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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
American Aristocrats
Seek to Rub Elbows
With British Parasite

LONDON, May king George Is
to hold no fewer than six courts this
year. The American rich, seeking
titles by marriage, have made many
applications for presentation Of their
daughters. Even the widows are
crowding the register. Mrs. Alanson
B. Houghton, wife OF the ambassador
to England. who selects American ap-
pllcants for presentation at court, has
overwhelmed the king and queen.
1t is understood that Mrs. Hough-
tons applications for various promi.
nent American girls have been very
successful.
The American labor folk viii see
by this that our ambassadors wife is
doing her best to be useful to Amer.
leans while abroad for "her country"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
final CRISIS
CLOSER, SAYS
VIM. Z. FOSTER
(Continued from PagA Is

CONTINUED from Page ~
Red Friday of 1925, were straws which
indicated the coming Of the present
social storm. The British workers are
breaking with capitalism. They have
their eyes ON Soviet Russia and are
beginning to travel the revolutionary
way of the Russian workers.
The Reformlats.
"Even the Hendersons, McDonalds,
Hodges, and other reformists are
forced by mass pressure to support
the strike at present, They fear the
revolution as much as the employers
do. But this time the militant ele-
ments in the working class are thoro-
ly organized and know the danger
Of reformist vaeillation.
"The present great struggle in
Great Britain brings the final crisis
closer. It must result in greatly
sharpening class antagonisms. The
workers will become more class con-
scious, the employers more desperate.
Win or lose, the strike is only one
Of the preliminary struggles prepar-
atory to the final clash which will
end British capitalism and result In
the establishment Of a Soviet Re-
public.
American Support.
American workers must and will
support their British brothers in this
historic struggle. What is happening
in Great Britain today is only a pic
ture of what will happen in the
United States in a very few years.
There must be no coal shipped to
England. There must no scab goods
unloaded in America. The American
workers must financially assist the
British strikers. The fight of the
British workers is our fight. 1t must
be won."
Foster will speak tonight at North
west Hall at 500 o'clock, on Europ-
can, Russian and American labor
movements" under the auspices Of
The Trade Union Educational League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
Los Angeles Hebrew
Bakers Go on Strike

LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 4. :
Hebrew Bakers Local No. 453 at a
meeting held at 2 o'clock in the morn
ing voted to go on strike and force the
bosses to sign the union agreement.
Five independent unions signed the
new agreement. The union is deter
mined to force the bosses association
to sign. The Cooperative Bakery has
been turned over to the control Of the
bakers. The plant is running on three
shifts turning out union made bread.
A. Ravitch, the New York repres-
entative OF the Freiheit, and s.
Globerman, local Freiheit manager,
addressed the strikers at four in the
morning urging them to stick together
and pledging the support OF the Fret
heit to the strikers.
The bosses association seeks to
force the union to give up May Day
as holiday, to cut the bakers wages
five dollars week, and to abolish
the system under which the bakers
divide work among themselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
lContlnued from page 1l.

and collectively, calling us labor lieu
tenants Of the bourgeoisie' and trail
tors to the working class
Hillquit here urged that everything
be cut out after the words calling us"
to the end of the paragraph. He de-
nounced Onears carefully chosen
words as childish" and 'mere
phrases" Hillquit charged Oneal with
doing just what he was charging the
Communists with doing.
Committee reports fourth paragraph
Is in OneaTs best style: 1.-The purpose
Of the Workers (Communist) Party
is to bore within any organization
that trusts it's offers Of friendship, to
organize stealthy chques and factions,
to sow suspicious and hatreds by
falsehoods and intrigue and thus serve
the enemies of the working class. All
this is done Systematically as its
standard tactics"
Hillquit demanded that this para
graph be striker out entirely. He de-
clared it was absolutely unnecessary.
paragraph: "Such an offer under such
circumstances cannot be accepted.
There is no reason for believing this
proposal more sincere than similar
proposals in the past. Moreover the
Workers (Communist) Party has by
its false lying and disrupting tactics
isolated itself from the American
workers and deserves its isolation. It's
alliance would be liability and not
an asset to the cause of working class
emancipation. Cooperation with it
would ALLEVIATE and not attract the
American workers. Cooperation with
it can lead only to disaster. A united
movement can be realized only by
ignoring it."
oneaI's "PIdgeon" English.
When Hillquit drew attention to it,
the characteristic Oneal phrase false
lying" became one Of the jokes of the
convention. 1t was pointed out that if
lie is false, then it is necessarily the
truth. This would mean that all the
charges that sting Oneal so bitterly
are true. Hillquit urged that the
phrase false lying" be deleted. He
also demanded that the phrase de
serves its isolation" be stricken out,
and to substitute the word unity
for emancipation"
He also urged that everything start
ing with cooperation" to the end of
the paragraph be eliminated. Hill
quits recommendation would leave, of
course, a mere skeleton of Onears
heroic effort that had received the ap-
prevail of Berger and STARTS.
Hillquit, in arguing for the changes,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
of the Small
Nations Means Little
to the United States

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 4.-The
Latin-American diplomats are learn
ing that "the rights of small nations"
dope only applies when the big ma
tons get what they want. The United
States asked for $1.225.OOO for dam.
ages, from the Mexican government,
because bunch of bandits killed some
mining engineers before the present
Mexican government went into power.
The American-Mexican special
claims commission, with DR.. Rodrigo
Octavio, the Brazilian as umpire, has
decided in favor of Mexico and, of
course, Judge Perry acting for the
United States says that everything
is wrong in the decision and the whole
commission is denounced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
United Front Turned DOwn BY Socialists

declared the resolution had too much
heat.
at has a peevish Tone" ne said.
I'VE must have a dignified and cogent
reply
Berger Defends Attacks.
Berger came to the defense Of the
resolution, however. He said this was
a serious matter and had to be taken
seriously. He assailed the Workers
Party and the world Communist move.
ment, insisting that the original reso-
luton stand. STARTS, for the commit
tee, also came to the defense Of the
resolution.
Then Oneal came to the defense of
his phraseology. He attacked Com
munists generally, and declared that
there was no united front in the Pas
sale mill strike, for instance, contrary
to the reports in 1.-THE Daily Sewer
Of Chicago, which is Oneals way Of
referring to The DAILY WORKER.
Delegate julius Gerber, of New
York, interpreted OneaPs "heat" by
pointing out that socialists like
August Claessens and Norman
Thomas had gone to Passaic to make
speeches at strike meetings and had
failed to have themselves introduced
as socialists. They had merely been
introduced as friends from New
York" was Gerber's complaint, and
this was the only explanation offered
what Oneal claimed was the failure
of the united front in Passaic.
Gives Lie to oneal.
Esther Friedman, who was in the
convention hall, altho not a delegate
got the floor and declared she had
spoken TO the Passaic mill strikers,
and that when she asked to be pres
ented to the strikers as a speaker for
the socialist party, she was announced
by the chairman of the meeting in this
manner.
This created more heat in the
Onea[Gerber combination.
"You want to call me liar" yelled
Gerber, across the convention hall.
That's what you want to do. You
want to make me out liar"
When the excitement died down the
voting proceeded. The second para
graph was adopted, except that RUS
sian Bolsheviki'' was changed to
Communist international" The third
paragraph was allowed to stand. In
the fifth paragraph, the phrases false
lying" and deserves its isolation"
were stricken out.
Thus the socialists dug their heads
little more into the sands of isola-
ton, believing that they had saved
themselves from the terrible Commun-
lists forever.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
HART, SCHAFFNER
& MARX LAY OFF
MANY PRESSERS
Improved Machinery Is
Bosses Reason

Hart, Schafiner and Marx, leading
clothing manufacturers of Chicago
have let 16 more of their workers go
with a compensation of 5000. The
reason offered by the company for the
lay-off was that the workers were not
necessary since the introduction of
the new pressing machines in their
factories.
Lay of $50 Cutters.
A few weeks ago the same Arm
laid on $50 cutters-giving them the
sum Of $50,0OO-or $3.50 apiece for
their jobs. The reason offered at that
time was the slump in business gen.
orally and the improved methods of
production. The Amalgamated Cloth.
ing Workers agreed to such a settle
ment on condition that no more such
procedures were to take place.
Lay OF 1s Pressers.
Yesterday in factories c and L, 16
pressers were laid off by arrangement
with the union-with the workers re.
ceiving only 5000 for their jobs with
no supplementary arrangements as
were made in the other case-that the
workers leaving the plant were to re.
ceive part of the unemployment fund
That arrangement would have result.
ed in giving the workers $500, now
they only receive 5000.
An interview with some of the
workers that were affected by the ar.
rangement leads us to believe that the
Hart, Schaffner and Marx Company
does not intend to stop the reduction
Of its forces. Many more pressers
are slated to go because Of the new
machines that have been introduced
Part-Tlme Work.
These 16 workers practically vol
unteered to accept the arrangement
and leave as their average earnings
for the past months have been about
SIC a week.
The workers that have been laid
off are expected to register at the
employment exchange for another
job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
Carmen of Chicago
Demand Wage Increase

Officials of the union of surface
street car men in Chicago today were
seeking a conference with heads Of
the company to make overtures for an
increase In wages, following a meet
ing of the carmen at which it was vot-
ed to ask for increase Of five cents an
hour. The men also seek establish
ment at the expense of the company
Of $1,000 insurance and $50 weekly
sick benefits for each employe.
William Quinlan, president of the
union, denied that strike is threat
ened, but that the vote constituted
merely a request for an increase
which the men believe due them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
Canadians Ship Cattle
Direct to England

REGINA, Sask., Canada, May g.
The tariff wall put up against Cana
dian cattle coming into the United
States has caused the Canadians to
make arrangements to slaughter and
ship their own meat to the eastern
and western world. This has also
started the movement OF other prod
ucts going to the European market
more directly. The British trade
with Canada has doubled since the
Fordney-McCumber tariff went into
effect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
Portland Organizes
Council for Protection
o TIL e Foreign-Born

PORTLAND, Ore, May Council
for the Protection of the Foreign-Born
was formed here recently. Meetings
are held every Friday night in the Gen.
trail library.
Delegates representing the follow
ing organizations are in the Council:
Portland Central Labor Council, Inter
national Hold Carriers, Building La
borers' Union No. 296, Workers Com.
munisD Party, Noble Lodge Of Vasa
No. lS4. Women's Club, Croatian, Rus
sian, Scandinavian and Lithuanian
Language Clubs and Common Labor.
ers Union Local No. 4S3.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
5000 CHILDREN
SLAVES HURT IN
Year IN PENNA.
Children Put at Jobs
Involving Danger

NEW YORK, May Facts
against child slavery are fred by the
national child labor committee in the
current issue of the American Child.
A summary of study by the Consum-
ers League of eastern Pennsylvania
shows the reckless waste Of life and
limb of child workers. The study
shows that a total of S,476 workers
under IS years Of age were injured
in Pennsylvania industry in 1928
-Four thousand Of these lost 10 days
and more from their injuries. The
total number Of fatalities is not given
but 81 workers Of the Is and 17-year
groups are shown to have been
killed on the job and 81 permanently
injured.
The textile industry manned more
children than did any others, but
clothing, printing. laundry work fol-
lowed after. Against the lives and
safety OF the older children the metal,
mining, clay. glass and stone work
industries scored heavily.
Less Than $40 Per Week.
ut is interesting" says the Amer
ican Child, that an examination Of
the H. to 16-year group shows that
so per cent of these children were
risking their limbs and their lives
for an average of less than $40 per
week"
Hours Of working children must be
reduced, is one lesson the league
draws. "In 1915 it seemed as tho the
9-hour day and 51-hOur week were
satisfactory. However, in the decade
that is passed, industry has become
much more hazardous, with an in
satiable greed for speed and high
powered machines"
Prohibition of dangerous occupa-
lions is another urgent recommends
ton. Better factory inspection is d
third. The last recommendation re-
lates to compensation. Many chill
dren are illegally employed and in
iured in the course of this work.
Such children are excluded by the
Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensa-
ton law from compensation. The case
is given of 16-year old boy crushed
to death while operating an elevator.
His boss, who had illegally assigned
him to this work was fined $25 and
exonerated from compensation pay
ments.
A 15-year old boy, employed as
scrap boy in an iron and steel mill,
was caught in shaft, drawn into tho
machinery and killed instantly; again
no compensation. A fireworks fac
tory employed 10 children illegally.
Three were severely injured and one
killed and all the boss had to pay was
a $50 fine, tho he had assigned the
children to work unlawful at their
ages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
Frisco Carpenters
Strike Open Shop Jobs

SAN FRANCISCO - OPP - The
walkout OF union carpenters from
openshop jobs, scheduled for April
as a test Of strength for the San Fran
cisco building trades unions, is in
effect. The unions claim 500 men out.
The Industrial Assn. says there are
only 7G. Many contractors, while dis.
playing openshop signs, hire only
union workers and these are not being
disturbed. Union painters are Co.
operating in the strike by a campaign
OF persuasion, inducing nonunion
painters on building Jobs to sign uf
with the union W
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06

JI4uB uulOub dAIlldL6u Win Lu6 "A.
F. of L. This is probably the best
explanation that can be offered for
Debs' attitude.
The Milwaukee delegation bitterly
opposed striking out. Victor Ber-
ger declared the socialist party was
not asking any worker to join
definite union; that each prospec-
tive member could decide the ques-
tion of affiliation for himself. Berger
was supported by Delegate William
Coleman, secretary of the party in
Wisconsin.
The argument was advanced by
other delegates that the striking
out of this clause would hurt the
party in its campaign for the labor
party. 1t was held that keeping this
clause in the membership pledge
brought prestige to the socialist
party.
BY this time the delegates were
quite convinced that they were
treading on dangerous possibilities
and it was unanimously decided to
keep the questioned clause in the
membership pledge.
The official minutes of the con-
vention show that thirty delegates
have responded. There are also four
fraternal delegates. The list is as
follows:
California: Lena Morrow Lewis.
Connecticut: Karl Jursek, Martin
r. Plunkett.
Illinois: Florence S. Hall, William
R. Snow.
Indiana: William H. and Emma
Henry.
Kansas: Arthur Bridwell.
Kentucky: John j. Thobe.
Maryland, William A. Toole.
Michigan: Joseph Bernstein,
Arthur Rubenstein.
Missouri: Gustav A. Hoehn.
Montana: James D. Graham.
New Jersey: William Kane Tai
man, Charlotte Bohlin.
New York: Herbert M. Merrill,
Julius Gerber, James Oneal.
Ohio: John G. Willert.
PENNSYLVANIA: Darlington Hopes,
William ]. Van Essen.
West Virginia: l. G. Miller, Will
liam Frankhona.
Wisconsin: william Coleman,
Victor L. Berger.
New England District: s. P.
Levenberg, Walter L. Hutchins.
Northwest District: Emil Herman.
Mountain States District: o. A.
Kennedy.
Only four foreign.language group
ings had fraternal delegates as fol
lows:
Finnish Federation: w. N. Reivo.
Italian Federation: James Bat
tistoni.
Jewish Federation: Alexander
Kahn.
Jugo-slav Federation: Charles
Pogorelec.
Shortly after the convention got
under way Monday morning 1t was
called to vote whether an annual
assessment Of rs cents should be In
creased to so cents to help build the
Young Peoples Socialist League.
The proposition was voted down,
nine to five, showing only fourteen
voting delegates present. During
the convention it was brought out
that there was only one functioning
organization of the Young Peoples
Socialist League in the entire state
OF Pennsylvania
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
Socialist Convention
Discusses Obligation
to Join Trade Unions
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.
Especial to The Daily WOrkerl

Especial to The Daily Worker)
DITTSBURGH, Pa, May 8. (By
i Mail.) - The instability and
wavering attitude of the socialist
party was again displayed in the
convention here when the question
was raised Of striking from the
membership pledge the obligation OF
prospective socialists to join labor.
union.
The membership pledge, which is
a part of the party's constitution,
now contains the declaration, Il
agree to apply, wherever possible,
for membership in labor union OF
my trade or occupation" The pro-
posal came from the constitution
committee to strike It out.
The report for the constitution
committee was made by a young
lawyer, Darlington Hopes, of Nor
ristown, Pennsylvania. The other
two members Of the committee are
trade unionists, John M. Collins, a
machinist of Chicago, and S. P.
Levenberg, Of Massachusetts.
Hopes explained here, as he had
done on many other propositions
when they were questioned, that
Eugene v. Debs, the party chair
man, had gone over the constitution
and made the suggestion for this
change. Debs is not in attendance
at the convention. He did not APP
pear at the mass meeting Sunday,
at which he had been announced as
the main speaker, nor was he pres
ent at the banquet planned in his
honor Sunday night. He recently re-
turned from the Bermudas where he
has been with Mrs. Debs, in an ef-
fort to restore the latter's health.
The explanation that comes from
Terre Haute, Ind, to explain his
non-attendance at the convention,
is his own i'll health and death
in the fa1lily. Debs is not here,
therefore to give his own version
why he wishes to withdraw the OBJ
legation to join trade union upon
prospective socialist party mem
bers.
The committee report made the
declaration that this obligation was
ineffective and undesirable" Dele
gate Levenberg, declaring himself
an active member OF the American
Federation of Labor, declared that
political and trade union activities
should be separated. He said the
socialist party was for political ac-
tivity. He took the opportunity to
point out that socialists we're against
disruption in the trade union move
ment, inferring that this would
prove it.
Delegate John G. Willert, former
socialist alderman Of Cleveland,
Ohio, was also in favor of striking
out. He argued that there are all
kinds of unions, and because there
are so many unions, it would be diff
flcult to decide which one to urge
workers seeking to affiliate with the
party to join.
This might be drifting a little to-
wards Debs' position. Debs was one
of the organizers Of the Industrial
Workers of the World and has al
ways been a bitter assailant, from
the outside, of the American FEEDER
alton OF Labor. 1t may be that Debs,
who has failed to make good on his
promise to rebuild the socialist par
ty, feels that this clause keeps
workers out OF the party because
they will not join the recognized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
GIoberman Is Candidate
for 9th Vice-President
of Cigar Makers Union

LOS ANGELES, May Sam Glob-
erman, president Of Cigar-Makers'
Union No. 225 and delegate to the
Central Labor Council, is candidate
for the sixth yice-presidency of the
Cigarmakers International Union
Globerman is noted for his activities
in the left wing movement of Los An
geles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
U. S. Cruiser Moves to
Nicaragua to Take Hand
IN Political Upheavals
Especial to The Daily Worker

Washington, May 4-The navy
cruiser Cleveland has been ordered
from Panama to Nicaragua to protect
American interests as result Of the
latest political upheavals there, It was
announced at the state department to-
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-06
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE |
is VIRTUALLY CLOSED |
SINCE LAST FRIDAY |

LONDON, May 1.-The London
Stock Exchange virtually closed all
operations last Friday. Business
was reduced 20 a minimum.
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$40, 435, 600 Increase
in Dividends a n d
Interest Payments

NEW YORK, N. ~ May 4-Divi-
dends and interest payments in May
total SS9s,65O.OOO in the United States,
an increase over 1925 OF $40, ABS, 900.
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A book Of cartoons toith every
hundred points. Get the point!
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