The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1926, Page 1

repeal of the” vicious ‘oririnal~ The DAILY WORKER’ Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government AMALGAMATED-NASH AGREEMENT WHITEWASHES SCAB COMPANY ; ‘UNION DOES NOT CONTROL SHOP “Golden Rule” aah, clothing. ma clothing manufacturer of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers of America, have recently been loudly proclaiming that the agreement entered into followed both by the unions and Thousands of Amalgamated between them is a model to be the bosses in this country. members have been demand- ing for some time that the terms of the agreement be made known to them, but Hillman took his time about publishing it, and utilized the delay to spread propaganda among the union ACQUITTAL OF FORD HAILED AS LABOR VICTORY LL.D. Calls on Labor to Release Others The acquittal of Richard (Blackie) Ford on a charge of murder by a jury at Marysville, Cal., has been hailed by all those interested in the defense of working class leaders and militants as an event of great importance. It is the one outstanding case for several years past in which a worker has escaped the clutches of the class justice of the capitalists. Merely “hailing with joy” the re- lease of Blackie Ford, however, is not sufficient. What is necessary is to redouble the efforts to release .the other prisoners of capitalism, and the dicalism laws that are used in many states to imprison the best fighters of the working class. The following statement has been issued by the International Labor De- fense, showing the tasks still confront- ing the workers in the struggle to torce the capitalist state to release the political prisoners: see By I. L. D. Press Service. Hailing the acquittal of Richard (Blackie) / Ford, on trial for the murder of a deputy sheriff in a strike riot oyer twelve years ago, as a /vic- tory for the entire working class the international Labor Defense in public statement called on the work- ers thruout the country and particu- larly in California to initiate a cam- paign for the release of all class war prisoners in that state and fq the repeal of the syndicalist law. It is expected that Ford’s release will be the signal for a renewed effort to open the jail doors. for Suhr, Mooney, NeNamara and the I. W. W. victims of the gag law. 1, L. D. Statement. The statement issued by the Inter- national Labor Defense reads: The acquittal of Richard (Blackie) Ford by a jury of the charge of murdering a deputy sheriff in tle Wheatland hop riots in 1913 signal- tzes the first break in the orgy of persecution that has raged against the workingclass in the state of California for several years. This is an indica- tion that the forces of reaction are now on the defensive and that the era of hysteria nourished by the propaganda of the anti-labor open- shop elements in the state of Califor- nia is on the decline, The International Labor Defense hails the acquittal of the militant working class leader Ford as a vic- tory for the entire working class of the United States. In the name ot its thousands of members and sym- pathizers it sends Ford hearty greet- ings/on his release from his persecu- tors. Tho twelve years of suffering for service to his class places Ford in the front ranks, of the thousands of American workers who have suffered Imprisonment and death in the strug- gle against capitalism, Must Release Other Prisonecs, ‘The acquittal of Ford should en- courage the workers of California to (Continued on page 3) 2 Speed-up Postoffice Clerks. BOSTON, Jan, 29—Boston post of- fice clerks, Local 100, protested against the speed-up system intro- duced by first assistant postmaster general, John N. Bartlett, + You do the job twice ax well— when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your story in ib 4hiadn ont —* members so that when it was WORKERS! ‘WELCOME’ “GOLDEN RULE’ NASH IN CHICAGO SUNDAY The Chicago Forum announces that next Sunday the star attraction will be “Golden Rule’ ih, notor- lous exploiter of Cincinnati, O., who will explain how he built up his busi- ness of $6,000,000 a year, The recent agreement signed by Nash and the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers which was designed to take the stigma of a scab shop off the Nash concern while at the same time maintaining the intensive ex- ploitation of the workers as before, makes the coming speech of Nash of great importance. All workers opposed to the labor published less antagonism would be aroused against it. Whitewashes Nash The mere reading of the agreement shows that it is nothing else than a coat of whitewash spread over Nash and his vicious method of egploita- tion. It is a typical class collabora- tion document in which the interests ‘of the workers and the boss are taken to be identical. No longer will Hill- man_be able to pose as a leader of the workers in their struggles against the bosses. eH has openly shown that “he is against all struggle against the bosses. He has openly shown that he signed. . | The Scab Agreement | Main points of the agreement are: Preamble—It is the expectation and intention of the parties to this agree- ment to achieve thru its operation a state of industrial democracy in the factory and shop. Both parties will contribute without stint to impart a true dignity to labor and to bestow on all those who work a real and ef- the |fective. cit in industry, thru which’ alone will it be possible to ity. It is the hope and belief ‘of the parties to this agreenient that thelr progress in achieving this end of a working democracy in industry can beso striking as to make it an ex- ample for all those who wish to fol- low. Hours—Remain as at present, but overtime at rate of time and a half (Continued. on page 2} MEXICO NOT TO SUBMIT LAND LAW TO WORLD COURT Considers Tt Part of the League of Nations (Special to The Dally Worker) MEXICO CITY, Jan. 29.—Differ- ences between the United States and Mexico over the new Mexican alien land law will not be submitted to the world court for adjudication, the for- eign office let it be known today. Mexico regards the world court as a part of the league of nations and feels she has been slighted by the league. She does not intend to sub- mit any of her difficulties to that body. Some Methods of Spreadig Our Paper - - The Lenin Drive to. to obtain 5,000 naw subscribers for The DAILY WORKER is now on with full speed. Every party comrade understands the im- portant role of The DAILY WORKER not only as a conveyor of information of labor and political events, but as the mass organizer and as a means thru which the Communist Party con- solidates its influence among the masses in shops, mills and factories, However, what is needed are prac- tical, concrete proposals “whieh will aid the comrades in making a success ful subscription drive, or at least in reaching the mags of workers with The DAILY WORKER somewhat reg- ularly, A number of ways to develop the subscription drive are suggested which are already being carried out in some districts as follows: 1. The district or city orgafilzation must insist on every party member ing a subscriber, To facilitate this the district or city organizations shall supply every shop and street nucleus and branch with the names and ad- dresses of its members who have thus far failed to subscribe. This no doubt Jrequires some guna tory on the skinning policy of union co-operation with the boss should attend the meeting and demonstrate to Nash that they are opposed to the scheme cooked up between Hillman and him at the expense of the Amalgamated membership. The performance will take place at the Olympic Theater, Randolph and Clark Sts., Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, 5,000 STRIKERS SHUT UP MILLS AT PASSA, N. Police and Bribery Used to Split Ranks (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, Jan. 29.—Botany Woolen Mills that ree like a prison over for the restoration of t! pér cent wage cut of last summer and the reinstatement of a discharged committeeman. “We Are All Workers.” In a parade held on the first day there were, Americans, Hungarians, Bohemians, Poles, Slovanians, Italians, Russians—so a reporter thought till he asked a young Czech what na- tionalities were there: “None,” was the answer; “no nationalities, we are all workers.” Keen young men are running the strike committee. Gustav Daek, rep- resentative of the finishers, says Colonel Chrales F, H. Johnson, vice- president of the corporation, tried to bribe him to desert his fellows. The Bait was a long term contract job at $100 a week in the finishing room of the American Woolen Co. in Law- rance, Mass. Boss Attempts Bribery. The colonel’s offer indicated a close understanding between the Botany and woolen “trust” interests, tho the Passaic manufacturers have always denied the link. The offer, says Daek, came several days before the strike. Johnson called him to the office and there, with two other executives, gave him an hour and a half selling talk to butter his bread at the expense of his fellows. The argument ran like this, says Daek: “Those fellows are a lot of foreigners and you'll get noth- ing with them. Stay with the com- (Continued on page 2° part of the district. The technical but necessary information obtained thru the registration should be compiled immediately, Then read the commun- jeation containing this information to the nucleus and bring the necessary moral suasion to get the members to comply with an elementary duty. Go after the delinquents. It is prov- ing successful in the nuclei now in Chicagoand elsewhere and will be ben- @ficial in all party units. When the comrades realize that they are being closely followed as to their duties, and that the party will not relinqu! its efforts until each member subscribes, results Will be obtained for The DAILY WORKER. 2, We must reach the mass of workers outside of the party. The method suggested is that each nucleus or branch shall obtain the names and addresses of a number of workers, say 26, from various shops. | These names can be obtained in many ways, either thru present contact with work- ers or thru the names of the workers on the rolls in the factory, ete. The nucleus should then pay the cost of subscribing for these groups of work- ors to The DAILY WORKER for a period of-at least three weeks, The f yiae (s e the Daily Worker) PHILADE! “ne HA, Pa,, Jan. 29.—At the sessio ¢ the conference between officials of thé @inited Mine Workers and the anthPagite operators here, the issue the question of arbi- tration, J wane came out flatly for arbitr: d rejected any other | means of the strike. | Lewis a other union omeials | | ators geen no concessions Frpala| ould enable them to the miners with a i their faces. Conse- ‘ a wordy argumen} 4m nothing but another | are determined to! to arbitration and no-s' feement. The refusal of Lewis- f out the maintenance men as d by the general grievance | ees of the miners, pators sure that they } fear trom Lewis in PUBLISHIN (80®) 40 1AKE OFF Your HAT eM WHEN THE FLAG Goes BY ——=—= American Legion Lesson No. 1. This Issue Consists of Two Sections. SECTION ONE. Published Dally. eer Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 0., 3 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. thractte par asi operators was de- layed for twochours this afternoon while representatives of the enfire anthracite mine‘owners’ industry held @ meeting in ‘which the policy of the operators’ negotiations committee was unanimously adopted and former votes of, confidence..reaffirmed. The operators’ policy is a long term agreement with'a no strike clause, no wage increase and arbitration of all disputes, — Many Eastern Cities to Hold Big I. W. A. Meeting This Week 1. W. A. Press Service The International Workers’ Aid has arranged the following meetings in ad- dition to those already announced: New Haven, Conn., Feb. 2; Hartford, Feb. 7; Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 16; Schenectady, Feb. 17; and Utica, Feb. 18, Bishop Wm. Montgomery Brown and Fred Biedenkapp will be the speakers. Enthusiastic meetings have been re- ported from W0ofchester, Mass, and Bridgeport, Conm: and from Washing- ton, D. C. ThesWorcester rally was a success in spiteof a raging storm. “imperialit the beginning of the socialist revolution.”—Lenin. Pledge yourself insteimperialism at the Lenin meetings. .« cost is low, approximately 50c a day, to the nucleussas a whole for this period. It is surely superior to the direct assessment\method, If done on a wide scale by every party unit, it will result in thousands of workers getting The DAILY WORKER regu- larly for a periodbthru the mails, The DAILY WORKER will gladly carry out this proposal, Naturally, every comrade must then follow up these readers for whom the nucleus subscribed and endeavor to get them to subscribe themselves. 3. Special editions of The DAILY WORKER can be ordered by the nuc- lei for distribution from house to house, but preferably at a specially selected factory. ‘A good time to order a specially large bundle is when a story on some factory is written in the daily. Such a story arouses interest among the workers, Every worker correspond- ent knows that. The need of work- ers’ correspondents {is stressed, hence, not only because \it makes a real live newsy paper, but because it lays the basis for mass>circulation. Every street nucleus should select a factory within its terri before which it RANGEL, CLINE TOBE FREED Revolutionists Served Fifteen Years (I. L. D, Press Service.) According to information received yesterday at the national office of the International Labor Defense, Charies Cline and Jose Rangel with four other political prisoners who have been in-| carcerated in the Texas state prison ‘or over 15 years for organizing a body of volunteers to go to Mexico for the purpose of aiding in the overthrow of the tyranny of the notorious despot Diaz, will soon be released. In a letter to the I. L. D., G. Rubio, | secretary of the committee that has been looking particularly after the in-| terests of the Texas political prison-| ers, attributes the action of the Texas government to “the manifestation} made by the laborers of Mexico inj favor of the prisoners of Texas and/ the work that is being done in this| country by means of the labor| press.” Rubio is in receipt of letters| from Rangel and Cline saying they have been notified that their freedom will be granted at the end of this year. Pursued by Sheriff. | At the time of his arrest, Rangel| {been taken by China to compel Chang |that “the sharp phase of the conflict” (Continued on page 2:) continually and systematically dis- tributes large numbers of The DAILY WORKER, Recently the results in Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City with the stock- yards ediiton has been particularly successful, as also has been the dis- tribution before many clothing factor- ies, the Western Hlectric factory, ete, Whenever a strike occurs and the story is run in The DAILY WORKER, the literature department or DAILY WORKER group, in co-operation with the industrial department, must be re- sponsible for covering the strike regularly with The DAILY WORKER. 4. Then there is the “Sabotnick,” or what might be called in English “Sundayings.” Every nucleus, or preferably the sub-section or section of the party should set aside a day regularly when the entire party mem- bership of that territory is mobilized to go out getting subscriptions for The DAILY WORKER from house to house. This was done recently inthe Pullman section of the Chicago organ- ization. It draws every member into important work of the party. At this time, this plugging, Jimmy Wieins, but most important work is only done ’ CHINA YIELDS — TO DEMAND OF “SOVIET UNION Chang Tso-Lin Will Be Forced to Obey (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 29—China has sent a note to Soviet Russia assuring this government of China’s resolute inten- tion to establish and maintain peace and order along the Eastern railway. | The note describes steps which have Tso-lin to concede to the stipulations of Russia’s ultimatum. A semi-official statement asserts is now past, altho the, Soviets must be constantly on the alert against fresh outbreaks along the Eastern railroad. The Izvestia blames the Japanese, Chinese and English “militarists” for incitement of trouble. Read This Today: Special Magazine Section. Mine Blasts in Two States. “Golden Rule” Nash in Chicago, Hail Acquittal of Ford, Strike Grows at Passaic. Rangel and Cline to be Freed. Wicks Writes on World Court. By Martin Abern by a few (tho increasing) number of nergetic comrades. The Communist International has stressed the need of getting every member into this kind of work. 5. The special editions such as the Lenin edition and The DAILY WORKER anniversary issue, ete., are also excellent times for systematic drives, All of these methods can also be employed to aid the language press, Very often as experience shows, a worker will not subseribe to The DAILY WORKER but will subscribe Price 5 Cents WO STATES "FIVE KILLED IN W. FRANKFORT MINE EXPLOSION 1,000 Escape Death in Orient Pits BULLETIN, Explosion in Colorado. TRINIDAD, Colo., Jan. 29—A repory that between 25 to 30 miners had been entrapped In a coal mine explosion. near Berwind has been received here. The cause of the explosion or detalis concerning the disaster were not avail- able in the first report, 288 FIVE KILLED IN W. FRANKFORT The Dead in IIlinois: JERRY ROACH ARLIE SANDERS ELIJAH HINDMAN FLOYD KEARNS ED. TOBERT * * (Special to The Dally Worker) WEST FRANKFORT, Iil., Jan. 29», Five coal miners were killed and three were Injured in ‘an explosion in the Orient Mine No. 2 At the time of the explosion more than 1,100 coal-diggers were at work. This mine is one of the largest bituminous coal producing mines in the world. Due to the safety devices in the mine over 1,000 miners escaped without a scratch. It is said that the blast was a local explosion occurring at the face of an isolated entrance in the northwestern | section of the huge workings and that the safety devices, which the union had insisted be kept in good working order, shut off this channel from’ the rest of the mine, see Mine Director Investigates. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan. 29—Dir, Lewis of the department of mines has left Springfield for West Frankfort | where he will investigate the cause of the explosion which resulted in the death of five miners. COL, HASKELL IS NEW COMMANDER OF N. Y, MILITIA (Special to The Daily Worker) ALBANY, Jan. 29—-The New York state senate unanimously confirmed! Gov, Smith’s appointment of Colonel! William N, Haskell as commander of the New York national guard. Haskell, who is now a major general, was the head of the American relief expedition to Soviet Russia. He caused a flurry in the press recently when he made public statements favoring Russian re- cognition and expressed sentiments sympathetic to the Soviets, Colonnel Haskell, in spite of an army record in the Philippines, on the Mexican border and in France has somehow managed lately to get the reputation of being something of a pacifist. The New York Defense So- ciety, for example, entered a vigorous protest at the time of the appoint- ment. Haskell’s appointment as command- er of what is another name for the ___| New York state militia places him in a position to prove his pacifism when he is called upon to gather his troops to suppress some future strike of New York workers, FILIPINO MASONS DEMAND FREEDOM OF THE ISLANDS MANILA, Jan, 29.—At a mass meet- to one of his own language. These are only a few of the many ways whieh | can be used to make The DAILY) WORKER drive successful and par. ticularly to make this present drive, for 5,000 new subscribers to The DAILY WORKER a 100 per cent suc: | cess, | This is required from the party members, From the paper is re- quired actual news stories and plenty of articles from worker correspond- ents, material which is not exaggerat- ed. Briefly, The DAILY WORKER) must be a conveyor of complete and true news of events of importance to the working clas# |pendence resolution, imembers of the masons from the meeting, ing here today the Filipino members of the lodge of masons passed a reso- lution in favor of independence for the Philippine Islands. The organiza- tion, it was announced, will send a \large delegation to the United States to preach the doctrine of independence to fellow masons, imperialists Withdraw. Following the passing of the inde- the American withdrew The resolution, which was sponsored and passed by jthe Filipino members, did not meet with the approval of the Americans, it was announced,