The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1926, Page 4

“oifered to rage rour THE DAILY WORKER Workers WORKERS PARTY IN CLEVELAND PLACES TICKET (Special to The Dally Worker) CLEVELAND, Aug. 16.—At a con-/ vention of the Workers (Communist) | Party in Cleveland a ticket for the coming campaign was put up. Altho| the district has not been able to place} a state ticket in the fleld, the Cleve- land local will have its candidates for U. S. congress, state legislature and senate and a full county ticket. John Fromholz, John Brahtin and Israel Amter are the candidates of the party for congress. | Program and Platform, The party convention adopted a pro- gram and platform, which are being isssued in leaflet form. The central slogans of the program are a labor party and a workers’ and farmers’ government. The Ohio State Federa- tion of Labor is taken to task for put- ting up trade union candidates on the republican and democ tickets. Only a labor party will answer the needs of the workers at the present) time. Support Miners, The convention adopted several reso- lutions, pledging solidarity to the Brit- ish miners now on strike, loyalty to Sacco and Vanzetti, and expressing solidarity with the painters and glaziers of Cleveland who have been on strike since March and to break whose strike the contractors’ associa- tion has brought in scabs who are be- ing protected by Safety Director Bar- ry. The resolution calls on all the building trades to see to it that all contracts hereafter terminate on the same day The convention also adopted a reso- lution calling on the socialist party and the socialist labor party to form} a united front in the coming campaign and offering to withdraw the Work- ers (Communist) Party candidates in case either one or both of the parties would agree to call a convention to- gether with the Workers (Communist) | Party, trade unions and other work- ing class organizations. " Failed to Answer. Up to the present the socialist party | and the socialist labor party have not | answered—and it is most probable that they will not answer, for that has been their attitude in all the united front campaigns that the party has these two organizations, notably since the anthracite miners’ strike, and especially for May Day. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! What Others Vv. F, CALVERTON— Editor of “The Modern Quarter. ly,” author of “The Newer Spirit.” “In dealing with RED CAR- TOONS one is immediately im- pressed with the subject matter as well as with the skillfulness of line and ingenuity of conception, Here are proletarian cartoons, conceived in the spirit of the class struggle and devoted to the definite purpose of class propaganda, And so RED CARTOONS satirizes with a pur- pose that is as social as it is sig- nificant.” ALBERT COYLE— Editor, Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers’ Journal. satus, Gropper and Art Young are enough to give distine- tion to the cartoons of any publica- tion. There is a grip and force to their work that is inescapable, even though one does not always agree 100% with their interpretation.” “detain (Communist) Party DETROIT LABOR Distribute a half million copies of the pamphlet, “The Workers (Communist) Party—What It Stands For, Why Every Worker Should Join” by the end of this year. HERE’S HOW NEW YORK DOES IT! FIVE THOUSAND COPIES OF THE PAMPHLET BY C, E. RUTHENBERG The Workers (Communist) Party, What It Stands For, Why Every Worker Should Join SOLD IN THE FIRST WEEK! Dear Comrades: We have already sold our first five thousand copies of the pamphlet. Already we have orders on our second five thousand. By the end of next week we hope to sell the other five thousand. For the first five weeks we should sell five thousand each week. After that the orders should not be much less than five thousand every week. We will see to it that the pamphlet is sold at every street meeting. By that time we will have dozens of meetings in the district each week, At all our meetings and important affairs—particularly the election campaign meetings—a copy of the pamphlet will go with every ticket for the price of admission. In this way we will reach many workers who could not be reached otherwise. We will charge this to the expense of the meeting, taking off 2% cents from the gross proceeds from every ticket. I suggest that the other cities do the same thing. We are also planning to circularize all T. U. E. L. groups, co-oper- ative organizations, ete., with this pamphlet. We are giving a copy of the pamphlet away free to every striker who calla at our office or fills out the blank in our special Strike Bulletin. We will circularize lists among our comrades to make up for the cost of this free distribution. I suggest that this be written up in the Dally so that other cities may profit from these experiences, Fraternally, JACK STACHEL, Organization Secretary, Dist. No. 2. How Are YOU Selling Your Pamphlets? Are You Selling Them? COME ON! SPEED UP! Send all orders to: National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. SUT TUTTII ILL LIMLL LLOLU THE BOOK OF OF THE YEAR STITT ILL Lae Nae | THE BEST WORK OF Robert Minor, Fred Ellis, Art Young, Adolph Dehn, William Gropper, Lydia Gibson, Juanita Preval, O'Zim, K. A. Suvanto, Hay Bales and others, Over seventy cartoons on heavy drawing paper, bound in brown art-board covers. Postpaid $1.00 Bis. ee CARL SANDBURG— Famous American Poet and Writ- er. Author of “Chicago Poems,” “Rootabaga Stories,” “Abraham Lincoln,” ete. CARL HACGSLER— Editor of “The Federated Press.” “Astonishing vigor by the artists and commendable restraint by the editor mark the volume of RED CARTOONS. Savage bitterness, sardonic contempt even for certain labor dead, pity for the shackled worker and the child slave, virile picturing of the hope of revolution- ““RED CARTOONS! sets the high mark of cartoons voicing radical- ism or revolution. The old-fashion- ed figure of Labor wearing a square paper cap is not here nor the familiar little man who represents the public, the people, or the ary emancipation, are blazoned ultimate consumer, The working forth in black and white in these class is set forth as powerful, beautiful pages.” awakening, and aspiring, the cap niin italist class as brutal, cunning, greedy, ignorant and a big-mouthed bird whose one prolonged utterance is ‘Blah!’ It is safe to say that ‘Red Cartoons’ is the simplest, most vivid and terrible presenta- tion in pen and ink, black and white lines of hostility to the present or- der of civilization that we have ever seen in this country.” CHICAGO TRIBUNE— “Stunning.” 2. ©. MERSHON, San Francisco. “Boing a bill-board artist 1 justly appreciate the révolutionary message and artistic merit of RED CARTOONS.” sok AIDS PASSAIC Union Delegates (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 16.—A per- manent organization to carry on re- jlief work in Detroit for the striking | textile workers of Passaic was formed Jat the delegated conference at the | Electrical Workers Hall | street. Fifty-one delega‘ f represent- jing 27 organizations were present, and also, as specially wha guests, Mrs. Harriet R. McGraw’and John T. Taylor of the Web Pressmen’s Union. Rebecca Grecht, field .organizer of the general relief committee of tex- tile strikers addressed the confer- ence, pointing out the generous re- |Sponse made by Detroit labor, and urging all organizations present not to slacken their efforts byt to inten- sify the relief drive in these crucial | weeks of the strike. | Many Donations, The following organizations brought in donations: Detroit Federation of Musicians, $300; Painters’ Local 723, $100; Auto Workers’ Union, $25; Car- penters’ Loca] 1191, $25; Baker Driv- ers’ Local 78, $25; International Labor Defense, $ ; Lithuanian Literary | Society No, 52, $17.64, Donations of $100 from Steam Fitters’ Union Local 636, and $125 from Lathers’ Union Lo- cal Union 5, received by the field or- ganizer, had already been sent to Passaic. Unions Behind Strikers. The delegate from Painters’ Union No. 723 reported that his local had decided that every member shall be called one to work one hour overtime for the benefit of the Passaic strikers. Carpenters’ Union No, 1191 reported the local had taxed its membership $1 each. Typographical Union No, 18 had permitted the relief committee to circularize its 900 members with an appeal for aid, accompanied by milk stamps and contribution lists, and also with an enclosure by Secretary John &. Simmons of the union, urging re- sponse to the appeal. It-was further over 600 strike pictorials; “Hell in New Jersey,” had been sold at union meetings in one week, and delegates were urged to push the sale of this vivid story of the struggle. Executive Committee, The following officers wefe elected: Newton B. Short, of Electfical Work- ers No. 58, chairman; Jacob C. Robin- son c Printing Pressméns’ Union, secretary; Joseph Friedman ‘of. Paint- ers’ Local 723, treasurer. ‘In addition to the officers, the following delegates | were elected to the executive com- mittee of the Detroit conference: Har- riet R. McGraw; H. Bennett, Musi- cians Union; F, Bouchwalt; Blectrical Workers No, 78; John T. Taylor, Wed Pressmen; W. Reynolds, Workers (Communist) Party; Mrs. R. Louis |Gomon; Mrs. Hugh C. Chedester; Mrs. R. Loving, Northern Progressive | Ladies Assn.; John Rimach, Abraham Lincoln Lodge, Croatian Fraternal Union; Cyril Lambkin, International Labor Defense; H. Wolinsky, Work- men’s Circle 181; A. Dishel, S. Kaplan, and J. Perlman of Inteependent Work- men's Circle, | The executive committee, meeting j immediately after the conference, | elected an organization committee to visit unions and other organiza: tions for donations, and a committee to arrange for a tag day. | children, | Open Headquarters. The conference has at Electrical Workers’ Hall. fase Co. te eee Pittsburgh Street Nucleus to Stage a (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa.,, Street Nucleus No. 2 of tI trict, ico and England. terest to workers, will be free, topics and dates are as follows: on; “Why a Labor Party?” speak on: eral Strike.” ence,” Section 6 to Have of Chicago will hold an open air meét- ing at Division and Washtenaw Sts, 8 p. m, tonight. The sp with a timely working all workers on thé Noi udged to attend, ap a alan | ON TO A HALF MILLION! | STRIKE RELIEF Conference. “Fermned By 55 Adelaide | reported by Organizer Grecht that | It is planned | to organize a special women’s com- | mittee to concentrate on the drive for the milk fund for the strikers’ Arrangements ‘will also“ be made to hold a concert in September. established headquarters at the office of the Paint- ers District Council, 55 Adelaide St. The second’ meeting of the conference will take place on Monday, August 23, Editor’s Note: — an ca BIG LABOR SPY.AGENCY BOASTS OF HOW IT WRECKS TRADE UNIONS By ROBERT W, DUNN, Federated Press. Robert W. Dunn, who knows more about the labor spy than any other man in the labor movement, begins a valuable series of articles on industrial detective agencies with the following expose of the Corporations Auxiliary agency. Dunn was co-author with Sidney Howard of the Labor Spy, and since the publication of this book has gathered a mass of additional data. es Gat Union-wrecking activities of labor Spy agencies are revealed again in let- ters and reports issued by the Inter- national Auxiliary Co., the New York state representative of the Corpora- tions Auxiliary Co. of Ohio, premier labor espionage service, An item in a confidential report to clients issued by the Buffalo office of the international tells of speedy un- ion liquidation where its undercover operatives were employed. The un- named client “advises of the great | help derived thru our service. He op- erates a foundry on an open shop basis but most of the molders are card men. A new production system was resisted by all employes. Several of our, representatives (meaning spies, | R. W. D.) were placed among the men and thru their leadership and propa- | ganda work the men came to like the system... The union is being grad- ually forgotten.” Another Booster, As a result, the International claims “we have another highly satisfied client and booster.” Confidential re- ports on general labor conditions sent weekly to these clients give what pur- ports to be “inside stuff” on union activities, tho most of its is clipped from trade union journals and the daily press. The comings and goings of trade union officials are carefully watched and union membership growth is always the occasion for a warning paragraph insisting on the indispensability of International “serv- ice” to manufacturers. The old ap- peal popularized by the Sherman Cor- poration is common: “If you could don overalls and go to some particular |department of your plant tomorrow morning you would do it and learn all the.-whys and.wherefores of some situation. You cannot do that. We can do it for you by. assigning one of our skilled and capable representa- tives (meaning spies. R. W. D.). Let us help you overcome that problem,” ‘Another instance of its efficiency in disposing of trade unions is cited by the Buffalo office of the interna- tional in. a letter which tells of “a 100% organized plant of 425 employes operating with an agreement with a large international. union employed our service, using only two opera- His articles will appear weekly. + tives. Eight months later it was an open shop. Most forgot to say ‘his was done without a strike or walkout.” Those who know what a blacklist means and how union men can be fired on technicalities will understand this feat of openshopping. How They Get Them. In employing spies the Internation- al uses the name Eastern Engineer- ing Co., the offices of which give the same address as the parent firm that jeals with the clients. In New York City both offices are at 17 West 60th street, while in Buffalo they are in the Ellicott Square building. Workers answering blind advertisements for “woolen weavers” or “boilermakers,” for example, will find themselves re- ceiving a letter from the Eastern En- gineering. Co. telling them, “if you will call at our office and bring your own letter and this of ours to you and present them both at this office, we shall be glad to give you an in- terview for the position applied for.” When the worker is interviewed he is skillfully informed ‘that the “‘per- manent position with good pay” means becoming a Judas to his fellow work- ars. Other names used by the Inter- national in employing operatives in New York are Automgtive Industries Exchange and Cosmopolitan Service Bureau. 100 Spies. The International Industries claims it has been in the business for 30 years and that it never has less than 1,000 men of all trades and nationali- ties on its operative lists. Service costs the client $150 and up per month, depending on the number of spies employed. Among the largest vlients of the International are “a large independent steel company,” “a well known smelting company,” “a manufacturer of an important railway equipment device,” and many of the Brooklyn shoe manufacturers who re- cently broke the strike of the Ameri- can Shoe Workers’ Union. Other eastern clients. are Otis Elevator Co., New York Edison Co., Empire Silk Co., American Type Co., Federal Cabal Co, and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. ELEPHANT AND JACKASS READY STRIKE-BREAKER ARMY IN ATTACK FOR BIG PARADE) ON SCAB HERDER Democrats Expect to Control House (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, N. D., Aug. 16.—The democrat and republican campaig2 managers are busy predicting success in the coming congressional contest. Both sides are making extravagant claims. The democrats must gain 35 seats in order to win control of the house and they say this is by no means im- possible. The net republican major- ity is now only 32 considering the inclusion in the republican paper ma- jority of the dissident elements known as the LaFollette group. The Bum Prophet. The republicans hope to line up Minnesota securely in the G. O. P. procession but here is a case of whist- ling to keep up courage, The predic- tions of Arthur Evans, a Chicago Tribune correspondent, that the Farmer-Labor party movement is shot to pieces are not convincing in view of that gentleman’s prediction for passing out bum prophecies. It. will be remembered that a few days before the recent primaries in Iowa, Evans had Brookhart hanging onto the ropes, whereas the election showed that the Series of Lectures gust. 16. — e “Hill” dis- of the Workers (Communist) Party, is arranging a series of lec- tures, which deal with the present situation in the United States, Mex- Admission to the lectures, all of in- The August 24, S. Gusakoff, will speak September 17, D. BE. Barley will “Lessons of the British Gen- September 21, J. Mankin will speak insurgent xXnocked out his opponent in the first round. New York Y. W. L. Will Hold Membership Meet; Bid Papcun Good-Bye NEW YORK, Aug. 16. — A Young Workers League membership meeting will be held on August 19th at 133 Second Ave. The young miners cam- paign will be discussed by Comrades Toohey and Valentine. The New York League will be mobilized to participate in and support this campaign, This membership meeting will mark the opening of a drive to double the membership of the league of New York City. The league will set in on; “150 years of American Independ- Open Ai Air Meeting Section Six of the * the Workers’ Party! miners, The conditions under which motion an intensive campaign to get new members, It is expected that every league member will attend this meeting to bid farewell to Comrade George Papcun, who is returning to Pittsburgh to serve a six year jail sentence for his work among the young Pennsylvania coal the young coal miners work and live will be described by eae tric g A er will deal and Valentine. topie antl west side are | SEND IN YOUR TO. HE DAILY WORKER oh Fails to Ship Them; Agent Rushed (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 16. — More than two hundred strikebreakers who had been brought to the city by the Penn Employment Agency with a promise of immediate work in New Orleans’ on traction lines abandoned by striking motormen and conductors of the southern city, attacked the head of the agency in the Broad street sta- tion yesterday after he failed to ship them off. Glowing Promise. The strikebreakers had been brought from Chicago, New York and Atlantic City with promises of good pay and steady work in New Orleans. The scabs have been coming into the city for the past week, In the meantime the Orleans strike has been settled. The agency failed to ship them out and in the meantime they have been sleeping on park benches. Attack Agent. Yesterday the crowd of them gather- ed and went to the Broad street sta- tion where they knew the agent was due to check up on a new shipment MOVIE MAGNATES SEEK TO SMASH OPERATORS’ UNION Bosses Build War Chest To Fight Union (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Aug. 16—Five hundred theaters were represented at a meet- ing in the Astor Hotel of the Theater Owners’ Chamber of Commerce which control most of the independent movie palaces in New York. It was decided at this meeting to wage an agressive fight against the union. A decision was made not to grant the demands of the union and that as soon as the present agreement runs out that the movie houses operate under the scab “Amer- ican: plan.” Local 306 of the Motion Picture Operators insists on wage increases ranging from 20% to 40% with com- plete control of projection booths in tht hands of the union. Reject Arbitration. This offer made by the union was rejected by the theater owners. The movie house magnates declare that they will not sign the new egreement. They declare that the union must either agree to renewing the old agree- ment or go to arbitration. The motion picture operators, realizing that thru arbitration they will not make any gains and that the bosses will get the best of the bargain, refused to arbi- trate their demands. Bosses Seek Scabs, At this meeting the moviet house proprietors decided to assess each member $500 to start the battle against the union when the contract: expires Sept. 1. Scab-recruiting agencies have been opened in several parts of the city in an attempt to recruit a suf- ficient number of scabs to man the larger theaters. A campaign to smash the present union organization has been decided upon by the bosses, The union is also preparing for the battle. It does not intend to lay down and allow the bosses to smash their organization, They are preparing for the struggle, which is to start the day the contract expires, Poverty Yarn of N. J. Corporation Exploded By $12,000,000 Profit NEWARK, N. J., Aug 16—(FP) — Stret car and bust subsidiaries of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey have been arguing that they must cut employes’ wages ten per cent, that they were unable to con- tinue present wages. The local union of the Amalgamated Association of Street & Electric Railway Employes, has been demanding a twenty-five per- cent increase. Now Mayor Raymond has ordered an investigation into the financial condition of the companies. The present agreement expires next October 1. It has been in force since October 1923 and gives conductors, bus drivers and motormen a minimum of 65 cents an hour. The company says it is operating at a deficit but the union points to the latest report of the Public Service Corporation showing gross earnings of over $100,- 000,000 in the fiscal year 1926-26, with a final sum for dividends and surplus of 12,891,677. New York I. W. W. to Hold Picnic Sept. 5; All Workers Welcome NEW YORK CITY, Aug, 16. — The branches of the I. W. W. in Greater New York are staging a picnic to take place on September 5, “ Sunday be- fore Labor Day. The affair, which protuides to be entertaining, will be held on Staten Island at Grasmere, in Harmony Park. Admission tickets at fifty cents each may be procured from the committee, G, Mangano, secretary, at 158 Carroll street, Brooklyn. The proceeds go to of men coming in, They went up to him and demanded their pay. He made many promises, but the men, some of whom had been indulging freely in hard lquor, were prepared to talk only in terms of hard cash and made a rush for the scab herder, Saved by R. R. Dicks. He was saved only by the interfer- ence of Pennsylvania R. R. police who spirited him’ into’ the company offices and held him until he found a chance to slip away, He has issued an an- nouncement to the men that they will be paid for full time spent since they left their original cities, but late last night, the strikebreakers were still on their rampage. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! COME ONE! at Stop 28 Sharon Li To get there take ‘Sharon aid the papers La Nueva Solidaridad and Il Proletario, R “Oil” by Upton Sinclair on page 5 today. Camp at the Tented City While Visiting the Illinois State Fair Springfield, Aug. 21-28 SO TUTTI LLL LLL LUELLA LLL Lo LLL ATTENTION, YOUNGSTOWN! Remember the INTERNATIONAL PICNIC on SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1926, starting at 11 a. m. COME ALLE ine, Youngstown, Ohio A good time for all, Prominent labor speakers will speak in the meres Special attractions of games, music, ete. } Line street car and get off at stop 28, if | I |