The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1926, Page 2

| Page Two MEXICO PLANS TO EXPEL ALL ALIEN PRIESTS Laws Prohibit Religious Teaching in Schools (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 25.—Mexico’s action in driving foreign clergy from the country is not directed at the cath- olic church particularly, but against all religious denominations, Secretary Gobernacion, chief of the cabinet, stated today. Protestant preachers do not appear in clerical garb and therefore it is dificult to locate those who have taught religion in the Mexican schools, he explained. The secret police are inquiring into the acts of foreigners of denominations other than the cath- olic who are teaching in violation of the constitution and will take action against them. The constitution forbids the teaching of religion in primary schools. Government officials point out that this policy has been in force for some time. Chureh Property Once Confiscated, In 1857 during the administration of the Juarez government a law was en- acted to confiscate church property which then amounted to eighty per cent of the nation’s wealth. Monas- teries and convents were closed. Dur- ing the Diaz regime these institutions were permitted to re-open. The fight between the state and the church has continued since that time. JEWISH WORKERS BUILD CULTURE IN SOVIET UNION Open Many Schools and Libraries MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Feb. Thruout the Soviet Union there are , about 530 Jewish schools, in which over 100,000 children are taught. In the Ukraine the number of children betweén the ages of 8 and 15 receiv- ing instruction exclusively in Jewish schools reaches 17.19 per cent of the total number of Jewish children of these ages. In Soviet Russia the percentage of children in the care of the Jewish schools constitutes an average of 8 per cent, fluctuating from 1 per cent at Moscow to 18.4 per cent in the province of Gomel. In White-Russia the Jewish schools take care of 40 per cent of the Jew- ish children of school age. In the Soviet Union there are about 30 Jewish professional and technical schools. There are functioning among the Jews in the Soviet Union 648 miscel- laneous circles, 80 evening schools, 180 Jewish clubs or Jewish depart- ments at the general clubs, 160 li- braries or sections at the general libraries, 57 reading cottages, 391 sta- tions for the liquidation of illiteracy, 9 itinerary politico-educational organ- izations, 8 pedagogical technicums,.1 agricultural technicum, 2 popular uni- versities, 1 Jewish labor college, and 6 Jewish departments at the different higher schools. There are 2 Jewish state-endowed theaters at Moscow and Kharkoy. Saturday’s Red Revel Inspires Bad Poetry Not since Samuel Gompers stopped | drinking the more aristocratic liquids from the flowing bowl has so much in- terest been aroused in a single event by Chicago labor. So pick up your four bits (fifty cent Translator) and {your best girl—or whichever one is handy—and hie yourself over to the Temple Hall on Saturday night, For as the Red Revel Anthology so aptly chants: They came there in their autos, And some came in balloons, But all swore that they'd never see Such a Revel for many moons! STRIKERS URGE GARFIELD CITY OFFICIALS AGT Letter Follows Assur- ance of Sympathy (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N, J., Feb, 25.—Clarence Miller attended the council meeting in Garfield on Friday and was given the assurance that the city council was entirely in agreement with the strikers’ demands which they con- sidered entirely fair and reasonable. As a result the following letter has been addressed to the mayor and city council: “To His Honor, the Mayor, and to the Councilmen of the City of Garfield. “Sirs:—At the last meeting of the councilmen of Garfield held on Feb. 19, there took place a discussion on the strike situation. The viewpoint of the ‘workers on the strike was present- ed by our fellow worker Clarence Mil- ler and from his report we learn that the councilmen of Garfield expressed it as their opinion that the demands presented to the mill owners by the united front of textile workers on be- half of the strikers were entirely justi- fled. “This expression on the part of the councilmen of the city of Garfield to the effect that the demands of the textile strikers were justified makes us feel that we can expect full co- operation from the city council of Gar- field in pursuing our lawful tasks. “The united front committee of tex- tile workers therefore calls upon the responsible officials of Garfield: “1, To take vigorous measures to stop the interference of the police with picketing and with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble un- molested. “2. To take appropriate action against those police officials who or- dered the monstrous acts of brutally in the Ackerman avenue bridge club- bing affair. “The strike committee offers its full co-operation to maintain order. We shall even allow to be deputized as many strikers as are necessary for that purpose. We protest, however, as citizens of Garfield, the increase in taxes incurred by the adding of. many new men to the police force. So far the strikers have never been the ag- gressors. They have been wonder- fully peaceful, 2 “We demand that the council put an end once and for all to those hys- terical cries of ‘the bosses shrieking for the militia. We demand that ap- propriate action be taken to see that Recorder Baker can no longer impose his outrageous sentences of 30 to 90 days for picketing peacefully nor ex- act his extortionate sums of bail money from his innocent prisoners. “Further we demand that Recorder Baker give a fair trial, including the right to be represented by counsel, to all arrested strikers who appear be- fore him. The Jewish press in the Soviet Un- fon comprises 5 dailies and several weeklies and a series of professional, pedagogical and literary magazines. During the last year there were pub-| “3. Since our demands are justified lished 136 titles of books with a to-| we call upon the officials of Garfield tal circulation of over 500,000 copies. to endorse our Strikers’ Relief and to 7 Settle on Land. appropriate an adequate fund for the The systematic organization of Jew- ish settlers on the land is going on in the Crimea. During the last 3 years there have been organized 40 Jewish agricultural colonies consisting of a total of 950 families., Nearly all these colonies are engaged in the cultiva- tion of grain crops, and only a few of them in horticulture and vinegrow- ing. At some places have been establish- ed flour mills, cheese factories and the like. All the colonies are adopt- ing modern and improved agricultural methods, comprising the use of trac- tors, Belected seeds, etc, The major- ity of the Jewish colonists in the’ Crimea hail from the provinces of Smolensk and Gomel. “The power of the working class is organization, Without organization of the masses, the proletariat—is noth- ing. Organized—it is all. Organiza tion is unanimity of action, unanimity of practical activities.” All Comrades and Friends Are Invited to the Big DANSANT NITE on FEBRUARY 28, 1926, at the SOCIALIST AUDITORIUM, 62 E, 106th Street, Between Park Ave. and Under the auspices of the Italian Workmen’s Club of Harlem, New York An Extraordinary Program—DANCING—SINGING—SURPRISES DON'T MISS IT! Meet your friends and comrades there that night! The door will be open at 6 p, m. Admission: Gentlemen 50 Cents, Ladies 35 Cents, establishment of food kitchens in co- operation with the strikers’ relief committee. We also call upon the of- ficials. of Garfield to open in the pub- lic schools lunch centers to feed the hungry children of the exploited tex- tile workers on strike, “The officials of Garfield in carry- ing out these measures will show in action that they are ready to support the interests and rights of the major- ity of the population whose cause they have considered to be just and by whom they were elected to office. We trust that these matters will be acted upon with the greatest dispatch, “Very truly yours, “United Front Committee, ‘ of Textile Workers.” Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker, Madison Ave., New York City. LESSON FOR NEXT CLASS IN CAPITAL Capital, Vol. 1; Chapters VII and Vill (pages 197 to 234 inclusive): 1—What distinguishes man from the lower animals? 2—Explain the entire labor pro- cess in some industry with which you are familiar, specifying the dif- ferent elements involved, such as raw material, auxiliaries, etc. 3—When machinery, raw material, buildings, ete., are used'up in the industrial process is the value con- tained in them thereby destroyed? 4—Is it correct to say that all wealth belongs to him who has pro- duced it? 5—Do capitalists realize profits by cheating the workers? Or, the con- sumers? 6—Explain the two-fold nature of labor, 7—If a machine should break down as the result of an accident during the labor process would its value be transferred to the commo- dity? 8—Explain constant and variable capital? 9—Will a change in production affect these two categories of cap- ital? ENGLISH NOBLES SUCK LIFEBLOOD QUT OF PEOPLE Hold Enormous Areas from Cultivation LONDON, Feb. 23.—So much of a hullabaloo is continually raised by the wealthy and there is such common condemnation in the American press of the doles, or unemployment relief, that the following table of English nobility which is daily sucking out the life-blood of the working class of this country is illuminating. American readers will notice that several of these titled parasites have valuable properties in that country, The Titled Bloodsuckers. The Duke of Northumberland owns 180,000 acres of land, and draws £1 per minute. The Duke of Westminster owns 30,- 000 acres and 600 acres in London, and draws £6000 per day. The Duke of Norfolk draws £1500 per day from the workers. One thousand lords and dukes own 30,000,000 acres of Great Britain. The Duke of Sutherland owns 1,358,- 500 acres in Scotland (most of this land was got by legal robbery), and 420,000 acres in America, Rent roll, £3000 weekly. Food For All. Machintosh of Machintosh owns 1, 000,000 acres in Scotland, all lying idle. Rabbits by the million, and food for all. Lord Lansdowne owns 142,000 acres. Rent roll, £1500 weekly. Earl of Breadlabane owns 438,000 acres. Rent roll, £1200 weekly. Lord Rosebery owns 23,000 acres; draws £650 weekly in rent. Earl of March owns 62,000 acres; draws £1300 weekly from the work- ers, Duke of Rutland owns 70,000 acres in America, and some land in Eng- land. Baron Tweedale owns acres in America. Twenty-eight dukes, so-called pa- triots, own between them 4,000,000 acres of land in England, mostly ly- ing idle, but used for hunting, golf- ing, shooting grouse, rabbits and pig- eons, Gomez Speaks on Wall. Street and Mexico in Detroit Forum, Sunday DETROIT, Mich., Feb, 25.—Expos- ure of the sinister facts behind the present diplomatic crisis between the United States and Mexico will feature this week’s discussion at the Detroit labor forum, meeting Sunday, 3 p. m. at Cass High Auditorium, corner Sec- ond and High streets. The speaker will be Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-America Anti- Imperialist League, whose subject is announced under the suggestive title of “Wall Street and Mexico.” The forum is un- der the auspices of the Detroit Fed- eration of Labor.. ‘ Since the subject was first announc- ed, Mexico's new land and petroleum laws have been passed, arousing a storm of protest from the American oll magnates, causing Secretary of State Kellogg to threaten a break in diplomatic relations and resulting in a significant mobilization of U, 8. troops along the Mexican border. The “Mexi- can Question” is thus brot more sharply to the front than for some time. Mexico City newspapers are filled with expressions of fear of Ame- rican intervention. Whether or not Wall Street will be successful in its imperialist war plans depend to a sreat extent on the ability to under- stand quickly the significance of the situation and to make their resistange felt. ; 1,750,000 THE DAILY» WORKER Marx’s Selected Essays Published on March 1 NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—International Publishers announce for publication on March 1 a volume of the earlier writings of Karl Marx under the name “Selected Essays.” The book contains several essays, among them “On the Jewish Question,” “The English Revo- lution,” “French Materialism,” and essays on Proudhon, the Hegelian philosophy and other subjects. These essays, for the most part unknown even in the original German, are now first translated into English, and in- dicate the beginnings of Marx’s ideology. | FORSTMANN AND HUFFMANN MILL WORKERS STRIKE Relief Badly Needed by 12,000 Strikers (Special to The Dally Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 25. — The workers at the Forstmann and Hoff- man mill have joined the strike of the Passaic textile workers. Two big mills employing about 4,000 workers had to close their doors because of the strike of the weavers and the spinners, The Forstman and Hoffman company claim they shut down their mills due to “the reign of terror by strikers from other mills” in their attempt to hide the fact that their workers have struck for better conditions. 12,000 on Strike. This now makes over 12,000 work- ers on strike, This walkout of the Forstmann and Hoffman mills has augmented the ranks of the strikers by about one-third. This walkout came about in spite of the company union and the company-owned paper, which tried to fill the workers with loyalty to the bosses. and jokes, in- stead of bread. The fifth week of the strike finds the relief office crowded with hungry women and children, Relief cards are being issued at a fast, rate. Funds must come in quickly, if these relief stations are to continue feeding the istriking textile workers without any interruption, " The wife and daughter of Rabbi Wise are aiding the strikers by col- lecting funds in New York from many sympathetic individuals, Many unions are sending in donations. In spite of the funds coming » these varied sources, it is not eno! Wider fields must be tapped if relief office is to feed the children, "babies and the men that are on stifike for better living conditions. Resist Open Shop Drive! The struggle of the Passaic textile workers is the great ruggle of the workers that is going of today to beat back the attempts of the open-shop employers to cut e es of the workers. If the bosseS”are successful in this struggle, they will proceed to cut wages in other centers and in other industries, This struggle of the Passaic workers is a stfuggle of great import to the workei§ of America. The American labor movement must be mobilized to aid ‘these strikers. Their immediate need ig relief funds. Send Aid to Strikers! Every union, every workers’ organ- ization should send in their donation to aid the feeding of the strikers and their families so that these workers will be able to win their strike and establish better conditions, Don’t let the bosses starve them back to work! Send in your donation today! Send your donation to the General Relief Committee Textile Strikers, 743 Main Ave., Passaic, N. J. Plan Fight in Senate Against Ratification of Italian Debt Deal WASHINGTON, Feb, 25.—(FP)— Under heavy pressure from democratic voters and liberals thruout the coun- try, senate democrati¢ chiefs have decided to take action against the Ita- lian debt settlement, Leader Robinson, formerly willing to give assent to the big cancellation to Mussolini, now de- clares the contract should go to the foreign relations committee for furth- er study. This appears'to be the desire of Sen, Borah, chairman of the com- mittee, who is hostile t6 the pact. So popular ha® the opposition to the settlement become in democratic cir- cles that one senator estimated that only three or four democrats would vote for ratification, At least a dozen progressives from the republican side will vote against the d French Get First Lot of Czarist Jewelry MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Feb, 25—The French jewelers’ group represented by M. Frankinano has been awarded a parcel of jewelry, containing the crown of the last caarina, diadems, and 30,000 carats in loose diamonds, emeralds and sapphires. The French bid $130,000 more than a rival Ameri- can group which was’ trying to get the gems. The Soviet government realized approximately $3,000,000 by the sale, Jewelerd had flocked here from the New York, London, Ant- werp, and Paris markets but the de- cision of the authorities to sell the parcel entire left the fleld open only to these two groups This Home Builders’ Plan Is Only Good for the Aristocracy of Labor By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, 7 ae railroad brotherhood officials have announced plans for “labor's latest financial institution” under the high- sounding title of the American Home Builders, Inc. That this new scheme will follow closely along the class collaborating line laid down for the brotherhood banks is re- vealed in the statement of W. G. Lee, the $25,000 per year “grand chief” of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, who says: “We are starting among railroad workers, but we welcome the co-operation of all workers and all capitalists who are interested in see- ing that the average man and woman shall have fair opportunity to finance home ownership on an economical bas! * . e * Labor's first “fair chance” to finance home ownership grows out of the wages that labor receives. Members of the railroad brotherhoods get fairly good wages compared with the pittance doled out to the workers in the shops, Instead of doing their utmost to help the railroad shop workers lift their wages, the brotherhoods on the operating side of trans-, portation have too often allowed themselves to be used as strikebreakers, They have remained at work with the shop- men on strike. The general chairman of the trainmen for the Penn- sylvania lines appears as one of the directors of the Amer- ican Home Builders, Inc. It is the powerful Pennsylvania Railroad, with brotherhood men operating its trains, that is using all of its strength to crush out the last vestige of union- ism in its shops. With the bribes that they receive in increased wages from the transportation czars, the brotherhood members will build homes for themselves, while the shopmen continue to live in their lowly shacks, or such abodes as are granted them out of their meager wages. ‘ Many an underpaid member of the Maintenance of Way Men’s Union will continue trying to convert some castaway freight car into a home without the aid of the American Home Builders, Inc., which seeks its so-called “legitimate profit.” i ‘ ‘ * * e * Go into the coal fields. One of the first contrasts that presents itself everywhere is the startling difference to be seen in the housing of the families of coal miners and those of railroad brotherhood members. The cabins of the mine workers, too often the “company-owned shacks” of the mine barons, fare badly in comparison with the better class homes of the trainmen, conductors, firemen and engineers. There is here a distinct drawing of caste lines in the working class. The attitude of the brotherhood chiefs, supported by many members of their organizations, toward the coal,min- ers was well exposed in the struggle between the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers and the United Mine Workers of America, when the latter sought to unionize the Coal River Collieries Co. owned by the former in West Virginia. None of these enterprises, the banks, the coal mines, nor the American Home Builders, Inc,, is a working class co-operative. They are all profit making institutions to all intents and purposes to the same extent as any capitalist concern. The urge of profits is to breed. The profits of the brotherhoods’ financial ventures in their efforts to grow thru favorable investment, drive toward an “open shop” war on the workers battling for union conditions. This is plainly stated by Mr. Lee, chairman of the board, when he says: “American Home Builders will function safely and conservatively, guided by the best obtainable experience in the fields of banking and mortgage finance. We expect to earn a legitimate profit.” ? * * * . It is the task of the rank and file of the railroad brother- hoods, as part of the struggle to develop their unions into class organizations of labor, to win the banks, home builders’ associations and other activities, like the taking over of coal mines, away from all capitalist influences and develop them into real working class co-operatives. Only in that way can they be of benefit to the workers, strengthening the working class in its struggle for the overthrow of capitalism. NOVY MIR AND DAILY WORKER TO HAVE JOINT AFFAIR IN NEW YORK On Saturday evening, March 6, the Novy Mir and The DAILY WORKER will join hands in celebrating the Novy Mir’s birthday with a grand cabaret and ball at Harlem Casino, 116th street and Lenox avenue, New York City. Those who attended the Novy Mir’s anniversary celebration last year already know what to expect. Music and singing and dancing and a program of fun that makes you forget the passing of time and wonder what became LEFT WING TO STAGE CONCERT AN MARCH 13 Chicago Militants Plan Excellent Program The Trade Union Educational League is arranging a grand concert and entertainment to be held Satur- day evening, March 18 at 8 o'clock, It will be held at_the Highth Street Theater, Wabash Ave. and 8th St. The program will include the Fret- heit Singing Society and their famous Mandolin Orchestra, the Lithuanian Chorus of many’ voices, Russian play- ers and dancers, and many other at- tractions which we will disclose in later stories and announcements, The left wing of the Chicago Labor movement is requested to co-operate in making this affair a most success: ful one and to turn out as many work- ers as possible to this affiair, Tickets for the affair are from 60 cents to $1.10 and can be secured at any time at the Trade Union Educa- tional League, 156 West Washington St., Room 37, (Fourth Floor), Take this copy of the DAILY tomorrow, WORKER with you i the shop "ee ” I ———————*of the night. There will also be a museum (with surprises in store for all who enter) and there will be courts of domestic relations to help solve your troubles, or get you into troubles as the case may. be. And this entire experience will’ sting you only four bits. ee te} New Yorkers Requested to Cough Up. Readers of The DAILY WORKER in New York who may not yet have set- tled for tickets for the various affairs and concerts held in connection with The DAILY WORKER during the last few months are requested to do so at once. All unsold tickets must be re- turned, and all tickets that have been sold must, of course, be paid for. Re- port to The DAILY WORKER New York Agency, 108 Hast 14th street, at once, Will Publish History of Fabian Society (Special to The Daily: Worker) NEW YORK, Feb, 25.—A new and revised edition of The History of the Fabian Society by Edward R. Pease is scheduled for publication on March 15 by the International Publishers. The author, secretary of the Fabian organization since its establishment in 1883, brings its history down to the} Present day, and tells of the political work and {ideas of such prominent Fabians as George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Mr, and Mrs, Sidney Webb, The book is protusely il- STAR WITNESS IN BIMBA CASE BUSINESS LINK (Continued from page 1). ring leader, Budaco, they testify very reluctantly, Thus Geo, A. Sampson, cutter for the Diamond Shoe Co. declared . he wasn’t . interested in’ prosecuting Bimba, that he would not like to see Bimba convicted; while John Balones, laster for the Diamond Shoe ‘Co., de- clared he had looked with favor upon some of the things that Bimba had said in his speech, and that he did not like to be drawn into the case, Not Church Members. Every witness testifying so far has declared he is not a member of -any church, although they are supposed to testify that they were very much shocked by the manner in which Bimba belittled god in the speech for the making of which he is on trial, The. extent of Bimba’s seditious ut- terances, brought out in the testimony so far, seems to have consisted in urging his audience to join the Work- ers (Communist) Party, He pointed out the growth of the Communist movement the world over, and accord- ing to the prosecution urged that labor in this country unite to achieve the same victory the workers have won in Soviet Russfa, a One of: Bimba’s terrible crimes, emphasized by the witness, Eudaco, was that he urged the workers to read “Russia Today,” the report of the British Trade Unioa delegation to So- viet Russia. He told his audience that they could get the truth about Russia from this book, The prosecution makes much of the fact that Bimba held up the socialists as being traitors to the working class, urging the workers to rally to the Communist standards, Neither of the two prosecution wit- nesses, Sampson or Balones, would ad- mit, even after considerable urging, that they had heard Bimba calling up- on the workers to overthrow the gov- ernment thru force and violence, Wave Lithuanian Flag. The red flag also figures in the case. One of the Lithuanian Day-triots, ac- cording to the testimony, asked Bimba at the meeting Why it was that the Russian Soviet government had re- cognized the Lithuanian government, and the Lithuanian flag was flying over the Lithuanian embassy in Mos- cow, but it didn’t fly over the Lithuan- ian Hall in Brockton, Mass, This is drawn out of every fresh prosecution witness that takes the stand. Their version of the answer Bimba is alleged to have made, is that Bimba said he believed in no flag except the red fiag, and that the red flag would fly over the Lithuanian Hall in Brockton when it was also raised over the national capitol at Washington, Judge C. Carroll King, who is pre- siding at the trial is a member of the unitarian church that itself disowns the arthodox god that Bimba is al- leged to have blasphemed. The pro- Secutor, I. Manuel Rubin, although born of orthodox Jewish Parents, who came from Lithuania while it was still under the czardom, is also a uni- tarian, 4 The assistant prosecutor, Joseph Varecka, who is the first to break in the limelight with ‘the usual letter threatening his life, is a member of / the Lithuanian catholic church, The clerk of the court, Charles F. King, is reputed to have uncovered the 229-year eld Statute under which Bimba is being tried. een Send in that sub! Sree See the motion picture of class war prisoners’ aid in Eu- rope and America at the Inter. national Labor Defense com- memoration of the Paris Com- mune at Ashland Auditorium on March 19. ‘ NEWARK, ATTENTION! MASS MEETING for the Benefit of the PASSAIC STRIKERS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1996 Afternoon 2 o'clock at the NEWARK LABOR 704-708 South 14th Means i SPEAKERS: } Bishop Wm. Montgomery Brown | Elizabeth G. Flynn Scott Nearing Ben Gitlow ROBT, DUNN, Chairman. Auspices, International Labor Defense of Newark, Seer: OUT OF WORK? You may be? . You want to know what causes it— How to stop it? 4 READ Unemployment By Earl R. Browder = 5 cents