The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 27, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 64. NEW - madara Rates: THE BOSSES En ey Can't See Slugging of Labor at Home. In. Chicago, by mail,. $8.00 Outside Chicago, by mail, SHEVISM IN CHINA er year, 6.00 per year, <a of Canton ae (Spécial to The Daily Worker) al has issued the Left Wing Appeal to A.C. W. A. TO WIN UNION FROM REACTION Hillman Bureaucracy Is Flayed by Militants . The seventh annual convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, which opens in Mon- treal on May 10th, will mark the culmination of a period of struggle in that union between the left wing and the reactionary Hillinan admini- stration which has posed as pro- gressive at times when it was ne- cessary to delude the membership into support of the machine. The statement of the national commit- tee of the needle trades section of the Trade Union Educational League which follows is a declaration of, the facts of the situation which exists and a proposal of the pro-, gram which the left wing and pro-\ gressive unionists offer for the con- sideration and action of the mem-, bership, P A Convention Message to: All Members of the Hillman- | Ruled A.C. W. of A. HE seventh convention of ithe Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America will open on May 10; in) Montreal, Canada. The election of delegates is now going on in all, the locals, The bad economic conditions prevailing in the industry and the deplorable sifuation in the union, de- mands the eleciion of fearless dele; gates who in the face of the unscru- pulous high handed methods of the Hillman bureaucracy are prepared to put up a fight for a program that is progressive in character and offers a solution to the many difficulties now confronting the organization, The Hillman bureaucracy will util- dze the convention to put the stamp of approval by the*convention, upon thelr policies for the future. It is therefore necessary for the members of ‘the Amalgamated to know what were the outstanding achievements of the Amalgamated in the past two years and to clearly understand the nature of the policies pursued by the administration. In the face ofan un- precedented prosperity in the cloth- ing indugtry, at 2 time when more clothing was produced than ever. be- fore, the economic conditions of the workers instead of being improved have been steadily becoming worse (Continued on page 2)... | FORM DEFENSE CORPS TO WAR ONFASCISTI (Special to The Daily Worker) BRUSSELS, March 25,—The Bel- gian labor party is’ meeting the fascist threat by organizing a de- fense corps of its own. This. will consist at the beginning of 25,000 workers and 9,000 auxiliaries, The leaders of this force. will be work- ers who received their. training in the world war. Postpone Meeting of Boston Agents of Daily Worker BOSTON, Mass., March 25—Owing to the fact that Comrade Katterfeld, New York representative of The DAILY WORKER, has not yet com- pleted the full plans for the big DAILY WORKER outing, the meeting arranged for Sunday, March 28, at 36 Causeway St., Boston has been tem- porarily postponed. .. Announcement will be made at an early date when Katterfeld will come to Boston with full plans and material for the big event which is being planned. Poor Farmers and Agricultural Workers of Blythe Hear Owens BLYTHE, Cal., March 25.—A mass meeting of. poor parmers\and agricul tural laborers willbe held in Blythe, Calif., on Sunday afternoon, April 4, at 2 o'clock. John. H, Owens, an ag- ricultural worker of Ripley, Calif., will address this meeting. ...” DISCUSSION OF ITALIAN DEBT Democrats Aid I nsur- gent Opposition (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Mar. 25—With the whole field of America’s foreign rela- tions facing “pitiless publicity,” the senate today began formal considera- tion of the $2,000,000,000 Italian war debt settlement. Administration leaders predicted an early and favorable decision. The measgure’s foes replied that the settle- ment and the administration’s whole international program would ) be “thoroly aired” before a final vote is taken, Democttats Opposed. The debt debate, which Senator Smoot, republican of Utah, opened this afternoon, probably will be as virulent apd protracted as the world court fight. Whereas in that test of President Coolidge’s international pro- gram, he was supported by the demo- cratic party in the senate, the ad- ministration will receive no such help in the debt fight. On the contrary a majority of the democrats may line themselves up with the belligerent ir- reconcilable group to oppose ratifca- tion of the pact. The democrats at least gvill father an attempt to recommit the settle- ment to the senate finance committee with instructions to “gather more in- formation” about Italy’s capacity to (Continued on page 2) MEXICAN AMBASSADOR ANSWERS THE ANTI-SOVIET LIES OF EX-ATTACHE (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. ador to the Soviet Union, in 8. R., March 25.—(Tass)—Basilio Vadillo, Mexican am- declaration addressed to the commis: jat of foreign affairs, has emphatically repudiated the remarks recently attributed to Eulalio Martinez, former labor.attache of the Mexican embassy here, in which the latter alleged he had been hindered in the fulfillment of his official duties. Ambassador Vadillo states that the Mexican mission to the Soviet Union enjoys all the usual privileges and immunity accorded to the representa- tives of friendly countries. Signor Vadillo has forwarded similar assurances to the Mexican government. Im an address at the recent convention of the Mexican Confederation of Labor in Mexico City, Martinez was reported as having declared that his activities In Moscow had been obstructed by the Soviet government. As the result of incidents growin| out of these remarks, the Mexican secretary for foreign affairs, Saenz, called upon the ambassador of the Soviet Union, Pestkovsky, and assured him that nothing had occurred to a jot the friendly relations between Mexico and the U. &. 8. Re nn ay gat “upon motion of the against the British ks. on the revolution- mment. The state- the workers of ail means for blocking ment calls countries to ai these intrigues, Aid Ca Government! “The English government has block- aded Canton Addressed a note to the Chinese f minister thru its mission in Pek Seantie an end of the seamen’s Strike in Canton and containing threats to the Canton gov- ernment. Thé ‘Bttike has lasted for eight months. The tenacity of the strikers is due t their revolutionary will and to the fact that they have the support and the deepest sympathy of the democratic population of the whole of China. ufhe Canton which is based upon the}Kuomintang and upon the masses of § people in the proy- inee of Kw 2 and upon the re- Zo 290 . Entered at Second-class matter September 21, -1923, * the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1926 PUBLISHING CO., Published Daily except Sunday by THB DAILY WORKER 1113 W, Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, ACCLAIMS BIG STR |Who Is Behind the |. Passaic Strike? By JAY LOVESTONE. NFORTUNATELY for the Amer- lcan working class in particular, and the international working class in general, the Communist move- ment in the United States is still weak, Communism is still un- popular afmong the great mass of American proletarians. Worse than that. Our class is still on the whole 80 backward politically that the em- ploying class, the exploiting clique, Is able to paint, in the eyes of mil- lions of workers, Communism, the most constructive force in the whole American labor movement today, as a sort of bugaboo, as a sort of a devastating plague. This is a very painful=situation for the working class of this country. Particularly when great numbers of workers are involved in a strug- gle against the capitalists do the bourgeoisie and their well-paid agents try to raise all sorts of smoke screens and red scares to hide the real issues of the raging class conflicts, Communism and the Strike, Senator Edge of New Jersey, who is serving the same interests as Colonel Johnson, hired outright by the textile barons, is yelling Communism in order to give the im- pression that the Passaic strikers volutioniary ement in the whole of China, can turally not suppress the workers’ mo ent at the request of the English erjalists. Conserv: Hesitated. Already in t@ summer at the be- ginning of the sttike the English gov- ernor in Hongk@mg demanded military intervention aj ist Canton in order to crush the s e, but not even the English wative government could decide u} uch a. step, for it knew that thes part of the ‘gpattondl revolutionary movement’ and that any~armed inter- vention would arouse an unparalleled indignation amongst the masses of the people of ‘€bina. Now however, the English government believes that the proper moment has come to strangle the .aevolutionary gpvern- ment of South Cina. The reactionary movement of Tehang Tso Lin in Man- churia supported by the Japanese, and the new actions’ of the reactionary tgeneral Wu Peil/Fu give them this belief. British Government Lies. In order to deceive public opinion in its own country and the working classes in other countries, the English government declares that the cause of the blockade is the seizure of English goods by the strikers and the break- ing of agreements by the Canton gov- ernment made between the English and the Chinese. The lies of the English imperialists should mislead no one. It is not pos- sible today to overcome the revolu- tionary Canton government with the agreement which a defeated China was compelled to.make with the im- perialists after the shameful opium war and after the bloody deeds of the imperialists sagainst the Chinese people in 1901.’ With such methods the Canton government cannot be forced to suppress the working class movement. Workers ‘Must Protest. The revolutionary workers of the world, in particilar the workers of (Continue on page 2) LAUNDRY STRIKE CONTINUES WITH PICKETING WORK Arrest of 27 Fails to Scare Workers Officials of the International Laundry Workers’ Union of Chicago, the organ- ization which is conducting a strike against three of the big labor-hating laundries of thé city, announced today that they would continue the fight and maintain their picket lines despite the arrests made a little while ago of 27 of the strikers who were out on the line, Altho they were ,released in court they were warned that if they were caught picketing again they would be arrested once more and not be re- leased so easily. The strike wascalled ten days ago count among the demands for which they are fighting, the setting up of a proletarian dictatorship of Soviets in Passaic. The fact of the matter is that these workers are fighting for the most elementary, the most basic social and economic rights necessary for them to live in a manner approaching’ even half de- cency, let alone their achievement of the much-vaunted American Virginia panhandle territory. NESBIT RUNS FOR SHIELD LEN SMALL F; nsuhnatiain te: Speak for Faker in Belleville (Special to The Daily Worker) BELLEVILLE, Ill., March 25—An in- sight into the “Reward your friends and punish your enemies” policy of the Illinois labor movement can be had with the candidacy of Walter Nesbit, secretary-treasurer of the IIli- nois district of the United Mine Work- ers of America, for the state senator- ship here, Frank Farrington, president of the district miners’ union, and Angus Kerr, chief counsel, are coming here to speak Sunday for the candidacy of Nesbit and of Al Towers, business agent of the Belleville Trades and La- bor Assembly, for state assembly, Against Nesbit is running State Sena- tor Duval, the incumbent, who has voted for all of the so-called “labor bills” which wére endorsed by the State Federation of Labor. With such a record, despite the fact that he is a member of one of the capital- ist parties, it would seem that he would be endorsed by the official labor movement. Instead of that Nes- bit is being run against him, It is said‘here that the reason for this piece of “friend-rewarding and enemy-punishing” is that Duval is against the peculating governor, Len Small, avd will probably vote for his impeachment, Small was endorsed by the bureaucracy’s machine and his im- peachment is the last thing they want, since it will help to expose the rottenness of the A.\F. of L. political policy. In order to prevent Duval from vot- against the Great (Western, the King's Model, and the @nick Service laun- dries, all of whichithad been discrim- inating against inion members who (Continued on puge 2) nad ing against Small, Nesbit is being run, ‘ Take this copy of the DAILY YORKER with you to the shop STATE OFFICE TO standard of living. see HAT do we find? We find that Rabbi Wise, who on more than one occasion during the last national convention of the demo- cratic party invoked the help of his own mighty Lord to bring light to the groping delegates, is condemn- ing the attitude of the textile bar- ons in this strike. We find that Frank P. Walsh, one of the best known democrats of this county, chairman. of the war labor board, and the most outstanding figure in the movement to make Al Smith president of the United States, has declared and shown his readiness to present the demands of the tex- tile strikers and defend their inter- ests before congress. We find that Senator LaFollette, who has shown increasing signs of making peace with the standpat republican ma- chine dominated by Mellon, Is the one to introduce a resolution in the United States senate for an inves- tigation of the textile strike. Sen- ator Borah, who is a member in good standing of the party of Coo- lidge and Kellogg, is lending a sym- pathetic ear to the demands of the sixteen thousand «striking textile workers for the establishment of de- cent conditions of life and employ- ment. Why, even the Honorable Victor Berger—the gentleman from Wisconsin—has introduced a reso- lution for an investigation of the textile strike situation. Than Vic- tor Berger there is no more “auda- cious” and embittered enemy of the Communist movement here, there, and everywhere! No one will believe that the Amer- ican capitalists are color-blind. One might as well be asked to believe (Continued on page 2) 1,700 Miners Walk Out in W. Va. Strike Cali By GEORGE PAPCUN. WHEELING, W. Va., March 25.—A strike call affecting 1,700 miners employed at the three mines of the Elmgrove Coal company here was issued early tonight by John Cinque, vice-president of the Eastern Ohio sub-district | class political action thru a labor of the United Mine Workers of America, which embraces the northern West | The strike affects three mines at Triadelphia and Elmgrove. The strike call was Issued after the miners refused to actépt monthly pay and after the company broke the Jacksonville agreement. Sunday the miners went on record for a strike. At a mass meeting on NEW HERESY TRIAL ON Checker Playing Is a New In- strument of Satan PALMYRA, trial of W. Clyde Martin by three judges of the Church of Christ for “recreational heresy,” postponed a month ago because of the publicity given it andthe influx of reporters and photographers into this little way- side villageswill begin here Friday. Charges against Martin by the local} theological morons are based on his operation of; aycommunity hall where he permits-such Satanic joys as roll er skating, checker playing and the staging of plaYlets. It is not known if he also, pefmitted all-day suckers. Hold Sunday School Teacher Upon Charge of Assaulting Girl PETERSBURG, Il, March 25. — Russell F. Judman, science teacher and athletic coach at the high school here, has been bound over for action of the grand jufy on a charge of crim: inal assault» preferred by Mildred Arnold, lé:year old high school girl, Judman, married and superintendent of the methodist episcopal Sunday school, is free on $3,000 bond. His resignation has been asked by the school board, Ind., March 25, — The) the leader of the NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents IKE 10,000 WORKERS RAP PASSAIC POLICE TERROR ne Y. Workers Cheer Textile Strikers (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 25 Ten thousand New York workers showed their enthusiastic solidarity with the Passaic strikers last night at two jammed meetings at the New Star Casino and the Central Opera House. The textile strikers and Albert Weisbord and the Workers (Commun- ist) Party were cheered to the echo at both of these meetings. The col- lection which was taken at both halls to aid the striking Passaic textile workers amounted to $1,875, This will be forwarded to the Passaic strikers, general relief committee. These meetings were called by the American Civil Liberties Union in co- operation with the Workers (Com- munist) Patty and a number of other organizations. Strikers Enter Hall Amid Cheers. In the middle of both meetings a large delegation of the men and wo- men textile strikers wearing gas masks and steel helmets entered the halls amid wild cheering. They mount- ed the stage and ‘sang various strike songs. The capitalist press camera- men who were beaten up in the Pas- saic strike by the police were present and took a number of scenes of the | strikers on the stage, Need Trade Union Unity. Before the opening of Weisbord’s |speech the audience sang the Interna- | tional, »ord in his speech des- Wei jeribed the s ike situation and called on the tr e union movement for sup- port pointing out the necessity of trade union unity, He déctarel that “ha: had tecelved a eable from. Lebedeff, secretary of jthe Russian Textile Workers Union of Moscow, expressing indignation at the brutality of the Passaic police in this strike. William Weinstone, secretary New York district of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, while speaking at the New Star Casino called for working |party amid wild applause. Other speakers at the New Star Casino meet- ing were Abraham Shiplacoff, Robert W. Dunn, Jack Stachel and Morris Novick of the young people's socialist league. United Front Meeting. Elizabeth Curley Flynn appealed at both meetings for funds. The speak- ers at the Central Opera House were Benjamin Gitlow of the Workers (Communist) Party, Forrest Baley of the American Civil Liberties Union, Norman Thomas:of the League for In- dustrial Democra' Albert Weisbord, saic textile work- ers’ strike and Carl Brodsky. In addition to the enthusiastic crowd of both of these meetings, these meet- ings are important because of the united front between the liberals, Sommunists and some of the ,social- ists. The Furriers Union.danated $1,000 in“addition to the collection taken at the two hall meetings, WOMEN SCIENTISTS AT LENINGRAD DISCOVER SHORT ELECTRIC WAVES (Special to The Pally Worker) LENINGRAD, March 25—Profes- sor Boris Weinberg of Leningrad University has announced the dis- “eovery of electro-magnetic waves ‘only 1,100th of a millimeter (leas tWart'a fiftieth of an inch) long by two’ women scientists attached to the institution, It is believed the discovery will revolutionize radio telephony, telegraphy and photogra- phy. The investigators were Maria Le- vitskaya and Giagoliova 4 Are: OVER 12,500,000 GERMANS DEMAND THAT THE REICHSTAG CONFISCATE VAST ESTATES OF THE ROYALTY BERLIN, March 25.—Over 12,500,000 signed the petitions in Germany demanding that the Reichstag confiscate the vast estates and holdings of the kaiser, pring from the and other members of of these estates towards of victims of the imperialist world war. royalty and use the proceeds realized the ‘support of the widows and orphans This figure is given the official estimate of the vote conducted in Germany. There are 8,500,000 more names affixed to the petitions than are neces: sary to forcethe Reichstag to act on the confiscation of the vast holdings of the former rulers of Germany, . al