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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-26
May COME TO
SETTL EMENT IN
DATE S TRIK {
Meeting with Bosses Is
Scheduled Monday

A committee representing the Ne
gro women date suffers who have
been on strike for more than three
weeks against wage reductions and
bad conditions at the Maras and com
pany factory, win meet with the en-
ployers Monday afternoon at head.
quarters Of the Chicago Federation Of
Labor, An attempt will be made to
outline a means of arbitrating the
controversy which resulted in the
strike, it is announced.
Employers Move.
This move was taken Saturday by
the employers Immediately following
the police court hearing on the arrest
Of pickets Friday morning, following a
fight between the strikers and the
sCabs. The employers suggested that
the .conciliators Of the department of
labor be asked to arbitrate the strike.
vtoe-President Nelson Of the fedora
ton, who represented the strikers at
TIE hearing, agreed to a meeting on
Monday,
An Of ne arrested pickets were re-
leased By the court and the charges
dismissed.
Moro Arrested.
Friday night Witnessed another at
twmpt Of the police to break the
strike, when they swooped down OH
seven pockets who were peacefully
Standing near the premises. They ar.
rested seven pickets, and attempted to
keep them IN Jail over night, but the
strikers were bailed out. Two girls
IA years old, were also taken to head
quarters, but we're released almost i'm
nediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-26
Relief Measures Are
Considered to Help
Beardstown Victims

Relief measures Will be necessary
for Beardstown and other areas Of
central Illinois devastated by the re-
cent foods for the remainder Of the
year, Thomas M. Temple, executive
secretary of the Chicago. chapter,
American Red Cross, reported on his
return from the stricken section.
95 per cent of the homes in the flood
area are unfit for occupancy, Temple
reported. Farmers, with their grain
crops badly damaged, are in most I'M
fortunate circumstances, he said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-26
Tumulty Wins Victory
in Sub-District Seven
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CONTINUED from page y
policies which weakened and hindered
the union from a militant career.
Among these he listed the expulsion
program of Lewis and Harrington,
which the remnants Of the Harrington
machine still profit by, and called for
the penalizing Of those responsible
for depriving Parry, Watts, Freeman,
Thompson, Corbishley and others OF
their rights as union men, merely be-
cause they were enemies Of the ma
chine.
He called for education of young
miners in labor colleges to make the
future leadership Of the union. He
demanded that the union enforce the
Jacksonville contract, and raise wages
rather than lower them. He insisted
that men discharged must be allowed
to work until the joint board settles
their cases. And he declared war to
the finish on all who opposed these
Save the Union" policies.
In particular he insisted on short
term contracts in the soft coal region,
so that when nonunion men go out on
strike for recognition OF the union and
improvement OF their conditions, they
will find the union men ready to go
with them. and stay until there Is
ono contract for both of them.
The convention delegates swarmed
around him at the finish 70 shake
hands and pledge their support in the
alection.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-26
Continued from page u

To-called Festival and Roundup" be-
ing given by your organiztion, the
knights of Columbus, in your Million
Dollar Club" building, / am herewith
sending you my emphatic rejection.
It seems that your invitations were
sent generally to all candidates Of all
parties contending in this falls cleo
lion campaign. This explains the fact
that one was sent to me. No doubt
many Of the republican and demo-
cratic candidates will spend part Of
heir "slush funds" in feathering your
nest, in the hope Of getting the votes
Of some of your boosted 1850 mem
5ers. This would only indicate that
-FOUR members are unprincipled
enough to sell themselves to either
ons OF the old political parties, thus
proving the bipartisan character of
The Roman Catholic Church, Of which
Four organization is but an instru-
nent.
An Aid 70 Employers.
You say that your managing com
nittee expects an attendance Of from
5000 TO $4,000 during your week Of
festivities. This may be true. No
ioubt many of these'will be workers,
oiling for wages, the victims OF
,thers, who are capitalists. Your or
sanization has always rallied in sup
port OF your capitalist members as
against your workingclass members.
This was especially true during the
great stockyards' strike that broke
he unions OF the packing house
workers.
But l am especially interested in
,our request 20 inspect our beauti-
al building and l-arn Of the wonder
nj work we are doing for the youth
b. tho west side"
The attitude OF the Roman Catholic
hurch, and It's knights Of Columbus,
owarls the youth is not new. Your
hurch combats the public school sys-
em with your own paroehial school
iystem that enslaves the children, as
pest It may. to your particular brand
IT stultifying religion.
.Mexieans Overthrow serfdom.
For centuries this system prevailed
uccessfully in Mexico under the most
possible tyrannical government, hold.
ng the masses OF workers aud pea
ANTS in the straightjacket Of ignor.
lnce and illiteracy while the church
rev wealthy and powerful II Is to
ne credit Of the Mexican masses that
hey are emancipating themselves
rom THIS sorfdom, that the Roman
Catholic Church would impose upon
ne peoples OF the United states, for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-26
CURRENT EVENTS
BY T. J. o'FIaherty.

CONTINUE from Page u
own personal" loss In the death of
Debs. Seymour Stedman, rugged out
like collector Of antique beer stems.
read a few pages of eulogy in which
the words moral and ethical" were
conspicuous.
VICTOR BERGER boastsd that he
introduced socialism to Debs, but
Berger has now deleted the word rev
olution" from his vocabulary. William
A. Guinea, attorney, who was a mem.
Der Of the legal stan that defended
Debs in Cleveland during the war,
delivered an eloquent tribute to Debs'
courage during the trial and men.
toned some touching incidents, which
showed the indomitable spirit OF the
man. But no attempt was made to
link up any of those acts with the
class struggle to which Debs was al
ways true.
TT Is well that the International
l. Labor Defense has decided to hold
Debs Memorial Meetings thruout the
country. 1t would be a pity indeed
II the right socialist political ghouls
were permitted TO misrepresent the
life-work Of one who deserves so we'll
Of the workingclass. Debs belonged
to the radicals. and even tho In late
years, since his release from prison,
where his health was broken, he has
expressed disagreement with the
Communists, yet, in practice Debs
stood for almost every concrete propo'
sal concerning the labor movement
that was advocated by the Commu-
nlsts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-26
FUR STRIKERS
OF BOSTON IN
SHOW OF UNITY
BY PHYLLIS FENIesToN.
Especial TO The Daily Worker)

BOSTON, Mass, Oct. PA mass
meeting of striking Fur Workers was
held Tuesday night, Oct. 18th at 2l
Essex St., to counteract the insidious
reports about disagreements between
the union leaders, which the employ
ers are spreading to destroy the NOR
ale Of the Boston strikers.
Branding these rumors as the
usual tactics OF employers, and the
same as were used against the New
York Fur Workers in their IT weeks
battle, Ben Gold, manager N. Y. joint
board Of Fur Workers laid down the
proper discipline for striking workers.
'Tn struggle with employers" he
said, there are no differences be-
tween the leaders. All disagreements
disappear and solid body Of work
ers, united in purpose, faces the en-
envy.
"The employers always know the
following day" he continued. what
has taken place at our meetings, and
when they hear of our enthusiasm and
determination to win at any COST
starvation too, II necessary-they will
recede even farther from their posi-
tion in which I noticed yesterday at
the conference, they are already wav-
ering.
An attempt had been made the prev
ious day, at a conference with the
employers, to exclude Gold from the
deliberations, but they were forced 70
admit him.
The Capmakers have sometimes
provided as many pickets as the Fur
riers, and their offering OF themselves
so generously, in defense OF their
brother workers. is a remarkable dis
play OF the solidarity that is growing
amongst the Needle Trades Workers
OF Boston,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-26

not know Debs might have thot that
be was speaking Of some harmless
quaker. No mention was made OF the
Debs who called for an army to march
on Idaho If the capitalists dared ex-
ecute Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone,
No mention was made of the Debs who
helped organize the l. w. w. or the
Debs who tore the political hide of
the scoundrelly John Mitchell and the
equally scoundrelly Samuel Gompers
because Of their treachery to the
workingclass.
Debs must be saved from his
friends" those wolves in sleeps
clothing who seek to rob the Amer
lean workingclass movement of one
Of the brightest jewels in its tradi-
tional crown.
James P. Cannon, announced that
the International Labor Defense was
arranging series of meetings on a
national scale to pay tribute to the
real Debs, the Debs whosfought for
class war prisoners and against cap
italtst tyranny everywhere.
Body Taken to Station.
At the conclusion Of the services
the body was taken to the Union
Station and put on a train bound for
indianapolis, where it will be Gre
mated. After cremation the ashes
win be returned to Terre Haute and
buried with private services.
AS the body was borne from the
little home on sth Street to the sta
ton, the mourners marched four
abreast and three policemen with
heads uncovered could hardly keep
back the tears. They were old friends
of Gene. They did not take their
eyes off the humble CONN until 1t was
put on board the train. This was a
tribute to the great hold Debs had on
the affections of thousands outside the
trade union movement, even those
who may not in the strict sense Of the
word be considered workers.
HIIIqult to Get Debs' Place.
The general opinion among social
lists present was that Morris Hillquit
would succeed Debs as national chair
man of the socialist party. Whatever
regrets Hillquit and his machine may
have over the death Of Gene Debs,
they are personal. They are now re-
lieved from the nightmare Of having
as national chairman, man who was
opposed to the league Of nations and
the world court, who was friend Of
Soviet Russia, supporter Of the left
wing in the trade union movement, a
defender of class war prisoners-in
fact he was against everything the
Hillquit crowd is for and for almost
everything they are against.
But the American workingclass will
be told the story Of the real Debs.
His contribution to the American
workingclass movement will not be al
lowed to rest in Hillquit's legal pigeon
hole or in the pacifst tabernacle of
a pulpitess preacher.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-26
PHILADELPHIA
CARPET STRIKE
PICKETS Jailed
Fight Open Shop and
1870 Wage Cut
BY J. o. 5ENTALL.
Especial to The Daily Worker)


PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. "a
Seven pickets were arrested near the
Philadelphia Carpet Company factory
where a husky strike has been or
for four weeks.
The cop who made the arrest proved
q very poor witness when he came
before the magistrate.
What were the strikers doing when
you arrested them?" asked the attor
ney for the pickets
"They were blocking traffic" an
swered the cop.
Were they. marching3"
NO." said the flustered bluecoat.
"Were they standing still?" asked
the attorney.
mo, they were not standing still,
came the reply.
"If they were neither walking mol
standing still, what were they doing?'
81 don't know. / was just ordered
to make the arrest" admitted the cos
sack.
The arrest of these seven pickets
most OF whom were young workers
was apparently pulled in order to gel
material for the hearing Of an injunc
ton that was issued over a week ago
but which, for lack of reason for max
ing 1t permanent, has been hung Oh
the strikers without a hearing.
The case was dismissed and the
strikers warned to not walk, or stand
or fly at, or near. or be in the prox
unity of the said Philadelphia Carpet
Company shop.
At all of which the pickets smiled
and made ready to walk and stand
and fly wherever and whenever they
felt they cared to do so.
The strike is the result Of a Is pei
cent wage cut imposed by the Phila
delphia Carpet Company. This is the
first wedge in the drive Of the open
shoppers to break up the union o.
the carpet workers, which ia the bes
organized of any union in Philadel
phia, having In 1t 100 per cent OF thu
carpet weavers in this city.
The strikers demand the removal o.
the wage cut and the recognition O.
the union. The bosses declare tina
they will no longer recognize the
union, but will deal with each indi
vidual who comes back to work.
This particular factory was chosen
to start the job of breaking up the
union, and If the bosses succeed here
all other carpet factories will cut the
wages and refuse to. deal with the
union.
Only few scabs have been secured
so far. Some of them have already
left and joined the strikers and are
now on the picket line. Among the
most active pickets are the young
workers. They lead the line and sing
songs of cheer.
The scabs are hauled to and from
the shop in funeral wagons furnished
by the Heinel Bros, S437 N. Broad
street, at $50 a day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-26
COMMUNIST CANDIDATE EXPOSES
ACTIVITY OF KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

was it not the Catholic hierarchy that
fought more Yiciously than any other
element, the effort to pass the anti
child labor amendment to the federal
constitution, freeing childhood from
industry.
Any progress that American youth
achieves, must be won against the op-
position of the Roman Catholic Church
and your organization, the Knights
Of Columbus. Since the republican and
democratic parties stand for things
as they are, their candidates will glad
ly visit your festival and Roundup"
and thus strengthen the capitalist re-
action Of which you are a part. Com
munists can only oppose that reaction
with every strength they can muster,
until it has been completely abolished.
1t is on this basis that Communism
makes its appeal, even to the youth
and adult labor at present misled by
your Roman Catholic Church. Catholic
workers will progress only as they
Join tie forward march of the whole
workingclass. They must help build
militant labor unions. organize a
workers political party, a labor party,
and depend on their own powers OF
leadership and not on the employer.
serving type that your organization
represents.
Very truly yours,
j. Louis EnsdahI, Candidate,
Workers (communIst) Party,
For U. S. Senator from
Illinois.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-26
New Trial Denied
Sacco and Vanzetti
Continued from page u


vanzetti and the arms with which the
crime was supposedly committed.
Even the jury who tried Sacco and
vanzetti was selected--hand-pic picked
be deputy sheriffs among their friends.
The crime charged was the murder
of shoe factory paymaster in South
Braintree, Massachusetts,, on April Is,
1920. Fred Moore was the attorney for
the defense in the early part of the
case. Now the defense is in the hands
Of William G. Thompson, former presi-
dent OF the Boston Bar Association
and a conservative. of conservatives,
who, nevertheless, has become con-
vinced that Sacco and vanzetti are
not guilty OF the crime charged and
are prosecuted because they are rad
zeal" foreign-born workers.
Slim Legal Chance.
Sacco and vanzetti have only the
slim legal chance of appealing from
Judge Thayer's decision TO the SUI
preme court of Massachusetts, and, II
they decide these workers must die, to
the supreme court OF the United
States. Thompson goes before the
state supreme court Monday.
But the Massachusetts supreme
court has shown its readiness TO send
Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric
chair, by a previous decision that they
had "a fair trial" in the first hearing.
Under Palmer Regime.
Attic the Braintree murder was
committed on April Is, Sacco and
vanzetti we're not arrested until May
8, in Brockton, under the red raid"
regime OF former U. s. Attorney Cen
eral Palmer, WHO himself is now
charged with graz In the custodian
ship OF alien property seized by the
government during the war
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-26
BED MAKERS
STRIKE GOING
1907 STRONG

The strike Of members Of Local ia
OF the Mattress, Box Spring and
Spring Bedmakers' Union against the
Superior Felt and Bedding company Of
2447 Roosevelt road is still on 100 per
cent, with militant picketing going on
effectively against the company's ef-
forts TO mobilize scabs.
Almost all the strikers are Negroes,
and these have shown excellent fight
ing spirit on the picket line, worthy
OF any trade union struggle.
More Cops Than seabs.
About two dozen private detectives
and police are guarding ten or eleven
scabs, who scurry like rats when they
see union man.
Effective picketing has stopped the
taxi loads of prospective scabs, hired
thru employment agencies. These
guarded by cops melt away when they
see the picket line, and only a few
who stick to scabbing are escorted IN
to the factory by burly police, like
prisoners going to jail.
Company Hard Hi.
The company has asked the men to
come back on the old conditions, but
this was refused. The demand is
recognition OF the union. While the
manager, ]. ]. Shaw, says he is will
ing to accept" men with union cards,
the strikers insist that he accept"
the union by signing up an agreement
officially and using the union label.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-26
Judges Decision in the
Sacco-Vanzetti Case Is
New Challenge to Labor
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

tree crime, which he charged the
Morelli gang committed, becomes
an enlightening chapter in labor's
history, while Thayer's decision
helps smut up little more, if this
is possible, the black record of the
present criminal rulers Of American
industry. If it is crooked to shield
the real criminals in the South
Braintrec crime then Judge Webster
Thayer is a condemned "crook," be-
side whom the worst Morelli gang
ster must appear lily white.
Judge Thayer also charges in his
decision that Madeiros is "Iiar."
Then why doesn't the proud SCom-
monwealth of Massachusetts," and
the United States government that
stand back Of Judge Thayer prove
Madeiros 'liar"? Even a snake
can hiss, But that doesn't prove
anything, except possibly in a cap
italist court. Everything that
Madeiros now claims, even the po-
lice agents of Massachusetts and
Washington admit they suspected
six years ago. Attorney William G.
Thompson, counsel for Sacco and
Vanzetti, shows there is plenty Of
evidence on which to bring the
Morelli gang to trial for the South
Braintree crime. If Judge Thayer
is so anxious to prove Madeiros
liar" why doesn't he join in bring
ing the Morelli gang to trial for the
South Braintree affair. He doesn't
dare because he knows that
that other man is telling the truth.
Such a liar is Judge Thayer.
Judge Thayer brings his decision
within the scope of extreme ridicule
when he declares that the state
ments of the two former government
agents are "unimportant" 1t was
these statements of the two ex-
agents of the department of justice,
Lawrence Letherpan and Fred j.
Weyand, who probably committed
their first act of decency when they
got out Of the fostering criminal
nest misnamed the department of
Justice" that showed the govern
ment officials never really believed
either Sacco or Vanzetti guilty, but
that they were radical workers and
the government wanted to dispose
Of them" Any Judge that can claim
such statements are unimportant
ought to be sent to the psycopathic
ward for serious and thoro investtga-
ton as to his mental status. Labor
must not be deceived by the raw
ings of this mailman of capitalism.
The fight goes on. Judge Thayer
has again denied the demand for a
new trial. The case will again go
before the supreme judicial court Of
Massachusetts on law points, as the
nature of the testimony cannot be
gone into. If this. fails the fight
goes up to the supreme court of the
United States on a constitutional
point.
During these days ahead the
American working class must de-
velop that passion in the struggle
for its own, that will force capital
list justice to reverse itself and free
the prisoners OF the class war, Sacco
and Vanzetti.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-26
THOUSANDS OF WORKERS GATHER
AT GENE DEBS BIER TO PAY LAST
TRIBUTE TO LABOR'S CHAMPION
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sent a large delegation of 800 on a
special train.
On this train there was also a dele
cation from the International Labor
Defense, composed of James P. Can
non, David Rhys Williams, Ralph
Chaplin, Rose Karsner, George Maui
rer, David J. Bentall and Max Shacht-
man.
The special train was under the
supervision Of Charles Burr of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers and
the arrangements were carried out
with precision and efficiency.
Marched from Station.
The Chicago delegation formed in a
line at the station and marched two
abreast to the Debs home. They
viewed the casket which lay in the
parlor. Many eyes were dimmed with
tears as they filed silently and with
bowed heads past the body. It was
hard to realize that this was the Gene
who electrified hundreds OF thousands
Of workers with his fiery oratory from
thousands Of platforms thruout his
long career in the revolutionary move
ment
1t is estimated that approximately
5000 workers viewed the body on
Friday evening while it lay in state
in the Labor Temple. At least as
many listened to the speakers at the
services on Saturday afternoon.
Speeches Out OF Harmony.
Considerable criticism was levelled
at the national executive committee Of
the socialist party for the manner in
which the services were conducted.
The speeches, with the possible ex-
ception of William A. Cunnea's, were
entirely out Of harmony with the fierce
hatred for capitalism that. burned in
the heart of Eugene V. Debs. And
the committee took care that the
name Of Soviet Russia would not be
heard, tho none loved the Workers
Republic better than did the departed
leader.
Ralph Chaplin, a close friend of
Debs, and like Debs, an ex-class war
prisoner, requested the committee to
give Rev. David Rhys Williams, of the
/. L. D., permission to saga few words
of appreciation of Debs in behalf of
the international Labor Defense, Of
which organization Debs was an ex-
ecutive committee member and an en-
thusiastic supporter. The committee
refused this request In fact, with the
exception Of vague references to
Debs' an war record, hardly word
was uttered by the speakers of the
things that Debs held dearest to his
heart.
mo greater piece Of vandalism was
ever committed over the grave Of a
revolutionary leader" was the COM
ment made by delegate.
disappearing Debs.
As Thomas in his ministerial man
ner delivered his eulogy. one who did