The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1926, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (In Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd,, Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL l WILLIAM F, DUNNE “MORITZ J. LOEB........ Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, IL, under the act of March 3, 1879. Editors Manager << 290 Advertising rates on application. a) The Furriers’ Union Wins The strike of the Furriers’ Union in New York City, of four months duration, has been won by the union, The principal issue in the struggle, the 40-hour week, has been agreed to by the bosses for eight months of the year. Other gains made by the strikers are: A ten per cent increase in the minimum scale, work to be sent out to contractors only when the shop is running full time and a further provision that the subdividing of. work on garments is abolished (whole garments must be contracted for). The strike was marked by the open attempts made to divide the ranks of the union by the right wing‘led by. the Forward, the effort of Hugh Frayne, organizer for the American Federation of Labor, to get the strikers to accept a 42-hour week and by arrests of strikers and police brutality which piled up a total of over 600 court cases and put many of the furriers in the hospital. Many of these arrests were followed by- demands for excessive bail which placed the courts on record as part of the conspiracy to defeat the union. The union administration in New York is composed of the left wing and the successful issue of the strike is a tribute to the ability of the left wing administration to cope with the thousands of prac- tical union problems which arose during the strike while -con- fronted with the passivity or actual sabotage by the reactionary elements in the needle trades union. Sillinsky’s Practical Program The election campaign in the Journeymen Tailors’. Union, in which Sillinsky heads the progressive and Sweeney the administra- tion ticket, involves far more than a mere exchange of executives. Machine industry is forcing the tailors, one of the few surviving handicrafts, to the wall. The union is threatened with extinction unless it can get the support of the rest of the needle trades unions. It cannot get this support as the sole survivor of a period when clothes were made by men and not machines. Amalgamation with the other needle trades unions is the only way in which the working tailors can protect their wages and im- prove their working conditions. As a union of some 10,000 mem- bers, the Journeymen Tailors, in an industry where machine proc- esses are compelling more powerful unions to change their methods of organization, there is nothing in the future except extinction un- less the tailors can become part of a departmentalized industrial union. Sillinsky stands for amalgamation not only in theory but for support of an active campaign by the Journeymen Tailors for its consummation in the needle trades. Sweeney is opposed to amalgamation. He ridicules it and calls it impractical. v But amalgamation is the chief need of the Journeymen Tailors and is the most practical policy for them. _ Every tailor who understands the problems of his trade and the need for organization support from all other organized needle trades workers will vote for Sillinsky and the practical program which he puts forward. Wall Street Can’t Lose the G. 0. P. Mr. Andrew W. Mellon, with headquarters at the treasury build- ing at Washington, is the real boss of the republican party. His “yes-man,” Calvin Coolidge, was used in his crusades against every attempt to prevent Wall Street gouging the rest of the population of this country and of the world. In order to achieve his ends, Mellon forced his puppet president to go too far for his own personal political, future. The powers that be are now preparing to cast aside Coolidge and make another try with a new figure-head. There are a number of candidates for Coolidge’s job that are under training at this moment. The most conspicuous one at present is Vice-President Dawes, a reliable servant of imperialism, who demonstrated his talents in the service of the House of Morgan when he and Owen D. Young formulated the “Dawes plan” for enslaving Germany in the interest of Wall Street. Now, as the result of the explosion of the Coolidge myth, this mountebank vice-president is being trained to repeat formulas that the farmers believe will benefit them. He will no more defend the interests of the farmers than the late Roosevelt busted the trusts with his loud roaring and waving of the “big stick” as the trusts grew to ever greater dimensions under his administration, or the late Wilson made the world safe democracy. No matter whom the republicans may select as a candidate, Wall Street cannot lose control of that party. | In the period of so-called prosperity a president can ride rough-shod over all opposi- tion, but when the pendulum swings the other way it is necessary to put on the soft pedal, while achieving the same results. Dawes is not very well fitted for the role chosen for him, but he may learn. New Sacco-Vanzetti Trial Demanded By French Benefit Club McDONALD, Pa., June 11—A reso) BERLIN, June 11.—Raids on Com- lution protesting against the attempt] munist offices by the police have re- to murder Nicolo Sacco and Bartolo-| sulted in the arrest of fifteen persons, meo Vanzetti was adopted by “Soli- coaree’ with “preparing to commit” darite ‘Association,” a French frater- a! pens hs ' me aaa e capitalist press features “re nal society, at its last meeting after scare” stories of revolt, supposed to one of the members made a report On| pe aided by the Soviet Union, evi- the case. dently influenced to cut off arms ship- The resolution, which was forward-| ments from Germany to the national ed to the governor of Massachusetts, liberation army of China, on the demands that a new trial be granted ground that the arms might be used to the two workers who have been in| yy the Soviet Union, The presence in jail for the last six years. Berlin of General Feng Yu-hsiang of the national army is claimed to be due to this mission. German Communists Jailed in Raid to Furnish Red Scare WRITE AS YOU FIGHT!, ‘CANE ONAN By H. M. WICKS. HE liberal party in England suf- fered thus far the heaviest politi- cal casualties in the general strike. The impact of that class conflict shat- tered the frail craft of the liberals. Its still somewhat bewildered forces are beginning to rally around the two outstanding leaders, Herbert Asquith and Lloyd George. To the person unaccustomed to seek- ing conflicts within political parties in the antagonisms of economic classes and groups within classes the turmoil in the liberal party appears as a per- sonal struggle between two of Brit- ain’s politicians, both former premiers. Everyone who reads political news knows that during the great strike Asquith endeavored to align the lb- eral‘ party directly behind the Baldwin government, where it could aid in carrying out the policy of violence against the labor movement. A meet- ing was called by Asquith to put his strike program into effect. Lloyd George absented himself from the meeting and, according to liberal mem- bers of parliament, consulted three leaders of the labor party, whose names were withheld, whom he in- formed that, altho at that moment he was compelled, because of political ex- pediency in his own party, to adopt a neutral attitude, he was eager, to at- tack the Baldwin government on its strike policy at an opportune time, Asquith Opens Attack. SQUITH publicly assailed Lioyd George as a traitor to the liberals and tried to read him out of the party. The embattled Welshman took up the challenge and crossed swords with As- quith, with the result that at a meet- ing of the liberal parliamentary group the position of Lloyd George was up- held by a vote of 20 to 12, eal Thus in the great class conflict where the working class stood against the imperialist government, the lib- erals, who occupy an intermediate po- sition between the conservatives of the Baldwin government, and the la- bor leaders in the service of the bour- goisie, divided, with the Asquith group group going over to Baldwin and Lloyd George’s group supporting Mac- Donald and Thomas. Previous Conflicts, HIS is not the first time that the two outstanding Jeaders of the lib- eral party have threatened to split their party over the question of align- ments, In 1920, when Lloyd George was pre- mier, a similar situation prevailed, except that it was Asquith who then flirted with the laborites. Lloyd George has always represented that section of the liberal party supported by the industrialists and, in 1920, when the bourgeoisie of the whole world still trembled before the reverbera- tions of*the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, he lined up with the conserva- tives in an effort to crush labor, while Asquith, representing the ‘non-indus- trial elements in the middle class, ob- jected to the heavy taxation involved in pursuing a policy of crushing labor. Lenin, in his “Infantile Sickness of Leftism,” reminded the English Com- NEW YORK DISTRICT COMMITTEE ENDORSES WORK OF THE PLENUM NEW YORK, June 11.—An enlarged meeting of the District Executive ew THE DAILY WORKER ~> munists of Lloyd George’s speech of May 18, 1920, wherein he assailed As- quith for favoring the industrial work- ers, and added that the premier of England had learned much from the Marxists that was useful in defending his class. We might add today that Lloyd George has not forgotten how to defend the interests of his class and is proving himself capable of far more intelligent and effective service to the industrialists than those wretched da- borites, MacDonald, Thomas & Co., are capable of displaying in the interests of the class they profess to speak for but constantly betray'into the hands of the enemy, ’ A Consistent Line. UPERFICIAL ob rvprs who view the apparent Tottheat of social forces as expressed in the words and actions of statesmen, instead of the real movement ag expressed in the actual struggle ‘based upon class an- tagonisms, will aceugp»Lloyd George of inconsistency and even hypocricy. No one will attempt to defend him against charges of Machiavellianism, but certainly he cahnpt be accused of inconsistency. Wher, in 1920, he pro- posed to align the Mberal forces with the conservatives against labor, he was the spokesman of the industrial- ists. And when, during the general strike, he reversed his former stand and proposed that the liberals support MacDonald and Thomias he still con- sistently defended the interests of the port of the right-wing leaders of the British labor movement it should be remembered that his action cannot in any sense be interpreted as support of the working class. We here distin- guish clearly between the agents of the capitalist class, MacDonald and Thomas, and the masses of labor whom they constantly strive to betray. Preparing the Ground. LTHOUGH Lloyd George, as pre- mier of England, played a leading role in the imperial war and its aftermath, at the head of the coalition government, he only paved the way for the rule of the conservative tory party, which can at a certain stage more effectively defend the interests of the most powerful strata of the cap- italist class. In 1920 Lloyd George thot the work- ing class was developing toward a pro- letarian revolution and viéwed any en- couragement to labor as a direct as- sault upon capitalism. The Asquith wing of the party, representing the in- terests of liberal middle-class mer- chants and Jandholders, opposed the heavy tax burdem demanded by the imperialist policy of the coalition gov- ernment, hence they were willing to align themselves with the labor party leaders, who in reality are also mere liberals. he The superior imperialism of Amer- ica and the industrialization of the colonies began, soon after the war, to be felt in England and.when the Bald- win tory government came into power, attempts were made to place the bur- den of its declining economic position upon the workers. industrialists. Lloyd George were the same, their In dealing with Lloyd George's sup- |"2#8008 ‘were different. MacDonald Committee of New York, attended by members of the committee, candidates and alternates, and leading functionaries of the party, as well as other lead- ing comrades, was held, at which a report on the enlarged plenum was given by Comrade Weinstone after a reading of the three main resolutions adopted The report and the discussion which followed pointed out that the enlarged plenum has gone a long way in-over- coming factionalism in the party and establishing a basis for organic. unity and mass work. The comrades expressed complete satisfaction with the serious effort made by the plenum in penetrating deeper into the masses, particularly in the trade unions and broadening out the left wing, contacts for the party. The following resolution was unani- mously adopted by the enlarged meet- ing of the District Executive Commit- tee: - “That we strongly endorse the spirit and work of the plenum as paving the way for real organic unity of the party and for the complete wiping out of factional Hnes in the party. “That we wholeheartedly endorse the line followed by the plenum of es- tablishing broader mass contacts and intensifying our mass work and refers to the Executive Council the working out of a resolution for the detailed and immediate tasks before the district on the basis of the resolutions of the plenum.” A general membership meeting to hear the report of the plenum will be held Friday evening, June 18. Discussion Club Holds First Meeting in Cleveland Sunday CLEVELAND, June 11, — The Cleveland Discussion Club will hold its first meeting Sunday, June 13, at 5927 Euclid Ave. with J. A. Hamilton as the speaker, The discussion club will meet every Sunday night. All members and sympathizers invited. That worker next door to you ‘nay, not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. eee by the enlarged plenum of the Centra] Executive Committee, Anti-Saloon League Has Deficit of $4,500 in the State of Illinois SPRINGFIELD, Ml., June 11.—Bish- op Edwin H. Hughes, of Chicago, seemed to be the choice of the Illinois Anti-Saloon League executive commit- tee for president. > What the fate of ¥ nett of Rockford, for of the league, will by atical. Bennett is charged with aiding dry law violators a his’ removal has been rumored. Bénnett failed to appear for the session /* No modification of: Volstead act and a nationwide n for mem- bers and funds was outlined as the league’s program by Seott McBride, national superintendent of the league. The Anti-Saloon ie of Illinois closed the fiscal year ith a deficit of $4,500. Expenditu for the year ending April 30, we 80,000. iam B. Ben- nm years head fwas problem- . : Settle with Union . BOSTON, June 11.—Five of the eleven Italian bakery shops settled with Local 463, International Bakery and Confectionery Workers’ Union, within a day, granting the new wage scale sought. Foremen now get $44, second hands $34 for a 10-hour day and six-day week. The old scale was $36 to $40 for foremen, $28 to $32 for second hands, 12-hour day and in most shops seven-day week, Bandits Rob Creamery. DETROIT, June 11,—Two armed bandits held up a branch of the De troit creamery and took the cash box containing $2,074 after forcing the two employes to face the wall. peste — tt CUBAN RAILROAD “Lloyd George Breaks With Asquith The attempt to cut the wages of the miners in July, last year, was met by threats of united action on the part of the railwaymen, transport workers and miners, with the government yielding and guaranteeing average profits to the mine owners thru a sub- sidy. Meanwhile the government prepared to crush the miners as soon as the period of the subsidy expired, thereby provoking the general strike. The vicious character of the reactionary government hastened the crystalliza- tion of the forces of the class struggle. It was a case of “our greatest reac- tionaries becoming our greatest revo- lutionaries, by making conditions so intolerable that revolution is the only way out.” (Engels.) A general strike cannot remain an economic struggle and its political character soon began to manifest it- self. From the very first political ma- nipulations MacDonald and Thomas and their ilk plotted to betray this great mass movement. United With MacDonald. It was at this point that Lloyd George offered his services and vol- unteered to become an accomplice to this betrayal. He was willing to sup- port the laborites in their demand for a continued subsidy for the mine own- ers in spite of the fact that a short time before he criticised the Baldwin government for its subsidy. While the policy of MacDonald and wanted to save himself from political annihilation as an agent of the capi- talist class in the labor movement, while Lloyd George wanted to save the class he represents. The industrialists realize that if the coal crisis is not overcome in some manner their markets will be taken by the industrialists of other countries and they are willing to contribute their part temporarily toward a gub- sidy in order to be able to obtain fuel for their establishments. That is why Lloyd George can unite with MacDon- ald. On the other hand, Asquith, as the leader of the tradesmen, middle- class landholders, professionals, and other petty bourgeois elements, fights against a further subsidy because of increased tax burdens that must, of ne- cessity, be imposed upon the section of the capitalist class that he serves. Hence he aligns himself and his sup- porters with the Baldwin government. Lloyd George, as the agent of the industrialists, can travel a long way with MacDonald and Thomas. Both of these sorry laborites have declared that they oppose the general strike on principle, which assures the industrial- ists of uninterrupted production if they have their way. The conservatives have had their day and history is preparing Britain for its next step, which will quite likely be a liberal-laborite regime as the final bulwark of capTtalism, des- perately striving to hold the revolution in leash. And Lloyd George, the de- fender of his class, will be found -fight- ing alongside MacDonald, whose whole Political career is a betrayal of his class. STRIKERS SEEK AMERICAN AID Workers Appeal for Help to Win Strike (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 11.—Railroad workers of Cuba, whose organization affiliated some months ago with the Pan-American Federation of Labor of which William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, is the head, have cabled Green a protest against violent acts by the Cuban gov- ernment officials against their striking members. The Cuban railroads concelled an agreement with their employes, om the ground that rates had been cut. The union proposed mediation by the gov- ernment. This failed, and a month later the strike was called. Govern- ment forces have tried to break the srtike by terrorism, Boston Mayor Bans Freedom of Speech BOSTON, June 11.—Censorship of meetings in Boston is to continue, judging by Mayor Malcolm B. Nichols’ reply to Richard W. Hale, treasurer ot the Old South Association. The mayor, a republican like Senator Wil- liam M, Butler, Coolidge backer, Is manager of the Old South Meeting House, where Hale and a group of citi- zens plan to hold a protest meeting against the suppression of free speech, The controversy goes back to the barring of Anthony Bimba, Lithuanian editor, charged with blasphemy and convicted of sedition in Massachusetts, from speaking in Boston halls. Scott ‘| Nearing was arrested, but later re- leased and allowed to speak outdoors when Paine Memorial Hall was closed to him during the excitement over the Bimba case, Difficulty in securing a hall for a Sacco-Vanzetti protest meet- ing in Boston is reported by the‘Inter- national Labor Defense — (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. Dad and his young son, both dressed alike, and richly, are motoring over @ smooth and flawless concrete road to» wards a barrier of purple mountains, ‘The boy sits next to his father, eyed, alert, His father is his hero. y reach the mountains and climb higher and higher. Then down the other side at a good clip, with a w speed cops, whom Dad ‘ drove he mused to himself. be Jim Ross, teamster, then h Ross and Co., general merchandise, at Queen Center, California, and is J. Arnold Ross, oll operator, on his way to Beach City to sign a leas 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 st, it was like any other. main street town—with its na- tionally advertised magazines containing all the nationally advertised adver- ti of the nationally advertised articles ranchmen came in to buy. ‘Ye up ona broad boulevard called Mission Way. Th igns with queer Spanish names indicating a history behind each one. ny” aske Dad what happened in “Verdrugo (Executioner) Canyon.” Dad doesn’t know. He shares the opinion of tHe manufacturer of a nationally ad- vertised aytomobile—that history is mostly “b: fi f rectilinear blocks and whizz by ng of other cars they come to Beach in the lobby meet Dad’s “lease-hound, f gain possession of some valuable oi! lands for which a number of c competing. Those that own the lands at first united on a proposal to agree to share alike, but soon intrigues have split the groups. A number il operators attempted to bri me of the more Influential ones to gain posssession of the lands. Skutt enters the scene when the discord is at the highest point. v Not many of these men would ever read a book on etiquette; they would learn about life from action—and here was an occa- sion, the most instructive that had so far come to them. They learned that when a great man comes in a room, he comes first, preceding his subordinates. They learned that he wears a majes- tic big overcoat, and stands in silence until he is introduced by a subordinate. “Ladies and gentlemen,” said the lease-agent Skutt, “this is Mr. J. Arnold Ross.” Whereupon Mr. Ross smiled agreeably, taking in the entire company: ‘Good evenin’, ladies and gentlemen.” Half a dozen men arose, offering him a chair; he took a large one, quite simply, avid without wasting time in dis- cussion—realizing, no doubt, how he would be embarrassing the hosts if he called attention to a shortage of chairs. Behind him stood another man, also big. “Mr. Alston D. Prentice,” said Skutt, and they were loudly impressed, this being a famous lawyer from Angel City. Also there had entered a little boy, apparently a son of Mr. Ross. The women in the room many of them had little boys of their own, each one destined to grow up into a great oil-man; therefore they watched the Ross boy, and learned that such a boy stays close by his father, and says nothing, but takes in everything with eager roving eyes. As soon as possible he gets himself a perch in the window-sill, where he sits listening, as attentively as if he were a man. Mrs. Groarty had got all the chairs her neighbors could spare, and she visited the “morticians” and rented a dozen camp-chairs; but still there was a shortage, and the etiquette book did not tell, you what to do. But these rough and ready Western men had solved the problem, having sought out the wood-shed, which was behind the garage, and fetched some empty “lug-boxes,”’ such as you got when you bought peaches and apricots and plums for canning. Set up on end, these made satisfactory seats, and the company was soon-settled. “Well, folks,” said Mr. Skutt, genially. “Everything ready?” “No,” said the acid voice of Mr. Hank. “We ain’t ready. We can’t agree.” “What?” cried the “lease-hound.” had got together!” “T know. But we’re busted open again.” “What is the matter?” Half a dozen people started to tell what was the matter. The voice of Mr. Sahm prevailed over the rest. ‘“There’s some people come here with too good lawyers, and they’ve raked up what they claim is laws that the rest of us won’t stand for.” “Well now,” said Mr. Skutt, politely, “Mr. Prentice here is a very good lawyer, and perhaps he can help clear up the matter.” So, more or less in chorus, they explained, and made known their protests at the same time. Then Mr. Ross’ lawyer, speaking ex cathedra, advised them that the statement of the law was absolutely correct, the lease as it stood would be interpreted to mean the area to the middle of the streets and alleys; but of course there was nothing to prevent their making a different arrangement if they saw fit, and so specifying in the lease. And then the fat was in the fire; they began to argue their rights and wrongs, and their" animosities flamed so hotly that they forgot even the presence of. J. Arnold Ross, and of his emi- nent lawyer. “I sajd it once, and I’ll say it again,” declared Miss Snypp—‘Never! Never!” “You'll sign if we vote it!” cried Mr. Hank. “You try it and see!” - 4 BE Sie en you _ you can break the agreement?” “T mean I've got a lawyer that says h she ae gi y ys he can break it any day “Well, I'll say this,” put in Mr. Dibble; “speaking as a 1 —and I think my colleagues, Mr. Prentice “a Mr. lMersteehtod will ptm n agreement is fron-clad.” ell, at least we can tie you up in the courts!” Sahm. “And keep you there oe var or two!” ae ee y= bo cer good by ae ee sneered Mr. Hank. , ell, we’d as soon d by one se - seme 2 declared Miss Snypp. . ee ‘Now, now, folks!” put in Ben Skutt, hastily. “Sur ¥ none of us goin’ to cut off our noses to spite i Bie af Don't you think you better let Mr. Ross tell you about his plans?” Sure, let’s hear Mr. Ross!” eried Mr. Golighty; and there was a chorus—yes, by all means they would hear-Mr, Ross. If anyone could save them, it was he! : (To be continued.) Two Killed When Grand Rapids Sacco Train Hits Auto| and Vanzetti Protest BUFFALO, .N. Y., June 11.—Two men were killed whet a fast passen- ger train struck an automobile here.| GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. June 11, — The victims were Joseph V. Pellien|Over twenty-five organizations of this and Henry Stradtman, both local rail-|city, including labor unions and fra- road men. Might ied ‘ ternal societies, have received the call for the Sacco-Vanzetti conference ar- A 4 en —W. 8. ine LEM, Mass, June 11—W. S.lranged by the Grand Rapids Interna rask and his son, Clarence, were tional Labor Det probably fatally injured when their |!" hon Sith Re ne automobile was hit by a Boston & ekéees re 7 gg 2:80 g’clock at 211 Maine railroad train, Two veteran militants who were a eyewitnesses, to the “Haymarket Moscow or bust! Don’t bust before riots” will make short addresses at you.get a sub—but get 5 subs and youline conference, All workers are ia- cy ve your bust, vitedto-cbme. > wonne “Why, you told me you Conference Sunday <==