The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1926, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER Another ‘Forward’ Bluff ts Called rage Five LEGAL RED-TAPE IS REFUGE FOR Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities The Jewlsh Daily Forward, in its issue of October 4th, carried a sour- ENDEAVORING TO BREAK UNION Eleven Shops Settle with the Union NEW YORK, Nov. 8.—The Novelty Jewelry Employers Association is en- deavoring to break the union and; drive the small manufacturers out of | business by prolonging the, present | i strike, according to Anthony Capraro, | manager of Local 17 which has been | conducting a strike for union recogni- | tion since October 25th. | Small Fellows Doomed. | “This association is not being built to serve the interests of the industry, ,Capraro declares, “The leaders of the association know that the small fellows cannot last long. If they ean | prolong the strike three or four weeks | more, they think they’can break both the small manufacturers and the un- jon, By that time all of the trade will have gone to the big shops and the little fellows will be left out in the cold. “Mr. Fishel, of Fishel Nessler Com- pany, 184 Fifth avenue, is one of the moving spirits in the association. He has been paying the initiation fees for | small manufacturers who have joined | and has advanced them money to i carry on. He has not told them, how- | ever, that his real intention {s to double-cross them, Changing Tactics. “We have learned that Mr. Fishel is changing his tactics. Last Monday when his wotkers went to get their back pay, they were told that if they did not return to work they must come and take their tools away. When one worker went after his tools to take them and get a job in one of the settled shops, Fishel said to him: ‘Well, leave them here a few days more.’ He is evidently not so sure that he has the situation in hand. He sees that the union means business and he is weakening.” Eleven Shops Settle. The union announces that H. Mun- zer, Inc., 32 West 33rd street, has set- tled with the union, making a total of 11 shops settled in ten days. In addition, H. Smth, 34 West 36th St. has just broken away fram the asso- elation, the union having pulled out his most skilled mechanic on Wednes- day. The employers have been hiring thugs to intimidate and beat up pick- ets and the police department has ren- dered assistance in the same work, but the union has continued its daily picketing and has the situation well in hand. Los hidinialads to Hold Debs Memorial Meet GT Ce SORE, PE ~ AND SOMEDAY MAYBE YOU WILL GET A / RAISE IN WAGES! 4 1 DONT Guess | THAT “SOMEDAY ~ WILL EVER come! AVELLA MINERS CHEER BROPH AT BIG MEETING; HISS LEWIS POLICY By PHILIP DI GIANBITTISTI. AVELLA, Pa., Nov. 8—A big Brophy. victory was won in Avella, Pa. by Powers Hapgood of District No. 2, U. M. W. of A, During the time since John Brophy, president of District No, 2,0, M. W. of A, came out with his open letter for the “Save the Unfon Policy,” the Avella locals, which consist of about 2,500 membérs, having studiéd Bro- phy’s “Save the Union Policy,” wanted to hear more because it sounded good to.them. They concluded that here was & man who*was goifg to show the miners the right road. Am invita- tion was extended to Powers Hap- good and also to P, T. Fagan, presi- dent of District No. 5, U. M, W. of A, to address the Avella miners, Fagan’s Opponent. The meeting was called to order and a chairman was elected, Fred Siders, president of Local Union 2881, U. M. W, of A., of Avella, Pa,, running against Fagan for the president of District No. 5, U. M, W. of A., and who stands 100 per cent for the “Save the Union Policy,” was elected chairman of the meeting. Introducing Powers Hapgood as the first speaker, he also stated that Pat Fagan had been in- vited to speak in order to give him a chance to defend the Lewis policy. At this moment Fagan arose to his feet waving a telegram and yelling that he had only received the invita- tion the day before and did not know know he was to debate with Powers Hapgood, and that he did not know that Hapgood would be there, Fagan read the telegram twice and tried to prove that he was the only speaker invited.. At this moment a point of order was raised, and after the chair- man asked what the point of order was, the delegate stating that his point of order was that Powers Hap- good had been invited first and should have the floor first, The point of order was well taken and Hapgood took the floor. Hapgood explained that he had come to Avella with no malice and that he was fighting policy and not personality. Hapgood pointed out the necessity of organizing and showed where we had lost 200,000 of our membership in the last few years, and that we had lost whole districts that were organized 100 per cent before, and all because our leaders do not show the people why it is necessary that we should have a 100 per a . Subscribe! ny By GRAY STONE. LOS ANGELES, Gal., Nov. 8. — A Debs Memoriaf Meeting under the auspices of the International Labor Defense will be held on Friday eve- ning, Noy. 12, at Music-Art Hall, 233 South Broadway, The speakers an- nounced so far are: Mother Bloor and Tom Lewis, Robert Whitaker will be chairman for the evening, Invitation has been ‘extended to all workingclass organizations to participate, Why don’t you write it up? It may be interesting to other workers. BISHOP BROWN’S NEW ROOK (4 twenty week subs for $1.00) The autobiograhy of an idea. Bs na Rs Me lL Hi caver “Bishop Brown's book. will to coms the minds of yen accep! organization. The speaker pointed out that the miners wanted 4 goal to look forward to, and that goal could only be reached by nationalization, Labor Party Question. Hapgood took up the-question of a labor party, stating that our present leader, John L, Lewis, was supposed to be fighting for a labor party, but helped put Strikebreaker Coolidge in office. Hapgood mentione& many other points which would take up too much time and paper, but neverthe- less the meeting was cheering for Brophy at the end of his talk. Fagan Takes Floor. The chairman introduced P. T. Fagan, president District No. 5, U. M. W. of A. Fagan, on taking the floor, sarcastically referred to my g6od friend Hapgood, “a graduate from col- lege,” coming away over here from District No. 2, U. M. W. of A., to talk on organization and nationalization. He asked Hapgood which college he graduated from, and Hapgood told him Yale. Then Fagan felled that he (Fagan) got his education in the coal mines, but he did not state whether in union or scab mines. Fagan then went back to his weak point by say- ing: “I am your president, I have been fighting night and day for you brothers. There is not a moment that I am not thinking of some way to bet- ter the conditions of your district, and our great leader, John L. Lewis, has _ FIGHT FOR NEW | workers’ organization formed for the defense of all viotims of the cla rilous attack on the activities of International Labor Defense, a non-partisan war. The Forward charged that |. L. D. used funds It had collected for propaganda purposes, campaigns and speaking tours Instead of spending its entire pro- ceeds for the relief of class-war prisoners. The Forward was not Interested enough In the organization to look into the mandates given by two annual conventions of the members of |. L, D, to carry on campaigns and propaganda work for the defense and release of class-war prisoners both at home and abroad. The Forward was interested in the financial statement of Interna- tional Labor Defense only for the purpose of finding the basis for an attack yellow socialist editors of the Forward have time and again found them. selves out of sympathy with. ‘The Forward charged “Communist control” of . L. D. and that the I. L. D. campaigns were in the Interests of purely Com- ~——TRIAL-FLYNN | Guiltless NEW YORK, Nov. 8—Announcing ja giant mass meeting of protest for |Saceo and Vanzetti, Elizabeth Gurley | Flynn, secretary of the emergency jcommittee whith {is arranging the | meeting, said: “We never”expected anything but a denial of @ new trial from Judge Thayer, whose’ prejudice has been ap- parent for five years. We know. that anyone who had conducted such a trial as he did when Sacco and Van- zetti were convicted would never con- |sider that anything warranted a re- trial, y “But workers all over the world stand united in their deternfination that these two persecuted workers shall have @ new trial. The recently- published evidence shows, without a doubt, that they are innocent, Will Fight, “We will fight with all our power against any possible attempt Of the state of Massachusetts to salve its conscience by /commuting the sen- tence of Sacco and Vanzetti to life imprisonment. They must be freed. They are guiltless of the crime for which they were eonvicted, and we are certain they would be acquitted by a new jury not under the influence of anti-red hysteria. “Sacco and ‘Vanzetti must have a new trial.” Scott Nearing Gives Economics Lectures in Los Angeles Soon LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8.— Scott Nearing is.giving two courses of lec- tures of great-interest to the workers His subjects will be “Whither Europe?” an@e“Post-War Economics.” The series ll_be given during the week of Nov. 22°at the Lincoln Hall, Walker Auditorium, 730:South Grand avenue. Nearing will give lectures in the evening on the first subject and in the afternoon onthe second. Course tick- ets for the evening are $2 and for the afternoon $1.0. The lectures are given under the auspices of the American Civil Liber- ties Union, southern California branch. Labor Board Hearing Plea for R. R. Wage (Continued from page 1) the support \ of their families; how much time ¢hey spend away from home and what their expenses are for such periods and for uniforms; how long it takes to get promotion; how they have lost rules protecting them oh the job, particularly in order to get their last wage increase in 1924; munist propaganda. Below is a letter written by three individuals well-known been doing the same.” how great their hazards and responsi- At this moment there was an UD-|piities are, roar in the hall—the men were hiss- N. J. Fitzgerald, interchangeable peo diene hanna av dire getesens freight and passenger brakeman on Plena mamaria ores New York Central lines west, told of ty bet oph of nna messlt npn Male athe id the crack Twentieth Century Limited talk ony but could get no order. At . between New York and Chicago earn last @ little order was gotten, after ing $8,000,000 In 1925. Fagan stopped talking, and someone proposed that the chairman appoint a Claim Better Methods. sergeant at arms .to keep order, the | Cross-examination ‘by J. G. Walber, motion carried by the majority and|chairman of the managers’ confer- the chairman appointed Philip Di | ence, tries to bring out that the roads Giambattista, Frank Marino and Mar- | have increased efficiency by improved tin Kavcich to be sergeants at arms, | equipment, elfmination of curves, and with instructions that in case anyone | better methods. When the union of- became unruly they were to put him |ficials agreed to let the arbitrators ont. ° use U, 8, department of labor statis- Fagan started his talk again by say- | tics on wage rates in othér industries ing he guessed that the story would |for comparisOn Walker agreed, but be in The DAILY WORKER about the-|added that the roads would submit chairman having to give him protec- | additional statistics from states’ fig- tion so he could present his side of | ures, which include non-union as well the present policy of the U. M. W.]as union labor, “since,” he said, “the of A. U.S. figures are for union labor only.” Hapgood took the floor again to re- | j1e said the rodds would show the pro- ply to Fagan’s attack on hig college portion of wotkers getting union and training, “I want to say that I worked | non-union rates. The roads are ex- in the mines before I got my educa-| pected to submit records showing tion, and I am working in the mine | something of their earnings and rates now after I have gotten it,” said Hap- | of prot. ow * good, “My education is at the service First Under New Act. of the workers. I am not like some) ‘This ts the first arbitration board of our brothers, who gained their edu: | sitting under the Parker-Watson act. cation thru the U. M, W. of A. and | paniel 1, Cease, editor Railroad Train- then used it against the workers,” men, and E. P. Curtis, general secre- Hapgood told about his trip to R tary conductors, represent the work- and stated that our present leaders ers on the board. Robert V. Massey, were against @ delegation to the So-| ».,ora1 manager eastern region Penn- viet Union to find out. the true facts |, vivania Railroad, and William A. Shout We. Rovisk goverament Baldwin, vice-president Erie Railroad, After some more questions and an- managements. These swers, the meeting adjourned, vo pepe 'D. Baldw ap | to the labor movement who are not Communists and are members and sup- | porters of International Labor Defense. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, chairman |of 1. L. D., Robert W. Dunn, well-known labor author and investigator and Sacco and Vanzetti Are! H. W. L. Dana, for years prominent in worker education, have sent the follow | ing letter to the Forward with regard to its attack on I. L. Db, oes + | | Editors | Jewish Daily Forward, 175 East Broadway, |New York City. | Dear Sirs: E note that in your issue of Octo- ber 4th, you severely criticize the International Labor Defense of which organization the undersigned Sire mem- bers of the national committee, bas- ing your attack on the financial state- ment for the first fiscal year ended June 30, 1926, ‘OU point out that the International Labor Defense collected $50,672.63 during that period, and after expendi- tures for publicity, organization and administrative expenses in connection with collecting the money” as you interpret it) there was left for the -political pri- soners $22,120.50. From which state- ment you conclude: “In other words, out of every dollar the Communists collected to help political prisoners, they squandered on salaries for their people, on trips, and on other aimless expenses, more than 56 cents,” As persons who went on some of these trips and shared in some of these “aimless expenses”, particularly in connection with many mass meet- ings and conferences held on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti, we feel com- (“expenses pelled to call the attention of the Forward to certain errors in your bookkeeping reasoning. Suppose you apply the same test to another well known defense and Yree speech or- ganization, the American Civil Liber- ties Union, with which we are also connected, what would you find upon examination of the receipts and ex- penditures for the fiscal year ending January 31, 1926? ward is not as critical of Liberals as it appears to be of “Communists.” But your analysis of the balance sheet of the A, CL. U. would ha to run as follows: HE following is the substance of receipts and disbursements of the Liberal organization: Collected Expenses in connection with collecting the money Amount left for political prisoners 15,837.26 “In other words out of every dollar the Liberals collected to help the political prisoners, they squandered on salaries for their people, on trips, and on other aimless expenses, more ee 63 cents”... . “.... It is sufficient that the public knows that when a Liberal collects a dollar to help an unfortunate polit- ical prisoner, only 47 cents reaches him, and the rest remains in the Liberal’s pocket.” are not suggesting that the For- ward engage in any such attack on the American Civil Liberties Un- ion, of which we are active members. Mr, Fred Marvin of the New York Commercial and other superpatriots who hate all radicals, communists, liberals and other subversive move- ments and movers (including no doubt the Daily Forward!) can tend to that, But we would consider such an attack no “more—and no less— justifieble than the attack you are now directing at the International Labor Defense. Indeed, the Forward might find even more alarming facts in the report of the American Civil Liberties Union. For with a total gross income of $34,106.44 (including $2,296.02 trom the American Fund for Public Service for special cases) it expended for executive and office salaries $10,648.61 while the Inter- national Labor Defense spent only $12,221.63 for the same item, Again, the A, C, L. U. had office rent and care for the year amounting to $1,- 714.46 while the I. L. D,, raising larger amounts of money, had only $1,664.81 in expenditure for the same item. This, in our opinion, is no reflection on the A. C, L, U. but it certainly lays this organization open to the same type of “charg you have launched against the I, L. D. Certain facts, perhaps will clear up the essential aim and purpose of the I. L, D. as well as its relation to the AC. LU: NEITHER organization is a relief * organization devoted primarily to raising money for the care of the fam- ‘ad } J ) ! | i News and Comment Policies and Programs | |} Labor Education | The Trade Union Press | Labor and Government Strikes—Injunctions Trade Union Politics IF You doin MY — Labor and Imperialism COMPANY UNION AND, SOMEDAY’ WE ; YOU WiLL OBTAIN WILL ESTABLISH = BETTER MORKING SHORTER HouRs/ JEWELRY BOSSES coomepeeree-|| ge | WORKERS WILL | — (@pon the activity of a genuine working class organization with which the $34,106.44 18,769.18 Possibly the For.‘ abroad. Publicity, speaking trips, or- Ganization of branches, are-a nec Sary and legitimate part of its activ- ity and its expenditures, during the first year of its existence. THE publicity work of the I. L. * D. has been a very important item particularly in connection with the Sacco and Vanzetti case, Thou- sands of the Debs’ appeal were dis- tributed. Hundreds of posters placed in labor halls. Hundreds of petitions were circulated, resolutions and tele- grams sent to Massachusetts, ete. 3 THE relations between the I. L. * D, and the A. C. L. U. are entire- ly harmonious, The two organiza- tions co-operate on many cases. They have an understanding as to the fields in which each can serve best. Many persons serve on both organizations. THE agitation work of the I. L, D. * deals not only with class war cases in this country but in many foreign countries as in Hungary, Rou- mania and Poland. The work done in this field has. been expensive but fruitful. It has helped to save the lives of many workers abroad. f THE main purposes of the I. L. D, Os is well described in the language of Secretary Cannon writing on the Second Annual Conference in the Oc- tober “Labor Defender”: “We must not get the idea that we are merely ‘defense workers’ @l- leeting money for lawyers, That is only @ part of what we are doing. We are organizing workers on issues which are directly related to the class struggle. The workers who take part in the work of the I. L. D. are drawn step by step into the main stream of the class struggle.” HE International Labor Defense is &@ non-partisan, non-political body, for the defense of workingclass vic- ims of capitalist injustice and frame- “aps, It is made up of workers of all Shades of political opinion, Its Na- onal Committee includes trades un- ionists, Socialists, Communists, I. W. W.’s and men and women of no af- filiation, the majority of whom are non-Communists. One of the signers of this letter Is now the National Chairman of the I. L. D. It concerns itself with all workers arrested be- cause of their activity on behalf of the workingclass. It handles indivi- dual cases as.well as group cases, such as Passaic. HE need of such an organization is self-evident and will increase with the militancy of the class struggle in America. We feel that you have done & great injustice to an efficient or- ganization carrying on an essential work in a splendid manner for the cause of labor and ask you therefore to print this letter in full, Sincerely yours, H. W. L. Dana. Elizabeth Gurley Fiyfn. Robert W. Dunn. Pullman Company Is Attempting to Force Unionists to Ballot NEW YORK, Noy. 8.—Protests are voiced by members of the Brother- hood of Sleeping Car Porters that they are being forced to vote in the com- pany union elections by threats and attempts to withhold their pay checks, The brotherhood plans an official ‘pro- test. Its counsel, Donald Richberg, advises the porters’ union that its members are “justified legally as well as morally” in refusing to vote in the Pullman Co, “employe representation plan.” ‘ The brotherhood’ claims over 6,000 of the 10,000 porters in its ranks and is appealing to the rail mediation board set up by the Watson-Parker act for recognition in place of the company union and for aid in secur. ing a conference with Pullman Co. officials toward a new wage and work- ing condition agreement. Congress Won’t Give States Power to Set Dry. Standard—Lenroot WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—Congress will never delegate to the states the especially | | TEAPOT DOMERS Stave Of Justine by Court “Appeals” Ds 8.—After a week of skirmishing by lawye the end of the famous oil scandal case appeared today to be far off The intention of the pr pals to fight virtually every move of the gov ernment to the Jast technical refuge in the supreme court was indicated by their legal maneuvers, Harry F. Sinclair, millio magnate, who was indict |mer Secretary of the* Inte B. Fall on charges of c | defraud the government in the Teapot }Dome deal, has taken the second of oil " |three cases involving him to the su- preme court. Squirm Out. Despite the fact that Fall and Ed- ward L. Doheny, head: of the Pan- American Petroleum Company, are scheduled to face trial in the criminal court here on November 22 on an- other conspiracy charge growing out of the Elk Hi reserve lease, theré also was a possibility that th se will be delayed by a new move. Attorneys for Fall may seek delay thru a challenge to the authority of congress to name special prosecutors, Civil Cases Now Up. The supreme court now has before it a olvil suit involving the legality of Doheny’s lease on the Elk Hills reserve. A similar suit to cance] the lease of Harry F. Sinclair's Mammoth Oil Company on Teapot Dome has just reached the high court on a petition for review. Another case which the oil mag- nate is fighting is a citation for con- tempt in refusing to answer questions of a senate committee. This case has been virtually in suspension for many months awaiting a high court ruling in the Mal S, Daugherty case. The civil suits have already rut the gauntlet of the federal district courts and circuit courts of appeals. Send In a sub today! The Workers Monthly , A Cebit KAGE Has instituted a special section of great interest for every worker: WITH MARX AND ENGELS A monthly feature presenting original and unpublished ma terial by the two great minds of the revolutionary labor move- ment. In addition, a bibliography of recent literature on Marx, En- gels and Marxism will prove an invaluable guide to every work- er and student. This feature of unusual inter. est Is especially of great value to every. member, sympathizer and student of the Communist movement. Subscribe Now! $2 a year $1.25 six months 2 1 epelil THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Blvd, CHICAGO, ILL. AE those who still four chose William D, Baldwin, chatr- | \jjeg of political prisoners or the pri- | right to define the alcoholic content | 5. siseq a ' { ism. Te ee yer a roy illusion . sso dban was taken to pay Hap- man Otis Elevator Co. and Edgar E.|sdners, The I. L. D, has, however, | of beverages, as proposed by the Pro- | pugsoription. } te WHA Oe the Cate ree ot Nirman: Clark of Clark & LaRoe, law firm, as} devoted a considerable portion of its [hibition referendums overwhelmingly , 1 tepresented by he ionm Oe nlshenes “{mpartial arbitrators” under the law./funds to this task—some $6,000, last |approved in New York and Illinois, |... 000... ndcaia i Ditceat oe woe honeaty “and Want Price Arbitration Too | clark was chosen chairmart, year, a very creditable showing in-|Senator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, de- } Feapect. of his read ch pe ion SYDNEY—(FP)—The New South |» He was formerly president of the | deed, It was administered on a non- | clared today. sous 4 RAMPS j view of “My. Heresy" Vegetarian Restaurant . berg, which wink? in thi y Botobet inoue ot the Workers Manette 2324-26 Bréoklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELEs, CAL. ba be wi Labor government is about to |conductors’ organization, In 1902 aniend the industrial arbitration act to | President Roosevelt chose him to act sivo power to the industrial commis-|in the coal stnike and in 1904 he was loner to prevent unreasonable in- put on the inferstate commerce com | crease Prlone ; miaalon. whare ha aarved 16 xyoara partisan basis to all re- gardless of their political views, But the main {tem of the @efens work of I. L, D, is agitation for the release clase wat pilaonexd. here and ‘ RE NOs “Congress itself has the right, if it desireg, to raise the alcoholl¢ content to 2,75 per cent, but I am sire it never would ‘pass that power over to the states,” ho said, CNR ainsi igeillbbpa Bate cssmnsmenmmanamheamannierrmanannin anit Danvers VGN a ein