The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1926, Page 2

Page Two ‘ ' fh gt fi THE DAILY WORKER Seta aR er ALF.OF L. WILL KEEP UP FIGHT TO WIN STRIKE A aswer Refusal of Mill Barons to Negotiate (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Aug. 23. — “The only honorable course which is open is to proceed with the affiliation of the strikers to the American Federation of Labor and to require the recognition of the new union asa basis of settle- ment,” said W. Jett Lauck in charge of the committee to affiliate the Pas- saic textile strikers to the United Tex- tile Workers’ Union when it was learn- ed that the mill owners have refused to treat with the new A. F. of L. com- mittee. He also said that he has the assurance of support from the Amer- jean Federation of Labor in this stand. Lauck said that he had wired Sen- ator Borah, who sponsored the forma- TEXTILE STRIKES LEAD IN EAST WITH RUMOR BOTANY WON’T DEAL WITH UNION; MORE FUNDS NEEDED By Federated Press, NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Strikes and threats of strikes continue in the east despite rumors of setthement in some sectors of the fight, About 800 cotton textile workers at the Mamville; mill of Manville Jenckes Co, are strik- tion of the A. F. of L. committee and that the senator has condoned his tand and said he would return to the East from Idaho shortly to take up the problem The answer of the United Front Committee of the Textile strikers was an announcement that a picket drive would be started on the Botany Mills today. The strike is now in its 31st week, rate Be Offer “Company Union.” PASSAIC, N, J., Aug. 23.—The vew of hypocr was rent asunder when Botany mills and the Forstmann and Huffmann company, the two largest mills affected by the big textile strike, came ont flatfootedly with a statement that they would not recognize the pro- posed new local of their striking work- ers, affiliated with the United Textile Workers of the American Federation of Labor. Both companies came out strong for the yellow dog “company union,” while declaring violent opposition to both the United Front Committee, which has lead the strike up to the present, and the proposed union of the United Textile Workers. While all along using the sham issues of Com- munism and Weisbord as the reason for their refusal to settle with their striking workers, the mill bosses, now given the opportunity of dealing with the A. F, of L., have come out against the A. F. of L. and for the yellow dog “company union,” which they are sure ~~ of controlling. Johnson Tells It To 400 Scabs, To the 400 scabs working in Botany Worstead Mills, where 6,000 workers ordinarily are employed, Col. Johnson, vice-president of Botany, and spokes- man for the mill owners, announced the mill bosses’ opposition to the A. F. of L. in the following words: “We have said frankly to the re- presentatives of the American Federa- tion of Labor that the situation was not one in which their services could be helpful.” Slap At Borah Seen. To many the Botany statement ap- pears as a slap at Senator Borah’s ef- forts to effect a just settlement in the strike, as well as to the A. F. of L., these people pointing to the following paragraph in the mill owners’ state- ment: “Briefly, we will have no dealing with the United Front Committee or its successor, the committee of which Mr. Jett Lauck is chairman, and it may be well to say again what has repeatedly being told various civic committees who have called on us, that we Have been able to hire at the Wages and under the conditions we offer, such}help as we need.” Of course, nobody in the least de- gree;familiar with the strike situation here will believe the last part of that paragraph, least of all the local flews- papers, hostile though they have been, as a«rule, to the strikers’ cause. And these papers are very much aroused over the mill owners’ latest act of bourbonism in refusing to deal with the A. F. of lL, Rush Relief! Stop Scab Coal! (Continued from page 1) Germany, Poland. and other countries 4o not even wantsto cut down the pro- duction of coal; they are not pre- venting its tramsport to Great Britain. Instead they are abusing and rebuk- ing the striking miners and their un- wavering leaders who refuse to duti- fully place their/xscks under the yoke of mineowners. Only the revolutionary miners are for immediate and determined sup- port of the strikers. Only the revolu- tionary ‘workers of all countries, with the aid of all honest and class-con- scious proletarians, are doing every- thing in their power to prevent the transport of coal to Great Britain, and giving complete moral and material support to the striking miners, Only the revolutionary miners are trying to get an international solidarity strike. ‘The moment has now arrived when jpot a single miner should stand aside (rom the great struggle of the Brit- {ash miners; because their resources and strength are beginning to run vant. Starvation, and the treason of {gre roformists is beginning to show ts influence, The miners’ ranks are ” y but material and moral sup- ‘por? are more imperative to them in ing near Woonsocket, R. I., agminst an attempt to lengthen hours from 48 to 54 per week. Loom-fixers first walked out a week ago when the mill. refused to discharge some non-union: workers hired to replace union men laid off during the dull period. ae r= —~ Carding, spooling and spinning, de-[a six-day week; property men getting partments are tied up and ative] $55 want portable board oper- picketing is effective. The firm has|ators for services during eight per- mills in Pawtucket, Georgiaville,}formances want $65 instead of $50; Woosocket, Manville, Gastonia (South| curtain men—front, bridge and aloft— Carolina) and Canada. It is capital-| getting $4.40 a performance, seek $8 ized at $35,000,000. Botany Won't Deal With Union, Report. Rumor says that Col. Charles F. H. Johnson of Botany Mills has -declared that he will not deal with the United Textile Workers’ Union forming among striking employes, that he will deal with no union but a company union. Signing up of strikers from Botany, New Jersey Worsted, Forst- man & Huffmann, United Piewe Dye Works and! other Passaic miflls on United Textile Workers’ application cards, contmues, however, Relief ‘Need Still Urgent. Milk andwbread for Passaic strikers’ children is assured from the $7,000 sent the General Relief Committee by the Emergenty committee for/Strikers’ Relief. Clarina Michelson, secretary of the Emergency Committee, has been energetic in raising money for tbe kiddies’ milk fund and in pushing the concert to be given for their bene- fit at Coney Island Stadium August 28. The strikers’{need for help into Sep- tember, when the mill owners’ need of producing winter goods may®bring a settlement, is still great. Theater Strike Near. Stage hands of New York theaters threaten to strike Labor Day if their demands for more wages are not granted. Theatrical Protective, Union, Local 1, presents their case, Carpen- ters getting $65 a week, ask $85 for week-days and $16 Sundays and holi- days. Plectricians ask $14 a day minimum, with $3.59 per hour overtime, All other unclassified stage hands get $5 a performance and ask $7, double time on Sundays and holidays. Nego- tiations with vaudeville managers and stagehands, who ask about the same as those of legitimate theaters, have begun. Lowell Capmakers Strike, New York capmakers have settled their strike, with all workers back in the shops except those out against a few non-union jobbers. But Lowell, Mass., capmakers are striking strong against Stern Bros., leading non-union cap firm of New England. Stern has been paying $12 to $19 a week for operators, with two cutters at $35 each. The International Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union aims to get the Boston scale of $44 minimum weekly for operators and cutters; a 44-hour week with 40-hours next year; 10 paid holidays, strictly union shop. ¢ Fight Finkelstein, The Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers claims that its strike against a second big non-union manufacturer, Sam Finkelstein & Co., is effective, The union is trying to draw all non- union shops under agreement, It brought Fruhauf Bros, & Co. like Finkelstein out since 1920, to terms. Cook and Hicks Issue Urgent Appeal (Continued from page 1) people in America from givimg relief to the hungry women and children. Appeals to Bosses Useless. “But that is only in accord with the action of the minister of health and the government in ruthlessly curtail- ing relief in the coalfields, especially discriminating against miners’ ives and children. This murderqus pdlicy is being pursued with particular vigor now that parliament has shat down. “There is something territily sinister n the methods adopted by this group of men, in control of the; machinery of government, in this cruel war on defenseless human beings. “No appeals, no effortstat concilia- tion, no plea from churchyen, no re- solutions passed by representative bodies, no expressions of’the will of the people, as Indicated by the re- cent by-elections, have any effect on this callous and unscrupulous gov- erning clique. Over the bodies and souls of women and children they intend to press forward to victory for the mineowners. “In such circumstances as these we make a special appeal to the trade unionists and the trade union move- ment of Britain. The miners now stand with their backs to the wall. These men and women, and little ones, are of the working class, flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone. How well we all realize that was evidenced by the general strike and all that has since followed. We must help them now as never before. We must throw the whole weight of our movement behind them as never before, Redouble Efforts. “Much help has been given, The trade union branches and trades coun- cils and local labor parties have ac- complished wonders in the way of col- lecting money. But we must redouble our efforts, “For every dollar Mr. Baldwin pre- vents coming from America we must Therefore, comrades, miners, workers, all, to the ald of our strik- Ing British brothers! Their Defeat is Ours, Hasten! Time waits for no man. Organize funds and levies. Give all you can to help your brothers, Re- member, they are fighting not only their own interests, but for your in- terests too, For if the British miners are defeated, their defeat will be the signal for an attack on your wages, your working day and your already bad living conditions, Sacrifice. everything, comrades, to and chlidren, dying of hunger. Stop Seab Coal! Don’t let coal be shipped to Eng- land! Cut down your output! Don't work overtime! Demand and fight for an increase in your wages and reduc- tion of your working day. Dispossess capitalists and blood- thirsty dukes and lords of coal, your coal, which enables them to demoral- ize and scatter the miners’ ranks and bring to defeat their magnificent and just struggle, Get downto it, comrades! All to the aid of the heroic British strikers! Revolutionary Miners’ Internationa! Committee of Action and Propaganda. 9 \ raise a pound in this country, For every meal Mr. Neville Chamberlain denies a woman or child we must find the means of giving two meals. “We are confident of your willing- ness to help. Let that willingness become a stubborn, persistent deter- mination, “We possess the machinery in our organized working class movement to ensure the sustained collection of the necessary means. Let us use that machinery to the utmost. “We know that many trade unions have been hard hit; nevertheless there are some unions which can still render substantial help. Certainly all the unions can now consider the question of levies on their member- ships. Then the shop stewards in workshops and the card stewards on support the strikers and their wives | jobs can officially institute regular weekly collections, If We Have the Will. “There is an infinite amount that can be done—if only we have the will and the determination. “The general council has issued its appeal: it has sent its representative to America with the miners’ delega- tion; it has appealed to the Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions to do all it can on the continent. We are certain it will heartily co-operate in all efforts made by its affiliated organ- izations. “Comrades, let us show the capital- ist class that the more brutal and des- Perate it becomes in its efforts to break the miners, the more solid and self-sacrificing and stubborn the work- ing class will become jin its support for the miners in their heroic strug- gle.’ RUDOLPH VALENTINO, FAMOUS SCREEN STAR, DEAD OF SEPTIC POISON Rudolph Valentino in the role of the “Son of the Shlek”—(with Vilma Banky) the last picture in which he had appeared. . “. (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Aug. 23,—Rudolph Valentino, idol of millions of motion picture fans thruout the world, died in Polyclinic Hospital at 12:10 this afternoon after a courageous fight to live. Death came eight days after he underwent an operation for acute appendicitis and gastric ul- horrid le ts hae cers. Septio poisoning of the heart 4 may be informing te aux 4hat Montreal ried. heen. Seana 8 Te = GREEK COUP I A VICTORY FOR FRENCH POWER Overthrow of Pangalos Changes Dictators (Special to The Dally Worker) ATHENS, Aug, 23. — The dictator- ship of Premier Pangalos, more or less openly representative of British in- fluence in the Balkang has been over- thrown by a bloodiess military coup led by Gen, Condylis, minister of War, former right hand man of the exiled Venizelos, and a prominent supporter of France, The coup Is a decided vic- tory for French Interests. Gen. Pangalos was arrested while vacationing on the Island of Spetsae in the Aegean. He was placed aboard the torpedo boat Pergamos and brot to Athens where he and many of his supporters are to be placed on trial for tyrannical conduct of state affairs while in power, The Cause, The basic cause of the revolt was the signing recently of a treaty be- tween Jugo-Slavia and Greece, giving economic concessions to the former in the Greek hinterland of Saloniki, At the same time that he made this treaty, Pangalos was beginning to show an inclination to sign similiar agreements with Italy involving the status of certain Aegean Islands. All these things were being accomplished with the connivance of England who is supporting Italy and the Little Entente (Jugo-Slavia, Roumania, and Greece) in the Balkans, Venizelos Supporter, The leader of the revolt, Gen. Con- dylis is a former loyal supporter of Venizelos, France’s tool who at this moment is exiled in France. Condylis accomplished the revolt by intrigue and maneuvering with the army and navy—the same way in which Panga- los set up his dictatorship. The Greek armed forces are notable for their amenability to raises in pay or prefer- red position. It was purely an officers’ and soldiers’ revolution in which one set of intriguers outwitted another another with groups of foreign powers supporting each, Like Poland. The situation is very similar to that which obtained during the recent Pil- sudski coup in Poland. The first thing the Gen, Condylis did after the success of his attempt wes to declare the abolition of dictatorsig? The fact of the matter is that Condylis is one of Greece’s foremost militarists and the leader of the fascist movement, He has also said that he is willing to call for new elections at an early time— but elections are easily controlled in Greece as Pahgalos very well demon- strated. Summed up, the “revolution” means a victory for French imperialism and a change of dictators for Greece. ALF. OF L. HEADS MUM ON MEXICAN FIGHT ATTITUDE PLATTSBURG, N. Y., Aug. 23.—The members of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor who have been guests of General Sum- merall at the Citizens’ Military Train- ing Camp here have been very reticent in their pronouncements to the press on the program in view for the next A. F. of L. Convention. They will mo- tor over for luncheon today with President Coolidge at White Pines Camp. t The Montreal meeting of the coun- cil to be held in the resplendent Mount Royal Hotel on Tuesday, will be the last one prior to the convention of the A. F. of L. in Detroit in October. President Green refused to make any comment on the probable nature of the coming annual report of the coun- oil, Worry About Mexico. There is reason to believe that Green and the members of the council are somewhat perturbed over the situ- ation in Mexico and the attitude of the A. F. of L. towards, it. The strong bond of accord built up by President Gompers thru the Pan-American Fed- eration with the Mexican Federation of Labor has suffered considerable weakening because the A. F. of L. failed to take @ stand in favor of the position of the alles government against the church which Mexican la- bor is supporting. Conflicting Forces. In the ranks of the federation are to be found catholics who are demand- ing that the A. F .of L. support the church while at the same time there are elements which insist on support to Calles, The official position of the A. F. of L. so far is one of “hands off.” The executive council in Montreal will discuss the bricklayers’ and plasterers’ jurisdictional dispute again and the suspension of the railway clerks, For the benéfit of those who wonder why the coufiell looks outside the country for a place to meet in it Seen American Army of Labor | Must March Ahead of ar Special Issue a Backward Leadership ANNIVERSARY By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. j as was pointed out in this column last week that five millions of dol- lars ought to be raised in the United States in aid of the British coal miners’ strike. Present indications are that this figure is as far away as the mythical pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, The total may not reach one million dollars. It is a black picture. It is a reflection of the low level of international labor solidarity that prevails in the richest imperialist nation on earth, Cee Turn the picture over and what is revealed on the other side is blacker still. It shows President William Green, head of the American Feder- ation of Labor, and members of his executive council, inspecting and lauding that section of American militarism’s war machine now en- camped and in training for its bloody work at Plattsburg, New York. Instead of spending their time arousing America’s workers to sup- port of the British mine strike and to aid in the feeding of millions of starving women and children of the working class, the A. F. of L. offi- cials, who lift their hands in horror at the sight of the decisive stand taken by Mexican labor in its own defense against the catholic church, scatter the holy water of their ap- proval over the hungry murder ma- chines of the American ruling class tyranny. @ 30 The British labor experience dur- ing the general strike and later dur- ing the miners’ strike taught the workers on the other side the uses designed for capitalism’s war Moloch. The British strikers saw not only the king’s army and navy used against them, but also “The Order of Maintenance and Supplies,” a semi-military organization en- dorsed by the government and created primarily for strikebreaking purposes, Every enemy of labor had a gun put on his shoulder or the badge of strikebreaker. fastened upon his arm, raised to strike against the demands of the workers, and to drive them back to worse conditions than they now suffer, The stone wall of employers’ op- position facing the American work- ing class is built of the same mili- tarist material. President Green does the dirty work of the master class in building that anti-labor wall when he lauds, in his own words, “the great movement represented here at Plattsburg.” $8 te “Plattsburg” has been dedicated to the sharpening of bayonets, the training of soldiers’ eyes along the gleaming barrels of rifles, guns and cannons of all kinds, the practicing of the arm and eye in throwing granades, the correct uses of poison- ous gases and the many other in- struments of wholesale human slaughter. “Plattsburg” has in turn been a regular army camp, an en- campment for the training of “busi- ness men” in the art of war, a re- served officers’ training camp and now it houses a Citizens’ Military Training Camp. Similar nests of militarism, hatching cannon fodder for the next war and breeding anti- labor fighters for the next big strike, are to be found in all sections of the nation. Not even President Green at- a Daily Forward Lying in Attempt to Hurt terday branded as absolutely “That statement is a contemptible lie,” said Davidson to The DAILY “The actual situation is that conditions are such that pressers there announced The union can BRITISH MINERS’ DELEGATES IN BERLIN MEETING WITH RUSSIANS|------------------- WORKER, formerly working they were quitting, LONDON, August 23,—It is reported that delegates of the Miners’ Fed- eration of Great Britain are in Berlin attending a conference with delegates the I. L. G. W. Lefts I. L. Davidson, organizer for the Chicago Joint Board of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers, yes- ea story appearing the day before in the Jewish Daily Forward, to the effect that the administration of the I. L, G. W. in this city had ordered off his job at J. Schwartz's shop a presser who adheres to the right wing in the union in order to make room for a left wing tempts to point out where all these military preparations, most of them originating since the close of “the war to end all war,” will benefit one whit the working class, Aroused la- bor must answer that every cap- italist military preparation is against the interests of the working class. It is designed to protect the in- terests of American greed in the next war of competing capitalist na- tions or groups of nations, It is in- tended to safeguard the investments of American imperialism in those nations financially subjected to Wall Street; to maintain dollar rule over colonial and semi-colonial nations and also to oppress the working class at home. SATURDAY, AUG. 28 Celebrating the seven years growth of the American Com- munist movement since the birth of the Workers (Com- munist) Party eS. The New Magazine Supplement * * *@ >» The resolutions of sympathy for ‘® will contain these the peoples of Mexico, Central and a features: South America and declarations for the independence of the Philippines, all solemnly adopted in the conven- tions of the American Federation of H Labor, are torn to shreds and their munist Movement bogus nature exposed by the glow- in America #4 ing words of approval that Green 1 Pe tea iaieon, the military arm ot | with statements of the Amer- the imperialist tyranny that commits ff lead d 5 every possible crime against toiling can leaders and art!work by the leading proletarian, artists. humanity, at home and abroad, un- der “The Star Spangled Banner.” | @ Soiendid Feature for All Anni- versary Meetings Especially. President Green was not alone. He was accompanied by Vice-Presi- dents Frank Duffy of the carpenters, oe oF 2 The American Peasant- Pioneer” James P. Noonan of the electrical By Harry Gannes. workers, James Wilson of the A splendid article on the pio- moulders, Martin F. Ryan of the railroad carmen, Daniel J. Tobin of neers who helped to develop early America. the teamsters, and Secretary Frank Morrison of the printers, The news “RUSSIA IN 1926” | story tells us that the party was ac- By Jessica Smith. A History of the Com- companied by Peter J. Brady, head of one of the New York “labor banks,” who is a major in the Off- cers’ Reserve Corps, while it was escorted everywhere by two state troopers assigned to it by Tammany Hall's governor, Al Smith, * 8 8 It is, of course, inconceivable that this labor offictaldom that nestles so comfortably in the pelm of Amer- ican imperialism, responding almost to its every whim, should carry on a militant campaign in support of |arst workers’ republic as it is the British mine strike that chal- lenges British imperialism. today. With photographs, But it should be equally incon- “A Chain of Successful ceivable, however, that American la- Co-operatives” bor, that suffers under the slave The story of the American co- lash of employers’ greed, should continue to view calmly this open operatives in the North-West. fraternization »etween their officials enemy .capitalist class. Right now American labor can best show its emphatic disapproval of the goings on at Plattsburg by developing tenfold, thru energetic action in their local unions, the campaign to provide financial re- « lief for the British strike. The A. F. CHRIST ON THE of L. executive council has gone into session establishing staff head- * By T. J. O'Flaherty, the British miners’ strike will receive but slight attention, But the rank |, 40 unusual story by an out: and file of labor is scattered far ana | Standing writer. wide over the country, An army has been known to march ahead of its a leaders before now. The army of American workers must march ‘ : ahead of its officials in the matter ‘The Railroad in of British strike relief. Thus labor PO will show that it demands the inter- Fiction class as against the truce of its Recond., srtiele: tn the A series on “Labor and Literature Present leadership, that leads to by V. F. Cal complete surrender, with the enemy Tas verton, class at home, Fs prove that in many instances where workers stopped because they couldn't , get the price, the union has been able to get them back to work with the oons controversy settled to the benefit of the workers, ; by, “However, in this case, the so-called ‘left wing’ worker in question was permitted to work in the Schwartz shop by the right wing chairman of Local 18, the pressers’ local, after the union had taken him off, “Lies of this nature are intended to discredit the left wing, but they will fail of their purpose, Too many work- ers know the facts.” and the uniformed satraps of the CORNER” quarters at Montreal, Canada, where national solidarity of the working 4 ar, fi Hay Bales, Jerger, Vose and Others MOVIE REVIEWS POEMS. 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