The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1926, Page 2

Page Two eee THE DAILY WORKER EMPLOYERS TRY || TO SPLIT PAPER BOX STRIKERS Spread Lies to Bring About Dissension NEW YORK, Oct, 17.—mployers in the paper box indust: esterday took a new tack in their efforts to break down the morale of the 4,009 strik- ing box workers. Anonymous circu- lars were distributed to workers ear- ty in the morning, purporting to come trom dissatisfied union workers and criticizing the leaders for their con- duct of the strike, Charge Disloyaity. The familiar lies resorted to by bosses who have their backs to the wall were spread across the page. The leaders were charged with be- ing in the pay of the bosses, of sell- ing out and of disloyalty to the rank and file of the strikers Manager Fred Caiola and other offi- cials of the union were cheered at a mass meeting of workers when they branded the circulars as a trick of the employers to break the strike. Caio- la declared that one manufacturer on Wooster Street had been seen distri buting these circulars in person. Anthony Capraro, special organizer for the union, praised the officials for their fine work throughout the past 16 months. He maintained that the former corrupt officials of the union had connived with the manufacturers to get out the circulars, Bosses Afraid. Why didn’t those responsible for issuing tly circulars have the nerve em?” shouted Manager “When the union makes ac- tions against anyone our offi als always sign the statement. The S are showing by their tactics that their backs are to the wall. The Wall 4s bound to fall very soon and he bosses will go down with it!” William Pickens, field organizer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, prais- ed the union for admitting Negroes into its Tanks on the same basis as white workers. “The unity of la- bor is better than any consideration of race or language. The owners of your factories hang together, but they want to divide you. Every white man who sets himself against a Negro worker is pl tnto the hands of the bosses. Every black man who sets himself against a white worker js undermining his own chances of advancement.” ‘ tae Mooney Branch of I. L. D. Meets Tues., Workers Are Invited ‘The “Mooney” branch of the I. L. BD. will meet Tuesday evening, Oot? 19, at 3209 W. Roosevelt Road, work- efs of that neighborhood being in- vited. Fred Mann, of the National Executive Committee will give a short talk. Wednesday evening, Oct. 20th) the irving Park Branch will meet at 4021 N. Drake; the Cicero “Interna- tional” branch at Liberty Hall, 14th and 49th Ct., and the Boosters and Organization Committees at 768 W. Van Buren St. Lowden Against Reductions. WASHINGTON, Oct, 17.—Frank 0. Lowden, former governor of Illinois, and possible presidential timber, has announced himself as opposed to a “competitive tariff’ which would lower the standard of prices of manu- factured goods to that of farm goods. He believes the solution is in bring- ing the farm prices up. Hg iON DEA, at VStar taal BOSS’ FRAMEUP IS BOOMERANG, STRIKE GAINS (Special to The Dally Worker) By J. O. BENTALL. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Oct. 17.— The arrest of Richard Ward on a trumped-up charge that he beat Helen Fairbanks, a scab in the Philadelphia Carpet Company shop which is now on strike, is reacting as a boomerang against the bosses of the “struck’’ shop, tk workers in all the other shops taking sides with Ward. Not Even There. Ward was working in the Cochran shop and was not present at the time the scab girl was supposed ta. have been beaten. She assused two girl strikers, as well] as Ward, of hav- ing beaten her, but the girls were working in another shop at the very time when the alleged beating was said to have taken place, Ward is held in $500 bail and the girl strikers are also held for a hear- ing. The story is so thin that the Fair- banks woman, who {fs scabbing in the Philadelphia shop, is now sought by an officer with a warrant for her ar- rest on a charge of perjury, Lies on Age. When she first came as a scab she claimed that she was 21 years old. But in order to make a better im- pression on the court she says the bosses told her to say she is only 16. The bosses are now quite uncertain about the testimony of this weak girl, and if they cannot use her and if she is later brought up for perjury they will desért het and she may land in jail for a year or two. ; The strike is still 100 per cent strong and the picketing is kept up every day, while the bosses find it more expensive to keep up appear- ances. * THEATRE PERFORMANCE for the benefit of The Daily Worker Labor’s Newspaper “The Addin g Machine” Adventures of a White-Collar Slave on Earth—in Heaven—in Hell Performance by THE STUDIO PLAYERS Banquet at 7 P. M. . EXTRA CHARGE Dancing at 9 P. M. for a Jolly and Interesting Ttme for Labor's ENGLISH DAILY DOUGLAS PARK AUDITORIUM 3202 So.. Ogden Avenue Sunday, October 24th, 1926. — Admission a eto . ped mT 50 Cents — CHOOSE! CHICAGO RADIO STATION OBTAINS AF. L, APPROVAL Delegates Return from Detroit Meet By CARL HAESSLER, Federated Press, Delegates to the American Federa- tion of Labor convention, which closed in Detroit, Oct, 14, have re- turned to Chicago. Delegate John Mangan, representing the Chicago \\M LL // ae a VANCED Re Federation of Labor, had his resolu- tion for endorsement of WCFL, the labor-owned and labor-operated Chi- cago radio-station, unanimously car- ried, with instructions to the execu- tive council to further study radio de- velopments and their bearing on la- bor. His resolution to force a straightening out of the snarl be- tween the International Horeshoers’ union and the Chicago local did not pass but it brought about a negotiated agreement. Gets Resolution. Delegate Christian Madsen of the Painters accomplished his purpose also when his resolution to aid in see- ing justice done to a small number of Hindus long resident in this country was referred to the executive council Cleveland Traction Company Head, Who Fought Labor, Dead CLEVELAND, Oot. 17. — John J. Stanley, head of the Cleveland Street Railway company, and well-known in American traction circles, died here last week. Stahley has been known in recent times for the brutal refusal to concede the street railway men a decent wage. Several months ago the street railway men demanded an in- crease in wages, but it was promptly refused by Mr. Stanley. The street car men then proposed that as the street railway company had to get a new charter, the o-called Taylor grant, which granted them the char- ter, should be amended to include a clause providing that the street car men might belong to a union affiliated to the American Federation of Labor. Officials of the Cleveland Federa- tion of Labor and of the street car men, lobbied in the municipal coun- cil, the assurance being given to the delegates of the Cleveland Federation of Labor that the amendment would pass. Just as everywhere, labor’s in- fluence is so great among its “friends” that the amendment was™defeated by a vote of 18 to 6. A few weeks ago it was announced that street car fares in Cleveland will be raised from 6¢ to 7c. But there has been no announcement that the street car men’s wages will be rais- ed. In view of these facts, it is there- fore astonishing to read in the Cleve- land Citizen of October 9, a statement by the street car men that: “We know that many of our members will feel that they have lost a friend.” BUILD THE DAILY WITH A SUB. Passaic--A Challenge to the A. F. o Statement by the Central Committee .of the Workers (Communist) Party im Answer to the Attack on the Com- munists at the A. F. of L. Conven- tion. HE convention of the American Federation of Labor has been in- dulging in its annual attack on the Communists. Because the Communists insist that the trade unions must be militant fighting organizations for the workers’ interests, and criticize the in- activity, compromises, weaknesses and deals with the bosses of the leaders of the A. F, of L., the Communists are denounced as disrupters of the labor movement. The American Federation of Labor, in this convention, has answered its own attack on the Communists, Facts and action speak louder than words, and while the A. F, of L. denounced the Communists in words, in action it was obliged to recognize the work of the Communists in relation to one of the biggest constructive achievements for the American labor movement in recent years, hyp months ago the executive Council of the A..F, of L, sent out |@ statement to the local unions warn- jing them against giving relief funds to the Passaic strike and denouncing the Communists in connection with this strike. At the Detroit conven- tion the A. F. of L, went on record unanimously to, make an appeal for relief for the striking Passaic work- ers, took an immediate collection in their behalf of over a thousand dol- lars, and ordered @ conterence of in- | ternational presidents for the purpose of securing other funds immediately. By this action the American Feder, ation of Labor recognizes the strike at Passale a8 on@ Of the most important, ED American workers, | for active support if it is found not “|to violate the immigration Policy of the federation. Will Broadcast P: io. “We'll tell the whole Chicago area of the need for Passaic relief and so put our labor radio to good labor ‘| use,” declared Charles F. Wills, a ma- chinist delegate and business man- ager of the Chicago Federation News, to the convention at Detroit. While he was uttering those words another labor project was going out over the ether from the municipal Pier broadcasting station WCFL in Chicago. This was the talk on the co-operatively grown and marketed apples of the Wenatchee District Co- operative Association, the selling end of the Washington State Farmers’ Union, The Farmer-Labor exchange of Chicago is handling 150,000,000 ap- ples for the co-operative farmers, each case bearing the farmer’s union trades council. Ohioan Officials Doubt Validity of U. S. Constitution AKRON, Ohio, e 17,—According to the “Rubber Worker,” official organ of the Rubber Workers’ Union of this city, the mayor of a city in Ohio ‘re- cently stated that le did not know “whether the constitution would hold good in the courts today.” According to the Rubber Worker, evidently the question of free speech was under discussion, when this mayor delivered himself of this bit of wisdom. When one considers the various other things transpiring in this town, as for instance, that company police use company ambulances at night to search the homes of the men without a warrant, and are allowed to do this because the company police at the same time have city police authority, then one cannot wonder that those in authority do have doubts as to the constitution of the United States. The size of The DAILY WORE. ER depends on you. Send a sud. It has been compelled to take over and give support to a strike which it has previously denounced. It has been compelled to come to the support of the first great movement in several years of unorganized workers for trade union organization and resist: ance to the attacks of the employers. Who Organized the Passalo. Workers? A. F. of L. is compelled to recog- nize and take up the struggle of the Passaic workers, but at the same time it denounces Communists .as dis- rupters of the labor movement. Will the A. F. of L., now that it has declared that it stands behind the Passaic strike and recognizes its im- portance, tell the American workers who organized the Passaic workers, who aided them in carrying on thelr fight during the past eight months, who organized the movement for re- Nef funds which enabled them to carry on their heroic struggle dur- ing all these months? FT HE A. F. of 1. Kngwe that this con- structive achievement for the American labor movement was carried thru by the initiative and support of the Workers (Communist) Party, It knows that tt was the Communists who came to aid af the bitterly op- pressed Passaic workers when the bosses tried to make their exploita- tion even greater thrn enforcing a wage cut. It was the Communists who aided them to organize thelr strength thru forming # union, It was the Com- munists who aided in fighting their battles on every field. _ when after eight long months of rebuffs and denunciation of the Passaic strikers bythe A, F. of L. the way was found t@ have the Passaic strikers enter the A, F. of L. thru becoming a local of the United Textile Workers’ Union, Communists aided in bolnging this about, The Com: \ T is one full month today since Judge Webster Thayer, in the Norfolk County Court at Dedham, Massachusetts, “took under advise- ment” the demand for a new trial for Nick Sacco and Bartolomeo Vangetti. But still no decision, The American Federation of La- bor has held its convention during the last two weeks in Detroit, Mich., ° and called for an investigation of the activities of the department of justice in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. But no desire was shown to really fight the case and rouse all Amer- ican labor to the doom that threat- ens two courageous workers in the dungeons of New England. These are onimous developments. *_* * The confession of the former de- partment of justice agent Fred J. Weyand, that no one believed Sac- co and Vanzetti guilty, has already been reviewed in these columns. The confession of Lawrence Leth- erman, for 25 years a post office inspector, and for three years lo- cal agent ‘of the department of justice in Massachusetts, supports the startling revelations made pub- lie by Weyand. Letherman says that while he was post office inspector be collabo- rated with the agents of the depart- ment of justice in matters of joint concern, including the Sacco-Van- zetti case. The man under him in direct charge of that case was Wil- liam J. West, who is still attached to the department in Boston. Leth- erman says that before, during and after the trial, Mr. West had a num- ber of “under-cover men” assigned to this case, including Ruzzamenti and Carbone; a number of men as- signed to watch the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, all under-cover men, and one or two of them em- ployed by the some: . * Letherman states that the depart- ment of justice was anxious to get sufficient evidence against Sacco and Vanzetti to deport them, but never succeeded in getting the kind and amount of evidence required. IT WAS THE OPINION OF DEPARTMENT AGENTS HERE THAT CONVICTION OF SACCO AND VANZETTI FOR MURDER WOULD BE ONE WAY OF DISPOSING OF THESE TWO MEN. It was also the general opinion of such of the agents in Boston as Tell-Tale Records Are Shrouded in Secrecy the Sacco-Vanzetti Case By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. mn had any actual knowledge of the Sacco-Vanzetti case, that Sacco and Vanzetti, altho anarchists and agi- tators, were not highway robbers and had nothing to do with the South Braintree crime. Letherman says there is or was a great deal of correspondence on file in the Boston office between Mr. West and Mr. Katzman, the district attorney, and that these letters and documents on file in the Boston office would throw a great deal of light upon the preparation of the Socco-Vanzetti case for trial, and upon the real opinion of the Boston Office of the department of justice as to the guilt of Sacco and Vanzetti of the particular crime with which they were charged. ee per It is pointed out that records still held in secret, and which the pre- sent attorney general, Sargent, in Cooligge'’s cabinet, refuses to. re- veal, will show that the department of justice at no time considered Sacco and Vanzetti guilty of the holdup and murders at South Brain- tree, They will show, however, the ac- tual collusion -between the depart- ment of justice at Washington, un- der the thumb of the New England *mill owner, Senator Butler, and the local prosecutors in Massachusetts who owe their power and tenure in office to the multimillionaire shoe factory and textile mill owners. This is the shoe-and-textile tyran- ny that placed Anthony Bimba on trial for blasphemy and sedition at Brockton, Mass., that refuses per- mission for workers’ meetings prac- tically thruout its entire domain, building every possible bulwark for its class rule against the rising power of the workers. Victory in the Sacco-Vanzetti case for the mill owners, will mean the strengthen- ing of this tyranny. Victory for the workers thru the saving of the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti, will ‘help open the way for the organization of the New England mill workers into trade unions and the strength- ening of the political power of la- bor. The Sacco-Vanzetti case is a crucial struggle for the whole Amer- ican -labor. movement. of * Tomorrow:—Nick Sacco and his lawyer, William G. Thompson, meet Celestino Madeiros, who confessed that he played a part in the South Braintree crime, face to face in the Dedham jail. 3 Die in Crossing Crash. OWATONNA, Minn., Oct. 17-—Two persons are dead, a child is near death with a fractured skull, and three others are suffering from injur- ies, as a result of a Milwaukee pas- senger train striking their car at a grade crossing in the downtown sec-' tion here early today. he dead: Mrs. S. 8, Peters, Pepin, Wis.,, Mrs. William Wendilandt, Owa- tonna. Watch the Saturday Magazine Mmunist even agreed to the sacrifice of Alfred Weisbord, who had for all these months been the leader of the strike, and who had won the con- fidence and loyalty of every striker in Passaic by hig devotion to the cause of the workers, Because the Comunists stood for a united labor movement they exerted all their influence to hav@the Passaic strikers join the A. F, of L. The Com- munists are dor all the workers of the United States organizing in labor unions and uniting their strength in one all-inclusive American Federation of Labor. They are for international unity of the labor movement. They are fighting on every front to bring about such a unity of labor for a mil itant class struggle in the interest of the workers and against the capitalist bosges. A Challenge to the A. F. of L. support of the workers. who gave re- let funds to the Passaic workers, this relief was organized with the aid of the Workers (Communist) Par,| ty. Thru the activities and efforts of the Workers (Communist) Party 10, 000 formerly unorganized have been added to the A. F. of L.' challenge the leaders of the F, of L., who denounce the munists as disrupters, to place similar achievement thru their effort in building the American labor ment~ before the American ‘Their own records show the PF, i : Pardons Rich Murderer. AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 17.—“Ma” Ferguson has pardoned three prison- ers and granted furloughs to . four others, Among them: was a wealthy son of a Dallas mamufacturer, who killed a policeman in a Dallas post- office robbery in 1921, WHARKOV, Ukraine, Oct. 17. — Fourteen counter - revolutionists charged with conspiracy to bring about the restoration of the Grand Duke Nikola{ Nikolaievitch, went to trial here today. launched an aggressive campaign to bring these workers into the A. F, of L.? These workers are waiting for the A. F. of L, to att. The Commun- bring the A. F. of L, more Passaics— they will organize the unorganized, highly exploited workers wherever possible, The Communists, whom the A. F. of L. leaders denounce as the disrupters of the labor movement are showing by facts and action that they are the builders of the labor movement. T the Communists because the Com- insist upon action, upon A. F. of L. leaders “denounce They insist upon policies which zu of L. ie now officially to ii g~ = Hal eeu 'CONBOY PRAISES METHOD USED IN PASSAIC STRIKE Best Conducted She’s Seen, says Leader DETROIT; Oct. 17.— (FP) — “The most splendid piece of organization work I have ever seen.” That's what Sara Conboy, secretary of the United Textile Workers, thinks about the Passaic strike relief work. Mrs, Conboy, in direct touch with the 9-months’ strike for union recog- nition and decent pay since’ the thousands of Passaic textile workers joinedwthe A. F. of 4, is emphatic in her praise of the efficient machine which has furnished the financial sin- ews of war in the long struggle. “We have a man, Wagenknecht,” she added, “who is a financial genius. To him I attribute a large measure of praise for maintaining the spirit of the men and women out on strike, thru keeping up a steady flow of re- lief funds from all parts of the coun- try. “Never have I seen such splendid spirit -after so many weeks and months of privation,” she declared. “It is a triumph of union relief or- ganization.” Favorable Report on Mexican Unions Hidden by A. F.L. Convention (Continued from page 1) tact with the Amsterdam Interna- tional, In view of the fact that the next meeting of the executive council will not meet again until im January, at St. Petersburgh; Florida, great inter- , est centers about what the couneil did not do, rather than what it did at its meeting here. . No steps were taken to carry into effect the demand for an investiga- tion of the struggle between the Mex- ican church and government. This will therefore be delayed for at least three months, This question may al- so have had something to do with the failure to send a delegation to the proposed conference at Mexico City. Such a delegation would of necessity be compelled to report on the Mex- ican religious war. So far as could be learned no action was taken, nor even a report received on the so-called investigation of the recent successful strike of the Fur- riers’ Union in New York City. In a letter mailed several months ago by President William Green to Ben Gold, head of the Joint Board of the New York Furriers’ Union, it was stated that the “investigation” was nearly completed at that time, « There were indications that the executive council would make some recommendations to the convention that has just adjourned here. But no such report was made, The matter did not come before the convention. And now the members of the execu- tive council haye scattered for another three months “without even considering this matter. Similarly with the much advertised organization drive in the automobile industry, this matter was referred by the Metal Trades Department to the A. F. of L. convention, which in turn sent it to the executive council, which in its turn has made no plans for immediate action. f L. Leadership shown’ by the workers thus far. That tMe Passaic “workers will do their part, we know. They have shown thru long months that they can fight, that in spite of sacrifices and suffering demanded of them, they will not accept defeat, The A. F, of L. must not be permit- ted to alter this spirit and compro- mise the struggle. The A. F, of L. bureaucracy is on trial before the American workers. Can it do what the Communists have done at Passaic? Every worker must watch closely the actions of the A. F. of L. bureau- crate in the ‘Passaic situation, The workers must demand the mobiliza- tion of all the resources of the labor movement to win the Passaic strike, workers at Passaic must not Permit any compromise of their interests, Passaic must be a victory for the workers, a victory for the American labor movement. The A. F. of L, may dendunce the Communists, but the Communists will continue their work to build the labor movement, They will continue their work in support of those meas- ures which will win victories for the _ {American workers .in the struggle against the capitalist employers, The answer of the Communists to the denunciation of the A. F. of L. will be more work to build a stronger, more effective fighting organization of the workers thru , a) Organization, of the unorganized; Amalgamation of the trade unions; Formation of a labor party; A class struggle by the workers against the capitalists, / Sentral Committee, Cre RUTHENBERG, io }