The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 9, 1926, Page 4

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Fake Farm Relief Debates Aside from the economic absurdity of such alleged panaceas for the farm crisis as the McNary-Haugen bills that propose to maintain “American prices” for agricultural products on foreign markets re- gardless of the producing capacity of the rest of the world and its effect upon supply and demand, is the hoax of Coolidge senators pre- tending to support such bills. All such bills carry with them clauses for appropriations of con- siderable sums intended artificially to control the market. The im- portant point i that there is no guarantee that the farm products will ever reach the market. What good is price regulation if produce rots on the hands of the farmer? However, a number of farm organizations and many farmers thruout the stricken states believe such legislation will. be beneficial and the senators, both democrat and republican, who are up for re- election this year are speaking in favor of such bills in order to be able to go before their constituents with a record of at least speaking for farm legislation. This is part of the game of politics and every senator who speaks for farm legislation knows that Coolidge will never sign such proposals as are contained in the McNary-Haugen bills. The government of the United States, which seems to be so greatly concerned about stabilization of Europe and is relieving the tyrannical governments of responsibility for most of their war debts’ by placing the burden upon American taxpayers, can aid the im- poverished farmers in just one way and that is by enabling them to obtain funds with which to pay their debts and mortgages. All mar- keting proposals are mere illusions and political swindles calculated to obtain the votes of the farmers for the Wall Street gang. Only by categorically demanding the same consideration for themselves that are granted foreign powers can the farmers put forth a program that will benefit them. Such a demand will expose in its most glaring form the class character of the government as the executive committee of the most << 290 powerful section of the capitalist class against all the rest of society. j Put It Up to Butler Mr, William M. Butler, senator from Massachusetts, powerful textile magnate and chairman of the republican national committee, is the most influential politician in that state and one of the most important cogs in the Coolidge political machine at Washington. Tt is in his state, where he is running for re-election this year, that the courts and jailers and executioners, at the behest of the textile aristocracy, are preparing to burn out the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti because they were loyal to the working class and struggled to improve the condition of the miserable slaves in that domain. The impudent district attorney, Winfield M. Wilbur, unknown except as one of the hounds yelping for the blood of these workers, announces that quick execution will silence the agitation in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti. This indicates the viciousness that per- vades the ranks of the minions of the textile barons. ‘ Besides the governor of the state there is one other man whose word will stay the electric current. That man is Butler, whose word the governor will heed or who can bring even Coolidge to speak in behalf of these workers. Until Saeco and Vanzetti are liberated or granted a new trial where they can prove their innocence beyond peradventure of doubt no one in the state of Massachusetts should be permitted to speak in behalf of Butler without attempting to explain why no move is made to prevent the final act of the diabolical conspiracy against these two workers. Senator Underwood Now Wants “Gag Rule” Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama raised a storm in the senate the other day when he delivered an address in behalf of a resolution changing the rules to permit a majority to shut off debate on revenue and appropriation measures. For five hours the debate raged and, tho his position had the approval of the vice-president, not a single senator agreed with him and many assailed him in the most scathing manner. It comes with rather poor grace for this democratic leader to speak against unlimited-debate in view of his own contemptible filibuster against the Dyer anti-lynching bill. Underwood, like other southern gentlemen, did not want a federal law punishing the atro- cious crime of lynching upon the statute books for fear. the majority of residents of his state, who are Negroes, would be able to overcome the terrorism maintained thru mob violence and become politically audible, but he now apparently has some pet steal in the way of ap- prepriations to put over that will not bear the light of day, therefore he wants to impose “gag rule” upon the senate. SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY WORKER! = TMIDSHIPMAN REFUSES | Six Upholsterers TO TAKE THE OATH OF 0 WAVY AT ANNAPOLIS After completing the four-year course at Annapolis Naval Academy, Midshipman Eari B. Zirkle, of Kan- Sas, refused to take the navy oath which would have made him an en- sign. His only declaration was that he was temperamentally unfit for service with the United States navy. Four hundred and fifty-three An- napolis graduates were receiving their diplomas and commission: ensigns when <irkie’s name w called and he declined to take the oath, Secretary of the. Navy Wil- bur then withheld his commission and assigned him to a summer spunee with midshipmen, Six upholsterer locals are joining their energies in an organizing cam- paign to bring new members into the Upholsterers’ International Union in the Chicago district. They have or- ganized the upholsterers’ district coun- cil and are signing up new shops and new members. The unions in the council are Local No. 9, the tent and awning workers; No, 24, wholesale upholstery workers; No. 105, carpet and linoleum layers; No. 111, shade, drapery, flag and bunt- ing hangers; No., 122, women uphol- stery workers, chiefly seamstresses, and Local No. 113, the auto trimmers. The upholsterers are affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, iy COMMUNISTS OF MEXICO DRAFT NEW PROGRAM Will Go to Masses in Work for Unity (Continued from page 1) must adopt a correct trade union pol- icy if it is ever to strike roots in the . The opportunities of the Mexican situation are far beyond the capacity of the party to take advan- tage of them, Incorrect policies in the trade union and other field are due to the complexity of the struggle in Mexico, together with the inexpe- rience, looseness of organization and ideological weakness of the Commu- nist Party. One of the most interesting points on the agenda at the convention was the agrarian question. It is among the peasants that the Communist Party of Mexico has made its nearest approach to a bid for anything like mass lead- ership. Ursulo Galvan, a party mem- bers, is the undisputed leader of 30,000 peasants in the state of Vera Cruz, organized in the “Liga de Communi- dades Agrarias” (League of Agrarian Communities). Party members have established their leadership over masses of peasants in other states as well, and Communists are actually at the flead of the moverent for a na- tional peasants’ organization. Build Party—Not Personal Following. However, it was made plain at the convention that while the Communists working among the peasants have se- cured a personal following they have done so not as Communists but as in- dividuals, and have organized no Com munist nuclei. The inevitable result of such iso- lated activity*is seen in the case of Comrade Primo Tapia, who has been at the head of the peasants’ league in the state of Michoacan. Primo Tapia was murdered by the police a few weeks ago, and now we have no foot- hold in the Michoacan organization whatever. The convention stressed the importance of organizing Commu- nist nuclei wherever our comrades have a following among the peasants. ‘Work among the peasants, it was pointed out at the convention, is of exceptional significance in Mexico— not only because 11,000,000 Mexicans belong to peasant families, but also because the Mexican agrarian revolu- tion is still in process. Thus the peas- ants play an important role at every turn of the political situation, Vital Situation for Peasantry. The convention decided to issue slo gans calling for establishment and le galization of agrarian community de- fense organizations. This goes hand in hand with the demand for further partition of the land among the peas- ants. For the first time the party consid- ered in detail the question of the va- rious strata of middle peasants—par- ticularly/ the so-called “rancheros acomodados”—and adopted policies based upon the conception that these elements must be won over to the side of the poorer peasants in the struggle against the large landholders. The Fight for National Freedom, In the peasant question, as in prac- tically every question taken up at the convention, the delegates found them- selves considering phases of the strug- gle against United States imperialist aggression, which is the obvious uni- fying factor for the various revolu- tionary movements of Mexico today. The peasants, in their struggle for the land, come into direct conflict with the monopolistic aspirations of U. S. investors. The workers feel the pressure of Wall Street at.every turn. The Mexican petty bourgeoisie, strug- gling to be born, is threatened with still-birth by the persistent effort of U. S. capitalists to exploit Mexico on a colonial basis. To Correct Attitude Toward Cailes. The latest U. S. government offen- sive against Mexico—over the Mexi- can oil and land laws—was still fresh in every mind when the convention met. The struggle to preserve Mex- ico’s independence is a vital one for every revolutionist. In the discussion on the question of American imperial- ism Comrade Carrillo admitted that the Communist Party of Mexico had made mistakes, in the anti-imperialist work, particularly iwth regard to its attitudegtoward the Calles govern- ment. The party will raise the banner of the “united anti-dmperialist front” and will allyditself with all elements strug- gling against American imperialism. It was with the common tasks of Mexicanand American Communists in the struggle -against American im- perialism that:the principal speech of the representative of the Workers (Communist) Party was concerned, The speech was warmly received, | Nevertheless, the delegates ex- pressed the opinion that the Commu- nists of the United States have faile to bear their proper share of the bu den in the anti-imperialist work. Meat Cutters Conventios LOUISVILLE.—(FP)—The 4 reg- ular convention of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of North America opens in Louisville June 21, The previous convention was held in St. Paul in 1922, when the membership #s reported to the Amert can Federation of Labor was 19,600, The 1925 mémbership was 12,200. Ten| That worker next door to you years ago, in 1916 it was 7,300, The)may not have anything to do to- peak ve at ned in-1919 with 66,300] night. Hi him this copy of the members, at \ DAILY WORKER Ly » seafood yj ’ le ie 7h Subs Received on June 1 and 2 in the Third Annual Sub Campaign Ending July 4 Points Total BOSTON, MASS.— A. S. Blackwell 4 | BL Glaymai ca H. Gage 00 885 Clara Hal 100, 245 S. D, Levine 10. ae F. Lundvall 45 210 Ida Miller 420 0 Elsie Pultur 4 18 Uno I. Santi R. Shohan 200 1,145 Frank Juhola, 6 30 M. Hartlieb, Lawrence, Masa... 40 40 H. Marjamaki, Maynard, Mass. 90 470 ELIZABETH, — Bernard -Rozar 45 45 Joe Ruich 00 400 W. Newinski, 100100 NEW YORK CITY— * Peter Artola 20 20 B. Axelrod 30 50 Sarah Ball 3 m4 L. Bogatz A. Chorover 290 1,096 Frances Cooper .. 200 20 Eve Dort 100 100 Martin Fas: 2 620 John Garbus 20 (20 Jean Hartmai 45 45 Helen Horn 100 130 Jack Jamp eo Ss Abe Kaimow! 20 20 Leo Kling 345 2,960 Alex Kozma 100 100 Rose Kuntz 65 6 E. McM. 30 30 6 © 180 100 100 85 330 i 6 60 J. Siira 100 © 100 Harry Tobma‘ 20 20 Ida Weiss i RE 5 J. White 100100 Minnie Zurov) 100 100 Isador Wory, Stamfor 45 45 W. Breger, Buffalo, N 100 100 Vv. Kemenovich, town, Pa. 340 W. H. Scarvilie, Pittsburgh, Pa. 310 4,320 Wm. Schmidt, Pittsburgh, Pa. 100 660 Steve J. Mincher, Woodlawn, Pa. 100 M. Fumich, Hazeltoi 100 M. Esterkin, Cincinnnati, 150 CLEVELAND, OHIO— J. Connell .. 45 45 John Foley 45 45 S. H. Babcock, Conneaut, Ohio 100 100 TOLEDO, OHIO— E. R. Ishler .. 100 Gustave Vossberg . 200 1, Studer, Dresden, Ohio 20 20 Bishop Brown, Gallon, Ohio ... 100 200 DETROIT, MICH.— Edward Cranson 20 ae ae 120 W. A. Hamill 20 J. Kasper .. 100 Wm. Mollen! 200 T. Saneoff, Pontiac, 45 (145 CHICAGO, IL D. Auth 30-30 Fred Bert 20 20 W. ¢C. Borr .. 20 «20 N. O. Bull .. 45 270 G. Gugich . 40 40 S. Martinchek 20 «20 Rudy Salup 20 20 E. Stasukelus 100 355 Piav ... 100 1,450 3ophy Sci i. 20 | 20 Jukka Salminen, Waukegan, Ill. 100 425 1). Vaananen, Hancock, Mic 45 (145 Dan W. Stevens, Minneapo Minn. 385 1,190 M. Kimberg, St. Paul, Min 20 ' 20 vl. E. Halvorsen, Lake Mills, la. 100 100: Shas. F. Juttner, Butte, Mont. 45 45 DENVER, COLQ@— L, V. Anderson. 45 45 William Detrich: cccimnsnnee 100 120 Max Lander... 100 © 100 Lee W. Lang 200 © 400 Belle Skain 20 20 L. Tuckman 100 100 Theo. Williams 100 100 Fred Underhill 10 = 10 A. W. Watson 100 100 N. Wolfson 45 45 John Wilson, Rupe 45 45 Hoakon Johanson Wyo. 100 John P. V. ‘ 45 Lazor Petroff, Keasy, Oregon 100 Chas. Asikainen, Hall, Wash. .. 100 100 Laurentz Larsen, Wenatchee, Wash... zo /w LOS ANGELES, CALI Tom Egoian 90 \90 Paul C. Reiss. fi... 795 3,120 Frank Spector 2,535 OAKLAND, CALI J 100 100 100» 100 cae 100 © 100 =. 0. E. Klipphahai Valley, Calif. .. 30 G. Zanon, Menlo Park, Calif. 100 C. Wheatley, Ocean Beach, Cal. 45 45 Claus Carlson, Santa Cruz, Cal. 100 100 William O'Brien, Phot Ariz. 45 110 Wm. Larsen, Waco, 3030 0. T. Dargi N 100 = 100 20160 - South Porcu- pine, Ont., Canada we 46 45 Eva Lehto, Kaministikwai, Ont., Cana 20 20 J. Fenerly, J: 30 (30 HONOR ROLL OF WORKERS AIDING PRESS “4e From a Detroit; Shop Nucleus. » $33.20 Stanley Veshys, Ghicago, III. . 2.00 Comrades of Yorkville, Ohio and Cannonsburghy Pa. from Joint entertainment 15.90 Aberdeen, Wash., 11.09 Astoria, Oregon, 8! ‘ No, 1 re » 4,50 Portland, Oregor innish Fraction -11,00 P. Belsky, Seattle, Wai « 176 Collected by Florenton asto, Florenten, Minn. 5.00 Finnish Fraction, Jamaica, 10.00 Street Nuc 2, Wash, » 2,00 A. J. Young, Mt: Vernon, Wash.. 3.00 Wm. Fotos, Tacoma, Wash. 5.00 Peter Kolisnyk; 1,00 Otto Olson, Ka . 2.00 Collected ‘by Australian Rail Workers, MELBOURNE—(FP) — At the an- al conference of the Australian Rail- aymens Union at Melbourne, attend- d by delegates from all parts of Aus- ralia, it was decided te 00-operate with other unions for a uniform shorter week and a uniform minimum wage, also to discuss formation of a trans- port section of one big union. Resolu- | tions that no Communists be allowed in the union and that members sign an anti-Communist plédge were defeat- ed. Membership of the union is now over 5,000—nearly all the railwaymen engaged in running trains thruout Aus- tralia, ———————— THE DAILY WORKER ON TO MOSCOW! JORAH MAY BE | DRY CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT Prepare to Bury Real Economic Issues WASHINGTON, June 7. — Senator Borah is suddenly hailed as the presi- dential candidate of the prohibition forces of the country. He is evidently taking this salutation with proud good humor. Knowing that 1928 will-be his last chance te gain the White House, the Idaho senator is more than flat- tered that at.Jast a large and deter- mined section of the public ‘has turned to him for guidance’ in a nation-wide struggle. But will Borah actually dead, and how far? Denounces Wets. His best friends hesitate to predict that he will @o much more than de- nounce the proposed national refer- endum on the liqnor issue as being unconstitutional, ‘ They do not expect him to enter wholeheartedly into a de- fense of prohibition as a social policy, nor to point out that organized busi- ness is apparently. giving encourage- ment to the use’of the thirst agitation to prevent serious discussion of eco- nomic issues. If the battle for. prohi- bition is to be waged, the most that his acquaimtances expect of Borah is that he will approve it and attack the constitutionality of the methods adopt- ed by its enemies, He will not be fun- damental; he will simply legalistic, Ignore Economic Issues. Yet Borah's speech in Baltimore, de- claring against the liquor referendum in New York state, has helped to throw the presidential contest of 1928 into the lower level to which the wet- and-dry forces have been pulling it. Coolidge calls for law enforcement; Borah denounces the methods of the wets; Al Smith and Ritchie on the democratic side will shout for beer and liberty. Thoughtful democrats in the capital declare that their party’s convention iin 1928 will be more torn and broken by rowdyism than it was in 1924, because the,hooze issues will attract that type of men to the party councils. ~The candidate will be an advocate of beer. Reactionary repub- lican triumph will again be guaran- teed. The drys, seeing this prospect ahead, and fearing treachery from the regular republicans, want Borah to lead them and save the country from a return of the beer saloon.. What they do not realize is that Borah never has Jed an or ‘ized campaign on any- thing, and has To stomach for it. How: ever, he is ambitious to be president. Hoover Turns Down Offer as Czar of Textile Industry WASHINGTON, June 7.—Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, has declined an offer from the organized textile manufacturers that he become “czar” of that industry, to put it on a sound basis of production and market- ing. O’Connor Remains Chairman of the Shipping Board WASHINGTON, June 7.—T. V. O'Connor, formerly head of the Inter- national Longshoremen’s Association, Sy NOVEL @hon Siaclair (Continued from page 1) big sheets of curved metal, with Iroles along the edges for bolts. That could be only one thing, tanks. And at the same time came rumors that D. H. Culver had purchased another tract of land on the hill. The meaning of all this was obvious: Prospect No. 1 had got into oil sands! ; The whole hill began to blossom with advertisements, and real estate agents swarmed to the “field.” A magic word now —no longer cabbage field or sugar-beet field, but “the field!” Speculators set themselves up in tents, or did business from auto! mobiles drawn up by the roadside, with canvas signs on them There was coming and going all day long#and crowds of peopl gathered to stare up at the derrick, and listen to the monotonous grinding of the heavy drill that went round and round all day— “Ump—-um—ump—um—ump—um—ump-—um”’—. varied by the “puff-puff?.of the engine. “Keep out—this means you!” declared a conspicuous sign; Mr. D. H. Culver and his employees had sud- denly lost all their good breeding. But suddenly there was no possibility of secrecy; literally all the wérld"knew—for telegraph and cable carried the news to the farthest corners of civilization. The greatest oil strike in the history of Southern California, the Prospect Hill field! The in- side of the earth seemed to burst out through that hole; a roar- ing and rushing, as Niagara, and a black column shot up into the air, two hundred feet, two hundred and fifty—no one could say for sure—and came thundering down to earth as a mass of thick; black, slimy, slippery fluid. <It hurled tools and other heavy. objects this way and that, so the men had to run for their lives. It filled the sump-hole, and poured over, like a sauce-pan boiling too fast, and went streaming down the hillside. Carried by the wind, a curtain of black mist, it sprayed the Culver homestead, turning it black, and sending the women of the household flying across the cabbage-fields. Afterwards it was told with Homeric laughter how these women had been heard to lament the de- struction of their clothing and their window-curtains by this million-dollar flood of “black gold!” Word spread by telephone to Beach City; the newspapers bulletined it, the crowds shouted it on the street, and before long the roads leading to Prospect Hill were black with a solid line of motor-cars. The news reached Angel City, the papers there put out “extras,” and before nightfall the Beach City boulevard was crowded with cars, a double line, all coming one way. Fifty thousand people stood in a solid ring at what they considered a safe distance from the gusher, with emergency policemen trying to-drive them further back, and shouting: “Lights out! Lights out!» All night those words were chanted in a chorus; every- body realized the danger—Some one fool might forget and light a cigarette, and the whole hill-side would leap into flame; a nail in-your shoe might do it, striking on a stone, or a motor-truck, with, its steel-rimmed tires. Quite frequently these gushers caught fire atthe first moment. But still the crowds gathered; men put down the tops of their automobiles, and stood up in the seats and conducted auc- tion rooms by the light of the stars.. Lots were offered for sale at fabulous prices, and some of them, were bought; leases were offered, cothpanies were started and shares sold—the traders would push their way out of the crowd to a safe distance on the windward side, where they could strike a match, and see each other’s faces, and scrawl a memorandum of what they agreed. Such trading went on most of the night, and in the morning. came big tents that had been built for revival meetings, and the cabbage fields became gay with red and black signs: “Beach aw No. 1,” “Skite Syndicate, No. 1, ten thousand units, 1,0.” Meantime the workmen were toiling like mad to stop the b flow of the well; they staggered here and there, half blinded by | the black spray—and with no place to brace themselves, nothing © they;could hold onto, because everything was greased, stream- ing with grease. You worked in darkness, groping about, with nothing but the roar of the monster, his blows upon your body, his, spitting in your face, to tell you where he was. You worked at high tension, for there were bonuses offered—fifty dollars for each man if you stopped the flow before midnight, a hundred dollars if you stopped it before ten o’clock. No one could figure how much wealth that monster. was wasting, but it must be thousands of dollars every minute, Mr. Culver himself pitched in to help, and in his reckless efforts lost both of his ear-drums. “Tried to stop the flow with his head,” said a workman, unsym- pathetically. In addition the owner discovered in the course of has been renominated by President | M8uing weeks, that he had accumulated a total of forty-two suits Cooljdge as a member of the shipping for damages to houses, clothing, chickens, goats, cows, cabhages, board, of which he is now chairman. He votes with the administration on merchant marine policies. sugar-beets, and automobiles which had skidded into ditches on too well-greased roads. (To be continued.) \ A BUST OF LENIN: WITH EACH 5500 Points EVERY POINT COUNTS FOR. A TRIP T A year’s subscription to The'Daily Worker counts for 100 points. © MOSCOW | “ Bump the Boss Right on the Nose with this blank! 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