The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1926, Page 2

i e Page Two GREETS PARTY OF SOVIET UNION Veteran Speaks at Mos- cow Session (International Press Correspondence) Clara Zetkin delivered the greet- ings of the German Communists and the whole revolutionary working class of Germany. She declared that “the revolutionary working class in Ger- many followed that great work of reconstruction in the Soviet Union with strained attention., Thanks to the correct policy of the Russian trade unions, to the carrying out of the tactics of trade union unity, to the close co-operation of the English and Russian trade unions, to the flood of workers’ delegations to the Soviet Union, the wall of lies which sur- rounded the Russian Communist Party, has broken down. Not only the working class, but also the bour- geoisie which follows the work of re- construction in the Soviet Union with hate and fear, has learnt to respect the Soviet Union. Great Interest Shown. “We are following with the greatest interest and the greatest attention the discussion which has commenced in the Russian Communist Party because a few elements are attempting to play a game with disruption, Such a@ game means the greatest danger for the Communist parties of the west which are still young and inex- perienced and which learn from the Russian Communist Party, above all the Communist Party of Germany. “In consequence of an unsuccessful policy. the Communist Party of Ger- many has experienced a severe period of crisis and only now after the over- due letter of the executive committee of the Communist International is the slow and difficult process of recovery commencing. Every attempt at a split could endanger our work and those elements which carry on double bookkeeping could make capital out of it. Party Must Lead Masses. “One must remember that at the present moment a severe political and economic crisis is ripening in Germany and that in this winter our party will have to lead the masses under difficult conditions. But de spite our fears in connection with the discussion in the Russian Communist Party my comrades and I have not the least doubt that the iron unity of the Russian Communist Party will ‘Yo maintained. This conviction has been strengthened by today’s speeches of Leningrad workers, the represen- tatives of the old Communist guard trained by Lenin who will understand how to protect unity. Should anyone attempt to lead the crew of that great and firm vessel that calls itself the Russian Communist Party over to in- secure boats, he will not be success- ful. . “I am convinced that there is no party member and no‘ party organiza- tion which would leave this ship. (Applause). The iron cohort which leads the world proletariat to victory will continue on the tried and trusted Leninist path in.firm and unshakable ranks.” (Applause) Many Delegates at Congress. According to the report of the com- mittee on credentials, there are 665 delegates at the party congress with decisive votes and 641 with consultat- ive votes representing 1,083,000 party members and candidates. Sixty-two per cent of the delegates are made up of workers. FREE LITERATURE SUPPLIED, MILWAUKEE, Wis.-— Free copies of the YOUNG WORKER, Tribuna Robotnicza, Pravda, and Honor and Truth, can be secured from Frank Milder, 821 Clylesurn St., Milwaukee, The Russian Colony in Movies! Performance, Concert and Dance given by the Federation of Russian Children’s Schools Sunday, February 21 WALSH'S HALL, Milwaukee, Noble and Augusta CLASSICAL DANCING, OPERA SINGING, RTC., Movies of the Russian colony taken in Chicago at the picnic of the Federa- tion August 23 will be shown, also the famous Russian comedy “Soldier Ivan’s Miracle” Beginning at 4 p. m. Tickets in Advance 50 Cents, at the Door 60 Cents, Tickets for sale in advance at the Workers’ House and at the Russian co-operative restaurants, UNEMPLOYMENT DEMONSTRATIONS IN LOS ANGELES MET WITH POLICE BRUTALITY; SPEAKER IS ARRESTED (By Publicity Comm. Los Angeles Unemployment League.) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb, 19—The unemployment situation here is daily growing worse. Even the figures of the chamber of commerce show 25,000 unemployed, but the real situa- tion is that nearly 50,000 men and 6,000 women are in the ranks of the jobless. In spite of this the bosses are continuing to advertise the “opportu- nities of Los Angeles” to fool more thousands of workers into coming here for work, \ The organization of these unem- ployed workers is being carried on vigorously by the Los Angeles un- employment league, The league is Striving to organize the unemployed and link them up with the labor un- ions and other workers’ organizations, At the first meeting of the league thirty-one working class organizations sent delegates, In this way the unity of the organized workers and the un- employed workers is established. Police Attack Secretary, As usual the bosses are using the local police to intimidate the leaders of the unemployment movement. The following account of an attack on the secretary of the league is given by an eyewitness: “On Friday, Feb. 5th, the red squad of the Los Angeles police department sot on the rampage again, It was dur- ing the noon hour. With a great hur- rah and rattle-de-bang of shotguns and clubs, they descended upon a peaceful assemblage of the unemployed, met on a vacant lot in the rear of a store between Towne avenue and Standford avenue and arrested Herbert Harris, who was addressing the men from a soap box, Harris is the secretary of the Los Angeles county unemploy- ment league, “He was speaking on a private lot, the owner having given his consént and the gathering being quiet and or- derly in every way. He had often spoken there before in recent weeks, as had also other speakers, In fact, it was a sort of outdoor open forum, and being in the vicinity of the un- employment agencies there were usu- ally quite @ number of listeners ready to hear any one who cared to address them. At present it is conservatively estimated that there are 50,000 unem- ployed men here in the city and some 5,000 women without work. So it is never difficult to gather an audience in that section of the city. Grilled by Cops. “All unexpectedly the cops made their appearance and broke up the meeting, crowding the audience back into the alley and nabbing Harris. He was taken to police headquarters and for an hour subjected to a grilling. at the hands of a half dozen of the “dicks.” “Who are you—an I, W. W.? A Communist? What are you trying to start? Who's back of you? Such were the questions hurled at him. But little satisfaction did they get. He disavowed membership in any of the so-called “red” organizations, claim- ing that he was simply secretary of the county unemployment league, and that he had a perfect right to address the joblesss who were there listening to him. Finally they let him go with. out placing any charge against him.” eee Unemployment Demonstration. LOS ANGELES, Calif, Feb, .19.— The Los Angeles county ungmploy- ment league will hold a mass demon- stration at Music Art Hall, 233 So. Broadway, Sunday, Feb. 28th, at 2:30 Pp. m. Speakers from central labor bodies, labor unions and other workers organ- izations will. be there—the colored workers included, of course. A special invitation is hereby extended to Spanish speaking toilers, State Senator Charles H, V. Lewis, thirty-eight district California legis- lature, has also been invited to ad- dress the unemployed. He has ex- pressed willingness to do his best for the unemployed at Sacramento as well as locally. Parts of a letter that has been sent to a number of labor organizations follows: “Dear Brothers and Sisters: “Owing to the unprecedented propa- ganda which the Los Angeles chamber of commerce and allied organizations have spread all over the United States advertising the Los Angeles climate, opportunities for work, and favorable means of home-building here—many France Seeks Arrest of Horthy Henchmen for Many Forgerias BUDAPEST, Hungary, Feb, 19.—Ac- cording to news from Paris, the French government wants to bring about the arrest of Goemboesch, Ulain, Magashazy, Bartha and Jadra- vatz, declaring they are the instiga- tors of the bank note forgery. These five men form the second Hungarian government—they are the executive organs of the court of Horthy which can be seen from the fact that Goem- boesch and Ulain were the political advisors of Horthy, Mogahazy, his ad- jutant; Bartha, the chief of his of- fices; Jadravetz, his priest. This sroup consists of the most intimate personal friends of Horthy who would undertake nothing without his knowl- edge and would have never risked participating in the forgery without an order from the head of the Hun- garian state, thousand of workers in all parts of the country have sold thelr belongings— the accumulation of a life of toil—and migrated to southern California, where they are now unable to find work, Owing, also to the rigorous climate in the east, north and west, many thousands of workers flock to Los Angeles in the winter with the hope of securing work here. As you are aware, there are mot enough jobs to go around even for the citizens of Los Angeles. The usually conservative estimate of the chamber of commerce is that there are 25,000 out of work. That means that the whole army of unem- ployed is between 75 and-100,000 in Los Angeles county, At the last meeting of the unem- ployment league thirty‘one bona-fide organizations were represented by thirty-eight delegates, The delegates went on record to tackle the local unemployment problem with a view of organizing this army ‘of jobless workers, to link them up with unions and other workers’ organizations, and carry on a campaign of education and organization to alleviate the suffering of the unemployed: To urge the city, county and state governments to open up public con- struction works, which give employ: ment to the jobless workers—or ‘to provide these workers with the means of livelihood, That this is quite possible can be seen from the fact that the city of Los Angeles alone has already voted $50,000,000 for public construction works, which money at present is idle in the banks, Brother Workers! No one needs to emphasize to you the urgent need of the hour to organize the unem- ployed who are a millstone around the neck of organized labor and all employed workers. Again and again the bosses have used the army of un- employed to break strikes and as a means of lowering wages and to speed up production, That the army of un- employed is the potential scab-army is known to you all. This serious question is yours. It is threatening your job, and it is Particularly the labor unions who must help to solve this problem. In order to start and organize this work, the unemployment league is urgently in need of money. We appeal to you to give us your moral and finan- cial support. Send in your contribu- tions and see that delegates of your organizations attend all meetings.” WICKS” SPEECH DRAWS AUDIENCE DESPITE STORM Lambasts World Court Before Crowd Despite a stormy night, snow and sleet, workers packed Imperial Hall last night to hear H. M. Wicks lam: bast the World Court and expose the further enslavement of the workers thru its agency. “No peace for workers will come of it, as our pacifists paid by Mr. Bok would have us believe” he told a most responsive audience. “The U. S. is in it for Wall Street to enslave Europe and the world, and the work- ers of this country will soon feel the pinch of a lowered standard of living thru low wages in the competi- tion for world markets.” Audience Interested, The clear and most interesting ana- lysis of the situation by the speaker was dotted with bright spots of hu- mor that brot sallies of applause from the workers assembled. Many questions asked of the speaker were good evidence of the interest created and these were answered in a manner to draw further applause for the lecturer which was voted such a Success as to prompt Section 5 of the local Workers (Communist) Party to make open lectures on live issues of interest to workers, a regular monthly affair, English Beauty Snubs Notoriety Seeking Dame Lady Diana Manners, English beauty, was busy explaining that she intended no snub to Chicago society by her failure to appear at a reception in her honor by the fashionable drama league, The arrival of “a very dear friend from New York who had only five hours to spend in the city” was given as her reason, “I heard only one mention of Lady Diana's absence,” was the icy com: ment of Mrs, Howard Willett, presi- dent of the league, “Really, she wasn’t missed, The reception was tor other members of ‘The Miracle’ cast, as well,” ———.. Lenin Funeral Film in Cleveland, CLEVELAND, O., Feb, 19.—In con- nection with the celebration of the seventh anniversary of the Com- munist International, Cleveland will witness the Lenin funeral film and another striking film, The celebration will take place at Moose Auditorium on Saturday, March 7, at 2 p. m. There will be well-known speakers and a musical program, Admission 600, THE DAILY WORKER MELLON TRUST WHITEWASHED BY DEPT, OF JUSTICE (Continued from page 1) “the department”—not any court— found the charges unfounded. The department not only found the Mellon concern was not guilty of the practices charged the federal trade commission, but mended that no further action be taken against the eompany. The department's conclu- sions will be injected into the senate battle, where a democratic-insurgent coalition hope to force a senatorial in- vestigation of the Mellon concern to be followed by an independent prose- cution similar to the process followed in the Teapot Dom@ case. The department inquired into four charges brot againgt the Mellon con- cern by the federal trade commission, The conclusions follow: Lie Numb ne, 1, On the charge of delaying ship- ments of material,” the department said: “In order to successfully sus- tain this charge, it must be affirma- tively shown that delays were inten- tional on the part -of!'the Aluminum company and were designed to in- jure the purchaser. There is an en- tire lack of evidence to support such contention.” Lie Number ‘Two, 2. On furnishing: known defective material, “It is true that many deli veries of defective material were made during the period in question. The evidence at hand clearly shows that the company made earnest en- deavors to maintain the quality of its product and when unable to do s0, accepted the return of defective me- tal and made proper adjustments.” Lie Number Three. 8. On discriminating in prices of crude aluminum, “The company's price policy as shown by the evidence was to quote the same price to all buyers where quantity, specification, credit and other conditions were the same or similar, The, conclusion is that this Marge is pot warranted by the evidence.” ‘ Lie Number ;Four. 4. On hindering.competitors from enlarging their “The evi- dence fails to disclose, that. any such agreements were made or sought to be made, All evidence warrants the conclusion that this charge should not be sustained.” More Lies. “The evidence is convincing,” the department concluded,.“"That the dom- inant position in the,gluminum indus- try, occupied by the; Aluminum com- pany of America is no wise relat- ed to the admitted fget that the com- pany owns practically all oy the Baux- ite lands in the United States. Still More,“Liés. “ft now appears Kad the depart- ment filed a citatidi for contempt when the report was received, it would have been wholly impossible to sustain the charges appearing there- in.” The senate meanwhile stood in ad- journment until Ménday when the coalition of democrats and insurgents will resume their battle to force a senatorial investigation. Pinchot Admits Vote : Thieves Rule State PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 19. — Clif. ford Pinchot, governar of Pennsyl- vania, issued a circular letter dated Feb, 4, addressed to all the citizens of the state, in which he attacks the “gang” for stealing votes and using other dishonest means to carry the elections, The following quotations, taken from this letter are rather il- luminating, Ballot Thieves. “Today the right of ‘the people of Pennsylvania to govern themselves is at stake, Never in the recent history of our commonwealth has corruption at the polls been as-widespread as at the recent elections; Ballot thieves defrauded candidates of votes that were honestly cast!for the, counted for other candidates’ votes that were never cast at all, s@t the will of the people ruthlessly aside, and put in office men whose right to the posts they now hold is in‘doubt. “Dead men were'commonly placed upon the registration lists and voted by gang politicians; In a single diy- ision in Philadelphia, 330 names out of the 630 on the registration lists were found to be phantoms. In an- other section of the state, riot and murder over the ¢dunting of votes were averted only by the prompt ac- tion of the attorney general and the state police, No Remedy. “The decent people of this common- wealth cannot suffer these conditions to continue, Hither we must govern ourselves, or else we must suffer our government to be taken over by a few gangs of election thieves,” Governor Pinchot undolibtedly tells the truth but the remedies such as election machines and laws punishing the corrupt ballot thieves, will not remedy the situation, Italian I. L. D. Will Hold Dance Tonight The Italian International Labor De- fense branch will hold @ dance tonight at 1429 West Taylor. St. Every worker should attend this dance as the pro- ‘Zeigler!’ and ‘Scranton’ Clarion Calls to Miners Who Fight for Progress By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, CRANTON AND ZEIGLER! The names of the two coal mining towns, one in the Pennsylvania anthracite field, the other in the southern Illinois soft coal field, typify methods of the war of enthroned reaction in the United Mine Workers of America against the developing left wing: They are not the only methods employed by the Lewis czardom. But they demand thoro study by the thinking ele- ments among the coal miners who are striving to promote the class integrity of their organization. * * * * Scranton stands out big again, as it has in the past, as the scene of vicious oppression within the miners’ union. Six hundred delegates, representing 158,000 organized coal miners, had been gathered together at great expense from every corner of the anthracite field to discuss the “Black Friday” betrayal put thru by President John L. Lewis, at Philadelphia, last week, Thoro discussion of the agreement had taken place in many of the miners’ unions and quite a number had instructed their delegates to wage bitter war against it. But immediately Ed Scharfenberg, of the South Wilkes- barre miners, demanded the floor to discuss the agreement, a red-baiting drive was launched against him and he was driven out of the convention. He was charged with having literature of the Progressive Miners’ Committee in his pos- session, and President Lewis, appearin; as witness for him- self, in addition to being prosecutor, judge and jury, declared the Progressive Miners’ Committee a dual organization affili- ated with the Workers (Communist) Party. All this, of course, is sheer nonsense. No one knows better than Lewis himself that the Progressive Miners‘ Com- mittee is not a dual organization. ie knows that he lies’ when he tries to compare the Progressive Miners’ Committee with the Industrial Workers of the World and the “One Big Union,” the latter organization being confined to a small sec- tion of Canada. Lewis knows that the Progressive Miners’ Committee has fought the “One Big Union,” in the Nova Scotia coal strike, for instance, and that the Progressive Miners’ Committee has fought every splitting and dual ten- dency in the union. * * Lewis knows that his whole case against the Progressive Miners’ Committee is built on an unstable sub-structure of malicious falsehoods. No wonder he wouldn't give Delegate Scharfenberg an opportunity to state his case. The craven coward and cheap bully that he is, wouldn't even accept Scharfenberg’s challenge to read the leaflets that his hench- men claimed they had stolen from the The truths set forth in the leaflets mig would set the discontent against Lewis’ the convention. rogressive delegate. ht be the spark that Hl-out flaming in This criminal deed of suppression perpetrated by Presi- dent Lewis at Scranton is a confession of the unstable foun- dation on which his traitorous regime wobbles. * * * * In Zeigler the Lewis-Farrington outfit, co-operating with the Ku Klux Klan, aided the capitalist courts to convict left “wing mine workers. The only crime of the Zeigler miners is that they hold progressive views in conflict with the pre- datory interests of the officialdom. They were dragged into the courts for this crime, and an attempt will be made to complete the attack by sending them to prison, just as Alex Howat was sent to jail in Kansas thru the collaboration of President Lewis with the mine owners and their capitalist state, “Scranton” and “Zeigler” are clarion calls to all mili- tants in the miners’ union to organize energetically and in- telligently for new struggles. The five-year slave contract has gone into effect in the anthracite coal fields. The actual workings of this treason pact will become apparent with each new day's develop- ments. “Scranton” and “Zeigler” are admissions of weakness by a tottering regime trying to play a Mussolini role in the American labor movement. The future pe to the m tant masses of miners seeking to weld their organization into a weapon for combat against the mine barons and the whole ruling class in America. / ZEIGLER MINERS’ FRAME- UP WILL BE SUBJECT AT MANY 1.L.0, MEETINGS The Bulgarian Club will hold a meeting tomorrow afternoon, at 842 West ,Adams street. Alex Reid will peak on the Zeigler miners’ trial and on the anthracite miners. There will also be a speaker in Bulgarian. eae Lettish Workers Meet The Lettish Workers’ Society will hold a meeting at Harmony Hall, cor- ner Thomas and Kostner Aves., to- morrow afternoon, Feb. 21. Tom Bell will speak on the Zeigler Trial. swe Southwest Side Meets Monday. All members of the Tom Mooney, Ford and Suhr, Mid-City, Italian 19th Ward, Czecho-Slovak No. 3, Lithua- nian No, 77 and 93 will meet in the Vorwarts Turner Hall, 2431 West Roo- sevelt Road, Monday evening, Feb. 21. Alex Reid will speak on the Miners’ Struggles and Their Persecutions.” Fred Mann on the “Organized Perse- jcution of Indust: Workers in Calif- ‘ornia” and M. Steinberg. in Jewish on |the International Labor Defense and the Bimba Blasphemy C a South Side Branch Tuesday. The South Side English Bnanch of the International Labor Defense will meet at the South Side Community Center, 3201 South Wabash Ave., Tues- day evening, Feb. 23, Your neighbor will appreciate the favor—give him this copy of coeds are to be used for labor detense.the DAILY WORKUR, Chicago Workers to Protest Against White Terror in Poland A protest meeting against the white terror in Poland arranged by the Pok ish, Ukrainian and White Russian In- ternational Labor Defense Branches in Chicago will be held Friday eve- ning, Feb, 26 at Schoenhoffen Hall, corner Ashland and Milwaukee Aves. at 8 p.m. Speakers in Polish, Eng- lish and Ukrainian will speak on this subject, The white terror and prosecution of thousands of workers and peasants in Poland by the state, became so ter- rible that even many petty bourgeois organizations have protested. Come and protest. Demonstrate your soli- darity. One Way to Get Rid of Them, (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Feb. 19 —Five Chinese prisoners were killed and eleven wounded, when some hundred prison- GARMENT UNION READY TO STRIKE; DEFIES INJUNCTION (Continued from page 1), tween the association and the union, therefore “This meeting of the shop chair. men of the shops of the members of the association hereby “Resolves, That on and after a date to be fixed the members of the union shall not return to work in the shops of the members of the association of dress manufacturers, and that they shall strike until union conditions shall be restored in such shops and will be fully protected,” eee To Sign Separate Agreements. By SYLVAN A. POLLACK (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 19.— The conflict between the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and the Dress Contractors’ Association has now reached a stage that the union has decided to sign separate agree- ments with individual contractors due to its inability to come to an under- standing with the association, The union has at all times ex- pressed a desire to meet the associa- tion and try to come to an agreement, while the association demanded ag a Prerequisite that the workers on strike in all of their shops return first, also that the business agents of the union stop visiting shops affiliated with their association, unless accom- panied by their representatives, The union rejected these impudent demands of the bosses and stated its willingness to go into a conference without any conditions being laid down beforehand. The contractors’ association later agreed to this suggestion of the union and a conference was arranged for Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Bosses Change Their Mind, At the eleventh hour the bosses once again brought forth their propo- sition that the workers return to their shops before the conference opens, also that the business agents stop visiting their shops, Seeing that the bosses’ association was not serious in its intentions, the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union sent an ultimatum to the contractors’ association declaring that if they did not agree to an uncondi- tional conference by Tuesday at 1 p. m,, the union would go ahead and sign separate agreements with the members of the contractors’ associa- tion. No answer was received, so prepara- tions are now being made to handle each shop separately, giving each boss a certain amount of time to come to terms with the union, and if he refused, to call a strike in his shop. No General Strike, “This does not mean that a general strike is being called.” So stated Charles S. Zimmerman, who is gen- eral manager of the organization de- partment of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. “Every con- tractor will be given an opportunity to accept our terms and if he refuses, a strike will be called in hig shop. “A shop chairmen’s meeting will be held Thursday night at Webster Hall, to take up the attitude of the union members towards this proposition.” Renter Strike Continues. While Supreme Court Judge Bijur has not as yet given his decision on the request of the Renter Dress Co., for a permanent injunction against the union (the temporary injunction is still in force) yet that does not prevent the continuation of spirited picketing daily in front of that shop, altho the Renter Dress Co. is re-enforcing its gang of sluggers, who try and bull- doze the workers, who do not let that prevent them from continuing to picket, knowing that victory ultimately will be theirs, District Five Holds Agitprop Meet Sunday The first district agitprop confer- ence in the history of the party will be held by district 5 tomorrow (Sun- day) at 10 A. M, at the Fretheit of- fice, Room 14, 3209 W. Roosevelt Road. All members of the agitprop commit- tees of every party unit, together with out-of-town comrades, should make a special effort to attend, The agenda is as follows: 1, Fundamental agitprop work. 2, Agitprop and party campaigns, 3. Agitation in factories, 4, Propaganda and the Party school. 5. Daily Worker, labor press, and lterature. 6, Agitprop and trades unions, “Trade unions are the reservoir of ers in the French jail here tried to|the majority of the socially decisive HORKERS BO GOOD BOOKSa WORKERS’ SEELEY 2563] | If you want a certain book and you can’t come down---just call part of the proletari: Non, I. Thesis, ‘ Aas \