The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ |: and Farmers’ Government Vol.” » 4 By THOMAS J, O’FLAHERTY HH number of Georgia and Florida banks that have closed their doors within the past week is now almost bacle was the sudden withdrawal of bacle was the sudden withdrayal of funds from those institutions. Now that the real estate sharks have scooped in all the available cash in the pockets of the get-rich-quick speculators, the banks have decided that it is about time they should clean up. “As safe as a bank” constitutes a causus belli in Georgia and Florida today. ee ‘VEN such a conservative politician as Governor Blaine of Wisconsin declared recently that there were more burglars sitting in the executive chairs of banking institutions than in the penitentiaries. This was said by way of comment on the organization of armed bands of vigilantes by the bankers, for the purpose of defending their interests against holdup gangs. The financial crash in Florida and Georgia has attracted nation-wide at- tention because of the number of banks involved and the relation of the debacle to the Florida land boom. But thousands of depositors are robbed of ’ their savings every day by defaulting bank officials. see IMED McPHERSON should worry even tho the grand jury decides that she pulled off a fraud in her quite obviously staged kidnaping stunt. Aimee declares she was spirit- ed away and held for a half million dollar ransom. Incidentally the mother she left behind cleaned up a nice bit of money from the faithful followers of the “four square” gospel. Both Aimee and her fond parent now blame the grand fury quiz on the devil and this explanation should stand up be- fore any collection of religious Iuna- tics, particularly the kind that Los Angeles produces. se 8 HAT religion and business are not incompatible, is further proved by a telegram sent to the mayor of Los Angeles by Kenneth Orminston, al- leged to be.the unofficial lover of the divinely inspired Aimee. His name was connected with the evangelist in & manner not calculated to reflect eredit on his loyalty to the marriage conventions. That gentleman justi- fies his absence on the ground that he stands to clean up one hundred thousand dollars on a Florida land boom and cannot leave for home until the big chance is cinched. Now, people are wondering if the plot does not thicken. Perhaps, they say, Aimee, the pretty bathing suit comforter of the afflicted, and her former radio oper- ator decided to stage the kidnaping, biame it on the devil and his agents and soak the faithful for capital to start in business on a large scale, People are suspicious these days of the lord’s agents unless they belong to some “respectable” institution, ta AILLAUX is down if not out. Per- haps he is down and out. So is the franc, Edward Herriot, the radical, seems to have more regard for “de- mocracy” than the Belgian socialists who handed dictatorial powers to a king. Herriot will fail even as Cail- Jaux did. The franc will continue to sag until France is ready to eat out of the hands of the International bank- ers. The independence of Europe is very much of a myth today. With England on the decline, the power of the United States grows by leaps and bounds and a great part of the world is already paying tribute to the molochs of Wall Street. . “8 N paerctouls BALDWIN, British prime minister, can be very religious and loyal to the church when it suits his purposes. But when the church sug- gested a settlement of the mine strike (Continued on page 2) Industry Killed 138 Workers During May in N. Y. State Alone ALBANY, N. Y. July 16,~—Indus- trial fatalities in New York totalled 138 in May, according to figures just issued by the state department of labor, Of course, 39 were in manu- facturing industries and 35 were in construction. .Six deaths were attri- buted to polsonous substances, three from Jead, two by Ki and one by escaping ammonia in an ice cream factory. One death was due to burns, The victim worked in a’ fireworks plant, and was mixing colored fire, His clothes were ignited and he was 80 160. Subscription Rates: Soe, 4 ° 4% * i ° oe] bh BALDWIN WILL NOT CONSIDER STRIKE TERMS Church Proposal Won't Even Be Answered (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, July 18. — While thous- ands of working women paraded thru the fashionable West End of London to demonstrate their sympathy and support of the striking miners, Pre- mier Baldwin, in a letter to the Bishop of Titchfield, refused to consider the proposals accepted by the Miners’ Federation which a council of church- men had proposed as settlement terms, and even refused to give a formal answer to the ecclésiastics. No End In Sight, This ends the latest attempt to end the strike of 1,250,000 coal miners that arose from a lockout when the mine owners tried to force a wage cut and a longer work day, The churchmen had written the goy- ernment a letter suggesting that the coal commission be re-instituted to ad- minister a government subsidy for four months and to direct re-organiza- tion of the coal industry, with the miners to return on the old wage scale during the four months while re-organization would go on to make wage cuts unnecessary. Owners Aided by Baldwin. The coal operators have agreed to meet the churchmen to discuss the situation in general, but as the gov- ernment has acted in advance to sup- port the owners’ opposition to re-or- ganization, the chance of their yield- ing-to the bishops is slight. The » demonstration ~ of<~ working women sang the “Red Flag” and the “Internationale” as they paraded past the clubhouses of the wealthy, crying out: “Why don’t you do some work? Go and earn your living!” Women Attack Government. The paraders bore banners favoring the miners’ slogan, “Not a penny off the pay; not a minute on the day!" At their meéting resolutions were adopted expressing “deep indignation at the government's handling of the coal strike. The public was appealed to for temporary homes for miners’ children and speakers said that strike relief was coming from the Soviet Union, Germany and America. But more was needed as the fight was gigantic and the need wide and urgent. Fourteen Killed in Gas Explosion (Special to The Daily Worker) DULUTH, Minn., July 18.—Fourteen persons were injured and several others shaken up when a gas e&x- plosion shook a branch office of the city water and light department. The cause of the explosion has not been determined. tonal Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Un: j their. In Chicago, by mail, Outside Chicago, by mail, Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, a the Post Office at Chicago, Mlinols, under the Act of March 3, 187%, $8.00 per year. $6.00 per year. IMPERIAL AGENT VISITS CANADA TO LEARN THE TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1926 cRS STRIKE IN CANTON TROOPS CHUSE OF DISCONTENT WIN VICTORY The strained condition of the dominion’s internal affairs is causing Downing Street, London, much worry, The Earl of Clarendon has an important mission, FARHER-LABOR FORCES BUILD PARTY IN PA. Cambria County Pushes to the Foreground By ESTHER LOWELL, Federated Press Correspondent. PORTAGE, Pa., July 18. —(FP)— “An aggressive movement to acquaint the people with the need for nation- alization” of the coal industry was de- cleared part of the campaign program of the Cambria County Farmer-Labor party in its July convention at-Port- age, Pa, Some 60 delegates from United Mine Workers local nnions, brotherhood of locomotive firemen & enginemen lodges, from farmers’ granges and from local labor party units partici- pated, The Cambria County party has been. active for five years and has elected officials in many communities as well as putting two members in the state assembly and one in the state senate, Election Program. Resolutions against outstanding abuses outlined a constructive course for the labor party's fight in fall elec- tions. Nationalization and democratic management of the coal industry were called for. Trial by jury in labor con- tempt of court cases and legislation (Continued ‘on page 2) jon 1924 st#ke. picket, took Gor sentences for refusing to they left the | obe: y° jail after completing | tion” Judge Denis B. Sullivan. OVER WU ARMY Imperighist | Forces in Northward Flight (Special fo The Daily Worker) CANTON, China, July 18—Troops of the revolutionary Canton govern- ment have recently inflicted severe defeats on the imperialist armies of Wu-Pei-Fus The Cantonese have cap- tured Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, and are marching on Han- kow, a Fu stronghold and his principal source of graft and ammunition sup- pl Differences in the camp of the im- perialist fore@s are causing the Brit- ish and American capitalists consider- able worry! The British in particular have poured @ treasure into the cof- fers of Wu and they now fear that their money ‘will be a total loss Nationalist Armies Draw Closer. General Feng’s : armies in the vicinity of Peking have also inflicted defeats on Chang-Tso-L' forces. A union of Feng’s armies with the Can- tonese is expected shortly. Hordes of soldiers from the Wu and Chang armies ‘are pillaging the homes and farms Of the peasantry. The worst offenders are the White Ru brigades. destroy wha they cannot consume, foreing the Women to work twelve and fourteen Rlours a day-in the broil- ing sun and then force them to cater to their lus! Terror stalks in the wake of thi brigands and, the ‘masses’ pray 2 the return of Peng’s nationalist armies. British and\ American missionaries, against this vandalism, SACCOVANZETTI LAWYERS MOVE (Special to The Daily Worker) DEDHAM, Mass., July 1 davits in support of a peti new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti, two labor leaders who were framed, indicted and convicted on the charge of killing a paymaster in Braintree in 1920, were filed here last Friday by William G. Thompson, for the defense. The pareve: were impounded by the court. The affidavits will be given to the district attorney for study and the pre- paration of answers, A hearing date is expected to beset shortly. “WE ARE READY TO DEFY ANOTHER INJUNCTION” y an edict handed down by nee With reckless abandon they | with few exceptions, fail to protest | FOR NEW TRIAL There | junctions have, been issued King Albert of Belgium who was granted dictatorial powers by the Belgian parliament. The socialists voted for the measure which gave the monarch unlimited power. Com. munists have labelled the Belgian socialists: “The King’s Socialists.” Not without reason! LLG. STRIKE FACES FIGHT WITH COURTS N.Y: Bosses Will Ask an Injunction (Special to The Daily worker) NEW YORK, July 18, — William |Klein, attorney for the Industrial |Council representing the garment manufacturers against whom the !n- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers are striking 40,000 strong, has an- | nounced that he is applying for an in- junction against the strikers “to pro- |tect the designers who have remained at work.” The suit will be filed Mon- day or Tuesday. The court will be asked “to restrain the strikers from coercing or intimidating the design ers in an. effort to get them to join the strike,” Furriers Give Day’s Pay. Morris Sigman, president of the In- ternational, stated that the Furriers’ Union had voted t their meeting Thursday at the Manhattan Lyceum that each of the 10,000 furriers in New York donate a day’s pay to the strike \fund of the I. L. G. W. Salvatore Ninfo of the Strikers’ Set- tlement Committee reports that 125 shops of the 2,000 struck have appliea for settlement, some from the largest (Continued on page 2) NEW YORK EDITION day by THE DAILY WORKER Washington Bivd., Chicago, I. Price 3 Cents GINIA Fight on-to Win 40,000 Workers in Fairmont Field By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press. MORGANTOWN, W. Va., July 18.—Scott’s Run is on strike and it is telling the world. Mass picketing, parades and singing girls are doing the telling along the seven-mile road that runs past the tipples of this field. And empty coal cars along the Monongahela tracks are helping with the tale. The four thousand strikers of Scott’s Run are setting the pace to the whole Fairmont district of northern West Virginia. They gave the first big response to the general strike call issued July 5 and their example may bring the desired general walk- out. There are about 40,000 miners in this part of the state, of whom only a few hundreds were working under union contract when the call was issued. oe Out At Dawn On Picket Line, Gilbert-Davis bosses ordered evic- . t he work r ke The Scott’s Run strikers get up a, ee ree bei Ea early in the morning to fight the fo ie yo aoe eee q ‘aa a} | been delayed by the courts. But the bosses, Every a. m. at 4:30 the local atietaie to una. the: oouste 4 ‘ 1 pound the doors. Out the workers and] vite wage contract te an ima ti | their wives tumble from the company | 4. doteated . , paste 6x es, 2 scend the sides to ie ay ee . . houses, and descend the hillsides t Judge Lazelle, a West Virginia cap- the ,road that runs by the tipples > . a .| italist, sat on that case, and ag this Every morning the numbers of pick-| ; 2 ‘ judge collects royalties from some of ets have been swelling and the num- the’ col 2 5 “a ; hack OE tha acai abtithe he coal lands the Paisley interests thee eam aoe . - are using, he turned down the union's There are still some 20 to 25 per} application. Lazelle’s injunctions have sent of the working force along the} ali been on the other side, against Run to be pulled ont. Most of these] ynion labor are “company” or day-men, or import- General Strike Popular. ed scabs of doubtful coal experience Local strikes against the contract Nearly all the coal diggers are out, and} breakers were called last April. But the compani are not shipping many| the Bertha Coal Co., the Bunker Coal black monds any more, as the! (Co., the Soper-Mitchel and a string of ‘empties” and the three-or-four-car} others had broken contracts in 1924 trains hauled by dinky-engines, show. | and 1925 or else had never signed the But the strikers want to make a] contract at all. The whole Scott's hundred per cent job of it and every} Run field was now scab and the union day shows a gain. Scott's Run strikers have fresh grievances. Tho loss-of union job pro- tection is too recent for them to have miners began talking of a general strike as the only way to get results When the general strike call was issued it got quick results in Scott's gotten used to scab conditions, Till] Run, E April some of the leading com-" Spirit of Victory. s in this valley continued to do| Two new local unions have been business with the union at the three-lformed. Picketing is managed by a year c , which in this dis. {trict fetches $7.26 for day men and cowesponding prices for the tonnage | miners. Then the @leveland-Morgan- | Sanford town company (Paisley interests), and | vi the Gilbert-Davis company and smaller | the ns, joined the ranks of contract- | the cers, Wages dropped to $4.60 a| the |police committee of five men }each local union. the general from The strike is under direction of Organizer Snyder, acting for the pro. ional district No, 31. The spirit of strikers is high and they hope that strike will shut down the rest of | big Fairmont district a hundred which at part-time employment | per cent, including the huge Conso- ee and Bethlehem properties. day meant a very slim income. LIMA, OHIO, TO HAVE LABOR TICKET IN FIELD FOR NOVEMBER ELECTIONS LIMA, ©., July 18—The Central Labor Union of Lima has passed a resolution creating a labor political committee for the purpose of placing a complete farmer-labor ticket in the field in the November county elections. Last fall, the Lima central body built up a united front conference and named candidates which i supported in the municipal elections. These can- didates made an exceptionally good showing in rallying the votes of the workers of the city behind them. The committee consists of A. L. Wilker, Scott Wilkins and Charles Broscotter. This committee will work out the plans for a broader conference of the workers’ and farmers’ organizations in the county which will name the ticket and adopt a platform for the farmer-labor party. ‘The Chicago unions against which { should still a number of workers in join their forces: iy. demapding the FILIPINOS GIVE COL. THOMPSON COOL RECEPTION ‘Demand Coolidge Free the Philippines (Special to The Daily Worker) MANILA, July 18.—At a joint sea sion of the Philippine legislaive bodiew a resolution asking Colonel Carmi A. Thompson to inform President Coo lidge that the Philippines demand inde- pendence and would continue their struggle for independence animously passed, The annual message of Gov. Gen- eral Leonard A. Wood was met with a graveyard silence. The speech of Col. Thompson before the joint meet- ing received a cool reception. Manuel Quezon, president of the sen- ate, forced the half-hearted clapping before and after Thompson's speech, Remove Wood! “An impasse exists and will con- tiara to exist as long as Gen. Wood is governor,” said one of the leaders of the independence movement. “Who- ever is to blame, that is a fact, and there is no getting around it, “The legislature will not pass any law asked by Gov. Wood because of the feeling against him. Since it is lease of these workers. They should |impossible to remove the legislature, also make this the occasion for ee only cure for a bad age ie Onomink Of an AntelWjunction drive, | the removal of Gov, Wood.” was un- MST MYT AY RENT! SSRN RTIN ayes