The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1926, Page 2

Page Two SLUSH PROBERS WILL RECALL SAMUEL INSULL Anti-Saloon Leaguers| May Be Quizzed | The senate luaw fund committee will renew its labors at 10 a. m. this morning in the federal building. It is reported that among the star witnesses expected to appear this week, are Fred Lundin, reputed to be the “brains” of the Small machine, Samuel Insull, the Spendrift utility magnate, Clement Studebaker, auto and traction baron, Ira D. Copley, another traction mag- mate and sundry other personalities who contributed large sums of money to the campaign chests of the sen- atorial aspirants. Will Be Asked To Explain Senator Reed is expected to ask the donors why they were so generous and what did they expect to gain, besides patriotic satisfaction, from their gener- osity. It is probable that Reed will have to conduct the investigation alone as Senator LaFollette has his hands full with an election compaign in Wiscon- sin, The anti-saloon league of Illinois officials may be called as witnesses and give their reasons for supporting the McKinley and Smith candidactes. Both are dry, tho Smith is supported by the labor bureaucrats who are everything but arid and by the Crowe- Barrett machine of Cook County, which knows every bootlegger in the state by his middle name, President Green and Borah Discuss Strike (Continued from page 1) tion of Labor. On the other hand, if there is no such affiliation there is the certainty of a continued struggle for some time to come, and while I feel no doubt about the final outcome and that the workers, even if fighting in- dependently, will win this struggle, nevertheless I certainly feel that it is in the best interests of the workers and that it is my duty to tell them 80, to advise them to join the United Textile Workers and thus bring the CURRIN T EVENTS By Ti. J. OF O'Flaherty. (Conti ued from page 1) sight he sounded the alarm. If those little go-gette rs are encouraged they should develo p into utility magnates some day and finance thy political campaigns of needy senatmrial aspir- ants, see ALK about sfeeping ai the switch. This is woitse. A tseventy-three. year-old groom, by name Benneto (not Benito) Ferrara,, was to be married to Rosalia Giar: upto, 15, at 4 p, m. It is quite likely that the groom was poor and that the young bride was taking pity on his loweliness. Now, it was Rosalia’s fil pt venture in matri- mony and she wes impatient. So was not Benneto, Ri ssalit, must have for- titude, for it wais after four, and the groom was still wtaitfing to come, +e « IVE o’clock came and still the am-} orous lover came not, Rosalia wept. Her brothter swore. He went to seek Benneto, veady to challenge him to mortal coi hat for slighting his sister. He found. the groom slumber- ing peacefully in’ a chair, Seizing him by the neck, a convenient ice ‘wagon and rushed him to the altar. The happy couple returned to Benne to’s home for the honeymoon. Another marriage was recorded in heaven . a tre (O ruins Chima? A better ques- tion would be: Who is ruining China? Part of the answer to this question can be fa und in the alleged accord recently . reached between England and Japan over the allocation of the personnel ef nployed in the Chi- nese maritime cut#toms. The accord, as it is called, in¢ reases the number of Japanese empla yes in the customs and gives Japanest» banks proportion- ate shares of Chin ese customs funds for deposit. Most. of those now em- ployed in the cust¢»ms are British. It is reported that Silas Strawn was in on the ob s THUS our Christian and heathen governments ate dividing the Chi- nese spoils betweeii them. Is is sur- prising that those international bur- glars should look with hate on Soviet Russia, which stretiches out a friendly hand to the strugg;ling Chinese peo- ple? Is it surprising that our capi- talist publicists shéuli try to poison the minds of the people of all coun- tries against the Chinese elements who are fighting to|free their country strike to a speedy and just end. “It should be remembered that from the very beginning I have repeatedly stated that we should join the main stream of the American labor move- ment as represented by the American Federation of Labor. The very name that we chose, the United Front Com- mittee, proves that this was our pur- pose. We did not wish to form another and dual union, separate and apart from the textile union of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. Rather has it been always our aim to form one united front of the workers against the united front of the bosses, to or- ganize the unorganized workers on the basis of a struggle against the present system of exploitation and to amalgamate all unions in the textile industry into one powerful union, tak- ing in all of the textile workers in America. “Th esolution, therefore, not only carries out in the best practical way the immediate interests of the work- ers, but it also carries out our policy of unity and harmony in the workers’ ranks in their struggle against the em- ployers.” Resolution. The resolution follows: “In order to remove obstacles or fancied that stand in the way of a speedy and honorable settlement, be it resolved: “First, that the settlement of the existing strike and negotiations with employers are hereby placed in the hands of a disinterested committee of citizens of W. Jett Lauck of Washing- ton, D. C., Henry T. Hunt of New York and Helen Todd of New York with F. P. Walsh as member in absentio. “Second, that they are hereby given plenary powers to represent us in the settlement of the strike thru Senator Borah at Washington, or thru any other mediation or adjustment agency. “Third, that the said committee is further empowered to conduct a spe- cial election, by secret ballot, for the striking textile workers of Passaic and vicinity, for the purpose of establish- ing a union with officers and commit- tees to deal with representatives of the mills, and “Fourth, the said committee in fur- ther empowered to negotiate and ar- range with the United Textile Work- ers of the American Federation of La- bor, for the admission of this duly or- ganized union into the United Textile Workers of America, “Recommended by the United Front Committee of Textile Workers of Pas- , saic and Vicinity and passed by the striking textile employes of Passaic , and vicinity, in mass meeting assem- bled, July 31, 1926. “Chairman, Albert Welsbord.” real | | from the foreign “vultures that are preying on them? Get an autographed copy of Red Cartoons by Fred ‘Ellis and Robert Minor, \ MAY USE TROOPS T0 STOP MINE PICKETS, IS BRITISH THREAT LONDON, August uguete, —Intimation that the government intends to use troops to prevent further picketing in the coal fields was made today in the house of commons by Sir Wil- liam Joynson Hicks, home secretary, when he moved the continuance of the state emergency for another month, in accordance with the king’s proclamation. Sir William appealed to the labor- ites to use their influence among the coal strikers to “maintain calm,” so that it will “not be necessary” to use troops. Tho there have been numerous small clashes in the coal fields since the strike began, Sir William ad- mitted that thus far none has as- sumed serious proportions. Gomez Writes on the Background of the Conflict in Mexico (Continued from page 1) tocracy at home, another represents Rome, and the third is that of U. S. imperialism. These three heads can not be confronted singly, for they all grow upon a single body. Religion plays only a secondary role in the conflict—religion and the church being of course two entirely different things. What we are witnessing is a phase of the Mexican revolution, It is customary in Mexico nowadays to speak of the revolutionary period as embracing the yedrs 1911-1920, but actually the revolution did not begin with the overthrow of Don Porfirio Diaz any more than it was terminated by the overthrow of Venustiano Car- ranza, The beginnings of the bourge- ois revolution in Mexico date back to the so-called “Ayutla revolution,” the reform laws and the constitution of 1857, The struggle of those yéars was against army, ‘church and landed aris- tocracy. The church was one of the great props of the semi-feudal system. As in Europe before the reformation, the church was rolling in wealth, Two- thirds of all the land in Mexico were said to belong to it. Its interests were tied to those of the ruling aristocracy, not only economically but socially and WILL RENEW—OR GIVE YOU A NEW SUBSCRIPTION FOR ONE YEAR i | fie pushed Dim ea bered that Samuel Gompers was the |AMERICAN LABOR STANDS BEHIND GENERAL CALLES Support Enforcement of Constitution (Continued from page 1) Carranza, Villa and Obregon, in 1914, disposed of Huerta with their new revolutionary armies, they made a covenant that the reform laws of 1857 should be enforced ,and that a new constitution should be given Mexico, safeguarding the political and econ- omic liberties of the masses. Car- ranza revolted, and he was overthrown by labor’s military leaders—Obregon and Calles—when he betrayed the pledges he had made to labor. Obre- gon kept faith, and Calles after him has kept faith, in the opinion of Mex- ican labor affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. It will be remem- guest of honor at the inauguration of Calles, just before his fatal illness in December, 1924, Maintenante of Public Order. As viewed by the American Federa- tion of Labor, the present problem of the Calles administration, with refer- ence to the church authorities, is one of maintenance of public order. These church officials actively supported the revolt of a section of the army under Adolfo de la Huerta, in the winter of 1923-24, against the Obregon adminis- tration. They hava always opposed the distribution of lands to the peons and the granting of wider political in- fluence and economic security to the organized workers. They have kept the organized labor movement on the defensive. And thruout the revolu- tionary period and the period of peace which followed the defeat of de la Huerta they have, in the opinion of Mexican labor, violated the laws of 1857, never repealed, which forbade the church to own property and for- bade aliens to act as clergymen. Now Calles has provided penalties for vio- lations of these old laws, and has served notice that the laws will be en- forced, in order that Mexico shall be free from the danger of reactionary revolts, American Labor Backs Mexico. American organized labor, as shown by resolutions adopted year after year in convention, has encouraged Mexi- can labor to extend its power in or- der that the Mexican masses may be freed from the old subjection to a Privileged class that held most of the land and all of the military. It dis- likes discussion of religious issues, It regrets that a church issue has been created. But it stands by Calles and Mexican organized labor, the domi- nant liberalizing force in the repub- lic, a Chicago Officials’ Statement. The statement which appeared in the Chicago Tribune’s Sunday edition in which the Calles government is as- sailed by a number of Chicago labor Officials for its enforcement of the Mexican constitution confiscating vast estates of the church and allowing only Mexican citizens to be clergy- men, is not an official statement of the Chicago Federation of Labor or of the Chicago labor movement. It is the personal statement of a number of of- ficials of unions that are using their office in an attempt to make it appear that the Chicago labor movement op- posed Calles’ action against the clergy. 7 Me od Ladi ta ie tena oe Facdeie ene toe a cc ce a as well. Recognized offi- cially as the state church, to the ex- clusion of all others, its mighty organ- ization was part of the reactionary governing machinery, as a part of which it engaged in constant political intrigues and exercised religious-politi- cal domination over the fearful masses from the cradle to the grave. The Reform Laws. HE famous Reform Laws and the constitution of 1857, carried thru under the leadership of Benito Juarez, severed once for all the official rela- tionship between church and state. They also abolished monasteries and convents, prohibited the church from owning property and secularized pub- lic education, During the long years of the Diaz dictatorship, however, the church slow- ly regained much of its former power. The constitution of 1857 was still nominally in effect but most of its anti-clerical provisions, like many others, became dead letters. ‘With the popular revolution against Diaz the modern period in Mexico be- gins, was added a new force: the agrarian revolution, the struggle of the poor peasants for the land, Moreover, as the rapid stages of revolution from 1911 on succeeded each other, the up- heaval ceased to be entirely capitalist in the classic sense, A militant prole- tariat emerged, and peasants, workers and petty bourgeoisie became the To the revolutionary movement | THE DAILY WORKER ~ eon ANTI-CLERIGAL BANNERS CARRIED BY PARADERS SHOW LABOR ATTITUDE (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2.—The ban- ners carried by the paraders in the big labor demonstration against the ehurch on Sunday that filled the wide Mexico City avenues and took hours to pass, were very enlighten- ing as to the attitude of the work- ingclass towards the clergy. Some of the banners read: Are Not Slaves of Rome,” Have The Clergy Done For The People?” “President Calles Com- pleted The Work -of Jaurez,’ “Clericism Is The Enemy Of Thot” and “You Mexicans, What Right Has Rome To Dominate You?” +. Some Mexican Workers : Unite in Demonstration (Continued from page 1) cream and movies is concerned, but the poorer classes seldom have any- thing but the barest necessities any- how and a boycott of luxuries, is for them, quite meaningless. Ancther plot against. Calles’ life is thot to have been unearthed when a Catholic girl government employe was arrested with several other women, all implicated with evidence pointing to a possible attempt at the deed, but the story is discounted im well-in- formed quarters. . J Schismatic Church Ready. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2—The Roman Catholic church in Mexico, working under orders from the Vaticam, is fos- tering the development of an eco- nomic crisis in Mexico with the ob- ject of causing the overthrow of the government of President Calles, today charged Father A. Lopez, general sec- retary of the Mexican schismatic Catholic church. “In view of the circumstances in which the nation as a whole has been placed by the action of the Roman church in abandoning its temples and discontinuing religious _— services, thereby causing disgust and incon- venience, the Mexican Catholic church, firm in its purposes, energetically places all its resources at the service of the Catholic people of Mexico,” said Lopez. TWO MORE 1924 GARMENT STRIKE PICKETS FREED Mrs. Sophie Ruddell (Sophie Young) and John Gottlip left the Cook county jail amid the wild cheers and applause of fellow members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union after they had ended their sentences for defying “Injunction” Judge Denis E. Sullivan’s anti-picketing edict. Chicago |. L. D. Branch to Hear Max Schachtman. Max Schachtman, editor of “The Labor Defender,” official monthly or- gan of International Labor Defense, will be the speaker at the next meet- ing of the Eugene Barnett branch of the Chicago International Labor De- fense. His subject will be “The Sec- |ona National Conference of the I. L, D. —Its Significance to the Workers.” The meeting will be held at 2738 Hirsch boulevard tonight at 8 p. m. sharp. All members of the branch are urged to be in attendance and to bring sympathizers to the meeting, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! dominant social forces in the revolu- tionary movement—more or less under the uncertain hegemony of the petty- bourgeoisie. 'HEN estates began to be parti- tioned out to peasant communities and nationalist legislation began to be projected, American imperialism took alarm. As soon as the Mexican people began to lay hands on the oil question and on the question of foreign eco- nomic domination in general, Wall Street became the outstanding enemy of the Mexican revolution, allying it- self with every reactionary element in Mexico, from Felix Diaz to the catho- Me chureh, @Phruout this period the church re- mained an active rallying center for reaction in Mexico. In the name of religion, it mustered “the faithful” for one political coup after another. It openly and covertly supported counter. revolution. It even stooped to trea- son against the national interests, en- gaging in countless intrigues with the representatives of foreign capital, dh was natural and necessary, there- ' fore, that the constitution of 1917, which was a revolutionary nationalist constitution aimed particularly at the foreign monopolists of Mexico's ofl and other resources should strike hard blows at the power of the church, President Calles is the outstanding representative of Mexican natiohalism on the petty-bourgeois program of the constitution of 1917. Determined to THESE OFFERS: GOOD ONLY TO AUGUST. ae lite’, inate Filipinos in California Appreciate Aid Received in Fight for Liberation By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. WENTY-THRBEE Filipinos living in or near Santa Monica, Cali- fornia, signed their names to a dec- laration just received reading as follows: “We, the undersigned natives of the Philippine Islands wish to ex- press our sincere thanks and ap- preciation for your masterly edi- torials, published in The DAILY WORKER, in defense of liberty and a demand for justice for the Philip- pines and its peoples. “It gives us great courage to know that in this great ‘Land of the Free’ and ‘Home of the Brave,’ there are some who put justice and equal- ity above the dollar sign, Yours for the Day of United Humanity.” 2. @ In every large American city there are Filipino colonies that hold them- selves somewhat aloof from other races and nationalities. The Pacific Coast, especially California, has a considerable Filipino population. It is safe to say that the great percentage of these Filipinos are workers. There are a few profes- sionals among them, but not many. Most of these Filipinos are also young, the youth that has come to this county of great “opportunities.” Many of them have been or are stu- dents. All of these characteristics,— youth, education, workers,—are the best beginnings these Filipinos could Possibly have to aid them to get in touch with the only element in this country that can be aroused to take a stand for the independence of the Philippines. That element is the American working class that suffers under the same tyranny that is crushing the Filipino masses, an oe Manuel Quezon, president of the Filipino senate, declares that the islanders feel, with Genera] Leon- ard Wood as governor general of the islands, that they are living un- der a military dictatorship. This is the same dictatorship of the ex- ploiters that rules over American labor, that stepped out into the open in the 1919 steel strike, when this same General Wood led the army in the Gary, Indiana, steel zone against the steel strikers. General Wood is just one of many links, continually growing more nu- merous, that shows to the workers, both in the United States and in the Philippine Islands that their in- terests are identical, eae The American Federation of La- bor has declared that: “We respectfully petition and urge the congress of the United States to forthwith grant the ear- nest prayer and petitions of the Filipinos—the right to exercise in full, liberty, freedom and self-gov- ernment,” That is the labor officialdom speaking, The rank and file work- ers must be spurred to greater re- sentment against the enslavement of their brothers of the Far Pacific, It is the duty of the Filipinos liv- ing in this country to act as that spur. They can do it by spreading propaganda telling the truth about the Coolidge-Wood tyranny in the islands, preserve the hegemony of the petty- bourgeoisie, he has not been too scru- pulous in applying the working-class provisions of the constitution. Be- cause he was afraid to rely frankly upon the working and peasant masses he has sometimes had to vacillate in his struggles against the imperialist demands of the United States—a cir- cumstance which must certainly do him harm, Nevertheless, he is a revo- lutionary nationalist and has evolved @ program for the development of an independent national economy which is the first serious and systematic ef- fort of its kind put forward in Mexico, Obregon dodged the provisions of the constitution referring to the church, just as he dodged many other provisions. Calles set out resolutely to carry them into effect, The eonsti- tution of 1917 goes much further than that of 1857 in this respect. It not only forbids clerical education of chil- dren in public or private primary schools, but it exclude: priests from politics, prohibits foreign priests from officiating and limits the priesthood in various other ways. In his recently- issued regulations upon the subject, Calles prohibits religious newspapers from discussing politics or criticizing the government. ‘T must be remembered that these regulations were issued at a time when the untiring political activities of the clergy were working hand and glove with the reactionary elements at ea) They can do even better work if they will become affiliated, wher ever possible, with the American trade union movement, if they will link themselves organizationally with the Workers (Communist) Party and help build the Labor Party, They must also work for the closer affiliation of the organized la- bor movement in the United States with the labor unions in the islands. There are about 15,000 Filipinos in the United States, to be found in such scattered cities as Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, Omaha, Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore and Minnea- polis. About 7,000 are students, working their way thru American schools, and planning to return to the islands. It may be taken for granted that every one of these is an advocate of independence, eee Few workers in this country to- day realize the fact that a growing colonial empire is developing under the stars and stripes, and that the Philippine Islands ‘constitute the richest part of that empire, thereby making it a valuable and treasured source of loot, te 2 The conditions of labor in the colonies directly affect the labor struggle in the homeland, Already the American Federation of Labor fears the competition of cheaper Filipino labor. It is, therefore, to the self-interest of American labor to help raise the standards of living, not only of the Filipino, but of all oriental peoples, The Filipino workers must learn, even as American workers are learn- ing, that they cannot depend on any other class to achieve their emanci- pation. The latest news sent out by the press agents accompanying Col- onel Carmi Thompson, Coolidge’s eye, on his tour of the Philippines, is that a native “lawyer and a busi- ness man,” have informed the pres- ident’s representative of their em- phatic opposition to independence at this time. It is to be expected that such traitors will turn up. The ruling class always has gold to purchase them. It does purchase them. The British Empire has purchas- ed them in India, Egypt and else- where, The American Empire buys them in Hawaii, the Philippines, Cu- ba, Porto Rico, or in the semi-sub- ject nations of Latin and South America, ee The DAILY WORKER fights for the Filipino workers as part of its struggle for the whole world’s work- ing class. It puts special emphasis on.the lib- eration movement in the Philip- Pines, because that struggle is the special concern of the workers of the United States and The DAILY WORKER exerts every effort to make them realize that fact. May the courage that The DAILY WORKER inspires in the Filipino workers resident in this country en- courage them to join in this effort. The working class must achieve unity in its war against the enemy capitalist class. home and hia tie Sade alles addin” Sapa laces It had been neces- sary for the Mexican government to deport two official emissaries of the reanimated pope, one of whom had wilfully deceived the immigration of- ficers as to his purpose in entering Mexico, The imperialist pressure from the United States developed into a steady, continuous offensive, and the imperialists had manifested their de- termination to make use of the church to weaken the Mexican revolution for its own ends. Following the deporta- tion of the lying priest, Caruana, the Eucharistic Congress at Chicago had taken place, in which the alliance of Rome, Wall Street and Mexican reac- tion had been sealed, That alliance is full of foreboding for Mexico. Calles will have no less trouble in applying the anti-clerical articles of the constitution than he had in trying to apply article 27—and from the same sources, The religious issue furnishes a moral justification which United States imperialism can- not overlook, particularly when it of- fers th ices of a mighty religio- political organization in Mexico itself, Baffled and checked in successive phases of its offensive against Mexico, Wall Street now takes up the banner of “religious toleration.” Catholic, protestant and Jew unite for catholi- cism and ofl. The newspapers in this country are playing up the issue for dear life. Public praying “for Mexico” is being conducted in churches of all « and Fred Ellis GET A COPY OF “RED CARTOONS” Autographed by Robert Minor then premier, A eral Guillaumat, and Joseph Caillaux. The chamber of deputies was to COUP BLOCKED BY THREAT OF LABOR REVOLT || Morgan’s Hand Hidden Behind Marshall Foch (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Aug. 2—It was learned that a plot to establish a military dictator ship, in which American banking in- terests are suspected to have had a hand, was hatched dyring Briand’s premiership in June. The list of those involved plainly indicate that the plot- ters were interested in dissolving the chamber of deputies by force to put over the Mellon-Berenger debt agree- ment. Were Interested in Debt Agreement, The plotters met secretly on the night of June 25, and among their number were Ambassador Berenger and Doumer, head of the debt com- mission to the United States, with other members of that commission. Besides these were Aristide Briand, Marshall Foch, Geu- meet five days later and pass upon Briand’s program. The plot was to take a test vote on a minor question, and if not upheld, the parliament was to be dissolved by force. To Disperse Deputies. It was arranged with Marshal Koch and General Guillaumat to use troops to surround the chamber of deputies, At a signal from Briand, a cavalry of- ficer would enter with soldiers under his command and order the chamber cleared, with sabers if necessary. The troops were to proceed upon instruc- tions from the minister of war. All that prevented this coup d’etat was the fact that news of it leak- ed to the extreme left, the Communist and socialist members of the cham- ber. Preparations were made and the ultimatum sent to Briand that if troops were called out, the working class would be called to rise behind them in revolt, The plotters had to give up their plan. They wanted a dictator-' ship, but not a dictatorship of the workers. Morgan Wants Accounting. PARIS, Aug. 2.—The Morgan bank- ing interests have informally demand- ed of the French treasury that it make an accounting on exactly when and for what the Morgan loan to France was used, and the present balafice of the loan. eo 3 Install 800,000th Phone Here. CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—Celebrating the fifteenth year of the telephone in Chi- cago, the Illinois Bell Telephone Com- pany today installed its 800,000th in- strument in the office of B, E. Sunny, chairman of the board. WCEL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier. TONIGHT. 6:00 to 7:00—Chicago Federation of La- bor Talks ood Bulletins, 7:00 to 7:30—| 20—Vaudevill Pi + Li dee Warmer: cin le Program: Little Vella Cook, Cont: 00—W CFL Ensemble: | s, Musical Co 0" 30——Corrine | m, Pi be? Bon iqgert, Songs of Toi Oo Heauest Hour—Popular Senge: Dance Feta denominations. Cartoons are again appearing here and there furtively hinting at the possibility of counter- revolution. And in Mexico itself the reactionary clericals, encouraged from outside, are organizing “leagues of re- ligious defense” and engaging in open and audacious conflict against the gov- ernment along the whole line, ET Calles must stand firm. If the * church is not now finally stripped of every strategic possibility for po- litical struggle the conquests of the national revolution will be perma- nently endangered, But the govern- ment is finding that it cannot mobilize its natural supporting strength without turning to the working masses, Among the politically and economl- cally organized workers of Mexico the power of the church has already been broken. It is to be hoped that Calles will now cease his efforts to break up the organization of the rail- road workers, give up his fitful at- tacks upon the Communists, and di» continue insisting upon the necessary domination of petty-bourgeois stand- ards, so that the entire organized working class, together with all other elements interested in maintaining na- tional sovereignty and the conquests of the hard-fought revolution, may present a common front to the native and foreign forces of reaction. Every enemy of reaction and imperialism should support the Mexican govern- ment in this crucial conflict.