The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1926, Page 3

U, S, WILL SPEND. $800,000,000 IN 21 FOR MILITARY Budget Bur: ureau An- nounces Appropriations WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, — Appro- tions totaling nearly $800,000,000 the army and navy for the next fiscal year have been recommended by the budget bureau, the army and navy journal declared today. This represents an increase of about $3,000,000 for the army, ‘The budget estimates are: War de- partment, $354,345,000 of. which $269,- 345,000 are strictly for military pur Poses, and $85,000,000 for “non-mill- tary,” including the Panama canal, Navy, $322,061,000, Aviation, $89,000,000 (approximate), ee Navy Men Clamor for Big Merchant Marine NEW YORK, Noy, 22.—The United States shipping board, having: just completed a tour of the country. to wet “public opinion” on the subject, was fully. informed recently by of- ficers of the nayy, Captain J, K. Rob- inson, retired, of the third tiaval dis- trict, was one of those who voiced his views, when he asserted that if Amer- ica ts to keep abreast of its competi- tors ‘we “must’ build 400,000 tons of shipping a year.” Other officers de- elared that an adequate merchant ma- rine was necessary to protect our ‘®Bhores from a possible foreign inva- sion. As to what became of all the shipping we built at such tremendous expense during the war, to protect against an earller mythical invasion, Silence reigned. It seems we must do the thing all over again, Captain Robinson doesn’t “care who builds them—private enterprise or the government. itself—but this country must have ships.” The. government itself, he probably feels, can be trust- ed to see that it falls to private enter prise, Woman Killed by Train. + The body of Miss Jennie HD. Jackson, 85, Lake Bluff, apparently struck by @ train, was found on the Chicago and Northwestern tracks near the Lake Borest station today. By Cc. B. By Gregory Zinoviev LENIN AS A MARXIST By N, Bucharin By V..I. Lenin New York ToL oe National Thanksgiving Dance THURSDAY EVE., NOVEMBER 25 HARLEM CASINO 116th Street and Lenox Avenue. . ~ Admission 50 Cents Auspices: Paperbox Makers’ Union. ALL PROCEEDS FOR STRIKERS’ RELIEF New Books Just Received From EN G LAND The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., as agent for European publishers of \Reyolution- ‘ary Labor literature, has received the follow- ing pamphlets aes off the press; THE REDS AND THE GENERAL STRIKE Tho Lessons of the First General Strike of the British Working Class. COMMUNIST WORK IN THE FACTORIES The Work of Factory Groups RUSSIA'S PATH TO COMMUNISM ON THE ROAD TO INSURRECTION SIXTH SESSION OF THE ENLARGED EXECU- TIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST INTER. NATIONAL (Feb-Mar., 1926) _ se Plan for inte -Vanzetti Conference » NEW YORK CITY, Nov, 22—~The g: son Square Garden, New York City; wi the purpose of demanding a new trial passed the following two resolutions ¢ Whereas, thru the efforts of their¢———_________. outraged fellow-workers this sentence has so far been averted and a contin- uous fight has been waged to keep them from going to their graves as common felons} and ‘Whereas, there has recently been discovered evidence which proves con- clusively the innocence of these work- ers, and yet the courts of Massachu- setts maintain their stony-hearted ii- difference to the accumulated evidence of the base frame-up of these workers; be it therefore Resolved, that we, workers of New York City, gathered tn,Madison Square Garden, November 17, 1926, to pro- test the recent denial of a new trial to Sacco and Vanzetti, pledge our- selves to carry on, without ceasing, the battle for the lives of our class- consclous brothers; That we call on the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency , Committee: to arrange, within one Inonth, a mass delegation of trade unionists to wait upon Gov- ernor Fuller of Massachusetts to de- mand a new trial; That we endorse the plan for a na- tional congress in New York City with- in two-months, to continue this de- mand for a new trial; and be it further Resolved, that we hereby broadcast reat mass meeting that jammed Madi-| th 18,000 workers last Wednesday for for Sacco and Vanzetti, unanimously oncerning the case! @ call to all workers of the country to send representatives to this congress | and by their support help to gain a} new trial and freedom tor Sacco and Vanzettt, Whereas, from recent affidavits made by former agents of the United States department of justice, it ap- pears that the department of justice took an active part in, and perhaps even instigated the frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti; and Whereas, Sacco and Vanzett! were charged with and were tried for an| offense against the state of Massachu- setts and légally the department of jpstice had no concern with this case; nd department of justice have refused | to open their files in order to furnish evidence in connection with the Sacco- | Vanzetti case; be it further Resolved, that we demand a con- gressional investigation of the depart- ment of justice’s activities in relation to the Sacco and Vanzetti case, and | We urge the senators and congress- | men from New York state to do all | in their power to hasten the freeing | of these two persecuted workers, Vanzetti Is Calm in Prison Cell from Which He May Never Be Freed; the Law Hates Him Because of Innocence, He Says By JOHN DOS PASSOS, Federated Press. ~ BOSTON, Nov, 22, — (FP)— The Charlestown House of Correction is Built like a church in the shape of a cross, Visitors wait in the chancel and are ushered into the crossing where the high altar would be in a catholic church, There, facing a war- den at‘a desk, 1s @ semicircle of benches. On all the benches are couples of people talking a little breathlessly, Visitors Are Ashamed, Of each’ of these couples one is a convict, the other is a friend, a bro- ther, a wife. The visitors’ from the outside sit uneasily; they feel ashamed of the freshness of their cheeks, of the smell of freedom on their clothes; like visitors in.a hos- pital they wish they were out again and feel ashamed,of themselves for wishing it, The prisoners have only one wish; they keep glancing to the right and left over their shoulders. It is for fear of something that they keep glancing over their shoulders as | they talk to the people from the out- side. Vanzetti Is Calm. Vanzetti sits on the bench, thick- chested and calm. If you didn’t know him you could tell that he was dif- ferent. He has a look of broadbrowed calm about him. His lips don’t tremble when he smiles under his thick moustache. But it is the calm of @ man with his back to the wall. He too glances from time to time over, his shoulders as if to make stire that there, is nobody creeping up behind |heard over the radio, him, “Well what do you think?” we ask each other. The case is something separate, far away, like a prizefight “Pretty bad,” says Vanzetti. “I have to work hard, very hard now. There are many things I want to write and maybe I have not much time.” He has about three hours a day to read the papers and write letters and articles, The ‘rest of the time he works in the shop making automobile license plates, “But it is so difficult to write in jail. Before I could work hard nine hours, eleven hours 4 day, and then sit down and write, It poured out, straight from the heart. Often I would not have to make a single correction in an article... But now, word by word, It is so difficult to write in a cell.” Clergy Hate Him. Somehow we got talking about the clergy.. Both the catholic priest and the protestant chaplain had written articles and made public statements | against him. It was demoralizing to the other prisoners to have a convict- ed murderer escape the chair year after year like this. “They hate me because I am atheist,” said Vanzetti. “If I went to them and made myselt humble and said ‘Father I am sorry, please give me absolution,’ they would help me.” They feel as bitterly to- wards him as doctors towards a sick ‘;man who won't buy their medicine. “At last I ask to sée Father Murphy. He trembled like a leaf. I ask to see him to say to him, ‘What have I done to him that he plot against me that way?’ He trembled like a leaf and said nothing, only smooth words. It 10 Cente 5 Cents 40 Cents : 40 Cents 60 Cents 60 Cents I would be @ criminal he would want to save my soul. Maybe even the cardinal would intercede for me, They hate me because I am not a criminal,” In jail, once you're caught in the trap- net of the law, the worst crime of all is to be innocent, Doesn't Want Pardon. Time was getting short. The hour would goon be up, And what about a compromise? What if ag a result of the change of front of many respec- table people in Boston, of the Boston Herald’s advocacy of an impartial im vestigation of the case, he should be offered a commuted sentence or a par- don? Since the Mooney case, it’s get- ting fashionable to imprison a man for life if you can’t fasten any crime on him except that of being a radical. “Tell them,” said Vanzetti quietly, without a quiver in his voice, “that I shall refuse to apply for pardon or commutation or anything. Why should I when I am innocent?” Lake Boat \,MUSKBGON, Mich., Nov, 22. — The freighter Andaste reported missing w! @ crew of 21 on botird in a heavy gale on Lake Michigan {g safe, owners of the boat said today, | ‘Whereas, the present officials of the | THESDAILY WORKER ‘orale Page Three RELIEF WORK =: Oo) LAUNCHED FOR 1000 WORKER CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 1927 BOX STRIKERS Kitchen to o Feed Work-| ers Is Opened By GEORGE &. POWERS. | (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 22,—Relief work for the striking paper box workers has recently been started. With the ad- vice and active assistance of mem- bers of the Council of Working Class Housewives, @ well equipped kitchen and dining-rogpm have been opened at the meeting hall, 9 Second Ave., where more than two thousand strikers and |\some of theiy families are fed daily. | This {s theunion’s answer to the |bosses’ despicable game of trying to jstarve the st#ikers into submission, The results of a double Tag Day, | Noy. 18-14, are encouraging, being well beyond expedtations, Added to this, |the Bakers’ Local No. 169 are donating {200 pounds of bread daily to the kit-| jchen, while the New York Joint Board jof the Furriers’ Union, despite their jrevant hard-fought strike, pledged '$100 per week for the duration of the strike, Much assistance is being received |from other unions, But much more yet remains to’be done, as thousands jot strikers’ dependants, women and |children must be cared for. ‘A Thanksgiving dance wil Ibe given for paper box strikers’ relief on Thursday evening, Nov. 25, at Harlem | Casino, 110th St. and Lenox Ave. | Tickets at 50 cents each can be se- {cured at the union headquarters, 701 Broadway, New York City. Rolice interference and brutality | still continue unabated, girl pickets receiving rought treatment as well as the men. Nevertheless, picketing also continues with as much spirit as |when the general strike first started, |Oct. 5. ‘The paper box workers are out to stay wntil their demands of a 44-hour weék and a minimum wage scale are met, Calumet Region Shows Great Shortage of Jobs By a Worker Correspondent, Editor DATLY WORKER: Thruout the Calumet region there is a shortage of work*in practically all industries. The steel workers have been the hard- est hit by thé slack period. The steel mills are operating at only 75 per cent of their capacity. In the Gary mil day afte? @dy hundreds of men are looking for Werk, but day after day thy are“ sent*away jobless from the employment Oftices. There is much suffering among the wives and chil- dren of these men. The Studebaker Co., the largest automobile plant in South Bend, after making numerous wage cuts during the summer months, has now made a grand slash by laying off: many of their. workers and now this plant is operating on a four-day schedule. The furniture plants of Evangville are operating with reduced forces also. Many factories in the Calumet région were. Visited and not a single cne is looking for any kind of labor. Some of the plants have not been hir- ing any workers for months. And Cal Coolidge says there is pros- perity! Joe Plotkin, Gary, Ind, Why don’t you write it up? It may | be interesting to other workers. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! NEW YORK. Important Notice! Classes for Foreigners in English and Fundamentals of Commu- nism, are given every Wednes- day night from 8—10:30 o'clock, at 1347 Boston Road. All com- rades and sympathizers are in- vited. Everybody will be at night, keep you away. « 'INTERNATIONAL Western, just so Dancing with Tables for All——Fin Guest of the Evening: Class Collaboration and fitted it up for | tendance, ATTENTION, CHICAGO! The next day is a holiday, so let nothing PROLETARIAN CABARET given by Chicago Local, WeDNESDNY, NOVEMBER 24, 8:15 P. M. (Thanksgiving Eve.) at MIRROR HALL (ater ee Cote ee ae A “swell” entertainment and “blow-out” of quality and jollity. DICKERSON’S SOUTHERN ORCHESTRA, Hot Supper Between 8 and 1, Only 1,000 admissions can be sold—TICKETS 75c Ley FLYNN, Nat'l Chairman of |. Doesn’t Work, the Shoe Workers Discover! By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, Nov. 22—Combining workers and bosses in the interest of | the bosses was demonstrated once more by Benson of Benson and Kim- | lers, a shoe manufacturing concern of 1 Carlton Ave., Brooklyn, This shop was organized in June, 1296, by P._P.| Cosgrove, organizer of the Shoe | Workers’ Protective Union and signed | by agreement to March, 1927. Benson engaged a loft in the same buidding | the manufacture of shoes. His first move was to per- suade some of the workers from the | fifm of Benson and Kimler to put money into his business which hej called the Aetna Shoe Corporation, with the promise of steady work to all those investing. District Council 2. of the Shoe Work: | ers Protective Union conferred with Kimler regarding his relation with the new company, but he denied any con-| nection. Since then, however, the deal- ings between the two firms have been of such a nature that the Council felt convinced that they were one and the same. Consequently a strike was de- clared and the shop is being picketed with strike headquarters at 132 Cum- berfand St., Brooklyn, N. Y. P. P. Cosgrove, who is in charge, re- ports that strike meetings are held every morning at ten with a full at- The strikers are determin- ed to win. Benter.¥ Workers Hold Good Celebration of the 9th Anniversary By a Worker Correspondent. DENVER, Colo., Nov, 22. — Mem- bers of the Workers Party, Young Workers League, Young Pioneers and friends gathered at the New Denver Lyceum to celebrate the ninth anni- versary of the Russian /Revolution on Sunday eyening, Nov. 14. The program consisted of speeches, songs, recitation and music. Jas A. Ayres, secretary of Denver Local of the I. L, D.,-acted as chairman and gave a short outline of the work being done by the Russian worke and made it very interesting by showing a number of illustrated ch showing the comparison in production: between the years of 1922-23 and 19 6. Wm. Dietrich, secretary of’ the Workers Party, made the principal peech of the evening. He presented y brief history of the movement which led up to the revolution and also, told how the Russian workers sacrificed their very lives to put over the revolu- | tion and for nine long years have | steadfastly worked to keep the fruits of their victory. One of the women members of the Workers Party donated a cake which | had nine burning candles on it and) the prooceds from the cake and that taken in at the door will go to The DAILY WORKER. | “The pen is mightier than the | sword,” provided you know how to use | It. Come down and learn how In ths | worker correspondent’s classes. INVOICES ARE OUT! Help_The Daily Worker by prompt- ness and accuracy in your payments. BERT MILLER, Manager. Mirror Hall, Wednesday LABOR DEFENSE uth .of Division best music. jest of Refreshments. |and | squeezed PAPER BOX STRIKER : GIVES PICTURE OF WORK CONDITIONS IN INDUSTRY By H, ZALKIN (A Paper Box Worker Correspondent) and how unhumanly we were exploited. | conditions are still in existence. I was quite for some time out of work and was looking hard for I saw in a paper an ad of the Kovner Paper Box. Co an experienced cutter 6f tops and bot-¢ I immediately went over to the | but had to wait until about 9 Once a job toms lace, o'clock, When the boss at last came Describes Boss. The boss was a stock, quite young | TI phlegmatic looking man, myself in right after him into the tiny, untidy cage-like office, which wag very crowded with rolls of paper and other stock, and told him 1} was a cutter. He gazed at me with his big eyes for a few moments, and |then slowly commenced to ask where I previously worked, how much I wanted. Shop Is Dirty. While I was waiting for the boss I had a chance to have a glance at | the place. It was a very small, crowd- ed, dirty and dark shop. And, was badly in need of a job, I was not too eager to work in such a place, altho I was already used to the un- sanitary and filthy conditions of the Paper box shops. I was almost sure how long, and tho I! NEW YORK, Nov, 22,.—-The present strike of the paper box workers | brought to my mind the time when there was yet no union in t trade, the unhealthy, very unsanitary conditions in which we were compelled to work I am told that in many places those they wanted paper box trade were 59 hours a week. , during the busy seasons, the were compelled to work all |kinds of hours overtime, mostly with- out any pay at all, And they had to | work Sundays, too. In our shop we worked overtime |during the week on four days, two |hours each, and Sunday until 4 o’clock, | At the end of the week I got my pay, |but did not get even a cent for the exira eight hours. I, right away, went }over to the boss and told him that I | worked eight hours overtime and de- j|manded pay for those extra hours. He looked at me curiously and sat, with a sly smile, that he does not pay for overtime, as he pays for holidays. |But I insisted on getting paid for the overtime, telling him that I would not |leave the place without being paid. |He got angry and said I should ge- mind him at the next pay, because Re |has not any cash at present, Is Vittim of Injury. the boss would not pay me the price | and my conscience would not bother me for not getting the job. As I expected, the boss couldn’t pay such a big sum, but he promised a better job later on, and meanwhile I should work for less. And he started to tell me how his workers liked to work for him, as his place has steady work and he pays them for holidays. But I was impatient and wanted to leave, 80 I told him that I would not work under the price I asked. He kept on for a little while more, tell- ing me all kinds of’ stories and of in- ducements, but finally gravely said that I am a hard fellow to deal with, and took me downstairs where the cutting room was, It seems he needed a man badly. Dirty Hole. I disliked the place right from the beginning. Every evening after work I was glad the day was over, and in the morning I would hate to think of going back to the place. I could not get used to the extremely dirty and dark hole we had to work in, and I detested the crazy system under which the work had to be done. The work hours at that time in the said he | for this particular job | Monday f did not go to work. My right wrist got swollen during the night and was quite painful. Instead, I went to a physician, who told me i& | was a strain of the joint and it must |be rested, that’s all. The next morn |ing my wrist was quite well, so I wemt to work. But the foreman met me at the door and told me to walt for the boss. Of course I knew immediately that the rush was over already and I was not wanted any more, But the boss said he would keep me if T was willing to work for $10. I did not answer, but asked to be paid off for the overtime and the Sunday work, and was told to come for it at the end of the week. Strange as it may be, no matter how I disliked to go around and look for a job, I was not a bit sorry I had #6 soon lost my job at the Kovner Paper Box Co, Worker Killed by Switeh Engine GARY, Ind., Nov. 22, — Failing to |see an oncoming switch engine in the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company plant in Indiana Harbor today, Louis Fernando, workman, was run down and killed instantly by the locomotive. Sacco and: Vanzetti Must Not Die! They must have a NEW and FAIR trial, Life and Freedom. If enough people DEMAND that they live, they WILL LIVE. Their lives and freedom, in a sense, means OUR lives and freedom Therefore come to the Protest Mass Meeting Ashland Auditorium, Van Buren and Ashland Friday, November 26, 1926, 8:15 p. m. An aroused labor movement and public must DEMAND A STATE IN. VESTIGATION, MUST MAKE A GIGANTIC PROTEST. Nationally known speakers will expose the frame-up and the “Ghastly Miscarriage of Justice.” John Fitzpatrick Pres. Chicago Federation of Labor Rev. Clayton Morrison “Christian Century” Anton Johannsen, chairman Well-known labor organizer Editor Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Nationai Sec International Labor Defense Vincenzo Vacirca Noted Itallan spenker of York; an exiled labor senator. Other Noted Speakers. ptary, New How great a percentage of our readers will rally to the meeting and make this DEMAND A POWERFUL hope and urge. ONE? A very large percentage, we t aside Friday evening, Nov. 26, for Sacco and Vanzetti, Tickets (admission is 10c) from Machinists’ District Office, 113 S. Axhiang Bivd. (Tel. for your organization or you to send them to be sent to you. Come in Tens of Thousands. BISHOP BROWN'S New Book “MY HERESY” The Autobiogra- phy of an Idea “Bishop Brown's book will do much to open the minds of those who still accept the doc- trines of superna~ turalien?, It will help to destroy il- lusions @bout the sacredness: and holiness of the pil- lare of the church It reveals & man whose honesty and courage will win the admiration and respect of his read~ ers.""—From a re- view of “My Heresy,” by C. EB. ELIZABETH GUR- L. D. Ruthenberg, in the ‘Workers Monthly. $2.00 CLOTHBOUND Unhimann, Monroe 4235) and from many union headquarters and from The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd. If absolutely impossible in for tickets and posters, phone for Come Early. | Bring Others.