The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 29, 1926, Page 1

| The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. I No. 219. | Subscription Rates: es ey bad y Ameriu.% In Chicago, by Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, > 6 Union Delegation to mail, $8.00 per year, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1926 <a” ER. Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER d 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Caicago, il. NG CO., NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents BROPHY'S OPEN |Police-Spy Frame-Ups Are Met by Solid Front of the Passaic Textile Strikers Russia > Announced by L. E, Sheppard/LETTER CITES For the first time in the history of the American labor movement a delegation of the nation’s most prominent trade union executives intend to investigate labor and economic conditions in England, Italy, Russia, Germany, Belgium, France and other European lands, according to an announcement made public today by President L. E. Sheppard of the Order of Railway Con- ductors, chairman of the delegation, and Albert F. Coyle, editor of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers’ Journal, its secretary, Chairman Sheppard, one of the best-known leaders of ‘the American labor movement, was appointed by the president three years ago on a somewhat similar mission to investigate labor conditions in the Hawaiian Islands for the federal govern- J, O'FLAHERTY By T. T Jesse Smith, right bower of Harry M. Daugherty, committed suicide because a campaign fund that was in his care suffered serious re- duction owing to Smith’s dabbling in stocks ig one of the most sensational developments of the bribe trial now taking place in New York. It should not be forgotten that Daugherty was the lad who caused the raid on the Communist convention in Michigan in 1922, about the time he got the infa- mous injunction against the shopmen. While we were being exhibited in the streets, of St. Joseph with manacles on our hands Harry Daugherty and his flunkeys were being hailed in the capitalist press as national deliverers. oe * HE end is not yet. Daugherty is now on trial for graft, but the del- egates to the Communist convention are not yet out of the toils. Harry did his work. Perhaps his masters no longer have any use for him, But he did them a good turn and in all probability they will not forget him. The officials of the shop crafts’ union that should be making use of Daugh- erty’s present dilemma to educate their membership on the ways of pa- triotism are rather silent, so much so that one is compelled to come to the conclusion that the labor leaders do not regret the legal obstacles placed in the way of strikes. ** 8 af con report that Chinese bandits kidnapped missionaries, killed thousands ot people « is displayed don, papers. This may be by way of offsetting the slaughter of 5,000 Chi- nese men, women and children by the the British. At any rate people re- fuse to get excited any longer over the misadventures of missionaries. The American people have had their fill of them, from Aimee McPherson to King Benjamin of the House of David. ef ONSIDERABLE jubilation is ex- pressed in police circles over the possibility of “Scareface Al” Capone, the Cicero gangster, making peace with his rivals. Only last week eight automobiles tore down 22nd street and searched for Al with machine gun bullets. When Al was seen next he was studying the ruins of Miami, Florida, and pe freely admitted that a few thousand of the bullets that peppered his Hawthorne Hotel were intended for him. With America well out of the world court and peace in Cicero, American pacifists should be able to celebrate with an easy con- science. eee ICTOR BERGER is a funny fel- low. Indeed, it ts seldom a fat man is otherwise, provided he has short legs and a long body. Victor fas both and, in addition, a tendency to say things. ‘Being @ congressman, Berger has to introduce a bill occa- sionally, else he might be sued for taking money under false pretenses. Being a socialist, he must denounce the Communists unless the capitalist: are to believe that Victor may be a “red,” see LL those things taken together, it fs not surprising that Berger should frank a speech delivered by him in congress on April 27, 1926. Knowing that all congressmen are against Communism and many of them against fascism, Berger slammed both. It is with his argu: ment and not his premise that we are concerned. Fascism and Communism are twin brothers, said Berger. And to prove it he says: “The reason why cnr ruling class dislikes the red-haired haby so is because the Bolsheviki laid violent hands on the sacred rights of property-—-while the fascist! just as violently are protecting the ‘vested (Continued on page 2.) Make It a Day’s Pay TODAY to Koep the Daily Worker ment, + The purpose of the delegation, ac- cording to its official representatives, is to secure reliable first-hand infor- mation regarding the conditions of labor and labor unions across the Atlantic, and especially to secure ac- curate facts about lalor’s status in Soviet Russia, under a Communistic workers’ government, and in fascist Italy, where regular labor unions are declared illegal and ruthlessly sup pressed by the dictator Mussolini, A. F. of L. and Rail Brotherhoods. The delegation as announced toddy will consist of representatives of both the Railroad Brotherhoods and the largest unions in the American Fed- eration of Labor. Although the Fed- eration at its last convention in Atlantic City decided not to pay the expenses of an official mission to Rus- sia, the present delegation in no way conflicts with this decision, since its members are going in their private capacity and not as an official body. | On this voluntary basis it has been possible to include in the same dele- gation leading executives of both the A. F. of L. and the big Railroad Bro- therhoods, who are outside the A. F, of L, field. Five Big Unions Represented, In addition to the inclusion of prom- inent officers of the Transportation Brotherhoods the Brotherhood df Rail- way-and steamship Clerks is to be represented on the delegation by Phil E. Ziegler, editor of the Brother- hood’s official magazine and director of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks National Bank of Cincinnati. Execu- tives from five of the most influential international unions in the A. F. of L. comprise an important section of the delegation, whit western labor is rep- ie ees Pee tee tats ‘prominent member of the Typograph- ical Union. Walsh and Lauck Included, The delegatiofi does not intend to rely merely on personal observation, but is to take along a complete staff of economic experts headed by Dr. W. Jett Lauck of Washington, D. C., who has repeatedly served as a con- sulting economist for the Railroad Brotherhoods and the United Mine Workers of America. Honorable Frank P. Walsh, former joint chair- man of the U.S. war labor board with Chief Justice Taft, will act as legal adviser to the party. According to today’s announcement, the delegation will cover not ‘enly the largest countries of Western Europe, but also Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Czecho-Slovakia and Austria where it will meet the leaders of the trade union, labor party and co-operative movements, and ascertain what or- ganized labor in these lands is now achieving and planning for the future. Special meetings are to be arranged with the British Labor Party, the In- ternational Labor Office at Geneva, and the Federation of Trade Union Headquarters in Amsterdam, as well as with the accredited leaders of the Italian and Russian labor movements, The delegation intends to leave early next July and/return during Sept. Suspend West Pointers. WEST POINT, N. Y., Sept. 27.— Four West Point cadets, charged with hazing, today were under a year’s sus- pension, DEFEAT THE ELECTRIC CHAIR! Tell American Labor About the Revelations in the Recent Hearings for a New Trial for Sacco and Vanzetti GARMENT UNION ASKS AF. OF L. TO AID STRIKE Needs Funds; Marches to City Hall (Special to The Daily Worker) the first time in twelve weeks of | strike, leaders of 40,000 cloakmakers | issued an appeal yesterday to inter. national unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, ana The Slogans of other sympathetic bodies, to aid finan- cially in “a finish fight in which em- ployers pin their whole hope on their ability to starve the workers into submission.” ‘ The Cloakmakers’ Union reminds the various labor organizations that it has always been among the first to heed the call for help from other unions. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, ‘has also been appealed to to use his influence in getting a speedy re- sponse to the call. The appeal reviews the present strike situation, declaring that the in- dustry is again threatened with the return of the sweat shop system. After citing the wholesale arrests of pickets and the use of notorious gang- sters by employers against strikers, the appeal refers to the injunction ob- tained against the union, “so sweep- ing im scope, drastic in effect and reckless in its provisions as to make it unique in the history of labor juris- prudence.” Please send checks to Mr. Joseph Fish, treasurer of strike, 130 East 25th street, New York, N. Y. March to City Hall. A march on City Hall, to protest \the continued wholesale arrests of striking cloakmakers for picketing in the garment zone, will be the next step taken by the cloak unions to maintain their “rights to free agsem | (Continued on page 2) T iacfelt that no comprehensive review has yet been published of the mass of néw evidence made public at the recent demand for a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti, that covered five days of argument before Judge Webster Thayer, in the Norfolk county court house, at Dedham, Mass, ty The DAILY WORKER will therefore publish a series of short articles reviewing the contents of the many nocence of Saceo and Vanzetti and revealing the guilt of the members of the Borelli gang in Providence, R. |. shielded all these years by the United States government itself. Tiese articles will be written by J. Louis Engdahi, editor of The DAILY WORKER, who attended some of the hearings In the capitalist court room at Dedham, Mass., during his recent tour for the Workers (Communist) Party thru this section of the country. x ‘These articles will begin in Thursday morning’s issue. They should be brought to the attention of large numbers of workers. An Increasing affidavits presented, showing the Im Interest must be aroused in the Sacco-Vanzett! case, Defeat the electric ohair! Bend for bundle orders te The DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Blvd, Chicago, Iilinele — os NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 27.—For | of the union membership. NEEDS OF UW. “Save the Union” Is Keynote jaily Worker) Pa,, Sept. 27, From the headquarters of District 2 here, of which Is president, John Brophy, candidate for president of the United Mine Morkers of America in opposition to John L. Lewis, has is- sued an open fetter to the officers and members of the U. M. W. of A., setting forth the program for which he and his supporters will fight to have made the policy of the union. | On the saine ticket with Brophy, well-known for)‘his long fight for na- tionalization of the coal industry, are William Stevenson of Bay City, Mich., and William J; Brennan of Scranton, Pa. It is leved that the Brophy- Stevenson-Brennan program, whose central glogan is, “Save the Union,” ‘Will have the support of the majority (Special CLEARF! There is much dissatisfaction with the Lewis ies and the failure to check the lions of the agreement by the operators, the bad anthracite BEATEN STRIKER WOULDN'T SIGN A CONFESSION Attempt to Terrorize Picket Fails (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J. Sept. 27.—Fake confessions, extorted by terror, are the latest move In the plot of the Passaic police to fri -up woolen strikers on charges of “bomb plant- agreement, containing an arbitration The Militant Mine YS rs is clause with: no closed shop provision, coupled with #he failure to organize the unorganized fields, together with the expulsion of active members of the union carried on by Lewis, makes certain strong support for a militant program. The Brophy statement is as follows: Se To the Officers and Members of Local Unions, United Mine“Workers of America. Greetings:—In accepting the nomin- ations given me by various local unions as a candidate for international president of the United Mine Work> ers of America, I am doing so for the following reasons: It is no secret that today the exist- ence of our union is in peril, In the (Continued on page 2) SOVIET UNION RAISES WAGES FOR MILLIONS Better Management Has Material Reward LONDON, © Sept. 27.— Dispatches from the Soviet Union state that a spectal commission has recommended further wage increases to be given to the workers of many of the principal industries, over and above those as- sured in the most recent collective agreements. These general increases will run from’ two to five per cent ac- cording to the varying conditions. “Millions Will Get Wage Raise. The increases will be made effective soon to coalxminers, metal workers, textile workers, chemical workern, glass workers,,match workers, postal workers and railroad workers. Gen- eral wage increases for other indus- tries are recommended to take effect next year. In a recent instruction of the gov- ernment, signed also by the trade unions and the Communist Party, the campaign for economy which has been going on for some time was pointed out as by no means signify: ing a lowering of the wages. A Result of Better Management. On the contrary, it sald, wage {n+ creases would be allowed by the elim- ination of waste and inefficiency in production and fighting against waste- ful management. Not only higher wages, but cheaper products would’ result and the peas antry be able to afd in the industrial ‘ization proceas by increased pur- chases of industrial prodycts. FIGHT To Save The Union ing.” Teddy Tomachko, 17, a strik- se ae Me er, tells about It on his ri after four days with the bullies of the Pas Saic force. First a beating and kicking about; then an intimidating grilling by ten detectives; then a confession thrust under his nose with a threat that if he did not sign it what. had been done was nothing to what would come. The young striker stood firm and was eventually released, While they were moving him from one jail to an- other he saw another striker with bruised and battered features, at the | Habeus corpus writs are being sought by lawyers for the 20 other |strikers still held incommunicado on |thin charges of suspicion in connec- tion with the explosions in strike breakers’ homes. No one was injur ed in the explosions and they are re garded by the strikers as “plants.” The Civil Liberties Union, says Forrest Bailey, director, will not only fight against torture and unconstitu- tional imprisonment of these prison- ers but will take action for the resto- ration of picketing. “The Civil Lib erties Union,” he continued, “wil resort to injunctions, civil actions, free speech tests, picketing tests, and every other legal means within its power to prove to officials in the strike area that they cannot use their positions a sereen behind which to conduct a bitter anti-labor war.” jail in Clifton, a nearby strike town.| (Special to The Daily Worker) port of his union. Rose Schnei- derman of the Women’s Trade Union League also spoke to the strikers, announcing the gift of $500 by the League for the strike relief fund. Gustav Deak, president of the new- ly-formed Local 1603, Alfred Wagen- knecht, chairman of the general strike relief committee and George Aschke- nudze were among the other spea ers. Mosconstructions. “I regret to note that certain mis- constructions were placed upon my statement of a week or so ago, rela- tive to the Passaic strike,” said Mac- Mahon in his speech. “We do not be- lieve that the workers are guilty or have been guilty of any intent to de- fy constituted authority. We warned the workers to avoid any, act thar would be interpreted, and said that we do not approve of such acts if committed. “But bombing charges can be framed. This is no new thing in the labor history of the United States. I believe there are forces at work In Passaic today which are working to blacken the name of the strikers. Workers picketing the mills have been clubbed viciously by those sworn to uphold the law. Scalding water has been thrown on them from th. windows of the mills and the authort- ties have taken no action to arrest the guilty persons. Fake “Confessions.” “Tf a confession is secured under du ress, that confession is not valid. ‘The arrest of 20 men and one boy on charges of being, implicated in -cer- tain bombings and their detention in jail without being permitted to see jtbetr attorney; isto my mind a grave infraction of the laws of New Jersey. “Tt has been said that the United Textile Workers of America should expel those guilty of this crime. Are they guilty? Has the time come when men or women arrested are | proved guilty \before conviction? If the employers or police authorities or janyone else can convince the officers and members of Local 1608 that any jmembers of their organization are guilty of such a crime, they will be expelled immediately. Pledges Support. | “Until proved guilty, the workers can feel assured that every assistance will be given them, in order that jus- tice may be done. “I desire further to assure the work- ers that the action taken by the inter- national officers of the United Textile Workers concerning the Passaic strike has been approved by the con- vention of that organization held in New York last week, and that every effort will be made by the Interna- tional Textile Workers of America to secure moral and financial support to the end that victory may be won,” Brands Frame-Up. Alfred Wagenknecht in his speech said in part: A real bomb-thrower, tries to hurt somebody. These bombs seem to be harmless. This bomb throwing has been going on since May. Why is it that 21 bombers are caught all of a sudden as the strike nears successful conclusion. This is clearly a frame-up to break tho strike.” KEEP THE DAILY WORKER! By W. J, WHITE. HENEVER the class struggle breaks out, and it is always breaking out, in one form or another, now in Passaic, now in the anthracite region, or in the coal fields of West Virginia, then it is that the work- ing class of this country needs a pa- per. When these great wars of the capi- talists and the workers take place, and force is needed, the master-class have at their command their batteries of pwblicity, newspapers and maga- zines. The paid servants of the mas- ters turn on their workers with these weapons, and every possible vile thing against them is spread broad- cast thruout the country, The masters depend upon their daily press. At the very least thirty million papers enter the homes of the workers of this country eVery day and spread their owners’ propaganda, In thia situation one ofthe big guns of the workers is The DAILY WORKER. We must build up this paper of ours, the DAILY WORKER, until it is not only read by the mem- bers of the Workers (Communist) Party but we must strive to have thousands of non-party workers read and get their news of the political and industrial warfare of the work- ers from this, our paper, The DAILY WORKER. This task of getting thousands of outside workers interested and con- stant readers of our paper rests upon the shoulders of the class-conscious workers who can and do see the ne- cessity for just such papers as our daily. I can picture no greater calamity for our party in this country than the death of The DAILY WORKER, With such a death our English speaking workers will be without a valuable source of information to bring’ to their homes the story of the strug- gles of the working class thruout the world, Let us keep The DAILY WORKER alive! Let us build The DAILY WORKER! PASSAIC, N. J., Sept. 27.—Implying that the bombing charges filed against 21 Passaic strik- ers were frame-ups and that confessions were wrung from them by third-degree methods, Thomas MacMahon, president of the United Textile Workers of America, attacked the city offi- cials and police of the textile strike area Thursday night at a meeting at Belmont Park, Garfield. Several thousand strikers stood in a pouring rain and cheered him. Thomas J. Curtis, president of the Tunnel and Subway Construction Workers and first vice- president of the New Jersey State Federation of Labor, brought greetings to the textile strikers +and assured them of the sup-* SPY BUREAUS FORCED 10 PUT OUT RENT SIGN Was Involved in Frame- Ups in Passaic By ROBERT W. DUNN. Fed, Press. NEW YORK, Sept. 27.— The “To Let” sign is hanging in front of the suite at 1462 Broadway, formerly oc cupied by the Eagle Detective Agen+ cy, strike-breakers. The Eagle Agen- cy was involved last July in the ef- forts of Jacob Nosovitsky, self-styled international spy, to break the Pas- saic strike by framing-up Albert Weisbord in a breach of promise suit. The suit was dropped when the com- plainant, “Rosalind Lapnore,” failed to appear and when the addresses given to the county clerk, proved fle- titious. $20,000 Job. At the time, the Eagle Agency, thru its president, Max Sherwood, wealthy strike-breaker, denied taking part in the frame-up, but et the same time revealed Nosovitsky’s connes tion with the Botany Mills of Pas saic. Nosevitsky, it was found on investigation of Sherwood’s story, had co-operated with one Shaw, another professional strike-breaker, in an at- tempt to end the strike by planting bombs and by the skillful placement, among the strikers, of agents provo- cateur. Twenty thousand dollars was paid for the job, Shaw said. Came Spolansky. Following Nosovitsky in the employ of the Botany Mills came Jacob Spo- lansky, another former department ef justice nign and “red expert,” who has been working for the National Metal Trades Association open shop department. Spolansky is now report- ed to have returned to Chicago, leay- ing the spy work for the Botany peo- ple in the hands of the well-known International Auxiliary Co., otherwise known as the Eastern Engineering Co, of 17 W. 60 Street, New York City. The International, a labor spy bureau of long standing, has a num- ber of operatives in the Passaic and Paterson district, some as outside men.in the Passaic strike, and others on the inside of the Paterson silk mills. The recent bomb-throwing, laid by the police at the door of strike lead- ers, may have something to do with the presence of International opera- tives whom the Passaic mill owners have introduced in a final effort to discredit the strike now under the leadership of the United Textile Workers of America. It is known that the International spies have been par- ticularly vigilant in breaking U. T. W. of. A. strikes and organization movements in the past two years, McNary to Try Farm Bill Next Session WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.-—- The farm bloc will make another attempt in the short session of congress to enact the McNary-Haugen price stab- ilization bill, Senator McNary, repub- lican of Oregon, said today after a conference at the White House. a Because of the shortness of the see- sion and the press of business, Me- Nary declared he did not think that any comprehensive legisiation could be passed. SATURDAY, OCTOBER A. F. OF L. CONVENTION SPECIAL ISSUE Order Now—34¢c a Copy.