The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1926, Page 5

ws PASSAIC MILL BARONS FAIL TO FRAME WEISBORD Breach of Promise to Be Quashed PASSAIC, N. J. July 25, — The breach of promise suit brought against Albert Weisbord, leader of the Passaic strike, by a “Rosalind Lap- more” has fallen flat and will un- doubtedly be thrown out of court. This attempt to discredit Weisbord, which was engineered by Jacob No- sovitsky, failed miserably. Henry Margoshes, attorney for the fictitious Rosalind Lapmore appeared before the New York supreme court and urged that the charges be quash- ed. Margoshes handed the following statement to representatives of the press: Nosovotsky Aids Bosses. “On June 29, Mr. Nosovitski came to my. office with a young lady, whom he introduced to me as ‘Rosalind Lap- more.’ She told me her story, and I then dictated the papers. I had ‘Miss Lapmore’ sign and swear to them before a commissioner of deeds. “The next day Nosovitski came to my office with a man he introduced to me as Mr. Cohen, who, he stated, had served the papers on Mr. Weis- bord at 52 Second avenue, I had Mr. Cohen gign the usual affidavit of ser- vice and ihe swore to it. I took it for granted that Mr. Cohen had sworn to the truth and that the papers had actually been served on Mr. Weis- bord, and I filed the papers in the usual way. Fictitious Addresses. “On July 1, I was informed by the New York World that an investiga- tion disclosed that the address given by Cohen as his residence, as well as the address at which he swore he served the papers, did not exist. “On July 2, I visited premises known as 11 East 139th street, New York City, that being the address giv- en to me by Miss Lapmore as her home, and found that she does not reside there and was not known at that place. “Since the signing of the com- plaint Miss Lapmore has not called at this office, altho Nosovitski inform- ed me over the telephone that he would call. I have no méans of get- ting in touch with her or with Noso- vitski. r Act As Attorney, “In this case I acted as an attor- ney for a client ‘regardless’ of the industrial aspects of thé’ case.” Shotld it develop that Mr. Weisbord was the tmnocent victim of a conspiracy then I can but deplore it, but at'the same time must emphasize that the fault lies not with me but elsewhere.” You do the job twice as well— when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your story in it. : Read— Body and Blood of Christ, Inc. By Thurber Lewis Sacco and Vanzetti By John Dos Passos The Fur Workers’ Strike By Moissaye J. Olgin Call Western Union. Wise David Gordon | yet, but it is’ at THE DAILY WORKER Page Five Observe Bastille Military display marks observance of Bastille Day In France as usual, THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT— ITS HISTORY AND POSSIBILITIES The DAKLY WORKER begins herewith the serial publication of “The Co-operative ‘Movement—its History and Possibilities,” by J. Hamilton, Chairman of Executive, National Council of Labor Col- ‘leges, England, * A chapter of this very interesting and instructive work will be run.once per week in our co-operative section. Those who miss the instalments, can secure.them from The Dally Worker Publishing. Company. (Editor’s Note). e . . . Why Workers Should Study ‘the Movement. 4 as Co-operative Movement has not had the general attention given to it that its importance warrants.. Quietly conducting its work and not, like the trade union movement, actively participating in the class struggle, it has too often been ignored by labor students. . This attitude, however, is no longer excusable. The work of the movement, conducted essentially by and for the workers on its trading and productive sides, necessitates an in- telligent appreciation of its possibliities and limitation. Its status in Russia and its relation to a workers’ state; the development of international trad- ing, as for instance betwen the Soviet government, Arcos Limited, Centro- soyus, and the C. W:'S., all emphasize the necessity, in working class inter- ests, for an intelligent study of the co-operative movement in its national and international aspects. As Lenin, in the Russian co-opera-¢—————————___________.. tive paper, The Union of Consumers |ciated by many of our practical work- (Soyus .Potrebitelei), June, 1923,/ers. They look negligently on coop- Points out; “With us, so it seems to/eration, without understanding the me, insufficient attention is paid to|exceptional importance co-operation co-operation. It is doubtful whether/has, firstly from the standpoint of all understand that since the October | principle (the ownership of the means revolution, and independently of the|of production in the Nands of the new economic policy (or alternately|state), and secondly, in view of the thanks thereto) co-operation has ac-| transition to a new order by a pos- quired a most exceptional importance. | sibly simpler, easter, and more acces- In the new economic policy we | sible way for the peasant.” made a concession to the peasant as} Whilst noting that economic condi- also to the trader, with regard to the/tions in Britain are very different principle of private trade, and hence |from those prevailing in Russia, and the gigantic importance of co-opera-|that capitalist control is here much tion (contrariwise to what some peo-| deeper rooted (particularly that of ple think). Essentially speaking, the | finance capital), nevertheless Lenin's co-operating of the Russian population | main point of the lack of appreciation widely and deeply, and to an adequate | by many workers of the importance of extent in presence ‘of the new eco-|the co-operative movement is quite nomic policy, is all ‘we require. . .|true as applied to Britain, Out of co-operation and’ cooperation| Co-operative histories and publica- alone, which ‘we formerly treated as|tions have generally only circulated a trading affair, and which we are en-| amongst co-operators; and they nat- titled to treat simtlarly now, under|urally treat the eubject from the. co- the new economic regime—is not this | operative point of view—that of the all that is necesary for building up a|consumer. Hence there is a need for complete socialist society? It is not|dealing with the subject from a differ- the building of @ socialistic society, as} ent standpoint—that of the organized requisite and ade| working class movement; and it is from this point of view that this book is written... .. i quate for the i is the very clfe Huge Joint Picnic , On Behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti ce aR ‘Under the Auspices of LL. D, and Sacco & Vanzetti United Front Defense Conference Palisades Del Rey Beach, Sun., Aug. 1, 1926 Prominent. National ake ED OWENS OF DETROIT, Co-operative Section This department will appear in every Monday’s issue of The DAILY WORKER on page three, > Day as Franc Flops 4 ee es Above are the Moroccan peace dele- gates taking part in the exercises that were somewhat dampened by the severe financial crisis. NEWS AND COMMENT CO-OPERATIVES MAKE GAINS IN SOVIET UNION Increase Membership by 40% in Year —_—— MOSCOW, U. §. 8. R., July 25. — Consumers” co-Oferatives in thé So- viet Union now? number 10,500,000 members, of whom 6,000,000 are peas- ants and 4,500,000 are townspeople. In addition there are producers’ co- operatives—the agricultural with 5, 800,000 members-,and the handicraft workers with 500,000. This represents a.rapid growth since the war, but es- pecially during the past year, during which the gain is estimated at about 40 per cent. Agricultural co-operatives, which had a turnover of less than 60,000,000 roubles before ther war, now have a turnover of more’ than a billion rou- bles annually. They own and operate 17,000 different»enterprises, including oil factories, potato reduction plants, ete., that produce 50,000,000 roubles worth of goods and employ 50,000 workers. Handicraft workers’ productive co- operatives increased their turnover in the past year from 196,000,000 roubles to 464,000,000 roubles. One-fifth of the handicraft workers in the country are members. Waukegan Boarders Maintain Co-operative WAUKEGAN, Ill.—(FP)—A_ co- operative boarding house controlled by Waukegan men has been running for 10 years or more and is still going strong. It is operated and patronized mainly by Finnish workers, although no questions are asked as to national- ity, religions or political faith. Meals are served at cost. The Elanto Co-operative Assn. was started so unostentatiously that none of the 20 men I talked to on the wide porch knew when it began. All they knew was that it was organized by a seeking good food and congenial meal- time companionship and that it has no connection with any other organiza- tion. It is managed by August Laine, who at the end of #&ch week computes the cost of opergtion and divides it among those who have been fed that week. A general membership meeting is held once a month. A membership fee of $10 is charged to protect the association against jumping board. It is returned when a man discontinues his membership. For several weeks the rate has been $6.50 for 21 bounteous meals, group of men tired.of moving about RELIGION AIDS OLSON AND CO. SKIN WORKERS Organization Needed to Better Conditions By M. PERLIN, Worker Correspondent. Carl, a young worker, a member of the Young Workers (Communist) League of America, works for Olson and Company, a picture frame manu- facturing compan. shop is un- organized. There are about 80 work- ers in the shop.. Most of them are young workers, They get from $15 to $20 a week. They must work nine hours a day. Most of the workers in this shop are very religious, One .day Carl ap- proached one of the workers and spoke to him about conditions in the shop and the need to change them. This worker replied: “This world don’t amount to much and it is not worth struggling to make life better. God placed man on this earth on pro- bation, to see if he will follow his com- mandments. Our real life will begin in the other world, to which we all must eventually come.” Carl advised him to get all this fool- ishness out of his head. “Those ideas help the boss and not you. There is but one life, In the few years that we are alive we have to suffer under most miserable conditions. We must know that we have but one life and that it is our duty to better that life. “To be able to achieve a better life we must get rid of these thought-up religions of another world and a life after the death. We must all unite into a strong union and fight for our rights.” Carl's talk was not in vain. The workers began to understand. Now that worker is doing his best to re- educate the workers in the shop to understanding the need for organizing to carry on a fight for better condi- | tions in this life. Hod Carriers’ Local Passes Resolution Against the C.M.T.C. By Young Worker Correspondent. MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The Milwau- kee local of the International Hod Carriers? and Common Laborers’ Union unanimously adopted the ©. M. T. C. resolution. At the regular meeting pf our local on Friday, July 16, a resolution con- demning the purpose ané*function of the C. M. T. C. was -unanimously |might mistake it for fairyland. Gplon Ginclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE. BEFORE, J. Arnold Ross, oi! operator, formerly Jim Ross, ‘eamster, ssful In signing a lease with property holders at Beach City, Cal., f intrigues of other operators and quarrels among the holders. While at Beach City, Bunny, his thirteen-year-old son, meets Paul Watkins, slightly older has run away from home. E His father is a poor rancher in who is a “Holy Roller.” Paul goes away to make his livi Bunny goes about learning the oi! business from his D well at Prospect Hill, Dad was working hard hunting trip to the San Elido Valley. Dad agrees a Watkins ranch and pitch their camp, In out of the ground and Dad wheedles the and also arranges to secretly purchase a Ruth, and Bunny become friends. Bunny starts to t With plenty of money and social standing he enters into His Dad warns him of dangers, tobacco, drink and womer on the latter, He falls in love with another student, Rose e e - e II - When Dad took his business trips now he took them alone} that is, unless he could arrange them for week-ends and holi- days. He didn’t like going alone; and Bunny for his part, always had a part of his mind on Dad, and when Dad got back, he would hear all the details of how things were going. There were six wells now at Lobos River, and they were all “paying big.” Dad had four more drilling, and had deepened eleven of his old Antelope wells, and had a pipe line there, through which a river of wealth was flowing to him. On the Bankside lease he had six wells, all on production, and he had paid Mr. Bankside something over a million dollars of royalty, and had only got started, so he said. He had a good well on the next lease, the Ross-Wagstaff, and three more drilling, and out about half a mile to the North he was opening up new territory with the Ross-Armitage No. 1. It was wonderful to see what had happened to the Prospect Hill field. All over the top of the hill and the slopes a forest of oil derricks had arisen, and had started marching across the fields of cabbages and sugar beets. Seeing them from the distance, in the haze of sunset, you could fancy an army of snails moving forth—the kind which have crests lifted high in the air. When you came near, you heard a roaring and a grumbling, as of Pluto’s realm; at night there was a scene of enchantment, a blur of white and golden lights, with jets of steam, and a glare of leaping flame where they were burning gas that came roaring out of the earth, and which they had no way to use. Yes, when you drove past, sitting in a comfortable car, you You had to remind yourself that an army of men were working here, working hard in twelve hour shifts, and in peril of life and limb. Also you had to remember the pulling and hauling, the intrigue and treachery, the ruin and blasted hopes; you had to hear Dad’s stories of what was happening to the little fellows, the thousands of investors who. had come rushing to the field like moths to a candle-flame. Then your fairyland was turned into a slaughter-house, where the many were ground up into sausages for the breakfast of the few! Dad had a big office now, with a manager and half a dozen clerks, and he sat there, like the captain of a battle-ship in his conning tower. Whatever might happen to the others, Dad took care of himself and his own. He had come to be known ‘as the biggest independent operator in the field, and all sorts of adopted by the local, and the dele-| People came to him with propositions; new, wonderful, glowing gates elected to the Wisconsin State] Schemes+-with Dad’s reputation for solidity, he could organize Federation of Labor | convention,| a ten or twenty million dollar company, and the investing public which will be held in Green Bay on| would flock to him. But Dad turned all such things down; he July 20, were instructed by a motion,} would wait, he told Bunny, until Bunny was grown up, and which was also unanimously support-| through with this here education business. ed, to speak and lobby for its pas- sage. The resolution read as follows: “Whereas, the Pennsylvania State They would have a pile of cash by that time and would do something sure enough big. And Bunny said all right, that suited him. He hoped the “something big” might be at Paradise, for then he would have a Federation of Labor has called the at-|'@@l share in it. Dad said, sure, the Watkins ranch was his dis- tention of the entire organized labor| COVery, and when they come to drill there, the well would be movement to the fact that the C. M.| known as the Ross Junior. T. ©..4s organized for the purpose of training young workers for the army|of an unfortunate slip-up in the negotiatigns for the land. to be used in the-next war, and They had made no move there; they were waiting, because An unkind fate had willed that Mr. Bandy, owner of the big Bandy “Whereas, the Military Training|tract, had been away from home on the day that Mr. Hardacre Camps Association, that is composed] p: of large open shop employers, domin- ates the policy of these camps and does {ts best to see that the camps ad collected his options; and when Mr. Bandy got back, and learned about all the sudden purchases, he became suspicious, and decided that he would hold onto his land. At least, it turn out scabs and strikebreakers, and} #mounted to that, for he raised his price from five dollars an “Whereas, larger and larger num-|@cre to fifty! What made this especially bad, the Bandy tract bers of young workers join these mili-}lay right next to the Watkins section; it was over a thousand tary camps because of the encourage-| acres, and ran near to where Dad and Bunny had found the ment given them by the employers; | oil—in fact, Dad thought the streak of oil was on Mr. Bandy’s therefore be it “Resolved, that the Wisconsin State} Na, Federation of Labor convention con- demns the purpose and function of the Citizens’ Military Training Camps and opposes any move on the part of the land, he couldn’t be sure without a survey. They would wait, d said, and let Mr. Bandy stay in pickle for a few years. It was like a cat watching a gopher hole, and which would get tired first. Bunny asked which was Mr. Bandy, the cat or the gopher; and Dad replied that if anybody ever mistook Jim Ross for a employers to organically connect the gopher, he would jist try to show them their mistake. A. F. of L. with the war department So they were waiting. Some day that mythical relative of to further aid the bloody plans of the| Dad’s, who was an invalid, was coming into those rocky hills and imperialists or to in any way help in| tend a few thousand goats; and meantime most of the ranches the recruiting of young workers to| were rented to the people who had formerly owned them. Three serve as cannon fodder in the next! or four were vac: war, and be it further “Resolved, that we instruct our delegates to the Wisconsin State Fed- eration of Labor convention to present this resolution, to work, speak and lobby for its passage, and be it further “Resolved, that the delegates in- struct the ‘incoming executive com- mittee of the State Federation of La- bor to immediately wage a state-wide agitation and organization campaign against the Citizens’ Military Training Camps, and be it further “Resolved, that copies of this reso- lution be sent to the executive council of the A. F. of L. and to the labor press of the United States and the president of the United States.” First Wheat In, MINNEAPOLAS, Minn, July 25—~ The first three carloads of newly har-| strikers’ committee, reported on the wheat came into] strike and the brave fight carried on They were Mon-| by the strikers against the mill boss- tana winter wheat of choice milling| &s. vested northwest Minneapolis today. ant, but Dad didn’t worry about that; he would leave them to the quail, he said, and told Mr. Hardacre to have a man put up about a thousand signs over the whole twelve thou- sand acres he had bought, so as to impress Mr. Bandy with Dad’s gluttinous attitude toward small game. BUFFALO FORMS CONFERENCE TO HELP WIN THE PASSAIC STRIKE BUFFALO, N, Y., July 25.—Organized labor held a rousing Passaic Strike Relief Conference at Engineers’ Union Hall, The spirit of the conference was that the big textile strike must be won, The conference was called to order by Relief. 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A committee was ap- at cash prices ranging from $1.52 to| poimted to continue visiting unions $1.56 a bushel. and other organizations, secteeiniinpecemes To Show Strike Movie, Make Pay Roll Haul, It was also declfed to get the Pas- NEW YORK, July 25.—Five armed| saic Strike Moving Picture here at bandits escaped im hm automobile to-} an early;date. A committee was ap- day with a payroll amounting to $4,325] pointed to see about a suitable hall. farmers’ co-operation will participate | {rom the Now York Linen Supply and | it was also decided to arrange a mass im this annual meeting... 1 icaucwond company.“ ” meeting and picnic. ines ita | Ota? at “ ntnaciph Consumers Meet in Canada. (Co-operative News Service.) The Co-operative Union of Canada, embracing consumers’ societies, will hold its congress at Edmonton, Alta, August 2-3, The sturdy consumers’ co- operative movement which has grown up on the prairies under the wing of L}