The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1926, Page 2

Page Two FRENCH-SPANISH BREAKLOOMS ON RIFF CAMPAIGN Briand Threatens to! Make Peace (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, April 22—The teriffic reac- tion in France to the long-drawn out and extremely unpopular Moroccan war has caused the Briand cabinet to cast about for a means to settle the war without Involving too much dis- credit upon itself. Briand’s maneu- vers In this direction seem to have taken a new turn today when he met with the Spanish Ambassador. Disagrees With Spain. He found many things upon which fo disagree with the manner in which Spain is carrying on her share of the joint campaign against the Riffs. Spain, Briand intimated is conducting the campaign on the basis of a for- eign war that, in view of the situa- tion at home, must be won at all costs by the Rivera dictatorship. While France, he asserted, looks upon the Riffian war, “as a domestic problem.” Peace Talk. The Spanish ambassador was warn- ‘Pd that France is prepared “to make # settlement with Abd-El-Krim on sim- ple terms.” Spain is demanding the banishment of the Riffian leader as a basis for settlement. This attitude of Briand indicates that the domestic crisis, the drop in the franc, the Paris elections, has caused a right about face in French Moroccan policy since, at the beginning of the war, France undertook the colonial expedition against the Riff on a large scale hop- ing for a quick defeat of the rebels. Impeachment Trial of English Begins with Senate as High Court WASHINGTON, April 22 — The im- peachment managers from the house of representatives appeared before the senate today and presented the charges asking for the removal of Fed- eral Judge English from the bench. Formal ceremony marked the senate when the sergeantat-arms called the body to order as a high court with the familiar cry of “Hear Ye.” The resolution of impeachment, read by the house representative, charged English with corruption, abuse of his judicial powers and with exercising a “tyrannous and oppressive course of conduct.” This is the first time in thirteen years that the senate has sat in impeachment session. We need more news from the shops fand factories. Send it in! Let every worker know you are with us on MAY FIRST Greetings Trade unions, workers’ benefit societies and other working class organizations will rally with greetings to The Daily Worker on May Day in special ads. Get your organization to take some space in The Daily Worker. All ads at the rate of $1.00 An Inch Individuals can join the big parade, and names of work- ers sending greetings will be printed at 25 Cents a Name JOIN THE BIG PARADE! Sign the Honor Roll! The DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Tl, Bn0108Cd $...cccreeneee Dut the follow- ing names in the May Day Issue, NQMC oeeeescsessseeseee Btreet city nevencennsarenseseees Bate —nerscccesenesnee = | loan to make it possible for the “low- PROTEST AGAINST POLISH TERROR AT SCHOENHOFEN HALL TONIGHT A mass protest meeting against the persecution of unemployed workers in Poland will be held at the Schoenhoffen Hall, corner Ash- land and Milwaukee avenues, tonight. Many Polish workers have been brutally beaten and thrown into jail for demanding that Poland take care of them and thelr families, A number have been shot to death. The unemployed of Poland look to the American workers in thelr hour of need to help them in their struggle agalnst the Polish capitalist class, Every worker is called upon to come to the mass meeting tonight and voice his protest against the infamous methods used by the Polish rulers, Cc. E. Ruthenberg, secretary of who has just returned from a trip will be the main speaker, the Workers (Communist) Party, thru Europe ani the Soviet Union, This will be his first public appearance since his return. Comrade Gebert, editor of the Pollsh Communist or- gan, the Trybuna Robotnioza, will speak in Polish. There will speakers in Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Jewish and White Russian, BRITISH COAL | MINE DEADLOCK STILL UNBROKEN Subsidy Has 9 More Days to Go (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, April 22.—A conference of the coal owners and the miners’ ex- ecutives held today ended In a dead- lock. Only nine days remain until the coal subsidy expires. There are no indications that the belligerents will find a basis for compromise. The miners stand pat on their refusal to/ take further wage cuts and the coal operators continue to declare their in- tention of making wage slashes after | the expiration of the subsidy. Baldwin’s Proposal, Baldwin suggested a government est” paid miners to avoid the intend- ed wage cut. The owners have not yet given their answer to the pro- posal. This seems to imply that wage | cuts would nevertheless be applied to the more highly paid miners. This, it | is certain, the miners’ leaders will | not tolerate. They have said they will not stand for a penny off in the wages of any miners. | Cook's Tour, A. J. Cook, secretary of the ‘Miners’ Federation, has made a tour thru the mining districts of England and Wales. It was almost triumphal. Everywhere, thousands upon thou- sands of miners flocked to his meet- ings. He was given a greater ova- tion than has been accorded to any labor leader in Britaif. He has been emphasizing the unity of the labor movement behind the miners and has been very demonstratively accorded the confidence of the coal diggers in his refusal to accept a reduction in the miners’ Hving standard. His sta- tistics showing that owners’ profits and royalties have not been material- ly touched by the industrial depres- sion while workers’ real wages have steeply declined are unanswerable and are received with enthusiasm by the miners. Belgians Burn Benito Mussolini in Effigy (Continued from page 1). against the $2,000,420,000 Italian debt settlement yesterday was one of the flercest arraignments heard in many a day in the senate, voted for the set- tlement in order to be able tomorrow to move for reconsideration of the whole question. It is expected, however, that there will be no debate on the motion as some of the Mellon-Coolidge gang will move to table it, which automatically shuts off debate until after the vote on the motion has been taken, Un- questionably such a motion will be carried as the senators who came to the rescue of Mussolini at the be- hest of the House of Morgan have all the debate they want. They have not a shred of justification, except the most flagrant imperialism, for theiir votes and they are glad to have it over with now that they have enabled Mor- gan to ald Italy cancel the greater part of its debt to the United States so that Wall Street can invest in Italian industries and public utilies with more security. PTI LL ‘The Tastiest Evening Ever Held in GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. and the night when the workers open the big subscription drive for the trip to Moscow, SUNDAY (Evening at 7) APRIL 25 A Daily STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE PARTY AT 211 MONROE AVE. Come over—enjoy the “feed” of your life and meet a Jolly crowd of VOLUNTEERS Are Needed for MAY DAY DISTRIBUTION of leaflets, posters, stickers, Daily Worker, mailing our circular let- ters, etc., etc, Call any time during the day or evening at the district office, 19 S. Lincoln Street, Green at Last Pledges Aid to Furriers’ Strike (Continued from Page 1) , of the bosses would be known in a few days. “Fight to End.” “If they refuse to meet us, we will fight them to the end, with all the forces of the American Federation of Labor,” said Green, amid great ap- plause. He was given as great an ovation when he denounced the strangling of the rights of free speech and free assembly in the Passaic strike, and promised that the A. F. of L. would never permit these rights to be taken away from the workers of America. He warned the fur workers against internal disputes, and said that the A. F. of L. was the parent of the fur workers’ union, and all similar un- fons, and can take back its charter in case of emergency. He also. warn- ed the younger men in the labor move- ment against being impatient, since they did not know how dark the past had been for labor, and how bright the present by contrast, “Organized Power.” Ben Gold stirred the enthusiasm of the great audience by his vigorous denunciation of the bosses, “Whatever else may be true, the bosses take all they can get, and all they respect is organized power,” he said. “We must never allow anything to blind us to this fundamental truth of the labor struggle. “We fur strikers are out to create work for all our members, We have seen little cockroach manufacturers go into business with $100 and at the end of three or four years, show bank- books of a $100,000. All this wealth we the workers created, and we are not going to be cheated out of it. We are going to ask for all we can get, that our lives may be made more hu- man and possible.” “We Will Win “And if the bosses think that we have weakened for a minute, thig tre- mendous meeting is a sufficient an- swer. We will win—we must win.” 0. Schachtman, president of the Furriers’ International Union, also spoke and made a plea for harmony. He said the bosses had used the charge of political affiliation against the strike as a smoke screen, and claimed that he had done all he could to help the strikers, “Agreement” on French Debt Is News to U. S. (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 18.—If a “provisional agreement” is to be reached within a week on the settle- ment of the $4,000,000,000 French war debt, as reported from Paris, it is news to the American debt funding commission, members declared today. “Informal conversations” have been held from time to time between Sec- retary of the Treasury Mellon and M. Berenger, the French ambassador, but nothing approaching an agree- ment has taken place, it was stated officially, 4 Worker workers, 4 THE DAILY*°WORKER CANDIDATES FOR TRIP TO MOSCOW BUSY IN DRIVE Seek to Roll Up High Namber of Points On % Hooserw The big prize of a trip to Moscow has created the wildest kind of Inter. est. In Chicago many telephone calls daily are made tg receive expla- nation. New York, Los Angeles and many other cities are bringing to the attention of The DAILY WORKER names of workers whol have definitely announced themselves’ as candidates and deserving of votes thru their ac- tivity. ee Coming From Many Cities. In New York a dozen are already in motion. In Chicago John Heinrich- son, with the first five yearly subs given when the office opened in the morning of the first’ day of the cam- paign and four more today, is only one of a half dozen. Los Angeles speaks of three candidates, and a no- tice from Wilkinsburg, Pa., announces the expectation of sending a worker from that city to Moscow with the assurance of the fact that they “mean business.” How Candidates Can Go. : The country is divided into fifteen districts, each assigned a number of points which give all an equal oppor- tunity regardless of the size of the population. The winning district will choose one worker to go to Moscow by voting for their choice and only those participating in the voting who themselves got subs¢riptions. In ad- dition to this every district inthe coun- try will send One worker to Moscow for every 40,000 points seeured (400 yearly subs for The DAILY WORKER or equivalent.) ei Rexel “Gm he Votes are allowed by points, each point a vote and onthe basis of a hundred points for evéry year’s sub- scription to The DAILY WORKER. Points are also allowed for subscrip- tions to the Workers ‘Monthly, Young Worker and Young Comrade, and the point system for scqying is fully ex- plained in “The Book” which has been sent to every subscriber to The DAILY WORKER together with the number of votes that they are entitled to All these will be sent, ballots and a committee of judges, all not connected with The DAILY WORKER, will an- nounce the winner as chosen by the workers voting. The’ details of this will be announced later. Polish Cabinet Hands in Resignation While Economic Crisis Grows (Special to The Dally Worker) WARSAW, April 22—The Polish cabinet has resigned. Serious polit- ical differences have broken out dur- ing the past few weeks and there had been sveral threats of resignations upon the part of individual members at various times. The resignation of the Skryznski cabinet is a consequence of the long- continued and deep-seated economic depression prevailing in Poland. The bad relations with Germany due to the refusal to return the so-called “Polish corridor” which cuts Prussia in two and to other Polish aggressions has deprived the Poles of a commer- cial and economic relationship profit- able to both countries, Similarly, ag- gressive Polish natjonalism, acting as the ally for French imperialism, has made trade intercourse difficult with the Soviet Union. Industry is in very bad shape. Unemployed dem- onstrations have been put down by the police and the military, Meanwhile the country’s resources have been drained to support a huge army ready for war. Police spies are everywhere and the reaction has been very strong. 0 Want a Dictator. Political conditions reflect the eco- nomic, the Polish fascist groups, in alliance with the lindlords and the Catholic church, want to establish » dictatorship like that in Italy. They lack, however, an outstanding per- sonality,to head the movement. Socialist Party Hated, The Polish socialist party has out- done itself for reaction. It is hated by the militant workers as much, if not more, than the bourgeois parties. The Communist movement is under- ground and bitterly persecuted. Its influence on the masses is marked and growing. Conferences of Muscle Shoals Bidders WASHINGTON, D. C., April 20 — President Coolidge suggested to the Muscle Shoals commission that it call a conference of all bidders in an effort to negotiate the highest possible offer for the project. By telling the bidders of each other’s offers, the president feels the amounts submitted for the plants will be increased. The committee has re- ovived nine proposals, th anna ANY readers of The DAILY WORKER write in requesting that additional answer be made to the malicious campaign of slander that continues to stream thru the capitalist press regarding the “vag- rant children” of the Union of Soviet Republics. Clippings are enclosed with notations like, “Step on this slander,” “‘Let the truth be known— now is the time,” among others. The DAILY WORKER has al- ready published considerable mater- rial concerning this question. Articles appearing in the March 28th issue of the Chicago Tribune, and the Literary Digest, of March 13th, de- mand that new replies be made to these inspired attacks based on the grossest exaggerations, se ¢ The latest information received “on the question of the struggle with the vagrancy of children in the So- yiet Union comes from “Tass,” the official. Soviet Telegraph Agency, dated Feb. 13th, of this year. It nails the lie regarding the number of the “vagrant children.” While the Literary Digest, with its millions of readers, blatantly proclaims, “there are four millions of them,” the Soviet news agency points out that, “the number of such horffeless children reached after 1921 about 600,000. Since then it has been de- creasing. The imperialists’ propaganda de- clares that the number of these homeless children is on the increase. Otherwise, if they did not make this claim, there would be no object in spreading their lies. When all their other falsehoods have been explod- ed, they must resort to this criminal misrepresenation in an effort to show that all in not well within the borders of the Workers’ Republic. see Soviet information sources, how- ever, give detailed facts showing that the problems is being success- fully solved, that the children are being taken care of, that, according to the March 1st Russian Review, issued by the Russian Information Bureau at Washington, D..C., “The program of immediate future work by the Moscow Soviet in this fied consists in placing all the homeless children of Moscow in these insti- tutions.” The problem has been the most acute in Moscow. “ee © Correspondents of the Chicago Tribune, for instance, could get the facts in Washington. But the Tribune chooses rather to get the falsehoods spread by its correspond- ent, Donald Day, stationed at the anti-Soviet propaganda center, Riga, Latvia. The facts show that the problem of “vagrancy” among children in Russia grew directly out of the world war, into which czarism had plunged the whole Russian people. The Russian slain took toll in more homes within the late czar’s do- mains than in any other nation en- gaged in the great human slaughter. The war inaugurated by the Roma- noffs made millions of children fatherless. This was accompanied by the invasion of vast stretches of Russian soil by the German and Austrian armies of the now deposed Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs, that drove great sections of the Russian population from their homes, scat- tering them everywhere, separating children from their parents. That was the beginning. The whole capitalist press supported the war that committed this crime against Russia’s children. They sup- ported later every armed interven- tion and counter-revolutionary effort that laid waste new Russian terri- tory and drove ‘new masses from their homes. Thus weakened the Russian workers and peasants were unable to cope with the new calam- ity that came with the Russian famine in 1921. But the Bolshevik revolution met this problem as it has triumphantly overcome every other obstacle to its successful pro- gress, By the efforts of the government and public organizations, 450,000 of the 600,000 “vagrant children” have Criticizes Coolidge for Opposing Federal Motion Picture Laws ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22. — President Coolidge was criticized to- day by Representative Upshaw, (D) of Georgia, for opposing federal regul- ation of the motion picture industry, “It seems to me,” said Upshaw, “that the president, who comes from the land where pure ideals are sup- posed to reign, ought to join with the forces of righteousness in this high and holy crusade, rather than en- courage the coinage of money at the expense of national morality.” Upshaw’s bill, he declared today, was aimed only at driving out unclean films from American show houses. Upshaw is a typical reactionary south- ern democrat. The house education committee will meet on April 27 to hear final argu- ments, pas Sieh Sti : : ‘ Another Answer to the Falsehoods Still Spread About Russia’s Children By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. been placed in children’s asylums, In the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic (which is Soviet Russia proper) there are 4,000 chil- dren’s homes, colonies and receiving points, Here the wounds of the past are being healed. Under the: best of conditions, 228,000 homeless children or those who have been menaced with vagrancy, are here being brot up. Soviet rule is spending 40,000,- 000 roubles, ($20,000,000) annually for their maintenance and education. ee However, the Soviet government, unlike its enemy capitalist govern- ments, does not try to conceal bad conditions. It admits that the prob- lem is not entirely solved. There are still many “vagrants” abroad seeking shelter in big cities or along railways in cars standing on sidings, In the olden days under czarism they were dismissed as “beggars” and the press of the capitalist world said nothing about them. The Soviet Union has laid the basis for solving the “beggar” and “vagrant” -prob- lems. The capitalist nations still thrive on them, The three-year program of the So- viet government calls for the raising of expenditures on this work annual- ly to 50,000,000 roubles ($25,000,000.) New homes for children are being ‘built, new colonies established. So far as possible children are being taken over by workers and peasants to be brought up in their own homes. They are encouraged to do this by the government thru being allowed certain tax concessions, In the Soviet Ukraine it is announced that this problem has already been entirely solved. ry te While the situation is, therefore, rapidly mending, the hysteria of the yellow press, nevertheless, increases in intensity. The Chicago Tribune openly charges that 80 per cent of the “Lenin Fund” raised to| care for homeless children was used; by the Russian Communist Youth organiza- tions to spread “free love pahphlets and other Communist literature among the youth of Russia.” The yellow press learns nothing and for- gets nothing. This charge is on a par with that spread by the kept press and its socialist allies during the Russian famine, when it was claimed that relief funds raised by the “Friends of Soviet Russia” in the United States were used to finance Communist publications in this country. In New York City the ‘charges were even carried before a hostile prosecuting attorney. He was compelled to drop them very quickly because there was nothing to the charges. But that is all part of the struggle. The children of the Soviet Union are being taken care of. The night- mare of capitalism and czarism, of war and famine, is passing, But what of the children in capitalist lands? : eee It will be remembered that last winter the Riga lars got much space in the American press when they told at great length how Soviet rule was threatened because a score of ships were held tight in the Baltic ice and could not proceed to starv- ing Leningrad, It was never pointed out that such incidents were com- mon even under czarism when the Baltic Sea would insist on freezing over, But the winter passes, The Baltic ice melts with the coming of spring. The fairy tales also fade with the cold and the snow, The Russian masses—the workers and peasants—are in the springtime of their new social era, Comniunism. Creative life is before them. The horrors of homeless children ‘will 800n be forgotten. In the meantime the workers over five-sixths of the ‘world’s surface remain prisoners of capitalism, tortured in its icy grip, worse than any suffering endured trom winter's cold. Their struggle for their deliverance goes on. ‘ FRIDAY, April 30, The Biggest Bazaar of the Year in New York! THE SECOND Freiheit Bazaar Most Novel Program! Greatest Bargains! Music———Dancing———Refreshments at CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE, 67th St. and 3rd Ave., New York City on 1926 .. . cereran’s ecectins's TOC SATURDAY, May 1, 1926. .sriuzesar:e - $1.00 SUNDAY, May 2, 1926. #10) 0 (em TeTe terete « -50c ‘kets at Freiheit Office, 30 Union Square, New York City. CHARGE CHICAGO TREASURER RUNS OUTLAW BREWERY U.S. Attorney Hits Local Democratic Leader WASHINGTON, April 22.—John A. Cervenka, treasurer of the city of Chi- cago and one of the biggest demo- cratic politicians in the city, was charged by United States Attorney Edwin A. Olson of that city with being “president of the largest outlaw brewery” in Chicago. His sensational charge came in the course of his tes- timony before the senate wet-dry com- mittee in session here, Olson drew a picture of rigid and efficient enforcement of the prohibi- tion act by the federal authorities as contrasted with an almost entire ab- sence of enforcement by the municipal officials. He declared that the jury Jaw had been manipulated in such a way that the juries on liquor cases had been drawn from panels made up of “barrel-house habitues” from the West Madison street district. “Fix- ing” of jurors was common, he as- serted. Wholesale Confiscation. Prior to 1923 there had been no en- forcement of the law “worth mention- ing,” he alleged. All this he claimed had been corrected during his term of office. According to his statements, his office had “closed for a year every outlaw brewery, 26 in number, poured millions of gallons of beer into sewers, destroyed machinery and equipment running into hundreds of thousands of dollars, and put several brewers in jail. Two thousand three hundred and fifty-one permanent injunctions have been entered in the-northern district of Illinois, closing that number of outlaw liquor places for one year.. The value of the real estate involved ex- ceeds $35,000,000. *_*e © Twelve-Mile Limit Ruling. NEW YORK, April 22.—The juris- diction of the prohibition law or any other federal law does not extend as far as the 12-mile limit, the United States court of appeals held in a de- cision today, On this opinion the court dismissed seizure proceedings brot by the gov- ernment against the Sagtind, a Nor- wegian ship, and the Diamantina, a British vessel. The Sagtind was seized 10% miles off the coast and the Diamantina 22 miles off. . s : Tuan Chi Jui Flees °° ° from Peking; Chang ; Takes Over Capital (Special to The Dally Worker) PEKING, April 223—The govern- mental situation today is still compli- cated. Chang Tso Lin’s troops have completed their occupation of the city. Chang has appointed military officers to head the important local and national positions, having to do with handling the revenues and main- taining order, The victorious allies are unable to agree upon how the power shall be divided. Marshall Wu Pei Fu, whose army has made no fur- ther advance towards Peking for some days, wants the safety committee of former premiers to continue in charge. This is contrary to the wishes of Chang and his Shantung allies. Tuan Chi Jui and the other Anfu politicians have fled in order to escape arrest. Fighting is still going on, the allied forces evidently trying to cut off the retreat of the kuominchun thru Nankow pass, Ambassador Karakhan, whose re- moval has been demanded by Chang ‘Tso Lin, and whose personal safety is threatened by the white Russian ren- egades attached to the Manchurian army, is sticking to hig post, Andrew Graham Andrew Graham, 41, member of the Workers (Communist) Party died at the German Deaconess Hospital. He Injured In an accident about a year ago. His funeral will take place from the John V. May’s undertaking establishment, 4659 Milwaukee Ave. at 2:30 Saturday afternoon. Biggest Surprises!