The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1927, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, N Several of New York’s biggest milk dealers have been convicted in the past two weeks of adulterating their | yroduct by using disease-laden, uninspected milk or by mixing milk,and yet caught. POLITICIAN DEFENDS 42-HOUR LAW DESERTED BY N.Y. LABOR OFFICIALS The only voice, outside of that of the Workers (Communist) Party, yet lifted for the bona fide 48 hour week for New York working women Frederick L. Hackenburg’s. He is a New York politician, representing the 14th Assembly District in the lower house of the legislature, and is a member of the industrial survey com- mission which recommended an eva- sive bill providing in reality a lim- ‘ited nine hour day. “T personally stand upon a straight | 48-hour week for women in industry,” declared Hackenburg in a minority Now Carry Guns public in New York City today, vance of Emanuel Covaleskie, who represented the New York Federation |of Labor on the industry survey board. Covaleskie, a federation vice presi- dent, recommended adoption of the vicious nine-hour day provision. is a part ef my political philoso- declared Hackenburg, “that g in the world is settled un- less it is settled right. While I wel- come the concessions recommended by the commission, I personally stand (upon a ight 48-hour week for women in industry. No compromise is possible when a principle is at e. report, the text of which was made| heaviest battalions and with those) |generals whose armies were able to) intended for sale at the bazaar, They | { ’ BABIES CARNIVAL BAZAAR AT CHICAGO T0 BE BIG SUCCESS Preparations Complete; Expect Huge Turn Out The last bazaar conference Of dele- gates from Chicago labor organiza- |tions met last Friday and mobilized | {the forces for work at the bazaar/ | which will take place at Ashland Au-| | ditorium, Feb, 25, 26 and 27th. After a | report from the bazaar executive, the | jconference discussed in detail the | need for technical help and the pro- gram of entertainment. A number of | committees were elected such as floor, | finance, reception, buffet, etc. Entertainment Features The bazaar will begin on. evening with an interesting prog of folk songs by various national | groups. The popular Freiheit Singing | Society Chorus, the South Slavic or-} chestra, groups of Russian, German | and Ukrainian Workers will also be on the program on the opening} night. Every afternoon and evening there will be something of special in-| terest. Saturday afternoon will be de-} voted to a special children’s program. | The Nursery Corner, in charge of a} trained worker, will take care of littie ones 2 to 8 years old and so make it possible for parents to enjoy them- selves with the knowledge that their young ones are being properly cared for. On Saturday night the grand bali will take place. Thousands of people which the big Ashland Hall accom- modates will dance on this night to the tune of one of the best dance orches- tras in the city. Sunday afternoon will be devoted to |folk dances. The famous Chech-Slo-} vak dancers who were received so en-} | thusiastically at a forraer Chicago = - | fair, will give several numbers, as will ee ee mt une of Scandinavian, Russian and | other nationalities. { Sunday night will see the wind up| of the $10,000 bazaar when the luck- liest person will be awarded the beau-| tiful 7 passenger Chrysler automobile {and other fine prizes. The Russian orchestra will play special dance music beginning at 4 p. m. | Various delegates reported on the} articles which have been collected for |the booths and the committees which FTER the ‘moke of battle cleared | Will be in charge for the sale of these | away in the Chicago primary con-/ articles. One of the, organizations is test William Hale Thompson’s vistory | $0ing to run a tea room in their booth away in the Chicago primary contest | and expect it to be of the busiest cor- | William Hale Thompson’s victory ners of the hall, Another group is go- | was announced even before the dead| ing to fix up a fortune teller’s booth. and founded were collected from the| There ate only a, few-gays left for water. URRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) talist press will dwell on the oppor- tunities presented by American in- dustry where anybody who is willing | to work can rise from messenger boy | to president, ’ YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1927 | bor officialdom. | Twin Foes of Labor are | Old Party Candidates in Chicago Election By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. E mayoralty primaries in Chi- pears as the republican choice, with Mayor William E, Dever selected to succeed himself as the democratic candidate. The final elections will be held April 5, Among the camp followers of both Thompson and Dever are to be found numerous members of the la- Perhaps the di- vision may prove to be about 50-50 thus completely neutralizing itself. ~* ® Recently an effort was made, at a conference held in the offices of the Chicago Federation of Labor, to drum up a delegation to call on Mayor Dever and urge him to enter | the campaign for re-election, While the union heads were squabbling among themselves, unable to agree, a pretentious assemblage of big business representatives did call on the mayor much to the chagrin of labor’s politicians, It is the Chicago Federation of Labor that has hitched up its radio with Mayor Dever’s office in the city hall, so that he can send out his speeches over the city free of charge whenever inclined. This is the Mayor Dever who used his police to attack the strike pick- ets of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, resulting in many arrests and convictions, with many workers forced to serve sentences in the county jail. Strikes of machinists, moulders and other workers have met with similar vi- cious attacks. Yet the misleaders of the workers grovel at the feet of this enemy of labor. Similarly with “Bill” Thompson, who gained some influence over the Chicago trade union movement when he got the credit for settling a street car strike when he first entered the city hall in the days be- fore the war. But Thompson is now allied with the Crowe-Galpin crowd. This is State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe’s machine. This is the Black Crowe who has conducted a dozen raids against the headquarters of local trade union organizations, seized upon the slightest pretext. Crowe is proud of these attacks and in his campaign literature has listed theatre of war. There never was! preparatory work ahd mt ch has to be such a day even in Chicago.,done yet. All those, interested in} {Sporting establishments. did a land) putting this affair over real big are | office business in guns and the most) urgently requested by the bazaar com-/ {popular slogan throughout the city; mittee to report at 19 S. Lincoln St. | | was: “Wherever you see a head, hit) and offer their services or early Eley it.” Victory was on the side of the day afternoon at the hall. Many individuals have small articles | Hackenburg’s position is far in ad-|™arch on their stomachs, Thompson are asked to inform the committee in| ran on an “America first” platform | charge or bring them to the hall early with the understanding that if suc-| Friday afternoon where a committee cessful Chicago would not thirst for! win take care of all Jast-minute pack- the next four years, » * Thompson is the unofficial cham-|_¢. xn : | pion of the “wide open town,” ‘An- Miners Committee |other section of the republican party ‘ in: organization favored the opposite Lets Lewis Bargain | kind of a condition. During the pri- Maen mary campaign neither wing had a (Continued from Page One) ith | {word to say about labor. They did|¢ach party tu the controversy, will | ‘not have to. Only the Workers (Com-| Power in fact to change wages by in- | | ages. munist) Party injected the workers’) ¢reasing the amount of dead work, | (ences to striking cloakmakers, seems | jside of things into the campaign,| tne size of cars that must be loaded | This is a deplorable state of affairs. thém as great achievenients; calling for his re-election. Crowe, the republican, the ally of Thompson, was a fitting successor of the red baiter and labor hater, Maclay Hoyne, democratic state’s attorney, who received a special fund from the business interests of ’ ROSALSKY TURNS GUNS ON JURORS, ASKING REFORMS Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, who has been handing out ruthless jail sen- to be something of a Don Quixote. at the face with coal that/falls off | Wis latest windmill is the Association | has officially recommended, through| had their own candidate in the field its executive council, the industrial;on a United Labor program, They he New York Federation of Labor| The workers of Chicago should have | before it is weighed, ete. of Grand Jurors of the County of New Distriet 12 Doubtful. | York, which has been trying to put Hlinois operators have isued a long through a few little ineffectual legal { Chicago to prosecute workers and | cago are over and the former | mayor, William Hale Thompson, ap- | workers’ organizations, have severed relations with Len Small, Frank L. Smith, senator- elect, and Fred Lundeen, neyerthe- less, he finds himself tied up to these worthies through Crowe, who has confessed before a committee of the United States senate that he received thousands of dollars from the public utility multi-millionaire, Sammy Insull, whose checking ac- count helped send Smith to the sen- ate, | The street carmen’s union, whose wages Smith sought to cut as a state public utility commissioner, are in open war against the senator- elect. They opposed the influence | that the Chicago Federation of Labor, the Illinois Federation of Labor and the United Mine Work- ers’ Union, through their officials, sought to rally in support of Smith last November. If the street car- pose Crowe’s man for mayor of Chicago; William Hale Thompson. ae ow Long before the February pri- maries rose on the offing, the Workers (Communist) Party in Chicago exerted every possible ef- fort to unite the workers for in- dependent political action through a Labor Party, or through the selec- tion of a United Labor Ticket. | These efforts failed. The labor officialdom was still content to trail after Insull’s mil- cago’s Tammany Hall. The social- ists thought only of the war on the left wing. Elements formerly con- | nected with the Farmer-Labor Par- ty continue to find comfort in a so- called “progressive” party. Under these circumstances the Workers (Communist) Party put its own candidate in the field. the mill of independent political ac- | tion. The workers, through every utterance and act of Thompson and Dever, must see that these re- publican and democratic spokesmen are not the champions of the work- ers, but their sworn enemies. Communists will thus be rein- ‘thetLabor Party, for the. breaking | away of the working class masses | from the capitalist’ parties. The municipal campaign in Chicago now + going on should help build the | national’ elections of next year, 1928, | Flyer de Pinedo | | | Although Thompson may claim to | men are logical now, they must op- | lions or crawl at the feet of Chi- | Every development of this muni- | cipal campaign should be grist for | forced by the actual events in their | arguments for the development of | forees of the Labor Party for the | WOONSOCKET, . | MILL STRIKE OVER BOOST IN HOURS 1200 Workers Walk Out * * Of Social Mill WOONSOCKET, R. 1, Feb. 23.— | Refusing to accept a boost in hours, | 1,200 employes of the Social Mill, owned by the Manville-Jenekes Com- | pany, have walked out. The walkout cecurred day before yesterday after the company rested notices stat- ing that operation of the mill would be discontinued, Local Union. Waiting for the authorization of a strike against all of the Manville- Jenckes mills, the Social Mill work- ers, led by Organizer Horace A, Ri- | viere, are determined to fight this latest attempt of New England tex- | tile barons to boost hours and lower | wages. They took a strike vote about two months ago, but refrained from going out at the request of the United- Textile Workers’ Emergency Board. Organized Social Mill operatives at their meeting last night endorsed the | £pontaneous strike action of the work- jers. Long lines of pickeis filed in | front of the mills today. Workers Want to Know, Three workers were appcinted at a meeting held at union headquarters last night to confer with the bosses d to ascertain the meaning of. the | vetices posted by the company. Union jleaders declared that the workers | would not return’ and would sanction the carrying out of the strike vote | taken several months ago. The action of the workers followed — | their refusal to agree to an increase in hours. i Changes Wives Readily. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Feb. 28. |—William H. Huffman, 64, df this |city, who has been married five times, is seeking his fifth divorce here from {his present wife, the former Mrs. | Margaret Cashdollar of Pitcairn, Pa., jon grounds of abandonment. Huff- | man is the father of ten children. Balkans Snowed Under, BELGRADE, Feb. 23.—The Balkan area is snowbound. The snow is | eighteen feet deep in some places and |the thermometer has reached 10 de- jgrees below zero. The snow, coming jafter the recent earthquakes, has jcaused great suffering. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSTANDS | | | | | Settle for Coupons Immediately || Thousands of Children of the | Passaic Textile Strikers Are HUNGRY AND DESTITUTE HELP US FEED THEM Help Build a Strong Union! survey commission’s report on the “48-hour” bill. The council declares to “be favora- ble to the interests of the wage earners,” the report providing for a {nine-hour day five days a week when a Saturday half day is worked. In , addition 78 hours a year are allowed to be worked when the boss choosés. Labor legislation experts declare that a straight eight hour law can be tentorced only with diffieulty, but that a “49 1-2 hour” bill, with 78 hours a year thrown in for good measure, makes it practically impossible to cateh employers when they violate the law, The industrial survey commission recommends that minors over 16 years jof age be included. Hackenburg, in his minority report, vtddles the employers’ argument that “a 48-hour law and protective legisli- tion for workers would drive industry from the state. He writes: “I assert in passing that there is very little to the argument that in- dustry will leave the state and go to places where there are no restric- Ralph Batschelet, top. Miss Lillian Snyder. Morris M. Grupp. Ralph Batschel seat oi ea tions upon the labor of women, If aj Batac P| ape ig E'S we keep our standards down we en- sophomore class of Denver pica courage backward southern states to sity, Denver, Colo., and vice. do likewise and morally are taking our share of responsibility for the low social conditions in the cotton mills below the Mason and Dixon line. “The testimony before the commis- sion and general information on the subject seems to show that even the + ter : flogged acbate dent of the Thinkers’ assoc’ ported to police that student him because he arranged hetween Judge Lindsey of Deny Dr, Burris Jenkins, a Kansas City, Mo. The ¢ e was to he on the subject of Ju Binidpe'e backward states are slowly but sure- views on marriage. Buatschelet said jy coming to the economic standards he was abducted as he was leaving | ts jestablished both by law and eustom the home of his fiancee, Miss Lilli jin the progressive empire state. Snyder, and taken to the outskirts +f) With establishment of industry in the Denver, where he was severely beat-! south, and the incidental prosperity en by the kidnapers. As a result of | and sources of employment, the south- the flogging incident, Batschelet and ern workers are becoming imbued Morris M. Grupp/ president of the| with the spirit of dignity of labor Thinkers’ association, have been) and insist upon a treatment due to all granted police permits to carry arms,' American workers.” WY statement condemning the Jackson-| ville agreement, and it is understood | must get busy with this task. » * & ers and socialists in the Austral-|the operators represented at the wear ian Labor Party have stepped in line | ference not to sign without a wage with our own bureaucratic red-baiters | cut or reforms. $ Reforms of any sort rile Judge Ro-} if Root right wing trade union lead-| that some compact exists among all salsky, The association’s program for | modernizing our grand jury system, installing microphones and amplifiers its equivalent in efficiency) jr, grand jury rooms, improving con- jin the war against Communism, They | regulations. | ditions in district prisons, decreasing | charge | crimes | ship. |tators do? They object to the local | Propose Long Term D. |unions having the right to nominate} A five-year contract, with a more candidates for office on the A. L. P.! flexible wage provision than at pres- ‘ticket. The section of the trade union | ent, is being advanced by the Illinois and political labor movement that is | interests as a possible basis of set- influenced by the radicals revised the | tlement. Under this plan the pay scale | rules so that the unions would be in| could be revised each year to bring a position to nominate their candi-| it in closer relationship with the non- the Communists with various | Nevertheless, Lewis has indicated | pail including a belief in dictator-| that it is in Illinois that he expects | crooked lawyers has called forth bit- Now what do those anti-dic-| to sign independent companies. | ter criticism from Judge Rosalsky, on’ bond abuses and eliminating the ground that the association is ex- ceeding its powers. The association includes about two- thirds of the 1,395 men on the panel of grand jurors. From this panel is chosen two juries of twenty-three men each, which have wide inquisitorial powers and which alone have the right dates directly rather than have this| union wage. If Lewis finally agrees | to indict. | to this proposition he may get a ma-| jority of Tlinois and Indiana opera-| tors to sign up. . Ohio Recalcitrant, job done by the machine. a 8 eo | Arthur Brisbane hails~the news| published in a Denver paper that the | United States government advised) . Kana i American oil magnates not to submit 4 bony ov Ore pag ls to the confiscatory decrees ‘of the |'% bY ® coalition o: i ying Illinois and Indiana own- Mexican government. The Hearst} outlying lino i 4 ‘ | ers, the Ohio and Pensylvania opera- press flopped over to the imperialists ae brdmeitt salenseadt be | completely and Brisbane, the fake | tors are progressive, is now howling louder for |CP¢M shop after April 1, This was) ne measures in & clearly indicated in their explanatory pei fs hae washes: pa Pala | statement which said that the miners’ We have yet to hear of a capitalist demand for a renewal of the present government threatening war on an-! other nation to protect its na- tionals who happen to be workers i from capitalist exploitation. sible.” The policy meeting. today wound (up all mine parleys so far as Miami is concerned. Any future conferences | probably will be held in a city ad- | jacent to the central competitive field. Read The Daily Worker Every Day Larre-Borges Hops Off. LONDON, Feb, 23—~Major Larre-. France Dodges Debt. Borges and his colleagues, who are! WASHINGTON, Feb, 23.—France attempting an airplane flight from|has not yet made any formal offer Italy to Uruguay, arrived at Casa-| to begin payment of $30,000,000 an-| blanen, Moroceo, at 4:45 this after-/nually on her four billion dollar ‘ooventtul Ment, ac-| American war debt, ending ratifica- cording to a despatch from Madrid. tion of the Mellon-Berenger agre: ayers hupped vif at 1:20 this! ment, Secretary of the Treasury Mel- after a” Read The Daily Worker Every Day House Legalizes One Of Secretary Fall’s Arizona Oil Schemes WASHINGTON, Feb, 23. — The house today passed the Hayden bill, ratifying oil permits granted by Ex- | Secretary of the Interior Fall in the $7.50 a day contract was “indefen-| Navajo Indian lands in Utah and Ari-| zona under executive order, was 115 to 59, The bill was passed after a warm fight, in which Rep. Sproul of Kan- sas, charged that it sought to legalize “ono of Secretary Fall’s oil schemes,” One of the companies that will be benefitted, Sproul said is the Mid- | West Company. The vote MEMPHIS, Feb, 23.—Tygo masked bandits terrorized a score of em- ployes in the ‘main office of | the Standard Oi] Company this afternoon, fired a shot through the ceiling, | morning from Malaga on the first Jeg | lop stated today, announcements in of the flight. Paris to the contrary. seized a satchel containing $6, and escaped in a waiting peybues4 Take Some More To Sell Italy, again imperialistic and mili- taristic, also plays the game of “Good Will Flying,” for military purposes. Commander de Pinedo has made a non-stop flight from Africa to Brazil. Smith’s Graft Quiz | | Branded Job Maker ALBANY; N. Y., Feb, 23. — Al, Smith’s appeal to the legislature for an additional force in the comptrol-| ler’s office to investigate the accounts of county governments, will be re- jected by the republican leaders. | The comptroller now has a force \of 15 in the Municipal Accounts Bu- reau and he wants 20 more, each to receive a salary of about $3,000 a’ year. ; | Al's proposal, republicans, declared, | was an effort to secure “jobs for democrats,” | “Now that there is a chance to pro- vide democrats with jobs the gover-| nor sends the legislature a special message. The governor's message is} not sincere.” eee etn | QUASI NO NH OR NEW YORK CITy BUY (HE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSTANDS | Beayvesagt 363 Office open from 9 a. m, to 7 p,m. daily 799 BROADWAY ROOM 225 a.