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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03
FURSHOP BOSSES
FAIL TO PROCURE
STRIKEBREAKERS
Strikers Defy Police and
Gunner
Especial to The Daily Worker,

NEW YORK, March THE manufac.
turers of the fur industry are panic
stricken at the militant spirit of the
workers, and the hope they would cas-
lily secure scabs has been smashed for
no scabs are to be gotten. The scab-
bling corporations on which they de-
pended are all going to smash and out
OF business. The bosses are now re-
sorting to other means to fight the
workers. The whole police force is in
the service of the bosses, beating and
clubbing the workers on picket line.
They are not satisfied with the serv-
ants Of the bosses, the police, but they
are also hiring thugs and gangsters
for subduing the workers.
Fur District Armed Camp.
When one walks thru the fur dis
trict he sees squadrons of police, cos.
sacks on horses and automobiles load
ed with police and here and there a
tpatrol wagon all ready to serve the
bosses.
Not only do the bosses make the
fur district camp of police and thugs,
but these henchmen of the bosses pull
workers into the halls of buildings and
without cause or reason beat and club
the workers. Batches OF Is and 90
workers are grabbed, piled in a patrol
wagon like sheep and thrown into jail
without any cause or reason.
In the last raid that the police made
on the furriers, so workers were ar
rested for no reason at all and when
they were brot before the judge he
did not have the nerve to convict the
workers on the fabricated charges the
police made and the strikers were dis
charged.
Workers Insist on Demands.
The fur workers realize that these
are the methods the bosses are using
to force them back to work. The
strikers are determined that neither
tile police, hired thugs nor all the
other black elements hired by bosses
to subdue the workers will drive them
back to work under the conditions
that have existed for the past few
years but will fight for the demands
they have submitted to the bosses.
The fur workers demand: Equal divis-
ion Of work; no discharge, 40-hour
week and unemployment insurance,
paid by the manufacturer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03
Los Angeles Bosses Fear Strikers

February she and the children are
likely to be out on the street in
March"
The Times in this way serves notice
on the strikers that such orders have
been already given to the local bank
ers with whom their bungalows are
mortgaged.
1t continues to brighten the strikers
that: "The places vacated will be fill
ed by other men. That has taken place
in every strike here that lasted more
than few days in the last twenty
years.
Free industry in Los Angeles is
constantly recruited by skilled work
men from other parts of the country
who have refused longer to wear the
chains of industrial slavery. ThsS
learned that in Los Angeles industry
is free, that men work here without
paying tribute to a labor union boss
and they tear up their union cards,
board train or drive their own car to
Los Angeles and prove valuable re.
cruits to our industry"
Fear Labor Unity.
The Times is in rage as its agents
on the inside have made bad Job.
They are determined not to allow such
a dangerous precedent as the SYM
pathy strike to be set. This precedent
sets an example of labor unity which
puts fear in the scabby hearts of the
enemies Of labor. That is why they
are screaming so loudly. That is why
they are hastily calling together their
black forces.
This danger signal Of our enemy
should help the toiling masses of Los
Angeles to build up and to consolidate
their own fighting forces. The work
ers all over the country should also
take notice. Beware of the paid pub
lic1ty in your local newspapers about
the immaginary blessings of Califor.
MIA. You are being trapped by the
scab agencies of the Los Angeles
chamber Of commerce into the bread
lines of the local salvation army.
Watch your step.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03

He was a model mayor. 1t would
be hard to find his equal. For a rub
berstamp the bosses knew what they
did when they got him.
Threaten Strike Piekets.
The police commissioner sat at his
side and when the conference came to
an end he told the strikers that there
would be no more picketing except
as he should direct. He informed the
committee that he had secured the
country and that he had secured 500
horses for the police and that there
would be no intimidation allowed by
the strikers. They would be ridden
down and law and order would be
maintained IL he had to shoot every
peaceful worker In the whole blasted
town.
Welsbord replied that he would hold
the police commissioner responsible
for any violence and that there would
be 5000 pickets on the line to meet
his cossacks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03
300 Cossacks Recruited
to Assail Mill Workers
on Strike In Passaic
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Il
became uncomfortable and for them to
go back to the same condition would
be utterly impossible"
Ideal Rubberstamp.
The mayor did not know that there
had been wage cuts, that there had
been a committee sent to the. bosses
and that over thirty in that committee
had been fred point blank as soon as
they appeared before the bosses. He
did not know the name Of the commit
tee or the union conducting the strike.
He had not taken enough interest In
the progress of the strike to know
what the demands were. He did not
know what collective bargaining
meant. He did not know that In
Germany and Czecho-Slovalkia the
Forstmann-Huffmann company has to
deal with the union and submit to the
principle Of collective bargaining. He
did not know that the workers had
called the strike and said that the
bosses could not settle since they had
not called II. He was in total ignor-
ance Of the conditions In which the
workers have to live. He knew moth.
ing about wages and had, no idea OF
the profits made by thu bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03
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construction industry of the city may
know the position Of the exchange we
reaffirm our commitment to the Amer
lean plan, open-shop policy of dealing
with labor.
Everywhere thru the United States
the sympathetic strike, such as the
brick masons in Los Angeles are now
carrying on, is looked on as one Of the
most contemplate and vicious instru-
ments of organized labor radicals.
"The brick masons leaders have or
dered them on strike, a sympathetic
strike, in an effort to assist the marble
and tile journeymen's bosses in for
cling marble and tile contractors to
close their jobs against all but union
lied workmen."
In denouncing the sympathy strike
Of the workers the scabby Times is
using the very same opportunity to
organize and to still more consolidate
the brutal forces of the bosses. It
violently agitates for and threatens
with the use of the sympathy strike
or organized capital under the head
of the chamber of commerce the life
of labors' organizations. It sounds the
alarm that:
"They (The Builders Exchange)
must not be left to fight our battle
alone. To their right already stands
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association and to their left the cham
Der of commerce. These two organ
izations have already passed resolu-
tions strongly condemning the attempt
of the labor unions to cripple indus
try and to open our gates to the
wolves Of hunger and distress thru the
sympathetic strike"
To ForcIose Mortgages on Homes.
The Times threatens the strikers
that: "The wife and mother knows
what it means when the instalment of
the bungalow cannot be paid because
her man is out on strike. She real
ICES that if he is out on the street
because Of the sympathetic strike in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03
Merrick Case Before
Supreme Court Today

HAVERHILL, Mass, Mar. 1.-The
case Of John Merflck, framed-up by
the shop manufacturers for his mill.
tant activity on an absurd charge of
attempted dynamiting three years
ago. comes up again in the supreme
court tomorrow. ~
The powerful Interests which sue.
ceoded in framinRpnp Merrick for his
activities on behalf of the shoe work.
ers Of this section have hundreds of
thousands OF dollars at their com.
mand, while the defense, thru the tire.
mendous expenses involved in expos.
ing the frame.up and arranging for
an appeal to the supreme court, is
practically financially exhausted and
Is calling for aid.
The International Labor Defense,
20 South Lincoln St., Chicago, which
Is aiding In the defense, appeals to
all workers and progressives in the
country TO come to the aid OF the
Merrick defense Immediately. This is
a case very much similar to the
Mooney frame-up and there is dan
ger that the outcome will be the same
unless aid is given swiftly. Like
Mooney, Merrick has been very active
In behalf Of organized labor, and like
the San Francisco labor leader, Mer-
rick is charged with dynamiting, a
charge which was successfully expos
ed as tissue ofslies during the first
trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03
N. Y. Labor Council
Elects Joseph Ryan
Tammanyite Lackey

NEW YORK CITY, March / - JOS
eph Ryan, vice president of the Inter
national Longshoremans Association,
has been elected president of the New
York Central Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil at its last meeting, succeeding John
Sullivan who has been elevated 10 the
presidency of the New York State
Federation of Labor, replacing James
P. Holland, who has obtained polite
al plum from Mayor Walker, that of
commissioner of the board OF stand
ards and appeals.
Ryan was placed in nomination BY
John Mulholland. who had also been
nominated earlier by Delegate Curtis,
but had declined, stating that his con.
nections with the Federation Bank
were OF such Importance, that he had
to refuse. Curtis in nominating Null.
holland said that he is mot only
famous in the field of labor, but also
as banker. We are proud OF him. we
who were supposed to know nothing
Of banking"
An amusing incident connected with
Ryan's election as president was that
the chairman, Sullivan, forgot to take
a vote; giving the chair over 10 RYAN
so quickly that the delegates did not
realize what had taken place until
delegate named Cohen called TO the at.
tention OF the assembly that no vote
had been taken, and moved that Ryan
be unanimously elected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03

If you want to thoroughly un.
delstand Communism--study it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03
COOLIDGE BLOC
FEARS DEFEAT
in ILLINOIS
Cal Desperate to Keep
Majority in Senate

In It's desperation to maintain a ma
jority at all costs, the Coolidge admin
IstratIon Is allowing its hackers to
declare that they voted for the world
court because it was a party platform
and that they were ready to fight the
world court In order to get the NOM
nations in the republican primaries
this spring.
William B. Mckinley, traction mag
nate, who is seeking the republican
party denomination for the United
Staes senate has intimated that he
supported the world court because it
was part of the party platform and
that he hopes that he will have hand
in changing the policy of the party
so that he can fight just as enthusi-
astically against the world court as
he did for it. This move on the part
OF Mckinley Is to keep himself in the
senate. He is willing to make these
promises and the Coolidge machine is
sanctioning this attitude in an at
tempt to keep it's majority for the
reactionary administration measures
"lts Only Promise"
The machine regards these promis-
es as nothing more than vote catch
ers and after the elections the sena-
tors have six years in which they can
back all of the administration policies
and pursue the policies they declared
they were willing to scrap
This frantic effort on the part of
Mckinley comes Immediately after
the opening of a national drive by
Borah and other opponents of the
world court on those senators who
were the enthusiastic hackers Of the
Morgan policy. Borah and Reed have
spoken in Chicago at the Coliseum
and on the radio This has Mckinley
scared and the administration in
Washington fears that if Mckinley is
defeated in the primaries on the world
court issue it will have its harmful
effects on the Coolidge bloc in the
senate.
Hoover to Come to Chicago.
Mckinley is trying to get the sup
port of the Crowe-Barrett machine in
his fight. Mckinley has also sent
an urgent message to Coolidge to send
some strong administration speaker
to Chicago to counterfeit the effects
OF the speeches of Borah and Reed.
This maneuver on the part of McKin-
ley has met with thee announcement
that Borah will stump Illinois for
Frank L. Smith. Herbert Hoover, Sc
cretary of commerce, is scheduled to
come to Chicago in the near future
to present the administration point
of view.
Smith Aids Rail interests.
At present the Crowe-Barrett COM
bination is pushing the candidacy of
Frank L. Smith, head of the Illinois
commerce commission, which has
played to the railroad interests of the
state. While head of the Illinois
commerce commission, Smith has done
nothing to abolish "death crossings"
that are a constant menace to the
lives of workers who must use these
crossings in going to and from work.
Every act of the commission has been
more or less the white-washing of the
accidents that have occurred and at
tempts to aid the railroads to disre-
gard safety precautions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03
Newberry Cooperative
Backs War on Fascism
tspeeIaI to rhe paIIx workerl

NEWBERRY, Mich, March - The
Cooperative Association of this place
has passed resolution approving the
protest of the International Cooper
alive Alliance against the attacks Of
the fascist government Of Italy upon
the co-operatiyes Of that country. The
proposal Of the Red international Of
Labor Unions for Joint conference
Of the Amsterdam International Fed
Grafton of Trade Unions. the Interna-
tional Cooperative Alliance, and itself
to formulate common means of fight
ing fascism was endorsed.
The local association is member
Of the Cooperative League of Amer.
lea. II manages a general merchan-
dislng store here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03
EASTERN OHIO
CONF FERENCE OF
YOUTH SUCCESS
CONTINUED from Page u

ting from to cents more. The
sanitary conditions there were hor-
rible and ON top Of all the speed UP
system had been introduced so that
instead of lids being turned out at the
rate of 95 they are now forced to turn
them out at the rate of 1876.
Another delegate from the enamel
works in Bellaire told of the girls get
ting only "a cents an hour, working
some 80 hours week thus making
total of the magnificent wage Of $12
week. 1t was no wonder, therefore,
that many of the girls are driven to
lives of shame. In this plant, the
sinks are so rusty that the girls can
not wash their hands before lunch
because of the flthiness of the water.
Boys Work for Half Wages.
The young miners reported one in
stance after another of discrimination
again the youth. Where young greas-
ers and couplers, who were doing the
work of men, received only $500 a
day, the men would get practically
$500 day. Boys are often Obliged
to set posts at cents each. Job
which should be done by the day man
who gets 71s cents per post and can
work swiftly enough to make fairly
decent wage-something which the in
experience of the boy prevents him
from making.
Slate pickers and trappers are reg
ularly Disseminated against not only
by the coal operators but also by the
union, which provides for less wages
for equal work in the contract with
the bosses.
Story after story was told Of the
life of the young workers in industry
and the buffeting from pillar to post
between the capitalist who knows
how to take advantage of the young
workers, and the adult workers who
are too shortsighted to see the harm
which is being done to their whole
class by their attitude of superiority
and carelessness.
The resolutions committee Of the
conference introduced a number Of re-
solutions. One resolution endorsed
the labor party and called upon the
trade unions to form one A resolu-
ton was unanimously adopted endors-
ing the International Labor Defense
and calling for the release of all the
Moundsville prisoners. A resolution
of demands for the young workers of
Eastern Ohio, containing detailed
points, was adopted and a motion &C
cepted to have it printed in leaflet
form for distribution to the young
workers Of the entire section.
Against MlIltarism.
A resolution against the Citizens
Military Training Camps was passed
with enthusiasm, after one of the
delegates who had attended the
camps last year, arose and pointed out
its basically capitalist and antilabor
character.
A resolution which was also I'M
ahimously adopted called upon the
Young Workers League to carry on
further the work of rallying the young
workers to the support of the confer
ence program, and endorsing the
Young Worker, official organ of the
league, as the only paper which re-
presented the real interests of the
working class youth of the country.
The conference ended with enthu-
siasm, the delegates pledging them
selves to return to their respective
localities and work with greater
energy than ever before for the car
rying on Of the work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03
Typographical Union
Seeks Wage Increase

DENVER, March 1. The Denver
Typographical Union has asked for a
wage scale OF s54 week on the day
side for newspaper printers and for
$50 a week for typographical workers
on the night side.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03

Modern Grocery of Pitts
field, Mass, at 23S Column
bus Ave-, requires services
of a comrade living in or
near Pittsfeld, Mass. Bring
good standing Communist
card.
Evening star., 1926-03-10

grip. while Grantham is AT Paso RO.
bles suffering from shoulder muscle
trouble which fails to respond to treat.
ment.
BOSTON, March 10 E). - The
Braves feel a lot better today a. a
result of their 6-to.i victory yester-
day over the Yankees at St Peters.
burg. Fla.
Babe Ruth failed to get a hit but
caught hold of two Of WertZ PITCHES
for wicked fouls which landed two
or three squares from the ball park.
The Fed SoX. at New Orleans. put
on a nineinning scrap In which the
iannigans dOwned the regulars d
i" !. Fred Haney made two doubles.
ST. LOUIS. Mo. March 10 No).-
From now until mid April the Car.
dinals have only FIVE dates on which
exhibition games will not be played.
They meet the San Antonio, Tex.
Bears today and tomorrow at San
Antonio and the squad will be split
up over the week end for games at
Houston and San Antonio.
The Browns also will be busy with
exhibition games during the next
month. They start off today by meet
ing the Brooklyn Dodgers at Tarpon
Springs. F1a.. and I'm the II days
that follow will meet ma ior league
clubs IN IL other exhibition games
four at camp and eight in the enemy
country. Two teams Of the squad
battled to a 6-to.6 tie in practice
game yesterday.
Evening star., 1926-03-10

Brillia mt pa wing of Joe Bu. KEY. the
Phillies new short stop. enabled the
juniors to defeat the regulars, to |,
al Bradenton, Fla. He drove in the
TWO runs.
Glen ELA\D. Ohio. March 10 L4).
The Cleveland Indians play their
first exhibition game Of the sea son at
Lakeland today. the Cincinnati Reds
being their opponents.
Byron Specie. subma rineo tWirler.
was selected by Manager Speaker to
start the game. He will he followed
by Joe Shaute and Ben karr.
Commissioner Landis MAS scheduled
TO toss out the first ball He arrived
at Lakeland last night. but was TO
leave for Fort Myers. the Philadelphia
Athletics training camp, before to-
days game started.
NEW YORK. March 10 LP).-Vic
tory for the Giants over the Buffalo
lnternationals. to ;, and defeat for
the Yankees at the hands OF the Bos-
ton Braves. to |. featured the train
ing camp endeavors of Greater New
York ba Sc ball teams in their first real
exhibition tests.
The hitting Of two outfield recruits
fea tured the contests. Tyson polling q
double for the Giants, while Cullop
ia shioned a triple and single for the
Yankees and stole base.
Wilbert Robinson. preside Mt ma n
ager of the Brooklyn team. laid down
stringent rules at Clearwater. Fla.
The limit in draw poker games for
players hereafter will be quarter.
CHICAGO. March 10 P). - Al
phonse, the former Baltimore hurting
ace. was the principal attraction at
the Chicago White SoN training camp
at Shreveport. La. yesterday. He
displayed his stuff for the first time
in warming up session, before the
daZzled eyes of Manager Collins.
William kamm. third sacker-the
most expensive in the circuit-report
ed yesterday. The Chicago Cubs had
another practice game at Catalina
Island. with the make-shift lineup
walloping the regulars. II to |.
DETROIT. Mich, March 10 LP.-
Taking advantage of warmer wealth
er. the advance squad Of the Detroit
Americans went through the stiffest
workout in the 10 days they have
been in their Augusta. Ga, camp yes
terday.
Thus far Harry Heilmann. sluggine
outhelder. is the only member of the
outfield corps in camp, and none Of
the infielders has shown up. forcing
pitchers and catchers to take turns
in the field for practice sessions.
PITTSBURGH. March 10 (R.-
Manager Mckechnie is concerned
over the condition OF Capt. Max Carey
and First Baseman Grantham of the
Pirate squad now in training at Paso
1 Robes. Calf
The skipper is not fearful that the
two men. will not fully recover from
their present indispositions. but afra y!
they will not have time to get into
| trim for the opening OF the season.
Carey is recuperating AT the st.
! Louis Hospital from an attack of the
Evening star., 1926-03-10

pulled packed houses and the maj
agement bore its burden in silence.
AS room AS Waddell beca me an
actor. he took on style. The "Rube"
got himself fur overcoat. ton
hat and a swaCger cane He paraded
the main streets. the most typical
ham actor that ever left stage
door.
Watidell Is "Hero.'
One scene in this piece was laid
in 4 horel. The villain had Just
found the heroine and was choking
the life out Of her. About the time
that the dear girl was taking a final
gasp Of air. the elevator stopped and
out stepped the hero. 1t was none
other than the great "Rube" Waddell
himself. "Cnhand that fair maiden" ,"
he would scream and with the words
"addell would make a leap for the
villain. He was supposed to strike
him j stage blow. knock him fat and
rescue the giri.
Waddell. like David Belasco, was
al for the realistic thing in our
ira ma. SO. when the Rube stepped
from the elevator on the opening
! night Of the show he struck the vii
lain no stage blow. MIR. Waddell got
himself into terrific rage before
! leaving the elevator and he swung
rom the ground His good left fist
'""ded on the villains jaw, lifted him
cie&r OF the stage and knocked him
into the orchestra pit, where he land
ed on the bass drum and demolished
it. He could not go on with the show
| and there was no understudy. so that
! finished the show for the evening
The management had to get an un.
| derstudy for the villain and a new
drum.
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| CINCINNATI. Ohio, March 10 OP.--
| A brilliant future was predicted for
the Cincinnati Reds by K. NJ. Lands
| commissioner of base ball. who watch
ed the team in two practice sessions
at ORLANDO.
! IF this team signs up Rixey. as
am sure it will. think the Reds will
make an interesting race of it.
was much impressed with the form
shown by Pipp. Emer. Christensen
; and some of the young pitchers
/ When RiXey joins the club the pitch.
: ing staff will be one Of the best in
! the league
! Meeting the Cleveland Indians al
, Lakeland today the Cincinnatians had
, their first big league tilt of the season