The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government oJ Vol. Ill. No. 233. %, 244.0 Rates: berrery By T. J. O'FLAHERTY HE resourcefulness of Chicago's bootleggers has been written with lead on the anatomies of more people than would fill. a goodly graveyard. But- never did they display their in- genuity to better advantage than in the selection of the scene of the lat- est killing, when two bootleggers fell to risémo, more before a hail of ma- chine gun bullets that severely wound- ed three others. * * @ N the struggle for control of Chi- cago’s booziest pickings, a Cicero gang, angry because their north side competitors were nosing in on their territory, hired a machine gun nest right opposite a cathedral and right next to a florist shop. The papers do not say that there was am undertaking shop in the vicinity’ This oversight, if such it was, should be blamed on the morticians rather than on the bootleggers. I cannot think of a bet- ter location for a live funeral parlor than the immediate vicinity of a bat- tlefield. » ee F this is not: civilized. warfare we would like to know what ft is. The church was handy, and so were the flowers. There was one little flaw in the arrangements, however, and a de- partment of justice agent was mighty wroth over it. The gangsters double- crossed the agents. Instead of com- mitting the murder where they had promised, and where the detectives wore waiting with photographers and press statements, the gangsters pulled off the deed in another part of the city, leaving the D. O. J. men with nothing except a rusty alibi. enn oe IRAZIER JELKH, a big oleomarga- rine man, purchased the Vander- bilt box at the Metropolitan opera house in New York. It-cost the big grease man $165,000, but what is that in a rich country like this? From shirt sleeves to Palm Beach, this is the path of American democracy, The average dumbbell will say that the big butter substitute man is worth | every nickle he has, Nevertheless, it is not. pleasant to think that a triple-pat ed plute can afford to pay 89 much money to hear a tri workers haven't the price of a movie. eres = I were the Queen of Roumania I would soft pedal on the publicity. One of these days she-may realize that there are still a few people left in the United States. who have not adopted monarchism in lteu of repub- lcanism. A few years ago, during a strike of cooks and stewards on the White Star line, a precocious pub- icity agent thought it would be good to have the word go-round ‘that dukes, lords, barons, duchesses and scores of “ladies” were scabbing on the strikers. It was good news, in fact 80 effective was the publicity that a small afmy of union men and women mot the ship at the pier with appro- priate signs and placards calling at- tention to the aristocratic scabs. The jatter had to stay on board ship dur- . ing the night. Let us hope this fate will not be meted out to the hand- some queen. eee OWEVER, we are not losing any sleep over the possibilities. Once upon a time the students of Trinity College, Dublin, got boisterous and decided to murder a few professors. Much to the delight of everybody @x- cept the professors, the students pro- ceeded with their charges to the place of punishment. A student gaz- ing thru a window saw his pet aver- sion being led like a sheep to the slaughter. “Don’t hang him to the Jamppost,” he shouted. And that's Just what was done, except that the professor was down before he had a decent chance to die. Oo : re RBAT progress in commercial avia- tion is noted \n the Soviet Union by capitalist reporters, of air lines radiating from Moscow Pp O, Sank Pet, % » CE Union, \e- , while thousands pa oatlell 9 o s Outside Chicago, Bkus ALITY TO WALKER N. Y. Labor Rallies to Garment Strikers (Speciat to The Daily Worker) NEW ¥ORK CITY, Oct, 18.—Rep-) resentatives of 800,000 New York trades unionists and thousands of workers in the needle trades and others sympathetic to the 40,000 strik- ing cloakmakers will march to the City Hall at 1 p., m, Saturday to pro- test to Mayor Walker wholesale ar- rests of cloak pickets and “other po- lice brutalities,” the emergency labor! conference formed last Friday an-) nounced yesterday, | ranged becauge appeals to Police Com- missioner McLaughlin and other po- lice heads have proved futile. Thank A, F, of L. For Support. The emergency labor conference, which has established headquarters at | 130 East 25th Street, yesterday tele- graphed President William Green of | the American Federation of Labor its | gratitude over the federation’s geci- sion at the Detroit convention to give | prompt financial aid to the striking | cloakmakers and help them combat! the injunction issued against them. ! For the 800,000 union men of Greater New York, the emergency conference promised to carry out immediately the | A. F. of L, call for financial support. | John Sullivan, prMident of the New York State Federation of Labor, who wired his support against the injunc- tion, was invited telegraphically to ac- cept the post. of honorary chairman | of the emergency labor conference to) which he had been unanimously elect- | jed at a conference last Friday night! jat. 3 Westyl6th street at which 183 |labor union officials were present. | Capmakers Lead Way. | Among the first labor organizations ' to respond to the emergency appeal | for funds and to fight the injunction | ig the Joint Council of the Capmakers’ | representing. seven locals. It ‘day, at 6 p. East Fifth street, of its entire mem-| bership, Magistrate Corrigan, in Jefferson Market court, discharged scores of | cloak strikers charged with picket-| ing. In a few cases he suspended | sentence or fined the defendants $1 each. In contrast to fines paid by the union of several hundred dollars a day last ‘week, the total fines paid yesterday reached $44. About 100 men and women were arraigned before Corrigan, a number of cases having been postponed from last week. Wire Convention. The telegram. sent to William Green, president. of the American Federation of Labor yesterday, read: “The emergency labor conference to help the striking cloakmakers and combat injunctions held on October 8 with 183 delegates representing 800,- 000 organized workers of the city of Uew York was greatly encouraged and | enthused by the resolution adopted | by American Federation of Labor con- | vention pledging full support to strik- ing cloakmakers and calling upon la- bor organizations to extend them moral and financial assistance. | “The conference unanimously de-| cided to extend heartfelt fraternal | greetings to officers and delegates of | the American Federation of Labor in | jcoovention assembled, and pledged th organizations represented in this con: ference to respond wholeheartedly to the appeal of ‘the Federation, . | “The conference also decided to| bring to the attention of the conven- tion drastic injunctions sought against | workers of the I. R. T. of New York which would’ prevent organizing of workers aiming to bring them into A. network | the foldvof locals of the A. F. of L. “Kindly convey greetings and thanks connects the capital with every part of conferénce to the 44th annual con- of Europe and Asia. This does not |Vention of American Federation of Jook as if the workers could not make |@bor—(Signed) M. Feinstone, chair- a go of the job of running one-sixth |man; J. M, Budish, secretary.” of the earth. Ten years from now the dynamic energy turned loose by the Russian revolution will be the surprise of modern ¢imes, What has been accomplished to date, despite tre- mendous obstacles, has forced the cap- italist powers to give up their ambi- ton to crush the workers’ government, eee MAKE-BELIEVE investigation of K. K, K. activities has started in Indiana, What can you expect from an investigation where the parties in- yolved in the charges do the investi- gating? A former klux official de- clares that 90 per cent of Hooster of- ficials were members of the hooded order, Also 99 per cent of eligible business men. This means business men who were not catholics, Negroes ot Jows. Mt is not an easy task to reason with people that are #0 befud- (led that they swallow the tmbecili- ‘NEWYORK PLANS GREAT ANTI-FASGIST MEETING TAMMANY HALL, SUNDAY (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—A great antifascist demonstration and pro- test meeting in defense of political exiles in America will be held in New York Sunday, October 17, at Tammany Hall, Fourteenth street and Third avenue. Preparations are being made to make this meeting one of the greatest demonstrations ever held in New York City, Speakers will be Elizabeth Flynn, Bor: Gitlow, Albert Weisbord, Nor- man Thomas, Roger Baldwin, Enea Sormenti, ‘Tresca, Bellanca and Al: lengrae In Chicago, by mall, $8.00 per year. The demonstration has been ar-| § by mail, $6.00 per year, <B>” The A. F, of L. Indorses Citizens’ Military Training Camps na Be ( i > May Call Slash Committee Again ames A.Reep it is reported that Senator Reed, chairman of the senate slush fund committee that Investigated the elee- tions in Pennsylvania and Illinois, Is intending to calj his body together again to look into the sensational re- velations being made with regard to Indiana politics, The Queen of Terror Land Turn to the back page of this le sue for full information about the White Terror ruled Roumania from which hails Queen Marie, now feted by American capitalism. STEPHENSON 1S SPRUNG ON JURY ~ UNEXPECTEDLY Surprise Move Takes Counsel Unawares (Special to The Dally Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 13. — D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Indiana kian and the pivot of the current graft scandal, went before y grand jury today In surprise by Prosecutor Remy which toak’ tré. breath” away from counsel for Stephenson. The court order. directing that the | former klan Jeader be brought before the grand jury,;set tomorrow after- noon as the time of his appearance. At 3 a. m. today, however, Steph- enson was taken out of the state peni- tentiary at Michigan City where he is serving & life sentence for the mur- der of Madge Qberholtzer. Heavy Guard. Accompanied by eigirtt guards, who travelled in two automobiles, he was rushed here and taken into the county jail by the back door. This morning he was led thro a tuntiel to the county building and placed «in an anteroom outside the grand jury room, where he was guarded by 12 policemen. : Stephenson was before the grand jury for one hour and a quarter and then was taken back to the county jail. Hides His Face. When he left the grand jury room, his coat collar was turned up and he made every effort to hide his face. A (Continued on page 2.) Now We Are Moving Forward in Spirit of Victory to Keep the Daily Worker ~ By C, E. RUTHENBERG General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party. The party and the sympathizers with its cause have at last awakened to the danger in which The DAILY WORKER finds Itse!f and are going the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund, which will end this danger, The contributions to the Keep The Fund are reaching The DAILY WOR creasing volume. To date the fund stands as follows: Received to October 9 ..... Received October 11 (Monday) Received October 12 (Tuesday). The contributions Monday and Tuesday are nearly 60% as great as for the whole four weeks’ period prior to those days during which the Keep The DAILY WORKER campaign has been under way. If this apirit of work is kept up, if the volume of con- tributions continues to Increase as it has during the last five da) The ‘DAILY WORKER will difficulties which it is facing. Even now, however, only a small part of the party membership is behind the Keep The DAILY WORKER drive) The returne so far indicate that only 25% of the party is working to Keep The DAILY WORKER, The task before the party is to mobilize the whole party organization. A 100% drive by the party organiza~: tion with every party member etdting te eeltect the Keepy The DAILY, WORKER Fund will bring immediately te meet The DAILY WORKER and raiser ni Me : to work to raise reactionary labor DAILY WORKER KER office in im workers’ interests Gangsters’ Lawyer Shot in Beer Feud W. W. O’Brien. Attorney O’Brien was in the line of fire when Capone gang machine-gun bullets laid low “Hymie” Wei. a ri- val beer lord and one of his body | guards. O’Brien and two others were wounded. (Story on page 2.) Earthquakes Reyister Here. Severe earthquake shocks were registered on the University of Chi- cago siesmograph today. The disturb- ance began at 12:15 a. m. and achiev- ed a maximum intensity at 12:40 a. m. The waves continued until 3:15 a. m. Attendants at the university weather bureau estimated the dis- tance to be 4,150 miles from Chicago. the total $50,000 KEEP THE DAILY WORKER FUND. Such a campaign will place The DAILY WORKER in a position to continue Its fight for the. revolutionary movement in this country. The A. F. of L. convention has just been discussing the work of the Communists in the labor movement, The leader attack the Communilets be- cause everything that is hopeful in the American labor movement, everything that is a drive forward in the is the work of the Communists. The activity of the Communists is a thorn in the side of the bureaucrats. They rather continue to sleep and enjoy their fat Jobs than fight for the workers, The DAILY WORKER ie the heart of the forward $5,933.54 it stronger. We can do that WORKER Fund. triumph over the The next mark movement among the workers, It is the voice of this move- ment. We must keep it for this fight. We must bulid by keeping up and extending the sup port which is now developing for the Keep The DAILY is the $10,000 mark which must be reached by Monday, October 18, In order to Keep The the funds needed WORKER DAILY WORKER. Concentrate on the work of seouring the contributions whieh will put the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund at $10,000 next Monday. Mobilize every resource to make the collections necessary. Rush In the remittances, Make the spirit of victory in the campaign to Keep The DAILY WORKER grow. . WE CAN WIN THI® FIGHT AND KEEP THE DAY Vledaets * hd Published Daily except Sunda PUBLISHING GO., 1118 W. + Entered at Setond-class matter Septeniber 31, 1933, at the Post Oflice at Chicago, IMinois, under the Act of March 4, 1879, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1926 by THE DAILY WORKER ashipgton Bivd., Chicago, lil. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents A. F. OF L. PROPOSES TO OUT-D0 workers but to the, American Woll Brings Subject Up. The question of company unions came before the convention in the re- port of the executive and in several resolutions, one of which was brot in by the delegation of the photo-en- gravers’ union, headed by Matthew Woll, secretary of the resolutions committee reporting this subject to the convention. “Company unions are a menace to the trade union movement and to American industry which must be met and overcome,” declared the commit- tee report. . “The employer-controlled unions are compulsory. Compulsory co-op- eration is a contradiction in terms, To deny the right to voluntary organiza- ton is to deny the right to organize. “Class Co-operation the Answer.” “Tt is to the interest of both man- agement and workers that union-man- agement co-operation should be es- |tablished. It is the answer to com- pany unions. “Your committee believes that the time is ripe for American labor to | work progressively for the substitu- tion of union-management co-opers- tion for company unions, to substi- ltute voluntary democratic organiza- controlled company unions or the shop representative plan. Will Require Effort, “To accomplish this will require | continuad effért over a period-of time, and our method of approach must be American labor movement. Soviet recognition was rejected, the lidea of sending a trade union delega- |tion to the Soviet Union was repudi- ated, while a bitter attack was direct- ed against the opposition to the Lewis regime that has developed in the United Mine Workors of America, In the final assault the questions of soviet recognition and the delegation were almost lost sight of in the at- tempted rally in support of the Lewis administration in the miners’ union. Lewis Attacks Foster, President John L..Lewis of the min- ers, himself a member of the resolu- tions committee that was. reporting, in | began his usual incitation of the dele- gates, calling their attention to the fact that William Z..Foster, secretary of the Trade Union: Educational League, had been sitting in the bal- cony all morning. With dramatic gestures and uttiliz- ing the mob-inspiring oratory in which he is an adept, Lewis began pointing to the spot in the baleony where he had last seen Foster, with the dele- gates turning en masse to look in the same direction. But the effort failed in @ rather comical anti-climax. It developed that Foster had moved to the floor of the convention hall for the afternoon fon, with the result that Lewis couldn’t identify him in time to make his harrangue effective, Strong Battery Against Left Wing, Perhaps the strongest battery of speakers in the convention was mus- tered in defense of the administration policies against the left wing. In ad- dition to Lewis, there were John P. Frey, moulders, and James Wilson, pattern makers, both members of the committee on the executive council's report, in addition to the closing speech by President Green. Delegate Tim Healy, stationary fire- men, and Max Hayes, Typographical Union, both spoke in favor of soviet recognition and for the sending of a trade union delegation to Soviet Rus- sia. Their’ arguments were greeted with considerable applause. \the midst of an hysterical argument | COMPANY UNIONS IN EFFICIENCY BY CLASS COLLABORATION PLANS By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The Daily Worker) CONVENTION HALL, Detroit, Mich., Oct. 13.—Forced into a realization of the startling fact that two million workers are to- 4 day organized into the so-called company 4 |, American plan or “open shop” plan the delegates to the American |Federation of ‘Labor here today took action to combat this threat to the trade union movement. Instead of instituting drastic measures, however, to build up the labor unions as Class organizations of the workers, to combat \the capitalist employers, the convention resolution unanimously |adopted pleaded for greater class-collaboration with the exploiter with the expectation that the substitution of the trade unions for the company unions will “be of service not only to the American industry in all the American public in general.” 5 EDS OMAN Re AIS oN unions under the branches and to based upon careful and ectentific study of the situation supported by an aggressive, concentrated and weildil- rected campaign.” Delegate Frey, moulders, led off the attack against the company unions by declaring that one of the policies of the American pian was to employ as few American citizens as possible. Frey Feels Insurance Loss. He then told of the company un- fon in the plant of the General Mo- tors corporation at Flint, Michigan, where $15.60 was taken annually from the workers for insurance features, with $7.80 for welfare program activi- ties, claiming that $1,755,000 was tak- en in all from the workers of this plant thru enforced dues, or what he called the company's check-off sys- tem. “That is not bad financeering,” he commented, “at the same time the General Motors corporation has doub- led its output per man during the last «ix years.” Delegate Furuseth, seamen, told of the conditions imposed by the Take carriers’ association on the Great Lakes, where a skilled seaman has become a curiosity, he said, and |tions of trade unions for employer-| where immigration laws are violated at will, Half Rallways Use Company Unions. Secretary Woll, for the committee, launched into an attack on the com: peny unions, gointing ont that half (Continued on page #) SOVIET UNION OCCUPIES FLOOR OF AMERICAN FEDERATION MEET; LEWIS ATTACKS THE LEFT WING By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL (Special to The Daily Worker) CONVENTION HALL, DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 18, —Lashing | themselves into an unreasoning fit of frenzied fury when the | resolution calling for American recognition of the Union of Soviet | Republics came before the convention here, the administration leaders in the American Federation of Labor utilized the op- porcini direct a triple attack against the left. wing in the But when the time for voting ar rived, with administration forews de manding a standing vote, all opposi- tion had been terrorized into ailence and the committee report carried an- animously, not even one delegate an- nouncing that he abstained from vet- ing. The resolutions demanding soviet recognition were introduced ‘by the delegation of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union, The Gospel According to Matthew, Secretary Woll, reporting for the resolutions committee, offered a lengthy 500-word statement starting out with the recommendation that the American Federation of Labor refuse to change its position.om the question of Soviet recognition, ” It was declared that the federation was not interested in the commercial aspects of the question, agreeing ful- ly, however, with President Coolidge on this question, “No Compromise.” The committees announced that be- tween the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of the Union of Soviet Republics and the American form of government there can be no compro- mise of any kind, declaring, “We re- peat the call to American trade un- fonists to stand true to their faith, to be militant in their defense of the principles of freedom and justice for which our movement stands and upon which our democracy rests its founda- tion walls.” vig The report then takes up the ques tion of the trade union delegation to Soviet Russia as follows: \ Delegation “Unnecessary.” “Finally, we call attehtion to the recent declaration of our exeoutive council in which it was well satd that our movement not only cannot join in any mission to investigate conditions in Russia, but deems any such mission wholly unnecessary, We desire to re- cord our approval,of that declaration and to add im this report the convio- tion that 20 trade unionist should per- (Contimued on page 2)