the timid American tourist. Auto-bus companies have suspend- ed their “See Paris by Night” tours because last night, for the third suo- cessive night, there were demon- strations against sight-seeing busses carrying Eng and German y' tors as well Americans, As busses passed thru the Mont- martre districts epithets, such as only Montmartre and the dock die- tricts of New York excell in, were hurled at the visitors, “Carry on your sprees at home, not here,” the crowds yelled at the sight-seers, a. The demonstrations probably are due to bitter campaigns being car ried on by a number of Parisian newspapers, which are violently at- tacking tourists for taking advan- tage of the slump in the franc, which is causing Increased prices for the French, Frenchmen ate angered by the sight of these visitors enjoying the gay life and the champagne, which the natives cannot afford, $o WEEKLY WAGE RAISE WON BY CHICAGO CUTTERS Bosses Forced to Yield by Stoppage All cutters in Chicago cloakmaking shops won a flat increase of $5 a week thru a half day unofficial stoppage that was led by the left wing in the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union. The head cutters or the foremen are not included in this wage raise, The union made a demand on the bosses for a 20 per cent wage increase. The boses in the négotiations refused to listen to the demands of the union. The unofficial stoppage then followed. Under the old administration the business agents of the union in ac cordance with the agreement calling for the revision of wages paid to cut- ters were able to get increases only for those cutters’ that were not able to make the average wage. The increase amounted from $2.50 to $5 a week. This increase was received by only one-sixth of the cutters. The present left-wing administration in the nego- tiations following the stoppage were able to win a flat $5 wekly increase for all cutters. , The demand of the union that the workers be paid for the half day stop- page was granted by the bosses. ARSENAL WAS UNSAFE STATES NAVAL GAPTAIN DOVER, N. J., July 28—The Lake Denmark naval arsenal was known to be unsafe before the explosion oc- curred and it carried ammunition far in excess that allowed by the New Jersey law, declared Captain Otto C. Dowling, commandant of the arsenal from his wheelchair before the naval court of inquiry. Four improvements in the types of arsenals were recommended by Dowl- ing to the court of inquiry. He brot out that the capacity of arsenals should be reduced to one-quarter of what they are now, that the distances between magazines should be four to five times greater than at present, buildings should be built above the surface on a con¢rete foundation of hollow tile and the walls should be buttressed to withstand shock and that the roof must be absolutely fire- proof. Scott Charges Local Politicians Set Off Jail Bomb as Trick DETROIT, July 28.—The recent jail bombing in Chicago was a political plot Russell Scott,icondemned slayer, charges in a letter received today by his wife, Cathering, who is undergo- ing a public fast here. Cook County politicians are trying to force the taxpayers to buy certain properties for & new county prison on the grounds that the present faii is not adequate nor safe, Scott charges, Hindu Fanatics Attack Mohammedan Religious Parade CALCUTTA, India, uJly 23.—About 40 were killed or injured in a clash between parading Mohammedans cele- brating the feast of Mohurrum and Hindus, Hindu snipers stationed on house tops dropped explosives onto the paraders. Nearly all casualties were among the Mohammedans. Armored cars were ueed by the au- thorities to break up the religious de- monetration, ee YOU FIGHTI Morgan-Mellon Plans and Fascist Regimes Must Be Fought by U. S. Workers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL., —— NOTHER “Dawes Plan” is of- fered as the solytion of capital- ism’s woes in *rance, Mussolini urges a fascist dicta- torship to save the franc and to do in France “what we have done in Italy.” But the first “Dawes Plan” has not proved a success in Germany, The German capitalist statesmen and financiers are waiting for an audience with Mellon and Margan. They will urge that the Dawes plan be changed to lighten its burdens, As for Mussolini, the Italian lira continues falling along with the French franc in spite of the fascist tyranny. These facts are all so simple that every worker and farmer should be able to understand the plight that faces the capitalist exploiters, not only in western BDurope but thruout that part of the world that still files the flag of profit. se Imposing a Dawes plan on France will not be as easy as putting this yoke upon Germany. The Germans had been “defeated” according to the Versailles peacemakers. The deposed kaiser’s mark had gone the way of the late czars rouble, but unlike Russia, the social-democrats in Germany successfully betrayed the German working class and de- feated its efforts to inaugurate a So- viet Republic, ‘While German prisons were filled with the best fighters of the work- ing class, the supporters of capital- ism from the socialist, Scheidemann, to the war lord, Hindenburg, joined in grabbing the dollar-marked straws thrown into the German financial and industrial whirlpool. That was three years ago. For three years the Germans have given the Dawes plan “a chance,” with the result that even the most reactionary ele- ments now openly admit that it will be impossible for Germany to carry the increasing burden of reparations much longer. ef But France “won the war.” So the worker and peasant masses of France have been told. It has been drilled into them that “to the victor belongs the spoils.” The latest franc statesman, Poincare, to be called to hunt up a cabinet, has been the loudest in his demands to “Make the boche pay.” The nation that has been super-saturated with this psychology will not quickly, if at all, change its outlook to accept slavery to the House of Morgan. “Why should we?” the tens of mil- lions of workers and peasants will ask, the great masses who were led to believe that the Hun was the greatest menace in the world, but who are now learning, where it has not already dawned upon them, that their real enemy is the exploiting class at home and its ally, the finan- cial power that has its headquarters in Wall Street, eee The death rattle of “the hun Menace” gradually fades away into the silence of the tomb where rest in peace the things that have been. Not even Belgium now uses it in an effort to have her war debts to Washington and Wall Street can- celled. Even Belgium says she will pay. Great Britain and Italy have agreed to pay. A score of lesser coun- tries have signed on the dotter line. French capitalism will consider the Mellon-Berenger scheme for the settlement of the French war debt just as soon as another cabinet can be formed. With the disappearance of the “hun menace” the “Morgan- Mellon menace” thus rises larger and clearer than ever for the work- ers, for it is they who must bear the burden if it can be successfully placed upon their backs, It is now estimated that under the workings of the Dawes plan and the war debt settlements, every pen- ny taken from Germany in repara- tions will ultimately flow into Wall Street’s and Washington’s golden coffers. eee American workers and farmers must join the French workers and peasants in every resistance they offer to the “Morgan-Mellon men- ace.” German and French labor, that only recently engaged in mass slaughter across thousands of miles of trenches, now recognize the iden- tity of their interests. The Germans and French have been able on many occasions, to unite in common ac- tions, as in the Ruhr occupation, against their common oppressors, the employing interests of both countries. They both recognize the thieving ambitions of the imperial- ist robbers who lured them into the great human murder pens. How much easier, therefore, should it be for American labor, that was rallied by all the arts and wiles known to jingo propaganda to recognize the poilu as his brother-inarms, The enemy then was supposed to be Ger- many. Both victims of the same tyranny the workers of France and America will become brothers- in-arms against their common ene- mies, the Morgan-Mellon-Dawes planners that seek the enslavement of all labor everywhere. . see European labor drives towards its only salvation, the European Fed- eration of Soviet Republics against which Morgan-Mellon-Dawes plans and fascist regimes cannot prevail. American labor must begin today, preparing more energetically than ever, the struggle to take an effect- ive stand in favor of such a Euro- pean Federation. ALSACE-LORRAIN ASKS AUTONOMY; Thousands Lack Water in Chicago During 3-Day Hot Spell Thousands of Chicagoans living on | BRITISH STRIKE _ HIT CAPITALIST INDUSTRY HARD Wages Lost by Workers Shown to Be Small LONDON, July 28.—According te Walter Runciman, leading banker of Great Britain, the British general strike and the coal strike to date have cost British capitalists $567,500,000. The cost is distributed as followa among the different groups: General strike, $150,000,000; heavy industries, including coal, $140,000, 000; raflroads, $10,000,000; pig iron, $25,000,000; steel, $50,000,000; textiles and other light industry, $87,5000,000; home trade $100,000,000. While capitalists lost $567,500,000 according to Runciman, the workers lost only $175,000,000 in wages, the 1,250,000 coal miners have lost $125. 000,000 in wages—or only $100 each over a period of 12 weeks of strike so far, This shows véry clearly thag the miners’ wages are at the minimum of human existence, as this makes an average of only some $8.50 per week, The support of the other industries to the miners when the miners began their strike against a wage reduction from this pitifully low scale, cost the other $50,000,000 in wages for the ning days of strike, or a little over $1€ each, which is again a commentary of the low wages of British workers. Harererereteremereraeserererarareg Turn Out to the Fifth Annual Party CHICAGO PRESS: PICNIC AUGUST 1 A joint picnic of The DAILY WORKER and 22 other working class papers,in all languages, I! RIVERVIEW PARK ADMISSION 50 CENTS AT THE GATE, 40 CENTS IN ADVANCE— the third floor in working-class quar- ters were without water during the three-day hot spell. Water pressure in these districts was not sufficient to drive the water up to the third floor. During the hot spell City Engineer Ericson declared that the pumping Plants, whose normal output is 60,- 000,000 gallons a day, were forced to yield between 70,000,000 and 75,000,000 gallons a day, He declared that it was impossible to draw more water thru the intakes, and every ticket good for ee CONCESSIONS In the Amusement Park. PARIS DENIES IT (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, July 23.—“Alsace and Lor- raine are preparing to submit their Tequest for a separate administration within France to the league of na- tions,” says Dr. Ricklin, president of the Alsationa diet, adding that this problem has caused wars between France and Germany from 843 to 1914. “The main object is the administra tion, All power {s concentrated in Paris. This we consider as an in- fringement of our personal liberty. Under the kaiser we had our own diet and president, and controlled the money collected from citizens, while the highly paid posts of administra- tion were reserved for Alsatians and Lorainians.” Tyranny from Paris. “After the war French officials were sent to occupy the high posts. Only meager salaries went to natives. The railroad company, owned formerly by i Germany and now by France, is run by native railway men. It makes great profits, but the profits go to Paris. “A proclamation asking autonomy within the French nation was signed by 100 prominent men, part of them officials, The French had them 4’ charged at once, some punished, the homes of others searched and watched by police from Paris day and night.” Norfolk Southern Line Railway Clerks Get Wage Increase NORFOLK, July 23, —(FP)—Clerks employed on the Norfolk Southern lines will get about 8 cents an hour increased in pay, under the terms of @ new agreement negotiated with the company by the Brotherhood of Rail way Clorks, Seniority rights will now extend over the entire system, instead of being confined to a local office Highty-five per cent of the clerical force on the Norfolk Southern belong to the Brotherhood. TICKETS SOLD at Workers’ Book Store, 19 8. Lincoln St. and The Daily Worker, 1113 w. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Washington Blvd. SSS EST QBUSFSIIAIN WORKERS = WARKSHOPS MIZE DAILY WORKER . PUBLISHING COMPANY 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. 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