The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1926, Page 6

ee THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING ‘CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd,, Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 pe SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months | $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IilInols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL { WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... envevensvonsosesenenees, Editors +..Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, << 290 Advertising rates on application. ——— a] ° ° Piety No Bar to Lying If Mexico was not justified in kicking out of that country the meddling religionists most of whom were in the service of rapacious financial and industrial groups from the United States, she cer- tainly now has sufficient justification for keeping them. out. One Alfred J. Talley, a former Tammanyite judge of the court of general sessions of New York, was before the house committee on foreign affairs urging, in behalf of the catholic chureh, the break- ing off of diplomatic ‘relations with Mexico. This apostle of dark- ness indulged in the most’ bare-faced and atrocious lyihg that has yet come out of Mexico. He said a group of Carmelite nuns were kidnapped and threatened with being placed in houses of ill-fame because of their attempts to continue “religious instruction” in Mexico. This is so obviously a mendacious piece of jesuit propaganda and trickery that intelligent people will not consider it for a moment. It does reveal, however, to what loathsome levels the apostles of christianity will sink in order that they may be permitted to instill their filthy doctrines into the minds of children. It proves that the “brides of Christ” are as adept at lying as are the priests and popes, characterized by Ernst Haeckel as the “greatest charla- tans that any religion has ever produced.” Grovelling before altars, keeping alive the vestal fires over the symbolical tombs of savage an- cestors, long dead, is an easy way to live a parasitic life. Whenever any power interyenes that threatens to spoil their game of graft these saintly creatures, unable to emulate Torquemeda and invoke the inquisition, concoct the most infamous and monstrous lies against their enemies, hoping thereby to preserve their. easy jobs. Of course, diplomatic relations will not be broken because of what Carmelite nuns report to a Tammanyite politician, tho such weird tales might be used for propaganda purposes in case of an open break brought about by: political and economic conditions. Latest reports on the Mexican scare are that Washington is now satisfied that the land laws will not harm the petroleum in- terests of the United States. This means that the Calles:govern- ment has been brought to’ time and will henceforth -servesthe in- terests of Wall Street as did his predecessor, Obregon. If Wall Street is satisfied with Mexico, Washington will also bé satisfied even tho all the nunneries ‘were turned into houses of “ill-fame.” Diplomatic relations. are not broken because of outraged morality. Such things are only utilized to play upon-theemotions of the yokels who are expected; to fight in the interests of Wall Street wheneyer called upon fo do so. Afraid of Publicity va The Mellon-Coolidge* republican and the Morganydemocratic denizens of the United States senate who have been maintaining a ‘coalition against the insurgent elements in both .groups: have devised a new method ‘of trying to prevent their truckling to Wall Street coming to light. r] When they wanted to approve Mr. Coolidge’s latest-attempt to wreck the interstate commérce commission so that thecrailroads could have a free hand to'plunder the nation without let or: hindrance —or even criticism—from any governmental agency they simply went into executive session; thereby imposing secrecy: upon the en- tire senate. Those senators facing their constituents in the fall elections did not want to be embarrassed by attempting to explain why they voted to confirm the appointment of Thomas F. Woodlock, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, to a place on the commission. Certainly Mr. Cummins of Iowa, Mr. McKinley of Illinois, Mr. Curtis of Kansas, Mr. Watson of Indiana and Mr. Lenroot of Wis- consin, will be spared embarrassing moments if their vote remains a secret, because they will not be able to convince the farmers of their states that Mr. Woodlock’s presence on the commerce com- mission is for any purpose other than further gouging them. Even Jim Watson of Indiana, who it is known did not vote to confirm Woodlock in the secret session, will have to explain why he indulged in whisperings to his colleagues that altho he might not be able to vote with them he would exert his influence for him. Probably he heard from the Indiana ku klux klan ag he did during the fight on the world court! A fight is now proceeding in the senate to rip off the lid and expose the dirty mess so’ the fifty-two Wall Street senators may be pilloried and the ranks of the faithful are wavering under the sledge-hammer blows of the insurgents who have let it be known that there are methods-of revealing senate secrets withont violating any of the rules of that august assembly. After all, however, the mere record of the vote is not the im- portant thing. What is of interest to the workers and. farmers of the country is the mamier in which the coalition was formed and thé political horse trading, shell games and sleight-of-hand tricks required to maintain the Wall Street combination. If the American workers understood that game they would organize politically and kick the whole gang out of office. ANTI-MASS PICKETING LAW IS DEFEAT FOR ORGANIZED LABOR By WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE. The New Jersey legislature, under the guise of an anti-injunction bill, fifteen minutes before the adjournment of the legislature for the year, passed an anti-mass picketing bill which strikes at the 16,000 workers now engaged in a struggle in Passaic. or Celebrate “Victory.” 4 This bill is heralded as a great victory of organized labor and according to the press reports, the American Federation of Labor gave its consent to the bill in the senate so that not a single vote was cast against it,.More than that, press reports have-it. that Goverhor Moore was, proffered a ‘gold: en pen by the leaders of the American Federation of Labor with which=to sign this bill, heralded as are vietory of labor. i a The bill, in fact, is neither against injunctions nor for peacelil picket ing. 4 4 The measure declares that no re- straining writ or order ‘should be is- sued by any court of the state of New Jersey “in any case growing out of a dispute concerning terms and condi- tions of employment, straining any persons ons either singly or in concert, from terminiating any relation of émployimént or from peacably and without threats or inti- ining or re- THE DAILY* WORKER Page Six *F oe : League Aids Open Shoppers Wage Earners’ By VICTOR A, ZOKAITIS. Member Typographical Union No. 16. HE working-out of the “nonparti- san” political policy of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor of “rewarding our friends and punishing our ene- mies” could not_be better illustrated than in the present alliance of Chi- cago labor Officials with, the union- smashing Robert E. Crowe-Charles V. Barrett faction in the republican party for the primaries which take place on Tuesday, April 13, In this alliance we see the Chicago labor officialdom openly supporting avowed enemies of the trades unions. We see labor officials forming a polit- ical grouping with a machine that has ruthlessly; raided and persecuted the organized labor movement of Chicago. Slug Strikers, State’s Attorney Robert E, Crowe has led raids on the headquarters of Chicago trade unions, smashing the offices and viciously slugging those found in the headquarters. During the strikes of the various trades unions the most brutal acts have been com- mitted by squads of police detailed to the office of Robert E. Crowe, During the strike of thé Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in the Market street district in 1923, police assigned to the state’s at- torney’s office assaulted many of the girl pickets. Laugh at Strikers’ Protests. A list of the police brutalities was compiled and presented to officials of the Chicago Federation of Labor and Meyer Perlstein, president of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers. Protests were made to the city police authorities, who disclaimed responsi- bility for the action of these police thugs, stating they were part. of the state’s attorney’s squads. When pro- tests were made by strikers to the state’s attorney’s office the strikers were laughed at and the’ police bru- tality increased. In this strike not only were mem- bers of the unions arrested, but re- porters for The DAILY WORKER and investigating bodies, such as the Hull House, were arrested on flimsy charges, Kidnaps Metal Polishers. During the strike of the metal pol- ishers against the Cribben-Sexton stove manufacturing plant two strike Dickets were kidnapped by State’s Attorney Crowe’s men and after being beaten into insensibility they were thrown out onto a paved road under a railroad viaduct and left to recover by themselves. The headquarters of the Metal Pol- ishers’ Union were raided and the in- ternational vice-president of the Metal Polishers’ Union and the business agent of Metal Holishers No.6 were taken by the state’s attorney’s aides and severely grilled for hours. Attempts were made on the part of Robert E. Crowe's aides to implicate these union heads in a bomb “plot.” Attempts were made to make it ap- pear that the strikers were throwing bombs and were a part of a Chicago bomb-trust by Robert E. Crowe. Raid Stryke Headquarters. Besides nya the union headquar- ters, the strike headquarters were also raided and all of the men arrested forced into patrol wagons, held incom- municado in foul-smelling jail cells for hours, then sent to the police bu- reau of identification, where they were finger-printed, photographed, Bertillion measurements taken and card-indexed as tho: they were plain criminals. The men were then se- verely grilled by Crowe’s assistants, and when Robert E. Crowe found that he could not implicate them in any bomb throwings nor frame them in such a manner as to break the strike and assure a victory for the open. shop interests of this city, these men were released. Not a single charge was placed against them. Terrorize Amalgamated Members. During the strike of the Interna- tional Tailoring company and the J. L. Taylor company, which was conduct |by the Amalgamated Clothing Wor ers of America, the forces of th state’s attorney's office were used in a despicable and unsuccessful attempt to break the strike. Strike pickets were slugged. Strike committee mem- bers were shot at by unknown persons connected with either the state’s attor- ney’s office or some fink agency hired by the International and J. L. Taylor companies, Union headquarters were raided, union heads arrested and released after severe grillings without any charges being preferred against them, These are some of the acts of Robert E. Crowe, the man with whom the Chicago Wage Earners’ League, com-j; midation recommending, advising or persuading others to do so or from peaceably and without threats or inti- timfdation.., persuading any persons to work or abstain from working.” Against Mass Picketing, To this bill introduced by Mr, Simp- Son was added an amendment that pickets must march 10 feet apart,\thus preventing mass picketing, The so-called “anti-‘injunction bill” was proposed after the court in sev- eral recent decisions held that there can “no more be lawful picketing than there can be a lawful mob,” and enff- ployers secured instructions alleging picketing—and the poke of Chancery issued such injunctions. The trick in the bill is constituted in the words ‘threats or intimidation’ which are not at all defined, Intimi- dation is a véry elastic term and the courts, in their peculiar logic, have held some very*funny ghings to con stitute intimidation. The Dill only t.e head of the so-cal paged of a few Chicago labor officials, have made an alliance for the coming primaries in CBicago. Another Vicious Union-Smasher. Joseph Savage, another of the de- spicable henchmen of the open shop interests, with whom labor officials have made an alliance, is known to be one of the worst hated of the staff ‘that Crowe has to persecute labor union members. He conducted raids on the Milk Wagon Drivers’ Union, the ‘barbers’ union and other labor organizations with the intention of im“ Plicating these unions in bombings that were engineered and financed by employers’ and business men's asso- ciations, lt Charles V. Barrett; the other leader of the Crowe faction, has been and still is a foe of the organized labor movement. Chicago building trades workers have found out thru bitter experience the kind of a “friend of organized labor” thie-specimen is. Peddie “Labor Vote.” ‘The Chicago Wage Harners’ League, formed by a number of labor officials to peddle labor's vate, is now endors- ing these “friends”; of “organized la- ‘ in'the primaries.” | “We have decided to let bygones by bygones,” declared Charles F/ Wills, who at one time joined’ the Cook county farmerlabor party in an at- tempt to land a cushy job and later became the business and circulation manager of the Federation News and is now supporting the open-shoppers’ candidates in the republican and dem- ocratic primaries. “The Crowe-Bar- rett men said they were friendly to organized labor and will give us a square deal, That is all we ask and we are going to do our best to nomi- nate their candidates.” For a United Labor Ticket! The answer of the progressives in the Chicago labor movement to this betrayal must be an incteased demand for a united labor ticket in the coming fall elections. They must at every union meeting show the need for a political party of labor to fight for the interests of labor. The open-shop re- publican and democratic patties are the tools of the bosses. hese parties represent the bosses and fight for the intere’g: of the boss at all time. They fight against the interests of fhe Tendencies in W The Workers Swing to the Left. The following Is the last of a series of five articles on present tendencies in the International Trade Union ‘Movement by the president of the Red International of Labor Unions. eee ARTICLE V. By A. LOZOVSKY. Careful examination of the domes- tic Hfe of the I, F. T. U. and the R. reveals the development of two dif- ferent processes: In the Amsterdam International an intensification of the ideological struggle, growing differ- ences of views phraseology, and a steady marking time. Inside the R. I. L. U. increased ideological solidarity and an exten- sion of its sphere of influence. in the East, above all to China, Now, the fight going on inside Am- sterdam is forcing both sides to seek allies, one side looking to the right, to America, for its allies, the other side to the left, to Soviet Russia. While the idea of unity is being |caught up’ by ever greater and great- THEY DID NOT DIE IN VAIN ’ It is urging the members of the icago labor movement to go to the polls on primary day and vote for the candidates put up in the primaries by this faction in the open-shop re- publican party. They are sending out thousands of pieces of advertising, marked ballots,:etc., ‘ing the work- ers who have been clfbbed and beaten by members of this faction to vote for this aggregation of bosses’ lickspittles in the coming primaries. This Chicago Wage. Earners’ League is also endorsing candidates in the democratic primaries; It is endorsing Brennan candidates in the democratic party. After the primaries, declares d Chicago Wage Barners’ League, the organization ‘will count noses” and “support can- didates on both tickets that are, fa- vorable to organize@™labor.” : “Forgive andy Forget.” In a statement made by a number of the officials, thatqwe trying to “sell” the labor vote, on thgymeeting held at the Ashland auditovim, they declare: that this meeting show “that or ganized labor could, ive and forge those politicians it declared ‘1: fair’ a number of \y, ago and fig with t) mnt ovgrotheir candida! . cludes the vice-c 5 mg who here tofore were so rea grant injunctions, injunctions upon t! for same, But it will not be dificult for them to prove “threats and inti- midation” especially within the blank- et meaning of the bill, The best part of the law, however, is the amendment that pickets be at least 10 feet apart, This refers to Passaic. Here is ten into the law what was decided wpon by the courts of Massachusetts in the textile strike of 1919, when Organizer Thomas of the United Textile Workers was en- joined from picketing because the pickets marched in columns encircling the plants, at a distance of one or two feet between pickets, Class Collaboration, It is not strange that the leaders of the American Federation of Labor should agree to thi¥ proposal. They mere application are opposed to masy picketing such as organized workers, The duty of all progressive trade unionists in Chicago is to carry on a campaign for the organization of a political party of labor—a labor party ~-a party based on the trades unions. The duty of the organized workers in the coming elections is clear—they must place a united labor ticket in the field and wage a campaign against all the candidates of the open-shop republican and democratic parties, The policy of the American Federa- tion of Labor of “rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies” always plays into the hands of the bosses. This can be seen in the pres- ent alliance. The trades unionists of Chicago should throw this policy overboard and insist on the launching of a united labor ticket as the first step towards the formation of a labor party. Greek Election Boycott, ATHENS, April 4-——-The United Par- ties of Greece, opposed to the Panga- ost dictatorship have decided to boy- ott the presidential elections be- ause they were postponed to April 1 t / takes place in Passaic, or any other ly and willing to|place, Class collaboration, avoidance handing extra /of strikers and avoidance of any mass pressure upon the employes are the principles that guide these labor offi- cials, The joker in the so-called “peaceft) picketing law” already exposes what the workers may expect from these labor officials and from the employers. The anti-mass-picketing bill will no only effect such-strikers as in Passaic, but will be used against the workers wherever they mass their forces in any number, Kansas Ex-Governor Acquitted, Topeka, Kans., April 4—Former Governor Jonathan M. Davis of Kan- sas and his som we! equitted of a charge of accepting @pfibe for a par- don. The jury had ben deadlocked for 24 hours. ashy Don't waste your put it on paper, A \ rs ie News Item: Two Gormrnunists were elected in Paris last week to the French chamber of deputies. er numbers of the workers and bei: steadily opposed by Amsterdam, it being lent all possible support by the R. 2'G.. 0. R. IL. U, Up; Amsterdam Down. In the minds of the broad masses the true advocates of unity are the Communist International and the R. 1. L. U.; that can be neither disputed nor disproved, it is a title won and recorded. Within all the fluctuation of the which was particularly evident in Germany—the R. I, L. U.’s influence in the world labor movement is slow- ly but surely growing while the au- thority and influence of the Amster- dam International ig slowly declin- ing. For that body the fateful ques- tion has been and is the question of unity; it is the rock on which the whole of internat! reformism is bound to go smash, iterdam’s au- thority has only inereased among the ‘bourgeoisie who ate wholly and fully with Amsiordam ‘against Moscow. Rulers Tiring of Reformism, But it must not by any means be taken for granted that closer contact between the bourgeoisie and the Am- sterdam right ‘wh nd further con- crescence of the with the bourgeois state (the re- formist confederation’ of labor\ and the left bloc in Franee, efc.) in any way that the ruling classes are going to fulfill the moderate re- formist hopes and expectations, Ex- actly the reverse; the nearer reform- ism approaches the ruling classes and the better its intentions become, the more suspicious and cautious becomes the attitude of the bourgeoisie to it. It is enough to consider the mutual relations of fascism and reformism in Italy to realize that In some countries the reformists have already played their part and that the reaction can get on without them, 1, L,0, Danger, Consider again the many years’ talk in the International Labor office about special legislation in. general the Amsterdammlaternational and the bodies set up with its help is making orld Trade Union Movement I, L, U. during the period reviewed | ill-veiled “by _ polite | and the oleic, working day in particular with no’ ingle thing ac- tually being tore"This inactivity of for discontent among the most peate. fully inclined workers and leading ty their marking energetic protest. The International Labor *office ig a white sepulchre like other “achteye. ments” of reformism (Dawes plan, Lo. carno, and 60 on), and will finally lead to the discrediting )of the Amster. dam International. “ Bourgeoisie ‘Feat World Unity, Unlike the Lf. T. U. the . LL. 0, has always called down on itself the hatred of the bourgeoisie, a hatred that is growing «wteadily. It is not for nothing that the bourgeois press lis ‘horrified with the very idea of an International Unity Congress and be- seeches Amsterdam not to fall into ‘this Muscovite trap, for the bour- geoisie are afraid of two things: (1) unification of the whole world T, U, movement into @ single trade union linternational; (2) that somehow or jother demagogy (read Communism) {might get the upper hand in such an |international. The Amsterdam leaders fear the same thing, but such fear is the Inst thing to show that they have confi- dence in their own forces. Fight the Amsterdamers never so hard, tho, against this international unity con- gress or however many a left winger may wobble on this fssue, our slo- gan is making headway in the masses and winning more and more adherents which means that Amsterdam is meet- ing with defeat on this policy. Workers Move Left. Where, then, is the international T, U. movement heading? ‘The work- ing masses are clearly moving left. Of that there can not be the slightest doubt. But while the broad masees are driving to the left, some of the more witless leaders are sticking to the old formulas, giving preference to coalition with the bourgeoisie over any coalition with the Communists, and are prepared to smash any organ- ization at all to prevent the united front being formed and unity brot about. This leftward drive of the masses is not, however, the result of objective conditions only, but 4s also a result of the work of the Commun- ist International and the R. L. L. U, Unity Grows Apace. The unity idea is gaining ground. It has struck root, and the more ez- tensive the crisis becomes and the more the economic position of the toilers deteriorates, the greater the sympathy shown with the slogan of the united front and unity, No matter how splendidly organis ed the social’ democracy may be in some countries (as in Austria and Germany) or what measures they may take against this militant slogan, #& is forging ahead, transcending all boundaries and smashing all barriers and is so énthusing the masses that, as happened in Germany, the most out-and-out opponents of the untted front are being forced to buckle to and work shoulder to shoulder with the hated Communists tho only for the time being. Simultaneously with the spread of the unity idéa extensively and inten- sively among the broadest masses, there is a turn to the left taking place seen most. clearly in the new orientar tion towards the U. S. S. R. reflect- ing, on the one hand the crying need for unity, and on the other, the political and economic victory of the Russian proletariat. Soviet Rura‘a’s economic growth is reacting on the international labor movement as seen in the growing sympathy for the U. S. S. R. and, par- ticularly important, for revolutionary methods of struggle as well. The change in favor of Soviet Rus- sia likewise means the beginning of a change of tactics in every country. This means that the mass of the work- ers have lost confidence in the old revolutionary minorities—|™ethods and altho the left social-de- mocratic workers do not yet draw the full political conclusions from their sympathies to Soviet Russia, these conclusions will come of themselves, America or Soviet Russia, Along with this change 2 masses looking to Soviet Russia there in ‘a change occurring among certain of the leading circles towards America. Now, the whole question is one of which of these two forces will, to have more attractive power of the working class — America or é viet Russia, For the greater number of the leaders of international re’ shee America, with its full-blooded capt igm, is the promised land, ‘Che work: ing masses for whom America {s syno- nymous with new ways and means of scientific management and exploita- tion, have nothing to 5 Mh a8 they look to the U. 8. and ra that they are turning their back on the Second and Amsterdam Interna tionals and their policy. me To a broad and deep leftward move that is where the development of the international trade union move ment is heading, ie » 300,000 WORKERS OUT OF 909,000 ARE. | ~ JOBLESS 1N POLAND WARSAW, Poland, April 4—Over ,000 workers out of a workin population of 900,000 are out work. Doles of from 20 cents to a! Week are paid unemployed work “= These-are the official Statistics of; the Polish government, 4 nt