The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1926, Page 5

PASSAIC JUDGE ‘FINES SLUGGED WORKING GIRLS Relief Workers Planning Huge N. Y. Concert PASSAIC, N. J., Aug. 2. —(FP)— Sylvia and Esther Kleiman of New York City, who were arrested on Sun- day, July 25, when the police here broke up a procession of 350 fur work- ers who had come from Manhattan to express sympathy for the textile strik- ers, were fined $25 each for disturbing the peace. Police Judge Davidson voiced his in- dignation against the visit of the fur- riers, asserting that they came to stir up trouble. He had no criticism for the brutal clubbing of many of the furriers by the cops. Eva Kleiman, a sister of the two girls who were fined, was held for trial later, She is charged with striking a policeman, Plan: Great Concert for Relief To raise funds for the purchase of milk all summer for the children of Passaic strikers, a great ballet and sympany concert is to be staged Aug. 28 in Coney Island Stadium under the auspices of a group of prominent citi- zens here who have been investigating conditions in the textile strike zone, Various dancers and musicians have volunteered to take part, most of them widely’known and some of them world- famous, according to Ludwig Landy, 799 Broadway, who is treasurer of the project. Aid Campaign. The Stadium has already been en- gaged. It will seat 25,000 persons, and Lundy says that the committee ex- pects that every seat will be sold—in view of the widening interests in the Passaic situation. The Milk Fund Committee includes: Samuel Unter- myer, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Paxton Hibben, Susan Brandeis, Rev. Edmund B. Chaffee, Elizabeth Glendover Evans, James P. Warbasse, John Nevin Sayre, Rey, J. Howard Mellish, Rev. Paul Jones, Mrs. Gordon Norrie, and John Lovejoy Elliott. Street Carmen and Elevated Line Workers Go Into Arbitration Officials of the elevated and street carmen’s unions and Officials of the two transit companies have announced that they have agreed on the appoint- ment of an arbitration committee to adjust wage and pension demands. Good Full Chested STORIES of Labor That will give you both pleasure and inspiration. —And make you a strong- ‘er member of the Labor movement. We are glad to suggest that you read them. FICTION The Damned Agitator—And Other Stories, By Michael Gold. $ 10 The Strength of the Strong, By Jack London, $ 10 100%-—-The Story of a Patriot, By Upton Sinclair, $ .26 Fairy Tales for Workers’ Chil- dren, By Hermina Zur Muhlen. Duroflex, $ .75 Cloth, 1.25 Flying Oslp—Stories of New Russia, Paper, $1.50 Cloth, 2.50 King Coal, By Upton Sinclair, Cloth, $2.00 Chains, By Henri Barbusse. Cloth (2 vols.), $4.00 ‘ POEMS Poems for Workers, Edited by Manuel Gomez, $ 10 Bars and Shadows, By Ralph Chaplin. $ 50 Poema For the New Age, By Simon Felshin, Cloth, $1.00 Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk. Cloth, $2.00 DAILY WORKER PUB, CO, 1113 West Washington Bivd., HERBERT SMITH, THE HEAD OF THE BRITISH COAL MINERS’ STRIKE Here is a recent photograph of Herbert Smith, president of the British. Miners’ Federation, who, with Secretary A. J. Cook, is lead- ing the fight of the men who are starving rather than accept a re- duced standard of living from the rich coal owners, Communists of Chile Grow in Power; Split Bourgeois Goviédintient SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug..2. — The “radical party” of liberals and anti- church elements has adopted. a policy of opposition to the present govern- ment, This .government was. supported hitherto. by every party except the Communists, whose influence over the masses has been growing rapidty. The breaking away of the “radical” party signifies the fact that the government position has been weakened and the Communists strengthened. The “radical” party is the strongest one in the parliament, and the situa- tion is serious for the cabinet. Al- ready the cabinet is setting rumors afloat of a return to the dictatorship of a year or s0 ago. Picnic to Benefit Class War Prisoners This Sunday, Aug. 8 A picnic for the benefit of political and class war prisoners will be given this Sunday, August 8, by the Russian, Polish and Ukrainian branches of the International Labor Defense at For- est Preserve, at the end of Elston ave- nue. An interesting program in which the Russian Workers’ Singing Society and Mr. Ivan Lazarev, actor of the Moscow Art Theater, will participate, is being arranged. Take any car to Elston avenue and go to the end of the line. A commit- tee will meet you there, Poor Children Are Hot Weather Victims BALTIMORE, Aug. Aug. 2.—An appeal for funds to save babies, and particu- larly babies of poor famiiles, from issued by a Baltimore committee, since 24 babies died in the city in one week. » “Most frequently death knocks at the doors of the poor for their chil- dren,” says the appeal, “In many instances they are undernourished and Mving under unhealthful conditions.” Find Bomb on Pennsy Track, Is Police Claim ‘Chicago police say a black powder bomb was found on the right-of-way of the Pennsylvania railroad here to- day, shortly before its crack train, the Manhattan limited, was due to pass over that section of the track. The fuse, which had been ignited, THE DAILY PCM a SRG REM RAL, KK css) AUTO TANTO DEALERS ces TOLD GUARD OF | UNITE TO LOCK OUT UNIONISM Secret Cireulae Reveals Boss Combination By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press. WASHINGTON, August 2, —(FP)— Evidence that a nation-wide lock-out of union men in automobile shops and garages is being launched by the dis- tributors’ combine, known as the Na- tional Automobile Dealers’ Associa- tion, is pouring into the grand lodge headquarters of the International As- sociation of Machinists, in Washing- ton, This combination of dealers is work- ing in complete harmony, in this at- tack, with the automobile chamber of commerce, which is the combination of manufacturers, In this latter combina- tion General Motors is the largest single corporation, General Motors has just announced record-breaking earnings of $93,285,674 for the first half of 1926, which means a profit of $17.33 per share of common stock. It is determined to solve the labor prob- lem in the automobile industry along Judge Gary’s lines by exterminating unionism, Over These PRIZES for Worker Correspondence Offered to workers sending in stories and news this week— winners to be announced in the Issue of Friday, August 6. b pet pass Wing Unionism,” by David J. Saposs. A new etudy of radical tactics and policies in the American trade unions. A storehouse of invaluable in- formation in a splendid cloth- bound edition. os Moscow Diary,” by Anna Porter, A record of vivid im- pressions gathered by the author on a recent visit to Soviet Rus- Work In Unison. sia, A cloth-bound edition. The Dealers’ Association has recent- ly shown its power in Joliet and Chi- cago Heights, Ill, and in Ithaca, Corn- ing and Elmira, N. Y. In Joliet the dealers all mailed identical letters to the Machinists’ lodge at the same hour, announcing cancellation of their agreement with the union and declar- ing they would henceforth operate open shops. In Chicago Heights and in the three cities in New York state the union men in the garages were told they could give up their union cards or their jobs. In Chicago Heights the dealers employed gunmen, but the locked out men have put up a hard fight, BS pei lor Collaboration — How to Fight It,” by Bertram D. Wolfe. A new booklet in the Little Red Library, just off the press— AND Eight other numbers of the Lit- tle Red Library already issued. SUBSCRIBE to the American Worker Correspondent (50 cents a year) to learn what and how to write. Secret Circular. A secret circular issued as Bulletin No. 18 by the N. A. D, A. on July 9, after devoting a paragraph to warning the dealers that a leakage of this secret information has’ occurred, des- cribes an alleged meeting in Cincin- nati, with President Green of the American Wederation of Labor as the speaker. Green says no such meeting was held. “The meeting,” says the report of the combine’s detective which is is- sued as being true, “held in A. F. of L. hall, June 25, opened by Green at 2 Pp. m., was a closed session. Eleven officers were on the rostrum and a total of 87 present. Report Green Speech. “Mr, Green said they were there to discuss things privately. These were the kind of meetings he liked, ‘no d—— newspaper reporters or any under- cover men.’ They could come right out and say what they liked, He intimated he was very well pleased with the out- look in general, Talked on the union situation as a whole, and then got into the main theme of his message, which was the unionizing of automobile mechanics. “We have a special drive on at the present time on behalf of automobile mechanics,’ Green said. Proceeding, he asked his audience did they know there are approximately 2,500,000 men working at the automobile game. Couldn’t they see what it would mean if they got all these men with them. He hammered on the ‘golden harvest’ angle for a time, enthusing his au- dience, then instructed them to exert all their own energy and that of every man they could get to work on auto- mobile mechanics. ‘Talk union, preach union, and, if there is no other way, pound union into them,’ he exhorted. Jekyl and Hyde. “If confirmation of the first para- &raph of our bulletin dated May 29 was needed, Mr. Green has certainly supplied it, This talk of Mr. Green behind ‘closed doors’ provides an inter- esting contrast with those he frequent- International Red Aid Holds Exhibit in Moscow Museum MOSCOW, U. 8.8. R, Aug. 2.—The central committee of International Red Aid of the Soviet Union, known as MOPR, is organizing an exhibition which will feature the various active ties of the organization. The purpose of the exhibition is to distribute in- structions and’ information to active MOPR workers, visiting representa- tives of local branches and mass ex- cursions. The following important de- partments will be featured at the exhi- bition: Class struggle tries and colonies. Development of MOPR in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, with sub- divisions including MOPR work in the village and army; MOPR corner in the factory; achievements of model organizations in Leningrad, Vyatka, Uzbekistan, ete. The exhibition will also feature MOPR activities abroad, such as life of political prisoners, relief, etc. A MOPR worker's booth with perm- anent consultation regarding practical questions of MOPR work will be estab- lished at the exhibition. The exhibition, in the future, will serve as a basis for organizing a cen- tral MOPR museum in the Soviet ‘Union. Polar Flight Plane Is Used by the Navy as Recruiting Stunt NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—The Jo- sephene Ford, Fokker plane which car- ried Lieutenant’ Commander R. E. Byrd and Aviation Pilot Floyd Ben- nett, both of the United States navy, over the North Pole and back is on display at the Wanamaker store in New York and will be moved to the Philadelphia store for similar exhibi- tion later. The navy department takes advan- tage of the occasion to station a re- cruiting officer by the plane to catch young men for the navy while their imaginations are aglow over the plane. Navy rates of pay shown the men range from $21 to $99 monthly, the top rate for petty officers, the low for mess attendants, in capitalist coun- Clubs. Sort of Dr, Jekyl and Mr. Hyde touch,” Afraid of Campaign. The bulletin adds the statement that, “While we are as yet without confirmation thateagitation among fac- tory employes has acutally started, it has been decided by the A. F. of L. to centralize time and effort to organize the tool and die shops of automobile manufacturing plants, as well as some departments where real mechanical skill is required, These departments include other plants specializing in essential automobile parts, 1, e., trans- missions, etc.” Discovery that General Organizer Griffith of the Machinists is working in Middleton and Hamilton, Ohio, is announced, The bulletin is signed by Plain Afrship Route, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug, 2.— Operation of a dirigible airship route between Atlantic City, Philadelphia and New York City will be started OLD GUARD OF 6.0,P, RILED AT BAD OMENS Cal Asks Ni New Term Thru Unpopular Men WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. — Hard-botl- ed republicans who know the way to bamboozle the voters, are disturbed at the bungling tactics of Coolidge in opening his campaign for re-nomina- tion. They gloomily telate that Coo- lidge is picking the most unpopular people to voice his ambition for an- other term from his home in the Adirondacks. Have the “Evil Eye.” Senator Fess of Ohio is one of the “evil eye” tribe. Fess led the ad- ministration’s fight for the substitute bill on farm relief, and from Coo- lidge’s home talks airly of the populari- ty of Coolidge out west as being the basis for another term for Cal. But the visit of Richard Washbourn Child to Coolidge’s fishing camp and his eulogy of Coolidge as deserving of @ secnd term is still worse. Child is a hot partisan of fascism, is endless in his praises of Mussolini, who ad- mitted his responsibility for the mur- der of Matteotti. May Want Somebody Else. The tricky old guard of the repub- licans have, perhaps, a candidate of their own for which they are ready to ditch Coolidge, whom they publicly bemoan as lacking in intelligence and as puffed up by flattery as Bill Taft in his worst days. His present spokes- men, they say, overlook the result of every ey, this year. Robert Williams of British Labor Party Speaks at Leningrad MOSCOW, July 17—(By Mail)— Robert Williams, secretary of the British Labor Party, declared in a meeting of the Leningrad Trade Union Council that he is pleased to note the improvement in living con- ditions in the Soviet Union since his first visit in 1920; while the standard of living in Western Europe has sunk. Williams warmly thanked the work- ers of the Soviet Union for their re- Nef campaign for the British workers and underscored the consummate ful- filment by the proletariat of the So- viet Union of its duty towards the British miners. Textile Industry in Germany on Part Time NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Figures show- ing the amount of employment among 294,943 members (98 per cent of all) of the German textile workers’ union are given in American trade papers, In silk and rayon, of 15,408 workers, 6,028 worked full time at July 1 and 3,650 were unemployed, while 5,730 worked part time. Of 75,-33 in the woolen industry, 30,115 were working full time, 17,501 jobless, and 27,417 on part time, In cotton, of 97,105 workers, 19,960 were on full time, 15,464 jobless, and 61,951 on reduced schedule. Total figures are, membership polled: 284,- 943; on full time, 85,896; out of work, 58,775; on short time, 150,272. Part time workers Lave increased at the expense of full-time workers, but there are slightly fewer unemployed than at the beginning of June. Report 150 Fishermen Lost in Bahama Storm MIAMI, Fia., rom ie 2-008 hundred and fifty fishermen are reported lost as a result of the tropfcal hurricane which swept by Nassau, Bahama Islands, this week, according to word reaching here today, The sponge fish- armen who set out last Friday in 75 small boats for a six wéeks’ cruise among the sponge beds bordering Great Andros Island have not been heard from since the hurricane tore thru the islands. The gale recorded as attaining a speed of 134 miles an hour, literally smashed its way thru Nassau, demol- ishing buildings, spraying streets with broken glass and debris and sinking many small craft, the advices here stated, German Workers to Visit Soviet Union MOSCOW, Aug. 2.—According to a Berlin dispatch to the official news- paper Investia, a new German labor delegation of 50, composed chiefly of ANEW NOVEL Gplon Ginclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, J. Arnold Ross, oll operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, is unsuccesstul In signing a lease with property holders at Beach City, Cal., because of intrigues of other operators and quarrels among the holders. While he is at Beach City, Bunny, his thirteen-year-old son, meets Paul Watkins, slightly older. Paul has run away from home. His father is a poor rancher in the San Elido Valley who Is @ “Holy Roller.” Paul goes away to make his living on the road and Bunny goes about learning the oi! business from his Dad who is bringing in a well at Prospect Hill. Dad was working hard and Bunny suggests a quail hunting trip to the San Elido Valley. Dad agrees and shortly they arrive at the Watkins ranch and pitch their camp. In hunting for quail they find oil oozing out of the ground and Dad wheedles the sale of the ranch out of old Watkins and also arranges to secretly purchase adjacent lands. Paul's little sister, Ruth, and Bunny become friends. Bunny starts to high school at Beach City. With plenty of money and social standing he enters Into the life of the school. His Dad warns him of dangers, tobacco, drink and women—a little bashfully on the latter, He falls in love with another student, Rose Taintor. In the mean- time Dad’s ofl business grows rapidly. The World War begins and Dad, along with other capitalist: enefits by selling oi! to both belligerents. Christmas holidays come and Dad and Bunny go quail hunting on their new preserve, Bunny meets Ruth again. Ruth tells him that Paul sent her a book that spoke st the bible and that her Dad caught her reading it and whaled her. it wae ge of Reason.” Bunny arranges for Paul to come and live with Ruth on a nearby ranch. Paul had been living with a lawyer who took @ liking to him and bequathed his library to Paul when he died. Paul “has it out” with his “holy roller’ father who scorns him as unfaithful. His brother Eli is a hopeless religious fanatic, subject to fits. Ore: oe Vil. Next morning they set forth after trout; and on the way they stopped to see Mr. Hardacre. Before they went in, Dad cautioned Bunny, “Now don’t you say a word, and don’t make any faces. Jist let me handle this.” They.entered, and Mr. Hardacre said that he had an offer from young Bandy, speaking for his father, to sell the ranch for twenty thousand dollars. Bunny’s heart leaped, and it was well that Dad had warned him, for he wanted to cry out, “Take it, Dad! Take it!” But he caught himself, and sat rigid, while Dad said, “Holy smoke, what does the fellow take us for?” Mr. Hardacre explained there was about twenty acres of good land on this tract; and Dad said all right, call that a hundred an acre, and the improvements, say four thousand, that meant young Bandy was trying to soak them fourteen dollars an acre for his thousand acres of rocks. He must think he_had a sucker on his hook. “To tell the truth, Mr. Ross,” said the agent, “he Imows you’re an oil man, and he thinks you're going to drill this tract.’ “All right,” said Dad. “You jist tell him to hunt round and find somebody to drill his own tract, and if he gets any oil, ’'ll drill mine. Meantime, the land I got now will raise all the quail the law will let me shoot in a season. The end was that Dad said he would pay twelve thousand cash, and otherwise he’d forget it; and after they had got into the car and started the engine, Bunny whispered, “Gee whiz, Dad, aren’t you taking a chance?” But Dad said, “You let him stay in pickle a while. I got all the land I can drill right now.” “But Dad, he might get someone else to drill it!” “Don’t you worry! You want that land, because you got a hunch; but nobody else has got any hunches around here, and young Bundy’ll get tired after he’s tried a while. Let’s you and ine go a-fishin’.” So they went, and drew beautiful cold shiny trout out of a little mountain lake, ard late in the evening they got back to the Bascum place, and Paul fried the fish, and the three of them had a generous supper, and afterwards Dad smoked a celgar and asked Paul all sorts of questions about science. Dad said he wished he had-a got that kind of education when he was young, that was a sort of stuff worth knowing; why didn’t Bunny study biology and physics, instead of letting them fill his head up with Latin and poetry, and history business about old kings and their wars and their mistresses, that wasn’t a bit of use to nobody? Next morning they said good-bye to Paul, and went back into the mountains, and spent most of the day getting fish; and then they set out for Beach City, and got in just about bed-time. Bunny went back to school, and his new duties as treasurer for the base-ball team; and Dad set to work putting four more wells on the Armitage tract, and three on the Wagstaff tract. And meantime the nations of Europe had established for themselves two lines of death, extending all the way across the continent; and millions of men, as if under the spell of some monstrous en- chantment, rushed to these lines to have their bodies blown to pieces and their life-blood poured out upon the ground. The newspapers told about battles that lasted for months, and the price of petroleum products continued to pile up fortunes for J. Arnold Ross. ‘ Summer was here, and Bertie had plans for her brother. Bertie was now a young lady of eighteen, a brilliant, flashing creature—she picked out clothing shiny enuf for a circus dancer. If Bertie got a dress of purple or carmine or orange or green, why then, mysteriously, there were stockings and shoes, and a hat «nd gloves and even a hand-bag of the same shade; Dad said she would soon be having sport-cars to match. Dad was grimly hu- morous about the stacks of bills, and not a little puzzled by this splendid young butterfly he had helped to hatch out. Aunt Em- ma said the child was entitled to her “fling” and go Dad paid the charges, but he stood as solid as Gibralter against Bertie’s ef- forts to push him into her social maelstrom. By golly, no—he was scared to death of them high muckymucks, and especially the women, when they glared at him through their law-nets, or whatever they called them—he felt the size of a potato-bug. What could he say to people that didn’t know an er from a sucker-rod rotator? This vulgar attitude had been taken up by Bunny, "whe thought it was “smart”—so his sister jeered. Of course a young lady of eighteen hardly condescends to be aware of the existence of a kid of sixteen; but there were younger brothers and sisters of Bertie’s rich friends, and she wanted Bunny to scrape the oil from underneath his finger nails, and come into this fashionable world, and get a more-worth while girl than Rosie Taintor. Bur- ny, always curious about new things, tried it for a while, and had to confess that these ineffable rich young persons didn’t interest him very much; he couldn’t see that they knew anything, or could do anything special. Their talk was all about one another, and they had so many cryptic allusions and so much home-made slang that it amounted almost to a new language. Bunny didn’t like any of them well enough to be interested in deciphering it, and he would rather put on his oil clothes and drive out to the “roughneck,” he would help the cathead-men and the tool- dressers to scrape out the mass of sand and ground-up rock that came out with the mud, and that was forever choking the way to the sump-hole. Meantime Bunny was thinking, and pretty soon he had a scheme, “Dad,” he said, “what about that cabin we were going to build at Paradise?” ‘ “Well, what?” asked Dad. & lies “Paul writes that Ruth has come to stay with him. So next fall, when we want to go after quail, there won't be any place for us. Let's go up there now, and have a holiday, and build that cabin ow.” Cc, A. Vane, general manager of the N. A.D, A, had burned partially toward the ex- plosive charge, then had evidently gone out of its own accord, police sald, TULL LULL LLL LLL LLL New York Left Wing Needle Workers’ Excursion Saturday, August 14th, 1926 To SUNSET PARK on the Hudson Steamer “Cleremont”. Boat starts 2 p. m. sharp from Battery Park Pier A. Music, Refreshments, Eto. Tickets $1.10, at the pier $1.25. Tickets for sale at 108 East 14th St. next year, according to Captain A» ton Heinen, head of the Aero Corpo ration of America, Captain Heinen came here today to inspect sites for a moor mast. social democrats and trade union of- ficials, was to leave Hamburg July 24 to visit the Soviet Union. A working women’s delegation of 10 members was to follow in August. Chicago, lil. Government Employe Fired, Kills Himself WASHINGTON, Aug. 2,—Notified by the chief clerk of his department that he was to be dropped because he had been absent without leave, Ed- ward A, Brauninger, 51, lithographer in the geological survey office, shot himself. He had become ill from the heat on July, 4 and had been unable to work si ily afterward, Secretary Work keeps the employes in the {nterlér department, which tn- cludes the #¥ological sur close watch'as to their bein THE JEWISH DAILY FREIHEIT ; CHICAGO OFFICE: |'Roosevelt Road and Kedzie, Room 14 TotophonsTRackwett 2306 Manager: A. Ravitch All, information about “Daily Freiheit’ and “The dfammer,” ibe nae subscriptions, etc., on application. under death due to hot weather, has makes before Rotary and Kiwanis