The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1926, Page 2

Page Two SCHACHTMAN AIDS MILSTEIN KEEP CONTROL Local 45 - Progressives| Get Valuable Letter | The extent to which Business Agent | Millsteiln of Local 45, Chicago, Fur Workers’ Union, and General Presl- | dent O, Schachtman of the Interna- | tional, have conspired to steal the election in Chicago is exposed In the | letter printed below which came into the possession of the Chicago pro- gressives thru Milistein’s carelessness. The letter follow in full: “Long Island, N, Y, Aug. 27, ’26 “Mr. J. Millstein, “166 W. Washington St., “Qhicago, Il, “Dear Sir and Brother: “Ia reply to your communication of August 25th, I wish to say that I was under the impression that the 95,000 was received from the For- wards. You will release your $2,000 and also Ida’s and the remaining $1,000, and whatever comes in from fines, initiation fees and so forth will ‘be used to pay up the debts, WII Glve No More Money. “| cannot understand what you have done with the money. Do not expect any more money from this office. You had better take care of that in the way outlined above. “You did not answer me one of the most important questions that I was interested in and that is, how many shops are mot accepting their people, objecting to the new agreement. How many people does it involve and how many people have you placed in other shops. What chances have they to replace our workers with scabs. I am greatly concerned about this prob- lem which threatens to become seri- ous if not checked. Please, give the best attention you can and let me know how it stands. Pick Business Agent. “! have read in the press about the famous meeting and | think you have done good work. However, of the fu- ture I still am of the opinion that your brother has the best opportunity and in my opinion the qualities to con- tinue the work successfully for a short time at least. Of course, If he abso- lutely refused, it seems to me that you will have to run, | think with the ex- planation of the terms of the Chicago agreement in the present Fur Worker, even those who are not satisfied will see the right light and change their mind, ? “Of course, it requires a good deal of labor to adjust everything to nor- mal and to quiet down in the proper manner. “Have you called any loca] meetings and when is your next meeting. To Ald Milistein, “If you should find It advisable wire to me and | will send a credential to Brother Gmeiner to come there for a day to help you. “Trusting to hear from you soon, Tam “Fraternally yours, “(Signed) O. Schachtman, “General President. “P. S.—Give my best regards to the executive board officers.” Schachtman in his letter after giv- ing Milistein advice as to who should run for business agent in Chicago of- fers to send Business Agent Gmeimer of St. Paul, Minn., to Chicago to help Millstein carry the elections. Gmeimer is known as one of the worst reaction- aries in the union. The elections in Local 45 are to be held Wednesday. A full ticket has been placed in the fleld by the pro- gressives. Local 45 members should support the progressive candidates, Bishop Brown’s New Book “MY HERESIES" | An autobiography of Bishop Brown, dust Received in Attractive Clothbound Edition $2.00 | | |City Hall Politicians Have “Special Rights” on Chicago Labor Radia‘ (By Federated Press.) A microphone on the desk of Mayor Dever of Chicago connects directly with the broadcasting station WCFL, owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor. The labor radio on the mu- nicipal pier is prepared to give the mayor the right of way over the ether at any hour that he has important an- nouncements to make and has set aside a certain period besides for the city’s news. COOLIDGE SEEKS TO SAVE TYRANT FROM REBELLION Stops Arms and Works for Compromise (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, —(FP)— President Coolidge has ordered that shipments of arms from the United States to Nicaragua be stopped and has thereby forced the liberals who are fighting to restore constitutional government to negotiate a compro- mise with Chamorro, military dictator and reactionary usurper of the gov- ernment, Evasive Support of Chamorro. Latin-American diplomats in Wash- ington believe that any comprontise which does not restore the liberals to power will be considered in Central America as a palpable evasion by Coo- lidge of the American guaranty of sup- port for elected governments there. The Game Progresses. Latest dispatches say that this game has progressed far enough so that the American charge d'affaires, Lawrence Dennis, has arranged a con- ference, with the consent of dictator Chamorro, into which he hopes to in- veigle the leaders of the national liberal party to consider a settlement. Naturally, under the circumstances, this is plainly a protection of Cha- morro from complete defeat at the hands of the revolutionists, The U, S. agent holds out the bait to those im- prisoned by Chamorro of release in order to take part in the conference and arrive at “peace.” Which means a comprc-nise in aid of Chamorro. May Not Fall Into Trap. It is not certain yet that the na- tional liberal party will consent to fall into this trap. Communication is cut off with the liberal party leaders in the field. But Dennis is trying the trick and hopes to get the conference by Sept. 26. The U. S. pretends, of course to be “neutral” and will arrange for the conference to be held on the “neutral” place on board a U. S. warship. LEWIS PATCHES RIFT IN SNEED- FISHWICK LUTE (Continued from page 1) bel could win in a walk provided the votes are counted fairly. The lilinois Miner. There is a leading story on the front page of the Mlinois Miner, offi- cial organ of the old Farrington ma- chine, which proves that Farrington’s deposition has not changed matters even slightly. In fact the removal of Farrington solidifies the Lewis ma- chine in Illinois, as Fishwick and Lewis can open a new ledger in ac- cord with the latest innovations in political bookkeeping, since Farring- ton’s removal cancels the old debts. Farrington’s Man, Fishwick is Farrington’s man, or he was before the blow-out. The pro- gressives believe he will be as faith- ful to the Peabody Coal company as Farrington was. With Farrington drawing $25,000 a year from the Pea- bodys and Fishwick on the Mlinois Miners’ Union payroll, the operators have no reason to regret the strate- gy that turned over the Farrington contract to John L, Lewis. All the official supporters of Lewis and Far- | | | rington believe in co-operating with ’ the coal operators. Whether they “co-operate” on a straight salary or on a union salary with a commission from the operators does not make much difference to the coal diggers, Two Machines Grind as One. The outstanding fact of the situa- tion in the Illinols Miners’ Union just now is the Fishwick-Lewis alli- ance. To say that the Farrington and Lewis machines have united is no exaggeration. The Illinois Miner publishes a state- ment from Lewis, Fishwick and Sneed, All three express pleasure with the turn of events, praise each other and say nothing about the is- Sues that confront the miners. Lewis |testifies to the whole-souled disinter- estedness of Fishwick. Fishwick hands a bouquet to Sneed and Sneed declares that his withdrawal was de- termined in no small degree by his old friendship with Fishwieck. Whether the miners take it out in laughing at those flunkeys or whether they will organize. their forces. to elect Joseph Tumulty and the entire progressive ticket will not be known until the votes are counted mext Do- cemben, A THE DAILY;WORKER TY The Agony of Anti-Strike Tear Gas Bombs Here is a photo The DAILY WORKER has just received of an incident that occurred during the recent strike of textile workers In the plant at Manville, R. |., In which state troopers fired on strikers and threw tear gas bombs at them, There are regular agencies which supply these bombs specially for strike use. The photo shows two girls recovering from the effects of the gas which causes great suffering. RABBI SPEAKS TO U. T. W. IN LAST SESSION Refutes MacMahon and Defends Weisbord (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 20. — (FP) — Unsparing praise for Albert Weisbord and the United Front Committee for their leadership of the Passaic textile strike thru long months of attack by the employers and their agents was voiced by Rabbi Stephen S, Wise of this city in an address at the final session of the United Textile Workers’ convention, “That fight in Passaic stands out as the greatest labor demonstration in the textile industry's history,” declar- ed Rabbi Wise. “It is to be hoped that the United Textile Workers will carry on the struggle as militantly as it has been waged in the past.” He pointed out that success in Pas- saic was vital both to the U. T, W. and the A. F, of L.; if the right to collective bargaining were established in Passaic, it would help greatly in organizing workers everywhere. He said that of his own knowledge the Passaic strikers had been consistently peaceful, and that the violence in that section was done by the police, acting in behalf of the em- ployers, Hundreds Dead in Wake of Hurricane (Continued from page 1) hesitate to calculate it, Buildings have been razed. Thirty thousand people are home- less in Miami and 8,000 homeless in Hollywood. Accurate figures on the number of dead and injured are not yet obtainable, but apparently reliable and conservative estimates place the number killed in Miami at 500, in Hialeah 200 and in Hollywood at 54. Hollywood Destroyed. Hollywood, which is about 100 miles south of here, is practically destroyed. The town was leveled by the storm, which started late Friday night and reached its highest intensity between 7:30 a. m, and 9;30 a. m. Saturday, Martial law has been declared in Miami and Hollywood. The extent of the property damage is enormous—in Miami alone it is es- timated at $100,000,000 at least. All of the stricken localities are in need of immediate help. Cities and towns hit by the storm are without water, food, light or sanitation, Im- provised hospitals are everywhere, -_* © Mobile Cut Off. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 20.—Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida, were cut off from the 6utside world today as the tropical hurricane continued its work of destruction in southeastern Florida and along the Alabama and northwestern Florida coast. All wires to Mobile and Pensacola were down, while coast towns were at the mercy of gales running at 75 miles an hour, accompanied by a heavy downpour of rain, ———— Call International Economic Conference GENEVA, Sept, 20. — Resolutions calling for the convocation of an in- ternational economic conference this year were passed by the economic sub-commission of the league of na- tions assembly, CICERO GANGSTERS FRAMED EVIDENCE CHARGES INCREASE AIMEE'S TROUBLES Mrs. Weisman-Slelaff The most recent developments in the ca¢e of the female Billy Sunday of Los Angeles, Aimee Semple Mac- Pherson, are largely the result of the testimony of the above lady who claims that Aimee gave her $5,000 to frame evidence to show she was kid- Napped and to clear the evangelist of the suspicion of having spent ten days In a cottage by the sea with her radio operator. 5 Soviet Ports Do Bigger Business Than the Japanese (Spectal to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, U, S. 8S. R., Sept. 20.— Vladivostok reports announce that the Soviet Russian port on the Pacific ontdistanoed the Japanese port of Dai- ren {1 shipping during the month of July. The figures quoted are 5,500 car- loads for Vladivostok and 4,800 for Dairen, The comparison for July of last year was 1,170 for Vladivostok and 2,730 for Dairen. Manchurian freight has increased 167 per cent in a year, Since the management of the Chinese Eastern railroad was reorganized Vladivostok gots 54 per cent of the freight, com- pared to 80 per cent last year, N. Y. Shirt Makers May Vote to Strike Against a Wage Cut NEW YORK, Sept. 20—The mak- ings of a general strike here are con- tained in the demand of the Shirt and Boys’ Waist Contractors’ Association that the wages of workers employed by its members be reduced 15 per cent. Such a reduction will not be al- lowed under any circumstances, ac- cording to the Shirt and Waist Mak- ers‘ Joint Board. LOOSE DOGS OF WAR; TWO HOTELS ARE SHOT UP BY MACHINE GUN BRIGADES Gangland warfare broke anew in six automobiles loaded with gangster bullets, Two OSM etl Pie eet oa wounded ro, Chicago suburb, late, today, when swept two hotels with machine gun BABSON TALKS ON DEPRESSION AND WORKERS Predicts Reaction from Present Boom By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. Most American people are living in a fool’s paradise and may be rudely awakened at any time, Roger Bab- son, head of the Babson statistical organization, told the national busi- ness conference at Wellesley Hills. Babson was predicting the probability of two or three years of prosperity followed by depression and possibly panic. Follow Expansion. This depression, said Babson, will follow the overextension of the instal- ment business, which is today eating into business like a cancer. He men- tioned as other causes for gloom the | foreign situation and, the fact that the manufacturing capacity of almost all industries exceeds the consuming power. Labor Weak. “Labor,” Babson pointed out, “is to- day generally quiescent with the ex- ception of a few desperate strikes, Owing to the failure of the railroad strike two years ago and of the re- cent coal strike both here and in Eng- land, union labor is fairly quiet, The American Federation of Labor has lost membership and important labor leaders have left their jobs to enter private concerns. Notwithstand- ing these conditions, we must not think that any permanent change has taken place. The labor problem will always be with us and a nation would not be progressive if its people were satisfied with their lot.” Lame Ducks Hail Lenroot as Latest Rocky in Their Club MILWAUKEE — (FP) —U. S. Sen. Irvine L. Lenroot has joined the Dis- tinguished Lame Ducks club by the Wisconsin senatorial primary vote of Sept. 7. The voters tumbled him over by a plurality of about 25,000 votes for his rival, Gov. J. J. Blaine, who got over 215,000 votes. Lenroot first sneaked into the sen- ate a reactionary from a progressive state, when Sen Paul Husting killed himself in a hunting accident during the world war. He sneaked in again with the Harding landslide of 1920, but this year, with both the war and Harding dead, Lenroot was added, po- litically, to their number. é Lenroot was effectively assailed by the railroad unions for his reactionary labor attitude during his senate in- cumbency, They will have to stand more of him if Coolidge makes htm a judge. Gov.-General Wood to Undergo Operation in The Near Future MANILA, P. L, Sept. 20,.—After con- sultation with surgeons at Sternberg United States army hospital, Gov,-Gen. Leonard Wood announced he expected to undergo an operation for hernia in the near future, Did You Have a Nice Vacation? . Cal Did! WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 20. — President Coolidge has resumed life at the White House as before his va- cation and plans to be at his desk in the executiye offices today prepared to carry on the business of the cap italist government. Send us the name and address of « progressive worker to whom we ney bs of The DA\ Serene (0 ete Boston Fur Workers Plan General Strike Against Hub Bosses (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 20—One hun- dred and fifty workers, union and non- union, attending a mass meeting called by Fur Workers’ Local 30, voted that a general strike be called in the im- mediate future. The non-union men agreed to come into the union. The strike demands are to include a 40- hour week, equal distribution of work, and elimination of apprenticeship in the shop, MONEY PIRATES POSSESS SELVES OF RICH BOOTY Banker Toll Would Keep 300,000 Families The huge toll taken by bankers from America's annual income is re- vealed in a report of the federal re- serve board on the earnings of mem- ber banks for 1925. The report shows net profits totaling $419,484,000, a gain of $58,141,000 over the profits for 1924.” 9 Per Cent Return, This 1925 profit would have pro- vided a living wage on a National In- dustrial Conference board basis to about 300,000 worker families, approx- imately 1,500,000 persons. It meant a return of about 9 per cent on the $4,699,751,000 capital, surplus and un- divided profits of these banks and of 20 per cent on the actual paid-in cap- ital. The owners of these banks get back in profits a full fifth of their capital in a single year. In 1925 these banks paid cash divi- dends totaling $272,686,000, represent- ing a return of about 13 per cent on the total paid-in capital. The remain- ing $146,798,000 of the year’s profits went to swell surpluses and undivided Profits. The combined surpluses now total $1,760,076,000, about 80 per cent of the capital, while the undivided Profits total $834,802,000 or 40 per cent of the capital. The two funds, amassed out of the excess profits of past years, combine to add 120 per cent to the investment of the owners. New York Leads, New York banks lead in the return on the combined capital, surplus and undivided profits of the owners, with 10.9 per cent in 1925 compared with 10.4 per cent in 1924. Philadelphia banks lead in the percentage of re- turn on actual paid-in capital, the owners of banks in this district taking a 1925 return of 31 per cent.” GITLOW CALLS FOR DEFIANCE ~ OF INJUNCTION (Continued from page 1) Workers’ Union are mobilizing their membership to come en masse to the meeting. The following is the text of Gitlow’s statement: On the Injunction, “The sweeping and unprecedented injunction issued by Justice Guy in favor of the Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers against the striking cloakmakers of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers is intended for only one purpose—to break the strike and rob the cloakmakers of the fruits of their struggle by compelling them to sub- mit to compulsory arbitration. Follows Arbitration Move. “This injunction follows close on the heels of the threat of Governor Smith to the general strike committee of the cloakmakers that they are ex- pected to submit to compulsory arbi- tration if the negotiations with the manufacturers fail. There can be no question that Governor Smith, who is being groomed for the presidency, is behind this injunction. . “It is his answer to the courageous stand of the cloakmakers in rejecting a method of settling the strike which means returning to work on the manu- facturers’ terms. ' Aid to The Bosses. “Compulsory arbitration’ means compulsory slavery, and injunctions go hand in hand with this method of prevent the workers from using their their power to win their just demands, Compulsory arbitration {s intended to prevenf the workers from usinng their economic power and injunctions to Prevent picketing and etrikes when workers resort to their economic power, Keep on Picketing. “The labor movement has quite em- phatically declared that injunctions are unconstitutional and that workers must continue with their strik id with picketing and destroy the effec- tiveness and defeat the injunction. The cloakmakers of New York City now engaged in a bitter struggle for most elementary demands, must not be intimidated by injunctions and threats of compulsory arbitration. Made Strike-Breaking Unpopular. “If Coolidge rode into the White House by winning the favor of the capitalists of this country thru his strikebreaking activities in Boston, the workers of New York cannot al- low Governor aspirations for the presidency by vic- timizing the thousands Ss striking WEISBORD WILL TOUR NATION FOR WORKERS PARTY Many Party Units Ask Speaking Dates The organization department of the Workers (Communist) Party an- nounces the beginning of a big party building and membership campaign. Albert Weisbord, the leader of the Passaic strike, now in its thirty-fifth week, Will open the campaign with a series of mass meeting in the biggest industrial centers of the country from coast to coast. Requests for speaking dates by Weisbord have been pouring in from cities in every section of the coun- try. Weisbord is planning to tell the workers what happened at Passaic, how it happened and why it all hap- pened. There is no man in the coun- try who can do this job as well as Weisbord who has played the leading role in this heroic struggle. The trade union movement in this country has shown no more stubborn resistance to wage cuts and degrad- ing conditions of employment than have these hitherto unorganized and by many believed-to-be unorganizable workers in the Passaic textile mills. Special interest has been evinced in many sections of the labor movement as to the attitude and role of the Com- munists in strikes and particularly in the Passaic strike where the Com- munists have played a very important role. Weisbord will clear up many of the misconceptions and much of the misrepresentation which have been spread in the labor movement regarding the tactics of the Commu- nists in strikes and trade unoin cam- paigns. P All party and other organizations which desire to arrange meetings to be addressed by Albert Weisbord, should immediately communicate with the National Office of the Workers (Communist) Party. The arrange- ments for these meetings are the Workers Party National Office is to receive 60 per cent of the collec tion taken at the meetings addressed by him. A flat admission rate of only ten cents is to be charged by the lo- cals of the Workers Party, trade un- ions and workers’ societies so as to enable the workers thruout the coun- try, especialy the unorganized work- ers, to hear Weisbord tell the inspire ing story of Passaic. Special arrange- ments are to be made for meetings ar- ranged by trade unions and workens*, societies. Women’s Trade Union League Meets Oct. 9 (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—"The mar ried woman in industry is becoming the rule rather than the exception,” says the call the Women’s Trade Union League is issuing for its fourth annual autumn conference, to be held this year at Brookwood Labor Col- lege, Katonah, N. Y., October 9-10, The discussion will be concerned with the special labor problems raised by the fact announced in the call. New technique for organizing women workers will be considered. Rose Schneiderman, president of the Women’s Trade Union League of New York, will preside. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! a The Works of Karl Marx For every worker in these books and } mphlets is the understanding that Tends to an intelligent and greater usefulness in the labor movement. SELECTED ESSAYS—A new book in its first American publication. Cloth $1.75 VALUE, PRICE AND PROFIT, WAGE-LABOR AND CAPITAL. 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