The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1926, Page 1

} \d The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, Poeae Sends! By T. J. O'FLAHERTY ‘HILE the fuglemen of big business | and the labor haters in general Tave about the “Communist menace” } it has been discovered that 86 chap- ters of the Fascist organization are either organized or in the process of organization in the United States. One| of the departments in this black shirt | organization is called “The Squad of | Death” a terrorist outfit which visits vengeance on those who fail-to obey| its decrees or punishes even with | death, those who are in opposition to} its policy. The Fascisti operate open-| ly in the United States. They openly | profess their belief in dictatorship | and the overthrow of government by/ foree and violence. Yet the beneyo-| lent/ democratic, government which re- | fuses to recognize Soviet Russia be- cause the workers and peasants rule | there looks with a calm-eye on the} activities of the Fascisti, for the good reason that they favor a capitalist dictatorship. * HE growth of anti-militarist sen- timent among the students of col-| leges and universities thruout the} country is causing considerable worry to our strutting swagger stick milita- rists. They blame it all on Moscow, despite the fact that not one half of one per cent of those students know that Communism is a political doctrine and not something to eat. The mili- tary hacks, who are menials of big * 8 business, being morons themselves, \joint directorate in charge of the rail- are of the opinion that labelling anti-| way. war propaganda, Communism, will} The directorate insisted that ac- kill the thing. It will not. Neither will it hurt Communism. All sane, humane people are opposed to the slaughter of human beings. Commu- nism is the only road to universal peace, but peace must come over the dead body of the capitalist “system; the reot of all. modern—wars. —- er @ HE K. K. K. bubble is bursting rapidly. The suckers who once threw down tendollar bills for ini- tiation fees and as many more dollars tor pillow cases are now either broke financially or morally. The night shirt knights are breaking up and with this deflation’ of a once powerful force of evil, we notice a considerable reduc- tion in lynchings, tarring and feather- ing, rape cases, arson and other vir- tues which this collection of criminals and mental defectives inflicted on the country. With the conviction of the rapist, Stephenson of Indianapolis and the failure of the klan to elect a mayor in Detroit, the bottom fell out of the -biggest but most dangerous farce that ever dragged its stinking carcass across the country. * o* HE klan as we knew it for the ' past few years is politically dead as a national factor. But it will con- tinue to exist in spots. The small group of confidence men who have fed a hare-brained following for a number of years on crazy stories of priestly deviations ‘from the moral path will continue to peddle their goods from the old stand. Those per- verts are a blot on the social land- seape. Much tho we oppose thé catho- lic church, as one of the strongest bulwarks of capitalism and the great- ast mental joss house in the world, it is at least entitled to the respect that must be accorded to an intelli- gent enemy. The whirling dervishes and religious snake charmers who live by feeding their sexually starved and intellectually bankrupt clientele on tales of papal libertinism, in lieu of the more daring diet served out by the salacaious magazine vendors are only entitled to loathing and contempt, *. N looking over an old copy of the International Socialist Review I ran into an article by Karl Kautsky, which justified the stand of the German s0- cialists in supporting the war, on the ground that the German government was a better government than that of the czar, And who do you think should denounce Kautsky as a-rene- gade socialist and nationalist? None other than William English Walling, {he most contemptible backslider that ever sold his birthright for Wall Street's dollars. Walling has long since swallowed his socialism or bet- ter, vomited it. He is now a more debased renegade than Kautsky., The latter is a great renegade, in the sense that he once rendered great. service to the socialist movement, Walling was never anything hut a cheap and superficial scribbler. “The proletariat struggles for the conquest of power.”"—Lenin. How Lenin lived this stru will be told at the Lenin Memorial meetings, + larmy; be made*maria in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Entered as Second-class matt ; by mail, $6.00 per year, frember 21, 1923, Post Office at Chicago, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1926 CHANG GIVES IN TO SOVIET RUSSIAN FIST Orders the Imprisoned | Russians Freed | (Special to The Daily Worker) | PEKING, Jan. 25—General Chang | Tso-lin, who ignores the Chinese gov: | ernment at Peking, has heeded the | Soviet government, which threatened | to use the Red Army if Chang did not within three days, release the Russian | general manager of the Chinese East- | ern railway, Ivanov, and his fellow di- | rectors imprisoned by Chang, who | seized the road in violation of the| Soviet-Chinese railway agreement. Chang has ordered General Chang Huan-hsiang to release Ivanov. Red Army in Offing. Chang issued the order, however, only after getting a demand from Am- | bassador Karakhan, accompanied by a copy of Tchcherin’s unequivocal note to the Peking. foreign office, .which plainly invited permission of China to allow the Red Army to enforce the railway agreement against Chang’s re- actionary soldiery, It was Chang him- self who signed the agreement in a separate form from the one with Pek- ing, Soviet Russia allowing him to name the Chinese members of the cording to the agreement Chang's | troops must pay half fare for trans- port. His generals answered this by seizing the line. Then Chang Huan-hsiang ordered that a white guard Russian, great ‘ywhom _ are in Chi thee and ordered the Chinese! president of the line to convene a meeting of the directors and dismiss Ivanov. When | the directors met on Jan, 22, the five Russians refused to discuss anything under the compulsion of the generals, and were arrested. Japanese Mix In, Just prior to their arrest, the Jap- anese consul attempted to call a con- ference of the consular body, but Ivanov. refused to attend. . The Jap- anese consul gaye out a provocative interview’ to the reactionary press, saying. that “the powers would cer- tainly adopt the necessary measures to meet the situation.” In addition, officers of the Russian unions were arrested and many meet- ings broken up by Chang’s white guards, while the Harbin consulate was surrounded by Chang’s reaction- ary troops. Soviet Workers Resist Chang. A dispatch from Vladivostock (Continued on page 2) Paterson Silk Mill Workers Ask 44-Hour Week; Bosses Want 48 PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 25—Strik- ers at Henry Doherty Silk company are striking to enforce their demand for the 44-hour week enjoyed by all other Paterson silk mills of any size. Dohorty claims the workers should still be bound by the agreements made before the war labor board for the 48- jhour week, Now for Two Thousand! 1,025 new subscriptions in the » first 11 days of the LENIN DRIVE 5000 New Subs to the DAILY WORKER! RUSH YOUR SUB! Make It Two Thousand! GOLDEN RULE GANG BREAKS UP WEETING Hillman Tries Terror on New York A.C. W. (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Jan, 25.—The Hillman gang with the aid of the/put the bl police forced their way into the Man- hattan Lyceum meeting arranged by the ‘Amaigamated Action Committee Saturday afternoon. Sam Lipzin, who opened the meet- ing, was thrown bodily from the plat- New York A. C. W., attempted to seize the platform and run the meet- ing in the name of the New York joint board. The workers made it impossible for Beckerman to say a word, gangsters, 200 or more, armed with black jacks and knives, started to beat up the audience, which did not altogether like this application of the “Golden Rule” made the best of the motto of “Doing to others as you would have them do unto you,” thus started by the gangsters, until the gangsters had to call the police to help clear the hall. Outside the gangsters tried their tactics.on a huge crowd that had gathered to witness the fight, while| the police—which should surprise no- body—did not interfere. In spite of the fascist tactics of Hillman, which cannot continue for- ever without correction, gamated Action Committee intends to call another meeting this week. New Bedford Weavers Strike; Demand Higher Prices for Piece Work (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 25— Sixty weavers of New Bedford Silk Mills are striking for higher piece work pay. Day and night shifts are out. Strikers are organized in the American Federation of Textile Op- eratives. The Combination o Me Coolidge—the Key to American. Bankers’ Politics, so the} the Amal-| . “ey? Ties Shifting | Blam for Secrecy (Special #6 The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 25—The an- \thracite strike conference will be con- ‘tinued here | reconvening again |Tuesday aftermoon, to consider the ‘settlement plan proposed by E. J. Lyn-| net, the owner of the Scranton Times. The operateps, altho they finally re-| jected the Ly@nhet plan as a basis for} |discussion at first gave out a state-| ment that their spokesman, Major W. W. Inglis, hi accepted the plan, which in no Way favors the miners’ demands and #& close to the disguised arbitration p) of Pinchot. Observers te with some cynicism that Lewis t to the choice of the operators, whether they wished to be held-in the an- or elsewhere, and » who want no march- to disturb their dick- ‘wis, Chose to keep it ‘anthracite region, and ing press reporters, 4) vexpected and did not iilicity, but by suggest- perators he seeks to upon them which be- w allowing the confer- erings with well outside jongs to him dnks the miners’ union win the strike,” said ~miner from. the an- hy in hell isn’t it si done with their tri-district de- mands at the wonference?” INDIANA POLICE RELEASE SIMONS ON $4,000 BAIL Advacetions Oveethraw of Govt. Is Charge (Special to The Daily Worker) EAST CHICAGO, Ind., Jan, 25. William Simons, director of the Work- ers’ School of Chicago, who was ar- rested while speaking at a Lenin me- morial meeting here has been released on $4,000 hail. While Simons was speaking a num- ber of plain clothesmen entered the hall. One of the dicks walked up to the platform and demanded that Simons produce the permit for the meeting. A number of workers point- ed out that it was not necessary to have a permit and that they were within their, rights holding this me- morial meeting, After it had ‘been explained that no permit was necessary, the plain- clothesmen deélared, “I was sent here to see to it yow have no radical meet- ing and you won't.” With that he ar, rested Simons and after the other detectives had! driven the workers from the hall-they took Simons to the jail, There he asked why he had been arrested. No reason was given and no charges ‘were made. Some of the-workers in the hall got in touch with David J, Bentall as soon as they were dble and had him come to Hast Chicago, Attorney Bentall found that a charge of “advocating overthrow of the government” was lodged against Simons, Shortly after Simons was released on a $4,000 real estate bond. The preliminary hearing came up in police court today. Lay Off Trainmen; No Coal Is Mined CARBONDALE, Pa,, Jan, 25—A to+ tal of 250 trainmen and 140 firemen employed by the Deleware and Hud- son railway are idle because of the anthracite mine strike, The men are furloughed. For each fireman laid off a regular engineer is set back to the firemen’s role, Runaway Freight Car Kills Refinery Worker PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan, 26—Paul | Tereshke, a laborer at a sugar refln- | (From ‘Prole ‘ska Pravda, Kiev.) ery on the water front, was killed by @ runaway freight car, | UP erga eg rears acquittal, Ford was lllinois, under LENIN MEMORIAL Reports coming into The DAI sequences.” ing disrupted. thousands of workers filled the fo occasion, local party organizations report! a demonstrations increasing in size. FORD FREED BY JURY IN CALIFORNIA Capitalist Vengeance Foiled of Its Prey (Special to The Daily Worker) MARYSVILLE, Cal., Jan. 25—Rich- ard (Blackie) Ford, was acquitted here by a jury trial of the second | charge of murder arising out of the Wheatland hop-pickers’ strike of 1913. The jury stood out for three days, the two days the vote being. leased on Sunday, January 24, from this case, tho he is still on parole from Folsom prison for the first case, in which a verdict of guilty was given. Case Thirteen Years Old. The case of “Blackie” Ford became @ sensation thruout the world when, with Herman Suhr, stiil in prison, the two led several thousand hop-pickers on strike at the Durst hop ranch near Marysville, Calif., against inhuman and incredible conditions prevailing. Durst, a wealthy rancher, called sheriffs and other gunmen from the county seat, and these worthies, among whom was the then county prosecutor Manwell, opened fire upon the unarmed strikers/who were listen- ing to Ford speak at a strike meeting as the sheriff's car drove up to the ranch, Some men among the strikers, seeing women and children being knocked down and shot at, seized the guns from the attackers and used them in defense of their lives, with the result that two or three legalized gunmen were killed, among them the county attorney. Some of the strikers also were killed, Had Served Twelve Years. Ford and Suhr were tried and sen- | tenced to life imprisonment., After twelve years of prison Ford secured Published Dat PUBLISHIN: SUCCESS; ENTHUSIASTIC REPORTS COME IN TO DAILY WORKER OFFICE Lenin memorial meetings that were held in many cities thruout the nation on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. to commemorate the second anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilyitch Ulianov Lenin were attended by greater masses of workers than ever before. ber of cities police disrupted the meetings. police in Fayette county arrested one of the speakers and cleared the hall with drawn revolvers and threatened the other speakers that if they ever entered the county again they In East Chicago the speaker was arrested and the meet- In Chicago 8,000 workers filled the Coliseum. Reports of meetings continue to pour in. has reorganized on the shop and street nuclei basis it has been able to reach broader masses of workers and it has made it possible to have except Sunday by -» 1118 THE DAILY WORKER W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents MEETINGS HUGE LY WORKER office show that the In a num- In Republic, Pa., the state “would suffer the con- In New York ur halls that were secured for the Everywhere the Since the party mazing progress. Y, W. L. SPEAKER SHOWS PATH YOUTH MUST TAKE IN IMPERIALIST WARS The representative of the Young Workers’ League at Sunday’s Lenin memorial meeting, Comrade Max Shachtman, spoke briefly on the lessons that Lenin had taught the | revolutionary youth movement and the working class youth as a whole, The menace to the working class youth in particular of new wars and of an attack on the Soviet Union gave added impetus to the slogan which Lenin and the Bolsheviks is- sued during the darkest days of the imperialist war of 1914: Turn the imperialist war into a civil war of the exploited against their oppres- sors. In the swiftly approaching day of inspiring in ‘must | reéVoliitionary slogan’ of be borne in mind by the entire work- ing class. Instead of an imperialist slaughter of the flower of the work- ing youth, the revolutionary prole- tariat must lead a real war to end all wars, a war of the working class against the imperialists for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of the dictatorship of the workers. FAYETTE COUNTY POLICE BREAK UP LENIN MEETING Arrest Papcun (Special to The Daily Worker) BROWN! yette County state police broke up the |Lenin Memorial Meeting at Republic, Pa., which was being held in the Croa- tian Hall with a wild flourish of pis- tols after arresting George Papcum, | member Young Workers League. George Papecum was LE | ane their independénce. j ed. | filled. Draw Guns on Workers; SVILLE, Pa., Jan. 25.—Fa- [CHICAGO § SCE OF MEMORABLE COMMEMORATION Thousands of Workers Fill Coliseum The most enthusiastic, largest, and inspiring demonstration ever staged by class conscious workers in Chicago was the Lenin memorial meeting at the Coliseum in Chicago, Sunday night attended by 8,000 workers. This vast hall—the largest {n Chi-+ cago—was filled with workers, many of whom work in the “yards,” thé Western Electric, the International Harvester plant, the large garment shops, and every other industry thru- out the city. In this great mass were many Ne- gro workers, who comprise an in- creasing part of the industrial work- ers of the city and are coming to realize the necessity of the white worker and the Negro worker meeting on a common ground and battling for better conditions, Breath of Chinese Revolution. Chinese students, who today see a great struggle going on in their native land against the imperialist Powers of America, Hngland and Japan came to the meeting to pay their respects to Lenin and to the Communist Party, which is atding the Chinese in their struggle. Filipino workers and students, who see an active struggle in the Philip- pines against American imperialism came to this meeting as they realize it is the workers and not the bank- ers and the present ruling class in America that will aid the Filipinos to American-born workers and workers of many races and nationalities were in this great mass commemorating the anniversary of the death of their leader, Vladimir Iyitch Ulianoy Lenin, Early in the evening, when the doors of the Coliseum were first open- ed, many of the workers looked at the wide expanse of seats and gasp- All wished that they would be All doubted it could be done. At eight o’clock, when the program was scheduled to begin, this wide ex- panse of seats was replaced by a vast sea of faces. As soon as the ground floor was filled, the back of the hall was jammed. It was then necessary to open the balcony. As speaker after speaker mentioned the name of Lenin and named his accomplishments and the great work jdone by the Russian workers and (Continued on page 4) Rich Man’s Tax Bill May Not Reach Senate Until After March 15 WASHINGTON, Jan, 25—Tax relief by March 15, the date on which 1925 5 returns are due, appeared doubtful 2 arrested by with the senate in a snarl, and the @ parole, only to be re-arrested at the |the police and threatened with depor- | house serving notice it will not swal- prison. gate for the murder charge |tation. As Comrade Papcum was born |low meekly the changes made by the arising from the olf case of the death |in Scranton the workers in Republic | senate, Seven weeks from today re- of a second official gunman, It was up-|are wondering where they will de-/turns must be made and the senate jon this charge that he was given the | port him. before prosecuting the case against him now. “California frame-ups are getting too infernally rotten to put over on any jury, certainly the Ford case was absolutely beyond belief,” is the way one observer put it when the verdict was returned, Miners’ 8, WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Db the November 7th Bulletin of the Red International of Labor Unions, I wrote an article on the strike of the 158,000 anthracite miners, wherein I pointed out the extremely dangerous position in which the the United Mine Workers of America finds itself. 1 stated that the union is actually men- re with destruction unless a radical change takes place in its policies. The article was occasioned by a notice appearing in the Berlin papérs to the effect that the strike had been settled on the basis of a five per cent increase in wa, for the strikers, Now comes Oudegeest, all excited, in the Press Service of the Amaterdam | International for December 15th, and denounces my article. He tries dema- |gogically to make something out of me fact thilt’'the news story about other working-class organizations and jearrto use their power to overthrow the present capitalist system and to} class. ‘The workers at the meeting showed | (Continvee of page 2) He was arrested while tell- has not even started debating the bill | present trial, with the son of the pro- ling the assembled miners to join the yet. secutor who was killed twelve years |United Mine Workers of America and | The tax bill faces an extended fight jin the senate over the elimination of | the estate taxes, the repeal of the pub- |licity clause, and the repeal of the résist the oppressors of the working | capital stock tax following the dis- posal of the world court issue. The measure is characterized as*“a rich little fear when the police blustered | man’s” tax bill as it aids the big | corporations, the strike settlement was incorrect. One thing he fails to mention, how- ever, is that the news item in ques- tion appeared in the notorious Berlin Vorwarts, central organ of the Ger- man social-democratic party. If I am to be criticized in any respect, it is for believing anything whatever that might appear in the Vorwarts. UDEGEEST does not, of coursé, refute the statements in my art- icle, He merely denounces the article as sensational. Whether sensational or not, it is only one per cent of the truth of the deplorable and dangerous situation now prevailing among the |miners in America, To seek to make | the conclusions of the article depend upon the correctness of the news {tem in question is worse than stupid. My article is an analysis of the whole situation of the miners, Let u# see whether my charges of ey ey Union in Danger betrayal against Lewis and my warn- ings that the union is in danger are true or not, Take, for example, the immediate issue of the anthracite strike itself. The strikers have been out for almost five months. More than ever before, they are confronted with sharp competition from substi- tutes for the anthracite coal which they produce, including a widely -ex- tended use of oil, gasoline, water, ete, And what does Lewis do to help the situation? Nothing. HILE the masses of anthracite miners are hungering, trying to defeat the coal trust, Lewis keeps 10,000 pumpmen and other mainten- ance men at work in the mines to protect them for the employers, The employers are using every possible method to defeat the strike, but Lewis’ is afraid to take any militant measur- (Continued on page 3,) ie a