The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1926, Page 2

ot _ NOW REALIZED MINE STRIKE IS FINISH FIGHT Page Two Cappellini Is Opposing Complete Strike (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKESBARRE, Pa., Jan. 13.—The atmosphere in the anthracite is tense today. On every hand one hears from the lips of the miners, “A fight to the finish.” All the hypocritical cov- ering of the priests who tried to get the miners back to work with soft soap about fair dealing by the oper- ators, all the veneer of “peace” is gone. In their stead there is the class struggle, stark and vigorous. The only “hope” existing is that the Pennsylvania state legislature, sum- moned into special session by Govern- or Pinchot, will do something, no- body knows what, to settle the strike, But the miners are not depending on governors or conferences any more. They know now that it is a “fight to the finish” and the agitation spread- ing from District No. 1, where the Pennsylvania company’s union griev- ance committee has already called out the maintenance men, to repeat this action in all the tri-district, is growing fast. Cappellini Opposes Complete Strike. In the face of this demand from the rank and file, Rinaldo Cappellini, president of District No. 1, is fight- ing tooth and nail against the mem- bership of the union making it a 100 per cent strike. Cappellini wants the maintenance scabs to be allowed to keep on producing coal, to keep on maintaining the mines in perfect shape so that the owners can laugh at the straving miners and then can begin operations again at the moment starvation gets unbearable, and the miners dribble back to work as scabs under the open shop. Pinchot is known to be hostile to the operators for failure to support him politically by indorsing his plan, which embodied their principle of ar- bitration. At Harrisburg he is quot- ed as having laid the blame for the breakdown of the negotiations on the operators. A Public Utility. Railroad W Against the The menace of the so-called orkers! Fight New Betrayal! Watson-Parker bill, to be introduced de Ne ic ESS CARER AAO THRONE \ THE DAILY WORKER = COUNTERFEIT PLOT LAID AT Pale eR ERIEUa Vac Km CS EAE Workers and Farmers Will Watch Nye in the United States Senate Sh PUA RENAL LAT AS ARS, ph say Cnetreaen eee alii into congress jointly by the railroad companies and railroad unions, is given incisive exposure as an establishment by law of the class-collabo- ration that is eating the heart out of the trade union movement of Amer- ica, in a statement of the National Committee of the Trade Union Ed- ucational League issued yesterday. The statement says: . * ° * STATEMENT BY THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE, TRADE UNION Charges Against Mme Karolyi Forged HORTHY DOOR PARIS, Jan. 13.— Whatever doubt By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, Gerald P. Nye, of North Dakota, is a. full-fledged member of the United States senate. Yet the equanimity of that august body, once proclaimed over the land as the executives and the union offic tion machinery be fastened by law new betrayal. rabid “open shoppers,” are hailing coming its outstanding champions. by Jim Watson, life-long reactiona enough to condemn it, HE men who will make the bill capitalist press repeats, strikes on the railroads. strike” law under a disguise. There is no doubt that these rea case the railroad owners are gettin; strikes what is received? the strikebreaker, Coolidge! to this? railroad workers, the employing class! ers, strikes, in return being granted th privilege of collecting dues from ‘th workers on the roads. Pinchot is laying the matter before the legislature and asking for the an- thracite industry to be declared a pub- lic utility. (Continued from page 1.) as wealthy as the United States. A Fighting Policy for Labor. Thru long and bitter experience the workers should have learned the les- ever, the capitalists of this country, inent labor officials, are now trying speed-up, eliminate waste, the efficiency of ‘production, means more profits for the boss. ed! This is another step in the ditec- tion taken by the B. & O, plan, on Cleveland T. U. E. L. Addresses State Labor tiquated system of craft unionism conditions of the unorganized 90 per| greatly interferes with successful or- cent of the working class population| ganization and at the same time are actually disgraceful in a country| makes it easy for the employers’ as- sociations to single out the unions one Disunity at a time for destruction. must be replaced by unification. Amalgamation of the craft unions son well that only thru a fighting pol-| into a few big departmentalized in- icy can they gain any worth-while| dustrial unions to then work together concessions from the employers. How-} as a unit, is the crying need of labor There must “be assisted, unfortunately by many prom-|no discrimination against the Negro The white and colored to have this fighting policy dropped in| workeps must organize together and favor of a policy of class collaboration, | fight side by side. of co-operating with the employers to/continue the fatal mistake of disunity increase| which only works to the advantage which | of the employers. at the present time. workers. conditions to be granted the workers| members of the unions, out of the increased profits. But the bosses always see to it that there is World Unity. World trade union unity is de- native to. the railroad labor board now functioning, intelligent railroad unionist to energetic protest and action to defeat this law in the senate and house,-and the president who will sign it, are enemies of labor. They say, and the that the Watson-Parker bill is designed to end It is a “no tionary foes of the labor ‘movement know what they are doing. They are not handing a gift to the unions, They give nothing whatever, unless they receive a double return. And in this everything and the workers nothing. For tying up the unions to prevent Only the “privilege” of appearing to argue be- fore a mediation board appointed by HY did the union officials agree The answer to this question is most important for the for it determines how they must fight if they wish to defeat the proposed slavery law. The union officials agreed to it, because they have abandoned the fight against They are enter- ing into partnership with the employ- the union officials preventing The interests of the workers are completely betray- They must not No expulsions be- cause of disagreeing with the policies The bait handed out in this fake|or leadership of the union officials, or scheme is that of promises of better] because of political views held by plenty of speeding-up without anyas- sistance from labor. The country can now produce enuf as it is to allow the workers far better conditions if they only had sufficient organized power to secure them. Labor must fight to gain for itself more and more of the bosses’ profits instead of co-operating to make these profits greater. Labor must put up greater and greater demands and or- ganize and fight to win. Organize the Unorganized. Labor is finally waking up to the deplorable fact that about 90 per cent of the workers in the United States do not belong to any trade union. Every effort and encourage- ment must be given to the work of or- ganizing the semi-skilled and unskill- ed, as well as the skilled workers, in the big unorganized and half-organiz- ed steel and metal-working, electric- manded now as never before. American Federation of Labor should all other countries in a unified world federation of labor. World unity also involves the drawing in of the Rus- sian trade unions into the world labor movement, An effective step in this direction would be an American trade union delegation to Soviet Rus- sia to study conditions and the char- acter of the Russian trade union move- ment, Organize a Labor Party. Labor must be unified on the polit- feal field as well. The “non-partisan” policy, and the support of so-called “progressive movements” are very weak, unreliable and deceptive meth- ods of political action. Labor must have a party of its own or it is only the football of all sorts of political fakers, and the victim of the almost al, automobile, rubber, railroad,| undisputed power of the big financial, mining industries. |anti-union interests in the govern- i Even the building industry is| ment. ‘ weakly organized in many places, and practically every other big industrial group of workers is largely or alto- gether at the mercy of the boss and must be organized. Rank and file organization commit-| tees should be set up representing all unions in order to draw the entire membership into the work. Special campaigns for improved conditions, shorter hours, higher wages, should be conducted in connection with the Organization campaigns. * : Organize the Women Workers, 7 Special efforts must be made to or- ganize the millions of women work- ers who are the especial victims of outrageous conditions. But labor must face the plam fact that old and time-worn policies must gressive members in the unions to join the progressives already working together in the Trade Union Educa- tlonal League to promote this pro- gra given to this program and write for further information to Trade Union The trade unions should take im- mediate steps to organize and build @ railroad party. This is absolutely necessary in the promotion of the or- ganization of the unorganized be- cause the capitalistically controlled government is one of the strongest union-crushing agencies. Work for This Program. We call upon the Columbus confer- ence and all labor bodies to adopt this program and carry it energet- jeally into effect. We urge all pro- Please notify us of any’ support The join with the labor organizations of EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE. 'HE proposal reported in the press as agreed upon between the railroad ials, that a new mediation and arbitra- upon the railroad workers, as an alter- must arouse every Already, the bitterest labor hating employers and politicians, the most this agreement with joy, and are be- The very fact that the plan, agreed to by the-union officials in a meeting under the chairmanship of W. W. Atterbury of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is to be introduced in the senate ry and foe of the labor movement, is + aja larger scale. The B. & O plan was the beginning of the merging of the fighting labor unions with the “com- pany unions,” with the principles laid down by the “open shop” associa- tions. Now these union officials take another step toward company union- ism, such a big step that even the c-|sTeatest company union advocate of all, W. W, Atterbury, is going to be won over to support “our” union of- ficials. HEN Atterbury begins to accept the policies of our officials, it is & \time for the rank and file to begin to change these officials and their policies! Because i means that the officials have surrendered to Atter- bury. It is not surprising that the offi- cials of our unions have taken this latest step. They have been fighting against the demands of the member- ship for amalgamation of the railroad unions into a powerful industrial un- ion which could fight against the em- ployers. They have been fighting against a labor party. They have turned from the membership, and to- wards the employers. They have set up B, & O. plans. They have gone into the insurance business on a capi- | talist basis. They have gone into the banking business, using our money in order to become business associates and cronies of the great Wall Street masters of America. They are being absorbed into the ruling class, into the machinery of American imperial-| ist exploitation. Now they are taking the next logical step, demanded by im- perialist exploitation, that of tying up the workers’ organizations to pre- vent strikes. e HIS step comes at a time when the railroad workers are suffering the most extreme abuses. In the past two years, while railroad traffic has been the greatest in history, the workers have been driven harder and harder. The number of workers employed has been going down, the amount of traf- fic to be moved has been going up. In two years, the number of shop men who have been put into the un- employed army number 72,000; the train and engine service men are 15,- 000 fewer than in 1923; the pay roll of the shop men dropped 14 per cent during the time when the traffic in- creased 20 per cent. And in spite of the 5 per cent increased secured by the transportation brotherhoods, as a sop intended to try to win them from may have existed regarding the role of Admiral Horthy, regent of Hungary, in the thirty billion franc forgeries is now dispelled and on,every hand it is recognized that the forgeries were car- ried out under the direction of Horthy himself. The plot,, unearthed by French agents who have been trying to locate the source, of the counter. feit francs thrown upon the European market, was hatched. in. the headquar- ters of the regent. The plot is now brot to the very door of Horthy. Paris opinion is fast, becoming hos- tile to the United States as it is thot the American ambassador encouraged the plot, if he was not actually involv» was appointed by. Governor would never be seated. hi aside. States alone, but the state senatorial toga. He is both of the United States.” e ° Millionaires’ Club, remains unshaken. When Nye, young and with some reputation as a rebel, Sorlie, it was claimed that he Numerous technicalities were cited to show that he was not entitled to the job Sorlie had given But that is all over now. Technicalities were swept Not the state of North Dakota alone, nor the United and federal governments both were declared to have the right to join in handing Nye his a “state officer” and an “officer What the workers and farmers of North Dakota would ed, in an effort further to deplete currency on the world. market and thus bring nearer the day of complete French capitulation to Wall Street and a Dawes’ plan. Exposes Karolyi Forgeries. Accompanying thes expose of the counterfeit plot there -has been re- vealed a whole series of the most dis- graceful acts of criminal conspiracy, involving the exiles driven from Hun- gary because they challenged the bloody despotism of Horthy. The ex- amination of Prince Windisch-Graetz in the counterfeiting investigation brot out proof that he forged docu- ments on the basis of which Countess Karolyi was barred from the United States. As is usual in the case of Europ- ean despots caught in some contempt- ible trick a heavy censorship exists in Hungary and correspondents are solidarity with the shopmen and main- tenance men, their actual earnings have been almost exactly the same as increased volume of traffic. of which are mounting skyward. And at such a moment, when there should be a general forward movement, a general united wage demand by the unions, backed up by complete soli- darity of the unions with a strike threat as the final word—at this mo- ment the union officials betray the workers with the “no-strike law.” AILROAD workers! There ig only one way in which you can prevent this betrayal, Organize yourselves in- to rank and file committees. Protest against the Watson-Parker bill. Pass resolutions in your local unions and lodges, Send these pro- tests to your officials, to the congress- men, and to the labor press, Hold mass meetings. Distribute leaflets and papers explaining the slavery-features of the bill. Demand the formation of a labor party based upon the unions. Launch a great nation-wide movement for amalgamation of the railroad un- ions. Prepare for a general forward movement for wage increases and bet- ter conditions. Set up joint commit- tees of the rank and file of all rail- road unions, on every road, at every railroad center and division point, in every shop. | Sepia to put at the head of your unions, officials who will fight against the employers, who will soll- dify the unions, who will force the em ployers to respect the labor move. ment. Fight to abolish the B, & O plan and company unionsm. Fight to 4 be discarded and new policies adopted ; if the problem of organization is to be solved. The disunity due to the an-| 1406 Bast Educational League; Cleveland Group, pe St., Cleveland, Ohio, establish real labor unions on the rail- roads of America—unions which wil! win the better conditions earned by the labors of railroad workers, and unite the railroaders firmly with the B | / before, while they move the greatly The railroads are earning terrific profits, so that they pay dividends on all their watered stocks, the prices forced to send their information from points outside the country which en- tailes great hardship upon them. All papers publishing reports of the plot are threatened with suspension and arrests of editors if they dare try to implicate othérs in the plot ex- cept those already mentioned by the official police reports. The police, meanwhile, are hushing up every sus- Picion that points toward Horthy and his bloody regime oe trying to cre- ate the impression that he was un- aware of the counterfeiting and forg- eries. ‘i “ May Attempt Overthrow. A group of, emigres in Paris around Cou ichael Karolyi are contemplating a coup d’etat that will restore the former democratic bourgeois government. However, it is remembered that Karolyi, when he was head of the gov= ernment, was overthréwn by the Bol- sheviks of Hungary;jand the Paris ruling clique fears another proletarian uprising in Hungary. They desire to get rid of Horthy but they fear the aftermath of such an‘upheaval at this time. a Massachusetts. Court Listens to ‘Plea of Sacco and Vanzetti (Continued from page 1) fact that they were members of the most unpopular class in America, the people who do not believe in private property and who do not trust the po- lice or the law. “Before the trial ended,” said Mr. Thompson, “it was not so much a question whether Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty of murder, but whether they were not as radicals, too danger- ous to be allowed to live.” Thompson's som lasted more than eight hours. District Attorney Rannry then opened the case for the state. The hearing will continue an- other day. it A new sensation was caused today by report in an evening paper that a prisoner in Dedham mamed “Moderi ous” confessed thatuhe is the on¢ guilty of the crime laid to Sacco anc Vanzetti. The news.created a sen sation. Mr, Thompson refuses to dis cuss the merits of itywhile the state police are trying to, belittle the ef- fect of the confession. Foreign Exehange. NEW YORK, Jan.°18,—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling,‘"demand 4.85%; cable 4.85%. Francé} franc, demand 3.71%. cable 3.72. "Belgium, franc, demand 4.53; cable 483%. Italy, lira, demand 4.08%; cable’ 4.03%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.75; cable-26.78, Nor- way, krone, demand 24.84; cable 24,86. Shanghai, taels, demand 77.50. Drop Thru lce—Drown KENOSHA, Wis., Jan, 13, — Gus- tave Enberg and his son-in-law, Ira White, were drowned Sunday when thelr automobile crashed thru the ice as they were touring ice fields. miners, and the rest of the organized labor movement, Railroad, workers! Your choice is between ciass collaboration and slave- ory, on the one Nand, or class strug: gle and victory over, the employers on the other hand. You must choose the road of strug- gle and victory, ‘ National Committee, Trade Union Edygational League. tN prennemat- ype amen like to know, however, is what all this really means to them. Senator Capper, one of the authors of the Capper-John- son bill, calling for a capitalist dictatorship in time of war, voted for Nye. Oscar Underwood, senator from “open shop” Alabama, the most backward stone age reactionary the democratic party can produce, voted for Nye. : Senator Johnson, of California, who helps keep Mooney and Billings, and hundreds of other workers in the prisons of his state, voted for Nye. Twenty-six democrats, most of them from the “Solid South,” where children are enslaved in the mills, and where labor organizations are practically outlawed, voted for Nye. Senator Cummins, of lowa; Smoot, of Utah, and Mc- Kinley, of Illinois, all staunch defenders of the Coolidge faith, found it convenient to be absent when the vote was taken. If they had'been present and voted against Nye, he would have lost his seat by one vote, instead of winning it with two votes. } Nye should have been seated. There should have been no doubt about it. The fact, however, that he was finally seated showed that there was no fundamental objection to him on the part of the capitalist politicians. Senator Borah was against him in the beginning. He finally voted for him, on ad it is said, he wanted Nye’s vote against the world court. » ° ° * But the thing that stands big before North Dakota's plundered masses is that Nye walked down the senate aisle on the arm or, Senator Lynn J. Frazier, former governor of North Dakota, an enemy of the drive for the Farmer-Labor Party in his own state. As Nye and Frazier approached Vice President Dawes’ dais, so that Nye could be sworn in by Morgan's agent, republican leader Curtis rushed forward to shake the hand of and congratulate the new North Dakota senator. Of such stuff is old party politics made. Nye is already getting the same brand of oats that was recently fed out to young LaFollette, of Wisconsin. It is the prelude to putting the republican halter on both of them. * * ° * This interesting proceeding shows that the class lines have not yet been drawn in the senate, not even by the farmer-labor senator, Hendrik Shipstead, of Minnesota, who even fights the militancy of the farmer-labor movement that sent him to Washington. Altho elected as a farmer- labor senator, he, too, wears old party harness, * * * . The new drive for independent Sweeping west from Minnesota to the coast and south to the gulf, will take all these developments into account. The workers and farmers will realize that in order to raise their class standards and carry them forward successfully, they will be compelled even to direct assaults against Nye, as they have already fought Shipstead, Frazier, Magnus Johnson and others who have forgotten that they were raised upon pea perry pd ten srepeeees That is, unless Nye falls in je developing moveme i warlkars naa latece P 4 nt for class action of the . His senat will bear close watching. > Spee At Hp Mey ahead olitical action, that is ao 2 OESEOS GASSES eo) ERE SS Set ot SERRE ES FE RES ot al ee Ar (Continued trom page 1) months under orders from Governor Martin E. Trapp. The troops declar- re martial law and forbid all picket- ing. Pray For Scabs, To avoid the order hundreds of union miners and their wives estab- lished themselves along the roads ‘eading to the pits, and as the scabs vould go past they would pray and sing hymns, calling on the heavenly sowers to protect the lives of the scabs who were risking themselves in scab pits, These prayer meetings at the pit mouths were broken up by the militia and hundreds of the “praying miners” and their wives were arrested, The supreme court of Oklahoma,"however, ordered their release on the ground that the constitutional right to wor- ship god in weir own way was being infringed upon, Reactionary Governor, This made the use of troops prac- tically of no avail. But the reaction- ary governor insisted for their remain- ing for some time and only over- whelming public sentiment for the miners forced their withdrawal, Many of the miners, who thru the great privation of unemployment and starvation had weakened and went in- to the mines against the orders of the union, were won back by the “prayer meetings” at the pits, Among those who remained at work were those 125 who have paid for their weakness with their lives, sacrificed to the open shop that has closed its fangs upon not only them but their wives and children, ~ ‘ Send Troops to Check Protest, So high is the sentiment against the open shop operators of the mine s Open Shop Mine Blast Kills 125 : eee yeeseeeteaheeenrsseineeeesareenrnnons tervening, has ordered Colonel E. L. Head of the 180th Infantry to proceed to Wilburton with sixty soldiers to prevent any punishment for the mur- der of the miners from falling upon the mine officials and owners, The Degnan-McConnell company has ordered 75 coffins from Fort Smith to be rushed thru, while an improvised hospital is being made ready near the shaft. Resusciating apparatus is be- ing installed and nurses mobilized from nearby towns in case any of the men reported dead might b¥ chance be taken out alive. Mine Inspector Boyle reports that one of the fire bosses in the mine was not a miner, but a scab who held no certificate as provided by state law, while another scab fire boss had been on a continual drunk. The ignoring of state laly fastens the blame without question on the operators, Bakery Workers’ Union Wages Hard Fight on Gigantic Bread Trust The Bakery & Confectionary Work- ers Intl, union celebrates its 40th an- niversary Jan, 13, In 1886 a tiny group formed the organization which now reports 21,800 members to the A. F, of L, Apart from the wartime inflation this marks a steady mem- bership increase, The ‘union is fight- ing valiantly against the inroads of the bread trust's openshop machme baking, “Our position has always been aim- cult and may become more difficult in the future,” says Secy. Charles F, Hohmann. “Only thru the power of the organization itself has it risen to its present hejght and influence,” ‘ WETS AND DRYS AT WASHINGTON READY TO FIGHT Smoke Screen to Fool Working Class WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—While a group of prohibitionists in the house are striving to devise a scheme to whitewash the disgraceful conduct of the prohibition enforcement branch of the government and thereby vindi- cate the meddlesome and fanatic Wayne B. Wheeler, head of the anti- saloon league, a senate committee is to conduct another investigation that will endeavor to prove that the main support of the anti-saloon league and other organizations of a religious and semi-religious nature are in reality sup- ported by the big bootleggers who have grown rich and powerful since the inauguration of the Volstead act. Bootleggers want the country to re- main dry so’that they can continue to reap big harvests and they subsidize anti-saloon organizations for that pur- pose according to well-informed peo- ple at Washington. The dry committee under the lead- ership of Congressman Grant M. Hud- son, republican of Michigan, is expect- ed to submit.a report favorable to the law as now enforced, while the sen- ate committee, sponsored by Senator Edge, republican of New Jersey, will that the Hudson committee is cor- rupted by bootleggers and other inter- ests who want the law to remain as it is. Interesting revelations regarding the crookedness of the government and the shining lights on both sides of the controversy are expected. The breweries and distilleries are backing the wets, while the preachers and bootleggers back the drys. The issue is a smoke screen that will be utilized to the limit to divert the minds of the workers from their economic and political grievances into a fight over the prohibition law. Tour Bishop Brown and Biedenkapp for International Aid (Il. W. A, Press Service.) NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—Mass meet- ings are being arranged in most of the Eastern cities for Bishop William Montgomery Brown, who, with F. G. Biedenkapp, will speak on the urgent need of a relief organization for the entire working class. This question has become one of tremendous import- ance with the breaking out of the Chi- nese workers’ struggle for freedom and the terrible repression of the ris- ing labor movements of Europe. Bishop Brown is in fine fighting mettle, his recent expulsion from the house of bishops of the episcopalian church because of the evolutionary views expressed in his book, “Christ- ianity and Communism” having vastly increased his field of activity. Bied- enkapp is a forceful and effective speaker and organizer who has become prominent by his work in the interest of labor and as lecturer for the Friends of Soviet Russia, These meetings will deal with live issues of the greatest importance and are sure to be well worth attending. Readers of The DAILY WORKER in the localities billed are urged to re- member the dates and give the meet- ings their utmost support by bring: ing their friends and advertising the lectures as widely as possible. The dates booked so far as Worces- ter, Mass., Jan, 14; Washington, D. C., Jan, 26; Trenton, N, J., Jan, 28; Phila- delphia, Jan, 31; Boston, Feb. 4; Ro- chester, Feb. 16; Buffalo, Feb. 18, Further meetings will be listed in The DAILY WORKER as soon as definite- ly arranged. eran: Diamond Merchants Lose Gems, NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 18.— Un- cut diamonds valued at $100,000 were stolen by three armed ‘bandits who waylaid two diamond merchants in the heart/ of the fashionable Fifth Ave. shopping district today by slug- ging them into insensibility with clubbed revolvers. BOSTON! A meeting of all Daily Worker agents and active comrades will take place on Saturday, Jan. 16, at 113 Dudley street, party headquarters, L. E. Katterfeld, Daily an- jew Worker eastern o izer, and agent for York City, will speak on plans for the organiza. tion of systematic dis- sag “9 the eastern edition of The D Worker, ‘ oe MOST IMPORTANT FOR EVERY PARTY. MEMBER TO ATTEND. probably present evidence’ to show"