The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 1¢} Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per yeer, Entered a& Second-class matt SAT by mail, $6.00 per year. ARMERS” fi UNITED STATES SENATE VOTES GOVERNMENT INTO WORLD COURT TO DEFEND WORGAN'S INTERESTS (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—The United States is in the world court. The combination .of Butler-Coolidge republicans and Morgan democrats adopted the measure that puts Wall Street's government into the world court, thus paving the way for Amer- ican imperialism more effectively to pengtrate Europe with its vast financial power. The court was put over by a vote of 39 republicans and 37 democrats, with 14 republicans, 2 democrats and 1- farmer- —7#laborite voting against it. Wheeler, the democratic running mate of LaFollette in the 1924 presi+ dential campaign voted for Morgan's proposal, while Jim Watson of Indi- ana,. voted against it because he ts running for re-election this fall and jlearned that the petty bourgeoisie of his state, for the most | in the ku klux klan, were opposed to it and might support Albert J. Bev- eridge against him, thereby accomp- lishing his defeat. McKinley Straddles the Issue, William B. McKinley, the Cham- paign, Illinois, traction magnate, who is also up for re-election and who is opposed by Frank L. Smith of Dwight, who has the powerful backing of the International Harvester trust and the Chicago Tribune, tried to evade the issue by supporting the reservations introduced by Senator Moses of New Hampshire to the effect that the United States should not be involved in any wars to carry out the court de- jeisions and that other nations must jaccept these reservations before the entry of this government, This last reservation was defeated with McKinley voting for,it in a last minute edort to create an issue on which he could face the voters of the state of Illinois in the coming election. TPHE senate jammed the United | States into the world court. The international financiers are happy and the nondescript interests represented by Borah, Reed and company are tear- ing their hair, grinding their teeth and calling on the shade of Washington to save them from those entangling alliances which he thundered against. But considerable water has flowed un- der the social bridge since Washing- ton passed away and it is not unlikely that George, were he alive today and in the White House instead of Calvin would echo the pleas of the interna- tional bankers to come across and pro- tect their foreign loans. ed ID you notice that William Ran- dolph Hearst's pet senator, Dr. Copeland of New York voted for the court? And the champion fire-eater of Montana, the darling of the pacifists and liberals, Burton K. Wheeler? Those progressives and liberals are a fine lot of sham protestants. Wider} Both Mc! y and Watson are stal- the fig-leat of world peace those. play- | ¥ juppor' nok aise 2. and his bore aes to the roll call to vote | S808 fn the senate, but nbehine . for the international capitalist plander- |PeTmitted them to digress from the bund that will be served by having a threat of American bayonets hang-|C@mpaign issues so they may be re- ing like a Damocles sword over the }turned, thereby hoping to maintain the people of Europe. The world court/#dministration strength next session of will not bring peace but the league of |COmeress. nations and more poison gas. Both Claim Victory. eos ak Tht adherents of the world court i |claim a great victory, and rightly 80, i cr ae ene houdini hpgts while the opponents indulge in hair- lusion that it is indigenous to Italian fs ppp: seneralitios: aied ciate Cae oe soll or will die’ out even tho. Musso- |?! dep ase. adopted for the tat lini’s stomach ulcers may bring about Ptcint ei ee conptivate that gentleman's speedy demise. It'is 5 not something artificial that was con- pS edn {s without founda- jured up from the mind of a renegade ontinued on page 2). socialist, to fade away at the first puff of opposition. Fascism is a pro- duct of a certain stage of capitalist decline, when bourgeois democracy, has shot its last bolt and the sha: freedom of the parliamentary syste! gives way to open dictatorship. Thii is the period thru which capitalism is passing now and wherever the decay has reached the point where capitalist rule is endangered, the bourgeoisie have no hesitation in pitching their democratic pretensions to the winds and bringing out the mailed glove. ne i ige workers are slow to understand this fact. . Most of them are still worshipping the fetish of democracy. ‘The capitalists have no such illusions. The’ socialists lift the hems of their virtrous skirts and chirp in ‘falsetto tones that the workers must ‘not. be ‘(Continued on page 2) % munist Party to the re é ess of the Kuomintang, hinese workers, peasants, HE fourteenth party congress the Russian Communist Party nds its fraternal greetings to the second congress of the people's revolutionary party Kuomintang, In »}the congress of the Kuomintang we Imperialist Tool Gets Setback The seizure/of Soviet Union trains on the Manchurian rallway south of of sharp diplomatic notes in which the Soviet Union pointed out that she Harbin by the Chinese fascist General Chang Tso-lin led to an exchange would not allow the seizure to continue and that if it did continue she would take steps to protect her trains. Chang Tso-lin, tool of the imperialist powers in China, was forced to give up his intention of turning this road over to Japna, This road, the Chinese Eastern railroad, is the connecting link be tween Viadivostok and the Soviet Union's Siberian railway, » ¥t part organized’! RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS GREET REVOLUTIONISTS OF CHINA By International Press Correspondence, MOSCOW, U. S.'S. Ri, Dec. 26.—(By Mail.) —The telegram of greetings from the Fourteenth'Congress of the Russian Com- presidium of the second All-Chinese Con- the national revolutionary party of the t poldiers and students, was as follow: ese Fight A N | that organization, calls on t I. L. D. in its campaign to wipe “which have been enacted for n tember 21, 1928)" a telegram to the International Labor D Post Office at Chicago, URDA ARI NUARY 30, 1926 Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. QE» AT , ga ffense, Eugene V. D: he American working class press COAL OWNERS REFUSE NEW Agreement (Special to The Daily Worker) the conference of officials of the Unit: operators held here, John L. Lewis. which the operators rejected. Want No-Strike Clause. two-year contract at the scale as a basis for continued nego- tiations. deadlocks, strikes.” no assurance clause in the agreement, as a begin ning of the smashing of the union. They see that Lewis will not call a hundred per cent strike by the with. drawal of the maintenance men and refusal are taking advantage of this of Lewis to really.fight them: thé Acceptance of a contract fa’ vor- jable to themselves and disastrous for Policy sufficient to enable them to have | the miners. Violates Miners’ Demands. checkoff. erators in insisting on the acceptance men. greet the many millions of the people of China who have taken up the struggle for the freedom of China from, the yoke of imperialism and who thru the bloody sacrifices which they have made, have won the right to a free development and existence. To our party fell the historic role of honor to léad the first victorious proletarian revolution in the world upon the territory of the one-time ezarist empire, the bulwark of the world reaction.. We are proud that we have destroyed this bulwark and in the Soviet Union have built up the bulwark of the movements of the oppressed and exploited in the world for freédom. We are con- vinced that the Kuomintang Party will be successful in playing the same role in the East and in this way destroying the basis of im- perialist dominance in Asia. This task, we are convinced, can only be performed with suce: if the Kuo- mintang consolidates the alliance of the working class and the pea: jantry of China in the present struggle and if the Kuomintang continues to lead the revolution in the interests of these basic forces. And when the Kuomintang at the same time sup- ports all oppositional movements directed against the yoke of world capitalism and: for the mental and economic freedom of the toiling masses, igned: The Presidium of the Fourteenth Party Congress of the Russian Communist Party, ne palie 1 LEWIS OFFER Insist on a No-Strike PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 28—At ed Mine Workers and the anthracite president of the union offered another] , compromise of the miners’ demands] + The new proposition provided for a old wage The operators rejected this because “it contains no protection for the industry, no means for preventing against In other words the operators are holding out for the complete crippling of the miners’ union thru a no-strike This latest proposition by Lewis is a clear violation of the demands of the miners formulated at the Tri-dis- trict convention which demanded a ten per cent wage raise and the The hard-boiled attitude of the op- of their terms for the settlement of the strike is increasing the demands of the miners for a real struggle by the calling out of the maintenance from th® statute books all anti-sy 0 other pul than too gag the * strangle all progressive tenden-*+— cies in the Jabor movement.” Debs’ tel im came in response to a request the secretary of the I. L. D, for) an | prominent” thruout ith; ssion of opinion from licals and progressives buntry on the acquittal Mackie) Ford, member of the Indi {Workers of the World, on the ¢harge of having murdered a deputy f in the Wheatland hop riots over twelve years ago. Served 12 Years. Served twelve years’ im# the alleged murder of utor Manwell, whose Blace during the same las re-arrested. frame-up and the the labor movement Intrenational Labor General Defense Com- the state of California m giving the facts of h ended in the death two of them employes loyes of the Durst jwned the ranch where ing occurred. n of Ford and his com- twelve years ago was the usual methods capitalist class when mined to get rid of les. That the tide is fm and that the time is ermined campaign to is war. prisoners in other states and to latute books all traces and anti-sedition i is of opinion of the International Fo Ford haé prisonment F District’ P death : % riot, when. he sis v The telegram sent by Eugene V. (Continued on page 4) OPERATIVES OF PASSAIC MILLS “DECLARE STRIKE United Front Committee Leads Walkout (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Jan. 28 — The Botany Worsted mills, largest of the great woolen mills here, has been tied up by a walkout of operatives after the management had refused the de- mands of the workers. The delegates of the operatives demanded that the 10% cut in wages made last year be restored, that time and’one half be paid for overtime, and the union offi- cials who had been dismissed for un- fon activity be reinstated. The man- agement refused the demands and the walkout resulted. 5,000 Workers Affected. Over 5,900 workers are affected by the warkout. They are lead by a united front committee, known as the Mill Woolens: Council composed of delegates from each department in the mill. It was'this committee that pre- sented the demands to the manage- ment. ry At a mass meeting held immediately following the walkout pickets were ap- pointed, and plans laid for conducting the strike in the most efficient fashion. (Continued on page 2.) IOWA ELECTION FIGHT NEARS END IN U.S. SENATE (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—Argu- ments were concluded today before the senate priviliges and _ elections committee on the Brookhart-Steck senate election contest in Iowa it was announced a report would be drafted ‘at the earliest feasible time.” The committee must decide on the legality of approximately 6,000 con- tested ballots. Thru agreements by opposing counsel, the issue has been reduced to these ballots, all of which bear varios ‘marks considered in folation of thé Iowa election laws. Steck now Holds a lead on uncon- ted ballots! but if Brookhart's con- mtions are supported by the com ittee he would have @ majority of ebs, national committeeman of to tally to the support of the ndicalism and anti-sedition laws lips of the working class and ARNOUR CLEANS LOCKER ROOMS AFTER EXPOSE Workers Must Organ- ize Into Unions By Shop Nucleus No. 23, Correspondent, Since The DAILY WORKER ex« pose of the unsanitary conditions on the hog killing floor at Armour & Co.'s plant in Chicago, in which it was pointed out that the men must stand in slime in the locker rooms and must shiver while they undress and put on the scanty clothing which they wear on the hog killing floor, the bosses have begun to clean up things. The locker rooms have been clean- ed out and made so that a worker can stand on the floor to dress. Tho they have scrubbed them out now and promise to scrub them every week, that is not enough, Every time that they wash the floor above, the filthy water drips into our lockers and onto our clothes. Steam pipes are also being put in so that there will be some heat in the locker rooms. Hogs that went thru half-clean be- fore, are more carefully watched and ing machine with a great deal of the bristles and hair, the chain is slowed up so that the machine takes off more of the bristles and hair, Previously the company kept back one week's pay and two weeks’ bonus. Since The DAILY WORKER cam- paign in which it was shown how the bonus system works and that the workers must throw the bonus sys- tem onto a scrap heap and demand a higher pay and abolition of the speed- up system, also showing up how the company kept the bonus checks way behind the pay checks and thus a worker would lose two weeks’ bonus if he quit, it has now been changed. A “sop” has been thrown to the work- ers, The bonus check has been even- ed up with the pay check. They now keep back one week’s pay and one week’s bonus. The workers on the floor know that these are sops that are being thrown to them and that these things do not change conditions much in the plant. Low wages, bonus, speed-up systems and the attempt of the packers to bring back the 12 and 14-hour day are the things the workers oppose. The packers have thrown us these sops to keep us from organizing into a real union to demand the union conditions that at one time. prevailed in the in- dustry. The workers should remem- ber this. We want ' shorter hours, more pay, abolition of the speed-up system and the bonus. Regardless of whether the workers are colored or white they must join hands and get into unions that will really fight the bosses and get these conditions. Pittsburgh Will Hold Lenin Memorial Sunday pees lay PITTSBURGH, Jan. 28—All work- ers are invited) to attend the Lenin memorial meeting that will be held Sunday evening iat The Labor Lyceum, 85 Miller St, at 8 o'clock. Comrade A.» Barly of Chicago will be the prineipal speaker. L. Wiet man will speak in Jewish. S. Nazim off in Russian and James Lofakus in Greek. There will be a number of recitations by the Pioneers and mu- sical memberg by talented comrades, The International Branch, No. 2 of the Workers Party and Young Work- ers’ League of Pittsburgh re arrang- ing the meeting. Admission is free. Read This Today: The fight of the farmers. Going into the world court. The coal miners’ strike. 1. L. D. wars on gag laws. Russians greet! Chinese, The strike at Passalo, Workers’ Correspondence, page 8, Party news on’ pa More workers honor Lenin, Fingerprinting the workers, \ Published Dally exce PUBLISHID NEW YORK EDITION ept Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chica; ul. Price 3 Cents T DES MOINES [Debs Urges Aid for I. L. D. nst Gag Laws LAND TILLERS ARE ENRAGED AT DILATORY TACTICS OF BANKERS, MERCHANTS AND THE LANDLORDS BULLETIN. (Special to The Dally Worker) DES MOINES, lowa, Jan. 28.—“Dirt farmers” of the middle west, enraged at the dilatory tactics of the bankers, merchants and others here striving to utilize the conference for political gain are staging @ revolt this afternoon and have served notice that “unless agriculture is shown the same consideration and given the same protection from the gov- ernment that industry now enjoys, there will be a political upheaval in this country that will be felt for the next fifty years.” Spokesman for the “dirt farmers” was William Hirth of Columbus, Mo., president of the Mississippi farm clubs, who deserting his prepared speech sounded the first political note in the farm conference here today. . e . ° (Special to The Dally Worker) DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 28.—The assembling here today: of the motley crew of bankers, businessmen, politicians, and well-to-do farmers, with a scattering of middle class farmers jis noteworthy inasmuch as it revealed the total incapacity of such ta gathering to deal with the+ present farm crisis. Consternation was thrown into their ranks by the formal news from Wash- JAM F 0 R D ry ALL ington that the federal farm loan board had directed an annual 20 per Milwaukee and Gardner Hold Big Meetings cent depreciation to be charged off the real estate acquired by the federal BOSTON, Jan. 28.—The large Ford Hall here was jammed with workers joint banks, thru foreclosures. With an annual depreciation of 20 paying their respects to the memory of Lenin. per cent the holders of mortgages will Bertram D, Wolfe, director of the be forced to throw upon the market tens of thousands of small farms, be- cause the value would sink to zero in New York Workers’ School spoke of Lenin and the American working class. a period of a few years, according to the middle class elements among thé farmers here. Move Is Viewed With Alarm. The business men from the towns and villages view with alarm this move,as it means an exodus of many “He emphasized Lenin's program for America of welding the American masses into a movement independent of the bourgeois parties — a move- ment taking the shape of the labor party. Al Schaap, the district secretary of ing down of fences and the applicatio! the Young Workers’ League, spoke on Lenin and the Youth. of heavy machinery to agriculture. The small bankers are panic stricken and have ordered their clerks thruout Ella Reeves Bloor also spoke of Lenin. Mother Bloor cited how in America one of the greatest weapons all the eleven states represented here to unload farm foreclosures as quick- of Leninism—The DAILY WORKER —was reaching out to the masses. ly as possible. For them it means they become more than ever agents of the big bankers and industrialists, She pleaded for support of The DAILY WORKER, The chairman of the meeting was Stuns Meeting. Harry J. Canter, a member of the The notice was contained in a letter signed by O. F. Schee of Des Moines, International Typographical Union. rae ae vice-president of the Chicago. © Joint Milwaukee Holds Meeting. Stock-Land Bank to banks in the Chicago district which was made public by L. A. Andrew, state banking commissioner of lowa, after reading of it had stunned a meeting of the joint executive committee of the corn MILWAUKEE, Jan. 28. — Despite frigid weather over 600 workers at- tended the meeting held in Milwau- kee. Comrade James Dolsen was the main speaker. Comrade Paul Cline and a local comrade spoke for the belt federated committee. Today leaders of the conference Young Workers’ (Communist) League, (Continued on page 2) were loudly crying against what they declared was a new example of the “crime of deflating the farmer,” which they blame for all the farmers troubles in the first place. Will Ruin Farmers, The effect of the order upon the (Continued on page 2) The Dream of a Boss AWERE STAMOS MY MASTER PlEce, {HE IDEAL WORKER! SHOULD HE” GET UNRULY 1 JUST SHUT His § Power ofr! : “Oh if they only made 'em that way!”