The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government By THOMAS J, O’FLAHERTY A’ American missionary, Haysmetr by name, pleaded guilty in a Co- rean court of having branded a small native boy with acid on both cheeks because he stole some fruit from the missionary’s garden. No doubt the clergyman inflicted this punishment on the lad for the latter’s Spiritual ben- efit, Did not the Roman inquisitors of the middle ages tear their doubting brethren asunder on the racks, to the accompaniment of tinkling bells and priestly mumbling of prayers? ee ARON MUNCHAUSEN made a se- rious mistake in getting born too soon. That delightfully imaginative pergon would not only enjoy himseif immensely at his favorite profession, but he would find a lucrative market for his wares. Since the world war broke out the art of lying has come into its own, Hitherto prevarication was somewhat of a monopoly in dip- lomatic circles, but the necessities of the situation made lying a mass occu- pation, Two cities became famous or notorious—depending on the sympa- thies of the reader—for the efficiency of their lie mills, They are Helsing- fors in Finland and Geneva, Switzer- land. a8, HEN the central powers were de- feated the Hars turned on Soviet Russia. Tho the volume of produc- tion has» decreased, it must be ad- mitted that the quality has not dete- riorated. Riga has taken the place of Riga and Geneva is too busy handling the league of nations trade to be a serious competitor. Paris now steps into the ring with a version about the present difference of opinion of the Russian Communist Party that it is worthy of space in this column. eee HE yarn is by Paul Scott Mowrer, one of the Chicago Daily News’ European correspondents. It appeared in the News of July 30. The early edition had an intelligent and reason- ably correct story of the situation from Junius Wood. who is stationed in Moscow. But Mowrer’s fable kicked it into the melting pot. Briefly, he tells us that European diplomatic cir- cles see in the struggle between the viewpoints of Stalin and Zinoviev a last stand fight of the “extremists,” among which Zinoviev is listed, against the opportunists, Stalin is head of the latter faction, says Mowrer. . ose ERE is where the pot begins to boil furiously. Bubble, bubble. ‘~he correspondent takes another drink of cognac and says that Dzerzhinsky, famons head of the former Cheka, was an extremist and ‘the last remaining hurdle in the way of the opportunists. He was slated for removal and refused to leave. He pulled a gun on Trotsky, but was disarmed and ordered exe- cuted. This was accomplished by the unusual method of suffocation. Then follows the usual stories of “disorders” here and there, troops rushing back and forth and friends of Dzerzhinsky getting arrested. And, of course, when Dzerzhinsky’s room was searched the usual discovery of jewels, etc., was made, se 8 HOSE who ‘Suspect everything in the capitalist press to be a lie until proven otherwise will pay no atten- tion to those yarns, but there are thousands of others who take obvious propaganda in the capitalist press as gospel. Mowrer's yarn is too silly to do anything but laugh it off. It is a case of the wish betng father to the thought. eae ALIVA drips from the mouth of in ternational capitalism as it contem- plates the profits it could wring out of the Russian workers and the tre- mendous raw wealth of their country, if they could only restore the former regime. They know that serious dis- unity in the Communist Party would weaken the power of the workers and peasants to defend their freedom. So they welcome any sign of division and Me without limit. But their lies will prove ineffective where their bayonets failed. ! | Tomorrow The DAILY WORKER will begin the publication of a | series of special articles on the struggle between the present Calles | government in Mexico and the catholic church. This struggle serious- ly concerns ail the workers of the United States. They should be- | come acquainted with the issues at { What they will contain is shown by their title: Fir. ** The Background of the Present Religious Conflict in Mexico. Seco, Order special bundies of The aroused against Mexico as the b: south of the Rio Grande, Addr Washington Bivd., Chicago, III, Vol. Ill. No. 172 el a Bh aregion Rates: () HE DAIL Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, illinois, under the Act of March 3, 187%. In Chicago, by mail, $3.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. oy’? OS ROT AS GALLES RULE SHUTS CHURCHES President of Mexico Hits at Reactionaries (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Aug. 1.—The taking over of the churches by government autHorities for the sealing of religious | treasures and the closing of the an-| nexes in accordance with regulations, | resulted in a few disturbances growing | out of riots caused by catholics in| which three were killed, a score in- | jured and 75 arrested, \ A sacristan and two bystanders were | killed in the lower part of Mexico City, it is reported, when catholics | opened fire on police officers who at- tempted to enter the church. At other churches firemen, police, and later, | troops, fought crowds who hurled MEXICAN ARCHBISHOP WHO LEADS FIGHT OF HIERARCHY IN MEXICO against the anti-religious decrees, Archbishop Boray del Rio of Mex- Special Articles on Mexico by Manuel Gomez, Secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League The Class Lines in the Conflict, Third: the Church and Foreign Intervention in Mexico, Fourth: The Catholic Church and American Imperialism. Fifth: The Meaning of Mexico's “Reformation.” and distribute them among catholic workers, and workers professing other religions, in order to beat down any prejudice that might be stones and rioted in ot docren | But Sunday opened with policemen zuarding all churches and, in some outlying. sections, munici commit- ‘ees in charge of all religious struc- ‘ures in the respective communities. No manifestations were evident at an early hour. Great Labor Parade, The great parade of labor that will be participated in besides the mem- bers of the Mexican Federation of La- bor, by all government employes and members of the labor and socialist parties as well as anti-catholic soci- eties is in preparation and promises to be the greatest demonstration of labor solidarity yet displayed in Mex- ico, The paraders are expected to number well over 100,000, President Calles issued another statement in which he declared that “reactionaries are in league with the catholics against the government.” Calles said that Sunday’s labor demon- stration would show the strength of the government in the éontroversy with the church despite the latter's grip on large priest-ridden masses. ~aees Boycott Not Success, While the economic béyeott of the catholics was put into force on Satur- (Continued on page 2) | EPISCOPAL CHURCHES HEAR NOTHING OF THE PRAYER FOR CATHOLICS Catholic churches thruout the world prayed for the church in Mexico yesterday as part of the vat- ican’s campaign to assist the Mex ican elergy in its fight against the constitution of 1917, being enforced for the first time by the Calles gov- ernment. In the United States the propaganda is particularly Intense among catholics because of the pos- sibility of this country’s interven. tion if sufficient preesure is brought to bear. The extent of the movement ts indicated by the fact that the cath. olics are being joined by protestants in prayers for the church in Mexico. The national publication of the Episcopal church, Living Age, com tains a plea for all protestants to pray with the catholics for “the per- secuted church in Mexico.” The journal says that suspension of catholic services in Mexico by the catholic church may “very likely be followed by like action on our part.” “We hope,” it adds, “that many other American Christians than Ro- man Catholics will carry out the earnesy suggestion of the pope for sunited prayer on Aug. 1 when tho new regime begins. In Chicago veral Episcopal churches announced that they had heard nothing of the proposeo prayers. There will be five articles. 8 follows: DAILY WORKER of th is of new Wall Street aggressions The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. ico City is the head of the Mexicar Catholic church. It was he who,sent a pastoral letter to the newspaper El Universal on three different oc- caslons, severely criticizing and de. nouncing the constitution of 1917 that caused the present struggle be- tween the government and the church to come to a heaa. NEW YORK PARTY STARTS DRIVE T0 GET SIGNATURES 20,000 Needed for State Ballot (Special-to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Aug. 1—The follow- ing candidates have been nominated by the Workers (Communist) Party for the coming city and state elec- tions: bs For governor; Benjamin Gitldw; for Meutenant governor, Franklin P. Brill of Buffalo; for state comptroller, Juliet Stuart Poyntz; for attorney general, Arthur S. Leeds. New York City ticket: 2 A. D. Man- hattan, Rubin Saltzman; 4th A. D. Manhattan, Meyer Loonin; 6th A. D. Manhattan, Benjamin Lipshitz; 8th A, D. Manhattan, 10th A. D. Manhattan, John C. Me- Donald; 17fh A. D. Manhattan, Fan- nie Warshafsky; 18th A. D. Manhat- tan, Abraham Markoff; 14th A, D. Manhattan, Elmer T. Allison; 3rd Bronx, Joseph P@dgug; 4th Bronx, Rose Wortis; 5th Bronx, Charles Zim- merman; 7th Bronx, J. Borochovitch; ! 6th Brooklyn, Samuel Nessin; Brooklyn, George Primoff. Congressional Candidate Tenth congressional Dist., Brooklyn, Bertram D. Wolfe; 12th congression- al Dist. Man. Harry M. Winitsky; 13th congressional Dist., Man., Charles Krumbein; 14th congresisonal Dist., Man., Alexander Trachtenberg; 20th congressional Dist., Man. William Weinstone; 23rd congressional Dist., Bronx, Moissaye J. Olgin. The task of placing the ticket on the ballot this year is a tremendous one, At least 20,000 signatures must be procured for the state ticket and at least the same amount of signa- tures for all candidates in New York City. All party members are instruc- ted to immediately turn in their names either to their secfion manager or to the campaign office and they will then receive instructions as to the procedure in this work and will receive their petitions and territories in which they are to work, All party mombers must immedi- ately go to the local office at once and register for this work. They will be assigned to a class for their instruc: tions for signature collecting. Negro Runs Against Senator Curtis in Kansas Primaries TOPEKA, Kans., Aug. 1, — Nick Chiles, Negro, editor of a weekly news- paper in Topeka, will be the lone can- didate against United States Senator Charles Curtis in the Kansas repubil- can primaries. The primaries will be held August 3. PASSAIC STRIKERS AGAIN SEEK Rebecca Grecht; | 14th} TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1926 y Workers of America. JOIN AF. OF L., WEISBORD URGES MILL STRIKERS Make Bosses Deal with Union, U Irges Leader (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N, J., Aug. 1. — “Soon we shall go back into the mills with an unbreakable union,” declared Albert Weisbord, leader of the Pas- saic textile strike at the mass meet- ing of the strikers at which they dis cussed the terms of settlement pres- ented to Senator Borah and their atti- tude towards the American Federa- tion of Labor. “The fake issues of Weisbord and AT 290 PUBL (Special to The Daily Worker) 1 Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKE SHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Cideago, 1th Miners’ Delegates Coming | age, “aot August 1.—Expressing the hope that the grganized labor movement of Amer- ica might do as well as the trade unions of Soviet Russia have done in making sub- stantial contributions in cash to the 1,200,000 striking coal miners of Great Britain and their wives and children, a delegation of the British Miners’ Federation sailed yesterday on tha Berengaria to conduct a campaign thruout the United States for strike relief. Fab sdsloration, compbsed of four miners’ * representatives together with Ben Tillet, | A. A. Purcell and Ellen Wilkinson, all labor patty members of the British parliament, are sailing at the invitation of the American labor unions and will be received as the guests of the American Federation of Labor and its largest industrial union, the United Mine From New York, the delegation will go directly to the headquarters of the United Mine Workers at Indianapolis, where the U, M. W. of A. officials will take charge of the campaign and the itinary of the speakers. “The duration of the campaign will depend upon the needs of the British miners, who are fighting against a wage cut and the longer work day law recently passed by parliament. | SACCO-VANZETTI CASE DELAYED TILL AUTUMN; HEAR FROM PARIS (Sepcial to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., August 1.—Ten thousand workers gathered in a mass meeting in Paris on July 27 to protest against the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for murders blamed on them in this state, accord- NEW YORK EDITION Ve | Price 3 Cents INSULL WILL = ° ~-BE ASKED WHY HE GAVE COIN | Labor Leaders Said to | Be Embarrassed | Why Samuel Insull, Clement Stude- | baker, Ira D. Copley, utility magnates, }and Daniel Schuyler, Insull attorney, {contributed the sum of $206,235 to \ Frank L. Smith's campaign fund, will jbe the object of Senator Reed’s In- quisitorial powers when the senate jslush committee's probe into the Ill- jnols primaries reconvenes in the fed- {eral building tomorrow at 10 a. m. Money For Everybody. In addition to the funds contributed by Insull to Smith's senatorial cam- paign he also gave $35,000 more to the three Cook county tickets, of the three rival groups. He donated $10,- 000 to the Deneen group treasury, $10,000 to the Crowe-Barrett chest and $15,000 to the Brennan democrats. How much the good Samaritan con- tributed to the Small-Lundin campaign ing to cable dispatches received here. federation Generale du Travail. Owing to the continued illness of Judge Webster Thayer, who presided at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, it is indicated in legal circles here that there will be no hearing on a pending motion for a new trial until autumn, This motion is based on the confessions of Celestino Medeiros, that he and other gangsters committed the payroll murders at South Braintree which the two Italian laborites were convicted, RUSSIA AND THE NEGROES HE writer of this article, Professor William Pickens, formerly dean of Morgan College, Baltimore, is one of the most influential leaders in Communism are done away with,” he declared, “for I explained to Senator Borah that they had only been inject- ed into the situation by mill owners who wished to evade discussion of the real issues. I told him that Weis-| bord will néyer stand in the way of the inte) of the workers, My in terests dre iot separdte and apart from the imferests of the workers. I came here because I understood the need of the workers, their desperate situation. After six months of strug: gle in which a strong union has been built that cannot be broken, Weisbord is willing to step aside.” Over and over again he emphasized that altho he might eliminate himseli from negotiations, “the organization cannot and nmust not withdraw.” He told the workers that he had made this a condition of settlement in his talks with Borah, that the mills must deal with the union. Touching on the attitude of the United Front’ Committee toward affi- liation with the American Federation of Labor, Weisbord referred to it as “the main stream of American labor from which we cannot afford to be separate.” He reaffirmed amid ap- plause of the strikers the unqualified desire of the United Front Committee to affiliate with the American Federa- tion of Labor. Four representatives of the Asso- ciated Societies and Parishes of Passaic and vicinity spoke at the meeting, urging the strikers to stand firm with their leadership. The Citi zens Committee was bitterly assailed, The spéakers were: Chairman W. R. Vanecek, Rev. ©. L. Orbach, Rev. Michael Sotak, and Rev. Ivanyshin Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Robert the Negro liberation movement in the United States. retary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Since the time when Pickens, as a Negro laborer without any early school advantages, won the first prize for oratory at Yale University, he has been known as one of the ablest speakers and writers in the He is author of the books, “Bursting Bonds’ and “The At the LaFollette convention in Cleveland in 1924, Pickens created a sensation by jumping on ‘the platform-as an-uninvited guest, compelling the attention of the convention and making a powerful but vain plea for a stand against the ku klux klan. United States. American Aesop.” * + ¢ By DEAN WILLIAM PICKENS. N New York newspapers we have just read the following headline: “Reds Trying to Convert Negroes to Communism.” And under that head- line was the following story. We give it complete: “Russian Communists are seeking to organize Communist groups among American Negroes, according to Scot- land Yard, which has been invest- igating the activities of Commun- ists here (in London), The Soviet strategy is alleged to be to induce Negroes playing in local dance halls and night clubs to accept large sums to appear in Moscow, where they would be converted to Communism and then sent to the United States to spread the doctrine.” Whether the positive statement in that headline is true or not we do not know—and do not care—-but we know that the story supporting the headline is too weak to justify the headline. But this is the usual American news- paper method of lying: to get hold of a little story which, as is evident in this case, may be only a mixture of irrelevant details and embellished “| guesses, and then to write some big headline which is not even justified by those details and guesses. What more, for example, has the hiring of Negro Dunn were the other speakers, vaudeville actors to come to Mpscow “The clubbing of the furriers, who and put on shows to do with convert- are American Federation of Labor members, in Passaic on Sunday is an outrage that will never be forgotten,” declared Flynn. “These innocent peo- ple, who werely wished to show their solidarity with their Passaic brothers and were brutally attacked and wound. ed, have showed their defiance to the cossacks with:a contribution of $5,000, delivered this:morning.” ing Negroes to Communism than the hiring of Negro actors from New York to come to London and put on shows has to do with converting American Negroes to monarchism? And, mind you, we are not saying nor implying that Russian Commu- nists would be doing anything foolish or criminal if they were seeking to convert Negroes to Communism by A crude attempt to frame-up Albert, letting them see what it is an@ how it Weisbord was made by a cop that was quite drunk and full of plans. The cop hopped onto the running board of the Weisbord was in and chirped: “Yowre under arrest.” “What am I arrested for?” inquired Weisbord. “For blocking traffic,” piped the cop. “How can | be blocking traffic when { am sitting in'this car?” asked Weis- bord, “Well, you're under arrest for giv- (Continued on page 2) works, That would be just about the most sensible und the fairest way we could ever think of for converting any- body to anything. If an experience with Communists and Communism converts anybody to that system of society, they ought to be converted to it. Seeing Russia will doubtless get American Negroes or anybody else much nearer to the truth about that country than reading American news- Papers about Russia. We will bet anybody down to the last dollar we possess that if Mississippi wanted to convert Negroes from any other part of the world to a belief in Mississippi ADMISSION INTO THE A. F. OF L. PASSAIC, N. J. August 1—At a striking textile workers of Passaic, Lodi and Garfield decided to again Further pi mass meeting attended by over 8,000 it was unanimously k admission into the American Federation of Labor. @ negotiations have been placed im the hands of W. Jett Lauck of Washington, Henry T. Hunt and Helen Tédd of New York, and Frank PY Walsh. methods, Mississippi democrats would never attempt to do, it by inducing colored people to “come and see” how the thing works in Mississippi, This willingness to be seen,’and seen intl mately, is at least one point in Rus- sia's favor. o BRP Now, if Russia d#-only half as bad as American newspapers: have pic. tured it, the best way.jn the world to turn je man against it would be to <a ae i + kitty remains to be divulged. Fred Lundin, leader of the Small forces, fs expected to be called to the witness stand next Tuesday and asked to tell how much Insull and other interested parties contributed to the expenses of bis ticket. Gave One Quarter. Thus three men interested in pub- He utilities have contributed twenty- five per cent of all the moneys known to be expended in the primaries. The total amount known to be spent is $965,135.47. The total contributions of the three utility men are $241,- 235.19. The immediate results of the in- vestigation is a campaign against Frank L. Smith by the anti-Small wing of the Hlinois G. O. P. Unless an in- dependent candidate takes the field in the fall elections, there are indications that this faction may throw its support to Geo. E, Brennan, also a utility bene- ficiary, tho only to the extent of $15, 000. A smaii sum, it is true, but the principle! This is a’ joke. It is re ported that Brennan is now kicking himself with iis wooden leg for hav- ing accepted Insull’s bounty. There’ is Gnashing of Teeth, Another group that is doing a lot of head-scratching these days is the Ja- oor Officials that backed Smith for the enatorship. Walker, Farrington and Jiander, do not feel the sting so badly t is reported, being well accustomed ;.0 seeing their names linked with big business and crooked politics. But John Fitzpatrick and Edward Nockels don’t feel at all comfortable. It is not so very long ago that they were ' boosting a labor party and denouncing all labor leaders who worked for- and with the capitalist parties The fact that the matter will prob- j ably be discussed on the floor of the (Continued on page 2.) The meeting was called by the Con- in 1920 for He is now field sec- ‘NO PROPAGANDA JUDGE'S PLEA IN RAKOSI'S TRIAL Seek to Gee Militant Worker on Stand BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 12—(By Imprecor)--At nine o'clock this morn- DEAN WILLIAM PICKENS, let him see it for himself. Frankly, t seems to us that Mississippi and New York newspapers are afraid that ing the trial of Mathias Rakosi and his associates began. The entire court building was surrounded by a cordon of police and detectives A large crowd of workers gathered in front of the court building. The crowd greet. ed the defendants on their way to the trial with loud cheers, The workers tried to gain admision to the court building. in order to be present at the trial but were prevented from doing so by the police. Crowded Courtroom. « Most of the public in the courtroom consists of detectives, prosecuting at- live in than is “awful” Russia, If a torneys and jurists. A large number visit to Moscow were expected to} of foreign. journalists are present at make Negroes more willing to be op-| the trial, amongst them Dr. Kurt Ros- pressed in Mis ippi, then Missis-|enfeld and Dr. Arthur Rosenberg, if American Negroes see Moscow they may conclude that it is a darn sight better civilization than what they see in Vicksburg and Yonkers, I tell you there ts something incon- sistent between this American report about Russia and this American fear of letting Americans see Russia, They are certainly not afraid that Amert- can Negroes will hate what they see in Russia, or that they will conclude that Mississippi is a better place to sippi would send annually a state del-| members of the German reichstag, and * egation of Negroes to Moscow, to} Kreibich, member of the Caecho-Slo- come back and report. vakian parliament. Most of the ses: Well, what ARE they afraid of?} sion was devoted to the registration Draw your own conclusions, Sambo, (Continued on Page 3.) INDIANAPOLIS TRACTION STRIKERS ARE GIVEN HEAVY SENTENCES FOR DEFYING ANTI-UNION INJUNCTION INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., August 1.—Sentences ranging from 10 to 40 days in the Marion county jail were handed down here today by Federal Judge Galtzell against 7 of the 11 men convicted of violating a federal injunction in connection with the street car strike here, John M. Parker and Robert B. Armstron; , vice-presidents of the Amalga- mated Street Railway Employes’ Association, received the heaviest sentences ot 90 days each : } { |