The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1926, Page 1

Crean erases The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Carry Stents By T. J. O'FLAHERTY | the United States is publishing letters NE of the socialist party papers, one the few still in existence in supposed to have been written by political prisoners in Soviet prisons. Tho the letters bear every earmark of anti-Soviet concoctions they are issued between elegant covers headed by Mr. Roger Baldwin, director of the Civil Liberties Bureau and very per- sona grata in the columns of the New York Times since he began “to expose” Soviet Russia to the satis- faction of the American capitalist class. ih Mee HE ex-revolutionists who are now associated with Mr. Baldwin may take to heart’ the statement made by Daniel O'Connell, the Irish nationalist, when a British government official complimented him after delivering a speech. “I must go home and examine my conscience” said Daniel. The ex- I. W. W.’s who are co-operating with Mr. Baldwin and the Jewish Daily Forward should look with a jaundiced eye on compliments coming from the New York Times and other organs of ‘Wall street. . ° HE letters from so-called political prisoners that appear between the covers of the $2.00 pamphlet are written in the lurid style affected by the dime novel detective or the stool- pigeons of the Palmer red raid period. They leave nothing to the imagina- tion. Mr. William Burns, the gentle- man who discovered the perpetrators of the Wall street bomb plots ninety nine times, could not improve on them. It is the most improbable congeries of pipe dreams ever syndi- cated. The letters are the work of experienced sensational fiction writ- ers. But what if they are true? oe bag important point to be consid- ered is whether or not the Rus- sian workers and peasants have a right to the produce oftheir Tabor’or’ whether they ate guilty in assuming that those who produce should rule and act on that assumption, It might be noticed that those worship- pers at the shrine of democracy and pacifism seem to ignore the fact that capitalism, being the system of private ownership of the means of life and the exploitation of the many in the interests of the few is inherently un- democratic, in the sense that demo- cracy is understood, i. e.: the rule of the majority. F the Russian workers and peasants are the only classes entitled to rule their country thru the fact that they are the only producers of wealth, it follows that they are morally right in using any effective means to safe- guard their power. If those who are charged with the serious.responsibili- ty of guiding the destinies of 130,000,- 000 workers and peasants allowed the czarists and their capitalist sup- porters to return to their old diver- sion of exploiting those 130,000,000, the Bolsheviks would not have to worry much about filthy jails, lustful wardens and brutal jailers. The work- ers and peasants would have them hanged drawn and quartered. owe ACTS are’ hard-boiled propositions, Undoubtedly there are some coun- ter-revolutionists in Soviet prisons because they have actively opposed the Soviet government. And let it be understood that there was nothing platonic about the activities of those gentry, Everything went from assas- sination to lying propaganda and ne- gotiations with capitalist governments looking towards the overthrow of the workers’ and peasants’ rule in Russia, Mr. Roger Baldwin and his liberty deving associates who seem to ignore (Continued on page 3) Abolish Property Holding Bars for ‘ Japanese Voters TOKIO, Jan, 31—It is estimated that about 10,000,000 new voters will be added to the voters of Japan due to the act which was adopted by the Diet last March and now declared a law by an imperial edict. The act, adopted by the Diet, fixes the voting age at 25 and abolishes property hold- ing qualifications. It will be in force at the next election, To Build Seventeen New Schools in Chicago The board of education has decid- ed on seventeen new school buildings and additions to be constructed dur- ing 1926. It is stated that the build- ing program will cost $9,700,000. $600,000 is set aside for the purchase of sites from the $12,127,097 building Outside Chicago, LedlS OFFERS ARBITRATION TO OPERATORS ‘Volantary’ Arbitration Is Proposed (Special to The Dai'y Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 31—The Lewis officialdom of the United Mine Workers of America surrendered yes- terday to the demands of the anthra- cite operators for arbitration of all dis- putes between the miners and opera- tors. In order to hide the betrayal of the interests of the miners it is la- belled “voluntary arbitration.” The essence of the proposal is that a fact-finding commission composed of Charles E. Hughes, Secretary of Labor Davis and Governor Pinchot should be appointed to make an investigation of wages and profits in the industry. This commission of reactionary republican benchmen shall report to a conciliation committee of three miners and three operators which shall have power to settle the question. Concession To Operators. The only objection of the operators to this proposition is that it leaves out the word “compulsory” arbitrationg and they renewed their demand that their full demand be granted. The re- ply of the union officials to this has not been disclosed, It is recognized that this proposal by Lewis is a definite step toward agreeing to the operators’ demand for compulsory arbitration. One operator stated, “In effect, it is voluntary arbit- ration and represents the furtherest concession thus far made by the mi- ners to the operators, who have ur- beginning.” Lewis Gives In. in. ed Lewis to agree with their demand: However they will agree to verbal concessions to enable Lewis) ti put the deal over on the miners. The operators have not budged an. inch. from their demands for a five-year agreement, resumption of work diately at the old wage scale, and ¢com- pulsory arbitration. Lewis has ¢on- cerned himself solely during the nego- tiations in finding some méans* of agreeing to the demands of the oper- ators and fooling the miners into ac- cepting them. ‘ , see —* Conference Adjourned. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 31—The conference of miners’ officials and an- thracite operators has adjourned until next Tuesday when the negotiations will be resumed. It is understood that the reason for the adjournement is to allow Lewis to find out the attitude of the miners toward the arbitration pro- posal he has made to the operators. Pardon Wealthy Booze Seller Before He Even Reaches Penitentiary SEATTLE, Wash. Jan. 21—Ray Zbinden, son of a wealthy family and prominent in republican party politics here, was pardoned by Governor Hart- ley before he reached the penitentiary to serve a from six months to fifteen years’ sentence for forging $10,000 worth of automobile contr: to raise funds to go into bootlegging. He had been brought to trial in April, 1925, when he admitted to his forgeries before Judge French of Kitsap county. He was then'given a suspended sentence, The istrict at- torney protested and had him arrested for another forgery. Zbinden pleaded guilty. Judge Mills of Seattle gave a suspended sentence. The case Was then carried by the district attorney to the state supreme court, which ruled that since Zbinden had been convicted of a felony he could not be ‘anted a suspendedasentence, Mills then sentenced him to a term of from six months to fifteen y in the fifteen penitentiary. An executive parole reached Zbinden before he had been taken from the Seattle jail. Spanish Labor Defense Formed in Los Angeles » i Le DB. News Service LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan, 31.—A Spanish branch of the International Labor Defense with 23 members has been organized at a meeting held here. A gimeographed leaflet issued two days before the date of the meeting brought 50 workers to the hall, There was a strong determination displayed to get down to work immediately, des- pite attempts dt disruption made by « few disgruntled people, In Chicago, by mall, $8.00 per year, ged compulsory arbitration from. the. }of reiterations of faith in American stor yin ft.” NEW YORK EDITION y except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER ‘by mail, 36-0 PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, ber year, Price 3 Cents DEFEATING REACTON NATIONAL PEOPLE'S ARMY UNDER FENG BEATS REACTIONARY ARMY IN FIERCE BATTLE NEAR PEKING | (Special to The Daily Worker) | PEKING, China, Jan. 31.—Sanguinary fighting is proceeding | outside Peking between the forces of Feng Yu-Hsiang at the head of the people’s army and Wu Pei-fu, heading the counter- revolutionary forces, with Feng’s forces steadily driving back the | forces of reaction. | Feng’s troops are concentrating in large numbers in Peking | and with the defeat of Wu Pei-fu only a matter of days, the anti- |imperialist forces will then launch a heavy offensive against the | most malignant of the counter-revolutionary forces under Chang Tso-lin, the dispersal of whose forces will give a tremendous im- toma to the national revolu-+— ARSE tionary movement in China, WOLF Just WHat ARE you AFRAID, A TIRADE UNION COMMITTEE TO (NVESTI- . GATE RUSSIA WILL FIND OUT, MR, GIREEN ¢ TRADE UNIONS NOT TO INVEST= [GATE CON- DITIONS IN / RUSSIA, Ries & ABRAMS’ With a decisive victory over Wu | Pie-fu. being achieved the agents of | European and American imperialism HIS here are exceedingly uneasy and have ONLY j already begun their propaganda calcu-| ise lated to induce other nations to inter- vene and save the situation. Fable of Treaty Violations. The favorite story that is now being circulated against Feng by the agents of imperialism is that the army of Feng is mounting guns on forts which were supposed to be razed under the protocol signed following the Boxer uprising. Such charges are plain propaganda of reaction, but they ex- pose the role of the foreign diplomats who are doing everything within their power to embarass Feng in order to hamper him in his fight against the reaction. Without exception American, Brit- IN BRIDGEPORT Left Wing Is Active in War on Clothing Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan. 31—The workers employed by Wolf & Abrams clothing manufacturers have declared a strike calling out all workers in- |cluding the cutters, tailors and press- ers. The meeting at which it was voted |to strike was attended by the over- ish, French and Japanese diplomats |whelming majority of the workers and sympathize with the counter-revolu-| only a small number of workers mis- tionary forces of Wu and Chang and/ieg by some of the paid agents of the bitterly oppose Feng. firm returned to work, It is expected that all of the workers will come out when the union pickets will make the \ dns clear to them. Company Tries to Break Union. ¢ |39 COALDIGGERS KILLED IN COAL MINE DISASTER Rock Dust Saves 1,235 in West Frankfort (Special to The Dally Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan, 31, — Twenty-seven coaldiggers, sixteen Ne- groes and eleven white, were killed in Why Is Green a Delegation to RESIDENT GREEN and his Qgother reactionaries of the A. F. of L. oppose the sending of a trade union delegation to investigate con- Aitions in Seviet Russia, tt are the reasons they give? it, ,it is a “Communist maneuver.” It was proposed at the Atlantic City ‘tonvention of the A. F. of L. by A. A. Purcell, Mr. Green calls Brother Pur- cell a “Russian emissary.” Second, Mr. Green is already convinced about Soviet Russia. Why investigate? We * tussia? e to the A. F. of L. ¢ British Trade Union ls a past president of labor member of par- ment, ut of the Furnishin, Trades Union of Great_ Britain and president of the International Federa- tion of Trade! Unions. The British trade union delegation that visited and reported on the con- dition of the’ Soviet Union, besides Purcell was: composed of the follow- ing prominent British trade unionists: Revolutionary Forces Gain. 4-Inspite of the- opposition and. the talk about the influence of the national Tevolutionary movement being confin- 7 . . According to the reports given out mite 5 ee Wola Bovey, Gey bens | by members of the general executive evidence that the movement has the -| board of thi a a support of the overwhelming’ mass ot | arnies the pee real ei conscious elements within the nation. ‘ s Thibe bilgides. of oavaley Bikve re.| SHOP in another town and is sending sontly getivad ts ddiat Paley forces | tHe work there. It iseclear that the in Peking under command of the| "™ is trying to create a situation already know that Russia is govern- Paige gee “ieceping ng the age an explosion at the Mossboro mine of/hated and feared Tartar general, Mal ine hartge poegpinsie bates bc ed by a “dictatorship of terrorists rh pesto a (5 “a ae founder Of! the Premier Coal company near|Fu-Hsiang, who has been a power AB Thig elthera to etvarele ai ‘or These are the only tangible reasons oe tee Shh Accatan ya tt|Helena. This mine is located on the|the Kansu province. With these| We ¥° ee on SO ee for his opposition to be gathered from| founder of the Ship Assistant's Un- | ditions, property of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railway company and is leased to the Premier company. There were but 53 miners in the mine at the time of) the explosion. Twenty-six miners es-| caped uninjured, The explosion was caused by a! “windy shot.” As a number of shots were being fired to loosen coal for the| next day’s work, one of these shots hit a pocket of gas and caused the ex- plosion which snuffed out the lives of forces thrown into the breach there} will be a quick victory over all threat- ening reactionary elements. ion; Allan Findlay, president of the Engineering and Ship Building Trades; Fred Bramley, general secre- tary of the ‘British Trades Union Con- gress, 1923. All outstanding leaders of the four and one-half million Bri- tish trade unionists. Green Against Soviet Recogniiton. What becomes of Green’s cry of a “Communist” British delegation? Green knows the truth. He knows the standing of the British labor lead- Green’s speeches and writings on the subject. For the rest they consist Condition Deplorable. The company has been paying its . : ZA jemployes an extremely low rate of Chang, while frying to hold to} sees 4 number of the employes gether his battered troops is loudly! interviewed by the correspondent com- prolaiming that the Peking govern- ; * 7 | plained of extremely low pay. The ment is under Bolshevik influence, but] ciris are receiving wages from $9 h charges have no peril for the] “BPagee eae narer les Bute bpabishes Saget suc! "| $13 a week. Some of the women who Chinese masses, who flock in ever| have worked in the. plant for over five larger numbers to the nationalist) years receive as low as $15 J i as $1 prsdaptiirs, | 8 $15 and $16. fi | Men who have worked for the firm a Imperialism is in a bad way in China| iong number of years and who have democracy and condemnation of the “reds.” The British Delegation. The charge that Purcell was a “Rus- sian emissary,” that the British dele- gation to Soviet Russia was a dele- gation of Communists and that the whole thing is a “red” maneuver is ef © Rock Dusting Saves 1,235, WEST FRANKFORT, IIL, Jan, 31.— What came near being the most ] serious mine disaster in the country|| was ayerted by the use of rock dust. Only five miners lost their lives while 1,235 escaped without injuries, when an explosion occurred at the Orient Mine 2 of the Chicago, Wilmington and Franklin Coal company here. Due to union demands rock dust ;and the success of the revolution will| ramiti. : sana a) plain lie. A. A. Purcell was the these miners and badly wrecked the) an ‘ families to support receive wages un- Pl (Continuation pase $3 mine. but increase the antagonisms between| der $25, In addition to the ise pay, : ¢ Those who have been identified are|the imperialist countries in this part| the workers have to work under the . MINERS T0 60 Scopes Trial Staged Hosey Harrison, Enoch Woodson,|of the world. most unsanitary conditions, with fore- * William Temple and Percy Pierce, <==)| men who use slave driving methods on epee ec Show ve Negro miners and William Harrison, || || the workers. The workers complain of a) italist ropagan: Robert Ball, Doyle Lambert, Pat | . ||| Many abuses and resent strongly the ON . TRIAL IN P’ s ad Adams, Bill Caric, Jeff Holloway, i A Series of ||| attempts of the bosses to terrorize white. Many of the other bodies are ||| Im rta them by playing the shop in one town ZEIGLER FEB 2 ME saovscscfy4 u . 3 os ae, om disfigured so that it is hard to identity | | A i nt against the other. 1 ie Scopes a8 aroused so much | them, ||| Fake Committee Fo b: i 5 interest here! it is being produced in emcee i] waeitbe sere In an attempt to divide the workers, the bosses have set up a fake commit- tee which temporarily misled some of the workers, However, their attempts were not successful as the amalgama- |jted action committee of New York ) . P) \||thru its chairman, S. Lipzin, immedi Begi g | diate | | | ly declared that their organization had nothing to do with the fake committee Tuesday, February 2 | setup in bridgeport. Furthermore, the |) "epresentative of the New York com- mittee, Victor Foreman, immediately a theater in) the form of an educa- tional play showing the difference be- tween the religious bunk used for stultifying thesminds of the people in capitalist United States and the aims of the Communist government of Sov- jet Russia to educate the people. Trumbulli Will Tour fot Labor Defense Fifty Witnesses Will By A. Losovsky, Prove Frame-up Secretary of the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions IL. D. News Service. Thirteen of the 20 miners indicted rington’s henchmen at a union meet- ing in Zeigler will appear for trial to- morrow in Benton, Illinois, Among the number is Henry Corbishley leader . | of the progressive miners in Zeigler was kept stored on platforms that Paris— | (Continued on page 2.) and the sharpest thorn in the side of | 1. L. O) News Service. were easily tilted by the slightest rush || | —_— Farrington and the coal operators, It was announced at International «Continued on page 2» | Breslau— | The defendants are represented by! Labor Defense: headquarters at Chi- 9 {| | L ABOR DEFENSE four lawyers: George R. White of | cago, that Walter Trumbull, who was |CHICAGO WORKERS, ATTENTION! Scarborough— Marion; Harry E. Morgan of Chris-| convicted by military court martial in | | topher; Sidney M. Ward of Benton and I, E. Ferguson of Chicago, The trial is expected to prove sen- sational, The defense is prepared to present at least 50 witnesses to prove that the charge is a frame-up, On the other hand Farrington is co-operating with the prosecution in trying to ratl- road the militant union miners to jail. The International Labor Defense is looking after the legal interests of the defendants, Sentiment among the miners is growing stronger daily against the methods employed by the coal opera- tors and the reactionary union officials in order to get rid of trade unionists who consistently defend the interests of the coal diggers, Hawaii with»Paul Crouch for protes- sing Communist views and applying for membership in a Communist or- ganization, will start on a nation wide tour for the International Labor De- fense on his release from Alcatraz prison on February 5. Trumbull will address meetings in California until the 22, He is due in Chicago March 6 or 7, Reserve the date March 19. Why? Great Labor Defense demonstration and Paris Commune Pageant on that|) date at Ashland Bivd. Auditorium. In addition to the pageant and prom-|) inent spéakers including Bishop Wm. \| M. Brown, there will be moving pic- tures of Labor Defense and Class War Prisoners’ Aid in rica and Eu-|) rope. Rally for Labor Defense! | AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS’ LOCALS BACK LABOR PARTY NEW YORK, Jan, 31.—The stand taken by the Amalgamated Food|! Workers’ recent convention repudiating the labor party which was defeated by certain elements in the convention, assisted by certain reactionary dele- gates, has been completely reversed by various locals. When the report of| the convention ‘was read before the membership of ers’ Locals Nos, 3 and 164, the idea ofvthe labor party was upheld by an unanimeus-decision of the WILL APPEAL HORACEK CASE | | MEADVILLE, Pa,, Jan. 31.—Attor |||ney L. E. Ferguson appeared before |||Judge Thomas Prather of Meadville, ||| last week and argued in behalf of the ‘ppeal of Edward Horacek trom his jjconviction on a charge of alleged || violation of the Pennsylvania state sedition law. The judge has not yet rendered a decision, Ferguson showed that the question involved in’ Horacek’s conviction wag the legality of the Workers Party, a political organization that operated openly thruout the United States, If Horacek’s conviction is upheld it utlaws the Workers Party in the state of Pennsylvania, The Interna- tlona) Tehow Defense is rear | the Pe} Three outstanding con- gresses of French, German || and British organized labor || are dealt with. | Policies decided upon are analyzed and compared —steps toward world trade union unty pointed out. All workers—and espe- cially trade unionists—will find in these articles an important analysis of the latest developments in the world trade union move- ment—and a good reason | You do the job twice as well~ when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your membership,