The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 2, 1926, Page 1

one all ~~ a, - a ened The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Yo, 9 a bial Ph no #6 nail, $8.00 per yeer. » by mail, $6.00 per year. BOSSES’ COURTS » SAL LLG. W.U. STRIKE PICKETS Uphold Ruling of In- junction Judge Sullivan The sentences imposed on the eighty-seven garment workers, arrest- ed for picketing in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ strike in the Market St. district In 1923 by Superior “Injunction” Judge Denis E. Sullivan and Charles M. Foell and Circuit Court Judgé Ira Ryner were upheld by the appelate court. Mostly Mothers. Highty women, most of them mothers, will have to serve from five to forty days for picketing the struck ‘shops in the Market street district in violation of the ukase handed out by Chicago’s injunction judges. The wo- men will be forced to start serving thelr sentences in the next two weeks. Seven men, who alded the striking girl pickets, will also have to serve the sentences imposed on them. During the appeal it was brought out that copies of the injunction were not placed in the hands of the pickets that were on the line and that on this ground the cases should be thrown out. The court ruled that the judge before whom a contempt of court charge is raised has wide discretion- | ary powers in the matter of disposi- tion of the cases and that there should not be any interference with his powers. Left Wing Active. During this strike all attempts were made by the left wing in the needle trades to have the entire Chicago Fed- eration of Labor throw its support be- hind the girl pickets, who were club- bed by drunken policemen. During this strike three of The DAILY WORKER reporters were arrested for trying to collect news of the strike on the picket line and for taking down the numbers of the policeman who were clubbing the pickets. Attempts were also made to get Oscal Nelson, a member of the city council, to force an investigation real the police brutality. Attempts were | made to get Fitzpatrick and Nockels | om to the picket line and to organize mass demonstrations against the in- junction and in this way nullify once and for all the injunction law, Due to the failure, however, of the heads of the Chicago Federation of Labor to back the striking garment workers to the limit, the strike was lost and today these pickets, most of them married women, with children to take care or, must go to jail for 4rom five to forty days. | conditions to have improved consider- THE U. S. IN ITS THE WORLD ECONOMIC SITUATION The proper understanding of the economy of capitalism, both in its general aspects and in its form at ment of those who claim to lead the italism. It is not enough to stop at of capitalist economy, to understand merely that capitalism, like other systems preceding it, is doomed to alize, in fact it is dangerous to proceed into a conflict with the forces of capitalism in any field, without based upon a minute examination of the relation of forces at the time of conflict and a concrete analysis o: of the present economic situation of capitalism in the United States, we give below as written by Eugen of the Communist International: +e Whilst the states of Europe are all passing thru some special crisis of their own, the United States continues to differ from all these European struggles in that they are enjoying a continuance of prosperity. America is the sole country with a superfluity of capital, the sole country whose pro- duction has a rapid upward tendency, both in general and during the period of this report in particular. The depression observable in Amer- jica in the spring appeats to have dis- appeared once more before the ap- proach of a renewed boom. The up- ward tendency is however, not yet clearly defined, as will be seen from the following figures, giving a survey of ci a beet FA 2ng% ig z 33E7 45S 339 S323 Sa > August, 1924 + 94 January, 1925 127 March, 1925 120 June, 1925 ...... wovere 110 Fle, 1b iienescciets.. 198! August, 1925 . 109. The degree of ccapscppaatannte by+ 1 per cent in July, and rose again in| August. On the other hand, produc- tion increased by 3 per cent in July, to sink again by 4 per cent in August. No comprehensive data are obtain- able for the last few months, but the newspaper reports show sconomic ably. The Iron Age reports the steel trust to be working once more at 80) per cent of its capacity, some depart- ments (fine plate rolling mills) eyen up to 90 per cent. Despite the fall- ing off, the level of production was substantially higher in August than last year. Altho the opinions Sievied on Amer- ica’s economic conditions are ex- (Continued on page 6) economic conditions on the whole: , RELATION WITH any given time, is the first require- struggle for the overthrowal of cap- the knowledge of the general trend perish. It is not enough to-gener- | the general plan of campaign being f capitalist economy. Such analysis Varga, the leading economic expert Build Dirigible for North Pole Flight (Special to The Dally Worker) STUTTGART, Germany; Dec, 30.— Dr. Hugo Eckener,’ who piloted the dirigible Los Angeles formerly the | Z-R 3, to the United States, announced that work had ‘begun on the dirigible which will make a polar flight next year. The Zeppelin factory has al- ready started the construction of ‘ik gondolas and engines, he said. The Norwegian explorer Amundser has been mentioned as a possible leader of the Eckner expedition to the North Pole. 4 3 BE 38 EFx z Eye 3 Be es '8a Bx Sep 3 H . Bag ie k a3 89.5 : 95.0 896 96.4 981 94.2 991 93.1 1030 © 93.6 1124 RENEGADE KILLS ENRIQUE MULLER, ARGENTINE REBEL Communist Youth Head Shot at Congress (Special to Tne Dally Worker) KRUENOS AIRES, Dec, 30—Enrique Muller, Secretary of the Communist Youth Federation of Argentine was fatally shot from the spectators’ gal-| \ NUMBER OF GERMANY’S JOBLESS if NEARLY DOUBLES IN TWO WEEKS: ] oe BERLIN, Dec. 30.—The present economic conditions in Germany which reveal the growing failure of the Dawes plan and indicate a trend of events which if continued may well lead to a new 'wave of revolutionary class , Struggle, is shown in the astounding growth of unemployment as reported ) by the government. December 15, so rapid has been the On December 1 the number of unemployed which are registered and to whom doles of relief a given, stood at 672,000, while on decline in productive activity, “the registered unemployed numbered by the. governmnt had risen to 1,087/000. Nor is there any prophesy given of a betterment, * PACKING HOUSE WORKER, FOUR MORE DAYS TO SEND IN YOUR } STORY 10 THE DAILY WORKER! . Packing house worker, do you realize that there are but four days more re The DAILY WORKER special articles on the meat packing, industry will appear? Have you sent in YOUR story to The DAILY WORKER yet? Have you answered the questions? The DAILY WORKER wants a story on the conditions that the worke there is a meat-packing plant. under which you must work. Get your must work under in every city or town where Send in your story telling of the condition» wife to send in her story telling what she thinks of the conditions in the “yards” and whether she finds it hard to make both ends meet nowada: shorter. Get that story in! tributed in front of your plant. Remember, the time grows shorter and Then make arran, ments to have @ bundle dis- t lery at,a preliminary session of the | seventh congress of the Communist Parcy of Argentine. The shooting hap- | pened during a violent fight on cre- dentials in which Muller’s opposition delegate from Mendoza was expelled. Arrest Delegates. About two hundred delegates and visitors were taken into custody by the police. Later all were released ex- cept Modesto Fernandez, who is sus- pected of the shooting. His revolver with two empty cartridges was found. Fernandez was formerly a member of the Communist Party but was expell- ed. He entered the convention as a spectator on his old membership card. About 2500 attended Muller's tune- ral yesterday. Muller's father was one of the founders of the socialist SATURDAY, LEWIS WEAKENS DE VARGA EXAMINES CAPITALISM IN jcan be turned into:money is stolen the FRENCH-SPANIS ARMIES MURDER RIFF TRIBESMEN Participant — ‘Tells. of Br By ARMINIUS’G. J. FARIES. (Special to ThteDally Worker) The strategy used by the Spanish and French genéral staffs, which 1 witnessed while ‘ing on the side of the Riffians in to campus, con- sists in advancii a concentra- tion camp and taking advantageous positions about spme village whose submission they seek. The fight beging with an advance. The French and Spanish armies use all the artillery, a¢roplanes and tanks” available. All that the tribesmen had was rifles. The attacked village is re- duced quickly to ruins. The aeroplanes @fe used to strike terror into the hearts of the tribes- men—which they fail to do—and to} butcher as many a§ possible—this | they accomplish. Most of the victims of the air raids are non-combatants. The tribesmen love their homes and the families cling to them to the very last. They refuse'to leave them, tho shrapnel, bombs and buliets strike all around the huts. gallant tribes- men fight despei to save their homes and hold Baek the invaders. When the families flee from their homes, airplanes je them, drop- ping bombs on They are shot at from the gr by the artillery and the machine) @uns. No distinc- tions are made een combatants and non-combat: Many of the . are killed as Many more are Those killed byairplanes are blown piecemeal into thevair. I have seen cases where one ould not tell a hu- man being had stood there a few mo- ments before thecbomb was dropped. The 'wheat-fields,zwhich cost the tribesmen long days of persistent toil are either reduced to ashes or the cav- alry and artillery: horses are turned loose to graze in them. Anything that moment they lay their eyes on an ar- ticle of value. The French take+the prisoners and beat them with sticks. They also cut the throats of many of the prisoners in order to .orce obedience to the sul- tan at Fez, who is the puppet of French imperialism. The Spanish take the prisoners, tie their hands behind their back and keep them in dark stuffy rooms for many days at a time. If the prisoner is a man of influence in the village and he refuses to submit to the imper- ialist soldiery, he is shot. The Spanish commanders have a motto that says; “El mejor Moro es el Moro muerto,” which translated | means: “The best Moor is the dead Moor,” The soldiers sent:here commit all kinds of barbarities=from unrestrict- ed plunder to raping the young girls. All this is done to force these freedom loving people to submit to the will of the imperialist masters, California Mountains party in Argentine and in 1918 one of the organizers of the Communist Party. 4 Congress Finishes Busin After the funeral, the congre: sions were resumed. The same cen- tral executive committee was elected and the party program was unani- mously adopted. The congress was adjourned this morning. The congress of the Communist youth begins to- night, Abandon Flight to Argentine, ROME, Dec. 30—Count Casagrandes, who has been held up at Casablancas for many weeks awaiting a favorable opportunity to continue his proposed flight to Buenos Aires, may have to abandon the attempt until spring, ac- cording to reports received here from Casablancas, as his aeroplane has been seriously damaged by storms, Move 20 Feet in Past 50 Years, Says Savant KANSAS CITY/‘Mo., Dec. 30. Mountains in the Sierra Nevada range in California movesabout. Not much, but nevertheless perceptible changes have been recorded.! “Some of the mountains in the Santa Ynez range. in southern Cal- ifornia, have moved) northward more than twenty feet inithe last 50 years,” said James B, McElwaine, professor of geophysics at St. Louls University, who read a. paper to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Watch the Saturday’ Magazine Section for new features every week, This is a good tasue to give to your fellow worker. TONIGHT! New Year's. Eve Bal Music iM pabinnper Union PIE ie Refreshments Senys d All Night. UARY 2, 1926 =>” Published Daily except Sunda: PUBLISHING CO., 1112 W. ELECTIONS IN THE MACHINISTS’ UNION AND THE FUTURE TASKS OF THE RANK AND FILE LEFT WING By M. H. The district elections of the Chicago district of the International Associa- tion of Machinists took place on Dec. 6. Two distinct groups come before the membership to ask for the indorse- ment of their candidates. as follows: Progressives vs. Johnston, The progressive group had as its backbone the most militant and ac- tive group of machinists, whom John- ston is so anxious to drive from the union, because he knows that this is the only group that has a definite pro- gram of militant activity in opposition to his class-collaboration schemes. This’ group united with the most ac- tive part of the Anderson following and had the support of the mass of rank and filers, who being disgusted with the inactivity of the district. in the last few years, are ready to place the leadership in the hands of any group in opposition to those who have proved their utter incapability and un-{ willingness to do any organization work during the years \yat they have been in office. The reactionary group had as its center the Johnston machine who suc- jceeded in winning over into their ,camp for the district campaign a group of former Anderson ‘supporters made up mainly of elements which were carried into the struggle against Johnston when the revolt was at its height and now when the conflict has (Continued on page 4.) The composition of the groups ean be analyzed PP eae ate ee in | EVERY LEFT WINGER OUT 10 THE NEW YEAR’S EVE BALL! When the Italian Hall, 643 North Clark street, opens up on Thursday night, many well-known militant trades unionists will be seen enter- ing the hall. | There will be garment trades mili- tants, who bearded Morris Sigman of the International Ladies’ Gar- | meht Workers, then there will be | | | Amalgamated members, who have | given Sam Levin many a sleepless night, and then will come many other workers from various trades all determined to see that the New Year is met in a militant manner. They will all come determined to aid the left-wing papers carry on a real fight in the new year. Every worker should come to the Fourth | Annual Trade Union Educational | League Ball! It will start on New | Years’ Eve and end up at 2 In the morning New Years Day. CHARITY HANDS OUT FREE MEAL TO UNEMPLOYED ‘Gives Bole to: Exploited " Workers x (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 30—The crying and wailing from 80,000 -hungry~and cold human s in the greatest’ city in the world which also boasts of being the richest was drowned for several days this week by the bragging howl- ers who let the world know that char- ity has turned from the bitterness of gall to the sweetness of honey as one meal was provided for the poor whom capitalism has robbed by the same gang that sings its own praises dur- ing the holiday season. The admission that there are over 80,000 people who are so poor that they have to be thrown out on the sidewalk because they cannot pay their rent and are so hungry they will accept the hypocritical hand of putrid charity does not seem to impress the brainy preachers and editors who spout about the “unprecedented pros- perity” that has gripped the country. One meal—it is something to brag about. But 80,000 mouths need three meals a day as a rule. In a year each mouth needs somewhere about 1,095 meals. The 80,000 need about 87,600,000 square meals each year. Our charity hypocrites seem to run short about 87,520,000 meals in the little period between one Christmas and the other. This should loom up as quite a startling news item, but it is crowded out by the flat platitude that 80,000 were fed once. Cold Damages Wheat. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Dec, 30—With temperatures of zero or below, it is probable that there has been some damage done’ to wheat, according to the weekly report of the U. S, weather bureau here, ‘WHO SAYS IDLE RICH ARE NOT STRICKEN BY OCCUPATIONAL AILMENTS? LONDON, Dec, 30.—"“Bridge eye” threatens to become epidemic in London, according to occulists, The new malady comes from too much playing of bridge and causes the sufferer to be unable to distinguish cards clearly, Women are seeking to relieve the ailment by wearing? special glasses. Given by the Trade Union Educational League G. 0, P. FEARING BOLT; WILL NOT USE ‘GAG’ RULE Will Filibuster World . Court Thru (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Fearing a bolt in their ranks on the world court issue, thé administration leaders in the senate have abandoned their form- er plan of invoking the cloture—gag— rule and then jamming the world court thru. Now they have decided on a long filfbuster in an attempt to tire out the members of the congress and then pass the world court thru. Administration Weak. Tho the administration forces claim they have enough signatures to a pe- tition to. enforce the. cloture rule, great doubt is expressed if they will be able to muster the necessary two- thirds vote. Senator Borah is leading the oppo- sition to the world court and claims that the fight on the world court has not yet really begun in earnest and that the democrat and republican party members opposed to the court were preparing speeches for the fortn- coming sessions. Plan Eight-Hour Day. Instead of congress opening in the afternoon, plans are being made to have the sessions open at 10 in the morning and have them last at least eight-hours per day until the measure is put thru. Milllonaire’s Frantic Appeal, Igage:Guggenheim, millionaire’ cop- per magnate, has been sending frantic appeals to. members of the~senate stating: “Please do not favor, approve or sanction a world court.” English Financier Finds Rum-Running to America Poor Pay LONDON, Déc. 30.—Sir Broderick Hartwell, admittedly a heavy loser on rumtTinning ventures to the United States, was formally declared a bank- rupt, after an inquiry by the bank- ruptey court. Sir, Broderick’s difficulties it was stated were due to the activities of the American anti-rum fleet and the failure of American bootleggers to pay | their bills. ty, nancies Steamer Driven Ashore, LONDON, Dec. 30.—The Belgian | steamer Comtesse de Flanders has | been driven ashore at Eastbourne. | The crew has been taken off with great difficulty. by THE DAILY WORKER ‘asbington Bivd., Chicago, LL | | strike, NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents NDS OF THE MINERS HOLDING OUT NOW CHIEFLY ON THE CHECK-OFF \Ignores Demands Made by the Union (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Dec, 30—The negotiations between the United Mine Workers and the anthracite operators for settlement of the long strike were resumed Wednesday at the Union League Club with the latest proposal considered being the one submitted by Alvin Markle, the “impartial chair man.” Under this plan, which has such anti-labor features that any accept+ ance is sure to result in an uproar of the rank and file of the union, the key is arbitration all along the line and a complete surrender of the right te strike, “No Strike” Plan. Strikes and lock-outs are barred for ten years upon a ten-year contract— ten years! Under it wages would be the same as when the miners went on strike until next September, After that, the scale would be changed—not necessarily upward, and probably downward—by a board of three union representatives, three from the oper- ators and three from that mythical throng “the public.” These “public” representatives would be appointed by Calvin Coolidge. The “public” would have no vote until sixty days after the miners’ and ops.ators failed to agree. Then the vote of the entire committee would be final, no appeal and no strike. The operators are insisting on arbi- tration as the key question and the mine union leaders are concerned chiefly with getting the check-off, be- ing willing to sign a contract for any length of time if they get the check. off, regardless of any other provisions, although they are formally opposing the arbitration idea. The tri-district demands are forgotten, or better to say—ignored. Bargaining Begins. When the session was resumed this morning, after a night session lasting until the early hours, many ventured to say that a basis for bargaining hed been established. William Green, president of the Am- erican Federation of Labor is coming to New York, supposedly for a speak- ing engagement. Lewis would not say whether or not he would confer with Green on the settlement, Meanwhile, the department of com merce at Washington issues the aston- ishing news that the exports of an- thracite did not cease during the altho there was very, little compared to one year ago at the same time. During November this year 31,246 tons of anthracite was sent abroad, against 282,217 tons in Noy. 1924, However, if the howls raised about the “suffering public” have any- thing to them, it is a proper question to ask why the government allowed any export of anthracite coal at all during the strike. REPORT BULGAR WHITE TERROR GIVES AMNESTY PARIS, Dec. 30.—Reports from i i fran Own ee garia that a general amnesty passed” - by the national assembly for crimes committed in the last three years are taken with some suspicion by wise po- litical observers. ‘The Bulgarian goy- ernment is accustémed, even more than other capitalist governments, to the baldest falsehoods. The terrible white terror which has reigned unceasingly in Bulgaria, par- ticularly following the Sofia cathe- dral explosion, unquestionably gave a reputation to Bulgaria which it would now like to erase as the effect on Bul garian government bonds was unfa- vorable. But as to whether the “three thousand Communists” whieh the report says are released by the | amnesty are really released or ‘not, only further details can confirm when stated by other sources, ‘Admission 75c. Wardrobe free. Peony Open at 7: 30—Open Until 2 A. M. Seer