The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1926, Page 1

| ‘The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Wdrkers’ , and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 169. ZINOVIEY I. 2,8 Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, "TED FROM HIS POST AS ' ‘eg, thre —. “UITBUREAU OF THE "#0 »,,~JNIST PARTY , "3 = eh ia Fre, (Special Cable to Tre Norker) In Chicago, by mail, bf! Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at ithe Post Office at Chigago, Llinols, under the Act of March 3, 187%, $8.00 per year. ~ , by mail, $6.00 ber year. LABOR TAKES UP THE ATTACK ON ‘ | | MOSCOW, U. 8.8. R., July 28.—The results of the Plenum of the Central MEXICAN CLERGY Committee of the Communist Party of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- | lies (All-Union Communist) Party, just closed, have been published, The Plenum discussed a number of most essential questions, of general and economic nature, and also of the inner-party life. After hearing the report of the Central Control Commission concerning the facts of factional activity after the fourteenth congress of the party, and also cases of violation by several leading party members of the resolu- tions of previous congresses for the preservation of the unity of the party, as well as the connection of this factional work with the apparatus of the Executive Committee of the Communist “International working under the direct management of Zinoviev, who was a member of the Politbureau of the Central Committee, the Plenum resolved to recall Zinoviev from his post as |part of the church's campaign to set ——%a member of the political bureau apd | By THOMAS J, O’FLAHERTY ‘VERY cloud has its silver lining. Otherwise the nation might well shudder over the dreadful picture of a’race of baldheaded women, drawn by Ruth J. Maurer, beauty expert and staff speaker at a national convention of cosmeticians, Other important rev- vlations made by the lady were: that more money was spent 6n face pow- der than on gunpowder and that half a million men who should be eating nails for breakfast and sticking bayo- nets into dummies in preparing for the next war, are actually using cos- metics in secret. v8 HAT women prefer to patronize beauty shops rather than churches will not be lamented either by radi- cals or beauty specialists, particularly since Mrs. Manrer informs us that the business is worth $1,000,000 yearly and stimulates procreation as nothing else except war is known to. Women may be threatened yith bald heads and damned souls but what are priests and cosmeticians for, except to repair both. RUTH will out saith the prophet. After considerable sleuthing, Cali- fornia authorities have finally solved the Aimee McPherson riddle. Those who have followed The DAILY WORKER, were tipped off to the trath long ago. It now. develops, so. that all may see and know, that Aimee and her sweetheart, Ormin- ston, fled to Mexico on a mission of business and pleasure. ~-By means of the kidnapping fake, Aimee and com- pany extracted over $30,000 from the jeans of the faithful. Aimee charged her acensers with being inspired by the devil but if she had not left a perfectly complete bathing suit and’a bible in or around the shack where she lived with her radio operator the devil might not be able to do a damn- ed thing. se * LL those who are needy and weary with poverty listen to this: Sam Insull, multi-miMionaire traction mag- nate. not content with spending over $150,000 on Frank L. Smith’s cam- paign, turned around and handed $15,000 over to George E. Brennan, without George having to ask for it. Then in the fullness of his heart he gave the Dencen group $10,000. There are rumors that he gave so much to Robert E. Crowe's group that he is (Continued on page 2) GALLES ISSUED STRONG WARNING TO CLERGY T0 OBEY MEXICAN STATUTES Plutarco Calles, president of Mex- Jeo who has the backing of organ ‘zed labor in the struggle being waged against the resumption by the church of the privileged politi- cal position it once held. The his variably in the interests of the worst reaction represented by the rion landowners as well as powerful for- tign capitalist interests, to eXclude Lashevitch as a candidate- member of the central committee. In place of Zinoviev, Rudzutak has been elected a member of the political bureau. of the political bureau of the All-Union | Jommunist Party are: Stalin, Rykov, Bukharin, Tomsky, Kalinin, Molotov, | Rudzutak and Trotsky. The number of candidate-members has been extended from five to eight and the following persons have been elected as candi- date-members: Petrovsky, Uglanov, Ordjonikidze, Andreyey, Kirov, Mi- koyan, Kaganovich and Kamenev. (Hitherto the candidate-members of the political bureau have been: Rud zutak, Dzerzhinsky, Petrovsky, Ugla- nov and Kamenev.) Concerning the unity of the party the resolution points out that the op- position arose at the time of the Four teenth Congress of the party and was condemned by that congress. Not- withstafiding the possibility for active work in all the leading institutions of the party which was given to the op- position, the opposition continued to persist in the errors condemned by the congress, and, in the struggle to maintain its views, the opposition did not keep within the limits of the party statutes, Having lately violated the decrees of previous congresses concerning the preservation of the unity of the party, the opposition at- tempted to create an illegal factional organization opposed to the party and directed against its unity. These at- tempts were manifested in the organ- ization of illegal secret meetings, the reprinting and distribution of tenden- tiously selected party documents (se- cret “political bureau documents dis- seminited among party members and sent to. the organizations at Briansk, Saratov, . Vladivostok, Piatigorsk, Omsk, Homel and Odessa), sending agents to other party organizations for the purpose of organizing in them secret factional groups (Belensky’s trip to Odessa for the purpose of or ganizing an fllegal fraction, the estab- lishment ofa special cypher, party quarters, etc.) All of this shows that the factjonal measures of the oppo- sition were led from within the ap- paratus of the executive committee of the Communist International headed by Zinoviev. The resolution particu- larly points out the fact that the il- legal factional meeting in the woods near Moscow was organized and pre- sided over by Belenky, who was at- tached to the work of the executive committee of the Communist Interna: tional. Lashevich, a candidate-mem- ber of the central committee of the party, made a report to this secret meeting, inviting those present to or- ganize themselves to fight the party central committee. The resolution emphasizes all of these disorganizing actions of the op- position, proving that the opposition decided to pass over from the legal maintenance of its views to the crea- tion of an All-Union illegal organiza- tion opposed to the party, thus prepar- ing division. This activity of the new opposition evoked animation amongst (Continued on page 2.) Thus the present members | Government _ Continues Stern Attitude (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, July 28—Demon- strations of labor thruout Mexico to counteract the flood of catholic pro- Paganda inundating the country as aside the constitution of 1917 and re- gain its former political hegemony, \will feature the next several days. One labor official put the issue, “We jare determined to fight to a finish in |the interest of the liberation of the working class from the trammels of centuries. As we see the issue, it is whether we workers will be allowed to think for ourselves or have our thinking done by the makers of creeds and preachers of superstition.” Big Campaign, The labor parade in Mexico City scheduled for tomorrow is a prelude for a national campaign against the clergy and the activities of the mili- tant catholic laymen, led by the rich land owners, in their present effort to re-establish the church as a polit- ical power in the land, Take Over Churches, The office of the attorney general today sent out a circular to all gov- ernorg with instructions for the oc- casion of the abandonment of the churches by the clergy on July 31. The priests are forbidden to turn their churches over to catholic lay- men when they are left in accordance with a decision of the hierarchy. The government has ordered the mayors of all municipalities to appoint com- mittees of citizens into whose care, after careful inventory, the churches and establishments are to be placed. Enforce Laws. Further instructions have been is- sued to local magistrates to guard against any infractions of the laws governing the activities of the church. Officials are still investigating the pastoral letter for which seven arch- bishops were given court summonses yesterday with a view to discovering whether or not definite charges of sedition will be placed. Action is ex- pected in a day or two. Church Propaganda, A secret handbill, thought to eman- ate from the church is being distrib- uted thruout Mexico, says in part: “Catholics! Nero ended. Caligula died. Diocletian disappeared. And so also will end all of the enemies of the church. Only God does not die, nor will his church ever die. Christ lives, Christ reigns, Christ rules.” Unconfirmed reports from outlying districts speak of violence having been already introduced into the strug- gle. followers of the church have been several days baptizing and confirming | |their children because of the closing order, The Schismatic catholic church, a group of dissenters, has applied to the government for permission to take over the churches when they are left by the clergy at the end of the month, The priests when they leave their pulpits, will engage in what they term “missionary” activity. This actually means that they will devote their en- tire time to activity in behalf of the present move of the church against the Mexican government, MOSCOW COMMUNIST DAILY SAYS “UNITY OF OUR PARTY IS FIRM” By JOHN PEPPER (Sepcial Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. &. S. R., July 28—In an editorial on the results of the|Was in an uproar, The president united plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission | Pounded vainly for order and had put of the Communist Party of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Pravda |" his hat, the/traditional method of writ “Confronted with the unprecedented fact that a small group of com- rades whose views had been condemned by the fourteenth party congress had taken the path of Illegal factionalism and had made a step toward division, the Bolshevist plenum reacted in the manner taught by Lenin who fought unmercifully all attempts at factionalism, no matter what their source. The plenum moreover because it had overgrown into illeg Leninist Central Committee. was obliged to stop this factionalism jal actions against the party and its “The Central Committee could not leave alone, without consequences, the disrupting steps of Zinoviev who, » after being continued in the post of a member of the Political Bureau notwithstanding his factional co-report at the fourteenth congress, decided ti 10 head the illegal group, managed ite factional attack against the party, utilized the apparatus of the Executive Committee of the Communist International for factional interests and placed factional discipline above the discip line of the Bolshevist Party. In the interest of the preservation of the unity of the party and of overcoming factionalism, the plenum excluded Zinoviev from the post a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. “The unity of our party Is firm, and tolerable, but factionalism and Illegal groups are Into! will succeed in shaking the party. holding high the glorious banner of In our party differenc No one ty has always held and is unity." 3 ae ‘ The Lenin’ Thousands of the superstitious | storming the institutions in the past | FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1926 ber, during the hearings. McKinley, de’ POINCARE AND HERRIOT UNITE AGAINST LEFT Commanists i in Demon- stration in Chamber (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, July 28—The so-called “na- |tional union” cabinet attained by Poin: care means the disintegration of the old left bloc and a consolidation of the |Peactionaries representing the big in- | dustrial and financial interests, as was | Shown by the line-up when Poincare appeared in parliament with his finan- icial program, Two’ years ago the left bloc sent Poincare down to defeat. Yesterday he came back. ‘And with his old foe and leader of the left bloc, Edouard Herriot, sitting beside him and Briand in the ministers’ benches, defied the remnants of the old left with a majori- ty won from its ranks. The socialist party wihch was allied with the old left bloc yelled with rage, Communists Demonstrate. The Communists, who never had en- tered the left bloc and who had main- tained their independence of action continually, greeted Poincare, the arch reactionary, by rising and singing the Internationale. The whole chamber showing that thessession is suspended, when the noise ssubsided, Five dollars will renew your sub for a yan, if you send it in before August 15. ETB 290 SOVIET UNION MINERS MEET BRITISH; ISSUE CALL FOR MORE RELIEF (Speciai to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 13, (By Mail)— The central committee of the Min- ers’ Union of the Soviet Union to- day received the report of Comrade Schwarz upon the negotiations in Berlin with the representatives of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain. It endorsed the attitude of the delegation of the Soviet Miners’ Un- ions and the decisions of the con- ference and decided to call upon all the trade union organizations of the Soviet Union to put into effect the appeal of the Berlin conference for aid to the British miners. DEMAND GROWS IN PASSAIC FOR MAYOR'S RECALL (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N, J., July 28. — The ex- ecutive committee of the Associated Parishes and Societies have started a drive for the recall of Mayor John H. McGuire and Police Commissioner Abram Preiskel following the brutal assault of Passaic police on a group of New York furriers that attended a demonstration of the Passaic strik- ers. The committee in a lengthy state- ment places the blame for the assault of the police on furriers belonging to an American Federation of Labor or- ganization on the mayor and the police commissioner and calls on all residents of Passaic to join in the demand for their recall. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR CONSIDERS PASSAIC STRIKE MOVE (Sepclal to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, July 28,—The American Federation of Labor will use its good offices to attempt a settlement of the P. ic textile strike if the United Front Committee, representing the strikers, is eliminated, Frank Morrison, secretary, declared today. . ° The United Front Committee, which is leading the P. ° . aic strike, has repeatediy declared itself in favor of the Passaic Textile Workers’ Union affiliating with the American Federation of Labor and Alfred Weisbord, leader of the strike, is on record to the effect that if he personally is made the issue, he is ready to step a strike are concerned, 80 far as negotiations for a settiement of the PUBLISHING CO., Published Dail it Sunday by THE DAILY WORKEI PUBL G CO. 4d . Washington Bivd., Ciscago, lil, 1113 W. Samuel Insull Bought Candidates in Both Old Parties Chicago's utility magnate, Samuel! Insull, who controls over a half billion dollars worth of public service property, spent thousands of dollars to nominate Colonel Frank L. Smith to the republican senatorial nomination in Illinois. These photos taken since the hearing opened, show (above) Senator James A. Reed, (left) democrat, Missouri, chairman of the committee; Thomas S. Hogan of Chicago, center, and Senator LaFollette, committee mem- Below at left, Samuel Insull testifying, and Chester Willoughby, secretary to Senator d candidate, during his testimony. JUDGE THAYER, ILL, POSTPONES SACCO DECISION Hearing Of Until Fall of Year (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass. July 28, — The continued illness of Webster Thayer, trial judge in the famoup Sacco and Vanzetti case which aroused working class interest thruout the world, will mean a respite from threatened death for the two innocent Italian agitators until September at least, according to an announcement made here in the press today by District Attorney Win- field M. Wilbar. Protest Helped, After the full bench of the Mass- achusetts supreme court overruled ex- ceptions in the case on May 12, Wilbar had planned immediate steps toward the imposition of death sentences in the cases of Sacco and Vanzetti. The storm of protest which swept the United States and the swift and vigor- ous action taken by European and South American workers in solidarity with the two Italian» workers created such a stir that sufficient pressure was exerted to prevent the legal murder of two innocent mep for the time being. Attorney for the defense, Thompson, moved for a new tria] and Thayer will hear this motion in the fall when he has recuperated from his illness, Defense Busy. The breathing space gained by the two workers who face death in the electric chair will be utilized by the defense to solidify its ranks and strengthen its case. The postponement previously gained was the occasion, it is pointed out, for the publication of the sensational confession of Celestino Madeiros, gunman, who admitted that a gangster group, and not Sacco or Vanzettl, was guilty of the murder and robbery charged against the two men now being held, Bank Closes Doors in Eldorado, Ill. ELDORADO, IIL, July 28, — The rst National Bank of . Eldorado closed by order of the trustees. The long idlenesq. of coal mines was at- iributed as the cause. The bank was mainly a depository for coal miners. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents SEN. McKINLEY SOUGHT CROWE'S AID IN CHICAGO Green Offered $50,000 for Cook County Vote Henry L. Green, treasurer of Sena- tor William B. McKinley's futile race for the senatorship, admitted that Mc- Kinley lost the nomination because he failed to get the support of the Crowe-Barrett machine in Cook county before the senate slush fund commit- tee headed by Senator James A. Reed. Sought Crowe-Barrett Aid. Green pointed out that he held a secret conference in ( ago with Y V. Barrett and t fter the conference he “understood” this group would support McKinley in his race for the re-nomination and that he promised to put $1,000 into each Chi- cago ward thru the Crowe-Barrett ma. chine total of $50,000, othing ever came of it,” Green added. “We understood that William Hale Thompson, who was hostile to Senator McKinley, persuaded the or- ganization to make the world court an issue in the Cook county campaign and that turned it against the sen ator.” McCormick Spent $8,000. Mrs. Medill McCormick spent close to $8,000 in foreign language advertis- ing in an attempt to nominate Mc- Kinley, it was brought out at the com- mittee hearing. Green made a flat denial that Me- Kinley lJavished a “million dollars a year” on public charities to aid his senatorial campaign. Green declared that McKinley had practiced remark- able generosity toward public institu- tions for many years past and “had even reduced his donations to charity in the last year because of the pro» able effect on the public mind.” McKinley Generosity. “Up to 1923 Senator McKinley dis- played a remarkable generosity to public institutions all along the line of the properties he had built up. Since then I don't know whether he has been more or less génerous, but I do know he supports a good many charities. He makes. contributions every year to hospi and schools.” Green cited a McKinley donation of $250,000 to build a hospital at the University of Illinois. On primary day, he said, a group of women stood on the steps of the hospital “passing out literature” derogatory to Senator McKinley.” Green admitted that McKinley gave a $5,000 contribution to the Lincoln University in Kentucky, a Negro in- stitution, and its chancellor, John Wesley Hfll, came to Illinois and made world court speeches for the senator, Campaign Expenditures. Under questioning by Reed, Green also revealed to the committee where a large portion of the $350,000 McKin- ley campaign fund had gone. Green testified that John W. Stipes, of Champaign, Ill., recently named to the Mississippi River commission by Pres- ident Coolidge, had received $100,000 from the McKinley fund; Chester Willoughly, the senator’s secretary, had been given $55,000; Andrew Rus- sell of Jacksonville, Ill., received be- tween $30,000 and $40,000, and that $20,000 was turned over to H. E. Mor- gan of Chrisman, Ill., an old friend of the senator, who undertook to take “care” of the 29 southern counties in the state, RAOUL PERET, FORMER BRIAND MINISTER, IS NEW PRESIDENT OF CHAMBER The stormy French chamber of deputies has as much trouble keep ing presiding officers as it has with. cabinets. Former minister ret, above, member of the fallen Brian@ cabinet is the latest, Se ‘