The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 170. Subse 22 sy DWARD H. WRIGHT, Crowe-Barrett committeeman on the south. side of Chicago and mem- ber of the Illinois commerce commis- sion join the list of great men who have boasted of their power and were Negro, not afraid to show it. It was a Van- derbilt’ ‘who once said: “The public be damned” and Louis 14th of France, “I am the state.” None of those celeb- rities have anything on Mr. Wright. er 8 6 RIGHT supported Frank L. Smith in the now famous Illinois prim- ary contest, He controls the Negro south side for the Crowe-Barrett po- litical machine, In return for this interest in public affairs, Mr. Wright has a rather nice job from which he draws his salary. He is a lawyer for recreation. Wright did not want to divulge any information that would’ hurt his political angel, Smith. oe * HE colored politician boasted that he was cook, steward and bottle washer of the committee. When asked if there was a Crowe-Barrett organiza- tion in his ward, he stated indignant- ly that there was not. Wright was the ward organization. He was chair- man of the ward committee. “Who is treasurer?” inquired Reed. “I am,” replied Wright while the spectators giggled. However, he did not crab all the honors. He allowed somebody else to be secretary. There may be some good reason for this unexpected flow of generosity, judging from the fact that the lucky wight happens to be a deputy coroner. Owing to the high death rate among underworld lieutenants of the warring political gangs, perhaps it is essential that each group should be supplied with an independent supply of coroners, a HE colored political boss seemed to enjoy the opportunity afforded him as a witness to demonstrate his ability as a vote hustler to the as- sembled politicians who flocked around like drama producers to an amateur show in the hope of picking up some promising stage star. Wright would admit that he got about $3,500 from the Crowe-Barrett treasury for use in bringing the organization’s mes- sage to the south side yoters. When Reed pushed him for further informa- tion he got sore. Asked if there was any disharmony at meetings of his precinct captains he said no and in- timated that there had better be none. F128 APPOINT precinct captains and remove them any time I feel like it,” he said, “I have no understand- ing with them. I instruct them what to do and if they don’t do it,so much the worse for them.” Yes sir, nobody tells Wright nothing, unless perhaps Samuel Insull, Robert E. Crowe, Frank L, Smith and Charles V. Barrett. It’s a great show anyhow. What will be the result? Speeches will be made (Continued on page 2) 4 * Outside Chicago, : neg $9 ep Yor Po % rer Wwe y Fp, FALLING: MAY BRING. PANIC Poincare Swings Whip in Finance Committee {Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, July 29.—The franc is fall- ing again. This is the most significant news of the day because if the fall continues a new rush to liquidate paper securities may engulf and over- throw Poincare’s cabinet before the ex- pected adjournment of the chamber of deputies on August 8 or 10, For two days the industrial stocks on the Paris bourse have been suffer- ing unprecedented declines. Some fondly imagined that the investors were selling industrial paper to buy government paper, but yesterday’s sharp drop in the value‘of the franc, from 38.92 to 42.09 to the dollar in- dicates continued financial instability. The prophets who sang pretty songs about the “skies clearing’ seem to have warbled a bit too early. Debt Ratification Delayed. The reaction may have resulted from the declaration of Poincare before the finance committee of the parliament, that neither the Washington nor the London debt agreements would be laid before the chamber for ratifica- tion until October, and then that terms would be made for payment “within France’s measure of its capacity.” Important actions of the finance committee numbered among them the approval of Poincare’s financial pro- gram over stiff opposition, Poincare Swings Whip. The vote for approval was 20 to 12 with six abstentions. Against the items for increasing taxes on rail road passenger and freight rates, how- ever, the opposition rallied ‘a majority, But Poincare swung the whip, and on a vote to reconsider he won back again and the items were approved by a vote of 18 to 12, Another action of the finance ‘com- mittee was to reject the socialists’ financtal progrem,-propgsed~by. Leon Blum against that of Poincare. Low Wages Paid Workers in “Largest Chair Town in World” ®y a Worker Correspondent GARDNER, Mass., July 29. — “The largest chair town in the world,” is the first sign that greets the visitor as he enters Gardner. There are about 50 chair factories here, employing about 18,000 to 20,000 workers. The average wage paid to adult workers is $15 to $25 a week. The young work- ers are able to earn but $8 a week. CHICAGO GARMENT WORKERS JOINT BOARD ANSWERS ATTACK IN LAST ISSUE OF FEDERATION NEWS The following report made by |. L, Davidson, organizer of the Chica- go Joint Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, at the last m&eting of the joint board was incorporated into the minutes and adopted as its own_reply to the TOMORROW. JULY 31 : Segregation A flaming protest on the injustices perpetrated on the Negro worker, by GC. O'BRIEN ROBINSON. With unusual illustrations by the noted proletarian artist LYDIA GIBSON, ~ ‘What Has Become of | the Former Ruling A 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, x Other features, including CARTOONS by A. JERGER, VOS®; ELLIS, MINOR and others, You Will Find These Splendid Features in Saturday's Issue of The New Magazine Supplement attack in the Federated New: “It becomes necessary for me at this time to make a statement for our ers and for the public as to | what really happened at the last meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor, since this matter received so much publicity the early part of last week and was followed by a state- ment in the official organ ‘f the Chicago Federation of Labor-—the Federation News. No Quarrel with Federation, “The statements contained in these newspapers are so misleading that one reading it will be under the im- pression that we started a quarrel with the Chicago Federation of La- bor, Everyone knows that our or- ganization picked no quarrel with any- body and, it is well-known that we are a bona-fide organization affiliated with the Chicago, Illinois and Aweri- can Feilerations of Labor. Make Unusual Report, “On Sunday, July 18, 1926, I made my usual report to the Chicagg Fed- eration of Labor on the doings of the organization, It was pointed out that we have signed an agreement with Percival B, Palmer and that 27 of our brothers and sisters were at that time released from Cook county prison after serving their full term. The delegates were urged to distribute cir- culars advertising a protest meeting against the imprisonment of our mem- bers. In the remarks I also expressed my dissatisfaction with the silence of Governor Small on the appeal made to him to pardon our brothers and sis- ters, I yaid it in the following words: Seek Small Pardon, “A committee consisting of the Illinois, and Chicago Federation of (Continued on page 2.) In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. i Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Pest OMice at Chicago, Ulinols, under the Act of March 8, 1879. by mall, $6.00 per year. $236,000 MORE AID TO BRITISH By JOHN PEPPER i (Sepcial Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 29.—The Central Council of the All-Union Trade Unions has today sent to the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain a further remittance of 470,000 roubles ($236,- 000) for strike relief. This fund has been collected by a com- mittee of working women thruout the Soviet Union. 2. a eee total of $2,336,000.—(Editor’s Note.) SATURDAY, WORKERS OF SOVIET UNION According to reports made at the meeting of the executive at the Inter- national Miners’ Federation at Paris last week, where Percy Tetlow and c.| J, Golden*represented the United Miners of America, the total sum received papers of Mexico City declared today by the British miners’ for relief since the strike began was $3,500,000, of |they had reliable information that or which the major portion, or $2,100,000 had come from the trade unions of |ders had been issued to the military the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The present donation from the} Committee of Working Women will make the Soviet relief fund sent so far a/ ‘SEND | bers of the Political Bureau reporting unanimously. 1.R, T. STRIKE MAY SPREAD T0 ALL N.Y, LINES Call lidiecll he Pickets to | All Departments | | (Special to The Daily Worker) | NEW YORK CIry, July 29—The | Consolidated Railrokd Workers’ Union, the labor union formed by the strik- ers of the Interboroagh Rapid Transit Company to fight the congany and the company union, after receiving no re- sponse from their last proposal made to the company, have issued a call to all employes of all departments on New York transportation lines to strike at 5 a. m. Saturday morning, The call is made not only to all Interborough workers, but to those on the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit lines and the trolley lines. Meetings are announced to be held nightly at the Manhattan Casino. To Spread the Strike. Edward P. Lavin, strike leader, counts upon spreading the strike to all transit lines and mobilizing the workers’ forces for a more effective struggle against abuses which exist on all lines, The B.-M. T, has a sort of company union, but only by departments, with no general committee such as exists on the I. R. T. The B-M. T. officials would make no statement. The I. R. T., thru its counsel, James L Quagk- enbush, when asked what the com- pany would do, replied: Quackenbush Makes Threat. “We'll handle them wholesale just as we did in retail lots when the strike ‘we will fill all their places at all lines of transportation, some 25,000 to 30,000 in all, stage even a 50 per cent strike, he would not say. Such a walkout seems to be the only means of making the strike effective enough to bring the I. R. T, to a reasonable frame Mind. According to the strik- ers, their recent referendum of all I. R, T. workers showed only 200 votes out of 9,000 aganist their proposal for a real labor union to supplant. the company union and other demands, More |. R. T. Men Out, At Tuesday's meeting Lavin stated that 47 I. R. T. motormen and switch- men had joined the strikers’ ranks. The transit commission, a state in- stitution, has declared that it has, thru Major Phillip Matthews, an ex- exutive officer of the commission, emergency measures planned to fur- nish “ample transportation,” The B-M T, last month made “agreements” with its employes thru its company unions by departments, New oe Tag Days for Passaic Strikers on July 31 and“Aug. 1 NEW YORK, July 28.—The New York Gonference has extended the Tag Days for relief of Passaic strik- ers to Saturday and Sunday, July 31 and August 1, Every worker MUST set aside these two days to assist in the collection of funds for the strik- ers’ relief, Report for collections on Saturday at 799 Broadway, Room 612, New York, City. SOVIET UNION COMMUNIST PART Y UNITS UNANIMOUSLY SUPPORT THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE’S RESOLUTION By JOHN PEPPER, (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 29.—The plenum resolution of the Central Committee is being extensively discussed in all party units thruout the Soviet Union, Large membership meetings took place in Moscow with mem- An extensive campaign to popularize the plenum resolution is also being carried on in the provinces, All the plenum resolutions have been adopted The feeling of the party members is best in the industrial sections. This is best characterized by the unanimously adopted resolution of the Baku Te a EE a ne bart y (OPE Rt or @ report by Ordjonikidze, a candidate of the pol- itical bureau. The resolution émphasizes that Zino- viey did not stop his struggle against the central committee after the XIV Congress and that as président of the Comintern he utilized the apparatus of the executive committee of the Com- munist International with a view of mobilizing Communist parties of other countries against the all-Union Com- munist Party, flirting either with the ultra-left or right wing groups. The resolution points out further that Zinoviev and Kameney, after ob- durately fighting against Trotzkyism in 1928, finally adopted Trotzkyism themselves, The reconeistlonvot these comrades with Trotzky in‘1926 has the obvious aim of forming: a joint block’for a united struggle. against the central committee, which defends true Lenin- ism. Zinoviev'and Kamenev held a contrary position to the central com- ittee and thought that the industriali- zation of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics was impossible. Trotzky maintained deep silence on this ques- tion at the XIV’ Congress where the resolution on the industrialization of the Soviet Uniom presented the basic line of the party for the immediate future. The disorganizing activities of the opposition withim the party endanger and block the practical work on in- dustrialization. The resolution further points out that the action of the opposition after the XIV Congress is practically lead- ing to the creation of an illegal party and creating division within the Com- munist Party. It welcomes all meas- ures of the plenum devised for the preservation of the unity and Bolshe- vist discipline of the party, Sailar resolutions are being adopt- ed in other units of the party, + ee Correction In Yesterday's Cable. To the members of the political bureau add the name of Voroshilov, A.C. W. STAGES WALK OUT FOR NEW AGREEMENT 35,000 Quit But 8,000 Return JULY 31, 1926 READINESS FOR AEE 290 HOLD TROOPS IN CATHOLIC MOVE Military Prepared for| Emergency | (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, July 29.—The pene | to remain in barracks prepared to be | called out in case of emergency. The order is issued in connection with the closing of the churches on Sunday on which occasion it is possible that dis- | turbances will result. | The catholic demonstration against the government when the churches are abandoned by the clergy on the sabbath will be count ected by huge parades being organized by the Mexi- can Federation of Labor. A manifesto issued by that body today said in part: “The federation is disposed to aid the government to counteract the action of the catholic clergy tena- ing to paralyze the economic life of Mexico.” Will Fight Boycott. The manifesto warned that if any ef- fort was made to close the factories and other places of business, thu» throwing many out of work, or halt agricultural activity in order to reduce the nation’s food supplies, the federa tion would “find ways of meeting each | measure.” The labor and socialist parties, which control a majority of the votes in the Mexican congress, today voted to stand by the religious laws and decrees of President Calles relating to their enforcement. Crisis on Sunday. Both the government and the labor organizations on the one side and the church and the land owners on the other are marshalling their forces for | the critical stage of the battle on Sun- | day. The government has reiterated | its intention of taking over the churches if they are left by the clergy. It maintains that the property of the church becomes the property of the state when it is abandoned by the former. Arrests Continue. After the officers of the Catholic Young Men’s Association and the League for Religious Defense had been arrested and released on bail several days ago, a new set of officers was piv in and as quickly taken into custods by the authorities. The two organ- jizations are held directly responsib}e for the agitation for an economic boy cott thruout the country, altho it ts no secret that the clergy is the rea} responsible source of the movement It is understood that new oflicers have been chosen whose names are being withheld to avoid arrest. Women Appeal to Mrs. Calles. Catholic women’s organizations on Mexico have addressed a letter to President Calles’ wife asking her, “As a woman and a cathol to use her influence with her husband to ease the severity of the present govern- ment movement against the church. There are indications that the heir- archy is getting extremely uneasy con- cerning the peristence of the govern- ment and the possibility of losing their churches altogether which the govern- ment, thru various spokesmen, has declared will be remodelled into schools for children. LEFT BLOG CRISIS MAY FORCE HERRIOT OUT OF MAYORSHIP OR CABINET (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, July 29._The troubles of the left bloc, or what is left of it, are well demonstrated by the ultima- tum sent to former Premier Edouard Herriot, now minister of education | NEW YORK, July 29.—(FP)— The latest addition to the ranks of strik- ing workers in New York and vicinity is from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. The 85,000 employed in men’s and children’s garment factories stopped work an‘hour early to go to meetings for ratification of the new agreement drafted by the Amalga- mated with the employers’ associa- tion. After discussion and some vo- ciferous protest, the pact was declared accepted by the workers. 8,000 Returned. About 8,000 returned to work the next morning and 25,000 in all are ex- pected to be back before the week ends, as independent shops settle, Most of the 8,000 returned under the agreement already effected with the manufacturers’ assoctation. The union expects that 10,000 will have to con tinue their strike another week be- fore settlements can be made, Thirty- nine independentifirms have already agreed with the union, Cutters Assess Selv: Shop chairmen 0€ the cutters’ union in Poincare’s “national union cabin- et” by the municipal council of the city of Lyons, The council demands that he either resign from Poincare’s cabin- et or lose the mayorship of Lyons, an office he has held for twenty-one years, Lyons is controlled by the so- cialists, who co-operated with Her- riot, the so-called “radical socialist” in the left bloc, but who now are angry at him for co-operating with Poincare, ~ If Herriot obeys the demand of the Lyons aldermen, he may upset the Poincare cabinet. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! approved a 10 per cent assessment upon ‘all cutters to. support strikes against firms which resist signing witn the union. Phil Orlofsky, manager of the union, “says that the workers are preparing for a long fight against the Henry Fruhauf firm, whieh has re- fused to deal with the union since 1921, / \ PUBLISHING CO., Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKEIt Washington Blvd., Cidcago, Mi, i113 WELSH MINERS’ PICKETS FIGHT SCABS AND COPS TO STOP COAL DIGGING ABERTILLERY, Wales, July 29.— Police were called out today to dis- perse men, women and children strike pickets many of whom were armed with rocks, who attempted to prevent officials and safety-men of the local colliery from taking coal from the mines, The pickets tore up the railways leading from one colliery and per- mitted coal cars to run off the rail and crash into the roadside and police officers were stoned. We ‘SAMUEL INSULL PRISONER IN HIS OWN SANCTUM Traction Magnate Vic- tim of Wasting Disease BUGHOUSE FABLE No. 8. By Our Retiring Reporter, “Your fables are making a hit” said the editor as I walked into the office it 9 A. M. yesterday morning. “So far, we had three letters from Los Angeles commending the author and two can- celled subscriptions from Kansas “That means that I am fired,” I j growled, “No, it means that you are assigned to interview Samuel Insull today. But I warn that if you accept a contribu- tion from him, there will be a vacancy on the staff. We are poor but we are honest and it is almost impossible to leave Sam without taking something along with you.” “I had better buzz him over telephone,” I observed. “No,” said the editor, “if you do that he will mail us the money. Beard him in his den and if he forces more than ten thousand on you holler for help. There should be a burglar somewhere around his office.” | Make Two Touches. I looked at my dime to see if it was real, borrowed a-stick of chéWing gum from Thurber Lewis, a tooth pick from Harrison George, and went my way. I had to wait a few minutes before the traction magnate could receive me, Suddenly the door to his private office opened and two strong men trudged out. Each had a bag on his back. As they were passing by me, one of them stooped over and whispered: ‘For Christ's sake don’t you recognize me?” I had to admit I didn’t. They Were Not Factional, “Tam So and Such from the socialist party” he said. y, I am no friend of the Communists, but I'd rather you fellows have the jack than see it go to the democrats. Sam is nuts. He doesn't care what you are as long as you are 4gainst the world court. ‘Kid’ Weil was nothing to him when it comes to giving money away. Say, we have enough money on our backs now to keep the old party going for the (Continued on page 2) the NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents QUAKER SLUSHER FACES CONTEMPT BEFORE SENATE Cunningham Gave Vare Large Contribution By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. Thomas W. Cunningham, of Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, former treas urer of the republican state commit- tee, was the star witness at yester day's session of the senate slush fund investigating committee, presided over by Senator Reed of Missouri. Cunningham soon got into tentem hooks with the senator owing to his refusal to tell how he came into pos session of the $50,000 he gave Con sressman Vare’s campaign treasuref, Watson, or in what bank or banks he keeps his money. ning n was ac- companied by counsel who advised iim as to his rights as a witness. His Salary $8,000 Yearly. Cunningham's present official post- tion in Philadelphia is clerk of court ession with a salary of $8,000 @ Owing to Cunningham's refusal to livulge the source of the $50,000 he donated to the Vare campaign fund and the suspicion in the committee’s mind that it did not come out of Cun- ningham's personal funds, the latter was informed that he would be cited before the senate for contempt and that the federal courts might compel him to answer questions. Said It Was Local Matter, Cunningham's attorney, Congress- man Benjamin M. Golder, made- a statement declaring that it was none of the committee’s business what he did with his money. It was a local Philadelphia affair. The Philadelphian would nothing of any consequence. He was ready enough to indulge in pleas- antries but if he seemed about to fall for Reed's well-known cross examining strategy, his lawyer was at his side ready with wise counsel. At one time Cunningham seemed about to slip and Golder was obliged to lay hands on him. * He ts a Big Fellow. Physically Cunningham is a giant. Small eyes. Perhaps they seem small in comparison with the size of his body! A little baldness on the top of his head. Ears that seem to have been out in an Alaskan frost, the usual political chin and a face that would supply a dozen bank clerks with countenance material. His attorneys look more intelligent but it appears that Cunningham has more money. Brains and wealth! Huh. One thought of other famous rich men, Harry K. Thaw, Kip Rhinelander, etc. reveal He Had Famous Teacher, Cunningham learned from Senator Penrose how to use cash in elections “I learned that habit from Penrose,” he said. “He was a past master at it. He never let his right hand know (Continued on page 2) “FILIPINOS HAVE NOT GIVEN UP STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE,” DECLARES VINCENTE G. BUNUAN By VICENTE G. BUNUAN, Director, Philippine Press Bureau Washington Office, Commission of Independence. Public opinion in America is being led to believe thru publication in the press of special dispatches by correspondents attached with the Thompson inission that the silence of the Filipinos on independen » on the arrival in Manila of the president’s envoy means a recessive move from their stand on independence, if not entire abandonment of their desire for freedom. The history of the struggles of the Filipinos time and again took up arms to establish their own sover- eignty and as when they arose in revolt against America over a quarter of a century ago, they are struggling for the independence of their native land. The American people should be cor- rectly informed of what reajly tran- spired. The Philippine Commission of Independence, the Filipino people and their leaders at the time of the ar- rival of Colonel Thompson had not found an opportunity to confer with him officially, For the sake of courtesy and hospitality, which are the main traits of the Filipinos, they did not deem it proper to breach the subject of independence immediately. These courtesies have been misinterpreted as indicating reconciliation to a post- ponement of independence. The ques- tion of independence was brought up later, but the president's envoy de- clined to discuss it. Now that formalities are over and Colonel Thompson has opened hear- ings, he will be flooded with protests against the proposal to wrest from them 60% of their most fertile lands the less desirable to be left to them. He will receive complaints against plans to curtail Filipino autonomy, the Filipino people for independence. {in war and in peace, belies such assertions. Now, as avidly and persistently as during the Spanish regime when¢— whether the curtailment is to strengthen the powers of the governor |general or of the auditor of the Philip- pine Islands. It will be made known to him that the Filipino people would rather forego the $500,000 revenue taxes collected in the United States on Philipino goods rather than receive it at the price of lessening the author- ity of the Philippine legislature, The Filipino people will, as unmis- takeably as in the past, give proof of their desire for independence, The Philippine legislature has again voiced \the sentiments of the people by adopt- ling independence resolutions and | placing them in the hands of the spe- cial envoy. The Philippine supreme {council has already announeed that it |will present an independence mem- orial, We venture the prediction that the investigator will return home to make his report impressed by the intensity of the desire of the Filipinos for in- dependence, which even the Wood- Forbes mission could not help but ad- mit in its report. If a solution to the Philippine problem, which falls short of immediate, complete and absolute independence, is arrived at, tt will not be because the Filipinos have abam doned that desired goal.