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| The Daily Worker! The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Volo Il. No. 127. Ney ¥ 80% 159 oR a RO Q Ki. T Rig eae a ee es By Upton Sinclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. Dad and his young son, beth d.éssed alike, and richly, are motoring over a smooth and flawless concrete road to- wards a barrier of purple mountains. The boy sits next to his father, eager- eyed, alert. 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 drove he mused to himself, He used to be Jim Ross, teamster, then he was J. A. and Co., general merchandise, at Queen Center, California, and now hi Arnold Ross, oi! operator, on his way to Beach City to sign _a lease. side 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 Indian 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- ised automobile—that history is mostly “bunk.” They go thru town after town of rectilinear blecks and whizz by “sub-division.” By dint of constant passing of other cars they come to Beach City. They put up at the big hotel and in the lobby meet Dad’s “‘lease-hound,” Ben Skutt, Il The house numbered 5746 Los Robles Boulevard belonged to Joe Groarty, night watchman for the Altmann Lumber Company of Beach City. Mrs. Groarty had “taken in” washing to help support her seven children; now that they were grown up and scattered, she kept rabbits and chickens. Joe usually left for his job at six p. m.; but on the third day after the “strike” he had got up the nerve to give up his job, and now he was on his front- porch, a mild, grey-haired old fellow, wearing a black suit, with celluloid collar and black tie, his costume for Sundays and holi- days, weddings and funerals. Mrs, Groarty had had no clothing Suitable for this present occasion, so she had been driven down- town in her husband’s Ford, and had spent some ‘of her oil ex- pectations for an evening gown of yellow satin. Now she felt embarrassed because there was not enough of it, either at the top where her arms and bosom came out, or below;-where her fat. calves. were encased in- i 2 to seem almost nothing. It was what “they” were wearing, the saleswomen had assured her; and Mrs, Groarty was grimly set upon being one of “them.” The house was in the conventional “bungalow style,” and had been built by a wealthier family, in the days of the real es- tate boom. It had been offered at a sacrifice, and Mrs, Groarty had fastened upon it because of the wonderful living-room. They had put their savings into a cash payment, and were paying the balance thirty dollars a month. They had got a deed to the prop- erty, and were up to date on their payments, so they were safe. When you passed the threshold of the house, the first thing .you saw was shine; the most marvelous gloss ever seen on wood- work—and to heighten the effect the painter had made it wavy, in imitation of the grain of oak; there must have been ten thou- sand lines, each one a separate wiggle of a brush. The fire-place swas of many colored stones, highly polished and gleaming like jewels. In the back of the room, most striking feature of all, was a wooden staircase, with a balustrade, also shiny and wavy; this Staircase went up, and made a turn, and there was a platform with a palm-tree in a pot. You would take it for granted that it was a staircase like all other staircases, intended to take you to the second story. You might go into the Groarty home a hun- dred times, and see it both day and night, before it would occur to you there was anything wrong;, but suddenly—standing out- side on some idle day—it would flash over you that the Groarty home had a flat roof over its entire extent, and at no part was there any second story. Then you would go inside, inspired by a new, malignant curiosity, and would study the staircase and land- ing, and realize that they didn’t lead anywhere, their beauty was its own excuse for being. ; Mrs. Groarty stood by the centre-table of her living-room, awaiting the arrival of the expected company. There was a bowl (Continued on page 4) NEXT SATURDAY June 12 issue of the NEW MAGAZINE Supplement of the Daily Worker By A. J. COOK ~ (Secretary, Miners’ Federation of Great Britain) || PHE issue regarding the British coal situation can now be seen in its ||stark reality. The terms proposed by the government, which were analyzed |j and exposed by The || DAILY “WORKER, |phave been unani- mously rejected by delegates of the miners. Our delegates came straight from the districts. There they saw such a spirit of solidarity among all workers ' during the general A, J. Cook strike that, even now, many of them are dazed at the inexplicable action of the general council in ending in- decisively what was the most wonder ful stand ever taken up by the Brit: ish workers, Having rejected the government's coed terms, our men have re- tui to their districts to conduct what may. prove to be one ‘of the most losperate struggles even conducted In “THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS” An article on the event which ‘1s agitating the Catholic world. What interest has it for work- i ere? By Thurber Lewis. || CARTOON BY FRED ELLIS | “THE SACRIFICE OF | | SACCO AND VANZETTI" | An unusual article, by Max Shachtman. a | y In @ forthcoming issue: “NEW DAYS IN OLD ENGLAND” By T. J. O'Flaherty. Get Next Saturday’s Issue of i . ns 8g In Chicago, b; 8. Subscript 61 SHap giao Chicago, by shat, $600 yer year. Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Cuicayo. iltnols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. LETTERS POUR INTO OFFICE OF GOVERNOR Protest Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., June 8. — State of- ficials admitted today that the office of Governor Fuller of Massachusetts has been flooded with hundreds of let- ters from men and women thruout the country protesting against the pro- posed execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Resolutions have poured in to the executive mansion of this state from labor organizations, liberal bodies and other organizations from among the thousands which have expressed their belief in the innocence of the two Italian workers since the beginning of the trial, six years ago. The attempt to prejudice the minds of the people of Massachusetts against the two workers by baselessly connect- ing the bombing of the house of one of the relatives of a minor state wit- ness with the efforts to defend Sacco and Vanzetti is apparéfifiy falling flat. Despite the fact that all the newspa- pers have insinuated that friends of Sacco and Vanzetti were responsible for the alleged bombing, and described the incident in box car headlines, little credence is given to the story. y In order to impress the minds of people, armed guards were immediate- ly thrown around the houses of the various individuals, who have pros- ecuted the case, making it seem as tho a crew of bloodthirsty criminals were threatening to murder anyone connect- ed with the side of the state. Governor Fuller's home was thus accomodated by a member of the state constabulary. trooper that he wished no guard of any kind about his ‘home, and the embar- rassed guard was compelled to call up his superiors and inform them that he had been relieved of duty by the state’s chief executive! ee # CONFERENCE OF I. L. D, 10 MEET SEPT. 5 The second national convention of International Labor Defense will be held“on Sunday, September 5, of this year, according to a decision made by the last meeting of the executive committee. The full national commit- tee of the organization, it is planned, will meet on the preceding day, the 4th, and a special organizational con- ference of secretaries of local units will be held on Sept. 6. On the eve- ning of the conference itself, Septem- bre 5, it is planned to hold a large mass meeting with nationally promi- nent speakers. Branches of I. L. D. will be rep- resented on the basis of one delegate to every fifty mémbers; labor organ- izations, on the basis of one for one (Continued on page 2) THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1926 RT DEFEATS Publi ER? FARRINGTON FAILS TO SEND AID f0 THE || BRITISH COAL MINERS (Special to The Diily Worker) { SPRINGFIELD, 11), June 8—Fin- ancial aid promised j@arly in May by President Frank Fafrington of the Iinois Mine Workeig in a cable to the striking British miners has not yet been forwardedjMt is learned at the district offices!/in Springfield. Tho over a month has elapsed since~ Farrington’s offer Was volunteered and the miners are’ still on strike, the district board has not yet acted on the matter, it is stated. BIG PART PLAYED ‘BY COUNCILS OF “ACTION IN STRIKE Were Real Fighting Units in British Struggle By CHARLES ASHLEIGH (Exelusive to “The Daily Worker”) One of the outstanding features of the general strike was the important part played by the eouncils of action and by the trades councils. In most of the large centers the trades councils adopted the excellent plan of fathering the councils. of action, as ‘being bodies most adapted to tackling the problems of strike organization, publicity, pro- paganda, and the other functions of @ central working class body in times of crisis, In other places the trades councils themselves undertook these functions. The plan, however, of forming a special body—under the au- spices of the Trades Council—which should center all the various activities npeerernte: realization of ‘the splendid® work performed by these, obtained from the ‘perusal of the numerous bulletinssand other publica- tions issued by them, Work of Councils of Action. Such matters as’the setting up of local communications between the various strike committees and the councils, the patrolling of picket areas, the prevention of profiteering by local food dealers, the organization of mass meetings, the provision of entertain- ments for the wives and children of strikers, préparation for ensuring food supplies to the workers in their areas —these are example of the manifold activities in which the councils of iction engaged. Rapid Growth, It is quite certain that, had the general strike lasted longer, the pow- ers and scope of the councils of action would have been materially ‘extended. Formed, as most of them were, on the spur of the moment, these bodied grew rapidly in strength and efficiency. They were becoming the organie nerve centers of strike activity in their local- ities. They were the local staffs, oper- ating under phe general staff—the gen- eral council. ay In some boroughs where’, sor was in power, as in the labor bordughs of the East End of London, the town halls and other public buildings were (Continued om page 2) OF HOUSTON A LIVING FELL “Vagrants” Beaten to Death with Whips By a Worker Correspondent. HOUSTON, Texas, June 8. — How penniless workers looking for jobs in the cities-of the south are seized as “vagrants” and sentenced to work on farms and roads under brutal guards who beat them to death upon small excuse or none, is again proven—as it was in Florida recently —by the murder of Wiley Zeigler, a young worker who was sentenced to serve out a $15 fine at Houston’s city farm. The guard who beat Zeigler to death is W. J. Hill, bound over to the grand jury by the county attorney after inquest, Too Raw to Canceal. PUBLISHING CO., 1113 PRISON FARM incredibly | NEW YORK EDITION shed Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL Price 3 Cents + sco ROE lowa Republican Voters Repudiate Candidate of Metlon-Coolidge Regime (Special to The Daily Worker) DES MOINES, lowa, June 8.—For the fourth time within a few weeks the administration at Washington has been over- whelmingly repudiated, by registered voters of the republican party. Smith W. Brookhart, ousted from the senate by the Morgan republican-democrat coalition, defeated the Mellon- | Coolidge favorite, Senator Albert B. Cummins, in yesterday's primaries by a plurality of from 50,000 to 60,000, out of a total vote of less than 250,000. In every section of the state Cummins was overwhelmed, j}even his own county, Polk, which has been his staunch supporter during a quarter of a century, turning him down and giving Brookhart a large lead. Smashes Legion Stronghold. Mason City, the home of the former head of the American Legion, Hanford MacNider, who is now assistant secretary of to five lead over Cummins. Zeigler died at the city farm of Houston, where 129 “vagrants” were arrested along with 105 “suspicious characters” by the city police under the city prosecutor's program of “a sure cure for the crime wave of swift and certain punishment of vagrants.” After Zeigler's death ‘at the city industrial | arm, Dr. Horace Feagin, who attended him, caHed the police, who in turn called Coroner Overstreet. Mayor Hol- combe and county officials went to the farm where a first “investigation” re- vealed that the murder was too raw to cover up. Then Zeigler’s body was taken to the undertaker. As Zeigler was a white man and not a Negro, even the Houston capitalist press became interested, At the “in- vestigation” at the prison farm, 17 other prisoners were ordered brought from the farm into town to prevent their. being .intimidated, by _ other guards to protect Hill, who was lodged bodies may be|in jail, trom their stories of Hill's murder of Zeigler. The/next day, Saturday June 5, these prisoners testified before Justice (Continued on page 2) FILL STREETS WITH PICKETS IN FUR STRIKE (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, June 8.—A great mass picketing demonstration which filled the streets of the fur manufac- turing district yesterday morning, marked the beginning of the 17th week of the furriers’ strike. There were over 8,000 workers out on the picket line, the workers from the settled shops joining with the strikers in solid ranks to show the josses that all the fur workers are united in their continued demand for a 40-hour week—or no settlement. The workers in the settled shops, who already have the 40-hour week, are de- Jerry of Michigan who bought his way All the resources of the legion in Iowa were mobilized in a drive to defeat Brookhart and it was generally recognized that the activity of that organization had the direct support of Wall Street, as MacNider is a banker | in Mason City and is, like Cummins, a favorite of the railroads. An Anti-Coolidge Vote. ‘The vote in this state is clearly an anti-Coolidge vote, as Cummins was everywhere recognized as the spokes- man for the corrupt Wall Street ad- ministration that has consistently and militantly fought against every other section of the population in order that great combinations of capital may have their way. The last-minute concern of Cummins over the agricultural crisis was viewed as a final desperate effort to stem the tide that has been rising in lowa against the administration ever since Coolidge delivered his sneering ad- dress before the farm conference in Chicago early last winter. A Newberry Senator. Cummins has been one of the main- stays of the Mellon-Coolidge majority in the senate and voted for the seat- ing of the notorious Trunian H. New- war, gave Brookhart an eight+ Smith W. Brookhart Republican insurgent, recently ousted from the senate by coalition of ad- ministration republicans and Morgan democrats, defeats Albert B. Cum- mins, Mellon-Coolidge senator in towa primary, by big plurality, into the senate by wholesale bribery. The assistant secretary of war and other ‘bankers and legionnaires are charged in many quarters with raising a slush fund for Cummins that far exceeds the amount used by Newberry in Michigan a few years ago to de- bauch the electorate and is said to almost equal the Pepper slush fund in the Pennsylvania primary. Effect Widespread. The result in Iowa will have a wide- spread effect upon the fate of other Coolidge senators and indicates cer- tain defeat of Lenroot of Wisconsin, another Coolidge stalwart, who is being challenged in the coming primaries in that state by a La Follette candidate. Especially handi- capped is Lenroot because of his un- qualified endorsement by Coolidge two weeks ago at the unveiling in Wash- ington of a statute of John Erickson. It is probable, in view of the sting- ing rebuke of Cummins, that the sur- Brookhart’s Opponent termined not to relinquish it; and the other workers are showing by their splendid spirit that they, too, are go- (Continued on page 2) the history of trade unionism, The fight is now ‘on, Our men and women are determined to resist all attempts to reduce them to slavery, They know the difficuties the strug- gle involves. They have drawn the sword and they have thrown away the scabbard of compromise, The miners, at least, neither intend to “grovel” for peace,*nor whine for a degrading settlement. We are not. fighting for fighting’s sake, The moment the government British Miners’ Secretary Appeals to U. S. Labor The whole rank and file of the or- ganized movement wMlvhelp us in our need. It is to them we appeal. Our executive committeer*has issued a manifesto to the labor movemént in which these words appear: happened in the struggle, we a’ not fighting alone. We earnestly ask the workers of Britain and of the world to continue to ‘help us by re- fusing to handie scab coal.” I, ag secretary of the Miners’ Fed- can submit terms to us which will pro- tect the miners from wage reductions and increased hours of latpr, we can have peace in the coal industry, The unbending character of the mine owners and royalty grabbers can be seen in the curt manner in which they turned down the govrenment's proposals. They do not object, very much, to the government's terms, but they do insist upon managing the in- dustry free from all governmental in- terference, The owners believe the miners have been deserted by their trade union friends, and that the time has now come to batter them down into servile subjection, We warn the owners that they are making the Miggest mistake in their lives. ™ eration, wag instructed to send a let- ter to Transport and Railway Unions in the following terms: “My committee have been discuss ing today the question of transport- ing and conveying of coal that is al- ready stocked in sidings or at the jour strike funds, “Even now, despite all that has | docks. We feel sure that your mem- bers will not do anything detrimental to our interests, and will still assist us as far as possible in the struggle we are now engaged in, “I am sure you will realize that by handling coal it would affect us in our struggle.” . We are sure to get help from our comrades abroad. The workers in other lands have been) thrilled by our struggle, The secretaryyof the German Miners’ Federation reports that aty their confernece, a few days ago, it was agreed to help the British miners by refusing to work overtime, by pre- venting the export of coal to Britain, and by making special donations to The Russian workers have already sent us $1,300,000, and money is com- ing in from all parts. Some miners in Nova Scotia sent me 4 check, But remember that nearly a mil- lion miners are involved in the lock- out! And remember their wives and children, The General Council of the T. U, has also taken up the matter, a: has made an appeal to the vari national centers on our behalf, In this struggle the Miners’ Fedp ation stands as solid as a rock. the leading officials have turned the salaries into the strike fund. If there is going to be suffering—we shall all suffer equally. We all stand solidly behind our pre- sident, Herbert Smith. He will show, by his own example, the grit and de- termination of the British miners in their fight to obtain a decent standard and comrades, this is your battle. Do not fail us in our hour oi need! viving senators will break with Coo- lidge, isolate him and his administra- tion and proceed in the closing days of the session to hasty adoption of various farmyrelief panaceas in a des- perate effort to save their own hides. But their records are too well known as supporters of every obnoxious ad- ministration measure, from the world court to wholesale cancellation of European debts in order to accommo- date the House of Morgan, for their repudiation of Coolidge to save them at this late date. Claude R. Porter, Des Moines, lowa, attorney, nominated as democratic candidate for senator by a very small vote as opponent of Smith W. Brook- hart in the November elections. Porter is a notorious red baiter and was one of the staff of prosecutors in the |. W. W, tri n Chicago during the period of war hysteria. SACCO-VANZETTI DEMONSTRATIONS PLANNED BY MEXICAN WORKERS By MANUEL GOMEZ. (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY—(By Mail.)—Widespread agitation in behalf of Sacco fVanzetti, including mass dergonstrations in front of the United States embassy at Mexico City, was decided upon unanimously by the Communist Party of Mexico before adjournment of its fourth annual convention. Every trade union in the republic will be urged to send telegrams to the trial judge in the Sacco-Vanzetti case demanding a new trial, ‘ A FOUR-PAGE PAPER TODAY. Owing to the failure of a carload of six-page newsprint to arrive on time this issue of»The DAILY WORKER has been reduced to four pages. Sever- al special features announced for to- day, 1) appear tomorrow. The factional dispute in the Mexican party, which came to a head some months ago with the suspension of Manuel D. Ramirez, former national secre: tary, was treated by the convention In executive session. While the position | of Ramirez was not endorsed the suspension against him was lifted. Rafael Carrillo, who led the fight of national executive committee against Ramires, was one of those who asked that he be reinstated in the party.

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