The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1926, Page 5

ICC 1000 WORKER CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 1927 WEST VIRGINIA POLICE ATTACK MINER PICKETS Use Tear Gas Bombs on Striking Workers By a Young Worker Correspondent. McINTYRE, W. Va., July 28,—As 500 men, women and children were marching along the public highway here to the Big Four mines, where a public mass meeting was being held by the union miners, deputy sheriffs and police attacked the demonstration. The Big Four mine is working under the 1917 scale. Stops Picket Line, The pickets were marching single file along the highway when they were stopped by the county sheriff and state police. They were ordered not to go any further, as it was a violation of the coal company’s injunction against picketing. The pickets immediately sent for the union officials. When the union officials arrived they were afraid at first to lead the violation of the injunction. The mem- bers of the union were eager to vio- late the anti-picketing order and ex- pressed their determination to attend the mass meeting at the Big Four mine, Finally the officials agreed to lead the march. Use Gas Bombs. The state police then began their dirty work. They sought to break up the picketing demonstration with their guns and gas bombs, One of the state police hit a striker over the head with a club and knocked him into a ditch, The sheriff then arrested the four Officials of the union that were leading the march, The police and yellow dogs are here to aid the scab operators to break the strike of the miners’ organization. They are doing everything in their power to break the strike. They will never succeed in breaking the union, Scabs Grow Fewer. The marches of the miners are hav- ing their effect. The scabs who work for $4.60 under the protection of the yellow dogs are becoming fewer each day. Many of those that have been misled into scabbing on their fellow- miners are now joining the strike and the union, My father is a member of the United Mine Workers of America. He was already been on strike in this section of northern West Virginia fifteen months. We live in the union bar- racks near Shinsston, West Virginia. I am only a young boy, but I believe in the unity of the working class. Chicago Freiheit Enters New Epoch On completing his recent tour of the country Comrades A, Ravitch was appointed manager of the Chicago Freiheit. The Freiheit plans to increase its reading material to eight pages—a two-page increase over the present issue. The Chicago Freiheit at its new headquarters, at 3209 W. Roosevelt road, is entering a new epoch, Among the plans is one to satisfy a great need of the Chicago labor movement. Heretofore it was not possible for the Freiheit to reflect the Chicago labor movement as it should. A Chicag edition, with its own editorial staff, under the management of Comrade A, Ravitch, will seek to do this, The subscription price to the Amer- ican Worker Correspondent is only 50 cents per year. Are you a subscriber? SATURDAY. JULY 31 : Segregation A flaming protest on the injustices perpetrated on the Negro worker, by C. O'BRIEN ROBINSON. With unusual illustrations by the noted proletarian artist LYDIA GIBSON. What Has Become of the Former Ruling Class of Russia? A splendid article by the German scientist RICHARD LEWINSOHN, Translated for The Daily Worker by the well-known English writers EDEN and CEDAR PAUL. Life and Struggles in Ireland A record of the life of the Irish worker today brilliantly pictured by T. H. O'FLAHERTY, Other features, including CARTOONS ' by A. JERGHR, VOSE, ELLIS, MINOR and others. You Will Find These Splendid Features in Saturday's i Issue of The New Magazine Supplement Stems meer sm avmarenate + RENE, Saale PAP 2 a ea ete ie enna SE Seer mee EISNER SUES: STAM. Seen" She ar Sass RRs EE <M hs WPaOS Se One Prizes for Worker Correspondents The first prize, “Lenin on Organization,” goes to the one writing the story, “Girl Workers Get Low Wages in Thorn Shop,” which ap- peared In Tuesday’s issue of The DAILY WORKER. The second prize, “King Coal,” by Upton Sinclair goes to the worker in the Jersey City Ford plant that wrote the article “Speeds Up Rids Ford of All Aged Workers,” which appeared In last Thurs- day’s issue, The third prize, “The Great Steel Strike,” by William Z. Foster, is awarded to the writer of “Ohio Miners Must Fight Coal Plutes.” The writers of these stories are requested to send their names and addresses to The DAILY WORKER editorial office and the prizes will be forwarded. VILLAGE CORRESPONDENTS OF SOVIET UNION GREET AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENTS’ ARMY We village correspondents of the Vozdvizhenskaya Cossack village have experienced all the difficulties and errors that are to be met in village corre- spondence work: We have learned to a certain extent from these difficulties and errors. Realizing how complicated and intricate this work is, we have fect, says Havelock Wilson, has been decided to write to our brothers a comradely letter about our life, our achieve- ments and defects. Investigate News. Not a single note appearing in any of our papers demanding investigation remains without a thoro inquiry being conducted. The village correspond- ends are interested in all such situa- tions and are drawn into useful pub- lic activity. None of the correspond- ends are elected or appointed. We simply work according to our own desires. Newspapers. ‘ Besides the central and provincial newspapers, we also establish village or factory wall newspapers. The rights of the, wall newspapers are the same as those of the central and other newspapers, i. ¢., the voice of these wall newspapers is also heeded and various measures conducted in connection with the indications given in the paper. The wall newspapers are of special value when any politi- cal. or public campaigns are being conducted; they either conduct agita- tional-propaganda work, or else de- nounce shady deals of various per- sons or organizations. Under our Soviet regime we may criticize anyone wo like in the press, commencin® “from an ordinary citi- zen right up to the supreme authori- ties—the only thing is that these criticisms must not be merely verbal but must be based on concrete facts. Obtain Real Results. You.. will; probably already have seen On several occasions in the So- viet central organs statistical inform- ation on the measures which our So- viet government has enforced. The press shows ‘how many people occupy- ing various public posts have been brought to trial, how many excluded from the party, what laws have been modified, etc: It is apparent from this that our labors do not remain empty sound, but produce results in the strengthening of the proletarian state. There is not a single aspect of the activity of our state apparatus which is not widely discussed by the masses themselves, and it is we work- ers and village correspondents who are the ears and eyes of these masses. Defects and Errors, Side by side with our successes and achievements there are also defects and errors. Firstly, in our Union of Soviet Republics there are still shady individuals who persecute us in every way, dismiss from institutions, deprive of work; assert moral pressure and use other means against us worker and peasant correspondents, despite the fact that our revolutionary legis- lation strictly goes into these matters. The second is that people with bourgeois and other undesirable ten- dencies get into our ranks and en- deavor to undermine the authority of the proletarian press. A struggle is conducted against them and they do not remain a long time in our ranks. Thirdly, people are to be found amongst the correspondents who en- deavor to create a career for them- selves on the basis of their corre- spondent’s activity. A struggle has to be waged against them also. Compared with our’ achievements these defects are so negligible that there is hardly any need to talk of them. For a few individuals cannot do anything amoung hundreds of thou- sands of worker and peasant .corre- spondents. In our Stanitsa (Cossack settle- ment) three wall newspapers are pub- lished: Our worker and peasant cor- respondents’ paper, a Pioneer wall paper and that of the first grade pupils. We have 15 village corre- spondents in our circle. Of this num- ber five are workers, seven tillers of the earth and the remainder employes and young Communists. Altogether there are 3,400 people in our Stanitsa and the existence of 27 village corre- spondents besides the students and Pioneers fully serve our tasks. Greet American Correspondents. Well, dear comrades, worker and village correspondents desiring to strengthen fraternal contact with you we have described our work to you as far as is possible. We ask you to write to us as to how you live and under what conditions you work, Our tasks are one and the same as yours —to achieve freedom of the press and free labor without the oppression of capital. Therefore we wish you suc- cess in your work. Worker and peasant correspondents of the Vosdvizhenskaya, Stanitsa Panarin, Krikun, Eletin, Stodolia, Pomelov, Livandoy. HAVELOCK WILSON BALDWIN AGAIN FROM AMSTERDAM WITHDRAWS UNION) REFUSES PEACE IN THE MINES Claims I. T. F. Political|Fights Reorganization and Attacks Fimmen LONDON, July 28.—The National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union, offi- cered by the most reactionary of Brit- ish labor leaders, Havelock Wilson, has found that the Amsterdam Inter- national Transport Federation is “‘po- litical”,.and has withdrawn from af- filiation to the international. The excuse given by the Havelock Wilson officialdom is that the inter- national federation is “more of a po- litical association than a trade union,” Wilson accuses the secretary of the international, Edo Fimmen of Hol- land, of issuing manifestos whose ef- to “mislead” Burope, Trade unionists recall that it was Havelock Wilson who went into the capitalist courts of Great Britain and asked for an injunction to prevent the General Council of the British Trade Union Congress from calling out the members of the N. 8. F. U. in the general strike, thus contributing to its betrayal by the general council, Recently Si William Joynson Hicks, home secretary and “red baiter,” re- fused Edo Fimmen the right to enter England, alleging that Fimmen had “tried to interfere with British trade the workers of all ‘by trying to get British vessels held up in foreign ports during the genera) strike.” Why Not Become a Worker Correspondent? with Subsidy Excuse LONDON, July 28.—Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin has again refused to consider the proposals for a settle- ment of the coal miners’ strike pro- posed by the churchmen. The matter was brought up by David Lloyd George in the house of commons, say- ing it was the best opportunity yet given to Baldwin, Baldwin’s reply was that the pro- posal was bound up with a subsidy to the coal industry, and the govern- ment would not accept that. But the proposal of the ecclesiastics went be- yond this, The subsidy was to run for only a short time—four months— during which the mines were to be re- organized. It is this reorganization that is the real point of objection by the government, as the mine owners oppose it, : 5 The proposal provided that the min- ers resume work at the old scale, sup- ported by the subsidy, while reorgani- zation is goingon, The reorganization would make either a wage cut or a subsidy continuance unnecessary, it is claimed. The executive of the Miners’ Fed- eration is calling a meeting of min- ers’ dolegates for next Friday, in part at least to consider this question, al- tho the executive accepted it recently when made, Th government then re- fused and is sticking by its refusal, ——____. Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when nn aM Ee dee ae THE DAILY WORKER ELLER|SEEKS TO DODGE VOTE FRAUD GUILT Plays “Innocent” at the Grand Jury Hearing Morris Eller, Crowe-Barrett boss of the 20th ward, denied all knowledge of vote frauds in his ward, where it was found that Crowe-Barrett candi- dates had 35,000 more votes than they were entitled to. Bller, in his testimony before the special Cook county grand jury, sought to play the part of an “inno- cent.” When, asked as to the con- nections between Harry Hochstein, Samuel Heller and himself, he sought to deny all knowledge of their aiding his machine, *? He claimed ignorance when they asked him whether he had not re- paid Hochsteinefor his “good work” by giving himmojob with the sanitary district for switching his allegiance to the Crowe-Barrett forces from the Lundin-Deneen! group. When asked to produce the books and records ofithe ward organization, Eller brought out a list of his precinct captains and declared that no books are kept and that no money was col- lected or spent by the ward organiza- tion during the,campaign. The grand jury, after excusing him, decided to recall him and let him explain how the organization pays for its printing headquarters, rent and the customary $15 a day to poll watchers. Immediately after he was released by the grand jury he was seen in a restaurant with Charles V. Barrett, co-leader with State’s Attorney Rob- ert E. Crowe of the Crowe-Barrett faction, Pastor Slayer Almost Certain to Be Bound Over by Grand Jury FORT WORTH, Tex., July 28.—Pre- sentation of a “mystery” witness and the almost certain indictment of Rey. J. Frank. Norris for the slaying of B, E, Chipps, wealthy lumberman, were indicated as the grand jury in- vestigating the killing resumed its de- liberations here today. R. K. Hanger, Tarrant county dis- trict attorney, was to introduce a wit- ness whose identity has been the sub- ject.of wide speculation, and who saw the pastor shoot Chipps in the study of the First Baptist Church July 17. Five Make Big Clean-Up, CHICAGO, July 28.—Five armed robbers shortly before noon yesterday invaded a north side clothing store after backing a truck up to the door, held five salesmen at bay and es- caped with $1,000 in cash and more than 100 men’s suits, taken from wall cases. : Chicago Merchant Robbed Abroad. LONDON, July 28.—Saul Newbury, a Chicago merchant, who has been visiting Sydney, Australia, with his wife, has been robbed of $55,000 worth of jewels taken from his hotel room, according to a dispatch to the Even- ing News. LF. 1. U. AGENT OF ESTHONIA IN PESSIMIST VIEW All Dark But for the Communists’ Spirit REVAL, July 28.—In a remarkably disheartened report to the Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions, its representative in Esthonia declares that “the Esthonian workers are in a thoroughly dejected mood, the great mass completely apathetic toward every effort to organize them. The chief reasons are the low wages, bare- ly enough for sustaining life, and the chronic and severe unemployment.” Communist Jailed and Shot. The workers’ power of resistance to reaction is so weak that they made no protest when this year’s May Day demonstration was forbidden by the government, In parliament the enact- ment of further legislation for protec- tion of workers has been stopped, since the elections have reduced the total working class representation in that body from 32 to 30, of whom some of the Communists are in prison. The regular Communist organization had been outlawed by an act of par- liament, and a new party with Com- munist support made considerable gains at the expense of the socialists. One of the Communist leaders was ex- ecuted in spite of a solid protest by the working class, Outside Aid Necessary. “Our position seems to be without prospects,” concludes the report to Amsterdam, “especially as we have only a very weak labor press. The socialist paper appears twice a week only, and is small in size, A White Guard Government, The government of Esthonia is an anti-Bolshevik regime set up with the assistance of the British as a bulwark against the spread of the idea of pro- letarian dictatorship into central and western Europe. It was recognized by the United States and is largely dominated by the British foreign’ of- fice. Crouch Asks for Books! Comrade Paul Crouch has asked the National Office, Young Workers (Communist) League for books. We are sending his call to you. Surely every comrade reading this notice can spend from 50 cents to $1.00 on some book to be sent to Com- rade Crouch to help him pass his time in his prison cell in Alcatraz, Calif. The prison authorities will only accept books when they come direct from the publishers. Send money to The DAILY WORKER Publishing Co, and enclose a note requesting them to forward it to Paul Crouch, Bldg. 68, Alcatraz, Calif. Morris to Help Wilson. OMAHA, Neb., July 28.—Announce- ment was made here today at head- quarters of G. W. Norris, republican United States senator from Nebraska, that he plans to stump Pennsylvania against William Vare, republican nom- inee, in behalf of William B. Wilson, democratic candidate for United States senator from that state. ELECTRICAL WORKERS’ UNION FIGHTS MUSCLE SHOALS GRAB BY GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY SUBSIDIARIES By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press. WASHINGTON, July 28.— Recognizing that the attempt of the General Electric trust to grab the $150,000,000 government power plant at Muscle Shoals will be resumed when congress meets next December, the Inter- national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has undertaken to arouse the country to the meaning of this scheme, In the July issue of its official magazine, the Journal of Electrical Work- ers and Operators, is traced the exact connection with the trust of the thirteen power companies that have jointly made a bid for the Shoals plant. These 13 concerns have formed a¢———————__________. corporation known as the Muscle Shoals Power Distributing Co, Yet, as the workers’ journal points out, “The hair is Jacob's, but the voice is Esau's.” Power Trust Ramifications. The heart of the General Electric trust, it shows,’#s the Blectrice Bond & Share Co., of 71 Broadway, New York, to which''in turn are attached the Electric Bond & Share Securities Corporation and the General Electric Co, Connected with Blectric Bond & Share are the, National Power & Light Co. of TilBroadway, the South- eastern Power,& Light Co. of 120 Broadway, tho Electric Power & Light Corporation of 71 Broadway, and the Ame: Super-power Co, of Dover, Delaware. Now, of the 13 companies that formed the Muscle Shoals Power Dis- tributing Co., the first is the Mem- phis Power & Light Co., controlled by the National Power & Light Co. The next five are the Mississippi Pow- er Co. of Gulfport, the Alabama Pow- er Co, of Birmingham, the Gulf Pow- er Co. of Pensacola, the Gulf Hlectric Co, of Mobile anf the Georgia Rail- way & Power Co, of Atlanta, These are controlled by the Southeastern Power & Light Co. Link up Mellon Interests, Next comes the Tennessee Blectric Power Co,, of Chattanooga and Nash- ville, whose power system is linked with those of the Georgia Railway & Power Co. and’Mellons Aluminum Co. of America, so that it is physically linked into the’ power trust system, ‘Then the Misttesippl Power & Light Co. of Jackson, the Arkansas Light & Power Co. of Pine Bluff, and the Louisiana Power & Light Co. of Mon- roe, are controlled by the Southern Power & Light Co, of Baltimore, which is controlled by the Electric Power & Light Corporation of 71 Broadway. Directly under the con- trol of this latter branch of the trust are the Mississippi Delta Power & Light Co. of Greenville and the New Orleans Public Service Co. Insull in Deal, The final member of the combina- tion is the Kentucky Utilities Co. of Louisville, which is dominated by In- sull’s Middle West Utilities Co, of Chicago, which in turn is controlled by the American Super-power Co, of Dover. Commenting upon this disclosure of the meaning of the “joint” bid for Muscle Shoals, the Journal reminds the country that the joint committee bid made by this combination is the most favorable one received. This majority report, urging that the great power plant be turned over to the trust, is signed by Senators Deneen of Illinois and Sackett of Kentucky, regular republicans, and Congressmen Morin of Pennsylvania, regular repub- lican, and Quinn of Mississippi, regu- lar Democrat. “Once again,” says the Journal, “the public sees established the dom- inance of the Blectric Bond & Share Co. in the power fleld. Here it has been influential enough to swing both the Insull interests and the Mel- lon interests into its orbit of opera- on," ‘ (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. J. Arnold Ross, oll operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, is unsucces signing a lease with property holders at Beach City, Cal., because of of other operators and quarrsis among the holders. While he is at Bez Bunny, his thirteen-year-old son, meets Paul Watkins, slightly older. has run away from home. His father is a poor rancher in the San Elido Valley who is a “Holy Roller.” Paul goes away to make his living on the road and Bunny goes about learning ‘the oli business from his Dad who is bringing in a well at Prospect Hill. Dad was working hard and Bunny suggests a quail hunting trip to the San Elido Valley. Dad agrees and shortly they arrive at the Watkins ranch and pitch their camp. tn hunting for quail they find oil oozing out of the ground and Dad wheedles the sale of the ranch out of old Watkins and also arranges to secretly purchase adjacent lands. Paul's little sister, Ruth, and Bunny become friends, Bunny starts to high school at Beach City. With plenty of money and social standing he enters into the life of ti school. His Dad warns him of dangers, tobacco, drink and women—a little bashfully on the latter. He falls in love with another student, Rose Taintor. In the mean- time Dad's oi! business grows rapidly. The World War begins and Dad, along with other capitalists, benefits by selling oi! to both beiligerents. Christmas holidays come and Dad and Bunny go quail hunting on their new preserve. Bunny meets Ruth again. Ruth tells him that Paul sent her a book that spoke against the bible and that her Dad caught her reading it and whaled her, ° e - @ Dad explained: there had been two revelations so far, to be found in the old and the new testaments; why mightn’t it be that the Holy Spirit was preparing another? For a long time the followers of the True Word had awaited this fulfillment; the promise was in the Book, for anyone to read. This New Dispen- sation would supersede the others, and naturally it had got to bet different from the others, and that the followers of the old mes- sage might fail to recognize it, jist like the previous case. Didn't that seem reasonable? Dad asked; and Mr. Watkins answered! promptly that it did, and for Dad to goon. So Dad said that this True Word was to be revealed through the minds of men, and would be a message of freedom; the Holy Spirit wanted us to seek boldly, and not be afraid; and presently out of the seeking of many minds the Truth would come—perhaps from some one who had been despised and rejected, that would become the cor- ner stone of the new temple. Dad said all this with the deepest solemnity, and Bunny listened,/not a little bewildered; he had never had any idea that Dad knew so much Bible-talk—as much as any preacher! So it seemed to the Watkins family also. The old man’ drank in every word, and insisted that Dad should reveal to, them all he knew. And Dad told them that they had one son, whose words had been reported to hfm, and seemed to him to} bear the true spirit of the Third Revelation. Dad had met this} son, and had been struck by his appearance, for he looked just like} what followers of the True Word had been taught to expect—‘ grave and his voice deep. So Dad believed that the bearer of! this message of freedom, to which they were charged.to listen, | was their eldest son, Paul, whom they mistakenly had driven from among them. ; Well, you should have seen the sensation in that family! Old Mr. Watkins sat with his jaw dropped down, as thunder-| struck as if Dad had sprouted a pair of angel’s wings before} his eyes. Mrs. Watkins’ thin face wore a look of utter rapture, and her two stringy hands were clasped together in front of her chin. As for Ruth, she seemed just about ready to slide off her: chair and onto her knees. Everybody seemed to be pleased but, one, and that was Eli; he was glaring at Dad, and suddenly he sprang from his chair, his face contorted; he shouted, and his voice cracked, and went up shrill and piercing: “Can he show the signs?” And.as Dad delayed to answer, he shouted again, “I say, can he show the signs? Has he healen the sick? Has he casted out devils? Do the lame rise up and walk? Do the dying take up their beds? Tell me that! Tell me!” { Well, sir, it floored Dad; for Eli was the last person in the | room from whom he would have expected an onslaught. Dad; thought of Eli as a gawky farm yokel, who came, with no socks on, and pants that did not reach his shoe-tops, to bring the milk and take away the dirty dishes; but here was Eli, transformed ; into a prophet of the Lord, and blazing, after a fashion not un-| known to prophets, with a white flame of jealousy. “I am him. who the Holy Spirit has blessed! I am him who the Lord hath chosen to show the signs! Look at me, I say—look at me! Ain’t/ my hair fair and my eyes blue? Ain’t my face grave and my. voice deep?” And sure enough, Eli’s voice had gone down again, and Eli was a grown man, a seer of visions and pronouncer of, dooms. “I say beware of he that cometh ag a serpent creeping | in the night, to tempt the souls of they that waver! I say, beware the spawn of Satan, that lure the soul with false doctrine, and blast away the Rock of Ages! I give the signs, that all men may | know! I stand by the Four Square Gospel, that was good enough for my fathers and is good enough for me! Glory Hallelujah, and Salvation unto they that has washed their sins in the Blood of the Lamb! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!” Eli flung up his hands with a mighty shriek, and old Mr, Watkins rose from his chair, and shouted “Glory! Glory!” And’ then a horrible thing began to happen, right there before your eyes; a kind of convulsion seized upon Eli, his eyes rolled up, and foam appeared at his lips, and a series of wriggles started at his shoulders and ran out at his finger tips; and his knees began to knock together, and his features to work in a kaleide- scope of idiocy. He began to bellow, in an enormous voice, that you would never have dreamed could be contained in a body of his size; and what he said was—but you couldn't reproduce it, because no one can recollect a jabber of syllables, and anyhow, it would look too silly on a printed page. But it had some kind of a spell for old Mr. Watkins, it caused him to throw his two hands up into the air, and jerk his arms as if he were trying to jump up to heaven with them. “Let go! Let go!” he shrieked, and be- gan to double up and straighten out again as if he had been shot through the middle; and old Mrs. Watkins—poor frail little wom- an, made of nothing but bones and whipcord covered with skin— began to rock and sway in her chair, and the two little girls slid off onto the floor and wallowed on their stomachs, and Ruth sat terrified and white-faced, gazing at the two strangers, and from them to Eli, bellowing his jabber of syllables like a furious male- diction at Dad. And that was the end of it. Dad backed out, and Bunny with him, and the two of them crept away through the darkness to their camp; and all the way Dad whispered, “Jesus Christ!” (To be continued) INTERNATIONAL BARBER SHOP E, W. RIEGK LUNCH ROOMS ' } ‘ Private Beauty Parlor Six Places 169 N. Clark 118 S, Clark M. SALA, 66 W. Washington | 167 N. 2016 Second Ave. (Between 103rd | 42 W. Harrison 234 S, Halsted and 104th Sts.) 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