The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1926, Page 2

rh caret tne =) Page Two i OPERATORS TO SERVE U. M. W. AN ULTIMATUM Large Group Meets to Bring Pressure (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 5.—The an- thracite coal cperators are leaving nothing to the imagination as to what they want, They have maneuvered the conference at their own choice of lecation—in the Union League Club, far from the masses of miners starving In the Pennsylvania hills— and now have practically laid down an ultimatum to the union. At least they are preparing to do so. Press For Surrender, “This move was taken when the en- tire anthracite operators’ conference committee, thirty-one members in all, with Sa el D. Warriner presiding, suddenly sembling in New York and approving the defiant course tak- en up to date by their negotiating committee of six, who have been try- ing to force a surrender upon the 158,000 stri Following the meeting of the thirty- one barons, Major W. W. Inglis made atement which shows that the op- when they go into the con- ference supposed to resume late to- day, will not budge an inch in their demands for a complete surrender by the union. Call For Showdown. It is intimated that the operators will make one definite proposal to the strikers’ representatives, and call for a showdown. Three preachers from Scranton this morning tried to use the suffering of the ers’ families as an argu- ment for ttling the strike’—with- out regard to demands. They inter- viewed John L. Lewis, and stated that tha Community Welfare Associa- tion has given $23,000 so far, but if the strike was not called off relief measures would be “absolutely at an end.” Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker. RED STARS By Wm. F. Kruse. A new film in Russia to mark the progress of “movies” im the world’s first workers’ government— @ vivid acoount with photo- graphs—in the January Issue of the WORKERS MONTHLY 25c a copy. JUST OUT! Alcatraz Officials Bar Radical Papers from Paul Crouch (i. L, D. News Service) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 5 — The officials of the United States dis- ciplinary barracks at Alcatraz, Calif. are persecuting Paul Crouch, accord- ing to reliable evidence in the hands of our correspondent, Crouch is not permitted to receive any radical papers “I can make this place hell for you” sald Colonel Mor- row to Crouch recently and he evi- dently is trying to make good his threat. It is reported on good authority that the authorities offered Crouch liberty on condition that he would betray the cause of the workers and join the forces of the capitalist government, A guard is detailed to watch Crouch polish brass in the cell tho it shines like a mirror. For writing a letter to his lawyer he was punished with the loss of three entertainments, Report New Mexican Revolt Prevented by Sudden Mass Arrests (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Jan. 5.—Dispatches from Aguascalientes say that plan for revolt against the Calles government was nipped in the bud by goveryment agents mixing with Huertistas who were plotting against the government at San Antonio, While Senor Estrada and Guadalupe are named as among the plotters, the claims for uncovering plots and pull- ing the hero of the hour stuff is as much and as Httle to be believed in Mexico as in the United States, : told by seeret service agents. More than 100 are said to be arrested, A Good Time for All at L. A. Vetcherinka Saturday, Jan. 16 LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 5 — A Vetcherinka, which translated into English means a corking good time, music, dancing and plenty of refrest ments, will be held on Saturday evan ing, Jan. 16th in the Cooperative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Ave., under the auspices of the Needle Trades ser:tior of the T. U. E. L. Admission is 35 cents which include the refreswments Henry Ford Purchases Big Tract of Land in Hammond, Ind., Regior HAMMOND, ne nk 5.—The Fore Motor company purchased 1,400 acre: of land near heré to be used for a huge warehouse sité and flying field. The land includes 1,000 acres in In- diana and- 400 in Mlinois. The report- ed purchase price is $700,000. Explosion Kills Young Worker, PANA, Ill, Jan, 5—Eddie Dumpb- rey, 19, was killed here when a barrel of tar which he was thawing out ex- ploded, hurling him into the air and depositing him face downward upon iron braces supporting a kettle. One of the prongs of a brace penetrated his brain thru the skull. You bring the leaders of the world Communist movement to your shop to make your arguments for your—when you bring theip articles in The DAILY WORKER to your shop. g RESOLUTIONS—T August 21 to 30, 1925, | The letter on reorganiza' national; t., etc. By c. E. stages’ it went through, a within the party on the tion, etc., ete... DAILY WORKER Form An Arsenal of Facts About the American Communist Movement The Fourth National Convention. - Constitution of the Workers (Communist) Party Adopted at the 4th National Convention, held in Chicago, IL, Party Organization, | Introduction by JAY LOVESTONE, the reorganization plan on shop nuclei basis; y's constitution, properly indexed; organizational charts, From the 3rd Through the 4th Convention. A review of the developments of the party, the different Loreism, cable from the C = loW ALL THREE Nog eS For 50 Cents 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. HESES—DECLARATIONS seeegennnersnnncersnes DOC tion from the Communist Inter- the srvsarsonnneee LBC RUTHENBERG. brief history of the controversies Labor Party policy; Trotskyism, Somintern to the National Conven- ww lO PUBLISHING CO. NO WORK DONE IN EDISON CO. STRUCK PLANT Few Scabs, Many Cops, But No Production By A Workar Correspondent The strike of the sheet metal work- ers and electr/eal workers at the 19th street and 54nd avenue plant of the Edison Elgetric Appliance company continues ‘with all work paralyzed in spite of a few incompetent scabs put- tering around pretending to do some- thing. The strikers’ demands are for increased pay and recognition of the union, Boss Gets Into Overalis, How hard up the company is for workers may be seen by the getting into overalls of the boss, who for fifteen years was a very high class boss. Now this boss, A, Bussman, has had to go to work, tho what he or the others do is not visible. But it shows that the firm is short of good mechanics, The firm has a few debilitated scabs. among them some of the rats who were union men before the strike Such an animal is Louis Olson, who was the first to sign up in the union, but—after being out of town for a couple of weeks, comes back and goes to scabbing. Not only does he ply he filthy tyade of scab, but he hauls other scabs home in his own car with police esgort. Barney the Simp. Another character is Barney Mit- chell, alias Michalski, whom DAILY WORKER readers heard of before as a pY¥in scab and a good customer of the Cicero bootleggers. Barney is the asgistant foreman, tho a poor simp ‘hom even his boss sneer at as a ‘simp. When a striker’s brother refused to shake hands with him, Barney burst into a sort of home-brew weeping. Bill Krause, alias Krasauski, who joined the Blectrical Workers’ Union and even agitated to get others to join, somehow lost all interest when he ‘other men struck. Now he is a fe hundred per cent scab. Plenty of Cops and Dicks, The cost production clerk, whose ame is: Hendricks, thinks it is a part his job to carry scabs in his car, ho what he has to gain by it is hard o say. The collection of official and unoffi- al rats still hang around, with thir- een deputies loafing about drawing vay, with nothing to do but snoop around occasionally to seek “plots.” Monday a big reinforcement of police appeared so that each scab had more than plenty company. But No Work is Done. But with all this display of force, production is paralyzed. No new work is being put out, everything is at a standstill. The bosses are going to the strikers’ homes, trying to get them to go back one by one, even offering higher pay. But the strikers stick solidly together, now after a fairly long time on strike, just the same as on the first day, all determined to go back together or not at all, all for one and one for all, A comical aspect of the strike is given by one fellow, who was fired from the plant for being drunk. He got six months in the workhouse for drunkness on top of that. But when he got out, the company hires him as an “expert mechanic.” He is very expert with a corkscrew, which about fits his character, as a more scabby scab could scarcely be imagined, who scabs for the firm who fired him. But all work is tied up, and as long as that condition goes on, the Sheet Metal Morkers’ Local 115 and Electric- al Workers’ Local 713, who are con ducting the strike, have no worry about the outcome, HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! Sheriff Held to Grand Jury for Aiding Local Peddler of Bum Hootch CHESTER, Ill, Jan, 5 — On the testimony of two men in a justice court here, J, W. Herne, former sheriff of Randolph county, today was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of conspiracy to protect a bootlegger. His bond was fixed at $2,000, Herne resigned from office several days ago when the charges were first made. Tonight “Herodiade” will be sung for the last time this season at the Chicago Civic Opera at the Auditor- jum Theater. The cast for this pond- erous and spectacular opera will in- clude Mason, Van Gordon, Ansseau and Bonelli, Conductor Grovles, A THE DAILY WORKER Indiana Tropps Ready to Crush Miners Who Object to Scab Mines (Special to The Dally Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan, 5 —Ad jutant General W, H. Kershner said today that after conferring with Goy, Jackson he did not believe the situa- tion in Southern Indiana coal mine districts warrant sending of troops there to maintain order, “There seems to be no cause for apprehension and we will not send troops there yinless there is a material change in the present situation,” Kershner said. Union miners are re- ported as threating to march en masse to the non-union pits and force them to suspend. , TENN. COURT - GETS SCOPES FINAL BRIEF “Constitutions” the De- fense Basis a (Special to The Daily Worker) NASHVILLE, Teénnh., Jan, 5—The attorneys for Joh Thomas Scopes, the defendant in the so-called “mon- key trial” at Dayton, Tenne: ) last summer, when Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan clashed over the subject of god versus evolution, have filed final argument with the supreme court, summing up their arguments and pleading the un- constitutionality of the state law, which they claim is provocative of bigotry and religious intolerance, Cite U. S. Constitution. The brief claims that the four- teenth amendment to the United States constitution is’ violated by the law in that it denies due process and equal protection of the laws. In ad- dition the law is claimed to be in violation of the Tennessee constitu- tion providing for Teligious freedom and the cherishing of literature and science, “Legislatures canpot lay down rules and conclusions in the realms of sci ence and religion,” the brief states “Legislatures were created to formu late rules of condu¢t’ The framers of the constitution had a very nar row ling within whith the rules o: condast could be drawn. That linc a8 never been dr; to include th: right to assign a rule bind tases sciences or the minds of the people,’ * Things May ‘Change. “These men,” says the brief in ref. erence to the state degislators who Passed the law barring teaching of evolution in the schools, “have seem- ingly forgotten that!a majority of today may be a minority of tomorrow and that a slight step taken by them to promote some religious doctrine by preventing the teaching of a sci- entific theory may temorrow be used against them, by those who wish to promulgate an entirely different and more overwhelming faith,” The defense holds, that the preten- sions of the prosecution that there was no religious question involved, is false, as the statute actually does give a preference to the “religious establishments of those particular Protestant sects which believe in the literal acceptance of the story of creation in the bible.” Smothering Education. “Gradually, thru the elimination of the teaching of anything contrary to the views of particular sects, as learn- ing in science becomes subject to the test of church doctrine, our public education would bécome a fraud, We shall have a country where the dominant sect holding a temporary majority in each state or in each gec- tion will demand that nothing con- trary to its doctring.be taught in the public schools. “Thus we would,. by elimination, color or void education on other sub- jects. The curriculim would be dic- tated by religious opinion, Religious freedom and tolerance would disap- pear, “We do not chai@nge the right of the legislature to gentrol the public Schols, to fix the curriculum, to for- bid the teaching af biology or any- thing else. Wesido contend, of course, that if biology is to be taught, no legislature hassthe right to com- pel the teaching offalse biology. “We challenge the right of any legislative body imrAmerica to recog: nize by law, the dogma of any relig- fous sect as the m@asurement of what shall be taught the children of our country,” When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor. row—show them what the DALLY WORKER says about it, PLAY BY“ MICHAEL will be presented by the Cer ee IN NEW YORK! Money! Money! EN I RO ee EA xh A a Ris rec ile Ironwood Mich,, S, Jelacich. 2,00 |the succession to the throne and ac- Waukegan, Ill, W, P, 2,00 cePted also King Ferdinand’y “recom- Neffs, O., W. P. . 5.00 | Mendation” that Carol's son, Prince I. Blasko, Klein, Mont, 30.00 | Michael, four years old, be the heir Lock No, 3, Pa., N. Cheran 1.00 { 9>parent. McKeesport, Pa., W. P, 7.00| In event of Ferdinand’s death before I. Ivcee, McKeesport, Pa, 2.50 | Michael is 18, the throne will be held J. Ivansevich, Chicago 2.00|>¥ @ regency of three, including the Ely and Chisholm, Minn 46.40| King’s second son, Prince Nicolas, Mer, Miron Cristea, patriarch of the Total today. $ 141.19|Roumanian orthodox church, and Previously report 32,514.76 | Grifore Buzdugan, president of. the supreme court. Grand total 32,656.86 | Scandal still is flying about Europe —— over why Carol renounced the throne, To Sell Army Land, red-haired ladies who share his suite WASHINGTON; Jan, 5,—Forty-four | ‘llvide the honors with air-craft graft army ‘tracts, scattered across the| 2d fascist plots as items of inte country, would be sold at public auction under terms of a bill passed by the senate, The measure provided that states, counties and municipalities can have options on the properties for six ntonths after enactment of the law. it @ book on Communism! WORKERS’ DRAMATIC LEAGUE Build Opposition to the World Court and League|| HEAD ON TRIAL on Working Class Basis PRESENTS ALIBI HONOR ROLL. Honor Roll ........ C. Warner, Bloomville, Wi: I. Lonkin, Chicago Finnish Br., W. P., Temple Me.. A. Sompolnisky, Chicago Finnish Br., W, P., Monessen, Pa, S. Kellar, Detroit, Shadyside, 0., W. P. . South Slavic Branches GOLD By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. “PQPAY, a harvest of chaos is being reaped in the ranks of organized labor as a result of the pro-world court and pro-league of nations’ seeds planted by Sam Gompers during his regime at the head of the American Federation of Labor. Gompers supported the court and the league. The adminis- tration of President William Green continues to do so. But over the nation other officials of labor, and senators and congressmen elected with the votes of workers and farmers now rapidly drifting toward independent political action, are coming out agalnst, the court and the league. In Illinois the organized workers have been placed on record by their officials as supporting the candidacy of Colo~ nel Frank L. Smith, candidate for the nomination for United States senator against the present incumbent, Senator Wil- liam B. McKinley. Frank Farrington, the anti-progressive head of the Illinois Mine Workers’ Union, is out for “the colo- nel,” who is already waging an extensive campaign on an anti-world court and anti-league platform. The Illinois Fed- eration of Labor, headed by John H, Walker, supporter of Farrington, has taken a similar stand, Both Walker and Farrington were present at the last annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, when support of the league and the court was voted. They did not raise their voices against this decision, that enlists the A. F. of L. as an adjunct of Wall Street imperialism, But when they returned to Illinois they immediately developed olitical policies of their own, to fit their opportunist tactics. he Green regime may trail with Wall Street, while Farring- ton-Walker rule over labor in Illinois accepts the political leadership of the puppets of the mid-west industrialists, who are no less the enemies of the workers. * * * * Similarly, in Minnesota, the farmer-labor senator, Hen- drik Shipstead, who was elected with the support of the Min- nesota branch of the A. F. of L., denounces the world court as “a war-bred institution, conceived by scheming statesmen to protect the vast booty gained by European nations from the world war.” He does not want the United States to enter the world court and the league because it would pledge we salad to aid European nations retain their war plunder. ta Shipstead does not believe’ there are classes under the present social system. He knows that Minnesota politics, at the present time, is dominated by industrialists and rich farmers instinctively and materially opposed to Wall Street's imperialist ambitions. Shipstead does not want “the United Stat in the court or the league. He does not Oppose it from the viewpoint of class conscious workers and farmers struggling to establish their own power, * a * e Yet it is only when the working class approaches the question of the court and the league from the class view- point that it is able to formulate a constructive class program and organize for a united class struggle in behalf og its own interests. The court and the league are the instruments of | the great predatory nations, of which the United. States is the richest and the most powerful at the present time. Entry of this country into these organizations for insuring capital- ist plunder marks the victory of American finance capital over industrial capital in dictating the policies of the United States government, e . ° e It is, therefore, not sufficient for some sections of the working class to adopt a nonpartisan attitude in opposition to the league-court twins spawned by the imperialist Ver- sailles peace. The opposition must be built on a firm class basis; for effective international struggle of all workers against the imperialist bandits of this and all other nations. GREAT FUSS AT BUCHAREST OVER OF WORKERS AIDING PRESS Named Heir Apparent BUCHAREST, Roumania, Jan, 5 — The national assembly yesterday ac- cepted Prince Carol's renunciation of It is known that Carol was bitterly intimacy with Queen Marie kept Carol from becoming any figure of power, ———$—— Are you going to give? Make| DAILY WORKER, convince him. Money! DYNASTIC ROW "| Four Year Old Boy Is opposed to Premier Bratiano, whose After that talk with your shop- mate—hand him a copy of The It will help TAMMANY. HALL, 14th Street, near 3rd Avenue. Dancing After the Play. Thompson Says It Was Sociological Probe BULLETIN. LONDON, Jan, 5.—-8ir Baall Thome son's array of friends did not save him from convietion here in police court, After reducing the original charge from assault against @ woman free him from the lesser charge. He was convicted today and will be sen- tenced tomorrow. ss (Speolal to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Jan, 5--Sin Basil Thomp- son, former head of Scotland Yeard, recently arrested for. an ult upon a girl in Hyde Park had a hearing in Marlborough police court yesterday and endeavored to prove that he wae merely conducting a “sociological in- vestigation.” Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, one of the noted barristers of England,-rep- resented the sleuth and in his open- ing statement said that Sir Basil was gatheroing material for a newspaper article and nothing more, The whole session of the court was a brazen at- tempt to whitewash Thompson and thereby save the reputation of this spy and the nabobs with whom he associates, : Dispose of the Girl, The girl has already been eliminat- ed from the case as a complainant against Thompson on the charge of rape. She was bribed or intimidated to plead guilty to solicitation, there- by placing herself in the category of @ comomn street walker, and was sentenced to a short term in jail for which she unquestionably will be well paid, This plea of the girl automatically eliminates the possibility. of trying Sir Basil on the serious charge for which he was first held and reduces the charge to a misdemeanor. The second step in the whitewash- ing process was the proceedings in the police court where some of the Prominent statesmen and capitalists came to testify to the exemplary vir- tues of the defendant, The attorney for Thompson de- seribes hig “public record” in glow. ing terms. “If a man of the knowl edge of Sir Basil Thompson and with his reputation, could lower himself as to desire to commit the alleged of- fense, he must be either insane or drunk,” declared Sir Henry Curtis, McKenna Testifies. Reginald McKenna, former home secretary of the British government and chairman of the board of direc tors. of the Midland Bank, and one of the biggest bankers of England, was the first witness for the defense, teati- fying to the good character of Sir Basil. This testimony was soon offset by the policeman who arresetd the emi- nent knight in Hyde Park, Tried to Bribe Policeman. The magistrate, the lawyers and po- lice visited the scene of the assault in order to decide the question of vis- ibility because the defense lawyers raised the objection that the Police could not have seen what was going yn. After returning to the courtroom Constable Laurie testified that after he had arrested the man, on the way to the police station he said: “lam Sir Basil Thompson. You ought to keep this from my friends, If they know it | am ruined. If you can overlook this you can leave the police force tomorrow.” Laurie testified that he replied: “You ought not to put temptation in my way.” It seems that the charge did not injure Sir Basil with his friends as they all rallied to his support and it is Said that as head of Scotland yard he had enuf similar evidence on the other noble knights to compel them to testify regarding the purity of his character and his great sacrifices to obtain sociological information from one young girl in Hyde Park, — Your neighbor wil appreciate the favor—give him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. —_ To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all the!» dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA, °