The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1926, Page 3

Ce Perna esse ea ereeneremesecroe a THE McSWIGGIN MURDER MYSTER STILL UNSOLY New ClaseLead to Fresh Inquiry. Why Assistant State’s Attorney Wil- Ham H. McSwiggin was killed and by whom, still under investigation by the special Cook county grand jury. Fresh clues have come to the surface recently, but it is doubtful df the mys- tery will be solved, as apparently there ere powerful interests in official po- sition that seem to have no desire to bring about the arrest of the killers. With Two Gangsters. ‘When McSwiggin was killed he was’ accompanied by two notorious gang- sters, one of whom McSwiggin prose- cuted for murder the previous week. They were killed in front of Madigan’s saloon in Cicero, a stronghold of the Capone-Torrio vice and booze trust | and a political oasis of the Crowe- Barrett machine. Judge Edmund Jarecki testified at the slush fund investigation that Mc- Swiggin was busy on last primary day going around the polling booths and intimidating voters in the interests of the Crowe faction, Aimee’s Radio Makes Politicians Worried in Race for Governor LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6. — Aimee Semple McPherson’s supposed influ- ence over 30,000 to 35,000 voters with her “temple” and its broadcasting sta- tion has caused a scurrying to shelter of many politicians and a division in political ranks over, the attempted abandonment of the grand jury probe by District Attorney Keyes, Supporting Keyes, are two local Judges, the Hearst newspapers, the mayor and numerous small fry politi- cians who are advocating the repub- lican nomination of Lieutenant Gov- ernor C, C. Young for governor. Demanding the probe be continued are several preachers and all the newspapers who are hostile to Young and who favor the present governor, F, W. Richardson. Richardson criti- cized Keye’s attitude in the investiga- tion and emphasized that the grand jury itself wished to continue probing. Keyes has evidently yielded and says the grand jury investigation is, pro- ceeding. * Winston Churchill in Cabinet Movie Stars as “Animated Leader” LONDON, Aug. 6—Winston Church- ill, chancellor of the British exchequer, who recently tilted with Andrew Mel- lon, U. &. secretary of the treasury, over who was a liar in an argument about the British debts to the United States, is going into the movies. Rather said, he has gone into the movies. A special movie picture was made of “The Cabinet at Work”—try- ing to lengthen the miners’ workday while kicking about their own four- hour day as in the house of lords, In the picture, Churchill appears as the leading character, all animation, while Premier Baldwin turns out as placid and bored, The DAILY WORKER needs your five dollars—you need The DAILY WORKER. Send five for a year's sub before August 15! ment issued after his death. The statement of the Communist International reads as follows: To All Communists! To the Workers of the World! The Russian and the international revolution have lost in Comrade Dzer- zhinski one of their bravest and most resolute champions, one of their best organizers, one of their greatest lead- ers. From ithe days of his earliest youth tovhis last ..breath Comrade Dzerzhinski stood in the ranks of the Bolsheviki, in the battlefront of the proletarian revolution.. Dzerzhinski’s life was one of decades of underground work,. decades .ofmeasureless sacri- fice, decades of unforgettable achieve- ments for the: emancipation: of the working class, DZERZHINSKI, DEVOTED FIGHTER FOR WORKING CLASS, POINTS OUT THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL MOSCOW, U.S. 8S. R., July 20 (By Mail)—With the death of Comrade Felix Dzerzhinski, the international working class lost one of its best and devoted fighters, points out the Communist International in a state- THE DAILY WORKER > News and Comment ' Labor Education , Labor and Government Trade cress Politics Bon, espe ww WHIPS AN OLD OPEN SHOPPER WITH A STRIKE Boss ‘Arrested Workers as Police Captain 4 a ita directed the All-Russian Tcheka, the irresistible, death-dealing weapon against all the enemies of the toilers. From those ys on, Comrade Dzer- zhinski was the object of the hatred of all traitors, hangmen and white guards and of the blind rage of the crushed counter-revolution. He was the object of the proud admiration and love of the toilers of the whole world. After the end of the civil war, Com- rade Dzerzhinski devoted all his en- ergies to the reconstruction of Soviet territory. As people’s commissary for railways and communications he brot about the rebirth of the chaotic trans- By ART SHIEDS, Federated Press. Polish Workers Released Communist deputies, Phystupa and! Paszezuk, government, shown here after their release from jail in Luck. munist fraction In the Sejm and’ workers in mass meetings demanded the As member and leader, of the so- cial democratic party of Lithuania and Poland, the forerunner of the Com- munist Party . of Poland, Comrade Dzerzhinski was.the,pattern of the persistent, undaunted party worker in ezarist illegality...He underwent pris- on, workhouses and. Siberian exile. He lived in exile in. Germany and in Aus- tria, He faced trial and received the severest sentences with unshakable calmness. Arrested, deported, con- demned and exiled time and again, Comrade .Dzerzhinski did not pause for a moment in his revolutionary work, He escaped from jail and from Siberia and returned from abroad in order to plunge again and again into the most dangerous front of the pro- letarian class struggle. Liberated from exile by the February revolu- tion, Comrade Dzerzhinski played a very active part in the preparation and execution of the Bolshevist revolu- Port conditions. As president of the supreme council of national economy he was at the head of the struggle for the development towards socialism. His last words, spoken only a few hours before his death, were devoted to the maintenance of Lenin's herit- age, the victory of socialism, the work of the international proletarian revo- lution, Comrade Dzerzhinski, the closest battle comrade of Rosa Luxemburg, the loyal pupil and associate of Lenin, belongs to the international proleta- riat as much as to the Russian, Polish and Lithuanian workers, His tireless, infinitely varied labor, his organizing genius, hig never vascillating, loyalty to the party, his exemplary life of struggle, and his courage must con- tinue to live deeply-rooted in the con- scidusness of all Communists, of all workers, of ‘all those who toil. After Lenin and Frunze we have lost Dzerzhinski. tion. The losses are irreparable. But As a member of the central commit-| their work lives and will contniue to, tee of the Bolsheviki and of the revo-| live. lutionary military committee of the Petrograd Soviet, Comrade Dzerzhin- ski was one of the greatest captains of the October victory in 1917. In the fight for the proletarian diatatorship Comrade Dzerzhinski created and Leninjsm is unconquerable! Long live the party of the Bol- sheviki! Long live the international prole- tarian revolution! The Communist International. LEFT WING WINS ELECTIONS IN CHICAGO GARMENT WORK. UNION LOCALS 100 AND.59 This week the right-wing forces’ in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union received two severe blows. In the elections in Local 59 the entire left-wing ticket was elected by a two to one vote. The right-wing candidates for chair- man and secretary held those offices ever since the local was ‘ofganized. In these elections Bertha Pinhasik de- feated A. Share for the chairmanship by a vote of 129 to 67. Anna Dubrow defeated Max Trubakoff for the secre- taryship by a vote of 129 to 67. The second blow came to the right- wing in the elections of Local 100 Here the left-wing ticket won every office by a three to one vote. “GOLDEN STATE” IS MOCKERY TO THIS AGED UNEMPLOYED WORKER OAKLAND, Cal.—(FP)—Too old to work at 63, starving to death, and too proud to beg, Fred Boyd fainted from hunger in an Oakland street. He had been trying since April to find a job. Hungary Abolishes Eight-Hour Day and Attacks the Unions BUDAPEST, Aug. 8—Only a few trades in Hungary, notably those in the printing industry, now enjoy the eight-hour day, says S. Jaszi, secre- tary of the Hungarian Federation of Trade Unions, in a report to the In- ternational Federation of Trade Unions, always been to raise the low wage “The chief aims of our unions have level, and to obtain the eight-hour day,” he reports; “but neither of these objects has yet been achieved. It is true that, thanks to their own efforts, most trades did win the eight-hour day some time ago. But the extensive un- employment which has now devastated Hungary for some years past hag en- abled employers to lengthen working hours again. “Where this has not already been done, efforts are being made to do it. Only in a few trades, such as the printing and allied industry, have the workers collective agreements behind them, which secure them both better wages and the eight-hour day.” Pittsburgh Arrang. Social to Aid Striking British Coal Miners PITTSBURGH, Pa, Pa,, Aug. 8 — A benefit social for the British miners and the Passaic textile strikers will be given by the Pittsburgh branch of the American Negro Labor Congress Monday, Aug. 16, 8 p. m. at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller Street, Pittsburgh, The splendid music, refreshments and the especially prepared program will make this benefit social a new feature in this city. All workers and their families are invited to attend, Admission 25 cents, Pittsfield Police Arrest Samuelian PITTSFIELD, Mass, Aug. 6,—H. Samuelian was arrested by the police here and threatened with deportation for selling The DAILY WORKER and the other Workers (Communist) Party literature, ‘When being examined by the police head he was struck several times across the face and told to pack up and leave the city immediately. The police head told one of his aides to take away the ice cream license held by Samuelian, International La- bor Defense js aiding Samuelian, Five dollars will renew sub for a year, if you send on in ed “by the Pilsudski The Com- i on aes Seishinouriine parse," NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—Losing his diamond-studded police captain's badge and-the power to arrest his employes that went with it, spelled defeat for Henry Fruhaut, leading open shop clothing manufacturer, in his contest with the union. A sharp two weeks’ strike has ended in a vic- tory for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. It is the union’s most im- portant strike settlement since it signed up the International Tailoring Co, and. L. Taylor & Co. earlier in the year. Bitter Open Shopper. Fruhauf.was one of the capitalists that Mayor Hylan favored with a spe- cial police title—he was a captain— and the clothing manufacturer used his power effectively in the union- fighting game. He first broke with the Amalgamated in the i921 strike and lockout and fought it ever since till the present settlement. As an officer in the clothing manu- facturers’ association he preached the gospel of the open shop in and out of season and boasted to his fellow bosses of his ability to go it alone. In 1924 when the general body of elothing manufacturers of New York joined with the union in setting up ar- bitration machinery, presided over by an impartial chairman, Fruhauf con- tinued to run his shops in dictatorial fashion, Boss Was the Government. ‘When the union struck ‘his plants in 1924 and production ceased Fruhauf displayed his police captain’s badge as the pickets passed by and directed patrolmen in the jailing of the more active spirits. As a police captain he defeated the 1924 strike that as a simple manufacturer he would have Boasted ‘Freedom’ The glib defender of anti-unionism knows which side his bread is but- tered, * Hig favorite claim is “closed shop” of the trade unions. -But note his silence when the em- ployer compels workers to join his company “union.” This is different, likewise awkward for propagandists who have builded on sand. The New York subway strike re- veals that every worker must join that company “union.” Employes have no option. They must affiliate or not work, Dues are deducted by the com- pany. Where are this gentry who write voluminous and ponderous advice to trade unionists? Do the propagandists call attention to these things? Certainly not. The employer is their best customer. He buys their pamphlets on the advan- tages of company “unions” to dis- tribute to employes. To tell the facts of the company “union” is unprofessional. It is too good a meal ticket to be exposed. There is nothing undemocratic in unions insisting that workers in every trade and calling assist in maintain- ing work conditions, Society itself rests on this theory. Neither would it be wrong to apply this principle to the company “union,” were it not founded on dishonesty. To compel men to be a party to that dis- honesty only expands the deceit, The company “union” is maintained by the employer. He owns, controls and directs.. It is his property. It is intended to pre-empt the field and keep out the legitimate unions. The company “union” is in expen- sive. It has'often replaced crude spy systems and cumbersome strikebreak- ing machinery, With straw bosses and company fa- vorites in key positions of the com- pany “union,” demands for improved work conditions can be sidetracked. Even wage reductions are secured by having a hand-picked committee “examine the book: Employeyrs are delighted with their test anti-union plan, It is so smooth, so simple, so inexpensive. It has the outward appearance of a trade union, Propagandists complete the job by drugging both workers and the public. Amalgamated Journal, official organ of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, Willimantic Textile Mill Rejects State Aghpretion Offer HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 6. —(FP) —State arbitration was rejected by the American:Thread Co. for its plant in Willimanticy The United Textile Workers have conducted a strike there arr WITH THE LABOR PRESS — THE POSTAL RECORD, Official Organ of the National Associa- tion of Letter Carriers. Published Monthly, 48.Pages. M. T. Finnan, Editor, A. F. of L. Building, Washington, D. C. e * * . ie is natural, its members coming under the civil service law, the Postal Record.devotes considerable space to congressional procedure and prints the pictures of congressmen who favor the legislation, such as the retire ment pension act, which the union is seeking. The labor character, found even in the most conservative trade union journals, is almost entirely absent in this organ of a union of government employes. Out of five editorials, covreing two pages in the August issue, there is not a single one dealing with anything subject of general interest to labor. One editorial stresses the fact of the friendly relations existing between the government officials and the postal employes and opposes a proposal by the comptroller which would deprive postal department officials of expenses incurred while attending conventions of the union, The National Ladies’ Auxiliary of the union has a correspondence de- partment in the journal consisting mostly of reports from branches, The state associations also have a department given over mostly to notices of state conventions which are written in well-known “booster” style made famous by real estate advertisement writers. Twelve to fifteen pages of each issue are filled with letters from local unions and it is here that the political level of the organization is revealed. Like the state association department communications, the letters from the branches are chiefly laudatory comments on the old home town and the jokes are of the kiwanis-rotary club variety. Scarcely a word about the labor movement in the rsepective can found altho there is plenty of base- ball news, social items, praise of the local postmaster, etc. Typical of the corrsepondence is a letter from Sherevoprt, Louisiana, which refers to this municipality as the “pep city of America.” The servility which the civil service seems to demand and against which the Official organ of the union appears to make no protest is exemplified by a letter from Flushing, New York, published under the title of “Testi- monial Dinner to Harry S. New, Postmaster-General, and John A. Rapelje, Postmaster of Flushing, N. Y.” The letter begins as follows: There they are, brothers; two of the best postmasters in the United States; yes, and we feel in the entire world. Those of us who had the opportunity to be present on the occasion of this testimonial dinner given to the above gentlemen, and believe me there were some one thou- sand gathered together from within the ranks of the postal depart- ment and civilian life, may well feel proud that we have as our chief and as our postmaster-general a man of the caliber of General Harry S. New. A gentieman every inch of him. Yea, and even more, a real live, honest-to-goodness he-man. And | say this without fear of contra- diction. Here is a gentleman holding one of the greatest offices within the gift of the president of the United States, who did not hesitate, when asked to attend this dinner as the guest of he employes of he Flushing Postal District, to fraternize with his employes and with the citizens of the postal district of Flushing...,. What an example of fraternalism! What a spirit of co-operation! Yes, what a significance, There is much more of the same sort, but this is enough to indicate that the official organ of the union has a policy of encouraging a sort of bureau- cratic feudalism and that the organization is little more than an adjunct of the political machine of postal department heads, They Must Have Help\Will Seek Real Inform- ation. Late in August a select group of labor leaders will leave this country for a tour of industrial Europe, in- cluding Soviet Russia and fascist Italy, to get actual first-hand information as to labor conditions, Men very high up in American labor circles will make up the group, which will be a per- sonal mission, and not official. In addition to first-hand personal ob- servation, the commission will also take along a staff of expert econo- mists under the direction of Dr, W. Jett Lauck, long regarded as the ablest labor economist in the country by the railroad brotherhoods, the United Mine Workers and other great international unions. Honorable Frank P. Walsh, former chairman of the na- tional industrial conference board and later joint chairman with ex-President Taft of the U. S. war labor board, will also accompany the party as expert adviser on legal and political affairs. The announcement that a commis- sion of the most reputable and respon- sible labor executives of this country expects to visit Russia puts com- pletely to rest the fears of the execu- tive council of the American Federa- tion of Labor, expressed at their last meeting, that radicals in the employ of the Soviet government might en- deavor to stampede American labor and support a “whitewashing commit- tee” from this country, Prominent executives of large inter- national unions affiliated with the Am- erican Federation of Labor, we are in- formed, state that their plans to se- cure reliable information concerning conditions in Russia in no wise con- flicts with the refusal of the last American Federation of Labor conven- tion to send an official delegation to Russia at the expense of the federa- tion. The present mission, it is point- ed out, claims no official American Federation of Labor status, since it is composed of labor executives con- nected with both the railroad broth- erhoods and the A. F. of L. Moreover, since the labor leaders concerned are making the trip on their own private initiative, their plans are not properly a matter of concern of the A. F. of L. —Steam Shovel and Dredge (July number), official journal International Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and Dredge Men. One of the greatest industrial bat- tles in history is being waged by the miners of Great Britain to prevent the further degrading of the already des- perate conditions forced upon them by low wages and unemployment. The organized mine workers are carrying on their fight courageously despite the calling off of the general strike. But they are fighting against desperate odds. Four million men, women and chil- dren face starvation. Hunger is the greatest menace they have to face, We in America can help our British brothers win. If they are driven back to the mines to work under terrible conditions and at pitiful wages we cannot escape the consequences, of their defeat. The present lockout comes at the end of a period when earnings ranged from $11 to $15 a week. In only a few sections is any lockout benefit being paid. The vast majority of miners are entirely dependent upon relief from outside sources, : The demands for help from home are many and the need is great. Our own miners in the bituminous fields are faced with a situation almost as desperate as that which faces the Brit- ish miners, But in the face of their own great need the United Mine Workers’ Union is sending contribu- tions to their British brothers. Can workers who are more fortu- nately situated do less?—The Railway Clerk. It is to be regretted that in some localities there still remains a ten- dency to ignore our women workers who are in every respect a vital part of our trade and can and do prove of inestimable value in time of trouble. It is a notorious fact that in recent cases Our women members have made the good fight, putting our men to shame. They deserve the support of their brothers in the craft in their effort to obtain a living wage, in fact, upon their receiving it will in a large measure depend the wage and condi- tions secured for our men. Let us not deceive ourselves by following a sui- cidal course of ignoring our women, we will regret it when too late-—The International Bookbinder. The inconsistency of the man who is opposed to the organization of labor, when he himself depends on his daily wages for support, should be pointed out to him in the fact that he ia acy cepting the wages secured thru the organization of labor, which are in advance of what they would be were it not for unionism, and that, without contributing towards the maintenance of the union in any way; but, on the other hand, arraying himself against his fellow workmen and at the same time against his own interests, and by accepting the improved conditions brought about by the organization of the workers, da “obtaining money un- der false pretenses.” Surely none are so blind as those who will not see.— Lawrence, Mass., a city of little more than 100,000 population, reports 9,178 workers out of employment and 4,000 employed on half time, This con- dition can be accepted as typical of New England textile manufacturing cities and tow! In the loud boasting concerning national wealth and pros- perity this situation is overlooked, The sufferers are voiceless and they are the ghastly skeleton in the closet that must be concealed. The defend- ers of existing conditions will always be at a disadvantage while there re- unable to find he ra ‘The Gran- mains one person willing to work and | sic. Policles and Prog The Trade Union Strikes—Injunction Labor and Imper Tlinois Chania merce Holds J Representatives of th chamber of commerce m¢t draft a state police bill th, satisfactory to labor, bani culture ang all others conc.. Cc. W. Terry of Edwardi resenting the Hlinois Ban ciation; F. A. Barto: and Donald K E Chic ; representing agr: altures pores vens, ch man of the legislative ¢ mittee of the Illinois chambpr Of ¢ merce; Robert Scholes, of Pet speaker of the house at the last sion of the state legisiature an@d 4 H. Camlin, Rockford, president of Iilinois chamber of commerce, |” Tells Girls Getting $14 a Week Not to B fe “Bored” at the } BOSTON, Aug. 8. —(FP)— for the business girl is feat The Commonwealth, organ Of Massachusetts e departmel health. One article gives - health rules for the mental sical well being of the girlg, workers. Another tells her not; bored on the. job. ; But still another article sa s “more attractiveness must be pif | of > Le a her day’s work,” adding that ®t idea that the management ower ing but wages is discovered in modern times to be exceeding! business.” The writer of th article wants more welfare fo ing girls. No Injunctions Issu: Against Capital Who Go ona § NEW BEDFORD, Mass., A (FP)—Mill owners of New are on strike for higher price, | strike is directed against sumer. Buyers are calling for) but the prices they are << % not suit the manufacturers, & - latter have gotten together amr slag tailed production to less chan P cent of normal. A total of 15,000 workers are the result of the bosses’ strike town shows a total of 1,669 id ingclass tenements, Wind from Rock F Fa Scatters Miners Leaves in the SCRANTON, Pa., Aug. Twenty-five miners were ¢ the Pyne mine of the Glen’ Ald Co, at Taylor like leaves Wh fall of thousands of tons of rod a terrific current of air thru t nels. Mine cars were blown tracks and electric wires z the posts. Some men were hu feet. The men narrowly eam death All were bruised. Scranton Tailors Win Wage Incre: SCRANTON, Pa., Aug, 6. —(B) Scranton union tailors won a ¢ wage increase retroactive to Jw and in force until Aug. 1, 1928, Bi men, operators and pressers, $39.50 before, now get $42. Wo helpers get $24 instead of $21.50, 48-hour week is in force, Gold Mark Knitting ' Co. Tied Up by Str WOONSOCKET, R. I, Aug. Pi —The Gold Mark Knitting compat closed because the 20 knitters striking for wage increases, WCEL Radio Prograi Chicago Federation of Labor 1 broadcasting station WCFL is on air with regulars programs, J? brogcasting on a 491.5 wave let fronf the Municipal Pier, 4 TONIGHT. 6 to 7—Chicago Federation of t nd bulletins, 7 7:30—Elena Moneak’s Quin’: chamber music. 7:30 to 8:30—Vella Cook, soprano; F Dream Daddy Davis; Norman G. baritone; Al Scott's Harmony Haw King: #130 to 9—WCFL Ensemble. 9 to 9:30—Little Joe Warner, t 10 to 11—Dance music from ¢ jcipal Pier Auditorium, Ch Orchestra,