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Defend Weisbord! for BIG FIGHT INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID APPEALS TO NEW YORK LABOR TO HELP THE PASSAIC TEXTILE WORKERS WIN THEIR STRIKE The DAILY WORKER Raises This Issue Consists of Two the Standard f a Workers’ Sections. ' and Farmers' R -*nt SECTION ONE. THE EnteredPAILYat Becond-clasa matter September 21. 1921, at the Poet OfficeWORKER.at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 1. 1*79. * In Chicago, by per year. > P/.t/,,. mall, *B.OO 290 Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER * IvUlvS • by Vol. 111. No. o Outside Chicago, mall, *B.OO per year. SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1926 to^*> PUBLISHING CO.. 1113 W. Washington Blvd.. Chicago, UL Price 5 Cents ‘FREE WEISBORD!’ CAMPAIGN ON GREEN FAILS IN Union Drive in the Dress industry Starts LI. 0. GATHERS MOVETOBREAK MASS COMMITTEE OF 500 INSTALLED ALL RESOURCES AT I. L. G. W. U. MEETING OPENING NATIONAL W N.Y. FUR STRIKE BIG CAMPAIGN; ZIMMERMAN SPEAKS Defend Weisbord! FOR BIG FIGHT The — _ first gun of the big organization barrage that will sweep DRIVE ATTRACTS . Furrier’s Rank and File Chicago’s cloak and dress industry was fired last night at a mass Cannon Goes to Passaic meeting of more than 1,000 members of the International Ladies' Appeal to the Workers of America by the Defends Leadership Garment Workers' Union at Schoenhofen Hall. BIG to Organize Drive The meeting marked the opening of a well prepared cam- pin International Labor Defense (Special to The Daily Worker) paign of organization initiated by the new administration of the International Labor Defense has NEW YORK, April 16—Seven thous- Chicago Joint Board of the I. L. G. W. U. First Moscow Candidate come forth as the champion of Albert in- to desperation by the stubborn and heroic resistance Weisbord, Passaic Textile and striking fur workers, crowding The feature of the occasion was the installation of a mass strike +lßll, DRIVEN mill Passaic leader, who together with side and out of Carnegie demand- committee of 500 members of the chosen by Announces Himself of the striking textile workers, the owners of Norman be per- union the various Thomas, Esther Lowell and others Ben Gold, strike leader — last ed that organized shops to carry on the * a— $ have played their desperate card. mitted to speak at a meeting called Operating thru their political henchmen they have arrested has been attacked by the minions of campaign. York a reconstruction period has Before the small foroe of The by the international officials of the. set the mill barons, thrown in jail and re- The main speaker was Sascha Zim- in. We have gotten rid so- DAILY WORKER has been able to Albert Weisbord, the courageous and inspiring leader of the strike Furriers’ Union. Hugh Frayne, New of all the leased only on an exhor’bitant bail. merman, manager of the organization called “professional organizers” put completely into the mails some and have openly announced their intention to railroad him to the the A. F. of L., who who James P. Cannon, national secre ' York organizer of committee of the New York joint call, "East 20,000 subscription drive announce- by the Interna- we Side gentlemen with penitentiary. tary of International Labor Defense had been invited here board. He given fancy ments, the first returns are rolling in. the crowd was an enthusiastic names.” We decided to dispense Together with Weisbord they have also arrested Robert said today, “I. L. embarking tional, was howled down by welcome D. is on by the Chicago member*. Ho with all outsiders and put the work On To Moscow! of the American Civil Union, Norman of great because Gold was not permitted to Dunn, Liberties Thomas, a nation-wide campaign of pro- conveyed the greetings of the New of building the union the Helndlckson, one come into the hall. The cry of those on shoulders John of-Chicago, the Socialist Party, Esther Lowell of the Federated Press, and a test against the arrest of Weisbord. York brothers and pledged the "sup- of the mass of our own membership.” of leading pub-getters Daily in he hall, “Let Gold speak, we want the and number of others. Norman Thomas, Robert Dunne. port of the New York joint board to N. Y. Campaign. equals, to Gold” was echoed by the Worker Builder iwith few brot The who even flinched from beating Esther Lowell and others who have hear the present Organization drive In "We found that the dressmakers textile police have-not swarming about the front In five new yearly subscriptions to been arrested in Passaic. This act thousand Chicago. were not well organized. We imme- women and children have shown no discrimination in their per- could not gain entry. After ten earn the first hwst of Lenin, by the is plainly the last resort of the mill who New Methods. diately started a campaign. We set up secutions. Representatives of all shades of opinion who have of this storm, Frayne gave up. noted sculptor, G. Piccoll, in the Na- owners who have been unable to minutes “.We in New York,” Zimmerman committees of one thousand taken part in the strike and given aid and comfort to the embat- was disbanded. It was a to take tional Sub Drive for The DAILY break the strikers’ resistance by one The meeting said, “Are now trying to put into prac- care of certain territories each. When workers are for penitentiary. There are only two the New York joint WIORKOH just opened. tled slated the of the worst reigns of terror and po great victory for tice certain fundamental principles these committees met there al- leading the present were This is the opening gun,” was sides in Passaic; the side of the workers and those who stand ’lice brutality that has board which is that we have been fighting for years'. ways 1.600 or 2,000 present. Instead characterized 12,000 workers. John’s statement. “Give me that bust with them in their fight for the right to live, and the mill barons a strike in this country.” •trike of fur We have always said that in order to of the former paid outside organizers meeting had been called by ’or my first jo>. 1 got those at my and their political tools. Goes to N. Y. The organize the large masses into the the shop committees sent to the organ and other offi- union meeting last night—and give The the officials is a challenge “I am leaving for New York President Schachtman unions we must throw into the work ization committee of the union one czaristic actions of Passaic and administration of ue competition! There is none In entire class of be taken up most Passaic to attempt to cers of the national the whole body of the membership. representative each who was full time to the working America. It must gather together union opening Chicago (?) I’m going to Moscow in united effort the furriers’ as an The former officers of the New York on the job and paid by the workers and energetically and without delay. Just as the inspiring example one all elements in the leadership of the with a record dt subs that no other the labor movement, wedge to take joint hoard co«ld this. They ii* his shop to carry on the campaign.” of the Passaic struggle has put new hope and courage and as- radical and pro- of the hands of the progres- in the country will equal. Broadcast gressive, to fight'against this strike out attempted to alienee the best fighters 4,000 New Members. piration into the hearts of the most oppressed workers thruout vicious York joint Gold, the Ihis challenge, he added, “I’m persecution. The sive board. and expelled them from the “During this organization campaign police, acting for members of even started!” The competition Is America, so does this attempt to smash the strike and to send its manager, and the other union. we declared strikes in no less than 600 now the mill owners, made no discrimina had to go to to beaMlphn Ileindrickson of best leacters to prison menace their interests as well. tion about the joint board decided “But now It Since (he shops. W§ organized 275 dress ojjen political or other opinion make it a demonstra- is different. new Chicago. Every one of those arrested regardless of his political or when the meeting and new administration took office in New (Continued on page 2.) they arrested Weisbord. Thomas tion for the strike and to demand sup- Pennsylvania! First Under Way. philosophical standpoint is entitled to the unreserved support of and the others, and the workers should port from the International. has been prepared the working class of America. They have been taken prisoner make no discrimination in the fight Police. This fact, this fact is to them from the Gangsters and SORKIN AND AIDS LAUNCH ATTACK most systematically. The Agitprop on the battle front for labor. and alone, save brutal conse- At nine in the morning, the fur committee of tfie Pittsburgh district important at the moment. quences awaiting them unless by workers began to gather at the hall. ON NEW YORK LEADERS AT EASTERN from news jusC>Tecelved from A. Ja- With especial warmth and devotion the workers must rally sheer might of a nation-wide protest By twelve noon there were four thou- kira, district osganlzer, has made pro- the the one most hated and feared by the bosses, the workers are able to set them the to defense of free.” sand present and at one thirty in visions to cover all Communist units the leader and organizer of the strike.
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