The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 11, 1926, Page 4

| i ‘ . vantage of the opportunities to acquaint the workers with the fact Pog Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 2228 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (In Chicago only): By mall (outelde of Chicago): per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear 33.50 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, IlInols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE eee EitOre MORITZ J. LOEB. Business Manager a Entered as second-class ma{l September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application, SD Strike Murder in Cicero According to reports but one man has met death in the great general strike in the British Isles. Yet here in the United States the business of murdering strikers proceeds unabated in spite of the fact that there is not one major strike in the country. On Saturday an armed scab-herder and strikebreaker em- ployed by the Greeley foundry in Cicero, a Chicago suburb, shot and killed an unarmed striking molder, Thomas Hallwood, whe,| with a few companions, was peacefully watching an auto load of seabs proceeding to the foundry. The very fact that strikers show themselves on the streets in an effort to indicate to the strikebreakers, some of whom are fre- qtently employed under false pretenses, that there is a strike going on, tnfuriates the open shop employers, hence they instruct the ériminal wretches who act as thugs and gunmen to terrorize the strkiers. The murderer of Hallwood has been identitfied as Louis Kerr, sales manager of the scab foundry concern. Cicero police, smeared from head to foot in rum-running, bootlegging, ballot box corrup- tion and other varieties of political graft are also, of course, willing aids in the business of smashing strikes. Altho they know Kerr to be the murderer they report that “Kerr is making arrange- ments to surrender.” A mere business transaction between gentle- men! The scab foundry concern has engaged attorneys to defend Kerr and, considering the record of Cicero, it is probable that sufficient perjurers will be rounded up to swear that the lives of the scabs were endangered, even tho the strikers were all unarmed and the seab herders were roaming the streets armed to the teeth. ““* Ohicago labor should take drastic action against this atrocious murder of a striker who was, with his fellows, endeavoring to resist the onslaughts of the apostles of the scab shop in Cicero. “It will be illuminating for labor to watch the outcome of this trial as compared with the contemptible frame-up against the Zeigler miners who a few days ago were sentenced to prison on perjured testimony of agents of the mine owners. A Slimy Trick of the Press The role of the Chicago Tribune as a falsifier of news was never revealed to better advantage than in its handling of news and illustrations of the great British general strike. In its edition of Wednesday, May 5, it published, on its back page, a picture of a mammoth Communist demonstration in Trafalgar square, London, but instead of labelling it Communist its caption read, “Volunteer Workers Undertake to Run Cars in London.” In other words’ it deliberately falsified the picture of the Communist demonstration to ereate the illusion that the great revolutionary mass demonstra- tion was in reality a demonstration of “volunteers” to aid the tory government break the strike. The same picture is in thousands of windows thruout the city with a description of its true Communsit character and incidentally was published the previous day on page 2 of the Herald-Examiner where it was correctly described as a Communist demonstration. ®limy as the Hearst sheet is known to be, the Tribune, in this imstance, sank even lower than its yellow rival in the morning news- paper field in Chicago. Boys’ Week in Chicago According to the proclamation of Mayor William E. Dever this week is to be observed as boys’ week in the city of Chicago. Instead ef endeavoring to devise means of combating child labor, crowded schools, disease-breeding tenements and the other frightful handi- eaps from which ihe youth of Chicago suffer the week is to be devoted to slimy propaganda to endeavor to militarize the youth of Chicago #e that they can be relied upon to defend the interests of imperial- wim in the next world slaughter. . This particular week was selected as boys’ week because of the <> 290 visit to Chicago of the British apostle of militarization of children, Lieut. Gen. Sir Robert 8. S. Baden-Powell, who is the self-appointed “chief scout of the world.” ‘-" Baden-Powell has visited these shores before and is quite well khown here. One of the American supporters of this movement was Ernest Thompson Seton, who started the boy scouts’ movement here. The Baden-Powell outfit was so obviously endeavoring to stultify the minds of children with subservient ideas and vicious chauvin- ism that Seton, the foremost American exponent of the movement, denounced it as a militaristic scheme that made automatons of the youth, split the scouts’ movement and organized a rival movement, confining it almost exclusively to nature study and woodcraft. Seton has been consistently boycotted by the reptile press, while Baden-Powell has been kept in the limelight as the outstanding capitalist leader of the youth. The visit of Baden-Powell should be the signal for a week of} intensive agitation on the part of the revolutionary Communist youth of Chicago to expose and denounce the imperialistic con- spiracy against the youth of the Anglo-Saxon world whose chief ex- ponent is the British nabob, Baden-Powell, whose mission it is to decoy the young men of the working into the human slaughter house of their exploiters. Build the Daily Worker As the only daily paper in the United States that has handled the news of the great British strike from the viewpoint of the work- ing class Tur Dairy Worker has reached thousands of workers who never before heard of us, Thousands more who do not know such a paper exists can be made. loyal supporters of our paper if those comrades who have entered the contest in the Builders’ Cam- paign make special efforts to circulate our paper. With news of the British general strike crowding all other news from the ffont pages of all papers it onght to be easy for the various units of the party to exceed their quota if they take ad- Sipe ram Ae tho only antbentic reperts : DISTRICT NINE, WORKERS PARTY, OPENS DRIVE FOR BRITISH STRIKERS’ RELIEF MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. May 9.— The international aspect of the Brit- ish strike was broadened further when the first concerted move in the United States to raise relief funds for British workers was opened in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan by the Workers’ (Communist) Party of America, Announcement of the opening of the drive for funds was made by T. R. Sullivan, district orgarizer. “We are asking all of members of the Workers’ (Communist) Party In the three states to contribute to the relief of the British strikers,” Sulll- van declared. , DETROIT LABOR BACKS BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE All Elements Unite on Support of Strikers DETROIT, Mich., May 9.— All ele- ments of the Detroit Federation of Labor united last Wednesday, May 5, in pledging unanimous support to the British strikers. A motion to ask the American Fed- | eration of Labor executive council to| take immediate action to organize re-| lief, financial and otherwise for the British strikers, was passed unani-| mously. Another motion was passed te send a cablegram that night to the strik- ers, assuring them of the full support of all Detroit workers in their battle for decent conditions, The militant spirit of the British | proletariat proved so infectious, that even a seasoned old line labor leader like “Bill” Collins, the A, F. of L. or- ganizer stationed in Detroit, who in the past has devoted much of his time to horrid Red-baiting, was so car- ried away by the general strike, that he delivered a speech in favor of un- qualified support of the English work- ers, no matter what the outcome of | the strike be, even tho it developed in- to revolution. He said that it was the duty of the A. F. of L. to stand back of them and see that no action was taken in this country that might in any way injure their cause, Fears Hanging. He further said that the British worker because of his training and history could be depended on to use judgment and moderation and to car- ry things thru to where he wanted them, with the least amount of trouble possible, which was more than he could say if a similar situation existed in-this country. That if we ever have the same thing here, the American worker will not be nice or gentle in the methods he uses, as he has dem- onstrated his willingness to get what he wants in previous strikes, and that if such a time ever comes here, those who they think are too slow, or are holding them back, will be shoved out of the way, and men like Martel, (Pres. of the D. F. of L.) and myself (Collins) will be strung to the near- est lamp-post. The remarkable part of the talk, was that Collins apparently thot that those who would attempt to stand in the way or to hold back would de- serve to be hung, and his speech was wildly received, the applause quite plainly showing that the delegates thot the same as Collins. Still Has a Chance, He was answered by Mollenhauer, one of the progressive delegates who said, “That when the time came, per- haps Collins, Martel, Mollenhauer, Foster and Ruthenberg would all be working together for the common end and there might not be any need of lamp-posts,” and Bill Collins led the applause this time. For the first time in some years, THE DAILY WORKER ‘DON'T SHOOT! SLOGAN IS NOW MASS DEMAND Communist Prestige Raised by Strike WILLIAM F. DUNNE Fifth Article, The Communist Party of Great Bri- tain told the workers last summer in their press and at- meetings that the government was prepared to smash the trade unions. They said also that a campaign against the use of the mili- tary as a strikebreaking agency was necessary and that the atruggle of the miners would inevitably involve the whole labor movement.; ) The party issued its now famous “Don’t Shoot!” leaflet «to the soldiers and sailors and twelye members of the central executive eammittee were sent to prison under the Mutiny Act of 1797. No sooner were they, convicted than a nation-wide campaign campaign for their release began. The rank and file of the trade unions were aroused and even the right wing leadership had to go along with the tide. Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the home secretary in the Baldwin gov- ernment, derisively called “Jix” by the workers, succeeded in raising a storm of protest against himself. The right wing of the labor party and of the trade unions tried hard to show the jailing of the Communists as a personal enterprise of an egotistical reactionary, but the rapid develop- ment of the coal crisis, the organ- ization by the government of the O. M. S. with fascist participation, were indications that the drive on the Communists was no isolated inci- dent. The prosecution and imprisonment of the leading staff of the Communist Party can be said without exaggera- tion to mark a new period in the development of the. British labor movement. It dramatized sharply the decad- ence of the boasted British democ- racy because it showed clearly to thousands of workers, that under the Tory regime sedition unaccompanied by any overt, act had become a pun- ishable act in time of, peace. It is my opinion that even consider able numbers of Communists were surprised at the drastic measures used against them. The response of the, masses to ap- peals for the defense of and financial aid to the dependents of the imprison- ed Communists was splendid. In- ternational Class War, Prisoners’ Aid reached hundreds of thousands of workers by mass meetings, demon- strations and literature. The treatment of the prisoners, their imprisonment as,.common crim- inals with no distinction because of the political nature of their offense became topics of wide discussion in the capitalist as well.as in the labor press. On April 12 a parade, mass meet- ing and demonstration was held in London in honor of the. six Com- munists who were released after serv- ing their sentences. (Arthur McMan- us was held three days longer be- cause he had “insulted” a warder.) Ten thousand workers gathered at King’s Cross Circus and marched the four or five miles to Clapham Com- mon. Half of them had already walked from five to fifteen miles to reach King’s Cross. Twenty thousand people took part in the meeting at Clapham Common where speakers of all shades of poli- tical opinion addressed the huge crowd from a dozen platforms. Then the crowd marched three miles more to Wandsworth Prison, where another meeting was held, while 20,000 workers following the lead of a chairman in the most dis- ciplined fashion, made the walls of the prison shake with thunderous shouting for more than two hours. I have never seen a hoarser or hap- the D. F. of L. has been united abso- lutely on what is probably the most revolutionary matter to come before the delegates. Former National Guard Captain Arrested for Embezzling Army Funds Ralph L. Ramsey, former captain of a national guard company at Evan- ston, Ill, charged with embezzlement of guard funds, was released on 7,000 bond and his hearing was set for May 21. A charge of wife desertion on which he was arrested in Wiscon- sin early this week, has been with- drawn, American Churchmen » Pray for Strike End MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 9.—-General conference halted its proceedings tg hold a prayer for the early ending of the British strike, which was led by Bishop William Newman Ainsworth, of Georgia. Violent Oklahoma Tornado, SPIRO, Okla, May %.—A scene of desolation, swept clean of human habi- tation by a tornado which struck southwest of here, was revealed today when a relief squad headed by county officials undertook a more complete check on the toll taken in life and pro- pier crowd. The direct attack gn the Commu- nist Party as a preliminary to the attack on all of organized labor, the complete correctness, of the slo- gans and program of the party in- creased its influence, tremendously. The general strike and the massing of the military by orders of the gov- ernment actuated by,,an obviously deadly purpose has shown the masses that the jailing of the Communists was the signal for the offensive of British capital. ‘ The slogan issued by the Commu- nists to the soldiers and sadlors has taken on life. “Don’t Shoot!” is now a mass appeal of workers in indus- try to workers under arms. On May Day the United Press cor- respondent in London cabled as fol- lows about the May Day parade: Conservatives and Laborites al were dumbfounded by the discovery that the sharp rocks of the day's developments had changed the sta- tus of the Communists in London. Today. . . the red from Bat- tersea proudly led off the proces- sion. They simply took the lead, none said them nay and there they marched in place of the usually acknowledged leaders, Not actually but with a relentless potentiality the soolal marched with the London workers on May 1. 4 The British iy neh st has been given an entirely new, set of stand- ards by the general st™fke, They look perty by yesterday's twister that cut/at Britafn and {ts empire with new |: swath six miles long ané 200 yards | understanding. wide : ‘Tomorrow. (Sixth Article 2 ee revolution‘ Emergency Power Act. Statement of T. U. E. L. Needle Trades Section to A. C. W. Members (Continued from page 1). IL. G. W. U. and the defeat of the bureaucracy one year hence in the biggest rank and file rebellion in the history of the United States trade unions. The union belongs to its members. It must and will voice their interests. Under the leadership of the left wing organized in and around the Trade Union Educational League, the Amalgamated will be brought back imto the ranks of militant labor, again becoming a real fighting workers’ union. Follow the left wing for an honest and progressive administration of the union. Support the Following Left Wing Demands. 1. Forty-hour week. 2. Return of wage cuts and 10% increase in wages. 3. Minimum of 36 weeks guarantee of employment per year, 4. Minimum scale of wages locally and nationally. 5. Abolition of minimum standard of production and piece work and establishment of week work on the basis of maximum union standard of production, 6. Abolition of contracting. 7. One agreement for the entire national industry with same hours and working conditions, and equivalent wages, to expire at the same time, 8. Unemployment insurance paid by the employers and administered by the union. 9. No provision in the agreement preventing the workers to strike for the enforcement of the provisions of the agreement. 10. Provisions in the agreement providing for a yearly increase in wages in proportion to the rise in the cost of living. 11. Trial period of not more than one «week. Follow the left wing in the struggle for better conditions and a strong, clean, militant union. Support amalgamation, All the real needle tradés unions have endorsed amalgamation. The time is now at hand to combine them into one power- ful industrial union. This is the next great step forward—one union for all needle workers, Mexican Government Fights Bandit Gangs MEXICO CITY, May 9. — Three hundred rebels, marching on the Pacific coast port of Acapulco under the leadership of the Vidales Brothers, have been dispersed by government forces with heavy losses. Outbreaks, rather in the mature of banditry than revolt, are reported in Guerrero and Michoacan. Disorders have also been reported in Monterey where the police fought with bandits, five of whom were killed. The chief of police is also reported téhave been killed. American Marines Land at Nicaragua WASHINGTON, D. C., May 9.—300 American marines have been landed at El Bluff, Nicaragua, from the Unit- ed States cruiser Cleveland, Navy de- partment officials declare they have been landed to “protect” American property and lives from Nicaraguan revolutionists, who are battling the reactionary dictator Gen, Chamorro. The American Worker Correspond- ent Is out. Did you get your copy? Hurry up! Send In your sub! It's lowe 60 cents, ? ‘ British coal miners are shown above receivin vious tie-up. Upper left is A. J. Cook, the fighting secretary of the Miners’ Federation. right is Ramsay MacDonald, former premier and leader o Lower right is J. H. Thomas, political secretary of the National Railway Union who tried to avert the general strike and lower right is Premier Baldwin, now dictator of England under the RE RMT CEE CN LOR ET’ SECON ALU Miners Receiving Relief Pay John Bromley John Bromley Is the fighting leader of the Engineers who have stopped England’s train service to help the miners win their struggle. South Chicago Labor Fights Anti-Alien Bills The South Chicago Trades and La- bor Assembly at its meeting, after hearing a representative of the Coun- cil for the Protection of Foreign-Born for South Chicago and Pullman, unani- mously decided to send a telegram to the chairman of the committee on im- migration protesting against the bills aimed at the foreign-born workers. The secretary was instructed to write letters to congressmen and senators from Illinois to do their utmost to de- feat the measures. —— WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! WITH THEY CONDUCTED «BY Ty; A g strike relief from union headquarters in a pre- Upper the right wing in the labor party. GROWE HENCHMEN. STUFF BOXES IN APRIL PRIMARIES | Kidnap Judges and Re- mark the Ballots The wholesale stealing of ballots during the April 13 primaries is now being investigated by the Chicago board of election commissioners. When the board opened its first in- quiry meeting, lawyers representing the Robert E. Crowe-Charles V. Bar- rett faction in the republican party, tried to get the committee to hold se- cret meetings. They declared that the hearings were only an attempt to “dirty somebody up here.” In the first session it was brought out that in one of the polling places, the election judge was kidnapped and 20 gunmen took possession of the bal- lot boxes and remarked the ballots cast so that the Crowe-Barrett-Thomp- son slate was elected overwhelmingly. Lambden, one of the poll workers, declared that he had been in poli- ties since 1884 and that as he knew those who would vote in the primaries he had written in their. names on the books, and when they failed to appear he erased their names off the books. When asked whether any “floaters” had been allowed to cast a vote, he admitted that a number had voted. This incident in one of the polling places will be duplicated in many other sections of Chicago. These in- vestigations are bringing out the con- nection between gangland and the Crowe-Barrett-Thompson alliance in the primary elections. Young Workers Become More Radical MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R.,—Speaking before the enlarged executive ofthe Young Communist International, Com- rade Vuyovitch drew conclusions from the Comintern’s appraisal of the econ- omic and political world situation, for the youth movement. In part he said: The Capitalist Offensive. “An increased economic offensive against young workers more virulent than the offensive against adult work- ers was a characteristic feature of the year 1925. Systematic reduction of wages introduction of a longer work day, refusal to grant the unemploy- ment 'dolt, such was the order of the day everywhere, In many cases, the bourgeoisie succeeded in using young workers to reduce the wages of adult workers, These phenomena of the relative stabilization of capitalism re- sulted in constant worsening of the position of the young workers. There is, moreover, growing unemployment among young workers. This is par- ticularly the case in Germany, Great Britain, Austria and Czecho-Slovakia, “The fact that the position of the young workers in Europe is growing gradually worse and that on the other hand their position in the U. S. 8. R. is steadily improving, causes the masses of the young proletariat to turn to the left.” Labor Sports Union Plan Athletic Meet At the last meeting of the local ex- ecutive committee of the Labor Sports Union {it was decided to stage a com- bined mass meeting and athletic ex- hibition during the latter part of May. This affair will have a two-fold pur- pose: to raise funds for the work of the Labor Sports Union, and to bring the members and friends of the vario fiNated orga! fons to- gether, and to familiarize them with the principles and role of the Labor Sports Union, This athletic exhibition probably the first of its kind to be staged by a labor organization in this city, prom- ises to be an entertaining and excit- ing affair. A wrestling match between two burly and highly skilled Finnish members has been arranged for. There will also be pyramid building, jump- ing events and gymnastic drills stunts, The Nature Friends band will furnish the music, With the large Finnish, Czech, Hun- garian, German, and American sport groups backing this affair it is certain that it will turn out to be a big thing. ‘The time and place and other details have not yet been decided. ‘They will be announced later in the week.