The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1927, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKE Page Two MORGAN BANKER SLATED TO TAKE KELLOGE'S JOB ‘Nervous Nel? Blunders | Too Often, They Say WASHINGTO: Mareh 20, Dwight Morrow, partner in Morgan & Co,, and college roommate of Cal- vin Coolidge, now president of the United States, may succeed Frank Kellogg as Secretary of State within a few weeks. Morrow, for the first time since Henry P. Davison discovered him on a commuters’ train in pre-war days and took him into Morgan & Co., has begun to court political lime- light. He has tentatively agreed to make a speech of a politieal charac- ter in Washington, late in April. New/ a Japanese Protest to Ambassador Over Case Of Sacco and Vanzetti TOKIO, March 20. — Twenty members of The Black League marched in orderly fashion to the American Embassy yesterday and demanded the release of Saceo and Vanzetti, The ambassador was absent, but the second secretary, Eugene H. Doorman, had to listen | ‘No their protest against the at- | tempted railroading to death of the two Italian workers in Mass- achusetts. He gued that the com- munication should come thru the Japanese foreign office. The Japanese government promptly showed its sympathy with the would-be executioners in America by arresting two of the delegation. This is the second attempt of the delegation to see Ambassador Me- Veigh, who is always “out” when they come. The result of last Sun- York papers have printed a report! day's visit was to double the guard that he is about to resign from Mor-) of police around the American em- gan & Co. His confidential talks) bassy. } with Vresident Coolidge are more frequent now than for two years R, NEW YORK, M ARTICLE IX.—THE 1905 STRIKE—WHO BROKE IT? By ROBERT MITCHELL We have already seen by what steps the Inteyborough won over the international officers of the B, of L. E. and Amalgamated and that when |} thus ele th I the union, dll, it began openly to dis- ate against certain of the men, hen no charges could be made inst those particularly singled out, some trumped-up exeuses were ‘found for discharging them. In this way a number of motormen were € 29 injuries and several deaths. But, ternational officers. They suddenly the city administration which at the| found themselves branded as “out- thne was no less completely sold out | laws” and “eriminals;” the parent to the traction interests than at the| bodies from which they had every | preserit time did nothing to protect reason to expect support only added the people. In no respect are strikes |to the viciousness of the accumulat- more instructive than in showing up| ing attack, Mr. Samuel Gompers, any saw the road! our governments and public officials! president of The American Federa-| fore it the next step|as the agents of the capitalist class. (tion of Labor, who was later com-| Newspapers Slanders, |mended by the Civil Federation for The press was a unit in heaping|“keeping his word” with August Bel- ; abuse on the strikers. The big New| mont, likewise helped break the York dailies carried the usual propa-| strike, ganda of “improved service”: Every! Then the true nature of the Inter- }day in every the trains are| borough plan was revealed in all its }running better and better, Even | naked brutality. An open sho |“The Nation,” a weekly journal sup-| notice signed by Frank Hedley was FRANG STABILIZED AT EXPENSE OF FRENCH WORKERS | Revolutionary Unions | | For Struggle | | (Continued from Page One) the numbers of unemployed did not |run into four figures. } { Forced To Retreat. | | -The Goyernment was soon forced | |to retteat from its ridiculous pre-| tensions that the unemployment was {merely an invention of mialicious | | | ifired. The union protested in. vain. | posedly of “critical” opinion carried | posted to inform the men that there- | toneues. Poincare was soon told that/ Provoked Strike. At the time there were no auto- matie signals on the line. For years |the men had been agitating for these signals, but the company neglected its obligation even though it ‘was \daily endangering the lives of people fand subjecting its motormen to an unnecessary strain, Naturally, acci- dents were more frequent and more unavoidable than at present. Accordingly, it happened that a on the same sort of comment. “The! after the company would ho longer Nation,” it must be said is now more! deal with the union, Many of the |“favorable” to labor, except when it| strikers were fired and Chicago conveniently forgets to take any side | “scabs” were substituted in their jat all as has been the case during | places. ‘Paddy’? Connolly, the presi- |the whole period of attack on the | | militant needle trades workers; when union is: said to have been one of | finally forced to take a stand in the/these imported products from the/| instance of the long sentences im-| windy city. | posed on the picketing workers by Belmont Gloats. | Judge Rosalsky, the “Nation” like-| August Belmont, “friend and asso- dent of the Interborough company | !he apparently had not taken the) trouble to read the official bulletin | of the Ministry of Labour. | | However meagre and false may be| |the official statistics they neverthe-| less allow ef forming an idea as to! the rate of the growth of unemploy- | ment in the country. | In the middle of November, 1926, thére were only 469 unemployed in| receipt of doles; by the 81st of De- wise came out against the interests | ciate of labor,” reporting to a meet- past. Kellogg Fired? retary Kellogg has be his hat. In spite of solemn a: ces to the contrary, coming from Coolidge himself, Kellogg is to be dropped. He knows that he is not wanted, His friends are now con- fidentially urging press correspond- ents to “lay off” attacks on him, se that he may retire gracefully, and not under fire. They say he is will- ing and ready to resign. It now seems fairly well established that Hughes, who quit the State De- partment two years ago to enrich himself as counsel for Standard Oil and half a dozen other huge inter- ests, is in the good graces of Cool- idge, and that he and Morrow are now consulting on changes in the cabinet. Senate May Buck. Warren will be placed in the cab- inet if Coolidge can get the Senate to confirm him. But the Senate twice rejected Warren when he was appointed Attorney General, and the new Senate will be even more hos- tile to his being placed in charge of Sei BILL UP TO STOP : PRESENT RUNNING OF ROTTEN MILK Smuggled to New York ALBANY, Mareh 20.—Every per- son in charge of a milk gathering or distributing plant wogld have to be signed by Gov. Smith, The measure has already been approved by the senate. Smuggle In Bad Milk. The bill comes as a climax to months of agitation against the sale of “bootleg” milk in and around New York by members of the gang in- volved in the graft seandals for which Thomas J. Clougher, secretary former Health Commissioner to foreign affairs. This brings up the possibility that Coolidge will shift more than one of his cabinet, to make a place for Warren. Hoover might be made Secretury of State, | and Warren placed at the head of the! the lives of thousands of New York Commerce Department. Very im-| workers are being endaggered by portant financial interests, working) hootleg shipments of milk and cream through the U. S. Chamber of Com-| mada by various cohcerns. merce, are promoting Hoover's can- ie Frank J. Monaghan, is now serving a sentence in Sing Sing, vealed by Health Commissioner Har- ris quite recently. At that time Harris declared that didacy. If Morrow is not given the ne 3 prize, Hoover is probably second Find the Mine Union choice, Both have been counted as com- mercial imperialists, who look upon the government as an agency for ex- (Continued from Page One) tending American trade and Ameri-| our inve: sigation regarding the rake- can investments abroad. | off, “The attorney with whom we con- ferred in St. Clairsville told us that jthe ‘gentlemen in question’ did get some money. adding that ‘you, Jim- mie, ean also get some of it.’ Three days later T went to St. Clairsville, + my check and it has never been hed.” Reactionaries Grafting Minister Finds High Rents of New York was re-/| motorman erashed into another train at the Worth St. station, The acci- dent was not serious and in ordinary times would have resulted in nothing }more than a reprimand from, the company for the motorman involved. |Inasmuch as the Interborough, how- ever, had decided upon a policy of provoking a strike, this ineident was jused as ‘a further occasion to dis- (Claim Impure Fluid Is | charge the man. Violated Agreement. | | On top of this and numerous such | other incidents, the company intro- duced a new schedule which increased the number of trains and consey | quently the work of the men without | agreements. Threaten Strike. In addition’ the company was im-| porting strike breakers. The men who saw the union-busting scheme unfolding more clearly before them every day at last carried their com-| d plaints to the point of threatening a|cretly carried out the instructions; they resign from this organization | PTS. of the workers. ing of the National Civie Federation Read The DAILY WORKER. jat whieh many labor officials as Accordingly, the traction workers usual were present, gave in detail jof New York, like the workers of |the method of breaking the strike al- other industries and of other cities|though naturally enough he used} will find ample justification for their other terms: “The company merely | {position in -distrusting the press of entered into an agreement with in- | the country. Of the daily papers! dividual employes whom it took into | published in English there fs but one|its service,” and “when it became | | at the present time that speaks for possible for the company to take, the true interests of the workers: | back its old employes, it could take | The DAILY WORKER. ‘only as many as it had vacancies | Treachery and Confusion. | for.” } | It is clear that the strikers of} In this manner was the Interbor- 1905 were surrounded by a sea of ough plan of breaking the union} enemy opposition, the city officials,/ carried out. When the open shop a confused and unsympathetic pub-'nature of the drive was revealed | licensed by the state If the Kirkland increasing the pay. This step was/|lie, the kept, labor baiting capitalist even to the laymen, a newspaper 2 90 | bill, passed by the assembly today is|in direct violation of the existing press, and worse than All the rest,/man asked Warren Stone what in his | ©! “ |the open and unashamed opposition | opinion ‘of their international officers. “Only Mahon worked regularly with a Stone. “mediation” committee organized by | Traitors Stick Together. the National Civil Federation which; Did the, labor officials become In-| ‘did all in its power to break down! dignant at their associates in the! the moral of the men and which se-| National Civic Federation? Did} thereafter, | replied | would come defeat can come,” cember, there were already 17,078; | by the 15th of January of this year, there were 38,300, and by the 22nd of January, 45,222, | Tn August, 1926, the Labour Esx-/| change had only 7,380 applicants for | work on its books and 12,500 places | vacant. Things are very different} now; between the 17th and 22nd of | January, 1927, the exchange had 4,500 places vacant on its books and 36,850 applicants for work. Not All Workless Registered. The official figures of unemployed in reeeipt of doles, 45,222, bear but little relationship to the actual state, of unemployment. As a matter of fact the unemployed are regularly registered only in 10 departments out. The Municipal Unemployed | Societies only function in 92 towns in France, although France contains about 30,000 Communes. What is going on in the remoter parts of France can only be guessed at from the fragmentary information acci-| dentally cropping up in the daiiv Doubtless, the number of strike. This was the end which the|of the Interborough. To what ex-| which under a mantel of labor friend- ©o™Pletely unemployed already ex- \Interborough had been seeking. Immediately August Belmont, pres-| activities of this committee is not) undermining lident of the company, got in touch with the international officers of the {unions. The officers came on to |New York to “discyss” the situation. ‘In their meetings with Jencks, Pin- ney and Pepper, the leaders of the |local unions, the full details were explained to them. ever, of taking the side of the men, they advised them to wait until their agreements were up. Officials Didn't Help. | It became clear that no help would {come from that quarter. It also be- |came evident that irrespective of any |action on the part of the union of | ficials, the company would continue | with its plans already well under way of breaking the union. On Sunday, March 4th, three days before the ac- tual walkout and when it was still believed that a strike would be aver- |ted, a trainload of strike breakers jcame in from Chicago. The 1,000 men in this consignment -were im- | tent Mahon was informed of the true|ship is the most dangerous agency | ceeded 150,000 in the end of January, |known but if he was informed he | Was guilty of a sort of criminal in- jnocence for which no responsible la- |bor leader can be excused. Stone Sent Scabs. | “Go Back to Work,” was the re-| |peated order of Warren Stone. men to take the jobs left open by the} | strikers, president. The latter was the acting! executive officer but Frank Hedley was being groomed to do the dirty work at the time just as at present, Vice President, Mr. George Keegan} is breaking in to carry on after Hed- ley leaves. Frank Hedley under-/| stands only: one kind of tactics:/ underhand. Acordingly, he tried to buy up Pepper, the leader of the Am- algamated local to betray the motor- the workers’ move- ment? No, they did not! Samuel Gompers died as its first Vice Presi- |dent. Stone was a life long mem-| ber. Mahon is “with us still.” Woll Leads Gang. « The acting executive officer of this F. of L. other prominent member ‘is Hugh Frayne, associated closely | The Interbérough sent Frank Hed- | with Brother Woll in the attacks on / tal jley in to bat in the pinch. Frank! the militant trade unionists, and re-| Understand that a very dangerous, was then the general manager of the| ceiver of $10 per session for work| Situation may be brought about by) company and E. P, Bryan was vice with the city which it is reported he|the growing unemployment. never needs to do. But the workers will be careful not to draw the wrong conclusion from these evidences of betrayal of their interests. The solution is not | to abandon the organized labor move- ment, but on that account ail the! |more determinedly to enter it. The employment among all the workers. ' traction workers will go into the A. reason that there is where the work- Fear that high rents in New York | City would materially decrease the! number of marriages was expressed yesterday by Rev. Worth M. Tippy | of the Federation Churches of Christ | in America. Tippy asserted that this conclu- sion is drawn from an elaborate study made by the Federation into the causes of fewer marriages in a number of large cities. .. “This has shown,” , he asserted, “that 10 per cent. more young wom- en between the ages of 20 and 44 living in country districts marry than those living in cities, and, again tak- ing into account the population, 5 per cent, fewer children of school age at- tend school in the cities than in the} ¢ country.” Weiner Case To Jury. The case of Robert Weiner, charged with first degree murder in connection with the slaying of Warden Peter | Mallon during the attempted escape | of three gunmen from the Tombs last | November, went to the jury in Judge | Mancuso’s court yesterday. MA WORKER must he addressed as foll marked the same way. Letters dealing with subscripti complaints, etc., must be marked pla’ New York City and vicinity. For other editorial business simp, WORKER. phone calls and to ensure its proper READERS! TAKE NOTICE! Standing Notice to Readers, Correspondents and Sup- porters of the DAILY WORKER. To ayoid confusion and unnecessary delay all mail for The DAILY News, notices, correspondence and letters to editors intended for pub- lication must be marked plainly EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT, to members of the editorial staff not intended for publication must be TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION Ask jor CITY EDITOR when telephoning all news and notices for The switchboard operator is instructed to make no connection until the party calling has stated his or her business. These rules are necessary in order that the small editorial staff of The DAILY WORKER does not waste time answering unnecessary tele- Holds The Evidence. Kunick reported that he still held this cheek. as evidence. The lawyer he referred to, he afterwards brought out, was W. J. Walker. The raft on legal department money rounted to from twenty to thirty nereent, Kunick thought, and others might have got more. It was stolen from the defense funds of men who were in jail for their union actiyities. fter Reactionary. ng office, Levinka and ATter Roy maintained a personal machine | in the ers’ union, which they used alternately to fight progressive forces and to boost their own fortunes. They were instrumental in campaigning John L. Lewis in the Ohio dis- they succeeded on several oc- easions in denying halls to Workers | Party speakers who wished’ to ad- dress the miners, and they fought for reactionary measures generally. They issue a general denial to the charges against them, but no evi- dence, Read The Daily Worker Every Day IL lows: Letters ions, financial matters, circulation, inly BUSINESS OFFICE, y ask for EDITOR OF THE DAILY funetioning. AAOAIAB gh ws | mediately argumented by an addi- | tional 700. The “New York Times” jearried the following headline: “ARMY OF MEN ON HAND TO |BREAK STRIKE.” This army was placed for safe keeping on a steam boat and escorted by a squad of ‘thirty private detectives and gang- sters, . Small Pox on The Trains. Some of the strike breakers, it is reliably reported, came down with small pox. Complaint was made to the city. The captain of the police, sent to investigate, conveniently found the report “doubtful.” He did not enter the boat to see for him- (self! The strikebreakers, however, ‘entered the Interborough—small pox, | detectives and all! Under the conditions which were ‘rapidly developing to break their junion, the men saw no other alterna- |tive but to declare a strike. The |sentiment of the workers was clearly lindieated from the fact that the | walkout on Tuesday March 7th, was | practically 100 per cent. Stone, Strikebreaker. Grand Chief Warren S. Stone, of the B. of L. E. had promised Aug- (ust Belmont that there would be no \strike, This promise was not kept, | although he and W. D, Mahon, Presi- (dent of the’ Amalgamated, did every- | thing in their power to do so. Stone wiyed the local officers that he would not sanction the strike. Also he sent Vice Grand Master Hurley to New York to make a last effort to pre- vent the tie-up. Hurley threatened Jencks, the local president, with ex- |pulsion,. But Jencks, like Ed. Lavin jof more recent fame, was not to be |bull-dozed. Then Hurley offered to |take the responsibility of calling off the strike under his own order. Nat- jurally, Jencks would not permit the men to be “sold out” in this fashion even though he could thus have saved his position in the union and, as he |was beginning to see very clearly, his job and future. 3 Of such men as Jencks and Lavin will the future American Labor movement be built! ~ Many Wrecks. In the meantime the company made a feeble attempt to run trains with —strikebreakers. Numerous iwreecks followed each other in || suabagnign: “Bae GF faere rele men. Pepper like Jencks refused to|ers are found and on that plane in be bought. | And Gompers Added a Blow. The men however, were completely confused by the attacks of their in- |the final battle be waged for true | unionism and honest leadership. (To Be Continued.) ‘The Black Company—Labor Officials, Bosses, Detectives and Judges (Continued from Page One) hailed the establishment of the 40-hour week as a great achieve- ment at the Detroit convention of the A, F. of L. Woll, Green and McGrady, Sigman and Schachtman join with | the police and bosses to make striking and winning strikes a crime. In the fur garment district gangsters accompanied by two or more detectives are entering shops and restaurants and beating up officers and members of the Joint Board unions who are pointed out by stoolpigeons. This is'what McGrady means by “having the full cooperation of the police department”. Will the trade union membership and those who sympathize with and support the labor movement against the bosses and the attacks of the various departments of government approve of this method of conducting a fight on militant workers and leaders? We do not believe they will once they grasp the damning significance of the recent actions‘ of right wing officialdom in the needle trades. These officials have become part of the suppres- sive machinery of American capitalism, they are shameless in their repudiation of abhorrence the American labor movement has always shown toward the use of courts, detectives and police against workers, they openly express their contempt for the in- tegrity of the trade unions, they bring the black shadow of stool- which aligns the labor movement with the most corrupt section of the capitalist parties and government agencies against work- ers and trade union leader's who repudiate the surrender of offi- cialdom to the enemies of the workingclass. The left wing is weak compared to the strength, of forces aligned against it, but it is mighty in the fact that it represents the interests of the workingclass as against those of the American capitalist class whether they be the cock-roach capitalists in the garment industry or the lords of finance, steel, oil, coal and rail- ways who look with approval upon the offensive against fighting trade unionism. The situation in the New York labor movement is so serious, the menace to its integrity so great, the evidence of the conspiracy between the right wing leaders, the bosses and the government so clear, that every working man and women, every sympathizer with the cause of the working class will denounce the Greens, Wolls, Sigmans, ete,, or will take upon himself the responsi- bility for silence in the face of the blackest conspiracy iianed whole section of the labor movement which has ever bash ee co-operation with other workers, will | pigeonism into the labor movement and ask support for a policy | |1927. Besides these, there is an en- }ormous army of partially unem-} | ployed, i. e., unemployed only a few) days a week, The latter may at) present be counted not in hundreds of thousands, but without any exagger- | ation in millions (there is no regis-| In| organization is none other than Mat- | ‘T#tion of partial unemployment in Instead, how-| addition he sent other B. of L. E.| thew Woll, vice president of the A,| tance). i Growing Unemployment. The government and the capi-| ists are apparently beginning to) Fall-| jieres, the Minister of Labour, is en-| deavouring through his agents, the labour inspectors, to get into the! heads of the industrialists the un- | desirability of discharging workers when production is being cut down) and the necessity for dividing up un-! The working class has probably noth- ., |F. of L. for the good and sufficient | ing to lose from this with regard to, \its revolutionary cohesion. The task \of the Unitary Confederation in its serious struggle with unemployment | will only be made easier. The G. C. L, broadeasting the slogan of unem- |ployment carried on the tactics of | | the united front for all workers, both | ‘employed and unemployed, The jidea of calling a General Labour, |Congress of factory representatives and unemployed’ representatives is ‘becoming more popular every day. | Questions and slogans capable of jholding the attention 6f the broad, | masses arise spontaneously. The U. G. G. L. has formulated the slogans, {clearly and definitely; the 8 hour! day, the struggle against the lower- ing of real wages, workers’ control over the engagement and discharg- ing of workers in enterprises. State aid for unemployed—Frenech and alien; immunity of unemployed from taxation and payment of rent; or- ganisation of municipal work under, eontrol of trade unions. These are! the principal demands, givng rise to series of others associated with! them, There Must Be Unity. | A severe and obstinate struggle is impending, The working class will! have to make the fullest use of its” economic and political organs in this” ‘struggle. All the hitherto dispersed | forces of the working clas« must be, drawn into the struggle and this ¢an only be done through the creation of a united labour front, | The realisation of the united front for the struggle can and should be | made by a true revival of the unity’ of the trade union movement in- France, that unity which has been until lately kept back by the right | elements in the trade union move-, ment, the leaders of the reformist. General Confederation of Labour, | Majority of Farms In Iowa Mortgaged | - The Herald-Tribune man says that depression out in Iowa way is largely psychological. 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