The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1926, Page 2

\ leries and on the floor. eK Page Two THE DAILY WORKER VOTE CLOTURE ONCOURT TALK IN THE SENATE Dawes Puts | Gag Rule Over by Five Votes (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D, C., Jan, 25.—For the second time in all its history, the United States senate Monday voted cloture upon itself, restricting debate on the issue of the U. S. Joining the world court of the league of nations. This almost unprecedented action was taken at the behest of the pow- erful interests, including the Coolidge administration, favoring adherence to the court. The opposition to the court is not, of course, radical, but springs from a different group within the American bourgeoisie which feels that its interests are best served by staying out of the court. Have Amended It. These leaders of the “irreconcil- ables” as they are called, found so- lace in the fact that they forced the adoption of many amendments which they think will make the senate it- self, and not the president, the judge of what matters shall be submitted by the United States to the court for judgment. A monster crowa packed the gal- leries when it was known that the Coolidge gang was going to thrust cloture down the throat of the oppo- sition. Dawes, whose dreams of be- ing a Mussolini and closing the mouth of all who disagree had been drama- tized by his advocacy of cloture as a principle, saw the awaited hour of his triumph in this respect. At 1 o'clock he rapped for order and silence reigned. Then he asked: Dawes Gains His End. “Is it the sense of the senate that the debate shall be brot to a close?” Cries of “question” and “vote” came from the floor. Then the roll call began. The vote was 68 to 26, giving the Mussolini in the chair, and the world court advocates, who had spent a long time in using pressure on various ob- stinates, five votes more than neces- sary to invoke cloture. Only two sen- ators were absent, something un- usual. Disorder After Vote. Great disorder reigned after the vote was announced, both in the gal- Walsh, an op- ponent, at once began to take his limited hour allowed under cloture. Reed, of Missouri, moved to adjourn, apparently in pique at the outcome seeing that some of those depended on to hold out, had given in to Coo- lidge pressure, Wall Paper Contractors Unite to Boost Prices NEW ORLEANS, Jan, 25.—Sixty- two wall paper contractors have or- ganized supposedly to adopt a uniform style of wall paper for the inhabitants of New Orleans. The price per room to the householder has been material- ly advanced but as yet wages paid em. Ployees remain the same with the prospect of being lowered. Officers of the association scoff at the thot that this is a trust. New York Union Meetings. Meetings of the Plumbers’ Helpers’ Club of Brooklyn are Friday evening at 8:30 at Thatford Ave., Brooklyn, Every plumbers’ helper should attend these meetings without fail. see The Bronx Plumbers’ Helpers’ Club Meets every Thursday night at 8 o'clock at the Bronx Labor Lyceum, 3693 Third Ave., Bronx, Come to every one of these meetings. NT TT TTT LILLE FLYING OSSIP STORIES OF NEW RUSSIA Eleven short stories wri ten since the revolution by the most significant of the new Russian writers—can now be had in a paper edi- tion at only $1.50 (Cloth Bound $2.50) PUBLISHING CO., From THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd., z CHICAGO, ILL. Fe TTT TILL TLL ia JOHN ‘VARGA held every} Hear All Bad Speeches and Good Music by We build, repair and remodel radio sets of all kinds at reasonable rate: 1327 W. 18th St., Chicago, Ill. will attend, it was revealed today. | of the senate, wired their regrets, POLITICIANS AT WASHINGTON DODGE CORN CONFERENCE AT DES MOINES WASHINGTON, Jan, 25.—Comparatively few of the 148 senators and representatives invited to attend the lowa corn conference at Des Moines The world court fight and the tax fight which is to follow it will operate as sufficient excuses to keep most of the senators in Washington, It is probable a number of house members from western states will feel compelled to attend, altho how many is problematical. Senator Curtis and Senator Robinson, republican and democrat leaders The lowa congressional delegation held a meeting and selected Repres- | entative Dickinson, farm bloc leader, to attend the Des Moines conference. | Other corn belt delegations also held meetings to determine what action to take in regard to the invitations. It is expected that, Dickinson will be authorized to act as spokesman for those interested congressmen who are unable to attend the meeting. S.P. NEEDS TEARS CAHAN WASTED AT RACHAEL’S GRAVE Forward Editor Weeps in Wrong Country By JOSEPH R. BOOTH. (Special to The Daily Worker) The visit in Chicago by Gompers’ successor, William Green, was follow- ad by his friend, “yellow” Abraham Cahan, editor of the New York Jewish “Socialist” Daily Forward, last Satur- day. followers who made him feel quite at home at the Morrison Hotel where he was honored with a rich banquet. On Sunday he was present at Woods Theater, not of course to help better working conditions in the “Yards,” neither to greet our DAILY WORKER on its anniversary; it was for quite a different purpose entirely, telling a Chicago mixed public ‘secrets of Palestine” not “secrets” to alarm imperialist England but only those specific to Jewish life. Indeed it was the biggest spectacle ever staged. B. Schlezinger acted as chairman. His comrades and pen slaves from the city Forward worked overtime to find big attractions to draw a crowd for their oriental show. Josele Rosenblatt, famous cantor, sub- stituted Rosa Raisa. Cahan Weeps Over Rachael Abraham Cahan, after his travel thru Palestine at the workers’ ex- pense, had a thrilling story to tell, not about the workers’ exploitation there and terror against radicals from their oppressors, but of how he was touch- ed about all the sacred spots and holy places he saw; his big Jewish warm heart neafly melted. He broke down, sad to relate, when he beheld the holy grave of Mother Rachael; this heroic jatheist fell, weeping! The Zionist | movement looks blacker now with its indorsement by the hypocrite Cahan. Isn’t it shocking that the “success- ful socialist Forward editor should be compelled to hustle for Palestine to |advertise his paper in order to fill in |the large hole in its circulation punc- tured by the Communist press with its militant fight for the workers! So This Is Socialism? The number of workers is largely increasing who are learning the truth of the shameless role being played by | the prostituted Forward with its cater- ing to the middle class, terrorizing radicals, supporting union bureau- crats and slandering Soviet Russia; dishing out day after day, foul sensa- tional news, stories and articles; dis- playing pictures of all time orthodox jand reformed rabbis, princes, dukes ‘and “beauty” girls—the identical ma- terial of the capitalist press fills the Forward, the so-called mouthpiece of the socialist party. What a striking and tragic contra- diction to Debs’ fighting past is this wasting of energy in trying to revive the party by editing a “socialist | (weakly) Weekly.” It is the Communists who prove by heir actions that they are in a dead earnest struggle with capitalism on all fronts, The Cahans and their likes, jeven with the aid of Debs, will fail miserably in their futile efforts to stop the march of the revolutionary work- ers. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling 4.85%; cable 4.86% "ranee, franc, demand 3.71%; cable 3.77. Belgium, france, demand 4.54; cable 4.54%. Italy, lira, demand 4.08% cable 4.03%. Sweden, krone, 26.73; cable 26.76. Norway, krone 20,33; Denmark, khone, 24.73; cable 24,75, Shanghai: taels, 75.50, Limited Kills Two, FREEPORT, Minn., Jan, 25—Two men were killed when their auto- mobile was struck by the Oriental Limited of the Great Northern rail- road, They are William Stern, 25, and William Esermann, 25, both of Mel- rose. All Work Guaranteed. Call or phone your jobs, He was welcomed here by his | waa | the Lenin Memorial meetings, SOFT COAL PRODUCTION | GROWS WITH SCABBING ON ANTHRACITE STRIKE (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 25— Production of bituminous coal at high levels only occasionally reach- ed in the industry was reported to- day by the bureau of mines, which placed the total at 13,073,000 tons during the seven days ending Jan. 16. This again illustrates how the bi- tuminous miners, in the same union as the anthracite miners now on strike, are being used as scabs on their brothers because John L. Lewis, head of the miners’ union, refuses to order a national general strike. This “prosperity” of the bituminous miners, however, will be short lived if, when the anthracite miners go back to work, the bitu- minous miners strike and find their strike likewise scabbed upon by their brothers in the anthracite because Lewis will refuse to call them out on a general strike. STRIKING SHOE WORKERS FIGHT THE INJUNCTION Protective Union Riles Boss and His. Judge (Special to The Daily Worker) BROOKLYN, N. Y, Jan. 25.—The Shoe Workers’ Protective Union had its day in court before Judge Selah Strong in Borough Ha. to answer why Strong’s injunction against the union, forbidding it to conduct a strike in the Caesar Weissman shoe factory at 91 Orange St., should not be affirmed. The two issues that seemed to crowd to the front were, first: Is there a strike at the Weissman shop? Second: Is the Weissman shop the dirtiest and meanest shop in town? Boss’ Lawyer Lies Glibly. The judge listened with open mouth to the picture of the shop painted by Weissman’s attorney, who told of the heavenly beauty and the restful com- fort that is characteristic of the fac- tory now struck. Their story was eagerly swallowed by “hizzoner” as a frog swallows water. But Attorney Brodsky for the union promptly began to puncture the bub- ble blown by Weissman’s hireling with facts that showed how the shop was crowded and dirty and unsanitary and without half decent ventilation. What he said brot out that Weissman was so stingy he even refused to supply the full number of chairs needed and workers in the morning scuffle for the few chairs in the shop while the others use old boxes or anything they find to sit down to their machines, That so riled the judge that he Promptly shut off further description of that slave hole that had been so falsely painted in fine colors a few moments before, Judge Sides With Boss, The Weissman attorney had made the strange assertion that there was no strike at the shop in question, and Brodsky also swapped at that air bag. The judge sided with the opinion of the boss and decided that there is no strike in the Weissman shop, and denied Brodsky the right to describe the situation. The right to strike could not be en- tirely ignored by the judge, so he said the union might strike and. also picket, but it could not mention the name of Weissman nor could the pickets say anything about the rotten conditions in the shop, The affidavit of P, P, Cosgrove, or- ganizer of the Shoe Workers’ Pro- tective Union, branded the affidavit of Weissman as a “tissue of malicious falsehoods, untruths, insinuations and inuendoes.” Another proof that Weissman's shop is on ‘strike is found in the arrest of two pickets three hours after the judge had decided that there was no strike. As soon as the pickets got on the job they were pounced on by the police and dragged to the city jail. Mitchell Sentence to Coolidge, WASHINGTON, Jan, 25—Col, Wil liam Mitchell's five-year suspension sentence was placed in the hands of President Coolidge today for final ap- proval. It is expected that the presi- dent will mitigate the sentence. “The party is the instrument for the dictatorship of the proletariat.”—Len in, Hear the message of Leniniam gt COAL BARONS WILL MURDER POLISH MINER Union Coalminers Must Defend Kurowski! The DAILY WORKER has receiv- |ed the following translation of a let- jter sent to the Trybuna Robotnicza, organ of the Polish section of the Workers (Communist) Party, telling of the arrest and the brutal treatment ofTacdeusz Kurowski for exposing the conditions in the nonunion fields of Logan county and for his activities in trying to organize the miners into the United Mine Workers of America and of how the miner, who wrote this letter was told to “getiout” of West Virginia and “stay owt’ because he was a good friend of Kurowski: ‘2 8 Editor Trybuna Robotnieza, 1113 West Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Tadeusz Kurowski and I have been friends for a long time. I know that he writes articles to the Trybuna Robotnicza. I read the Trybuna Ro- | botnicza. We lived in one room. & few days ago I moved to another 1 town, \ Deputy Beats Miner. Today, (Jan. 14) aj deputy sheriff came to me and asked me if I knew Kurowski. I told him that I did and |that he was my best friend. The deputy sheriff then struck me in the face with his fist and searched my be- longings. He then told me to pack up my things and get out of West Virgian and stay out. I heard the deputy sheriff tell the mine superintendent that they had ar- rested a clever union organizer, a Polish man, and that they had confis- cated his belongings and had found many things about his activities in the Logan county nonunion field. i To Murder Kurowski. After this I learned that Kurowski was arrested. He was ‘beaten by the deputies until he bled.‘ The gang of deputies swear that he will never write about conditions in Logan county again and that they will make it “hot” for him. They have also sworn to murder him. I don’t know what happened after tHat to him. I am writing this letter t let you know about it. ff The signature of miner who wrote this letter is itted as the company gunmen an@ the deputy sheriffs in this nonunion field might murder him, § Union miners help Kurowski! Peru Sends Thousands to Disputed Zone to Vote in Plebiscite f Arica, Chile, Jan. 25—A rather un- usual feature, to say the least, of the plebiscite to be heldyin the Tacna- Arica district to determine whether the region shall belong to Chile or to Peru, is the wholesale importation of Peruvians, said to he natives of the territory, into the region in order to vote that it shall belong to Peru. Claude E. Guant, an American, for- merly attached to the U. S. consular service, has the contract from the Peruvian government for operating the commissariat at great camps where imported Peruvians are to be shelter- ed while voting in the plebiscite. Agents of Peru have been in New York contracting for supplies for the large camps, one of which is expected to house a possible 5,000 voters, Fayette County, Pa., Police Break Up Lenin Memorial Meet (Continued from pnge 1.) into the hall. Many of the workers began to protest against this action of the police and they were threatened with arrest. A few minutes later, the police entered the hill again, with drawn revolvers and drove the work- ers out of the hall. The chairman of the meeting, Charles W. Fulp and A. Janus, who were to speak, were told to get out of Fayette county and stay out and that anytime they entered the county they would “suffer the conse- quences,” Fall River Textile Mills Announce 15 Pct. Piece Rate Reductions FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan, 25.—The Dofters’ and Spinners’ Union, affiliat- ed with the United Textile Workers, charges a 15 per cent reduction in wages in piece rates in several plants, Investigate Hotel Fire ALLENTOWN, Pa., Jan. 25—While workmen were busy clearing away the debris, city and county authorities be- gan inves: fons into the cause of tion which virtually des- troyed the LaFayette Hotel here with the loss of twelve lives and a score in- jured. Four persons-are still unac- counted for, and the death list may be increased to sixteen, — The Lenin Drive meana quick| friendly relations: “with Japan and actlon—send your sub today! on record on the world court. rejoice in his opposition. An “Insurgent” Lines Up with Chicago’s Tribune, Organ of the Profiteers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Oper Gerald P. Nye, so-called “insurgent” senator from North Dakota, who was supposed to have had some little difficulty in getting his seat in the United States senate, is He is against it. Yet it is the profiteers’ organ, the Chicago Tribune, and not the masses of workers and farmers in North Dakota and the nation who Senator Nye’s position on the big problems confronting the nation is very important since his “insurgency” is sup- posed to divert the drive for the labor party in North Dakota, where it is gaining considerable headway. He works with Senator Frazier and Governor Sorlie to fight independent political action of the workers and farmers. * * ‘ The fact that the Chicago Tribune can find comfort from the contents of Senator Nye’s world court speech is proof in itself that what he had to say was not in the inter- ests of those who man the machines in the shops or run the , tractors over the land out in the northwest. But Senator Nye did better than that. prides itself on the fact that The Tribune Nye took as the text of his speech the headline of an editorial in one of its recent issues asking, “Why the Hurry with the World Court?” Nye ac- centuated his pompous outlook. as a dollar statesman by requesting that The Tribune editorial be read to the assembled senators. History as it is made by the daily newspapers declared, “It was so read.” * * Thus the alliance between Senator Nye and The Tribune may be considered complete, at least on this issue. It is im- portant because the court and league issue vitally divide the toilers and the exploiters of the world. Workers and farmers should oppose the world court and the league because they are instruments of the imperialist nations for the protection of their loot and the continued Oppression of labor. The Tribune is not against the world court because it is against capitalism, Rather it is supremely jealous of the position of American capitalism in world af- fairs. One of its arguments against the court and the league is that the United States will be overshadowed by Great Britain, according to present arrangement. * * The Tribune speaks for the great industrialists who do not need the court and the league in their business. The great bankers do need these institutions to protect their loans and foreign investments. Yet the great industrialist and the international banker are just as much the enemies of the workers and farmers. Schwab, the steel magnate, and Morgan, the Wall Street financier, are no less the upholders of capitalism and the bitter foes of labor because they disagree for the moment on the world court issue. * * Labor's opposition to the world court must be based on its class interests. North Dakota's workers and farmers know that their class position is in the trenches opposing the capitalist trenches where The Tribune takes up its posi- tion. The Tribune is the organ of the industrialists, the food profiteers, the grain gamblers, lords and all the other thieves the little bankers, the land- who fatten off the producing masses. When Senator: Nye throws in his lot with this Chi. cago Tribune, applauding its policies and quoting its editorial utterances, he shows he is but another lackey of the bandit profiteers, Dakota. Chang Tso Lin Gives in to the Fist of the Soviet Union (Continued from page 1). |shows that all Siberia was astir at the outrage. When the Russian train crews refused to work under Chang’s white guards, in some places they were compelled to do so at the end of a gun. In Harbin it is said that when Chang's soldiers tried to take over the trains, the crews threatened to shoot. el a Soviet Not Bluffing. LONDON, Jan. 25—Reports from Moscow show that Soviet Russia was in deadly earnest when it. demanded the release of its citizen, General Man- ager Ivanov, of the jointly run Chinese Eastern railway. It is noted that the tense situation may be softened by Chang Tso-lin’s prompt release of Ivanov, tho continued interference may provoke another crisis, “Chang Tso-lin’s insolence and vio- lence are increasing daily,” says the Pravda. “The reactionary Chinese generals and Chang Tso-lin’s white Russian soldiers imagine in vain that the nation of workers and peasants will permit them to apply the same injustice to our workmen as Chang is accustomed to’apply to the Chinese proletariat. “We will not endure such injuries and violence, The arrest of our com- rades violates our treaties, Russian workmen and peasants did not shed their blood in the supreme revolution for the purpose of having the revolu- tion crushed by Chinese and Russian white generals, “When we concluded a treaty with the Peking government we obtained its consent to conclude a special con- tract with Chang Tso-lin, Subse- quently a mutual management which differed radically from the plundering regime of foreign imperialism in China was accepted by the Chinese people and the Peking government with profound gratitude. It increased the Chinese people's sympathy toward us. “We believe that, despite the oppost- tion of certain Japanese consuls, Japan will consider that our business interests justify our declaration and will appreciate our sincere desire for China.” i That is why he opposes the labor party in North That is why the workers and farmers of North Dakota should favor the labor party. Razor-Wielding Boss Goes Into Bankruptcy Razor-wielding openshop employers seeking to conduct a department store have been forced by persistent union picketing to sublet their premises to other firms, The employers are the Ossey Brothers who not only fought the Retail Clerks’ Union with injunc- tions that led to jail sentences for the strikers but sent union business agent Harry Winnick to the hospital with razor slashes on his face and neck. Judge Denis Sullivan took advan- tage of the Ossey strike to declare the 1925 Illinois injunction limitation act unconstitutional. Organized labor of the state will push the appeal from his decision regardless of the with- drawal of the employers from busi- ness. They testified in court that their business had suffered 50 per cent when their actions put them on labor's unfair list. Butte Labor Unions Aid Striking Miners (Special to The Daily Worker) BUTTH, Jan, 25—The Great Falls Smelter Workers are donating $100 @ week to the end of the anthracite miners’ strike; Anaconda Smelter Workers $25 a week for the samo period. The Butte Typographical Union donated $55, and the Butte Laundry Workers $50. Practically every union in Butte has sent some- thing to the striking anthracite min- ers, “Imperialism is the beginning of the Socialist revolution.”—Lenin, Pledge yourself against imperialism at the Lenin meetings, WORKERS = THE WORLD TRADE UNION MOVEMENT. By A, Losovsky. 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