The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1926, Page 6

TOR at ce £ 1e C che igh at rike iy one ar. pate ice ‘ork inn Le Vor aril bei 1B + dt t a rile ter nte >. > eee eee — Page Six Mg HE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. | 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe mith SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By. mall (outside 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 Blvd., Chicago, IIlInols ect, J. LOUIS ENGDA WILLIAM F. DU: MORITZ J. LOE. .. Editors 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. a “Wolf! Wolf!” Howls John John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and one time prominent in the progressive wing of the American Federation of Labor, seems to be suffering from an incurable desire, to take one of Aesop’s fables too seriously. It is the one about the boy who was guarding the sheep from the wolves. Out of pure devilment, the lad shouted, “Wolf!” when, there were no wolves for the pleasure of seeing the villagers scurrgy- ing to help him. He had his fun but when the wolves came and he called for assistance no help arrived. Perhaps this tale does not adorn the moral, but it’s a good story anyhow. Fitzpatrick is no child, yet he is childish. He went into hys terics last Sunday because one of the delegates, who happened to be a Communist, stated in answer to a question that he was unable to secure the presence of Fitzpatrick, Nockels, Olander, Oscar Nelson or other prominent conservative labor officials at a. meeting called to fight the injunction that sent several girl members of the I. L. G. W. U. to jail. Therefore he had to invite labor leaders who were not afraid to fight the injunction. One of them happened to be William Z. Foster. While the girls were in jail the federation officials did nothing to assist them, outside of appealing to Governor Len Small, their political angel. Small did nothing, then Fitzpatrick kindly threw the blame on the attorney general who is gunning for Small’s job. In his anxiety to guard the interests of the conservative labor officialdom (and incidentally the employers), from the Communist “wolves,” Fitzpatrick usually succeeds in making an ass of him- self. Last Sunday, for instance, he grabbed the wrong end of the pole when he attacked the girls who went to jail over the injunction issue and sneered at their alleged efforts to win martyrdom. None, only the most hardened in the ranks of the labor fakers would take this attitude towards women who went to jail for a great cause. Some of those women left their little children in the care of others and served their sentences. Of course, John Fitzpatrick is not. without compassion for the sufferings of others. But he finds himself in a most unhappy posi- tion. The situation is not to his liking, but he must sleep in the bed he selected. He must either fight the employers or the progressives. He has elected to fight the progressives. Fitzpatrick once stated that the Communists are clever enough to champion issues that are of interest to the working class. Quite true. And that is the main reason why Mr. Fitzpatrick will not be able to carry out his ultimatum delivered in the heat of anger last Sunday. John said he would not give delegates, who were also Com- munists, the floor until they proved they were not Communists. If Fitzpatrick got ahead of the Communists in pushing issues that are of interest to the workers, he would have no trouble with them. But then he would be so much like a Communist that the old Skinny Madden gang might come to life and make life miserable for him. This is no world for a person who wants peace, West Virginia Miners Again in Battle The unconquerable coal diggers of West Virginia have again raised their battle flags against the operators who have succeeded after years of struggle in wrecking the United Mine Workers of America in that state. West Virginia is one of the most famous theaters of war in the glorious history of the coal miners’ union. It is here that the coal magnates have delivered their heaviest blows. It is here that the miners have written the most splendid chapters in the story of a struggle against unbearable conditions. The coal miners of West Virginia not only had to fight against the employers, their gunmen and their courts, but they were also under the handicap of having an international officialdom which systematically sabotaged their efforts and destroyed the solidarity of the district organization. Instead of fighting the operators, Lewis and Green wined and dined with them. They preferred to have their feet under the bosses’ table rather than on the picket line. Lewis and Green and the rest of their flunkeys were more interested in conducting a war against the progressive elements in the union rather than against the union-smashing employers. According to all indications the present strike is a mass move- ment on the part of the miners in the Fairmont district, having for its aim the organization of the 40,000 miners in that part of the state. The striking miners are showing that they are made of the stuff which can produce victories. A victory in West Virginia would | be a clarion call to the miners in every part of coal mining section of the United States to renew the struggle to organize the mines 100 per cent. A Correction We regret that in Monday’s issue of The DAILY WORKER Comrade A, Lozovsky’s name was, by an mechanical error, left off an article on this page entitled, “The General Council Intrigues Against the British Coal Miners. COMMITTEE SPEAKING FOR 40,000 CITIZENS OF PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY, ASSAILS THE “CHTIZEN’S COMMITTEE” (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N, J., July 19—The executive committee of the Associated Societies and Parishes of Passaic, representing more than 40,000 citizens, attacked the strikebreaking activities of the so-called “Citizen's Committee” organized recently with strong mill backing for the purpose of attacking the leadership of the strike and depriving the strikers of relief funde, The “Slavic Committee” as the Associated Societies and Parishes are commonly called, denounced in no uncertain terme the publicity statements of the Citizen's Committee, intimating that it was the tool of a few politicians - of business men who are feeling the pinch of the long strike. ‘ French Strikeb Above are shown members of the French fascist movement in conference at Rheims. o reakers Hold National Convention Recruited from much the same middle-class and rural elements as their black Italian brothers, these Frenchmen hope to take advantage of the falling franc to establish :a black-shirt dictatorship of capitalism. PASSAIC HEALTH HEAD IS PLIANT | TOOL OF BOSSES Seeks to Block Relief to Underfed Children (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., July 19.—The state- | ment of Dr, John N, Ryan, city health | officer, that the children of the 16,000 striking textile workers are not in need of milk was sharply assailed by Alfred Wagenknecht, chairman of the general relief committee of textile strikers, 743 Main avenue, in an inter- view here today. Declaring that Dr. Ryan was “duti- fully falling in line with the policy of the mill bosses and their latest tool, the citizen's committee, in attempting to cut off relief and starve the work- ers back to the mills,” the relief chair- man challenged Dr. Ryan to go into the homes of the workers and test the truth of his assertion, Malnutrition, “He will find most of the strikers’ ehildren suffering from underweight and malnutrition as a result of their parents’ inability to furnish them with nutritious food on the starvation wages paid by the millionaire mill barons. And if he is not altogether prejudiced against workers’ children getting milk, he will be forced to agree with us that these kiddies are in urgent need of milk and other nu tritious food.” The relief. chairman called atten- tion to the cases of 100 strikers’ chil- dren who were recently given a medi- cal examination. “Fifty of them were found to be underweight and suffering from malnutrition and anemia,” he de- clared, “They were all chosen at ran- dom, as the first hundred to register for the summer camps. The study of the Workers Health Bureau of New York City of 404 cases of Passaic tex- tile workers and their children showed similar results. “Whether Dr, Ryan and the citizen's committee like it or not, the workers of America are going to see that these underfed and puny bodies are strengthened to resist disease and for the struggle against such autocracy and oppression as exist in the textile industry, Seek to Block Relief. “The workers are wise to the bosses’ game. Having failed to drive the textile strikers back to the mille ings in zero weather, savage jail sen tences, and excessive bail bonds, the bosses are now in a starvation offen sive. They have picked the tender- est point. They plan to weaken the splendid resistance of the striker par- ents with the cries of hungry children. A few days ago, thru the citizen’s com- mittee, they impudently injected themselves into the labor movement in an effort to cut off relief. And now, thru the accommodation of Dr, Ryan, they attack the children's milk campaign of the Passaic strikers, on the assumption that worker's children do not need milk and nutritious food. This attack, Ifke all the others, is loomed to failure. The workers are vise to the bosses’ game and have al- ‘eady begun to answer this latest at- ack with greater support for strike relief.” Ousted ‘Small Pet Is Given Another Plum Will H, Colvin, ouster chairman of tha state board of pardons and paroles, has been appointed assistant commerce commissioner by Govnernor Len Small, it was learned here today. The position pays $5,000 yearly. Colvin was-let go at the time the “pardon mit investigation was up- der way at Joliet priso» d +> Keep Up Antique Theatricals While Miners Starve One of the sig Left to right locks them out whils the enjoy themselves Caliban i : the Coal By LOUIS UNTERMEYER God, we don’t like fo complain We know that the mine is no lark— But-—there's the podls from the rain; But—there's the cold and the dark, God, You don’t know what it is You, in Your welllighted sky, Watching the meteors whizz; Warm, with the sun always by, God, if You had but the moon Stuck in Your cap for a lamp, Even You'd tire of it soon, Down in the dark and the damp, Nothing but blackness above And nothing that’moves but the cars— P God, if You wish our love, Filing us a handfQT of stars! WRITE AS YU FIGHT! The American Worker Correspond- ent is out, Did you get your copy? Hurry up! Send “your sub! it's only 50 cente. f the decadence of of the imp out-dated and costly ceremonies of by-gone days. Above is shown fake curls, silk suits, ruffles and old guns that won't shoot. Railroad Fat Boys Enjoy Pleasant Outing playing a boys game are: with police ¢lubs, gas bombs, drench- } Elisha Lee, vice-p: esident of the strikebreaking “Penssy,” and C. W. Galloway, vice-presi & O. cajoles them with a “pian.” the slaves keep their trains running. Me des os Eugoatenene Acent i —— YouR Name, we: manager of Vanderbil erialist British empire is the persistent observance of all the the silly looking London Tower guard with New York Central; nt of the “B. & 0.” Each of the above famed railroads has a slightly different policy towards its workers, For example, the Pe: But they are all members of the same club and “Your eacarn 18 Suspicious WITH THE STAFF Being Things From Here and There Which Have Inspired Us to Folly or Frenzy POLITICAL ECONOMY. “When gain and profit is wrung from the needy and helpless, it becomes sinful and a thing of evil,” 80 said William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor. Now this is a right brililant remark. We observe, however, that when folks are not helpless, they don’t permit profit to be “wrung” from them. Hence, no sin is committed and the sinner and the sinned against both vanish. If the soul of the boss you'd be Saving, From going to hell in a hike; You better begin organizing, BILL GREEN And calling a general strike. The interest of workers don’t mat ter, BILL GREEN If they starve here, they feast up above, So pass ’round the platter and keep up YOUR CHATTER To the boss of your brotherly love. 2 & WANTED A government of France that will stay put. Also a franc of which we can speak frankly as being worth something. We had thought to in- stitute a ceremony of stepping out for a drink every time a capitalist cabinet falls, but we dassent become habitual drinkers. ; ene Our Versatile Moro You mey not know Hadji Butu, but you oughta, He is the Moro gentleman who represents that Mo- hammedan section of the Philippine Islands in “our” colonial legislature, at Manila. He has what you might call a “ready mind.” Hadji is able to change {ft at will. On Thursday he interviewed Colonel Thompson and after coyly admitting that the Moros were “incapable of self-government” opined that they dearly desired to be ruled by Americans, especially by the rubber trust, and cordilaly rejected the idea of Philippine independence. On Friday, the Philippine legislature unanimously passed a resolution de- manding immediate and absohrte in- dependence. It does that every year, usually by viva voce,vote. This year the vote was by roll bon. Hadji voted for Philippine independence, The Millennium Has Arrlv’ —Maybe. Dr. Wynn, who is noted in Lon- don as a prophet, says the next world war is about to begin. We don’t see that it needs much ofa prophet for that. Anyhow, he says it will be over by 1936. Incident- ally, the Dock said the millennium is due to arrive July 20, right thie year. We're writing about this on - the 19th, and if we manage to get to work on time and have all the other six little editors at work on time, we'll agree that the Old Dock was right. One of our six seems to be lost in the shuttle in | New York. If you run across him, show him to follow the green line. see DEPORT HIM TO ROOSHA, “By 1936,” says Dock Wynn, millennium expert extraordinary who resides In Merry England, “the world will have completely understood the meaning of the great pyramid and the present forms of world government will have ceased to be. We shall have arrived at one universal govern- ment.” We can’t understand how it happened that Sir William Joyn- son-Hicks did not descend upon the Old Dock about that time and pinch him for sedition. Un- doubtedly the Old Dock has had a letter from Zinoviev, This will grieve Ramsay MacDonald. We