The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1926, Page 2

a — Page Two BROOKHART 10 CARRY FIGHT TO PRIMARIES Wall Street Coalition Seats Democrat By H. M. WICKS (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, April 13—The Wall Street coalition of Mellon-Coolidge re- publicans and old fine democrats ousted Smith W. Brookhart Insurgent republican of lowa, from his seat in the United States senate yesterday and seated In his place Daniel W. Steck, democrat. The vote was 45 to 41 and at its conclusion Steck, who has been loaf- fg around the cloak rooms with the Morgan senators for many weeks, was immediately sworn in by Vice- Presi- dent Dawes and took the seat vacated by Brookhart. This is further evidence that the alignment is no longer republican and democratic; the two-party system is abolished and a government of blocs takes its place. Into lowa Primaries. The fight that Brookhart has waged to hold his seat as the representative of the petty bourgeois elements is now transferred from the senate floor to the Iowa primaries, Albert B. Cum- mins, senior senator from Iowa and one of the Mellon-Coolldge gang, is up for re-election and Brookhart will run against him in the primaries to be held in that state in June, and all indica- tions point to the defeat of Cummins. It {s probable that in the fall elec- ‘tions the old guard of the republican party in Iowa will again support a de- mocrat for the senate in place of Brookhart. It is also likely that the democrats will have a majority in the senate at the next session of congress. The Coo- idge majority is now but 14, which means that the election of 8 more de- mocrats will place them in control. However, it is no longer a question of ‘parties, but of blocs, as is evidenced by the old guard republicans voting for Steck, which simply reaffirms the eoalition that has existed since the world court fight. The coalition is definitely dominated by the House of Morgan, so no matter whether repub- cans or democrats control the senate ‘Wall Street will be in the saddle, How Brookhart Was Beaten Individual sentiment of the senators of the republican stripe was unques- tlonably in favor of retaining Brook- hart as a matter of party loyalty and traditions. But the directors of the Morgan coalition decreed otherwise. Mr, William M. Butler of Massachu- @etts, who took the place of Henry Cabot Lodge on November 7, 1923, and who is chairman of the republican na- tional committee and owner of the cotton slave pens known as the Butler Mill, the Quissett Mill, the Hoosac Cotton Mill and the New Bedford Cot- ton Mill, all highly protected by the Fordney-McCumber tariff, at the be- hest of the White House, did the ne- cessary wire-pulling to produce the vote against Brookhart. In the most brazen manner this agent of Wall Street and himself a strike-breaking, scab-herding exploit- er of women and child labor, browbeat senators on the floor and deliberately herded them into voting with the ma- chine, What threats and cajolery were resorted to must be left to the imagi- nation. Tke voting shows that certain staunch defenders of the old guard such.as Pepper of Pennsylvania, Len- ‘root of Wisconsin, Curtis of Kansas, who are facing bitter fights, were con- siderately permitted to vote for Brook- hart after a majority was assured without their votes. McKinley of Illinois was for the seating of the democrat but did not vote as he was paired with a Brook hart supporter. The voting also showed the further crystallization of an opposition petty bourgeois group composed of the in- surgent republicans and the —_ democrats, Brookhart Goes to lowa, Brookhart is preparing immediately to return to Iowa where he will enter the campaign against Cummins. M. L. Bowman, of Waterloo, who has thus far been contesting the Cummins for- ces in the primary fight will withdraw in favor of Brookhart and the battle will be on, Advices reaching here from Iowa indicate that the railroad brother. hoods, organized labor in general and the farm organizations are aligned with Brookhart. Instead of uniting and entering the coming elections on a class platform they are trailing in the wake of the futile middle class ele- ments whose lack of political vitality is exemplified in the shredbare nos- trums of insurgency, which are doom- ed to remain merely a protest against the avarice of Wall Street without ever seriously challenging the octopus, Experienced political observers free- ly predict the end of Albert B. Cum- mins as a political figure as they con- cede Brookhart's victory in the primar- fos, They are equally certain that in the regular elections Brookhart will be defeated by a democrat, making the Second democrat to be sent to the sen- ate from lowa since the civil war— Kk Who was seated yesterday being , baa THE DAILY WORKER GOP SPOTTER DEVICE REFUSED REGISTRATION BY COURT OF APPEALS (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, April 13.—The word “Copspotter,” as the name of a rearview device on autos Is not Subject to registration as a trade- mark under a decision of the court of appeals of the District of Colum: bla. The decision was made on the ground that the title merely Indi cates the use to which the device was to be put. The device consists of a mirror which enables the driver to see what is golng on back of his car while it Is speeding on. Thé name suggests, the court stated, the use for which It was principally intended. Announce the Riffian Peace Conference Will Be Held This Friday {Continued from page 1) weight at the meeting with their lead- ers, This scheme for independent re- presentation it is “belleved by. the ‘French will help totmake it possible so to maneuver at thé conference as tc split many of them from Krim. The allied French and Spanish nego- tiators will treat with Krim, not as the head of the group of Riffian tribes which have been carrying on the strur gle for years but only as chief or caid of the Beni Ourlaghel tribe. The caids of the other two principal tribes,the Djeballa and Beni Zeroual, will be ac- corded an equal standing with him. These tribal heads will be offered the alternative of either peace, together with the restoration of their flocks and herds and a yearly subsidy of a considerable amount for the caids themselves, or war to the bitter end if they continue loyal to their alliance with Krim, These tactics were followed for years by former marshal Lyautey in handling the tribal chiefs of French Morocco. They are employed today by the British, notably in their rela- tions with Ibn Saud in the case of Irak, and with many native‘rulers in India. It has been proven cheaper to buy off their opposition than to conquer them by military means.,As a matter of fact, the French have already been bribing the Rifflan, chiefs, assuring them that all they need do is to ack- nowledge the suzerainty of the Sultan of Morocco, May Declare Armistice. An armistice may » declared pend- ing the décision of A BUST OF LENIN ~ SWEET TRIAL IS POSTPONED TO APRIL 19 Has the Negro Right to Defend Self, Is Issue (Special to The Dally Worker) DETROIT, April 18—The trial of Henry Sweet, younger brother of Dr./ Ossian Sweet and one of the eleven Negroes charged with conspiracy to | murder Leon Breiner, has been post- poned to April 19, The eleven Negroes are charged with conspiracy to murder Leon Breiner, a white hoodlum that was the eader of a mob that attacked the Sweet home. This mob attacked the Sweet home with the intention of lynching the occupants of the house for resisting attempts by fhe klan and other “exclusive white” groups to | force the Sweets to move back into the-“black belt.” Ends in Jury Disagreement, The first trial that was held ended in a jury disagreement. Each of the eleven are to have separate trials. The case of Henry Sweet is attracting nation-wide interest as it will decide whether a Negro has a right to de- fend himself against an attempt on his life. The outcome of the Henry Sweet trial’ will have an important bearing on the outcome of the trials of the other 10 defendants, Workers Rally to Support of Sweet. Workers of all races should rally to the support of the Negroes involved in this case, The only crime that these Negroes are guilty of is of defending themselves when attacked by hood- lums who were determined to lynch them, because they had refused to move when ordered to do so by klan- inspired mobs. The American Negro Labor Con- gress is one of the many organizations supporting Dr. Ossian Sweet and his 10 co-defendants in the battle against an attempt on the part of the prosecu- tion to sentence these Negroes to long jail terms, by the noted young prole- tarian sculptor G. PICCOLI will be given as a prize to every Daily Worker Build- ers. See Thursday’s Issue of The Daily Worker! REPORT OF ALL-INDIA TRADES UNION CONGRESS SHOWS MORE MEMBERS BOMBAY, April 13.—The reports of All-India Trades Union Congress shows a considerable advance. The membership. of the unions repre- sented has risen from 100,000 to 125,000 In a year. The biggest prog- ress of all has been made by the Bombay Textile Labor Union, a new body which has already a member- ship of over 6,000, THE GOVERNMENT AT PASSAIC AGAIN ACTS AS STRIKEBREAKER (Continued from Page 1) AGAINST THE WORKERS, THE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE PROV- ING ONCE MORE THAT WHEN THE WORKERS VOTE FOR REPUB- LICAN AND DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES THEY ARE ELECTING THE SERVANTS OF THE BOSSES WHO BRUTALLY ARREST AND THROW THE WORKERS INTO PRISON IN TIME OF STUGGLE AGAINST THE EMPLOYERS FOR BETTER WAGES AND WORKING CONDITIONS. Rally to the Strikers! ' ont open attack on the strikers in Passaic thru the declaration of martial law, thru the arrest of Weisbord and holding him in prisno, thru prohi- bitive bail, must be the signal for the workers everywhere thruout the coun- try to rally to the support of the Passaic strikers. The Workers (Communist) Party calls upon all trade unions, labor poll- tical parties, and other workers’ organizations to join in mass protest meet- Ings against the use of governmental power as strikebreaker against the workers of Passaic. that if ‘the net mined started at the time’ the joint high com! ds and that all preparations will meanwhile, Peace Terms, The peace terms to be offered the Riffians are so much severer than those which France outlined last July that Capt. Gordon Canning, unofficial representative of Abd-el-Krim, predicts their rejection. The Wasic condition is that the Riffians acknowledge the su- zerainty of the Sultan of Morocco, who is the puppet for the French and who has no real authority in the country. All relationships with other nations must be maintained thru official agents of the French’or the Spanish, as the case may be. Limited Administrative Autonomy. Administrative autonomy will be offered the Riffians over a territory to be outlined in the course of the pro- ceedings. This area, however, is to be entirely within the bounds of the pres- ent Spanish protectorate. Along with the limited degree of political auton- omy will be given some economic con- trol but it is provided that both the French and Spanish are to share in the granting of economic concessions and in the profits derived therefrom. Riffian appointments to office will be subject to ratification, by the two pow- ers. We call upon all workers’ organizations to make the fight of the Pas- salc workers their own, to support them financially by contribution to their strike and relief fund; to raise a mighty wave of protest against t onment of Weisbord and other strike leaders on trumped up charge: the martial law and against the strike breaking government agencies, The heroic struggle of the Passaic workers is of Interest to every work- er in the United States. A victory in Passaic will be a victory for the work- ing class, which will aid the workers everywhere in fighting down the at- tack of the bosses and to win better wages and working conditions for them- ies For a Labor Party! HE mill owners’ use of the governmental power in an attempt to break the strike in Passaic is another lesson for the working class pointing to the need of independent political action by the workers, This lesson has been hammered home in every struggle of the workers of this country. Police, injunctions, soldiers, courts—are the weapons of the bosses to fight the workers when they demand better wages and working conditions. PASSAIC IS A LIVING EXAMPLE OF HOW THE GOVERNMENT FIGHTS FOR THE BOSSES AGAINST THE WORKERS, In rallying to the support of the Passaic strikers, in rising in pay protest against the attack upon them, the workers of this country must again att me time raise the siégan of a labor party which will fight the poll- tical battles of the workers, The police brutality, the imprisonment of strike leaders, the declaration of martial law at Passaic is a call to the workers to organize a mi poli- tical party thru which they can enter the struggle to take the control of the government into the hands of the workers, The immediate task of the workers of this country Is to help the Pas- saic mill workers win their strike, in spite of the bosses and in spite of their use of the government officials. A mass protest thru meetings and resolu- tions coupled with financial aid to the strikers will give them courage and spirit which will enable them to fight on until they win. At the same time, the workers must raise the slogan for a labor party and independent political actio@ by the workers to wrest the governmental power out of the hands of the bosses. RALLY TO THE SUPPORT OF THE PASSAIC STRIKERS! RAISE THE SLOGAN FOR A LABOR PARTY! BEAT DOWN THE ATTACK OF THE BOSSES AND THEIR GOVERN- MENT UPON THE WORKERS!’ STANDARD OF LIFE! Central Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party, Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, General Secretary. HELP! Complete Disarmament, The Rifflans are to be allowed to have a native militia, directed by the French and Spanish,who will deter- mine its number and,,equipment, All Rnfflans are to surrender their arms. No guarantees are to be given the Ritf- flans for their promise of complete disarmament, The requirement for surrendering their weapons, Canning declares, is an impossible condition to be enforved, and even should the im- probable occur and the Rifflans agree to these harsh ternis, thousands of rifles and rounds of ammunition would be concealed, ¢ Riffians will be amiestied for past offenses and prbonarsane freely ex- changed. Krim To Rp Riff. The last clause of the proposed terms requires the abdication of Krim and his leaving the country forever. He is to receive a sum to be decided at the conference for agreeing to this proposal, Canning says the Riffians will never consent to such punishment of their leader. Spain Insistent, No official denial is given the charge that it is Spain’s insistence which has caused the harshness of the new con- ditions, The Riviera dictatorship in Spain realizes the tremendous revolu- sion of Spanish feeling which would come from favorable terms to Krim. These would constitute a serious blow to the already declining prestige of de Riviera, and enbolden the growing opposition to his tyranny. HELP! Give Us a Hand! The big campaign is on tomorrow and all the work has our office force wd ee If you want to shee mci your services (to fold circulars, enclosures, stam ‘elo, ( SLT be tore ui ISAina Matera caine When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the 4 WORKER says about it, etc.) come around and you'll be more welcome than a raise in wages, We are going to build The peg # Worker to twice its size. Come around and help us do it! Iowa Must Fall in Line With Demand for Party of Workers and Farmers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ee were 4,000 votes cast for the presidential ticket of the Workers (Communist) Party in lowa in 1924. This Is a strong hucleus for the building of a powerful labor party, against the two capitalist parties. This favor- able condition is not only enhanced by the unrest among the corn growers, which centers in this state, but by the discon- tent among the railroad workers, who are an influential fac- tor among the Industrial workers, ° ° e e " This is said in view of the fact that the Coolidge gang In the United States senate has seen fit to oust Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart and seat the democrat, Capt. Dan F. Steck. This means that Brookhart is returning to lowa with the intention of entering the June republican primaries as a candidate against Senator Cummins, who is up for re-elec- tion. Brookhart will continue to pose as a “progressive.” He will continue to fight in the future, however, as he has in the past, against every effort of the workers and farm- ers to build teir own class power. ° ° ° e Hundreds of thousands of workers and farmers rallied in support of Brookhart against the landlords, the bankers and the food gamblers. Yet some of the staunchest support- ers of capitalism, the political agents of Wall Street in the senate, like Curtis, of Kansas; Smoot, of Utah, and Jones, of Washington, voted to keep Brookhart In the senate. Even the orders of Coolidge and Dawes couldn't hold them. They were willing to overlook the fact that Brookhart had de- manded that Dawes be stricken from the republican ticket in 1924. They were anxious to forget that Brookhart had supported LaFollette. They were not afraid of him as a champion of the workers and farmers. Perhaps they re- membered that Brookhart had refused to speak on the same platform with a militant coal miner, Alex Howat, in Spring- field, Mlinois. The miners held their meeting without him. ° A new senator, Steck, denies this interesting declaration about the state of lowa: “In the last election the only question was whether lowa was to be represented by a radical masquerading as a republican, or by a con- servative democrat. lowa is not a radical state and It Is my belief that lowa never again will be represented In high office by one who Is not a true representative of the sentiment of lowa.” But the 4,000 Communist votes in 1924 constitute suf- ficient answer to such piffle. Another answer is that poli- ticians seeking high office in the capitalist government must always parade before the lowa voters as “radicals” and “progressives” in order to win an election. This was true of Albert B. Cummins, ranked for years with the “insurgents,” who gained his reputation fighting the railroads in the United States senate. Ten and 20 guere ago Cummins wore the mask that Brookhart is wearing today. It is declared that Brookhart will defeat Cummins in the fall elections. That may be true. But to see Brookhart go the same way as Cummins did will not advance the struggle of lowa labor. The lowa farmers have learned that they cannot feed their families or their cattle, or gas up their flivvers and tractors with the speeches peddled thru the con- gressional record, The whole fight against Brookhart, Including the vote taken on Monday in the senate, shows-the ease with which fences are broken down between the republicans and demo- crats. The republican organization in 1924, openly supported Steck, the democrat, b> evar Brookhart, who had won the nomination in the republican primaries. The senate demo- crats on Monday gave the Coolidge-Dawes gang sufficient votes to throw out Brookhart, the republican. If Brookhart again wins in the June primaries, the regular republican machine will no doubt again rally in support of the demo- crat, even tho it may endanger the republican majority in | the senate. e e e e Such open confession of the dollar control of both the old parties should convince all workers and farmers of the _ futility of functioning politically except thru a labor party. lowa must fall in step with the march toward independent political action for America’s working class. Soviet Union Shows League’s Disarmament Bid Is Big Bluff (Continued from Page 1) the newspaper prostitutes will find it difficult to concoct a convincing reply. Soviet Co-operatives Decline, In addition to the note from the So- viet foreign minister, the league of nations secretariat has received a short letter from L. Khintchouk, presi- dent of the cooperative associations of the Soviet Union, informing the sec- retary that as the parleys were to be held in Geneva, no experts from the Soviet Republic could attend, see French Block Disarm Meeting. LO N, April 13 — The blame for the failure of the projected league of nations disarmament conference, ac- cording to high officials of the British government, rests not on the Soviet Union's refusal to participate but on the refusal of the French to have the meeting take place elsewhere than in Switzerland, knowing that under no circumstances will the Soviet: gers delegates to any gathering thi long as the murderers of Vorov: declared Clementi Communist “Youth International. the latter, Red army and fleet.” a storm of applause, Teachers Get 40 Per Cent Increases. SPRINGFIELD, IL, cational Press Bulletin. , tts = observer to the Lausanne convention, remain unpunished, A secret conference last week in Warsaw of representatives of the French, Polish, Roumanian and some other border states, resolved to block any removal of the disarmament gathering to any other city, The French attitude is due to the funda- mental conflict between their view of the basis for a disarmament program and that of the British, The differ- ences come from the situation in which each nation is placed in the struggle for ‘word Gombantion. . No Red abn Biaieiaine. MOSCOW, U. 6.8. R, April L~/Phe a sy Soviet Union cannot afford to disarm, Voroshiloff, com- missar of war and marine, speaking to the seventh all-union congress of the He explained that the inherent antagon- ism between the capitalistic system of the foreign powers, and the social- istic system of the Soviet Union makes disarmament too dangerous for “I personally understand,” Voroshi- loft declared, “and I think that you will agree with me, that peace has been maintained up to now mainly be- cause of the fact that we have a strong Every reference to the accomplish- ments of the Red army brot forth April 11—An average increase of 40 per cent in an- nual salaries of Illinois high school and grade teachers between 1920 and 1925 is shown in a tabulation con- tined in the current issue of the Edu- $30,000 BAIL FOR WEISBORD ON FRAME-UP Read Riot. Act on the Picket. Line (Continued from page 1). ing the strike. Nancy Sandowsky, the young girl who has been arrested a number of times before, was again arrested, haled before the court and held under $10,000 bonds. Arrest Speakers. From the picket lines the infuriated bulls rushed to the mass meeting. be- ing held in Bemolnt Park, Garfield, and arrested Robert W, Dunn of the American Civil Liberties Union and Esther Lowell, correspondent for the Federated Press. They were also held under $10,000 bond on the charge of violating the “riot act” that neither of them had heard read. The penalty for violating this act is three years tn jail or $1,000 fine or both. Hold The Fort, , Sheriff Nimmo, after his second raid, declared martial law in Bergen county, prohibiting all meetings and all gatherings of three or more per sons. Stelled fn four month's struggle the strikers say they are determined to continue the fight with the means at their disposal and declare they will not go back to work until thetr de- mands are granted. They are also learning valuable les- sons in the use of the powers of gor ernment fn the interests of the ex- ploiters of labor and on ever hand ts heard talk of the workers creating their own party for the purpose of kicking out of office the servile tools of the mill owners ané electing rep- resentatives of the workera, Talk eGnoral Strike, The beating of the school children last Saturday and the wholesale er Tests of strike leaders, accompanied with the declaration of martial law has so aroused the workers in all lines here that there fs today talk of a gen- eral strike thruout the three affected towns—Passaic, Clifton and Garfield. Boston, Mass., Labor Organization Drive Opens with Enthusiasm (Continued from Page 1) enthusiastically in the demonstration at Faneuil Hall Appeal For Women. The Mothers’ League of New Eng- land representing the working class women of this section, were present in. force, calling upon organised labor to “Organize the Women Workers.” Other signs read: “Bqual Pay For qual Work.” “Working Women, Join a Union.” “Down With Slavery For Women.” Young Workers, signs were: “The Youth Belongs With Organized Labor." “Let Down the | Bars to the Young Worker.’ Prominent labor officials were evi dently in a quandary on reading some of the signs carried by the party. Their bewilderment plainly showed self, but they did not know on w! score to make objection. Some the leaflet of the party in their pocket for future study. Even the police ZE= it to be put aside. Amundsen’s Dirigible . A Arrives in England LONDON, April 18.—Roald Amund- sen’s dirigible “Norge,” which is to make a Polar exploration trip, came near being destroyed in a storm when’ a landing was attempted at Pulham, England. The catastrophe was averted due to the masterly airmanship of the crew. The dirigible arrived at its hangar in scheduled time, It took the plane 30 hours to cover the thousand- mile journey, The dirigible sailed thru the air at a speed of 70 miles an hour, . The dash across the polar which will amount to 2,200 miles will take about 65 hours, estimates Captain Scott. The Latest Publication READY TODAY! 16 photographs, Novel binding, } eye mnie OU AL mma.