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

aaa } Page Two FOR THE UNITY OF THE CITY AND LAND FAKE FARMER LOBBYISTS 10 ND OLD GUARD Farmers Gain Nothing by Canned Corn Raise (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 — Senators and congressmen from the agricultural regions are awaiting with considerable amusement the arrival here of the 22 lobbyists coming from the Des Moines “farm” conference, as they fully real- ize that the delegation is safe as far as they are concerned. Originally con- ceived as a method of fooling the im- poverished farmers, the corn belt senators never expected it to work so well. Furthermore there is no danger of any group at Washington being able to expose their game, so they fell safe, Each of the senators and congressmen running for reelection this fall will contrive to receive the endorsement of this gang as a means of going be- fore the farmers and asking for their support. Corn Aids Manufacturers. While no relief for the farmers hit by the corn crisis is in sight, the corn Products outfit, disposing of oils from corn, canned corn and other stocks they have had for years, are boosting prices and disposing of their surplus because of the agitation to eat corn products, Every predatory interest in the country from banks to manufacturers of canned corn products and credit clothing fakirs in the country towns are preying upon the misery of the farmer. The politicians are hoping that they will be able to maintain the illusion that they can benefit the farmers until after this congressional election, when they hope a revival of agriculture will eliminate the problem in the 1928 elections, Farmer’s Wife Tells of Coolidge’s Prosperity in Ashland County, Wis. By a Farmer Correspondent. ASHLAND, Wis., Jan. 31—The Wis- consin Farmer, a farm paper, pub lishes an article painting a beautiful picture of the easy life that the farm- er’s wife has. It tells us that mothers of six children can manage their work so that they can have several hours a day to rest or go out to enjoy life. I am a mother of four children. I live on a farm, but no matter how I try to arrange my work I never find spare time to rest, and when I do go out, I have to leave my work undone. As for getting rich on the farm it is like dreaming of the golden crown that is promised us after we die. All thru the summer there are auction sales of the belongings of farmers who have quit farming be- cause they havé gone bankrupt. Many of them have started twenty years ago and have had to give up today. There are many who do not yet know where the trouble lies, but those of us who do know, let us tell them, and when we are all united, we will see that each one will get the full benefit of his labor, and those who do not work will have to sweat if they would eat, When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DALLY WORKER says about it. PEASANTS’ INTERNA TIONAL CALLS FOR UNITED STRUGGLE OF WORKERS AND FARMERS AGAINST FASCISTI MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Jan. 31.—In an appeal sent out by the Peasants’ International—the Krestintern—the workers and farmers all over the world are called upon to unite against the fascist terror that is now smashing the farmers’ and workers’ co-operatives in Italy. In the following appeal which is sent to all lands, the Peasants’ Inter- national calls for a relentless struggle position to the fascist terror and call unitedly work for a farmers’ government: “A new wave of fascist violence has swept Italy. The fascist persecution of the economic organizations of workers and farmers has been going on incessantly for the last three years. Thousands of workers’ and farmers’ co-operative stores have been raided and pillaged. The bulk of the trade unions and of the farm- ers’ organizations have been destroy- ed by the fascisti. Only recently a fascist band, with the support of the Italian movement, forcibly seized the headquarters of the national league of workers’ co-operatives at Milan. “After raiding and closing of about 6,000 co-operative stores run by the league, the remaining 1,000 co-opera- tives of the league haVe been placed under fascist control, “In answer to the terror, violence and prisons of the fascists and their | government, bring your ranks even closer together, workers and farmers of Italy, and wage a common fight for the overthrow of the fascist pow- er and for the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government. “Brothers and fellow farmers thru- out the world: Rise to the defense of the workers’ and peasants’ co-op- eratives of Italy. Do not forget that the cause of the Italian workers is your very own. workers fail to create a united fight- ing front both nationally and inter- nationally for the defense of their co- operative and other organizations, the fate of the Italian and Bulgarian farmers’ and workers’ co-operatives will become the fate of the co-opera- tives in other countries. “At mass meetings and conferenc- es, in street demonstrations and in parliament, let your m&ghty voice of indignation and protest be heard against the fascist bands and the fas- cist government. Protect the work- ers’ and farmers’ co-operatives of Italy from utter destruction and an- nihilation. Demand the restoration of the raided and closed go-operatives, demand the payment of compensation for the losses sustained by the co- operatives thru raiding and closing, the Mberation of the imprisoned co- operators and the unhindered ‘repa- triation of the co-operators who were forced to emigrate. “Farmers and workers thruout the world: Declare before the whole world your solidarity with the strug- gle of the workers and farmers of Italy. Raise your protesting voice against the violence df the Italian government, the government of mur- derers of workers and farmers, the government of smashers of the co- operative organizations and the trade unions of the farmers and the work- ers. “Down with the despicable raiders. “Down with the fascists and their government, “Down with the fascist dictatorship. “Long live the workers’ and farm- ers’ co-operatives, “Long live the farmers and work- ers of Italy. . “Long live the fight for freedom waged by the workers and farmers thruout the world. “The presidium of the International Farmers’ Council.” (Seal.) workers’ and¢- If the farmers and} against the fascisti and an active op- Ss upon the workers and farmers to SEED GROWERS WORK HARD, GET - SMALL RETURNS Farmers Get Thin Dime; Company Waxes Fat (By Farmer Correspondent) MOUNT VERNON, Wash., Jan. 31 ~—The seed growers of the Skagit Val- ley have the sport of growing the seed but the seed houses get the money, Out here on the rim of the continent jis a small valley, the delta of the Skagit river. It is one of the earth's |most fertile spots. The crops grown jhere sound like fairy tales. Among jthe numerous crops are cabbage, beets, turnips and spinach, all for seed. Cabbage is grown on a large scale. Those reading about this fer- tile valley will envy us seed growing farmers when they know we raise as high as 1,800 pounds of cabbage seed to the acre. The average is more like 600 to 700 pounds. From the prices quoted in seed catalogues, you will think we are all capitalists. This is mot so as the seed companies “take care” of us, We pay as high as $35 per acre rent a year. Two years are needed to grow the seed—counting losses from floods and treezing—we must work three years before we can sell a crop. The first year we must raise the |plants, prepare the land, set the | plants, battle the weeds and pests, bank it for the winter. The second | year—cultivation, steking and strings to keep them standing. Then when jtipe, cutting and curing and threshing; |then curing some more. Then seed companies get us, They take the cured seed after it |won’t shrink any further, run it thru a |clcaner and out of the dollar you farm- jes pay for this seed, the seed com- panies give us a dime to live on, pay the rent, buy strings, stakes, and pay for threshing. Units of Workers and Farmers. We are sure hogs for punishment, but I have an idea that when they put us down to a nickel, maybe more of | us will join the Workers (Communist) | Party, and instead of following the leadership of the capitalist politicians, will unite with the workers from the |shops and form a workers and farm- ers’ government, and fix it so the fat ones come out and work im the fields with us. Farmers’ Families Like Serfs. NEW YORK, Jan. 29—Farmers’ wives and children are unpaid serfs, Benjamin C. Marsh, executive secre- tary People’s Reconstruction League, told the New York Federation of Progressive Women. There is little hope of any federal child labor amend- ment that would apply to farm chil- dren passing, Marsh stated. He called for a United States senate inquiry into the human aspects of farm con- ditions, Danish Farmers Face Farm Crisis Due to German Tariff Walls COPENHAGEN, Jan, 31—High pro- duction costs and a high German tar- riff making it impossible for Danish farmers to sell their produce has re- sulted in a farm crisis. Little legis- lative relief is offered the farmers. Since American financiers have in- yvaded Danish industry and Have be- gun to grant loans, the Danish banks are also making loans to firms fear- ing that the American bankers will gain control of the Danish trade. Fewer articles of commerce, are be- ing exported declared Danish experts due to a ruined German market, a poor English market and fierce colon- ial competition, $11,326,829 in Booze Jumps Across Canadian Line to United States OTTAWA, Ont., Jan. 31—In the past eight months “wet goods” valued at $$11,326,829 “jumped” the Canadian border into the United States accord- ing to the report of the Canadian gov- ernment on exports to the United States, In 1923, hard liquir and beer to the value of $6,564, 284 crossed the border and in 1924 it had increased to $7,691,660. Over 909,005 gallons of ale, beer and porter and 466,358 gal- ons of hard liquor found its way across the boundaries in the past eight months. That worker next door to you not have anything to do to- n Hand him this copy of the Y WORKER. KANSAS GITY OIL COMPANIES IN BIG MERGER Will Form $20,000,000 Concern (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 31.— A number of small Kansas City oil com- panies are now merging together in order to keep in line with the develop- ment of capitalism and meet the com- petition of the eastern syndicates, Negotiations for the merging of the Greenland Oil company, the Kansas City Refininig company, the Westgate Oil company, and the Indian Oi] com- pany, a subsidiary of the Mission Oil compaay, into the Manhattan Oil com- pany are now going on and will un- doubtedly result in the formation of a $20,000,000 corporation when the re- sources of the four companies are pooled together, The new combination will control more than 7,500 barrels of dally oil production, besides 8,000 acres of un- developed oi] land leases in Kansas, the 6,000-barre] refinery of the Kansas City Refining company in the Fairfax district, approximately 300 bulk and service stations in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin and Min- nesota and direct pipe and gathering lines from Greenwood country, Kans., to Kansas City. This line is about 250 miles long and is the longest electric- ally operated pipe line in the world. The Lenin Drive means quick action—send your sub tod f Spy Agency Seeks New 5 ° * Clients in Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, Jan, 31—Employers in Milwaukee are receiving a series of letters from Howard W. Russell, Inc., which specializes in supplying indus- trial spies. It numbers the larger open shop concerns of the city as its clients. “Here is an organization,” its circular letter boasts, “with more than 15 years’ of successful experi- ence, equipped to supply you with information at any time, any place and of any kind—business or personal. As your bank renders a financial sery- ice we render an information service, broad in its scope and confidential in its nature.” Its scope was so very broad that the Wisconsin legislature drastically clipped its wings : the last session. A sub a day will help to drive capital away. 35 More Coal Diggers Killed in Alabama (Continued from page 1) of air from an explosion. When the explosion occurred this non-com- bustible, non-explosive rock dust filled the alr, In addition piles of rock dust are scattered over the floor near the entries to keep down the coal dust. Ci Me Three Killed in Colorado, TRINIDAD, Colo, Jan, 31—A gas explosion at Mine No, 8 of the Bear Canyon Coal company snuffed out the lives of three coal miners, The ‘thirty: three survivors were badly burned and seared, five of them are fh a serious condition, Most of the cloth- ing of the thirty-three was bi THE DAILY WORKE IL. D. NATIONAL CHAIRMAN URGES GAG LAW FIGHT Sentiment Growing for Mighty Campaign (1, L. D, Press Service) Messages continue to pour into the national offices of the International Labor Defense hailing the acquittal of Richard (Blackie) Ford on the charge of murder by a jury in Marysville, California. Andrew T. McNamara, prominent progressive trade unionist and nation- al chairman of the I. L. D, wired: ‘Papers mentioned early in month, Manwell, the son was to haye revenge for death of Manwell, the father, but not a word in any paper of Ford’s ac- quittal. Send Ford, Suhr, Mooney, Billings, Sacco, Vahzetti, and all oth- ers our assurance that we are keep- ing up the fight for thé freedom of all industrial and political prisoners.” -John Haynes Holmes said: “Ford acquittal a great victory. It may well mark turning point in sweeping tide of reaction and tyranny ‘which has engulfed California in recent years. Such fact should spur us all on to venewed endeavor in fight for civil li- berties.” Albert F, Coyle, editor of the Loco- motive Engineers’ Journal sees in the acquittal of Ford a turning of the re- ctionary tide. He wires: “I regard ‘ord acquittal as turning of reaction- ary tide that has engulfed America since world. war sabotaged democ- racy. As native Californian am heart- ily ashamed that one of the most beautiful states in union should have most ruthlessly denied constitutional rights to those striving for social just- ice. Ford’s acquittal forecasts free- dom for Mooney and Billings in near future.” Bugene V. Debs is a letter enclos- ing a five dollar check to the I. L. D. fund declares: “I wired you yester- day in answer to your telegram con- cerning the case of Richard Ford. We may well congratulate ourselves upon the outcome of that trial and the acquittal and release of the long- suffering victim. We must now gird om our armor anew in the fight to rescue all the rest,” This is the attitude expressed in many other communications received by the I. L, D. according to the na- tional secretary. The concensus of opinion is that this is. t paign to wipe the famous gag laws off the statute books and to open the doors for the class war ‘pris- oners in every state of the union as well as in California. ~ N, Y, NEEDLE TRADES GALL MANY STRIKES Millinery Workers Win ; Union Terms NEW YORK, Jan. 31—Between 2,500 and 3,000 tuckers, pleaters and hemstitchers of New York are strik- ing because employers have broken agreements signed with Local 41 In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, All union shops and several non-union factories are closed by the strike. The union demands cash se- curity from employers to insure en- forcement of the contract. Employers were trying to break union conditions with * the 44-hour week and §8 to $18 wage cuts. The agreement calls for 42-hour week and wages of $55 for tru¢kers, $45 for pleaters, $30 for pleaters’ helpers, and $28 for hemstitchers, Ngw agreements are being signed with individual man- ufacturers since the Noyers’ asso- elation failed to give 000 security required. , Pickets Ari d. Men and women are employed in about equal number if this machine work, auxiliary to cloak and dress trades. Shops employ ‘an average of 10 workers, One empléying 25 is ex- ceptional, Strikers ate holding en- thusiastic meetings and picket regu- larly, confident that they will win within a week. A number of pickets have been arrested ‘on disorderly conduct charges. The court denied Star Pleating company an injunction against the union, which has had a strike against this shop for 20 months with constant picketing. “* ® Needle Strikes Successful. NEW YORK, Jan, 31—Less than 500 millinery strikers are still out in downtown New York in the union or- ganization strike. The 2,500 other workers have returned to work as their employers settled with the union, International Cloth Hat, Cap and Mil- linery Workers. Of the 200 shops struck in the organization campaign of Local 22 International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers only 50 are still ee by failure of the employers to settle with the union, anand Watch the Satur¢ Section for new fea week. This is a good issue to give low v Magazine ever, R Labor Must Expose the Many Fairy Tales Told About Geo. Washington By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL, Tea: the beginning of the month of February, the pay- triots are beginning to go into action again to make the most of the birthday anniversaries of Abraham Lincoln, Feb. 12, and George Washington, Feb. 22. Thru an insidious use of the whole public school system of the nation, for the past century, the ruling class, jealous of its heroes, has all but succeeded in placing a saintly called “Father of His Country.” halo upon the brow of the so- While another stimulated outburst of this fake idol worship is again being lashed to fury, it is well to point out a few facts concerning the “cherry tree hero.” ef Rupert Hughes, the playwright and author, who never wrote a line to injure the “right” of the bosses to plunder labor, discovered some of the truths about Washington's life and tried to incorporate them in a speech to the sons of the American revolution at a banquet held recently in the fash- ionable New Willard Hotel in Washington, He chose a poor place where the munitions profiteers nested during the war, to be near the fat contracts issued by the government. The audience was even worse, being con- stituted of super-pay-triots * * of the American legion type. Hughes pictured Washington as a “profane, irreligious, and pleasure-loving man,” putting emphasis on the fact that the “boy who couldn't tell a lie” developed into a “great card player, a distiller of whiskey and a champion curser,” and that he “danced for three hours without stopping with the wife of his principal general.” America’s church-goin pop- ulation, which is not inconsiderate, will also be shocked to learn that Washington “never prayed and consistently avoid- ed participating in communion.” It is reported that Hughes’ speech came to a close amid imprecations worse than anything that Washington himself could have uttered, even under the influence of his own fa- vorite Madeira or corn whiskey. It is more worth while emphasizing, however, the blow dealt the fairy tale about “The Winter at Valley Forge.” The troops are pictured as freezing while Washington kneeled in the snow and prayed. best to popularize this fable. There was plenty of timber about Valley Forge. soldiers were housed warmly They could get that for themselves. there was considerable hunger. lack of food in the neighborhood. wood to burn. Many movie films are doing their The in snug huts with plenty of But Not because there was a It was because the food profiteers would rather sell at a high profit to the British in Philadelphia, who had real money. The profiteers were thus conspicuous even in the war thru which the nation won its independence from Great Britain, just as they have been very active enriching themselves in ‘every war since. Washington was considered the richest man in all the colonies, so he could not have been very distantly related to the rofiteers who seized upon the war as an opportunity to pile higher their hordes of gold. * @ Historians whose researches are not popular with the writers of public school textbooks, point out that Washing- ton, America’s first millionaire, had no conception of democ- racy, or of a society founded on anything but pro, ill probably disturb those “liberals” and “socialists” who rty. This joined the late LaFollette last year in his drive “Back to '76.” When Washington was elected president he wanted to be called “His Mightiness the President.” To destroy the mighty m th that has been woven about him is the task of class conscious workers who refuse to de- termine their destinies by musty misconceptions of what transpired in the world more than a centu: The month of Washington's opportunity to clear awa: Labor should make the most of it. history. Workers in Bridgeport, Conn., Go Out on Strike and a half ago. birthday offers an excellent some of these cobwebs of INTERNATIONAL Acenut Walt& Abram) WORKERS" AD (Continued from page 1) came to Bridgeport and made the issue clear to the workers, He called upon the workers to follow the correct policy of the left wing, namely to sup- port the strike and to participate act- ively in bringing it to a complete vic- tory for the workers, He further sta- ted that whatever differences there are in the union must be taken up within the organization, Since the Bridgeport committee did not conform to this rule, the left wing denounces them and their action. Since this de- claration and in the process of the struggle many individuals realized that they were misled and have now actively joined the strike and are giving it energetic support. A certain number of individuals in- cluding some of the men who scabbed in the last strike tried to masquerade as friends of the workers and were soon exposed as agents of the bosses. The workers are beginning to under- stand the treacherous role these scabs are playing and have isolated them, Workers who realize their mistake are gladly accepted by the strikers, The bosses who tried their clever game were quickly exposed by the left wing, Militant Spirit Prevails, All of the workers are militant and cheerful. Most of them go on the picket line at six o'clock in the morn- ing and urge the misled workers to stay away from work, The seabs are having a hot time particularly from the women and young girls who suf- fered the most from exploitation and low wages and who are now fight- ing for their livelihood es well as for the right to maintain thelr organiza- tion, The workers realize that they must defeat the attempt to crush their union and to lower their living stand- ard, They are determined to main- tain their union, to demand proper 'Y | working conditions and the full union. zation of the shop, The strike must be carried on to a complete victory, TOURS ‘ANISE Chicago and Cleveland Hold Meetings 1, W. A, Press Service In furtherance of its nationwide campaign for arousing the interest of the Ameriéan workers in the struggle of the Chinese masses against their imperialist exploiters and with the object of securing financial help for the oppressed toilers of that country. the International Workers’ Aid has ar- ranged mass meetings for prominent speakers in various cities of the country, . Anise Tours Country, Anna Louise Strong, of Seattle, Wash., will speak for the organization at meetings in Chicago and Cleveland. She is a well-known newspaper cor- respondent of the northwest and the author of two of the most valuable recent books on Russia: “The First Time in History” and “Children of the Revolution.” Her subject will be “The Struggle of Chinese Labor for Freedom,” Strong has just returned trom several years abroad, the last four months of which were spent in China, These lec- tures will give the workers of this country an opportunity to hear a first- hand report of the enormously signifi- cant labor and nationalist struggle in China, Chicago, Cleveland Meetings. — The Chicago meeting will be held in Bowen Hall, Hull House, Halsted and Polk streets, Sunday night, Web. 7 and beg ergy Ave., Sunday afternoon, Feb. 14 at 2:80, Admission at both lectures will be 25 cents for ticke in advance, COUNTY SHERIFF USES OFFICE TO SMASH STRIKES Gunmen, Landis Award Men, Made Deputies Sheriff Peter M. Hoffman, who was recently sentenced to serve thirty days in jail and pay a fine of $2,500 for his part in allowing two Chicago millionaire bootleggers use the jail as a business office and roam thru the cabarets on Chicago’s south side to their hearts content while supposed to be “doing time” in the Cook county jail, in defense of his appointment of thousands of special deputies declares that “when I appointed these men I had in mind an army to assist me in case of labor or race troubles.’ Commissions Landis Award Men. In an excerpt from his letter which follows, which was sent to all the spe- cial deputies telling them to turn in their badges and commissions, he points out that he has handed out these commissions to Landis award men, thus showing up the nature of the strikebreaking crew that he had formed: “The statutes of the state of Illinois authorize the sheriff to appoint special deputies in his office, and after my election, following the law and prac- tice of my predecessors, I appointed a number of special deputies, includ- ing employes for express companies railroad special agents, bank mes- sengers, payroll carriers in large man- ufacturing institutions, Landis award men, physicians who are out late sat night and men in large and small bus- iness industries who had been robbed, etc., having in the mind only the pro- tection of property.” Easy Money. This action of Hoffman revoking the commissions of the army of com- Pany officials and faithful company “employes” to be used as strikebreak- ers, came following an expose of Hoff- man’s connection with an insurance company, the Carolan, Graham and Hoffman, Inc., thru which more than $60,000 was made annually insuring the special deputies. Gunmen Are Deputies. Tho in his letter Hoffman tries to hide the character of his special de- puties, the character of these deputies has been disclosed in a number of Chicago municipal courts as nothing more than gunmen using the office as a blind to carry on their work for bosses’ associationg. ete. A number of arrests of Hoffman’s special depu- ties were made in the past week in which these gunmen were caught run- ning booze, These are the type of men that were to be used to break strikes and to “settle race troubles.” Allies Quit First Military Zone After 7 Year Occupation COLOGNE, Jan. 31. — The Union Jack, the sign of British imperialism, was hauled down from the building across from the Cologne dome after it had been flying for seven years, one month and six days, when the last detachment of 200 British troops evacuated the first military occupa- tion zone. The British troops were surrounded by a heavy cordon of police as they feared the inhabitants who had tasted the heel of Britain might attack the soldiers, At the same time the French imperialist emblem was taken down at Bonn and the Belgian emblem at Moers, Duesseldorf and Aix la Cahppelle. 2,600,000 in- habitants of the first military occupa- tion zone are being returned to the German reich, France promises to reduce her occupation forces in Ger- jmany to 60,000, if Germany joins the league of nations. Kansas City Labor | Defense to Hold Bazaar 1, L. D., News Service KANSAS CITY, Kans., Jan, 31—The local members of the International La- bor Defense are very optimistic about the prospects for the success of the big bazaar which will be held in Mus- ician Auditorium, 1017 Washington St. Feb, 14. J. B, Snyder, one of the most ° experienced organizers in the move- ment has active charge of the arrange- ments. The arrangements committee has appealed for donatfons of furn-. iture, pictures, sport goods, food, fruit and anything that can be shipped and ‘sold. All packages should be forward- ed to Harrison, 1812 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kans, . Pension Rules for * - Teachers in Effect According to the new emeritus service law, 47 principals, teachers and superintendents over 70 years of age will not be at their desk this morning when the second half of the 1925-26 school year begins. A last minute effort was made to enjoin the board from putting the law into effect. Judge Hugo M. Friend refused to grant the injunction. Under thig law those on the retiring list will be paid @ pension equal to one-half of the average salary received for the last ten years with a $1,500 minimum and @ $2,500 maximum, Road—Write—distribute Th) DAILY WOKKHR, pene