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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-17
ALL CLASSES TO
VOICE PROTEST
FOR ROUMANIANS
New York Meeting VIII
Expose Tyranny
Especial 10 Tho DaIiy wOrksr)


NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-All shades
OF political opinion will be represented
at the Union Square mass meeting
which has been arranged by the New
York Section of the International
Labor Defense for Monday, Oct. IS, at
$3.50, to protest against the persecu.
ton Of political prisoners in Rouma-
MIA.
Voice Protest.
United in their condemnation of
Roumania's white terror, Robert w.
Dunn, Bishop Paul Jones, Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn, Forrest Bailey, Ben
Gitlow, Carlo Tresca and others will
address the meeting and voice the
protest of American workers and in
tellectuals against the inhuman treat
ment Of workers and peasants by the
Roumanian authorities.
Denied Civil Rights.
In addition to torture, the denial Of
all civil rights is being used against
political prisoners by the Roumanian
government in it's effort to crush work
ers' organizations. The authorities are
determined that there shall be no
evidence of discomfort in Roumania,
that all shall appear to be happy and
peaceful so that when Queen Marie
arrives here seeking loan she can
point to a stable and well-controlled
country which would be certain to pay
back its debts with interest.
Trial by jury, in Roumania, has
been abandoned in most workers
cases. After beatings and torture.
prisoners are tried under martial law
by a military tribunal. Prisoners are
courtmartialed just as they would be
in time of war, and to make this seem
legal, the government announces all
of sudden, that the district in which
the workers were arrested is under
martial law-altho no one had ever
heard so before.
One Court Sentences.
One OF these military courts, at
Kischinev, sentenced 1S9 prisoners to
terms totaling I'll years. The mill
tary council of Klausenburg sentenced
group of young workers-all under
20 years Of age-to total of 20 years
Imprisonment for the crimes of organ
izing labor.
All the participants in conference
Of workers and peasants in Turn-Seve-
rim were arrested and kept a day by
the police. When they protested
against this illegal detention, the po-
lice chief said, II am the law, gentle
men, and I interpret It just as I like.
Your present arrest is nothing but the
business risk of q Roumanian poll
tician."
Avarescu at Bottom.
All Of these proceedings, together
with the frightfully brutal treatment
Of political prisoners, is merely the
carrying out Of General Avarescu's
announcement that Every attempt to
disturb public order by whatever
means or In whatever way will be
suppressed not only with extreme
energy, but mercilessly."
Let the workers of New York City
come to Union Square next Monday
at $3.50 and show what they think OF
government which so persecutes
those who strive to better the condi-
tons of the workers.
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MOSCOW AND LENINGRAD WORKERS
SWAMP OPPOSITION IN VOTING
BY JOHN PEPPER.
Special Gable to The DAILY WORKER

Special Cable
MOSCOW u s. r, Oct 5The unanimy
Moscow and Lnnsrad repued the opposition
OF the Soviet Union led BY znosv
party unts In these elso published n
IN Moscow $3.50 voted tho
10 or per cent voted for tho opposition Leninora 2o
voted Tor the central committee while the opposition pod
cont Of the
Thus the Opposition In these cities received
seteA or 81 cent Of the total
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Make II a weekly habit.
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Delegate Vol next got the floor
for the committee declaring that he
was glad Fitzpatrick supported the
report of the committee, but claimed
It was unfortunate that he had pre-
JUDGED the case before an inyestiga-
ton was made.
Delegate Fitzpatrick charges that
the executive council was deceived"
continued Vol. IF he knew OF the
many reports In the archives OF the
executive council then he would not
say that It had been deceived. | re.
sent the statement that the executive
council is failing to conserve the in.
terests Of the American labor move
ment.
Feels "Tho situstlonv Also.
"Tho A. b. of l.. 10 not organized TO
adjust religious CONTROVERSIES. The
investigation will be had /. and the
facts will be made known In the name
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-17

PROVIDENCE. r. l., Oct. 14.--Re-
submission of the eighteenth amend
ment in congress and enforcement OF
the Yolstead act until change IL
recommended was the chief plank in
the republican platform adopted by
the republican state convention to
day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-13
Drive Up These Figures!

THE the Of the United Labor Ticket Cam
Special
which members of.
leading the secretaries Of the nuclei
collecting of this
paid
their to the National Office
secretary raising those
payments
secretary
party during make
We Of the party efficient
member of the
Every
theoretically.
should remittance for 5000 members by
5000 remittance
81 Fill in
that
S
mobilize the capitalist class the capital
building party The plans for this
paan
will announced in a
full drive the
payment figures party metal;
5000 Payments by August IS.
10000 Payments and 1000 Collection by August 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-13
All Arrangements
Made for Coney Island
Concert for Passaic

NEW YORK, Aug. II. - Full ar
engagements have been completed for
for the benefit OF the strikers children
place at the Coney Island Stadium,
August rs. The concert is being run
to raise funds with which to buy milk
for the benefit fthe strikers children
In Passaic and vicinity.
The committee has arranged for a
symphony orchestra OF a hundred sci.
ected players under the dictatorship
Of David Mendoza OF the New York
Capitol Theater; the Metropolitan
ballet under the personal supervision
of Allxis Kosloff, the internationally
known ballot master, a chorus OF two
hundred voices lead by Jacob Schae-
fer. the prominent Jewish composer,
The concert will be one of the finest
ever presented in Greater New York
The musical and dancing program con.
tains selections from Tchchowsky
Wagner and the Sheherezade Ballet by
Rimsky-Korsakoff.
The Stadium seats $4,000 people and
In order 10 flll II, the cooperation OF
every friend OF the Passaic strikers is
needed. ia At
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-13
PICKETS MARCH
$4,000 STRONG
IN BIG STRIKE
Answer Bosses Bluff
About Opening Up"

NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 11.-Louis
Hyman, chairman of the Cloakmakers'
General Strike Committee, yesterday
replied to the paid advertisement in
serted in the Yiddish press by the
manufacturers industrial council
which urged workers to desert the
strike and assuring them permanent
employment after the strike.
Bluff of Bosses.
"The announcement of the indus
trial council" Hyman said, that they
have decided to run their shops as non
union will not fool or brighten any Of
our members, because we are alb
solutely sure none Of them will go
back to work until the strike is set
tied.
THE answer to this challenge was
given Monday morning by our picket
demonstration which exceeded in num-
bers our previous demonstrations.
Cannot Work Without Workers.
! ut is about time members of the
industrial council should realize they
cannot operate their shops without
our workers, and they should not be
misled by the few who happen to head
the council into a long-drawn fight
which will mean bankruptcy and ruin.
IF they can afford to lose the season,
our workers can do it more easily
because they are accustomed to go
without pay for a number of months.
For it has been the experience of
cloakmakers to go without work &c
weeks year, even when there is no
strike"
Mass Pleketlng of $4,000.
Eight pickets were released @by
Magistrate Dreyer in Jefferson Market
court after being arrested in front OF
Isl West Goth street, during the picket
demonstration of $4,000. They had
been charged with disorderly conduct
The strikers continued their inroads
into the ranks of the independent
manufacturers by signing six addi-
tional pacts, bringing the total settle
ments to date to SIS.
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.FRANCO-GERMAN
TREATY BACKED
BY IRON TRUST
international Combine of
Exploitation

WILLIAMSBURG, Mass, Aug. IL
(FP)--Workers Of France and Ger
many will demand regulation Of the
new iron and steel trust set up by cap
italists in these two countries, stated
DR.. Moritz ]. Bonn of Berlin, econ
omist who was with the German
peace delegation at Versailles and at
tended economic conferences at Spa,
BRUSSELS and Genoa. The provisional
and commercial treaty between
the two nations is the beginning Of the
formation of a western iron and steel
trust amalgamating French iron and
German coal resources separated by
the treaty of Versailles for five years,
Bonn told the Institute of Politics.
international of Exploitation.
1.-The Lorraine iron Industry is de-
pendent on Ruhr COKE" said Bonn. He
remarked that the treaty was not be-
tween the governments but between in
dustrial groups. up to the present
time the working class, thru its Ia
Dor and socialist organizations, was
the only militant force that acted for
international cooperation" said 0unn.
ut looks very much as If this con-
dition is to be changed completely and
that capital, especially that engaged
in the iron and coal industry, which
has been the most nationalist in Eu-
rope, is to lead along the path Of in
standardization"
Workers Must Be Rulers Or Slaves.
Bonn reiterated his belief that the
workers of Europe would demand ma
tional economic freedom as against in
ternational monopoly" He said con-
sumers would join workers in this
plea "for when monopolists cross
frontiers and are no longer subject to
the control of individual states, they
must either become the rulers of the
world or be controlled by some inter
national agency" Glass conscious
workers already demand that workers
in all countries join hands against
such international trusts as this coal
and iron combine.
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Two More Swimming
Champions Fail to
Swim English Channel

CALAIS, France, Aug. 11.-Another
pair of champion swimmers have fall
ed in their attempt to conquer the
English channel
Madame Jane Sion, French woman
swimming ace, and Omer Perrault, the
French-Canadian star, were forced to
abandon their effort after they had
covered seven miles. The water, they
said, was icy cold which together with
the wind, placed success out of reach.
This was Perrault's second attempt in
a few days. Madame Sion has also
tried before.
Pm through, I'll never try again"
Madame Sion told newspaper men
when she had recovered her strength.
"It is too terrible"
GRIS-NEZ, France, Aug. II. - Ger
trude Ederle, channel swimming cham
pion, accompanied by her father and
sister, departed for Calais this morn
ing. They are planning a trip to Stutt-
CART, Germany.
Lillian Cannon, Baltimore swimmer,
Tsaid she would make her attempt
either Saturday or Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-13
WORKERS HAVE TWO STRUGGLES;
UNORGANIZED FOR ORGANIZATION
AND ORGANIZED FOR CONDITIONS

Following District Attorney Ban
toms announcement of the creation of
a special bureau to stop violence in
the strike of 10000 garment workers,
Louis Hyman, chairman of the general
strike committee of the cloakmakers.
today made public his version of what
transpired during the conference of
manufacturers and union heads with
Banton Monday.
The appearance of officials of the
Industrial Council, accompanied by
their attorney, at the district attor-
neys office, to complain against the
union was fat-footed attempt to an
ticipate and divert charges Of violence
which would have been made against
the manufacturers themselves. The
manufacturers complained that the
union hired gunner, thugs and other
underworld characters, that NO union
official was a fit citizen. and that guer.
rillas have been sent to watch homes
of non-strikers to intimidate and beat
up those who refused to join the
strike.
A Dilemma for the Bosses.
b. However, when we pointed Out that
only strikers have been shot. stabbed
and brutally beaten, and sent to the
hospitals, Mr. Banton was forced to
inquire Of the attorney for the Indus.
trial Council:
Why do you ask for protection for
your clients while strikers are being
sent to the hospital?
"Mr. Zimmerman for the union
charged that William Klein the manu-
facturers' attorney. once had recon-.
mended to a Arm he represented TO
hire thugs 10 beat up union officials.
Two union officials were beaten up
one with a blackjack, the other slashed
with a knife. Klein FASTENED TO reply
that the firm in question was not. "a
member Of the Industrial Council now
lodging the complaint against the
union then replied
Members OF the manufacturers as.
ISOLATION themselves may not employ
gangsters, but they give work TO con.
tractors shops which have thugs as
members Of the firm and as protec.
ton"
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tee will use its good offices and all
Its influence to achieve complete affili
alton with the American Federation
Of Labor.
Immediate Affiiaton.
1--WE declare our intention to &C
cept the constitution and bylaws OF
the United Textile Workers of Amer
lea and desire to become an integral
part of that body. We make this
declaration without any reservation
whatsoever. We stand committed to
program of immediate affiliation and
are prepared to take the necessary
steps.
1--WE urge the officials of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and the Unit
ed Textile Workers of America to ac-
cept this sincere and open proposal
for aff1liation."
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NEW YORK, Aug. IA teacher
and a guide is the strike of the 10000
cloakmakers in New York City to the
embattled textile strikers Of New Jer-
sey," declared Albert Weisbord, youth
full leader of the textile strike, to 1000
striking members of Cutters Union
Local No. 10 who jammed Arlington
Hall, St. Marks place. Weisbord re-
ceived a thunderous ovation when he
made his way thru the crowded hall
The cloakmakers' strike has just fin
ished two weeks, while the Jersey
strike is rounding out its 25th week.
"The workers of this country" Weis-
bord declared, "are engaged in two
sets of gigantic struggles. One is the
struggle Of unskilled, unorganized and
foreign workers miserably underpaid
and exploited, with no control over
their destiny, the other is the battle
of organized workers who, no matter
how secure, must meet the same forces
or lose their advanced positions. The
battle Of Passaic is the first step for
ward in the unorganized industry and
the textile workers are challenging
their masters as they were never chal-
lenged before"
David Dubinsky, manager Of the Cut
ters' Union, declared: within the
first two weeks we have showed the
world, our friends as well as our enc
mics, the spirit of 1910, 1913, 1924 and
other years in which we wrested one
great gain after another from the en-
ployers'
Other speakers included August
Claessens. former social assemblyman
from the nth district, and l. Nagler,
business manager Of Cutters Union
No. 10. Other meetings were held dur.
ing the day, at which Louis LYMAN
manager Of the general strike commit
tee Ben Gitlow and others, addressed
huge crowds OF cheering strikers.
Meetings are scheduled today at
Stuyvesant Hall, Webster Hall, Lafay-
cite Casino, Bryant Hall and jefferson
Hall. Among the scheduled speakers
are Salvatore Ninfo, Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn, Morris Slgman, Louis Hyman,
Robert Dunn, Fannie Warshafsky,
Julius HICKMAN and others.
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the Passaic textile strikers, has
proved that it has other interests than
the formation of union and the win
ming of the strikers demands.
United Labor Movement.
I'VE stand now where we have al
ways stood-for united labor move
ment in America. 1t is our most earn
est desire to remove all obstacles in
the way of settlement and to do
everything within our power to bring
about the complete afiliation of the
10000 striking textile workers whom
we represent with the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor.
''The mill owners have declared
that they will not deal with the Unit
ed Front Committee and have stated
that they would be willing to settle
the strike if the workers were aft
lated with the American Federation
of Labor. The United Front Commit
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gressional district; Matilda Kalousek
was nominated for the sixth con-
gressional district; Samuel T. Ham
mersmark was nominated for the
seventh congressional district.
The nomination confel ence decided
on the following platform:
1. Against use of injunchons in Ia
Dor disputes.
2. Against the proposed state police
bills.
3. Against race discrimination.
4. For the rigid enforcement of the
18th, 14th and 18th amendments to the
United States constitution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-13
Passaic Children Need Milk

to 8 years of age the percentage of
deaths was So per cent greater in
Passafc than in the state as whole.
(See New Jersey Department of
Health Report, 1925, PIP. 116, 149). On
the other hand, if we take the ordi-
nary infant mortality standard mum
Der of deaths per 1000 living births)
Passaic to be H. as compared with
We find for 1925 the infant rate for
67.5 in 1924 (The latest, or 1925
figures, have just been made public
by the Child Health Organization.)
There is quite some difference be-
tween an infant death rate of II and
III.
"The committees statement also
says:
This broadcast effort to give the
world the impression that the chill
dren of this district are suffering for
the want of food is of a kind with
the recent statement by this same
leadership that 5000 children in Pas
sale were in need of milk every day, a
statement which was Immediately
branded as false by Health officer
John N. Ryan, whose records show
that there are not that many chill
dren in Passaic now consuming milk
and that the number of children of
all ages requiring milk is not in ex-
| cess of 300.
Children Need Milk.
I'VE do maintain that there are
more than 5000 mill children in Pas
! sale and vicinity requiring milk and
other nutritious food to counterfeit
the effects of malnutrition arising
from the inability of their parents to
supply them with nutritious food dur
ing the years they were shaving in
the mills for pitifully inadequate
wages. The great majority of the
strikers children are puny and under
weight as Workers Health Bureau
tests have shown. If these under
weight and puny children do not need
milk no one does. DR.. Ryan, who is
himself a member of the Citizens
Committee and appears to be prosti-
tuting his Office to serve the mill boss
es, says that the number of chill
dren of all ages daily requiring milk
Is not in excess Of 300.'
81 wonder what is DR.. Ryan's stand
ard in the matter? Must a Passaic
child live on the hill in order to
require and deserve milk daily? Or
is not milk generally recognized as
one of the most nutritious, healthful
and essential foods for growing child
hood? Are not workers children en-
titled to a little milk? Or are DR..
Ryan and the Citizens Committee, of
which he is member, afraid that by
giving milk to the strikers children
we are establishing a bad precedent
and inducing the formation of habits
(such as giving their children nutri-
tious food) which may keep the strik-
ing workers from going back to the
mills until they are assured of liv-
| ing wager"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-13
New Kensington
Workers Send Aid
to Passaic Strikers

ARNOLD, Pa, Aug. ia picnic
for the benefit of the Passaic strikers
held recently netted $7714 This, in
addition to collections at the picnic
amounting to $1,000 and a contribution
from the Ukrainian Citizens Club
amounting to SIS and $3.50 for so cop
les Of Hell In New Jersey" made a
total of S101.66, which was forwarded
to the general relief committee in Pas
sale.
The committee in charge extends its
thanks TO the workers who helped
make the picnic a success The work
ers Of New Kensington and vicinity
realize the importance of the strike
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Continues from MAGE II

Continued from page II
paid them in the mills. Difficult and
necessarily curtailed to the cases of
the most needy as has been the work
of strike relief it has yet done more
for the mill workers, according to this
statement, than these workers were
able to achieve with their S14 and SIG
week-for family men. Even tho
the largest food card denomination is
sued is only for $40, the fact that
the workers get their food at cost
price from the four relief stores en-
ables them to keep out of the poor
house to larger extent than when
they were Shaving in the mills. This,
in itself, is an interesting comment
airy on conditions in the textile mills
of Passaic and vicinity.
Relief Cuts Child Mortality.
Not only has strike relief decreas-
ed the demands on the Passaic Poor
House, but it has been instrumental
in cutting the death rate of the chill
dren Of Passaic, is another conclu-
sion that must be drawn from the
statement of the Citizens Commit
tee:
Similarly the death rates in Pas
sale for June of this year show that
the deaths of children from ages UNI
der one up to fifteen years totalled
eleven, as compared to seventeen in
June, 1925.
Gin the face of the above paragraph
It is manifestly' impossible for the
Citizens Committee to have attacked
the children's milk campaign if the
Citizens Committee was an honest
and impartial body. But the Citizens
Committee has all along revealed it.
self for what it is: A strike-breaking
agency of the mill owners. 1t has
been crude and stupid in its methods
beyond belief. First, it blatantly an
nounced the strike as lost; then it
Immediately set out to make it lost
strike by attempting to cut of strike
relief from the families of these mill
workers who have been on strike for
over six months now, making the
stupid claim that after six months of
striking, these workers were not in
need of outside aid.
And now it's browning folly: a
marshalling of facts that do nothing
If they do not show the necessity as
we'll as the effectiveness of the strike
relief organized labor is carrying on
Passaic and vicinity thru the Gen
sral Relief Committee.
Death Rate Decreases.
while l agree with the committee
hat the death rate of the children
mas decreased since the workers went
On strike and organized labor came to
heir aid with strike relief, their fig
ares need comment, which l will give
the way of quotation from a let
er by w. Jet Lauck, labor econo-
mist of Washington, d. c., in reply
some previous rawlings by this
anne committees:
For children under and from 5
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Workers Communist Party
COMRADE MILLY finn

comrade MiIly Finn died Aug. 2nd.
She joined the Workers (commun-
hst) Party when it was organized in
Virginia, Mimi, and later became
member of the Jewish branch In
Detroit She was one of the active
members in the Ladies' Garment
Workers Union in Virginia and par
tieipated in many strikes in that
city. She died in Detroit.
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5. Opposition to militarism in the
colleges, high schools and other insti
tutions.
6. For Labor Party.
T. All public work to be done by
union labor.
s. The repeal of the eighteenth
amendment.
Petitions are being circulated among
the units of the Workers (Commun
ist) Party. Campaign committees are
to be formed Mass meetings and open
air meetings are also being planned
by the state campaign committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-13
Stock Diffusion Helps
Company Union, Claim
Especial TO The Daily Worker,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11s-(FP)-
Jas. p. Noonan, president of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, denuonces wide distribution
of stock ownership in public utility
companies as substitute for public
ownership. The more widely the
stock is sold, he argues, the smaller
the fraction need-by the promoters
TO hold control and to enslave the
workers in that industry thru com-
pany unions.