The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1926, Page 2

~ break the national strike in the bitum- | Page Two ‘3 Ri ARO eae RINE» at THE DAILY WORKER FOUR COUNTIES HOLD FATE OF NEXT COAL WAR — ‘ Former Nonnaion) Fields Form Balance By ART SHIELDS (Federated Press) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct, old non-union counties of southwest: | 12.—Four ern Pennsylvania can largely make or | inous coal fields that may follow the ending of the 3-year Jacksonville | wage agreement next April 1. Hold Key steel tur- al} county | py mi i Coal hips a supplie its Windber dation ¢ 1 Co- pits | coal companies anty eland ci a yea 0,000 tons ing a | both Roumanian and foreign, control abor s they were ment, te) of and Secretary other ex would knocked out shut off and the reilr tailed fields. were | nty walk- nearby sources of supply ad shopmen’s strike cur- shipments trom more remote United States government. CHICAGO POLICE ENMESHED IN BIG Must Be Defeated. What the Somerset-Westmoreland- | Fayeite-Green county miners did in| 1922 must be repeated if the United | Mine Workers are to win the e.g | national strike. Unfortunately bad feeling was left in the four-county re- gion by the results of the Cleveland conference of 1922 which ignored the men who had saved ihe rest of the Worth While union. ‘The new members were left to con- More than -400 subpoenses; nating 18" IT vag 2 str@gle by themselves ex- | Patrolmen, police officers, the elite and | cept for the finantial assistance which |the humble of Chicago’s bootleggerie, District 2 continued in Somerset to'and scores of laymen in that gentle |Stealing Renanes Is Not Starving and Persecuted Peasants Pent BOOZE SCANDAL a - the end and the national union gave the coke field workers of Fayette county for a more limited period. And these local strikes were mevitably broken by the coal which the struck companies were getting from their own mines in other districts. Open shop ruled again. Breach Healed. The bad feeling which was left be- hind has eased somewhat with the passing of four years and the hope of another joint walkout next April 1— if the union issues the call—is bright- er again. ‘It is a fifty-fifty need. The national union cannot win without fhe non- mion fields and the men from there cannot recover their wage cuts and regain civil rights in their company towns without the industrial solidar- ity of the rest of the miners of the nation. No local strikes against their powerful employers can succeed. The Westmoreland county men found that out in the 2-year strike of 1911. The Somerset men discovered it in their fruitless continuation of the 1922 strike into 1922. Rockefeller’s scores of Consolidation mines in West Vir- ginia, old Virginia, Maryland and Kentucky can easily take care of his market needs while the Somerset men are striking alone. And U. S. Steel tan feed its furnaces with West Vir- ginia coke if its mines and ovens of Fayette county alone are tied up. But when ali the miners stand to- gether not all the gunmen at the dis- posal of these big corporations—there were 2,000 in these 4 counties alone— can break the strike, That also was shéwn in 1922 when new and old un- fon men stood together without a break in,the five months’ common fight. business of getting the alcoholic kick from the hip to the lp, were placed in the hands of federal officers here today as gangland scurried to cover before the approaching probe of the city’s alleged crime and liquor syn- dicates. Wednesday, the federal grand jury | will begin its hearing here of evidence of alleged widespread police and of- ficial corruption which, it is charged, has permitted this section to remain a dripping oasis in the nation’s alleged aridity. All the 400 subpoenaed today and probably many more will be sum- moned before the investigators to bolster up federal investigators’ charges of police guards for liquor caravans, pay-off systems whereby patrolmen and police officers alike were enriched by giving “passes” to truckloads of booze thru their terri- tories, and a general fraternizing of police and bootleggers for mutual benefit. A check-up pf booze seizures in the city, according to the investigators, who have been working secretly here for months, shows that more than 1,000 confiscations hgve resulted only in the Mquor being turned back to the bootleggers. Another wholesale batth of indict- ments similar to the 79 handed down against Cicero gangsters and public officials a week ago, hovered over the Chicago city police department today as federal authorities launched their probe into the department's alleged bootlegging activities. Between 50 and 100 policemen, de- tectives and politicians will be hit by the federal grand jury probe schedul- ed to start Wednesday, government officials predicted today, For Militant Trade Unionism Workers Win Strikes: Organize I enclose §..... KEEP THE DAILY WORKER -For a Labor Party—To Help eign-Born—To Batablish a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government! Unorganized—To Protect For- THE QUEEN OF ROUMANIA GETS $9,000 SUIT FREE Meanwhile Roumanian Kids Are Starving NEW YORK, Oct, 12.—Uncle Sam, who is synonomous with the United States of America, presented Queen Marie of starving and suffering Rou- mania with a perfectly good $5,000 worth of luxury on the palatial steam- ship Leviathan’ which leaves Cher- bourg today bound for New York, There is notihng immorabin this ac- tion of Uncle Sam’s, according to in- siders, tho ‘big butter and egg men, who wish to renrain on good terms with their wives usually keep clear of the Queen of Rottmania except when she is traveling incog, Sam Took a Chance. But Uncle Sam is a@ daring urchin and does not care what Mrs. Grundy says or thinks. Hence the big splash. There are people in this big city who are dirty enough to say that, what Uncle is buying with his $5,000 Here is a picture taken of Queen Marle of Roumanla Just prior to her departure for the United States on her well-planned tour of babbit-balting. Next to her sits Roumania’s king, Ferdinand. Powerful capitalist Interests, the wheat lands and oil fields of the 's. | country, both sources of huge profit to the owners. The Roumanian govern- under the whip hand of Its most powerful brothers, has become notorlous for the terror it has conducted among the l working pathtetln: Peasants are starving for lack of ‘food and the necee-|4°ubt but American republicans and | sitles of life, and thousands of workers | Jail or massacred for their protests against these intolerable conditions. is the queen of a country that ns being given an official welcome by the bankers, the Bratlanu and peasants have been threwn into It is not the queen’s good will, but an in- terest in Roumanian oil wells for John D. Rockefeller. Those same péople hitch up the fact of Roumania’s theft of Bessar- abia from: the Soviet Union with the fact of the United States’ non-recog- nition of the Soviet Union, and with such @ pulchritudinous person 4s Marie thrown in, it is quite possible that even Coolidge may be affected. There are no afrangements made so far to give the queen a free re- turn trip but Marie is not worrying about that little thing as there is no democrats of easy fortune will be only too glad to do the right thing by Marie. In the meantime Roumanian Peasant children are starving, but what should a queen care? i Uphotaiienis’ Strike at Hartford Winning; Young Workers Active HARTFORD, Conn., Oct, 12— The strike of the Upholsterers’ Union Local 35 is progressing favorably for the strikers. More workers from the |Dworkin shop joined the strikers, | During the next few days all the rest of the Dworkin workers are ex- |Dected to join and make the walkout 100 per cent. The spirit of the strikers is shown by full attendance at strike meetings jand .work on the picket line. Many | good meetings have been held. Local Labor Backs Strike, The strikers were addressed by the | President of the Central Labor Union, the president of the Machinists’ Union and a representative of the Young Workers League. The meeting was | enthusiastic to the point of an ovation when eight Dworkin factory workers came in and joined the strike. Hymie Wolfson, organizer of the Upholsterers’ International Union, an- nounced that a contract had been signed with the Goldman Brothers, winning for the workers nearly all demands, a 44-hour week instead of 49, an increase of wages, recognition of the union and other demands, Bosses Under Pressure, Wolfson is confident that the strike will be won. The manufacturers can- not hold out long, as they are getting orders from firms who have contracts with them and must fill them or break the contraet under penalty, The president of the Central Labor Union said that organized labor of Hartford will back the strikers finan- cially and morally. Morris Wolberg, the yoithful presi- dent of the Upholsterers’ Union, is very busy organizing the struggle of the inexperienced but ‘militant young workers. Old trade unionists are quite surprised at the militancy of the work- ers, Brother Fishman, one of the first to start organization of the union, is on the job day and night, This union, composed of 80 per cent young workers, is a g0od example for the workers of Hartford. GIRL WHO SUBBED. FOR AIMEE NOW “COMING CLEAN” Evangelist Might Have Been More Careful LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12.—When court reopens Wednesday morning, Mrs, Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff, wit- ness for the prosecution, will continue her astounding narrative of how Mrs. McPherson hired and coached her to declare publicly that it was she and her sister, “Miss X,” and not the Angelus Temple pastor, who spent ten days with Kenneth G, Ormiston in a Carmel-by-the-Sea gottage. The former Angelus Temple jo man in an affi- davit sent from Chicago, admitted he lived ten days~ Carmel with a woman identified» only as “Miss X” Yollowing the ydisappearance of Mrs. McPherson, his former employer, at Ocoan iets { ZERO IS COMING TO CHICAGO TO HELP OUR DAILY He Is Funnier Than a Pair of Sidewhiskers Meet Mr. Zero, the champion robot of the world! Mr, Zero is the otitet actor in “The Adding Machine” considered by many dramatic critics one of the best plays that ever saw the footlights in Chi- cago. The Studio Players, with headquar- ters at 826 North Clark street, are presenting the play for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER and the dat is set for October 24th, 7 p. m. in Douglas Park Auditorium, This fellow Zero is like so many people we could name that those with sensitive natures may feel ill at ease but the hall will be plunged in dark- ness and blushes can be enjoyed un- seen, Bookkeepers Are O, K. That Zero should happen to be a bookkeeper is no reflection on that exceedingly useful category. It just happened that way. He might be an editor and be just as dumb. However we cannot conceive of an editor work- ing 20 years without asking for a raise. In fact we cannot conceive of an editor working at all, ‘But this is getting us nowhere. When Zero asked for the raise he got it. Had Zero a hip flask it would have got smashed. In other words the boss told him that an adding ma- chine would take his place. There- fore Mr. Zero forgot for a moment that he was a bookkeeper and in man fashion slaughtered his boss, perhaps with a fountain pen that could do everything but write. Soup and Toastmpsters. (Read the next Installment of this intriguing story in tne next Issue of The DAILY WORKER. Zero goes to heaven and by this time the author is so tired of him that he sends him to hell. There he shall rest until to- morrow. In the meantime get your tickets early and avoid the rush. We might say that after the play, there will be eating and much listening te Willlam F. Dunne, introducing some of the funniest characters you ever heard drink soup, in Dunne’s inimit- able way—not the soup.) Government Loses. in Suit Over Dye Patents WASHINGTON, Oct. 11—The gov- ernment today lost one of its biggest war-time sults when the supreme court held the Chemical Foundation, Inc,, should retain control of valuable German chemical dye patents, seized by the alien property custodian during the world war, The patents were sold to the Chem- jeal Foundation and trensferred by it to Amerigan dye manufacturers, Many Quakes in Japan, TOKIO, Oct, 12.—During the last three years Japan has bad an aver- age of more than 17 earthquakes a day, according to statistics compiled by the central meteroldgical observ- tory. Since Septembey, 1923, there vo been 18,630. seismic tremors. lost of the tremors have been im Queen Marie’s Country Is.a Land of A. F. of L. Backs Passaic Textile Strike (Continued from page 1) convention to devise ways and nfeans for raising relief funds immediately. This carried unanimously in spite of efforts by Secretary Matthew Woll of the resolutions committee to side- track it. The meeting of the officials is being held as this is being written. Collection, Third—On motion by Delegate Wil- liam Kohn, Upholsterers’ union, the delegates were called on to contri- bute to an immediate collection that was taken’ on the spot and amounted to $875.50, which is an average of about $2 per delegate. The convention was swept by an almost unanimous desire to immedi- ately aid the passaic strikers, in every Possible way, in order to win the Pas- saic strike, which is considered a crucial testing of the whole Ameri- can labor movement. The reoslutions committee bunched the Passaic and Willimantic strike resolutions offered by the delegation of the United Textile Workers’ unien, referring them both to the executive council with the authorization that an appeal for financial aid be issued to affiliated organizations, This takes a month to get results. ‘Conboy Seconds Wise. Sarah Conboy, Secy. of the United Textile Workers, got the floor and ap- Proved of the committee report, de- claring there was not much to add to what Rabbi Wise had said yesterday. Delegate Chauncey Weaver, Musi- cians’ union, then denounced the cap- italist press for its treatment of the strike, followed by Delegate Arthur McDonnell, also of the United Textile Workers’ union, who exposed condi- tions in the industry and urged upon the delegates that they bring the mat: ter of relief before their respective organizations. Hayes Stresses Emergency, It was there that the Passaic spirit stepped into the convention arena, in the person of Delegate Max Hayes, Typographical Union, declaring, “You cannot merely pass resolutions here and then trust to god to get results. We are confronted here with an emergency proposition. The relief stores in Passaic must be closed im- mediately unless funds are secured now, today to keep them open.” Delegate Hayes brought up the ques- tion of raising a loan immediately in support of the strike. He also sug- gested that a dozen or two interna- tional unions come across immediately with $1,000 apiece. He recalled that a loan had been made to an interna- tional union in the throes of a strike establishing a precedent for action now. ' Urges Loan, “That loan made it possible for the international union I refer to, to for- ward and win a splendid victory,” sai¢ Hayes. “We can do it again. We must find some immediate relief, now, here today,” he repeated. “Every dime, nickel or penny will help.” Hayes finished and sat down without making any definite motion. Tells of $1,000 Gift. Delegate Christian M. Madsen, Painters’ Union, told of his local union contributing $1,000 in aid of the British miners’ strike, and also asked the convention to help as quickly as Possible, but still no definite motion calling for action. Next came Delegate Charles E. Wills, Machinists’ Union, who said that the discussion had helped clarify the atmosphere show- ing the American Federation of Labor definitely behind the struggle and that this would help get financtal aid, he claimed, but no motion. Then the ice began to break when Delegate James C, Shenessy, Barbers’ Union, with a few words of fntroduction pledged $1,000 for his union. Delegate Jacob Goldstone, muddied the water a little by a left handed attack against the Communist leadership of the strike, declaring however, that, “We must not now question how the strike has been taken care of up to the present time.” Immediate Action, He said that if the strike is not won {it will be a blow at the present A. F. of L, leadership of the struggle. Tt was then that Delegate Weber, Musicians’ Union, got the floor and amended the report of the resolutions committee, He demanded that Presi- dent Green call an immediate meeting of the national and international of- ficials for the purpose of considering means thru which immediate relief can be secured. Woll Objects, Secretary Woll for the resolutions committee immediately got the floor pointing out that this was the second strike relief appeal issued by the con- vention, He referred to the appeal for the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union issued last week. He raised the cry of discrimination against the I. L. W. U., altho his very evident intent was not to ald the I. L. G. W. U., but to smash Weber's amendment. Delogate James Lynch, member of resolutions committee, came nuit, de- claring that the injection of the Weber amendment might kill the com- mittee’s report. He therefore asked that the question be divided... Presi- dent Green promised that this, would be done, Delegate Asleep, wy Delegate James W, Fitspa: Waterbury, Conn., who was pe ep while all this was got: so! got the floor and wanted wo formed as to the status of the tion before the gathering. This gave Secretary Woll another opportunity to arouse the prejudice of the delegates. “This strike has not been, until very recently, conducted by the American Federation of Labor,” said Woll. “This strike has been run by the Communist Party.” Woll then declared that the strike had just come under the banner of the A. F. of L. thru the United Textile Workers’ Union, and that this was the | first opportunity that the A. F. of L. had to take up the question and issue an appeal for financial assistarce. Woll Maneuvers. Woll went out of his way to declare that Delegate Hayes had’ raised the question of immediate assistance, claiming the committee was ignorant of any emergency. situation existing. Woll fried to create the impression that he was working jin harmony with the textile workers’ delegation in the convention while Hayes was working at counter-purposes under some out- side influence, . Conboy Spikes Woll. Delegate Conboy of the textile work- ers helped spike this new maneuver by Woll thru announcing that she was aware of the dire need of the Passaic strikers, that one of the strike of- ficials, Ellen Dawson, was sitting at the table with the textile workers’ del- egation, and that she had all the in- formation concerning the acute suf- fering of the men, womgn and chil- dren in Passaic. _This was another re- buff for the Woll spokesmanship for the resolutions committee. Right here Delegate Kohn, uphol- sterers, came to the front with his de- mand that a collection be taken up, supported by Delegates Joseph A. Mullaney,’ asbestos workers, and J. W. Mara, moulders. Take Vote, With Delegate Mara on the floor, President Green announced the vote would be taken on the committee re- port. This was done and the report, without Woll’s adopted. President Green then called on Del- egate Weber to explain hie proposi- tion before it was voted on, “It doesn’t matter whether this strike was under Communist leader- ship or not,” declared Weber. “The strikers are looking to the American labor movement for aid. There is an emergency situation at this time and my amendment seeks to provide for this emergency.” Delegate Weber’s amendment was thereupon carried unanimously. Then came the Kohn proposition for a col- lection, Delegate Mara was allowed to reopen discussion on this proposi- tion. He said he thanked Delegate Hayes for stirring up the convention on this question of Passaic, $5 Each Asked. “Every delegate here should con- ribute, not $1 apiece, but something adequate to the occasion, You should nake it $5 apiece. We have taken in oath to help our fellow trade wnion- ists in distress. The relief stores are closing up in Passaic for want of cash. They need money to buy supplies.” The collection proposition also car- ried unanimously and Delegates Fred Hewitt, atachinists, Hayes, Weber and Conboy, assisted by women delegates and visitors, passed the hat, resulting in nearly a thousand dollars being Window Washers’ Strike Settled, Win Guarantee Settlement of the strike of the Chi- cago Window Washers’ Union, Local 40, was reached Tuesday morning. Members of the union, more than 400 of them, had been out since October 4. The settlement was in the form of a compromise, it is reported, the union gaining its demand of a weekly guar- antee of 40 hours work, but accept- ing the old scale of $1.00 an hour. The workers had asked for an increase of 26 cents. More than 20 Chicago window cjean- ing companies were affected by the strike, Attempts to break the strike by ef- forts to intimidate the strikers were made by the bosses,*who used slug- gers and police against the workers. Two members of the union were ar- rested, but were released when no charges could be iba ng against them. The union also won pay for holidays and several other provisions making for better conditions. One of the pro- visions ‘is that the last man to be laid off shall be the “shop steward.” Also a seniority clause is included in the new agreement, providing that the last man hired is the first to be fired, This prevents firing of all old men, and keeping only “young blood.” (This story takes precedence over Qn earlier one ye 8h on page 3 of this issue.) r later additions, was Paris Train Wrecked. PARIS, Oct. 12—One person was killed and 26 injured when the loco- motive of the Paris-Milan express jumped the rails just as the train was entering Gare de Lyon station, strik- ing and overturning two cars of a lo- cal standing on another track, There were no Americans among the injured. Pankhurst Turns Adventist. LONDON, Oct. 12—-Miss Christa- bel Pankhurst, who once led thous- ands in the cause of woman suffrage, is now leading light in the Adventist |movement in Great Britain. ’ 1 ee cane | “ anche raised on the spot. “That'll keep ‘the strikers for a day anyway,” remarked one of the col- lectors, after the cash had been count- ed. Previously Secretary Woll had care- fully explained to the convention its refusal yesterday to endorse at this time the candidacy of “Tammany” Al Smith for the 1928 democratic presi- dential nomination: Woll Lauds Smith, Woll lauded Al Smith, declaring that the resolutions committee is “unanimously of the opinion and judgment that there is no official who has served labor better and the common people as a whole in his ca- pacity as Governor of New York than Governor Alfred E, Smith, and that the committee did not tura him down, “but rather we were not in a posi- tion, and it is improper at this time to consider any presidential candi- date no matter how favorably he might appear to us.” The convention listened to the apology without ac- tion. President Green had also referred to the. disagreement in the trial of Harry M, Daugherty, former attorney general, pointing out his anti-labor record in the railroad shopmen’s strike. He declared there would be no doubt as to Daugherty’s guilt in the eyes of the American people, Bunch Resolutions. The resolutions committee bunched the resolutions demanding a lifting of the ban against immigration and ai- so the re-establishment of the Unit- ed States as an asylum for political refugees. The committee opposed any changes in the immigration laws, declaring the changes proposed would not help workers in this country. Delegate Furuseth, eeaman, told his annual story about ‘the smuggling of Chinese into this country, Delegate Doyle, painters, told of smuggling im- migrants across the Canadian border, while Delegate Edwin H. Manson, Montana Federation of Labor, urged that there was a surplus of labor in this country, and that therefore the immigration bars should he kept up. “Instead of letting down the bars,” said Manson, “let us plug up the holes.” ‘ Delegates Roused, This attack finally resulted in rous- ing delegates Max Zuckerman, cap- makers, and Isidore Nagler, I, L, G. W. U,, the two organizations introduc- ing the resolutions. Zuckerman attacked the committee for confusing the issues raised, while Nagler declared the immigrant work- er had not reduced the standard of, living in this country, but raised it instead, especially in the needle trades. But the committee report carried. " On the question of fighting legisla- tion outlawing foreign born workers, the committee asked for a reaffirma- tion of the stand already taken by previous conventions. Delegate Fur- useth sought to amend the report by declaring against, not only finger- printing and photographing, byt any ather method of identification. Woll was willing to accept the amendment for the. committee, but Delegate Lynch, printers, member of the com- mittee refused, altho he did not give any reasons, The original committee report was approved. Cloakmakers Aid Conference Called (Continued*trom page 1) goods Here, were branded as false by the joint board Tuesday. It is charged that the Forward printed, the charges in an effort to discredit the administration of the garment workers’ unions, An indignation meeting was held by orkers in one of the shops cited by the paper as producing New York goods Monday, and resolutions were passed condemning the statements of the Forward as false. Send $8,000. So far the Chicago workers have sent $8,000 to the New York strik-. ers, it is announced, and money is being sent each week, It is felt that other trades will ald, as the strike has been endorsed by the Detroit A... F, of L. convention, ‘The joint board of the Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Unions of Chicago has announced an increase in wages for all members of the garment unions, ranging from §2 to $15 a week. The increases go into effect Qotober: 18, it is announced, The increases are designed to place the Chicago needleworkers on the same scale they had in 1921, accord- ing to the board, Flood of Illinois River Sets New High Mark at Beardstown BEARDSTOWN, Ii I, Oct. 12.—«& new record for all time was set by the Illinois River at Beardstown early to- day when it reached a stage of 25.87 feet. The noarest to this mark ever recordéa is 25.86 feet. Only 28 homes in this city remain clear of the fi waters, Generous response of Illinois to ap- peals for. food and clothing has lett “—~ the relief workers with sufficient sup- plies for the present, it was an- nounced, and no more is now needed tom'e, time, sev IN A BUBL Lamune: | us