The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 12, 1926, Page 1

[ ? The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a husks and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 27. WORKERS PARTY IN “JOIN THE UNION’ DRIVE Every Eligible Member} Into a Union The central executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party is initiating an intensive campaign to draw every eligible member of the party into a fabor union. This cam- paign, commencing now, will continue thru the months of March and April, set aside for a special and systematic “Joint the Union” drive. The proposed campaign of the central committee is outlined in detail in other columns of today’s DAILY WORKER. Starting immediately with the pub- lication of the proposed campaign, there will appear daily for a period of two weeks articles on the question of trade unionism; why every mem- ber shall join a union; the role of the party in. the unions; tactics of the Communists. These articles will be written by leading party comrades and by the active comrades in the field. The language press of the party will also conduct this work simultaneously with The DAILY WORKER, and the language bureaus are to press the work among the for- eign-language speaking comrades. Ap- propriate quotations on the trade union problems from Marx, Lenin, Tomsky, Losovsky, Zinovieff, Stalin and others will appear, Meetings in Every City. After the ideological campaign, a se- ries ef functionary meetings will be held in each city to outline the party campaign to the active comrades, After that, meetings of the unorgan- ized party members.will be. called trade by trade. At these meetings a speaker will outline the necessity of each comrade joining a union, the role of the party. Then every comrade will be instructed what union to join and how, party members, already members of a union, will be enlisted in this campaign to assist the indivi- dual members to join the union of their trade or industry. These meet- ings of the unorganized members will continue regularly until every party member who can has joined a union, and proceeded to function therein. Build the Party Fractions. As fast as the unorganized members join a union, they will be linked up with the party fraction, where such exists. If no party fraction has been in existence, a fraction will immedi- ately be formed of the members join- ing a particular trade, which will be connected up with the higher party (Continued on page 4) BOX GEN Nean AL Su, MEW Su Pay onK THE hi raarer ~26 many countries, by the sweat of their brow: ' vied “4 F ' 4S Sey, mail, $8.00 per DAILY Entered as Second-class mattcr september 21, 1983, at the Post Office at Chicago, FRIDAY, F BUARY 12,3 by mail, $6.00 per year, ee. Ilinola, ander the Act of March 3, 1879. 926 << Publish: A duke is making the plates, a count is doing the printing and a baron acts as a lookout in the counterfeit syndicate recently exposed in Hungary, that has involved the monarchists of This is proof that the revolutions in Europe have forced the parasites to “live '—(From Proletarska Pravda, Kiev, Soviet Ukrainia.) SHOW SITUATION IN MANCHURIA I$ MENACING Sovie t. Statement Is Issued at Washington (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10.— In reply to inquiries regarding the situation in Manchuria, the Russian information bureau here issued the following statement based on cable zeceived by the bureau from official sources; is extremely tense and menacing. Evi- dently .encouraged by his defeat of Kuo Sun Lin, Chang Tso-Lin, incited ‘by certain foreign interests, has been trying to seize the Chinese Eastern Railway, in defiance of Russo-Chinese treaty arrangements that date back nearly thirty years and were reaffirm- fed as late.as 1924. Great Excitement Prevails. | “Our advices state that as a result of Chang's arbitrary and war-like ac- (Continued on page 3.) Use Mexicans Against Negroes. HAMMOND, La.—(FP) — Labor agents will be sent to El Paso Tex. for Mexican labor to harvest the spring strawberry crop as the Mexicans will accept less wages than the Negroes and poor whites. Gov. Henry Fuqua, elected by the hélp of union labor, “could see nothing detrimental in the plan.” ZINOVIEV REPORTS ON ACTIVITIES OF THE RUSSIAN DELEGATION IN THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL (International Press Correspondence) OSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 28—(By Mail). Gregory Zinoviev, presi- dent of the Communist Internatidnal, reported to the Fourteenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party, on the activity of the Russian delegation in the executive commitee of the Com- munist International. After a short review of the ten years of international organized Len- inism, Zinoviev declared that in the last one or two years Leninism has had to fight for its existence, for in this period pessimistic voices had often made themselves heard. One inquired after the actual successes of the Comintern and as in consequence of the general situation there were very few immediate successes to be recorded, one very often doubted the correctness of the line of the Comin- terh, In the recent period there were no differences of opinion inside the Russian Communist Party delegation, the speaker declaring that this state- ment could be documented, IME chief characteristic of the sit- uation is the partial stabilization of international capitalism, Many comrades do not approve of the term “stabilizetion” as it sounds too pessi- mistic. We should, however, not carry on a policy of illusions, we shoutd not hide our difficulties. Without doubt simplification and exaggerations cropped up in the ques- tion of stabilization, The stabiliza- tion means a balance between the various parte of the world economy, Im dealing with“ this question of stabilization, we musi, however, use two criterions; on the one hand that of the year 1913 and on the other hand thyt of the years 1920 and 1921 4 | when capitalism was at its lowest point, In “a great number of bour- geois countries with the exception of America, the ‘pre-war level has not been achieved to the extent of 100 per cent, In comparison with the yea 's 1920- 21, however, a number of capitalist countries of decisive importance j made progress and achieved succ: \in their economic stabilization.- The | speaker quoted a number of statistics |to support the situation described by | him. However, even the European so- cial-democrats recognize that the stabilization is not permanent, that Locarno not brot peace, etc., and this is all very characteristic, oes definitely partial and compara- tive stabilization has many limita tions: (1) The disorganization of capitalist influerice in the Bast; (2) The economic development of Eng- land is sinking definitely. (3) The crisis in France which is becoming ever more complicated and taking on certain characteristics of a threaten- ing revolutionary intensification, (4) A beginning of a crisis in Germany where the Dawes plan is beginning to show negative consequences \and final- ly, (5) @ serious crisis in Poland, Proceeding to a description of the economic situation in individual coun- tries, the speaker dealt with the coal export crisis in England which plays a basic role in the conflicts. The at- tempts on the part of the colonies to split away from England represent a t endously important fact, ARALLEL with the finance crisis in France there is a certain pros perity of industry. The peasant prob- lem is becoming ever more significant and the problem of the petty bour- (Continued on page 6) Kit sar 28 Ow ye “phe ‘situation in North Mthiehuria: * levied,” BIMBA FACES TRIAL ON FRAMED-UP CHARGE IN BROCKTON TODAY (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 10—The trial of A. Bimba of Brooklyn, for biasphe- my under the puritanical blue laws and for sedition will open in Brock- ton tomorrow. Small manufacturers and clergy are using the Lituanian nationalists as their tools in framing-up Bimba, who in his speech in Brockton exposed the terror tactics of the Lithuanian clergy to keep the workers and peas- ants in submission and showed the dire straits the Lithuanian workers were in and their need for a worker and farmers’ government, appealing to the workers in America not to aid the Lithuanian government by buying its. bonds, and by assisting its agents in America. PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. NEW YORK EDITION uy THE DAILY WORKER ashington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. ed Daily except Sunda; Price 3 Cents 'ARMED BANDS OF POLICE AND COMPANY THUGS SWARM COAL DISTRICTS OF PENNSYLVANIA (Special to The Dally Worker) WILKESBARRE, Pa., Feb. 10.—Some very evident prepara- tions are being made to reopen the mines with scab labor. This is seen especially in the activity of the armed forces of the state in laying in supplies of riot guns and tear gas bombs in order, thru terror, to crush the strikers. A slight disturbance at Scra’ where washeries were in oper parations. Police thruout the whole anthracite region have been supplied with the latest and most deadly equipment for The International Labor Defense is handling the case, T.U. E. L. CALLS FOR UNITED ACTION OF PROGRESSIVES IN THE AMALGAMATED IN CHICAGO GREETINGS: lesser price, The present administration has ers who fought against such policy. Allies of Bosses. Instheir effort to bring about in- ternal peace in the New York organ- i LAFOLLETTE AND NORRIS RAP COOLIDGE President ~ Should Get Plute Degree (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Charging that great wealth is “running riot” in protection of President Coolidge,” Wisconsin, advocated in the senate to- day the retention of a federal inheri- tance tax upon the “swollen fortunes of the rich.” “It seems to be an obsession with President Coolidge,” said LaFollette, “that prosperity is dependent on the favor and good will of organized wealth; and that moneyed interests must not be disturbed or offended. Fake Issue in 1924, “The policy of taxation as present- ed in this bill, and particularly the repeal of the inheritance tax, was not presented to the American people in | the election of 1924. The issue as pre- sented then was ‘Coolidge or chaos.’ “Unless a federal inheritance tax is LaFollette warned, “swollen fortunes, borne of exorbitant war pro- fits, would be passed on without pay- ing their fair share of the war costs. The burden, he said, would be trans- (Continued on page 2} By J, W. JOHNSTONE, Acting pees! Trade Union Educational National Committee, The trial now going on in Benton, UL, of the thirteen progressive Zeigler miners on the framed-up charges of conspiracy and attempt to kill D. B. Cobb, sub-district vice-president of the United Mine Workers of West Frank- fort, Ill, bring out in broad relief the most brutal aspects of class col- laboration, It is part and parcel of the policy of co-operation between the labor bureau- crats and the empidyers in which we see the state, the coal operators and United Mine Workers of America of- ficials joining forcés*to railroad these thirteen miners to thé penitentiary on one of the flimsiost trame-ups since the railroading of Tom Mooney and Billings to the ‘ponttbatiary. Propresd ves Fig t’ Collaboration, The ma”, that Corbishley the American government, “under the | Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., of! A Call for United Front of All Progressive Groups in the Chicago Amalgamated to Fight Wage Cuts, Slu Collaboration Policies of the Present ing and Class \dministration. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union has fpday reached the stage where it no longer fights for the workers, but rather follows a policy of col- laboration with the employers who attain more work from the workers at a thrown the New York market into a state of chaos, both because of their present policies and by the expulsion of the most militant rank and file lead-+ a E the most unscrupulous elements with- in the Amalgamated as well as with some elements in the underworld. The Hillman administration in their effort to gain control of the New York mar- WAR MAY BREAK, IS MUSSOLIN'S RENEWED DEFI Italian Dictator Stands ~by German Defiance (Special te The Daily Worker) ROME, Feb. 10—Premier Mussolini, appearing before the senate this af- |ternoon, to answer the speech of For- eign Minister Stresemann of Germany regarding conditions in the southern! Tyrot, had been considerably tamed) by the uproar in European circles | over his threat to go to war If neces- sary to carry out his scheme of forc- ibly Itallanizing that section. “My Saturday: speech,” he declared, “was not impromptu. It was rhetoric. It was needed to clarify a situation drifting towards serious events.” The Italian bully defiantly declared that he stood by the declaration of his last address, that Italy will not tolerate German interference in the administration of South Tyrol. He had stayed far past his usual hour at the foreign offices, studying Stresemann’s speech and preparing to make another. theatrical appearance before his idoldtrous followers. The chamber was filled with fascist plug (Continued on page 2) and his twelve colleagues have been guilty of is their persistent struggle against the collaboration of the coal operators and the Farrington machine and to turn the miners’ union into an instrument of struggle in the interest of the miners, In this struggle many have been victimized, Howat went to jail for his courageous fight against the Kansas industrial court. McLach- lan was sent to the penitentiary by the Canadian government for his pro- gressive stand in behalf of the Nova Scotia miners against the Besco Steel corporation. The Lewis administra- tion’s answer to these attacks upon these militant district presidents was to remove them from office, Again in the Zeigler cases, we see district board: member Babbington, fleld organizer Lige, Walker, sub-dis- trict No, 9, Secretary-Treasurer Izzie POLICE ARREST BOTANY MILL PICKET LEADER Judge Sentences Striker to 30 Days Jail By J. O. BENTALL. (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Feb, 10—Police pounced on the two thousand pickets! | who went out to picket in front of the Forstmann and Huffmann company’s plant in Garfield, where 3,000 workers are ‘employed and where the” condi- tiong are as bad as in any of the mills now on strike, and arrested Felix Penarisi, president of the united front committee of the Botany mill and leader of the pickets. Police Obstruct Pickets. The pickets have been unmolested by the Passaic police so far, but when they came to the town line of Clifton where part of the Forstmann and Huff- mann mills are located they were met by the Clifton police and ordered to turn back. They were told that they were not allowed to have a parade without a permit. The strikers in- formed the police that this was not a parade, but simply a line of workers on picket duty. This was not sufficient. The pickets insisted that they had the right to walk on the streets and that they were doing only what they had done in Passaic and other parts of the strike bound territory and that there was no reason why they should be molested. But the police had been instructed not to let the strikers over the line as they would have a powerful in- fluence over the slaves in the Forst- mann mills. Arrest Picket Leader. When fellow worker Penarisi told the police that it was unlawful to stop people from walking on the sidewalk they arrested him and had him locked up in the jail in the town of Garfield. Here a hearing was given him before Judge Baker, who acted as prosecuting attorney and judge at the same time. Attorney Sigmund Unger appeared for Penarisi and showed that the strikers have full right to walk the streets and that there could be no question as to the proper action on (Continued on page 2.) Aid the Zeigler Coal Miners! To Terrorize Left Wing. The purpose of the frame-up against these 13 miners, is to terrorize the left wing so it will be easier to more completely tie up the United Mine Workers of America with the mechan- ism of the coal operators, It is to shield the brutal murder of the militant miner, Mike Sarovich, committed by Alex Hargis a promin- ent ku klux klansman at a meeting of the union—openly committeed before scores of witnesses. Aid Zeigler Miners! Not only must the rank and file of the miners’ ynion come to the support of these victims of white terror, but the Trade Union Educational League calls upon, eyery, militant to raise this question in,all unions and protest against thig,frame-up and get the union to giye financial support for the Hindman, all Parrington henchmen, sitting cheek byvjowl with the prose- cuting attorneyas trial by sending donations to help bear the burden of defense. , Send al lations to the Interna- }tional Labor Defense Committee, conducting a reign of frightfulness preparatory to an effort to open a war of extermination against the miners’ union in the hard coal fields. In addition to police the collieries all have thugs and gunmen armed to the teeth in readiness to attack the strikers, Officials Aware of Danger. John L. Lewis and Rinaldo Cap- pellini are aware of this menace to| the very existence of the union and still they pursue the same contempt- | struggle thus far. the strike can yet be won if the main- tion, The companies fear that the rank and file, disgusted with the treacherous | policy of Lewis, will force the main-| | tenance men out, hence they are pre-| paring to establish a reign of terror thruout the region. *e Anti-Strike Threat. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Coolidge ate to call a conference of miners and operators at the White House, but will insist upon the anti-coal strike bills which have been held in abeyance at Washington for the past/ two years being brought up for im-| mediate passage, according to official information given out today. | This amounts to a threat of indus- trial conscription and must be fought | by every labor organization in the) country or it means the outlawing of} all effective action against the greed of the exploiters of labor in the whole| country, MICHIGAN FEDERATION =| | OF LABOR DONATES $122 TO ANTHRACITE MINERS (Special to The Daily Worker) JACKSON, Mich., Feb. 10.—The Michigan State Federation of Labor at its 37th annual convention here voted. to give $122 to the striking anthracite miners after a brief ap- peal was made showing the need for such aid. A bricklayer delegate added a check of $200 to the $122. COURIERS FOIL PLOT 10 STEAL STATE PAPERS Soviet Messenger Bests Four Bandits (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U.S. 8. R., Feb. 10.—~An attempt to kill two Soviet couriers jand to seize the state papers they were carrying ended unsuccessfully for the four bandits on the train just outside of Riga. Four bandits rushed into the com- partment occupied by the two Soviet couriers shouting “Here they are!” and began shooting. Nette, who was lying on the top berth was instantly killed, Makhmastal, the other courier tho wounded in the arm returned the fire of the bandits and succeeded in wounding one. This one later com- mitted suicide in a compartment of the car, Witnesses who saw the struggle de- olare that the Latvian soldiers on the train refused to enter the car when the killing occurred. The Lettish gov- ernment has now announced a $200 reward for the capture of the escaped bandits, The bandits had keys to the cay compartment and spoke both Rus- sian and Lettish, The Lettish govern- ment is trying to lay the blame on the Polish government, of strikers from nearby towns tried to march on ible policy that has characterized this | They know that} tenance men are ordered out, but yet) they refuse to give their consent to} this one move that will save the situa-| will not act on the request of the sen-| nton yesterday, when a number some mines don, revealed these warlike Drer ZEIGLER MINERS BARE FRAME-UP IN BENTON TRIAL Farrington | Henchmen | Fear Real Facts By TOM BELL (Staff Writer, Dally Worker) COURT HOUSE, BENTON, Iil,, Feb. 10.—The trial of the thirteen Zeigler coal miners charged with assaulting D. B. Cobb took a sudden turn, when the state’s attorney announced that the prosecution rested when only ten lof the twenty-five prosecution wit- |nesses had been on the stand. It was evident on the previous day that the prosecution witnesses were of little value and that the end of the farce was near, Punch Hole in Frame-Up. | The seventeen defense witnesses have punched the machine’s frame-up full of holes. So apparent is this that jthe prosecution in cross-examination is trying to build a foreigner bogey to frighten the jury. They laugh at mispronounced and misspelled names of foreign-born de- fense witnesses and take advantage of their limited English to. confuse them while playing up this foreigner seare. Judge Neely patronizely re- |marked to show his wide knowledge, “The Croatians come from Crete.” The roar of laughter that greeted this gem took the starch out of this legal light. The edifice of evidence so carefully rehearsed by the prosecution was kicked to pieces by defense witnesses, Unlike the prosecution witnesses, the defense witnesses did not need to pre- tend to be deaf, dumb and blind on occasion to put their statements over. The evidence of the defense witnesses and the sudden termination of the prosecution’s case inspires hope for favorable outcome for the accused miners. Bureaucrats Prepare Raid, Henry Corbishly while on the stand told how he had -seen four or five (Continued on page 2.) * Shoe Workers Aid to Make New York I.L.D. Bazaar Huge Success NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Theé Shoe workers of the Well Built Shoe com- pany, members of the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union, have offered to con- tribute six pair of high grade ladies shoes for the International Labor De- fense Bazaar, As this is their dull season, they feel sorry they could not make the contribution larger and appeal to all the comrades in other trades to do their utmost to get contributions and articles for the International Labor Defense which is now taking place at the Central Opera House, 67th St, and 8rd. Ave. NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS TO HOLD BIG MEETING Ii WARREN SATURDAY By a Worker Correspondent WARREN, O., Feb, 10. — Lovett Fort-Whiteman wili address a meet- ing of the colored workers in the Hippodrome Hall in Warren on Sat- urday afternoon, the 13th of Feb, at 2 o'clock and the local committee of action of the American Negro La- bor Congress is hard at work to make this meeting one of the best in the valley. They are distributing literature this week calling upon the colored workers to turn out and hear this brilliant orator of their face speak on “The Em of the Negro,”