The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 9, 1926, Page 1

i ‘e DAILY WORKER Raises Standard for a Workers’ Bhs Farmers’ Government wae Gey Shy Vol. III. No. 126. . Subs, valde 4 $0 ‘hicago, OR rege “@ = | By Upton Sinclair | , (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. Dad and his young son, both dre: alike, and richly, are motoring ov smooth and flawless concrete road wards a barrier of purple mountains. The boy sits next to his father, eager- eyed, aiert. His father is his hero. They reach the mountains and climb higher and higher. Then down the other side at a good clip, with a weather eye for speed cops, whom Dad hates. As Dad 4 drove he mused to himself. He used to be Jim Ross, teamster, then he was J. A. Ross and Co., general merchandise, at Queen Center, California, and now he Is J. Arnold Ross, oil operator, on his way to Beach City to sign a lease, Be- aide him sits “Bunny” thinking of altogether different things. They come to Santa Ynez, a newly built, white painted, California town. The only hint of the old west was a solitary cow-boy in “chaps” and an old In mumbling his lips. For the rest, it was like any other main street town—with its na- tionally advertised magazines containing all the nationally advertised adver- tisements of the nationally advertised articles ranchmen came in to buy. They leave the town and hit it up on a broad boulevard called Mission Way. There were signs with queer Spanish names indicating a history behind each one, “Bunny” asks Dad what happened in ‘‘Verdrugo (Executioner) Canyon.” Dad doesn't know. He shares the opinion of the manufacturer of a nationally ad- Vertised automobile—that history is mostly “bunk.” They go thru town after town of rectilinear blocks and whizz by “sub-divisions:’ By dint of constant ing of other cars they come to Beach City. They put up at the big hotel in the lobby meet Dad’s “‘lease-hound,” Ben Skutt. * * * ° . CHAPTER II : The Lease, s I The number of the house was 5746 Los Robles Boulevard, and you would have had to know this land of hope in order to realize that it stood in a cabbage field. Los Robles means “the oaks”; and two or three miles away, where this boulevard started in the heart of Beach City, there were four live oak trees. But out here a bare slope of hill, quite steep, yet not too steep to be plowed and trenched and covered with cabbages with sugar beets down on the flat. The eye of hope, aided by surveyors’ instru- ments, had determined that some day the broad boulevard would run on this line; and so there was a dirt road, and at every corner white posts set up,-with a wing north and a wing east—Los Robles Blvd-Palomitas Ave.; Los Robles Blvd-El Centro Avye.; and s0 on. Two years ago the “subdividers” had been here, with their outfit of little red and yellow flags; there had been full-page ad- vertisements in the newspapers, and free auto rides from Beach City, and a free lunch, consisting of “hot dog” sandwiches, a slice , of apple pie, and a cup of coffee. At that time the fields had been cleared of cabbages, and graded, and the lots had blossomed with little signs: “Sold.” This was supposed to refer to the lot,’ but in time it came to refer to the purchaser. The company had un- dertaken to put in curbs and sidewalks, water and gas and sewers; og Soap nef made off with the money, and the enter- prise we bankr and presently, ; ‘ e ~~ “gippear: “For ‘sale ny bee cBarskine ee Headmutton, Real Hstate.” And when these signs brought no reply, the owners sighed, and reflected that some day when little Willie grew up he would make a profit out of that investment. Meantime, they would accept the provosition of Japanese truck- gardeners, to farm the land for one-third of the crop. But three or four months ago something unexpected had happened. A man who owned an acre or two of land on the top of the hill had caused a couple of motor-trucks to come toiling up the slope, loaded with large square timbers of Oregon pine; carpenters had begun to work on these, and the neighborhood had stared, wondering what strangé kind of house it could be. Suddenly the news had spread, in an explosion of excitement: an oil derrick! A deputation called upon the owner, to find out what it meant. It was pure “wild-catting,” he assured them; he hap- pened to have a hundred thousand dollars to play with, and this was his idea of play. Nevertheless, the bargain signs came down from the cabbage fields, and were replaced by “Oil Lot for Sale.” Speculators began to look up the names and addresses of owners, and offers were made—there were rumors that some had got as high as a thousand dollars, nearly twice the original price of the lots. Motor-cars took to bumping out over the dirt roads, up and down the lanes; and on Saturday and’ Sunday afternoons there would be a crowd staring at the derrick. The drilling began, and went on, manotonously and unevent- fully. The local newspapers reported the results: the D. H. Culver Prospect No. 1 was at 1478 féet, in hard sandstone forma- tion and no signs of oil. It was the same at 2,000 and at 3,000; ‘ and then for weeks the rig was “fishing” for a broken drill, and everybody lost interest; it was nothing but a “dry hole,” and people who had refused double prices for their lots began to curse themselves for fools. “Wild-catting” was nothing but gambling anyhow—quite different from conservative investments in town lots. Then the papers reported that D. H. Culver Prospect No. 1 was drilling again; it was at 3059 feet, but the owners had not yet given up hope of striking something. | Then a strange thing happened. There came trucks, heavily loaded with stuff, carefully covered with canvas. Everybody connected with the enterprise had been warned or bribed to si- lencé; but small boys peered under the canvas while the trucks were toiling up the hill with roaring*motors, and they reported | (Continued on page 4) LABOR-BAITERS FEAR PROBE IN McKINLEY COURT Attorney Howard 8S. Condon, repre- senting Assistant States Attorney Joseph Savage, whose nomination on the openshop republican ticket is be- ing contested by Municipal Judge Daniel P. Trude, filed a motién for the transfer of the Trude demand for a recount from the court of Judge Mich- ael I. McKinley to either Superior Court, Judges Denis EB, Sullivan or Os- car Hebel, Keep July 3rd, 4th and 5th open for N. Y. Daily Worker Encampment, on North Shore of Long Island. : me Support to Strikers Against Iron League Voted by C. F. of L. John J. Walt of the Structural Iron Workers’ union, won the unanimous support of the Chicago Federation of Labor for the strike of the union against the open shop Iron League by his report to the meeting Sunday, The Building Trades Council has also pledged to support the iron work- ers in their fight for an increase from $1.37% to $1.50 an hour and the right to strike against nonunion workers on new contract jobs. At the hour of going to press the result of the union meeting Monday night* was not yet disclosed. '™ Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. ing” with regard to Egypt. The forma- admitted, is not altogether to the lik- from British domination, : Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Cui by mail, $6.00 per year. HOT FIGHT IN YOU_WORKERS | OUGHT TO GROWL | ABOUT HAVING | TO WORK 48 | HOURS! JUST | YOU LISTEN TO ME! Washington Uneasy as; Vote Is Taken (Special to The Daily Worker) { DES MOINES, Iowa, June 7. — Inj spite of the fact that Senator Albert} B. Cummins, in order to have some basis for appeal to the voters of the state has repudiated in words the Coolidge administration for its inacti- vity in behalf of the farmers, every! ounce of energy and money that the Mellon-Coolidge outfit can muster in this state has been thrown behind Cummins. Like Jim Watson’s last moment des- ertion of the world court forces, the venerable Iowa senator has been per- | mitted to assume the guise of being “irregular” because everyone knows the widespread fury of the farmers against Coolidge. See Newberryism in lowa. Today the voters are going to the polls to participate in the republican primaries that will decide whether Cummins or Smith W. Brookhart will be the republican candidate for sen- ator in the November elections. Charges of. Newberryism, wholesale vote buying and other forms of bribery by the Mellon-Coolidge supporters of Cummins, are rife in practically every city in the whole state and it is not improbable that the expenditures for Cummins will almost equal the vast slush fund used in the Pennsylvania primaries of a few weeks ago. Iowa is the pivotal state in the present agricultural crisis and if Cummins loses it is almost a certainty that Len- root of Wisconsin and other adminis- tration senators will meet a like fate in the farm regions.* ELECTIONS FORESHADOW DEFEAT OF CLAIMS MADE BY THE GERMAN ROYALTY (Special to The Daily Worker) _BERLIN, Jute 7—Probable defeat “in the oming on the proposal to return the Hohenzoller and other German royalty property seized when Germany ceased to be an empire, was foreshadowed in the sweeping victory of working class candidates in the Mecklenburg- Schwerein Diet elections. The victory of the working class groups left no doubt as to the feel- ing in the Diet. Twice the number of candidates were elected on work- ers’ tickets as were at the last elec- tion, The nationalists, on the other hand, lost 25 per Cent of their votes. SABATH LEADS FIGHT AGAINST ANTI-ALIEN LAW Seek to Defeat the Hola- day Bill WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.— Congressman Adolph J. Sabath of Chicago, is leading the assault on the Holaday deportation bill The onslaught against the bill said Sabath will center around the provis- ion that declares that any alien who is sentenced to one year in jail or who may have received two or three sen- tences totalling 18 months, is liable to deportation. He points out that though attempts are made to make it appear that this section was meant to deport bootleg- gers, gunmen and gangsters, this sec- tion will be used against foreign-born workers especially during strikes. Albert Johnson, chairman of the house immigration committee, an- nounces that the bill will be brought up under “a suspension of the rules.” This procedure maans that no amend- ments may be offered from the floor and that two-thirds of the votes are needed to pass it, Efforts are being made by those opposing the anti-alien deportation and registration bills to recruit one-third of the house to kill this deportation measure, London Withholds Its Approval of Egypt’s Choice for Premier LONDON, June 7.—Great Britgin will adopt a policy of “watchful wait- TILL TILL MY 2-30 TO LUNCH, BUT NOT EN TIME TO ENJOY IT. RUSH BACK WITH MY THIRD CIGAR ONLY HALF SMOKED PACKED HOUSE HEARS SOVIET LABOR oster Addresses T. U. E. L. Audience (Special to The Daily Worker) cess. country in Europe where the produc- tion is so near the pre-war level and ing.” . So said William Z. Foster to the largest meeting under Trade Union Educational League auspices, New York has ever seen. Central Opera House was packed and Chairman Charles Krumbein had to warn the audience repeatedly not to crowd up the aisles. Workers Run Industry. “You can actually see them build- ing Communism in Russia every day,” said Foster with cheers from the crowd. “The workers quickly let you know who is running industry.” The amazing progress of Soviet Russia in bringing her production up to 95 per cent of prewar from the 12 per cent of 1921 was told by Foster, who took three weeks of his four months in Russia to tour Soviet in- dustries intensively. The great Khark- hoy electrification project is already 200 per cent advanced and the plan is to double its productivity within three years, Foster told of a Leningrad rubber plant nowemploying 17,000 workers, which is planning new addi- tions which will tdke 15,000 more workers, Union Gets Cabins for Sailors. “T couldn't help “wishing 1 had Judge Gary along wien I went into a big Russian steel mill’and found the trade union office and the Communist Party-office right in:the main build- ings! I thought of America—but the day will come when American work- ers will have their,trade union offices and their party offices in the mills too!” The trade unions are constantly growing in strength and numbers, last year the membership in the trade unions increased by 2,000,000, Foster quoted the following instance as illus- trative of the influence of the trade unions, “Eight new ships are now in the process of construction in Lenin- grad. When the engineers were draw- ing up the plans for these ships, rep- resentatives of the sailors’ union took up with them the question of quarters for the sailors, as a result the sailors’ quarters will not be in the forecastle, but in the center of the ships, with a separate cabin and bath for every two sailors, tion of a cabinet by Adly Pasha, it is ing of Great Britain, for it is antici pated that this cabinet will be under the domination of Zaghloul Pasha who leads the movement for independence hak AS YOU FIGHT | we WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1926 | AWAKE: AT 6, THINK HOW TO REDUCE WAGES RUSH OFF TO WORK, FINISHING MY TOAST FROM. 2:30 To SENDING FEY TO SEG D, ASKING HIM Tq DEPORT A FEW MORE. KAPILAD, ETL. SUCCESS NEW YORK, June 7—“The Rus- sian revolution is 100 per cent a suc- After conquering such mon- strous problems as no other govern- ment has ever faced, Soviet Russia is marching strongly forward—the only . UNnols, under the Act of March 3, 187% ale 290 9, ‘BREAKFAS 10, AND PAYING MY IN MOTOR CAR 4-30 TO 5- FRANCE PUTTING SELF DEEPER IN DEBT WITH MORGAN TO SAVE FRANC | (Special to The Dajly Worker) PARIS, June 7. — France is nego- \ } credits to bolster the franc, it was learned definitely today. Realizing that a real loan can not be secured from the United States prior to the ratification of the Franco-American debt settlement, finance minister Peret is hopeful of securing credits on the bases of an agreement, where- by Interest would be payable only if the credit is utilized. where the real wages and standard of living of the workers are steadily ris-| COURT-MARTIAL YOUNG AMERICAN |Reported Leader in Ar- my Mutiny (Special to The Daily Worker) BILOXI, Miss., June 7. — Bennett J. Doty, son of Lemuel H. Doty, wealthy attorney of Biloxi, has been condemned to death and will face a French firing squad in Syria Tuesday, according to word received here by his father. Young Doty, who is 26 years old, is reported to be the only American serv- ting in the French foreign legion. ‘It is reported he was a ringleader in a mutiny and deserted the legion during Druse operations. His father said an appeal would be jmade to the Ffench cénsul in New Orleans today for intercession in the young man’s behalf. Doty said his son left home a year ago presumably to go\'to Paris ¢o engage in newspaper work and he had received no word from» Itim since that time except thru press dispatches. eae Story Not Official. PARIS, June 7,—Neither the foreign or war ministry haye any contirmatfon of reports of the desertion of Bennett Doty, known as Gilbert Clare, nor of his being sentenced to be executed, from the foreign legion in Syria, it was stated today. Stories telling of Doty’s sentence, it was pointed out in official circles, came by way of Cairo and were uncensored and therefore can not be regarded as IN THE OFFICE AL 10-30 ANO WORK LIKE A SLAVE TILL. 11-30 TRYING. TO AVOID INCOME TAX ADDING UP THE PROFITS. 5-30 TO 6:15 MOTOR CAR BLOCKED BY, UNEMPLOYED. ARRIVE HOME AY. 7-15 == “tiating with New York Bankers ‘for NEW. YORK EDITION Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1112 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, * A Day ina Fat Man’s Working Week FROM I-30 TO 12-30 MORE BRAIN WORK MANIPULATING HIGH PRICES FOR THE POOR 30 WORN OUT AND WEARY AFTER A TERRIBLE DAY OF HARD WORK AND ANXIETY TRYING TO MAKE BOTH ENOS of A \ OMMUNISTS OF. MEXICO DRAFT | Work for Unity By MANUEL GOMEZ. . (Special to The Daily Worker) Critical overhauling of policies in trade union, agrarian and anti-im- perialist work featured the national convention of.the Communist Party of Mexico just closed here. Delegates were present from Mexico City, Tam- pico, Vera Cruz, Jalapa, Orizaba, Guadalajara, and the te of Michoa- can. There were also fraternal dele }gates from the Communist Interna- | tional and from the Wor 3 (Com- ;munist) Party of the United States. With the Mexicans working clas: | suffering decreases in wages and fac- |ing a concerted attack upon livin istandards by the bosses, it wa | realized that the central question be- | fore the workers at this time is con. solidation of the trade union forces of the country. The party’s program for trade union unity, which up to now has been based too much upon the so- called independent unions and anarcho-syndicalist C. G. T., is to bi broadened to include all labor organ‘ zations, radical and conservative alike. Will Work to Win C. R. O. M. It was especially emphasized that the powerful C, R. 0. M. (Regional Confederation of Labor), having in its ranks more than half of all the organ- ized workers of Mexico, must receive far more attention from the party than heretofore, Reporting for the national executive committee, Rafael Carrillo, secretary, declared that while 80 per cent of the members of the party are | members of trade unions, only a hang, ful of these are in unions belonging to the C. R. O. M. The little band of Mexican Commu- nists, numbering not more than 1004) (Continued on e 6) ARENA f A FOUR-PAGE PAPER TODAYS Owing to the failure of a carload of six-page newsprint td arrive on time|)) this issue of The DAILY WORKER has been reduced to four pages. Sever al special features announced for to- day wili appear tomorrow. That worker next door to you uaything to do to this copy of the official, DAILY WORKER. CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR DEMANDS CONGRESS DEFEAT ALL | ANTI-FOREIGN-BORN LEGISLATION) Telegrams urging tJlinois representatives in congress to vote against and fight the passage of the anti-alien deportation and registration laws were sent by the Chicago’ Federation of Labor following a talk by DB Orlowski of Machinists’ Union No, 830 anti-foreign-born legistation. ¢ Max on the need of protesting against the Will Go to -Masses - in) “!eveland4 Lawrence. St. Pail. Phi MEXICO CITY, May 30 (By Mail).— the | national || Price 3 Cents MOVEMENT FOR VANZETTI AND } ~SACCO GROWING (LL.D. Reports Progress | in Protest Campaign BULLETIN (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, June 7. — The Com- munist deputy, Ruggero, today raised the issue of Sacco and Van- zetti in the Italian chamber of depu- | ties. He told the Italian parliament of the frame-up against the two workers in Massachusetts and the danger they are in. Ruggero demand- ed that the Mussolini government send a protest to Washington and | ask for the immediate release of the | two innocent Italians, who are tech- nically citizens of Italy. Itallan newspapers, especially labor jour. nals, have been carrying on a sys tematic campaign of protest against the proposed legal assassination of the two Italian workers. bis «#8 f Movement for Vanzetti. j{ The protest movement to save Ni- cola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti is developing rapidly with a big swing, announces the national office of Inter- \\national Labor Defense. The threat of eXecution of these two innocent work- ers has galvanized thousands of Amer- ican workers into action and solidarity with the defendants. Hundreds of thou- sands of others are being reached by the appeals for defense and protest. The workers are being stirred by this case not only in the United States, but in other countries of the world. Outstanding trade union centers which have already gone on record against the proposed legal murder in clude the Chicago Federation of Labor. |the Denver Central Labor Body, the Rochester, (Minn.) Trades and Labor | Assembly, the Cleveland Federation of | Labor, the Stonecutters, the Firemen | and Oilers, and the Electrical Wor of Omaha, Nebraska, and numerous |other unions thruout the country. NEW PROGRAM Very successful mass meetings have already been held in New York, Chi- + | | cago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Pittsburgh, delphia, Washington, Baltimore, De- | troit, San Francisco, Portland, Los An- geles and other important cities. Meetings ‘are still to be held in St. Louis, Kansas City, Buffalo and a num- ber of Eastern cities. United front conferences called by International Labor Defense and other organizations interested in the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti have already been held in Lawrence, Mass., with fourteen workers’ organizations rep- resented, and in Denver. Other con- ferences to organize the united protest of labor im this case will be held in | Pi ic, June 8; Cleveland, June 11; | Chicago, June 11; Jamestown, June }11; Portland, June 13; Grand {June 13, Conferences for w | date has yet been set will be |Eastern Ohio, Seattle, Los held in Angeles, ew York, Perth Amboy, and so forth fhe Chicago conference will have, ac- ording to latest reports, delegates |from such strong unions as the Md |chinists’ District Council, the joint board of the International Ladies’ Gar- |ment Workers, local unions of paint- jers, hotel and restaurant workers, bakery workers, watch and clock nakers, wood turners, wood carvers, pattern makers, Amalgamated Cloth- Workers;-and- many, others; The appeal, printed in leaflet form, of International Labor Defense | to | American workers to rally to give life | (Continued on page 2) ‘| NEXT SATURDAY June 12 issue of the NEW MAGAZINE Supplement of the Daily Worker {i “THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS” An article on the event which || is agitating the Catholic world, What, interest has it for work- §] ers? iH By Thurber Lewis, ooo || CARTOON BY FRED ELLIS || “THE SACRIFICE OF || SACCO AND VANZETTI” i An unusual article, by Max {| Shachtman. | In a forthcoming issue: | | | “NEW DAYS IN OLD | i} ENGLAND” By T. 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