The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1926, Page 3

HULL'S AGENT. Congressman Praises Dictator’ Mussolini as Union Destroyer FORGE NAM F § WASHINGTON, Jan, 31.—Congress- TO PETITIONS Fraud Practiced to Get on Ballot Ward heelers working in the inter. est of Morton D, Hull, congressman from the second district of Illinois, are so anxious to get the name of their candidate on the ballot in the primary elections that they resort to Plain forgery in order to falsify sig- natures. They made one mistake, however, and that was to forge the name of @ resident of Chicago who is not @ supporter of capitalist parties and Mr. Hull, from his office in Washing- ton, sent a letter congratulating the man whose name had been forged. Here is the letter, the original copy of which is in possession of The DAILY WORKER: Geo, Meyler, 4569 Oakenwald Ave. Chicago, Il. Dear Sir: In looking over the petition pre- pared by my friends for placing my Name on the primary ballot, as a can- didate for renomination as a repre- sentative in congress, | find your name attached. Permit me to express my gratification of this evidence of your continued confidence, | shall try to further merit it. With best wishes for the coming year, | am Yours very truly, MORTON D. HULL. The recepient of the letter informs ‘The DAILY WORKER that he never signed the petition nor was he ever asked to sign such a thing. His opin- ion is that the political crooks simply obtained the names of residents and sign them without consulting those whose names they forge. This is only one of the many corrupt practices rife in the old parties of capitalism, who never scruple at anything in order to put over their candidates. Has No’ Respect for Hull, Furthermore, the recepient of the letter emphasizes the fact that he mever had any confidence in or re- spect for Hull or any of his clique of plain political swindlers and that he has less respect for him now than he ever had before and as far as the coming year is concerned, being a worker, he expects nothing from Hull or any other shyster elevated to the halls of congress by capitalist ward heelers. ISICK AND DEATH BENEFI SOCIETIES Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Verein Seats yori! ‘Thursday, feets every 1s ursday, Wicker Park Hail, jo W. Ni Avenue. Secretary. ‘Telephone Lehigh 6022 DR. ABRAHAM MARKOFF Surgeon Dentist 249 East 115th St., Cor, Second Ave. NEW YORK CITY Office Hours: 9 to 12 A. M.; 2 to 8 P. M. Daily, except Friday; Sunday 9 to 1 P. M. Special Rates to W. P. Members “The Story of the Earth” and “History of Mankind,” by Samuel Ba’ Sunday, 7:30 P, M., 641 W. Washington St. Every Saturday, 5721 Cottage Grove Ave., 7:45 P. M. Questions and discus- sion from the floor. man Bloom, representing the theater district of New York City, claims the title of direct spokesman in the house for the pro-Mussolini forces in Ameri- ea. He punctuated the debate on the Italian debt settlement by frequent protests against any criticism of the dictator, and by claims that he, Bloom, was personally familiar with all the story of fascism, ‘and knew it to be pure, noble, humane and law- abiding in the finest sense. When Bloom’s turn to make a speech arrived, he explained that Mussolini had favored Bloom’s daugh- ter with letters of introduction to D’Annunzio during the latter’s occu pation of Fiume in 1919, when Miss Bloom wanted to get some magazine articles on the Fiume situation, The daughter wrote an article com- paring ‘the fascist seizure of power in 1922 to what might have happened in America had the American legion, un- der fiery leadership, decided to es- tablish a strong and “sane and strict” administration, “especially if they saw the country facing rank socialism and financial ruin.” Bloom boasted of Mussolini’s crush- ing out the labor movement of Italy, and unblushingly asserted: “You do not find any strikes,” he added, “Italy has not had a strike in 22 months, Everybody over there is working, and it is all due to Musso- lini.” SOVIET RUSSIA OPENS SCHOOLS FOR THE FINNS New Organization to Do Special Work By WILLIAM F. KRUSE MOSCOW—(By Mail)—Educational work among the 400,000 Finns in So-], viet Russia was brought to a still, greater height by the organization re- cently of the Finnish Educational In- stitute in Leningrad which is to have charge of all Finnish educational act- ivity in the Leningrad gubernia. The Finnish population is concentrated largely in the Leningrad and Tver gubernias and in the Karelian repub- lie, During the current year 243 ele- mentary schools, 12 intermediate and high schools for peasant children were opened. They will accomodate 11,410 children. The instruction will be in Finnish. New Schools Opened. A Finnish agricultural school has been opened in Leningrad province, and a Finnish department has been opened at the Labor College of the State University. Libraries and adult schools have been opened in various villages for the benefit of the Finnish populace. 2 In order to assure adequate staffs of teachers for the schools of the nation- al ‘minorities the study of the native language is compulsory in all of the pedagogical institutions of these min- orities. In some of the higher schools there have been organized depart- ments for the study of Finnish, Ger- man, Polish, Ukrainian, Esthonian, ete. THE GOCAT STRATEGIST SE CLASS WAR ~ By Alosoushy A great little booklet about a great working class leader—by a co-worker of LENIN, the present secretary of the Red International of Labor Unions. cepts THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., THE ROMANCE OF NEW RUSSIA By Magdaleine Marx Vivid and colorful impressions of a French writer on her visit to the first workers’ republic. account and a picture of the people she met and her life among the workers and peasants. Library Edition—$2.00 Clothbound THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. "1113 W. Washington Blivd., Chicago, Ill. . Chicago, IIlino Ibs A splendidly written DISTRICT TWO SUFFERS BUT STAND LOYAL Needs Clothing for Class Fighters By ART SHIELDS, (Federated Press.) NEW YORK, Jan, 31—Shevering in the coal valleys of central Pennsyl- vania are thousands of striking min- ers and their families who need all the spare clothing that city workers can send them, says John Brophy, president, District No, 2, United Mine Workers of America, visiting New York. Unionists who would start the New Year with a deed that will stiffen the workers in a sorely pressed region may parcel pest to the United Mine Workers’ offices at Clearfield, Pa., all their spare trousers, coats, shoes, stockings and women’s and children’s clothing. Don’t let the rag man get a stitch till the last coal digger on strike in the icy Alleghanies has enuf clothing on his back and on the backs of his wife and kids. Jacksonville Pact Buried. All central Pennsylvania is spotted with coal camps where mining com- panies have forgotten their signatures to the Jacksonville agreement and are out to restore the 1917 scale with its enormous reductions and smash the union if possible, The miners are putting up a gallant fight but outside assistance is vital. The district union is bringing the strikers and other un- employed $20,000 a week from the working miners, but it is obvious that this does not go far enough. Families can not live on $3 a week each and buy the clothing they need to keep from freezing. Brophy added picturesque details to the story of the prayer meeting strike of the miners at. Sagamore against the Buffalo & Susquehanna Coal Co, Here the miners meet on a high piece of land owned by the union. and’ with their educational director, Paul W. Fuller, they pray and sing. Threat in Hymn. One of the superintendents has been protesting that he sees a threat in the singing of Nearer My God to Thee, but this is only his guilty con- science, Another superintendent, Billy Diamond, who in days gone by was an offieial in the United Mine Workers, complains bitterly that they always sing Rally Round the Flag ‘whén he passes. It annoys him great- ly to hear the stave “Down With the Traitor and Up with the Flag,” ‘The miners are asserting their right to hold services on their own. proper- ty,and say they will carry on till the Buffalo & Susquehanna gives up its 1917 scale plans. But a pile of shoes and sweaters and stockings and coats will help them carry on, Australian Election THE DAILY WORKER Page Three Current Events (Continued from page 1.) the 100,000 workers in capitalist jails employed a Hearst journalist to collect the garbage scooped up in Soviet Russia about the paid agents of the international bankers. They dumped this offal on the American workers under the American camouflage of a drive for class war prisoners. ie 8 HE American workers however, are too accustomed to the harsh realities of life to be fooled by the clever devices of Baldwin and his pals, The class conscious worker may not believe in the infallibility of the personnel of the Russian government. This is a papal prerogative and the workers know that all human beings are very falfble and liable to err. But they knéw that in Russia the workers and peasants rule and that covers a multittde of sins. The Brit- ish trade unioh movement sent a dele- gation to see what was going on in Russia. The delegation was not com- posed of Communists. Neither was it composed of G?eenwich village anar- chists masquerading as radicals. (eee weer the British trade union dele- gation saw can be read in a book published by the Daily Worker Pub- lishing Company. They did not find a utopia. They found a workers and peasants’ government struggling to reconstruct the country’s economy on a socialist basis. There were slips here and there., That was inevitable. The trade unionists, not having spent their. lives sucking some bourgeois financial pap, expected accidents and miscarriages. But incidental accom- panients were ignored in face of the dominant fact, i. e.: the existence of ror” in Georgia and in other sections the workers’ government, see J WOULD rather take the word of A. A. Purcell, a worker and re- sponsible leader of millions of British trade unionists than the collection of concoctions gatHered by Isaac Don Levine, William’ Randolph Hearst's hireling. We know that Purcell’s committee investigated conditions in Russia. We ddr't know how Levine got his fables. Of this we are con- vinced; that the ‘committee headed by Roger Baldwin; did not render any service to the international labor movement when it financed a propa- ganda designed to hurt the workers’ government of Russia in the eyes of the world. For the moment this kind of treachery. flourish. But there is an old saying that “every dog has his day” and .yndercover sabotage against Russia under whatever guise will some day prove a boomerang. TWENTY POLISH ~ WORKERS GIVEN PRISON TERMS Held in Jail 14% Years Before Trial WARSAW, Poland.—(By mail,)— Following the May 1 demonstration of 1924 in the city of Lodz, Poland, twenty comrades and sympathizers were arrested and accused of seeking to overthrow the government, They were held in jail for eighteen months until their trial took place October 26, 1925. It lasted but a week and the sentence was pronounced Nov, 2, A correspondent for “Glos Polski,” a daily published in Lodz, describes the last day of the trial in these words: “Before the court house are police, guards and groups of people, anxious to get in. It is difficult to enter. At the door stand two policemen, who let in only relatives, judges, lawyers and press representatives. On the stairs all the way to the hall on the third floor there are 56 police guards! The ages of the accused ranged from 16 to 23 at the time of their ar- rest, One admitted being a member of the party, some admitted having Communist ideology, the rest denied any connection with the party or the Communist youth. Comrade Abe Tenenbaum speech to the jury declared: “I confessed to being a member of the Communist Party right after my arrest and I really can not understand why I have been jailed for such q long, time awaiting my trial.” Comrade Tenebaum was sentenced in his a workers’ government. The delegates | to g years hard labor with loss of civil investigated the reports of “red ter-| rights, The other sentences are: Wincenty, of the U. S, 8. R. and they reported | pmowski 6 years; Leonard Maciejew- them ill-founded. They reported how- | sij 8; Bonifacy Swierczewski 3; Ed- ever that the capitalist governments|}mund Wawrzynski had financed many civil wars against Rachlewski, Stanislaw Mroczkowski, 2; Stanislaw Antoni Bielinski, Wladyslaw Szyshow- ski, Edward Rosiak, Jozef Rosiak, Marcin Wesoly, Josek Weinrauch and Wladyslaw Starczewski to a 1% years hard labor, every one with loss of civil rights. Boleslaw Wozniak, Rubin Przedbor- ski and Jankiel Appel were freed be- cause of lack of evidence, Adam Kaufman and Abram Kagan were given 3 years in prison, and Noma Awerbuch one year and 5 months. These three will have their term of imprisonment from the Ist of June 1924 to the time of the trial substracted. The accused took the sentence calmly. Tenenbaum tenderly said good-bye to the rest of the comrades and was driven away under an escort. Thg others were later taken in a police wagon. Noma Awerbuch, accompanied by a policeman walked to the jail to be soon released. Show Loss of Labor Seats to Reaction SYDNEY—(FP)—Contrary to gen- eral expectations, Labor suffered a loss of seats in the Australian federal elections held Nov, 14. Instead of de- feating the Conservative-Country Par- ty coalition, Labor lost 6 seats in the house of representatives and 2 in the senate. Prior to the elections, the state of parties was House of representa- tives: Conservatives 31, Country Party (in coalition with the Conser- yatives) 14, Labor 29; senate: Con- servatives 24, Labor 12. On the eve of the elections, a Labor member named McDonald died suddenly, re- ducing the Labor strength in the house to 28, The state of the parties after the election is: House of repres- entatives: Conservatives 39, Country Party 13, Labor 23; senate: Conserva- tives 26, Labor 10, Compulsory voting was in operation for the first time and record votes were registered. In some electorates 95 per cent of the electors voted. The elections were held when the country was disturbed by industrial troubles, particularly the British sea- men’s strike and the railway strike in Queensland. The Conservatives used these issues against the Labor party, Communism was used as an addi- tional weapon, HONOR ROLL OF WORKERS AIDING PRESS 11.60 1,50 2.00 4.00 43.00 S . throp, M. . ‘Ohio. 0 25.00 est Frankf }. 30. evilie, Parc! 038 16.00 ty, P. Street Nucleus’ 1 209 George Nau, N.S, 2.00 Total today .. Previously reported sess. Grand tota! “The power of the working ctass is organization. Without organization of the masses, the proletariat—ig noth. ing, Organized—it is all, Organiza- tion is unanimity of action, unanimity of practical activities.” | igs reraky Poy Member of up. conferences in Bucharest discussing the attitude to be taken towards Cos- ta Foru. The first group condemned Costa Foru, the second expelled him from the organization. The fact that these Roumanian “literary men” are on friendly terms with the political bosses and that they have accepted Romules Voinescu, the director gen- eral of the Roumanian secret service, as a member of. their organization, shows them in their true character. This torturer of the Roumanian work- ers, this counterfeiter and provocateur of high standing, appeared at the head of the Roumanian jntellectuals against the unselfish courageous defender of the oppressed 8 of Boyar Rou- mania. Is there any need of further proof that there As something rotten among the Roumanian intellectuals? Bourgeois Idealist. T have known Gosta Foru for about 12 years. He is,a man of a thoroly bourgeois turn of; mind, an idealist who wanted to remain faithful to the old ideals of the once oppressed bour- geoisie. He is a :descendant of an old boyar family,,who reneunced all privileges that his stati afforded him, in order that he might remain true to himself. Unselfis!: nd coura- geous, he dcted as the at.orney for the defence in almost all of the polit- ical trials. Declaring himself from the very beginning an opponent of Communism, he nevertheless thought it his duty to offer his services as defender of the Communists, This fact led to his gaining sympathy even outside of the oppressed working class. Fascisti Attack Costa Foru. Prior to his trip to Severin, where he was to appear in a trial against the fascists, he asked me whether he ought not to take some arms with him, seelng that the fascists had threatened him. .In spite of the threats, he decided to go without even a revolver, in order to avoid any possible sheeding of blood. It seems that the fascist students knew of his peaceful intentions and “took courage” in attacking the old man. The he By DOBROGEANU GHEREA, the Central Executive Committee of the Roumanian Communist Party. Te furious’ ¢ampaign which is carried on by all reactionary elements against Attorney Costa Foru, chairman of the Roumanian section of the League of Rights of Man, is now assuming definite shape. robust in spite of his 70 years, was, while returning from the congress of the| minority press in Grosswardein attacked in Klausenburg and horribly beaten ROUMANIAN FASCISTI PERSECUTE COM. y UNIST DEFENDER, COSTA FORU i This man, still At the same time that this old idealist received his horrible mishandling at the hands of fascist students. the writers’ and journalists’ leagues held government also had its hand in the game. A furious campaign for his expulsion from the Journalists So- ciety had been carried on by the press of the siguranti for many weeks, Bratianu & Co. could not bear Costa Foru defending the Tatarbounar reb- els and that-thru his connections abroad he helped to arouse sympathy among the honest intellectuals of the West for the victims of the boyars. The oppressed toilers of the towns and villages expect that all free mind- ed journalists, literary men and law- yers,—in a word all honest intellec- tuals and their organizations, will protest against this persecution of this honest fighter Costa Foru. Pabst Brewing Firm Has Union Shop’ Now MILWAUKEE, Jan. 31—Pabst is union again, the Brewery Workers’ union declares on signing of a wage and working agreement with the Pabst corporation. Pabst follows Schlitz in renewing union relations which had been broken off in 1922. Nearbeer, malt products and artesian water are the principal Pabst prod- ucts, All Milwaukee breweries are in the union fold again except Gettel- man, The Milwaukee-Waukesha Brewing company of Waukesha is also unfair. These two companies sell nearbeer and malt syrup, the Waukesha firm handling spring water as well, Tailors Aid Mine NEW YORK, Jan, 31.—Thousands of dollars are expected to pour in for relief of anthracite mine strikers in response to the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers’ appeal to its members for an hour's pay. The Amalgamated gave $100,000, the largest single con- tribution, to the steel strikers in 1919, The call to the 140,000 men’s clothing workers to help the miners is sure to nen a quick and generous reply, t oa Whar MINE OPERATORS WANT “B. & O. PLAN” TO SPEED UP COALDIGGERS By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. Something like B. & O. co-operatic rather than wage reductions is what their drive on the United Mine Workers, m adapted to the anthracite industry tors are after im They want the union to do its the hard coal ope share in putting over the new time-clock factory discipline in place of the old miner’s freedom. personnel director of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. This appears in a Coal Age article by H. S. Gilbertson, The article is approved by S. D. Warriner, president + of the company and chairman of the] anthracite ope ors’ conference. The anthracite describes the suc- cess of a semi-monthly foreman con- ference held by one anthracite com- pany for discussion of operation, costs, safety, organization and the handling of men. It holds that this means “in a@ new and very real sense taking these key men into the management.” Gil- bertson continu “It is thru such constructive means that the industry may hope to solve both revenue and cost problems with- out recourse to what, in some indus- tries, is the easy but, in the long run, unsatisfactory route of wage reduc- tions—provided, organized labor can be persuaded to use its imagination and become a party to that program of joint effort which the committee of economists and engineers suggested.” Put a copy: of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. ‘THE JAIL,’ RUSS PLAY, WILL BE PRESENTED AT WORKERS’ HOUSE “The Jail,” a drama in 4 acts will be presented in the Russian lang- uage Sunday, Feb. 7, at the Work- ers' House, 1902 W. Division St., under the leadership of the well- known Russian actor Anatoly Poko- tilov. Beginning at 6:30 p. m. sion 50 cents, Admis- of murderers that alde LAST HAYMARKET PROSECUTOR IS DEAD IN CHICAGO Francis W. Walker, Chicago attom ney, and the last of that ignoble crew in railroading to the gallows the so-called Chicago anarchists in 1887, is dead at his home in this city. For years he has been the sole survivor of the array of prosecutors retained by Marshall Field and the McCormick Harvester concern to railroad the innocent vie- tims of the Haymarket frameup te the gallows, because of their activity in the eight-hour movement of those days. Of late Walker had been prominent as the defender of labor grafters and gangsters of the “Big Tim” Murphy, Fred Mader and Con Shea type. In politics he was connected with the crooked democratic political machine of Chicago and was a member of most of the viciously reactionary clubs of the city. He is only remembered because of the vile role he played in sending innocent men to penitentiary and the gallows. The character of the pro- ceedings was best described by Gov- ernor John P. Altgeld, who pardoned those who were sent to the peniten- tiary and characterized the assaseina- tion of those that were hanged as “judicial murder.” Te = LENIN DRIVE for Fite Thousand Mew die to THE DAILY WORKER Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Omaha, San Francisco and other cities from coast to coast have asked for an extension of time on the Lenin Drive until FEBRUARY 15 Nearly two thousand subscriptions have al- ready been sent in—in approximately eighteen days. By February 15 the goal of 5,000 sub- scriptions can be reached. Are You Still in It? Join Us, Comrade, to Make Five Thousand Subs in the LENIN DRIVE and 50,00 Readers by the End of 1926. Per year .«. Six months Three months Outside of Chicago: Per year Six months Three month 0 Tria Vege DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml. 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