The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1927, Page 1

Un- Vol. IV. No. 10 » | CURRENT E By T. J. O'FLAHERTY The United States senate has been partially fumigated by the refusal of that august body. to permit Frank L, Smith, senator-elect of Illinois, also appointee of Governor Small, from spending more than a few! hectic hours in the chamber. Frank was a very bad boy in getting caught taking Sam Insull’s coin. Fancy a New York candiate for the mayoralty caught with Interborough money in his jeans. It would mean the re- election of ex-mayor Hylan. Sam Insull, the public utility magnate} was qui te a popular fellow in Illinois until he was exposed in the role of a fellow out for a good time. Some people have a habit of throwmg money away on taxis until they get down to their last five dollar bill ant then hoofing it in the slush until the next ship comes in. Ppa Since The DAILY WORKER moved to New York we could hardly resist giving most of our attention to what is taking place in this big city but the Chicago papers much to our amaze- ment feature issues of such national importance as the senate’s refusal to scat Frank L. Smith. We have also notice that the good citizens of Chi- engo are confronted with the peren- nial moron problem. So serious the situation that doctors, lawyers, students and some normal citizen joined in a round table conference to ig versary of its biggest textile strike. out a bit for its own part in the great fight. wool textile workers walked out of | Botany Mills calling for the return |of the 10% wage cut. the other mills followed all week. saic SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mafl, $6.00 per year, Entered as second-class matte} Anniversary Ot Passaic Sees Strike On Some Mill Barons Stubbornly Resist; Others Yield By ESTHER LOWELL. PASSAIC, N. J., Jan. 24. (FP)— Passaic is celebrating the first anni- Organized labor can puff its chest January 25, 1926, the first group of Workers from One year of strike has taught Pas- much. The strikers trudged through snow and wind, through rain, through the attacks of mounted po- lice, clubbing police, tear-gas throw- ing police and through mill owners’ propaganda. The demand for a union erew and grew. Nothing would down it. Application of the strikers for ad- mittance to the American Federation of Labor Union, the United Textile STRIKERS TAKE Great Northern Railway Declares 107% Dividend Earns 20 Million in ’26 Net earnings uvailable for divi- dends to stockholders of the Great Northern railroad for 1926 amount- ed to $26,000,000, it is announced by Ralph Budd, president of the | road. This represents 10.42 per cent on the capital stock of $248,- 916,550, Last year was the most pros- | perous for the Great Northern since 1921, Budd declared, This despite the condition of agricul- ture, the dominant industry in the railroad’s territory. In 1925 the road netted $21,- 435,396 in dividends, or 8.56 per cent. COMPANY OFFER AS BASIS ONLY ion but Discriminates NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1927 <@# ‘Progressive | stealing the electi r at the Post Office nt New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. PUBLISHIN Dp For Breach Between Pope, Mussolini Widening; Both Making Sharp Criticisms | | ROME, Jan. 24.—The breach | between the vatican and the fas- | cist government is widening and | | becoming more apparent as offi- | cist government is widening and | of both the government and church are making charges against each | other, The Tribuna has published attacks on Cardinal Gasparri, the | pope’s secretary of state, denounc- Find. Jan. 24—| ing him for expressing sympathy Med in town yes-| with the French government in its lend himself, if} fight against royalist catholics. vious charges of | Tribuna charges the vatican is bof union officials} supporting the French masonic or- explain why in| ganizations “who represent the ed since the last} Pinions of the same men who gas shrunk one! catty on the fight without quarr jo tell what he| tr against fascism.” This lenien- means by institutifiga “rule or rain,”| cy toward masonry must not be union smashing polity of expulsions overlooked, the paper says. ‘ and removals f 0} ice or from the| , Unita, a papal organ, complains ballot of those wip have always bitterly against the new eduea- fought for the of the union.| tional laws of the government, in is Arrested When INDIANAPO) John L. Lewis a terday ready he can, against held last. month, © the three years election the unio third in size, AER. en Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER New York, N. iG CO., 33 First Street, To the Orient WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—The st within 48 hours a pronouncement of it was learned today. ference all day. which will be submitted to President made public. | around that war with China was the entrance to 16 Downing Street, reminiscent of August, 1914, The war is extremely unpopular with the masses. Many peo- ple fear that this means the start of another world war and the FINAL CITY EDITION R Price 3 Cents Y IN MOBILIZES FOR WAR ON CHINA Canton Confident of Its Power to Resist \Rush of Imperialist Warships and Soldiers Grows Daily ate department probably will issue this government's policy in China, Secretary Kellogg and his chief of far eastern affairs were in con- It is understood they were drafting the statement Coolidge for approval before being BULLETIN. LONDON, January 24.—Intense excitement prevailed at Downing Street and the war office today as the word passed inevitable. Crowds gathered at The first two s in favor of, Which it sees an attempt to take Lewis were sti A mediately on| his arrival in headquarters | 2 jauds? Forstmann Allows Un-| The interna Hoard of tellers,| elected previous e militant cam-| paign of the and subservient fives this year, Lewis machine a” | livered an allocation declaring fas- the youth from church control, These latest outbreaks followed the severe criticism of fascism by Pope Pius last month, when he de- cism was dangerous to the “spiri- tual welfare” of the people. more thotful of the bourgeoisie fear that such a war would wreck the empire. Defies British Empire. PEKING, Jan. 24.—Assailing England as the “mother of imperialism in ” Eugene Chen, nationalist foreign minister, today delivered to the ioned statement which was regaracd as prac- tically a declaration of war against England by the nationalist regime. The statement says in part: Chen declared that foreigners can PASSAIC, Jan. 24.—At a meeting of Forstmann & Huffmann strikers,| held at Ukrainian Hall, President St., for the purpose of considering a letter received through Judge Ca- bell’s Citizens’ Committee from Mr. Forstmann, it was unanimously de- cided to accept the Forstmann letter only as a basis for further negotia-, diseuss the menace. If the other morons have a sense of humor the: might be able to laugh off their de- ficiencies. no longer be protected by foreig: bayonets in China since China car fight back with the economic k»ycott. “The leading assumption of all British and other foreign declarations} of policy in regard to China is that) she is unable to look after her own) interests and that pursuant to the SHOP CHAIRMEN SCORE SIGMAN; INSIST ON FACTS g ce ONE | in every respect, 2] GANGSTER BEATS which, as_predig ave Lewis and! rep lered a report,| associates a lu 1p pa majority of} the votes of the ig $# convention. | OF CLOAKMAKERS | Workers, was accepted, OT. OW. | vice-president James Starr took ac- tive charge when local 1603 was formed. The strike leaders of the past months’ battle—Albert Weisbord }and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn particu- larly—stepped into other fields, They ondertook to raise funds to fight the Oe, eG Hunting morons is a favorite dodge in Chicago when the grafting poli ponent, running Program of) ticians desire to throw the blue-nose¢ “Save The Union”, @ ote of 60,661%4.| reformers off the scent or off th} many strike defense cases the courts |.; js {Philip Murray, # machine vice ‘spirit of the Washington conferences’ track of some cash. This is not | diled up. ty wogelins of eee cata tor pond president, and ‘Thoms Kennedy, the the powers must enter into self-deny-| peculiar to Chicago tho the art o Strikers’ Relief. aiid en machine sei freasurer, were ing ordinances regarding China in) passing the bunk is highly develope: there. Chicago capitalist papers th specialize in» protecting millionaire sraltors.unctnousiy. thurap. uy thelr pol, tical craws and thank Jehovah that : pelluted reciptient of filthy ducre, to t wit, Frank L. Smith could not finc}-hens maintained by the United a resting place in the senate. The|Councils of Workingclass House- professional meralists who spend | wives fed the strikers’ children. Sum- their time snooping around houses of ill repute and more respectable place where Volsteadism is trodden on als: turn up their eyes to heaven when seme person with fishhooks in his pockets gets a ride in the wagon i ae. What hypocrites our _ capitalist politicians are? The same senate that ousted Smith, acquiesced in th: policy of the state department in sending marines to rape Nicaragua, politically, and in threatening war en Mexico and in the dispatch of war- ships*te China. We are strongly in favor of the ousting of Frank L Smith from the senate. In fact i would please us to see the entire senate abolished. We would be bet- ter pleased if a Soviet, representing the workers and farmers of the United States supplanted the senate. But how those respectable senators strain at a few hundred thousand Insull do}- lars and swallow the billions that are exploiting the peoples of Mexico, Nic- aragua and China ; * The Countess Salm—the title cost her father half a million dollars and the only thing the countess got out of the expenditure is a child—reach- ed Europe under an assumed name, oddly enough meaning “good thing”. Let us hope she does not run into another count as European counts know a good thing when they see it and we cannot afford to allow our country to be impoverished further by permitting our wealthy women to travel abroad at the risk of losing their virtue and our money. Bishops of the Anglican church re conferring with a view to elimin- atid the word “obey” from the mar- viage ceremony. They might as well. Nothing in the world is obeyed less. In connection with the Anglican church nothing is more amusing than to watch a captain or purser “taking the services” on a British ship. As a rule those officers celebrate on Satur- day night. Te right wing of the Liberal Par- ty in Great Britain is organizing against Lloyd George, provided it has enough vitality left to organize. It has some intelligence atleast. That counts a little. Viscount Grey is the organizer and his policy is a truce be- tween capital and labor. Grey has (Continued on page 3) IMPORTANT NOTICE all for The | Y WORKER to Street, New York, a r organizi Relief work had to be continued on he spot. Alfred Wagenknecht has emained relief director throughout, relief stores were opened. mer foun! the strikers’ kiddies pro- vided with a playground such as the mifl owners had never thought to offer. Some of the undernourished youngsters won vacations in ccuntry camps where they fattened and grew. ruddy. Learn by Doing. All the while there were strike meetings with thousands attending and learning about the labor move- ment. It was a high spot in the tives of ‘the 16,000 workers who walked]. Once They Cared. granted similar Workers Throng Picket ties. The Forstmann letter, which was : i the existence of a strike at the F. H. plants, did not concede recogni- tion of the United Textile Workers’ Union or the right of the workers to do collective bargaining. It dealt with two points, point one declaring that the company had never and does not now object to the membership of| & to and dress shops that have been called on strike by the joint board beeause of discharges of workers who had re- fused to register with the Interna-! tional, or lockouts made against the on by the delegates a' from those unions, a iveetings themselves, One of the reso- lutions introduced by tumerous local unions scattered about the coal fields is for more ticcurate! checking of the| workers by employers. votes. The unofficial returns re-| The picket lines were harried by, ceived by the ‘Save the Union” com-|angsters who were under the direct | the convention | by the union ‘wise;” while point two, dealing with out of the many ugly red brick mills of Passaic and surrounding textile towns. They were out of the atuffy workrooms full of lint, steamy, un- kempt and roaring with machinery that drove the workers day and night. They paraded around the town and told the world about they why they were striking. They became the thousands of herces and heroines of a movie which is still telling the story of their strike, aroun] the world, Bosses’ Lines Break. Finally one of the small mills broke ranks and settled with the United Textile Workers’ union, Pas- saic Worsted’s settlement was fol- lowed in a month by the big Botany Mill, The year rounds out with Forst- mann-Hoffmann giving U. T. W. president Thomas McMahon its most conciliatory statement so far—a let- ter which may lead to settlement yet on the terms the other mills took. Not all the Botany workers are back on the job yet because the season is slow, There are these thousand from Forstmann-Huffmann out fighting the company union, others from New Jersey Worsted Spinning and United Piece Dye Works. Partly Won. The strike isn’t over and it cer- tainly isn’t beaten. If the organized labor movement feels proud that it has supported so lusty a fight, let it remember to keep up its aid until the struggle is done and the union firmly established in Passaic--the best known town now of backward New Jersey. Neighboring Paterson —the silk town—is buzzing with the plans of the Central Labor union and Building Trades Council committees for a February bazaar for Passaic. Unions throughout the country are helping organized labor win Passaic. \ Freud Ill with Cancer. VIENNA, Jan. 24—Dr. Freud, in- ternationally known psycho-analyst has undergone a successful operation for a cancer of the tongue. He will be unable to speak over a whisper for six months. His clientele, made up largely of fashionable folk from all over the world including many from the United States, will be cared for by his staff. employes in outside organizations, mittees organized to support the “whether religious, social or other- policies of John Brophy indicate that Brophy was elected. One of the first the question of non-discrimination, serious struggles in the convention, deciared that the company would se-! when it is called to order later in the ieet employes as conditions ailowed| day, wiil undoubtedly be the ques- supervision of Vice President Dubin- | sky and Organizers Auretsky and Dutti of the International. One work-.| er was beaten severely over the head’ by a gangster who escaped. } Bosses Aid Sigman. and according to individual merits. | tion of the acceptance of the board | of tellers’ report. Assault Progressives. Letter Acepted As a Basis, The international officers of the T. .W., ‘resident ‘thomas Me- Mahon and James A. Starr, took the attitude that they could not advise the strikers in the matter but must leave it to them to take the tui re- sponsibility tor ‘any decision. ‘ine joa ieaders, whd have ben with the strikers synce the very beginning, alirmed, however, the rignt and duty In, addition to announcing his “ma- The shops that have been called on! | strike are the Henry Block dress shop at 247 West 37th Street, where a jlockout of 22 workers was declared, jat Rosenberg and Erskine dress shop order to safeguard her integrity and| independence, promote her political a “Wationaltst China. To-day this new China is strong and conscious of its power, its ability through economic means to; Line in Early Morning development, rehabilitation and her enforce its will on Chinese soil against any power. “The question then is not what Great Britain and other powers may | wish to grant China to meet “tegiti- | mate aspirations in the Chinese na-| tion,’ but what Nationalist China may | justly grant Great. Britain and the! other powers. | Will Protect Life. “This yreat, impressive fact must grasped. “Today effective protection of for- eign life and property does not stand and can no longer stand on foreign i Show baie to hain from _ His Tactics The Shop Chairmen’s Council of the Cloak and Dressmakers union, I. L. G. W. U. has issued an answer to president Sigman, refuting his charges made against them in the capitalist press, and demanding proof, also calling on him to consider the union more and his factional in- terests less. It is as follows: “The shop chairman’s council in answer to the attack that president | Sigman made in yesterday’s. prese upon the shop chairman's council say- ing that the council is a tool in the hands of the Communists and that the council is amew agency for Com- munist trouble makers. We declare that this method the bayonets and foreign gunboats be- president is using now is an old one. jority” at the psychological moment,| ®t 345 West 35th Street, against a deliberate and planned assaults onjlockout, at the I. M. Raffor cloak progressive delegates were made by supporters of Lewis. Powers Hap- good, of Galitzin, Penn., well known writer on local mining topics, who re- cently worked his y around the world, laboring in coal mines of ot leaders wo give advice, and buen Vawson, linancal secretary ot Locat i608, U. ‘l. W., and spokesman for a committee which was eiected some weeks ago, to be im readiness to conter with the employrs if the tat- ter permitied, made a motion to ac- cept the letter only as a basis tor iurther negotiations and on condition that brothers icMahon and Starr continu’ wunar good éttorts for an honor; wie settiement. Francesco Coco, chief organizer, and relief chairman Altred wagen- necht, both spoke in favor the motion, as did mil Gardos, Hungarian or- ganizer; Ben Lavansxi, l’oush organ- izer, and Andrew Corselli, a member ot the F, & H, committee. Demand Struggie Continue. Gustave Deak, president of Local 1603, acted as chairman of the meet- ing and threw the floor open to dis- cussion and questions foilowed the addresses. Deak also made known his supprt of the motion. In the dis- cussion not a voice was raised in favor of unqualified aceptance, but instead spokesman after spokesman from the rank and file rose to ne- dounce the terms offered by Forst- mann and to demand that the strug- gle for union recognition be contin- ued, When finally the vote was taken it Was unanimously in favor of the Dawson motion. McMahon Wants Another Vote, At the insistence of President Mc- Mahon, or the U. T. W., a secret lot will be held some night next week for a second vote on the ques- tion, Those who know the spirit of the strikers assert, however, that this ballot will show practically the same result as last night's open bal- lot. every country, is t! ost. prominent victim. Hapgood lured into a hotel “to see a newMpaper man’ and assaulted by gunmen. Hate Hapgocd. 4 Hapgood’s chief assailant was W. 5, Pittsburg, in the discredited Fagan administration there. Hapgood had badly defeated Fagan in a series of debates throughout Pennsylvania dur- ing the campaign, Patton and his aids contrived to get Hapgood alone and for fifteen minutes he fought for his life against three gangsters, one of whom car- ried a gun, which he was unable to use because of the close quarters. All concerned: were arrested, and one of the best attorneys in Indian- apolis tried to get the case postponed (Cont on page 2) eenenmette aS 0 atl By BERTRAM WOLFE 'HE workers of New York will re- member the prediction of the Workers Party to the effect that tammany would try to put through the 10c-fare during the present ad- ministration, Already, during the Hylan-Smith fight two years ago, the Workers Party pointed out that back of the primary fight was a drive for control of the democratic party by big business interests including the traction with which Smith himself is tied through his directorship on heehee: ital. Walker was in the Smith- Patton, vice-president of District | THE SPLIT IN TAMMANY HALL |shop at 520 Eighth Avenue, all of which have discharged workers for ‘refusing to register with the Inter- |national and so aid the union-smash- jing activities of Sigmanism. In the |Nowman and Stoinlouf shop at 236 | West 26th Street, and the Lemmel | {and Cutler shop at 142 West 24th | Street, other workers were discharged and the shop called on strike. Pickets who responded to the call for a demonstration at those shops came from the general trade, as well | as from struck shops, in order to} show their solidarity against the tac- tics of the International in demand- ing that the workers register, and in jpersuading employers to discharge | workers who refuse. Workers to Fight Betrayal. “The workers resent and will fight gainst such betrayals by — of- ficers who are supposed to protect their interests” declared Louis Hy- man, manager of the joint board, in discussing the calling of the strikes. “The International must not be al- lowed to take away a union man’s bread as a part of its scheme to keep (Continued on page 2) Hylan fight and Governor Smith be- lieved that after using Walker to oust Hylan, he would have little dif- |ficulty in controlling Walker. Now that the moment for fulfilling the secret pledges, made to big busi- ness during the campaigns of the last | two years, is approaching, a rift is | @ppearing in the tammany forces pa a new fight promises as a re- | _ Smith As Strikebreaker. | This fight is of great importance | to Governor Smith not merely as a |traction corporation director but would be presi- cause the arm of the Chinese Na- tionalist—the economii yeapon——is more puissant than any engine of/ warfare that foreigners can devise. | “The British in particular must un,} derstand that the forces in the pres: ent revolutionary situation are hand- ing over protection of foreign life| and property to the government that derives its authority from ‘those in| whose hands is centcred power that «on paraty2e the econemie life of tne fore.gn nativagts in China. Ready to Negotiate. “It is, however, the view of the Nationalist Government that linera- ticn of China frem the yoke of for- eign imperia'ism need not necessar- ily invoive any urmed contict be- tween Chinese nationalism and for- eign powers, lor this reason the Nationalist Government prefers to have all questions outstanding be-. tween Nationalist China and /orei; powers settled by negotiation. It is this sense that the Nationaiis: Min- ister of Foreign Affairs indizatec as! the policy of the Nationalist (jovern-! ment to the American Minis e- the latter visited Canton tas: tunm, and the same policy ha» again been indicated to the new Britivh Minister, ihc Japanese representa-; tive and the representative of the! American Minister. } Sepurate Treaties, ! “In order to prove that this is not! an idle statement of policy the Na-! Ho elit Gnsernment hereoy ive (Continued on page 3) when} au- ficially today. The announceme | much more so as a | dential candidate, Just as he tried |te convince’ big business of his fit- (Continued on Page Four) ‘ a view to supporting G against the Cantonese gov: JAPAN ANNOUNCES ADOPTION OF “HANDS OFF" POLICY IN CHINA TOKIO, January 24.—Japan has declined a British request for military and naval co-operation in China it was stated of- It is the method of drowning out with noise, of tearing down everyone that does not believe that the union can be led by )rutal force. The Chairmen’s council makes clear that the council is not a Com- munistic one and is not a tool of the Communists. Furthermore, we chi lenge the president to prove his state- ments openly. We think it is proved, either the president doesn’t know what he says or he has said it purposely with bad motives to tear down the council and give the impression that we are agents of the Communists. The facts are that the council was elected by a thousand shop chairmen and has only one intention, which is nothing else than to save our union, the Cloak and Dress Makers Union, which is being ruined from day to day. The union cannot be saved by the knout or by terror. Union conditions are no longer maintained in the shops; the workers are confused and the bosses are taking advantage of it. The bosses are the only gainers, The effects are that wages are re- duced and many workers are dis- charged, and to stop all this nothing |is done by the International. We ask the president whether this is a fact or not? If this is a fact, then what does expect to do to stop this evil? Does he think that with attacks upon the shop chairman's council that he will save the situation? Or does he se believe that after he registers part of the workers from our union (Continued on Page 4) nt is expected to definitely set at rest rumors that Japan Was sending warships to China with i. Britain's hostile de ‘monstration it. ; |