The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1926, Page 5

THE DAILY _WORKER News and Comment Labor Hducation Labor and Goveriment Trade Union Politics — READING SHOP OF N. Y. FIRM JOINS STRIKE Garment Union Finds Cops and Courts READING, Pa., Oct, 5.—When strik- j ing members of the International Lad- \¢ tes Garment Workers’ union came | down from New York to look into the scab shop of the Loraine company at 11th and Marion streets, they found the Reading police as active for the garment capitalists as those in Man- hattan. They even met an injunction. The company moved to Reading with a few professional scabs about July 1 and offered Reading workers $14 for a 54 hour week’s work, This was lovely, as in New York before the strike wages were far above the sweat shop rate the company offered in Read- ing. Form Union From Strikers. Together with seven Reading labor officials, connected with the Federated Trades Council, led by J. Henry Stump, president, the strikers began < picket the shop and pulled out 45, or about half of the workers, mostly women, of which a local I. L. G. W. uion was formed. While so tngaged, some of the gangsters kept on hand by the com- pany rushed out of the shop and as- saulted the pickets, and the police con- veniently coming, arrested them, labor leaders and all, for “disorderly con- duct.” A Little Matter of Politics, Police Magistrate William T. Sny- der, who admits he didn’t know the law, Sbligingly fined the batch $6.25 each on the charge. But stump, who is a perennial socialist candidate for mayor figured that the whole thing was unconstitutional and told the May- or W. E. Sherman, his democratic op- poser in the last election, about. it. Sherman naturally didn’t want any ammunition like this for the next campaign in the hands of his oppositon 80 hejlet the strikers go free and re- turned their fines. Injunction Appears. But the story didn’t end there. In the name of Hyman Goldberg, who appears as the owner of the shop, an injunction was issued restraining. both the local labor officials and the strik- ers who came from New York, from picketing the shop. The usual charges of “threatening” employes and circulating handbills | were the basis for the petition. “There is no strike,” says the petition, and argues that the pickets used “viol- ence.” Stump of the Trades Counett de- nies this, and goes very far indeed to prove that he advocated only humility as a strike weapon. Christ has Nothing on Stump “I warned our pickets that there would be violence attempted by this firm. I told them on no account to return a blow, but to let their hands hang at their sides if blows were struck,” » Pending decision on the injunction, lowed by the state law. i GTON FARMER-LABOR PARTY LAUNCHES AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN By AARON FISLERMAN, SEATTLE, Washington, Oct. 5—-The farmer-labor party convention held here unanimously decided to carry on an aggressive campaign thruout the state. It is intended to make the farmer labor party the second poltical party in strength in this state. If this can be accomplished the farmer-labor party may by 1928 become the dominant political party in the state of Wash- ington, The farmer-labor party ticket this year will be headed by J. L, Free- man, a farmer of Okanogan county,¢————————_____________ who has been chosen candidate for the U. S. senate. Two years ago, the farmer-labor party in this state polled more than 40,000 votes out of a total vote of 890,078 cast. That is more than 10 per cent. This in spite of the fact that most all of the leaders and the en tire state machinery of the FL. P. flopped over to the progressive (La- Follette) party. - Parties. This year there will be only three political parties. in the field. The farmer-labor party, the republican party and democratic party. The Workers Party. is ‘supporting the farmer-labor party in this state. and will devote its entire energy and ap- paratus in the campaign in behalf of the F.-L.P. and its candidates. Resignations in Advance. By unanimous vote the convention adopted a resolution requiring. every suing and regulating money and grant the uge of same to its citizens on credit, the elimination of londlordism and tenantry and the turning over the-land to the users thereof. It calls for the nationalization of all natural resources, industrial monopolies and trust, means of transportation and communication and their management by the workers organized in itidustry. It demands the abolishing of the use of the police, militia and army in la- bor disputes and strikes; the abolish- ing of ivjvnctions; no military train- ing in public or private schools, col- leges and universities, It favers the ratification of the child labor amendment, the immediate re- lease of all po'/tical prisoners, the im- ‘mediate granting of political freedom to the Filipinos, favors the recognition of Soviet Russia and provides for oc- cupational representation in legisla- tive bodies and public offices. JHE UNORGAN. (N THE (NDOSTRY candidate by the F.-L, P. to sign an undated resignation so that in. case any one elected on the farmer-labor party ticket fails to carry ont the pro- grams and pledge of the party, the resignation will be enforced. It also adopted a resolution which requires every candidate elected to pledge 10 per cent of the salary to the party, an- nually. The conyention went on record it Washington Ptate Federation of Labor no pickets will be posted although al- | tavor of ton lt Pde program of the If you have a little time to spare at any time of the day—give us a’ hand, Vol- r your services for an hour or two. Come over to help the office get out cir- culars any time before 5:30 p. m. ADDRESS: . 1113 W. Washington Bivd, Telephone Monroe 4712 4 ‘ CARPETS _» RUGS a a The Best Place to Buy Your t Is at Comrade OSCAR I. BARKUN’S 4 STORES | and all candidates elected on the F-L. P. will support: the labor legis- lative program. This is the third convention held this summer by the farmer-labor party in this state. The first convention having been held on July 4, in Seattle, the second at Yakima, Wash., on Aug. 1. * ‘ The constitution provides for the organization of the unorganized farm- ers and workers, in the form of farm- erlabor Party clubs, twenty-five members being allowed for each club. The dues being 25 cents a month, 50 per cent of which goes to the state organizatiom, Clubs are springing up all over the state. County committees are being organized in many parts, The Platform. ‘The platform provides that the gov- ernment “resume the function” of is- — Read it today and every day in The DAILY eae ne It popenrs today LINOLEUM FURNITURE THE CHRAGO JOINT BOARD UNANIMOUS ARM OF JHE ONION IZED AND EXPLOMED | ! é/Union Activities Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism Workmen’s Circle Empties Treasury for I. L. G. Strike — NEW: YORK,. Oct, 5.—The follow- 42, Workmen’s Cirele, at a meeting at 257 Bast Houston street, decided to empty its treasury for the benefit of cloakmakers, in the 18th week of the strike, who. aré members of the branch. The decision was made una- nimously upon a motion by L. Bezah- ler,,a branch member and a business agent of the Cloakmakers’ Joint Board. Fifty striking cloakmakers will be the beneficiaries of this move, it was stated. Not only the funds in the treasury which amount to $1,300, but also contributions from the 400 branch members, their willingness to tax themselves, further in order to maintain the . cloakmaker’ members for the duration of the strike. Philip Oringer presided at the meet- ing which adopted Bezahler’s resolu- tion with great enthusiasm. M, Ehr- lich is secretary of tae branch. JOIN Witt US, BROTHER, AND LET US HELP you TO Get DS THE ASSIST~ WORKERS 4 From an organization leaflet of the Chicago Joint Board of the I. L. G. W; U. SERF LAWS OF FEUDAL ENGLAND HAD NOTHING ON NEW ORLEANS CODE! NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 5.—(FP)— The first prosecution under the law enacted by the legislature at the session, recently closed, prohibiting enticing labor from one plantation to another has been invoked with the arrest at Alexandria of George and Robert Bossier, They .are charged with enticing two laborers and moving their household effects from the planta- tion of L, Wemple near Cheneyville without the consent of Wemple. Under the law now in force it Is a crime punishable with fine or im- prisonment, or both, to engage a Negro or any other plantation labor er on a promise of higher wages and better living conditions from one land owner to another without the consent of his employer, | WCFL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular, programs. It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Manipal weg ‘ONIGH’ tal eu agin Federation of Labor Li mee, Little deo, Wagner, ochn Rew, oe anne 10! kickey & Johnson.) T. U. E. L. MEETING IS POSTPONED FROM WEDNESDAY, Owing to the other meetings that are taking place Wednes- day, October 6th, which compete with the regular meeting of the .T. U, E. L, the committee has deemed it necessary to postpone the meeting of the Trade Union Educational League. All league mombers ‘are asked to take notice, They will be notified of ee UNORGANIZED LADIES GARMENT WORKERS RID OF YOUR Cleveland Opens Workers’ Forum , on October 10th. CLEVELAND, Oct. 5.—A workers’ forum has been established in Cleve- land and will begin on Sunday, Oct. 10. The forum will hold meetings every Sunday night at room 13, 5927 Euclid avenue, and will be a.means of furnishing the workers of this city an opportunity of discussing questions of the day. The forum will start with John Brahtin as the first speaker, His sub- ject will be “The Significance of the British Strike.” The forum Will be- gin at 7:30 p. m. on Sunday, Oct. 10. The next speaker will be Léo Gleis- ser, who will speak on “Revolutionary Literature” on Oct. 17. All workers are invited. Workers Asked to Support Play for : * Passaic Children NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—A new play for the United Gouncil of Working- class Housewives will be given in the Irving Place Art Theater on Wednes- day night, Noy, 17. All stars will par- ticipate, re Workers’ organizations and working men and women are asked to‘help fill the house and so help in the work of @ woman’s organization which is p ticipating in all the struggles of the workers and has been maintaining since the beginning of the strike, 2 kitchens where 1,000 children of the Passaic strikers are being fed every day with wholesome food, All workers and sympathizers are asked to remember the 17th of No- vember at the Irving Palace Art Thea- ter, Page Five PHOENIX LABOR BODY DESERTS PORTO RICANS Reactionaries Win by One Vote By WILLIAM O'BRIEN, (Worker Correspondent) PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 5—The Cen- tral Trades Council of Phoenix, by a majority of one vote; decided to select a committee of three members to meet with the Cotton Growers’ Association here and attempt a settlement of the strike of several hundred Porto Rican workers shipped here to work in the cotton flelds. This means that the reactionary ele- ment in the central council] won out in a long debate which actually hinged upon whether the council was going to continue to support the Porto Ri- cans financially and otherwise, as it had been doing, or whether it would abandon the fight by trying to reach a compromise with the bosses. Worried Over Finances, The reactionaries w®n for several reasons. First, the striking Porto Rican workers and their families had been financially supported by the unions and many of the delegates were. worried about the financial strain. Second, many of the Porto Ricans are skilled workers and repre- sentatives of the skilled trades were afraid of labor competition. Notable among these latter was the delegate from the bricklayers’ union, who made no secret of his fears. The progressive delegates to the council had been making a fight to persuade the body to stand by the Porto Rican workers and to force the state to undertake their care. The immigrants have been in an impro- vised camp at the fair grounds. Many of the wives and children are ill. Until now the only source of liveli- hood they have received has been from donations from the unions. “Mediator” for Company. A Mr, Jones, mediator of the United States department of labor, is here trying to get the strikers to go back to work. He is hand in glove with the Cotton Growers’ Association. The lat- ter are anxious to get the men to work so they can collect the cost of trans- portation laid out to get them from Porto Rico. The company claims. there is another boatload of Porto Rican workers on the way and that they will bring them to Phoenix be- cause their fare is already paid. The Porto Rican workers are stand- ing firm, however, in their refusal to work for anything less than the $3 a day average paid in these parts for cotamon labor. Association a Tool, There is some misconception among even trade unionists hereabout con- cerning the identity of the Cotton Growers’ Association, Even many delegates to the Central Council are under the impression that the associa- tion is an organization of cotton farm- ers. This fact no doubt influenced their judgment in some degree in vot- ing on the question of supporting the Porto Ricans. The fact is that the association is the creature of several big cotton growing companies, The Cotton Growers’ Association said they would‘care for the sick workers, but this has not been done. The state industrial board wa{ves jurisdiction over the -affair on th® ground it has nothing to do with agri- cultural matters. In the meantime the price of cot- ton is going down and it is possible that by the time the present dispute is settled it will not be worth while fo pick the remaining portion of the cotton crop. What will hapben to the ill and impoverished Porto Ricans in that event is problematical, but they are in any case faced with a very gloomy prospect. Lithuanian Local No Place for Opposition to Strike Solidarity By J. STOCKWELL, (Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N.'Y., Oct. 5.—At the last meeting of Lithuanian Local 54 of the A. C. W., at Arion Place Hall, the proposal of the New York Joint Board ‘tor assessment of eight hours work to aid the Finkelstein strikers was brought up. Here we could see who were really union men. Those who were not could also be seen, and their names are given below, because they opposed the help to the atrikers and also talked and urged others to leave the Joint Board because of this. Their names are W. Pashckevich, J. Yonaitis, A, Bubngs, W. M. Michelsons and Tischkus, who works for White Brothers in New York City.. Surely any sensible worker would say that these are no friends of the strikers but rather friends of Finkel- stein. A lot wamesaid about leaving the Joint Board, but they did not get the best of the. local ‘and the eight hours assessment matter was put off to a special meeting. t. opy of tne American Worker We only & eonte, Wwe Worker CORRES: SONGEET BY JANUARY 13 1927 Allentown Local 52 of Upholsterers on Strike in Two Shops (By Arnald, Worker Correspondent.) ALLENTOWN, Pa, Oct. 5.—Lo- cal 52 of the Upholsterer’s union of this city is on strike since Saturday from the Jordan Furniture company. The strike affects about 30 men in all Every man is out of this shop and the local expects to pull out other men from the Yeager Furniture company | to about the same number. The Allentown local union is “strik. Ing jointly with Local 76 of New York City. Their demands are for a 20 per cent increase of wages and the 44 hour week, Strikers, watch for more particulars in this paper and write to the DAILY WORKDR the news of your strike and the bosses’ tactics. Also distrib- ute this paper to other strikers. . COURSE IN LABOR JOURNALISM I$ BEGUN IN N.Y. :Workers’ ‘School Starts New Class By a Worker Correspondent, NEW YORK, /Oct. 5—The Work- ers’ School of New York is indeed for- tunate in being able to announce the addition of Harvey O'Connor to its faculty for the coming year, Harvey O’Connor, who, in addition to editing other labor papers, was city editor, news editor and labor editor succes- sively of the Seattle Union Record in 1921-24 when it was the only trade union daily in America and who has been the assistant editor of the Loco- motive Bngineers Journal for the past two years, will give the course in “Workers’ Correspondence” (Labor Journaligm) in the- Workers’ School. This course trains workers in shop, mill atid factory to report the news of the industrial struggle in its everyday phases, The technique of simple, direct news writing, of organizing, editing and managing shop papers and of preparing material for use in the labor press is its main object, Labor and shop papers will be studied close- Jy and students will prepare copy for actual publication... Noted..labor..edi- tors are selreduled to speak on various phases of the labor press. ~ The course in Workers’ Correspond- ence starts on: Monday; November 1, at 8 p®m. Registrations are now open at the Workers’ School, 108 East 14 Street, New York City and the School Bulletin can also be obtained at the same address, by writing to Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the school. Los Angeles Starts a Worker Correspondence Class Under J. Fisher By a Worker Correspondent. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 5.—The Worker Correspondents’ Class meets every Monday night from 8 to 10 p. m. at 322 West Second St. The class is under the instruction of Comrade James H. Fisher. Its object is to train @ group of workers so that they will be able to report the class struggle in all its many phases. If you are inter- ested in writing, if you are able to think and wish to help us, attend this class agd see for yourself. Letter From a Prize Winner Boston, Mass., Sept. 30, 1926. Editor DAILY WORKER. Dear Sir: I wish to acknowledge receipt of the copy of Red Cartoons which was awarded me a8 a@ worker correspond- ent. Needless to say, I am very happy to own such a splendid ‘book, altho the fact that I have*at least succeeded tn registering a feeble protest against one of the many evils of the present system affords me no little satisfac- tion, I can assure you, My interest in the Workers (Com- munist) Party is of comparatively re- cent date and is due, aside from left- wing tendencies from early childhood, to the influence of the editorial staff of The DAILY WORKER in the pre- sentation of their aims and policies in the clas# struggle. I hope thru more intense study and thought Jo become sufficiently informed on political and social issues to render such aid to the Workers’ Party movement as may fall within the scope of my capabilities. It is my regret that I have not been so situated economically to support this cause, which holds so much of prom- ise for the future. Tired from long days of uninterest- ing work, I find my evenings much too short and fleeting for bending to the tasks which hold my attention. How- ever, I intend to “carry on," and you will certainly hear nrore from me as time goes on, ‘ Your for success (not the Ford- Gary-Schwab standard), Fred Wh Douglas, BUILD THE DAILY with A bys STEEL TRUST AND ERIE R. R. | TAKE 2 LIVES | Workers Die as Result of Company Neglect (By N. L., Worker Correspondent) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Oct. 5— Negligence of the lives of the work- {ers has resulted in the death of two | workers of Youngstown on Tuesday } Thomas Wylan instantly killed at the open hearth furnace plantof |the Republic Iron and Steel company. He was working on the railroad in the yards when he was struck by an engine. .He met death be se no guards were put on the rails in or- engine pass without {der to let the \icflling anybody. the Steet Trust. The other worker, Andrea Casoria 68, was an employe of the Erie rail Another victim ‘of road. He was killed instantly when caught in the bucket of a steam shovel loading coal near the Erie roundhouse. Casoria, a laborer, was working near a train of coal cars, when the shovel operator, hearing his cries, discovered that he had caught Cas- orfa in the bucket. His chest was entirely crushed and he died: before he reached the el tases Worker Gives Dramatic Version of Attempting to Aid Sacco, Vanzetti By THEODORE MORANCE, (Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, Oct. 4. — The follow- ing describes an example of Metropoli- tan. police efficiency: Scene: re: cinct Station House, %&h St. between Ist and 2nd Aves. Time: 9 oclock ip evening. Wherefore: Getting a permit for a Sacco-Vanzetti street meeting. I;. Pardon Sir, may I be permitted to hold a street meeting for the "| Sacco-Vanzetti case? Captain: Whattahelsthat: I: That’s the Lieutenant: Oh, those are those two guinnys that staged that payroll robbery. Captain: Oh, those——! you,'doya speak English: I: Being a student at the College of the City of New York I can’t nat- urally help that. see here Captain: Ya born here? I: “Yep. Captain: You know anrthing about that robbery — any special friend of these two wepe? I: Never saw them in my life. Captain: Then whatta hell d’ya wanna open ya yap fur those birds then?’ Don’t you know they wuz con- victed by law — and they oughtta hang Goddam em. I; They were framed-up, and even if they get all the. witnesses in the world they’ll still get framed-up un- less the workers all over the countries can get up at such street meetings as these and create the sentiment for the release of Sacco and Vanzetti. Captain: Whatta hell ya wanna do that here for? Go to Connecticut where they are, I: Pardon Captain, they’re in Mass- achusetts. Captain: ing.) I: That's why we want to raise sentiment Captain: ‘This country ain’t ruled by sentiment—its ruled by law! I: That’s why we are asking your legal sanction to our meeting. Captain: Well, you lousey Bolshe- vik, you ain’t gonna hold no street meeting for those greasy guinnys, if you do I treat you as disorderly people. Los Angeles Meeting Helps Mine Strikers; Mine Lamps “Jewelry” ¢ Massachusetts, (glower- By L. P. RINDAL, (Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, Calif., (By Mail.)— A group of class conscious workets arranged a éocial dance at the Paint- ers hall for the benefit of the strug- gling British miners, their wives and children, Solidarity Applauded, After: the address by Mortimer Downing at the Open Forum, Sunday evening, Sept. 19th, on the subject of “The British Genera] Strike”, a wor- ker asked the speaker: “How do the miners manage to live over there?” “Mostly on funds coming from the workers of Soviet Russia”, Downing— a former editor of the Industrial Wor- ker—admitted. A storm of applawse followed—which increased after a few remarks by Comrade Fisher, leader of the local Workers’ Correspondents’ School, " A number “ot ominiainre miner lamps, sent from to help’ the fighting strikers, atiyely speaking, the willingness to buy throws some more light on the subject. These lamps were “jewelry” ‘Yin the eyes of U. 8, custom officers. ores heavy yechorrtet «ipa land, were sold . Figur.»