The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1926, Page 5

Page Five LL EEE Xx L__—_————— Thos. Hardy AMERICAN COAL USED TO BREAK BRITISH STRIKE Send 50,000 Tons of Coal to England BALTIMORE, June 16.—Is Ameri- oan coal being used to break the Brit- ish mine strike? British Parliamen- tary Secretary Lane-Fox of the mines department announces that no Ameri- can coal whatever had been received in England since the beginning of the strike May 1. He said that the 87,000 tons imported since May 1 had all come from European countries. But since Lane-Fox’s statement was. made the Consolidation Coal Co. of Baltifnore has received orders for the export of 100,000 tons of American coal. Fifty thousand tons of this large order aré consigned to England, for use by the railroads, power houses and other public utilities, it is announced, | and the rest is to be shipped to Italy and the Argentine, to markets usually supplied with British coal. The coal is to be shipped from Baltimore and Hampton Roads. Exports of United States coal to South American countries generally have increased since the British mine strike began, and it is now reported that Norway and other Scandinavian countries will place large orders in America, seeing that’ their needs can- not be met by Britain. The famous English novelist, has just celebrated his 86th birthday. He is still In excellent health and main- tains a lively interest in the world. He is the oldest living novelist. He has written scores of novels’ of Eng- lish rural life and apparently is not yet thru, On % Virseow, SEND IN A SUB! MORE JOBS IN ILLINOIS THAN LAST YEAR, BUT TEN PER CENT UNDER 1923; LABOR SHIFTING Employment in Illinois factories ap- pears to be holding its own despite a general downward tendency in the country as a whole. According to the May report of the state department of labor the total falling off since the high point in March was only six- tenths of 1 per cent. A year ago the drop from March to May was 2 per cent and in 1924 nearly 4 per cent, This year’s falling off off employ- ment meant loss of jobs to less than 5,000. workers. It leaves employment nearly 414 per cent ahead of May, 1925. But there are still about 25,000 fewer workers on Illinois factory pay- rolls than in May, 1924, and 85,000 fewer than in May, 1923. The three- year decline is over 10 per cent. 122 Men to Each 100 Jobs. The free employment office bears out the general optimism of the de- partment's “survey. But-there isa surplus of workers for jobs. There were 122 applicants for each 100 jobs in May, compared with 129 in April, 145 a year ago alld 154 in May, 1924. In May, 1923, however, there were only 91 applicants for each 100 jobs. Altho the situation is considered generally favorable in several indus- trial centers the news is not encour- aging. The closing of the locomotive shops at Bloomington “because of ex- treme depression in business” threw 650 out of employment, while reports from Belleville assert that 5,000 are out of work in that region. The re- vival of road building thruout the state and the fact that building con- tractors increased the number of workers on their payrolls 23.3 per cent during May cut down the number unemployed. Worker Still Suffers. Figures show that comparatively stable employment thruout industry as a whole does not necessarily spell stability for the individual worker. He must shift-from~an industry laying off men to one increasing its force or join the ranks of the temporarily unem- ployed. COME! Liveliest Affair of the Season! Where you can dance to the music of Letchinger’s Orchestra. Sing with the crowd— Eat good food— Play the games— or just rest in the many shady spots of the beauti- ful CHERNAUSKAS GROVE at the YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE PICNIC SUNDAY, JUNE 20th, 1926 Take Archer Ave. car to end of the line; then Justice Park car to 79th and Archer—the grove is there. ADMISSION 35c in Advance 50c at the Gates THE “FREIHEIT” INVITES ALL Trade Union Educational League Sections, Workers Party Inter. national Branches, Young Workers League Sections, . Workers Party Sub-Sections, Workmen's Circle Branches, Workers’ Clubs TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PICNIC | SATURDAY, JULY 31 Afternoon and Evening . at Ulmer Park, New York, N. Y. Organizations ~ 500 tickets (amounting to $125) for. $15. Name of, organization to n will be printed on tickets, Hach have its own section at picnic. _. ORDER NOW! — 30° UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK, N. Y. SOVIET LABOR UNION LEADER TELLS OF AID Proves Source of Aid Sent British Miners MOSCOW—(By Mail)—The secre- tary of the central council of the labor unions of-the Union of Socialist Soviet Russia, Dogadov, in an inter- view to the press concerning the ac- tion of support for the British. min- ers, which is being conducted in the Soviet Union declared the following: “The general strike and the min- ers’ lockout in Great Britain caused the greatest interest and enthusiasm amongst the working class of the Soviet Union. The central council of labor unions decided together with the central committees of the various labor unions to contribute a quarter of a day’s wages to the funds for the striking workers. “A commission was elected and in- structed to take the necessary sums according to need from the trade union reserve funds and from other resources of the unions in order to assist the British workers as quickly as possible. In actual fact, however, the workers very often decided to give a half day’s wages. Accoring to temporary and conservative estimates we shall be successful in collecting 3,000,000 roubles in the whole of the Soviet Union, Sent Advance Collections. “As the struggle in Great Britain was in full force, the central council of labor unions was of the opinion that immediate help was necessary and its presidium decided on the 5th of May to send the general council of the British Trades Union Congress 250,000 roubles as a first installment of the coming collections. Shortly afterwards it was decided to send an- other 2,000,000 roubles from the re- sources of the central council and the central committees of the Soviet La- bor Unions. “The most active representatives of the British bourgeoisia who were already excited enough through the strike itself, issued statements con- cerning “Russian money,” “Russian agitators,” etc. in order to discredit the strike and at the same time to aim a blow at the workers of the Soviet Union for daring to support the British workers, “The letter of Tweed, the chairman of the British Association of Creditors of Russia, which was published in the Times and in a number of other pa- Ders followed the same aims and de- clared that the money which was sent to the general council was taken from British credit. Tweed’s contention is based on the fact that the financial re- port of the central council- shows that it was not in possession of any such ag as was sent to the general coun- cil. “Recently the central council has issued no financial report. The labor unions are, however, strong enough to send assistance quickly to the strik- ing British workers without having to call in the help of the credits, The general financial situation of the la- bor unions of the Union of Socialist Soviet Russia is no secret for the for- eign trade union organizations which receive the information bulletin of the central council of the Russian labor unions.” Bank Balance of Soviet Labor Unions, At the same tfme, Dogadov gave the press representatives information about the state of the treasury of the central council and the central com- mittees of the labor unions of the Union of Socialist Soviet Russia. On the 6th of May, 1926, the bank ac- count of the central council showed 1,529,390 roubles to the goad. On the Ist of April it was 5,500,691 roubles, Considerable funds belonging to the provincial departments are not in- cluded, Alien Property Bills Shelved Until Next Session of Congress WASHINGTON, D. C., June 16.— Legislation for the return of alien property seized during the world war has been shelved until the next ses- sion of congress. The house ways and means committee has pigeon-holed the pending bills and has decided to meet Nov, 15 to draft a measure to present to the December session of the house. Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad Seeks a 15% Fare Increase The Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Rail- road Company has asked the Illinois commerce commission for authority to i a its fares 15 per cent on July Scott's Wife Loses Fight. Attorneys for Mrs. Catherine Scott, wife of Russell Scott, lost their first bout in her fight t6 stage a “starva- tion show” in a local theater. The “show” was to have been staged to raise money for the defense of Scott, Mrs, Scott appeared in @ glass cage on the theater stage, lying on a hospital bed, and it was announced that she would eat nothing so long as people wouldypay to see or until she obtained money enough to defray the expenses of her husband's defense, -y — Is talked of as the successor of Major-General Hin chief of staff of the United States army. He is now the head of the Army War Col- lege.. General Bly is one of the old school of United States army men who compose the military bureaucracy in this country and know just what it means to send troops to Nicaragua, Halti, Panama) etc. WAR DEPARTMENT CHUCKLES OVER CAL'S TROUBLES Army Fails to Salute Haitian Puppet, Borno (Special to The Daily Worker) , WASHINGTON, June 16.—War de- partment officials are chuckling, and state department chiefs are trying to look shocked, because the order for firing a salute, Mf 21 guns in honor of the landing of the dummy president of Haiti, Louis Bérno, got “lost” on the way from Washi ington to New York, The military’ e nursing a grudge toward President Coolidge because he has not helped. hem to get a bigger appropriation, and because he sabot- aged their Defélise Day mobilizations, and in general because they consider him a tightwa _ unworthy to lead a powerful milit: nation. Hence they are delighted when they can cause him embai ent. Put Fuppet in Power. Borno, whosgfather was a colored French colonialjds the puppet of Gen. John Russell, miiltary commander of Haiti. He is jneligible by the fact of his foreign;parentage to hold the presidency of Haiti. He was not le- gally elected tg, the office. He was merely set up as president by a group of 14 government, officials, called coun- cilors of state,;who met secretly at night and issugd a decree declaring him president In the background stood Gen. Russell with his American forces of occupation. This “election” took place April 10, 1922, and Borno has continued in office ,while Russell and the marines have run the country. In April of the present year Borno’s council again declared him elected for four years. He now comes to Wash- ington to pay his respects to President Coolidge and Secretary of War Davis, and to enable editors of Negro news- papers that draw republican campaign funds every two years to print his pic ture. ee Haitians Rap Borno. On the same ship with Borno came circulars of protest from the Haitian patriotic societies, denouncing Borno as a usurper and fraud. “Russell and'Borno,” said one of these letters, “ate boasting the prog- ress and prosperity of Haiti under their despotic leadership. There is not a word of truth in that proposi- tion. The country is under the heav- fest burden that it has ever expe- rienced since it became a nation in 1804. The people of Haiti are getting poorer every day’ by the continual in- crease of the taxes and customs du- ties. Haitian laborers are paid from 20 to 80 cents, American money, a day, with a deprecidted currency called gourde. How ca a man live on such a wage? It is’why they are leaving the country for Cuba and Santo Do- mingo, Already. more than 300,000 have left, Russell and Borno are re- sponsible for thfd'sad state of things.” Moscow or bist! Don't bust before you get a sub—but get 5 subs and you can have your bust, Pathe Bex? SEND IN A SUB! $70,000 SUIT FILED AGAINST SIX POLICEMEN Passaic Strikers Bring Police to Civil Court PASSAIC, N. J. June 15.—Civil suits amounting to $70,000 damages have been brought against six Passaic policemen in the circuit court by Ben- jamin Lavanski, Polish organizer for the United Front Committee, and John Ricci. Severe Beating. Benjamin Lavanski, an atcive or- ganizer for the United Front, has been threatened by police many times for his successful work. On May 6 they seized the opportunity to punish him by beating him up and arresting him. His was one of the most severe cases of beating during the strike and, as usual, entirely unwarranted. On May 6 a woman scab was hit by a tin can thrown by a mischievous child. Many workers were about, it being time for the few scabs to leave the mill. The police chased some workers’ children and handled them roughly. lavanski, who was standing near, spoke to the police officer, asking him not to frighten the child, and then to the child, telling her to go quietly. The cossacks seized that excuse. They set upon Lavanski and beat him badly, so that more than five weeks after- ward he still bears the marks and is under medical care. The officers named are Herman Zober, Barney Warsaw, Henry Berger, Peter Nie- radka and Edward J. Hogan. After the beating and arrest of La- vanski he was charged with attempt- ing to incite the crowd to riot, but was acquitted at his trial. “Bloody Friday.” “Bloody Friday,” May 14, is still echoed in the case of John Ricci against Officer John Van Hoven. On this day, when scores of strikers were set upon and clubbed by police as they were returning from the meeting hall to their homes, John Ricci was attavked on his own property and was beaten by Van Hoven, The officer was engaged in the “noble” work of ciearing the streets of strikers. He came upon Ricci standing in his yard and ordered him to move on. “I can’t move on. I’m home al- ready,” said Ricci. “I'll show you whether you can move on or not,” said Van Hoven as he assaulted him. Ricci is asking for $20,000 and La- vanski is asking $50,000 damages. Action in Civil Courts. It remains to be seen what the courts will do in the civil cases. It has been established quite definitely during the strike that no redress can Le had from the criminal courts when a striker is beaten to unconsciousness by the cossack police. In two at- tempts to bring policemen to justice warrants could not even be obtained fcr sixteen cases and were only served in the other cases after much quib- bling and delay, Officers finally ac- cepted service and were released with- out bail. DAILY WORKER BARRED FROM COUNTY JAIL Prison Heads Refuse to Admit Reporter Tho reporters for the capitalist press are at all times allowed to enter Cook county jail and have interviews with the prisoners, the reporter of The DAILY WORKER was barred on two occasions from interviewing the 29 International Ladies’ Garment Workers serving from 10 to 60 days in Cook connty jail for an alleged violation of “Injunction Judge” Dennis E, Sullivan’s injunction aaginst the union in the 1924 strike. On both occasions when The DAILY WORKER reported presented his cre- dentials at the jail doors and sought admittance he was not allowed to en- ter. Capitalist press reporters, on the other hand, who are aiding the open- shop bosses in their fight against the garment workers, were allowed to in- terview the strike pickets. No valid reason was given by the jail heads for their action, When asked why The DAILY WORKER re- porters was being barred while re- porters from the capitalist press were allowed to enter freely and ak to the prisoners and even take photo- graphs in the jail if they wanted to, the jail head refused to answer, say- ing: “You can't see them, that’s all.” Your nefghbor will appreciate the favor—give him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. While You Are Reading “OIL”—read also OIL IMPERIALISM THE INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE FOR PETROLEUM By LOUIS FISCHER. Cibth Bound. The latest publication of the inside story of the rivalry between Amer- jean and British oil interests. OIL AND THE GERMS OF WAR By SCOTT NEARING. Pafldt 10 Cente, . THE DAILY WORK! 1118 W. Washi Chicago, Ill. ANEW NOVEL Glon Ginclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, . ARNOLD ROSS, oil operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, drives over the smooth California roads with his young son, “Bunny”, beside him on the wi to Beach City. In the hotel they meet Ross's lease-hound, Ben Skutt, who hi arranged for Ross to meet a group of property owners, whose land Ross is anxious to get because it contains oil. Those that own the lands at first agree to share alike. But intrigues soon split the group. A number of oil promoters bribed a fe the more influential ones in an attempt to get the lease. Skutts enters with Ross and the boy when the discord is at its highest point. He attempts to get them to sign a lease with Ross. At the moment when threats begin to fly Skutt introduces Ross. Ross arises and in his southwestern American language tells the owners that he is an oil man; that they must beware of mere promoters and crooks; that he will drill quick and drill right and guarantee them good royalties. Many of the owners are impressed. But there are still recalcitrant ones. Bunny is sitting near the window taking it all in. A boy appears at the window. He tells, Bunny he is Paul Watkins and the lady of the house his aunt. He ran away from home but he is afraid his aunt will send him back. He wants Bunny to go out in the kitchen on the excuse he wants a drink and open the back door, Then Paul can sneak in and get something to eat. Bunny does this and slips out of the house. a ° ° ° Vu Bunny went round the house, and got to the back-door just as Paul Watkins was closing it softly behind him. “Thanks, kid,” whispered the latter, and stole away to the wood-shed, with Bunny close behind him. Paul’s first sentence was: “I gota piece of ham and two slices of bread, and one piece of pie.” » He already had his mouth full. “That’s all right, I guess,” said Bunny, judiciously. He waited, and for a while there was no sound, save that of a hungry creature chewing. The stranger was only a shadow with a voice; but outside, in the starlight, Bunny had noted that the shadow was a head taller than himself, and thin. “Gee, it’s tough to be starvin’!” said the voice, at last. you want any of this?” “Oh no, I had my supper,” said Bunny. posed to eat at night.” The other went on chewing, and Bunny found it mysterious and romantic; it might have been a hungry wolf there in the darkness! They sat on boxes, and when the sounds of eating ceased, Bunny said: “What made you run away from home!” The other answered with another question, a puzzling one; “What church do you belong to?” “How do you mean?” countered Bunny. “Don’t you know what it means to belong to a church?” “Well, my grandmother takes me to a Baptist church some- times, and my mother takes me to a ’Piscopal one when I’m visiting her. But I don’t know as I belong to any.” “My Gosh!” said Paul. It was evident he was deeply im- pressed by this statement. “You mean your father don’t make you belong to no church?” “T don’t think Dad believes in things like that very much.” “My Gosh! And you ain’t scared?” “Scared of what?” “Why, hell fire and brimstone. “No, I never thought about it.” “Say, kid, you dunno how queer that hits me. I just been makin’ up my, mind to go to hell, and not give a damn. Do you cuss?” “Not very often.” “Well, I cussed God.” “How do you do that?” . . “Why, I said, ‘Damn God!’ I said it half'a dozen times, see, and I thought sure the lightnin’ would come down and strike me. (said: I don’t believe, and I ain't a-goin’ to believe, and I don’t give a damn.” c “Well, but if you don’t believe, why showld you be scared?” Bunny’s mind was always logical like that: “Well, I guess I didn’t know whether I believed or not. I don’t know now. - It didn’t seem like I could set my poor frail mind up against the Rock of Ages. I didn’t know there was anybody had ever been that wicked before. Pap says I’m the wickedest boy was ever born.” “Pap is your father?” “Yes,” “What does he believe?” “The Old Time Religion. It’s called the Four Square Gospel. It’s the Apostolic Church, and they jump.” “Jump!” “The Holy Spirit comes down to you, see, and makes you jump. Sometimes it makes you roll, and sometimes you talk in tongues,” “What is that?” “Why, you make noises, fast, like you was talkin’ in some foreign language; and maybe it is—Pap says it’s the language of the arch-angels, but I don’t know. I can’t understand it, and I hate it.” “And your father does that?” “Do “And I’m not sup- Of losin’ your soul.” “Any time, day, or night, he’s liable to, It’s his way of foilin’, the tempter. If you say anfthing at meal times, like there ain’t enough to eat in the house, or you mention how the interest on’ the mortgage will be due, and he hadn’t ought to give all the money for the missions,‘then Pap will roll up’ his eyes, and begin to pray out loud and let go, as he calls it; and then the Holy Spirit” * seizes him and he begins to jump.and shake all over, and he slides. ~ down out of his chair. and rolls on the floor, and begins to talk in tongues, like it says in the-Bible. . And then Mom starts to cry, ‘cause it scares her, she knows she’s got things to do for the kids, ‘ but she dassn’t resist the Spirit, and Pap-shouts, Let go, let go— real loud, in the Voice of Sinai, as he says, and‘then Mom’s shoul- ders begin to jerk, and her mouth pops down, and she begins to roll in the chair, and shout for the Pentecostal Baptism. And that turns the kids loose, they.all begin to jump and to babble; and gee, it scares you, somethin’ starts to grab you, and make you Jerk whether you want toor not. I rushed outof the house, and I shook my fist up at'the’sky and I yelled: ‘Damn God! Damn God!’ And then I waited’ for the sky to fall in, and it didn’t, and I said, I don’t believe it,.and I ain’t a-goit’ to make myself believe it, not if I get sent to hell. for,it.” “Ts that the reason you ran away?” “That's one of the reasons. You can’t get nowhere, livin’ like we do. We got a big ranch, but it’s mostly rocks, and we'd have a hard time anyhow; you plant things, end the rain fails, and nothin’ but weeds come up. Why, if there’s a God, and he loves his poor human creatures, why did he have to make so many weeds? That was when I first started to cussin’—I was hoin’ weeds all day, and I just couldn’t help it, I found myself sayin’, over and over: ‘Damn weeds; Damn weeds. Damn weeds! Pap says it wasn’t God that made ‘em, it was the devil; but then, God made the devil, and God knew what the devil was goin’ to do, so ain’t God to blame?” “Tt seems like it to me,” said Bunny. “Gee, kid, but you're lucky! You never knew you had a soul at all! You sure missed a lot of trouble!” spose I'll go back in the endit’s tough to think of your brothers “ir sisters starvin’ to death, and I don’t see wliat else can happen. ‘to ’em,” i hos ‘ “How many aré there?” “There's four, besides me; and they're all younger'n me,” + 2. (Be be continued.) There was a pause! and then Paul added: “I had a hard time runnin’ aWay, and 1"