The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1926, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKE ccaill THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Gy mali (in Chicago only): By mail (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 monthe Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IIlInols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL \ i WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOBB.. Editors ...Business Manager + Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879, <a 200 The Tae Daily Mail Delegation and | A. F. of L. Officialdom The London Daily Mail, apostle of all that is anti-trade union and anti-working class in Great Britain, the paper that was stopped by the printing trades at the beginning of the general strike, has suc- ceeded in using the-executive council of the American Federation of Labor to further its campaign against the British labor movement. The Daily Mail sent a delegation of handpicked “labor men” to the United States to study “industrial conditions.” The real purpose ef the enterprise was to make propaganda in Britain for the speed- up systems that are applied with such success—for the capitalists— Advertising rates on application. = aS THESE TRIED 10 SAVE THE FRENCH FRANG BUT | | LIKE THE REST, FAILED By WILLIAM F, DUNNE HE outstanding feature of the world situation is the rapidity with which | hostility to America is increasing in ‘all European countries. | We wish we could say that the |hostility is directed only towards |American imperialism, and of course }it is on the part off the conscious sec- |tion of- the working class, Commu- jnists and militant trade unionists, But the actual fact is that the crush- |ing weight of Ameriéan financial dom- ination, the burden “of the mortgages held by Wall Streét on practically every European nation with the ex- ception of Soviet Rtissia, the intrus- ion of the question of the debt to the United States into eyery cabinet con- flict, the knowledge that American capitalism is fattening like a bloated spider while the regt of the capitalist im American open shop industries. The A. ¥. of L. executive council took these agents of British capitalism to its collective bosom as soon as the delegation announced that ft-stood four-square against “Bolshevism in Britain.” Here was & common bond and so the executive council, responsible head of the American labor movement, wined and dined with the tools of British labor’s worst enemies. . All of this time the Daily Mail was denouncing the miners, the British labor unions and everybody and everything which was not part-and parcel of the imperialist machine. The Daily Mail delegation set up the most friendly relatiéns with the big open shop bosses of the United States and its report, recently published in England, praises enemies of American labor. It is up to the executive council of the American Federation of Labor to explain its warm welcome to this propaganda agency of British imperialism and its failure to inform the labor movement of the exact character of the delegation. : Unless it now issues a public statement repudiating all connec- tion with the Daily Mail delegation and opposition to its purposes it will have no reason to complain if honest and intelligent workers conelade that it knew what connection the delegation had with the anti-union elements in Great Britain and that it was in accord with their program. . The whole affair is disgraceful, showing as it does either an abysmal ignorance of the British labor movement or something far more sinister. What has the executive council of the American Federation, which has aided and abetted an international plot against British labor when the miners-are fighting for the life of their. union, to say for itself? The Old Lady of Amsterdam The press service of the International Federation of Trade | Unions recently published a brief review of trade union dévelop-| ments in Soviet Russia. The fossilized bureaucrats of the I. F. T. U. found much consolation in the frank speech delivered by promi- nent Russian trade union leaders on the weaknesses of the organ- izations. The Amsterdam leaders profess to see in these criticisms a growing dissatisfaction with “their subordination to the Com- munist state power,’ tho how a worker could speak thus. plainly in a country which is under the domination of the cruel Bolsheviks | is a mystery to anybody who mentally feeds at the Amsterdam pub- licity trough, What the Amsterdam fogies failed to admit was that those criticisms were made by prominent leaders of the Russian, Com- munist Party, who are also members of the unions. The Communist Party has conducted an incessant campaign to develop the trade unions, and increase the capacity of the workers for self-government. Russian trade union leaders are constantly urged by the Commun-} ist Party to make war on bureaucracy and the membership is being | educated in the belief that the raising of the cultural level of the | masses will prove the best bulwark against bureaucracy. This pol-| icy is quite the opposite of that of the I. F. T. U. leaders who expel units and members who struggle against bureaucracy. The best answer to the scandal mongering of the I. F. T. U. is | the phenomenal growth of the Russian trade unions from a littl ever a million before the war to over eight millions today. The) task of training this tremendous number of workers in the art of managing the unions is a difficult one, but it will be accomplished by the methods of self-criticism and frank speech which are total strangers to the leaders of the I. F. T. U. eee. oe INVESTIGATION | ‘Staco'Shoce ws Strike Shoots Worker | OF COUNTY JAIL NEW YORK, July 22—(FP)—Not | for the first time this year, a drunken | policeman has seriously wounded a| worker by shooting, Nathan Solander, | baker at Gottfried Baking Co., is the victim, Daniel Collins, a “rookie” or | probationary cop, is the assailant, who | shot the worker without cause. He Investigation of conditions prevailing |hag been suspended, He was put on in Cook county jail and has threat-|duty when 6,500 regular police were ened to jail the jailers for contempt |‘Tansterred to Interborough subway of court if the hearings warrant, talon te aidiateigresbers, Sixteen hundred young men on the Summons have been issued for a % civil service eligibility list were number of former wardens and guards. chosen by police Commissoner Me- These guards and wardens will Lauglin for special service after the asked as to thelr knowledge of petty |subway strike began. The “rookies” thievery and the smuggling of booze | ave had to patrol with shields on and narcotics into the county jail. Threatens to Imprison Prison Officials Judge John P, McGoorty of the criminal court has ordered a summary be their civilian clothes and night-stidks Requests for 19 more guards and a| Winging to identify them, Some of well-pald assistant to Warden Weidel-|the 19 who have resigned said they ing have been made by Sheriff Peter | did so for embaftassment when they Hoffman, who has.resumed his post] Were not taken seriously in the unof- after serving thirty days for allowing | ficial outfits. Frankie Lake and Terry Druggan, to ac RRR oR millionaire Chieago bootleggers, to WASHINGTON, D. C,, July 22, — use the county jail as their clearing | Coolidge economy was given a hard house for unsold stocks and also to |rap by a number of the democratic roam thru Chicago cabarets while they | leaders, who point out that there is an were supposed to be serving a one- | increase of $273,000,000 In government year ja!l sentence, appropriations over a year ago, ' ‘ os world is decaying and dragging out a miserable existence’ ompared to its glorious pre-war past, is building up \a fluid reservoir of Hatred of all things American which thé ‘European ruling class is diverting into any channel which will serve its purposes. OT only in the field of pure capi- talist enterprise is this resent- ment of American,,domination ex- pressed. It might be well to say here that the American conquest of Eu- rope expresses itself;-in many ways. From England, thru France and Ger- many, clear to the Russian border, one sees American moving pictures, hears American jazz, sees American styles, encounters attempts to reorganize European business and industry on the efficient American basis, learns that even ‘the “worker-employer co-op- eration” idea of the American labor officialdom is being experimented with, The power of the dollar expresses itself in many ways. So does the reseiitiment against it. HE musical revieWs have chroni- cled recently some of the attempts made in Germany fo fight the jazz invasion. 2g In England American moving pic- EDQOWML OD ¢(lE LAT Meer Europe Versus America Increasing Huropean Hostility to America—The World’s Mortgagé Shark—“American Civiliza- tion” —Jazz—-Movies—Efficiency——‘Worker-Employer Co-operation”—Evidences. of Resent- ment—The Price of Dollar Culture—European Conflicts-~Two Alternatives for European Rulers—American Militarism—Two Slogans—The Task for Us. der by the critics and especially has “The Big Parade,” depicting American participation in the world war, arous- ed a storm of protest. American literary productions, with the significant exception of the works of writers like Sinclair Lewis who ridicule the American have been uniformly “razzed” as we Americans say. H. L. Mencken in The American Mercury has recorded a number of these instances. N France it is becoming more or less of a common occurrence for Americans to be insulted or mobbed and these incidents have been on the increase since the recent toboggan- like slide of the franc. The demon- stration of the “blesses”—the crippled French war veterans—against the American debt settlement has attract- ed international attention. | The utterances of the politicians— | particularly those of the left and na- tionalist parties—in England, France and Germany, are becoming “more and more outspoken and vitriolic in their denunciation of “greedy Amer ica,” HE bitter conflicts between the European nations—France versus England, France versus Germany, Germany versus Poland, Italy versus Germany, Italy versus France—tend to obscure what are undoubtedly signs of a strong, altho confused tendency, to unite Europe against its American conqueror. The debts to America can never be paid unless the European working- class is willing to lower its living and unite with the exploiters to pay these obligations. If there is one thing certain in a world full of un- certainties it is that the European workingclass will not do this, the militancy with which they try to veduce the living standards of the workers. It is unbelievable for in- tures have been given the cold shoul- Se ten Hinta (A Tribute by ¢ @ Who Knew — By HARRISON GEORGE. ;JOVERNOR LEN SMALL, repub!i can of the stat Illinois, has ap rointed Hinton G.;{§abaugh, forme: ‘ederal department Of justice chief in ‘hicago, as superintendent of pardons ind paroles to sucééed Will Colvin, who resigned under pressure of grand jury investigation into the purchasing of paroles and pardons. Incidentally, st the same time, Colvin is taken care t by making him ‘W member of the itate commerce corifthission. Who Is Clabaugh? HO is Clabaugi? What interest have the workers in him and what have they to gain by supporting 3mall, who appointed him? Clabaugh was born and raised in che South, Alabama, as I recall from an interview with him in May, 1917, when Ralph Chaplin and myself vis- ited him to ask hinr to send his bur- slarious operatives thru the door of the I. W. W. headquarters in the day- time, instead of thra the window at Above is Finance Minister De Monzie who was forced to announce there was only $125,000 left in the treasury. Center is Herriot whose stance that- the 15,000,000 German Clabaugh--Small’s New: “Find” Him in the Old Days. Written Officials Who Claim That Small Is a “Friend of Labor") ad been for some time. Mr. Cla ‘ugh undoubtedly obtained thet: mes from the blacklists of big cor. vations, for some had been out o se country since before the war, and ne or two were dead before it started. jut all were charged with “obstruct- ag the war.” It would need a republication of the »00k I once wrote on the I. W. W. rial to tell of the farcical manner in which that trial took place which sent a special train loaded with workers to Leavenworth on September 6, 1918, where they stayed until a much-de- layed public opinion pried them out of Daugherty’s clutches in 1923. In the Middle of War Graft. UT about the time we departed for prison a great scandal broke loose over the aircraft division of the gov- ernment. Clabaugh was right in the middle of it. But, not ferreting out the offenders, for it appeared that he was one of them. This great “pa- triot,” it appeared, was one of a ring of government officials who were not cabinet fell after only a few frantic hours of existence. Below is M. Morieux, director of the Bank. of France who is worrying about his dwindling gold reserve. Strikebreaker Dawes to Speak at Banquet of Chiefs of Police night. The I, W. W. headquarters had been entered that way the night be- fore. ‘ To Strike Is, Treason! HAPLIN and myself had an inter- esting tilt with Mr, Clabaugh, who then was a democrat. under Woodrow Wilson. We talked about strikes. Mr. Clabaugh said that strikes during the war were “treason.” "Treason is pun- ishable by D-E-A-T-H!” he shouted. Vice-President Charles G: Dawes} We pointed to the fact that prices wwill be the principle speaker at aj Were rising rapidly°and wages were banquet that will close the conven-|00t keeping up to the cost of living. tion of the International Association | We asked him what he suggested that of Chiefs of Police in their 33rd an-| Workers should do. “He had no answer nual’ edhvention “aare: except to sputter ‘gain that it is For three days the head coppers} t’eason to arther : have been listening to experts tell “German Gold.” them how to catch thieves and con-|(\N account of the, W. W. strikes, fidence men. Dawes is the founder he asked to knéw how they were ot the “Minute Men of the Constitu-| financed and how the’l, W. W. got its tion,” a sort of American. type of fas-| finances. We told fim the I. W. W. cist organization and it is anticipated |>00ks and records Were open for his that the strikebreaking general will|!"spection any time tig wished to send give the cops a few tips on how to|“"yone to inspect them, ‘and that it go about breaking strikes. would show that dues and contribu- tions such as support agy labor or- ganization were the sources of income. Clabaugh never accepted the I. W. ot . W. invitation to proceed on the “civ- Participate in ilized plane,” and we heard no more from him until he staged spectacular Historians’ Meet raids thruout the country, including NEW YORK, July 22. — An Inter- | the I. W. W. headquarters on Septem- national congress of historiang will be | ber 5, 1917, carting away every blessed irjd in Oslo in 1928 and another will | thing in them, even the cuspidors, In probably be held in Warsaw im 1933 | steat headlines he announced that he, at which the Union of Socialist Soviet | Hinton G. Clabaugh, had discovered Republics will be represented, the I, W. W. was getting “German A world-wide organization of his- | 60ld.” torlans has been effected thru the initiative of the American Historical NDER his direction, no less than association, The association will have 166 leading me ‘3 of the I. W, its headquarters in Washington, The |W. were indicted for “seditious con- Soviet Union Will Collusion with Employers. Permanent committee has the backing | spiracy,” charging 10,000 “crime: nineteen nations including the So |The role of those indicted was the et Union organizing force of the I, W. W. and making the government aircraft pro- gram a failure, They were spending some $600,000,- 000 without producing a single plane, except a few which the American fiy- ing “ace,” Eddie Rickenbacker, says the flyers on the western front called ‘flaming coffins.” | Everybody vied with each other to graft the most, placing young men of wealth who had some ready cash in soft berths as “alreraft inspectors” with neither planes to inspect nor knowledge of what a plane looked like—and at fat salaries and expense accounts to loat r resorts inspecting bathing at sum: beauties, Mr, Clahaugh, Senior, “Librarian,” § to Clabaugh himself, it appeared in no less an authority than the Chicago Tribune that he had managed it so that his father was given a job in the government's aircraft bureau in Chicago, He was “librarian"—and he had four or five books in the “li- brary,” none related to the aircraft industry, except one ‘as I recall being one on “table etiquette,” and none dealing with the war with Germany, unless it was the one entitled, “The (fe of Frederick the Great.” And it was marvelled at by the cap- talist newspapers that the father of Hinton G. Clabaugh, prize sleuth of the department of justice, was draw- ‘ng money from the government for this job as “librarian” under an as- sumed name, The Patriot “Resigns.” 8 all great government scandals end, so did that one, Clabaugh announced that he had completed his task of “saving the country.” Like: the Greek philosophers, he was ready, “either to defend his country or de- fraud !t.” Saving succeeded in both, he was allowed to resign—to take Job with the Peabody Coal Com: businessman, standard to the bare subsistence level | workers, farmers and lower middle class elements voting to expropriate the property of the kaiser and his} family, will starve very long to pay | reparations to France so that she can | pay England,sand England can pay | America, i | workers and peasants whose resistance | to increased taxation and a lowering of their living standards is the basic | cause of the fall of one cabinet after! another, are going to tax themselves | to pay America debis. | INCE will the English workingclass, | which already has shown its revo- | lutionary temper in conflict with the | most traditionally solid rulingclass in | the world over questions of wage. re- ductions and increases in hours hay-| ing for their purpose the stabilization of British industry, submit to any en- croachments for the benefit: of the American rulingclass, | There remain two ‘immediate alter- natiyes for the European rulers: | Closer unity against American dom- | nation on the basis of the identity of juropean capitalist interests or en-| guliment in a wave of mass revolt. | HEY ‘will choose the first alternat- ive altho the difficulties to be overcome are almost insurmountable. | We can expect from now on asharp- | ening of the American-European con- | flict under the leadership of France | and Great Britain, | In America the ruling class will capitalize every hostile statement for its militarist propaganda and the! workingclass must understand the | deadly purpose behind it. N Europe the Communist Interna- | tional is uniting the masses for | the struggle for power and it raises against the capitalist slogan of “unity | against America,” the revolutionary slogan of a “workers’ and peasants’ | government of *Burope” in alliance | 5 Wale the European ruling class know | with the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- | this. Their own position becomes | publics. more unstable in direct proportion to To the workers of Europe the | American workingclass must make | clear that it does not endorse or sup- port the imperialist program of its rul- ors for woyld domination, for the Information of Labor | DOK he arch ‘enemy of the United Mine orket¥ of America. Now Clabaugh comes to the fore gain a¢ a savior. He declares for no politics”—almost like a wobbly— nd says he takes the position of czat -£ pardons and paroles in Illinois “at : great financial sacrifice.” What Labor Party Might Do. AYBE so, But we imagine that the seven progressive members of the United Mine Workers whe are sen- tenced ‘to prison from Zeigler, Ill., be- cause the coal owners, the klan and the corrupt labor officials of Sub- District 9 want them in prison, will find a hard time to outbid the Pea- body Coal Company in trying to get out of Joliet, once they are in, It is reported, moreover, that Cla- baugh has been not only with the Pea- | body Coal Company, but the Insull | power fnterests, the U. S. bureau of mines and has managed a private de- tective e side, A detec- tive remains a detective, be it public or private. Small, a Detective and Labor Leaders. HIS is the man that Governor Small appoints. And this is the Small that the leaders of the Chicago Federation of Labor support. For it was for no other reason than to cover up their apologetic support of Small in the face of his refusal to pardon the | I, L. G, W. girl pickets who went to jail defying injunctions that Oscar Nelson and John Fitzpatrick launched in attack against the Communists in vhe Federation meeting last Sunday. Social Inequality Solution of Negro Problem, Says Preacher BOSTON, July 22.—Social inequali- ty for Negroes 1s the remedy for rac- ial injustice, according to Rev, Dr. Neal L, Anderson, of Savannah, Ga., who spoke here at the Park Street Church, In a sermon on “The Business of Being a Christian,” he begged his hearers to recognize that “assured political leadership of white Christ- jans in the South is the only possible means by which both whites and blacks there can gain prosperity, “I know not one outstanding Negro preacher in the South, who was raised there and understands his peo- ple, who does not believe that social equality would mean untold calamity for Negroes,” The Negro is well-off in the South, he only needs to be “understood,” says this mental gymnast, He told w recent funeral of an aged Negro South Carolina in which the bear- the city council, Nor is it believable that the French | 30, eis were the mayor and members of i WITH THE STAFF | Being Things From Here and ‘There Which Have Inspired Us to Folly or Frenzy | Se Ee CHRIST JESUS IN MEMPHIS, STATESVILLE, N. C., July 22—— The Rev. Ashley Chappell, Ashes ville minister, was adjudged not guilty of immorality tonight by @& trial board of the Southern Metho- dist Episcopal church South. The charges grew out of the arrest of Chappell during a raid on a house of ill fame at Memphis last May. Twelve Methodist ministers were the Jury. Bro Chappell has said that while waiking in an unfamiliar section of Memphis, he became ill and went to the house to recuperate for a few minutes. While he was lying in @ room, the police raided the house. ye DESERT DEPARTMENT STORE LOS ANGELES, July 22.—The puzzling case of the Rev. Aimee Semple McPher- son, who disappeared wearing a green bathing suit at Ocean Park, Calif, laet May 18, and reappeared in a grey ging- ham dress walking over the Sonora des- ert at Agua Prieta on June 23, today became a matter for the individual opin« ion of the public of Los Angeles.—News item, Zell One “T accept appointment as head of the state par- don and parobe board as a public duty and at a financial — sacrifice.” Hinton G. Clabaugh. DID IT BUTTON UP THE BACK? Though the grand jury didn’t report it And the thing is left subject to guess; Aimee shifted her skirt in the desert And put on a grey gingham dress. With some well-fitting shoes and some stockings, (Flesh-colored) and undies, we guess, hat Jesus was there with a full line of wear, including a grey gingham dress. Mistreating Policemen, NEW YORK.—Serman Kajt, 39 years old, of 75 Fifth street, was sen- tenced to two days in the workhouse by Magistrate Jean Norris in Jefferson Market Court, where all I. L. G. W. strikers® were arraigned. Patrolman James A. Lennon alleged that Kaft struck him twice.—News Item. ww ORGANIZING TACTICS. The New York Times says that strik- ing garment workers raided a scab shop run by Mr. Lefkowitz, whom they threw out the window onto an awning, where he remianed in a state of doubt, as it were, while the Job of organizing the workers in the shop proceeded with. They Joined the union and Joined the strike. After which Mr. Lefkowitz came in at the same place where out he went, as Omar would say. ie The Mysterious Stranger Special Telegram to the Staff Column, NEW YORK, JULY 22.— READ AD IN COLUMN ASKING HELP LOCATING MISSING EDITOR. STOP. SAW PER-' SON ANSWERING DESCRIP- TION SHUTTLE BETWEEN GRAND AND PENN DEPOT. STOP. FOLLOWING RED LINE. STOP. WAS READING NEW YORK TIMES AND MAK- ING NOTES I. A. M. STOP. SUSPECTED HE WAS ONE OF LITTLE EDITORS STOP. REGGY DEE OGINEESE. The Millennium for Mrs. Lorden. “Mrs, Catherine Lorden, 61 ollapsed at her home, 1533 W ‘son boulevard, last | fore a_phisici jhad tramped thru the str | search of work. Neighbors jhad beem.a widow for many y ad supported herself until three weeke soe, when she lost the position she had old. Two weeks ago yesterday, Presi dent Coolidge made a fourth of July Speech referring to “our overwhelm ing prosperity,” Somehow, we can't write a rhyme about this, ef BET HE WENT SWIMMING. 'f anybody notices taht short on news of the cloakmakerst strike in Ni k, wiil rise to call your t the news we we 1 t our correspon ae may be funny to ~ 0 SEND IN A SUB! 105 What it is to re ent n't matter—be |have an idea that he wasnt, (after all,