The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1926, Page 6

‘| 7. Page Six TH E DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mail (outs/de of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $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 Bivd., Chicago, Illinois J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE {*” MORITZ J. LOEB Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, lil., under the act of March 3, 1879. «Editors ...Business Manager Advertising rates on application. No Farm Relief Congress will adjourn without passing a single measure for farm relief. Even the fake Fess marketing bill has been defeated by a heterogenous opposition. That, Coolidge will do nothing for the farmers and workers ex- | cept to increase their burdens is well understood ‘by ‘these two groups. Only the most benighted elements still have faith in him. But what to do? “Throw the rascals (republicans) out” and © put democrat scoundrels in? The southern democrat, the dominant group of*that party, have been just as hostile to genuine farm relief as have the most reactionary republicans. Opposition to it has been bi-partisan. Proponents of the “nonpartisan” system will point out in reply that the support for farm relief likewise has been bi-partisan, but they overlook the fact that this support, even when honest from the standpoint of capitalist,party politics, has been made ineffective by reason of its connection with the party machines. Support for farm relief has been tempered by all kinds of internal | party maneuvering and not one single honest challenge has been made to the capitalist control of both parties which is responsible for the failure to “do something for the farmers.” The agricultural problem is kept always in cold storage for use when other issues fail. The chronic distress of the working farmers is an asset to the old party politicians as long as the farm- ers are divided between the two capitalist parties. The last thing the so-called farm bloc, and the old guard as well, wants to do is to solve the problem of how the American farmer who works his land is to make a decent living. But if the farmers join with the workers in industry and or- ganize their own party, they will witness soon the spectacle of the old parties breaking their necks to “do something for the farmer,” to prove to him that an alliance with the workers in a°party con- “trolled by them has in it all the elements of revolution. Privileged el respond only to pressure. Inside the parties of capitalism the farmers and workers are smothered by the pressure of the machine. ; Outside they can exert pressure of their own and direct it to the weakest spot in the armor of the enemy. : Purely from the “practical” standpoint, stressed ‘so often by those who want to keep the farmers and workers in the parties of the bosses, independent poltical action by farmers and workers, based on their economic organizations, is the best way to get results. Another “Friend” of Labor Says John Walker: As president of the Illinois Federation of Labor, — support Smith for senator because he was more conside ate to the interests of labor than was Senator McKinley: So in order to get more consideration for “the interests of Ja > John Walker, as president of the Illinois State’ Federation of Labor, supports Frank L. Smith, a republican candidate, who carries the endorsement of and who is supported by the traction capitalists, the Commonwealth Edison, head and front of ‘the open shop movement in Illinois, and by other powerful public utility corporations. This appears to sane workers as a rather strange procedure but it is the logical result of the “nonpartisan” policy which, dis- appointed by a democrat henchman of the bosses, turns toa repub- lican agent of the same class for relief. Disappointed again, a return to the democrat vomit is in order and so on. John Walker was once an advocate of the labor party. But this was in the inglorious past before the primary slush funds were dispensed with such liberality and before Tllinois labor officialdom had eased its way into the secret places where luscious melons are cut by candidates of the open shop interests. If the investigation of the huge frauds and bribery, made pos-| sible by the primary law, serves no other purpose it ‘will at least start many workers to thinking a little about the connection be- tween injunctions and low wages and the fact that labor union officials are a part of the parties of the bosses. Gi 290 bor, Our Co-operative Section A co-operative department has been established by The DAILY , WORKER which will carry news and short comment on events in this important ‘leld of activity for workers and farmers. Our space is limited and it is impossible for us to give the co- , operative work the attention it merits but at least once per week a! special section will be carried dealing with co-operative activities. We solicit the co-operation of our readers in making this a live feature of The DAILY WORKER. News and short articles from <them will be appreciated very much and will aid in making the co- ; operative section an interesting and correct reflection of the militant co-operators’ movement. — GHANG ARD WU UNABLE | TO AGREE ON FUTURE DIVISION OF CHINA Fascisti Worried Over Excessive Imports to Close Down Night Clubs ROME, June 30.—-Premier Musso- lini {s about to close the night clubs in Italy, In view of an excess of imports, which is aggravating the Italian exchange situation, Mussolint plans to forbid the importation of all liquors and wines. The night clubs will be closed on the ground that they are luxuries and consume unnecessary foreign products and increase thé consumption of nec- essary domestic products Terrorized by East Side Bomb. NEW YO i 30.—A_ terrific bomb explostior ized the upper PEKIN, June 30.—Marshal Chang Tso Lin and Wu Pei Fu have ap- parently failed to reach a definite to the future rule of agreement a Chin, after meeting here in conference. Born Council Holds Picnic on July 18 Eee») TARENTUM, Pa, June 30.—The brought the whole thing cowardice. selves with the General Council’s By WILLIAM F, DUNNE, OT so long ago the MacDonald wing of the Labor Party and its adherents of the Thomas type in the trade union congress had to be driven by left pressure into a struggle to pre- vent the breaking off of relations with the Soviet Union, The Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics is ten times stronger today, it has defeated the Tory government of Great Britain in the diplomatic ex- change which took place over the question of aid to the general strike from the Russian unions. O, complete has been the defeat of the British foreign office that in its last note to the U. S. S. R. it dared not make the charge that the Soviet government had sent money to aid the strike but says merely that ae allowed the dispatch to Great Britain of money for the purpose of supporting the general strike. The general council of the trades union’ congress made the following assertion as part of a public statement issued in reply to ‘the government: The general council is not aware of there being the slightest vestige of evidence to support the allegation that this money was sent either directly or indirectly from the re- sources of the government of the U. S. S. R. HIS is all very well so far. But the general conference of the general council called for June 26, has been postponed until sometime in July. The officials of the miners’ union have agreed to this postpone-| | | ment. The right and center groups state that the postponement of the confer- ence, where the whole matter of the calling off of the general strike was | frightened as much as’ to a debacle. “cc to be the chief order of business, is necessary in order that internal dif- ferences arising’ out) of difference on questions of policy @ ‘tactics during the general strike @iy not interfere with the work of s up a united front of the whole Ii ‘br movement to resist the attacks on}y \Soviet Union. UT the Soviet yn has already defeated the Bal fin government, The coal miners and the rest of the British labor. movementwhave not. The coal miners dre still on strike and the chief task of' the British labor movement is to rally, al] its forces be- hind the miners, The Soviet Union is fairly well able to take care of itself.and for, that mat- ter it could get no better support than the crushing defeat which the British trades unions are able to administer to the British government if— They get behind the miners and fight. THERE is great popular sympathy for the Soviet Union in Great Britain, especially amdng the miners. The rest of the trade) unionists also know that alone of te labor move- wents of the world th@ Russian trade unions gave the most*generously, rap- idly and wholeheartedly both to the general strike and thejminers’ strike. The leaders who calied off the gen- eral strike before it had reached its maximum strength, who surrendered to the government and Jleft the miners to fight on alone, who figned coward- ly and disgraceful fdmissions of wrongdoing on the par} of the unions at the demand of thp bosses, who allowed thousands of jrade unionists to be victimized, the leqders who were ie government power dis- by the tremendous m | played by the British,.bor movement —these are the leaders.jvho have post- Boy—These Boots Fé@el Much Better! TOT Ty COOK COUNTY PRISON HEAD ADMITS DURKIN BUYS BOOZE IN JAIL | Martin J. Durkin, now on trial for the murder of the red-baiting fed- eral agent, Edwin C. Shanahan, It was brought out in the course of his trial, has been procuring booze since “his trial started from his jailers in Cook county jail. Captain George H. Weideling, when questioned by Judge Harry B. Miller as to the veracity of the rumors that Durkin was able to freely purchase booze while incar- cerated in the jail, admitted that it was true. Weideling blamed the presence of the booze in the jail on one of the jail guards, whom he declared had been arrested. It is not known What price Durkin paid his jailers for this privilege. Ferry Boatmen Seek Increase. SAN FRANCISCO.— (FP) — Ferry boatmen on both the Southern Pacific and the Key Route to Oakland have made demands for a $20 monthly pay raise, time and a half for overtime, an $-hour day and a 6<lay week, Russelton Counell for Protection ot Foreign-Born 1s arranging a picnic for y 18 at Prank Gajdas farm, at Ches- Pa. East Side * » wrecking a tenement and A ‘store and driving 200 families in the vicinity to the street. No one was Injured. eames thes nanerttande ware yer mtsect net pha AS: The men now receive from $130 to $170 a month.” Both companies an- nounce that they cannot afford t) wtbes ‘ poned the conference of the general council, giving as an excuse the ne- cessity of uniting the labor movement for a struggle against the breaking off of relations with the Soviet Union. HE Baldwin government dare not repudiate the Anglo-Russian treaty. It has been forced to recede from the position it took in regard to the money received by the miners from the Russian trade unions and all its anti-Soviet publicity is just so much froth and fume. Not the trade union leaders but the millions of Brit- ish workers, who once before forced its leaders to act, prevent Great Brit- ain from an. open breach with the Soviet Union as a preliminary to war. No British government, with the ex; port of coal, steel and textiles falling | daily, can exist if it breaks off trade relations with the Soviet Union. f has right and center of the labor party and the trade union con- gress know this. ‘Consequently they are flogging a dead horse when they try to pose as | the champions of the Soviet Union against the Baldwin government. It is a strange conception of interna- tional solidarity which puts first the defense of a government which has withstood victoriously the combined assaults of world capitalism for nine years, and which has succeeded in- stalling in its country a system which assures the working class and peas- antry an ever increasing standard of living while in all other European countries the tendency. is downward, while the British miners are not even assisted by the stoppage of foreign coal, ET this is the position taken by the official leaders of the British labor movement. It is a false position, a miserable eleventh hour maneuver The boot and shoe workers are taking left-wing leadership. With these boots watch them step! FIVE THOUAND CHILDREN NEED FOOD TO AID STRIKING PARENTS WIN FIGHT AGAINST WAGE CUTS tyryer, "Why Not Defend the British Miners? a EW days after this great strike, when the results of the capitulation had been ascertained, the authors of that same capitulation forgot to tell us how “a demonstration of power” was trans- |formed into the greatest demonstration of impotence ever seen. They forgot to tell us who, and why, More: they even try to defend this incredible capitulation by qualifying as “a courageous (!) gesture of peace” what the English worker calls treachery and Again, the miners are still out; are they in the right or not? Should they identify them- ‘courageous gesture of peace” or continue the struggle? Should |the miners be supported or not? How is it possible when a million workers are out on strike for such |a question to be passed over in silence? PRECISELY by doing this, this statement addressed to all and sundry, whitewashes the shameful action of the General Council in the strike. It directs and focuses the minds of the workers on a false road; with fine sounding phrases it patches over the crassest treachery and cowardice; it justifies a crime committed against the working class of Great Britain.—_A. LOSOVSKY. intended to give them more time to organize to stem the storm of protest which is ready to break about their heads, The Communist International has pointed out the real,eharacter of this pretended defense of the Soviet Union. Especially has it called the attention of the British working.class.,to the important task which it must under- take at once—complete exposure of all the officials responsible: for the scuttling of the general strike, and the mobilization of" the trade, union movement in support of the miners. HE strengthening of the will. to struggle fot the daily demands of the working class, the strengthening of the organizational power of the whole, labor movement; the clear un- dersfanding of the role of capitalist government as the instrument of the capitalists and the enemy of the work- ers, consolidation of the strength of the trade union movement for econ- omic.and political struggles, advan- tage taken of every opportunity to ob- tain a higher standard of living for the working class, ‘uncompromising struggle against all attempts to hound and persecute the,active elements in thé labor movement, these are the methods by which is made impossible successful war against the Soviet Union by the capitalist nations. In so far as they deviate from these methods, the British trade union. lead- ers are not: helping, but are injuring the Soviet Union, which is not only | the workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment of Russia, but the first workers’ and peasants’ jovernment in the world, born in’ tl¢'white heat of re- volutionary struggle, the first outpost captured by the proletarian battalions in the world rév@lution. Compensation Law Shown. Inadequate by Benzine Blast NEW YORK, June 30.— (FP)— Exploding benzine. fumes inya new apartment houge at 2704 University Ave. the Bronx, severely injured David Goldstein, painter, and Joseph Zipprae, plumber. The detonation ap- parently was due to spontaneous com- bustion, the benzine being an ingre- dient of a filler used in finishing hard- wood floors. Zipprae was at workin a bathroom, and was imprisoned there when the explosion banged the door shut and blew off the knob. His face, neck, and arms were badly burned. Goldstein plunged head-firet out of a fourth-| story window, somersaulting in air and landing on his feet in a courtyard below... Under the state compensation law these men can get no redress for the first seven days after being hurt. Then, even if totally disabled, they | can get no more than $20 a week from their employer, no matter how dan- gerous the working conditions which he may have permitted to exist, and no matter how large their families. WITH THE STAFF Being Things From Here and There Which Have Inspired Us to Folly or Frenzy Maybe ‘ An open shop Jawyer named Dennie, Of principles, didn’t have any; For as judge he ne'er failed To have girl pickets jailed Without charging the bosses a penny. —Reprinted by request. + ee * A Semple Story Telling of how she had been im- prisoned in a shack on the Mexi- can desert by “kidnappers” from whom she only recently escaped by: fleeing on foot thru the rough, wild country’ to Agua Prieta, 20 miles away, falling swooning by the wayside and rolling in the dust from exhaustion, the prize- winner of the week’s news, the vanishing eyangelette, Aimee Semple McPherson, rose up in the hospital bed where she had taken refuge after shedding her clothes that showed nary a sign of rough tfaveling or hardship, and --asking for the smelling salts— inquired eagerly, “What is being said about me? How dare any- body dowbt my story?” In reply to anxious mama’s query as to whether her kidnappers had ‘‘mis- treated her, she replied, “No moth- er, Jesus was with me.” Padded Cell Candidate We are. seriously considering the establishment of a lunatic column (Note; This is the staff column and we permit no undue inferences) to gather up the loose ends of the so-called human race and present them as a symposium of batty. belfries. F’instance, what would you do, if you were humped over a type- writer of The DAILY WORKER and were given the following pub- licity stuff of the “Scientific Hu- mane Education Society,” with headquarters (or hindquarters; take your choice) in Chicag6? | “When the Saviour of | the World was born in the barn, cer- tain. wonderful creations of God were the rightfully honored guests. In many lands today. the posterity of those distinguished guests are chopped up in butcher shops and used as food in social affairs. The three greatest fac- tories or chemical laboratories on earth are the living cow, sheep and hen. Feeding corn and other grains to hogs and beef cattle (perverted“ forms of life) natur- ally produces world-wide poverty, disease, crime, war, famine, cy- clones, ‘tornadoes, floods and other agencies for the criminal destruction of mankind, which will continue until the people of all nations learn to value and> ree spect the posterity of the honored guests in the barn when the Saviour of the World was born.” , There should have been inelud- ed in the list of “honored guests,” without doubt, a few chicken mites, fleas and other critters, whose posterity are still disturb- ed by the posterity of the cow switching her tail. What sacrl- lege! We object, too, at the rooster being omitted. The bull, of course, is included by. infer- ence. « ee "Ware the Tail Twisters : Sir Austen Chamberlain, Brit- ish foreign minister, declares in the house of commons that the Board of Education Gets in Tight Place Over Birth Control NEW YORK, June 30.— (FP) — There were embarrassing moments Bolsheviks are “utterly indiffer- ent to humanitarian motives.” At the same session, Sir Phil- lips Richard: trying vainly to make himself heard above the Ja- bor members’ riotous uproar PASSAIC, N. J., June 30.—There are two kitchens established and main. tained by the United Council of Workingclass Housewives with the help and the co-operation of the working women's organizations and sympathizers. ‘The textile ownérs hope that during the hot summer months, those who contributed and helped maintain the kitchens, will go away for the summer aud forget the children, Thg bosses hope that the hungry children will drive a and fathetW back into the¢——————_ mills to slave and»toll under even more miserable conditions than exist- ii ner takind hap pare tag ery ed before the strike, ships, but a mother cannot withstand a hungry child at her side, So rush your help to feed the chil- dren, Send in contributions, checks, money orders to kitchen, 80 Bast 11th street, room 287, New York City, or to Mill L. Smith, secretary of women’s coference committee, to help feed the children, 743 Main avenue, Passaic, N. J. P. S.-All contributions acknowl- edged by receipts of the United Coun- cil of Workingclass Housewives will be printed in the Textile Strike Bulle- tin, If you working women and men sympathizers believe that the textile strikers are striking for just demands, especially to you women, we say: “If you believe that a mother’s place is fo take care of her children during the day and to sléep and rest during the night, then you must do all in your power to help win the strike.” If this strike is lost it would mean work dur- ing the day for thousands of mothers and long hours of working during the night. i These men and women of the textile strike are brave and firm in the 22nd week in thelr bitterstruggle tor better living conditions, for their union, the only means of fighting for better con- ditionsethe only means of protecting Mal Earthquake Slight. MALAGA, Spain, June 30, — One house was destroyed in an earthquake themselves, It willkthen be up to the | which today rocked . and sev: working class to these working | oral nearby villages, ) wos ine until victory | jured [men and women in i for the board of education here at its |*gainst attacks on Soviet Russia, last meeting. It had before it a re- {declared concerning the Bolshe- commendation from the board of |viks’ brutality to helpless Britain: superintendents for a new by-law “Unele Sam would never let limiting married teachers to two /them twist: his tail as they twist maternity leaves of absence. Also, it had just learned that one count against the American Civil Liberties Union which has been bar- red from using school auditoriums for meetings, was that it encouraged birth control propaganda. the British lion’s.” THE HEIGHT OF EMBAR- RASSMENT Theodore Roosevelt put in an That was a tight place, If the board |“"happy evening at the N. 4. A. of education limited maternity leaves |0. P. conference in Chicago. He of absence it would doubtless lead |was in w baptist church with a some of the teachers to investigate the possibilities of contraception, So president Ryan made it clear that the proposed amendment was in bad taste. “T regard all restrictions against motherhood as against public policy,” he declared. Bobbed Hair Tax Defeated. LANDAU, Bavaria; June 30.-~A pro- posal to tax every bobbed haired wo- man in the town $10 was defeated here today but omly after a furious debate. The introduced | by one of the town councillors who lelivered a violent attack upon the practice, He grace to German girla” oe whiskey breath and a bishop on the platform, The chairwoman referred to thim as “one of the directors of the Sinclair Oil company.’ An other speaker praised Al Smith and the anti-saloon league—and no one’ mentioned OVIN POLI, The DAILY WORKER, iden 9 pol» Ri ais rat after the Is it possible jiven the nice