The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1926, Page 2

IN N.Y. AGAINST Page Two oe THE DAILY«WORKER MIGHTY PROTEST | ROUMANIA TERROR Demonstrate Against the (Queen’s Governmnt | NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—A protest has | risen from workers’ organizations in| every country against the brutal mur-| der of the young Roumanian radical Pavel Tkatchenko. After denying for a long time that Tkatchenko was dead, refusing to let any Bukarest papers state that he was dead, and in- sisting that he had e ped from cap- tivity and mysterious ‘disappeared,” the Roumanian authorities have at} last been compelled to announce shat | Tkatchenko has been shot—shot while attempting to escape, they say. Protest Meet. | York section of the Inter-| The New national Labor Defense has arranged a mass meeting at Union Square next Monday, October 18, at 5:30 to express more fully the indignation and hor- ror which American workers fee] at this latest atrocity of Queen Marie’s government. Pavel T! henko, a native of Bess- student who had been in the ian revolutionary movement years ago. He took part in both revolutions of 1917--and later {ought as a red soldier in the Ukraine. When Bessarabia became part of Roumania according to the so-called “pe settlement,” he was active in organizing the workers in Roumania and, of course, immediately became a target for police persecution. Wholesale Arrests. He was arrested a number of times, served a prison sentence, and finally was taken with various trade union cials in a series of wholesale ar- rests by the secret police. At thetime of these arrests, the workers realized thelr comrades were in grave danger both of torture and of being shot | on the fiotitious charge that they) were trying to escape. And in the case | of Tkatehenko this is exactly what| happened. The cruelties practiced upon him were unbelievably terrible. Finally, half-dead from a broken spine and fearful body bruises, he was taken to Kichinev to be examined, so it was said. He was transported without chains, and immediately it was rumor- ed he had “escaped.” The truth was the authorities shot him and buried} him on the spot. Others’ Fate Doubtful. The fate of other workers arrested with. Tkatchenko still is in doubt. If loud enough protests arise from work- ers of avery country, these others may be spared the terrible fate of Tkatch- enko, Te workers of America have their chance, while Queen Marla is here, to let her and her government know what they think of their reign of terror in Roumania, The persecuted workers and peasants of Roumania look to their fellow workers, espe- cially in powerful America, to help in their bitter struggle by shouting de- nunciations of the oppression in Roumania. A mighty protest meeting next Monday in Union Square will be heard in the smallest Roumanian village and will give fresh courage to the workers in their fight for organization, arabia, active was, Coast wae Sent to Beardstown, III. Two boats and eight men of the United States coast guard were sent to Beardstown, l., today. Action was taken by Capt. J. O. Anderson after word had been received that the flood waters of the stricken city are still at a high mark. Te will be a week and perhaps long- er- before the people of Beardstown will be able to get about the town without the use of boats, it was re ported. Lots of Coal, But Dealers Raise Price ‘ CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 14.—Ac- | cording to reports, coal is piling up in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, in spite of the fact that millions of tons of coal are being shipped to Great Britain to help break the strike. Nevertheless, coal dealers in this city are taking advantage of the situation ~and blaming the British strike for it--to raise the price of coal $1 per ton, They claim that the coal com- panies have incr ed the price from $4 per ton in the mines to $5 per ton, Marines Use Tunney for Recruiting Because, quite by chance, the new champion heavyweight, Gene Tunney, was once a member of the U. S. marines, the war department decorated him with a lleutenant’s stripes. The sergeant for the service. no limits, object is to use him as a recruiting Which shows that war department publicity has MARIE UPSETS PLANS TO SHOW HER PLAINNESS N. Y. Practices Knee Bending for Queen NEW YORK, Oct. 14.— Consterna- on reis today jn New York's boot- icking oJicialdom, as all their pretty plans for the regal welcoming of Marie, queen of Roumania’s worker- baiting government, were upset when “her majesty’.changed her. mind as to the manner in which she“ts to en- ter the city. Mayor Walker, Governor Smith, and President ‘Coolidge had elaborate plans completed, including cannon boomings, whistle tootings, horn blow- ings, flag wavings, hand shakings and knee bendings, which were to take place when the royal “gold digger” was to alight on a tug at quarantine. But Marie, to show her democracy, decided to rffe right up to the pier, instead, @o all the plans had to be changed. Mrs. Astor Is “Servant.” Mrs. Vincent Astor, millionairess is going to get @ real capitalistic thrill by hob-nobbing around with the queen while she is in New York. The Amer- ioan money queen will act as “lady- in-waiting” to. Marie. As further evidence to the queen that republican America is all excit- ed about her coming, Walker has ar- ranged a gigantic street parade for the queen, when she gets off the boat. She will be escorted from the pier to the city hall by mounted policemen, White House emissaries, state and city representatives, besides a liberal sprinkling of army officers and Rou- manian consuls. A large number of secret service men will be provided to guard the queen as she rides to the hall. ee Roumanian Envoy Gives Resignation Over Queen WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Incensed over “interference” ‘with plans for the reception and tour of Queen Marte of Roumania on the part of various American friends of the queen, Radu T Djuvara, Roumanian charge d’af- faires here, has forwarded his resig- nation to the foreign office at Bucha- rest, according to credjted reports in diplomatic circles here today. No con- firmation was obtainable at either the legation or the state department, but the charge’s resignation is understood to have been sent: BiG BROOKLYN ELECTION RALLY On Tuesday evening, October 19, paign rally at the Amalgamated Labor the Workers Party will hold a cam- Temple at 11 Arion Place, Brooklyn. Tho following speakers will address this meeting: CHARLES E. RUTHENBERG, general secretary of the Workers Party. NJAMIN GITLOW, candidate for governor. BERTRAM D. WQLFE, candidate for congress in the 10th district. PASCAL P, COSGROVE. SAMUEL NESIN, candidate for a chairman, ssembly in the 14th district, will be All comrades are urged to come and bring their friends along with them, as this will be the only Brooklyn meeting of the campaign and the only meet- Ing at which Ruthenberg will speak in REMEMBER, OCTOBER 19TH AT " gee PLACE, BROOKLYN. 4 New York, AMALGAMATED LABOR TEMPLE, FIGHT PICKETS JAILED AT THE BWORKIN SHOP Strikers Ignore Court Order to Stop HARTFORD, Conn., October 14.— Right members of the Hartford Up- |holsterers’ Union, Local No. 35, who SUT WORKERS TURN TO LEFT WING, SAYS FOSTER Bureaucrats Afraid to Organize Masses DETROIT, Oct. 14.—Without a single ultra-radical delegate at tho 46th annual convention of the Amer- {ean Federation of Labor, the Reds gathered in a nearby hall Oct, 12 and gave expression to thefr judgment on the state of affairs im the trade union movement in Ameriga, Their spokesman owas William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Educational League and member of the central executive comrffittee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America. He had Heard himself de- nounced that afternoon by the men he paid his respects to in the even- PAPER ATTACK ON CAPITALISM, MARKS LOUD SESSION OF A. F. OF L. (Continued trom page 1) After denouncing the capitalization word of discussion of the proposition.| of prospective earnings, the commit- Denounce Yellow Dog Contract. The yellow dog contract, was de- nounced as & challenge to “Our Amey ican institutions.” It was declared as fully destructive of human liberty as a condition of peonage. “It shackles the workmen’s hands,” says the report. “It prevents him from. voluntary association with his fellow workmen, It prevents him from having a voice in determining the terms of employment and conditions of labor.” “It makes him a yoiceless: human cog in the machinery of industry, it transforms him into a helpless victim, made such so that the employer may establish autocracy in industry.” Ex- cept to “denounce and condemn,” however, it offered no method of fight- ing the “yellow dog” contract. Cites Industrial Development. Again the question of industrial de- velopment in this country came up ing. His presence the federation gallery had been reported to John L. Lewis of the miners, The Workers Are Getting Wise. Foster was in high spirits as he addressed the 600 workers, in McCol- lester hall. “They are afraid of the left wing over at the convention,” he declared, “and they “have reason to be. They are proposing all sorts of schemes to aid the boss in speeding up production, they are fighting with the employer against the worker in- stead of with the worker against the employer. The worker is finding that out and is turning to the left wing. Fear to Organize Masses, “The trade union bureaucrats don’t want to organize the basic industries. That would endanger their soft jobs,” he further charged. “If the semi- skilled and and the unskilled are or- ganized, that will mean new leader- ship and new leaders in the federa- tion. The monopoly of the skilled crafts will go by the board. The great body of American workers will then have an inning and these labor fakers will get fired.” Trade Union Capitalism, Foster sketched the downward trend, as he termed it, of American trade unionism since the war, point- ing particularly to the transportation and mining industries, and denounc- ing schemes of co-operating with the boss like the B. & O. plan, schemes of what he galled labor capitalism “like banking, insurance and investment companies He urged organizing the jare now on strike, were arrested for |picketing the B. Dworkin shop, In |Spite of the injunction that was ‘taken jout by Dworkin on Sunday, October 10, 1926, the workers went out on the | Picket line as before. After awhile the constable, who was called up by Mr. Dworkin, came and arrésted Abraham Rosenthal, Morris Jacknis; Louis Nordkin; Ralph Mit- tica, Louis Nirenstein, Joseph Gold- farb, Abraham Gilden and Louis Bernstein. When the union lawyer came over to the police ‘station to take out the strikers it was impossible for him to find out who the officers were that were responsible for this arrest, At the strike meeting the jailed strikers who were taken out by the lawyer without bail were cheered by all the strikers and took their places as honorary members at this meeting. These young workers, who never had any experience with strikes, police, or injunctions seemed to take all these things as good old time union mem- bers should. CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continue from Page 1) admitted to the country as ‘unofficial observers.’ e “Allowing the Russians to enter would necessitate issuance of visas to them nevertheless, as passports would necessarily be issued, and the state department will officially wel- come the visiting delegates. Officials admit they would be-at a loss how to recelve Russian delegates.” bette 12 pblane! papers are trying to mini- mize the seriousness of the indus- trial crisis, The papers are owned by the big capitalists. But the situation is serlous/ just the same. Factories are closing down, either because they cannot get coal at any price, or they have to pay too much for it. On the beach at Buckhaven, Fifeshire, the shore is sometimes littered with sea- coal. So scarce is this fuel that deal- ers with lorries appear on the beach and attempt to haul away the coal, |The miners and their sympathizers, however, could not see things this | way, so when the lorries got on the strand, the miners got busy and dug ditches around the vehicles, with what results you can imagine, A. F. of L. Delegate Graduates as Lawyer RALBIGH, N, ©., Oct, 14.—While at- tending the A, F, of L. convention in Detroit as a delegate, C, P, Barringer, president of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor, received notice that he had been granted a iloense to basic industries, forming a class labor party, making the unions democratic and free from corruption and agita- tion for the recogniti#m of the Soviet Union. Baldwin More Progressive Than Green. He wound up by calling the Brit- ish tory premier, Stanley Baldwin, more progressive and more imbued with trade union spirit, than Presi- dent William Green of the A; F. of L. ZERO GOES 10 HELL TO SAVE DAILY WORKER Play, Bian & Dance Attracting Attention Demands for tickets for the Octobér 24th play, banquet and dance to be given under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party to help The DAILY WORKER, are pouring in to the headquarters of District 8 at 19 S. Lincoln St. according to Arne Swabeck, district organizer. “The Adding Machine” which will be presented by the Studio Players at Douglas Park Auditorium on Oct. 24, at 4 p. m. will share the attrac- tion with the banquet which will be presided over by William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER and famous after-dinner speaker. After the banquet. which will be on the boards at 7:30 p. m., dancing will be indulged in until a late hour in the morning. He Has His Guts. As some of our readers may know, Zero was a robot bookkeeper who developed enough courage to ask for a raise after twenty years of service. The boss’ reply was that an adding machine rendered his service super- flous. Burning with disappointment, Zero killed hi8 boss and was promptly executed. Zero’s troubles in heaven and in hell keep the audience busy laughing until it is time to eat. | There is an admiésion price of 60 cent for the play and ‘those who wish to stay for the guzzle—and who doesn’t?—will be asked to pay extra, The After-Dinner Speakers, All things considered this banquet promises to be the brightest event in the history of Chicago—considering the limitations, Among those that William F, Dunne is going to call on for remarks at the banquet are: William Z. Foster, Max Shachtman, ©. E. Ruthenberg, Har- tison George, Steve Rubicki, T. J. O'Flaherty, Sam Hammersmark, Jack Johnstone, Thurber Lewis, James P. Cannon, Arne Swebeck and othor well known characters, —_—_——— ‘The size of The DAILY WORKER practice law 18 otate. He passed cranial feo /j depende en you. Send a sub, when Delegate T. W. McCullough was reporting for. the executive council’s report committee, stating that, “mod- ern industrial development has gone forward so rapidly, that even. the clos- est observers are unable to keep fully abreast of it.” The report declares that, “since the dawn of the post-war era we have known such manipulation of enter- prise as makes the high finance of the earlier part of the century appear like the innocent amusement of ama- teurs.” It cites the fact that “thousands of the employes of the various great manufacturing and transportation con- cerns of the country have invested large portions of their savings in these concerns lured on by the speci- ous and attractive promises from! stock promoters or from the manage- ment.” “Employe Ownership Discussed.” Delegate Percy Thomas, commer- cial telegraphers, pointed out that these forms of “employe ownership” were especially prevalent in the com- munication industry,, which he said was capitalized at ten billions of dol- lars. He cited especially the Ameri- can Telegraph and Telephone corpor- ation capitalized at fifteen hundred million dollars and the Western Un- ion Telegraph company capitalized at two hundred million dollars. Dele- gate Thomas pointed out that com- mon and preferred stocks totalling forty-two millions of dollars was list- ed on the New York stock exchange which, if they were ever squeezed well would result in 9 rainfall that has mot been exceeded since the flood.” tee concludes with the sole recom- mendation that “workers wherever situated proceed in their purchases of corporation shares with the same cau- tion and prudence that they would ex- ercise in other investments.” Stands For “Thrift.” The sole desire of the committee in this matter, in its own words, being “not in the remotest sense to dis- credit thrifty among the workers of America.” R Seat Furriers. Delegates Shachtman and Sorkin of the furriers’ union finally arrived in the convention today and were seated thru special report of the credentials committee. 4 It was ordered that the American members of a joint commission of the American and Mexican Federations of Labor be appointed to study Mexican immigration to the United States. This. was being urged especially by California trade unionists, The streetcar men’s union was or- dered to surrender all machinists now affiliated with it to the machinists’ union, Reporting on state compensation legislation the committee declared that' “human flesh and blood are the cheapest commodity in the market,” and, referring to the coal industry, it stated th#t, “in no other country does coal cost so much per ton in human life as in the United States.” Ohio compensation laws were commended to the delegates from other states. Short Appeals for Suzzalo. In response to an appeal by Prest-| dent William M. Short of the Wash- ington Federation of Labor, the conven- tion protested against the discharge of Henry Suzzalo, advocate of the eight-hour law, as president of the Washington State University, to be succeeded by Stephen Miller, educa- tional director of the National Bank- ers’ Association. “This is just another evidence of the stranglehold the employing inter- ests are getting.on our institutions of learning,” declared Delegate Frey, moulders. The convention approved the issu- ing of ® press service for the labor and general press. The A. F. of L. now has several press services. Just what this new effort will be was not revealed. Local labor committees on education were urged as well as com- pulsory school attendance laws. Among the cities most actively try- ing to get next year’s conventions are Birmingham, Ala.; Los Angeles, Cal.; St. Petersburg, Fla., and Sacramento, A. F. of L. Meet Dodges Fertility, whose name had also escaped his memory. Fight on Injunction! waite the delegates burst into (Continued from page 1) other court in an effort to prevent it from enjoining some other party. Delegate Ramsay urged the dele gates_to vote for judges who under- stand the labor movement claiming, “they will not enslave you.” The com- mittee report was adopted. Say Little on Wage Policy. This convention has said very little about “the new wage theory” promul- gated at Atlantic’ City last year. No effort has been made to show that it has brought results. Declarations were adopted endors- ing co-operation between unions and management, providing for the union- management scheme that fs supposed to combat and eliminate company unions. It is declared: “Many ‘open shop’ managements in recognition of the interdependence of process have organized channéls for employe representation and pany unions, which it is alleged e some of the external aspects of trade unions, But they are essentially and fundamentally different in'the poten- tial, spiritual and substantive forces that constitute the differences be- tween merely working together and co-operation.” It i announced that Major Peter J. Brady, president of the Federation Bank in New York City, has been appointed by President Green as the A, F. of L, representative at the American Legion convention in Phila- delphia, It was Major Brady who re- cently escorted President Green and members of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor thru the Plattsburg Camp in New York state, ™ Delegates from Florida warned workers against coming to that state under the present conditions. A “Mild Attack.” The convention yoted concnrrences in the rather mild attack on the Com- munists contained in the exeeitive council's report, Greater activity In collecting funds for the Gompers’ memorial wae urged. Altho Gompers has been dead now almost two years, only $98.50 for his memorial had been col- lected up to August 31, 1926, ac cording to the official financial re- port. When the question of furnishing a room at the building of labor depart- ment of the league of nations at laughter President Green commented on the appropriateness of these two figures. Cloakmakers of Chicago Assess Selves for N. Y. (Continued from page 1.) B, Kirschbaum company, who this week received their scheduled ralse in wages, announced that they had voted to add to their assessment the increase they had received. Their wages were increased from $2 to $5 a week. This announcement was greeted with great applause. The outfitters of the same company. did the same thing last week, when they received their increase. As practically every garment worker in Chicago is scheduled for an increase this week, it is expected that they will all follow the lead of the handsewers, pressers, and outfitters, and donate their increase to the cause of the New York strike. The joint board was instructed at the meeting to wire the New York union greetings from the Chicago workers, expressing their approval of the militancy with which the strike is being conducted, and promising all the financial aid possible, The Second Step, The second step in relief plans’ will be taken on October 24 when a con- ference of representatives of all labor organizations in the city will be held to discuss plans of lining up the en- tire Chicago labor movement behind the strikers. Send In a sub today! N.Y. UNIONS JOIN PROTEST OF STRIKERS Needle Trades Move to Aid Cloakmakers (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Plans are % now being successfully completed, It was announced last night at the of- fices of the Emergency Labor Confer- ence, 130 East 25th Street, for the march to city hall Saturday at noon in which thousands of trade unionists. are expected to participate. The de- monstration will form at Union Square and will proceed downtown to city hall, 2 A committee,.which is expected to consist of John Coughlin, secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council; Morris Sigman, president of the I. L. G. W. U.; Louis Hyman, chairman of the cloakmakers’ general strike committee; J. M, Budish of the Capmakers’ Union, and othe: prominent trade unionists of Greater New York, will appear before Mayor Walker to protest against the whole- sale arrests and other police brutal- ities inflicted wpon striking cloak pickets in the garment zone. Sullivan Accepts. John Sullivan, president of the New York State Federation of Labor, has wired his acceptance of the post of honorary chairman of the Emergency Labor Conference to help the 40,000 striking cloakmakerg and to combat the injunctions obtained by employers against the garment workers and the traction workers, In the interim, a series of meetings and steps to give financial aid to the cloakmakers are being arranged. Needle Trades Act. The Joint Council of Capmakers will hold a mass meeting today to determine the form of financial sup- port to be given the garment work- ers, At the same time, shop chatr- men in the dress industry will meet for the same purpose. The Furriers’ Joint Board will hold a meeting of shop chairmen the same At a meeting of Raincoat Makers, It was decided to tax 1,200 members $1 each per week for me support of cloakmakers for the duration of the strike. This course was adopted at the suggestion of A. Weingart, man- ager of Local 20, Raincoat Makers’ Union. Prior to this decision, another $4,500 had been raised thru a $5 tax of the membership. To Give $10,000, At a meeting of the United Work- men’s Co-operative Association, which runs Camp Nitgedaiget at Beason, N. Y., a resolution was adopted to ap propriate $10,000 for the cloakmakers’ cause. The association was by Ben Gold, manager of brie seme Joint Board who made an impassion- ed appeal for the strikers. The general picket committee of the striking cloakmakers yesterday an- nounced success in stopping non- union work in sfx of the largest shops in the city. The picket committee has been renewing its activity in Bath Beach, Brownsville and East New York with signal success, I. Goretsky, chairman of the committee, an- nounced, Goretsky,*who has been a thorn in the side of the manufactur- ers, has been arrested for “malicious mischief” and has been held in $5,000 bail. THE INGERSOLL FORUM Meets Every Sunday Evening Chamber of Music Hall, Carnegie Hall 154 W. 57th St., New York City Mr. CLEMENT WOOD Lectures October 17th Elght P. M. on “Is There A God” Questions and Speeches from the Floor ADMISSION FREB! Come Early! All Are Welcome HUGE RATIFICATION MEET igie On October 22, the Needle Trades Campaign Committee for the candi- dates of the Workers Party will hold a ratification meeting at Hunt’s Point Palace, 163rd street and Southern Boulevard. This will in the Bronx during the campaign, The following will be the speakers at this meeting: ENJAMIN GITLOW, candidate for governor. ,) BEN GOLD, manager of the Furriers’ Joint Board. be the only meeting JULIET STUART POYN'TZ, candidate for state comptrolier, JOSEPH BORUCHOWITZ, candidate for assembly in the 7th district. MOIS8AYE J. OLGIN, candidate for congress in the 23rd district. CHARLES L. ZIMMERMAN, candidate for assembly, 5th district, HARRY SALZER of the Cap Makers’ Union, ELIAS MARKS, candidate for assembly in the 3rd district, as chairman. This meeting will be of special importance to all members of the needie that] trades and they csould come and bring thelr fellow workers along to hear ‘the candidates of the Workers and the needle trades, REMEMBER, OCTOBER 2ND, LV Ds BM ONN. ovioes saci ite: “ naan re,