The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Entered as Second-class matt J = WORKER. + september 1, 1023, at the: Post Office at Chicago, Illinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879, NEW YORK EDITION Vol. Ill. No. 12. Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1926 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill Price 3 Cents RESUME COAL ST Carrer% Sten By T. J. O'FLAHERTY HE Swiss federal council is dis- cussing ways and means of renew- ing diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia. It appears that the powers that control the league of nations, namely, England and France, advised the Swiss government that they were not going to have the success of the proposed arms conference jeopardised because of Switzerland's desire to ‘ feed its vanity by a continued refus- al to accede to Russia’s request for a ‘satisfactory settlement of the breach between the two countries caused by the assassination of the Soviet diplomat Vorovsky on Swiss soil, eee WITZERLAND has now the choice between feeding its vanity and helping to feed its face. If it con- tinues the intransigent attitude it had originally adopted, with the tacit sup- port of the powers, the league may decide to hold the arms conference elsewhere and if its location is not changed Russia will not attend. It's a devil's choice, either way. The powers will very likely prod Switzer- land into submission. What does the dignity of a little country amount to when the interests of the big capital- ist nations are at stake? This incident jis: further proof of the growing power of Soviet Russia. “ee NCE has not much cash with! which to pay its foreign debts, but the government recently decided to increase the salaries of the army) particularly the higher-ups. Mar-) shal Foch’s pay was increased to 75,- 000 francs, which translated into| American currency at the present) rate of exchange, amounts to about $8,000. Surely not a munificent sum for such a capable butcher. The EAST CHICAGO POLICE DISRUPT LENIN MEETING Arrest Speaker; Drive Workers from Hall (Speciat to The Daily Worker) EAST CHICAGO, Ind., January 24— William Simons, director ef the Work- ers’ School in Chicago, was arrested at a Lenin memorial meeting that was being held in Columbia Hall, 4742 McCook Ave. The police broke up the meeting and declared that “we won't ‘allow radical meetings here” and arrested Simons, Bail was refused to Simons and Attorney David J. Bentall is now mak- ing efforts to have Simons reelased, Steel Workers. Turn Out. Ce ee YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Jan. 24—The meeting here to commemorate the death of Lenin, altho not large, was most enthusiastic. What lent espec- ial enthusiasm to the meeting was the performances of the Pioneer group. This group of young proletarians not only sang but gave a little skit—in splendid fashion. These boys and girls have the makings of good revo- lutionists in them and are under good direction and training in their work. The speaker of the meeting was Comrade Israel Amter, district secre- tary of the party. “Comrade Amter, who was in Moscow at the time that Lenin died, told how the news spread thru Soviet Russia that the leader of (Continued on-page 4.) STRIKERS TIE-UP MANY NEEDLE TRADES SHOPS IN NEW YORK GITY (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 24—Striking millinery handworkers are returning to settled shops in downtown New York rapidly as their employers sign agreements with the International Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Work- ers’ Union. A cash bond must be deposited for the enforgement of contracts requiring the 44-hour week and week work instead of piece work on novelty hats and choice of wage payment method in straw hat shops. Over 1,000 of the 3,000 strik- ers won their demands within the first three days of the fight. eee Nonunion dressmaking factories are being called out on strike in the organization drive conducted by union dressmakers of Internetional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Local 22. More than 120. shops have hesn closed; over 30 settled on union terms within a few days. Volunteer organization committ of union embers are in charge of ‘he unionization drive. Twenty of these workers were arrested the first day of the strike but dismissed with $5 fines. Yo 2 ee About 700 canvds workers in the mens clothing industry are striking under Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers’ jurisdiction, The workers in- sist that the union label be on all canvas goods to insure union condi- tions of manufacture. Knee pants workers of the Amalgamated are also striking various shops in con- | nection with their organization drive, French private must risk life and limb. is in. the service of his mastérs. for sth; " ics equivalent of five cents a day but if € he enrolls in the service for ten years, he gets 10c. a day. That’s the sched- | ule for killing Riffians and Syrians. It would not -keep a Chicago gangster in talcum powder. se 8 OL. JOSIAH WEDGWOOD member of the British parliament, is a so- cialist who believes that the sun should never set on the empire. He is against capitalism but not so that it hurts. The gentleman and his wife are on a tour of the United States now and as is custom- ary for respectable travelers he oc- casionally grants an interview to the press. While in Chicago the colonel was asked some questions about the Jewish problem, on which he claims te be an expert. This is the problem of establishing a little Jewish oasis in Palestine, from where that race start- ed its world hike and from where most of them wish to stay. In fact, the Zionist movement appears to be a private luxury of the Jewish bank- ers and business men who probably wish to salvage their conscience by expending some of the money they squeeze out of the working class— Hebrew as well as Nordic—on a per- fectly harmless colonization scheme. oom HE colonel declares that Palestine “has been changed frém a land of (Continued on page 4.) ‘Make It a Thousantil 874 | | mew subscriptions in | the first 9 days of the |) LENIN DRIVE 5000. New Subs to the DAILY WORKER! RUSH YOUR SUB! | LEAGUE GETS SOVIET NOTE FROM CHICHERI. TO BRIBE SUGAR PROBE MEMBERS Makes One Minister to Roumania. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24,—President Coolidge was charged again with “executive interference” with Inde- pendent government commissions in) a speech in the senate by Se Norris, of Nebraska. é Norris accused the president of of- fering William S. Culbertson, former member of the tariff commission, a “new post at a higher salary” in the midst of the sugar tariff controversy two years ago in order to block the commission’s proposed report urging a reduction of the sugar tariff. If Culbertson had accepted the offer, Norris declared, the commission would have voted 3 to 2 against the proposed report thus “postponing ac- tion indefinitely as was desired by Coolidge.” Culbertson was named minister to Roumania by Coolidge. Japanese Students Arrested for Study of Social Sciences TOKIO, Jan. 24 —~ In Kioto, Japan, over thirty students of the juridical faculty have been arrested allegedly on account of participation in the so- cialist movement. All arrested are members of the society for the study of social sciences, Company Fires Union “Invented by a Russian Writes Braille Script MOSCOW, —(By Mail)—M. N. Lev- kin, a blind inventor living in the | Sverdlov Home, has invented a type- writer for the blind on which they can write in any script, including Braille. The machine is said to con- jsist of six keys which may be struck | simultaneously, similar to the Amer- ican “Stenotype” machine. A patent has been granted. A new society has been organized in Moscow for the purpose of aiding workingmen in marketing their in- ventions, A bureau furnishes free ad- | vise and helps them in properly draft- ing the designs of their inventions, constructing models, taking out pa- tents, etc. Already 40 workers’ inven- tions have been taken up, most of them dealing with improvements in technical process. FILIBUSTER ON WORLD COURT IS TO BE RESUMED Senate Turns Down Offer for Final Vote “WASHINGTON, Jan, 24— Senators favoring the adherence of the United States to the world court rejected the proposal of the world court opponents to arrange a vote on the world court. The opponents of the world court proposed that final vote be taken on the adherence of the United States to the court “four days after the tax bill is enacted.” world court refused these terms fear- ing that world court opponents might stage a filibuster on the tax revisions and shelve the world court. So the (Special to J PEKING, Jan. 4 ernment has requ government to Chang Tso-lin t seizure of the way and the arres and other. Soviet Russo-Chinese to permit. the § use its own forse arbitrary ern rail- of Manager Ivanov it government to to correct the un- bearable situat if Chang Tso-lin refuses within three days to release the Russians and cease interference with the linés, Peking Sends ands to Chang, In conformity to the request the Peking gove: hag sent a strong note to Chang. release of M placing of the in the Pie Chinese direct in the treaty | viet Russia. Chang Tso-lim has long been in- creasingly hostile to the joint control in demanding the Ivanov and the re- 1 of the railway the joint Russo- @ as provided for m China and So- ernments. CHEER wes allegiance to the Peking ent, but practic- this case openly itis By NORMAN H. (Special to The TALLENTIRE, Daily Worker) SCRANTON, Pa., Jan. 24.—‘Well, if we can stick it out all thru the | + winter, then we can easily stay out all summer,” wag the remark heard on | all hands, among the striking miners, at the tremendous demonstration | addressed by John L. Lewis, international president of the U. M. W. att Wilkesbarre and Scranton this week, | IKE NEGOTIATIONS ANTHRACITE MINERS TURNING TO PROGRESSIVE COMMITTEE’S PLAN AS STRIKE GROWS MORE BITTER LEWIS AGREES TO NEW PLAN IN PRINCIPLE Operators to Meet, But and increas! has made use of Russian white guards in his army to harass the railw management in flagrant vit 4j.of the agreement between the and Soviet gov-| miners and the operators in New York City on January 12. The high hopes of the miners for an early set-| tlement, and a return to work, which) had been fostered by the bosses’ pro-/ paganda daily in the press, were| dashed to the ground when the op- erators moved and seconded the mo- tion that the conference disband. Fighting Spirit Growing. Altho there is quite a little distress | among the strikers, nevertheless, their fighting spirit was shown in the thunderous applause that greet- ed Lewis’ challenge—‘“The operators cannot hope to destroy the union... and they may as well settle now as six months or one year from now.” When Cris Golden, chairman of the anthracite scale committee, called for a vote whether the fight should con- tinue he was answered by a unani- mous roar of approval and by cries “Give it to them,” and “Let's fight it out now.” The militant spirit of the miners has been redoubled as a result of the banking up of the conferences, and local union meetings, at the present time, are attended by hundreds of miners demanding more effective |measures for carrying on the fight. The meetings show a marked contrast to the meetings in the early days of Literally thousands of miners, 20,000 in Wilkesbarre and 15,000 in| Scranton turned out to these meetings, which were called after the break- | ing off of negotiations between the¢————————————— the strike when only a mere hand. ful of miners would turn out to the local union meetings. Increasing numbers of local unions, together with several policy commit- tees and general grievance commit’ tees in District No. 1, have passed resolutions incorporating the three main demands of the Progressive Mit- ers’ Committee: The withdrawal of the maintenance men; for union re- lef committees to control all relief and for a general strike. These proposals have not been at cepted by President Lewis. In answer to a delegation from the Wilkesbarre general grievance committee, Lewis stated categorically that he would not Reject the Plan (Special to The Dally Worker) WILKESBARRE, Pa., Jan. 24.— | With both sides agreed to re-open | the negotiations for settlement of the anthracite strike, Alvan Markle, chairman of the joint conference, is | trying to get both sides to agree on ja place and date of meeting. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, accepted the “Lynnet plan” as the basis of nego- | tations in the coming meeting, the plan being somewhat similar to the “Pinchot plan” with the utmost re- strictions laid around the right to | strike. | Accept Conference, Reject Plan. | Major W. W. Inglis, for the opera- tors, while’ accepting the idea of re- call, out the maintenance men. In| opening negotiations, refuses in the spite of Lewis’ refusal to accede this| name of the operators, to ept the demand from thousands of striking Lynnet plan as a basis for d ssion, miners the strikers still maintain| since the operators have been great- their position, and their fighting| iy strengthened by Lewis’ resistance mood, engendered since the collapse of the New York conference only in- creases the determination of the miners to effect a total shut-down by stopping all washeries and pulling ott the maintenance men. Progressives Get Unanimous Support. This determination is shown where- ever progressive miners are able to speak direct to the strikers. In Old (Continve on page 2) Those favoring the | Lenin Memorials MISSOURI. Kansas City—Musicians’ Hall, 1017 Washington St., W. F. Dunne, Jan. 31. stir up a -counter-move against the growing friendship of the Chinese | people with the «workers’ and peas- , Dit NEW YORK. poise 2 ma ‘ | Binghamton—J. 0. Bentall and Nat ang Imprisons Soviet Consults. | Kapian, Jan. 25. aoe. ults. | MEndicott—-J. ©. Bentall and Nat Kap- Not only are ‘Manager Ivanoy and |tan, Jan. 25. three joint direétors of the railway|, Syracuse—J. 0. Bentall and Nat Kap- lan, Jan. 26. |imprisoned by Chang Tso-lin, but the} Utica—J. 0. Bentall and Nat Kaplan, Soviet consulate at Harbin is sur-|44n- 27. |" “Schenectady—J. ©. Bentall and Nat rounded by Chang’s troops, among | Kaplan, Jan. 29, whom are large numbers of white | PENNSYLVANIA. Pittsburgh—Jan, 31, 8p. m., at the La- guard Russians of-czarist sympathies, | por drach 8 35 Miller Be. Speaker: D. rei | €. Earley. ety, Sr eee ye eoret horcqe| Cannocburg—Faleon Hall, Jan. 30, 8 and his aides if given an excuse.|p. m., D. E. Earley. These Soviet citizens are thus virtual- Raleytewn “tame Theater, Jan. 31, 2 jp.m. A. Jakira. ly prisoners. |? ew. Brighton—-D. &. Earely, Jan. 31, The clash between Chang and the /2 P- ™- WEST VIRGINIA. | |management of the railway came| pursgiove—Union Hall, Tom Ray, Jan.| 517 Helm- 31, 2:30 p.m. ‘Tacoma—Jan. 28, at 8 p. m., Fraternity Hall, 1117 Tacoma Ave. |. Waukegan—Workers’ holtz Ave., J. J. Ballam, | leader, Sidney Hillman, president of long drawn-out debate on the court has been resumed, Men; Workers Strike ot aayl Senator Claude A. Swanson, a de- WOONSOCKET, R. L, Jan. 24—~ Winders and knitters of Hebert Kult-| the retolatien mcoeatas American ak ting Mills, Woonsocket, R. I, @F@ erence to the world court, has intro- striking against discrimination by the | quced an amended resolution which company against union members. The | nay six new major reservations in ad- workers belong to the United Textile | aition to those proposed by Woodrow Workers’ Union. Wilson and Warren G. Harding. The new reservations would prohibit the The Lenin Drive means quick) submission of any question affecting action—send your sub to 1 America to th eworld court except with the consent of the United States government. The new reservation is looked upon as a “sop” thrown to the opponents of the league, Expect Van Sweringen Decision. GENEVA, Jan, 24.—The league of nations today received a note from| WASHINGTON, Jan, 24 — A favor. M. Chicherin, Russian foreign minister, agreeing to Soviet experts participat-| ble decision in the billion dollar Van ing in the forthcoming preliminary disarmament conference, providing it Is not held in Switzerland, This note is expected to bring about a final di Hminary conference, Sweringen railroad merger probably will be handed down by the interstate gh Ml commerce commission within the next in to delay the pred! four woeks,:dt was learned author- _ |Mtatively, vt 1 v . , , ‘ sis s% ob be the Peking governnvent, however, little hope for reactionaries can be gotten, as the note merely expresses a desire to aid the government carry out its will against reactionary rebels of Chang's territory. After outlining the com- plaint, Chitcherin’s note states: “If for any reason the Chinese gov- ernment is unable to effect a settle- ment of these questions in a peace- ful manner within the indicated three days, the Soviet government requests the Chinese government to permit the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- les to guarantee the carrying out of the treaty and the protection of the mutual interests of China and Russia on the Chinese Eastern railway by its own forces.” France Wants to Talk Debt. WASHINGTON, dah. 24 — France formally notified thé United States to- day that she is prepayed to resume negotiations for thes funding of the $4,000,000,000 war oat. } - ¢ Cy | hen C! \31, 2 p.m. when Chang refused to pay the half Pp. m leLore. $14,000,000 and further passage must| PUREE require payment as in the agreement.| Japan and Whites Aid Chang. | his own troops:and Russian white guards. and the red armycdn Manchuria, in| order that a greatioutery of “Soviet FAIRMOUNT, W. Va., Jan. 24—The usual whitewashing “investigation” of tionary Chinese aresfully in agreement with this nefarious plot and rt- ke ba Still Watched by Police. The mine is supposed to be closed revolution. Soviet Note Expresses Friendship. | ioaies of the victims not yet removed from the local undertaking parlor. Some of the rescned miners among those who were taken out alive, told «Continued on page 2) ranged for Thursday evening, Jan. 28, at the Fraternity Hall, 1117 Ta- fare provided by the treaty for trans- Hall, portation of soldiers by the railway.| Jan. The railway directorate claims that; Chang Tso-lin already owes the lines Chang’s answer was to arrest the! Russians in the rail directorate, to THE LORD DID surround the Soviet consuls with} troops and to open the rail lines with} NOT AlD THEM Ugly reports state Japan is secretly | VTamegeingi ahi seriend Changto provoke a mil-/ Miner Minister Led Two itary clash between Chang's tr | y hang’s troops to Death agression” against)China can be start- ed to offset the growing friendship of the Chitiese towan Soviet Russia as|the cause of the explosion in the open their one important friend. Reac-|8#0P Jamison company No. 8 mine at Farmington is due to be opened soon as the funerals are out of the way. ing anti-Soviet meetings in Peking jand other centers, beginning a news- | paper campaign against Soviet Russia |*F several days, but will re-open when and using all means:to aid a counter- other miners take the places of the dead, at open shop scale, of course. State police stand guard over the From the note of>Soviet Russia to Thus the miners, in death as in life, are subject to surveillance by the brutal state police who are open tools of the operators, a story of three, who left the safety room they had constructed in the mine, when the Rey. John Thomas, Negro miner-minister addressed the TACOMA, Wash,, Jan, 24—A Len- in memorial meeting has. been ar- coma Ave. at 8 o'clock sat which j Comrade Aaron Fishterman will | poeak. , ¢ {to the demand of the rank and file | that the maintenance men be with- | drawn and a 100 per cent strike de |clared. The operators feel no need of going out of their way to get a | compromise, so long as Lewis pre- | vents an effective strike. . | Inglis, issuing a statement, re- marks, “Regarding reports that the | anthracite operators had accepted a strike settlement plan proposed by E. | J. Lynnet of the Scranton Times, the Lynnet's.-plan did. not ‘meet .any. re- | Philadelphia office of the anthracite | Operators’ conference, states that Mr. COLD RECEPTION FROWN CHICAGO Members of A.C. W. Smile‘at Fairy Tales By A. SCHNEIDER. | Tho the Hillman machine here did! all it could to fill the hall when its} the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, was to speak at Local 39 in-) stallation of officers meeting, only 250 showed up where as a rule between) 700 to 800 have attended. Sidney Hillman spent most of his! time at this meeting telling lies to his | henchment about the left wing and| telling all kinds of silly stories to! make his listeners laugh. | Contest Elections. The meeting was called to order by the chairman, The secretary read the report of the elections. When the sec- retary had finished the report, Anna Fox, a militant left winger, demanded the floor to contest the election and| declared that) when she entered the place where the votes were being con- ducted, she found the counting was done in a dishonest and fraudulent manner. The chairman of the meet- ing who was involved in the election turned the chair over to Sam Levine, manager of the Chicago joint board. Levine declared that Anna Fox must| prefer her charges before the execu-| tive board and not before the meeting. | Hillman took the floor and declared | that he had great confidence in the! newly elected officers and that he) thought these officers would guide the destiny of the organization as they| did in the past. He lauded the of- ficials and after he was thru patting his hand-raising crew on the back, he sat down, Tho Hillman was invited by the ma- chine ostensibly to install the newly “elected” officials, he soon showed in his speech, after he had been intro- duced by the chairman, that he was there mainly to attack and tell ab- surdities about Chicago and New York left wingers. Defends Nash Agreement. Hillman, in defense of his agree- (Continued on page 2} e situation and had ted” by Mr, Inglis or ‘Wuirements not been ac the operators.” Lewis Accepts Plan in Principle. The letter written by Lewis to Chairman Markle accepting the Lyn- net plan as a basis for discussion and a re-opening of the negotiations, ran as follow “Dear Jpon the adjournment of the joint conference of anthracite operators and mine workers in New York on Tuesday, January 12, Mr. George B. Hadesty, general manager of the Reading Coal and Iron com- pany, moved the adoption of the fol- lowing motion: “‘That the conference adjourn to meet at the call of the chairman at his own request, or at the request of either party to the conference.” “The foregoing motion was second- ;ed by Mr. Thomas, general manager j of the Lehigh Valley Coal company, and accepted by the conference. “It occurs that on January 18, Mr. E. J. Lynnett, editor and publisher of the Scranton Times, made public a. statement for settlement of the anthracite strike, which was accepted in. principle by Mr. W. W. Inglis, chairman of the anthracite operators’ (Continued on page 2), N.Y, UNIONISTS “ORGANIZING AID TO ANTHRACITE Form. Relief Committee to Help Strikers (Stiecial to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK City, Jan, 24—The crit ical condition of the 158,000 anthra- cite miners facing hunger and dis- tress in the coal regions has aroused |the local labor movement to form a local committee to raise funds for im- jmediate relief. Recent reports indi- cate that hundreds of miners and their families are storming the bread lines that have been formed. Rellef stations are being rapidly established everywhere. Trade Unionists Form Committee. The New York Relief Committee for the Anthracite Miners is headed by Ben Gold, manager of the Furriers’ Joint Board, as treasurer. Funds are | being sent to the committee in care (Continued on page 2.) COOLIDGE DODGES ATTENDANCE AT CORN BELT AGRICULTURAL MEETING WASHINGTON, Jan, 24.—Representative Haugen, republican, of lowa, today invited President Coolidge to attend the corn belt agricultural con- ference. The president declared he would be unable to accept. An invitation also was extended to Secretary of Agriculture Jardint oh cman nonsNaa a