The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1926, Page 2

Poland’s civil strife was brought to a close by the capture of Warsaw by insurgent troops under Marshal Pil- sudski, Polish militarist. The old government resigned and a new one, chosen by Pilsudski, took its place. Strictly speaking, the recent episodes In Poland did not constitute revolution. It was a mere change of govern- THE DAILY WORKE LOCAL POLICE AlD POLISH REACTION; PROTEST COMING Suppressed Meeting Is Now United Front The Pilsudski rebellion against the landlord government of Witos already has had its echo in Chicago. Supporters of the socialis}party of Poland engaged Schoenhofen Mall for & meeting last Friday but before the meeting could be called to order Wap- tain Palezynski of the police @ ment, with a squad of plain clothes officers took possession and refused to allow the meeting to take place. The meeting had been valled to’ dis- cuss the Polish situation in a light of recent news and it can sc: ly be doubted that the Polish consylate and other Polish reactionarieg,.who have much influence with thetity hall poll- ticians, secured the! of the police to suppress a meeting of workers which would naturally -be against the Witos government. Hold Meeting Anyway. A number of Communists who were present when the meeting was broken up, organized the crowd and led it to another hall where a very success- ful meeting was held. Gebert, Kow- alski and Zoltowski spoke on the Pol- ish situation and the audience listen- ed attentively to their description of the causes underlying the present up- rising. The speakers pointed out that the Pilsudski rebellion can by no means be considered a solution for the problems of the Polish workers and peasants and national minorities, that Pilsudski is a supporter of the capitalist system. United Front Conference Arranged. The speakers pointed out that if the masses are to gain anything from the overthrow of the Witos government it must be thru a united front move- ment of all working class and progres- sive elements which will stop an of- fensive of the reactionaries and at the same time force Pilsudski to adopt g-~— Socialist and Capitalist ‘NORGE’ ENDS Press in Agreement on || POLAR FLIGHT British Strike Result By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ° T is not an accident that the so- clalist and capitalist press in the United States join in many common conclusions concerning the criminal capitulation of the labor leadership of the British general strike. It is quite natural that such should be the case, This is merely a duplication in this country of that bond of interest that exists between the British premier, Baldwin, on the one hand, and the Hendersons, Thomases and MacDonalds on the other. They all jointly fear the social revolution that will end the capitalist state and inaugurate the rule of the workers. In the name of “democracy” and “fair-dealing,” therefore, they rally to the defense of the profiteer’s gov- ernment, eee When the ending of the strike is therefore hailed as a victory, the joy is not over any triumph for the workers, for labor was bitterly be- trayed, but the rapid and treasonable ending of the struggle is considerd as a major achievement against la- bor’s most militant section that was quickly increasing its influence and prestige among the masses, This brazen confession appears in a lead- ing editorial in the Milwaukee Leader, the lone remaining socialist daily, edited by Congressman Victor L. Berger, as follows: “The chances are that the sen- sible element of the labor move- ment, now in control, feared that it would lose control if the strike went on a long time. In a period of such great excitement there is a tendency for men to give way to emotional- ism and to lose their heads. Had ment. So far as the workers and peasants are concerned they can expect to be exploited under Pilsudski’s regime every bit as bad as they have been under previous capitalist governmnets—if not worse. The picture above shows Plisudski reviewing troops. On the right Is the church of St. Anna, facing the square in Warsaw where much of the fighting occurred. PENNSYLVANIA IS READY FOR THREE- _GORNERED FIGHT Primaries to Be Held on Tuesday (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. May 16.— “Boss Bill” Vare, head of the local republican spoils political machine, has his henchmen—shady lawyers, ward heelers, vice lords, bootleggers, hooligans and other elements aligned in his crew ready for the primary election here Tuesday, with the boss himself running for United State sena- tor against Senator George Wharton Pepper, the Mellon-Coolidge candidate, and Governor Gifford Pinchot. In this three-cornered fight Phila- delphia can be depended upon to come thru strongly for Vare, tho it is im- probable that he will develop any appreciable strength outside this city. His candidacy here is viewed more as @ measure to strengthen his local ma- chine and pave the way for eventual control of the republican forces of the state. Mellon on Job. Andrew W. Mellon, real head of the administration at Washington and James J. Davis, secretary of labor, have entered the campaign in behalf of Pepper and will roll up a big vote in the bailiwicks they control, while Pinchot is utilizing his own machine in order to bring out the registered re- publicans to vote for him. He claims that Pepper is eliminated and that the fight is between himself and Vare, but close observers view this as a mere campaign issue and consider the Philadelphia boss out of the running, with the real contest be- tween Pinchot and Pepper. Labor Fakers Play Role. Many of the professional “reward your friends and punish your enemies” labor fakers have plunged into the campaign, but there is no unity of ac- tion even among these treacherous detrayers of the working class. The Philadelphia gentry line up with Vare. Others follow the band wagon of Pep- per, while many others support Pin- chot. This performance will do much to expose the futile policy of supporting old party candidates and will aid in forwarding the campaign for a labor party in this state, Indiana Anti-Saloon Head Haled Into Court INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 14—Dr. B®. 8. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, and Bthan A. Miles and Jess 1. Martin, league counsel, were cited by the state supreme court to appear before it Tuesday, May 18, to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt growing out of Shumaker's @nnual report criticising Indiana's Righest tribunal in the handling of oe Down With Thomas, LASGOW, May 16.—There has been no general resumption of work in Western Scotland. The employers in most cases intimated to the men wish- ing to resume work that they must make individual applications for their old jobs, The railwaymen who presented themselves for work were disgruntled at being told that they could go home until sent for. A procession of the unemployed pa- raded this morning in certain districts of Glasgow carrying placards bearing the words: “Down with Thomas!” The docks were idle today. Men seeking re-employment were told to make individual applications. The same procedure applies to railwaymen, tramwaymen and strig:ng workmen in other trades. The publishers of sev- eral leading newspapers have an- nounced that henceforth they would employ only non-union labor, ‘6a Plymouth Stays Out. PLYMOUTH, May 16—The main body of railwaymen here did not re- sume work this morning. Their atti- tue is that all or none must be re- engaged. Work at the docks is still being car- ried on mostly by volunteers and the regular dockers are idle. © one Iron Workers Hit, The engineering works of Yorkshire made an attempt to begin again, but only a very few of them were able to Ye-engage 90 per cent of their men and the average all round was only about 40 per cent. = oo Manchester Unions Stil! Out, MANCHESTER, May 16.—There are no signs of an end to the newspaper strike here. The newspaper offices are still being picketed and the pros- pects for publication tomorrow are un- certain, The Manchester tramcars are run- ning, but in the adjoining districts the tramway men refused to return unless all of them wore re-engaged at once, and those who were not wanted for immediate work were paid full rates for standing idle. The railway com- panies are continuing emergency ser- vices and no material alterations have been announced for tomorrow. ot we Liverpool Council of Action. LIVERPOOL, May 16.—The men in all the affected trade are to remain on strike unless the employers agree to take them back in a body. No volun- teers are working at the docks, but the regular dockers have been instructed not to resume until authorized by the “Council of Action.” ¥ oe 8 Wales Holds Fast. CARDIFF, May 16.—The strike sit- uation in South Wales today appears to be the same as it was yesterday, In several towns the railwaymen present- ed themselves for duty and were not accepted. In larger centers the rail- waymen made no attempt to resume work, In Cardiff the railwaymen held a masse meoting and decided not to re- Strike Continues in Many Cities port for duty until they had assurance that they would be reinstated on the old terms, The tramwaymen, in many places are still out and in the eastern valley of Monmouthshire the iron works and tin plate works have not resumed op- eration. see 68 Miners Sentenced in Doncaster. DONCASTER, England, May 16.— Sixty-eight miners have been sen- tenced to three months’ hard labor for breach of the emergency regulations during the general strike by interfer ing with road transports. The leader was also fined in addition with an al- ternative sentence of two months un- less he could pay the fine. CARPENTERS VOTE ON QUESTION OF NEW WAGE RATE At the meeting of the Carpenters’ District Council the arbitration board in its “final report” had nothing con- crete to report and merely stated that the bosses asked them to wait until Wednesday for further negotiations on the wage scale. The council concurred in the recommendation and soon after Wednesday special meetings of all the carpenters’ locals will be held, at which meetings votes will be taken on the proposition that will then be sub- mitted by the board. Must Watch Jensen, The board, instead of considering the bosses the enemies of the carpen- ters because of the attempts to en- force a low wage scale, spoke of the employers as “our friends” and their whole report was conciliatory and un- satisfactory. Harry Jensen, president of the dis- trict council, already hinted at the meeting that the carpenters would be asked to accept a scale below the de- mands by stating that “our demand is $1.50, but we expect a compromise.” Many members interpret this state- ment of Jensen to mean that the coun- cil may accept from the bosses and place before the membership for rati- fication a scale much closer to the bosses’ offer than the union demand, and they fear that the board may send out a one-sided proposition to the membership that will leave them with- out means of voicing their own de- mands, ‘|Hurry up! &@ program containing the demands of the workers and peasants. Plan Conference for May 23, In view of the fact ‘that the Polish reactionaries here will probably try to support ‘the Polish landlords with money and men from ‘America, the speakers proposed a’ conference of working class elements which will sup- port the mass movement in Poland. This suggestion was ‘aceepted by the audience and a provisipjal committee of five was elected conference) to be noon, May 23, at 1192 Milwaukee ave- nue. The American Worker Correspond- ent is out. Did you get your copy? Send in your sub! it’s only 50 cents, ne Rank and File Are Aroused Against Their Compromising Leaders (Continued from page 1) Samuel memorandum, are suggested. There is no doubt the miners will re- ject it. Thus the net result of in- credibly bad generalship and naive di- plomacy on one side and cynical un- scrupulousness on the other hag been to leave the coal war where it has been for many months and to cripple the possibility of a mew rally to sup- port of the miners, A confidence trick of the crudest nature has turned a struggle which was on its way to resounding victory, into a disastrous defeat compared to which the famous “ k Friday” is only a joke, A Great Struggle. The consolation is that the strug- gle has been a wonderful demonstra- tion of solidarity, courage, and en- thusiasm of the rank amd file. Funda- mentally the strength of the British labor movement is greater than ever before. ? Thus that in the moment of the de- monstration and realization of that strength this should be the outcome of a magnificent fight is one of the most tragic things in the whole history of the movement. 7 Government Seeks to * * . Restrain Sinclair from naa ‘ * Draining Teapot Oil ST. PAUL, Minn, May 16. — The government prepared to re-open the Tea Pot Dome naval oll reserve con- troversy in the United States circuit court of appeals here, The govern: ment seeks to restrain the Sinclair interests from draining the naval oil reserve. NEW YORK GARMENT WORKERS DEMAND ONLY UNION LABOR BE USED AT THE PHILADELPHIA SESQUI-CENTENNIA NEW YORK, May 16—Cloak, Skirt and Dress Pressers’ Union, Local 35 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, adopted a resolution demanding that.only union labor be used at the Philadelphia Sesqui-Centen- nial Exposition and that the executive council of the American Federation of Labor rally the American labor moyement behind thig demand Cables:from Ewer and Ashleigh the general strike gone on for a long time, the small minority of enemies of democracy in the labor move- ment might have been able to make a successful play upon the emotions of the workers and lead them into paths of violence and to attempt to set up a dictatorship and reign of terror a la Russia in 1917 and 1918. This would have set back the pro- gress of labor for many years. We may safely believe that the British labor leaders knew that what they were about when they consented to an apparently very-mild settlement.” eee The above from the socialist daily parallels very colsely the editorial utterances of the “open shop” Chi- cago Tribune, Friday, May 14, as fol- lows: Rights of Men Are Signed Away by the Supporters of Thomas (Continued from page 1) Samuels proposals. The miners’ con- ference met on Friday and adjourned until next Thursday while its execu- tive meets the government for expla- nation of the proposed settlement. Continue Subsidy. The proposals contain much ameli- orative padding, such as baths at pit- heads, establishment_of various wel- fare committees and so on. There is also involved an offer of extension of the subsidy by three million pounds ($15,000,000) to the industry. But a wage reduction is also required, the amounts to be decided later. There is also provision for modification of hours. However, the proposal states there shall be no reductions where the subsistence wage is now forty-five shillings or less weekly. National Board. A board shall be set up consisting of three owners, three miners and an independent chairman which shall frame a national wages and hours agreement. The concession of a na- tional agreement is something, but it is hoped by all militant workers that when the representatives report back to theiir districts to have the Sam- uels’ proposals acted upon that they will be rejected. ‘Communist Arrested, Stewart, acting general-secretary of the Communist Party, was arrested last night, The press has not appeared in full in London and other large centers ow- ing to friction between the owners’ as- sociation and the unions, especially the printing pressmen’s, At this writing the dockers were still out solid. The machinists are also still out practically everywhere against victimization of members. And in many places the tramwaymen are still out, Arrest Prohibition Agent, STERLING, Ill, May 14.—Albert Tate of Rockford, Ill, said to be a prohibition agent on the payroll of the Anti-Saloon League, is held in $50) bonds here, charged with stealing a thorobred dog belonging to a man Tate prosecuted for selling liquor, The dog was stolen while its owner was doing time for the bootlegging offense, ( “The leaders of the strike were afraid of it, Altho they denied re- peatedly that the strike was revolu- tionary, they knew that if it continu- ed it would become revolutionary. The general strike could not long con- tinue under the direction of the con- servatives..,. They had to end the strike or surrender their leader- ship.” So the strike leaders, again re- vealing themselves as lackeys of the British capitalist state, joined with Baldwin in what even W, N. Ewer, foreign editor of labor’s own official publication, The Daily Herald, terms “A confidence trick of the crudest nature.” “It might be pointed out that on the day after the general strike was called off by the officialdom, J. H. Thomas, of the railwaymen’s union, had to admit in the house of com- mons that the strikers’ numbers had increased from 3,900,000 to a full four million. That indicates the strength of the so-called “minority” against thé capitalist “democracy” that the socialists so ably champion. It was this mass militancy in the British labor movement that had previously forced a delegation of its Officials visiting the Union of Soviet Republics to return an exceedingly favorable report of conditions un- der the first workers’ government, giving an emphatic lie to the Ber- gers, Cahans and Hillquits, the echoes of Hendersons, MacDonalds and Thomases on this side of the water, that the victory of soviet rule sets back “the progress of labor for many years,” ene It is only thru thus falsifying the real situation that the socialists hope to convince some of their dwindling following that, “The gen- eral strike called by the British Trades Union Congress has resulted in the most stupendous victory scored by the working class in the history of the modern labor move- ment,” in the words employed by James Oneal, the editor of The Leader, New York socialist weekly organ. Socialists oppose the Russian vic- tory of labor. They have proclaimed themselves in favor of what they all “The British way,” Not the way of the British workers, but the road of their “class peace” officials who still hold to their saddles not yet torn from the backs of the working class. The treason of the British strike leadership must therefore be hailed by these American socialists as a “stupendous victory,’ greater even than the triumph of the Rus- sian workers and peasants in their 1917 Bolshevik revolution. sees Morris Hillquit, during the recent convention of the socialist party at Pittsburgh, addressed a bourgeois audience in the exclusive Fort Pitt Hotel declaring that he hoped for greater “democracy” in the Soviet Union, The experiences of the Brit- ish general strike, coupled with the American socialist acclaim of its disastrous results, must convince American workers of socialist de- sire to deliver Russidn labor to world reaction just as their British counterparts have again unmasked themselves as loyal allies of labor's class enemies, The lesson of the British strike to American workers is the building of a powreful left wing in the trade union movement rooted in the fundamental principles of class struggle, Only then will it be able to cast off the traitor leadership that is ready to betray it at the first opportunity in its most crucial BEG YOUR GIRL on your bended knees! Plead with your wife! Speak nicely to your neigh- bors— Use your voice and your eyes and shed a tear if necessary— BUT—get them out to this LOS ANGELES EAGLE ROCK PICNIC Held jointly by the Women’s Consumers Educational League and Daily Worker Builders’ Club. WITH TRIUMPH Dirigible Safely Landed at Teller, Alaska NOME, Alaska, May 16. — The Amundsen-Ellsworth. lighter-than-air- dirigible Norge has successfully made her flight across the polar regions and has been safely landed at Teller, a small mining camp 75 miles from Nome, The dirigible will be dismantled and shipped to either Seattle or San Fran- cisco by the first available steamer, it is declared. The Norge expected to make a land- ing at Nome and notified the radio operator at Nome to prepare for the landing of the dirigible. High winds buffeted the Norge and made it impos- sible to make a landing at Nome. Frantic calls were sent out by the Norge to the Alaskan radio operators, seeking to find out their location. The radio operators were unable to get a message to the Norge because of the electrical disturbances. . s American Labor in oa Demand for Civil A : * * Trials in Lithuania (Continued from page 1) workers stopped to read the protests against the tortures and the attempt of the Lithuanian government to rail- road 92 Lithuanian workers and farm- ers, who were candidates in the par- lMamentary elections on the workers’ and poor peasants’ tickets, to the firing line and long sentences at hard labor. At the loop hall George Maurer, sec retary of the Chicago International Labor Defense, told of the protests that the Chicago local had carried on against white terror persecutions in European nations and also of the ac- tivities of the International Labor De- fense in the United States. Victor A. Zokaitis briefly reviewed the incidents that led to the jailing of the 92 Lith- uanian workers and farmers and also the reason for the protest demonstra- tions. A committee of five went up to the consulate. The consulate was open, but the consul could not be found. Shortly after the delegation had en- tered the consulate an elevator starter, anxious to see the picketiig © demonstration withdraw, made apol- ogies for the “absence” of the consul, and pleaded that the pickets be with- drawn. After picketing the consulate, the pickets went to the Lithuanian section of Chicago, where they picketed the business section. After the picketing demonstration, an open air meeting was opened at 32nd and Halsted Sts. George Maurer, Victor A, Zokaitis and J. K. Danta spoke in English ex- Plaining the purpose of the demon- stration and the International Labor Defense. John Gasiunas, secretary of the Lithuanian fraction bureau of the Workers (Communist) Party, spoke in Lithuanian. About 300 to 400 listened to the speakers. A telegram protesting against the court martial trials of the 92 Lith- uanian workers and farmers and de- manding that they be given civil court trials was sent to the legation at Washington by the Chicago I. L. D. eee Washington Demonstrates, WASHINGTON, D. C., May 16.—The picketing demonstration before the Lithuanian legation at 2622 Sixteenth N. W., protesting against the court martial and torture of 92 Lithuanian workers and farmers for daring to run in the parliamentary election on the workers’ and poor peasants’ tickets, created quite a furore. The American Worker Correspona: Did you subscribe? ent is out! SUNDAY JUNE 6