The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard f > a Workers’ and Farmers £ 8. ™ent 4 O¢ Sh ] Seip tsoP eq Vol. Ill. No.. fy <# Ey Ra as Yo 6 * 4 eer y THE DAIL We! Entered at Second-class matter September a, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ilinois, under the Act of March 3, 187%. In Chicago, by mail, ’$8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $600 per year. ~~ Rates: Or Fy CALLES HAILS C By THOMAS J, O’FLAHERTY | ee BORGE BERNARD SHAW cele- brated his 70th birthday last Mon- day. So did most of the British bour- geoisie, ‘There was a time when Shaw Was not such a great favorite with tHem, tho even today the government | saphead who broadcasting service--a government monopoly—refused to allow George to take the air because the canny come- | dian would not tell him beforehand what~he would say. This is one of Shaw's old publicity stunts, and it worked again, “*# * T is said that Shaw is the richest | literary man’ in the world. The | public wants to hear what he has to | say and the publishers must pay thru | the nose. He charges as high as $250 | for a few columns of nonsense about | Ireland, and $2,500 for his views on | America. There is more sense and philosophy in a short story bf Ring Gardner, the American humorist, than there is in anything Shaw has written for several years. Shaw married a -wealthy woman and he has been chas- ing wealth ever since. While the Brit- ish workers} were on strike against their masters, and the poisoned pens of everp capitalist hack in Britain were scribbing against them Shaw had not a word to say in their behalf, but he villified them just as soon as the, strike was over. rae We | AT Shaw wrote in the days of his youth and comparative free- dom from the corrupting influence of wealth will be treasured for some time to come. But a new world is in birth and future generations will lift the clown’s cap from the Shavian head and reveal the cpurt jester in his true light, as a man who placed his gifts at the service of the British ruling class, ee NCLE SAM is liable to get clean mad, grab his whiskers in “ote liatid and ‘coat tail in the other and sall over to Hurope to clean up on those who are abusing him, calling him “Shylock” and other | nasty names, What poor Sam did was to lend those fellows several billions of dollars to make the world safe for democracy, hang the kaiser, free small nations, make the seas free, insure open covenants and make war scarce. Several of those things didn’t happen, tho Sam himself stepped into the scrimmage. When the war ‘was over Woodrow Wilson, at that time-Sam’s chief mouthpiece, went over to Europe to settle things nicely, He had a plan in his pocket to divide the world up among the big fellows. se ¢ UT the big fellows over there did not like the idea of Sam stepping in and settling things for them and some of Sam's children over here got Teal sore with the mouthpiece. They said nasty things about poor Wood- row, even going to the limit of sug- sesiing that he was seen hanging around questionable places in Paris. (Continued on page 2,) Passaic strikers’ 4 ; MOSCOW COMMUNISTS UNANIMOUSLY manages the British |. THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1926 ATHOLICS PNolished Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. MER. 290 APPROVE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY PLENUM OF THE ALL-UNION PARTY EDITORIAL NOTE:—Several capitalist papers have in the past two days carried news articles concerning the decisions of the plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party which has just ended in Moscow. It was stated that as a result of actions of the new opposition in the party, the Central Committee in its plenary ses- sion had decided to remove Comrade Gregory Zinoviey from the Political Bureau of the All-Union Communist Party. The DAILY WORKER pub- lishes below a special cablegram from the director of the agitprop de- partment of the Communist International concerning the response of the Moscow membership of the party to the decisions of the plenum of the Central Committee, but no reference is made to any action of the plenum in regard to Comrade Zinoviev. Authentic news completely covering the decisions of the extremely important plenary session of the leading com- mittee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is expected to be received by The DAILY WORKER within the next day or two. * * * . By JOHN PEPPER. (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. 8S. S. R., July 27.—Alexis I. Rykoy today reported on the resolutions of the plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Com- munist Party to the representatvies of the Moscow organization of the Communist Party. After vigorous debate the meeting unanimously adopted * resolution approving all of the resolutions.of the plenum’ of the Central ' children are 100%: for the union. Committee. party and the struggle against fac- tionalism, The factional work of the new opposition has ed it in reality to.a still greater deviation from Lenin- ism, to an abandonment of its former positions and to ideological support of ‘the revisionists of Leninism—Trotsky and others. The resolution approves |the decision of the plenum of the Gen- |tral Committee, on the question of |the recent re-election to the Soviets {which proved a still greater muster- ing of the working classes and of the | basic mass of the peasantry—the poor |and middle peasants—around the Sov- iets, and considers that the opposition jin its theses on the subject has’ muti- lated and given a false estimate of the very. results. of the election. The opposition “assertion apprdaches pes- simism and a doubt of the power of [the proletarfat to lead the working |masses of the city and country on the |basis of a still greater strengthening jof the union between the working jclass and the peasantry. } In analyzing the results of the Brit- ish strike the opposition deviated from demanding the withdrawal of the dele- gation of the Soviet trade unions from the Anglo-Russian committee for world trade union unity, which would inevitably weaken the influence. of the Communist International upon the working masses in capitalist countries. The resolution points out the cor- rectness and the timeliness of the de- cisions of the plenum on the ques- tions of grain provisions and the con- struction of dwellings, In conclusion the resolution states that there is a beginning of the ener- getic practical realization of the prin- ciples of inner-party democracy and appeals to the whole party not to permit factions or new discussions, the correct tactics of the united front, |f Children Loyal to Passaic Strike The resolution gives particular attention to the importance of the de-| mutual agreement and some elected. cjsions of the plenum of the Central Committee on the question of the conservation of the iron unity of the SECRETARY OF NATIONAL REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE TESTIFIES AT HEARING "Roy O WEsT On the stand in Reed committee investigation of the Illinois prima- ries He donated to Smith cam- Paign. Dies Rescuing Friend. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 27.— Joseph Richetti, 37, of Philadelphia, died today from overstraining his heart in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue his drowning friend, Harry Meier, 24, of Reading, Pa. es we Here is a group greeting Albért’ Weisbord, strike leader. BOSS PARTIES DIVIDE COOK COUNTY OFFICES Brennan and Crowe Had Secret Agreement By T, J. O'FLAHERTY. Roy O. West, secretary of the na- | tional rupiblicah committee, testified before the senate investigating com- mittee yesterday that the Crowe- Barrett-Brundage republican organ- ization of Gook County and George &. |Brennan, democratic organization had an agreement to divide the spoils of office in the county between them. Senator Reedy chairman of the committee drew from the not unwill- ing witness the information that the Brennan-Crowe partners put up riva: tickets with the understanding that some of them were to be defeated by Reed Appeared Shocked. Reed feigned moral indignation | wnen he heard this and the audience tittered knowingly. West admitted | it was terrible and that his faction of the G, O, PJooked askance at such procedure. “We are im favor of letting the democrats rule themselves and we to do the same” testified West. “Then the voters could decide.” This was so much in harmony with Reed’s conception of correct proced- ure that he just contracted his eye- Beta cby and took another bite out of his cigar. Insult Had an Excuse. Samuel Insull was scheduled to be | the first to take the witness stand yes- terdey morning but his attorney asked for more time gp the ground that Sam was busy. committe gave him until Thursday: Insull was loquam fous while on the stand the previous day until he was asked if he gave any money to’ the Crowe faction of the Cook County republican party. He was after admitting that he spent over $150,000 in Frank L. Smith's inter ests and handed George E. Brennan, democrat, $15,000. Brennan’s entire expenditure was only $20,000 accord- ing to figures given by the democratic nominee. Insulf bought tmem all it} seems. The Wise Mr. Wise.” i When Ray O. West stepped off the witness stand after the conclusion of yesterday's morning session, a person who identified ‘himself as Joseph Wise, and claimed to represent “the| labor press of America” stepped up to} j the committee table and asked Sena-| tor Reed if any of the labor leaders | whose names were mentioned by Sen- ator Caraway in connection with the gigantic campaign funds of candidates Smith and McKinley, would be asked to testify. Caraway said: “I want to know how much money was given to John H. ‘Walker and Frank Farrington, the men who are said to have handled the labor vote in Illinois.” Not Debating Platform. Senator Reed'informed Mr. Wise that the committee had no intention of turning the investigation into a debate between people who have! made attacks on each other. What Caraway said im the senate was noi the committee's »business. Mr. Wise proceeded to take up the (Continued on page 2) INSULL DOES NOT HAVE TO CARE WHO IS U. S, SENATOR Samuel Insull) the mid-west’s elec- trical king, wab cast today in the role of “angel’’\for the Illinois sena- toral primary the senate slush fund committeeeplunged into an in- vestigation of charges of fraud and corruption in the recent election, Insull was revealed contribu. tor to both Republican and demo- cratic candid, in the senatorial primary. Frank L, Smith, republican victor, the first witn testified Insull gave “around $100,000" to his cam- paign fund, Smith also declared that the pri- mary cost of his race for the senate was $250,000. He did not know de- tails, however, he told the commit- toe. Earlier George E. Brennan, who won the democratic nomination, de- clared that Insull.contributed $15,000 to his campaign.” He added that he “knew” Insull had given $125,000 to the Smith fund, «| i Boss Cloakmaker, to Gangster: “Give it to them—We stand for law and order!” Wall St. And Rom Are Against Mexico By MANUEL GOMEZ, Secretary All-America Anti-imperiaiist League. ATHOLICS thruout the United States are belng asked to pray for Mexico. It is obvious, however, that these prayers are not directed to any supernatural being. They are political prayers. Everyone of them is part of an ingenious religio-political dumb show, designed to mobilize all possible forces behind an attack upon the Mexican government. The church in Mexico represents black reaction. Its interests are identical with the great landowning aristocracy, in support of which it has consistently opposed every move of the poor peasants to secure land and every move of the workers to free themselves from the domination of the ruling classes. The church supported the counter-revolutionary coup d’etat of Victoriano Huerta in 1912. It supported the revolt of Adolfo de !a Huerta in 1924. It is trying to organize a counter-revolution against President Callies now. Because of the reactionary role of the catholic hierarchy in Mexico, the Mexican constitution of 1917 prohibited the church from owning property, prohibited foreign-born priests from officiating In Mexico (two- thirds of all priests were foreigners), limited the total number of priest excluded priests from participation in politics and secularized education. Calles has done no more than put theee provisions into effect. HE church has responded by orga ng the “League for Religious Defense,” Archbishop Mora y del Rio declaring explicitly that Its object is “to create a grave situation and to paralyze the social and * economic life of the country.” The first step in this program has already been taken. An interdict has been laid upon Mexico. All public religious services have been discontinued; priests have been ordered to refrain from celebrating mass. tt is a reactionary political general strike of the clergy. But despite its considerable strength in certain sections, the power (Continued on page 2) HIGH LIGHTS IN CALLES’ REPLY TO CATHOLIC CHURCH DECLARATION OF WAR ON MEXICAN GOVERNMENT E only thing that manifesto will produce will be the abstention of some members of the rich classes from attendance upon festivitie and functions of a pompous social character where their absence may pro- duce surprise among the ingenious. But even these will not fail to at- tend the cabarets and places of amusement.” * @ Ore) “ ANOTHER very interesting group of actors in this religious conflict is that composed of professional agitators. They, under the cloak of catholicism, formed the National Catholic Party which feigned friend- ship with Madero and on the day following his ination allied itself with Huerta.” . ° ” . “IN our country from the epoch of independence until our own days the intrusion of the Catholic church into temporal and political affairs has been a constant and historic problem with various aspects.” ° . ° ° bie ATURALLY my government does not intend to soften the amend- ments and additions to the penal code which the bad prelates or the catholic political leaders in our country have seized upon as a pretext to oppose the reconstructive social revolutionary work which we are en- deavoring to carry on.” iid . ° we « ACH new manifestation of opposition or obstacle placed before our dministration’s tasks, my government will meet with new repressive Washington Bivd., Cidcago, lit 5 COURT _ NEW YORK EDITION WORKEI Price 3 Cents "7 ARCHBISHOPS, 30 BISHOPS HIT IN NEW ATTACK | Prelates Summoned for Pastoral Letter | (Special to The Daily Worker) | MEXICO CITY, July 27.—Following | up its quick answer to the threat of leconomic boycott made by various | catholic societies the Mexican gov- |ernment has issued summonses for Archbishop Moray del Rio, seven | other archbishops and 30 bishops who | signed a pastoral letter .read in all | churches on Sunday In which the con- | stitution of 1917, under the authority | of which the government is acting, | was denounced. | The summons does not mean the immediate arrest of the prelates but calls them to answer before the judic lary for their severe criticisms of the government. On top of this the gov | ernment officially published new regu- lations under the constitution prohib- iting religious teaching in the schools. Rome Inspired Suspension, The pastoral letter of the archbish- ops announced that the inspiration for the closing of the churches after July 31st sprung from the Vatican. Directions have been issued by the clergy for committees of laymen to keep open the churches for worship while members of the heirarchy are away. Calles’ Statement. The official acts of the government against the conspiracy of the church were supplemented by a statement by President Calles in which he warned the catholic church that they may go too far and denounced the recent ac- tivities of the church as a political moyement under a religions mantle, Labor Against Church. The Mexican Federation of Labor (C. R. O. M.) in a long session to- day unéOnditionally backed the stand of the government against the church and decided to carry on a struggle against the catholics who are sup- ported by the rich landed and foreign imperialist interests. Callies Lashes Clergy. President Calles, in his statement, characterized the catholic church lead- ers and clergy as elements who were attempting to lead an open rebellion against the government of Mexico. He particularly castigated the clergy for | the printing, three consecutive times {in the newspaper El Universal, a pas- | toral letter of the Archbishop of Mex lico City in which the constitution was held up to scorn, New Measures. Calles’ answer to the activities of the catholics he sums up: “Each new manifestation of opposition placed be- fore our administration's tasks will meet with new repressive measures,” CHURCHILL IN CHALLENGE TO SENATOR BORAH (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Eng., July 27. — Winston Churebill, chancellor of the exchequer, im a statement issued here, replies to Senator Borah’s charge that Churchill is starting a campaign for cancellation of the debt owed by Britain to the United States. Churchill challenges Borah to quote any passage from any speech or written article which would justify the charge, * Johnson Attacks Europe. WASHINGTON, July 27, — Hiram Johnson, senator from California, has issued a statement saying that French and British “show poor taste” by criticizing the United States“as a Shy- lock, In part he says: “The greatest of the English news- papers are denouncing us without stint. The French press is ablaze in its bitterness against ns, The Italian papers emulate those of other coun- tries in applying epithets to us. One of them shrieks at us: ‘But there is one thing to be remembered outside of Europe; in the world there is Asia, and in Asia is Japan,’ Mr. Mellon Fibs. “We have just learned trom Mr. Mellon for the first time that in the case of Italy we forgave all of the money we loaned during the war and collected but half of that loaned after the war, and we learned this despite the fact that until now Mr. Mellén and his spokesmen in and out of congress insisted we were collecting every dollar of the principal due us.” ne