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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
Strikers Smash Police Lines

collections; bakeries are offering
free bread.
Today again, fearless and with a
determination to back up their
right to peacefully picket, the
almost endless picket line again
moved against the police line guard
ing the boundary line, but in real
ity guarding the big Forstam Hoff-
man mill, where $500 workers are
still on the job, having momentar-
lily given heed to the false promises
of their employers.
Strange as It may seem, the po-
lice line opened up at the advance
of the picket line and the strikers
were permitted" to carry the mes
sage of solidarity and organization
to the Fostman Hoffman workers.
This is a strikers victory, won by
them in battle.
Many in Need.
The third week of the strike finds
many families without a morsel Of
food In the house. Strikers are re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
Burns Appeals to
Supreme Court to
Test Syndicalisrn Law

WASHINGTON--(FP) - William
Burns of the Industrial Workers of
the World, has filed a brief in the
federal supreme court in appeal from
the decision of the federal district
court for northern California, on the
validity Of the criminal syndicalism
law of that state. This is the first
case in which one of the l. w. W.
hundreds Of whom have been tried for
the crime of membership in that or
ganization-has appealed to the high
est federal tribunal on the issue.
Attorney Walter H. Pollak of New
York, for Burns, points out in the
brief that this state law sets up stand
ards and provides punishments for
certain acts when performed by those
who advocate industrial or political
changes, which standards do net ap-
ply to persons supporting the main.
tenance of existing conditions. This,
he holds, is in violation of the fed
eral constitution, which guarantees
equal application of general laws to
all citizens alike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
.BESSARABIANS
MAKE APPEAL TO
RUSSIA FOR AID
Ask Soviets to Protest
Roumanian Occupation
Especial to The Daily Worker


MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Feb. II
Bessarabian refugees in Soviet Russia
urge the Soviet Union to renew its
protests against the illegal occupation
Of Bessarabia by the Roumanian
boyars. In a petition to the govern
ment, drawn up at a meeting of
Bessarabian refugees, who had to
leave their farms fearing the attacks
and prosecutions of the boyars, they
declare: "If the Roumanian govern
ment believes Its repeated declaration
that Bessarabians want to continue as
part Of that kingdom, let Roumania
withdraw the gendarmerie and sol
diers and permit plebiscite to be
held. In such case we are convinced
that Bessarabia's voice will be for re-
uniting with Russia"
In the petition it is pointed out that
the Bessarabian peasants are on the
verge of starvation as a result of the
military oppression and the heavy
taxation. In the past eight years over
los peasant revolts have taken place
and each had been suppressed by
bloody reprisals. over $4,000 Bessa-
rabians were shot, tortured or i'm
prisoned and over 10000 had emigrat-
ed to the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
TrOtsky Assails United States

America the most standardized coun-
try in the world. Americans produce
standardized collins and standardized
cradles. / don't know whether such
collins are more convenient, but they
certainly are 40 per cent cheaper"
Trotsky pointed out that America
is the greatest enemy of the Soviet
Union and is bending all its efforts to
crushing the union if it can. He also
pointed out that the secret role Of the
United States in the league Of nations
and the hostile attitude of the British
empire towards the Soviet Union are
in accord and that the forthcoming
conference on disarmament is moth
ing but screen behind which they
will hide their, intentions to get Rus
STA to reduce her military power and
then these powers will launch an Of
fensive against the Soviet Union.
Trotsky took great pains to point
out that the Soviet Union did not
want war and that it would much
rather have a period of peace to de-
velop its internal economy, but that
III war became inevitable and these
powers warred on the Soviet Union,
the Union would resist and that an at
tack on the Soviet Union would result
in revolts in the home lands and as a
result, the imperialists would lose
their strangle-hold on Europe and
other continents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19

PAssAIc, N. j., Feb. II. - The
striking textile workers of New
Jersey won signal victory today
when they abolished the police cor
don the textile barons had placed
around Clifton. Yesterday, from
the scene of battle on the Garfield
Clifton boundary line, hundreds Of
men, women and children were
dubbed, stunned, and then dubbed
again as they lay in the gutter.
The strike headquarters filled
quickly with wounded strikers.
Many were taken to the hospitals.
Police Repudiated.
Today the textile ezars know that
sentiment in Passaie, Clifton, Gar
field has taken a decided swing in
favor of the strikers. City councils
are calling meetings in protest
against this police brutality; merch-
ants are organizing relief associa-
tions to help the strikers; churches
are asking to be allowed to take up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19

amount of wages" he observes, land
unless something is done to settle the
strike the losses will be much
greater"
Correct! May the strikers inform
Weinberg and the mayor and the
whole bunch Of "sympathizers" that
the strikers are very willing to settle
the minute the bosses will grant the
demands. 1t is loss in wages that
started the strike. The strikers do
not want any further losses. They
feel that when they lost the ten per
cent in form of cut they lost as
much as they could stand. They will
not lose that any more. Give them
the decent wages that they ask for
and the rest of the demands and the
strike is settled just like that.
Bosses Pity Themselves.
The strikers and all intelligent peo-
pie know that 1t is not the loss that
the workers suffer that pinches the
toe Of the businessmen and the mayor.
1t is the loss that the bosses suffer
that seems such a pity. The strikers
see clearly the hypocrisy of the weep
ing businessmen. Their tears will do
no good until they begin to call for
justice for the workers.
The advice to the strikers that
they go back to work before the agree
ment is reached will not down. 1t is
eating them up and they are good and
sore about it. They want to know why
the bosses need so long a time to
make. UP their minds since they see
so clearly the poverty and suffering
of the strikers"
The strikers have a leadership this
time that is entirely acquainted with
the tricks of the bosses. This leader
ship is schooling the strikers every
day and exposing the attempt 10 fool
them. No false promises are accepted
and no oily sympathy is wanted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19

assault and battery, but the cop testi-
flying against him weakened as soon
as he heard that he was not striker,
and admitted that he may have stumb-
led and been pushed from behind and
that he may have meant merely to
keep from falling instead of swinging
out his arm to pummel the cop into
pulp. So the judge apologized pro-
fusely and was overwhelmingly pleas
ed to set free so fine a citizen as this
one seemed to be who was not out on
strike, but was law abiding and will
ing to produce profits for the bosses
and be loyal and all that.
Fooled the Judge.
In the seats behind some girls we're
subduing to the limit of their strength
fits of laughter, the cause of which
l did not dare to ferret out till court
had adjourned. Wasn't that a cork
err" they all burst out. THAT man is
working in shop where there is a
union and he gets good wages, but
his wife is out on strike and he was
in the picket line helping her and is
more anxious to win the strike than
most of the strikers"
Victoria Lebida was held together
with Frank Lasek and George Sventko
and bound over to the grand jury on a
charge of assault and battery. Vic
toria was accused of having tossed a
loose SNOWFALL at one of the cops. He
was not sure that she did it but some
one out of the two thousand pickets
did toss snow at him, he testified.
Police Are Sued.
The bosses having realized what a
blunder they made in ordering the
joint police force of Passaic, Clifton
and Garfield to attack the pickets,
several suits being started by nom
strikers against the city of Clifton for
split heads and broken backs and
other injuries inflicted by the cops,
caused very scathing editorial to be
printed in the Passaic Daily News
condemning the police for their inter-
ference and in a chesty manner de-
laring that the people have right
to walk on the streets if and when
they want to.
The News is said to belong to the
Forstmann crew and it takes very
little gray matter to discover the
motive for this editorial. The bosses
simply want to hide their brutality
behind the police after it was dis
covered that the strikers were so well
organized that the entire force of the
bosses was but a weak reed in a hur-
ricane.
Now the bosses are crying to the
mayor for proclamation to settle the
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19

porting the most needy cases
daily. An investigation COMMITTEES
visits the homes and renders a re-
port to the relief committee. Today
a family of eight children were dis
covered, living in one room, all hud-
died around a luk-ewarm stove, try
ing to get warm. The children were
without shoes or stockings. The
mother was down at the dump, pick
ing up coke out of the ashea
dumped there.
This Is no exceptional, case.
Dozens Of families with six and
more children have been reported
in need. The low wages Of the
strikers, Sc to s1a week, kept all
workers underfed and babies with
out milk even when they had full
time work. Today they strike.
Today they need help. Send In
your dollars without delay. ADJ
dress all remittances to the GEN.
ersl Relief Committee, Textile
Strikers, 743 Main avenue, Pas
sale, N. J.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
Atlantic Coast Line
Pays Bonus to Scabs

SAVANNAH, Ga.--(FP)-The At
lantic Coast line, whose communica-
tion employees are on strike, is paying
a $50 bonus to scab telegraphers and
signalmen to remain in the company
union 1t has formed More than seven
hundred telegraphers struck. Green
men in a number Of cases have caused
serious wrecks and the loss OF several
lives, the most recent case being a
headon collision between two passen.
ger trains travelling at more than 60
miles an hour in which two firemen
and two engineers were killed and
more than 35 passengers and crew
were injured.
The serious delay in train service
caused by the strike has driven much
OF the roads passenger and freight
business to its main competitor the
Seaboard Air Line which runs full
trains, the Coast Line taking the leav-
angs. e
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CONTINUED from page u.

we shall hear more and more. Step
by step, America concentrates in her
hands humanity's fate and resources,
and Baldwin, proud Britain's premier,
is today no more than Americas tax
collector. There is little wonder that
the United States thinks today in
terms Of continents, not countries.
with a war expenditure of $685.
OO0,OO0,000 America participated in
Europe's destruction, and now Eu-
rope pays her interest for being de-
stroyed. She pays for new maze of
frontiers, for the necessity to main
tain new armies, and other postwar
ills"
Trotzky then launched into an at
tack on the officialdom of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor and the ele-
ments supporting them in their polio
les of class collaboration, exposing
them as tools in the hands of the
imperialists to enslave European
workers and accused them Of pulling
secret strings in Amsterdam in the
same manner as the ruling class does
in the league of nations to put over
imperialist designs.
with respect to the worlds labor
movement, the American labor fedora
ton has adopted a modern version of
the Monroe Doctrine, calling for
America for Americans, and Europe
as we'll.
"The United States interferes with
the destinies of three-fourths of the
globe. The American labor federation
is outside of Amsterdam like Amer.
lea is outside of the league OF nations,
but this does not prevent America
from pulling strings of the league, and
the labor federation pulls strings at
Amsterdam.
This coordination between Ameri-
can Imperialism and American labor
assumes broad American swing.
The question OF how such co-ordina-
ton is possible has an answer in the
might OF American, capital, plus the
makeup OF its population. The colos-
sal and steady development has made
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
LABOR DEFENSE
AFFAIR IN N. Y.
DRAWS WORKERS
u n i o n Cooperation
Helps to Make Success
BY ESTHER LOWELL,
Federated Press)

NEW YORK, Feb. II - Splendid
union cooperation is responsible for
the great success Of the New York
section OF the International Labor
Defense bazaar which concluded its
four-day run with nearly $4,000
gained to help fight cases of workers
taken by the courts for working class
activities. Rose Barron, director OF
the local section, and manager of the
bazaar, expresses her appreciation of
the union contributions and aid.
Hats from the millinery workers
union, caps from the capmakers,
dresses and cloaks from ladies' gar
ment workers locals, shoes from the
shoe workers unions, pocketbooks
and vanity and brief cases from the
pocketbook and fancy leather goods
workers, furs from the fur workers
union-all products of workers over
time for the cause of labor defense
were sold by the union workers them
selves in various booths.
Donations from All Over the World.
Dried and picked mushrooms were
sent by Russian workers over the sea.
Finnish workers in Superior, Wis.
sent canned goods, groceries, etc.
from their co-operatives. Other
workers sent donations of their hand
iwork, embroidery, sewing, art, books
autographed, or other goods to be sold
or auctioned for labor defense funds.
German workers had booth of fine
brassware. Czecho-Slovak workers
had theirs full Of pottery and sewing.
Another booth was a kitchen full of
aluminium pots and pans and cooking
necessities.
Welcome Passaic Strikers.
Trade union night saw a thrilling
march of unionists. A delegation OF
wooden workers from the Passaic
strike was loudly cheered and a col
lection of several hundred dollars
taken for them. The Amalgamated
Food Workers union fed them at
their restaurant in the hall.
Finnish night brot a program OF
music by the Harlem Finnish club.
soprano solos by Aino Saari. and a
brass band of 40. The athletic clubs
Vesa and Kisatovereit performed.
Slavic night presented the Ukrainian
chorus of men and women in full cos
tune, singing spirited folk sons and
classical music. The Russian work
ers' dramatic club gave an anti-fas-
cist play and Tilda Shocket gave orig
inal interpretive dances of the work
ers' struggle for freedom.
Children Have Special Day.
The Hungarian workers orchestra
played one night and Hungarian folk
dances were given as well as folk
songs by the Hungarian chorus. The
children had Saturday afternoon
with Kassel's Childrens' Orchestra
entertaining them and daubes and
plays by groups Of youngsters. The
finale Of the bazaar was the Interna-
tional Costume Ball which packed the
hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
Bulgars Counterfeit
American Currency

SOFIA, Feb. 1.-THE Bulgarian gov
eminent has notified the United States
consulate of the discovery of a plot
here to circulate counterfeit Amer
lean dollars. Two Bulgarian peas
ants, who recently returned from the
United States, have been arrested
after trying to cash $4,000 in alleged
American dollars. They stated they
had purchased the dollars from an
italian in Chicago for $4,000. The gov
eminent announces that it has also
discovered the presence OF an Anne
rican counterfeiting ring operating in
Bulgaria.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
SOLIDARITY OF
WORKERS MAKES
JUDGE SQUIRM
Disnisses Striker with
Patriotic Bunk
Especial to The Daily Worker,

PASSAIC, N. j., Feb. II TT Joseph
Lesa, striker and charged with BIAS
phemy and the use of bad language
had his day before Judge Baker in
the Garfield police court this morning,
and declared guilty of the offense as
charged but dismissed after the Judge
had gotten nice little speech on
patriotism mixed with sob stuff about
claw and orderf off his chest.
Lesa, who denies that he ever utter
ed the words charged to him, was held
to the court by the police who said
that he had called one Of the imma-
culates "gbddam cop" Only the
word of the cop was used in support
ing the charge, and tho Lesa had three
good witnesses who were close to him
at the time testifying that he did not
call the cop a thing the Judge still
said, "You are guilty Of having made
this remark. There is no doubt about
it,"
Judge Is 6aIIed Up.
Yet this same judge set the defend
ant free and told him he could not
punish him for the crime he was so
sure he was guilty of.
The judge tried to hide behind a
technicality of the law which Attorney
Joseph FEEDER Of the defense presented
very clearly, but it was evident all
thru the hearing that the picket line
of 5000 and the strikers power that
is backed by 10000 put the fear OF
somebody into the patriotic bosom of
the judge. Fact is that the entire
policy of the government, superim-
posed by the bosses, has been changed
in face of the solidarity and the
morale of the strikers.
Held TO Grand Jury.
Three other cases came up and each
charge of disorderly conduct was
changed to assault and battery. Those
strikers thus charged were held over
to the grand jury.
One case came before the court
which the strikers attorneys would
not touch. A man was charged with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19

CuduJS dSSOCldJlOU.
"They want us to go back first and
settle afterward. Shall we do that?
What is your answer" And before
he could finish his sentence the hall
rang again and again with: mo! NO!
NEVER"
1T Is an old trick" continued Weis-
bord. "The bosses will try to get you
back with the promise that they will
give you something, but they are
simply trying to fool you. Do not
believe them. After you are once back
they will have committees meet and
discuss matters. Then there will be
delays. Someone will be sick and not
able to attend the conferences. The
chamber of commerce will have the
bellyache and make that an excuse.
The bosses will be on vacation and
Col. Johnson will be in Florida and
nothing can be done till he returns.
The mayor will be shot in his hip
joint or in joint in New York. Weeks
and months will pass and there will
be delay after delay and no settle
ment, and at the end you will get
nothing"
The mayor said in reply to the in
vitation by the business associations
that 81 do not wish to be an ar
bitter, but an apostle of peace. know
men, women and children are suffer
ing in the dead of winter and that the
general welfare Of our community lis
at stake"
Mayor Wakes Up.
The strikers are asking how the
mayor has gotten so wise as all that
since he knew practically nothing be-
fore the strike about the poverty and
distress in the novels of workers with
families of five to ten children and the
heaS of the family getting S12, Sis,
SIS a week. This unexpected inflow
of knowledge into the mayors noodle
appears a bit belated. and somebody
is surely to blame. Who has been so
wicked as to withhold this wonderful
knowledge from the otherwise quite
wide awake mayor? No one will be
sinful enough to blame the members
OF the picket line. These individuals
are doing their best to spread knowl-
edge and they seem to be highly sue
cessful, since even the mayor himself
is hit by bits of It.
President Weinberg Of the East
side Merchants Association is also
seeing new light and having new
feelings and his heart is bubbling over
with sympathy for the strikers. al
ready the workers have lost great
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
STRIKERS REFUSE TO FALL into
ARBITRATION TRAP SET BY THE
MAYOR And OTHERS IN PASSAIC
BY J. o. RENTALL.
Especial to The Daily workerS

PASSAc, NJ j. Feb 17Hoots and jeers by the strikers
greeted the that the mayor would striking
textile workers return to their jobs pending settlement
the strike by the bosses and the chamber the
mayor the tool and gobeween meetings that amed
halls here yesterday.
Sha back before the settler" Organ
zer Weisbord and the surgng of strikers
voice that shook the building, Neverp'
That word Never pointed with its business right
ward the bosses the whole Of officials both the
and of the city and the chamber of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
ROBBED Klansmen
Terrorize Negroes
in Tampa, Florida

TAMPA, Fla.-City and county Off
Gals of Tampa have been ordered to
round up hooded bands of nightriders
who have been throwing the Negro
population of Tampa and surroundings
into fear for their lives. 1t is believ-
ed by officials to be plan Of real
estate dealers to drive out the Negro
population and secure their land at
bargain prices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
PARIS COMMUNE CELEBRATION

PARIS COMMUNE CELEBRATION
All working class organizations
are asked not to arrange any con-
flicting meeting on March 10 as the
International Labor Defense, chica-
90 local, is arranging a Paris Com
mune pageant and drama. Moving
pictures of labor defense in the
United States ana in Europe will
be shown. Bishop William Mont
gomery Brown is to be one of the
speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
CHICAGO |. |. D. TO
WELCOME TRUMBULL
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 5

Workers are urged to reserve
March 5 so they can hear and well
come Walter TrumbuII at the Inter
national Labor Defense rally at the
North Side Turner Hall. The otheF
speakers are: Professor Robert
Morss Lovett, Ralph Chaplin and
Max Shachtman. 4n@e1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
Seek Wartime Rates.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of z to
1Sc an hour, to bring rates to wartime
peaks, are sought by the Boston &
Maine railroad clerks, members Of the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Wages
are now SIS to $40 q week. The clerks
protest paying by check, charging that
8 to 1919 fees are demanded for cash.
ing checks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
Grating Secretary Fall
and Doheny Must Stand
Trial, Justice Rules
Especial to The Daily Worker

NoptCIdI 70 ne DdIIy WOFkeFl
WASHINGTON, Feb. IL - Ex.sec'y.
Of the interior, Albert B. Fall, and the
E. L. Dohenys, senior and junior, must
stand trial under the criminal indict-
ments charging them with bribery and
conspiracy to defraud the government,
Justice Stafford in district supreme
court ruled in effect when he over
ruled the Demurrers filed against the
indictments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
Lovett Fort-Whiteman
Speaks in New Haven
Wednesday, Feb. "a

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Feb. II -
Lovett Fort-Whiteman. Negro Labor
organizer, will speak at the Masonic
Hall, 76 Webster Ave, at s o'clock.
Wednesday evening, Feb. "a. under
the auspices Of the American Negro
Labor Congress on the Emancipation
Of the Negro worker"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
Not Interfering, Claims
Pope in League Fight

ROME, Feb. 1.-THE vatican today
issued a denial of Berlin reports that
Cardinal Gasparri and sir Eric Drum
mond are working to establish cath
Ollie bloc in the league Of nations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19

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