The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1926, Page 2

Page Two ™ -THWE DAILY WORKER ~- NO ARRESTS. MADE IN NY. STRIKE MARCH Foster Speaks to the Garment Strikers (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, July 28.—Not a single arrest growing out of the mass picket- Ing demonstration of 20,000 striking cloakmakers was made yesterday in the garment zone, which on each Mon- day since the beginning of the strike July 1 had witnessed wholesale ar- rests of peaceful strikers. Police Commissioner McLaughlin supplied the strikers with a police escort and there was no untoward incident. The paraders congregated in the section bounded by 40th street, Eighth avenue, Fifth avenue and 25th street and, headed by Louis Hyman, chair- man of the general strike committee, proceeded by twos to the headquar- ters of the Joint Board, Cloak, Suit, Skirt and Reefer Makers’ Union, 130 Bast 25th street, and disbanded to proceed to their respective strike halls, There was no obstruction of traffic, the police making lanes per- mitting the demonstrators to pass. Settle 15 Shops. Fifteen applications for settlement, on union terms, from some of the most prominent manufacturers were approved yesterday by the settlement committee of the union, headed by Salvatore Ninfo, chairman. Within the next few days applications from the largest jobbers will also be ap- proved. By the terms of these agree- ments, for the first time in the his- tory of the industry, the jobbers will acoept responsibility to the workers in their contractors’ shops, thus main- taining the highest union standards. Foster Speaks to Strikers, William Z. Foster, leader of the 1919 steel strike, and other prominent labor leaders will address a series of strikers’ mass meetings in Greater New York today at 1 o'clock. Foster will speak at Lenox Assembly and Hennington halls, beginning at the former at 1 o'clock. Other speakers will include Louis Hyman, chairman of the general strike committee; John Coughlan of the New York Central Trades’ Council; Ben Gold, manager of the Furries’ Union, and Morris Sig- man, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, Other meetings will be held at the following halls: Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th street; Clinton hall, 151 Clinton street; Great Central Palace, 96 Clinton street; Arlington Hall, 19 St. Marks place; Jefferson Hall, 90 Columbia street; Lafayette Casino, 8 Avenue D. Wednesday mass meetings will be held at many halls. Among the speak- ers will be Norman Thomas, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Louis Hyman, Morris Sigman, Carlo Tresca, William Dunn, Benjamin Gitlow and others. | Nancy Sandosky Gets Another Free Ride Passaic, N. J., cops are shown here arresting the girl strike leader, Nancy Sandosky. This makes her twentieth arrest since the strike began. AMERICAN DYE WORKS SETTLE WITH STRIKERS Los ‘Angeles Cleaners Score Victory {(Speclal to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 28.—The American Dye Works has settled with the striking cleaners, dyers, pressers and drivers following a mass picketing demonstration ‘before the plant. The strike committee staged a dem- onstration before the plant. One hour after the pickets started their demon- stration the bosses came out and de- clared they would sign the agreement with the union if the picket lines were withdrawn. Fifteen Election Officials May Be Sentenced Thursday Fifteen election clerks and judges have been notified by County Judge Edmund K, Jarecki that they must ap- pear before him Thursday morning to show reason why they should not be sent to Cook County jail for con- tempt of court. Each of the officials are accused of having allowed ballot boxes to be stuffed and votes stolen in the poll- “Say It with your pen In the worker|ing places in which they were in correspondent page of The DAILY WORKER.” SPORTS SWIMMING CANOEING at the First Annual charge during the April 13 primaries. Each of the officials are subject to a maximum prison sentence of six months, Aimee’s Publicity Stunt Gets Hard Rap LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 28, —An- other hard rap was given to the pub- Ucity stunt of Mrs, Aimee Semple Mc- Pherson, “guardian” of the Angelus Temple, when a grocer’s delivery boy and Mrs. Parks, who lived near a cot- tage rented by a “Mr. and Mrs. George McIntyre,” identified Mrs, McIntyre as Aimee. Both of the witnesses declared that they had seen Aimee face to face and thruout her stay with her radio operator, Kenneth Ormiston, they kept the blinds drawn on the windows. A hand writing expert has identified the handwriting on the letter sent by “Mr. Mcintyre” to the keeper of the cottage asking for a refund with that of a letter sent by Ormiston to Keys denying his presence’ in that village with the soul-saving Aimee. Aimee—‘on advice of counsel”—de- nies that she was in the village and still insists that she was “kidnapped” and brought into, Mexico, DAILY WORKER | | weisbora Speatcs in TRUCK PARTY Sunday, August 8 Arranged by the Boston office of The Dally Worker TO NORTH MIDDLEBORO, MASS, Tickets can be obtained at the New International Hall, 42 Venonah St., Roxbury, at 36 Causeway St., Boston, and at the Chelsea Labor Lyceum, Price $1.00 Trucks will leave th Manhattan Sq. at 10 a, m, sharp, Cleveland Saturday (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, July 28.— Albert Weisbord, leader of the Passaic tex- tile strike, will speak in Cleveland at Pngineers Auditorium, Ontario jand St. Clair avenue, Saturday, July 31, at 8 p. m. In addition to Weisbord, the speak- ers will be: Harry McLaughlin, presi- dent of the Cleveland Federation of Labor; Max Hayes, labor leader and editor of the Cleveland Citizen; and Albert Coyle, editor of the Locomo- tive Engineers Journal, American Shot In Canada, MONTREAL, Que., July 28, McCoy, a rug salesman of } ark, N J., was shot to death here today. Shortly after the shooting, the polic stations and| arrested Kathleen Hardman, of Wiar pon, Ont., it is alleged had recently complained bitterly to friends of Mc Ce er eee on ae Coy's attention, which she resented, osname sete anaes y <<. id Zinoviev Is Recalled as Member of the Russian Politbureau (Continued from page 1) groups condemned by the party, in- citing these miserable fragments of groups striving to division to start to work against the party and its unity. The growing factionalism of the new opposition led it to play the two-party ne, having aggravated extremely the anti-Leninist tendency of the op- position: doubt of the forces of the roletariat and pessimism as to soci- ulist reconstruction in general and so- cialist industry in particular, the tend- ency to destroy the union of the pro- letariat and peasantry (middle peas- ants), namely the exclusion of the principle which is, according to Lenin, “the supreme principle of the prole- tarian dictatorship;” the tendency to support ultra-left deviations in our party, an obvious approach to men- shevism; the tendency toward an in- ternational bloc with the ultra-left of the Korsch type and .the ultra-right of the Souvarine type which, after ex- clusion from the Communist Interna- tional, made attacks upon the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics under the pretext that there had been a peasant “kulak” degeneration in our party The new opposition makes no concrete proposals, and operates presumably on left phrases covering an opportun- istic idea, and passes over to absv- lutely inadmissible methods of strug- gle leading to division. The factional activity of the opposi- tion did not remain within the limits of the Communist Party of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, but made attempts to involve in the struggle the apparatus of the executive com- mittee of the Communist Internation- al, disseminating the views of the oppo- sition to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It should be noted that the first at- tempt of the new opposition to pass into secret factional struggle was mani- fested in the actions of workers at- tached to the executive committee of the Communist International who were directly connected with Zinoviev and with factional groups of various sections of the Communist Interna- tional (the case of Guralski, Vuio- vitch). The resolution emphasizes that the party lays responsibility for the fac- tional struggle upon all members o1 the party who participated therein, holding Zinoviev, however, as leader of the opposition at the fourteentn party congress, politically responsible to the party for the disrupting strug- sle, as his partisans participated ac- tively in factional operations, utiliz- ing the apparatus of the executive committee of the Comintern which is directly headed by Zinoviev, while the latter did nothing to condemn their activity and did not try to separate himself from them, In view of the above the Plenum ex- cluded Zinoviev from membership in the political bureau and, having re- called Lashevich from the post of as- sistant president of the revolutionary council and having excluded him from mem hip in the central committee, expressed a severe reprimand against him with the warnifg that should he attempt to continue factional work he will be expelled from the party, The resolution states that the work of the opposition has hitherto met with nv Sujport in any part of the organiza. tion, but that a further developmen: of factional activity could create dan- ser of division. The Plenum appeals to all party members to support unity, solidarity and the maintenance of Bol- shevist discipline, The Plenum further adopted rosoln- tions in regard to grain provision and the construction of dwellings, The DAILY WORKER needs your five dollars—you need The DAILY WORKER. Send five for 1 year’s sub before August 15! | SENATOR f FED DECLARES WAR ON BOURGEOIS Declares He Does Not Want Presidency BUGHOUSE FABLE No. 7 By Our Retiring Reporter. Senator James A. Reed, grand in- quisitor of crooked politicians and capitalists who think this is England and can do what they like, received your retiring reporter with open arms at his headquarters in the Congress Hotel. The senator was playing with the tip of a silk handkerehief that was peeping from his upper coat pocket, with one hand, while,with the other he was flecking specks of,,powder off his silk shirt, “Glad to see a xreyolutionist” he chirped, “If there is,anything I can’t stand it is listening to those scurvy- soule., boodle hounds who are fooling the masses, robbing, the nation’s wealth and bringing shame on the country, “This goes for democrats as well as republicans” he continued. “If I had to live my life over again I would avoid a capitalist political party as I would a plague, Look at those’ fat boys hanging around the lobby waiting to shake hands with’ me. I would rather massage a crocodile’s belly than touch one of their fins.” Then the senator got jovial. “Hell,” says he, “its a shame that I can’t offer you something. I am one of the few American politicians of any standing who would afford to take a drink in public if such were available, Borah chews tobacco but that would not hinder his election to the presi- dency of the United States, Tobacco chewing is a national virtue. Washing- ton must have had the habit, I would ot care to be president tho I admit its a great honor, Not that the lime- light hurts me, but when a fellow is president he must stop swearing more or less, And furthermore, under the capitalist system, you Know how it is, the president does not rule, How would it look for a fellow like me to take his orders from Morgan, Insull or George E, Brennan?” I admitted that I could not imagine the senator taking kindly to such in- voluntary tutelage. He continued. “Do you know what I am doing here? Bet you don’t. Even young La- Follette is at sea about it. He thinks [ am chasing corruption, Why, I am more accustomed to corruption than any man in America, If you ever come to Kansas City, I'li_ show you some- thing. Not that I gg in for it, but its there and nobody cf help it, as long as capitalism lasts, ‘What I am actual- ly doing here is exposing the rotten system on which corruption thrives. “Lots of people will throw fits be- cause Sam Insull purchased Smith, and Brennan and gave money to Deneen’s group in order to assassinate McKinley, tho Deneen supported Mac. And how it makes me wriggle in my seat when some one-says that Insull was against McKinley because the senator was for the world court. Hell's bells! Insull a jolly old Englishman who goes to London three or four times a year to look at the horse guards at Whitehall! “They can’t kid me,-and tell it to the world thru The DAILY WORKER. McKinley was grabbing something Sam wanted. Hence the scrimmage. And George E. Brennan! Damn his democratic double chin! He gives me gas on the stomach, I tell you what we want here is a revolution, There is nothing I would like better than be minister of justice in a nice, snappy Soviet administration, I would make some of those fat boys dance,” Just then the telephone rang. The senator picked up the receiver, Tt was George E, Brennan. “What would you ‘say to a little something tonight” George was say- Ing, “a quiet little party, with some- thing, you know whaf'I mean? Want talk over world court, league of na- tions, entangling alliaices and Robert E. Crowe.” “That little something appeals to me George” replied the senator. “I sug: gest that when you get'to Washington, provided Sam's money isn’t all burnec up by election time, you make your favorite bootlegger your private sec. retary. There is nothing that puts a bill thru committee better than a good private secretary. I'll be there George.” “Good scout George,’ remarked the senator to me after;he parked the phone.” Would be all right but he’s in with a bad gang, He's human and understands people. ,Well, this old world is not such a bad place after all, Well, call again tomorrow.” The American Worker Correspond- ent is out. Did you get your copy’ CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID 10 HOLD TWO OPEN-AIR MEETINGS Chicago local, International Work- ers’ Aid will hold two open-air meet- Ings this week on the strike of the British coal miners, Tonight at Washtenaw and Divi- sion St. J. Manus will ispeak. Wayne Adamson will be chairman, Friday night, Manuel Gomez will speak at Roosevelt Road and Sacra- mento Blvd, Wayne Adamson, chair. man, ' & - Workers of the World Must Make All Nations “Big League” Territory By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, HIS is supposed to be the silly season, The picture services ery for pictures of women to be dis- tributed among their clients eager for feminine trimmings for their publications. Discussion is sup- posed to hinge mostly on the weather, The movies put on only light stuff, light indeed when most of filmdom is nearly always froth anyway. Those who insist on get- ting excited must only rave about baseball, the latest prize fight or golf, with baseball always pre- ferred. That is America. ee} It is, therefore, easily understood why the drama section of last Sun- day’s issue of the Hearst's papers, at least in Chicago, carried the startling headline, ‘No Bushers in Moscow, Says Stevens;” Art Thea- ter There Plays Big League Ball All the Time, Critic Discovers.” It would be impossible to trans- late those headlines into any other language. It would be Greek to the Russians, or worse. But those headlines carry an idea into the minds of the millions who follow the score boards, or fill the grandstands, bleachers and the open fields at American ball games. They would get the simple idea that the Moscow Art Theater was high grade stuff, and since Moscow has re- ceived so much publicity as the Red Capital of the Workers Republic, they might conclude that it isn’t such a bad place after all. They might ask the next minute, “Who is the ‘Babe’ Ruth of the Bolshevik batters?” but this would only show that the baseball fae had his mind on his own games, to which it quickly returned, and that he could not be led astray for long into the alien fleld of the drama, But Ashton Stevens showed his cleverness as a dramatic critic by winning, if even for a minute, the attention of the baseball readers, who constitute a much larger audience. This is an achievement par excellence for a Hearst writer, who is supposed to tickle and not to teach the brain of his audience. se * Ashton Stevens, of course, merely takes after his versatile mentor, Arthur Brisbane, who uses his col- umn to boost Coolidge for re-elec- tion, develop the largest air fleet in the world for American imperialism, announce himself as the starter of automobile races at Indianapolis, as the sales agent of sub-sea lots in Florida, or gushing oil fields in Cal- ifornia, It was the Hearst press that took Damon Runyan out of the scribes’ retreat in the baseball arena to write up the Eucharistic Con- gress of the International Catholic ‘Church, and proudly advertised the achievement. Stevens, the dramatic critic, may therefore be allowed his excursion into the field of baseball when he writes: “Baseball comparisons occurred to me in Russia when Morris Gest M. T, W. BRANCH CALLS SEAMEN OFF COAL SHIPS Man No Coal Cargoes to Great Britain (Special to The Daily Worker) BALTIMORE, Md., July 28.—The Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union No, 510 of the Industrial Work- ers of the World, thru the action of the Baltimore branch, has answered the call of the British miners and is boycotting all coal ships to Great Brit- ain, Baltimore is one of the largest and perhaps the most busy port in the United States thru which coal is being shipped to break the British strike. The action of the Baltimore branch of the M. T. W, is, therefore, striking at the heart of the scab coal shipments. Besides their own members, the M. T. W. is urging the members of the International Seamen's Union of the A. F. of L, to stay off coal ships to Great Britain, regardless of the I, 8. U. officials’ indifference to the cause of working class solidarity, which, according to the M. T. W., is causing them to gather up previously unor- ganized seamen to man the coal ships. The M. T, W. 510 branch of Baltimore urges all seamen, regardless of af- filiation, to boycott the coal ships, “Seamen, be men,” concludes a leat- let being distributed on the water front, “and tell your fellow seamen to back you up. Refuse to scab.” The leaflet is put out by the M. T. W, 510. Grain Gambler Recoups Losses in the Argentine Charles F, Glavin, former prominent grain trader here, left penniless by a failure in 1915, has returned from Ar- gentina with a fortune estimated at 41,500,000, ~ = as and I spent the better part of a week in the Moscow Art Theater, seeing a different play and different actors every night and marvelling at the almost unfailing perfection of their acting. And I find now, when anyone asks me what's the differ- ence between the Russian theater and our own, that I can answer the question with the greatest ease, if not intelligence, by saying that our theaters are like bush ball teams that occasionally put up a brilliant game, whereas the Moscow Art Theater plays big league ball all the time.” eee The conclusions reached by Stey- ens are not new, Managers and critics galore who have visited the Union of Soviet Republics univer- sally come to the same decision. The drama in Berlin, Paris and Lon- don, not to mention New York and Chicago, may be decadent, puerile, but in Russia it is real, virile. The revolution has had a very great deal to do with that. They said that the revolution had killed art, literature, culture, but now comes Ashton Stevens trooping along as part of the long procession proclaiming Russia “big league” ter- ritory in the drama, just as numer- ous other witnesses from time to time testify to her great achiev- ments in other flelds of human en- deavor, *;:. 878 Stevens also reflects that: “Indeed, they (the Moscow Art Players) are the Jesuits of the Stage, none for one and all for all. They know no politics, mind their own business, and respect the Soviet government, and in their tactful self- supporting way are permitted to do pretty much as they please. They have been the most effective propa- ganda that ever came out of Russia because they have not been propa- gandists.” The keepers of the gates of Ellis Island, New York, had better keep awake when next the Moscow Art Players come this way, eee But the triumph of the Bolshevik revolution consists not only in the cultural forces that it has turned loose, but in the new vistas of prog- Tess opened up before every field of human activity. The czarist regime handicapped the Russian workers and peasants for years. But that is gone. The batting average of Rus- sian labor in all fields of activity mounts higher. It will become the pride of world labor seeking to emu- late it. It will give agony to the heart of capitalist society, the bush league social system that tries to maintain its existence by causing all humanity to stagnate and agon- ize in ignorance and misery, It is up to the workers of the world to make all nations big league terri- tory, like the Union of Soviet Re- publics, in the drive toward the new civilization—Communism, SECTION 4, CHICAGO, T0 HAVE MEMBERSHIP MEET ON THURSDAY, JULY 29TH | All members of Section 4 of the Workers Party of Chicago are urged by the section executive committee to be present at an important mem- bership meeting of the entire sec- tlon to be held on Thursday, July 29th at 8:00 p. m., Freiheit Hall 3209 W. Roosevelt Rd, MoGOORTY QUIZ SEEKS REMOVAL OF JAIL WARDEN Recommendations that Warden George P, Weideling of Cook County Jail be replaced by John L. Whitman, former warden of the Joliet peni- tentiary, or First Deputy of Police Mathew Zimmer are expected as a re- sult of a meeting of several students of criminology and institutional dis- cipline with Judge John P, McGoorty at the city club, Whitman, who is proposed as the new warden for Cook County jail as a step towards making the institution “more like a jail than a glee club” was recently ousted from his position in Joliet, after an investigation by the Wills county grand jury, Before the Joliet grand jury he was charged. with having allowed prisoners all kinds of liberties, Whitman was instrumental in ex- posing Len Small henchmen selling pardons and paroles to long.term crim- inals, Weildeling is charged with allowing booze and dope to be smuggled into Cook county jail. The probe now being conducted by Judge McGoorty follows an attempt of a number in murderer's row to blast their way to freedom with high-powered explosives. gga caaeet ne een treet tn centeaennarnnn**tnnteaertannnataennannns little NES CE e SCA CURRENT EVENTS| By T. J. O'Flaherty. { a mn | (Continued from page 1) ashamed or afraid to admit it lest he might be mistaken for a fool or ® conspirator or both. E the report is true that Al Caponf is about to surrender himself to tha authorities who are supposed to bq hunting for him in connection with the murder of Assistant State’s Attor- ney McSwiggen, the senate committee investigating slush funds will have @ star witness within reach. Al did not’ contribute money to the campaign chests of the candidates but it is very, likely that he contributed guns and gunmen and no doubt some of the mile lions that Insull'go willingly contrib- uted to the capitalist politicians went to buy powder and ball for Al and his merry lads, es es ee Cee reporters are cynical as a rule and it is no wonder, They are accustomed to rub shoulders with the big politicians who run thie mighty nation in the interest ‘of the ruling groups. And they know what a set of frauds those politicians are, The newspapermen grind out news to suit the policy of whatever paper they work for, They must do that or look for another job on another paper where they are obliged to do the same thing. There is not a capitalist paper in the whole world published with the object of giving the public the truth. see d hie best that the most fearless of capitalist journalists can do is to sneak in a suggestion of the real things that underlie the froth that comes to the surface. Take for ine stance the phenomenon of Samuel In- sull purchasing every senatorial can- didate in the Illinois primaries. He plumped hard against McKinley, yeb he gave even the group that supported? McKinley $10,000, evidently not to help McKinley win the nomination. It jooks as if that gentleman had mor enemies in his own camp than in the open enemy’s, ak a i oo 8 HN Bd the room where the slush investi- gation is held questions are being asked why Insull is so bitterly hostile to McKinley, One naive person suge gested that the, utilities’ baron was slighted by the Illinois senior senator at a social affgir, What a silly ex planation? Others, however, say that McKinley blocked Insull’s attempt to completely monopolize traction and utility services in Illinois. That is more dike it, McKinley is a big pub- lic utility owner and wealthy. And in view of the fact that Frank L. Smith was for twelve years chairman of the Illinois commerce commission it is not surprising that Insull put over $150,000 behind his campaign. eee iy inh 'VERYBODY knows that this slush investigation is a political man- euver, It is not a straight democratic versus republican affair. Indeed, those Politicians do not love each other, They are like tigers quarreling over a carcass, They are always hungry. The factions in the republican party of Cook County are more concerned with cutting each other’s throats than with defending the party against the democrats, What is party to them un- less it puts cash in their pockets? Those who are not after the cash are treated with silent contempt. Publicly, the politicians are exuding honor and purity, +. > 2 [Avzetearions are deadly weap ons in the hands of politicians against enemies, Senator Reed of Mis- souri is as happy behind his inquisitor- ial chair as a tom cat contemplating the slaughter of a tender little mouse, The fact that probes like this throw a flood of light on capitalist corruption does not bother him in the least. He is strong in his Missouri balliwick and the democratic party can go to pot for all he cares, provided he does not gO to pot with it, he workers who should be interested in this investiga- tion only see in it a squabble between rival politicians, They fail to see that those politicians are but Puppets striv- ing for first place in the graces of the rulers of the country, men like Insull. William B. Wilson, an Ex-Labor Leader, Owns 300 Tons a Day Mine NEW YORK, July 28, —(FP)— A recent story erroneously said that Coal Age gave 300 tons a month as the production expected from the mining property that William B. Wilson and a partner were leasing in Chesterfield county, Virginia, The figure given in Coal Age is 300 tons a day, AAAARAAAAAAAAnannnnnnnnnnd FARM FOR SALE 80 acres, Prague, Ark. Five minutes walk from depot, rm fenced with hog wire, About 18 acres under cul tivation, All level land, no stones; plenty of good water, Includes alt stock and farm implements, A bar. gain for quick sale, Cash or terms yey Write Andrew Remsik, Prague, rk, An Education in Itself Illinois State Fair Springfield, Aug. 21-28 Bring the Children