The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 14, 1926, Page 3

| | | | Last Minute News as British General Strike Came to an End COURT-MARTIAL OF 92 LITHUANIAN WORKERS AND POOR PEASANTS WILL WILL TAKE PLACE ON MONDAY, MAY 17 TORIES WORRY ABOUT END AS WORKERS STICK Reaction to Sinister Mi- litary Show By W. N. EWER, Forelgn Editor London Dally Herald. (Cable to Federated Press.) LONDON, May 12—The early part of the week shows definite signs of a reaction within governing class circles against the provocative, theatrical follles which are generally ascribed to Churohill’s histrionlo Mussolinism, It Is generally understood that all this armored car business and al! the hysterical “save England from red revolution” propaganda are inspira- tions and celebrations of the hero of Sidney street and Antwerp, Business Worried. Schemes for smashing the unions nce and for all are very thrilling for old ladies, undergraduates and the weak-minded among the upper middle classes, but. saner business men are beginning to reflect that there must be relations with the workers when the strike is over. Presumably as the result of their pressure, a dampening of government propaganda is distinctly visible. Lord Grey said over the radio that, of course, if the strike is revolutionary it must be crushed, but if it is in sup- port of the miners’ claims, then it was due to a misunderstanding, and the right course was to resume negotia- tions, Workers’ Front Solid, The workers’ front remains most solid. Great sympathy is being shown fm unexpected quarters. Open air meetings in parts of London inhabited rather by the lower middle class than the working class resulted in unpre- cedented collections of money. Speak- ers returning from week-end tours ail over the country report most astonish- ing demonstrations, The strike ap pears to have fired the imagination of the working class as no other event has for many generations. One feels that the movement from this week on has new inspiration, new energy and has made new a beginning which means very much to the future. Irving Park LL.D. Branch Holds May Party and Dance on Saturday Don’t fail to attend the May Party and Dance given by the Irving Park ‘branch of International Labor Defense at 4021 No. Drake Ave, Saturday evening, May 15. You are sure to have a great time if you do. Some of the things the committee in charge has arranged for that night are: Folk or national dances by individuals and groups, Anyone who is qualified along this line, may participate. Home made Hungarian Goulash will be served. Admission is only 25c, Tickets may be had at the door or in the DAILY WORKER office. Five States Bar Illinois Cattle Pennsylvania, Maryland, Michigan, New York and Delaware have passed quarantine regulations against cattle coming from Illinois. Why don’t you write it up? It may be interesting to other workers. “We’re With You, England” kv? once the workers owe a debt of extraordinary thanks to their ene- mies, Every American workingman should be thankful to the Washington .¢ Post of May 9th for its leading edito- rial, captioned “We're With You, Eng- land.” The editorial is a tiniely warn- ing and a powerful inspiration to the American working class to wake up, take notice, hit back, and hit back hard. This outbreak of rage and insolence by the spokesman of the most poison- ous of leeches in capitalist newspaper- dom is an eye-opener. The oditorial is @ call to action by the forces of Amer- tca’s blackest reaction against the val- fant striking workers of England. It is @ more provocative and dastardly a Piece of newspaper scribbling than has ever appeared in any of the official, semiofficial and unofficial saffron sheets of Washington, ‘This excited call to the scabs, print- ed as an editorial, reads in part: “At all cost the general strike must be broken. It is an assault upon the throne, the government and the people of Great Britain. If it wins there will be a Communist dictatorship in Eng- land. “Nothing but a miracle can prevent & collision between the armed forces of the government and the forces of rebellion, “The Communists of the world are engerly attempting to bring about . séevil war in Bngland, No doubt mes- U, $; BUSINESS WILL SOON BE HIT HARD BY BRITISH STRIKE (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, May 12.—A more serious view of the British general strike, as it affects American busi- ness, was prevalent in government circles here today as the tieup con- tinued into the second week with no sign of breaking. While business has not yet been affected, If the strike continues much longer It undoubtedly will make an impression upon the shipment of American goods, particularly raw materials such as cotton, to British ports, in President Coolidge’s opin- ion. The president discussed the situation with the cabinet this morn- Ing. NEGRO WORKERS REFUSE TO SCAB ON THE BRITISH A.N. L. C. Shows Need of Class Solidarity NEW YORK, May 12.— Announce- ment that British employers would import Americah and South African Negroes for marine and transport work in the present general strike was met by a call from the American Negro Labor Congress to the Negro workers to abstain from scabbing on the British workers, This call was issued by Richard B. Moore, secretary of the New York Council of the American Negro Labor ite at 127 University Place, who said: “The effort of the British capitalists to import American and South African Negroes to break the strike of the transport workers is another instance of the pernicious policy of labor-grind- ing employers to use Negroes as pawns in their terrible game of exploi- tation. “Negro workers should recall the centuries of enslavement and suppres- sion which they have suffered at the hands of these same imperialist op- pressors and they should remember particularly how they were used up during the last war, being virtually enslaved in labor battalions,and driven to perform the most loathsome tasks, then turned adrift to.starve.and face murderous attacks in Cardiff and Liy- erpool, finally being forcibly deported from the country which they had served so signally. “The only safe and proper course for these workers, therefore, is to re- fuse absolutely to be beguiled by any such hypocritical and sinister appeals and to stand solidly behind the strik- ing workers of Great Britain who are waging a heroic struggle against the profit-gouging world oppressors who crush the white workers at home and trample upon and efslave the black, brown and yellow colonial - peoples abroad.” Fire Destroys Interior of Armour’s Glue Works Damage estimated at nearly half a million dollars was caused, and one man was reported missing, when fire destroyed the interior of Armour and Company’s Glue Works. Forty-four fecompanies of firemen and two fire tugs succeeded in preventing the spread of flames to odjoining buildings, including the Wabash railroad eleva- tor, the Armour Soap and Perfume factory and the Armour Heating and Boiling plant. sages of aid and comfort are going ry the United States to the British “If the British strike should de- velop into @ war of violence, the United States will have a duty to per- form. There will be no neutrality in such a war. The United States government should range itself in- stantly alongside the British govern- ment and should lend every possible assistance to it. Communists in this country should be placed under guard or behind the bars, No communica. tion between them and the British revolutionists should be permitted. (Our emphasis.) Whatever England needs should be furnished quickly. The attack on popular government in England is an attack upon the popu- lar government in the United States. Americans would be dull and’ deluded if they did not perceive that the triumph of Communism in England would Involve the United Sta’ In war. “Now, when Communism strikes, is the time to cut off its head. . , .” (Our emphasis.) Interesting reading, eh, reader? Every American workingman should brother swage sai | eee ts MM a THE DAILY WORKER CONVENTION OF A.C. W. HEARS NASH SERMON Resolve to Give $1 Per Member to Strike By JACK JOHNSTONE, (Special to The Dally Worker) MONTREAL, May 12, — The third day of the convention of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America opened with the introduction of a res- olution on the British general strike which carried unanimously. The resolution was introduced by General-Secretary Schlossberg for the executive board. In his speech, Schlossberg said: “The British labor movement is the oldest in the world and has had experiences that every- one should study. The workers of England have built up in our day a great industrial and political power. The present strike is the greatest demonstration of class solidarity in | the world’s labor history.” The resolution read, “Whereas, the British labor movement has been forced into the general strike in which it is now engaged, and whereas organized labor in England is fighting to protect a minimum standard of living in the coal mines and other industries, Fight Lowered Standard. “Whereas, a lockout by the British coal operators ended the patient ef- forts of the labor movement to find a peaceful sojution for the problems of the coal industry while it was seek- ing to prevent a lowering of its stand- ards attained thru many years of struggle and sacrifice, “Therefore, the general executive board proposes to the fourteenth bien- nal convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America assemb- led in Montreal that this convention send ‘its greetings and hope for suc- cess to organized labor of England in its present momentous struggle afid that, One Dollar a Member. “This convention go on record as recommending that each member of the organization be asked to contrib- ute one dollar to a fund to assist our fellow trade unionists in England in combatting efforts to reduce their standards and that the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America advance immediately to the British labor movement the sum of $25,000.” “Golden Rule” Nash. “Golden Rule” Nash was introduced to the convention by President Sidney Hillman who spent twenty minutes praising the Cincinnati manufacturer. Hillman said that the Nash agreement was the result of four years negotia- tion. He said he wanted to impress the membership of the need of living up to contracts and that the aim of contracts was establishing the right of citizenship and law in industry. Nash spent an hour scratching alter- nately his own back and Hillman’s. He believes in the golden rule of “right, truth and justice.” He tried to save the church, he said, but finding this impossible turned to Hillman. He told about taking to a manufacturers’ association ,attempting to persuade them to his christian methods, When he finished a manufacturer arose to make a motion to adopt his scheme as the best method for breaking union- ism, Hillman “Second to Christ” Nash referred to Hillman as “Your great leader who stands second to the great carpenter of Galilee.” He denied that he was an employer, He asked to be admitted to membership in the Introducing Teapot Dome Heroes. Why is the Washington Post? Who is this E, B. McLean who owns this sheet? Fortunately, our memory has not be- trayed us, We smell oil! Visions of Teapot Dome are again upon us! The Washington Poit is usually con- sidered as a sort semi-official mouthpiece of the Coolidge adminis- tration, And it is notorious among newspaper scribes in Washington as an unscrupulously dirty mouthpiece, ‘When the Washington Post speaks all the world knows that the most vicious junta of our employing class is on its hind legs ready to leap at the throats of the workers. The Washington Post truly speaks “his master’s voice.” But in this in- stance Coolidge is only the dog, bark- ing and whining forth the wishes and plans of the motliest crew of labor- haters, open-shoppers, and shame- faced scabs. This raucous screed simply means that the Wall Street administration at Washington is pre- paring to do what the British exploit- ers have been unable to do—preparing to break the heroic strike of the Eng- lish workers, McLean himself is unknown to the great mass of American workingmen. He is a nonentity, a tyro of the tiniest type. But he is well known to the American working class under another name, The workers will recall the so-called mysterious telegrams from BRITISH FLEET MOST IMPORTANT DURING BRITISH REVOLUTION MOSOW, May 12. — The British revolution depends first upon the attitude of the British fleet and sec- ondarily upon the possible interven- tion of the American fleet, Leon Trotzky, says in an article appear- ing in a special newspaper, entitled “Fight Like Devils,” issued today for the benefit of the British strike fund. “The struggle of the proletariat for power is a struggle for the pos- session of a fleet,” Trotsky added. “The American bourgeoisie will have less desire to enter the strug- gle if the English proletariat seizes all the fighting instruments. The en- try of the American fleet Into the combat Is very possible and within limits quite unavoidable. “The first result of the revolution in England will be the destruction of discipline in all the navies of the world. Who knows but that under such conditions, the American com- manding staff will refuse to con- sider blockading England and will withdraw the American navy farther from the European disease, called revolution.” Amalgamated. He said that he could not sleep nights thinking about his “brothers and sisters” in his industry. The job was too much for him so he passed it on to Hillman, the Amalga- mated now having the job of looking after the workers in his factory. He said that he was fundamentally a trade unionist and that Hillman was as much an employer as he, finishing up by again asking admittance to the union. He begin life by being opposed to class struggles, he said, but now he believes that the workers can get what they want only by being class- conscious. His statement that he was willing to turn over his interests to the Amalgamated, jcan be taken as a “cinching” of Hillman’s class-col- laboration arguments. Russian Union Greets U.S. Clothing Workers (Contitived from Page 1) of the administration towards the left wing. He sald the different kinds of democracy in hilged in in the past few oe 4 1 OE AEN KAUNAS, Lithuania, May 12- Lithuanian workers and peasants w! has been postponed to May 1. The trial of these workers and peasants, all of whom are candidates for election and (parliament), was postponed as the clerical and the nationalist parties feared th effect of the trial on the elections to the Seimas on May 8 and 9 Clericals Fear Workers’ Candidates. Five of the 92 workers and peasants | are members of the Seimas. The| other 87 were candidates, The Lithu-| anian clerical-nationalist government, fearing the reelection of the five) workers on the workers’ and poor) peasants’ tickets and the election of} a large number of the other candi- dates, instituted a campaign of ter- rorism against the workers and peas-) ants of Lithuania. As the Communist | Party of Lithuania is an illegal organ- ization, the clerical-nationalist govern- ment has accused the candidates of| the workers’ and poor peasants tickets of being members of the Com- munist Party of Lithuania. Each of the 92 are threatened with death sen- tences and long terms at hard labor in the Lithuanian bastiles. Protest meetings are being held thruout Lithuania by workers and peasants demanding civil trial for these candidates. The Lithuanian gov- ernment in its fury to crush these protests is confiscating all papers, leaflets and literature in which pro- tests are raised against this dastardly action of the clerical-nationalist gov- ernment, Workers and peasants ar- PE Nn es years would not be allowed, that all members had rights and duties, that no meetings outside the organization to discuss policies would be allowed. that free speech in the organization would be allowed according to the rights and duties of the members, the implication being that either he or the officialdom would determine these rights. “Sick Man.” He said he was neither a saint nor a devil, but merely an accident and that the organization had gone so low that it could only bound back and LEM REN SGI He Mhe military court martial of the 92 |off the ballot and to force the work- that he had bounded back with it. He gave Hillman full credit for the recovery of the “Sick man” as New York is called. Fixed Speakers. The whole session today was the Lithuanian Workers Face Death Sentences h was to have taken place on May 3 re-election to the Lithuanian Seimas rested with this protest literature on their person are threatened with long jail sentences, Social-Democrats Aid Persecution, Tho the nationalists and the social- democrats are considered opposition parties in the Seimas to the clericals, who control the cabinet and the gov- ernment, in these raids on the work- ers and this move to drive their slates ers’ and poor farmers’ movement into iMegality, they are united with the clericals, Medieval tortures are used on the prisoners, Tho Kaunas still uses horses to draw its street cars, it uses electricity to torture the political prisoners in the Kaunas jail. A num- ber of prisoners have been driven in- sane by these tortures, Protest Against Terror, The Lithuanian workers’ and poor peasants’ movement appeals to work- ers in their protest against the white terror that is now raging in Lithuania. It calls on the workers all over the world to picket the Lithuanian con- sulates and bring to the attention of the workers of their countries the na- ture of the clerical-nationalist-social- democrat democracy in Lithuania. most careful and subtle campaign to psychologize a delegation, the writer ever saw. Almost every speaker had been carefully selected to fit his speech in with the new kind of crush- ing policy of the administration against the opposition forces. While every speaker was given unlimited time, employer Nash speaking one hour, a worker, Ruvenko, representing the Hyde Park Clothes Shop, Mon- treal, was given one minute. He was a left winger and he ‘pointed out that the bosses, the state and the police were united, and urged the solidifica- tion of labor on class lines. The InterNASHional. So far in the attack upon the op- position forces no names of individuals or organizations have been mentioned. SSRIS A AR OE Pen Ba ds nd Bir ti Rn, RO TD te ERE ER ES. AO ee it Oe cc A CD ted HEN SESE I These 92 Lithuanian workers and peasants were arrested for being candidates on the Work- ers’ and Poor Peasants’ tickets in the elections to the Lithuanian seimas (parliament), and 9, and are to face a court-martial on Monday, May 17. Every attempt is being made to send them to the gallows. Palm Beach to the White House—tele- grams which the senate committee said “it just couldn’t unravel” in the heydeys of the Teapot Dome oil scan- dal investigation. The workers will recall that “Peaches” was one of the most frequently used code words in these telegrams exchanged among the ringleaders of the notorious Ohio gang which plundered our oil resources so wantonly. The workers will recall that this same McLean who now wants to mobilize dollars and bayo- nets to break the British strike was the gentleman called “Peaches” in the Teapot Dome holdup telegrams. McLean is the highest-priced fruit dealer (but rotten fruit) in the United States. He sells his wares to the White House and the stock exchange. “Peaches” McLean was the pipeline to the White House in those great and glorious days when H. M. (Hon- est Man) Daugherty was head of the department of justice and the depart- ment of oil and alien property crooks. “Peaches” Wants Bigger Loot. Now ”" McLean wants to be the pipeline from Wall Street and Pennsylvania avenue to Lombard and Downing streets. But the American workers will not let “Peaches” get as far in his crooked game as they did last time. We know the his his stripe and his lair. This great defender of dollar democ- racy is worried over the “assault upon the throne.” The king of England head—or both! Peaches & Co. may lose their bank accounts, their oil dripping and gold-stuffed pocketbooks. There is a common danger; so this American super-patriot and lover of the purest of democracies rushes to the defense of the throne occupied by George V, successor to George III the perpetrator of the Boston massacre, And when “Peaches” McLean goes into a fit about the United States hav- ing “a duty to perform” in the British strike, he no doubt has in mind a duty as honorable, as sacred, and as worth while as the duty he performed when he helped Denby, Daugherty, Doheny, Sinclair and Fall to steal the Teapot Dome oil resources from the American masses. At last “Peaches” has learned that scabbery 1 holy a virtue for his class as thievery. A lesson well learned, Mr. McLean! ‘A Welcome Warning. But we thank you for the warning, “Peaches.” We thank you for letting the cat out of the bag. All the more do we thank you because it’s such a despicable, filthy cat, The American workers understand you very well when you say “We’r'e With You, Eng- land.” You are with the good-for- nothing, parasite fox-hunters, the oil and coal robbers and their flabby lord. ships of England against the miners, railroad workers and the other mil- lions of British workingmen, Your surly tongue-wagging ts only a futile attempt to terrorize the American workers, to break up the " ‘ May 8 By Jay Lovestone great solidarity now being shown by the American workers with their strik- ing British brothers. This warning from Washington will only prove an inspiration to the Amer- ican workers to increase tenfold their efforts to help the English proletariat score a much-deserved decisive vic- tory. Let the strike-breaking govern- ment at Washington dare stop Ameri- can workers’ funds and messages of solidarity from reaching Britain. There could be no better way of bring- ing nearer the day when our own working class will begin teaching the Wall Street magnates the lessons now being so painfully learned by the Brit- ish ‘exploiters. In the face of this incitement to mass violence against the British and American workers by the organ of the Coolidge administration there is only one thing our workers can do and must do, Every honest workingman must go all the way down the line and give until the “Peaches” of England and the United States are driven out. Remember, Mr. McLean, you have been setting the rules and the pace for the class fight. Woe unto you and your ilk everywhere when the Amert- can workers begin to use these very same rules against you. Don't be sur- ata it the American workers begin to speak the only language your class understands sooner than you thought they would, while you were belching forth this monstrous attack om the working class. SS Tc amOn PaPehakae ESE AALS EST AES ON LS | Page Three GREEN FAVORS FINANCIAL AID FOR STRIKERS May Call Executive to Consider British Aid By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press. WASHINGTON, May 12.—President © Green of the American Federation of Labor, at the appeal of the Interna- tional Federation of ‘Trades Unions and the British Trades Union Con- gress, has pledged the striking British miners all the help that American la- bor can give. This means, primarily, the immedi- ate sending of financial aid and the discouraging of any recruiting of strikebreakers in this country for use in Britain. Jean Oudegeest, secretary of the I. F. T. U., first cabled to the head of the A. F, of L., describing the situa- tion and asking for assistance, To this appeal Green replied: “Will gladly give all support possible to miners of Great Britain in fight for decent wage scale.” Oudegeest appears to have handed this message to Secretary Citrine of the British Trade Union Congress, for Citrine, on May 6, cabled to Green: “Thanks for cable of encouragement. Movement absolutely solid. Greatest demonstration of working class solid- arity in history. Thanks for offer of | assistance. Prompt financial assist- ance most practical.” No Action Yet. What would be the steps taken by the executive of the A. F. of L, to raise funds had not been decided on May 7 when this message was received in Washington. In past years the pro- © cedure in a grave emergency has been either to call the executive council in- to special session or to summon the presidents of the international unions to a conference. Occasionally the pres- ident has issued a statement on his own authority. In this case it «# virtu- ally certain that he will dsx Sr advice from the council; possibly he may in- vite the heads of all affiliated interna- tional unions to come to Washington. Favors Money Donations. When asked by The Federated Press | as to what advice would be given any ¥ local labor body that might inquire as to the wisdom of donating to the Brit- ish strikers, President Green said he would favor their giving money. He regards the British miners’ cause as absolutely just, and he looks upon the method adopted by the rest of British labor to support them—the method of general strike—to be a matter for British labor to determine for itself. He assumes that British labor chose the method which it felt to be most likely to win the fight for the miners, under the conditions existing in Brit- ain at present. No Strike-Breaking. He stated further that the A, F. of L, would do all it could to discourage recruiting of strikebreakers in Amer- ica for use in Britain. As to the action which might be taken by Canadian and Mexican labor, he felt that that was a matter for their own decision. Keating On Strike. Edward Keating, editor of “Labor”, weekly organ of rail labor, in an article ina Washington newspaper de- fending the strikers, says they have done more than challenge the Baldwin government; they have challenged the existing social order, “Shall human beings,” he asks, “able and willing to work, be subjected toa process of slow starvation in the midst of plenty?... The miners would be helpless without the aid of their fel- low workers and the latter have seized upon the most effective weapon at hand—the general strike. It is an ugly weapon. Time and time again the British workers have put it aside. They are using it now because their backs are to the wall.” ss St. Paul Machinists A on Record in Support ge . of British Strikers (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, May 12. — Lodge No. 459, International Association of Machinists, at its regular meeting Thursday evening passed a resolution declaring solidarity and support to the workers of Great Britain now om general strike, Speeches by members of the lodge on the situation of the workers in Britain, the causes and probable re- sults of the strike, and its world im- — portance, were vigorously applauded. It was resolved, “that Capitol City — Lodge No. 459, I. A. of M., hereby declares its solidarity with and “| pledges its active support to the etrik- ing workers of Britain.” Open your eyes! Look around! There are the stories of the workers’ struggles around you begging to be written up, Do itl Send It In] Write | ae you fight! :