The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1926, Page 2

Page Two TRIBUNE WANTS WAR ON MEXICO FOR ITS WEALTH Local Gold Coast Organ Ready for Slaughter By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, April 19 — (FP)— Conquest and annexation of Mexico for the sake of her natural wealth, are demanded in an editorial in the cheap magazine Liberty, owned by the Chi- cago Tribune and claiming a nation- wide circulation of a million copies weekly. ..This frank cali for war is sounded in Its issue of April 17, which has been read with Interest by offi- cialis in all branches of the federal government, Thus far nobody has volunteered a word of public protest against the idea. After reciting the riches of Mexico, the backwardness of her development and the need for American capital to bring these minerals, especially oil, and other resources to profitable use, the editorial reminds the American public that 20,000,000 automobile users in this country need Mexico’s of] and rubber. It denounces as ridiculous the “politically drawn” boundary which the Calles government proposes to guard for the Mexicans against alien aggression. Suggests War. “The wiping out of the boundary,” it Bays, “would be a blessing to Mexico, @ benefit to the United States and to the world. How long this barrier can stand between the dire need of capital on one side and natural demand upon the other, depends upon the patience of the Americans. A war may be ne- cessary to remove this obstruction to economic advancement. All wars are born of stupidity and this one would be more than usually stupid, since the same results could be obtained by friendly co-operation. If war comes, Mexico will be the winner. Her gov- ernment and her armies will fall, but her people will be infinitely more pros- perous and happier.” Official Comment. At the state department and at the U. S. chamber of commerce no com- ment on this private declaration of war was forthcoming. Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations com- mittee felt that the proposal was un- worthy of serious comment. Sen. Glass of Virginia, formerly a member of the Wilson cabihet, said it would have no effect on the relations between the two countries, since it would not be seriously regarded by anybody. Sen. Sheppard of Texas commented: “I see no possible prospect or reason for war with Mexico. Peaceful relations should be encouraged between the two sister republics, and war propaganda should be frowned upon. Sen. Cameron of Arizona, republican, running for re- election, said that he disapproved any ggestion of war or annexation—“at least at this time.” Definite refusal to comment upon the provocative character of the war- like propaganda of the Tribune inter- ests was given by Sen. Johnson of California and Sen. Ashurst of Ariz- ona Both men are counted as friendly to Hearst, who has repeatedly called for forcible annexation of Mexico. Duffy Excited. In the absence of President Green from American Federation of Labor headquarters, no comment was to be had in that quarter. It is understood that Frank Duffy, general secretary of the carpenters’ international and one of the vice-presidents of the fed- eration, enlivened the recent session of the executive council here with flery attacks on the anti-clerical pro gram of the Calles government. PLASTERERS’ B, A, CALLS Mc GIVERN Government Demands $237,704.36 Damages for Removed Whiskey (Snecial to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 19.— Trial of the case of the government | against W. B. Squibb & company and | the American Surety company of New York City, in which forfeiture of | bonds totaling $237,704.36 is asked, was set for May 12 by Federal Judge | Robert C. Baltzell, today. The governemnt alleges that approxi- mately 90,000 gallons of bonded whis- ky in the Squibb distillery at Law- renceburg, Indiana, were removed for beverage purposes, FENG EVACUATES CHINESE CAPITAL AS CHANG ENTERS Tuan Chi Jui Reassumes Acting Presidency (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, April 19—With the with- drawal of the Kuominchun armies safely accomplished, the rear guard still occupying positions in the Nan- low pass, the capital today passed into the possession of Chang Tso Lin. His son, General Chang Hsuch-liang, in command of the Fengtien cavalry, together with General Chang Tsung- chang, one of his principal allies, have taken over the military control of the capital. The allies state they will drive all Bolshevik influence out of China. Their entry was the signal for the reactionary pro-Japanese former act- ing president, Tuan Chi Jui, to come out of his hiding place in the foreign legation quarter and reassume the po- sition. It appears that Marshall Wu Pei Fu, military dictator of Central {China, will not actively participate in the new Peking government. The Kuominchun troops are retir- ing to Kalgan, General Feng’s head- quarters in Northwest China, pending a decision by the nationalist leaders as to their future tactics. Kills Former Finance Minister of Poland (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, April 19.—Hubert Linde, former Polish finance minister, was assassinated today by a sergeant in the Polish army. UNEMPLOYED | POLAND SEIZE ARMS FACTORY Military Breaks Up Big Warsaw Demonstration BULLETIN WARSAW, = April thousand unemployed workers / took possession of a large amuni- tion plant here. The workers arm- 19—Several ed themselves and fought with the police for several hours. The police are conducting a hunt for armed workers, B® 12: WARSAW, April 18—Thousands of unemployed workers of this city formed a huge parade and were march- ing to protest before the ministry of public works when the demonstrators were attacked by soldiers and police, The fighting continued for three hours before the streets were cleared by the military. Many workers were wounded and more than 100 arrested. The parading unemployed had plan- ned a demonstration that would move the “socialist” minister, Brailicki, to some action to relieve the terrible distress being suffered by Poland’s 400,000 workless. In Lublin more than 25 workers were badly hurt in a demonstration broken up by police which was in pro- test of the city council’s refusal to grant relief or make plans for public works to provide employment for the jobless. se @ Polish Protest Meeting. Chicago organizations of Polish, White Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian and Jewish workers will hold a joint mass meeting on Friday, April 23, in Schoenhofen Hall, Milwaukee and Di- vision, 8:00 p. m, The purpose of the meeting will be to protest against the brutal police terror. against Poland’s unemployed army and to raise funds for the re- lief of the families of ten unemployed workers. who were shot down by sol- diers in Stryj, Poland. Ruthenberg to Speak, The speakers will be C. DB. Ruthen- berg, secretary of the Workers Party, B. K. Gebert, editor of Trybuna Rab- otnicza, K. Dmitryszn, Ukrainian or- ganizer and 8S. Milgrom,of the Young Workers’ League who will speak in Jewish, and others. ‘ (Continued from Page 1) Bainbridge Colby, secretary of stati mder Wilson, came to “sit in” with counsel for the defense, In his plez to the court he recounted the “funda mental principles of a free govern- ment which must be restored,” and in a fatherly way pleaded for “justice and a broad view of the problems that confront the nation.” Colby said that this particular strike did not interest him so much, These were local matters. But the method of the government in New Jersey had become a national concern and he felt that he was justified in coming to New Jersey to help get the old wagon out of the swamp and back on the road. A Week in Jail, Weisbord had been in the bull pen for a week. No definite charges had been preferred against him, but during the latter part of the week the Grand jury had returned “true bills” against him. He is now properly charged with inciting to riot, inciting hostility to the government, unlawful assemblage and 1dvising a striker to pull the nose of a “Dr.” Colby evidently made his plea in vain, for the court paid no attention to his advice of setting bail at a reasonable figure. Colby gasped when ie heard the judge persist in his $25, 00 bail, Work Goes On, But the bail was forthcoming. So were the hounds from Garfield. Weis bord was rearrested on the steps of "Mill Bosses Get Vicious Injunction the Paterson courthouse and whisked to the judge that has no regard for right or wrong. This judge will sec to it that it takes many days before vail is allowed to get Weisbord out. He has a long list of lawless acts piled up against him and is making NeW TO HELP HIM OUT Edward J. McGivern, president of the Plasterers’ International Union has arrived in Chicago to assist the plasterers’ busin: agent, Edward O'Rourke, in handling the demands of the union for a $2 a day increase and a five-day week, which has taken on something of the nature of a rank and aye walKaway. ings have been held every day. The Called f-- Help. Wallington lots that the mayor of that O'Rourke called McGivern in to help | town offered the strikers for meetings him after he was defeated by an over-| nave been put to good use. By crowd- whelming vote at a wage scale meet-| ing, about 9,000 workers can get to- ing of the union a week ago in his | gether, and they are not afraid of mak- efforts to get the men to come to more | ing the most of it. No subway jam is “reasonable” terms with the con-| tighter than those crowds. tractors. McGivern has been holding Enthusiastic Meetings. conferences with the contractors, who| A big truck with a fine platform that are refusing to entertain the union’s | {gs well above the heads of the crowd demands. Neither McGivern nor |igs placed almost at the center of the O'Rourke have yet succeeded in hav- | big space. Lena Chernenko introduces ing the members of their union agree | Rev, Wroblewsky who has one of the to a reconsideration, altho a meeting | largest churches in the strike zone will be held this coming Wednesday | and he speaks without reserve for the for that purpose. strikers. Bishop Paul Jones comes Fear 5-Day Week. next, and he tells the workers to stick It isn’t 80 much the wage increase | together in their fine fight and assures that the contractors fear as the five. |them that he will do all to help them day week. They claim this will lose | win, Plizabeth Gurley Flynn said that them 78,000 work days a year, They | by this time the country knows pretty are also fearful of demands from other | well about the strike and the workers building trades union, whose contracts | ire all with struggling textile slaygs. are expiring, if the plasterers’ de-|J. 0, Bentall of The DAILY WORKER nee are granted. also addressed the meeting and de- But while Weisbord is in jail the work is going on, Monster mass meet ounced the bosses who have hit us be- w the belt. They are no good sports. “hey have hit us with police club- ings, illegal jailings, exhorbitant bail, he riot act, the closing of halls, the ise of gas bombs, and water hose. Organizer Coco who is in charge in the absence of Weisbord spoke in Ital- jan and impressed the workers with the fact that not one man can win the strike. All must stick together, The 9,000 sang their great good song “Solidarity Forever” as the meeting was adjourned and vowed that never will they go back to work till they win the demands. The Injunction Now Used. At last the injunction. Drastic, bru- tal, foolhardy, provocative, defying every right of a civilized people, the injunction issued against the striking mill workers stands out as one of the most vicious edicts that has ever been issued by a tyrant or a czar, This injunction should form part of the reading matter for every worker as a sample of the brutal class spirit that pervades the possessing lords. There is a brazenness in it that has hitherto been veiled or covered up in injunctions of the past. Here all hypoc- risy is swept aside. Here there is no attempt to cover up the naked class character of the edict. You cannot talk to the striker or sive any advice. You cannot give him any money so he can buy bread for umself and his family, The bosses boasted that they would starve the workers back. They have not been ‘ble to do that, because the workers ot the whole country have come forth with money to feed the strikers and sustain them in their fight. Now comes the tool of the bosses and uses the power of the state and forbids you to give any aid. It forbids you from help ng to make the strike a success. Read this document. It is worth frarting. it will be a rare relic of the dead past « few years from now. Your children will not believe that such @ thing ould come from @ sane man in a sane state of a sane country, You must have this on the wall as proof, or the neighbors will call you a Mar when you relate this latest of all idiotic and despotic edicts. A storm of protest has gone up in Passaic. It must be echoed all over this country. It will stand out as the last stage of lunacy to all who have any sense left. Read it. The names are unimport- ant There are 98 of them, The spies have been busy to gather these names, Nobody cares, There are 16,000 names that the spies have not gotten yet. They better get busy to collect them. Injunction or no injunction the workers are not going back before they have won their demands, They will go back as a union and not as individuals. ‘They have sald so a thousand times,and they mean it. “it baad y wy THE DAILY WORKER Public Dining Rooms Lighten the Work of 5 : Russian Housewifes MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., (Tass.), April 19.—One of the principal means of emancipating women, it is believed in Soviet Russia, is to relieve them of the slavery of the kitchen by encour- aging and developing public dining rooms, Numerous public dining rooms are now functioning in most cities in Russia, conducted by the co-operative societies either in connection with large factories or in residential dis- tricts. New dining rooms were opened in a number of cities as a fitting part of the International Women’s Day cele- brations. r In Moscow the public dining rooms are run by the Moscow Union of Co- operative Societies,’ which has also opened a culinary school to provide efficient cooks for the increasing num- ber of public dining rooms. PREACHER AND TIGHE JOIN IN REVIVAL MEET Steel Worker S poils Everything By ANDREW OVERGAARD (Special to The Dally Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 19—“The wages of sin is death” was the sub- ject of a speech delivered to the Steel workers in Canonsburg Sunday after- noon at the Star Theater by a preach- er of that city speaking from the same platform as Mike Tighe, president of the Amalgamated Association of Steel Workers, This preacher compared our “great labor leaders” to Jesus Christ. He told a mixed audience of mostly women and children plus 40 or 60 steel workers that real labor trouble started when Adam began making his living from the sweat of his brow and the devil started to whisper strike, “Union of God.” The great panacea for all labor trouble according to him is to join the union of God and take out an insur- ance policy on your soul. A chorus of children entertained the audience with singing “Come to Jesus.” Tighe Speaks. Mike Tighe stated that he had no complaint to make against the em- ployers but blamed the steel workers themselves for their conditions. He hoped that the day would come when the great mass of unorganized steel workers would find their way and be- come organized. Mike Tighe reminded one of the preacher. The only class ,ote struck in that meeting was by he president of Liberty Lodge, of the Steel Workers Union, Warren. Cortez stated that the workers would never get anything from the bosses unless they showed the power. “We have never received anything from the boss- es unless we have been able to com- pel them to give” he’ stated. Church Against Workers. Cortez stated that the church gener- ally takes a stand against the workers in their struggle and most of the churches are only talking about good things and when the workers demand action they all turn against them. He appealed to the audience to or- ganize and fight for better conditions and also fight for free speak and free assemblage in the state of Pennsylva- nia which is so much needed there to organize the steel workers, LOS ANGELES IS BEHIND PASSAIC RELIEF DRIVE Concert and Banquet to Be Held Saturday By A. LYONS, LOS ANGELES, Calif, April 19 — The grand concert and \ surprise ban- quet given by the Consumers’ Educa- tional League, on Saturday, April 24, at the Co-operative Center, 2706 Brook- lynn Ave., is an eyent something to look forward to by. all music lovers. We are glad to anndunce that we have been fortunate to secure the services of the well known Violinist CALMON LUBOVISKI. * The readers of this paper will be glad to know that the first check for $75.00 covering tickets sold and moneys received for compliments in the printed program, was sent to the Passaic strikers this week. We hope to be able to send a few more like these immediately after the 24th of April, Families of Alien Ministers May Enter Country, Is Ruling (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 19—Wives and children of alien clergymen may be admitted to the United States as non-quota immigrants, the supreme court decided today. ‘The court affirme” the lower court's decision in the case of Rabbi Jacob S. Duner of New York, whose family was ordered admitted after immigrant authorities had ruled they could not enter, fi waist | Most Important Span in| FASCIST GANGS Locarno Bridge Against | GREET BUTCHER Soviet Union Drops Out By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Paris and London are having a very difficult time of it, trying to feign a smile to hide their depression, as Germany agrees to new compacts of neutrality with the Union of Sov- iet Republics. The French and British diplomats were forced to witness this past week the crumbling of the main span of their Locarno bridge, Germany—across which they hoped to hurl their armies in new attacks against the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government. The Russians denounced the whole Locarno proceed- ing as an effort to draw Germany into the new plans for the Anti-Soviet offensive at the First opportune moment. The Rapallo Treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany was to be nullified. Germany was to be admitted to the league of nations and made a full-fledged member of the Anti-Bolshevik bloc. The debacle at Geneva, however, when Germany failed to get into the league, now finds its sequel in Germany's Moscow orientation, in which it is claimed the Berlin gov- ernment has agreed to remain neutral in case of imperialist attacks against the Soviet Union. * * e e The New York Times correspondent at London inter- prets the British official attitude towards this development in the following words: “We would rather it had not taken place at this particular time, but now that it has we accept Germany’s statement of her reasons for it.” That is certainly hempeain | for courage as London faces a coal strike, May 1, that carries with it revolutionary impli- cations. French statesmen — utter the same pious sentiments with Paris sending two Communists, by overwhelming ma- jorities, to the chamber of deputies, and the franc continu- ally falling. Every new gain made by Moscow must be ac- cepted with as little display of gloom as possible in Paris. . * * * The eagerness with which the Versailles powers sought to draw Germany into the Locarno compact, and into the league, was revealed thru their pledge to take Giermany’s inteary and geographical positibn into consideration in ap- plying Article XVI, which obliges member states to co-op- world peace.” There are three main classes of “violators.” erate in league enterprises against the so-called “violators of These are the revolutionary workers in the home coun- tries, the oppressed colonies seeking to throw off the impe- rialist yoke and the ally of both, the Union of Soviet Repub- lics. Once Germany becomes a member of the league, she would no doubt be bound to join in this struggle to main- tain imperialism as the dominating power in the world. But Germany is not in the league, and with their own troubles at home and Mussolini on a rampage in the Mediter- ranean, the Versailles allies are not in a position to make much complaint. * ° e e The news that comes out of London is that four con- servative members of parliament, including Sir Frank Nel- son, Robert Boothley, Captain R. C. Bourne and Colonel T. C. R. Moore, are starting on a visit te the Soviet Union, the first since the Bolshevik revolution. This is a great change from the time when the British tories went about defying the world to force them to shake “the bloody hands of the Bolsheviks.” Now Colonel Moore declares: “1 believe not only that the welfare of each country is necessary for the good of the world but that Russia has far more to gain by cultivating relations with Britain than any other country.” That is an open challenge to Washington. President Coolidge recently declared that the United States govern- ment, which means under Wall Street's orders, did not look with favor upon other countries using loans obtained on this side of the Atlantic to develeop their commercial relations with the Soviet Union. This very evidently referred to Ger- many. Perhaps it was timed in an effort to halt Berlin from further cementing Soviet-German relations, so cone ape | inaugurated at Rapallo, Italy. If so, the threat clearly failed. The dollar is not all-powerful, especially with one-sixth of the earth under the red flag of the Soviets, . If the international bankers in Wall Street prove nig- gardly with their loans to Germany, the British evidently in- tend to step in and make the most of it. The rebuilding of Germany's commercial strength means that the Germans must find a market for the goods produced by their indus- tries. There is no better market than the Soviet Union. In that direction Germany turns, as she must. And the capital- ist world tries to hide its gloom. WOGE WILL BE TRIED | [Find Col. Williams FOR LYING ON WITNESS pean Ratt Suchtelle (Special to The Daily Worker) MARINE BASE, SAN DINGO, Cal. STAND IN BARKER'S TRIAL ROCKFORD, III, April .19.—Judge Harry Edwards of Dixon, sitting in circuit court at Woodstock, today granted a separate trial to V, S. Lumley, former state’s attorney of McHenry county, on charges of con- Spiracy to suborn perjury in con- nection with the famous Roy bank failure case, but ordered County Judge C. P, Barnes of McHenry county to trial at on Lumley and Barnes previously were tried on joint indictments, found guilty and fined. They moved for a retrial and Judge D. Reynolds ©f Rockford, who sat in the first trial, granted the motion. Mean- while Lumley asked a separate trial. Barnes was defeated last week In the republican primaries for county judge. Lewis Will Address Barnett I.L.D. Branch The Northwest Side Barnett branch of the International Labor Defense will hold a special meeting Tuesday night, April 20, at the Workers’ Ly- ‘Thur- ceum Hall, 2733 Hirsch Blvd, ber Lewis will speak on the subject: ‘The Government as the Tool Against che Working Class.” All members and sympathizers are urged to attend, ayy April 19—Col. Alexander Williams, distinguished marine corps officer was found guilty of drunkenness charges at his courtmartial today While no formal announcement of the verdict was made, the courtmartia, did not call the Colonel before it, which according to naval courtmartial procedure, clearly showed he was con- victed. Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features’ every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker, SOCIAL & BANQUET. DANCING and ADDRESS (Inchiding ON HIS RETURN Fanatic Followers Line Roman Streets (Special to The Dally Worker) ROME, April 19.—Premier Mus solini’s reception upon his return from Tripoli, was a most theatrical affair. Thousands of black-shirts, armed to the teeth and ready to murder any- one who refused the Roman salute to their dictator, lined the Via Nazional and yelled their heads off every time their chief so much as glanced at them. Of course, it must be remembered that the severest penalties would have been visited on anyone daring to voice the slightest disapproval of the dictator's policies or personality, The ensorship of the press is just as tringent as ever. Under the circum- stances it is impossible to gauge the real opposition to the fascist regime. Heavy Censorship Imposed. Foreign correspondents have even been forbidden to quote from the Italian press, which reflects only fas- cist policy and praise of the Mussolini regime. The reason for this order is the growing suspicion aroused in Eu- rope by the bellicose temper of the papers in their reflection of the ag- gressive imperialist schemes of the premier. Private letters, both to and from Italy, are frequently opened. Spies and what in America would be termed “under-cover men and often women are everywhere. » a a Mussolini's Spectacular Adventure, TRIPOLI, April 19—It seems that even the elements conspired to give Premier Mussolini's departure for Italy that theatrical setting which he | so consciously aims to have surround his every public appearance. Cap- ping a day of feverish rushing here and there in order to finish all the tasks he had set himself, came a heavy rainfall, with the flashes of lightning and the rolling thunder pun- “jeuated by the sharp reports of the great guns on the battlefleet that roared out their imperial salute es his launch cutting thru the stormy waves of the storm-driven Mediterranean made its way to the Conte di Cavour, his flagship. Al this panorama of power made @ much greater impres- sion on the simple-minded Tripolitans that it would on the Ttalians themselves who understand the bloody fist’ behind it. Enjoys War Dance. Characteristic, too, of the dictator, was the intense pleasure he got on this last day of his visit from the re- view of two regiments of Somali na- tives, men of gigantic stature who have hardly passed out of the bar- barian stage. These mercenaries, used by the Italian imperialists to shoot down their own people when they dare rebel, performed savage war dances about the dictator, brandish- ing long, sharp, pointed knixes, spears, and swords, together with guns of all descriptions, and carrying on with the wildest excess of emotional intoxica- tion, Mussolini, most evidently in his element, so encouraged and recipro- cated their wild animal epirits that they broke thru the lines and carried him off on their shoulders, is if he were a demigod, New Jersey Terror Is" Attacked on All Sides (Continued from Page 1) ers, against the millionare mill own- ers.” Break Strike By Force. Reports from Passaic indicate that the mill barons are following the at- tempt to break the strike by force by having their police officials swear in scores of doubtful characters as dep- uty sheriffs, who walk around the town with sawed-off shotguns, intimi- dating the population and dispersing even such small groups as three or four men and women who may con- sregate on public thorofares. To Re-arrest Weisbord. The police officials of other towns around Passaic have announced their intention of arresting Weisbord again on similar charges, even tho he has been released on bail of $30,000 from the Hackensack jail, The spirit of the strikers is better than ever and they are more determined than before to stick it out in their fight for a de- cent wage and living conditions, AAAAAAAPAALALAAARARAAADAADA DADA DADA DAA DDD AAD! PASSAIC RELIEF AND DEFENSE . BAZAAR Friday Evening, Apr. 23, from 8 P. M. till 1 A. M—DANCIN Saturday, Apr. 24, Afternoon, 3 to 8 P. M.—CONCER Evening, from 8 till Midni BY ALBERT WEISBORD. NEW TRAYMORE HALL Columbia Ave. and Franklin St., Philadelphia, Pa. Admission 60c both days; single admission at the door 0c, Wardrobe) Auspices—International Labor Defense in co-operation with Passale | Relief Conference, (| } = | |