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

Page Two Le oDA. ¥ \WORKER SEFF, BUSINESS AGENT OF JOINT BOARD, ARRESTED Jailed in Connection with Strike Here <n Harry Seff, business agent of the Chicago Joint Board of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, was arrested Friday morning tor merely being in the neighborhood of a small garment making shop here, where a strike is in progress. Seff was released on $50 bail, after being booked by police for disorderly con- duct. Disoharge Union Girl. The strike was called on the Weiss, Turner and Ross Company, 326 W. Adams street, when a member of the union was discharged Tuesday becauss the employers learned of her activity in the 1924 strike. The discharged girl had been arresied in 1924 for pick- etimg and jailed for violation of the state law against picketing. The employers gave as their excuse fer fring ber that “they didn’t want @moonvicts in the shop,” Geff appeared near the shop Friday morning to see how the strike was ing. He was recognized by j€he employers, who prevailed on police that were “guarding” the place to ar- pest him. "Marshall and Boich ‘Speak at Youngstown ‘Anniversary Event YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov. 12, — {Whe ninth anniversary celebration of }the Russian revolution will be held at the Ukrainian Hall, 625 West Rayen }Ave., Sunday, Noy. 14, at 8 p, m. Johr {Marshall and Hlmer Boich will be the apeakers in English. A selection o ‘vocal and violin solos will be rendered by prominent local artists. Stee! Orders Increase. NEW YORK, Noy. 10 — Unfilled omlers of the United States Steel cor. poration increased 90,152 tens in O tober, according to the monthly state ment of the corporation issued at noon rd orders on October 31 werc tons, against 3,593,509 ton r 80 and 4,109,183 tons on the Jast day of October 1924. | WCEL Radio Program | Chicago Federation of Labor radio roadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is proadcasting on a 491.5 wave length ‘from the Municipal Pier. Nee ie TONIGHT. * 6:00 p. m.—Chicago Federation of La- bor Hour. voort Concert Trio; Hickey & Johnson, ‘ost; Vivian Lawrence. ce Orchestra. Hawalians: ni 9:00—Alamo Cafe Da 11:30—Alamo Entertainers. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 4100 p. m.—Wicker Park Lutheran urch, Rev. S. P. Long, 7:45—Belden Ave. Baptist Rev. J. W Hoyt. Church, Send In a sub today! industria! Co-operative IN-CO Electro Motors & Machine ‘Works, MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R. of the nbove ¢ The factor a of man harts for and tors, After abA the perr ment, t with ad ts ea: tional group nd with rs with the following specifications 1 electrical engineer who has had experience of construction of motors till 8 HP: ns with some experience in work, 3 lathe men. 5 machinists. F ‘or all Informa A. Barkinsky apply to: of IN-CO., GRIGER & NOVAK GENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS Union Merchandwe 1934 West Chicago Avenue (Cor. Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 GINSBERG'S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. — OUR MOTTO 8 Q's Quality - Quantity - Quickness U-EAT . Restaurant and Lunch Room 9232 W. MADISON ST. | Cotzofanesti (Continued from page 1.) to be found. The messenger was a gypsy with three years serv- ice. Directed by the guard, his search led to a building where some sort of celebration was going on. Something which hap- pened very often, The messenger tried to enter, but found that the doors were locked. He could hear muffled noise and the sound of dance music from the inside of the building. He thought bit- terly of his comrades killing and being killed at the front, and in particular of that comrade vomiting up his heart’s blood in the clearing station. He crept to one of the windows and tried to get a look at the goings on of the officers and their ladies. Nothing to be done, The windows were all‘carefully curtained. Finally he found a window at the back of the building where the curtain left a small, narrow space which enabled him to look thru into the hall. The sight which met his eyes filled him with fury and indignation. Naked and half-naked officers and “nurses” were rolling in various attitudes, on the floor which was covered with costly rugs. Although the ban- quet seemed to be at an end, the tables were still groaning with great quantities of the most expen- sive and rare foods and wines. In a alcove an or- chestra was playing. Forgetting his message, the soldier called as many of his fellows as he could find to the window. Their anger at the sight was so great that they took a can of oil, poured its contents over the dry wood of the building and put a match to It. When the officers and men of the neighboring barracks arrived at the scene of the conflagration they found a society of sparsely clothed French staff officers and high born ladies of the Roumanian court still reeling from the combined gifts of Venus and Bacchus. Amongst the company were: HER MA\J- ESTY, THE QUEEN OF ROUMANIA, MARIA HOHENZOLLERN, in a pink diaphanous night dress trimmed with lace; the Princess Maria, the present consort of the king of Yugoslavia, Alex- ander; the Princess Elizabeth, the present con- sort of the ex-king of Greece, George; two daughters of General Voitoanu, who later be- came the prime minister of Roumania (one of these ladies is now the wife of the minister of in- terior, Franasovici), the daughter of the conser- lative Minister Delavrancea, etc., etc., etc. Naturally, war correspondents were also on the scene and quickly made a number of instantaneous snaps of the idyllic picture: ““The Queen of Rou- mania, her daughters and her ladies in waiting; in- toxicated, clad only in thin night dresses and cling- ing to the arms of half-naked officers of the French General Staff !! A number of the photographic plates were confiscated by the Siguranza (Roumanian secret police), but the rest of them are still in safe hands. These pictures work like charms in the hands of a number of Roumanian politicians. The magic formula is: “Cotzofanesti!” A second “Open Sesame!” in Roumania. Not long ago a proposal was’mooted to build the queen a palace of glass on the shore of the Black Sea, near Manaya, in the neighborhood of Constanza. .But the pleasantry of one mali- cious newspaper, the “Facla,” was sufficient to spoil it all. It wrote helpfully, “Build anything, but not exactly a glass palace! Cotzofanesti!” To this our correspondent adds: On the 10th of October the Queen of Roumania left on board the liner “Leviathan” for the hospitable shores of America. She has arriveg. Her landing was not prevented on the score of moral turpitude; she was greeted as befits a downright regular royal queen; she has visited President Coolidge in the White House. Society heads, cultural institutions, universities, ete., fought and are still fighting for the honor of calling the queen their guest, who by the way is also something of a poetess. And yet. COTZOFANESTI! i | AGREEMENT WITH MANUFACTURERS REACHED, REPORT Part of " Gloskmakers Win Settlement According to information received indirectly here ‘by the joint board of the International Ladies’ Gatment Workers’ anion, a settlement with the garment mannufacturers, involving some 6,000 ers of the New York union, has béen reached. Local of- fictala are waiting verification of this. ¥ However, the etitke against the jobbers, which is the most important factor In the New York struggle, 15 not settled, Thé jobbers are the most bitter opponents of the union. Set Hour Agreement. The terms of the reported settle. ment include, ft ig said: a three-year agreement on hours, which provides a basis of 42 hours a week for the first two years, and a 40-hour week for the third year; a guarantee of 82 weeks’ work & year; and an increase in wages. No information as to what the wage scale is, except that it 1s sub- stantial and more than the amount suggested by the governors com- mission, was included in the report. In the matter of reorganization of the personnel of the manufacturer's shop, which involves the cights of the Radio War Now Raging As Soviet Rule Sends the Truth to Roumania By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, H capitalist pressofthe United States dares not tell the truth about the present murder regime in terrorized Roumantia. The press of. the American profi- teers hides the facts and grovels in the dust as it joins in servile greet- ings to Queen Marie today, in Ohi- cago, because to do otherwise would would be an indictment of the rok ber social system for which it speaks. eee Queen Marie and Cal Coolidge slobber over each other, and the slaverings have continued these past few weeks over the United States and Canada, because of the {dentity of interest between tho ruling class on this. North Amert- can continent and the ruling class of Roumania. Marie and Cal, with “Jimmie” Walker, mayor of New York; Dever, mayor of Chicago, and all the Httle kept political puppets everywhere, and the old, senile King Ferdinand, back in Bucharest, are all of the same cap italist family that hangs together more tenaciously than any ruling class family in all history. bosses to discharge workers, the union also won a@ Yigtory, according to the information. The governor's commission allowed the bosses to discharge 10- per cent a year, but did not specify a time. The union incorporated in the agreement. that the discharging should take place otily in slack months, so that, the workers would not. lose out and could find another job before the season opened. © Malin Strike Still On. The capitalist pregs, has been hal- ing this reported settlement as the ending of the strike. This {s seen az an attempt to bewilder the workers as the jobbers are not affected by the manufacturers’ settlement. ARRANGE TAG DAY FOR PAPER BOX. STRIKERS NEW YORK CITY—The following call has been issued for all members of the Young Workers’ League here: Dear Comrades: For six weeks thgypaper box mak- ers in New York “aye been out on’ stttke fighting forthe establish- ment of a union that, will guarantee them better conditions. Some 60 per cent of these are young workers. The bosses at the present time are doing their best to try and starve these work- ers back to slavery, without a union. We must defeat the schemes of the bosses. We must mobilize our forces to help raise relief for these workers. For the present the union is arranging a tag day to raise funds for the strik- ers. Every member of the Young Workers’ League must go out with a collection box on Saturday and Sun- day, November 13 and 14, beginning at 9 a.m. You are.to report to the district and from there you will be as- signed to a station, 3 You must raise the question of the paper box makers im, the unions and other organizations to which you be- long and get them to come to the sup- port of these striking workers, Fraternally yours, Cc. Miller, Dist. Ind, Organizer. Sam Don, Dist. Organizer. | Some Members of the Bloody Roumanian Monarchy, | The subsidized press is anxious to hide the actual eonditions in Roumania because, to reveal them, would be a terrific blow at Ameri- can capitalism that gives millions of dollars, stolen from the weath produced by American labor, to bulwark the tottering Roumanian tyranny, capitalist outpost against the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics. Millions of discontented and thinking workers and farmers would get a clearer picture of the nature of the Wall Street govern- ment that rules in sWashington it they received a truthful view of the present Roymanian regime, petted and pampered by America’s inter- national bankers. ee It is interesting to note, , there- fore, that in hiding the truth about the vicious oppression of Rouman- ian labor under the bejeweled heel of American finance capital’s darling queen in Roumania, the sub- sidized press in this country merely echoes the sore straits facing the Bucharest regime at home in sup- pressing the facts. Roumania, however, sufferg the great disadvantage of bordering on the Union of Soviet Republics, where workers and peasants rule after having freed: themselves from the tyranny of the centuries im- posed on them by czarism. The workers and peasants of the Soviet Union are anxious and eager to tell Jabor in Roumania, especially in the bordering province of Bes- sarabia, the truth as they see it. And they have the weapons with which to do it. This is revealed by the reports telling of the so-called radio war between the Roumania of Queen Marie and the dinterna- tional bankers, and the Soviet Un- ion of workers and peasants. The Roumanian gssassing of la- bor complain bitterly that the of- fensive was taken by the Soviet broadcasting stations at Moscow, Odessa and: other cities near the frontier of Bessarabia, the annexa- tion of which by Roumania, sup ported by the Versailles peace ban- dits, has never been recognized by the workers’ government. The So- viet Union, thet is building a new social order—Com munis m—end- ing profit rule, is accused by the Roumanian ruling class with at- tempting. to lecture the Rouman- fang on the deficiencies of their government and of trying to broad- cast revolutionary propaganda. oer @ x These charges are probably true. And why not? Why shouldn’t labor in the Workers’ Republic, having freed itself, be anxious to lift the workers of other countries along the road to their emancipa- tion. Soviet labor is to be congrat- ulated on using the radio, most modern method of transmitting in- formation, as ® weapon to combat the subversive propaganda of the enemy capitalist class, poisoning the minds of labor in all countries against its own class interests, Does the Roumanian tyranny re- ply to the charges of labor in the Soviet Union. Not at all. It merely tries. to silence them. * ‘ In Queen Marie’s land today, in order to prevent Roumanian labor from getting the message of the emancipated working class of the Soviet Union, drastic methods haye been adopted against the use of the radio. In Roumania, the radio is a state monopoly and the impor tation of all foreign apparatus is prohibited. “For the security of the state,” which means, for the maintenance of the bloody tyranny of Queen Marie and the class for Which she speaks, no radio receiv- ing séts are allowed near frontiers and to installa set anywhere inthe country, one must secure a special permit from the hostile government. Nevertheless, when the Rouman- jan owner of a radio permit has succeeded in turning in the grand opera or cabaret jazz at Vienna, Berlin or Paris, he is sure to have some -Soviet broadcasting station come in with the working class viewpoint of the latest brutality against Roumanian labor. It is de- clared that the only defense of the Roumanian tyranny, in such straits, As to have its military broadcasting stations eit loose with ‘all power 80 that it becomes impossible for the radio listenersto hear anything at all. r That is duplicated in part by the American capitalist press that bom- bards its reagers with comics, sports, scandals of all kinds, mur- ders, sex stuff, ad nauseuum, to the total exclusion of everything of any vital interest to the working class. As in Roumania, so in the United States, only thru different methods in the present period of the class struggle on this side of the Atlantic. =). ; The DAILY WORKER alone among all English-language dailies in this country, gives the truth about anti-labor rule, not ‘only in Roumania and the United States but in all lands. It ig labor's broadcaster, serving the interests of the working class. That is why American labor will be gradually won to its support. PASSAIC STRIKERS WIN VICTORY (Continued from page 1) document by Vice-President Starr of mill barons. Union leaders eay the|the U. T. W. and President Gaunt of battle will continue until all the own- ers are lined up and the union fs a recognized defender of the workers’ interests in Passaic. But the settlement was not made until the strikers themselves had met in mass meeting at Dudas’ Hall, Righth and South: Sts., and ratified the agree- ment. The agreement was discussed by the workers and some objection was voiced from the floor that the agreement did not contain the precise word, “recognition.” But the extent of the concessions made by the company and the importance of the settlement to the entire 16,000 strikers was ap- Parent to all of the 600 workers in- volved, First Time, This constitutes the first time in the history of Passaic in which a tex- tile mill,has given recognition to a union. Its immediate importance is the fact that while the workers’ ranks are still strong, the mill owners’ front is disintegrating. It is known that the Worsted Mills have mafly orders ahead and it is expected that 700 workers will be-back to Work in a short time. There are many indica- tions that other mills will follow the lead of the Worsted, Started on Friday. The agreement ratified at the strik- ers’ mass meeting had been negotiated by the citizens’ committee, President Gaunt of the Worsted Company sent is manager to citizens’ committee last Friday to eue for peace. Several conferences were held in which Gustav Deak, president of the new local union, No, 1603 of the U..T, W., participated, Later came the formal the Worsted Mills, New Local. A local of the United Textile Work- ers’ Union, with a special charter will now be formed in the Worsted plant, Probably with the number 1604, The strike ‘at the Worsted Mills be- gan on January 28, three days after the big walkout of 1,500 from the Botany mills. The workers set up strike headquarters near the plant and picketed constantly. The plant has been crippled, operating but very little since the first day of the strike. Served 36 Prison Years—in Again CHICAGO, Nov, 10.—John Murray, 77, who, since 1883 has served 36 years in prison was, today sentenced to five years in Leavenworth federal penitentiary when he pleaded guilty to counterfeiting five and ten cent pieces. “I guess I better go again,” he told Judge Wilkerson. “It kind of seems I belong there.” PE eS ‘ SEND IN A SUB TODAY, STATEMENT BY I, LD, ON THE. QUEEN'S VISIT {Continued from page 1.) pression to the demands of the peo- ple, Under her government, work- ers and poor farmers are not permit- ted to hold publio meetings, or to organize into. labor organizations of any kind. Under her government hundreds of workers have been mur- dered in cold blood by the bestial se- cret police called the “Siguranza.” Hundreds of workers, men and wom- en, are rotting in prifon only be- cause they defended the interests of workers, While the queen and her royal court riot away in extravagant orgies, the workers and farmers Roumania live under the most miser- able conditions. While the queen and part of her family come to make trips thruout America, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for expensive clothes and banquets, workers and their children are starving for want of food in Roumanta. Workers are imprisoned, and tor- tured there in the most unspeakable manner. Their conditions in prison are so frightful that they are forced to go on hunger strikes in an attempt to get even slight consideration. Neither women nor children are spar- ed by the blood-thirsty rulers of Rou- mania. Children are murdered in the military expeditions ggainst workers and peasants; mothers and sweet- hearts are ravished and shamed be- fore the eyes of the helpless men. The huts of the peasants are fre- quently burned down by the drunken soldiers and officers. The homes of workers ere never safe trom inva- sion by the “Siguranm.” The op- pressed nationalities in Roumania, which are fighting for that indepen- dence from tyranny and monarchy that our ancestors fought for in 1776, are mercilessly persecuted and eup- pressed. * A relgn of terror existe In the land of Queen Marie! Her hands are red with the blood of workers and peas- ants! Under her fine clothes “she “wears the garments ef an exeou- tioner of the peoplel” Queen Marie has come to the Unit- ed States with lies on her lips about her country. She wants a lean from Wall Street to help maintain her bloody rule in Roumania. Those Am- erican governmental 6fficials who are kow-towing to her, are insulting the anti-royalist, anti- monarchist tradi- tion of the great revolutionary war f independence in 1776. American labor looks upon the een of Roumania only with horror \nd disgust. We want no official wel- comes to her and her family. We want ; only a demonstration of our solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Rou- mania, who suffer under the iron heel @ Queen Marie’s despotism. We want no loans to be given by American bankers to bolster up her hideous gov- ernment. We demand the end of the murdering of workers and peasants in Roumania, and the freedom of ali workers from their rotten prisons! The private life of “this quéen” and her court has been for many yeare ap international scandal, In the last few weeks the story of Cotzofanesti has come to light. A big Vienna work- ers’ daily has recently exposed the war-time “Cotzofanesti” affair, facts regarding which have been suppress- ed all these years and are now made public and vouched for by reliable Roumanian sources: In the town of Cotzofanesti, on the Moldavian bat- tlefront during the war, the queen and others members of the royal fam- ily and the court, were found parti- cipating in a disgusting orgy with French officers, while Roumanian sol- diers were dying in nearby hospitals. A soldier who discovered the orgy was 80 embittered that he set fire to the building in which royalty was ex- posing its degeneracy. When the par- ticipants ran out of the burning build- ing, the “blue-blooded ladies” were seen in a half drunken and half un- clothed condition. ‘Every Roumanian knows the mi of “Cotzofanesti.” Her bloody regime in Roumanta, her reign of terror against workers and peasants, is a stench in the nostrils of all honest people! Protest against the visit of Queen Marie! Demand freedom for Rou- mania's imprisoned working clags, Send your protests in messages to the Department of State; to the Rouman- ian Legation; to Mayor Dever of Chi- cago; and to Governor Small of Illi- nois. International Labor Defense calls upon Americah workers to join with it in this great protest and to express their solidarity with the Roumanian fighters for freedom, Follow the ex- ample of the Chicago workers, who have, thru the Chicago Federation of Labor, condemned the queen, her wel- come here and her rulership in Rou- mania! , BANQUET given by the Workers (Communist) Party City Committee SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14th, 1926 SOUTH SIDE TURNER HALL, 471 National Avenue MUSIC, SINGING, Dance and Program After Dinner bre. ADMISSION $1.00 Dinner served at 6:30 p, m, WM. F, DUNNE WILL SPHAK VALUABLE PRIZES \/ *