The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1926, Page 6

coe cee a ne eee ; } ; Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, In. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): 98.00 per year $2.50 three months $4.50 six months By mall (eutelde ef Chicago): $3.50 six months $6.00 per year $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicage, I!linole $$ et J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUN MORITZ J. LOEB. —_——. ED Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. SS <p 390 a errmeneecnene BE ICOTS Business Manager Consequences of New Alignments Chicago has been chosen for the opening of the fight to repudiate Phone Monroe 4713 ‘ THE DAILY WORKER By JAY LOVESTONE, 4. The Sosnowski Bill—A Blacklist Bitl. f[his “gentleman” from the city of Detroit, Michigan, has introduced the most insidious and in fact the most dangerous anti-labor bill in the | Sixty-ninth Congress. It is less difficult to fight an open, frank, above-board opponent, regard- jless of how despicable or menacing | his plans may be than it is to struggle against a camouflaged, dishonest, cow- lardly enemy. Mr. Sosnowski proposes |registration of all foreign-born work- ers but he doesn’t sal so openly. Mr. Sosnowski proposes to have the fore- ign-born worker register “voluntarily.” An Open Shop Measure. the republican-democratic coalition that voted adherence of the |ryvhis is plainly a fraud. Let us ana-|Should forget that tho there is no|worker is immediately lable for de- United States to the world court. Borah spoke at the Coliseum un- | lyze the provisions of this open- der the auspices of the Crowe-Thompson-Barrett faction of the repub- |Shop measure. lican machine that_is backing Frank L. Smith of Dwight against United States Senator William B. McKinley, one of the Old Guard of the republican party. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri,‘ dem- | ocrat, spoke under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus, but the | official democratic machine leaders, under domination of Gborge | L. Brennan, were not among those who welcomed him. The Brennan machine is to Chicago what Tammany Hall is'to New York—a brazen political expression of the interests. of bank “Any alien resident of the United States who at the time of his last entry from a foreign country was lawfully admitted under the immi- gration laws for permanent resi- dence may apply to the immigra- tion official in the distri¢t in which he resides for registration. verification of such admission the immigration official shall issue to the alien a certificate that he is a Upon legally registered alien resident of |out looking for a job. Any employer the ‘United States.” ‘ will be able to recognize and distin- It has been said that the purpose | guish a foreign-born worker from a of language is to conceal thought. If| native worker. ever this statement was true, it is| When a foreign-born worker applies | infinitely truer in this case. Beneath |for a job, the boss will ask him for this heavily-padded clause of “inno: }a registration certificate. Thus, the cence,” there lurks the gravest danger | heaviest pressure, econome pressure, to the workers. ;the threat of starvation, will be em- First this “slight” reference to | ployed to club the working men into “lawfully admitted” when translated registration, If a worker doesn’t re-| into reality simply means the taking | gister he won’t get a job. That’s the of new steps to deport foreign-born | “voluntary” registration Mr. Sosnow- workers, Let us suppose that a work-|ski wants to put in force. jer happened to come to the United | Let us go on, The worker who, |States in a so-called irregular way.| because of Fascism, cannot secure |He may have had to flee from Fascist |the “regular” permission ‘to leave his |Italy or Bloody Horthy's Hungary to| native country, cannot enter the Uni- save his life and therefore was fore-|ted States as “lawfully admitted.” He, jed to resort to “irregular” means to| therefore, cannot register. Thus, he jcome to the United’ States. No one|cannot get a job. Consequently this |basis of fact the United States still| portation to the country from which | |has a reputation inthe eyes of large|he fled and may face jail, torture, or} {sections of Huropean,.masses as ajeven death. haven for oppressed, | A Giant Blacklist Scheme. Sosnowski’s Americanism. \NHE “innocent,” the “voluntary” | Ee Bs “gentleman” Sosnowski propo-| 4 gosnowski bill places thousands’ of | ses to catalog the “lawfully admit-| workers between starvation in Ame- |ted” from the above “unlawfully” ad-| rica, “the land of the free,” and pri- |mitted. Here is tie actual line of|son and execution in the country of jthe self-annointed Aniericanizer Sos-| their nativity. Mr. Sosnowski’s bill |nowski: Let those register who want | also thyeatens hundreds of thousands, |to register. He who does not register| many Mnillions, of foreign-born work- will be up against iit. when he goesiers with virtual blacklist if they do capital, therefore one hundred per cent behind’ the league of nations | and world court program. However, the Brennan machine does not} wield as wide an influence as does Tammany in New York. Its! influence does not extend far beyond Chicago. A minority party at| present, it will remain such. Reed will not be able to split that ma- chine. In the camp of the republicans there is already a wide split. The two senators, Deneen and McKinley, both supported the nefarious imperialist move to force the country into the world court, | while the majority of the republican voters are plainly opposed to it. Borah’s appearance under the auspices of the harvester trust and| packing trust group, with the Chicago Tribune ag its principal new paper, is a declaration of war against the Coolidge majority in the senate. With the world court conflict occupying the center of the polit- ieal stage the decisive battle in Illinois will be fought in the repub-| lican primaries. McKinley, with his odoius record is an excellent) THE FOOD TRUST GROWS FATTER target for auy opponent and will be defeated. Then we will have the spectacle of the democratic party officially taking up the same fight that will have defeated McKinley. | | | The significance of this alignment is that it reveals deep-going | crises in both old parties and indicates a trend toward one reac-} tionary party of imperialism. The republican-democratic coalition | will form one reactionary bloc, while the insurgent republicans,| with a scattering of petty-bourgeois democratic. support, will form! an opposition with both blocs eventually crystallizing into definite | political parties. With the official machine of the American Federation of Labor playing the game of imperialism by aligning its forces behind Mor- gan’s world court program the criminal policy of playing capitalist polit under the slogan “reward your friends and punish your enemies,” will produce a political split that will discredit that; snicidal poliey, Already the Fitzpatrick machine in the Chicago Federation of Labor and the Walker machine in the Illinois state federation are aligned with the industrialist group in the repub- lican party supporting Frank L. Smith for-senator. In such a situation there is a crying need for the creation of-a labor party with a program that will attract the support of the im- poverished farmers and elements of the petty-bourgeoisie who resent | the increasing pressure of taxation that must become ever more burdensome as the cost of maintaining the governmental bureau- cracy becomes ever greater. This is an especially favorable political atmosphere for the Workers (Communist) Party to enforce its program to direct the} labor movement toward a class party embracing masses of workers and farmers. . * . Resist Arbitration! When attorneys for the dress manufacturers of New York ap-| peared before a judge pleading for an injunction against a threat-| ened strike of the dressmakers’ local of the International Ladies’ | Garment Workers’ Union, the affair resolved itself into proposals | for arbitration with the judge as “impartial chairman.” | Injunctions have come into such disrepute that they are impo- tent weapons if the unions show any determined resistance, They can easily be broken by the workers. ignoring their provisions and striking and picketing in defiance of them, as was the case in the| silk mill strike in Paterson, New Jersey; in-1924. But arbitration is far more disastrous than the injunctién, For tance of arbitration presupposes the abandoning of the mass struggle and places the destinies of ‘the union in the hands ‘of its enemie There never was nor can thee be an impartial umpire in between capital and labor. ‘The ‘danger is still greater when the arbitrator is a Tammany judge'as is the case in New York. The dressmakers should resist the arbitration threat with all their power! ace a cont peat ASI 8 B12 el . While the Borah boosters are eulogizing this opponent of the world court it should not be forgotten that he wag one of the repub- lican senators who yoted to seat the corruptionist, Truman H. New- berry, who paved his way into the United States senate by buying votes wholesale in the state of Michigan. Nor should the fact be | forgotten that Borah is one of the most vicious opponents of or- ganized labor in the senate. has arrested the cast of “Desire Under the Elms.” The various up- lift societies claim the play is “obscene,” and incidentally themselves. ao - | Len Small, the treasury-looting governor of Illinois, and Fred | s1 Lundin, the “big Swede” political shyster of Chicago, state treasury is not adequate t6'maintain the array of scoundrels Small needs to keep his machine’ in operation. re st vet a member for the Workera for the DAILY WORKEK, . . 4 ‘ ‘ Party and a new subscription | 2,500 af ros | the Country That's Why the Little Fellow Can't Do Much Growing. MILITARY GETS BIGGER BUDGET IN JUGOSLAVIA Unemployment Fund Is Cut Considerably (Special to The Daily Worker) BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Feb, 22.— The state budget of Jugoslavia tor 1926 amounts to 13,000,000,000 dinars as compared with 11,750,000,000 in the year previous. | The expenses for the army, police, |for the registration, » photographing |and the courts are remarkably in-|and fingerprinting of foreign-born \creased, while the budget for schools, | workers are not directed against the Los Angeles, well known suburb of Hollywood, populated ty east ker fy inh pp pamtesng Nan chp in Eg ganesh lg Leto pen let he c i : ‘ é é |been considerably reduced. The un-| pose of the bills is to terrorize the retired exploiters of labor from the cow states of the middle West, ‘employment benefit of 400,000 dinars | Provided for in 1925 was reduced to The real reason is they 150,000 dinars. As there are at about recognize the portrayal of the secret vices of their own ancestors— |200,000 unemployed in Jugosiavia, less |than 1 dinar benefit per annum falls jto each unemployed worker, Concerning the inner debt of Jugo-|to be noted in the state of Ohio, lavia for supplies for the army and | have put (their payments it is only known that up as a candidate for state treasurer one William J. Stratton of |It reaches an immense figure, ‘Their Lake county. Evidently the million ¢ 7 if; Amount is being kept secret by the | {8 consthntly increasing. . million dollar swag pilfered-from the minister of finance altho opposition | |members have repeatedly asked for a | consideration, fo#®'the state of Ohio atement, 4 |. The entire debt of Jugosiavia amounts ing, automobile to abowt $0,900,000,000 dinars, 2,500|'The predominant Inars for every inhabitant t| t a CLEVELAND FORMS COUNCIL FOR PROTECTION OF FOREIGN-BORN; TO FIGHT FINGER-PRINTING: LAWS CLEVELAND, ’Feb. 22.—A conference was held here a few days ago to |dollars for’the first registration, not register voluntarily. The Sosnowski blacklist bill goes on in its “voluntary” train as follows: “Such certificate shall be valid for a period of one year, subject to successive renewals for like pe- riods, and shall be issued in such form and under such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations.” The workers who, by accident, did not happen to be born in the United States and who, very often, thru cir- cumstances beyond their control have been unable to become citizens are to be forced by the threat of denial of employment to register “volun- tarily” every year. And of course the workers will have to pay for the glorious privilege of being registered—for the initial’ oc- casion. ' The charge will be three The What Congress Wants to Do to the Workers SS mean? It means nothing else than saying to the foreign-born worker: If you want to be a citizen, then you « must register voluntarily every year. If you'do, we will make it very easy for you to become naturalized. If you don’t register voluntarily, then you ‘may just go ahead and try to get your citizenship papers. See, if you can get them. You had better register voluntarily and put down your three dollars. You'll either re- gister and be naturalized or you'll get shipped out of here quicker than it will please you. But woe unto any worker who gives any information in registering which may be construed by the government agents as misinformation or misrep- resentation. If a worker should be convicted of such a “crime,” then he will be fined “not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not. more than five years, or both,” Sosnowski’s Americanization scheme is just another example of what freedom of choice, of what the much- heralded sacred right of individual freedom means to the: worker under capitalism, Sosnowski’s Americanism is just another name for a capitalist iron collar around the peck of every work- er whether he was born in the United States or in any other country. successive annual renewals of re- gistration will be free, i Leeda proof of the rank fraud which “the Sosnowski Bill is, can be found in‘its vicious Section 4 read;, ing: : a “An unexpired registration eerti- , ficate shall’ be accepted for natural- ization purposes as evidence of the lawful” permanent residence of. its proper holdér under the immigra-; tion ‘laws.’"* Concretely; what does this section LIAPTCHEV CABINET CONTINUES ZANKOV POLICY OF PERSECUTING BULGARIAN WORKERS AND PEASANTS SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 22.—The change of government in Bulgaria has brought no change of policy for this unfortunate count; The overthrow of Zankov means no abolition of his rule of gallows, but only a change in the hangmen. The name of Zankov was too much compromised towards the foreign states. Even broad bourgeois ciréles were opposed to him. There- fore the rulers of Bulgaria decided to push him irito the background and to put another man in his place. , Renn ane nen menace Liaptchev is Zankov Supporter. Vassiliev’s name is also connected Who is the heir of Zankov’s posi-| with the horrible massacres near the tion? Liaptchev is know in Bulgaria/ station of Sarambeli. Among the hun- as one of the most brutal representa-| qreds of people—mostly peasants— tives ‘of tte white terror. Liaptchev was the phairman of that parliament- der the-ndmé of the “democratic en- ary fraction which was known un-} who were killed there, was a group | of college boys, who were fettered to- gether with chains and then shot down by machine guns on the road to | expect’ from: it. tente,” the party which supported Zankov’s bloody actions. When during the past year a bill against high prices and against usury was introduced in} Slaveiko Vassiliev is the new min- parliament, Liaptchey said, “The cap- | ister of labor in Bulgaria. Before the italistd ‘heed not fear this law, it is; coup d’etat of the military league, only destined for the idiots.” | Vassiliev was the adjutant of the Military’ League Dominates Cabinet.| Prime Minister Stamboulisky of the The ‘composition of the. new Bul-| peasants’ government and enjoyed his garian cabinet shows clearly what the | full confidence: When Zankov gained Bulgarian workers and peasants can} power and Stamboulisky escaped try- The cabinet is com-|ing to save his life, Wassiliey under- pletely under the influence of the mil-| took the leadership of the expedition itary league, even more than that of/ to arrest Stamboulisky. He returned Zankov..- This is. particularly clear} to Sofia triumphantly with the news, when ‘one remembers that a member | that he managed to have Stamboulisky of this ‘cabinet is the officer, Sloveiko | arrested and shot “while attempting Vassiliev, who won “fame” in Bul-|to escape.” King Boris did not be- garia by fhe brutal murder of the! lieve the reports of Vassiliey and peasant prime minister Stamboulisky.| feared further trouble from Stam- On Vassiliev’s instructions’ in 1923 at| boulisky. Slaveiko Vassiliev therefore | Pasardshik. Murderer is “Labor Minister.” Philippopel 50 labor leaders, lawyers and teachers were murdered without any legal proceedings. Thirty persons met the same fate in the town, Tatar- Pasandskik, at the order of Sassiliev. POLISH DOCTOR AIDS TERRORISTS BEAT PRISONERS Politicals at Lodz Ask Union to Expel ‘Medico’ WARSAW, Poland, Feb., 22—Politi- cal prisoners in Lodz prison have brot to notice the unprecedented and cyni+ cal methods practiced by prison doc- tor Artirikevitch. The doctor syste- matically "refuses to testify ‘to; the \ix- juries. idiagetea on the political; prison- ers by “tefensive” (Polish potilieat pp. lice) and-has frequently destroyed or falsified medical certificates... .,_ In‘the case of the inhuman beating up of the’ prisoners Richter,.and,-oth- take steps to form a council for the protection of foreign-born workers. Twenty-five organizations were represented and a provisional executive com- mittee was elected, consisting of J. Kozin, president; J. Keller, secretary- treasurer, V. Pyotsla, P. Vukovich, P. Bocholatt, I. Amter and H, Offner, The council has issued a call to all trade unions, fraternal organizations, sick and death benefit societies, Negro organizations and all other working class organizationg, to unite on this#—— |duestion that affects the entire work- third person is foreign-born, Hence jing class. 1 the question of protection of the for- Open Shoppets Back Bill. eign-born is an acute one. The bills pending before congress Conference March 14, The provisional council is calling a jconference which will be held on | March 14 at 10 a, m, at the Insurance Center Building, Hall A, 1783 E, 11th St. This is to be followed by a mass meeting at the Moose Auditorium on Sunday, March 14, at 3 p, m., at which | Prominent speakers will explain the nature of the bills that threaten the foreign-born workers and the organ- ized labor movement. All working class organizations should elect two delegates to the conferences, Conferences of foreign- language groups are new being held. These conferences will be entitled to two to four delegates to the confer- ence on March 14, A large attendance is expected, . Get ERATE 8 national concert of the T. Sat., March 13, at foreign-born workers, who are one of the weakest sections of the working class, to reduce their standard, meager as it is, and then to take up the at- tack on the trade union movement | with more vigor, This is especially where the open shoppers are very | active. and claim that the number of |factories going on the open shop plan Another fact must be taken into contains heavy jndustry—steel, min- af rate industries. lements in these industries are the foreign-born work- ors. In the citygof Cleveland every “0 ers, Artitikevitch entered in the regis: tration ‘book that the “patients ,were ill with anaemia” and preseribed io- dine fo¥' them, Artirikevitch during a tour of inspection declared when sée- ing thée-prisoner Goldman: “Let,that Communist ‘suffer, The World won't come tojjan ‘end if he does die like a dog.” 3 «+ cott this:doctor hangman, the prison- ers in the Lodz prison have appealed mand viteh; that the latter expel. Artirke- Demand Serbia Improve Conditions. (Special to The Daily Worker) « SOFIA, Feb, 22 — Macedonian re- fugees in Bulgaria will oppose any agreement reached in the negotiations now going on between Serbia and Bul- garia unless provision is made for improving conditions in Serbian Mace- donia, according to the statement of anisheff, president of the Mace- donian Refugee organization. He states the refugees are determined to secure the freedom of churches ani schools in Macedonia, — : DENVER—(FP)—A 6 per cent divt the meeting of the Power In declaring their decision. to, boy- to the Doctors’ Union with the. dé dend le March 15, was Midag |cut the head off the dead body of | Stamboulisky, put it into a leather bag |and brought it to the king’s palace. He ,showed this horrible sign of vie- tory and thus calmed the king, REVAL COURT JAILS WORKERS FOR AGITATION Aiding Prisoners Is Now “Crime” REVAL, Esthonia, (By Mail)—In the district court in Reval the noisy provocational trial of Rikko, Reining, Kunnap, and Idam charged with par- ticipating and preparing the Decem- ber rising has ended. The case was framed on the basis of an anonymous deposition of a certain Krukov, an ex- officer of Kolchak, who informed the ‘| chief of police that. Reining possessed a. “five-pointed Communist star” and that Rikko is said to have “wept when Lenin died.” ‘ From the first day of the trial it became apparent that despite the ef- forts of the secret police and of the court, there was a complete absence of any accusational material and the prosecution abandoned the charge of participating inthe rising, In order to “confirm” participation of the accused in the work of I, C. W. P. A, the court mobilized all the forces of the secret. police. Rikko made a brilliant spgech, All the other accused acknowledged their participation in rendering aid to political prisoners, their relatives and friends with the voluntary donations from workers and expressed their complete readiness to accept any pun- ishment for the “crime” of expressing one’s proletarian solidarity, In accord with instructions from ‘above,” the court sentenced Rikko to 10 years, Reining to 8 years, Kunnap 50 years of age to 6 years and Idam, aged 50, to 4 years penal servitude. All were sentenced under article 102 of the old czarist criminal code, Canadian Teachers Meet Aug. 3. ers’ federation will convene in Char ¢ CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward’ Island, Feb, 22.—The Canadian Teach- lishing Co. of Denver, owner of the |lottetown, Prince Edward Island, Aug. | Colorado Labor Advocate, ~ 18, for a four-day session, A |