The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1927, Page 2

Paye Two ) THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1927 Behind the Flight ARMY AND NAVY GRAB LIMELIGHT FROM LINDBERGH Utilize Popularity for | | Militarist Propaganda WASHINGTON, June 13 (FP).— Young I active, modest, ce d as an Atlantic, s young ed their imag- | And he French America, 1 its own} s for en-| A portrait snap, made in Paris, of Benjamin F. Mahoney of San Diego, Calif., designer of the men and scien- | Spirit of St. Louis, Colonel | ti Mts cAceoeaTee Charles A, Lindbergh’s plane, |, t? * baermbescst thrid bea And th me Belgium's royalty to He’s even younger than the in4 trepid New York-Paris flyer, Needle Trade Defense do the same, Next the British peo- ple responded to the appeal of the| hero, and their royalties and dukes | and admirals and generals fell in line. They could not help liking Lindbergh, and there was no narm in sharing the limelight with him. American Publicity Seekers. | This limelight in Europe pleased| ew York|the American public. Times of} won a 40 hour week; so won| peace, when they are times of rapid an increase in wages. This was done| accumulation of wealth, lend them- under the leadership of the Joint} Selves to ventures in organized en- Board of the Furriers Union. thusiasm. Advertising has come to But the labor bu ucracy is not}be one of the peculiarly American concerned with the gains of the| Sciences. It was called into service. workers. They want the control of| Lindbergh was “sold” to an eager the union even against the will of | public in millions of printed words} the members. They have conspired| daily. Calvin Coolidge annexed his | with the bosses against the workers}Treception, ordering him home| even at the expense of bringing back/| Promptly to receive a decoration be-| the sweatshop conditions. They are|fore the President should leave for} determined to put the loyal leaders | the Black Hills. And the army andj of the Fur Workers and Cloakmakers| navy and the munition manufactur-| Unions in prison under frame up| ers saw a golden opportunity for| charges. The Furriers Union was, themselves, compelled to call a strike to save the} Here was a young hero whose fath- hard won gains of the workers of| er, as congressman and as candidate last year. of the Non-partisan League farmers Fifty Thousand Dollars Needed Im-|f0r governor of Minnesota, had} mediately—Buy Bonds. | been the fearless enemy ot “Wall! Workers, “lsbor unions and Street’s w: and had published a organizations are called book to rove that Morgan & Co. and | fain deninvetnationd other big banks of W all Street had) 50 and $100, conspired to bring the [United States| Will ‘be. vetted dict into the world war for the purpose weekly payments upon request, be-|°% further aggrandizing the big giniing with the middle of July '1927.|>ankers and to further enslave the Send in your first payment on the | “ae mere and tes of this) ewe: todas jcountry. Why not take this young G lee hero and make a military figure out | xet Certificates On Pledge. jof him? Why not make the public| Workers are called upon to make/forget that he flew to Paris as a\ periodical payments on pledges from private citizen, a civilian, on a pure-| 50 eents to $2.00. You will get a é ly civilian voyage with which the| certificate for each payment on the| army and navy had nothing to do? | THE FUR WORKERS ASK FOR YOUR F Last year the furrie All workers pledge. Get some certificates and} Army and Navy. solicit samong other workers for} So Lindbergh became more and pledges. |more emphatically Captain Lind- | Furriers Coney Island Stadium bergh, and then Colonel Lindbergh, Concert when the military clique discovered the ironic humor of the situation. He was ordered home on a cruiser. He was met by an army dirigible, a navy blimp airship and some 90 ar- my planes. He was given a military uniform. And a military parade was staged on Pennsylvania Ave. This jmade people forget that the elder Charles Lindbergh, student of bank- ing and stalwart foe of big bankers and their militarism, had been sneered at by the regular Republi- cans in 1917, 1918 and 1920, And it suggested more money for militar- ism, { Secretary of State Kellogg was s offic prominent in the welcoming cere- s. Kellogg, as senator from Minnesota in the war period, was {one of the ugliest-mannered of the! |spokesmen of the steel and banking| ¢ ; ER Mi /\ N | and grain buying and railroad clique} | that tried to terrorize the state into mobbing the elder Lindbergh in 1918, On July 16th we must pack the Coney Island Stadium for the Fur- riers concert. Tickets are $1.00) each. Labor unions and workers’ or- ganizations should get a supply of tickets to sell to their members. In- dividual workers -should buy and sell tickets te other workers. Branch Office. Bonds, certificates, tickets and in-| formation can be gotten at the! Branch Office of the FURRIERS| STRIKE FUND & RELIEF COM. MITTEE at office of the Furriers Joint Board, 22 East id Street. All payments for this committee | | Kellogg is credited with calling Lindbergh a German agent at that time; he did at least furnish much | of the strategy of that persecution of | dbergh and the farmers’ organi- | zation. Now he welcomes the son| who in those years was his father’s close confidant. Minnesota farmers | drove Kellogg from the Senate, but | Coolidge made him secretary of state, We have received a lim- ited stock of the follow- ing titles from Germany, UP BROADWAY CANYON jup of Sacco and Vanzetti. some of which have not appeared in English. | And political expediency and a hope | of using the son to serve the militar- | ist and banker cause has led the agile Kellogg to the grandstand, Militarist Holiday. Back of the public hysteria over | this fine young man is a sense of | relief that the age of personal ad- | venture in pioneering is not gone by. By Sucharin Die Probleme der Chinesischen Revolution 1S Die International und Inner Lage der Sowjetunion Der Impertalismus und Akkamulation des Capital (Cloth) —75 Kntwicklungawege der Chine- sischen Bt ution Fang Ping-Schan Die Bergarbeiterfranen Jonds Im Kampf Katherine Cant % chance for a young man to challenge the elements and win great fame. There is also the hunger of a com- fortably-fed people to be thrilled. And gratitude that this can be done without war. But the army and navy will make = 10 Lindbergh their text in a fervid plea Aus Dem Leben der Arbeiter- fever a wihiet abhi ‘1. hoon gee Sorrsecanion | for bigger a opriations. Not civil-| 8, Bojarskaya —10 jian flying, war preparation, is Die Vereinigten Staaten des | the picture they ask Americans to Soulalistinchen Kuropa John Pepper —10 4dahrbuch fur Wirtschaft, Poll- tie und Arbelterbewegung—- 1926 —2.50 see and appland. Special Daily Worker Meeting Friday. | DAILY WORKER agents and |DAILY WORKER representatives of | Workers Party units will meet Fri- |day, 8 p. i. at 108 E. ldth St., to take up plans for the midsummer DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 33 First Street NEW YORK _— |A machine age has not killed the| - | peariens ey fair top the me “e { | | (Continued from Page One) trying to break the unity of the mem- | bership. First Messrs. Hilfers, McGrady and Sorkin tried to talk to the members jof Local 25 with honeyed phrases. This failed. Next the International disrupters secured an injunction jagainst the union and its local offi- cers and compelled the local to ap- pear in court. This scheme fell thru, Deal With Bosses. Then the International betrayers made a deal with the bosses, guaran- teeing scabs and everything under the sun. Naturally the bosses fell for |this as they saw an opportunity to NEWARK FURRIERS WIN BIG VICTORY ; THE RIGHT OPPOSITION 1S DEFEATED charges against them. Their local was suspended illegally. The Inter- natig"yl wants to impose crooks and gra Yh, as officers, on the backs of Hie Neat einberstig: ¥ Victory Is Near. | Victory is at the threshold of the | strikers of Local 25, thanks to the |splendid support of the progressive | elements in the unions of New Jersey. With this victory over the labor fakirs and corruptionists the left wing will take on anew breath of life, in- creased courage and fight the fight for emancipation not only from the traitors in the unions, but from the bosses and the yoke of capitalism. THE PHOTO ABOVE shows the Lindy parade passing up Broadway, sfter he had landed at the Battery, on his way to City Hall. The picture was snapped in the heart of the financial district. Look at the decorations and the confetti and torn up paper floating in the air, resembling an artistic snowstorm. 28 Organizations Of Stamford Call For Sacto Freedom STAMFORD, Conn, June Twenty-eight fraternal and labor or- ganizations assembled here in a mass meeting to protest against the frame- Five hun- dred workers unanimously endorsed a resolution demanding the release of the two persecuted men at the meet- ing, held at Columbus Hall under the auspices of the local Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Conference. Edward Scott, secretary-treasurer of the Stamford Central Labor Coun- cil, presided. The speakers were: Defense; Nicola Napoli, editor of II Lavoratore; and George Siskind, of the Workers’ Party, of New York. Another Army Plane Falls LANGLEY FIELD, Va., June 13,— Two army air officers—Lieut. Frank B. McConnell and Lieut. Cornelius An- derson—were killed and their bodies badly burned here this afternoon when their plane fell during machine gun and bombing maneuvers. McConnell is from Nashville, Tenn., and Anderson is from Lacenter, Ky. Both are rated experienced flyers. Their plane was destroyed by fire. Read The Daily Worker Every Day Paul Crouch, Uncowed By Prison,Starts onAnti- Imperial Lecture Tour CHICAGO, (FP) 2 years in military prison have not dimmed the anti-imperialist ardor of Paul Crouch, the former U. S. army sergeant sentenced to 40 years for radical activity while stationed in Hawaii. On his release from Alcatraz June 1 he immediately began prep- arations for a nationwide speaking tour to begin in Los Angeles June 19th under the auspices of the All- America anti-Imperialist League. | Al Other towns in the itinerary in- {clue San Francisco, Portland, Ore., \through Washington state, Montana |and Minnesota, to Chicago, Detroit, | Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Phila- | delphia, Baltimore, Washington, New York, New Haven and Boston. In a letter to the American sec- | tion of the league in Chicago Crouch says: “During the long days in prison I determined that as soon as I got out I would carry the message of the oppressed peoples not only to my former comrades in arms, the American soldiers who are sent to suppress them, but also to the poten- tial soldiers, the great mass of American workers and farmers who make raw rial. for ; r pr Will de Kalb, of International Labor | June 13,—-Over} f | 18—|* | | | | | | | | | | | | ning at/6:30. The case of Sacco-Van- |zetti and other class war prisoners NEWS FROM NEW JERSEY NEWARK, June 13.—A strike of| 1,500 barbers of this city and sea ity is threatened on June 20 unless | the Master Barbers’ Association} meets their. detiiands. | The employers are now discussing | these demands, and it is expected| | that they will be met by a general, nti-union offensive. | The barbers ask for a flat salary | of $35 weekly, and a percentage of | all income over an agreed amount. J . * | Sacco-Vanzetti Meeting Saturday | NEWARK, June 13.—Jersey work-| ers will gather at a huge Sacco-Van-| zetti protest demenstration to be held next Saturday afternoon at Lincoln) Park. Prominent. speakers will ad-| dress the meeting which is being ar. ranged by the Newark Sacco-Van- zetti Conference, * * Special Meeting Thursday. The Newark branch of the I. L. D. will meet at the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 37-16th Ave., Thursday eve- will be taken up. * > Del.rates w¥ all labor organiza- tions are 11g¥1 to attend the second | Sacco-Vanzetti coaference to be held at the Labor Lyceum Thursday at| 8 p.m i | NEWARK/ N. J., June 18,—The first casualties in the strike that Lo- cal 478 of the Teamsters Union are conducting occurred when 5 strikers were arrested for an alleged assault on scab truck drivers. The truck drivers who carry building materials are involved in the strike. They are asking for a flat increase of $1 per day in wages. Thus far efforts to meet the employers and arrive at a settlement have met with failure, “ * * NEWARK, N. J., June 18.—When an agreement was reached with Lo- eal 52 of the Electricians and the Master Electrical Association, repre- senting 50 bosses, work estimated at $10,000,000 was resumed. The elec- tricians and helpers have been out on strike since Muy first when their agreement expired. The bosses thot that they could break the ranks of the union and decided to fight the! local union. Today the ranks of the union are 100 per cent strong and the men have gone back to work with $.50 increase per day plus a sliding increase from $3 to $5 per day for helpers. . * * * NEWARK, N. J,, June 13.~-At a mass meeting last night held under the auspices of the Jewish Progres- sive Club and the Council of Work- ingelass Housewives the workers, 400 in number, passed a resolution en- dorsing the fight of the furriers affiliated with Local 25, and pledged themselves to aid and help them in every way. Speakers from Local 26 and the Joint Board of Furriers addressed the audience. Oakland for Sacco And Vanzetti Altho Council Sabotages By ALMARD TOBEY. OAKLAND, Cal., June 13.—Resolu- tions to free Sacco and Vanzetti were passed at an International Labor De- fense meeting, held in this city, at- tended by 500 or more citizens rep- resenting 18 labor organizations and many fraternal and liberal bodies at which J. Stitt Wilson presided and John D. Barry of the San Francisco Daily News and Florence Thompson, student at the University of Califor- nia spoke, We believe that the senti- | ment expressed at this meeting is the | sentiment of the majority of the peo- ple of this vicinity, especially as the local press, particularly the labor press, gave us favorable mention re- peatedly, The meeting was a splendid success. | The Central Labor Council withdrew from the affair, but that did not hurt \it any. Crouch Speaks. The I. L. D. gave Paul Crouch a re- ception Sunday, June 5th, at which John E. Snyder, C. Almard Tobey, Anita Whitney and others spoke. The musical program consisted of songs by Clarence Tobey, Comrade Beck and a trio with Madame Beret, Joseph Margolis and Geo. Allen Kelly, Jr., Vane Dart acting as chairman. Re- fre3hments were seryed and every- body had a fine time. Paul Crouch as guest of the evening gave a fine talk. A reception is planned for Charlotte Anita Whitney for Wednesday eve- ning, June 15th, when we will all.turn out to render tribute to her before she begins her term in San Quentin under the Criminal Syndicalism law of California. We, her old friends and | increase their profits and to lower the| The threats to drive out the left wing | standards of the workers in the shops, | iM the A. F. of L. in New Jersey will leonditions that were obtained. after| not meet with great success after the |years of bitter struggles with the| bosses. On the heels of this the In-| ternational opened an office in| | Newark and attempted to induce the ;members of Local 25 to register. |Coupled with this undertaking the bosses proceeded to lock out the work- ers when they appeared in the. shops on a Monday~morning a few weeks ago. | When the membership saw the| crimes that the traitors of the In- ternational were perpetrating against them they revolted. On Wednesday evening, May 25th, a membership meeting was called and the entire as- semblage voted to go out on general strike against the treacherous acts of the International officials and the bosses. | 400 Workers Involved. | In this strike 400 workers are in-| volyed and 20 nationalities. The war area extends from New Brunswick to Paterson, | What are the issues with which the! International and Local 25 are at log- gerheads? On one side the Interna- tional offices have lined up with 12/ scabs including Milton Corbet, the! crook; the bosses organized in the! Consolidated Fur Dressers’ Associa- tion, all the officialdom of the N. J.! State Federation of Labor, Hilfers, | | Jennings & Co., the courts and the! ‘politicians of the city and state, | Lined up with the members of Local |25 are its honest officers including | Morris Langer, its business manager, | |argund whom centers the entire fight| |with the International. What charges do Schachtman & Co.| make? The smoke screen that is| thrown out is “Communism”, Thru! \this cry the International raises the} jery of Americanism! The bureaucracy | | of the A. F. of L. maintains that they jare the 100 per cent Americans and| |that Local 25 and its officers arc! |propagating “Communism,” with or-| |ders from “Moscow” and not fighting | \in the interests of trade unionism and. | Americanism, | To Hide Treachery. ‘The Jennings, Wolls, McGradys| jand Hilfers are raising the slogan of | | Americanism in order to hide their | treacherous work and betrayals to the |tank and file of organized labor. But | they are doomed to failure. They have jtaken unto themselves allies that the | workers know cannot fight for the in- terests of organized labor and the en- tire working class. These allies are the police, politicians and bosses. | Communism and the Workers) (Communist) Party have been | dragged into the struggle against the | progressive-and honest leadership of Local 25. Altho the membership of the Rabbit Workers’ Local Union 25) did not know the difference between the left wing, the right wing and |Communism. But before the fight \is| over between the International and| their allies, the bosses, with Local 25 the workers will understand the dif-| ferences. The rank and file sce clear- ly the ridiculousness of the bankrupt ery of “Communism.” They know that they have a right} to choose their own officers. They know that for the past nine months Morris Langer and the executive board have been honest and have fought in the interests of the union and better working conditions. The workers also see the treachery and traitorous acts the officers of the In- {ternational and the A. F. of L. have committed against them. They realise now, while the general strike is on that they are not guilty of any associates, feel that we can do this) defeat in Newark. Communists will aid in the fight to remove graft and corruption within the unions and by their participation in every struggle the workers will soon learn the Communists are out to build up the unions, make them more powerful and to make trade unions organs of struggle and defense for the working class, Mussolini’s New Game; Wages and Prices See- Saw; Lira Still Rises ROME, June 13.—Five hundred thousand textile workers have ac- cepted a forced cut of 10 per cent in wages, beginning the 1st of June. To off-set this new blow to the Italian worke:s, reductions in the retail prices of certain staple articles, aver- aging 10 per cent, have been an- nounced; and to counteract this harsh treatment of the masters, the Confed- eration of Industries is recommend~ ing additional wage reductions. On March 31st. there were 288,000 workers in Italy, totally unemployed, more than double the number for the previous year. 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Read The Daily Worker Every Day Yonkers Builders Seek Court Order to Stop Unionization Program WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 13, ~-William J, McGeory, of Yonkers, president of tho Building Trades Council of Westchester County, was the principal witness today in the action brought by twenty-five build- ing material firms against Patrick D. Pearce, business ‘pnt for Local No, 45 of the Inti yal Brother. hood of Teamsters, Cheuffours, Sta- blemen and Helpers of America. The action is brought by the Will- son and Adams Company, of Yonk- ers, in the name of 26 building and construction firms in an effort to obtain a Here injunction ey 8 i ‘rom Rioee Gal $40 cat toe. unionize an Canada, Chieago, and Foreign countries, $2.50 a year. Sample copies on request, free. In the June issue: PERSPECTIVES FOR OUR PARTY Jay Lovestone PRESENT TREND IN LABOR MOVEMENT Max Bedacht THE CRUSADE AGAIN THE REDS Ben Gitlow LITERATURE AND ECONOMICS . V. F. 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