The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1926, Page 2

: : Page Two SMALL WANTS FUND TO PAY SWINDLE DEBT Pay Roll Gang Expect- ed to Kick In Governor Len Small of I!inois, who, according to a court decision, must pay back $1,000,000 he and a gang of Kankakee county crooks operating a fake bank swindled from the state of IllInois while he was state treasurer, has his henchmen busy collecting the amount from his political appointees in the state administration. About 300 pay roll patriots gather- ed at the Palmer House the other day and organized machinery for collect- ing the million under the name “Len Small public defense fultd.” The lead- ers of the affair told the 300 they were expected to donate liberally to the fund to make good the pillaging of the state treasury. Their contributions are said to have averaged $1,000 a piece. Of course, this amount doesn’t bother them for most of them also have their little graft on the side and they will simply raise the blackmail, or whatever form of extortion they use, in order to rescue the eminent governor from his embarrassed finan- cial condition. Small’s Banker Treasurer. The treasurer of the fund is C. R. Miller, an official of Small’s bank in his home town, Kankakee, and direc- tor of public works in his cabinet at Springfield. Meanwhile everything is not going as well as Smafl would like it to go as many of the payrollers are con- vinced that his political goose is cook- ed for good and all and are resentful of the blackmail levied upon them. The result will be that many of them will drift to the other camp of repub- lican plunderers in the state that is now tying to consolidate itself for the coming elections under the leadership of the ex-mayor of Chicago, William Hale Thompson, who elected Small; State’s Attorney Crowe, who was also elected by Thompson at the same time Small was first elected governor, and former Attorney General Brund- age. Illinois politics, with the odor of Small and Thompson rising above the odor of the stockyards and the demo- cratic machine dominated by the Il-|) linois vest pocket edition of Tam- many Hall, under George E. Brennan, are everything but enticing to work- ers with even a glimmering of intel- ligence. Cleveland Workers Will Hear Debate About Communism CLEVELAND, Jan, 21.—An inter- esting debate will take place at the Goodrich Social Settlement, 1420 East 81st street, of this city, Sunday, Jan. 31, at 8 p. m. The question is “Re- solved: That the Workers Party has the only program for the workers.” Comrade Israel Amter, district secre- tary, will take the affirmative, and Mr. M. C. Harrison, a local lawyer, will present the negative, Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. Volume thru the necessity Delayed tion will allow. problem to face him, REEMA ABO LARP I | LENIN Organization LENIN LIBRARY eareful research and thoro plan- ning—Volume One in the Lenin Library soon makes its first ap- pearance. I Here are practical and It is the first of probably six | ™08t necessary teach- Ak at ae ings of a great leader— volumes to make t heir appea ‘ance on immediate first in as rapid a publication as the |eteps “on organiza- voluminous research and transla- | tion,” The Lenin Library will contain all of the collected speeches and “at m eh writings of our great leader and tractively Cloth Bound 300 Pages teacher. A complete guide for the footsteps of the American worker on every Receive First Copies off the Press! . DAI LY mwonner THE DAILY WQRKER JOIN THE BIG PARADE SATURDAY! _ Saturday siealng at seven o'clock a parade will start from 19 South Lincoln street and will proceed thru the thickly populated sections of Chicago, calling the attention of the workers to the Lenin memorial meeting to be held at the Coliseum, Sunday evening, Jan. 24. Every member of the Workers (Communist) Party and sympathizer who has a machine is urged to take part in this parade. of comrades have volunteered thei A number ir machines, but more are needed. Comrades are also needed to fill the machines and take part in the demonstration. Plans have been made to distribute 20,000 leaflets thru the sections of the city that the parade will cover, Comrades who want to take pi art are to report to the committee in charge at 19 South Lincoln street on the day of the parade. Bring all your noisemakers along! WE WANT WORK NOT HANDOUTS,’ SAY UNEMPLOYED Oakland Woeksas Turn Down Charity Feed By A Worker Correspondent OAKLAND, Jan. 21. — The follow- ing open letter is addressed to the members of the Merchants’ Exchange of this city telling them on behalf of the unemployed workers why only 250 of them partook of the dinner that the association had arranged for over 750 and telling this. business- men’s group that the unemployed workers were not looking for charity but for work so that they could earn ‘their own meals and not depend on Salvation Nell handouts: “An open letter to the members of the Merchant’s Exhange, of Oakland, California. “All of the Hast Bay papers of Sun. Jan. 17, 1926, carried a good sized dis- play, advertising that your associa- tion had prepared to feast 750 guests, who were to be of the very poor the ‘Unemployed and Needy’ of Oak- land. “The reason I write this is to ex- plain why your tables were graced by only 250 guests, while there are ten times as many who are unemploy- ed and suffering, and unable to get by honest effort, three meals per week, such as you placed on your board for the hungry. “You must know sooner or later that the working people of America are no longer to be satisfied with a Salvation Nell handout once a year. These people do not want charity. ‘They want the opportunity to work ‘for, and, earn their food, clothing and shelter, “No longer, dear merchants, will the workers be satisfied with, and bend a grateful knee to your old- fashioned ideas of benevolence. Many of you expressed surprise, that there were no more than 250 poor at your charity feed, when figures show that there are 10,000 unemployed in Ala- meda county, alone, Current Events (Continued from page 1) comes Mayor Dever of Chicago and solicits the perpetual guffaw by de- claring a week in February to be named: “Idealism Week.” For onc thing it proves that the babbitry is on the upwards swing. “Idealism week” and even “Laugh louder week’ are improvements on: “Hat a banane a day week” or. “‘Patronize your neigh borhood hot dog merchant week.” W<« should be grateful for small mercies. ese 8 HE political mating season is nigh, a fact not unnoticed in the ranks of the reactionary labor roosters. These birds are finding all kinds of excuses to feather their nests at the expense of the rank and file of the trade unions. John H. Walker, the lacrymose president of the Illinois Federation of Labor is in Len Small's camp with both eyes working and a palm itching. Small is reported to have at least a million dollars of the surplus profit milked out of the pack- ers notes and his friends are collect- ing another million to enable Small to, keep the first million. The wily governor may end up with enough money to pave his way to the white house with hundred dollar bills. ee NOTHER political realignment is taking place in Cook County. The leadér in this horse-trading is State's Attorney Crowe whose policy has been one of unwavering hostility to the or- ganized workers. Another group of labor leaders have promised to deliver their followers to Crowe, -endorsing his anti-world court stand, this al- truistic position being the ostensible base for their alignment to his group. It's @ case of every labor faker for himself and the devil take the work- ers. oes ILLIAM Green, president of the A. F. of L. and his coterie of grand dukes favor the entrance pf this country into the world Soult. William is dead set against interna- tional socialism and _ particularly against the Communist International, | which is organized to initiate interna- tional socialism, but he is heartily in “But let me tell you, that your ‘roast beef and fixin’s’ went down those 250 throats with the bitterness of tears of disappointment and all the ‘hot coffee’ your Salvation army com- -patriots could pour them could not drown the shame of charity that went down with every swallow. Nor could all the ‘desserts’ you could heap up- on their side dishes sweeten their thoughts of the degradation of pover- ty they are forced down to, by the un- fariness of the capitalist system.” “The proletariat struggles for the conquest of power.”—Lenin. -- on = 1 in the of Volume 1 in the Lenin Library contains some of Lenin’s most impor- tant contributions to Communist theory. Add this to your Library Library Edition Ready About February 15 Order Now! favor of the world court, the front porch of the league of nations. And the league of nations is to most in- ternationally conscious of the capital- ists, what the Communist International is to the most class-conscious of the workers. Capitalism knows no coun- try. Its sole aim is profits. se Bee troops are being mobilized for a war on Turkey, The British war office has done the preparatory work very quietly but a newspaper leak let the lion out of the cage. The Howbase of operations is the so-called Lenin lived this struggle will be told at the Lenin Memorial meetings. tingdom of Irak. The British pur- hased King Feisal and in addition showed him around Buckingham Pal- wee. An American orator once stated hat nobody ever left Buckingham ralace in the same condition he en- ‘ered it. Allowing for the fact of physical mutation, which is not con- fined to the interior of Buckingham palace, recent history is replete with incidents which bear out the Ameri- can orator’s statement. We all re- member what happened to Woodrow Wilson. London started him on the road to ruin and a post graduate course in Paris finished the journey, and finished Wilson. . 2 © A BRITISH officer by the name of Daily, who is chief adviser to the Irak army and Noori Pasha, the Irak war minister, made the following re- port; “Over 15,000 British and Iraki troops are on the Mosul frontier. They are in good condition; and are in full readiness for action, in the event of a war with Turkey.” Britain will fight against the Turks until her last Irakian, Egyptian or Hindoo is gone. Then her own unemployed, perhaps; or her unemployed first. Anyhow you will hear a lot about the “Terrible Turk” and very little about crude oil, provided the Standard Oil company 's treated right by the Royal Dutch Shell. “Not el collaboration but class struggle.” Hear this message of Len- inism at the Lenin Memorial. meet- ings, Sunday. SHOPMEN HEAR OF °B. & 0.’ PLAN Jewell Fails to Put Scheme Over on Men . (Continued from page 1) ized men, without any plan of co- operation. Beyer Spouts Hot Air. He said: “There is no reason why you should not be so organized that you can’t sit around the table and dis- suss these matters with the manage- ment,” having reference to better sanitary conditions, ice water, better ighting, conditions of pits and toilets. Ie, poor fellow,:does not seem to cnow that these things are being tak- n up by joint }shop committees, wherever there is.a union in the shop, is part of the union, Lets Cat out of Bag. The real puropse of the “co-opera- ive plan” was brought out when the subject from the peaker changed conditions in the) sophy back of the!above schemes. He said: “Wages can be increased only out of an enlarged surplus of profits of the railroad companies out of which wages are to be paid. What right have you to. ask for more money, unless you help to increase this sur- plus?” So there you are, boys. crease profits. The $1,135,000,000 in profits to the railroad in 1925, accord- ing to the reports of the interstate commerce commission, is not enough for the railroad to\pay better wages to those Who turn the wheels of the industry. At any rate, such are the views of a “consulting engineer.” Its more insulting than consulting. A Suggestion. ‘The shopmen should not be satis- fied with such meetings as the Wick er Park hall meeting. Such are not held for the purpose of giving you the opportunity of expressing your- self on what you think of this co-oper- ative plan, but for the purpose of talk- ing it into you—to mislead you, to bulldoze you. Meetitigs should be call- ed by the men with their own speak- ers. ops to the philo- Help in- Communist Deputies Are Arrested in New European Terror Wav (Continued from page 1.) been scorned and a veritible reign of terror rages thruolit the whole coun- try. As is usually thé case, the govern- ment spies claim they have discovered a widespread Cominunist plot. This raid has been expected since Stephen Raditch ‘and his so-called Croation peasants’ party made peace with the governnient and since the meeting in this city last October of the Peasants’ Ledgue of Jugoslavia, where determined steps were taken toward bringing the peasants into the revolutionary movement in Europe against imperialism. The Communist ‘movement is grow- ing so powerful in influence and num- bers that the government, in despera- tion and to save itself, is taking the most drastic measure! ** Poland Assails Communists. PARIS, France, Jan, 21. — French capital, desperate at the growing power of.the Polish workers and peas- ants, has launched another attack against the Communists of Poland thru the French-subsidized govern- ment of Warsaw. Hundreds of work- ers, peasants, their wives, daughters and infants are being tortured and yerded into the vile prisons in west- on Poland in a new outburst of sup- pression and ter§or. Prisoners are taken to an isolgted prison, where is can reach them } is always intense, windows and the m and stone 80 remains within. | a few weeks ac- | forms of rheum- or more is suf- health so that ghastly toll. In none of their fri nd where the the cells contain doors are solid that the dampne Prisoners there quire most pain! atism and a m ficient to wreck tuberculosis claf addition to this e@ndition, the prison- ers are shackled hand and foot upon the slightest request for relief from the bestial guards and keepers. ‘The latest outbiéak is the signal of a continuation of the executions and tortures that have raged for years in that stricken country, But in spite of everything the revo- lutionary movement is gaining in power and this terror only makes the workers more detremined than ever to crush the exploiters aud butchers and expel the French invaders. more than ever. DAILY AGENTS’ MEETING Saturday, January 23, 3 P. Two good reasons for attending. Your nucleus will be mailed a list of those attending and hg one need you NORTH WESTERN Officials Su By J. LOUIS Washington by the women’s labor. mendations. the “liberals” and the smug It is only supposed to talk, Wana seriem ae: Open-Shopper Demands Anti-Communist Labor pport Him ENGDAHL. Popay, one of the safety valves provided by the employ- ers’ government, at Washington, for the purpose of giving labor officials and so-called “liberals” an si to dispose of surplus oratory, isn’t working so well This particular safety valve is known as the Second National Industrial Conference of Women, summoned to bureau of the department of It may make recom- But these can easily be pigeon-holed. * * e ° When such gatherings are well managed, extreme ef- forts are made to keep out conflicting opinions, That leaves labor officials, who get their policy cues from government sources, well satisfied that all is well with the capitalist world in which they live. The trouble started, however, when John E. Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, the most powerful “open shop” organization of anti-trade union forces in the land, got the floor and began an attack on the Communists and the Union of Soviet Republics, that Edgerton is an “open shop” textile manufacturer from The fact non-union Tennessee did not bother him. He felt perfectly at home. The American capitalist government at Washing- ton is his government. His government had called this con- ference. ficials. * * Edgerton boasted his pay-triotism. So he addressed those in the gathering as if they were so many school children, This included the labor of- * * Work in his mills opens daily with prayer. He didn't say whether the workers were docked for the prayer-time. Edgerton violently denounced the anti-child labor amendment as being the first of a series of steps of “‘politic- al and moral inbreeding with the poisonous Communism... of Europe.” The Tennessee “open-shopper” told the women that they should forget all about protective legislation and turn all their energies to fighting Bolshevism. Edgerton coiigiiinly disarmed the labor women present. They were all supporters of the employers’ government. They all believe in the capitalist social order, Then the cessarily join in the efforts to counteract the must ne- communist attack that threatens capitalist social system. All the labor officialdom could do was to register indign- ation. There was Frank Morrison, secretary of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, speaking for President William Green; James O'Connell, head of the A. F. of L. metal trades department, an ardent supporter of President William John- con's expulsion campaign in the Machinists’ Union, of which he is a member; Melinda Scott, of the Women's Trade Union League; Sara Conboy, secretary of the United Textile Work- ers and others. The type of social worker was exemplified in Mary MacDowell, part of the democratic Mayor Dever city administration in Chicago, who recently joined with the chamber of commerce in a campaign to the streets. . * rive beggars off This Edgerton incident shows clearly how labor, under the present administration of the A. F. of L., is accepted as a tail of capitalism, to be wagged as needs demand. It should reveal to the laboring masses the absolute need of developing a class attitude of the workers against the capitalist class. That class position must be one of friendliness, if not close solidarity with the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, so bitterly assailed by Edgerton and his kind. Weissman Gets Out Injunction Against Brooklyn Strike (Continued from page 1.) court of the state of New York, and follows the regular path of denying the workers any rights that they are supposed to enjoy under the constitu- tion of the state and nation. The strikers are enjoined from do- ing anything that might induce the workers in the scab shop to join the union and demand better wages and condiitons. Especially are they en- joined from picketing the Weissman shop or in any way interfering with the methods he uses to squeeze prof- its out of his workmen. The injunc- tion tells themi that they must not carry “banners containing the state- ments ‘Strike at Weissman Shoe company’ or ‘Weissman Shoe com- pany on Strike’ or any other false statement ... or interfering by any other means, in violation of the law, with the property or property rights ‘of the plaintiff.” “Property Right” Sacred. The judge says nothing about the rights of the workers. To him “prop- erty rights” come before the right to live and the right to earn decent wages in a decent way. Weissman states in his affidavit that his workers have never com- plained; that théy have always been ‘given satisfactory wages and that his shop is the best in the whole town. Everybody knows that it is the dirti- est and most congested and unsani- tary rat hole in the industry. There was gooa reason for not-com- plaining, for tho the men in the fit- ting department never as much as op- ened their mouths, his affidavit says that “reports came to the deponent that the said defendants were spread- ing information among the employes that they belonged to the Shoe Work- ers’ Protecive Union and were en- deavoring to induce the other em- ployes to join their union.” There- fore he “decided to dispense with the services of said defendants.” The workers at Wéissman’s shop know quite fully that they had bet- ter not make any sign of discontent if they expect to hold their jobs. So he felt that since no one complained every one was satisfied, At least that is what he tries to make others be-|° lieve. The affidavit states that there is no strike in his shop. He is sure about it. He says that the “deponent respectfully asserts that there is no strike at the plaintiff's place of busi- ness.” But he is equally sure of the fact that his lasters and cutters and finish- ers are out and that the strik-break- ers are not worth a damn as far as producing shoes is concerned. He is so sure there is a strike that he asks the judge to issue an injunction against it, and yet he asserts that there is no strike. The shoe workers are sain pat and not a bit worried about the situa- tion. “We will have that shop union- ized if it takes all spring and summer to do it,” declared the organizer, “and the boys are in this fight to the finish. It took us 17 weeks to win our first strike, but you ask the boss in that case if he wants another one and he shivers like a mule in a snow storm.” Brockton Workers Will Hold Lenin Memorial BROCKTON, Mass., Jan. 21,— The Lenin memorial meeting will be held here Sunday evening, Jan. 24, at 7 o'clock, at the Grace Hall, East Elm street, corner City Hall Square. Syd- ney Bloomfield will be the main speaker. There will also be a musical program. Admission is tree, ss solidarity! your help, Third Ave. DO NOT DELAY! Bazaar Committ: 799 Broadway, Room Brighten the gloom of the prison dungeon with the torch of Inter 36,000 prisoners in the capitalist dungeons the world over need Get Busy! Collect articles and funds for the 4-day bazaar arranged by | | the International Labor Defense, New York section, Feb. 10 to 13 inclusive, at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and | Send your contributions immediately to the of the International Labor Defense, Lenin Memorial Meetings . INDIANA Gary—Turner Hall, 14 an and Washington, Tom O'Flaherty, South Bend—Wort Home vite Hole fax Ave,, Tom Bell, Jan, 24, 2 E, Chicago—Columbia Hail? * McCook and Vernon St., William Simons, Satur- day, Jan, 23, 7:30 p. m, MICHIGAN Detroit—House of the Mai Aubin, J. J. Ballam, Jan. 2 P. Grand Rapids—Workmen’s Circle T: ple, 345 Mt. Vetnon Ave. J. J, Ballam and Nat Kaplan, Jan, 23, 8 p. m. Muskegon—Modern Woodmen's "Hall, 10 N. Terrace St., J. J. Ballam and Nat Kaplan, Jan. 22, 8 p. m. MISSOURI Kansas ha agro Hal Washington St., W. unne, WISCONSIN MilWaukee—Freie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Walnut St. Earl Browder, Jan. 24. MASSACHUSETTS. uincy an 24, Mainatis Hall 4 Liber. 2646 St. ty St., 7:30 p.m. Eva Hoffm: Maynard—Jan. "24, Walham 38, Walton St., 2:00 p. ma Je Lawrence—Jan, 24, ‘Ideal Essex St., 2:30 p. Fitchburg—Jan. m., H. J |. Ca . 24, Suomi Hail, 801 Man St., 7:30 p. m., local Finnish com- rade. Boston—Ford Hall, Bert D. Wolfe, Jan. 22, 8 p. ‘Newton Upper Falle-Russian Club, 48 High St.. R. Zelms in Russian, Jan.’ 24, Ashburton place, m Laneeville—Finnish Workingmen’'s ‘As- fociation Hall, 1060 Washington, L. Marks, Jan. 23, 7:30 p. Gardner—Al ‘schaap, * Jan. Pp. Brockton—H. Yoomfleld,” Jan’ ae, 7:30 p.m. ‘Woroester—Belmont Hall, 54 Belmont St., Bert D. Wolfe, Jan. 24. RHODE ISLAND. Providence— Russian Club Hall, 14 Randall St., Max Lerner, Jan. 24, 2 p. m. NEW YORK New York—Central Qpera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., Cc 107th St. and Park Ave., it Assembly, 318 Grand St., Aa hattan Lyceum, 66 Eas: Ben Gitlow, oh. “ Lovestone, W. Weinstone, Chas. ‘rurnbein, 2p. Jamestown—Jan, 31. Local Buffalo—J. Ss Bentall and Na’ dan. 24, 2 p. p rechsteres." “0, Bentall, Jan, 24, 8 P-ginghamton—J. ©. Bentall and Nat Kaplan, Jan 25. Endicott—J. ©. Bentall and Nat Kap- lan, Jan. 25. Syracuse, J. 0, Bentall and Nat Kap- lan, Jan, 26, a Utica—J, ©. Bentall and Nat Kaplan, ‘Schenectady—J, ©. Bentall and Nat Kaplan, Jan. 29, NEW J girighton—dan. 24. ‘Yralt, 8. Broad 2:00 p. m., Tale renton—N. H, Tallentire, Jan. 24, 1 ee i rmd a — of italy Hall, ard and Verlin "ste: m. I, Jan. burgh—Int'l Socialist Lyceum, 805 St A. Jaki ra and D. &. Earley, Ja 2:30 p. Titteburg—any 3 3 Labor ‘Lygeum, 36 Miller St” oU8. Earley. sport—Finnish Hall, James Otis, dane 23, Coverd ae Jaki Jan. 30, 8 Ayella—Granjis Hall, D. E, Bark 23, 8 p. Uniontown—Croatian Hall, Geo, cun, C. W. Fulp, Jan. 24, 2’ p. oN gronaFerry's Hail, James Otls, Jan. Reptbite—croatian Hall, Geo. Papcun, Ww. Fup. Jan. 24, pnueal ldgo—dames Otis, Jan, 4, 8 Jaki New ‘Srignton—D, €. Earley, Jan, 31, 2 EST VIRGINIA Tom Ray, Jan. MS Ww ah yrsatove—Union fate “tom Ray, Jan. 1, 2p. mM. KENTUCKY Newport—Robert Minor, Jan. 21, OHIO Cincinnati—Doyle’s Academy, Court 2 penwrat Sts., Robert Minor, Jan, 22, »,Coltimblis—Robert Minor, Jan. 23, 8 Voris and eee P- Akron—Zigler Hall, Ave., Robert Minor, Jan. B10 e. a Canton—Canton Music _— St., Robert Minor, Jan, P. Yorkville—Miners? Hall, J. Williamson, Jan. 24, 7 p. m. | ag com Piililameon, bgt 24, 2 Pp. m. &. pool—Brahtin, Sioubenvil le—Brahtin, Jane Relairec®: Amter, Jan. ae 2 Neffs—Jan. 24, at 2 p. at jack Hall. Speakers: Sohne ‘Williamson, Con Okraska and R. Sepich. ILLINOIS Chicago—Coliseum, Wabash and 16th St., C. nPuthenberg and William F. W: kegan—Workers? Hall, 517 Helm- holtz Ave, J. J. i 31, 2:80 Pp olf gla San Me ie red 24, t Pre ers’ Hall 1819 10th iH Was Seattle—Jan. 23, at Painters’ Hall, Record Bldg. iy ‘Aaron Fie lerman. eae ; acoma—Jan, at m., Fraterni: Hall, 1117 Tacoma’ Ave.” 4 “Lenin is dead but his work lives.” Pledge yourself to carry on his work at the Lenin Memorial meetings. FOR SALE: BRUNSWICK PHONOGRAPH with many records. In excel- lent condition, very reason- able, Address, N. H. G., clo Daily Worker, 422, New York City. |