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

| FRET las. Se Page Two STRUGGLE FOR PEKING WAITS ON CONFERENCE Peace or War Depends Upon Decision (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, March 25.—Whether the threatened battle for possession of the capital will take place is not yet cer taln. Chang Tso Lin and Wu Pel Fu are conferring to decide whether to attempt to take the city by assault or to conclude peace as victors. Leaders of the Kuominchun have an- mounced their intention to defend Peking and hold it until what they consider satisfactory terms are ob- tained. The sudden resignation of Chang Chih Kiang, commander-in- chief, has complicated the situation. His resignation has not been accepted. The diplomatic corps has formally demanded protection for foreign citi- zens, who until now have not been threatened. Reactionary Chinese Fear. The reactionary wealthy Chinese are taking refuge with the foreign le gations, expecting in the event of a battle for possession of the city that the enraged magses will seek to kill them for their treason and suspected complicity with the imperialists. Presi- dent Tuan Chi Jui’s residence is forti- fied by high barricades of sand bags. The students have termned him a national traitor and a hireling of the imperialists. se. Rumor Canton Overthrow. LONDON, March 25.— Dispatches from China allege that a coup d’etat has occurred in Canton by which the nationalist government has béen over- thrown. It is reported that a num- ber of the most radical Chinese and their foreign sympathizers were killed and many others imprisoned. The re- port have not been confirmed from any official sources and should not be ac- cepted until confirmed. - = * @ Nation-wide Student Strike. SHANGHAI March 25.—Chinese students in a dozen of the largest schools and colleges of the city have gone on strike in protest against the massacre of their comrades at Peking by the president’s bodyguard. They have elected a committee to organize @ nation-wide strike. Telegrams have been dispatched to every educational center urging a suspension of studies. Leaflets are being distributed all over the city. Tuan Chi Jui, the provision- al president and a tool of Japan, and Englaad and Japan are particularly condemned. . ** French and Japs Hide Soldiers, TIENTSIN, March 25.—Further de- tails of the taking of this city by the allied Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso Lin forces reveal the complicity of the French and the Japanese in the civil war which has been raging thruout the country. Just as the last of the Kuominchun army was evacuating the city, hun- dreds of armed men wearing a band around their arms to show they were adherents of General Li Ching-Ling, the former civil governor of Chihli province, and associated with the anti- nationalist forces, rushed from the Jaanese and French settlements and into the native city on automobiles, They killed a number of inoffensive Chinese by recklessly firing at every- one in sight. Ousted Last December. Li Ching-Ling was ousted from Tientsin last December by Marshal Feng, nationalist commander. To- gether with the governor of Shantung province, General Chang Tsung-chang, he made extensive preparations to win back control. Chang Tso-lin furnished him with large amounts of munitions, the nationalists being unable to block the traffic because of the lack of a LW. A. POSTERS TOBE EXHIBITED HERE SUNDAY An exhibition of literature and Posters published in many different countries by the branches of the In- ternational Workers’ Aid, will be held Sunday, March 28, at 2:30 p. m., at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division street, The exhibition will be one of the features of the Paris Commune cele- bration. There will be speakers in English, Russian and Polish, and a good con- cert program with Russian revolu- tionary and prison songs will be given. A spectacle, “The Last Day of the Commune,” will be presented in the Polish language. The commemoration is arranged by the Russian and Polish branches of the International Labor Defense. Tickets in advance 36 cents, at the door 50 cents. Tickets are for sale @t the Workers’ House, the Russian Co- e restaurants and The DAILY oflice, Biimmcoce oon | Who Is Behind the Passaic Strike? | FUROPE MUST (Continued from Page 1) that Wall Street is dollar blind. Our exploiters and thelr intellectual defenders know very well that the Wises and Walshes, the LaFollettes and the Borahs, some of the gentle- men of the New York press and others of the same political stripe are anything and everything but Reds, Communists, Bolsheviks. They are plain conservatives who realize the dangers that a situation like the one which has developed in Passalc breeds for the sanctity and security of the present system and the foundations of the institutions of private property. "What Do the Communists Want? i HAT interests have the Com- munists in the Passaic strike? We have no other interests than those of the workers. But we must confess that the behavior of such gentlemen as Mgr. Kernan, Senator Edge, the multi-milllonaire secre- tary of labor, Mr, Davis, Colonel Johnson, the rulers of the barony of Passaic and its environs, js such as to afford six-cylinder proof of the correctness of the underlying Communist contention that the gov- ernment is a strikebreaker. We have long ago said that the capital- ist state—inclusive of the church, as an institution, the press, as an institution (of course, to the extent that there are exceptions here and there, these exceptions only prove the truth of the general contention), the police, the government officials, are all part and parcel of a gigantic strikeberaking machine. Are the Communists active In this strike? Yes! It is our business to be active in all struggles of the work- ers because we have no interests other than those of the workers. It is our duty, as the advanced section of the working class in America, not only to be active but also to in- spire and lead workers to struggle against wage slavery, in all its de- spicable, deplorable and degrading manifestations, es Why There ‘Is a Strike. 'HE Passaic strike is not a strike for Communism. The Passaic strike Is a strike for the most ele- mentary rights which were supposed to have been won decade: the American workers. simply the scene of capitalist Amer- icanism run amuck. The American SE nec ee workers are not yet ready, are not sufficiently developed politically to strike for direct, broad, class di mands. The Communis' re rei ists. The Communists are Lenin- ists. The Communists are revolu- tionists to the core. As such the Communists Know that ry time the workers strike for the smallest every-day demands that every time the proletariat fights against its ex- ploiter for even the pettiest ad« vantage and most insignificant rights, these workers are getting a value lesson in the class struggle. We know that the problem is to set the American workers into mo- (Continued from page 1). and worse. Even in the markéts that are supposed to be well organized, wage reductions have taken place. The union in all markets has supported a policy of making individual readjust- ments with the manufacturers at the expense of the workers. In all markets the union has agreed to speeding up, piece work, standards of production, etc., with the result that the manu- facturers with less workers now pro- duce more garments than they did heretofore, It is no wonder that in such large and important markets as New York and Chicago, reductions in working forces continually take place. No Organizational Successes, The union has failed in the last two years to conduct a successful organi- zation campaign. An outstanding example of the incapability of the ad- ministration in this respect is the failure of the Philadelphia campaign. The administration is not concerned with organizing the industry. In organized centers the union has failed to maintain the organizational strength. This is especially true of New York. Here thousands of work- ers have been lost to the organization, Scab shops and sweat shops abound everywhere. The union is unconcern- ed about their existence, as it is un- concerned about the thousands of un- fon men, who, as a result, are un- employed. In the organization proper an ex- pensive bureaucratic machine is main- tained. This machine is maintained in many places against the expressed wishes of the rank and file. In order to maintain this bureaucratic machine high dues are enforced upon the mem- bership, and exhorbitant assessments levied. This bureaucratic machine is made up of elements that are corrupt, incapable, and reactionary. Any op- position that is expressed against the bureaucratic machine is crushed with brutality and the democratic provi- sions of the organization's constitu- tion completely ignored. A Reign of Terror, In many places elections are fraud- ulently conducted and the will of the members violated. Locals are reorgan- ized and the rightfully elected officers either suspended or expelled, Local meetings are not held and when held they are placed under the tutelage of gangsters who terrorize and prevent the membership from expressing themselves, very progressive mili Left Wing Appeals to A. C. W. of A. tion, to develop a fighting class spirit amongst them, Every step forward in this direction, object- ively develops a next step forward to a broadening, towards a deepen- ing of the demands and the strug- gles of our workers, The strike is a university for the proletariat. The strike is a dress rehearsal for the bigger fights, for the sharper com- bats that the American workers will yet have to fight in order to achieve proletarian democracy In the United States. Colonel’ Johnson, Senator Edge, His Umholiness Mgr. Kernan, are much more responsible for the tex- tile workers’ strike than the Com munists are. Unfortunately, the American Communists do not yet have enough influence to call out and have scores of thousands of workers strike at their request. Nor are the Communists abstractionists, hair-splitting visionaries, who talk strike or act strike when there is no objective, no real basis and de- mand and response to it among the broad masses, We Communists have not created the strike, But we have likewise not been asleep and have pointed out the lessons of this strike to the thousands of workers, We have done more than that. Communists don’t believe in sitting on a sort of proletarian Mount Olympus and handing down a sacred wisdom and undefiled advice to the great masses of the workers. Communists are an Integral part of the working class. We don’t believe merely in pointing out. We believe in carrying on and carrying out. We propose to do all in our power to help the workers win their demands. Having no in- terests other than the interests of the workers, the Passaic strike Is the affair of the Communists as well as every other worker who believes in fighting against the textile barons and their agents infesting the White House, the senate, the house of representatives, the gubernatorial office of the state of New Jersey, the state legislature, the municipal- ity of Passaic and the St. Nicholas Roman catholic church of Pi (this is Mgr. Kernan’s own House of the Lord), HE Passaic strike is a revolt against American capitalism which crushes and degrades millions of the proletariat engaged in the un- organized basic Industries of the United States. The Passaic strike comes at a time when American imperialists are waxing fabulously rich thru their domination of the world capital and commodity mar- ket. It is the task of the Commun- ists, as of all workers who have the interests of the working class’ at heart, to leave no blow unstruck, to leave no stone unturned, to leave no duty unfulfilled in order to turn the Passaic strike into a great vic tory for the thousands of workers who are struggling for the very right to exist, who are fighting against vicious persecution and ruthless exploitation. tant worker is hounded and terrorized. Workers are thrown out of their job: because they disagree with the poll- cies of the administration. Old stand- ing loyal members of the organization have been expelled and driven out of the union because they advocate the adoption of progressive measures and oppose the policies and practices of the Hillman bureaucracy. This has resulted in demoralizing the union, creating acute dissatisfaction among the membership and threatens the very existance of the organization. HE failures of the administration in the pdst two years are the re- sult of the conscious policy of clas: collaboration pursued by the Hillman Not a single general strike affecting a single market has In Chicago where the administration, taken place. Amalgamated is strongest, wage cut: have been agreed to without a strug- gle on the part of the union, Th policy of class collaboration has only resulted in worse economic condition: for the workers, and chaos, demorali- zation and anarchy in the organiza- tion, The infamous Nash agreemen is the logical outcome of this policy. What is the Nash agreement? It i the B. & O. plan for the needle trades. It is an agreement for 3 years dura- tion, for arbitration. pointed with absolute power to settl every dispute. It does not provid for a union shop because it gives thi During the 3 years it provide: manufacturer the right to hire either It does not union or non-union labor, guarantee against discharge. Th manufacturer has the absolute right It has not provided for to discharge. a living wage scale, but agreed upo! the starvation wages prevailing in thi Nash establishments, administration as an outstandin, achievement. It is the most viciou class collaboration agreement in thi needle industry. where, where at least a semblanc of union conditions are still being maintained, If the Amalgamated 1i to be saved from the same fate as the United Garment Workers Union, then the Nash agreement, together with the An arbitrator is ap This agree- ment has been hailed by the Hillman It is a menace to every worker in the clothing indus- try, Unless the Nash agreement is re- pudiated it will become a pattern for agreements in all other markets and will be the instrument for undermin- ing the standards of the workers else- THE DAILY WORKER PAY IN FULL, DECLARES U.S. British Criticisms Not to Change Policy. (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25 — Criticisms of the American debt policy by Winston Churchill, British chancellor of the exchequer, will not alter “this government's program of collecting from its foreiyn debtors on the basis of their capacity to pay, treasury officials declared today. @;, 0.9. British Want Pension, LONDON, March 25 — Reopening of the discussion of the British debt question with the United States was seen in well informed quarters today.} as a probable outgrowth of chancellor of exchequer Winston Churchill's speech on the inter-allied debts before the house of commons yesterday. Churchill said that ‘during the next three generations Britain would pay the United States ‘a’ half million dollars a day, constituting the “most stupendous financial transaction known.” The picture was darkened by mention of the unwillingness of France and other debtors of Great Britain to meet theiriobligations with alacrity, Germany Paying Their Debts. The chancellor declared that already thru the debt settlements so far ne- gotiated the United States was ob- taining from its European debtors as much as the reparations Germany was paying under the Dawes plan. In the future when the German payments will be vastly increased, he stated the United States would still be obtaining 60 per cent of the total. Attack Deliberately Planned. Winston Churchill’s attack upon the American policy of debt collection was deliberately planned for the pur- pose of calling to the attention of the American public the: harm resulting to Burope from the: American debt |; policy, it was explained here officially today. The chancellor of the, exchequer has no hopes that the jattitude of the American government.‘towards debts will be changed, it. was stated, but he is anxious that the American people shall know his views regarding the effects of the Amerigan refusal to cancel debts. WASHINGTON, D..C., March 24.— Presentation to the je of the ar- ticles of impeachment,against Federal Judge George W. English, of East St. Louis, Ill, was postponed this after- noon until tomorrow. Typographical errors found in the)weport made it necessary to send the articles back to the printer. policy that makes such an agreement possible will have tobe repudiated. The New York Problem. It is certain that'one of the big problems before the ‘convention will be the New York problem. It concerns the whole Amalgamated and the en- tire needle trades. In order to fight the membership to increase dues, esta- blish piece work, to maintain an in- efficient corrupt officialdom against whom the membership was revolting, the Hillman administration forcibly with the use of gangsters and police foisted upon the New York organiza- tion a dictator, a Mussolini, in the form of A. Beckerman, A reign of violence and terrorism against the membership unprecedented in the an- nals of the labor moyement has been initiated by Beckerman, Instead of improving the conditions in the indus- try, instead of organizing the industry, methbers were drivén out of their jobs, fined heavily ahd expelled from the organization. Dues have been in- creased in spite of the fact that the overwhelming majority of the locals have voted down an ‘Increase. Now when Beckerman should be concerned about problems concerning the New York organization, he is using that organization in an effort to break the general strike of the Fur- clers Union. This act of the administration i foisting Beckerman upon the Ne York organization typifies the whole character of the Hillman bureaucracy. The progressive orkers must do everything in their power to develop a strong movement for the removal of Beckerman for his disruptive tac- tics, against the Amalgamated mem- bership and the fupriers’ general strike. These are some of the main issues facing the delegates who will attend the seventh convention. convention will mark a fight between the progressive militant forces and the Hillman administration, that has been forced to discard its mask of fake progressivism. Hiliman Will Fight Progress. HE Hillman administration will, at the seventh gonvention, defend its record, it will do everything to get the approval for its policy of class collaboration and particularly for the infamous golden rule Nash agreement The Hillman administration with its Beckerman and bureaucratic staff -will openly fight “every progressive meas- ure that is introduced, » The Hillman administration will de- and support for a continued drive to t The seventh |. Antics of Yellow: Press In Murder Mystery Help Reveal Its Vile Nature By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. "BIG TIM’ MURPHY RELEASED Chicago Labor Misleader Ends Prison Term LEAVENWORTH, Kan., March 25. —“"Big Tim” Murphy, Chicago labor leader, who is serving a four-year term in the penitentiary here for the Dearborn ‘station mail robbery which netted $320,000 in 1921, will be re- leased tomorrow morning after hav- ing received time off for good beha- vior VERY edition of a capitalist newspaper reveals the blat- ancy, the malicious misrepresenation, the deliberate falsi- fication indulged in in handling news of the day’s events: The transcontinental trip of District Attorney Asa Keyes, of Los Angeles, Calif., to New York and back again, ostensibly in search of new facts to solve the mystery of the murder of William Desmond Taylor, Hollywood film director, several years ago, offered the saffron press an excellent opportunity Murphy was the head of the gas workers’ union at a fancy salary, and when he was sent to the penitentiary the union control was handed over to his wife and brother, a sort of family affair, where Murphy generously milks the membership to maintain his own luxury. Murphy is the type of “labor leader” of the Robert Brindell caliber, who to display its questionable wares to good advantage, * * e e This instance is cited because the daily press can have no motive for brazen publication of a veritable ink flood of admittedly baseless rumors and counter-rumors, except the craving for the sensational; the desire to decorate some new edition with a startling headline. Days and days of rumors: finally reached their culmin- ation in the publication of the startling story that someone had stolen all the papers in the case from the room of the prosecuting attorney in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago. Keyes’ assistant, Harold L. Davis, was interviewed at great length as to the extent of this disaster. But the next morning the same Davis is quoted as calmly declaring that no evidence had disappeared, and in the words of the Chicago Tribune, that “the had not been inconvenienced in any way by thieves.” Here is the explanation: ) “The report was based on a hint that agents of a newspaper had taken the brief case, made photographic copies of the contents, and then returned it, thus quieting the hue and cry.” Again in the words of the Tribune, “All this, however, Mr. Davis also denied.” One newspaper reporter hints to another that he is going to steal “the papers” in real dime novel style, and inside an hour every daily is rushing extras on the streets, “Murder Mystery Records Stolen!” or some- thing to that effect. ore e e But that isn’t all. Almost on the same day the three women in the case, including Mary Miles Minter, her mother Mrs. Shetby, and Mabel Normand, another “movie star,” have been in both Los Angeles and New York City and all the way in between. The prosecutor is reported as rushing to New York to interview Mabel Normand, only to find upon his ar- rival that she is rushing back to Los Angeles to elude him. It is all very thrilling. Then there flashes on the scene a special extra heralding the news that “Mabel Normand Col- lapses!” Then comes the prosecutor's own statement that: “In all fairness to her (Mabel Normand), | must say that she has long since been exonerated of any connection with the matter (the murder of Taylor).” ‘ In the next act, however, the reporters are carefully pur- suing Prosecutor Keyes, treking his way to the “north side” to visit State's Attorney Crowe at the criminal court build- ing. Detailed stories are published of an alleged extended in- terview between Crowe and Keyes, carefully planning numer- ous arrests, It is stated that the actual murderers of Taylor would be soon under lock and key. Then later this is all spoiled by the statement of the prosecutor that the murder mystery had never been discussed at all with Crowe, that it was merely a personal visit and friendly conversation, mostly about Chicago swag and California oranges. There was no end of this kind of stuff. At this writing are unfortunately too often found in the American labor movement, Con- nection with the underworld and with the bosses are far closer in the unions they control than connections with the live struggle of the working class. Call Is Issued for World United Front in Aid of Chinese Labor (Continued from Page 1) England must raise their voices against this attempt to attack the re- volutionary people’s movement in China. Canton must not be destroyed by the English colonisers. The Chinese movement for national free- dom must receive the support of all honest workers, of all honest support- ers of the equality of nations. The enlarged executive of the executive committee of the Communist Interna tional points to the danger which is threatening the base of the Chinese revolutionary movement and demands that the workers of all countries pro- test the new and bloody plot of the English imperialists. Hands off China! Hands off Can- ton! Long live the Chinese people's movement for national freedom! Long live the solidarity of the proletariat with this movement! U. S. Senate Opens Discussion of the Italian Debt Question (Continued from Page 1) pay. This plan was proposed by Sen. Robinson, of Arkansas, minority floor leader, and met with endorsement from the irreconcilables, Debt Discussion Involved. The debt fight will involye a half dozen other issues including Italy’s imperialistic aims, her war Mussolini’s dictatorship. 6 world court battle undoubtedly will be revived in debate while the recent developments at Geneva and the league of nations’ proposed disarma- ment conference will be drawn inte the tangle. it continues in full blast. It is typical of thie kind of endless tommy-rot that is poured daily into the columns of the sub- sidized press under the mask of “news.” If lies are concocted wholesale in this manner, without any real incentive, except merely to win circulation thru jazzing up a blase reading public, then there are no lengths to which this same capitalist press will not go when the vital interests of the class for which it speaks are threatened. _ If the Tribune can fill its columns with fakes concern- ing the Taylor mee merely to maintain itself in the cir- culation war with the Hearst press, then it can easily be seen that this same Tribune will stop at nothing to villify the Rus- sian Bolshevik revolution that undermined capitalism’s whole structure and hastens its downfall the world over. ____ It.was last August and September that The Tribune, for instance, spread its anrlouncement that the Union of Soviet Republics was being swept by a new famine. The fall and winter have passed, and spring is again here, but the famine never materialized. The Tribune's story was just anoYner fake. The Tribune is now spreading stories that the.value of Soviet money is facing deflation. This is just one more cheap canard that will be exposed by the actual facts. ‘ Not even The Tribune's lies can stave off by one second the execution of labor's death warrant against the social sys- tem of which the. whole kept press is but a foul offspring. Y and militant workers form'the organ- ization HISTORICAL MATERIALISM COURSE WILL HOLD TWO MORE CLASSES THIS TERM William Simons, Instructor The class In Historical Material- ism meets this Friday at 8:15 p, m. at 19 So, Lincoln St, There will be only more session this and students should make every effort to attend both. Friday's Lesson. Read Bukharin’s Historical Ma- terialism, pp. 93-120. Be able to answer the following questions, in the Short time available, 1. What was Rousseau’s idea of the origin of society? What was its effect during the French revolution? 2. What is the role of the indi- vidual in history? 3. To what extent is society de- pendent on nature? is man like other animals in iptation to nature? What importance for a given clety has the technology of that jeriod? 6. If you were to study society, with what would you begin? The last class on Friday, April 2, will take Up Bukharin’s Chapter 16, on the classes and class struggle, Péllow workers, members of the Amalgamated, now is the time to rally o the left? wing. Now is the time to elect delegates who will oppose the Hillman administration and its policies and will introduce and sup- port progressive constructive meas- ures, Elect militants and progressives who are pledged to fight class colla- boration and the Nash agreement. Who will fight wage cuts, Who will fight expulsions and de- mand the reinstatement of all the expelled. Who are for the organization of the unorganized, . Who want no Mussolinis and di ruptors like Beckerman in the organt- zation, Who are opposed to the use of gangsterism and ,terrorism against the membership. Who are for a labor party, Who are for recognition and defense of Soviet Russia, Who are for International Trade Un- ion Unity and the sending of a labor delegation to Soviet Ru National Committee Needle Trades Section Trade Union Educational League Be a worker correspo! At pi for the workers. It none he Simons to Speak on Anti-Alien Laws at South Bend Saturday SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 25. — William Simons, secretary of the Chi- cago Workers’ School, will speak at the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 1216 West Colfax Ave., on Saturday night, March 27 on the protection of for eign-born workers. Laundry Strike Is Featured by Picketing (Continued from page 1) had been gained in the successful or- ganization drive begun some three walkout. Martin Murphy, president of the Chicago union, announces that the or ganization has already opened two laundries on a ‘untonowned, co-oper- ative basis, and {s already employing almost one hundred out of the 600 who are striking. The laundries are located at 3712 Langley avenue, and 1936 W. Madison street, and are the only co-operative laundries in town. not only to help going but in order ciple of co-operation, officials More laundries will be other sections of the offy by the union, it is said, since Seattle given the example of how union co-operative laundry built. The Chicago laundries are on the Seattle experience, _ Chamberlain Contends | League Still Survives (Special to The Dally Worker) ceived the freedom of the city of London today, in honor of his efforts at Locarno, Sir Austen defended his course at the recent Geneva conference, and ex- pressed regret that the Locarno treaties had not been consummated. He declared, however, that the league | ! | | ? mae. tad