The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1926, Page 5

% News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politits SHOW PASSAIC STRIKE FILM HERE OCT. 29 Proceeds Go to Help Strikers “The Passaic Strike,” a motion pic- ture of the heroic struggle of the 16,- 600 Passaic textile strikers for a un; ion and a Hving wage, will be shown in Chicago on Friday evenng, Octo- ber 29, at Ashland Auditorium, 328 S. Ashland Blyd.. There will. be two showings—at 7 p. m. and 9p, m. Nothing will so simply, graphically aud vividly explain the big strike and its lessons to the working class as will this gripping motion picture. of strike events snapped as they oc curred, eats , Strikers Shown in Action, In this picture, the Passaic textile strikers are shown in action, facing with magnificent courage: and superb fortitude the brutal attacks of. the mill barons, braving police élubs and shot guns, fire hose in zero weather, gas bombs, and withstanding the starvation offensives and strike- breaking attempts of the bosses and their tools. The huge mass meetings of strikers are shown, with the strike leaders and outside speakers addregs- ing the strikers. Relief activities are depicted, the food stores, the picket Mine lunch counters, the Victory Play- ground for the strikers’ children, Prologue. The picture has an interesting pro- logue, acted by the strikers them- selves, dramatizing the life of ‘every worker who, hoping to secure by the sweat of his brow some of the good things of life, finds that the explott- ing bosses are more than willing to extract even the last drop of blood in order that their 76 per cent pro- fits be maintained. 4) The proceeds raised by the shéw- ing of this picture will go to strike relief, All labor bodies are asked to cooperate in making the showing in Chicago successful. Chicago T. U. Eek : Hold Meeting Oct. 6; All Workers Invited’ Chicago workers interested in left wing activity in the trade unions are invited to attend the regular monthly meeting of the Trade Union Educa- tional League local general group which will be held at Northwest Hall} corner of North and Western avenues at 8 P. M. on Wednesday, October 6. , The speaker will be William Z. Fos- ter, who will talk upon the question of the A. F. of L. convention, the growing progressive movement in the mining industry and other outstanding situ- ations ‘In the labor movement. © All militant workers are invited and urged to bring one or two fellow workers. Step Over sa ° If you have a little time’ | to spare at any time of the day—give us a hand.. Vol- unteer your services for an hour or two. Come over to . help the office get out cir- culars any time before 5:30 p, m. ay) ADDRESS; © |) { 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Telephone Monroe 4712 Goon Boont _ Religion . he & orem of Religion, by Bea 8s Cloth, 1.50 oe and My Neighbor, by Robert Communi Christlantem, oe ism ve. iristianiom, is of Christianity, BISHOP BROWN'S. ‘New Book hay \ MY HERES Y*"% An Autobiography Cloth, $2.00 .., ICATHOLICS GET PHILADELPHIA BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL TO ATTACK MEXICAN LABOR UNIONS ARTICLE Iv. (By a Special Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Md,, Oct; 4.— That Peter Collins, who, according to promi- nent figures in the American Federation of Labor, is directing the fight for the catholic church within the A, F. of L. is making headway in bringing about a rupture of the amicablo relations existing between the A. F. of L. and the Mexican Federation of Labor (C. R, O. M.), is given additional proof in the resolution adopted at a recent meeting of the Associated Building Trades Councils of Philadelphia. A Philadelphia news dispatch, published in various catholic papers, reads, in part: ee Bullding Trades Council! Acts. “PHILADELPHIA — Organized workers to the number of 150,000, members of the Associated Building Trades Councils of Philadelphia, ata meeting denounced in smashing terms the. support given by the Mex- fean Federation of Labor to Presi- dent Calles in his campaign against religion and human rights. “These workers, in a4. resolution adopted, said that they spoke ‘as American citizens and members of the great Federation of Labor.’ Demands. C. R..0. M. Breakgwith » Calles. “The -resolntion further urges President Green of the American Federation, ‘to use the power of his office and the facilities for publicity at his disposal to expose and de- nounce the brutal, un-American and tyrannical character of the Mexican government’ and to appeal to the Mexican federation’s membership to ‘assert their manhood’. by withdraw- ing their support from Calles. “‘As Americatt citizens and mem- bers of that great body of organized workers, the American Federation of Labor, belleving In the principles of political, industrial and religious lb- erty, and steadfastly opposed to all forms of Sovietism, Communism and other ‘isms’ destructive of human ltb- erty, we cannot help but view with deep concern the ferocious attacks that are now being made on the rights, liberties and ‘consciences of the citizens of our sister Republic of Mexico, by the governing’ power of that nation. . Attacks Mexican Labor. “The resolution then. reviews . the part that Mexican organized labor has taken in the inflicting of these. in- justices, It continues: > . “‘an astounding . feature of their disgraceful and un-American pro- ceedings, is the well-authenticated fact that in their campaign of pillage, spoilation and ‘thievery, .Calles . and Teached the point where the nation pensions? _ That question is being considered pension system, raising the maximum pension from $720 to $1,000 a year, after a fight on the part of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor: such as it has not waged at the capitol jn years. It is of tdctical importance because old-age pensions are among the choic- st baits with which the anti-labor pur- poses of company unions and “yellow- dog” contracts of employment are con- cealed. When the federal government gives old-age pensions to all who have been unable to save, half the appeal of industrial feudalism is lost by the big corpo: is who now make war on trade unionism, Pass But Two Labor Biils, The American Federationist sums up the last session of congress by say- ing that the federal employes’ old-age pension bill and the railway labor act were the two measures enacted that directly affect labor, The 757 other bills made law at that session had only an indirect influence on the workers, More than 10,000: bills were in- troduced failed of i Mothers’ Pen: Another measure favored by labor but confined to the District of Colum- bia was the mothers’ pension bill, ap- propriating $100,000 a year for the N. Y, Window Cleaners ing for Better ‘Working Conditions NEW YORK, Oct. 4. —(FP)—Win- dow cleaners belonging to the Window Cleaners’ Protective Union are strik- ing for a 444hour week, $44 minimum wage and no discharges or lay-offs without consideration by the union grievance committee, dow are Employers Association following insuccessful efforts to nego- ‘The Workers demand that employ- ers scarry compensation Jnsurance. Many window hurt or his band are, to all appearances, en- couraged and actively supported by the Federation of Labor of Mexico, an organization which claims to rep- resent the sentiment or Mexican la- bor; propaganda has been assidu- ously disseminated by Mexican ag- ents in an effort to convince the un- informed that the trade unionists of America have no quarrel with the Mexican Federation because of its support of the Calles policies. Condemns The C, R. 0. M. “‘Now, if it is true that the Fed- eration of Labor of Mexico is com- posed of men who work for a living, and are members of the trades un- fons; if it is true that as such they are aiding and abetting Calles in the monstrous assault he is making on the God-given rights of the Mexi- can people, then the time has arrived for the trades unionists of America to declare in the strongest language possible that we denounce, repudiate and condemn the support rendered to Calles and his government by the Federation of Labor of Mexico, as in- human and reprehensible, and con- trary in every particular to the true principles of trade unionism the world over. A..F. of L. Militantly Reactionary, “‘The American labor movement, in its local, state and national con- yentions, has unsparingily and right- fully denounced and excorciated the policies of Lenin and Trotsky, tho enforced in a nation thousands of miles distant from our shores, and in justice to the high ideals and humani- tarlan principles of the American labor.movement, and mindful of the fundamental privilege of freedom on which our,great republic is founded and whose one hundred and fiftieth anniversary we are at this moment celebrating, we cannot and will not remain silent while, af fe point. of the bayonet every vestige of human to the hearts of freemen, ly throttled at our very COMPULSORY OLD-AGE PENSIONS IN U.S. AIM OF ORGANIZED LABOR *“ By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press, . WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—-Hag the industrial prosperity of America will consider the granting of old ago by chiefs of the organized labor move- ment in Washington, It is timely because congress, in the recent session, tevised the federal employes’ old-age¢4—————___________ maintenance in their own households of the children of mothers left with- out support. While not a labor meas: ure, it had the support of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and is re- garded as making easier the education of congress to the need for a federal old-age pension system. Amend Constitution. Progressives in congress believe that the only possible road to a gen- eral federal system of pensioning the men and women worn out in industry is thru a constitutional amendment. Hence the progressives, if they take up the matter in co-operation with or- ganized labor in the coming session or in the next congress, will introduce a resolution proposing such an amend- ment. Hearings will be held on the resolution, The legislation to be sought would probably differ from the federal employes’ pension scheme by dropping the requirement for deduct- Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism DETROIT LABOR STAGES STRIKE RELIEF CONCERT Eminent . Artists Help Passaic Fight DETROIT, Mich. Oct. 4—A gala con- cert for the benefit of the textile stri- kers of Passaic, New Jersey, will be held on Tuesday, October 26th, 8 P. M., at the Majestie Theater, Woodward Avenue, near Willis. The program will Include numbers by such eminent artists as Ilya Schko- Inik, concert ‘master of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Koza- kevich, well-known Russian baritone; and the Detroif’ Ukrainian Chorus. With these artists participating, the concert promises to be one of the big- gest musical events of the season. No Conflict Date. The affair is being held under the ausploes of the Detroit Conference for Relief of the Passaic Textile Strikers. All, friendly organizations are urged not to arrange any other affairs for that date, Admission is 75c., $1.00, $1.50, $2.00. Tickets may be bought at the following places: if Office of the International Labor Defense, 1967 Grand River Aye. Pajnters District Council, 55 Adel- aide Street. Finnish Hall; 5969 14th. Street Grayling’ Hallj°2376 Grayling Ave., Hamtranck. Yemans Hall,’ 3014 Yemans, Ham- tranck. Plumbers: Knock Hole in Landis Open Shop with Union Contract sa The Journeymen Plumbers’ union of Chicago registered a blow against the Landis open shop “citizens’ commit- tee” when a union shop agreement was signed between the Plumbers and the Citizens’ Sanitary Engineering associ- ation, createdby the Landis award committee and< hitherto one of ‘its strongest sections. — This is understood to be only one of the union shop contracts soon to be signed by the employers’ associ- ations and unions of sheet metal wor- kers, painters and foofers. Negotia- tions on these trades have been going on for some time: : The present Plumbers’ agreement was negotiatedrby Charles Mulcahy, and is being sent.to the Pacific coast to obtain the signature of Dan Mc- Carthy. Se It 1s reported that about 350 non- union plumbers who have been work- Ing open shop under the award, will be admitted tothe union if they pass the state examination. It is expected that the Builders’ building on Wacker drive and the Pittsfield building at Washington and Wabash will be built under the union agreement. Miserably Low Wages for Pottery Workers, Shown by Statistics WASHINGTON—(FP) — Wages of men and women employed tin the American pottery industry are decidely low. This is shown by a study which the U, S. department of labor has just completed, based, on statistics for 46 potteries, most of which were in the region centering about Bast Liverpool, O. For 6,666 meh and boys the aver- age earnings per. week in 1925 were $26.22, and for 3,657 women and girls they were $13.27 in the semi-viterous ing the cost of the pensions regularly from the pay envelope of the worker. American workers are employed -too irregularly and with too little book- keeping to make it possible to collect insurance or pension charges from the very class that will need pensions most. evading the workmen's compensation law by failing to take out insurance. The employers have frequently tried to smash the union but have al- ways had to come back to sign up when demands for work became urgent, Company Union Gets Weak Knees, ‘Decides’ to Keep Same Scale MANCHESTER, N. H. Oct, 4. (FP). —Amoskeag Mills “Workers’ Con- gress”—company union—voted to con- tinue under the old wage scale for an- other six months after demanding 10% increasé, ‘The company had.asked cuts, The big mille © gotton and worsted Boods as well ty rayon mixtures, plants, producing common tableware. Even these wages were double the amount earned by the average worker in each group in the year 1913, accord- ing to the report. Piecework is the basis of payment, due in part to an English tradition of contract work coming to this country fromthe English potter- les with the fathers and mothers of these American pottery workers, Much of the production is handled by crews of 6 persons each, speeding up in order to make a maximum weekly earning. In the average pottery the workers lost 2.9 days every two weeks, Long Beach Dockers ~— Organized in I. L. A. LONG BEACH, Oct. 4. — There is no organized labor here but the long- shoremen, These, however, are well organized. Dockmen get 80 cents per hour. Lumber men and ship workers get 90 cents, ee a ‘LABOR’ PARTY OF PA, BEHIND ~ WM. B, WILSON Democrat Gets Backing for U. S. Senator HARRISBURG, Pa. Oct. 4. (FP)— William B. Wilson, once president District 2 United Mine Workers of America and former international union secretary, has the endorsement of Pennsylvania's Labor party in his candidacy as democratic nominee for United States senator. Charles Kutz, chairman of the Labor party, made the announcement, add- ing that Eugene Bonniwell, democratic gubernatorial candidate, likewise had been endorsed. The spring primary of the Labor party nominated Gifford Pin- chot for senate and E, H. Beidleman for governor. Governor Pinchot and Beidleman later withdrew from the race. g Denles Scab Mine Deal. Wilson is denying to questioners that he leased a mine in non-union Chesterfield county, Virginia, as Coal Age stated. Wilson declares that he went with his brother-in-law, Daniel Wilson of Allport, Pa., to look over the Richmond coal basin property of 90 acres but Wilson denies that he is in- volyed in the lease his relative took. Wilson says his brother-in-law oper- ated a small mine in central Pennsyl- vania for a number of years on a union basis. Wilson states that the Richmond coal basin development has been so small that the United Mine Workers has not attempted to get a wage agreement there. Wilson’s property had not been put into oper- ation when Wilson wrote his answer to queries on their relation to the union. GRAND JURORS CARRY THE WAR INTO CICERO Almost Whole Town Is Under Indictment Wholesale indictments, naming known gangsters, bootleggers, town officials, and others, were returned by the federal grand jury here today as the. climax a campaign to free Cicero, Chicago suburb, from the rule of gangland, Among those named in the indiét- ments. were: “Scarface Al” Capone, underworld king; Willam (‘Klon- dike”) O'Connell, and his brother, Myles; Joseph L. Klenka, president of the Cicero town board; Chief of Po- lice Svoboda; Edward G. Konvalinka, secretary to Klenka, and 73 other per- sons. The indictments charge conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws and specifically, possession, transportation and sale of liquor, Among the others named were: Charles Faschette, Capone's chauf- feur, Three Ciceronians Surrender; Obtain Decrease in Bond Three alleged leaders of the 79 Ciceronians indicted by the federa} grand jury Friday in Cicero booze case surrendered to the district court Saturday and were released on bonds, They were, Joseph Z, Klenha, prest- dent of Cicero, Edward Konvalinga, hig secretary, and Ted L. Svoboda, chief of police. Their bonds were first set at $10,000 each by Federal Judge Cliffe, but were later reduced to $2,500 by Judge Evan A. Evans, Transportation Heads Vie with Each Other in Accomodating Queen VIENNA, Oct. 4, — ‘There is a possi- bility that Marie of Roumania may make her home permanently in the United States. Family troubles are the cause it is said. There is a gen- tleman, playing a role similar to that played by Rasputin in Czarist Russia, who is raising cain with the royal household. 2 The steamship companies put up a brisk competition for the queen's pas- Gage, the honors going to the Levia- than. The giant ship practically gave the queen a free ticket. American hotels are Offering their choicest suites to the queen for as ttle as $1 aeday and American ratl- road presidents are cabling offers of their private cars to this royal para- site, é Judge Sides with Landlord Against Workers and Poor NEW YORK, Oct. 4. (IXP)—Rent Jaws put in y to protect workers and poor tenants were dealt a blow by Carroll in B landlord no reason for evicting a the leave hes pases sted (Copyright, 1926, by Uptom Sinclair) VI What Mr Irving said was that our troops were in Siberia because American bankers and big business men had loaned enormous sums of money to the government of the Tsar, both before the war and during it; the Bolshevik government had re- pudiated these debts and therefore our bankers and business men were determined to destroy it. It was not merely the amount of the money, but the precedent involved; if the government of any country could repudiate the obligations of a previous govern- ment, what would become of international loans! The creditor | Paul of Jeff Korbitty. His letter was returned to him by th el nations—that is to say America, Britain and France—maintained that a government debt was a lien, not against the government, but against the country and its resources. The amount at stake was one or two hundred billions of dollars, and the creditor na- tions meant to make an example of Soviet Russia, and establish, * the rule that a government which repudiated its debts would he put out of business. Bunny found this a novel point of view, and asked many questions. Mr. Irving said that in Washington was a R an who had been the war-time ambassador to our country, and in that capacity bad had the handling of the money loaned by our goy- ernment, and used for buying guns and shells for Russia. At the time of the Bolshevik revolution, this ambassador had just got something like a hundred million dollars, and our government was allowing him to use it to set up a propaganda machine’ against the Soviet government, with a spy system as elaborate as the Tsar had ever known. Newspapers and newspaper men. government officials and legislators, all were on this ambassador's payroll. Moreover, there were in our state department officials who had married Russian wives of the old nobility and. these wives had lost everything in the revolution and it was natural they should hate the new regime. One official was a member of the banking house which had handled the loans and stood to lose a fortune; others were tied up with banks and business concerns which had vast sums at stake. So it came about that America was at war with Soviet Russia, on the entire circumference of that vast.republic; and so it came about that an instructor in an American university could not discuss the matter with one of his students, even outside the class room, without fear of losing his position. “Mr. Daniel Webster Irving denied that he had any sympathy with Bolshevism, or wished to teach such doctrines in America; and Bunny, in his innocence of soul, accepted this statement— not knowing that all Bolsheyik agents say that, until they have got the minds of their victims thoroughly poisoned. Mr. Irving expressed the view that what was happening in Russia was a great social experiment. Could a government of the working class succeed? Was democracy in industry a possibility, or only a fanatic'’s dream? We ought to send disinterested people, ex- perts of all sorts into Russia, to watch what was happening and’ ~ report it. Instead of that, we were helping France and Britain. to starve the Russians out; we were compelling them to spend all their energies resisting our armies, and those which we sub- sidized; we were making it impossible for the experiment to suc- ceed, and go, of course, its failure would prove nothing. Bunny, poor little propaganda victim, said that he was be- ginning to change his mind about these matters. Yes, the Rus- sians sure had a right to work out their own problem in their own way; and certainly we ought to know the truth about what was happening—he wished there was some way to get it. There- upon, Mr. Irving gave him the names of two weekly magazines, which, as it happened, had just been excluded from the library of the university, and from all the high schools of Angel City, for ‘dangerous thoughts.” You can imagine what happened then. When you tell a high-spirited lad that he must not read certain publications, he becomes immediately filled with curiosity to know, what they con- tain. Bunny went home and sent in his subscription to these papers, quite openly, in his own name. So there was another entry in the card-indexes of the Military Intelligence Department and the Naval Intélligence Department and the Secret Service Department; to say. nothing of many organizations which were using these card-indexes as their own—several patriotic sar cieties and severa] militant newspapers, and several big private ~ detective agencies, including, of course, the informtaion service of the once-upon a-time ambassador from a no-longer-existing Russian government, Bunny, groping about for some way to help Paul, was next moved to write a letter to the Southern Pacific “Stude,” telling” what he had come to think about the Siberian situation, bein careful, of course, not to refer to Mr. Irving, not to name eit’ student editor, with a note protesting against a man of his prom- inence in the university giving such aid to the enemies of his country, The news of this incident spread, and the wildest rumors took wing; Bunny was besieged by friends and others who wanted to read the letter and then to argue with him. One member of the senior class declared that he agreed with Bunny—certainly the Russians had a right to run their own country. Billy George was this man’s name, and his father was a wealthy manufacturer of iron pipe. Needless to say, Bunny was glad to have a little sympathy and let his new friend read his letter to the “Stude,” and Jeff Korbitty’s letter to him, and told all his ideas and troubles; and thus the card-indexes in Angel City, New York and Washington were further enriched. Inas- much as 80 many other people were allowed to inspect these in- _ ~ dexes, it will surely not be unpatriotic for us to take a glimpse into the file. The cards were six by eight in size, neatly typed on both sides; and when one was full, another was started. Our young idealist’s now stood as follows: “Ross, James Arnold, junior, alias Bunny: 679 S. Mendo- cino Ave., Angel City, Calif., also Paradise, San Elido Co., Calif., Age 20, height 5 feet, 914 inches, hair brown, eyes brown, fea- tures regular; photo attached. Son of J. Arnold Ross, v-pres. Ross Consolidated Oil Co., Vernon Roscoe Bldg., Angel City, also indept. oil interests, estimated worth $25,000,000. Graduate 1918 Beach City (Calif.) High School, school records good, reported sex susceptibility, report agent 11497 attached. Active sympa- thizer Paradise oil-strike 1916-17, intimate friend of Paul Wat- ‘kins, strike leader, file 1272W17. Suspected intimate with Rose Watkins, sister of Paul. Training at Camp Arthur, 1917-18, record satisfactory. Wrote to Hon, H. G. Leathers, 49th Califor- nia district, prompted by returned soldier Jeff. Korbitty, file’ 9687K30; see letter attached, also report agent 23672 ‘attached. | Class of 1928, Southern Pac Univ., member Kappa Gamma’ Tati fraternity, track-runner, pupil of Daniel Washington Irving, file 827118. Sentimental sympathizer Bolsh. Subscriber Nation, New Republic. Further reports from agent 11497, fellow student; : also 9621, intimate with subject's sister, Ino ka Ls lanimia ds