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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-04-30

that this money was wasted, but the
fact is that today, SO far as we are
able to determine from the meager
methods of accident reporting, less
than one-third of the accidents are
the result of poorly guarded machin-
cry.
Slips and falls, and flying particles
each have record which exceeds
the result of either the absence of
or defects in machine guards.
Statistics do not prevent accidents.
but they tell safety engineer where
to apply his skill Statistics of acci-
dents are the blue print from which
a safety engineer must work if he is
not to scatter his energies all over
The place."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-04-30
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of
Important Events of the
Week, Here and Abroad

Senator Shipstead, farmer -laborite
of Minnesota, makes scathing attack
in senate on John d. Rockefeller, Jr.,
for his labor policies in connection
with strike on Western Maryland rail
road
Organized labor pledges S145,OOO
for buildirss of transeptal porch in
cathedral Of st. John the Divine, New
York city.
President of United Mine Workers
of Illinois urges local unions to expel
communist members, in accordance
with recent order of international ex-
ecutive board.
| Governor Moore, of New Jersey, ap-
points committee which will endeavor
| to settle Passaic textile mill strike;
organized labor asks governor to re-
store rights of citizens in strike zone.
| Explosion on submarine at New
| London, Conn.,, kills two and Injuries
10.
! President Coolidge tells Daughters
of American Revolution that failure
to vote menaces nation.
New York legislature passes bill!
for state referendum on question of
modifying prohibition law.
Representative Berger, of Wiscon-
sin, introduces bill for punishment of
persons interfering with first amend
ment to the constitution, which pro-
vides for free speech and press and
right of peaceable assemblage.
British parliament passes measure
to control newspaper reports of di-
vorce suits.
Cost Of living in March increased
in 49 cities out of 81, department OF
commerce reports.
Norman Thomas, socialist, arrested
in Garfield, N. j., while testing riot
act
Employment rises in most indus
tries, department Of labor reports.
i Towboat men in New York harbol
win advance in pay and 10-hour work
ing day after 24-hour strike.
Drys demand tighter law enforce
ment at senate committee hearing OF
prohibition; say poverty decreases
health gains, while drunkenness ant
crime decline.
| Three big meetings of New Yorl
city fur strikers reject terms of pro
posed settlement.
Eastern railroads confer with con
ductors' and trainmen's brotherhood.
on wage demand; ST to $1.63 a da.
| increase is asked.
James M. Cox, former governor O.
Ohio and democratic presidential can
didate in 1920, says he is glad to b.
!, out of politics; declares hypocrisy pre-
walls.
i Gerald Chapman's criminal caree
largely the result of our~penal system
declares Thomas Mott Osborne, for
mer warden of Sing Sing prison.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-04-30
EFFECTIVE JULY
FOURTH
New Jersey Bill, Curbs In
functions, Legalizes
Picketing

By International Labor News Service.
Newark, N. New jerseys new
antiinjunction and peaceful picket
ing bill, which has been signed by
Governor Moore, will become effect
tive July d. The bill, which was pass
ed at the instance of organized labor,
is expected to put an end to brutal
police assaults on strike pickets, such
as have been occurring in the New
Jersey mill towns. The text of the
bill is as follows:
BE it enacted by the senate and
general assembly of the state of New
Jersey:
4. No restraining order or writ
of injunction shall be granted or issu-
ed out of any court>o this state in
any case involving or growing out of
dispute concerning terms or con-
ditions of employment, enjoining or
restraining any person or persons,
either singly or in concert, from ter
minating any relation of employment,
or from ceasing to perform any work
or labor, or from peaceably and with
out threats or intimidation recon-
mending, advising or persuading 9TH
ers SO to do; or from peaceably and
without threats or intimidation being
upon any public street or highway or
thoroughfare for the purpose of OBJ
tanning or communicating informa-
ton, or to peaceably and without
threats or intimidation persuade any
person or persons to work or abstain
from working, or to employ or to
cease to employ any party to labor
dispute, or to peaceably and without
threats or intimidation recommend,
advise or persuade others so to do,
provided said persons remain separ-
ated one from the other at intervals
of ten PAGES or more.
'2. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent with the provisions of this
act are hereby repealed"
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ACCIDENT PROBE
Can Extend Safety is Opin-
ion of Stewart

Washington-Fur investigation
into the frequency Of industrial acci-
dents would do much to help the work
of prevention, in the opinion of Ethel
bert Stewart, director Of the United
States bureau of labor statistics.
"For more than a generation money
was spent in guarding machinery with
the idea that all accidents resulted
from the lack of machine guards"
said Mr.. Stewart. ~ do not say
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-04-30
MEXICAN BAKERS UNITE

Los Angeles.-Mexican bakers have
organized and are affiliated with the
trade union movement.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-28
New London Weavers
Resist Wage Slashes

NEW LONDON, Conn. April 90
Silk weavers at the Bloom Mills have
struck, following a cut Of 2 cents a
yard. The weavers shut off the power
in the plant and walked to the hall
on Chelsea street where a meeting was
held. At the meeting an executive
committee was elected.
The executive committee formulat-
ed the following demands, as follows:
An increase of &c per yard.
Time and half for overtime.
Price on new work to be approved
by shop executive committee.
Equal distribution Of warp.
No discrimination against strike
leaders.
Recognition Of organization.
The company has shut down its mill
and is attempting to starve the work
ers back to work at the reduced
wages. The strikers have thrown a
strong picket line around the plant to
keep the company from importing
strike breakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-28
FILIPINOS CHECK MOVE
OF GENERAL WOOD TO
HOLD PURSE FOR ISLANDS

WASHINGTON, April 26-sersIs
osmena, leader in the Philippine
senate and head Of the Philippine
independence Mission In the United
States, has temporarily checked
the move of Gov. Gen. Leonard
Wood to get complete control Of the
purse Of the islands. He has secured
from the senate committee on ter
ritories and insular possessions a
delay Of one week in beginning
hearings on a bill Increasing the
powers of the American auditors in
both the Philippines and Porto
Rico.
Appearing before the eommIttee,
osmena declared that this measure
was fundamental to the exercise of
self government by his people, and
he wanted more time in which to
prepare his discussion Of the issue.
This was granted. The Filipino will
resist any extension Of the powers
of appoIntiVe officials IN the Islands,
since it is by control Of these ap-
polntees that Wood Is carrying on
his resistance to the movement for
independence. Hearings on the bill
will be lengthy.
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workers is that altho in all their
activities, political and economic,
many of them recognize the class
struggle and have adopted class lines,
still when it comes to the relief prob
lem they adopt the same attitude as
the ELECTROMAGNETIC and the bour-
geoisie. They go off class lines and
adopt the attitude of relief for every
body
This is most dangerous" went on
Epstein. "The bourgeoisie and petty
bourgeoisie are utilizing This fact.
They collect money from the workers,
but when II comes to distribution they
distribute 1t among the petty-bour-
geoisie and among the bourgeois ana
religious institutions. Nothing goes
for the workers or their institutions"
Then Epstein read extracts from va
rious numbers Of the Folkszeitung, the
organ published by the Jewish Bund OF
Warsaw, where II was shown that re-
lief funds we're given out to syna-
gogues, religious schools. rabbits, but
no money is given to the workers or
their institutions.
1.-THE present crisis Is mainly the
result Of the reactionary imperialistic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-28

Of over 5000 strong, singing "Soli-
darity Forever" to see the enthusiasm
and determination in the faces of
these workers is the best tonic for
anyone who has lost faith in the fight
ing spirit of the working class of
America.
The strikers are the type of prole-
tartan elements who will help to de-
velop a fighting determination, a spirit
Of class struggle which will help to
advance the smilitancy of the entire
American labor movement.
Passaic is, in spite of the terroristic
methods of the police, a golden spot
in the history Of the American work
ing class. A page which all workers
can be proud of, for the best tradi-
tons of struggle and sacrifice are
being met in sturdy manner, credit
to the working class of the entire
world.
The Passaic strike must be won, and
will, with the help and cooperation of
the American working class, who will
stand with their fellow workers until
victory is finally achieved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-28
Mexican Newsies
100 Pct. Organized

MEXICO CITY-(FPI 1.-THE news
boys of Mexico City have set an ex-
ample for the little paper vendors in
every fcity Of the United States by eff
fectins a 1909 organization. They are
not exploited by the big dailies as are
the newsies of other large cities. They
are so thoroughly uniopized that they
could ruin any newspaper in this city
of three-quarters of a million people if
they refused to sell it on the streets
or deliver it to the subscribers homes.
At the time of the streetcar mems
strike in Mexico City the barefooted
newsies Joined in the procession of
workers, demonstrating labor's soli-
darity with the strikers. The thou
sand members of the newsboys' union
in line bore a huge banner inscribed,
We Must Uphold the Dignity of Labor.
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workers relief committee for Po-
land, the task of which shall be to
collect funds for the workers institu-
lions and organizations in Poland.
For this purpose the conference
elected an executive committee of Fl
members that shall conduct the entire
work. The executive committee shall
be allowed to draw in representatives
Of important workers organizations.
The executive committee shall issue
a call to all the workers about the
need of collecting funds for workers
institutions in Poland.
The executive committee shall see
that similar conferences be held in
all the big cities. At the first oppor-
tunity national conference shall be
called.
The executive committee shall car
ry on an energetic campaign among
workers organizations, that they shall
affiliate with the Workers Relief Com
mittee.
The executive committee shall car
ry on a campaign that all the afiiliat-
ed organizations donate to the work
ers' relief campaign. The delegates
represented at the conference pledge
they would energetically assist the
committee in this respect.
The executive committee shall ar
range a series of affairs such as tag
days, meetings, bazaars, to raise relief
funds. The task Of the executive com
mittee shall be to see to II that the
Workmen's Circle branches and the
Landsmanschaften send their money
to their respective home towns only
to workers organizations thru the
Workers Relief Committee. The exc
cutive committee shall Immediately
come in touch with the working class
organizations in Poland in order to
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America to undertake an independent
campaign for their suffering brothers
in reactionary Poland, not on national
istic lines but for all workers in Po-
land"
Radzwansky, editor Of the Novy Mir
and delegate from Che Polish Section
Workers Party, was granted the floor.
In short but vivid speech he de-
scribed the sufferingsiof the workers
in Poland and showedthe need for a
workers relief campaign.
After Radzwansky'slsp speech Watten-
berg, in the name of the resolutions
committee, introduced the following
resolutions:
Attitude Towards other Relief Grouds.
"The conference resolves that the
existing relief organizations that are
carrying on campaigns for the relief
for the suffering masses of Poland
carry on their work in such a manner
that cannot help the suffering masses
and especially the working masses
The joint distribution committee pro-
ceeds with its philanthropic system
They learned nothing Of the sad expe-
riences of their relief work during the
years of the war. The relief funds are
being further spent in order to
strengthen the Jewish reaction. The
public busybodies are bossing with
the money they receive from the Joint
committee in the most scandalous
way. Orthodox schools and syna-
gogues are being supported, but the
workers do not get even one cent.
1.-THE Peoples Relief, that has been
revived, is following in the footsteps
Of the joint committee. II pretends to
be a representative of the workers.
"The relief campaign OF the Polish
and Galiclan Ferbands and also OF the
hundreds OF Landsmanshaften 20 or
so per cent Of which are workers, are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-28
Impressions of the Passaic Strike

member that the Passaic Daily News
is the bitterest enemy Of the strikers.
The Passaic Daily News states:
Virtual martial law was invoked
at the Botany worsted mills, Gera
mills, and the Passaic Worsted Spin
ming company this morning by Pas
sale police authorities under command
of Chief Of Police Richard o. Zober.
There was no picketing at the gates
of any of the textile mills and groups
gathered anywhere near the mills
were dispersed by police officers"
Here we see how desperately the
mill owners and their flunkeys, the
local and county authorities, are at
tempting to crush the strike. Devel-
opments change quickly and one can
never know what will happen next.
Tear Down Flag.
They arrest Weisbord, paddock the
meeting hall of the strikers, break up
the parade of school children, club
those who do not move quick enough,
going to the extreme of tearing and
destroying an American flag which the
children had at the front of their
parade.
According to those who were pres
ent, other children in the parade who
were carrying smaller flags hid them
to prevent their destruction. This is
something the children cannot under
stand. They ask: "How does it hap
pen that in school we are taught to
respect the flag and yet here we find
the police, who are supposed to be the
protectors Of the flag, destroying it,"
They also cannot understand why the
American Legion, who have been MAX
ing so much noise in shouting bolshe-
vism at the strikers, kept quiet when
the flag was torn to shreds. 1t is said
that some of the legionaires even
laughed, being amused att.
AS a means of protest they called a
school strike, which has spirited pick
citing as one of it's salient features.
Thus we see the children being drawn
into the struggle, becoming one of its
most dynamic forces, putting life and
energy into all Of the strike meetings
and the picket line.
Recruit Crooks on Force.
Since the strike all of the police
men are being used for strike duty,
but there have been no robberies. Ac-
cording to many of the strikers that
is due to the fact that the crooks and
thieves are now enrolled as special
policemen and deputies.
To march as a part Of a picket line
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-28
Germany and Soviet
Republic Negotiate
New Treaty-Luther
tspecIaI to rhe DaIIy wOrkerl

BERLIN, April ..5.-Germany and
the Soviet Union are negotiating for
a supplementary agreement to the
Rapallo treaty intended to safeguard
mutual Soviet-German interests when
Germany enters the league of nations
next fall, according to an announce
ment last night by Chancellor Luther.
In some quarters it is believed that
this announcement does not reveal in
full the extent of the negotiations.
1t is pointed out that there is no
surety Germany will actually be adj
mitted into the league at its next
official meeting, as a similar objec-
tion to that voiced at theGeneva SEES
sion may again block her entrance.
The negotiations, moreover, it is de-
clared, are in effect a notification to
England and France-th Germany is
in position where she can act on
her own initiative. The parleys also
reveal the increasing dependence of
this country upon Soviet orders for
machinery and finished products.
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find out how the relief shall be dis
tributed best. All the represented or
CARNATIONS pledge themselves to
donate at least three dollars to cover
expenses Of the conference.
On the proposed resolutions there
we're differences of opinion only on
one point. That was on the point as
to whether the Workers Relief Com
mittee was to support only Jewish
workers organizations or all workers
organizations in general. Some dele
gates were of the opinion that the
Jewish masses suffer mostly in the
present crisis and because of this the
relief committee must limit itself to
aiding Jewish workers.
Must Help All Workers.
Epstein pointed out that all work
ers are suffering and that this Work
ers' Relief Committee must be a
demonstration OF working class
solidarity and must go on record to
help all workers organizations and in
situations that need our support.
An executive committee of the fol-
lowing 81 delegates was then elected:
M. p. Epstein and Wattenberg of the
Workers (Communist) Party; Pater-
max, Local 100; Loopin, Local 90;
Rubin, Local 2; Rose Captain, Local
81 T. Weiss, Local 35; A. Slonimsky,
Local 3S, all Of the /. l.. G. w. u.
SAFER and Cohen of the Capmakers'
Union; ID. Abrams, Branch 800; Mig
dal, Branch 1924; Morris, |. Adler.
Branch 277: Tibman. Branch so: Ber-
kowitz, Branch 469; Alderman, Branch
hs2, and Kugelman, Branch GIL. all
of the Workmen's Circle Copel Work
ers' Club; Solomon. Branch 3SG Of the
Uhelson Workers Club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-28
''HelI an Maria" Says
Solons Cab Too Much
Especial to The Daily workerl

WASHINGTON, April &c Vice
President Dawes today criticized con-
gress for talking too much"
Speaking before the Pan-American
congress of journalists, Dawes, who
has been campaigning for revision
of senate rules to curtail debate, said
that legislative bodies needed less talk
and more constructive work.
Wants More Capitalist Cooperation.
Dawes practiced what he preached
by speaking only five minutes. He
urged the continuation of information
al gatherings to foster a better spirit
of cooperation among nations of the
world.
There is nothing so important in
these international meetings as the
personal contact" he declared.
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SEND IN A SUB.

policies of the government of the Pol
ish capitalists and rich landowners
that are ruling Poland with the active
aid of Polish socialists. 1t is the reac-
tionary government with its foreign
and domestic policies that has brought
about the present crisis.
Workers Suffer Most.
The most to suffer in this crisis are
the workers of Poland, especially the
Jewish workers. All the relief sent
there up till now did not help the
workers. 1t was used to strengthen
the Jewish reactionaries and the Pol
ish reactionary government.
Speaking further on the relief and
pointing out that the workers must
undertake their own relief campaign
Epstein stated that the conference
must not live under illusions Of being
able to help all the workers individ-
ually. "Even II we will be able to
raise the sum of $20,00O,000 we will
not be able yet to help all the work
ers. What we can and must do is
help the workers economic and cul-
tural institutions to keep up their ac.
tivities."
Expose Wilmer Relief.
Further developing the idea Of the
necessity OF independent workers re.
lief, Epstein brought out an interesting
fact about the Wilmer relief organi-
zation, OF which Abraham Cahan, edi-
tor Of the Forward, is treasurer. This
Wilmer relief organization has sent
many thousands Of dollars to Wilma,
but all the money went to religious
and bourgeois institutions, but not a
cent for workers.
1T is necessary" Epstein concluded,
that the workers Of the United States
understand that also in relief work
there are class distinctions and that
It is necessary for the workers in
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also under the influence of bourgeois
philanthropy. The money that they
are collecting is being sent to the
Kehilas (loose declarations of the Jew
ish bourgeoisie supposed to represent
the entire Jewish community, that
are distributing the funds among their
own people and do not even have a
workers representative.
"The money sent by the LODI Uni
ted Relief Committee was distributed
to 500 bourgeois Jews by the Kehila
and the workers did not receive a
cent. This is only one of the many
instances how the Landsmanshaften
is carrying on its relief activities.
"The conference declares that the
above mentioned institutions cannot
help the working masses in their need,
and decides therefore to establish an
independent workers relief commit
tee."
Greet Polish Workers.
From Poland comes desperate call
for help. AS a result of the economic
pohSy VI the bONSAAhicHtf VI TIC TUT
ish landowners, the unemployment has
reached a high stage. Industries in
which Jewish workers were employed
have died out and at the present time
there is no hope for betterment. The
masses OF Poland turn their eyes for
help to their brothers in other coun-
tries, especially in America.
True to the principles of class soil
darity, the first relief conference Of So
working-class organizations sends it's
fraternal greetings to the workers OF
Poland with the assurance that the
Jewish workers in America will use
their forces to strengthen the work.
ers' economic and cultural institutions
in Poland.
Organize Workers Relief Committee.
The conference decided to organize
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IAOfiolOudA WOIheIb helltl OOuiulL-
tee. In a short speech he pointed out
the Importance of this conference.
B. Abrams of Branch 300, Work
mems Circle, was then elected chair
man Of the meeting. Slonimsky, rep
resentative Of Local SO, International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union, and
II. Daniels of Branch 1926, Workmen's
Circle, were elected to the secretariat.
A credentials committee Of five, con-
sisting Of Lowenberg, Branch 1856,
Workmen's Circle; Migdal, Branch
324, Workmens Circle: Weinberg,
Branch 800, Workmen's Circle; Alter
man, Branch 52S, Workmen's Circle,
and Lutz, Branch 1876, Workmen's Cir.
Gle, were elected.
Need Of Workers Relief.
After the election Of the above COM
mittees Comrade Meilach Epstein, ed
itor of the Freiheit, was given the
floor. In his one-hour speech he made
a report Of the relief activities up till
now and pointed out the duties of the
organized labor movement in the pres.
ent relief campaign.
Speaking on the attitude Of the
workers towards relief. Comrade Ep-
stein said: "The trouble with our