The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1926, Page 6

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LOEB ..Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. | = ——F we 290 Strange Advice to Negroes Fifteen hundred Negro men.and women listened Monday evening | to speeches delivered by William English Walling and Theodore | Roosevelt, speeches whose content was poison of the most virulent | kind, ? | Walling urged the Negroes to place no faith in parties but to, vote for their friends and against their enemies. He urged, therefore, | that the Negroes adopt the “non-partisan” method of voting which | the white workers and farmers have tried and found wanting and | which they are now beginning, as in Minnesota, to discard and build | a party of their own. If the Negroes, 90 per cent of whom are workers and farmers, follow-the advice of Walling, they become supporters of both the democrat and republican parties instead of merely supporters of the republican party as most of them are at present. They become tied to both parties of American capitalism—doubly enslaved. A heavy responsibility rests upon the Nationai Association for the’ Adyancement of Colored People when they allow their followers to be duped by a man like Walling who, in the darkest hour thru which the American masses passed—the-war period—deserted to the Wilson camp and assisted and condoned every act designed to throttle and punish with ferocious jail sentences-every expression of dissenting opinion. For Walling the war was a good thing. For the masses. of the Negro and white workers it was a bad thing. By following the ad- yice of Walling and his kind the labor movement became cowardly and impotent. If the Negro masses accept his policy, weakness and impotence will be their portion. What is there in the records of the republican and democrat parties in the last fifty years to warrant the belief that in their ranks can be found enough “good men” to force the social, political and economic emancipation of the Negroes? This type of man is not found in the ranks of the capitalist parties but outside them. It is not because they are “good” in the moral sense necessarily, but because they have learned thru bitter experience that the power of the capitalist parties is in the hands of southern and northern bankers and industrial lords—that the capitalist parties are the instruments of a special class—the capital- jst class—the class which keeps both Negro and white workers in subjection. THE DAILY WORKER wt did the workers think of the betrayal? On this point, there will be much published, for the work- ers are writing many letters, some of which are ev of their wa; was instantly struck by the fact that into the peep si lik ea eee revarca were) 6 the whole, taking | pury's”, which is so afraid of hurt- Ta er as a matter of course, and ing anyone’s feelings that it doesn’t going about their business with a sub- | ticise the leaders, has carried some lime disregard of the fact that world | «not gtuf” from railroad workers de- veoh had a been made under |nouncing Thomas & Co. But the brief- been erg “ ri cone of making | est one of all, the most to the point, reehges i — em or Aa was sent to the Women’s Committee periences, the new creations of the|¢oy Miners’ Relief. It said: masses in their great movement, all! «near Madam:—Enclosed find three attention was being turned to the} shillings for your fund. If you will Beige the betrayal and the official | throw our leadera in the Thames Much, very much, of the} % i 4 | we will next week send you three story of the strike which matters the | pounds."—(Signedy “Three Rail- most, will never be told because Brit- | . ish workers haven’t learned to write | road. Warne about their own life, But fragments || ONDON is a collection of 25 cities, of the precious story are gradually united under the ‘London County being gathered, which may some day /Council for certain purposes, but each help make the whole picture. jhaving its own organization, its own Here | are a few of such fragments: {Town Hail, etc. Four,of these town “ee ‘halls were turned over. to the strike committees or Councjls of Action of CERTAIN small town in Durham had stood completely solid during |their areas, and were at the same time the seat of the new power of the strike, the Council of Action had been particularly effective, taking By EARL R. BROWDER. OMING into London just after the betrayal of the Great Strike, one the workers as wéll°as of the old “democratic government” to , which |complete charge of the town during | had been elected real left-wingers. the strike period. It was known that} In Bethnal Green, ithe town council no Communists or organized minority |had Joe Vaughn, a Communist, as its movement existed there. One of the representative on the Council of Ac- so-called left wingers from London | tion; it woulg be hard to find a more dropped into the town to learn how | perfect example of transition forms of they had worked it. This is the story | organization such as may be expected as I heard him repeat it from the |to show themselves during the pro- local leader: cess of revolution. “We called a meeting of all officials Roan atk of labor organizations on the first| TNCIDENTAL to the infamous pol- day of the strike, meeting in the prip-|4 icy of the géneral council which cipal church. Of course, there was | proclaimed that tf great strike was some jealousy on the part of mem-|‘ purely an industrial struggle,” went bers of other churches, but we solved | instructions to local strike commit- that by pointing out that this one|tees ‘not to allow any speakers to was the only church big enough, and | talk politics at strike meetings.” This by getting all the ministers on the |nonsensical order was simply ignored platform. | Then we had prayer and|in most places; in others it worked sang ‘Lead Kindly Light,’ after which lout like this: the meeting took up {ts business. Al Chairman of Committee: “We are motion was made by a brother (who | very glad to have you speak but you is a local captain in the Salvation|must understand that most of our Army as well as a transport worker) | workers here ate Tories, voted for that .a Council of Action should be |Baldwin, and while they are striking elected. We didn’t know what that |loyally, still we must be careful of was, but he said all the big places | their feelings, and not talk politics.” were doing it, and that the couneil Speaker: “Oh, certainly, of course, should sort of take charge of things | we won't talk polities, We'll just talk and especially stop all transport. That | about the strike and the issues com- sounded reasonable, so we elected the ing out of it.” : council, and put the Salvation Army! C. of C.: “All right, then.” man in charge of the pickets, and|duces the speaker). then everybody prayed for the success! Speaker: (Addressing meeting): of the strike and the work of the |“Comrades, I will not talk politics to Council of Action, and then we went |you tonight, for ‘we aré interested in and did it.” Jthe general strike (great applause). (intro- In this fight, We have found out that the government is not~on,our side, that it-is on the side of the employ- ers, that it is the great strikebreaker (hisses and cries of ‘shame, shame’). But in spite of Baldwin and his fascist aids, in spite of Sir Simon and the tmiserable echoes of Baldwin in the Liberal Party, in spite of the false spokesmen of Labor who cringe and crawl before our enemies, we will stand solid in this general strike un- til we win.” (Tremendous cheering, and cries of “Down with Baldwin,” “Up with the real Labor govern- ment”). Chairman (after the meeting): “We certainly appreciated your wonderful speech, and I’m so glad you gdidn’t touch on, politics, because these Tory workers are so touchy about it.” 6 was certainly strange how acci- dents would happen to spoil the work of the few blacklegs who were recruited during the strike.. Thus, they say (though I can’t vouch for it) that the reason why ‘it is impossible to get a copy of the first. issue of the British Gazette, is that the guilty conscience of one of the blackleg printers brought on a momentary amnesia, which in turn resulted in a bolt dropping in the press, and ruin- ing all the stereotype plates after the original type had been distributed. However that may be, a certain other printer certainly did slip-up at exactly the correct moment, while reading proof on the pamphlet of Hamilton Fyre which purports to tell “behind the scenes” stories of the strike. The book is valuable, because it is a perfect exposure of the silly, fatuous, arrogant, and altogether de- spicable bourgeois inside the labor movement, and of the rank panic which reigned among the big ones of the T. U. C. general council. The proof-reader must have been deeply disgusted with the book, for, when he got to the cover, and there read a puffing advertisement of the contents, he so far forgot his craft-pride that he ‘slipped in a question mark where it should not have been according to the rules of the game. The result was a delicate irony. Thus— . “Mr. Hamilton: Fyfe was in the best position to know all about it | and in this book he-tells what he | ” | knows? Sa | HE miners have fighting leaders in A, J. Cook gnd Herbert Smith. Nothing is further from them than such action as Thomas boasted of— “grovelling for peace.” Going the Glimpses of the Great Strike | rounds of London “‘pmbs” is a little story which excellently illustrates. thiy fact: It was during the) negotiations car- ried on between tthe miners, the gen- eral council, and the Baldwin cabinet, in the’tense hours before the general strike was to go into effect. Things had come to a deadlock. Everyone was silent. Lord Birkenhead, presid- ing, demanded: “Well, has no one anything to contribute?” Still deep si- lence, “Mr. Smith,” said his lord- ship, addressing the venerable presi- dent of the Miners’ Federation, “haven’t you a final word for us?” “Yes,” said Herbert Smith, “Bug: ger you!” and he left the room. eo ee HE large Royal Albert Hall was packed with 10,000 workers who had paid six pence to two shillings per seat for the privilege of dem- onstrating support of the miners. It was a generous and warm-hearted audience which gave money—a thous- and pounds—and rings, watches and jewelry, to help feed the miners, It also gave freely of its applause to all the speakers, from the Communist, William Paul, editor of the Sunday Worker, to the Lady Cynthia Moseley, wealthy aristocrat turned labor party. But when Cook came on the platform the applause became a storm of cheers and songs of greeting. The climax of the meeting was when Cook said: ‘ “The most magnificent thing that has come out of this struggle:so far is the demonstration of what real in- ternational solidarity means, in the assistance given us by the Russian unions.” The demonstration which followed, and the singing of the International, indicated that in the hearts of about 9,999 of thé total 10,000 workers pres- ent, the Anglo-Russian Unity Commit- tee was a very vital and very living thing. ii IHESE little pictures are not nearly so important as the statistics of the decline of capitalist production, or the weighty theses which must be read by all of us on “The Lessons of the Great Strike.” But still, slight as they are and fragile, things, most of them to be taken with a smile, they do reflect quite truly that enormously important historical, fact—that the workers, of Great Britain had set their feet upon the path of revolution, and were only snatched back, not ‘by their own fear or weakness, ‘but by the fear and treachery of their formerly-trust- ed leaders. They tasted a moment of power, and from that moment dates the future. Walling’s proposal amounts to nothing more or less than an alliance with the enemies of the Negro masses. ‘As for Roosevelt, his platitudes—“governmental rights and civie opportunities’—have been the stock in trade of republican pol- iticians for years. It is a strange conception of their duty to their race which moves the N. A. A. C. P. to bring such a speaker to their meetings. Surely any group which has the interests of their race at heart, and which knows even a little of the futile efforts made by the labor unions and farmers, the tremendous waste of time and energy, and the complete lack of concrete results achieved by the non-partisan policy, should at least have given the question of independent polit- ieal action by Negro and white workers and farmers a place on the program of its conference. The failure to do this has made the N. A. A. C. P. a field for ex- ploitation by every self-seeking politician anda prey to the ambi- tions of every whirling dervish of the democrat and republican par- ties who cannot for one reason or another, gain admission to the inner councils of the capitalists. Asking Ai Smith to Investigate His Man New York City believes in being first in all things. If Pennsyl- vania corporations and millionaires spent $3,000,000 to corrupt the voters in the republican primaries, Gotham traction interests and Wall Street banks spent twice that amount to put over Governor Al Smith’s candidate for mayor of the city. According to figures submitted by City Magistrate David Hirsch- field, who was commissioner of accounts under Mayor Hylan, the backers of Al Smith and his candidate, the broadway he-butterfly, Jimmy Walker, spent the,enormous sum of $6,000,000 in the primary Chilean Delegate in Tacna-Arica Augustin Edwards is the leader of the Chilean delegation on the plebis- citary commission that has been, un- der the chairmanship of an American, and election of 1925. The victory was cheap at that, considering the fact that about twice as many people east votes in New York City as in the state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Hirschfield, being a good democrat, like Al Smith, ought not to object to the Néw York traction interests spend- ing as much per vote for the candidate of America’s leading democrat as the Mellon interests spent to put over a Pennsylvania republican. Mr. Hirschfield is also a very simple-minded man and demands that Governor Smith appoint an impartial tribunal to investigate the New York slush fund. Does Mr. Hirschfield imagine that Al Smith is going to investigate himself ‘and Tammany Hall? While the politicians who are out fighting against those who are in and expose the fact that the great public utility combines spent millions of dollars to elect their own mayor it would be the better part of wisdom for the workers of the city of New York and of other places where such scandals have broken, are breaking and will break, to ask why it is of interest to the corporations to spend so much on their candidates. . An inquiry into these stush funds from a class point of view will furnish one more valid reason why labor should create its own polit- ical party and challenge both old parties. It will also reveal why the labor officials at the head of various branches of the trade union movement support Tammanyite candidates in New York, Pinchot in Pennsylvania and other capitalist candidates in other parts of the country. Part of the slush fund determines the political policy of these leaders in the labor movement who support capitalist .can- didates. They are for sale to the highest bidder and oppose the crea- trying to settle the sovereignty of Tacna and Arica for eleven months. The United States holds the, whip hand. She is partial to Chile because she has large interests of her own to look after there, “Natural Bloom” Cigar Workers’ Strike Enters Ninth Week NEW YORK June 28,—For the past nine weeks the “Natural Bloom” cigar workers have been on strike. Previous to the beginning of the strike the best workers were making $25 to $30 a week on piece work, The bosses, if ordér to destroy union con- ditions prevailing im the shop and to further cut wages, brought in a bunch of new workers, agreeing that they who have no money ‘to build temples, Florida Collapse Is Hitting Banks; Run Kidnapped Evange should join the union under the pre- text that they would be needed to fill a number of orders on hand. No sooner had these new workers been employed than tle bosses claimed that orders had been can- celled and started to lay off the old union workers, ‘The company also established a fac- tory in Passaic in order to defeat the pickets at the New York factory. In Passaic the pickets have great dificulty to get pear the factory, All workers should remember that the “Natural Bloom’ cigan is being made now by scabs, bs an EE, doy. se help to {reopen within 60 for Palm Beach Cash WEST PALM BEACH, Fia., June 29 —The movement of $10,000,000 in cash in armored motor cars froni Miami to West Palm Beach during the night became known this morning when all banks in the city, with the exception of Palm Beach Bank and Trust Com- pany amd the Commercial Bank and Trust company opened their doors in the face of crowds thru which exci! ment ran high, With the emerg available, bank offic supply of cash 1s were confident the near-pani¢ ng depositors would rapidly i le. The Palm eBach Bank and st company, it was announced , probably will fe fie Workers! The DAILY WORKER is on sale at the Workers’ Co- operative Restaurant, 1733 Broadway, 1637 Washing- ton and 21 East 16th Ave. Step over for a copy— you'll find YOUR paper there every day. - GET A COPY! | Turn in & supscri tion and be sure mies it always. list, Back, Starts Resival - There was something queer about Aimee Semple MacPherson’s abduction. Her tale. of harrowing experiences in the desert after being “spiritad” away in broad daylight from a Los Ang If it was publicity ehe was after, she got it. It seems very logical that there should be a revival on the occasion of, her “return.” She has a big following of retired wealthy who have gone to California'to clip coypins. Workers, are not interested in her “four-square” gospel. shown in bed, recovering form her escapade. The mayor of i | driver that was supposed to have found her in Mexico and thi The woman “Billy Sunday’ New Railroad Merger. Involving a Billion Is Planned by L. F. Loree WASHINGTON, D, C., June 29. — Plans for another gigantic railroad merger, rivaling in magnitude the proposed billion dollar Van Sweringen Nickel Plate consdlidation, have been practically completed, and will be sub- mitted this week to the Juterstate Commerce’ Commission for approvai, it was learned today. The new merger involves the Kansas City Sou ‘n, Missouri-Kay sas-Texas, and the St. Louis-South- western railroads. L. F. Loree, pre! dent of the Delaware and Hudson, is spongor of the merger. ‘ Loree's — “will differ tron ‘that he does ike stock exchange bathing beach is hard to swallow. is Arizona, is questioning her. Below is the taxi- anitarium to which he took her. et a WITH THE STAFF Being Things From Here and There Which Have. Inspired Us to Folly or Frenzy Who's a Swede, Eh? Gustay Adolphe was a jolly young Swede; O, a jolly young Swede was he, Though his mother’s folks came from Hamburg And his father’s from gay Paree, He came to visit the U. S. A. And the plute press went to ravin’ \ At the face and the form And the hair and the eyes Of this “typical Scandinavian.” see GOING SUMMERING WITH BILLY THE FAT? Bill Taft (you all know Billy the Fat) is reported as having been too sick to leave Washington to occupy his summer home ih Canada. The DAILY WORKER bunch have also been delayed in leaving for their summer homes, but chiefly be- cause they haven't got any. We imagine that darn few workers have left for sum- mer homes because there aren’t any summer homes left for them, after, the capitalists occupy ‘em. We note Taft has chosen. Ganada, probably for the cool, damp climate. ees Bishops and Bacteria. We should like to know how many of.the thousands of lips that have kissed the episcopg! rings of the pre- lates, attending the Eucharistic Con- gress deposited what varieties of germs, and how many of each on the blessed jewels, and how many lips carried them off again. This seems to be a problem for one of those ecumenical councils that worry themselves trying to determine. how. many angels can dance on the point. of a needle. see Stand Back and Don't Crowd, The “comrade at the next desk” was looking over the Philadelphia papers and- found an item concerning the appropriation of 7,500 francs by the Colonial Council of the Virgin Islands to provide for an exhibition at the sesqui-centennial. The item was headed—“Virgin Is, To Exhibit Here.” es Oh; Dahm, Give Us a Younger Elder! Under a bombardment of eggs, vegetables, and stout sticks, four disciples of John Alexander Dowie were chased out of Evanston, Iili- nois, by @ crowd of 700 angry citi- zens. Elder H. A. Nichols was Plastered from head to foot with eggs and Elder B. F. Dahms was badly battered—News item, June 27,1901. ee ice, THEM WUZ THE DAYS |) MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 25, 1861 —Mobs attacked banks in this city and. enormous damage was done to several institutions. The mob went from one bank to another, wrecking as it went: The Capt. Hibbard Zouaves, preparing to leave for war, were called and the rioters dispersed. Fifty-two were arrested. The inflam- matory meeting was held. A cannon was procured and a demand made on the mayor for the release of the pris- oners, The mayor refused and defied the rioters. They threaten to take the town by storm. Every citizen who can get a gun is armed and martial law has been declared. ‘ e#e Our idea of nothing to kick about is given by the item from Olso, Norway. A protestant min- ister accuses the nurses in a Catholic hospital of having de- prived a protestant patient of\his bible and burning it. Our idea, is that it is bad luck enough to be in “a hospital, : a » AIN'T THE DEVIL BUSY! The jolly old friars have a right to protest, At the greatest celebration of the Bucharistic congress, just when the representative of the pope started a parade of three miles around a lake, bearing the sacred monstrance with the “actual body” and the “ac- tual blood,” ete., all hell broke loose in a driving storm of wind, rafn and hail, The faithful fled for Shelter, breaking so many ribs and tramping on so many of one another that the Chicago hospitals were filled to the doors, $200,000 of silken vestments ruined, and more straw hats spoiled than would feed Nebraska's cows over winter, The good book had warned them about it rainfhg on the just and the unjust, but it never said anything about hail» owe “a Speaking of the Eucharist, Reminds us of the hostesses who were returning from seeing the vis- itors off—on the train, ‘Who did you have, Mr. Brown?” as) ne Mrs. Retlaw, “Oh, a very nice minister, you haver a. “I had ‘two locust preachers?" obsetved Mra, Retlaw, “You mean local preachers, custs are those insects that see sadly Lo- warm