The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1926, Page 4

a Hh ip # Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published, by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iillnols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOBB.. Hntered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill., under the act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates on application, —) bens Editors ... Business Manager = 20 Smashing One Reservation One of the five Harding-Hughes-Coolidge reservations incor- porated in the resolution in favor of United States adherence. to the world court stipulated that the council of the league of nations could not ask for an advisory opinion from the court affecting this country unless it was specifically agreed to by the government. How much effect such a reservation has upon the. league and the court is revealed by the latest move on the international checker- board. Britain, which dominates the league, is urging Greece to take agggressive action against Turkey on every conceivable pre- text. The Greek government asked the council of the league of nations to request the permanent court of’ international justice for a decision regarding a boundary dispute. Greece claims that the Lausanne treaty gives a certain commission the right to determine the boundary in dispute. The Angora government rejects this contention. It further rejects the proposal to submit the dis- pute tothe court. Here is a situation that the pro-court advocates said was only theoretical and could not possibly become,a reality. If the league council decides in favor of Greece’s contention it will explode the most important of the Americam reservations even be- fore this country becomes a member of the court. If it should up- hold the contention of Turkey it will thereby rebuke England, which dominates Greece and uses that country as an instrument of imperialist aggression in its effort to seize Constantinople. The lat- ter eventuality is unthinkable because the league is today dominated by Britain. Just as the league council and the court aided Britain in its Mosul steal against Turkey, so it will again do the bidding of Lombard street and decide against the claims of Mustapha Kemal Pasha in the boundary dispute. But the reservations of the pro-court senators were never seri- ously considered, except by the petty bourgeois opponents. Once in the court such things will take care of themselves: While the ob- jections of Turkéy can be flaunted with impunity, there is no pos- sibility of the United States being in the same predicament. Wall Street and its Washington government occupies an entirely differ- ent position in relation to the league than does Turkey. Whereas the great imperialist nations prey upon Turkey, the United States en- ters with the intention of preying upon all the world and utilizing the court to cloak its imperialist rapacity. The conflict that is heralded by the decisiom of this country to enter the world court is a struggle for domination of the court. If the plans of Morgan materialize there will be no need to fear any decisions adversely affecting American imperialism, for Wall Street. \ Some Deportation Victims By PAT TOOHEY. WILKES-BARRB, Pa,, Feb, 26. — While the officialdom of the’ United $3.50 six months | Mine Workers of America allied with the capitalist press, the anthracite op- erators and the capitalist government burst into fulsome praise of the an- thracite contract “accepted” by the “ratification”. convention in Scranton, ag the greatest “victory” ever achiev- ed by a labor organization in all la- bor history, it would be well to ex- amine a few pertinent facts ¢onnect- ed with the “victory,” before we can believe it is a “victory” at all. Miners Make Demands. The anthracite miners met in Tri- District convention in Scranton in June, 1925, and accepted the report and recommendations of the appoint- ed scale committee as a basis of their demands to the anthracite operators at the expiration of the then existing agreement. The demands, substantial- ly, were as follows: 1, A two-year contract with full recognition of the union. 2. 10 per cent increase for contract miners and $1 per day increase for all day laborers, 3. Uniform and equal wages, 4, Payment of coal mined by the tonnage system and abolition of the system of payment by the car, 5. A uniform rate of 20 per cent per inch for refuse work in all kinds THE DAILY WORKER : The | Anthracite Mine Strike PAT TOOHEY. It means the breakiig ‘up of the an- thracite section of the miners’ union. of mining up to ten feet. wide. 6.- Payment for all deadwork, such as laying track, setting props and timbers, etc., and all tools to be fur- nished the miners free’ of charge by the company, including jackhammers, etc. ‘ 7. Repair and erection of new houses to relieve the housing situa- tion. i 8. Equal division of work, 9. General improvement of ' condi- tions; cars loaded to be credited at the working place; a five-day week; consideration to miners who when thru no fault of their own, are not permitted to make a day’s wage or work, drivers to receive consideration for handling mules before and after quitting time, seniority rights to all miners, and that rock stripping con- tractors be brot under the terms of the contract, The Tri-District convention accept- ed these demands and entrusted their scale committee to fight the operators for them in order the demands would be realized. The demand’ for full re- cognition of the union is the demand for the check-off. The demand for the tonnage system if won would eli- | car. minate the robbing practice of. the bosses of paying the miners by the ‘After six months of pussyfooting, the court will be merely the European political headquarters of | ‘2 Scale committee “brings home the bacon.” The battle is over and. the victory is won; shouts the red-baiting, anti-labor press of the anthracite field, supplemented by the radio, the churches and other agencies of the The Coolidge campaign in Chicago to secure propaganda mate-| »°sses. Then we hear the terms of rial for use in getting the anti-foreign-born bills now before con- gress passed is growing. Out of the hundreds arrested six have been held for depgrtation. police and immigration officials are elated at their success. No doubt. They were given instructions to find someone to deport and they did it. . The murders that were to be stopped by means of deportation have not ceased. The day after the announcement of the. deporta- tion orgy another murder was committed. It is’also reported that the chiefs of the murder and bootlegging gangs have simply moved to a Chicago suburb where they will remain in safety. But hun-} dreds of foreign-born workers will be picked up in raids and put thru the third degree at police headquarters in an effort to find more victims with which to support the Coolidge campaign to ter- rorize the foreign-born workers in this country. : The scare headlines in the press and the daily editorials all go to support our view that this deportation campaign is deliberately being used to give the Coplidge government some excuse for passing the fingerprinting and registering bills. The best interests of the entire working class can be served by uniting all working class forces against this attack on the foreign-born workers. The working class orgainzations must. voice their protests against the anti-foreign-born bills now before congress. The only purpose of this legislation is to terrorize the foreign-born workers and assure the capitalists of a great supply of bound and gagged workers afraid to demand better living conditions because of their fear of the police under whose supervision they will be placed. The movement for the protection of the foreign-born workers which has sprang up in many cities is of the utmost importance to the entire working class. The uniting of unions, fraternal or- ganizations and poltieal parties of the working class into a com- mon front on this question is the only way in which to combat the deportation and registering menace to the foreign-bora workers in this country. The Usual “Death Threat” The prosecution in the Brockton “blasphemy” case has to con- vince the public that it should be taken seriously, so it resorts to all the time-worn tricks of similar petty creatures trying to make reputations for themselves. The most banal stunt, but one that is part of the stock-in-trade of prosecutors, is the “death threat.” Some times the threat comes in the form of a ‘phone call, other times as a “black-hand” letter; this time it is a “red hand” letter sent to one Joseph Verace, who calls himself an assistant prosecutor in the Bimba case. As is usually the case we can state, without knowing any of th details, that the prosecution, itself, or someone closely connected with’ it, sent the letter in order to create an-atmosphere of dime- novel heroism and for nothing else. In such an atmosphere the terror workers better; police can be threat to the Babbitts. It is futile to, state the ob¥ious: reds never resort to such foolishness as sending a half-baked lawyer a threat of any kind. We do not advocate their personal death—we intend to kill them politically, oe Be 4 the “contract,” Sell-Out is Complete. A sell-out more complete and more The local capitalist press reports that the | efficient is impossible. It is difficult to realize the enormity of the be- trayal of Lewis and his self-selected “scale committee.” Thru these long weary months the strikers’ lines remained intact, not a scab on the job, ranks disciplined and militarized, families in want and des- titute, sticking with the determina- tion to fight to a finish, Since the start of the strike, how- ever, Lewis“ kept 10,000 maintenance men at work in the anthracite mines, helping prolong the strike, doing work which certainly comes under the classification of pure scabbery, keep- ing the bosses’ property safe and in excellent condition during the period of the strike. Lewis and the opera- tors had an agreement to this effect. The Scab Agreement. The scale committee came ,home “with the bacon.” ‘The following in substance is what-the bacon con- sists of in this instance, the results of six months’ hunger and suffering: 1. A five-year agreement, 2. No inerease in pay. 3. An agreement between the two for a ‘reciprocal program of co-opera- to build a powerful: tion and efficiency,’ which is the es- tablishment of a ‘B, & O, plan’ in the | mines, , | 4, An arbitration. clause cleverly phrased. So this ig the bacon! No raise, no better conditions, no check-off, noth- ing of benefit to us, nothing we de- manded, not an individual) demand granted, and each and all of the boss- es’ demands granted! Tho the officials and the so-called “public” shout in glee over the fact they secured a five-year agreément ~-which they say means prosperity and happiness for that length of time —this same five-year agreement will whip the anthracite miners the very same as the three-year Jacksonville agreement smashed the bituminous miners’ union, Drives Miners Into Slavery, Lewis has a frenzy for long term agreements which smash the union and drive'the miners into virtual slavery, Lewis is responsible for the chaotic state of the soft coal indus- try, with the hundreds of thousands of mineys unemployed. He is respon- sible for the union being smashed thruout the Soft coal field. The five- ' herded around the court house to give it the appearance of a serious] year agreement for the anthracite miners, with the “réciprocal program of co-operation and efficiency” means the hogtieing of the hard coal miners tor five long years. It means greater ‘and bigger profits for the bosses— more production for a less rate of pay. Pe met Lewis and the operators are agreed hat there are too + y miners in he coal industry. They both agree chat the only solutiof gor this situa- tion, is to drive from ‘the industry this surplus labor. The “co-operation and efficiency” proposition will see to that. Already miners are refused work,’ Already the bosses are putting into effect their “efficiency” rights. Siready they have. instituted the speed-up in the minés and have re- moved miners from jobs and compel a smaller number of Workers to handle the work, The bosses want greater production, with fewer miners. They want higher profits apd a smaller wage expense, “Now: have been given their opportunity; Miners Lose® Strike. The miners lost ‘and the bosses won. They lost be¢a@ude their inter- ests were in the hands of leaders who played into the is of the boss- es at every step. 6 refusal of Lewis to call a géneral strike, in- cluding the hard and soft coal flelds, his refusal to wtihdraw the mainten- ance men, and the class collaboration policies followed by these pro-capital- ist “labor leaders” whipped the an- thracite miners and won the strike for the bosses. Fighting militantly under the most adverse conditions the left wing attempted to turn the strike into a militant struggle: The left wing fought consistently for the withdrawal of the maintenance men, for a 100 per cent strike, for militant polfcies, for a policy of class struggle as against class collaboration. - The “victory” carries no increase in wages. Instead we. figd a provision that the miners return to work under the same rates prevaifidg prior to the strike. A board of twe men, one from the union and one from/the operators, have full power to make decisions af- fecting wages. In other words, regard- less of how high the ‘cost of living goes up during the life‘of the agree- ment, the miners’ wagés remain the same. This board of two men “may” call in a third party foMlecide in case of a deadlock. Once yearly either side may propose “modifications” of the wage rate, Meanwhile, during the per- iod of the negotiations the miners must remain at work, This is worse than arbitration, the miners aren’t permitted to strike for their rights. Truly, the miners are hogtied. Settlement the “convention” accepted the con- -ract, with but two dissenting votes. To those not acquainted with miners’ conventions this 1s quite a problem. If the contract is ao good, then why was it accepted? The recent convention is an example of all miners’ conventions—ruled by thugs and gangsters...The rank and tile, the workers in the mines, are opposed to the contract. Everywhere the contract is condemned. But then the rank and file have nothing to say about it. When the general grievance com- mittee of the district unanimously condemned the contract, when many locals repudiated it when it was first made public, extreme care was taken by the Lewis gang to effectively stifle the membership. The convention was hastily called in three days’ time. Every local was to call meetings dur- ing that time to elect’ delegates to the convention. Scores of locals, in the hands of Lewis tools, called no meet- ings*but appointed delegates. Local union meetings were held, in many cases, unknown to the vast majority ‘of the membership and “elected” dele- gates. Machine Packs “Convention.” Aided by the last minute change in the basis of representation of dele- gates to the convention, these local lackeys put it over. Violating al) tra- ditional and constitutional procedure the “fat boys” decided among them- selves the locals should send but one delegate for each five hundred mem- bers instead of one delegate for each one hundred members as is the law and custom. This deprived the mem- bership of any great amount of rep- resentation and was a direct blow at the left wing elements. Unseat Left Wing Delegates. Packing the “convention with his ‘supporters and hirelings, Lewis pro- ceeded to jam thry the contract, by the use of clowns, priests, policemen and professional bullies. Many left wing delegates were unseated by ‘the credentials committee long before the convention started. This move was directed to forestall the development of a fight over representation on the floor of the convention. Organize For Future Struggles. The role of the left wing is to or- ganize for the struggles ahead. To organize and place into leadership in the union, leaders.who lead to vic- tory, leaders whose policy is a policy of class struggle. The left wing will continue their militant struggle to win the American miners for their prin- ciples and program. The left wing will continue to fight as they have fought in the past, with their program and principles as the basis of attack against the class collaborationist, pro- capitalist policies and tactics of the burocracy of the miners’ union; Allied with this burocracy are all the agencies and forces inimical to the interests.of the miners and their dependents, This burocracy rules with the aid and co-operation of the boss- es and the capitalist-government and all the lackeys of these two.The press, the churches, the chambers of com- merce, every capitalist politician sup- ports the burocracy and aids in stif- ling the membership, jails, persecutes and expels militant members whose sole existence is devoted to the bet- terment of the conditions of their fel- low workers, who fight the bosses at all times. Fight For Real Victory. The left wing in the miners’ un- ion is rallied around the progressive international committee. It is the duty of every sincere member of the miners’ union to support the program, the principles and the campaigns of the progressive miners, for their fight is the fight for the workers’ victory. (Contigued fromppage 1) work that forced the althorities to re- duce the sentences ,jof . Crouch and Trumbull. W. Soft iderman spoke for the Workers (Cothmunist) Party and asked the audience to make this affair a renewal of ofr sincere efforts united front or- ganization like the fnternational La- bor Defense. “We must not be satis- fied until the I. L. B.cis strong enuf fot only to force the release of Paul Crouch, ‘but the scorag of other class- war victims whose imprisonment has made California so notorious,” he de- clared, ot $200 for the Defense, Stanley Clark “a stirring ap- peal for the Zeigler miners who were facing prison in Nlinois, Despite the fact that the audienge had paid 50 cents each for admission to the ban- quet, a collection taken. up of close to two hundred dollars. “We have had many meetings in San Fran- cisco, Oakland, and’ Berkeley last week, but this demonstration is one of the best I have seen,” he stated. “I want you to listen to Trumbull to- |3 night, and see if you can grasp the tremendous thing that he and Crouch have done in defying the military’ powers of the mightiest capitalist country on earth,” Proved of His Class, The Sacco-Vanzetti branch of the International Labor Defense pre- sented a huge bouquet of flowers to Trumbull as he rose to speak, amid. tremendous burst nthusiastic ap- plause. “Comrades? Altho I am happy. and deeply stirred to head your ex- pressions of solidarity to-night, I want to remind you that 1 is sitting in his cell in Alcatras' & very moment, rane, ; Los Angeles Gives Trumbull Fine Welcome with 2 more years of hell facing him. The authorities are doing their damn- est to make life miserable for him, No trick is too mean or low for them to harass his prison days. When I lett him he said to me, “Walter, I want you to tell them outside, that I'd rather stay here for the rest of my life, than beg for a pardon from the government to get me out.” Com- rades, what we did in Hawaii is noth- ing more than any other class-consci- ous worker could do under the cir- cumstances. I am proud of my class, and I ask for nothing better than to fight and die for my class. Only a traitor could shut his eyes to the erying need for bringing our message into the ¥anks of the armed forces of America. The military authorities were not so angry with ui they were scared. And they were so scared that they sentenced Crouch to 40 years and me to 26 years. They were even more scared when the voice of the workers let itself be heard against their persecution. That is why they thot of it and reduced the sentences to d 1 years, Comrades, if the or- ganized might ofthe workers could force this concession out of those military tyrants, with a little more effort it can open the jail doors for Paul Crouch and all othe? working- class prisoners behind the bars. Let us use this o unity to intensify our struggle in alf of labor./ Crouch and the others will be happier by far, if they know you will carry on the fight, and give them courage and strength for the cause.” After the mass meeting Sunday night, Clark and Trumbull proceeded | to Denver as the next stop on their way to Chicago, Some will wonder and query why} nd NT CLEVELAND WORKERS PREPARE TO. ‘FIGHT LAWS AGAINST FOREIGN-BORN; CALL CONFERENCE FOR MARCH 14 (Continued from page 1). nical methods used by the kaizer and the czar. The foreign-born workers ‘in this country must awaken to a realization of their situation. If these bills are enacted into law, any worker may be stopped on the street and be required to show his registration card. If he moves from one place to another, he will be obliged to report to the police. In short, the foreign-born workers will constantly be under police control, But even if these bills do not pass congress, the foreign-born workers must recognize that they are constant- ly exposed to the attacks of the em- ploying class. The capitalists, who control this country, have little re- spect for their own laws. In order to intimidate the working class, and par- ticularly the foreign-born, the capital- ists maintain such organizations as the American Legion, the Minute Men, the National Security League, etc., whose “respect for the law” is well known, What Is the Situation? According to the United States cen- sus of 1920, there are in the United States 13,94,891 foreign-born. In the state of Ohio there are 678,697 foreign- born out of a total population of 5,- 759,395—or 11.8 per cent. In the city of Cleveland*there were 239,538 for- eign-born out of a total population of 762,026—or 31.43 per cent—that is, about one out of every three persons. Among the most exploited workers of this country are. the foreign-born and Negro workers. Wherever there is big industry—and especially heavy industry, which is the dominating force in the state of Ohio, there one finds large’ numbers of foreign-born workers. Thus in the iron and steel industry, 58 per cent of the workers are foreign-born; in the bituminous coal mining industry, 62 per cent are foreign-born. A large part @f the workers in the automobile industry, maintenance of ‘way men on the rail- ways, building laborers, ete., are for- eign-born. In short, the hardest, poor- est-paid workers in industry are for- eign-born. To them must be added the Negro workers, Hundreds of thousands of whom have been brot to the north- ern states to furnish “cheap hands” for industry. The bituminous coal mining ‘industry and the needle in- dustry are the only two industries in which there is a large proportion of foreign-born workers organized into trade unions. In the steel and auto- mobile industry, there is practically no organization whatsoever. Trade Unions in Danger. The capitalists of this country are Well aware that thé present state of “prosperity,” which they enjoy, will not continue long. They declare that up to July there may be a. continu- ance of the present stage of produc- tion and then there will be a decline. Knowing that depressed conditions will give them an excuse for demand- ing. lowered conditions for the work- ing class as a whole, they are today beginning an attack on the organ- ized labor movement. The open shoppers are active .all over the country, and particularly in the state of Ohio, where they claim that more and more factories are go- ing on the open shop plan. The de- struction of the labor movement is their aim. ; What is their method? The capi- talists. understand their game very well. First they attack the weakest section of the working class; the for- eign-born. The foreign-born worker is merely tolerated in this country. If, in disappointment with things in this country, he endeavors to improve his situation, he is met with the cry, “If you don’t like this country go back to where you ‘came from.” These are the words that come from the mouths of the very same capitalists who de- mand that the government shall em- power the president to allow the ad- mission of alien labor whenever in- dustry requires it. : Foreign-Born Workers Oppressed. Why do the capitalists: preter for- eign-born workers? jecause they mow that they can always hold over the heads of these workers the threat of deportation. Just as they are tell- ing Negro workers in industry in the north to go back to the south if they do not like conditions: Hence, by at- tacking the foreign-born workers they are always in @ position to attack the entire labor movement, by lowering the standards of the foreign-born and, compelling the native American work- ers to accept the same conditions, In addition, by attacking the foreign- born workers, they can prevent the unorganized from getting organized and increasing the power of organ- ized labor, It the foreign-born workers rebel against the discrimination and bad treatment they receive in this coun- try, they may be arrested and de- ported. This means untold hardships ' House of the Masse DETROIT, ATTENTION! . / BAZAAR AND DANCE given by DETROIT FEDERATION OF WORKING CLASS WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS age SUNDAY, MARCH 7th, 5 P. M. at :the fe 8, 2646 St. Aubin Avenue. to foreign-born workers who will be torn from their families and be de ported to countries like Poland, Jugo- Slavia, Italy, Hungary, Finland, Bs- thonia, etc., where’ fascism’ and the white terror are in.power and mur- dering the best elements of the work- ing class. “Organize Councils for Defense: Realizing the seriousness of the present situation, the undersigned or- ganization calls on the foreign-born to organize, All fraternal organizations and groups of foreign-born people, re- gardless of nationality, are éalled up- on to participate in the formation of ‘councils for their ‘defense. The or- ganized labor movement, which like- wise is attacked in the proposed laws, should and must ling up with the for- eign-born workers in their®own de- fense; and Negro ers must link their forces with other sections of the working class. To this end, all. trade unions, fra- ternal societies, lodges, sick and death benefit societies, workers’ clubs of all nationalities, and all other working class organizations are called on to elect delegates to a conference which will be held:on Sunday, March 14, 10 a. m. at the Insurance Center Bldg., Hall “A,” 1783). 11th St., 6th Floor, where it is‘ proposed that the Cleve- land council for the protection of for- eign-born workers be formed, At this conference, ways and means will be worked out to fight the pass- age of the bills now before congress, and to organize a permanent council, which will always be on watch to pro- tect the interests of the foreign-born workers and the workers of this city as a whole, In addition @ mass meeting will be held the same day, at 3 o'clock in the Moose Hall, 1000 Walnut street, Prom- inent speakers will address this meet- ing. Each trade union, fraternal and oth- er working class organization should elect two delegates so représent their organization at the conference. Con- ferences of foreign language groups may elect two to four delegates. The,time to act Is now. Only by or- ganization will the workers be able to protect themselves against the threatening steps of the employing class. Executive council of the provisional council for the protection of foreign- born workers. Joseph Keller, Secretary, 2904 Bridge Ave. Use Planes to Stem Smallpox. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb, 26—An army airplane was brot into service in an attempt to stem a threatened smallpox epidemic in ‘the village of Winchester. After a call from distressed citizens of the town, F. W. Knecht, former army pilot, rushed 40 units of vaccine there. The plane did not land at Win- chester, but circled around and drop- nie ped the medicine. CHICAGO |. L. D. WILL HOLD MANY MEETINGS DURING THIS WEEK Greek Branch Tonight. The ‘Greek International Labor Defense branch meets at 8 o'clock Saturday night at the Hull House, 800 South Halsted St. Friends and sympathizers are invited. * * . Pullman Holds Concert. The Puliman branches of the In- ternational Labor Defense will hold a concert and dance at Stancik’s - Hall, 205 East 115th St. Saturday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m, “Mother” Bloor and Victor Zokaitis will be the speakers at this meeting. 7, * * Alex Reid, national secretary of the Progressive Miners, and Tom Bell, special I. L. D> correspondent at the recent Zeigler coal miners’ trial, will be the principal speak- ers at the joint meeting of the North Side English and Fin- nish branches of the International Labor Def Imperial Hall, 2409 North Halsted, Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, As this will be an open meeting, members’ are urged to bring friends and sympathizers. Eng: lish branch members are to meet at 2 o'clock for a special business see sion, ‘ . eo @ Northside Ukrainian, The Ukrainian branch will meet Saturday night, Feb. 27, at 1532 W. Chicago Ave., at 8 o'clock. J. Ko walski will speak at this meeting. Get your tickets now for the Inter 4 rational concert of the T, U. E. by Sat. March 13, at 8th St, Theater, —