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

ES EE ABATE Page Two FASCIST ITALY DUTLAWS CLASS LABOR UNIONS |official trading after the close of the Forces Arbitration and Punishes Strikers (Special to The Dally Worker) ROME, May 19—The fascist at-/ tempt to end class war on the part} of the workers, without ending class relations which exploit and oppress the workers, by means of a law recently passed by the rubber stamp chamber | of deputies, was approved yesterday | | | FRANG HITS NEW LOW LEVEL FOR ALL TIME AS BRIAND FACES FALL (Speolat to The Dally Worker) PARIS, France, May 19.—The franc dropped today to a new low mark for all time, closing officially on the bourse at 35 to the dollar. In tin- bourse it dropped to close to 36 to the dollar, The Briand cabinet is fearful of the political explosion that wil in- evitably follow this latest slump. Meanwhile millions of frances are be- ing spént to prosecute the imperialist depredations of the French armies in the colonial wars being waged with | savage ee cee in Syria and Morocco. STRIKE OF LOCAL by Mussolini’s council of ministers. The law aims to place the workers | of all categories in special fascist unions, all class struggle unions be- | {ng outlawed, and class collaboration | to be enforced by special labor courts. | Byvery shadow of rank and file Tule | of the unions by their members is} oarefully prevented. The mechanism may be described as follows: Fifteen Groups In Three Divisions. Six employers’ organizations, in the following groups: Industry, agricul- ture, commerce, maritime transport, land transport, and banks. Six work-| @s’ organizations of manual labor fol- lowing the lines of the employers’ groups. Three organizations of in- tellectual labor, professionals, artists and skilled technicians. All fifteen are united in three fed- erations, employers, manual workers and intellectuals. An association of these is to be controlled by the gov- ernment ministry of corporations by | means of special control organs. Pub- le service and state employes are or- ganized separately from all other labor. Alr-Tight Control by Fascists. The law provides that all labor dis- putes must be submitted to compul- sory arbitration, with special courts working with special codes and an attight control by fascisti over Judges, Jurors and all forms of con- trol. But even all the technical assur ances of fascist control of the machin- ery is not enuf for Mussolini. In ad- dition the law provides that at any time the mechanism does not work the way the central fascist govern- ment wants it to work, the govern- ment may step in “for the protection of the national interests.” Under the contention that the pro- ductivity of labor is necessary to the well being of the government, the fascist regime of Mussolini thus com- pletely outlaws trade unions organ- ized by, composed of and conducted by the workers themselves. Demand Trade Union Congress Explain the Ending of Big Strike (Continued from page 1) Bessie Span who are to be tried joint- Later arrests include six Commun- ists at Rotherham, one at Neath and three at Maesteg, all charged with possessing “seditious” literature. Miners Firm, Following a conference with mem- bers of the government today, the miners’ executive declared a deadlock still exists. A. J. Cook said, “We won't agree to any alteration of hours or wages.” Eucharist Secretary Arrives. NEW YORK, May 19—Henri De Yanzille, secretary of the Eucharistic Congress which is expected to draw 1,000,000 Catholics to Chicago next month, arrived here today, from Rome. You'll Be Proud of This Book 3 PLASTERERS IN 6000 CONDITION | Capitalist Pane Run Bosses’ Propaganda In spite of the efforts of the open shop Landis award committee to im- port scabs into the platerers’ union strike of Chicago, the officials of Lo- cal Union No. 5 yesterday expressed themselves as well satisfied with the | situation. There are not over 20 or 80 scabs working, according to the union, and these animals are not per- {forming the work well and really count for nothing. There ate now 166 of the employing plasterers signed up with the union, say the workers’ officials, and the union has no reason to feel concerned over the outcome. The Employing Plasterers’ Association has offered to meet the union arbitrators. Publicity in the Chicago capitalist papers designed to influence the unionists to go back to work on a compromise or pending arbitration was laughed at by the plasterers. No offer of a $13 compromise has been made, it was said, only the offer to arbitrate, which was to be discussed immediately by the regular meeting of Local 5. The Contracting Plaster- ers’ Association has not even offered to arbitrate. The strike is called ‘to enforce a basic wage contract of $14, a raise of $2. The few scabs working are re- Ported to find the bricklayers on the job hostile to working alongside them and the building situation is sych that the open shop Landis award is unable to function effectively. Snyder to Speak in Denver on Sunday DENVER, Col, May 19.—J. B. Sny- der of Kansag City, Mo., a representa- tive of The DAILY WORKER, will deliver a lecture on “Fighting Labor at Passaic” at Social Turner Hall, 10th and Larimer streéts, on Sunday evening, May 23, at 8 o'clock. All readers of The DAILY WORK- ER in Denver are urged to attend the lecture and bring their friends. Sunday morning, May 23, at 10:30 Snyder will speak to the Young Work- ers (Communist) League and the Young Pioneers of Denver at Federal Apartments, W. Colfax and Federal Blvd, on “Fighting Youth.” At 11:30 he will deliver a talk on “Labor” at the Liberal Church of Denver. Comrade Snyder while in Denver from May 23 to May 26, will speak et street meetings arranged for him and will also cooperate with the comrades of Denver in securing sub- scriptions for The DAILY WORKER. Smith Declares He Will Sign the Bill for Dry Act Referendum ALBANY, N. Y., May 19.—Governor Smith has ‘declared that he will sign the bill providing for a referendum on the question of whether the Volstead act should be changed to allow light wines and beers. Smith assailed the ratification of the 18th amendment by the New York senate, declaring that the ratification was brought about by fraud. Open your eyes Look around! There are the stories of the workers’ struggles around you begging to be written up. Do itl Send it inl Write as you lin ett A EI ———————————£Ez&z&—zX=—=—XE_—————————EEoEoEo~E RITCHIE SPEAKS FOR RECOGNITION OF SOVIET UNIO Maryland Governor Fa- vors U. S. Relations BALTIMORE, Md., May 19.—Gov. Ritchié of Maryland, in a speech in Philadelphia, has endorsed the idea that the Soviet Union should be recog- nized by the United States govern- ment. His pronouncement is con- Strued as significant because Ritchie is a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination in 1928, and is a spokesman for big financial groups in Maryland. His stand for recognition was made two days after the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, in annual meeting in Washington, had declared against any dealings with Russia. Only Stable Government. Speaking to the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Ritchie described the Soviet regime as being the only form of government which seemed capable of holding the Rus- sian people together. He sajd it is a going concern, which maintains or- der and is obeyed, and which seems to suit the Russians, “How long are we justified, under the circumstances, in declining to recognize the government which the people of another country have estab- lished for themselves and which main- tains ordered authority there?” he asked, Republic of Salvador Seeks to Insure Its National Aspirations SAN SALVADOR, Central Amer- ica—(By Mail)—The last session of the national congress of Salvador dis- cussed several laws touching the as- pirations for national independence. One bill provides that no judicial func- tionary may be other than Salvador- ian nationality. Another provides that professors of geography, history and civics must be Salvadorians. Still another provides that no school or college be allowed to display: any other banners, coat of arms or insig- nia other than that of the nation of Salvador. The most important bill, perhaps, is that providing that all foreign enter- prises doing business in Salvador, must arrange so that at least 80 per cent are nationals of Salvador. Memorialize Dead of Typographical Union at Sunday’s Meeting The Chicago Typographical Union No, 16 will hold a memorial service Sunday afternoon at the Olympic Theater fot those members who have died during the last year. The role of those unionists who have passed away include fifty-seven members of Number 16, and fifteen members of the Old‘Time Printers’ Association. A fitting selection of musical numbers will be given. Illinois Farmers Lose $245,553,888 Annually PONTIAC, Ml, May 19.— Ilinois farmers are losing a total of $245,553,- 888 a year in the operation of their farms, the average farmer ig losing about eight dollars an acre on his farm, and more than onethird of every farm is still unpaid for, de- clares the report of E. R. Kennedy, executive secretary of the Illinois Farmers’ Union, Many Injured in Train Wreck. ST. PAUL, Minn., May 19.—A score of passengers on the crack Omaha railroad passenger in No. 10, run- ning between Omaha and the Twin Cities, were injured, six of them se- riously, when the train crashed head- on into the locomotive of a moving freight train in the Omaha yards here this morning. Forest Fires Sweep Minnesota. DULUTH, Minn., May 19—Bighty- four forest fires today were sweeping over timber and cut-over lands in five northern Minnesota areas, comprising over 100,000 acres, Bighteen of the fires were reported beyond control by forest rangers. RED CARTOONS BALDWIN GOVERNMENT SENTENCES FIVE BRITISH COMMUNISTS FOR ACTIVITIES DURING GENERAL STRIKE The genius of our class {s in it! 64 pages (9x12) of the best cartoons by such noted proletarian artists as ROBERT MINOR, FRED ELLIS, ART YOUNG, WM. GROPPER, HUGO GELLERT and others. With an Introduction By MICHAEL GOLD. On heavy drawing paper and bound In brown art board binding. $1.00 postpaid With One Year Sub to The DAILY WORKER FREE (Ss lal te The Dally Worker) LONDON, May 19.—The result ‘of the joint sedition charges against five British Communists arrested during the general strike was the following sentences passed against them today in the London court: Robert Stewart, general secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, was fined one hundred pounds and given the alternative of three months’ prison; Marjorie Pollitt, twenty pounds or three months; George Miles, twenty pounds; Sadie and Bessie Span were bound over for one, All fines are to be paid, ’ The documents cited ae “evidence” of the sedition charged were The Young Striker, Workers’ Bulletin, and the circular lesued by the Minority Movement of British trades unions, Stewart in his speech to the court did excellently, pointing out that the Communist Party during the strike had not altered Its program, but only continued and Intensified its work. He declared that the arrest was a sup- pressive measure based upon a mere pretext, THE DAILY WORKER Los Angeles Woman Arrested for Talk to Juniors in Park (Special to The Dally Worker) LOS ANGELES, . Calif, May 19— The public parks are to made “safe for democracy” even if all the “keep off the grass” signs must be changed to “No conversation against capital- ism,” according to President Van Grif- fith and Superintendent Hays of the board of park commisioners, who caused the arrest of Mrs. Anna Lyons on @ charge of teaching sedition to a group of Young Pioneers who were enjoying the air of Sycamore Grove park an May Day. Mrs. Lyons was haled before a wo- man municipal judge, Mrs. Georgiana Bullock, and after pleading not guilty, was given a postponement until May 24. Meanwhile the capitalist papers of Los Angeles are quite frenzied in their accounts of gathering of children in the parkj and Griffith of the park board has given special in- structions to park pélice to shadow the kiddles and see}that they play marbles instead of talk politics, BUFFALO LABOR FIGHTS REACTION IN CENTRAL BODY Foster Speaks ‘on. the British Strike (Special to The Daily Worker) BUFFALO, N. Y., May 19.—The workers of Buffalo will have-an op- Portunity for the first time in two years to hear Comrade Foster, who is coming to this city to address a mass meeting on the British general strike. Comrade Foster will speak at the Frohsin Hall, Spring. and Genesee streets, under the auspices of the T. U. BE. L., Thursday, May, 20. A lively discussion took plage in the Buffalo Central Labor Council when a resolution was Presented. calling for moral and financial support for the |British strikers, and for endorsement of plans to arrange a demonstration of solidarity with the British working |¢class. Delegate Conroy, leader of the reactionaries in the council, was the first to launch a broadside against the resolution. His argument was, “As ong as President Green kas not done anything in support of the British trikers, why should we?” All Labor Movement Is, “Home.” Another delegate deqlared that ‘Charity begins at bong" that he was tired of the const, appeals for aid to this or that group®of workers, in some other countries.” These “arguments” wéte answered by a number of rank and file delegates who took the floor to iat out that a defeat of the British ke will be a blow against the 6 ‘e@ working class; that the British] miners had offered aid to the Ai lcan miners during the recent anthrdcite strike in gins at home then, “aid should be given to the British rkers, since they are part of the labor movement, which is and should be'the “home” of every working man and woman.” Rank and File Different. Altho the resolution was defeated, it was clearly demonstrated that the reactionary delegates did in no man- uer represent the sentiments of the rank and file of the Buffalo trade union movement, which is deeply in- terested in the present struggle of the British workers against their masters of the British ruling class and its gov- ernment. A large crowd is therefore expected at the meeting to be addressed by Comrade Foster. Jim Campbell, local militant and secretary of the Molders’ Union of this city, will be the chair- man of the meeting. Butler May Lose Out on Charges Against His Drinking Partner WASHINGTON, May 19.—Col. Alex- ander 8. Williams, U. 8. M. C., who was found guilty by’ a naval court martial, on information furnished by Brig. General Smeiley Butler, of serving and drinking’ cocktails, may go scot4tree if persistent rumors cir- culating in Washingt6n materialize, The court's findl have been in Washington for review for such a long time that navy lawyers are beginning to speculate on the possibility’ of some legal error which will force a mistrial, and under navy regulations df a trial is thrown out the charges are drop- ped automatically and the officer may not be tried again. this country, and ae charity be- Coolidge Congratulates Haaken VII. WASHINGTON, May 19 — King Haaken VII, of Norway, was congratu- lated upon the success of the Amund- sen polar expedition by President Coolidge in a cablegram made public today. Giacomo Menotti Serrati Giacomo Menotti Serrati, formerly editor of the “Avanti” and leader of the socialist party and then in the Communist Party, 1s dead in Milan, Italy. He was 61 years old, He was in Amerioa 23 years ago and was editor of “Il Proletaria,” which was a daily for sit months and then pecame the organ gf the t. W. W Employing Class Grows Fearful as the Workers War on Its Kept Press By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. 5 alae workers on the daily newspapers in London should quit their jobs rather than help issue a publication con- taining an attack on the general strike, is still the topic of much hysterical discussion in the American capitalist press. The general strike has been called off, but tremors. of fear in the ranks of the ruling class span the ocean and rever- berate thru the editorial columns of this nation’s kept press, The Chicago Tribune republishes the utterances of the Des Moines, lowa, Register. Their common danger makes them seek common shelter, a * * It was on Lord Rothermere’s London Daily Mail that the pressmen folded their arms and refused to aid in the cireula- tion of lies against the strike. This is the same Lord Rother- mere who sent a delegation of puppet workers to the United States to laud the speed-up schemes and _ high-production methods of American industry. Upon their return to Eng- land these duped workers were used to spread this “open shop” propaganda among labor generally. While the executive council of the American Federation of Labor feted the lord's visiting delegation, it was repudiat- ed by British trade unions, and during the general strike the newspaper workers showed unmistakably what they thought of Rothermere’s sheet. | : It is heartening te American labor to remember that workers on the Seattle, Wash., Post Intelligencer took similar action during the strike wave that swept the Pacific Coast city shortly after the ending of the world war. Immediately the workers engage in struggles with their employers, they instinctively sense the fact that the press is one of the most powerful weapons on the side of their class enem: The biggest effort of the newspapers, therefore, con- sists in trying to persuade the workers that they are not em- ploying class organs, Heclareas Thus the Des Moines Register “The point is that while the ‘capitalistic’ press continued, labor had an opportunity to state its case, and that case was stated in these: very papers which were opposed to labor. But when these papers suspended, labor had no means of expression, while the government was able to draft volunteers to iss the government ca the official British Gazette, wherein it voiced only In the first place the strikers had their paper, the British Worker. The mere creation of this paper was an admission by the workers that they recognized the class lines drawn in seeking strike publicity. They had to have their own organ. This was an admission that they had no faith in the capi- talist press. That is a lesson British labor has learned. No ower of all the bosses’ newspapers can re-establish that aith, The employers’ press, in the United States as in Eng- land, would like to establish its neutrali workers. In this it merely copies the e' in the minds of the ‘orts of the Coolidge reba at Washington, and the Baldwin government at ondon, in claiming forces of capital and labor. neutrality as between the Opposing This is the basis on which the Des Moines Register claims that labor lost an opportunity to state its case when Rothermere' s 5 kept sheet was closed down, Intelligent Aasitaien workers, like their British brothers, will laugh at this claim. They will continue plodding forward and fighting for the time when all capitalist sheets will have been swept aside, as in the Union of Soviet Republics, with only the press of the producing masses continuing to exist as the expression of labor's struggle for its emancipation. STAGE WORKER (BIG PROBLEMS PLAYS 10 AID | ON PROGRAM OF MILL STRIKERS) LEFT WINGERS Labor Performers and|To Hear Big S| Speakers on Drama in Passaic PASSAIC, N. J, May 19.— Two Plays for the benefit and entertain- ment of the striking textile workers of Passaic were given here by 22 trade unionists. saic,” written by two students at Brookwood Labor College, took a swipe at the high-handed methods of the police and mill operators, and portrayed the devotion and determina- tion of the strikers, The second play, “Peggy,” by Har- old Williamson, presented the prob- lems of the poor white farmers of the South. The plays were given under the direction of Miss Hazel MacKaye, instructor in labor drama at Brook: wood, who has been associated with her brother, Percy MacKaye, in dramatic productions. Various Trades, Among the 22 students who took part in the plays at Passaic, there were miners and garment workers, a stenographer, a plumber, a hoisery worker, a textile worker from Eng- land, a farmer from Colorado, and a woodworker from Germany. Several students from Brookwood have been working in the strike, speaking at meetings in Passaic and making ap- peals for reliet to local unions in neighboring towns, $500 To An Honest Senator, Chicago, Il, May 19~The govern: ing board of the Retail Malt Beverage Dealers’ Association of Illinois, offers to pay $500 to the “lawmaker who voted for the eighteenth amendment, or for its ratification, who will be the first to make a sworn statement tell- {ng how much money he was given by the Anti-Saloon League for his vote.” +) put | Don't waste your paper. - Live Subjects The fighting group of workers in the Trades Union Educational League, who will turn out to dance, play games and turn sommersaults in the beauti- ful 18-acre park at Chernauska’s Grove at 79th and Archer avenues at the Decoration Day Picnic, on Mon- day, May 81, have good news in store for them, Two speakers will be on the pro- gram, both of them recently returned from Burope where great. events of labor are taking place. Foster on Russia, Wm. Z. Foster will give attending workers the latest news from Soviet Russia. To those tired of the daily lies about the first workers’ govern- ment in the capitalist press, this per- sonal story will be a pleasure, The story of the great strides and the wonderful progress of Soviet Rus- sia is one to give inspiration to all workers. Dunne On England, ‘Wm, F. Dunne will speak on Png- land and the great English strike, He has only recently returned to this country from the scene of action, Just what has been done there, what labor is doing and thinking in Great Britain, is another feature for work- ers who come out to Chernauska's Grove on May 31, Tickets are only fifty cents and there’s to be speaking, dancing, sports, and games, good food and good fun with @ jolly crowd of workers. Fireman Injured on N. ¥. C, EAST CHICAGO, Ind., May 19— While leaning from his cab window to see the signals given his engine, Wil- liam Jackson, of Danville, fireman on the Danville train of the New York Central, suffered a fractured skull when he lost his balance and fell to ‘sround, GOVERNMENT OF PILSUDSKI NOT ON SOUND BASE Haller Reported to Be Continuing Warfare (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, May 19. — The opposi- tion of the socialist and radical work- ers and peasants to the Pilsudski regime is increasing. Reporte from Posen, while still conflicting, seem to Indicate that General Haller | ing a fully equipped army fi the rich landowners for a struggle against the new government. On the whole the position of Pilsudski does not seem to be sound, In Upper Silesia, fourteen senators under the leadership of former Pre- mier Korfanty, are demanding the im- mediate convocation of the national assembly for the choosing of a new president. Ex-premier Skrzynski, who was offered the post of foreign min- ister in the new cabinet, is said to have declined because of the insta- bility of the present government, Money Drops. The situation is further complicated for Pilsudski and his supporters by the decline of the Zloty (the Polish unit of exchange) in the foreign ex- changes. A stable government might have the effect of partially rehabilita- ting the very bad condition of Poland’s industry, but so far it does not appear that the Pilsudski coup has worked in this direction. Anti-Russ, The former government under Witos had worked towards a soften- ing of relations with Russia because it was recognized that the Kast offer- ed Poland its only economic outlet. The Pilsudski government comes to power with a tradition of strong anti- Russian sentiments. The provisional government today received a report from the speaker of the senate who was sent to Posen to attempt a reconciliation with General Haller’s forces. He met with no suc- cess in the negotiations, oa French Imperialism . Uses ‘“‘Model Soldier” * . * in Syrian Campaign , PARIS, May 19—The methods of French imperialism in Syria and the sort of material which makes {m- perialism’s best soldiers is exposed in an interview of an American reporter with the one American in the French foreign legion now in Syria. “We take no prisoners,” says the Yankee volunteer of French imperial- ism. “We don’t ask what the war is about, We don’t care. We enlist to fight, so why ask. The legion has many Germans and Russians. The German sergeant majors are dogs to the town people. The Russiang are mostly Wrangel men, some officers and some noblemen.” Speaking of the Druses, he says: “I call this real fighting. There was never such fighting in France. At Moussifrey they rushed our barbed wire until they filled three lines with dead men and horses and then scaled the wires over the corpses.” Railway Union Man Forced Into an Insane Asylum Without Trial DANVILLE, Ill, May 19.—Membders of the Order of Ratlway Conductors are investigating why Burton Pearce, 4 member of Division 108, is now in- carcerated at the Indiana insane asy- lum at Ind{anapolis. Receiving word that his wife was seriously fll in an Indtanapolis hos- Pital, Pearce went to that city and when he called at the hospital was seized by several'men and taken to the insane asylum. Members of the O. R. C. claim he was never given a hearing. Local reports credit the kid- napping to the ku klux klan. Rescue Crews Unable to Locate the Body of Female “Billy Sunday” LOS ANGELES, May 19.—Fishing boats, lifeguards and an airplane searching the beach at Ocean Park while powerful beacon lights from mo- tion picture studios played over the surface of the sea failed to locate the body of Aimee Semple McPherson. In her seven years’ work of “saving lost souls” in Los Angeles and vicinity Mrs. McPherson built up a following estimated at 26,000 and @ goodly sized bank account, ge. Great Britain, pound sterling de mand 4.85%; cable 4.86. France, franc, demand 2.8444; cable Belgium, franc, demand 2.89}; cable 2.90, Italy, lira, demand 8.77%; cable 38.80%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.74; cable 26.77, Norway, krone, demand 21.73; cable 21.75. Denmark, krone, demand 26, cable 26.28. Shanghat, taels, 712,25. Moscow or bust! Don't bust before yes ott bout rout ats © oube 801 ey "an Rave your but