The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1926, Page 1

== ied The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Z Vol. Ill. No. 167, 7 So”. Ve i oe ; INSUc. CASH AIDED By THOMAS J, O'FLAHERTY New York republicans are still looking. for a candidate for governor who can lick Al Smith. They haven't found him yet. There are plenty of willing fellows and there is no dearth of Self-sacrificing sons who are ready to deslare themselves 23 wet as Al. COOLIDGE has summoned COORDING to Russell Scott, who is In Cook county jail awaiting execution, the explosion thai recently friends of the outside, but was plan- ned by politicians who are anxious to have the county bniid a new jJafl on Yasid purehated by them for a ‘end fot Which they expect to get™a fancy prics from the county. There may be more ituth than poetry in this story. Certainly the investigation in- io the alleged bombing is not crazy for the limelight. ane « USSOLINI once upon a time had e Chicago Tribuue correspondent deported from aly, becanse for some unaccountable reason, the reporter did not write as Benito wanied him to. The Trib flapped its wings and told the world that its representatives would not be muzzled nor its col wams polluted by colored news. It even went so far a5 to open war on the fascist dictatorship in @ series of articles sent from Paris by the de ported reporter. But now all that be- longs to the past. se. ‘'N a recent editorial the Tribune ~ handed Italy $10,000 worth of ad- vertising on a gold platter, The French are abusing American ts. The English, less volubic, are insult- nice of Benito and despite hie little failings, after all, but for him Italy would have etc. Italy is 4 mice country and so on. Wonder how much the eucharistic congress had to do wih the recently revived flood i a tH i i ¥ i “scription Rates: PASSAIC POLICE ASSAULT NEW YORK FURRIERS Break Up ~ Demonstra- tion at Strikers’ Hall By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, July 26—Fifty Passaic police yesterday charged and clubbed a delegation of 350 members of the Furriers’ Union of New York who were parading in support of the textile strikers. The furriers arrived in busses and found the police awaiting them. Chief of Police Zober objected to placards carried by the furriers reading: “Down with the bosses,” “All workers must stick with the textile strikers.” Arrest Six Furriers. ‘When the delegation refused to dis- card the placards the charge was ordered. Six furriers were arrested, four of them women, and many were beaten, A protest meeting of 5,000 strikers addressed by Weisbord was not inter- fered with, but after thé meeting when the visiting furriers attempted to re- form their line another charge was made, Hold Protest Meeting. A mass meeting of strikers will be held Tuesday night to decide on ask- ing the American Federation of Labor to intervene. Henry Hilfers, secretary of the State Federation of Labor has been invited to speak. Furriers Levy Assessment. At the meeting yesterday Ben Gold told the strikers that an assessment of $1.00, expected to bring in $12,000 weekly, had beon levied by the furriers’ union for support of tho strike. Leo Kryzski of the Chicago Garment | Worktre-told the meeting thatall gar- ment workers were supporting the strike. .Tha United Front Committee, in a statement issued after the clubbing of attack on the so-called citizens’ com- mitteo pointing out that the police victims were members of an American Federation of Labor union and that this shows that the citizens’ committee is fighting all unions and not merely the United Front Committee in charge of the strike, ee Attack on the A. F. of L. PASSAIC, N. J., July 26. — Enraged at the wonderful demonstration of five thousand textile strikers beglin- (Continued on page 2) LOS ANGELES CLEANERS FIGHT OPEN-SHOP RULE 2,000 Workers Tie-Up 72 Big Shops LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 26.— Two thousand cleaners, dyers, press- ers and drivers responded to the j strike call of Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Lo- cal No. 176, The workers are on strike demand- ing recognition of their union, a 15% wage incréase, 44-hour week with only one delivery on Saturday, time and a half for overtime with payment for holidays, minimum wage scale to be from $25 to $60 a week and women doing the same work as men are to receive the same pay as men. 72 Shops Tied Up. Seventytwo shops, members of the Cleaners and Dyers Plant Owners’ Association, have been tied up by the strike, Futile attempts have been made by several of the shops to oper- ate with scabs. A $3,000 cleaning machine was wrecked in an explosion at the Bear Cleaning Works, 8700 Central Ave., which is trying to run with strike- breakers, “Inexperienced help caused the explosion,” was the announcement made by the plant heads. Mass Plioketing. Mass picketing demonstrations are being staged before the shops in which there are a number of workers that did not go out on strike. Police and deputy sheriffs have been stationed at each of the plants {n an attempt to break up these effective demonstrations, Maés strike meotings are Held daily at the Labor Temple. Organize Santa Monica. Strikers have been sent in auto- mobiles to Santa Monica where an at- |tempt fs also being made to organize the worker# and get thom to go on [strike for bevter conditions. aglaw IE DAIL a a In Chicago, by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. SORE | the furriers, placed the blame for the | Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the! Post Office at Chicugo, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1 CTH IMinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 926 all Poincare Cabinet in Desperate La Stand Against Impen “PREMIER “PoINca’ | The new cabinet selected by Raymond Poincare, leading spokesman of French imperialists and chauvinists, combines all wings of the capitalist par ties in France and comes to Power as a last resort against the falling franc which threatens to bring down in its train the whole Superstructure of French capitalist economy. The workers will find the administration of Poincare’s government one that may attempt with the connivaitce of American finance capital, to impose a Dawes plan on France. The visit of Morgan and Mellon to Europe lends color to this possibility. In addition : Poincare as premier, the cabinet has Louis Barthou ag minister of sie and vice-president; i Aristide Briand, minister for foreign affairs; Albe: ’ rraut, minister of in- of marine; Paul Painleve, minister of public fies iy Leygues, minister, ‘o fmarine} Paul Painlove,*minister of war: Marin, minister of pensions Maurice Bekanowski, minister of commerce; Andrew: Tardieu, minister of public works; M. Perrier, minister of colonies; M. Queuille, minister of agri- culture; Andre Fallieres, minister of tabor, ASK FERGUSON {GARMENT UNION TO RESIGN AND MARCHES 30,000 KEEP PROMISE STRONG IN N.Y. “Ma” Losing to Moody in Texas Race BULLETIN, (Special to The Daily Worker) | DALLAS, Tex., July 26.—Returns | announced by the Texas election Police Hem in Army of | Cloakmakers | | arose | By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, July 26. — At} |noon today between 26,000 and 30,000! bureau early this afternoon showed striking cloakmakers paraded thru| Dan Moody, leading demooratic the garment district from Twenty- candidate for govenron with a major fifth to Fortieth street on Sixth, Sev- Ity of 454 votes over all jenth and Broadway. e Ferguson 233,594; Lynch Streaming in from sixteen halls The vote: Moody 343,933; where meetings are held daily, the {demonstrators filled the thorofares, | with squads of police, mounted and on Mrs. Fergusan 233,594; Lynch Davidson 102,330; Mrs. K. M. Johnston (with: drawn) 1,745; Mrs. Edith Wilmans |oot, hemming them {i 1 st 3,600 and Rev. O, F. Zimmerman No pie cape stightian at 2,120. abs nig 12:30 p. m. There is a probability that the publicity given to the 300 ar- rests during last. week's parade, fol- lowed by the investigation of the club- bing of some twenty I. R. T. strikers, may allow the demonstrations to pro- ceed without police interference. The trike 4s still growing in power | and the cloakmaking industry is com- pletely tied up. STRIKERS’ WIVES VISIT HOOSIER STATE CAPITOL Demand That Officials Intervene in Strike INDIANAPOLIS, July 26—-Women | relatives and sympathizers of the striking motormen and conductors of the local traction company last Sat- | urday marched to the-state house with | he demand that the state government intervene ‘to settle the strike which yas bpen on here since July 5. Many of the women had children in their arms. Governor Jackson was away on a vacation and the officials FORT WORTH, Tex., July 26, — Newspaper editors and _ politicians thruout Texas today called upon Gov- ernor Miriam A, Ferguson, who faces overwhelming defeat in Saturday's democratic primary at the hands of Dan Moody, attorney general, to re- sign Immediately, as she agreed in a challenge to Moody at the beginning of the campaign. As results were tabulated, Moody appeared to have not only a substan- tial plurality, but results from more than 200 counties gave him a majority, making a run-off unnecessary if his lead holds, Made Challenge. Mrs. Ferguson e&rly in her cam- paign for re-election challenged Moody, that if she was beaten by “just one vote” she, would “step down and out” provided Moody would agree to resign if she led him by 26,000 votes. Moody accepted. “Ma” and “Pa” Ferguson reiterated their chal- lenge only a weok ago. Moody Way Ahead, The latest count showed; Dan Moody, 338,957; Mrs. Ferguson, 230,- 095. James BH, Ferguson, husband of the woman governor, continued his “concede nothing” attitude this morn- ing. He hinted at “irregularities and said he had been informed that the FRENCH BANKS STRUGGLE FOR | CABINET RULE Morgan’s Hand Behind One, of Contenders (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, July 26.—It is an open has been partly caused by a battle! between two financial groups, with the Morgan interests behind one, of them pushing the fight for the ratification of the Mellon-Berenger agreement. The London Financial Times pub- lishes an article hinting that it is jonly a matter of a short time when | interested parties both in France and England will demand an expose of |what has been going on in the dark among French politicians and bank- ers, Two Banking Groups Struggle. The two groups, that of Horace Fin- lay, director of the Bange de Paris et Pays Bas, and that of Baron de Roths- child of the Bank of France, have been | | | secret among financial circles that the | | changing fortune of the French franc | in a mighty struggle for control of the | French government. Each of these are as powerful in their own sphere as Morgan and Rockefeller in the United States, and there are seem- ingly strong connections between the Rothschild group ane the Morgan bank in Wall Street. When Herriot overthrew Briand and Caillaux, it was haled as a tri- umph for Finlay of the Bank of Paria and the Low Countries. It seems equally certain that the overthrow of Herriot in turn and the ascendancy of Poincare, was a triumph for Roths- child, and.with him, of the American banking ,interests intent upon gain- ing the control of European finances. That Poincare should suddenly an- nounce that he will move for ratifi- cation of the debt pact, adds to this view. The English Interested. It is somewhat significant that the ones who are now asking for exposure of the fracas, are the English financi- ers, who may have more than an eth- ical interest in checking the intrigue of American financial imperialism. It was Pqjincare who began the pro- cess of disguised inflation which bros France into its present plight. He now has the job of straightening it out (Continued on page 2) they succeeded tin interviewing in- formed them that nothing could be | done to seille the trike. law had, heen violated in some in- enoqe t f \ Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Cidcago, IL REED COMMITTEE GETS STARTED IN INQUIRY INTO ILLINOIS SLUSH JAMES A. REED. Chairman of the senate investigat- ing committee who caused Frank Smith under cross-examination to admit that Samuel Insull, utility magnate, gave him a cool $100,000 for his campaign. THE nois senate seat who admits that Insull gave him $15,000. He was heard saying in the lobby of the Democratic aspirant for the committee room, “I likes Frank better inal A GOOD PASS KEY guess Insull than he does NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents ER MAGNATE ‘GOT LEASES ON SMITH, BRENNAN ‘Colonel’ Says { na uarter [ii By T. J. O'FLAHERTY Samuel Insull ity in Ili tarian poli and other luagr | ed in the election of F | to the senate of ihe Unite | was the candidate him | to testimony given y | sald candidate, first w | the slush fund investigation under the direction of Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, held in Room 653 of the | Federal Building. | Not Hot For Purity. The stigation is b y 1 ithe in of public morality and has no u The republican boodie & who are holding t TOD, pole would be wi battle for purity until a elections—if not foreve The sessions are he court from which J dom 9 personal kL. § tates than cording by the din day ess cal sued the infamo' helped smash the shopme 1922. The injunction was i the request of a once well-known at- torney-general by the name of Daugherty. He Dropped Vitriol. Senator Reed is the Missouri polfti- cian that Woodrow Wilson tried to kill—politically. Reed opposed the en- trance of the United States imto the war. After Wilson went to Paris to get fooled by Clemenceau and Lloyd George, Reed delivered a speech in the senate which was ee bitter as the es- wence of acid. £ The fate of mations has often heen decided by the smile of a dissolute woman, he said, ar something like that, Those who know Paris will un- derstand what the senator was talking about. Being a senator he was {m- mune from punishment tho ‘Gene Debs | was sentenced to ten years fn Atlanta for telling what the war was all about. He Is No Puritan, Reed is now enjoying himself im- mensely, dojug the democratic party (Continued on page 2) The slush fund investigation shows that a golden key opens the door to office under capitalism, despite prime | res and other reforms sponsored by those who think the capitalist tiger can be civilized by clipping bie clawe | good turn and making the front page * —_——_——~, LL CT CC ti LT AAT