The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1926, Page 2

Page Two ITALIAN DEBT CANCELLATION PASSES HOUSE Endorses Coolid ge Treachery in America (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan, 17—The house of congress ratified the Italian debt settlement by a vote of 257 to 133, thus taking the second step necessary to enable this government to cancel seventy-five per cent of the Italian debt in order that Mussolini’s gov- ernment may be able to secure loans from Wall Street, and incidentally voted to transfer the burden from the Italian despotic government to the shoulders of the American taxpayers. The senate has not yet ratified the debt settlement, After senate rati- fication the thing will be completed and the betrayal of the people of the United States accomplished by Coo- lidge and his political machine, MUSSOLINI AND POPE OPPOSED IN OWN RANKS (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, Jan. 17.—The two dic- tators of Rome, the pope and Musso- lini, are having difficulties. Since the pope lost temporal power and as An- tonio Labriola said “consoled himself with assuming infallibility,” he has been striving to get back into Eu- Topean diplomacy. Mussolini is not unsympathetic toward this desire as he feels that his regime needs the aid of the catholic hoodlums of Italy who crawl before the pope. Pact Hits Rocks. It seems that this scheme is not as ssful as the two dictators de- © Mussolini’s paper, the Populo claims that “one ungrateful cardinal” has constantly hindered ef- forts of a rapprochement between fas- cism and the vatican. Incidentally Farinacci, secretary of the fascist party, has been hostile to the move and so Mussolini finds him- self in a dilemma which forces him to the pope. While gaining much need- ed support from the papists, he may lose the left section of the fascisti. |K. K. K. Lingerie Business Pays Big for Grand Dragons Some extent of the income of a grand dragon of the ku klux klan was furnished by Charles J. Palmer, for- mer Illinois dragon, as he filed suit in the superior court for $50,000 which he says is due him from the klan. In the year and a half he was drag- on Palmer declared that the receipts of the klan were $414,033. About $160,- 000 of this was collected on robes and masks and $254,083 from new mem- bers. Palmer would not reveal what his earnings were, but said he got*one dollar for each new member and fifty cents on each robe and mask sold. He got part of this commission, but the klan still owes him $50,000, he said. PLAN PROBE OF MILITARY AIR GRAFT MUDDLE Secretary of War to Be First Witness (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—A general investigation of the military aircraft situation, with the object of bringing out one general bill covering the whole subject, will be started next Tuesday by the house military affairs committee, it was announced this aft- ernoon by its chairman, Rep. John M. Morin of Pennsylvania. Secretary of War Davis probably will be the first witness, The committee will consider all the score or more of bills proposing an unified air service, that have been in- troduced in congress during this ses- sion, Bishop Brown to Tour with Biedenkapp for Int’l. Workers’ Aid Two additional dates have been ar- ranged for the tour which Bishop Brown and Fred Biedenkapp are making for the International Workers Aid, These are Detroit, Feb. 12, and Cleveland, Feb. 14. “Not class collaboration but class struggle.” Hear this message of Len- inism at the Lenin Memorial meet- ings, Sunday. HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! Current Events (Continued from page 1) Mr. Wilson. The strongest union in Ireland, the Irish Transport and Gen- eral Workers’ Union, treats Wilson as a scab and no reputable labor leader in the British Isles will have anything to do with him. He is an ordinary labor burglar, who associates with the shipping magnates, “stools” for the government and sells out the mem- bers of his union, who are kept in line by means of government force. ee ee HIS contemptible rodent could not secure a journalist in Great Britain or in any of His Majesty’s colonies so Jacking in common decency as to be- come his fugleman, even for pay. But Victor Olander, secretary of the Illi- nois Federation of Labor, who some- time in antiquity was a seaman, put the British flunkey on to Wise and Joseph did the best he could, in his illiterate way, to prove that Wilson was saving King George and Queen Mary from a rebellion of his refrac- tory subjects in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, South Africa and Australia, So far it has not been an- nounced that Joseph was given the or- der of The Garter for his services, but Buckingham Palace does not for- get even its potboys and Wise is as obsequious a flunkey as ever trailed behind a king. oe @ NDER the caption: “How Big Communist Intrigue was Broken” Wise tells the world how he played the role of assistant strikebreaker. The strike happened while the prince of Wales was on his South American tour and no doubt, Joseph thot it would show a sorry lack of dignity on the part of the workers to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery of the empire while the crown prince was tasting the geod things of life in the southern hemisphere Wise im: mediately, after emerging from his favorite soft drink parlor, perhaps, “exposed” the strike as a conspiracy to overthrow the British empire, How . did he know it? Easy. He saw in the Chicago Tribune that George Hardy, once upon a time secretary- treasurer of the I, W. W. was in Eng- land and actively engaged in helping the strikers, oar TEEDLESS to say, nobody paid the slightest attention to Wise ex- cept poor Havelock Wilson, who want- ed to have somebody posing as a la- bor man, recognize him officially. He could not find anybody in England to do it. So he had to take anything he could get. He took Wise. This dolt dumped his intellectual offal on the public and posed as a first-rate strikebreaker. The fact that the strik- ers lost made him feel good, but when he received a letter from Havelock * { Wilson congratulating him on his ser- vices, Mr. Wise was transported with joy. He now shares his happiness with his less fortunate brothers who did not have his opportunity to play a strikebreaking role. Well, “every dog has his day” according to the proverb. "ss HE one oasis in the arid reaction- ary desert of Montana, is Sheridan county, where the workers and farm- ers elected a farmer-labor party ad- ministration. No sooner did the new administration assume office than they turned the spotlight of publicity on the old party grafters who preced- ed them. So raw was their conduct that even a capitalist court was com- pelled to convict them. But tho down, they were not entirely out. Sheridan county could not withstand the re- actionary forces of the rest of the state. The reactionaries are always busy. They know the value of organ- ization. They were determined to “get” the farmer-labor administration of Sheridan county. 7K: E blow has fallen, according to the latest issue of the Producers’ News, published in Plentywood. It ap- pears that the reactionary tools of the bankers at the state capitol in Helena sent in a stoolpigeon to Plentywood in an effort to compromise Sheriff Salsbury and county Attorney Erick- son, Those two officials made things hot for the confidence men who had been preying on the farmers for years. They were bound to seek revenge. What the exploiters are doing is, striking at the farmers, by trying to frame Salsbury and Erickson. Un- der the present regime, the producer could hold his head up in Sheridan county, but the grafters, whether op- erating under. the cloak of legality or merely as a plain burglar, was on the defensive. oe 68 HE workers and farmers of Sheri- dan county must stand behind their elected officials who are being persecuted because they were loyal to their interests. If Salsbury and Erick- son, were willing to play into the hands of the mortgage bankers, there would be no government stoolpigeons on their trail. When the farmer-labor ticket went over in Sheridan county, that should have been the moment to start a state-wide campaign to whip the rest of the state into line for the program of class political action. We believe the Sheridan county produc- ers have that object in view. If they put their shoulders to the wheel and organize, they will be able to thwart their enemies and defend the leaders who remain faithful to their trust. Eternal vigilance is the only safe- guard for every gain made by the pro- ducers, and no gain is guaranteed un- til the entire power of government for the entire nation is lodged secure- ly in the hands of those who produce all wealth, namely, the workers in the industries and on the land, RACE PREJUDICE BOSSES’ WEAPON TO DIVIDE LABOR Nationality Also Used to Split Workers (Continued from page 1) cause of his distrust of the white worker, whom he thinks is trying to take away hig job. The white worker is also afraid to organize making the very same excuse that the Negro worker does. The bosses in the various depart- ments at Armours are white. They “ride” the Negro workers as much as possible. This “riding” of the Negro worker has brot forth many spurts of revolt on the killing and other floors. In one department the boss had been abusing the Negro workers as much as he possibly could. Every time that he gave orders to a Negro worker he would do so in the vilest of language. As a protest against this behavior of the boss, one day the Negro work- ers stopped the chain and refused to work on the hogs that were being sen’ thru. It was their protest against th vile and inhuman treatment that thc boss was Subjecting them to. Shortly after this spurt of revolt. the boss approached one of the Negro workers and tried to show his “su- periority” by calling the worker a number of names that reflected on this worker's parentage. The worker enraged by the boss’ continual nag- ging and abuse, threw a hook at the boss. This hook grazed the boss’ arm. The worker then threw a sec- ond, this time hitting the boss on the fleshy part of the arm. For the rest of that day there was no more abuse of the Negro workers. Then the abuse was rained down upon the white workers. In departments where Lithuanians and Poles work, spies able to speak the languages of these workers mix among them and start arguments over whether Vilna is Lithuanian soil or whether it should belong to Poland. A number of times these arguments have led to fist fights outside of the “yards” and have ended up in the police court. In this manner these two nationalities are played against one another. Since the Negro worker is becoming more and more militant and is pro- testing against rotten conditions in the “yards” the employment office is now hiring as many Mexicans as it possibly can. Armour & company has @ Special Mexican employment agent who walks out into the crowd around the employment office, picks out the Mexican workers and hires them. In the plant anti-Mexican feeling has been aroused among the workers and the spies are able to so propagandize the workers that the workers look with distrust upon the Mexicans and continually refer to them as “greas- ers.” The “100 per cent American” atti- tude is encouraged in the “yards” and is used at every possible opportunity against the foreign-born worker. The company thru its propaganda, paints its bonus schemes, its “profit sharing- we-are-partners idea,” as “American” methods. When foreign-born workers argue against these schemes of the packers and show the need for a change in conditions and begin to talk of unionization, many of the so-called: “American” workers, who suffer from the same evils that the foreign-born workers do, tell the. foreign-born workers: “Go on back to the old coun- try if you don’t like the way things are run here.” Tho the meat packers play upon the racial prejudices and national anta- gonism of the workers, woe unto the worker, who dares allow his antagon- ism or his prejudices to interfere with the speed-up system and the steady operation of the chains. If any vic- tim of company propaganda allows his prejudices to interfere with the profit- making of the packers, he soon finds himself out on the streets. While at work they must bury these antagonisms, but the moment they cease working, the racial antagonisms and the national hatreds can have full sway. One of the Negro workers on the hog killing floor at Armours tells of how the company arranges a picnic or outing during the summer, when all of the workers are invited to come out. This gathering is supposed to create a spirit of “good will” and co- operation” among the workers em- ployed by Armour. “But,” said the Negro worker, “every time we go to one of those fairs, we find ourselves ‘Jim crowed’, Regardless of whether the workers in the “yards” are black, white, brown or any other color, their grievances against the packers are the They all suffer under the same, speed-up. JOHN VARGA to two months in prison for venturing to criticize the governor general. . Lese Majesty. * Hear All Bad Speec We build, repair and remodel radio sets of all kinds at reasonable rates. ¢ 1327 W. 18th St., Chicago, Ill, THE DATE we ORS ER Spanish Dictater Not Having Pleasant, Time; Hangs Peasant Rebels HENDAYE, France, leged attempt to assassinate General de Rivera, Spanish dictator, has been frustrated, according to reports re- ceived here from Madrid. Pedro Morante, a Spaniard, who re- cently returned to Spain from the United States, has been arrested in connection with the attempt and has been placed in an asylum. Three peasants of Caudete, Spain, have been hanged by order of a court martial which convicted them of hav- ing participated in a struggle with the civil police. Fifteen peasants are still in jail awaiting sentence. Twen- ty-one have been released, GENERAL W000 JAILS. FILIPINO FOR CRITICISM Jan, 17.—an al- Imperialist Methods Cause Indignation MANILA, P. I, Jan, 17—Protest is unning high in the Philippines as a esult of Governor General Leonard Wood’s latest outrage, the arrest of Manila City Councilman Antonio D. Paguia, Senor Paguia was sentenced “This is Philippine autonomy un- der the Jones act!” a prominent Fil- ipino nationalist remarked bitterly in an interview here today. “Just as it is ‘high treason’ for a native of India to say anything disrespectful of the British viceroy or the king-em- peror, so it is a prison offense in the Philippine islands to impugn the motives, integrity or capability of Uncle Sam’s imperial representatives. We have had enough ‘of ‘autonomy.’ Nothing less than complete and im- mediate independence can satisfy the Filipino people.” Senor Paguia criticized Gen. Wood in the course of a political campaign speech. This was at a time when the governor general had committed a whole series of acts directed at the continued enslavement of the Philip- pine*islands, which have become the favorite prospect for, Wall Street's projected establishment of vast rub- ber plantations under the American flag. r Breaking Promises. Only a few weeks ago Gen. Wood vetoed the bill pas: ly in the Philippine lature for a referendum of the fon on the issue of immediate independence. Si- multaneously with thi8, came the pub- lication of President Coolidge’s mes- sage to congress, Advocating still greater and more arbitrary powers for the governor general. It is becoming more and more evi- dent that the United States congress will never grant independence on the mere petition of the’ petition of the Filipino people and that a revolution- ary independence movement is need- ed. A movement for the organization of a. Filipino section of the All-Amer- ica Anti-Imperialist League has al- ready been started here. The Paguia case has resulted in a Sreat intensification of nationalist feeling. Protest meetings are being held everywhere. There is no doubt about the fact that the arrest of the Manila City councilman, carried out under pressure from General Wood, is a direct challenge to the nationalist movement, | overwhelming- “Today in England as well as in America, the necessary prerequisite of any true, peoples revolution is the destruction of the ready made state machinery.”—Lenin, Thus Lenin an- Swered those who quoted Engels on the possibility of a peaceful revolu- tion in mi at Great Britain. What this is to America will be discussed @ Lenin Memorial meetings, = ] They all suffer the same rotten unsani- tary conditions. eh all are abused by the boss. They are all the victims of the packers’ greed'for more profits and because of this,/their interests are one. By allowing the company-paid spies, and company-subsidized newspapers to keep the workers divided, the work- ers allow the packers to wax fatter and fatter while they are exploited more and more. The workers in the packing house industry must unite in- ‘o one union regardless of their color and their nationality and demand bet- ter conditions, i As long as the workers remain di- vided their rotten conditions will ex ist. When the workers bury their rac jal antagonism and their national hat red and refuse to fall for the company propaganda and unite into industria unions, then will conditions be chang ed for the better, . hes and Good Music All Work Guaranteed. Call or phone your jobs, Not One Cent in Wage Increase Voted. By City Government of Chicago By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. POR OY: Chicago’s annual appropriation bill calling for the expenditure of $183,487,318 for all 1926 municipal activ- ities goes into effect, but without providing one additional cent for increasing the wages of any of the tens of thousands of municipal employes. The morning issues of the kept press consider this fact, that no wage increases were permitted, as the greatest victory scored in thé approval of the budget. They put it into the headlines as follow: THE TRIBUNE: “Council Turns Down All ary Increases.” THE HERALD-EXAMINER: “Employes of City Denied Wage Boost.” * * ° ° Additional exultation grows out of the fact, as recorded by the Tribune, that: “There was only one negative vote, that of Alderman Wiley W. Mills (37th Ward).” The only alderman openly identified with organized labor, Oscar F. Nelson, vice-president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, voted for this anti-labor budget, altho he had previously de- manded wage increases for policemen, firemen and janitors. Alderman Nelson is a democrat in politics. He believes in the old capitalist parties. He is one of the most extreme fighters against the labor party. He does not believe in in- dependent political action. The capitalist parties are good enough for him. He does not recognize the class struggle. He recognizes no classes. As a result he does not wage a class fight. So in the final vote he casts his ballot for the capitalists’ budget prepared by the political agents of busi- ness, for their employers’ government in the city of Chicago. * * . ° The budget vote reveals the fact once more that Chicago labor does not possess a real “friend,” not to mention a class fighter of its own in the whole city council. This is true because, first of all, every alderman owes his first allegiance to either the democratic or the republican parties, both being the political expression of the exploiting class in Chicago. To be sure, the sycophantic mayor of Chicago, William E. Dever, on the very day that the budget bill passed with- out a single wage increase, speaking at a banquet given by school engineers to board of education officials, declared: “l want to say publicly that our firemen, policemen and other em- ployes are greatly underpaid. .If we expect to keep good men in office, the time has come when we must come out openly and demand more Firestone Asks Govern- revenue.” That is the usual political buncombe. to those officials of labor who refuse to struggle, who count in the old capitalist parties by the promises The game must be still very good or Mayor Dever wouldn't thus rub salt into the wounds of workers torn by the struggle between the stationary or falling wage rate and their “friends” they get. the increasing cost of living. * * , Dever’s democratic administration, Chicago city government, is the instrument of great busi- Business believes in cheap government, which means low wages, thus thrusting the cost of its on the’backs of workers ctempeed by this government. is th municipal employes fawn ee the politicians, becomin, See hell hinds te political machines, in return for small helplessness, even to win small favors is shown by the ruthless manner in has rejected all their wage demands. ness, It is the custom of It may sound good just like the whole own government up- cogs in the old pa favors, Their ech thru political support which the city council Municipal employes, like all other workers, must organ- ize into powerful trade unions to fight for their demands, The unions they already have must be strength taking a decided and determined, stand upon poem pose grams of struggle. But the lesson to all the workers of Chicago is the ab- solute need of breaking with the old the labor party, parties and organizing to win the workers from th i i and fight the capitalist city government. ta tot ae to the Fitzpatricks, the Nockels, If this isn’t plai the Olanders and the Walk. ers, there are great numbers of workers who will become aroused by this latest rejection by the cit simplest needs of mun cipal join in the growing demand for government of the labor. These will party. employe: the labor ————— Start Campaign for Mass Struggle ee (Continued from page 1). against all movements which are creating improvement in the condi- tions of life of the workers and farm- ers and for the right of the capital- ists to continue their exploitation and oppressions of those who produce the wealth of the country, (pee attitude toward the farmers ex- pressed in the president’s message shows the same determination to con- tinue exploitation of the farmers which has created a crisis which is causing widespread suffering in the agricultural sections of the country, This is the analysis of the situa- tion faced by the workers and farmers of this country made by the central executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party and the campaign which it has initiated has as its pur- pose to organize a widespread move- ment to organize the workers and éx- ploited farmers for a fight against these conditions, Unite Existing Organizations, eae proposal of the Workers (Com- munist) Party is as that the exist- ‘ng organizations of the workers and ‘he organizations of the farmers shall be united thru conference of delegates ot all workers’ organizations vimilar conferences of all farme organizations. The Workers (Com- munist) Party will endeavor to bring bout conferences of delegates from he trade unions, labor political organ- zations und labor benefit and fraternal organizations to support a united la- bor ticket in the state and congres- sional elections as a means of car- sying on the fight against the capital- ist program, The same plan will be followed in the agricultural states thru building up conferences of delegates of farm: ers’ leagues, co-operative organizations on @ local and state scale and allying these with the city workers in their fight against the capitalists. Special organizations in the form of councils for the protection of the for. eign-born, to which all labor organiza- tions and fraternal organizations will be asked to send delegates will be created for the fight against the spe- cial danger which the foreign-born workers and with them the native workers are facing. The campaign for the defense and recognition of thé Soviet Union will also be carried on thru united front conferences, First Steps in the Campaign. HE first steps in this work will be the widespread distribution of leaflets and pamphlets to arouse the workers and their organizations to the danger which they are facing. Efforts will be made to place the trade unions and other organizations on record thru resolutions endorsing the united front movement for the in- torests of the workers and exploited farmers. As the campaign gets under way mass movement will be organ: ized and special organizers Placed in the field to assist in the work of or- ganization, To finance the work of building a movement of hundreds of thousands of the workers in support of this pro- gram the Workers (Communist) Par- ty is calling for a special campaign fund “to fight Coolidge’s capitalist program” to which all workers are asked to make contribution. The mem- bers of the party are Specially urged to take up the collection of funds to repg an aggressive campaign pos- sible. 7 ‘The central executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has expressed the opinion that the con- ditions are ripe for a forward move ment of the workers and farmers of this country for a more militant trug: gle against the capitalist class, Its campaign is launched with the pur- pose of giving this movement a cen- tral direction and stimulating it in every form possible to enable him to experiment RUBBER BARON WANTS CURB ON PHILIPPINES ment Subsidy (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.— Testify: ing before the house interstate for- eign commerce commission today, Harvey 8S, Firestone, rubber king of Akron, Ohio, formulated the of big business for further ment of the Philippine Islands, “It would be a great thing for the Philippine Islands and for America if the Philippine land laws were so changed that American investors would not be injured if the islands were given independence,” said Fire- stone, “If the Philippines are to be de- veloped, capital must have assurance that it will be properly protected, which the present political situation does not assure.” Wants to Stifle Legislature. Firestone’s remarks about Philip- pine independence were uttered to oft- set the real import of his further re- marks that “the present political siu- ation” in the islands is not favorable. What he really wants is the proposal of Major General Wood, imperialist agent of Wall Street in the Philip- pines, to abolish the local legislature that frequently resists the more braz- en acts of despotism on the part of Wood. Wants Government Assistance. Firestone also proposed government assistance to his private rubber en- with lands that might protluce rubber in order to overcome the British rub- ber monopoly, which would force American taxpayers to foot the ex- perimental bill and then permit Fire- stone and the American rubber and tire combines to reap the benefit. BILL PROPOSES COOLIDGE FIX MINERS’ WAGES WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17.— President Coolidge coyly remarks that he is “powerless” to do anything in the anthracite strike situation, with the idea of getting a definite grant of power to wage open warfare on the miners’ union, just as he did in the Policemen’s strike in Boston which boosted him into the Hmelight. To forward this general movement along, Senator Copeland of New York Saturday introduced a measure, which, after being blocked by fili- buster he followed with a stronger one after withdrawing the first one. Administration leaders did not like the first measure, which merely called - on Coolidge to “take steps” to end the strike. The administration lead- ers wanted empowering resolutions if they wanted anything at all. So some old guards and some democrats “talk- ed to death” the first measure, and it was withdrawn at 2 o'clock. - At once Copeland sponsored a joint resolution giving the president the authority to seize the anthracite mines during the strike, operate them until June 1928 and during govern- ment operation to fix prices, profits and wages. The sum of $10,000,000 was authorized by the bill to carry, out the seizure and operations, The bill was referred to the senate com- mittee on labor, CONGRESSMAN T0 PENITENTIARY AS BOOZE PEDDLER COVINGTON, Ky., Jan. 17.—A man- date from the U, S. court of appeals in Cincinnati, was received here to- day at the offices of the United States court, directing the execution of the verdict against John W, Langley, con- gressman from the district. Shae tresses Langley is to serve two years in the Atlanta penitentiary on a conspir- acy conviction in connection with the stealing of 140 cases of whiskey from a belle hes presses distillery near wrenceburg, Ky., in November, 1921. Betis: ———__. Bomb Blast Endan rs . PITTSBURGH, Jane 37, jay persons narrowly escaped serious in- Jury and possible death today when a bomb was exploded under the porch of the residence of Phillip G. Mach+ rellt, Mt. 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