The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1926, Page 2

Page Two ¥ THE DAILY WORKER BOTANY VICTORY’ ASSURES UNION IN N. J. MILLS Strikers Joyfal Over| Newest Triumph (Continued from page > | date of settlement: untim strikers re-| employed.” | Reply: The interests of the com- munities of Passaic, Clifton, Garfield, ‘Wallington and of the workers and | the mills themselves will be best serv- «d by re-employing as rapidly as pos- sible the workers resident in this area, This course will be followed by | }the Botany Mills. “The above statements define our |} { position, both to Botany Mills and | }Garfield Mills | (Signed) Charles F. H. Johnson. | Fight For Union, | “What we have been fighting for j* union,” said Mr. McMahon in his ‘ed dress to the Botany strikers. “I am {lad to note your enthusiasm on that point. To that attachment you must }wtand firm in the time to come. It 1% {you and you alone who will make this (mettlement lasting by building up a fgtrong textile organization in Passaic.” | Listing the points which the strikers iwould gain by the settlement, Alfred {Wegenknecht, chairman of the Gen- era| Relief Committee, said: “We have won a victory in this strike. The union we have fought for has become a@ fact. A union of workers inside the \mills will now replace the union on trike.” Right to Organize. The right to organize, return of the Mwage'cut, the right of collective bar-| gaining and re-employment without discrimination are ali won by the set- tlement, Wagenknecht told the Botany | workers at the meeting. The Botany Consolidated Mills} which include two plants, the Garfield | ‘Worsted and the Botany Worsted, em- | ploy in normal times between six and seven thousand workers. It is the sec- ‘ond mill to sign a settlement with the union. The first was the Passaic Worsted Spinning company, which | signed up November 11 om the same | six points. First Out. | It was the Botany workers who precipitated the strike in January 1926 when they went out on strike follow- ing a ten per cent wage cut. The rest of the mills then followed suit. The tnfon claims that the recent wage in- ereases granted by Botany before this | settlement took place, is in effect a restoration of the wage-cut made a year ago. : The other mills who have not settled | yet with ‘the union include the Forst-! mann and Huffmann, the Gera, the; United Piece Dye Works in Lodi; the | New Jersey Worsted and the Dundee | Textile. eee j Urge Quick Relief. | PASSAIC, Dec, 16.—Alfred Wagen-| |Bnecht, relief chairman, commenting jen the Botany settlement, asked all) febor to participate in the celebration lef this victory which has been made | le by their splendid support of relief. 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Students In technical schools by the hundreds are stineed to revolutionary activity and frequently have ald from the soldiers. Arrests have been made among this group. The Annamite people are becoming violent In their demands for independence, TWO OF MAYOR'S FOUR APPOINTEES IN SCHOOL QUIZ Give Views on Problems Affecting Education Two of the four appointees of Mayor Dever for position on the board of education appeared befd the school committee of the city coun: cil at its heaping yesterday, They were Dr. Otto L. Schmidt and Mrs. William S. Heffern, the latter ap- pointed to succeed herself. In questioning Dr. Schmidt it was brot out that he had been connected with the public school league in 1914, when that body rendered a report stis- taining the policies of the then presi- dent of the board, Jacob J. Loeb. Suffers Lapse of Memory. But when he was asked if his re- port supported Loeb in his act of discharging 68 teachers without a hearing, he suffered a lapse of mem- ory and pleaded that he could not re- call the matter. Mrs. Heffern came out unequivoc- ally in support of the Junior high schools. On the matter of the pla- toon systej: she was not so po . but indicated taht she had been will- ign to see them tried out and now} thought that the superintenden! should report on the results of the experiment. When she said that there were but 18 or 20 in operation, her attention wag called to the superin- tendent’s report of last year, show- ing 60 in existence. A resolution in the council, by Alderman Oscar F. Nelson, July 9, 1924, claimed that al- most 100 elementary schools had been platooned. Favors Teachers’ Councils. Mrs. Heffern expressed her entire divergence from McAndrews on the question of teachers’ councils, which she said she favored, to be held on school time and with no interference from superintendents or principals, Alderman Arvey, wnom Alderman Nelson called “tne irrspressfble ad ministration short-stop,” tried to rush matters by moving the confirmation of Mrs. Hefferan, Dr. Schmidt, and Charles J. Vopika, leaving that of Walter J. Raymer still pending until he had appeared before the contmit- tee, Vopica, while he did not appear, had written a letter to the committee on his position in school matters. Nelson insisted that the confirmation be deferred until matters such as the platoon system had been gone into, and he carried the day. The commit: te@ recessed until Saturday morning. Hits Platoon System, “This whole thing,” said Alderman Nelson, “grows out of the employers efforts to cut school courses and save money. With retricted immigration, they wish to throw boys and girls into industry earlier in life than formerly. Hence the Junior high schools, to eut schooling from 12 to 9 years, henee the platoon system,” Borah Proposes New International Court WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—~All the nations of the earth would be asked to co-operate with the United States in drafting a new code of interna- tional law and in creating a new in- ternational court, modeled after the American supreme court, under terms of @ resolution sponsored in the sen- ate by Senator Borah. The resolution would “outlaw war,” he said, Germany's Finances Good, BERLIN—An optimistic report on Germany's financial condition was made by Seymour Parker Gilbert, ag- ent general for reparations, Germany has “loyally and punctually” made all ments required under the. Dawes plan for the second reparations year, he said, Foreign loans have poured into the country in a steady stream, be sald, pointing to this as demon- strating the soundness of the coun- try’s economic position. Germany's currency has remained stable, he says, Two Die in Fire, BLIZABETH, N. J., Dec, 16.—Two men were burned to death in @ fire which destroyed a ¢wo-story framo barn on the farm of William Anslen near here tade pe 5 vary oe FUBRIERS HERE REFUSE TO WORK IN SHOP BESIDE GANGSTER OF RIGHT WING “We won't work beside a gang- ster who helps break up our unlon meeting and beats our members.” With this statement, members of the Chicago Furriers’ Union at the Bon Sugarman fur shop, Sixteenth street and Kedzie avenue, Wednes- day stopped work until Morris Ro- sen, one of the right wing gangsters of the union who took an active part in assaulting members of the un- jon at Tuesday's furriers’ meeting, wae forced to quit the shop. Rosen was fired when the boss realized that the union members would not work in the same shop with a traitorous union member. Every one of the 12 furriers.em- | ployed there demonstrated their solidarity against the right wing CHICAGO GLOAK MAKERS BEGIN FIVE-DAY WEEK |Union Nails Boss Lie | About Agreement The Chicago cloakmakers will begin working a five-day forty-two-hour week commencing Monday, December 20, |1926) These hours will be in force un-| |fil the first Monday in June 1928, when |they will pegin working a forty-hour |five-day week. Chicago 1s the second | |cloak market under the control of the | |{nternational Ladies’ Garment Work-| jers’ Union and the third needle trade Fight for “A OVERNOR Len Small advances an interesting theory in support of his appointment of “Sammy” In- sull’s man, “Friday” Frank L, Smith, Ilnois senator-slect, to fill the unexpired term of the late Sen. William B. McKinley. Governor smal] says; “The large vote cast for Frank L, Smith shows conclusively that he is the choice of the voters of this great state for United States gangster. | tc junion in the United States that has| established the principle of a ferty- |hour five-day week. The other two \markets are the New York Fur Work: credit for this achievement. Bosses Spread Falsehoods. The Chicago association of dress manufacturers, known as the Mitchell 0 | aucement for new members to join HER [their association during thelr cam- Offers Arbitration Over paign, These stories are not based on * ’ facts and do not contain a particle of Strikers Heads i (Continued from’ page 1) | in Chicago, in order to prove how } e the: ements are, quotes the lowing graph from their bulletin Furriers Support Strikers. ded, ilwaukee Avenue Manu-| NEW YORK, Dec. 16,—The Furriers’ Union of New York has condemned the | conference ealled by the socialists for| ;manufacturers are how deadlocked— he employers ate insisting that the| }forty-hour week clause be eliminated |the Furriers’ Union, which along with | |from the proposed agreement. ‘The|the N. Y. cloakmakers, was attacked | |by socialist officials headed by Abra- ham Beckerman of the Amalgamated | No Deadlock. stand by the general strike committee | Davidson says that not only has|of the cloakmakers which took a |there be@n no deadlock in negotiations |similar action, It is charged that the | j but the union has not as yet‘decided conference is an attempt to create |purely made up story of writing the ardicle with the intention of frighten: ing the buyers away from the union dress manufacturing shops, As far as the Northwest Side Manufacturers’ Association, who professed ignorance of this statement and does not pay any attention to it. locals of the furriers and cloakmakers’ unions. | Furriers’ looals that have been in- | vited to this conference, the avowed | purpose of which is to drive Com-| munists and left wingers out of the unions, have announced that they will not participate. Strikebreaking Move. In gnother stateineut regarding the action of Sigman’s General Executive Board in the Cloakmakets’ Internation- al, the Furriers’ Joint Board declares itself in full support of the striking cloakmakers and condemns the action of Sigman and the right wingers in their illegal action to break the strike, remove the officials of the joint board {ers and the New York Cloakmakers, | |Thése unions are under progressive SIGMAN Dress Association, has issued a bul- |letin containing a story made up by truth, Brother Davidson, organizer of the it will be the new Madison Square Garden.—Editor.) acturers and Union Deadlocked Over | |Terms”: “Negotiations between the Dec. 21.to conduet a war on militancy | in the trade unions. A statement is- union shows no intention to give up this clause and has threatened to call lout all members at the expiration of |Clothing Workers’ Union, has called | |the present agreement unless their de-|this conference a strikebreaking move, | |for themselves npr informed the em-|demoralization and terror in the |ployers of the kind of agreement they the union is concerned they will try to reach an agreement. Mr, Davidson leadership and the progressives claim | ALLY TO SELL | Mr, Horton, their secretary, as an in- {International Ladies’ Garment Work- **@ junion and the northwest’ side dress sued by the New York Joint Board of | | mands are granted.” The furriers were supported in their | |want. He charges the author of this spoke to Mr, Phillips, the president of SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 16.—Col- onel Ned M. Green, deposed prohi- bition administrator, charged with liquor diverting government-seized for his own us his own defense and made a sweep- ing denial of the charges lodged against him, He admitted taking bottles of Ii- quor from the prohibition enforce- ment. offices at various times, but the liquor he took was never dis- pensed to his friends, as charged, he said. “This liquor was undrinkable,” Green testified. “1 took it merely to study the labels, which were ob- viously spurious, in an effort to show these bottles did not contain the brand of liquor which the labels would lead one to believe,” CLEVELAND, 0. Annual LL.D. Bazaar Grdina Hall 6021 St. Clair Ave. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 18 and 19 Beginning 2:30 each day. Bishop Brown will speak SUNDAY, DEC, 19, 7:30 P. M, Subject: Evolution and Revolu- ' tlon- Dancing Saturday Night 7:30 to 11:30 $160 Electric Washing Machine Given Away mM Night, Refreshments and Suppers and arbitrarily set up a new board. It declares that such action en- courages arrogant employers and will affect the stand and well-being of all needle workers. BIG TICKET SALE IS REPORTED FOR BREAKING CHAINS Altho the initial announcement that “Breaking Chains” will be shown at the Ashland Auditorium on Dec. 18, has been made only a few days ago, the International Workers’ Aid office has already had hundreds of calls for tickets, a considerable number of people who saw the picture on Dec. 3 bought tickets again with the com- ment, “I must se picture again.” The International ‘kers’ Aid urg- es all those who desire to see “Break- ing Chains” not to miss the opportun- ity on Dec, 18, because after that date the picture will be shipped out of Chicago for a long country-wide tour and will not be shown in Chicago again, | The Dec, 18 showing will be able to accommodate 8,000 people. There will be plenty of seats, No waiting in Mne or crowding. The 8,000 peo- ple who could not get in to see the picture at the first will have their opportunity on Dec, Buy your tickets early at the fol- lowing places: 1553 W. Madison Sti, 1806 S. Racine Ave, 3209 W. Roosevelt \Rd,, 2409 N. Halsted St, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., 3116 S. Halsted St., 19 S, Lincoln, 1902 Ww. Division St,, 3451 Michigan Ave., 1532 W. Chicago Ave, 2720 W. Division St., (Ceshinsky’s), * MORE APPLICANTS FOR EACH JOB IN NOVEMBER THAN IN MONTH EARLIER The ratio of applicants to jobs avail at the Iilinols Free &m- ployment Bureau,’ according to Sup- erintendent Charlies J, Boyd, was senator and in obedience to that expression of the people of Illinois, J appoint him to represent this state in the United States senate for ‘the unexpired term of the late Senator William B, McKinley.” ; soe On that theory, of course, the democrats and the so-called. insur- gent republicans haven't the ghost of a show in their efforts to unseat the “old guard” republican corrup- thenists. They can all claim that the election figures showed they had the votes, ergo “the pee-pul,” be- hind them, Senator-elect Arthur R, Gould, Maine, carried that state by a much larger majority preportionately than Smith received in Illinois, Accord- ing to Small’s theory this should blot out the charge that Gould bribed J. K. Fleming, then premier of New Brunswick, Canada, in con- nection with the St. John Valley railway project. A republican cor- ruptionist becomes lily white be- cause he carries an election in a hidebound republican state, Senator-elect William 8. Vare lost Pennsylvania, outside of Phila- delphia, by 50,000 votes, But that was a mere bagatelle for the cor- rupt Vare machine to overcome in its home territory, It won handily, but in the winning it saw to it that the democratic candidate, William B, Wilson, in scores of Philadelphia precincts did not receive a single vote. According to Governor Small, the mandate of ballot box corrup- tion, supposed to be the voice of. “the pee-pul” of Pennsylvania speaking, entitles Vare to his seat in the U, S. senate without ques- tlon, / ee Illinois ig not without its ballot box manipulating, Both the capital- ist parties are guilty of it, New ex- Poses follow every election cam-_ paign, The party machine that is. the most successful cheat carries off the plums, Nearly always it is money that spells “Success!” in capitalist politics, The Coolidge-Melion outfit in Pittsburgh, in the primaries,. distri- buted half a million dollars in $10 bills to 50,000 voters with itching palms, getting the support of all these 50,000 voters and all others under the influence of this pur- chased electorate. At the same time every obstacle is plaeed in the way of the large masses of workers, in Pittsburgh’s great basic industries, most of whom are foreign-born, from exercising the franchise privi- lege. If they are at all radical, Labor Party in the 1928 Elections” By J. LOUJS ENGDAHL. It is difficult at best to become natural- ized, Vare is not the choice of the people, much less of the workers of they are denied citizenship. Pennsylvania,, He was ‘the choice of the millions of dollars of the min- ing, steel, railroad and banking in- terests of the state, Smith, in Illinois, was no less the | candidate, and becomes no less the senator of the dollars of the great public utility interests, out of which “Sammy” Insull towers as a com- manding figure, Smith had the sup- port of the republican ballot-box manipulating machine, which won | for him a sufficient number of votes after the expenditure of huge sums of money contributed by those who would profit most of his election. Smith is the choice of the repub- can tyranny over the people of Illinois, not the free choice of the Illinois electorate. s+ But the democrats who bring charges against Smith, Vare, Gould et al, are no .less hypocritical. Thruout the “Solid South” they are not compelled to spend huge sums of money. The Negro yoters are deprived of their ballot rights and numerous restrictions prevent ther poor whites from enjoying the boasted franchise privilege. The Southern aristocracy is in power as in slavery days, and they maintain power cheaply, ; Nor is there any ring of sincerity in the attack of the self-labelled “insurgents” against the dollar elected senators, They have all, without exception, chosen to accept the favors of the “old guard” re- publican machine. They are tarred with the same stick. Senator Lynn Frazier wants his “machine’ inside the republican party in North Da- kota. The LaFollette-Blaine combi- nation seeks the same end in Wis- consin, Brookhart and Norris are no different in Iowa and Nebraska. The same is true of all the rest, without exception. Corruption is inherent in capital- ist politics, the politics of a master class fighting to maintain its su- premacy over an oppressed class thru every conceivable trick and device, eee The workers and farmers cannot speak, they cannot have a medium thru which to voice their class grie- vances and make their class de- mands, unless they build their own power separate from and opposed to the organized power of their ‘enemies, All thru the coming months, therefore, as the charges of bribery, vote-stealing and corrup- tion are hurled back and forth in congress, let the advance elements among the workers and farmers ‘sound clearer than ever above the general tumult the clarion call, “A Labor Party in the 1928 Elections.” Against the organized greed of the master class the massed intelligence and will to struggle for all power as a class of the workers and farm- ers of the land, Rykoff Assails Opposition at Comintern Plenum; Parties Firm (Continued from page 1) opposition and the fact that they are playing a double game, — Contradictions. Kameneff’s speech, Rykoff declared, was a mass of contradictions from be- ginning to end, Nobody in the central committee of the Soviet Union Party had ever denied the danger of right drifts in the country, However, on this as on other questions the oppos!- tion proposed nothing of a practical nature, Our big mistake has that we did not remove the op} tional comrades from leading poi tions earlier since owing to their policy the country suffered the deep- est crisis. However, since then we have emerged successfully from the crisis, Defeatist Tendencies, Seeking for what they were lacking the opposition found a definite pro- gram in Trotskyism aé its central kernel, The opposition’s ideology is defeatist; they are daily expecting the defeat of the revolution and every autumn they are prophesying @ sharp economic crisis, especially in case of good harvest, alleging that industrial production would be unable ‘to meet the largest demands of the peasant market. The opposition’s views of the relations of the workers and the pe: anis are the same ag between capital- iat countries and their Colonies, An example of the double accounting of the opposition is the fact that they themselves yoted for the agricultural tax and then agitated against it, The opposition’s taunt that the majority of the central committee was guilty of national reformism in the 166.8 for each hundred jobs in Nov. |question of the sociblist against 182.7 in jowing @ fall- jin one country is Ing off in empl last month as |The opposition hag not compared with the Ing month, | single tact substantia Fewer applicants red in Nov. | which is therefore a than In Oot, but were atill jaimed at giving the opposition a lead- fower jobs avaliable them. ee visa + FAW Os): ist construction in one country is not an abstract question, it depends which country, it depends on the series of phases and changes in the struggle for world socialism, Growing Independence, Naturally Rykoff said there is a dependence upon foreign capital but foreign trade is mutually profitable and with the industrialization of the country the dependence is growing smaller and smaller, The pace of our development with planned industry and the foreign trade monopoly and the leading role of the Communist Party are much more rapidly develop- ed than in capitalist countries. We must resolutely reject the accu- sation of the lack of faith in the world social revolution, Capitalism is decay- ing, the October revolution was the first link in the chain of the struggle for the overthrow of world capital- ism, “We are not forgetting our inter- national duty. Rykoff concluded that Kameneff and Zinoviev were wrong when they com- plained of the harsh methods of the party against the opposition; Zinoviev himself had formerly used drastic methods against better disciplined op- ponents than the present opposition, ‘The opposition uses all means of fight ing the party and therefore they must not blame us,for hard conditions ne cossary to the party, Baltic Parties’ View. Stutchka, speaking on behalf of the Communist parties of Latvia, Lithua- nia, and'Basthonia, declared that they remain true to the Comintern and to SS ——————————————————————————————————— Rally Workers Now in HOUSE ASSAILS COOLIDGE FOR NAVAL POLICY Will Demand Probe on Relative Strength (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—A resolu- tion asking an immediate investiga- tion into the condition of the navy was introduced in the house by Rep. Black, New York, following a stormy session of the naval affairs commit- tee in which congressmen were work; ed up to a high pitch over the alleged weakness of the U. 8S. navy defense. Attack Coolidge. ° Fricton between Coolidge’s “econ- |omy” poliey and the desires of cer- tain legislators for increasing the size of the navy, which has been brewing since congress opened, has assumed definite and visible form, What little harmony prevailed between the presi- dent and republican leaders in the house is shattered by this situation, observers believe. Cal Ignored Congress. The members of the naval commit- tee claim that Coolidge had deliber- ately allowed the navy's strength to decrease below the level provided at the Washington conference which set up the 5-5-3 ship ratio with Great Brit- ain and Japan. What has incensed the solons above everything is: that altho congress appropriated funds for construction of three more cruisers, Coolidge and Budget Djtector Lord blocked the construction, Secretary Wilbur was also attacked when he admitted that he refrained from urging construction of the ships because of Coolidge’s instructions, Admiral Eberle told the house that it would take 21 ships to bring the a ee ae a td np seneeseeemeninins athedbeninthicriernn navy on equality with Great Britain. . MARINE PILFERS MAIL HE GUARDS AGAINST BANDITS CLEVELAND, 0., Dec, 16.—The first marine caught rifling the mails which he was supposed to guard. wil! not get off with a marine corps court- martial, it was made evident here by U. 8. District Attorney A. BE. Bern- stein, Bernstein turned a deaf ear to en- treaties of marine officers that they be allowed to try Private Robert W. Russell, who was arrested last night and found to have about $300 worth of registered mail in his possession, ac- cording to postal inspectors. He had been detailed to guard the mail on a New York Central train. Russell will be tried in federal court, Bernstein said, hy Most of the letters contained Christ- mas presents addressed to foreign des- tinations, A SPECIAL OFFER To Get You Acquainted With ‘ CCMMUNIST | INTERNATIONAL, Cae Ong ot Lames Comes Ne Coma orm The first three numbers of the new form of this important publication which have JUST ARRIVED! 25 Cents No. 1,No, 2, No. 3 of the new form are now ready. Only these three numbers are beieng sold at the special price. SINGLE ISSUES 15 CENTS ‘SUBSCRIBE! $2.50 a year $1.25 six months —— ORDER BLANK The Daily Worker Pub. Co, 1113 w. 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