The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1926, Page 4

# Page Four ° THE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party Drive Up These Figures! ie. i aoe 72 ie | aoe SO 6 June 1 July 1 August 1 August 5 August 12 August 15 August 30 HE above Is the record of the payment of the United Labor Ticket Cam- Paign Special Assessment by the the settlements made to the National It Is not a record which the party that the leading committees of the pa members of the party as reported in Office. memBtrs can be proud of, It shows ity and the secretaries of the nuclei have not given support to the collecting of this assessment. Very likely another thousand or more members have paid the assess- ment but their payments have not been sent to the Natlonal Office by the secretary of the nuclei, thus raising the total of those who have pald to at least 5,000. These payments must bs secretary. ‘The party must during the month this assessment. basis. It should be a matter of pride this. Every party member and every task energetically. remitted immediately by the nuclei of August m&ke up for the neglect of We must put the apparatus of the party on an efficient of every member of the party to do party functionary must take up the The slogan of the party should be remittance for 5,000 members by August 15. of the assessment of 10,000 members by August 31. mark by that figure. The election. campaign Is before us. Fill In the question mark by 5,000. Payment and remittance Fill in the last question We must clear the decks for a big campaign to mobilize the workers against the capitalist class and the capital- ist government and for the building of our party. The plans for this cam- paign are under way and the party congressional program and campaign for that program will be announced in a few days. Before we go full steam ahead in assessment payment figures. that campaign we must drive up the The party must show its metal: © 5,000 Payments by August 15. 10,000 Payments and a 100% Collection by August 31. WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY NOMINATES CANDIDATES FOR COMING ILLINOIS ELECTIONS °°", Candidates for the United States senate and congress were nominated |114) council,” COMRADE MILLY FINN Comrade Milly Finn died Aug. 2nd. She joined the Workers (Commun- #st) Party when it was organized in Virginia, Minn., and later became a member of the Jewish branch in Detroit. She was one of the active members in the Ladies Garment Workers’ Union in Virginia and par- ticipated in many strikes in that city. She died in Detroit. Section One, Chicago, Membership Meeting Thursday, August 18 There will be a membership meet- ing of Section 1, Chicago, Workers (Communist) Party, Wednesday even- ing, August 18 at 8 o’clock at 30 North Well street, Room 301, fircsiies Sub-Section Holds Picnic Sunday BROOKLYN, N. Y., Aug. 11. — Sub- section 6-B, Brooklyn, Workers (Com- munist) Party will -have a picnic Sunday, August 15 at the Briarwoods Forest, Jamaica, Long Island, PICKETS MARCH 95,000 STRONG IN BIG STRIKE Answer Bosses’ Bluff About “Opening Up” NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 11.—Louis Hyman, chairman of the Cloakmakers’ |General Strike Committee, yesterday replied to the paid advertisement in- serted in the Yiddish press by the |manufacturers’ industrial council ;which urged workers to desert the |strike and assuring them permanent Bluff of Bosses. “The announcement of the indus- Hyman said, “that they | at the Workers (Communist) Party nomination conference in North Side |naye decided to run their shops as non- Turner Hall, 820 North Clark street. J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The candidate for United States senator; Edward I. Doty, organizer of the Negro | DAILY WORKER, was nominated as | plumbers, was nominated as congressional candidate from the first con- gressional district; Matilda Kalousek¢——H—————____—___ was nominated for the sixth con- gressional district; Samuel T. Ham- mersmark was nominated for the seventh congressional district. The nomination conference decided on the following platform: 1, yAgainst use of injunctions in la- bor disputes. 2. Against the proposed state police bills. 3. Against race discrimination. 4. For the rigid enforcement of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the United States constitution. 5. Opposition to militarism in the colleges, high schools and other insti- tutions. 6. For a Labor Party, union labor. 8. The repeal of the eighteenth amendment, Petitions are being circulated among the units of the Workers (Commun- list) Party. Campaign committees are to be formed. Mass meetings and open air meetings are also being planned by the state campaign committee. WORKERS HAVE TWO STRUGGLES; UNORGANIZED FOR ORGANIZATION AND ORGANIZED FOR CONDITIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—“A teacher and a guide is the strike of the 40,000 cloakmakers in New York City to the embattled textile strikers of New Jer- sey,” declared Albert Weisbord, youth- ful leader of the textile strike, to 1,000 striking members of Cutters’ Union Local No. 10 who jammed /Arlington Hall, St. Marks’ place. Weisbord re- ceived a thunderous ovation when he made his way thru the crowded hall, The cloakmakers’ strike has just fin- ished two weeks, while the Jersey strike is rounding out itd 25th week. “The workers of this country,” Weis- bord declared, “‘are engaged in two sets of gigantic struggles. One is the struggle of unskilled, unorganized and Following District Attorney Ban- ton’s announcement of the creation of @ special bureau to stop violence in the strike of 40,000 garment workers, Louis Hyman, chairman of the general strike committee of the cloakmakers, today made public his version of what transpired during the conference of manufacturers and union heads with Banton Monday. The appearance of officials of the Industrial Council, accompanfed by their attorney, at the district attor- ney’s office, to complain against the union was a flat-footed attempt to an- ticipate and divert charges of violence which would have been made against the manufacturers themselves. The foreign workers miserably underpaid and exploited, with no control over their destiny, the other is the battle of organized workers who, no matter how secure, must meet the same forces or lose their advanced positions. The battle of Passaic is the first step for- ward in the unorganized industry and the textile workers are challenging their masters xs they were never chal- lenged before.” David Dubinsky, manager of the Cut- ters’ Union, declared: “Within the first two weeks we have showed the | world, our friends as well as our ene-| mies, the spirit of 1910, 1913, 1924 and | other years in which we wrested one great gain after another from the em- ployers.” Other speakers included August Claessens, former social assemblyman from the 17th district, and I ler, business manager of Cutte Union No. 10. Other meetings were held dur- ing the d at Which Louis Hyman, manager of the general strike commit- tee; Ben Gitlow and others, addressed huge crowds of cheering strikers, Meetings are scheduled today at Stuyvesant Hall, Webster Hall, Lafay- ette Casino, Bryant Hall and Jefferson manufacturers complained that the union hired gunmen, thugs and other underworld characters, that no union official was a fit citizen, and that guer- rillas have been sent to watch homes of non-strikers to intimidate and beat up those who refused to join the strike. A Dilemma for the Bos: “However, when we pointed 6ut that only strikers have been shot, stabbed and brutally beaten, and sent to the hospitals, Mr. Banton was forced to inquire of the attorney for the Indus- trial Council: “*Why do you ask for protection for your clients while strikers are being | sent to the hospital?’ “Mr. Zimmerman for the union charged that William Klein, the manu- facturers’ attorney, once had recom- mended to a firm he represented to hire thugs to beat up union officials, Two union offictals were beaten up, one with a blackjack, the other slashed with a knife. Klein hastened to reply that the firm in question was nofya member of the Industrial Council now lodging the complaint against the union, I then replied *‘Members of the manufacturers’ as: Hall. Among the scheduled speakers are Salvatore Ninfo, Elizabeth Gurley Fiyrm, Morris Sigman, Louis Hyman, Rodert Dunn, Fannie Warshafsky, Julius Hochman and othe’ he f sociation themselves may not empoly gangsters, but they give work to con- tractors’ shops which have thugs as members of the firm and as protec- tion.” 7. All public work to be done by | union will not fool or frighten any of jour members, because we are ab- | solutely sure none of them will go back to work until the strike is set- tled. “The answer to this challenge was given Monday morning by our picket demonstration which exceeded in num- |bers our previous demonstrations, Cannot Work Without Workers. | “It is about time members of the lindustrial council should realize they |cannot operate their shops without jour workers, and they should not be |misled by the few who happen to head }the council into a long-drawn fight whieh will mean bankruptcy and ruin, “If they can afford to lose the season, jour workers can do it more easily - because they are accustomed to go without pay for a number of months. |For it has been the experience of jcloakmakers to go without work 26 | weeks a year, even when there is no strike.” Mass Picketing of 25,000, Eight pickets were released By | Magistrate Dreyer in Jefferson Market jcourt after being arrested in front of |151 West 30th street, during the picket demonstration of 25,000. They had |been charged with disorderly conduct. The strikers continued their inroads into the ranks of the independent manufacturers by signing six addi- |tional pacts, bringing the total settle- {ments to date to 65. New Kensington Workers Send Aid to Passaic Strikers ARNOLD, Pa., Aug. 11.—A picnic for the benefit of the Passaic strikers held recently netted $77.14, This, in addition to collections at the picnic amounting to $10.02 and a contribution from the Ukrainian Citizen's Club amounting to $5 and $4.50 for 50 cop- ies of “Hell In New Jersey” made a total of $101.66, which was forwarded to the general relief committee in Pas- saic. The committee in charge extends its thanks to the workers who helped make the picnic a succes The work. ers of New Kensington and vicinity realize the importance of the strike “RED PROPAGANDA Propaganda Committees, [SOVIET UNION PREPARES BIG AERIAL FLEET Farmers Aided by Rus- sian Planes By ROBERT GLAN. (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 11.— Every year about the middle of July, huge crowds gather at Trotzky air- drome here to witness the festival of the Red Aviation and Chemistry. This year a particularly elaborate program was arranged. Planes Ready t Fly. As we entered the AF we saw an imposing array of flying machines, lined up ready for flight. Most of them were all-steel bip! 8, built ex- clusiyely at the Soviet shops and equipped with Soviet m@tors, The center of attractioh is a huge twin-screw bomber, towering over a flock of “one-seaters,” like a hen over her brood, This steel bird is a promising eag- let; it has already broken.a few world records, “FOR UNITY THROUGH AFFILIATION WITH AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR,” IS PASSAIC STRIKE SLOGAN PASSAIC, N. J., Aug. 11—The Textile Strike Bulletin in its latest issue points out that the textile strikers seek to become a part of the American Federation of Labor. The editorial on the front page of “For Unity Through Affiliation with states: “The United Front Committee of Textile Workers which has the Bulletin labelled bearing the title the American Federation of Labor” lead the strike for six month, during which+time it has maintained the solidarity of the Passaic textile strikers, proved that it has other interests than the formation of a union and the win- {ning of the strikers’ demands. United Labor Movement. “We stand now where we have al- ways stood—for a united labor move- ment in America. It is our most earn- est desire to remove all obstacles in the way of a settlement and to do everything within our power to bring about the complete affiliation of the| 16,000 striking textile workers whom we represent with the American Fed- eration of Labor. “The mill owners have declared that they will not deal with the Unit- ed Front Committee and have stated that they would be willing to settle the strike if the workers were affi-| Several motor trucks stationed along the line furnish convenient plat- forms for speakers. j A familiar tall figure) mounts the central truck admist a storm of wel- coming shouts. It is Comrade Rykov. “Aviachim.”* I shall speak to you today not as the head of the Soviet government, but as one of the members of the. “Aviachim” (Friends of the Red Avia- tion and Chemistry), announces Com. rade Rykov, and proceeds to review the achievements of “Aviachim” dur- ing the four years of its existence. Today “Aviachim” counts over three million members. It has done tremen- dous work in popularizing aviation and chemistry among the Russian workers and peasants. It has brought home to the toiling masses not only |the importance of avio-chemical de- fense in war time, but also the inval- uable services rendered by combined forces of aviation and chemistry’ in peaceful pursuits. Aid Farmers. Tribesmen of Caucasus, who never left their native hamlets, have learned to depend on the winged machines to protect their fields from locusts. Fishermen and hunters of the White Sea have often benefited by the aid of airplanes in locating shoals of fish and seals. Forest guards of Siberia found in “Aviachim” a powerful ally against forest fires. Propaganda Planes. Several “propaganda planes” always tour the remotest corners,of the So- viet Union, distributing leaflets and spreading knowledge about manifold uses of aviation and chemistry, Comrade Rykov’s speech is followed by a few very brief greetings from the workers’ and peasants’ delegates. The crowd is eager to see the spec- tacular party of the festival. Aerial Stunts. Squads of airplanes, piloted by crack red flyers, take the air and delight the crowd by daring aerial stunts. Some machines, however, keep on even keel, flying in wide circles. These planes carry the fortunates ones, who were elected by various locals of “Aviachim” to be given a rare treat of a flight over Moscow.’ Thousands of workers and peasants. get such an aerial initiation every year. One by one the steel birds come down. The crowd presses closer to the rope barriers. The fleld is being prepared for a demonstration of chem ical warfare, Stage Gas Attack. Squads of soldiers scatter iw the tal grass. Rifle shots rattle thru the hot dry air. The “Blues” open an attach against the “Reds.” The “enemy” masks his movementr by a dense cloud of black smoke. Thi quivering wall of gas rolls nearer anc nearér to the red entrenchments Rifle fire slackens and gives place t ominous silence, Suddenly a tongue of, flame, ove: one hundred feet long, shoots forward from the red entrenchments. Then a few more, a dozen more, and soon the whole rcd front presents an im passable barrier of liqaid fire, The smoke screen wavers. litter the ground—the attack on the red stronghold is repelled, The counter-attack begins, Red air- planes shower gas boi on the re- treating “Blues.” The “ ly” bombs are filled with sweet-smelling brown gas. This is the last act of the battle. The crowds begin to sufge homeward, eagerly discussing the pageant. Girls pluck big bunches of gas@cented grass as souvenirs. COMMITTEES” COLLECT FUND TO CARRY ON WORK AMONG YOUNG AMERICAN MINERS Sunday, August 8, was quite successful for the District No, 8 Red Sunday At a Waukegan Finnish picnic $28.52 was collected by the students there for ofanizational work among the young minefs; In Chicago Comrade Ethel Shapiro went to No, 16 Slovak Branch affair and there not only a goodly sum of money was collected from a small audience, but the chairman of the affair gave a brief talk on the campaign of the league and was followed in English by our “Red Propaganda Commit- tee” composed of, one comrade Ethel Shapiro, The collection, was $16.16, Volunteers are needed every Saturday and Sunday for ‘work. Volunteers; report to V. Meltz, 1113 W. Washington for assign- mente ane ‘ ’ i whe nt ayes gO fooling =] Mat Enemy corpses | liated with the American Federation of Labor. The United Front Commit- has+ tee will use its good offices and all its influence to achieve complete affili- ation with the American Federation of Labor, Immediate Affiliation. “We declare our intention to ac- | cept the constitution and by-laws of the United Textile Workers: of Amer- ica and desire to become an integral part of that body. We make this declaration without any reservation whatsoever. We stand committed to a program of immediate affiliation and are prepared to take the necessary steps. “We urge the officials of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and the Unit- ed Textile Workers of America to ac- cept this sincere and open proposal for affiliation.” Passaic Children Need Milk (Continued from page 1) paid them 4n the mills. Difficult and necessarily curtailed to the cases of the most needy as has been the work of strike relief it has yet done more for the mill workers, according to this statement, than’ these workers were able to achieve with their $14 and $16 a week—for family men. Even tho the largest food card denomination is- sued is only for $10, the fact that the workers get their food at cost price from the four relief stores en- ables them to keep out of the poor- house to a larger extent than when they were slaving in the mills. This, in itself, is an interesting comment- ary on conditions in the textile mills of Passaic and vicinity. Relief Cuts Child Mortality. “Not only has strike relief decreas- ed the demands on the Passaic Poor House, but it has been instrumental in cutting the death rate of the chil- dren of Passaic, is another conclu- sion that must be drawn from the statement of the Citizens’ Commit- tee: “Similarly the death rates in Pas- saic for June of this year show that the deaths of children from ages un- der one up to fifteen years totalled eleven, as compared to seventeen in June, 1925. “In the face of the above paragraph {t is manifestly* impossible for the Citizens’ Committee to have attacked the children’s milk campaign if the Citizens’ Committee was an honest and impartial body. But the Citizens’ Committee has all along revealed it- self for what it is: A strike-breaking agency of the mill owners. It has been @rude and stupid in its methods beyond belief. First, it blatantly an- nounced the strike as lost; then it immediately set out to make it a lost strike by attempting to cut off strike relief from the families of these mill workers who have been on strike for over six months now, making the stupid claim that after six months of 3trfking, these workers were not in need of outside aid. “And now its crowning folly: a marshalling of facts that do nothing if they do not show the necessity as well as the effectiveness of the strike cellef organized labor is carrying on n Passaic and vicinity thru the Gen- oral Relief Committee. Death Rate Decreases. “While I agree with the committee chat the death rate of the children has decreased since the workers went on strike and organized labor came to heir aid with strike relief, their fig- ares need comment, which I will give n the way of a quotation from a let- er by W. Jett Lauck, labor econo nist of Washington, D. C., in reply o some previous ravings by this ame committee: “For children under 5 and from 5 All Arrangements Made for Coney Island Concert for Passaic NEW YORK, Aug. 11, — Full ar- rangements have been completed for for the benefit of the strikers’ children place at the Coney Island Stadium, August 28, The concert is being run to raise funds with which to buy milk for the benefit o fthe strikers’ children in Passaic and vicinity, The committee has arranged for a symphony orchestra of a hundred sel- ected players under the directorship of David Mendoza of the New York Capitol Theater; the Metropolitan ballet under the personal supervision of Alixis Kosloff, the internationally known ballet ster, a chorus of two hundred voices lead by Jacob Schae- fer, the prominent Jewish composer, The concert will be one of the finest ever presented in Greater New York. The musical and dancing program con- tains selections from Tehchowsky, Wagner and the Sheherezade Ballet by Rimsky-Korsakoff The Stadium seats 25,000 people and in order to fill it, the cooperation of every friend of the Passaic = is needed, (See New Jersey Department of Health Report, 1925, pp. 116, 149). On the other hand, if we take the ordi- nary infant mortality standard (num- ber of deaths per 1,000 living births) Passaic to be 71, as compared with we find for 1925 the infant rate for 67.5 in 1924. (The latest, or 1925 figures, have just been made public by the Child Health Organization.) “There is quite some difference be- tween an infant death rate of 71 and 17. “The committee's says: “This broadcast effort to give the world the impression that the chil- dren of this district are suffering for the want of food is of a kind the recent statement by this same leadership that 5,000 children in Pas- saic were in need of milk every day, a statement which was immediately branded as false by Health Officer John N. Ryan, whose records show that there are not that many chil- dren in Passaic now consuming milk and that the number of children of all ages requiring milk is not in ex- cess of 300. Children Need Milk. “We do maintain that there are more than 5,000 mill children in Pas- saic and vicinity requiring milk and other nutritious food to counteract the effects of malnutrition arising from the inability of their parents to supply them with nutritious food dur- ing the years they were slaving in the mills for pitifully inadequate wages. The great majority of the strikers’ children are puny and under- weight as Workers’ Health Bureau tests have shown. If these under- weight and puny children do not need milk no one does, Dr. Ryan, who is himself a -member of the Citizens’ Committee and appears to be prosti- tuting his office to serve the mill boss- es, says that ‘the number of chil- dren of all ages daily requiring milk is not in excess of 300. “I wonder what is Dr. Ryan's stand- ard in the matter? Must a Passaic child live on ‘the hill’ in order to require and deserve milk daily? Or is not milk generally recognized as one of the most nutritious, healthful and essential foods for growing child- hood? Are not workers’ children en- titled to a little milk? Or are Dr. Ryan and the Citizens’ Committee, of which he is a member, afraid that by giving milk to the strikers’ children we are establishing a ‘bad precedent’ and inducing the formation of habits (such as giving their children nutri- tious food) which may keep the strik- ing workers from going back to the mills until they are assured of a liy- ing wage?” to 9 years of age the percentage of deaths was 52 per cent greater in Passate than in the state as a whole. statement also FRANCO-GERMAN TREATY BACKED BY IRON TRUST International Combine of Exploitation WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 11,.— (FP)—Workers of France and Ger- many will demand regulation of the new iron and steel trust set up by cap- italists in these two countries, stated Dr, Moritz J. Bonn of Berlin, econ- omist who was with the German peace delegation at Versailles and at- tended economic conferences at Spa, Brussells and Genoa. The provisional and commercial treaty between the two nations is the beginning of the formation of a western iron and steel trust amalgamating French iron and German coal resources separated by the treaty of Versailles for five years, Bonn told the Institute of Politics, International of Exploitation, “The Lorraine iron ipdustry is de- pendent on Ruhr coke,” said Bonn, He remarked that the treaty was not be- tween the governments but between in- dustrial groups. “Up to the present time the working class, thru its la- bor and socialist organizations, was the only militant force that acted for international cooperation,” said Goan. “It looks very much as ff this con- dition is to be changed completely and that capital, especially that engaged in the iron and coal industry, which has been the most. nationalist in Eu- rope, is to lead along the path of in- ternationalization.” Workers Must Be Rulers Or Slaves. Bonn reiterated his belief that the workers of Europe would demand “na- tional economic freedom as against in- ternational monopoly.” He said con- sumers would join workers in this plea “for when monopolists cross frontiers and are no longer subject to the control of individual states, they must either become the rulers of the world or be controlled by some inter- national agency.” Class conscious workers already demand that workers in all countries join hands against such international trusts as this coal and iron combine. ‘t!Two More Swimming Champions Fail to Swim English Channel CALAIS, France, Aug. 11—Another pair of champion swimmers have fail- ed in their attempt to conquer the English channel. Madame Jane Sion, French woman swimming ace, and Omer Perrault, the French-Canadian star, were forced to abandon their effort after they had covered seven miles. The water, they said, was icy cold which together with the wind, placed success out of reach. This was Perrault’s second attempt in a few days. Madame Sion has also tried before. 5 “I’m through, I'll never try again,” Madame Sion told newspaper men when she had recovered her strength. “It is too terrible.” ee GRIS-NEZ, France, Aug. 11, — Ger- trude Ederle, channel swimming cham- pion, accompanied by her father and sister, departed for Calais this morn- ing. They are planning a trip to Stutt- gart, Germany. Lillian Cannon, Baltimore swimmer, said she would make her attempt either Saturday or Sunday. Attempt to Discredit Unions with Criminal Attempts to discredit Milwaukee la- bor by charges against janitors’ union officials of strike conspiracy for the ‘purpose of blackmail have hit a snag in recent revelations that John J. Gray, alias John Gerathy, the man who made the charges, is a convict and stoolpigeon with a long criminal record, including many convictions on robbery and other charges, according to information received at the Chicago Federation of Labor. SEND IN YOUR SUB TO THE DAILY WORKER! PASSAIC STRIKE COMMITTEE INVITES DAILY WORKER TO VISIT VICTORY PLAYGROUND The DAILY WORKER has been invited by the Passaic textile strikers’ relief committee to send a representative to Victory Playground. The tele- gram from, the committee follows: “DAILY WORKER, 1113 W, Washington Blvd.: ; “We are inviting all sympatheti ic periodicals to visit Victory Play- ground where 1,000 strikers’ children are being strengthened physically and mentally for the struggle which they¢——————_______-__. will make in the future. We are in- viting you to send a special corres- pondent to Passaic to cover this in- teresting phase of our relief work which we assure you'is an experiment being successfully carried out for the first timedn the history of labor strug- gles, “General Relief Committee of Passaic and Vicinity.” The DAILY WORKER accepts the invitation of the strike relief commit- tee and will send its New York rep- resentative to the Victory Playgrounds Get an autographed copy ‘ot! Red Cartoons by Fred Ellie and Robert Minor K wart, aemmnibet ue totem me oa) Stock Diffusion Helps Company Union, Claim (Special to The “Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Aug. 11-—(FP)— Jas. P. Noonan, president of the In- ternational Brotherhood of Dlectrical Workers, denuonces wide distribution of stock ownership in public utility companies as a substitute for public ownership, The more widely the stock is sold, he argues, the smaller the fraction need-by the promoters to hold control and to enslave the workers in that industry, thru com pany uniooa, =~