The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 8, 1927, Page 4

' ] 1 i 1 } 3 ‘ { Page Fou News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politics BOX MAKERS ARE jover WCFL was related in the last STRONG, ENTERING FOURTEENTH WEEK. Bosses Plead With Them | to Come Back (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, an, 6.—The begin- ming of the fourteenth week of their strike saw the paper box workers with the bigg rning picket line since the add with Strikers as a h of some of the strikebrea the slow season who had been makin Promises to the sca tate to fire many. Beg Workers to Return. In spite of this beir year when there is usually no work, the employers nt the New Ye week-end in send letters and tele: grams to their former employes to come back to work, and in visiting their homes in their high-powered cars pleading with them to return. But the union expected this and sent telegrams to all the workers to meet @t the union headquarters early Mon- day morning, which they did, and went from there in mass formation to the picket line. Busy Season Opens, The reason the bosses are rushing to get their workers now is that they need to know whether they will have workers for the new season, since the loss of one season is all they can pos- sibly afford. The fight the last season was so costly, and resulted in losing all their customers to the open shops, Were supposed to be their friends. Since the failure of the ruses of the employers over the week-end the union is expecting a settlement before the season starts in the middle of January. Burke Promises Victory. uch wonder: , did not hesi- John P. Burke of the International | Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers spoke at the crowded mass meeting in the Church of All Nations. He said: “I am going to-stay in the city to organize the machinery to go out and get money enough to carry the strike to victory. The bosses realize by now that you @re unconquerable and that it si means increased losses to delay sign- ing with the union.” Get After Fake Job Agencies DETROIT — (FP) — The Michigan commission on labor and industry is investigating complaints that unem- Ployed workers have been defrauded ‘by the Acme Employment agency, the Natl. Dmployment agency, and the General Employment agency. Two oth-| er agencies have been forced out of business by the commission. A re- commondation that the licenses of other questionable or fraudulent agen- cies be revoked will be made at the commission’s next meeting. Workers coming to Detroit for jobs should be careful about paying fees in advance. The best way—subdscribe today. the time of |; who | Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities: By ARNE SWABECK. OW condemnation of the aims of organized labor emanating from the “sacred” pulpit found their way Chicago Federation of Labor meet- Many delegates voiced their op- | position to such practice. It immedi- ee became the concern of all, even those not blessed with the fortune of \ ene a receiving set, While during the discussion catho- |lic and protestant, believers in their espective faith, hurried to the de- anse of the church, others began to perceive the danger of peddling’ |church propaganda over the labor ra- | dio. ELEGATE Painters Loci inng. Lichtenstein from 275 started this discussion by making certain veiled nsinuations about the radical ele- ments of his local having attempted to recall the local assessment for the labor radio. his report sounded her strange since it is a well-known t that prog ive workers and rad- 1 workers fully appreciate the im- ortance of labor radio, and progres- e workers who understand the con- lict between labor and capital , also fully support the building up of the labor radio, that they also want to jguard against the labor radio being |misused for capitalist propaganda is but natural, HIS was precisely the case subse- quently brought out by Delegate Arnold from the same local. He re- ported that the local membership had objected to having church services broadcasted and more 60, to the fact that a reverend, clad in the holy robe, had delivered his message op- posing the forty-hour working week. | This’ will easily be recognized as @ | justifiable objection and precisely the thing that labor must guard against. |Porters’ Union in Case Against Bosses NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Resumption of the railroad mediation board’s hear- ings of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters’ case comes in mid-Janu- ary. Edwin P. Morrow of the media- jtion board and his assistant heard representatives of the Porters’ Union in Chicago in December. A thousand affidavits were presented by the union to show the coercion and intimidation practiced on the porters and maids to compel them to vote for the Pullman company union plan. Claims of the Pullman Co. to the rail board that 85% of its workers voted for the employe representation plan were disputed by the Porters’ Union. The brotherhood contended that the new rail legislation provides for recognition of self-organizations of workers, not company unions. The union answered the company state- ment that its employe plan had made agreements for five to six years by saying that that action did not prove its legality or the validity of the agreements. Demands of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters besides that for recognition are for a higher minimum wage scale than the present $73 to $90 a month, shorter hours, pay for pre- paratory time, etc. ee LABOR HERALD 1 Pac No 19 AS 4. lighed Pp. THE TOADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE 5 W Waghindtoa Street: Chicago; | HI On sale now thru the Daily Worker Publishing Co.,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, DL ORDER NOW! Labor’s Radio Must Not Be Used by Labor’s Enemies ID NOCKELS admitted that ue was true, that such messages had | been delivered. He also endeavored to assure the delegates that it would be investigated and such statements guarded against. Other delegates, who usually display their conserva- tive outlook, seemed to think this was perfectly in accord with the rules o: free speech, This, of course, is non- sense. The WCFL has been erected as a labor radio for the expressed purpose of bringing labor’s message to the workers and not to peddle capitalist propaganda. Free speech can, not be interpreted to mean to turn the facilities of labor over to its enemies. Propaganda against labor can be heard every day over the dozen or so broadcasting sta- tions owned by the capitalist class. The labor radio should be used primarily to combat the propaganda of labor’s enemies. HIS ttle experience, however, brings home an additional lesson and precisely the one often emphe- sized by the elements Delegate Lich- tenstein complained about. Namely, that the present day society is a class society in which there is a class struggle. All the forces not part of labor, including the church, are being utilized by the capitalist class against labor. The pulpit has become one of the effective instruments of propa- ganda against labor and to give it use of WCFL broadcasting station means to take a chance of negating the real purpose of this station. While all organized labor should support labor’s broadcasting station, it is also their duty to prevent fits be- ing used for capitalist propaganda. Free speech over the WCFL can only mean free speech for labor which is now kept from having its voice heard over any of the other existing broadcasting stations. Another Union Takes the Air on the Radio READING, Pa., Jan. 6. — (FP) — Something new in trade union tactics is being tried by the American Fed- eration of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers to “sell” itself to the public, the union announces, A series of radio broadcast programs is to be given from Station WRAW, Reading, Pa., which uses a wave length of 238 meters, Choice musical selections will be presented with short speeches on modern trade unionism. James H. Maurer, president Penn- sylvania federation of labor, and Wil- liam Smith, secretary-treas. Hosiery Workers’ Federation, are featured on the first program, Jan. 6 between six and seven thirty in the evening. Six successive Thrusdays of January and February will find the union broad- casting at the same hour, The union is making this its feature publicity event in connection with the organiza- tion campaign under way in the Read- ing district, The broadcast station radius of over 200 miles includes with- in range New York, Philadelphia, the Wilkes-Barre and Scranton anthracite region, Washington, D. C. and Balti- more. The union believes that the enter- tainment value of the program will at- tract attention of many hundreds of people who have never before heard an adequate presentation of the case or labor organizations, Send us the name and address of @ progressive worker to whom we can send a sample copy of Th JAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Polictes and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism POLICE ADD TO HARDSHIPS. OF TAXI DRIVERS Parking Rules Resented by Cabmen By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—With the in- troduction of new traffic laws on Jan- uary 1 the hardships that the 47,000 taxi drivers in this city have to con- tend with have become more difficult. According to the new regulations of the police department, parking is pro- hibited on Fifth avenue below 59th street from 5 p. m. to 7 p, m. Dur- ing the recent Interborough Rapid Transit company strike emergency regulations prohibited parking from 4p. m. to 7 p. m. But ,due to ob- jections by the Fifth Avenue Associa- tion, which is composed of the mer- chants on that thorofare, who com- plained that it interfered with their business, the change was made, re- sulting in the “no parking” rule be- ginning one hour later every day, WII Not Relleve Congestion. The new regulations will not relieve the traffic congestion, as the heavy traffic starts about 3 p, m. Pierce- Arrows, Packards, Roll-Royces and other expensive cars are parked along Fifth avenue, while their owners are shopping or at their clubs, making the task of the taxi drivers one which is a strain on their nervous system. Another difficulty that they must face is the Fifth avenue busses. Ac- cording to regulations, not more than two are supposed to be on a bldck at the same time. Yet as many as 10 or 12 are often to be seen on one street, Always Wrong. Whenever a diffifficulty arises the taxi drivers are wrong, all attempts being made to satisfy the Merchants’ Association and the Fifth Avenue Bus company at the expense of the taxi drivers, The above numerated regulations are carried over as part of the policy of former Police Commissioner Rich- ard E, Enright, who served under former Mayor John F, Hylan. When the present mayor, James J. Walker, was a candidate, he carried on an extensive campaign among the taxi drivers, promising them “Justice” if he was elected. He went as far as to publish a special newspaper for distribution among them, called, “The Square Deal.” Worse Than “Red Mike.” “As bad as Red Mike was (referring to Hylah), our Jimmie is worse,” stated one taxi driver to The DAILY WORKER. “That's what we get for voting for our Jimmie,” said another disillu- sioned worker, FRBSNO, Cal—(FP)— The strike of carpenters on the Fresno schools, caused by the employment of 2 non- union men, has been called off after a week, the men returning with a full union crew. This was Fresno’s first labor trouble for many years. DENVER—(FP)—The 5-day week goes in effect for union painters Feb. 1 through negotiation by Local 79 with the employers. The hourly rate of $1.25 remains unchanged. The Drive For $50,000 to KEEP THE DAILY WORKER / DONATIONS—DECEMBER 22 CALIFORNIA— M. Shprovalor, CHICAGO— D. Haan, CHICAGO sevssrsseosessereennveneen CONNECTICUT— S. M. Peterson, Stratford sere NEW YORK— John Tatarchuk, Albany swoon OHIO— George Prebel, Toledo ... 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OF SMALL TOWN IS BEHIND VERDICT Melrose Park Enjoys Roman Holiday The second session of the coroner’s inquest at Melrose Park into the deaths of Policeman Lyman J, Stahl and Jose Sanchez, a Mexican, was a travesty on justice, So far as the evidence submitted was concerned, the jury might as well have returned a verdict of mutual suicide. While everyone agrees that Stahl probably shot Sanchez, there were no eye witnesses and no evi- dence was produeed to support such a verdict, Nor evidence as to who shot Stahl, But the jury found, first, that San- chez came to his death by a bullet wound at the hands of Stahl, and that it was “justifiable homicide.” That was added by way of gratuity, Then it found that Stahl came to his death by a bullet wound at the hands of Agustin Morales, the young Mexican who was arrested at Oak Park soon after the shooting. Morales was thus bound over to the grand jury and is back in Cook County jail. Morales Testifies. Morales himself took the stand, He is a husky, broad-shouldered, young workingman, dressed with more than usual neatness and in working clothes of the best quality, He has a swarthy, honest face, and a very gentle man- ner. The Mexican vice-counsul, Amador, acted as Morales’ interpreter, and Mary Belle Spencer was his attorney. He told a simple, straight-forward story, with no hesitation in answering every question, He came home, where he lived with the Sanchez boys, tired from work, on the evening of Dec. 6th and went to bed, Jose Sanchez came home very drunk, At about 10:30 Sanchez in- sisted on going out to the string of ‘box cars, Morales could not dissuade him from the purpose, and went with him to protect him, fearing that in his drunken condition he would fall down and freeze, as the night was cold. Arriving at the railroad yard, Morales knocked on the door of a car, where Jose’s godfather lived, hoping to wake the occupants and have them take Sanchez in and care for him. While so engaged, 70 feet away from Sanchez, he heard shots. Going back, he found Jose and another whom he did not identify in the dark, both lying dead. Near Sanchez lay a gun. Now Morales testified that he him- self carried no gun, that he did not know that Jose did, that he had never seen @ gun around the Sanchez home. On the way to the yards, he had taken | off Sanchez two pints of moonshine, to prevent his further drinking. He now picked up the gun lying beside the bodies, Then he went home and reported Jose’s death to the elder brother, Get- ting frightened at the possibility of being implicated, he took a street car for Chicago,*and was asleep in the car when he was arrested at Oak Park. A Gun Mixture. Then came an astonishing bit of evidence. Chief of Police Pein took the stand and testified that the gun they had found on Morales had been identified by {ts number as having belonged to Officer Stahl, That of course corroborated Morales’ story that he had picked the gun up. And this was the only gun exhibited when the inquest first convened on Dec. 8th. In order not to face the ludicrous assumption that Morales shot Stahl with Stahl’s own gun, the chief put in evidence at the adjourned inquest a second gun, which he now claims the police picked up at the scene of the shooting and which he has been unable to trace to its ownership. The theory is suggested that after the shooting, Morales traded guns, leav- ing his own behind as incriminating evidence and taking his victim’s gun with him to clinch the evidence against himself—a very careless per- formance for any criminal. After failing to produce Officer Kol- witz, who was wounded at the time and who claimed to be able to identi- fy Morales, on the ground that Kol- witz had had a chill on the day be- fore, the hearing ended with no evi- dence to show who killed either man. But the jury had no trouble in satis- fying the mob psychology that is ruling Melrose Park just now. But the reasonable assumption, in view of the new gun evidence, is that neither of the two Mexicans was arm- ed, that, shooting in the dark, Stahl wounded Kolwitz and ‘hat Kolwitz killed his fellow-officer, Stahl. The Climax, As soon as the inquest was ended, the young widow of Officer Stahl made a furious rush at Mrs. Spencer, Morales’ attorney, screaming and ‘00 | Shrieking, She was grabbed by friends and went into hysterics, At the same time, a big brute of a man brushed by a representative of The DAILY WORKER and attempted to kick Morales, He was seized and quieted. As Mrs, Spencer left the building, a man shouted at her: “Don’t you ever dare to come into this town again,” The inquest ended in a disgraceful exhibition of small town mob psychol- ogy. ~ “The pen te mightier than the sword,” provided you jw how to use it. Come down and learn how in the worker oorrespondent’s glass Discuss Filipino Independence at the Chicago Youth Forum On Sunday, Jan, 2, the Young Work- ers’ League, Local Chicago, held its second successful open forum. Max Shachtman spoke on the question of Filipino Independence and the Com- munist version as to how that in- dependence is to be gotten. Representatives of the Filipino youth in Chicago’ were present, and in the name of the Filipinos present a resolution of thanks was presented to the Young Workers’ League for their sincere co-operation and endeav- ors for Filipino freedom. Gilbert Greenberg made a short snnee tor members to the league, Then the speaker wove into’ im- perialism and the situation after the war. Next Sunday, Jan. 9, Irwin Dunjee, editor of the Negro Champion, will speak on “Negroes and American La- bor.” The admission is free and all workers are invited to attend at 3 Pp. m, at 1239 S. Sawyer Ave., Chicago, every Sunday, Affairs for Youth ROXBURY, Mass.—Jan, 8th, 7:30 p, m., Young Worker Nite at 42 Weno-+ nah street, NEWARK, N, J.—Jan. 23rd, Newark Labor: Lyceum, 704 South 14th street, Liebknecht, meeting. January 29th, Youth Dance.at Slovak Workers’ Hall, 52 West street. BOSTON, Mass.—Jan, 9th at 36 Causeway St. Opening Y. W. L, club rooms, Good program. LOS. ANGELES— Saturday, Jan 29th. 5th Annual Moonlight Dance and Hobo Blow-out. Come in rags. St. Louis Y. W. L. Arranging Big Liebknecht Memorial. What promises to be the biggest and best. Liebknecht Memorial ever held. in. St. Louis is being arranged by the city executive committee of the Young Workers’ League. The meeting, will be held at the South Slavic Hall, Eighteenth and Chouteaw Ave, Sunday afternoon Jan, 9th. at 2:30.p. m, The principal speaker will be Max Shachtman, present editor of the La- bor Defender, New York Labor to Welcome the (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK — Extensive prepara- tions are being made to welcome the DAILY WORKER to New York at the Lenin Memorial Meeting, which will be held this year at Madison Square Garden, 50th Street and 8th Avenue, on Saturday evening, January 22nd, at 8 p. m. The progressive workers of this city expect to make this meeting a tremendous demonstration in support of the only English labor daily in the United States. The recent labor strug- gles in New York has convinced them that New York must have its own working class newspaper, to carry on the fight for militant struggle against the employers, against injunctions, ete. Especially at this time, when the enemies of the working class are con- centrating their forces in an attack against all progressivism in the labor movement, the workers of New York must have their own daily organ to answer the vicious attacks of the cap- italist press and expose its anti-labor character, It is especially fitting that the Lenin Memorial Meeting, when the death of the greatest leader of the working class is commemorated, should also be made an occasion to greet the coming of The DAILY WORKER to New York. Nicolai Lenin, more than any other working class leader, un- derstood the importance of working class newspapers. He called them “collective agitators, collective pro- pagandists, and collective organizers,” and considered the establishment of daily organs as the first task of re- volutionists, An excellent musical program has been arranged for the meeting. Artists of wide renown will perform, includ- ing: Mischa Mishakoff, concert master of the New York Symphony; Ivan Velikanoff, chief tenor of the Moscow Art Theater Musical Studio, remem- bered in New York for his splendid performance as “Jose” in the Studio’s production of “Carmencita and the Soldier”; the Russian master singers, vocal quartet; the Freiheit Gesangs Ferein, a chorus of 300 voices. Tickets are 50c., 75c., and $1.00. They may be obtained in advance at the office of the Freiheit, 30 Union Square, Workers Party Headquarters 108 East 14th Street, Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, 127 University Place, and at all party papers. We wil! send sample coples of The DAILY WORKER to your friends— WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE CHALLENGE OF YOUTH Upton Sinclair: “Interesting. . « ought to know.” Freeman Hopwo noon at work. Another bicycle race and read it all there. effective. I hope it is sold by the thousands.” John Kasper, Prize Winning Communist Literature Agent. “I want to congratulate Comrade Darcy for putting out a real pamphlet, The Challenge of Youth, a League member could go out and sell with pride, book is real, the best book the League ever put out. That is. the way to write efor SEND US YOUR ORDERS: Single Copy 15c, Bundles 10c YOUNG WORKER PUBLISHING 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Enclosed please find §.... by Sam Darcy. Please sent it to: NAME ‘syvesssnrenvennnasanensanneesannonssorsannnnasassonnnneosannnnssseyssasebnencossesnnnnsnssseneecssssvenseesseeete ADDRESS: sainsivesssashiaipoeanatnroescsssleserisrteeiyetsennossersren it is full of facts young workers Secretary, 9 for Advancement of Atheism.. “The MY se of Youth is a, gem. best things for propaganda that I have ever seen. I handed it to a Catholic youth and he finfshed it during the after- wae for the CHALLENGE OF YOUTH CITY sessssssersnseeensovompasseseeasssteoennnsssssnssoonsennes STATED Daily Worker at Lenin Memorial Weinstone Lectures on History of Party and the International NEW YORK—Two short courses of special importance to members of the Workers Party are being offered by the Workers’ School, with William W. Weinstone as the instructor. One of them deals with the history of the Workers (Communist) Party and the other with the Third (Communist) In- ternational. These courses run for six sessions only and are therefore half of the length of the usual Workers’ School courses. They will run on Wednesday nights, one at 8 and one at 9:15, so that both can be taken together, The courseyin party history begins with a study of the development of the left wing in the socialist party and covers the split in the socialist party, the foundation of the various Communist parties, the Workers Party, and the various issues taken up.in.the inner fights of the Commun- ist movement which have led to the present stage of political unity on the program of the Workers Party. This course is of great importance to those who wish to take an active part in the party wark but are not fully conversant with“Its history, The course in the development of the Communist International is a pro- per supplement for the party history course and provides a study not only of the history of the International, but of the concrete application of each of its important decisions and experi- ences to the problems of the Amer- ican party. Registration is open for a period of two weeks, after which no more ap- Plicants will be admitted. The fee for these courses is $1.50 each, with a combination rate of $2.50 for the two classes. Registration any afternoon or evening at the headquarters of the Workers’ School, 108 E. 14th St. Room 35, Youth Drive to Start With Gala Affair Section No, 4 of the Young Work- ers League is going to officially open its drive for new members by the holding of a huge entertainment and dance on Saturday, Jan, 8th, at the Freiheit Hall, 3209 W. Roosevelt Rd., music starting at 8:00 p. m, sharp, 1 American Association It is one of the took it with him to the six-day The simple style is It is a book that This the young worker. Keep it up.” co.,