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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
New York Traction
Trust Would Make
Strike Heads Paupers
CONTINUED from page II

Continued from page IL
after ten years of legal struggle. The
|. R. T. intends to ask the courts to
restrain the men from holding meet
ings. The strikers are yet waiting for
Mr.. Hylan, ex-mayor, and other alleged
enemies of the /. r. T. to say a word
in their behalf.
The strike committee declared they
are not terrorized by the company's
suits. The strikers have laughed at
the injunctions and say that without
powerhouse employees and motormen
the company is helpless. The men are
determined not to return to the I. R.
T. as long as the company union. head
ed by Connolly, exists.
Labor Leaders Talk.
Labor union officials who hitherto
/ only took an academic interest in the
strike got excited over the injunction
issue. Joseph Ryan, President of the
Central Trades and Labor Council, de-
clared that this Injunction of the |.
R. T. against the strikers was a notice
to labor that it must push its fight to
limit the rights of the courts in in
junction matters in industrial disputes.
There is no improvement in !. r. T.
service despite announcements to the
contrary. Even the capitalist papers
admit this. Even the transit commits
sion declares that the service is only
Ga per cent normal. The company has
lost approximately 100000 since the
strike started.
More Workers Join Strike.
Strikebreakers are receiving wages
of 81 an hour. The ranks of the strik-
ers were increased yesterday by the
addition of 81 engineers, boilers, clean
ers, water tenders and firemen from
the East 74th Street power plant.
Elevated repair men are joining the
union. Feeders from the Edison power
company are now being used by the
company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
PHILIPPINE CONGRESS-
OPENS WITH A DEMAND
FOR FREEDOM FROM U. S.

MANILA, p. l., July 16.-Address
Ing the opening Of the Filipino lie.
gislature today Manuel ouezon, po-
lltlcal leader, voiced a strong ap.
peal for Indepe ndence Of the Philip.
pines.
"The Filipino people, now moro
than ever, aspire to their freedom,
which to them Is a paramount con.
slderatlon In their relations with
the United States" ouezon told the
legislature which was also address.
cd by carmI A. Thompson, Presl-
dent cooIldee's special representa-.
tive to the Islands.
Philippine Congress.
The first act Of the legislature
wac to request Col. Thompson to
transmit an Independence resoIu-
tlon to President Coolidge.
Governor General Leonard Wood
who delivered his annual message
to the legislature was received for
mally and silently.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
Everybody Invited to
|. w. w. Picnic Sunday
in Chicago's Suburb

Chicago workers are promised a
treat at the big l. w. w. picnic to-
morrow, Sunday July IS, at the suburb
of Lyons, Illinois, where Ralph Chap
lin, famous Wobbly poet and A. S.
Embree, organizer and editor, will
speak, as will other workers in various
languages.
Besides this, there will be, Of course
dancing, entertainments and refresh.
ments galore. The admission of fifty
cents includes admission to dancing
floors.
The picnic Is held at Zahora's grove
which is reached by taking the 22nd
street or Ogden avenue surface cars
and transferring to the Berwyn-Lyons
car. Go to the end of the line and
take bus to the grove. Everybody is
welcome and q good time Is assured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
Matter BROS.
SHOP WORKERS
GO ON STRIKE
Bosses Frantic; Fear
Loss of Orders

The workers in the Matter Brothers
shop. 4751 Sheridan Road, have gone
out on strike demanding that this firm
sign up with Local as Chicago Fur
Workers Union.
This shop has been nonunion UP to
the present time. Every attempt to
organize the shop was met with a
strong opposition on the part Of the
bosses. Due to the activity of
number of progressives in the local
the Matter Brothers shop went into
negotiations with the union last week.
When the shop refused to sign the
agreement put before them, the work
ers went out on strike. This is one
of the biggest shops in the city.
Three more shops have settled with
the union. The rift in the Fur Manu-
facturers Association is growing great
err each day. The group that demands
an Immediate settlement with the
union is gaining in strength. Many of
them fear the loss of many orders
they have on hand.
The strike has come at the start
of the busy season and they fear that
if the strike continues orders they
have on hand will be cancelled and
shipped elsewhere.
A mass meeting of the workers in
the settled shops was held late yester-
day afternoon. At this meeting the
main question was the levying Of
Is per cent assessment to aid those
still on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
l. EMPLOYERS
Reject MEMS
WAGE DEMAND
Further Negotiating Is in
Progress

Demands of elevated and surface
street railway employees here for a
five per hour wage increase today
were rejected.
Britton /. Budd, president Of the
Chicago Rapid Transit company, an
noupced it would be impossible to con-
slider the increase, following con-
ference with William d. Mahon. presi-
dent Of the Amalgamated Association
of Street and Electric Railway EN-
ployes.
Aonther conference was scheduled
for July 10 between officials OF the
railway companies and the employees.
Mahon Is Satisfied.
William D. Mahon, president Of the
International union, declared in an Of
fetal statement that he was we'll salts
fed with the progress of the negotia-
tions. He decried ''strike talk" and
declared that the electric railway en-
ployes of Chicago are conservative cit
liens, many of them working to pay
for their little homes" and ito rear
their children as American children
should be reared
No thought or consideration will be
given to a strike, said Mahon, until
all avenues of settlement are ex-
hausted.
A conference between the union ex-
ecutives and the officials Of the sur
face railway is being arranged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
POLISH WORKERS VOICE PROTEST
AGAINST ATTEMPTS TO LEGALLY
MURDER SACCO AND VANZETTI

WARSAW, Poland July 6In eableeram
peasants party
Massachusetts the Polish their
legally Nicola 5aoOmeO Vanzei they
committed
The cabeeram folows
"Six political organizations representing Polish Ukanan White
Jewish working
political
Vnzett victims capitalist
of working against
Iesaly those fellow
"Commitee,
"RaIin Of sem."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18

company union by issuing call for
those still working on the lines to vote
on the demands presented by the
union for the various departments not
yet affected by the strike.
Connolly and Hedley and the others
whose company union has been broken
by the strike now in progress have
not dared try to call meetings of the
remaining groups of workers for fear
they would vote to go out with the
new union. The proposal for a refer
endum is calculated to force the issue
upon the other workers and extend
the strike to make it general on the
lines.
Even Seabs Quit.
According to a notice posted on the
bulletin board at strike headquarters,
the company paid some Of the i'm
ported scabs but $32 for the first
weeks work and $50 of those have
returned to their old haunts in Chi
cago, Cleveland and other cities.
Tear Up Messages.
At the mass meeting Sunday when
the strikers discussed the threat of
Hedley and James L. Quackenbusch,
the attorney for the company, that
unless they returned to work they
would lose their place in the list of
workers and have to start all over
again the same as new and inexpe-
rienced workers, number of them
read kilograms they had received from
the company. AS they read the tele-
grams they tore them up in front of
the other strikers, and when the meet.
ing was over the floor was Uttered
with the remnants.
Must Extend Strike.
Experienced strike leaders who are
aiding the strikers and advising some
of the leaders are unanimous in the
opinion that the strike can be won
only If sufficiently energetic measures
are taken to extend it and tie up
every department, thereby stopping
traffic on both subway and elevated
lines OF the company. They are like
wise convinced that the strike cannot
be won unless the others do go out
with them.
To reach them it is essential that
every terminal be Systematically
picketed and arrangements are being
made to inaugurate this work tomor.
row.
Thus far the strike has proceeded
on the spontaneous outburst of fury
Of the men whose demands were
turned down by the company and its
bogus union. On every hand the men
declare that they will stick until their
demands are granted and that until
that time they will not enter the en-
ploy of the traction company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
bank ROBBERS
ARE ORGANIZED,
SAYS CARLSTROM

DENVER, Col. July 1e.-Delegates
attending the annual convention OF
the American Bar Association here
were discussing the speech of Oscar
Carlstrom, attorney general of iii.
nois, in which Carlstrom declared
there existed in the United States an
organization of cracksmen known as
the Bank Robbers Association of
America, whose activities are pro.
tected by one OF the most brilliant
lawyers In the east.
There are only 300 flrstclass bank
robbers and safe crackers in the
United States, declared Carlstrom, and
these are banded together in an or.
ganization which provides for the de.
tense Of any member who may be ar.
rested and provides measures in aid
ing them to escape from the scenes OF
their crimes.
Its headquarters, Carlstrom said,
are Syracuse, N. Y. II closely paral.
lois the association Of the bootlegging
gangs In Chicago.
While this statement fell like a
bombshell in the ranks Of attorney
generals OF the United States and Can.
ada at the meeting Of the international
association, Mr.. Carlstrom would not
go into detail on the matter. being con.
tented merely with stating the bare
facts" and declaring that he knew
such an organization exists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
REPORT HUGHES
IS IN RACE FOR
WHITE HOUSE

PAUL SMITHS N. Y, July 16.-The
cough drops made famous more thru
the artistic display of chin foliage
supplied by the Smith Brothers rather
than the curative qualities of their
pills, may look forward to a new era
of prosperity, if the prediction that
Charles Evans Hughes, of hirsute re-
pute, runs for the U. S. presidency in
the next election. The rumor comes
from Smiths and may be discounted
as astute advertising, tho we learn
that Calvin Coolidge's haven of refuge
is not owned by either one of the
gentlemen who made a fortune out Of
the throat ailmentstaf their fellow
countrymen. 4.3
Cal Catching Fish.
The report that Mr.. Hughes may be
candidate for president did not pre-
vent the present white house incum-
bent from catching several fish. 1t is
even rumoured that Mr.. Coolidge bait
ed his own hooks and took off the fish.
If this is true he may be angling for
the G. o. P. nomination for second
term and half.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
EASLEY EXPOSED
AS AN ALLY OF
SLEUTH BURNS
Hit Head of National
Civic Federation
Especial to The Daily wOrker)

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES unsavory
National Civic Federation, In whose
ranks no union miner or maehlnist
may enroll himself, comes In for re-
neWed unfIatterlns attention In the
July Locomotive Engineers journal.
The civic federation processes to
find common ground between labor
and capital. A number of labor men
have belonged to it at various times,
including the late Samuel Gompers.
President william Green of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor is forbidden
by his union constitution from joining.
Called False Friend.
In the June Engineers Journal edi-
tor Albert F. Coyle had denounced
Ralph NJ. Easley, secretary Of the civic
federation, as a flake friend of labor"
In the July issue Robert w. Dunn pulls
the hide of Easley's record.
"'Easley and his organization have
for the past 20 years existed chiefly
for the purpose of spiking all progress
in the trade unions as we'll as in other
fields Of social activity" Dunn writes
for the engineers. most Of the sup
port comes from the large propertied
interests, chiefly in New York City,
and no public accounting Of receipts or
disbursements is made. There is no
doubt that the relations between Mr..
Easley and Mr.. civilian J.) Burns,
late Of the department Of justice, were
very intimate. Mr.. Easley is tool
Of the big industrialists who own and
rule America. He is a 100 per cent
plutocrat patriot"
States His Case.
"Coyle is an obscure fellow and his
attack on me is unimportant," said
Secretary Ralph NJ. Easley of the Ma
tional Civic Federation when question
ed on the unsparing denunciation he
has been subjected to in both the June
and July issues Of the Locomotive En-
gineers Journal, of which Albert F.
Coyle is editor. Easley is in Chicago
attending the Elk's convention.
Chester Wright has written me"
Easley consoled himself, that Coyle's
attack was given comparatively little
publicity. l have over 500 labor men
connected with the civic federation, in
GLIDING President William G. Lee of
the railroad trainmen and D. L. Cease,
the editor of the Trainmen's Journal,
President William d. Mahon of the
streetcar men and others.
Il shall use this attack on me by
Coyle to publish some correspondence
had with the late Warren S. Stone,
who used to be on my board. l shall
also publish some letters from father
Ryan who now attacks me. l have been
waiting for this opportunity"
Their stomach's Turned.
Stone together with Pres. Tim Healy
of the firemen and oilers resigned in
disgust from the civic federation when
Easlet made slanderous attacks on the
British labor party, minimum wage
legislation and other progressive labor
measures.
Tho 6S years old. Easley is jaunty
and vigorous in manner. He says his
federation does not depend on pay
ment of dues for support because you
can't get enough money that way. 1--WE
are supported by voluntary subscrip-
ton" he asserts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18

Granite had been a loyal slave
OF the American Flange and Manu-
featuring Co., 4646 Arlington st.
Sol Schwartz, the son Of the owner,
according to GRANTEES story, forced
him to work on a lathe known to be
defective. There was an accident.
He lost his thumb. The workmen's
compensation act didn't seem to
operate in his case. The company
refused to compensate him for the
injury. He was fired. Workers
without fingers have difficult times
getting jobs. Granite soon found this
out. AS months passed his funds be-
came exhausted, he was forced to
sleep in Grant Park, the home OF the
homeless, and to seek refuge in
cheap lodging houses. In the dark
hours of his struggle he developed
the idea that he needed a lawyer to
fight for him. But lawyers demand
money, especially those of the
American Bar Association.
So Granite got a gun and set out
to get the money. He turned high
wayman. He became an enemy of
society, but he conducted his war
alone. He determined to get revenge
by killing Sol Schwartz. But be-
fore he found Schwartz, the Incl
dent occurred in Cicero as a result
Of which Sunday school teacher,
a superintendent and chauffeur were
shot down in taxicab. Granite i'm
mediately became hunted animal.
The police were on the trail OF the
man without thumb. They caught
him. Granite is now in the county
Jail facing triple murder charge.
His role as a lone fighter seeking
justice for himself against capital
ism nears the foot of the gallows.
If Granite had accepted the loss
of his thumb, blamed himself for
the accident and got a permit from
the city to beg aims at street cor
ners in order to keep from starving,
he would be at liberty. Satisfied
slaves are rewarded a little.
But Granite wanted to fight. He
wanted to satisfy his outraged feel
ings by killing the exploiter. Sol
Schwartz, responsible for his woes.
GRANTEES courage Is to be lauded.
But he took the wrong road. Such
a struggle can only by waged by all
class conscious workers banding
themselves together, politically and
economically, and fighting capital
ism itself.
Capitalists are happy when in
dividual workers seek satisfaction
following in GRANTEES footsteps.
Such workers are harmless.
Capitalists would stand aghast
however, and behold, their own doom
at the sight of all workers, with
GRANTEES courage, uniting for the
struggle to abolish the rule of the
exploiters thru establishing their
own governmental power to in
augurate new social order to salts
fy the needs of the workers and
usher in a wave of happiness for
all who toll. Capitalism is itself
the great crime wave that is sweep
ing the world today. 1t must be
engulfed in and obliterated. by the
Soviet power of labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
Workers Cannot Wage
Lone Struggle Against
Tyranny of Capitalism
BY J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

THE American Bar Association Is
l. meeting at Denver, Colo, and an
other National Crime Commission is
in session in New York City trying
to discover the cause of crime, or,
as the case is stated, "the reasons
and remedies for Americas great
crime rate"
1t is declared that Mayor Dever, Of
Chicago, made the most impressive
presentation OF the entire matter in
his address on "Volsteadism," and
as result the bar association is
planning to move to "the Windy
City" "in order to be closer to the
center OF things" Cicero would be
an even better location.
The American Bar Association is
the aristocratic organization of the
legal profession OF the United
States. ALI lawyers, who can afford
to do so, belong to it. 1t is from
this crowd that all judges, from the
lowest police court magistrate up to
William Howard Taft, chief justice
of the United States supreme court,
are chosen. They are the crime de-
tenders, 1t is their job to get
criminals off as easily as possible.
That is their business. Some of the
things they were told at their Den
yer gathering follow:
"Crime is costing America three
billion dollars per year.
more murderers and robbers are
loose in the land than there are sol
diers in the regular army or police
men in American cities.
"The cause OF the scorge Is the
mental attitude of the people.
"The national sore is not healing.
Education is not checking it. Re-
peaters are increasing in every peni-
Tertiary. The bald facts are so
hideous as to chill the blood"
But it does not chill the blood of
the lawyers. 1t gives them more
business. 1t does not brighten the
judges. 1t gives more of them Jobs.
1t does not startle the newspapers.
1t gives them exciting news that in
creases the circulation, that boosts
the advertising rate, that results in
profits mounting higher and higher.
Every crime wave is a prosperity
wave for the press of capitalism,
Most crime is product of can
italism. Every crime wave can be
traced to some cancer in the cap
italist social order. Crime does not
seriously menace the capitalist sys-
tenn. 1t is therefore the cause only
of intermittent hysteria among the
defenders Of capitalism. No serious
effort is made to exterminate It.
"Volsteadism!" is the cry of the
vets, who think more of the return
of light wines and beer than they
do of murder statistics.
1t was while Mayor Dever was
making his Denver speech that an
other gun went into action in Cicero
and before the smoke had cleared
away, one woman and two men were
dead at the hands of James Granite,
worker. Granite was not connect.
cd with the war of rival political fac
lions or bootleggers. He only had
a grudge, deep-seated and urging.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
Forty-Four Charged
with Election Fraud

Indictments against forty.four per.
sons. five of whom are women, were
returned here today by special
grand jury probing frauds in the April
Cook county primary election.
All are charged with conspiracy 10
make a false return OF votes. Eight
OF the true bills were directed against
judges and clerks OF the twentieth
ward. where the inquiry has reveal.
cd gross Irregularities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
U. S. Envoy Refuses to
Hear Germans Appeal
for Sacco-Vanzetti

BERLIN, July 16.-A delegation
among whom were members OF the
German reichstag visited the Ameri.
can Ambassador Schurman here to
place a plea before him for the re.
lease OF aScco and Vanzetti, two work.
ers who are doomed to die in Massa.
chusetts as result OF a frame.up
by which they were convicted OF
a crime now confessed by others.
Ambassador Schurman refused to
see the delegation. according to the
reports In the German press, and the
embassy refuses to talk about the mat
ter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
SOMETHING CROOKED IN
n. C. SURVEY OF WOMEN
IN INDUSTRY APPEARS
Especial to The Daily worker)

CHARLOTTE, N. c., July 1e. -
Suspicion has been cast upon sur
vey of women In industry In this
state, arranged for by Governor An
gus Mclean, because the North Car
oina Cotton Manufacturers Asso-
citation has unanimously voiced ap-
provaI Of the project. In a resou-
tlon the textile men recognized this
survey as Legitimate and we'll ad-
Vised," in contrast to other surveys
proposed here which they fear "may
be mere agitation in one form or
another"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
Markham Police
Officials to Face
County Indictments

Indictments were to be sought
against officials of Markham for illegal
arrests of motorists. William Stein
berg, assistant states attorney, an
nounced.
Steinberg said George J. Liesen-
feldt, Markham justice Of the peace,
and Charles Morley, chief Of police,
had admitted an agreement under
which autoists were made victims of
speedtraps and excessive fines col
lected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
Reject caIlIaux's Proposal.

Paris, July 16.-The finance com.
mission OF the chamber OF deputies to-
night rejected M. Caillaux's demand
that he be given dictatorial powers to
deal with the financial situation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
S and 10 Magnate
Seeks Divorce from
His Second Wife

DETROIT. July 16.--Sebastian 8.
Kresge, millionaire chain store opera.
tor, filed suit for divorce here against
his second wife, Doris Mercer Kresge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18

" SAOSh hAAo AhNA AAh6 gOASA0 tAO SNA AAO
leaders came in.
Go After the Rest.
The los will organize committees
for an immediate drive to close down
all power stations, thereby completely
shutting down the traction system.
The vicious injunction proceedings
started yesterday by the company Is
regarded as blur by the men, who
ieered at It in the strike meeting
Tho the company lawyer cites the
Danbury hatters' case as precedent, it
has no relation to that case, which
was based on the Sherman Antitrust
law and related to interstate COM
merce. ~
No such construction can be placed
upon the present strike as the lines
operate exclusively within New York
state and carry nothing but passen-
gers, therefore 1t cannot be brought
under the jurisdiction of the federal
courts as in the Danbury hatters' case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
In the Next Issue of the Magazine:

Sherman H. M. Chang will relate the stary Of
chna's recent struggle for liberation.
Michael Gold will have poem entitled, "The
Mother Curse"
The Red Savior, splendid little play by Hermynla
Eur Muehen, author Of the Fairy Tales published by
the Daily Worker Publishing Co.
The Second Lesson in Reading, by Arthur W. Cal
houn.
And other features.
Drawings by Fred Ellis, Bales, Jsrpers, vose and
others
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
SUBWAY STRIKE SPREADING TO
POWER HOUSES LIKELY TO SHUT
DOWN ALL PETERBOROUGH LINES
BY n. M. WIcKs.

NEW YORK. July 16Whle all the reptile exung
fact that the strike the PETERBOROUGH
the number
walked
A---
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