The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 16, 1926, Page 2

Page Two SENATE GANG ORGANIZES TO FIGHT COURT Opposition Meets in Borah Office (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—A natlon- wide campalgn for American with- drawal from the world court—even before American adherence has be- come a fact—is to be launched In the near future for the irreconclliables. With such a campaign in mind, the irreconciliables already have held one secret meeting, it was learned today, and will soon meet again in an effort to perfect a permanent anti-world court bloc in the senate and a nation- al organization, devoted to keeping the United States out of “foreign en- tanglements.” A meeting was held in the offices j of Senator Borah, republican of Idaho, and the republican senators attending | were said to include Brookhart, of lowa; Fernald, of Maine; Frazier, of North Dakota, Harreld, of Oklahoma, Johnson, of California, LaFollette, of Wisconsin; Moses, of New Hamp- } shire, Nye, of North Dakota, Pine, of | Oklahoma; Robinson, of Indiana; Schall, of Minnesota; Williams, of Missouri. Democratic senators present were: Blease, of South Carolina, Reed, of Missouri and Dill of Washington. Senator Reed of Missouri, although declining to discuss the conference, { did anndunce that a national organiza- } tion would be formed. ‘CANADIAN LABOR IS SPEEDED UP T0 PRODUCE MORE Forces Reduced 25 Pct.; Production Greater MONTREAL, Feb. 14—Canada’s manufacturing industries employed 525,267 persons in 1923 compared with 682,434 in 1919, according to the dominion bureau of statistics. The gross value of the product at the fac- tory was $3,141,165,000 in 1923, com- pared with $3,520,000,000 in 1919, with the index number of wholesale prices of manufactured goods standing at 204 in 1919 and 155 in 1923. With a reduction ef nearly one- fourth in number of employes, volume of production was considerably greater in 1923 than in 1919, For every dollar of gross value at factory prices, em- ployes received in salaries and wages combined 18,19 cents, the lowest labor cost on record in Canadian manufac- turing. Sign Three Year Agreement. JERSEY CITY, N, J., Feb, 14.—Jer-| sey bus drivers and operators signed | | a three-year agreement after an all-| | might session which was expected to; ‘end with a strike. The operators accepted the $40 per week wage scale, $45 for night drivers, and one day off) im seven. Drivers finally took the three-year feature which they had , fought. at Admission Includes Free Subscription to THE SECOND ANNUAL PHILADELPHIA Daily Worker Ball (A MASQUERADE) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 8 P. M. Mercantile Hall, Broad and Master St. VALUABLE PRIZES will be offered for original—beautiful—comic and other costumes, Join Philly workers in the biggest event of the year. $1.00 CLEVELAND WORKERS 10 SEE LENIN FUNERAL FILM SUNDAY, MARCH 7 CLEVELAND, Feb, 14.—Workers of Cleveland will have an opportun- Ity to see the new moving picture film recently received in this coun- try, showing the tremendous demon. strations held in all parts of Soviet Russia when the news of Lenin's death became known. This film, together with another recent picture showing the prog- rees of rebuilding in the Soviet Union will be shown on March 7, the Seventh Anniversary of the Communist International, at a mass meeting to be held by the Work- ers (Communist) Party, at the Moose Hall, 1000 Walnut street, Sunday, March 7, at 2 p. m. The Ukrainian Children’s chorus, and others will present a fine musi- eal program. Well-known speakers will describe the history and activi- tles of the Communist. International and its American section, the Work. ers (Communist) Party. This is the only opportunity work- ers In Cleveland will have to see this picture. LEAGUE LEADERS DOUBLECROSSERS, LAMENTS LUTHER Attempt to Pack Council Brings Heated Protest LONDON, Feb.—-A good-sized row is brewing already in the league of nations council over the Franco-Ital- ian attempt to procure seats in that body for Poland, Spain and Brazil. The German government has inform- ed the British ambassador at Berlin, Lord d’Abernon, that the nation will withdraw its application if it is not accorded a place in the council and unless Poland and Spain are given minor positions. On the other hand Austen Chamberlain, foreign minister for Great Britain, and Premier Briand of France, have agreed to the admis- sion of these smaller nations. The French are pressing for change in the league's constitution to provide for majority decisiions in place of the unanimity now required. At Locarno France and England agreed that the question of the admis_ sion of Poland to a seat in the coun- cil would not be, pressed. The Luther government used this prom- |ise to recruit support for approval of | the Locarno pact. Now it is charged in Berlin that both these powers jhave double-crossed Germany. Bel- |gium, which is wnder the wing of | British imperialism, objects to either Poland or Germany being given a |place in the supreme body of the | league. Italian Compositor Jailed for Refusing to Glorify Mussolini FLORENCE, Italy, Feb. 14.—Recent- ly a type compositor, Giuseppe Bartoli, refused to set an article glorifying Mussolini. The worker said that he would not participate by the work of j his hands in the fascist doping of | the masses. On denunciation by his lemployer to the police, the worker was arrested and is awaiting his trial. FORGET YOUR TROUBLES FOR ONE NIGHT. COME IN COSTUME TO Wardrobe and a The Daily Worker. CALLS MAHONEY FOE OF FARNER- LABOR PARTY Holmes Takes Slap at Minnesota Editor EDITOR'S NOT The follow- ing article is being sent to the labor and farmer press by a prominent member of the Minnesota farmer- labor movement who, because of his opposition to Willlam Mahoney has incurred the hatred of that person. We publish it for the general Infor- mation it contains regarding the Ma- honey-Starkey combination which is obviously striving to wreck the movement in Minnesota. oe By EMIL E, HOLMES, (Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party Can- didate for Lieut, Governor in 1924) The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Adyo- cate organ of the Minnesota Farmer- Labor Association has in the past sev- eral issues given over considerable space to articles denouncing me and I feel the voters of the Minnesota Farm- er-Labor Party will not consider that I am carrying the matter too far by seeking space in the general press to tell my side of the story. I do not own a newspaper and my opponents in the party, Mahoney and Starkey, control the organization press so there is not much else for me to do un- less I am willing to accept without protest of any kind the criticism that is being hurled at me. I am not yet that much of a pacifist. Charges Incompetence. This argument between William | Mahoney, editor Minnesota Union Ad- vocate, and myself, some weeks ago when I made a statement to the ef- fect that in my opinion both Mahoney and Starkey were incompetent to act further as leaders in the Farmer-La- bor movement, that this was espec- ially proven in the fact that two years have elapsed since the last election and they have done nothing to build an organization. The first real differ- ence of opinion between those men and myself came on the question of the Minnesota Non-Partisan League which is being revived in some sec- tions of this state, and which is being organized on a scheme of unity be- tween capital and the farmer with a plan of organization very similar to that of the fascisti. This, Mahoney agreed, should be denounced, but my- self and other organizers must not go into the seventh congressional district of Minnesota in which the league has begun operation. We must not be- come active in our opposition to the league. Protects Schall. The second issue upon which I did not agree with Mahoney was the man- ner in which the Farmer-Labor Ad- vocate was handling the publicity in the Mangus Johnson-Tom Schall con- test. My contentions were that the Advocate should run the complete expose on Senator Thomas D. Shall, the lawyers for Mangus Johnson claim the senate committee has given the people a raw deal, they in turn will be handing the people of Minne- | sote a raw deal if they don’t publish everything they have got on Tom Schall. Just why they don’t turn out |the story is something I can only guess at and that the voters will have to guess about until it is done. Fights Steam Roller, The third question upon which I am not in accord with Mahoney is the manner in which delegates at con- ;Ventions are handledy The delegates ousted are not charged with treason to the party and given a complete hearing in each individual case, but ousted wholesale without any ques- tion as to their being guilty or not guilty. There is much said about the Communists but very little proven, it has now come to the point where the Mahoney-Starkey faction don’t stop at Communists but melude all those who are in sympathy with the Com- munists. This is stretched to the point that opposition to Mahoney or Starkey means being given a label as a Communist and promptly ousted. Starkey and Mahoney are unwilling to cease this activity, for it will re- move their excuses for putting op- ponents out of the way. They must | Pose as saviors of the farmer labor movement to stay in power, for they |have no record as organizers to keep them there, hence this game of shout- ing about the Communists works to perfection and provides an excuse for their lack of activity, This bunk is not going to get by any further in | Minnesota however, The farmers and | workers have waited for the seden- tary Mr, Mahoney as long as they are going too, , { Mahoney Cannot Organize, The chairman of the Bighth Dis trict, (Duluth and Iron Range Coun- try) Mr. B. H. Farley, calls upon me in the last issue of the Farmer-Labor Advocate to start out and organize a ,militant political organization ‘f 4 \think it can be done; he relates that lout of thirty letters sent out calling ‘a district convention only one reply was received, This must have been overlooked by Mahoney who {ts the real editor of the Farmer-Labor Advo- cate. It is hard to believe that h jwrould, had he noticed it, thus let th eat out of the bag that ho represen: THE DAILY WORKER CHICAGO I. L. D, 10 WELCOME TRUMBULL ON FRIDAY, MARCH 5 Workers are urged to reserve March 6 so they can hear and wel- come Walter Trumbull at the Inter- national Labor Defense rally at the North Side Turner Hall. The other speakerg are: Professor Robert Morss Lovett, Ralph Chaplin and Max Shachtman, . PARIS COMMUNE CELEBRATION All working class organizations are asked not to arrange any con- filcting meeting on March 19 as the International Labor Defense, Chica- go local, is arranging a Paris Com- mune pageant and drama. Moving pictures of labor. defense in the United States and in Europe will be shown, Bishop William Mont- gomery Brown ig to be one of the speakers, oo nothing in the shape of an organiza- tion, but is putting “up a bluff thru the paper and a few unthinking work ers make him look like the leader of a real organization, This chal- lenge from the active Farmer-Labor- ites in the efght district of Minnesota will be accepted, but not have had a convention and swept away the incompetent leadership and made the farmer labor organizations 80 progressive that anyone with as much progressivism as Senator Borah believes in recognition of Rus- sia, This under the Mahoney Starkey controlled farmer labor organization would mean expulsion. pdq. Farley further contends that Mahoney and Starkey are not the guilty parties but that the blame should be laid to Mag- nus Johnson, Floyd Olson, Louis Eng- strom and others who are members of the committee. We have always been told thru the press by Mahoney that those men were willing to go out and hold meetings, therefore we will be- lieve until it is proven otherwise that he prevented the holding of such meetings as he denied me the right to hold meetings on behalf of the organization, whatever may be the facts with reference to the men men- tioned, ‘ 4 The case today in Minnesota is one in which farmers ,and workers are willing to get into;a, political organ- ization of their own -and the officials of the organization.@what there is of it) ate doing everything possible to keep them out. /‘ TOLEDO NEGRO WORKERS HEAR FORT-WHITEMAN Many Join A. N, L. C. to Fight Race Bars TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb, 14.—Lovett Fort-Whiteman, labor organizer, spoke in the Banquet hall of the ‘Labor Temple to a well attended meeting of Negro and white workers. For two hours he dwelt on many important phases of the Negro question and outlined the plan of the American Negro Labor Congress and clearly showed the need of the Labor Con- gress, pointing out that if the Negro is allowed to remain unorganized, it will be a tremendous detriment to all organized labor. Whiteman showed the cause of race-riots, lynchings, ete. and held the press of this country, which is con- trolled by the capitalist Glass largely responsible for the prejudice existing today. Soviets Abolish Race Issue. He explained the. race question in Russia before the revolution of that counrty, where forty-three languages are spoken and showed that since that vast country has been under the rule of the workers, these problems have faded away. Whiteman explained the legal and political handicaps of the Negro in this country and the economic cause of their presence in large numbers on this continent. He touched upon many of the state laws which foster race- discrimination, 1 The speaker pointed out that gath- erings such as thig would do more good for the breaking of race-pre- judice, race-riots and lynchings than any other thing. Negro Workers Organize. Many Negro workers subscribed to the Negro Champioh and joined the American Negro Labor Congress. One Switchman Every Four Ki During Year of 1916 BUFFALO, N, Y., Feb. 14. -—- The Switchmen’s Union of North America asks approximately $1.57 per day more pay, the amount varying accord- ing to service, Government statis- tics show tha tswitchmen are in the most hazardous of railroad jobs are used to support the union de- mand, One switchman of every four was killed in 1916, re than the war casualty rate for American soldiers in France, Section for new} features every week, This isa taaue to give to your fellow until we) —_——— Workers Must Learn the Lessons of Coolidge’s Attack on Bread Trust By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, ON E of the methods proposed by the last convention of the American Federation of Labor, for fighting the “Food Trust,” was the demand for a congressional investi- gation. There will be no investigation, But the department of justice is proceeding against the so-called National Food Products Corporation, capitalized at $200,000,000 and which is said to be “acquiring stock” in a group of the country’s largest chain grocery, milk, ice cream and dal tions,” * * ry corpora- The great danger here is that the workers will be told that a victory has been achieved. The department of Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, which is so bashful when it comes to making ad- vances toward the powerful aluminum trust of Secretary of the Treasury “Andy Gump" Mellon, is supposed to be gnashing its teeth at the heels of the “Food Trust.” Reactionary labor officials in common with the little group of petty bourgeois representatives in congress, who do not know that the “trust busting” era has ended, will join in confusing labor as to what is really taking place. They will claim a triumph and the real work of organizing the unorganized in the “food industry” will be shelved. It is certain that the department of justice attack on the “Food Trust” will not be pushed, When the congressional elections have campaign issue. It is used now as a passed with the autumn leaves in November, then this Don Quixote assault will come to an end. The value of this fake anti-trust move as a political stunt can well be seen by studying a few facts touched by the ramifications of the “food trus' Millions are In the suit filed at New York, the department of justice claims that the newly launched corporation is “securing control of many large corporations and chains of stores, including the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company, which operates 13,000 chain groceries thruout the country, and the Borden com- pany” (the milk concern). Further claims are: “Of the 60,000 chain stores now dealing in groceries thruout the United States, about 16,000 are operated by corporations, stock in which has heretofore been acquired by the defendant, “The. number of competing milk companies has so dwindled that a few of these highly organized companies now supply entire cities, such as New York, making millions of people dependent upon them for a vital food product.” Thus the Coolidge-Butler politicians, who now sit pretty in the White House, and plot to strengthen their position in the senate and house of representatives in November, feel that they are knocking at every kitchen door in the land with a welcome message when they attack the food trust, The proposition is no doubt a good “vote getter,” if the masses can be fooled again by such fake issues. It is also pointed out that the “Food Trust” is trying to manipulate its finances without the aid of Wall Street. is, of course, a real and vital crime. It was, for a long time, the basis of attack by the Ford, as a result of which the | ed bankers against Henry ivver czar gained consider- able popular acclaim and was even hailed as a presidential candidate by “progressives” in spite of his known reaction- ary views. Wall Street makes no better use of its government at Washington than to beat rebellious capitalists into line. Hauling the “Bread Trust into court is one way of teaching these monopolists that they must agree to the rules laid down by the bi bankers or suffer the consequences. The department of justice is not attacking the. billion dollar merger of the Chase National Bank and the Mechanics National Bank, in New York City, which is to be followed by other similar combines. . * * * Labor must be warned against these fake political is- sues that are raised by clever and designing capitalist poli- ticians. It must not expect too much rom these little tilts between the capitalists themselves. It must organize its own power. Organize the unorganized into the labor unions, Move the masses forward into the Labor Party. It Was “Black Friday” for the Miners (Continued from page 1.) not receivieg one of their demands while the bosses were granted prac- tically everything they asked for. This fruitless outcome of the strug- gle was emphatically condemned by Sharfenberg and Isaach of Local Union No, 1407, Sillinsky of Local 699, Hurley and Marfisi of Local 1456, and Edmunds of Local 1138, The senti- ments expressed in the meeting re- presents the feeling of the rank and file of miners in every section of the hard coal territory, Steam Roller Ready. In spite of this adverse sentiment igainst Lewis there is widespread lief that the tri-district convention ill ratify the betrayal because for onths the machine has been utilizing very opportunity to consolidate its forces, In this nefarious work they have been ably supported by the police, company thugs and other agents of the anthracite trust, The convention is set for next Tuesday and Wednesday and rump meetings of unions are being called to select dele- gates without even notifying the ma- jority of the membership, thereby enabling the steam roller agents to swarm into Scranton to place the seal of approval upon the pact, Rank and File Protest, In addition to the action taken in the conference here last night count- less coal mining camps tonight hat adopted resolutions condemning the agreement, Meetings of striking miners in Throop, Wilkesbarre, Plains and Edwardsville listened to repre- sentatives of the Progressive Miners’ Committee and unanimously endorsed the proposals put forth by tho commit. tee, The resolutions call upon all the strikers to si t guns and fight for the of thetr union and against their being tied to the anthracite trust for a period of five years as stipulated in the Black Friday pact, Pre In Usual Role, The capitalist press of the region and every means of propaganda that can be utilized by the bosses is being used to fool the miners into belfeving they have won something as a result of the disgraceful sell-out. Officers of the union have rushed dnto print in fulsome praise of the “victory” that has been won. But the miners know that not one of their demands is in- corporated in the agreement. In addition to this propaganda the Scranton papers are carrying flaming headlines featuring James J. Davis, secretary of labor as the moving figure in the settlement in order to pave the way for this labor-hating member of strike-breaker Coolid, cabinet to become governor of Penn: sylvania at the coming state elections, The “settlement” may be ratified on paper, but the miners will fight and there will be no peace in the region so long as it 1s in force, DR. S. Telephone Armitage 7466 Gas or Novol for Extraction. DENTIST 2232 N. California Avenue Near Milwaukee Avenue intee to make your plates fit and make your appearance natural, Logan Square “L," Milwaukee, Kedzie and California Ave, cars to door. JURY CONVICTS EIGHT MINERS; 10-DAY TRIAL Argue Motion for New Trial on March 26 (Continued from page 1). the United Mine Workers of Illinois out of existence, In this fight, which culminated with the unsuccessful efforts of the Zeigler miners to force the Bell and Zoller ming officials to permit a correct weight to be given to the miners at ‘the pit head, the local miners found that the officials of the union, instead of coming to the aid of the rank and file, worked hand in hand with the coal operators, The dectsion of the sub-district officials was given in favor of the operators and against the miners. The spontaneous strike of resent- ment which followed was only stop- ped by the energetic action of the lo- cal progressive leaders, with Cor- bishly at their head, At a meeting of the Zeigler local. which then. took place, and at which the sub-district officials were present, the latter at- temped to run the gathering with high-handed, autocratic measures which were resented by the rank and file. In a fight which began over a °* blow given the aged miner Bert Far- thing by a member of the ku Klux klan, Cobb the sub-district vice-presi- dent pulled a blackjack and attempted to beat some of the miners with it, Klansman Kills Progressive. The indignant miners, none of whom was armed, pulled the jack from Cobb’s hand and in the scrimmage he and a number of others were hurt. From the doorway, Alec Hargis, a dis- credited klansman, appeared and shot at Mike Sarovich, a progressive miner, with a .38 automatic. Sarovich fell mortally wounded, and the meeting broke up. Instead of Hargis being held for |the grand jury, the charge of murder was framed-up against Frank Corbish- ly, a brother of the president of the local union, Henry Corbishly, and |more than @ score of other miners with their president topping the list, and charged with assault with intent to murder Cobb/and conspiracy to murder Cobb. * It was on this first charge that the thirteen defendants were just tried at the Benton courthouse after a num: ber of the originally-charged defen- dant-had been released and their num- ber cut down because not even the frame-up charges could have the slightest chance In the world to stick, In the proceedings of the trial, the defense proved conclusively that the entire charge was nothing but a frame-up against the thirteen miners because they had pursued a progres- sive policy which boded no particular good for the corrupt union officials and the coal operators who were cheating the men out of their coal weights, or the ku klux klan which had been de- feated in its attempts to make the Zeigler local a tool of the hooded order. The work of the prosecution during the trial was largely confined to ridiculing the defendants because of their foreign extraction and creating the cheapest kind of a nationalist atmosphere. The judge ruled out, time after time, important evidence which the defense wished to introduce in order to prove conclusively that the charges had been framed-up at a private meeting, that Cobb was guilty in having started the riot, and that Hargis was the real slayer of Mike Sarovich. Demand New Trial,’ Immediately upon the rendering of the verdict the defense appealed for a new trial. The workers of this sec- tion of the country are aroused against the verdict given by the farmer jury and are proceeding to intensify the work for the defense of the frame-up victims. The International Labor De- fense has already announced that it will continue to place all its resources at the command of the defendants in order to free them from the frame-yp, Polish Workers Face | Unemployment Crisis WARSAW, Feb, 14.—Poland has a serious unemployment crisis, Govern- ment, figures which have just been made public give the number out of work at 261,000 skilled and 200,000 un- skilled, a total of nearly half a mil- lion, The figures are admittedly in-, complete. As the overwhelming ma- jority of the population of approxim- ately 29,000,000 are peasants this in- dicates a widespread industrial de- pression. ZIMMERMAN NO PAIN.