The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1926, Page 1

—— eas i when the league members are at ‘onch, The Daily Worker Fights: For the 40 Hour Week. For the Organization of the Un organized, For a Labor Party. In, Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per y co ECR ES Ss CAR A oe act Vol. Hil. No. 289. Subscription Rates: Outside Chica; WE HAV * “od ED THE HALF-WAY MARK: WE MUST FINISH THE JOB TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER By C. E. RUTHENBERG, General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party. qc contributions to the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund by districts, including December 14, shows the following results: District Quota Amt. Raised Percentage Buffalo ... $ 1,100 $1,192.62 108.42 Detroit 2,500 2,525.92 101.04 Kansas City . 1,000 892.14 89.21 Agricultural 400 351.00 87.76 Chicago .... 7,500 4,802.65 64.03 Philadelphia . 3,000 44,783.24 59.44 San Francisco 3,000 1,528.26 50.94 Minneapolis 3,500 1,759.27 50.26 Cleveland 3,000 1,295.20 43.17: New York . 15,000 5,699.19 37.99 Pittsburgh . 2,500 909.17 36.36 Boston .... 4,000 1,214.93 29.38 Seattle 2,500 733.17 29.35 New Haven 1,000 276,92 < 27.69 Ganada and Foreign .... 52.75 Total ..... .$50,000 $25,017.06 50.03 The above figures once more indicate the measure of the support which has been given to the Keep The DAILY WORKER campaign by the party memoers In the various districts and the party as a whole. The Keep The DAILY WORKER campaign was built upon the basic proposition that each party member either contribute $5.00 or raise $5.00 thru sale of the Keep The DAILY WORKER certificates. The Buffalo and Detroit districts show over $5.00 per member raised to Keep The DAILY WORKER. Against this we have the fact that in the New Haven, Seattle and Boston districts not even one out of every three party members have raised $5.00 to Keep The DAILY WORKER. Kansas City and the Agricultural Districts are running close to $5.00 per member, but in the Pittsburgh and New York districts it has taken nearly three members to raise the same amount of moncy that one has raised in these districts. Cleveland, Minneapolis and San Francisco have members who compared to those in-Buffalo and Detroit are able,to de half the. amount.of work. _ Is there this difference in the interest of the party members in the: various districts? ‘Have we one-third, two-fifth, one-half members jn relation to their eup- port of the fight to Keep The DAILY WORKER? We urge the members in those districts which have lagged behind in the struggle for The DAILY WORKER to redeem their record. Their failure _ to support The DAILY WORKER is keeping our paper in danger, instead of creating a situation which would enable us to Keep The DAILY WORKER as the organ of the revolutionary movement in the United States, The DAILY WORKER will not be safe unless we complete the $50,000 fund. it is the work of the members in those districts which make such a disgraceful showing In the above table to give the support that will achieve this end. We. must continue to put the full strength of the’ party behind the Keep The DAILY WORKER campaign until the $50,000 fund is completed. A HALF-WAY JOB-WILL NOT KEEP THE DAILY WORKER. WE MUST COMPLETE THE JOB BY RAISING THE BALANCE OF THE $50,000 FUND. Weisbord Hails Victory of Passaic Textile Strikers; Urges Workers. to Fight on for 109 Per Cent Union The following statement by Albert Weisbord, initiator and reader of the Passaic strike, was addressed to the textile workers of Passaic, N. J., whose long strike ig more than half won with ihe capitulation of the largest mill in the textile region of New Jersey: The workers of Passaic have just won a wonderful victory. The latest settlement with the Botany Mills Consolidated Co., employing close to 6,000 workers is a cause for celebration everywhere. Fighting against tremendous olds, against an enemy with agents both inside and outside the trade unions, the workers have displayed a solidarity and unity that had to Win, ~ But the fight-is not yet over. The other mill owners must be forced to terms. The scabs must be cleaned out. The other textile mills not yet with a union must be unionized. Sam- uel Hirds, Pitkin Spinning Company, Passaic Print Works, Manhattan Print Works, Essex Cotton Mill, Del- awanna Bleachery, ete. All must be unionized. Passaic must be made a 100 per cent closed shop union town. The victory in Passaic has, in a sense, wiped out the defeat of the workers in 1919, when they thought the bosses in America in the basic in- dustries could not be beaten. Not only can the bosses be beaten, but they can be forced to recognize the union, Forward, Passaic workers! The good work of the Communist Party has not been in vain, Keep the same fighting policies and tactics. Follow your old leadership. You have shown the whole working class how to fight and win! Albert Weisbord, harry Stent By T. J. O'7FLAHERTY. ISCOUNT. GREY, the gentleman-— beloved of American- liberals—- who was secretary for foreign affairs in the Asquith cabinet when the world war broke loose, has now cut loose with an attack on Soviet Russia. Grey has been given credit for peaceful in- tentions by easily-gulled Mberals but his pacifism is not even skin deep. It ie a thin veneer that’ sticks like talcum powder, Grey tells us that there is wide difference between the reasons why the Soviet Union keeps out of the league of nations and the United. States’ reasons for not Joining, The latter because it) fears the cof sequences of meddling with the affairs of the other peoples; the latter be- cause it fears its trouble-making pro- pensities would be curbed by the other Tongue members, ‘ nme HAT the honorable viscount is a “blawsted” Har Is quite obvious and saving of argument, At a time. Suspended for Antl-Milltariem. HONOLULU~For | distributing pamphlets in criticism of. the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, four stud ents of the McKinley High School have been unished by pension, Use your brains and your pen to ald’ je, workers in the clasa strusdia. (Continued ow page 4.) a ena “ oe OK, Entered at Seeund-clase Congress TUESDAY, 24, Rene an Post Office at Ch EMBER 21, As (Special to The Daily Worker). WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Investigation of Fim that department of justice agents and “certain state officiale” ‘in to secure false evidence in the famous Sacco-Vani ichusetts conspired ti case, was asked in a resolution introduced in the house yesterday. by Representative Sabath, democrat of IIlin and other large centers. by a copy of the resolution passed Sabath requested that Speaker Longworth be directed to name a committee of five to make th This action follows upon a campaign conductel zetti Defense Committee and The DAILY WOR members of congress demanding a federal inve: ment of justice’s role in the famous case. The DAILY WORKER sent lettens*to all co! resolution passed by the huge Madison Square York a month ago, which was followed by a simi This resolution, cond trial Judge Thayer and asking a congressional in inquiry. | by the Sacco-Van- ik in circularizing ion of the depart- men enclosing the in meeting in New protest in Chicago Mning the conduct of , Was accompanied on the Sacco-Wanzetti case by the £0, lilinois, under the Act of March 8, 1879, 1926 <<" Published Datly except S THE, DAIL POBLISHING CO., 1113 V Detroit convention of the American Federation of Labor. At the same time the defense committee sent to every member of congress copies of the affidavits made by ex-department of justice agents showing conclusively that that agency of the government had really originated the case and had been the motivating force in the frame-up In the Massachusetts state that resulted in the passing or the death sentence upon the two Italian workers, The evidence presented by the defense and contained in affidavits of department agents shows that the department of justice is intimately involved in every phase of the case from the, ghastly death of Andrea Salsedo in New York to the gathering of false evidence on the Braintree robbery and murder which resulted in the death penalty. Another important angle of the case which the defense wants looked into is the reason why the department of justice, under instructions of Attorney General Sargent, in Washington refused to open its files to the defense when they wished to present evidence to show the department's activities in the case. Victory Nearer — {Labor Reaction Gets Its Answer In Passa As New Mill Falls (Special to The Daily Work: PASSAIC, N. J., Dec. 19.—Yet another strikers brings nearer the final triumph of Jersey textile industry. The Dundee Te: Saturday morning with the striking worke: tory of the Passaic lionism in the New Mills settled on the same terms upon which the Jarger Botany and Passaic } Yorsted Mills capi- tulated to organized might. Since the Botany also controls the big aiibea mill, the Dun- dee makes the fourth mill to surrender, unabated against the weakened remaining” Huffmann, Gera Mills, Jersey Spinning Importance attaches to the SUN'S DEFEAT BY CANTONESE NOW DECISIVE Objectives Attained in: Anti-North Drive Note: The following is a special dispatch to The DAILY WORKER from the Bureau of Information of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Canton revolutionary govern- ment of China. This dispatch is the first of a series to be published as the result of establishing direct news connections with the South Chinese Republic, enabling The DAILY WORKER to give its read- ers accurate information on the great struggle now being waged in the orfent. , (Special to The Daily’ Worker) CANTON, China, Nov. 15.— (By, Mail.)—The striking suce of the nationalist revolutionary armies dur- ing the second week of November made definite the nationalist hold on Kiangsi province, thus completing the attainment of the primary objectives set up for the anti-north campaign. They insure Canton’s control of Kiangsi, Hunan and Hupeh provinces, and part of Fukien which are thus added to Weichow, Kuangtung and Kuangsi, long under the nationalist administration. * Sun's Defeat Decisive. Sun Chuan-fang’s defeat appears to have been decisive. The final nation- alist drive against his forces located along the MHanchang-Kiukiang rall- way, and in southeast Hupeh prov- ince, resulted in the complete rout of his forces in all this territory. jot only were enormous quantities ammunition and other military sup- plies taken in the capture of Nan- chang (the Kiagsi capital) and satu. kiang and the points between on the Nanchang-Kiukiang railway, but something over 30,000 of Sun Chuan- fang’s troops were made prisoners, thus effectually crippling that war lord. : The movement of the* nattonalist forces is not stopped but is proceed- ing in an effort to clean out south Anhwei province and take over § i's forces still operating in that sector, Informal Inspection Tour One of the immediate resuity of these military successes is that pro- od tour of inspection to be made ‘WW’ some of the leaders of the nation: list government. Several government (Continued on Deze 20 » Othsr fight continues isses, Forstmann- and United Piece lee Mills because ilk mill to settle. | Weaken. * “expected- mo» mentarily. At-the present time, agents ot the Forstmann-Huffman company are in. Washington conferring with Senator Borah looking towards a set tlement, The Passaic local of the United Textile, Workers’ Union has arranged a huge victory banquet to celebrate the latest achievement. The victories\so far won mean that half of the 15,000 striking workers have won their battle now nearing the eleventh month. The enthusiasm among the strikers never ran higher. But the relief committee is® still stressing the necessity for outside support to assist the remaining strik- ers until the final victory. The Terms. The Dundee settlement, as with the others made, provides for recognition of the union, the elimination of the wage cut that precipitated the strike, collective bargaining, adjustments of grievances by committees from the union, no discrimination against strik- ers and no hiring until all strikers are back at work. 7,000 Settied. The settlement in the Garfield and Botany mills involved over 6,000 work- ers, in the Passai¢ worsted about 600 and in the Dundee silk mill about 500, bring the total number of strikers who are returning to work above 7,000, N.Y. WORKERS PARTY AIDS THE STRIKE RELIEF OF PAPER BOX MAKERS The paper box makers are now out for ten weeks. They are strug- gling for unian standards in the in- dustry. They are most bitterly ex- ploited and . brutally oppressed. More than half are young girls re- ceiving miserable wages and most inhuman treatment. The Workers Party has been as- sisting the struggles, but now more “than ever these workers must be sted by relief so that they may be able to conduct their struggle to victory. The union, in co-operation with other workers’ organizations, 16 carrying on a drive lasting until Cecember 24. The party calls upon all members and all sympathizers to Bpare no efforts to give all a it. ance by personally partici 9 this drive, so as to make it success- ful and to bring relief speedily to the striking paper box makers. No member of the party will hesitate one moment to give the utmost help. Volunteers are to come to the headquarters of the committee in charge of this drive at 799 Broad- way, room 512, New York City. District Executive Committeo, Workers (Communist) Party, W. W. Weinatene, General Peeretiry. it is the fir Eighteen thousand | New York York heels trades workers, meeting in Madison Square Garden Saturday afternoon, gave the answer of the rank and file to the strikebreaking tactics of the Sigman machine. One clause of the resolution adopted at this gigantic meeting without dissenting votes speaks for itself: “BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that we, the cloak and dressmakers of New York, express our deep- est condemnation of the pogrom tactics of Sigman; hereby declare we will not permit ourselves to be ter- rorized and will not recognize any other officials except those we have legally elected; we view all these mach- inations as a new and criminal conspiracy against our organization; we condemn Sigman’s treacherous action against our strike, against our strike committee, against our Joint Board, against our legally elected Executive Boards, and against our whoie/union; we demand that these pokrom heroes immediately take their hands off our union and that Sigman, the arch conspirator, im- mediately rBsign from his position as President of our — International.’ This, in the words. “of the current popular phrase, is “telling it to them.” But it was not only to reaction in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union that the Madison Square meeting spoke in emphatic tones—in tones that could be heard and were heard in the dark corridors of the labor movement where the Beckermans, the Greens, the Wolls and the Lewises conspire against militant trade unionism. The Madison Square meeting spoke to all the leaders of reaction in the labor movement, and the echoes of its thunderous reply will still be resounding thruout the New York labor movement when the self-styled “Committee for the Preservation of the Trade Unions” meets on Dec. 21. This meeting was held after the right wing leadership had sent circulars denouncing the New York Joint Board to every member of the union and after the needle trade jour- nals controlled by the right wing have been carrying on a campaign of slander and intimidation against the left wing leadership with the Jewish Daily Forward and the capitalist press leading the chorus. The right wing has tried to make the issue “Commu- nism versus Trade Unionism.” They have succeeded beyond their wildest expectations because the masses of cloakmakers have correctly under- stood the slogan of the right wing as “crooked trade union leadership versus fighting Communist and left wing leader- ship.” The right wing took the issue out of the union and called upon “the community at large” for support of its strikebreaking activities and the Madison Square meeting has given the proper answer to this brazen appeal to the enemies of the labor movement. The New York cloakmakers are fighting the battle of the whole labor movement. The issue is the clear cut one of worker-employer co-operation plus expulsion of the most loyal fighters for the unions with the inevitable wrecking of the labor movement, versus militant unionism and the right of all workers, irrespective of their political, beliefs, to mem- bership and active participation in the trade unions. _ These are fundamental issues. The New. York needle trades workers will not be left to wage the struggle alone. To their aid will rally every workingman and woman in the American labor movement who wants it to be free from capitalist control. IMMIGRATION HEAD JOINS WAR AGAINST FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Another ;committee on :immigration, Their effort to adopt an alien registration |adoption has been delayed because of system, the effect of which may be to #the inability of the members to de place every alien worker ynder sury|vise a system by which the registra veillance, may be made before the ad-|tion could be made effective. jonrnment of the present céngress it nae the recommendations of Harry BE. Hull, commissioner general of immi- gration, are to be adopted, The recommendation is contained in the annual report the commissioner goneral has just returned, The plan is known to have the ap: proval of Secretary of Labor Davis, who has several times urged congress to en an alien registration law. Bills providing for such 4 wystem have been pending for sometime before the Big Boston Financial Houses Form Combine BOSTON, Dec. 19.~-A $10,000,000 consolidation of the securities depart- ment of Stone & Webster, Inc., with the firm of Blodget & Co, was an nounced, Head offices of the new cor- poration will be in New York. Fach company has been maintaining offices in New York, Boston and Chicago, Ww ington Blvd, Chi SN ES A aera anew cea RSTO eT eo ae NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents IY. ‘wists DEMAND SICMAN RESIGN OFFICE Militant Crowd Jams Madison Sq. Garden (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Elaborate plans laid by the Sigman forces td disrupt the demonstration of 18,000 cloak and dressmakers at Madison Square Garden Saturday noon came to naught and a resolution was passed approving the administration of the strike by Louis Hyman, denouncing the activities of the international in taking over control and expressing @ demand that Sigman resign his presi- dency, The resolution a dissenting v of dozen of their way into the parently wa passed without although a couple followers found meeting they ap- rgot their orders and when those against the resolution were Ask ed to rise remained seated, look- ng sheepishly about amid taunts and suffaws Qnly a Peep. No actual attempt was made to break up the meeting. On two occas- ions re were modest peeps from Sigmanites. Once a couple of hun- (Continued on page 2) [RESOLUTION PASSED BY 18,000 DEMANDS SIGMAN QUIT UNION PRESIDENGY The resolution adopted by the great mass meeting in Madison Square Garden was, in part, as fol- lows: We, the cloak and dressmakers of New. York, at-a protest demonstra- tion held in the New Madison Square Garden Saturday, December 18, 1926, adopt the following reso- lution: Whereas, the present policy of Sigman and his machine, in usurp- ing contro! of our union and insti- tuting a program against our Joint Board, our locals, our strike com- mittee and our legally-elected repre- sentatives, is nothing else but a treacherous conspiracy to break our organization. Whereas, during the six monthe of the strike, when tens of thou- Sands of cloakmakers were engaged in bitter struggle, when we were beaten down on the picket tine, when we were thrown into jail, when we were prepared to further Stand firmly united to bring our struggle to a successful end, Sig- man and Company were secretly mapping out plans to prevent a suc- cessful outcome of our bitter com- bat, Whereas, the fake lockout of the sub-manufacturers was nothing but @ maneuver on the part of Sigman, in agreement with the bosses, to ter- rorize the cloakmakers, break their solidarity, paralyze their morale, to take advantage of the resulting chaos to. blame our trustworthy leaders and force upon us a corrupt leadership despised by the majority of our membership. Therefore be it, Resolved, that we, the cloak and dressmakers of New York, express our deepest condemnation of these program tactics of Sigman; hereby deciare that we will not permit our- selves to be terrorized and will not recognize any other officials except those whom we have legally elect. ed; viow all these machinations of Sigman av a new and criminal con- Spiracy against our organization; we condemn Sigman’s treacherous action against our strike, against our strike comm ¢, against our Joint Board, against our legally. elected executive boards, and against our whole union; we de mand that these pogrom heroes im- mediately take their hands off our union and that Sigman, the arch conspirator, immediately resign from his position a& president of our international, We declare that we will continue to support our legally-elected rep resentatives, we will help raise the financial means to save our organl- zation, we will close our ranks be- hind our union to protect it against all attacks, trom enemies within and without, we wilt drive out all fascisti clements and carry on the struggle until we have completely eliminated from our ranks those who have for years disrupted our union, and we will convert our union Into a powerful instrument to serve the interest of the great mase ef — cloak and dressmakers. rate