The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1926, Page 5

| News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politica INJUNCTION IS ISSUED AGAINST GARMENT UNION New York. Judge Would Stop Picketing By SYLVAN A, POLLACK, (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Noy. 30.—A temporary injunction prohibiting “unlawful pick- eting,” was granted the United Cloak and Suit Designers’ Mutual Aid asso- ciation against the International Ladies’ Garmeut Workers union, The association claimed that the at-| tempt to organize the designers is in violation of the ruling of Gov. Sinitifs eommission, that the designers were | artists, and as such should not be compelled to join the union. Martin Issues Order, The injunction was granted by Judge Martin, of the appellate divis- fon of the Supreme Court. In grant- ing it, he censured the police for not taking more vigorous steps in con- nection with the strike. “Altho complaint is made against the issuance of injunctions in these ses,” he said, “it would be most un- fortunate for the public as well as ‘those who are the object of the vio- lence and other abuses described, if the courts should refuse immediate relief, especially in view of the fact that it appears from this record that those charged with the administration of the criminal law at times have not been as active or vigilant as the con- ditions would have warranted.” Chicago Committee of Passaic Relief Wants Clothing for Workers Appeals for clothing and shoes in usable condition are being made for the Passaic striker families, particu- larly for the children, by the Chicago committee which will receive dona- tions at 328 W. Van: Buren St. Tho one small mill has settled, 10,000 strikers are sfill fighting for union recognition. The strike began Jan. 25, 10 months ago, Mine Organizers Released. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Nov. 30. ~—Harry Fox, an official of the Interna- tional Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers; Anthony Pignatore and Mickey Tolonay, former employes of the Rariton Copper Works of Perth Amboy, who were convicted of an “as- sault and battery” charge, were re- leased on probation with a fine of $150 after a plea of clemency by their attorney, John Larkin of Newark, who proved that their conviction was brought about by a prejudiced K. K, K. jury on account of their fighting for a labor union. (Continued from page 1.) companies across the county line, while ten thousand miners of Somer- set county, were striking, many of them employes of the same companies was a shameful treachery, 40,000 Lost In Coke Fields. “The same thing was done by Lewis to the coke coal fields’ miners, Forty thousand of them, not union men, but wishing to become union men, stop- ped work when the 1922 strike started, They quit in a body, tying up the en- tire coke fields, they joined the union, and they had Lewis’ solemn promise that no contract would be signed un- less it included them, “Not only was this: promise broken, not only did the international officials order the rest of the miners back to work, leaving the coke fields men still out of strike to save the union, but after hunger had done its worst to some of them, and they had been evict- ed, and clubbed, and displaced by scabs, the international] office of ‘the union, a year after the rest of the union was back on strike, cut off re- lief, and told them, ‘Find work where you can, on the best conditions you can get, for we cannot help you any more.’ “An Outragel” “This is the most dastardly outrage ever perpetrated on any group of un- ion men on the American continent, No wonder there {s not a single union local among the coke region miners now, No wonder they told me, when I was there just a few days ago, ‘Alec, we will never strike with the U. M. W. as long as John Lewis heads the un- fon, even tho we know it means the life of the union endangered by our staying on the job. We have had one bitter lesson, we can never forget.’” They Trust Brophy. Howat said that he asked them if they would strike on a call from John Brophy, as international president, when the contract expires next April, and they said, “We will gladly strike, to a man, if Brophy or any other honest man calls on us, as interna- tional president, but not while Lewis is President. Lewis cannot be trust- ed.” Howat described the collapse of the union around the borders of the union- ized territory, There are thousands lost in the bituminous fields of Penn- sylvania, four thousand in Maryland are gone and no organization remains, forty thousand once organized in Dis- trict 17 of West Virginia are gone, and practically no locals are left, Dis- trict No, 29, of West Virginia, where there were 12,000 members is practic- ally wiped off the map, the. powerful fighting union in Nova Scotia, which once challenged the British Empire Steel corporation, was betrayed by the international office of the U. M. W. A, and is destroyed, Alberta, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kentucky, Alabama—all are gone or hopelessly weakened. One and One-Half Member In Kentucky, “The figures show,” said Howat, “in one whole district of Kentucky, one member and a half, That is the inter- national organizer and his boy! In another Kentucky district, there is record of one member. He must be lonesome, unless as is probable, he is also the organizer.” “Let us be fair, said Howat again, Introducing Comrade Shears! Meer this comrade. He’s the fellow who sends us clippings * from all parts of the country—on all topics of interest to the labor and radical movement: articles, editorials, photographs and cartoons—from newspapers and magazines, conservative and radical. MEET COMRADE SHEARS AND BECOME A COMRADE SHEARS YOURSELF! Clip and ship and help to make The DAILY WORKER a bet- ter workingclass daily. Here’s Another Job for Comrade Shears! ' Every day there are articles, news stories and cartoons that , your shop-mates will enjoy. Whenever you see something you _ think they will like—get out your shears! Cut it out and PASTE “From the Daily Worker”. JT UP IN THE SHOP (and in the trade union hall)—mark it Every once in a while Comrade Shears will appear above good things to clip, When you see /him-—CUT IT OUT’ The Best Place to Buy Your » CARPETS RUGS LINOLEUM FURNITURE OSCAR |. BARKUN'S 5 STORES 1600 W. Roosevelt Rd. 1618 W. Chicago Avenue 2408 W. North Avenue 2685 W. North Avenue 4247 W. Madison Street - Phone Seeley 7722 Phone Monroe 6264 Phone Humboldt 4083 Phone Humboldt 6941 Phone Nevada 1258 x ° f ° eo oLfee Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities | HOWAT SPEAKS TO ILLINOIS MINERS “let us be scrupulously fair to Inter- national President Lewis, But let us face the situation. Here {s widespread (isorganization, and ruin, The very life of the unjon depends on organ- izing the unorganized districts, But Lewis has absolutely failed to do this, even worse, he has lost nearly half of the men who were organized a few years ago, He has not lacked for co- operation, for at one time or another, most of the district officials have been his appointees. “Lewis has not lacked for organ- izers. He has spent millions for or- ganizers, He can and he has appoint- ed whoever he wishes, and as many as he wishes. “Lewis has not lacked for money. Whenever he wants to, he places an assessment, and in every case, the miners pay it, in full, “Lewis has not lacked for support, for every time he ordered a strike, the union -miners, and in times past, the non-union miners, struck and stay- ed on strike until he gave the word to go back, “But in spite of all this, Lewis has not only not organized the non-union miners, he has lost 200,000 union miners. The Only Two Possible Conclusions. “What possibilities are there,” de- manded Howat, “There are only two. Either he can organize and will not, or he can not if he wishes to. In either case, it is time to put him out of office, Eight years’ trial is enough, No corporation would give any man that much of a trial, We should de- mand at least as much of our of- ficials.’ Howat stated that he had just come from the anthracite, where 160,006 men have been sold into slavery for five years thru a contract which does not include the check-off and does in- clude compulsory arbitration. Howat described the use of arbitra- tion in labor disputes, showing how it is always a weapon of the employers where the unions are strong and milit- ant, It is a method of preventing them from using their strength. The operators do not wish to bother with arbitration where the union is power- less. They then rely on direct meth- ods of union smashing. Must Maintain Union Control, The question of maintaining the un- ion conditions and scale in territory supposedly unionized was discussed. The speaker pointed to the weaken- ing of union control in the anthracite, in Ohio, and in Illinois, He called it a shame that a district so completely organized as Illinois could not compel more respect from the employers, “I used to wish,” he said, “while we were fighting the court law and compulsory arbitration in Kansas, that we had one hundred thousand union miners down there, as you have in Illinois, We could have turned that state up- side down, In fact we nearly turned it upside down with ten thousand, Howat’s Own Case. “Howat spoke only briefly on his own case. He was convicted and thrown into jail in Kansas for order- ing as district president, a strike to secure back pay due a miner, a widow’s son, Lewis sent an arbitrary telegram to Howat and Dorchy, the secretary treasurer of District 14, Kansas, declaring them deposed from office. There was no trial, no charge even, and no investigation. Howat and Dorchy were also expelled. Removed From Ballot Again. Eyer since then he has been fighting for reinstatement with full rights. He went to work as a coal digger, and joined the union again, Twice his name has been taken off the ballot by Lewis’ orders, altho Lewis has no con- stitutional authority to: do such a thing. His name was on the ballot for district president in the election this year, with nominations of 90 per cent of the locals. While he was on his present tour speaking for John Brophy for president, and the program he has outlined, Lewis wired to the district officials in Kansas instructing them to Howat from the race and say- am surprised that you even considered putting his name on that ballot.” More than that, all locals who ‘have voted for Howat, are now by Lewis’ order disfranchised, And this 8 persecu- Rank and File for Howat Tho Howat may not have gained a hearing before the officials of the U. M. W. A, the members of the rank and file hear him gladly. The speech was well applauded, and there is a record of enormous meetings from other parts of the tour, Howat’s other dates in Illinois are at Auburn, Taylor- ville, Collinsville and perhaps other points. Joe Loda, president of Local Unfon 2653 presided at the Springfield meet- ing. Joe Tumuity, candidate for dis- trict president of District 12, made the first speech on the program, and de- nounced the Fishwick machine and the Lewis policies, as shown by the wage-cutting dinner he held with Pea body at the Mid Day Luncheon Club, Springfleld. Freeman Thompson spoke on The Coal Miner, declaring that it was the paper of the rank and file, as the Jour: the Illinois Miner are organs of hine, The Atierioban Worker Correspond- ent will bevout thie week! Send in OUT AYRORR RII PO SOUE.D YORI py ‘ THE.DAILY WORK Polfcies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism IRON FIST RULES AT ‘DEMOCRATIC’ SEAMEN MEETING Andy Furuseth Talks, But Ignores Questions (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK,CITY, Nov, 30.—With squads of police within whistle call at various, street corners on the out- side and numerous plainclothes deteo- tives on the inside, Andrew Furuseth, president of the International Sea- men’s Union, delivered a lecture on democracy and freedom of the sea at a meeting attended by members of Marine Transport Workers’ Industrial Union No. 510 of the I. W. W. and other seamen at 70 South street, Sun- day afternoon. Despite their condemnation of auto- cratic actions of shipowners, and their pleas for democratic action and | “treatment of sailors as free men,” Furuseth and his officials refused to | answer questions. They quickly closed | the meeting when several of their own members asked for the floor. | D. E. Grange, secretary of the Ma-| rine Cooks’. and Stewards’ Union of| he Atlantic and Gulf, who made the ast and most effective speech, arriv- 1 late. He reached the hall when ‘uruseth was finishing his talk. Pre- ious speakers,told about the “large itendance,” «Few left the hall for hey» wished to ask questions. Lawé ‘Not Enough. J, Bonek,’ aft official of the Sailors’ Association, pointed out that laws on| United States ‘statute books declar- ng seamen are legally free, do not nake them so ‘as long as seamen do aot act to free themselves. Furuseth said’ it was many years since he had#addressed such a large New York créwd: Believes Freedom Exists. Without so*much as a smile he as- serted that ‘freedom of the sea was gained when'@ law was passed in 1916. <6 : Poughkeepsie: Case. In the next!’br however, he referred to the infamous “Poughkeep- sie case.” ts - The S, S. Poughkeepsie put into Burmuda at the expiration of her contract. Sailors insisted that they be paid off and sent back to this coun- try. vi Several, however, were arrested on a charge of mitiny. They were tried and sentenced.” The court of appeal sustained this °conviction and* the United States ‘#ipreme court did like- wise. Furiséth and his officials, with money paid into their union by sail- ors and firetiien, fought the case at reat expense*to their organization. Furuseth “blamed the decision on mistakes “by ‘the lawyers, and said chat’ it was’ the only case decided against him by the United States su- preme court. Grange praised Furuseth and con- demned the churches. “There is the greatest battler for lemocracy and freedom that the world has seen,” the speaker said, as he pointed to Andrew. The tall, an- cient and scrawny head of the I. S. U. beamed with smiles. “I expected to see this hall pack- ed,” Grange asserted in opening his speech. This is the time to organ- ize; you never had @ better chance. Officers, including engineers, have ob- tained wage ses. Seamen get no advance, It’s the first time in my experience of 25 or 30 years as an officer of this inion that seamen have not got an increase before the officers. Something is wrong that you do not join our union,” Immediately ‘A Grange conclud- ed his talk, Chris Rasmussen, New York agent of the Atlantic district, Hastern and Gulf Sailors’ Association, the chairman, “announced that the meeting was adjourned. | But before he had finished a ten- Page Five FORD COERGING HIS WORKERS TO SUPPORT PAPER Forces Them to Boost | Reactionary Sheet How Henry Ford ts using his eco- nomic power over his employes to further the capitalistic propaganda of his “100 per cent-American” sheet, the Dearborn Independent, and to force the workers to support and read the paper is revealed by a sub | scription campaign now being con ducted, Must Get Subs. Each employe of the Ford Motor company is being coerced into secur- ing two subscriptions for the paper, which means that they must buy them themselves in most instances. The managers, superintendents, and foremen of the various plants are conducting the “subscription drive” and are using their positions in the factories to force the workers to get the subscriptions, A Sample Letter. The following is a copy of a letter that has been sent to each employe, and which speaks for itself: TO ALL EMPLOYES: I addressed a notice to you a few weeks ago with reference to the cam- paign now being conducted by the Ford Motor company for new sub- scriptions to Mr. Ford’s paper, Tho Dearborn Independent. Our quota for this campaign is over six hundred (600) subscriptions and up to the present time we have only turned in a little over 50. Mr. Ar- nold, our Chicago branch manager, has just called me on the telephone and made a personad appeal to us to get behind this campaign in a real way and finish our quota by the end of next week. Hach one of you are expected to do your little bit in this campaign and I will, therefore, expect at least two subscriptions from each one of you during the coming week. Don’t for- get that each time you turn in a sub- scription you are eligible to a chance on @ new Ford car. So far, two of these new Ford sedans have been won by employes of two dealerships. In addition to these sedans, there are also many cash prizes. Subscription blanks can be obtain- ed from the head of your department. REMEMBER I AM COUNTING ON YOU. Yours very truly, ————(General Mgr.) | Army Chaplain Brands | U. S. School Histories | As ‘Grossly Inaccurate’ WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. — After having read 52 American school his- tories, Lieut. Col. Thomas J. Dickson, | who was senior combat chaplain of the American forces in the world war, has issued a critique in which he con- demng all of them as being “grossly inaccuraté.” “Some of these school histories are ridiculous, absurd and stupid,” he said, “Unless our histories are imme- diately corrected, our pretensions doom us to become the laughing-stock of the world.” Dickson particularly cites absurdi- ties and inaccuracies in reporting ac- tivities of the Americans in the world war. “House of David” to Raise Huge Defense Fund for “King” Ben The Manager’s Corner MITH IS SATISFIED—optimistic in fact. But Smith, the satisfied one, the optimistic, is no ordinary Smith. He is Charles S. Smith, general European correspondent of the Associated Press, the powerful capitalist news octopus whose tentacles reach to every corner of the globe. Good reason for a bourgeois to be satisfied, eh? And Smith of The Associated Press, address- ing the students of the New School for Soclal Research, glories In the fact that the modern capitalist newspaper features chiefly stories of “champlon- ship fights, channel swims, visiting queens and the aberrations of peculiar individuals.” He goes into raptures about the “more human, personal view of life” given by the modern newspaper, such a view, for instance, as that which drove a young woman in a hotel in Geneva to tears when she read of the death of Rudolph Valentino. No doubt Smith deplored the fact that more of us did not weep for “Rudy.” This Is the kind of “personal, human view of life” the Associated Press and all its multitudinous branch “dope” factories would give the workers. Yes, indeed. Tears for “Rudy.” Cheers for Trudy. Hurrahs for Tunney and the bloody Queen Marie. And what of the striking textile workers of Pas- saic? What of the million British miners on the brink of starvation? What of the millions of Chinese coolies groaning under the heavy yoke of im- perialism? Where is your “personal, human view” of these, Mr. Smith? Or does your Assoctated Press care a rap about the real “personal” and the “human”? Does it not call “personal” and “human” only the idiosyncracies of the tinselled heroes and heroines you would have us worship rather than the lives and the struggles of millions of toilers, whom you would have us forget, Mr. Smith? And these tales, Mr. Smith, rather the anesthetic which you inject before impregnating the workers with the Iles and distorted perversions of the reai problems of life. | wonder, Mr, Smith! BERT MILLER. MANY OTHER CITIES SHOULD TAKE THIS TIP FROM SPOKANE, WASH. A LETTER FROM A COMRADE, Editor, Daily Worker: are. they not Im looking over the quotas of districts we note that D: No. 12 is lowest of all the lowdown in raising its quota To Keep The DAILY WORK ER. If the rest of District No. 12 had done as well as Spokane we would be the leader of all the leaders in this campaign. To keep the spokesman of labor on the job—The DAILY WORKER—that old “warhorse,” Geo Ploxam, secretary-treasurer of Spokane nucleus has receipts from The DAILY WORK- ER for $41.50 and the promise of $7.50 more which will double. Spokane’s quota, as $25 was our quota: ‘ Now, Spokane has no organized movement. Spokane has not given any “blow-outs,” had no meeting or anything of that sort to raise funds. One man, Geo, Bloxam, simply did his duty. He took his coupon books and sold them. He worked in his shop days for a living; at night he worked on the streets that The DAILY WORKER might live. His work on the s to solicit donations from all whom he thought would “dig-up."” Of co was turned down many times, but undaunted he kept at it till h lected $41.50 and is practically sure of enough to double Sp e's Now, if one man in a conservative city like Spokane can do this why catinot several men in Seattle, Tacoma, Astorla and Portland do as well and change District No. 12 from the foot to the head of the class? Kick thru, you dead heads on the coast and make District No. 12 the head instead of the tail of this campaign To Keep The DAILY WORKER! W. J. McVEY. BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Nov. 30. | —A million-dollar defense fund for | “King” Benjamin Purnell, of the Is-| raelite House of David, who was ar- | rested in a raid on the colony, was in| sight today, | It was revealed that the cult is pre- | pared to put up its entire holdings | here, including valuable farm lands, a hotel, several office buildings and the Benton Harbor street car system, to defend the chief. This announcé- ment ended rumors that the colony is split between two factions, both seek- ing control, Butler-Town Mill Workers End Strike year member of the I. 8. U., who car- ried no card inthe B. T. W., jumped | to the floor atid asked the right to put @ question. Won't Antwer Questions. But the chaitinan shouted that the meeting was ¢ while Furuseth made @ rush for the door, In @ second at least twenty men asked for the floor to ask questions, or address the meeting. But Furuseth and his aides declar- ed the meeting over, “If we can’t discuss the wrongs of seamen fn this so-called democratic meeting then we'll do so at a mass meeting in the N. T, W. Hall, 140 Broad street, next Sunday afternoon, and all who want it will get the floor,” seamen shouted. Can Color Steei, Rr gpereiog) England, Nov. 30.| process {or coloring stainless steel, making it useable for decorat- fo Plaaraynrrgr te discovered by Griff, acwoman engineer of Birmingham, f \The 1,500 workers are retufning to their jobs with the. complaints of seribe! weavers on the fining or grading sys- | \dependent American Federation NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Nov. 30.— (PP)—Dartmouth Mill workers have ended their five-weeks strike, claim- ing victory on most of their demands, tem adjusted. The weavers led the strike, other departments following Even if A Splendid ven if you New Book— have to shake ‘ out every penny from the old 4 coffee can— 4 do it if you must, THE PEASANT WAR IN to attend the 4 Ayaan By Friedrich Engels Conce t Translation by MOISSAYE OLGIN r ERE is a splendid work that . AND H is now available to American Ball readers, A study of the peasant revolts and their relation to the wae reformation. The contrasting fig- POE maass ures of Thomas Muenzer, rebel IN DETROIT leader and Martin Luther. Here is history written by a great f SUNDAY DEC 4 writer and thinker presented in j ’ e most interesting form for every at the International Work- bea ae men’s Home Just Off The Press 3014 Yeamans St., Hamtramck, rb es Cloth $1.50 Read Also These New bo Bieatate Publications ‘ERT AT 8 | LEFT WING UNIONISM— |, Auspices Section 6 Workers By D. J. Saposs Cloth $1.60 (Communist) Party and Russian and Ukrainian Units, SELAO TED Seenre— By Karl Marx Cloth $1.78 The December issue of the Amer MARXIAN ECONOMIC lean Worker Correspondent will be HANDBOOK— out this week. Get a copy, sub- By W. H. Bmmett Cloth $3.25 DIRECT FROM THE PASSAIC BATTLE FRONT! them out on the call of the New Bed- ‘ford Textile Council, composed of representatives from locals of the Fer Textile Operatives. New Bedford a number of cotton textile mills ow: by William Morgan Butler, lame-duck senator from Massachusetts, whom not even President Coolidge’s vote could H put into office to @ucceed his present appointment, Butler is the dominant mill owner of the ¢ity, Selected Essays election of early, mare tinene thems i‘, of Kar! HEAR ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN THE NOTED LABOR ORATOR at Music-Art Hall, 233 South Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal. Sunday, December 5, 8 P. M. Joint auspices I, L. D. and Civil Liberties Union of Los Angeles, Cal, —— ALSO —— Monday, December 6, 8 p. m., at Co-operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Ave. and Wednesday, December 8, 8 p. m., at Needle Trades Hall, 224 South Spring St., Los Angeles, Cal. | 1 Padi clapacee 7 Ma TORTS Pp |