The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1926, Page 3

- Lo THE DAILY WORKER MAYOR WALKER REFUSES TO SEE WORKING WOMEN (Continued from page 1). would take place. came, The mothers decided not to let the children go to school until their de mands were granted. On Feb. 1 the mothers in greater numbers than be- fore approached the city hall, They marched up and down before the city hall for a short while, walked up the stairs into the roomy corridors of the city hall, The city authorities were not very hospitable to the working class mothers. They did not invite ‘the tired mothers into the big sitting rooms to rest in the comfortable arm chairs. They simply told the mothers to stay out. The mothers seated them- selves and decided not to leave until they saw the mayor. The officer at the mayor's office let the mothers know that the mayor cannot see them because he had more important busi- ness. “Why,” said the organizer of the United Mothers of Williamsburg; Mrs. Zlott, ‘“here’s something!” and she began to read from a clipping of a newspaper. { “Mr, McCormick, the great tenor came to see the mayor only the other day. The mayor set aside every im- No answer ever portant business and came down to see the singer.’ The singer said, ‘I just came down to see you.’ With a smile and a good hand-shaking the mayor answered, ‘All citizens are wel- come for the next four years!’” Mrs, Zlott then added, “We are here with a smile and a hand-shake.” And the mothers informed the officer if ne- cessary they would wait until mid- night and instructed the officer to car- ry this message to the mayor, The officer came back and invited the com- mittee to come into the office. The re- presentatives with their babies in their arms went into the office. The representatives were told that the mayor will go into a conference on the matter and will see a committee of three at half past three. The offi- cer told the mothers again that they all can go home and that the commit- tee would bring them the answer. The mothers insisted on remaining. At half past four instead of the mayor, the superintendent of the board of education with a staff of assistants came down to see the mothers and hear their demands. The mothers were lectured by the women who ac- companied the superintendent and they were told that they did not have to drag those poor little children along and that did not have to come all to- gether and that they could have taken the matter up individually in a nice manner. One of the mothers answered “we stick together and go and come together.” The superintendent promised to take up the matter with their commit- tee on Thursday and advised the mo- thers not to come along. On Thursday, when New York City was treated to a heavy snow-storm the mothers went along with the committee to the board of education where they were told that their demands of not transfering the children were granted. The victor- ious mothers learned from this strug- gle that the only way to better their conditions is to organize and to stick together and to fight together. They have learned that not only must they stick in time of struggle but that they must have a permanent organization to protect their children in the school and at home and to be able to take up problems confronting the workers | at a moment’s notice. The mothers | -have a permanent organization—the | United Mothers of Williamsburg. Come out, mothers, from the holes | where you live in fire-trap tenements. | | You, mothers, united can do. away with fire-trap public schools, fire-trap tenements. Together, mothers, we will fight for a better, healthier future for our children and ourselves. “The trade unions remain and will remain for a long time a preparatory | school tariat for the training of the prole- ‘Lenin, (Continued from previous Issue) Finally, a very significant fact was the hostile attitude of the Scar- borough Congress to ithe Dawes plan. It is well-known that the Dawes plan is the child of MacDonald, the same \ MacDonald who came into power with \ the support of the British trade unions. Did not MacDonald work for the Dawes plan under cover of the interests of the working class of Great Britain? And lo and behold the first congress after the introduction of this plan takes up a decidedly nega- tive attitude to this child of labor treachery, This decision is of great political importance, First of all it throws a vivid light on the differences between the interests of the working class of Great Britain and the policy of the so-called labor government, A bigger smack in the face MacDonald could not have received. It is true Mac- Donald's name is not mentioned in the resolution, but everyone knows very well what is the matter, It was cer- tainly not mere chance that MacDon- ald did not meet at the Congress with the reception which was always vouchsafed him on such occasions, Usually, when MacDonald put in an congresses, LAUNCH NEW CRUISER TO GARRY BLESSING OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM (Special to The Daily Worker) PORTSMOUTH, England, Feb. 21, —The first of Great Britain's 10,000g ton cruisers, which are allowed by the Washington conference agree- ment of 1922, was launched here successfully. Three similar yessels began un- der the labor government will be completed within the present year. They will help to carry the bless- ings of British imperialism to the oppressed masses of China via cold steel and remind them of the differ- ence between a revolutionary class government like the Soviet Union and a reformist flunkey; adminis- tration like that of MacDonald. REQUEST MORGAN AGENT TO GUIDE ~EGONOMIG MEET Capitalists Try to Solve National Contradictions (Special to The Dally Worker) GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 21. — The league of nations’ commission which is handling the details prelim- inary to the calling of the intérnation- al economic conference has invited Owen D. Young, of New York, and Prof, Allyn A, Young of Harvard to act with it in preparing the agenda and other matters. Because of the great mass of such work to be done, it is not believed the conference itself will meet until the spring of 1927. Owen D, Young was a member of the Dawes committee. As chairman ot the board of directors of the General Electric Co. he represents the Morgan interests. His selection shows that the whole effort of the conference will be create'the econom- ic basis of the international world state politically embodied by the league of nations. This gathering of economic experts and heads of big in- dustry and finance was proposed last year by Louis Locheur, the richest man in France. It will be the most ambitious effort of its kind in the history of the world and a decisive test of capitalism’s ability to over- come the hationalism it has fostered for so many decades, Fascist Labor Chief Would Abolish Idlers ROME, Feb. 21, = In one of ‘his recent speeches, the secretary-general of the fascist syndicalist corporations, Edmondo Rossoni, declared that it was necessary to promulgate a law against the idler. .He suggested that the new law should contain only these two clauses: (1) that deliberate ab- stention from work is prohibited in Italy; and (2) that anyone found idling away his time in cafes or amuse- ment halls, without being able ‘to prove that he has worked for at least eight hours, will be arrested and sent to prison. A Former Syndicalist. Rossoni was formerly a violent syndicalist but like many others of his type has now become one of the more important supporters of reac- tion. His proposals would in con- nection with the law dissolving all other labor organizations but the fascist legalize the slavery of the workers of this country to the fascist regime. Win Two Weeks Strike. BOSTON—(FP)—A two week strike against the Commonwealth Clothing Co. conducted by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers brought the com- pany to terms. You do the job twice as well~ when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your story in it. . he was asked to speak: “This time only one section of the congress met him with applause, the majority of the congress remained silent; he did not receive an invitation to speak and left disconcerted. The decision against the Dawes. plan’ must be looked upon as a serious Tift in the labor party, which is built up on the trade unions. Right and Left lesue, Apart from its significance at home, this decision will also find an echo abroad. Everyone knows that the Amsterdam International and the Sec- ond International have given their blessing to reparations and the Dawes plan. The executive committee of the Amsterdam International officially defended the Dawes plan as the “only way out.” Suddenly, the strongest or- ganization of the Amsterdam Interna- tional opposes this plan, which brings forcibly into collision the various tendencies within the Amsterdam In- ternational, The French and Belgian reformists, who carried on an entente policy in the Amsterdam Interna- tional, will Be the first to feel the blow. mo mn ee ne + Page Threé "s = STE -0- ‘The Helping Hands. Morgan Pushes the Senate Which Pushes Uncle Sam Into the World Court. -0- SECRETARY KELLOGG WANTS MORGAN AIDS TO BE WELL-HOUSED (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb, 21. — Sec- retary of State Kellogg has urged the foreign affairs committee of the house to double the allowance to be authorized for the purchase abroad of offices for American consular re- presentatives. This will increase the total to $10,000,000, The request illustrates the rapid penetration of finance imperialism into all parts of the world. The consular officials are advertising agents and salesmen for the bank- ers and industrialists of America, MUST SEEK WORK IN OTHER LINES The Background of the Zeigler Frame-up By TOM BELL, HE frame-up and conviction of eight Zeigler miners charged with attempting to murder D. B. Cobb, vice president of the Franklin county sub- district of the United Mine Workers, dramatizes the unity of the sub-dis- trict union officialdom with the coal operators. The roots of the entire case lies in the swindling of the miners in the weighing of coal. Lon Fox and D. B. Cobb, sub-district offi- cials of the union lined up with the operators to aid in this swindle, The refusal of the checkweighman to be a party to this swindle led to him quitting until proper conditions for weighing had been established. The men also quit with him as they could not work without a checkweighman representing them on the sales, Cobb Obeys Company Orders. Because of this stoppage of the mine the company demanded that the sub-district officials depose the officers of Zeigler Loca] 992 for “violation of the contract.” Cobb carried out the instructions of the operators. The union meeting that was held on Aug. 2, was called for the purpose of elect- ing officers in place of those deposed. ‘At the meeting Bert Farthing, 70 years old, was beaten by the Wilson brothers, supporters of the Fox-Cobb machine; Cobb was beaten also, and Mike Sarovich was killed by a shot from the gun of Alex Hargis, klans- man and Fox-Cobb supporter. Cobb had 26 miners arrested on charges of assaulting him. Later this was re- duced to 13, Alex Hargis was arrest- ed for the murder of Mike Sarovich and released on $10,000 bond supplied by Lon Fox, Later he was freed by the grand jury and Frank Corbishley, brother of Henry Corbishley the de- posed local president, was indicted for the crime. Two forces were struggling for supremacy in sub-district No. 9, U. M. W. On the one hand, Fox and Cobb were definitely lined up with the oper- ators and continually settled disputes in favor of the operators. On the other hand the rank and file had produced a progressive leadership opposing co- operation with the operators. This leadership had gained control of Local 992 at Meigler and was supported by the vast majority of the membership. Steal Elections. In the last sub-district election Henry Corbishley ran for the presi- dency against Lon Fox, All facts go to prove that he received the highest vote, but Fox declared himself elected. In the last international election the Fox-Cobb machine went the length of having bogus ballots printed to win the election, In‘all spheres the clash of these two forces was apparent, The administra- tion fighting to retain office and keep the union as an instrument for aiding _Losovsky Writes on Three movement, This decision brings the British and the German trade unions into a particularly acute collision. Do not German trade unionists in all con- sciousness defend the Dawes plan? And all of a sudden the British ex- press themselves, in spite of their German colleagues, against the en- slavement of the German proletariat by means of the Dawes plan, Thus it has come to pass that the Germans support the enslavement of the Ger- man proletariat whilst the British pro- test against this. A more piquant sit- uation for the Germans it would be dificult to find. But, not the least abashed, the latter continue to dance attendance and grovel in submission. The relations between the German and British trade unions are bound to become more strained and they are strained enuf already, To what ex- tent they are strained became evi- dent by the attitude taken up by ‘the leader of the British miners, Cook, in Berlin and Essen. Cook said quite openly to the German workers what the British think of the Dawes plan, of class truce, of the tactics of the General Federation of German Trade the operators. The progressives fight- ing to wrest the union from the con- trol of the:operators’ agents in order to make of the union a real fighting instrument to protect the miners’ in- terests. In the struggle against the progres- sives the Fox-Cobb machine has ruth- lessly expelled ali leading progressive elements they could. Any excuse is sufficient for them. One miner writes to The DATLY WORKER and is ex- pelled. Another fights the mine man- ager too vigorously and is expelled. Those who signed the leaflet called “The Facts About the Zeigler Case” were suspended for six months. Weed- ing out the best rank and file leaders was one of the methods employed by the Fox-Cobb machine to enable them to turn the union over to the oper- ators. . Trial is Weapon Against Progressives. The trial and conviction of the Zeigler miners is simply another step in the fight of the Fox-Cobb mavhine GIGANTIC MONUMENT IN MOSCOW TO KARL MARX NEARS ITS COMPLETION (Special,to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S, R., Feb, 21.—The gigantic jument to Karl Marx, the corner stove for which was laid by Lenin in ©1920, is rapidly nearing completion? The memorial is in the very heart f the city. Rising frm the granite pedestal is a gigantic figure of Karl Marx, sur- rounded. by a group of proletarians. These consist of a French member of the Paris Commune, a manual labor: er, and a woman toiler, the latter lead- ing a young Communist who is holding aloft the Red Flag. The monument is the work of the Russian sculptor, S, 8. Alioshen. It is sixty feet high and its total cost will be a quarter of a million. Medical Stations Increases in Soviet Ukrainian, MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Feb. 21.— At the All-Ukrainian Medical con- gress a report of medical aid to the villages of Ukraine. There are at present in the villages’ 1,335 medical ambulatories and hospitals, 30 tuber- culous and 16 venearological dispen- saries, 120 tuberculous and venerolo-\ gical stations, 107 places for con- sultation, and 64 dental cabinets. Disregarding: the enormous increase since the Soviet power, thews insti- tutions are; answering only 50 per cent of the medical needs of the pop- ulation. Efforts are being made to increase the:number of medical sta- tions to supply the increased medical demands of -the Ukrainian villages. beiterzeitung*’ said that “Cook's shameless syeech was a conglomera- tion of platitwdes, stupidities and im- pudence. We''trust that Cook, who abused in a'déwnright low manner his position in’ the trade unions when he said that he is speaking on behalf of the British ‘Miners’ Federation, has Set foot on German territory for the last time.” “If we bear in mind that these complinients were addressed to a colleague in the Amsterdam Interna- tional and in the Miners’ Interna- tional, we will be able to gauge the degree of mutual animosity. If with respect to these four funda- mental questions the congress has made an important stride forward it did not budge on a number of other questions because of the traditions and conservatism which are still very strong in the leading circles of the British trade union movement. This Was particularly noticeable on the question of industrial unions, of the competence of the g 1 council and of the attitude.to the seamen’s strike which was then Proceeding, etc. Yellows Oppose United Front. We Pri an extremely cur- fous The British trade union movement wi Many Go to Work in Non-Union Fields SPRINGFIELD, mL, Feb. 21— Hardly more than half of the 90,000 miners of Hlinois are at work in against the progressive rank and file |spite of the recent anthracite strike movement, Henry Corbishley is look- ed upon as the leading figure in the progressive movement thruout the sub-district. The others associated with him in the trial were identified with this movement, Railroading these miners to the penitentiary was to be a warning to all miners not to dare to fight the administration machine. The fight against the co-operation of the union officials with the operators is a fight to protect the primary in- terests of the miners’ wages, safety and other working conditions. The operators want usuable officials be- cause it means more profits for them. This is the essense of the Zeigler case. The Fox-Cobb machine fought for the operators, The progressives fought for the interests of the miners. The frame-up was used to get rid of them. To wage the struggle against the la- bor officialdom co-operation with the bosses against the workers, it is neces- sary to defend the Zeigler miners, Davis Bars Countess in Fear Morals of U. S. May Be Endangered WASHINGTON, Feb, 21.—Secretary of Labor Davis has finally decided the Countess of Cathcart must go back to England because she admitted frankly she had-left her ancient husband in order to elope with a more attractive man, the Earl of Craven. The deci- sion establishes a precedent for the exclusion of anyone who does not come up to the ideals of personal morality held by the immigration de- partment heads. In view of the devia- tions from the “straight and narrow path” of even such a leading light as ex-President Wilson, whose amours with a certain woman were notorious | during his administration, and of the sex affairs continually going on in- volving high officials of the govern- ment, it would seem the administra- tion is laying itself open to a very ticklish situation. If England, for example, should retaliate and enforce | as stringent bars against American visitors, some very uncomfortable scandals would be sure to occur. Davis Justifies Ruling by Lie, Davis explained that this decision was based solely on the technical provisions of the law and declared that nothing else could be considered, as he is not allowed to exercise dis- cretion, The latter plain lie, as it is well known that political considerations play a large part in many cases. The valiant secre- tary took the first train to Florida after making public his ruling so as to escape the women who have called attention to the prior admission with- out question of the Earl of Craven himself. statement is a| and the cold winter. Those who are at work are employed from one to six days a week, but between 25,000 to 45,000 have quit mining coal. Some have gone to Michigan to work in the automobile factories and oth- ers have taken to other occupations nearer their homes. Many have gone southward to the nonunion fields of Kentucky and West Virginia, This unemployment among the min- ers is due to the increasing competi- tion of the nonunion mines with the union mines and the fact that in many of the Illinois mines machinery is replacing the miners. Shorter Work Day! Instead of making efforts to union- ize the nonunion fields and to shorten the work day of the miners and thus take care of the surplus miners that are now seeKing work, the officials of the United Mine Workers tell the miners to seek employment in other trades. Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois mine district, in a letter to local unions points out to them that they must not initiate any new mem- bers except the sons of active min- ers, in order to cut down the unem- ployment problem around the mines. Another of the Illinois officials tells phe young miners to leave the indus- try as many of them will be dis- placed by machinery now being in- troduced and that there is no other hope for them, Organize Nonunion Fields. The progressive miners show that the way in which to overcome this unemployment is in shortening the present work day and also the union- izing of the great nonunion fields of |Kentucky, West Virginia and other |states. Try White Guards for Attempted Assassination (Special to The Daily Worker) VIENNA—(By Mail)—Two “White Guard” Russians, arrested last Sept. for conspiring to secure the mur- der of Jean Berzin, Soviet minister to |Austria, were found guilty at their j trial the end of last month. One of them, however, is to be deported and | the other placed under police surveil- | lance. The trial brot out the fact that the | Russian emigres had a “murder organ- zation” in Bulgaria, for the purpose of assassinating Communists and So- viet representatives. The chief wit- ness was one Shetshenko, who turned | state’s evidence. He had quarreled | with his accomplices and in conse quence informed Berzin of the plot. The conspirators were to get the cash for the arms from other agents in Bulgaria. | COAL COMPANY DEMONSTRATES DICTATORSHIP Drives Out All Stores of Independents By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press. CHARL TON, W. Va. — (FP) Carbon Fu Co,—tuler of several thousand ing folk on the upper left gorges of Cabin creek—is arrest- ing merchants who deliver goods to their employes. The new order is that workers must buy all their gro- ceries from the company stores or gO down the creek, “No Trespassing,” warns the sign at Dakota, border town of Carbondale, But I was able to go into the company store at the frontier and price the goods. I found rates considerably higher than outside, A 24Ib sack of flour that Frank Palma, one of the arrested merchants, used to fetch from Eskdale, several miles down the creek, for $1.60 brings $1.75 at each of the company stores. The can of evaporated milk Palma delivered for 12%c rings up 20c on the company till; and the 25-Ib sack of sugar the private dealer laid on the doorstep for $1.85 costs $2.50 from the boss. Company store bills are checked off the worker’s pay and often he finds nothing coming. Pay is low at best. Nominally at the 1917 rate (nearly a 30 per cent reduction from the peak) it is actually still less. The old union 1917 tonnage rate was guaran- teed by a union-paid checkweighman on the tipple. Now the miner has to take the company’s word on the weight. The old union 1917 agree- ment—like all union agreements— provided special rates for putting in props, removing slate and clay, and doing other forms of dead work. No pay for those extras today, only for coal. Two of the arrested merchants are putting up a fight. They have refus- ed to pay the fines levied by justice of the peace Pat Brennan of Eskdale and demand jury trials on the trespass charge. Poff, the meat dealer, yield- ed and paid his fine of $10 and is preparing to quit the community. Half his business was up the creek. His case was particularly hard. The company told him his truck was dam- aging the road. The company’s own truck was much heavier, but Poff in- vested in a Ford truck. But that did not save him; he was arrested, The appeal of the other two mer- chants turns on who owns the road. Carbon Fuel has claimed it for years but old timers tell me they worked on the road for the county back im jthe eighties before the mines were | opened, | Cabin creek was organized in the bitter bloody strike of 1912-13 when the miners fought back against the Baldwin-Felts guards who started the killings and sent a round number to their grayes. Frank Keeney, a Cab- in creek miner, led the walkout and Mother Jones figured in dramatic de- fiance of the thugs. Eventually the entire creek, upper and lower, came under the union agreement and re+ mained so till 1922. Several camps of strike barracks remain of the fam- ilies that have stuck out the four- year fight but most of the men left the community or were starved back to the job. The rations are in flour, meal, meat, beans, etc., what $1.50 per person every two weeks will buy. Clothes depend on otitside donations. Discontent Not Dead. The mines are again working with the starved-back men and imported southern labor. But the working min- ers are bitterly discontented, as the stranger tan quickly find where knots of them are found on the streets. Community Chest Fails. NEW ORLEANS—(FP)—The New Orleans community chest which set its goal at $1,750,000 for sweet charity is proving a failure despite glaring |mewspaper ads and seductive smiles from women solicitors. Among the or- ganizations scheduled as worthy are the American legion, the boy scouts and the Y. M. C. A. more to the left whilst its ideology is lagging behind its practice. In prac- tice, the British trade union move- ment has already entered the class struggle—in theory this has not yet been sufficiently substantiated and crystallized in the resolutions and de- cisions of the congress. The clash of class interests is particularly visible now in Great Britain. The working class feels that bourgeois society, welded together and armed to the teeth, is against it. In view of re- stricted markets and the determina- tion of the bourgeoisie to reduce the standard of living of the working class at all costs, the internal differences are becoming more acute and compel the disjointed British trade union movement to weld itself together to offer resistance to the enemy’s offens- ive. This necessity of collecting all the forces under one control is felt much more strongly below than above, for the upper stratum of the trade union movement, especially as repre- sented by the right wing, hopes that |b! by means of negotiations and persua- sion to succeed in avoiding serious strugglewwhilst the rank and file and the more leaders feel the therefore, endeavoring to establish as strong and united a front ads possible. The attempts of the miners to form a quadruple alliance of metal.workers, transport workers, railwaymen and miners, did not lead to any practical results in spite of the formal consent of the executives of all these organiza- tions. The agreement exists only on paper, whilst in reality it has been sabotaged, thanks to Thomas and Co., who cannot imagine any possibility of action when interests are at stake which are not those of their union. Such an attitude is quite natural for people like Thomas. They are against action when the interests of those sec- tions of labor are at stake at the head of which they are; why should they act in defense of the workers of other branches of industry? Veering to Left. The Scarborough congress did not go any further than what actually ex- ists and it did not do so because many ig! e@ unions were categorically agains. the adoption of new tactics called forth by the growing acuteness ofthe class struggle. They were par- ticularly afraid to extend the powers of the general council, for under ex- Trade Union Congresses ralized leadership of the coming strug- gle. In the case of many trade union- ists the interests of their union pre- dominate over class interests; there is a lurking hope in thelr minds—“Per haps the coming storm will not affect my union.” In spite of this the Scarborough com sress is an important landmark in the development of she British labor move- ment. In spite of the relics of the old, the progress noticeable within the masses of the British proletariat found an echo in it. It reflected the solemn dissastisfaction, the ferment and the indecision of the masses in search of new methods and forms of struggle. N> matter how vague and indistinet some of the formulae may be—this determines the state of affairs, Life itself will introduce the necessary al- teration into the . vague formulae, practical struggle will do what has been left undone by the congress, To understand the trend of development of the British labor movement one must first of all turn to the real strug- gle of the British proletariat and then only after that to the resolutions of its congresses. The situation in Greag Britain is perfectly clear: the Yeertag to the lett is proceeding steudily,