The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1925, Page 2

Page Two COOLIDGE MAY MAKE BORAH A GENEVA ENVOY Available and Says He Agrees with Cal (Speolal to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Deo, 23—Specula- tion as to the probable make-up of the American delegation to the league of nations’ disarmament conference followed today In the wake of the white house announcement that Pre- sident Coolidge has decided to accept the league's invitation to participate. The expectation is general in the capital that Charles E. Hughes will be asked—if he has not already been asked—to lead the American repre- sentatives, although whether he could or would accept the post is a matter of gome dispute among his intimates here. Hughes Gets the Cash. Mr. Hughes resigned as secretary of state less than a year ago to return to a highly lucrative corporation law practice, which he has told friends here he would be extremely loath to give up. Estimates of his earnings in the comparatively short time he has been out of public life range well into six figures. A suggestion is being advanced by the president's friends that Coo- lidge should try to persuade Senator Borah (R) of Idaho, to go. Borah is chairman of the powerful foreign re- lations committee, as well as the leader of the irreconcilables, and hie acquiescence in anything arrived at abroad would be tantamount to in- suring its ratification by the senate. Underwood and Dawes Talked Of. Senator Underwood, as a veteran of the Washington conference, is available. He retires from the sena- te on March 4 next, and is planning to remain in Washington. While it is true that he is no longer demo- cratic leader, and is without more than ordinary influence in his party councils, his selection would give the necessary touch of democratic color to the commission. Vice president Dawes and Owen D. Young, the promoters of the Dawes plan, also have been suggested as Possible prominent Amercian dele- gates. Elihu Root, former secretary of State and one of the framers of the world court, would be a logical can- @idate, but, according to his friends, lhe would not care to undertake the work at his advanced age. Borah Appears to be Choice. President Coolidge and Senator Bo- Tah yesterday had a lengthy confer- ence as to the participation of the United States in the league of nations disarmament conference, and at its conclusion Borah declared: “So far as I understand the president's posi- tion, Iam in accord with it.” This was taken to indicate that Bo- rah may be Coolidge’s choice, and shows that the group led by Borah will interpose no objections to an ap- propriation to defray expenses of a delegation to Geneva to attend the Meeting of the preparatory commis- ston which is to map out the agenda of the disarmament conference, He will like it! Give your union brother a sub to The DAILY WORKER. Have a Good Time at This Party. NEW YEAR'S Friday, January 1 Singing; dancing; new year’s cele- bration with a new year’s mid- might dinner. Given by the Rox- bury Jewish Branch at the New In- ternational Hall, E, W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Six Places 118 S. Clark 167 N. State 234 S. Halsted N. Clark 'W. Washington d Bakery BRITISH IMPERIALISTS REJOICE AT U. S. ENTRY TO LEAGUE CONFERENCE (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Dec, 23.—Washington reports that the United States is prepared to accept the league's invi- tation to participate in the disarm- ament discussion at Geneva pro- duced a distinctly favorable impres- sion here today among British im- perialist diplomats. The decision, government officials affirmed, bears out the prevailing belief that President Coolidge is desirous of and willing to co-oper- ate with the leagte despite the sur- face coolness of his recent utter. ances. Such stalling s regarded as te customary in all diplomatic dealings, EMPLOYERS AGOG OVER GREEN AND HIS NEW POLICY Company Unions Have A. F. of L. Worried (Feddrated Press Service) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 23.— More and more attention is directed, in labor and employment circles, to the tenor of the speeches which Wil- liam Green, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, is delivering in rapid succession to employers, management engineers, chambers of commerce and churches. In effect, the new chief of the federation says that all he asks is the recognition of trade unions by the employers as a neccessary, constructive and orderly factor in the development of better business. He denies the class struggle; he deplores the notion that there are classes in this country; he acknowl- edges the “existing social order,” and says that labor “freely concedes to capital the right to own and manage industry:and to the receipt of a fair return upon its investment.” These words sound less aggressive than the slogan of Samuel Gompers— “We set’ no bounds to our desire to improve our condition; we shall seek more and more and more.” But con- ditions have changed, and Green has undertaken to protect an army of already-organized trade unionists by persuading the big employers to drop their company-union schemes, Me is out to persuade public opinion, that labor. unions are not “dangerous.” There. is. wagging of old heads a his optimism over the plan of per suasion,. There is nodding of others less battle-scarred. Still, a precedent is made. Journeymen Tailors of New York in New . Office; Meet Monday NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 23.—The new office of Journeymen Tailors’ Union Local No, 1 is located at 202 East 47th street, and the local asks all tailors to come in and line up with the union. Gus Seakolm is the secretary. The local is busy oiganizing the unorganized so that all may be pro- tected by the collective strength of the union and get improved working conditions, The next regular meeting of the local will be held on Mondey, Dec. 28, at 8 p. m., and will take place at the Bohemian Hall, 321 Hast 78rd street, between First and Second avenues. All tailors welcome. Washington Extends Aid to Agricultural Magnates of South WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—Liberal treatment will be accorded agricul- tural magnates, especially thru the cattle country of the southwest, in liquidation of affairs of the war fin- ance corporation, the treasury an- nounced, In cases where loans made by the corporation cannot be repaid, or re- financed within the prescribed limits, because of unsatisfactory local condi- tions, the remaining balances will be carried for a reasonable length of time, __-Phore West 2549 'APPEAL FOR RELIEF T0 ANTHRACITE Green Asks All Local Unions to Assist (Continued from page 1) generously. In addition, we request that all central bodies appoint com- mittees to devise ways and means by which funds may be sechred. The needs of the anthracite miners are pressing, They must have money now. All.funds contributed will be spent economically and by duly accredited representatives of the United Mine Workers of America in the distribu- tion of relief.” The contributions are to be re- ceived by Frank Morrison, secretary of the federation, at Washington, Progressives First to Urge Relief, For month after month, before Green awoke to the necessity of aid- ing the anthracite strikers, the Pro- gressive Miners’ Committee and the organs of the Workers (Communist) Party were urging all labor unions to give, not merely moral and financial relief, but the direct and material sup- port of strike action to compel the operators, who are trying to crush the miners’ union, to yield to the col- lective power of the working class. Especially did the progressive miners demand, and they still, de- mand, that the strike in the anthra- cite be made complete by a withdraw- al of the 8,000 or 9,000 maintenance men and the closing down of all the washeries. Jailed for Asking Complete Strike, The true nature of the opposition of the United Mine Workers’ officials to all progressive ideas and proposals was so vindictive that high officials aided in the capitalist courts of Scran- ton in testifying against leaders of the Progressive Miners’ Committee, }members of the union, and had the capitalist judge sentence them to jail because the progressives had called for a withdrawal of maintenance men | and closing of the washeries, Particularly did the traitorous dis- trict president, Cappellini, attack the progressives and urge the police to arrest and persecute them when they demanded a complete strike and no arbitration. Locals Demanding Action. But now the anthracite locals are taking up the demands of the Progres- sive Miners’ Committee, At Sdranton n Saturday, the general grievance ommittee of the Hudson coal com- any,.meeting in the Labor, Temple, emapded that the strike be made omplete, the washeries, stripping ind other operations in violation of he agreement be suspended. A hot criticism was made of the policy of the officials, John Boylan of the district executive board was pres- ent and tried to defend the officials’ 1eglect in allowing the washeries and small mines to run. He urged “peace- ful” means, regardless of the thous- ands of hungry children shivering in che icy blasts of mid-winter. The committee also gave a left- handed slap at arbitration by condem- ning the county legislators for, try- ing to bring about a settlement by that method. No “Peace” In War on Children. While Boylan is advocating “peace” the war on the babies and wives of the miners goes on, Thruout the 500 square miles of anthracite mining ter- ritory, the specter of starvation is knocking at hundreds of homes, Families are without food, children are continually crying of hunger, their frail bodies are barely covered with clothing, they lack underwear, stock- ings, shoes and overclothes for the chill of winter weather, 5, Neighborhood groups are trying to take care of the neediest cases. Local union treasuries are exhausted and the international union has heretofore ignored the necessity of relief, Now in the sharpest period of deprivation is the first seeming desire shown to give relief. The spirit of the miners is too Proud to be insistent on their needs, or to make them known. They bear their suffering in silence. Today, the offer of relief to the strikers by vice- president 8. D, Dimmick of the Glen Alden Coal company, was rejected as an insult. The solidarity of labor everywhere is the need of the anthra- cite strikers, The Fourth THE DAILY WORKER Ready Now! Theses---Resolutions Declarations--- Report of the Central Executive Committee to the Convention held in Chicago, Illinois, August 21 to 30, 1925 SHANGHAI COUNCIL AT LAST ADMITS MURDERS AND PAYS UP DAMAGES (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Deo, 23—As the re- sult of a judicial inquiry of the kill- ing of 12 Chinese students and the wounding of 17 others during the antl-Japanese demonstrations here on May 30, the municipal council to- day awarded $75,000 to the families of those killed, Find Vice Lord Guilty. GALESBURG, ML, Dec, 23.—John Looney, Rock Island’g yice lord, was found guilty of the murder of William Gabel, former Rock, Island saloon keeper, by a jury here. Looney was sentenced to fourteen .years in the penitentiary. BiG RAIL MERGER EXPECTED 10 GET GOVERNMENT 0. K Coolidge Approves of Monopoly, Move WASHINGTON, Dee;, 23—Charles C, McCord, a member; of the inter- state commerce commission, confer- red with President Coolidge recently about raflroad consolidation legisla- tion, and informed him that the com- mission expected to be able to render its decision in the Van Sweringen Nickle Plate consolidation by the lat- ter part of next month. President Coolidge is represented as of the opinion that this decision, which will be favorable to the essen- tial consolidation plan of the Van Sweringens, will lead to favorable en- actment of a railroad consolidation bill at this session of congress. The feeling exists here that the in- terstate commerce commission may recommend a number of unessential changes in the consolidation plans made by the Van Sweringens. In the final days of the long hearing before the interstate commerge commission, Newton D. Baker, of, counsel for the Van Sweringens, told the commission that the promoters would accept any proper changes the commission might suggest, Henry Ford Hands Out Chicken Fe¢d Bribes to “Faithful Slaves” DETROIT, Dec., 23.—Slaves of the Ford Motor Co., whé Nave “invested” savings in the company’s certificates, will receive an 8%interest shortly after the first of the;mew year, com- pany officials announced. Demand All Histories Praise Peace Periods — acide PALO ALTO, Cal, Dec. 23.—‘His- tory used to be taught as if human Progress was made,only in war years,” says the W Press com- mittee of Palo Alto... “The new edu- cation teaches that peace periods are the only seasons of progress and that war always interrupts progress. Peace education leads childten to praise the inventor of electric light but not the inventor of poison gas, The California gardener whose name identifies new fruits and new vegetables the world over has done far more for the hu- | " intensifying their drive to pit Negro labor from to the producers — the 95 per cent, That's the rub, hcg honor of America is involved speaketh Major General Wood, former man race than any soldier of entire history.” Prisoners Wanted. the first time in eleven and monfhs, the jail here was empty, ‘COALMINER KORT’ WILL BE SHOWN IN WORKERS’ HOUSE ON SUNDAY NIGHT A performance will be given by the Russian Workérs’ Mutual Ald Society at the Workérs’ House, 1902 W. Division St. of Sunday, Dec. 27, beginning at 6 pi m. Under the direction of Anatol? Pocatilow, the well-known Russian actor, the dram- atic play “Miner Kort” will be given in the Russian latiguage. Tickets are 35 cents, 7 National Convention ivory soap candidate for the presi- dency of the United States, turn for having lost the nomination together with about a million of NOBLESVILLE, Inds, Dec. 23.—For | Colonel Proctor’s greasy dollars the a half |major was sent to rule the Filipinos. Wood is a most moral fellow. He does not mind the Filipinos their heads but he hates duce to see the Filipino maidens los- ing their virtue! (THE story goes that 18,000 children |mothers have accumulated in the is- lands since Admiral blasted decadent Spain out of Manilla harbor. charity who is engaged in the wori of mitigating the evils of capitalisn in the Philippines—in the interest capitalism, ment in good American citizenship cables General Wood, in an endorsi ment of the drive to raise a $2,000,000 fund, part of which may go. to the poor children but the greater part to the charity experts, Paha those who are supporting fund we find the names of: Howard ‘Taft, chief justice of, the United States; former Governor Gen- eral Cameron Forbes; Major General 50 Cents. “i , 4 James G. Harbord; former governor James Hugh L. Seott and Vice Charles G, Dawes, None of tho tlemen suggested that the American government withdraw its army of oc-| 8468ing ‘him. cupation from the Philippines, thus ra the raising of $2,000,000 tor that AT ITALIAN HALL, . Rally for the Agitation Drive to Aid Labor’s War Against the Food Trust By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY. every possible atom of strength of the left wing, the Workers (Communist) Party, the Young Workers (Communist) League and The DAILY WORKER, that can be spared, is being mobilized for an extensive agitation cam- paign in the far-flung meat packing industry employing hun- dreds of thousand of workers,—men, women and youth labor, The bitter exploitation of labor in “the yards” of Chica-” ‘0, Omaha, Kansas City, East St. Louis, St. Paul and other ‘ood producing centers, has written with the blood of the workers many gripping pages in American labor's history. * ° ° * Upton Sinclair wrote his “Jungle” that stirred a nation. Not in its mind, however. The brutalizing conditions imposed upon the slaves of “Packingtown” were forgotton in the nation's terror at the filthy, diseased food that was prepared for it, in Chicago, in the name of profits. It was hit in its stomach. President Roosevelt seized upon the popular clamor against the “‘beef trust” to start an investigation of his own and win some credit and votes for himself. Trust busters galore, in both houses of congress, have launched their attacks against this “food trust,” claiming that they wished to destroy it. ‘ An_ industrial relations commission, under Attorney Frank P. Walsh, appointed by President Wilson, conducted an investigation of “the yards” as part of its examination in- to all industry. It made extensive recommendations to con- gress. But the food monopoly is mightier than ever, It boldly challenges not only the workers of the United States, but of other countries, because the American packing interests con- stitute not a national, but an international trust. FIRST:—The “food trust” grows in power. Control over Armours, Swifts, Morrises, Cudahys and the other plants is being centralized in great banking interests. The food packing industry, in spite of all attacks made upon it by middle class politicians, is a bigger monopoly than ever. The Coolidge regime at Washington has acquiesced in new mer- gers in the industry, like the recent combination of the Ar- mour and Morris interests. The dollars invested in America’s “Packingtowns” are solidly organized. SECOND:—The workers’ organizations on the other hand have almost been exterminated. tions prevail almost everywhere. Onl: boast any organization at all. Powe: the workers, resulting in organizations being established in the past, have been dissipated. The food barons, in warring on the workers, exploit every possible division in labor's ranks,—race, color, religion and nationality. They are now n : the South, and imported Mexican labor against the other workers in the neue. The fight ahead for those who toil is long and hard. It requires courage and militancy, at .* one * The DAILY WORKER will of agitation with every possible energy. workers to the need of organization. The basis must be laid in this agitation campaign for future great organizational struggles. The paoking house workers must be stirred with pew courage and new hope. This fight can be made an issue by the left wing in the whole labor movement. Nuclei of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers (Com- munist) League can be organized now. New readers for The DAILY WORKER, and for the many foreign-language dailies of labor's left wing, can be secured. The agitation drive in the packing industry starts Monday, Jan. 4,. SUPPORT IT! AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1), ul mass movements of It should arouse se 8 in the Philippine islands! Thus|C*!! © Arms.” In the center of it In re- losing like the rail. New York Left Wing of American fathers and Filipino Dewey’s guns American soldiers come and ng Dec. 25 will be celebrated “It wouldbe an inves. treet, derful evening’ th al for tl Pgs or the $2,000,000 Bolshevik Jazz Band composed first cl musicians from Broadwa: leading theater: William Bandits Get $30,000 Jewels, F. Smith; Major General President gen- bandits _—_ Tf you want to thoroughl: derstand Comaitiniam=-4tudy ecific purpose unnecegsary, ‘ “Open shop” condi«; a few, isolated plants push the planned comntitt 1 Railroad Company Has Posters Urging Fight on Use of Motor Trucks DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 23.—In the Omaha railroad freight shed a Poster hung up by the company reads, “A @ picture of two men loading boxes on to a truck. The railroad slave is directed to look at the picture and meditate. The poster tells of thous- ands of railroad men being laid off because freight is being hauled by motor truck. Various losses on dif- ferent roads are cited, Truck coth- petition isn’t fair it says, and then tells the amount of taxes the rail- roads pay. Employes of the company are advised to go to their grocer and demand that he ship his supplies by Holding Big Dance Red hristmas by the left wingers and mi- ‘tants of this city at the dance tobe ‘eld at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 BE. 4th On Red Christmas night the 4yceum will be jammed to capacity with those who during the year have been fighting to make the labor move- ment a real instrument for the pro- tection of the working class, A won- entertainment will be furnished by the famous Broadway Admission is 50c, NEW YORK, Dec, 23,—Three armed caped with $30,000 in jewels after beating up the proprietor of a Jewelry store in Brooklyn, binding and WORKERS THE WORLD TRADE UNION MOVEMENT. By A, Losovsky. 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