The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1926, Page 2

Page Two Nab aif TENCE Ore fou a en THE DAILY “WORKER seek SE WHITE HOUSE ASPIRANTS ARE LIMBERING UP Donkey and Elephant Seek Jockeys John Barleycorn will no longer be a voice crying In the desert according to the political currents already blow- ing which indicate that many native sons are willing to sacrifice their per sonal comfort for the hardships asso- ciated with the presidency and that several of the candidates are ready to grasp John Barleycorn by the hand and in face of all the world, dry and wet, slaughter for him the fatted calf and sprinkle his path to the family homestead with sawdust. Issues being scarce and democrats being much like some republicans and some republicans being very much like some other democrats, the quality and character of the beverage that a citi- zen may choose to quench his thirst with, may be the determining factor in pinning the bouquet on the political jockey selected next year to ride the democrat donkey to victory, A Willing Jockey. By the same token, the lordly ele- phant, may be mounted by a knight of the amber fluid or the innocent-looking distillation that grows the heather on the bonny hills of Scotland. Such a rider may make the king of the circus uncomfortable as that beast has been accustomed to take his drink and say nothing, unlike the mealy-fouthed jackass who lets the world in on every_ thing he does, Getting down to concrete things, pol- itical forcasters see in Ai Smith, the jolly Tammanyite from Oliver Street, the daring rider who will jab his spurs into the donkey’s flanks and guide him safely to a four-year pasturage on the White House lawn, unless the ele- phant’s droppings have rendered the grass unfit for consumption. Likewise the elephant is not without a candidate for his back. He is Sen- ator Wadsworth of New York, who is as wet as a waterfall. The democrats may abolish the two- thirds rule in their convention so that a simple majority would be sufficient for election. This has often been talk- ed of, but nothing came of it. This would be favorable to Smith's changes it is believed. The fact that Smith is a catholic would hinder his chances of election even tho he secured the democratic nomination, tho big business has confidence in him and the great propaganda stunt that Rome pulled off here in the form of the eucharistic congress is calculated to impress business with the political power of the catholic machine in the United States. Smith is also on good terms with the labor bureaucrats and is elastic enough to be able to impress the liberal elements favorably. Such a personality would be extremely use- ful to the big business interests, pro- vided a standard bearer of their favor- ite party cannot make the grade. With Smith running on the democratic ticket and a Charles Evans Hughes on the republican ticket, Wall Street would have no reason to worry no matter which side won. It Is A.Large Field. Among the most prominent aspir- ants for the G. O. P. nomination are Frank O, Lowden, who is playing up to the discontented western farmers, Charley Dawes, whose Wall Street connections are good but who may be regarded as a westerner, Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the house who was made famous by his marriage with Ethel Roosevelt, daughter of “Teddy” and Calvin Coolidge, the present White House incumbent. That the latter is out for re-election is beyond question. Of the local political fights that at- tract considerable public attention is the Wisconsin fight between Governor Blaine of the LaFollette machine and Lenroot, who is supporting the Coo- lUdge administration, The junior sen- ator from Wisconsin is running into some opposition from parts of his father’s machine, There is a deal of jealously because of the way the young upstart stepped in to claim his father's toga as if the senatorship was some- COLONEL JOHNSON AND FRANK MORRISON CONFER ON THE PASSAIC. STRIKE WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Indlca- tions that a serious movement is under way to settle the Passaic tex- tile strike, ¢iue to the activity of Senator Borah in that direction, Is seen In the visit paid by Col, Chas. F. H. Johnson, vice-president and manager of the Botany Worsted Mills, to Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor. Johnson went to American Federa- tion of Labor headquarters after holding a conference with Borah. The outcome of their discussion was not made fiublic. Morrison: is in touch with Secre- tary Hilfert: of the New Jersey Fed- eration of, Labor, and with Hugh Frayne, general organizer for the American Federation of Labor in the New York tistrict, with reference to the) Passaic situation, et thing that could be handed down from father’to som. Socialists A Fadeout, The socialists seem to be almost completely ewchered out of the politi- cal picture in Wisconsin. They com- mitted hari kiri in the last presidential election when jthey identified them- selves with the LaFollette organiza- tion even ito the extent of losing their identity. Now they must turn around and be introduced all over again, The center of gravity in the next presidential election promises to be the western agricultural states. Should the northern and southern democrats be able to: reconcile their differences they may have a chance of winning the presidency, Some think that local option on the liquor question may solve the problem. This would leave the southern dry states/with their pro- hibition and their moonshine while the northerners could vote themselves into a liquid heaven at will. Move For Labor Party. That republicans and democrats will not have everything their own way is certain, A strong agitation for the launching of a labor party is being conducted, and in several western states the’ poor farmers have already taken steps to give this agitation or- ganizational form. The working farm- | ers have no confidence in millionaire swivel chair agriculturalists like Low- den or fascist sympathizers like Charles Dewes. They have gotten nothing but insults from both demo- erats and republicans and are begin- ning to learn that they must have their own party to look after their in- terests, . The industrial workers who were breaking away from the old political parties during the height of the La- Follette movement are promising ma- terial for a labor party tho the reac- tionary labor leaders are doing their best to-collar them into the old cor- rupt parties of the employing classes. Grand Jury to Probe Payroll of Sanitary District Trustees The fourth special Cook + county grand jury to investigate vote frauds has been impanelled by Chief Justice Thomas J. Lynch of the criminal court, The fourth grand jury will spend its time investigating the mil- lions of dollars worth of contracts that have been placed by the sanitary distfict trustees, The probe into the sanitary district Payroll and conteacts was recom- | mended by the third special grand jury after revelations that in Sanitary District Trustee Morris Hller’s ward 35,000 votes were stolen and that he haf six relatives and his 20 percinct captains on the sanitary district pa§- roll, Workers Sports Defeat Roosevelt A.C. by 2 to 0 In a hotly contested game at the Riverview Park Workers (Commun- ist) Party Press Picnic the Workers Sports Athletic Club defeated the Roosevelt Athletic Club by 2 to 0, The Roosevelt Athletic Club is in first place in the second division of the International Soccer Football league competing for the Peel football cham- pioniship cup, FOURTH ISSUE OF THE AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT ON PRESS The fourth issue of the American Worker Correspondent ts on the press and will be out in a few days. This issue of the American Worker Cor- respondent is a special Railroad Workers’ issue. This number has been de- layed due to unforseen mechanical trouble and the rush of other work in the printshop. On the front cover there is a draw- ing by Lydia Gibson of a locomotive engineer jotting down his grievances for the workers’ press while he is in his cab at work. The feature article of this issue is entitled, “The Voice of the Railroad- ers,” written by a railroad worker. This article is of great value to work- ers other than those on the raflroads. The following list of titles of ar- ticles appearing the coming issue of the American Worker Correspondent will give one an idea of the value of this number to worker correspondents Allover the country: “The Class Struggle~A Teacher,” se . 0 tit OE. ee 1 MA SUE by M. A. Stolar; “An Exchange of Cor- respondence,” by J, Louis Engdahl; “A Writer In Every Shop,” by R. Katz; “Worker-Writers Meet In Moscow,” by M. A. 8.; “Worker Correspondents In West Virginia,” by Regina Myroski; “Negroes Shall Be Heard,” by a Negro worker, A year’s subscription to the Amer- {ean Worker Correspondent costs but 50 cents. ‘Bundle orders can be had at 3 cents a copy. All subscriptions and bundle orders should be mailed to the American Worker Correspond- ent, 1118 West Washington Blvd., Chicago, NL. ott 5; ie, BRITISH MINERS NEED IMMEDIATE STRIKE RELIEF National Tag Days Aug. 7 and 8 When lock-out notices were posted at the mines in England on April 30 demanding that henceforth the miners |work an hour longer every day and accept a 10% wage cut from their pay {envelope—that was already so lean as |to barely keep the workers and their |families alive—it was a declaration of war directed particularly against or- ganized labor. The miners, depending on the help of their fellow workers and friends, jhave, in the face of great poverty, re- jfused to accept these conditions, The “seven-hour law” for coal min- ers was enacted by parliament, be- cause a survey of all accidents in the mining industry showed that it is in the last hour of work that accidents occur, It is this last hour that the miners are refusing to accept. Thou- sands of them are crippled and maim- ed already and rather than face a life of beggary with only one arm or one leg, they are now fighting for their very lives. There is no labor strug- |gle recorded in the history of the British labor movement of as great an importance to the working class of the world as the present fight. The wives of the miners have heroic- ally taken their place besides their men, urging them not to weaken, suf- fering perhaps more than the men. | They remain firm and with dry eyes declare: It is better to starve fighting than to starve working at the risk of life and limb, Nation-Wide Tag Day. The International Workers Aid has undertaken to care for thousands of these children, and depends on the millions of workers and friends to help in this work. Saturday and Sun- |day, August 7 and 8, have been desig- {mated as national collection days fot |the British miners. On these two days {everywhere thruout the country, money will be collected wherever men and women are—on the streets, from |house to house, office to office, in every shop and factory. These miners, their wives and chil- dren are fighting for the right to live. They are fighting to maintain their | organization. Their fight is our fight. Their defeat will mean worse condi- tions for labor thruout the world. Every worker and friend must do all that is possible to help feed the chil- dren and bring victory to the miners of England. BRITISH TRADERS HOPEFUL AGAINST OBSCURE OUTLOOK 3,000,000 Unemployed in Great Britain LONDON, Aug. 3.—The Federation of British Industries in its official trade forecast for the third quarter of 1926 states that the present position of international trade is “extremely obscure,” due to the coal stoppage, the crisis in French money and the general fall in world prices of gold, which has been progressing since late Bist year. This fall of gold prices has reacted on the French crisis and been influenced by it and the coal strike. The federation hopes that if France gets thru her crisis and the coal strike ends, the autumn will see a trade recovery, However, at present the situation is complicated by the unemployed ques- tion, there being 400,000 more unem- ployed registered than a year ago, while in addition there are 1,000,000 miners idle in the stoppage. The total figure of unemployed is reckoned as being between 2,750,000 and 3,000,000, American Miners, Stop Flow of Coal to British Isles! WASHINGTON — (FP) — American coal, both union and ronunion mined, is now flowing steadily into the Brit- ish markets, due to the British min- ers’ strike which has been in progress since May 1, New York exporters estimate the shipments from this’ country, on account of the British strike, to be at least 2,000,000 tons, The department of commerce, which is watching the development of this trade, has not yet compiled its statis- tics of the tonnage shipped in the past month. It is convinced, however, that the total is very high, Section 4, Chicago, Enlarged Executive Meets Friday Night A meeting of the Enlarged Exceutive Committee of Section No, 4 will be held Friday, Aug. 6, at 8 p. m, sharp. It is important that every member of the section committee and the nuclei secretaries be present. plies PT EA" bts 4 EX-MAYOR TESTIFIES HE MADE TRADE WITH GROWE-BARRETT GANG Sakhe, FND WILLIAM H. THOMPSON Ex-Mayor William Hale ‘Thomp- son was on the witness stand today, at the Reed senate committee hear- ing, hale and hearty from his vaca- tion at William Randolph Hearst's California ranch. He said he agreed to support the Crowe-Barrett county campaign this year and that the former promised to help him get elected mayor again next term. In- cidentally this also meant support- ing Smith for the senate who had Insull’s millions behind him. LUNDIN SAYS HE VOTED FOR LA FOLLETTE Declares Court Fight Is Sham Battle (Continued from page 1) where the former mayor was taking a holiday, “Big Bill” was once a leading figure ‘in the Small machine, but owing to differences with Fred Lundin he broke with Small. In the last primaries he supported the Crowe-Barrett ticket in the county and Frank L. Smith for senator, Wanted To Make Deal, The Crowe-Smith faction approach- ed Thompson with the request that he support their county ticket in return ‘or their support for the mayoralty campaign next Spring. Of course Thompson would not make a bargain on this condition, It was a matter of principle with the former mayor, He said this without bathing his eyelid. Thompson delivered a long speech on entangling alliances and how he in- duced the Crowe-Barrett faction to declare against the world court. This was the reason for his connection with the Crowe-Barrett faction, he said, Like All Other Campaigns. Thompson testified that he was a member of the Crowe-Barrett organ- ization. He said the campaign was no different to any other; they were always in need pf funds. Thompson received $25,000 from Smith’s cam- paign manager for the Crowe-Barrett county ticket, Money From Both Sides. The former mayor declared that he understood that Senator McKinley contributed to the Crowe-Barrett cam- paign fund. He did not know if he did. Under Reed’s questioning, Thomp- son admitted he paid three or four thousand dollars for various expenses incurred during the campaign. The wages of ward heelers are going up Thompson testified. Former- ly those workers whose job is to get out the votes received $5.00 a day, but now they get from five to seven fifty. “Do you know anything about the sources from which the Smith money was received?” “No.” Thompson Delivers Speech, After Thompson was excused he managed to deliver a speech which at- tempted to take some of the sting out of the tremendous slush fund used to purchase the nomination for Frank L, Smith. Thompson was indignant because the western papers carried big headlines that give the impression that the $175,000 collected by. the Crowe-Barrett faction of the county machine was for Smith, Reed Was Alone, Fred Lundin was in the courtroom waiting to testify. Reed conducted the investigation alone yesterday, LaFollette wi sent and none of the other members of the committee appeared. The first witness to take the stand in the morning was Rufus O, Sheppard of East St. Louis. He supported Mc Kinley, A man by the name of Fisher, an official of the Mlinois Traction com- pany supplied the m A Stiff Bargain, Shephard said it cost them $200 to cover a precinct that cast 680 votes, Reed got a laugh when he inquired who was the hand bargainer who ex- pected to get 680 votes in Illinois for $200, Netted by the witnesses’ faulty memory Reed observed: “You did not lean you head ou that you took all TI Ay ic MEO go e ql yy cite acl did bal ST Republican Politics Are Discussed Over Bier of Late Senator Cummins By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. } WENTY-ONE United States sen- | ators and the whole Iowa delega- tion in congress gathered about. the bier of the late Senator Albert B. Cummins at Des Moines, It was less a time for paying tribute to the death; more a time to plan the future of republican pol- itics. It is well for the workers and farmers to study how that planning is carried on, fe © Senator Charles S. Deneen, of Illinois, slated as manager of west- ern congressional campaign for the republicans, was at the funeral. But he was there to make peace with the living, to hand out an olive branch to Smith W. Brookhart, who has the senatorial nomination in his pocket, The Iowa voters cast their ballots for Brookhart and farm relief, and against the world court and the league of nations, Deneen and the republican party is for the court and league and against farm relief. But that makes no difference, The regular republicans want Brookhart. Our prediction is that they will get him, One of the first signs Indicating whether Brookhart has made his Peace with the regulars will be his selection to fill out Cummins’ un- expired term, meaning that he will sit in at the December session of congress, eee Laurence Todd, the Washington correspondent of the Federated Press, writes that, “Cummins was never a radical.” Nevertheless, he had a reputation in that direction in his early days, gained somewhat like those reputations for insurgency won by LaFollette, Clapp and Dol- liver, in their windmill battles with ‘the Payne-Aldrich tariff schedules during the Taft regime, just to cite one example, Cummins, however, ascended the heights of reaction when he sponsored the Esch-Cum- mins transportation act of 1920, with its special privileges to railroad cap- ital and its bitter oppression of rail- Toad labor. 2: ee Yet the political gangsters that sponsored Cummins during his clos- ing years are now seeking to put their grip completely upon Brook- hart. Todd further states: “Before Cummins, the voters re- moved other railroad senators who had claimed to be progressives— Poindexter of Washington, Town- send of Michigan, Pomerene of Ohio were conspicuous renegades to early faith in the people. All of them demonstrated the quicksand founda- tion of middle-class reformist polit- ics. At the pinch they bowed to or- ganized capital, Then the voters tried others.” The problem in Iowa, as in many other states where independent pol- itical action of the workers and ANOTHER ‘ARGUMENT’ AGAINST INDEPENDENCE FOR PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ; WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 3, — Foreign trade of the Philippine Islands for the fiscal year ending June 30 shows an Increase of $1, 373,072 over the previous fiscal year, according to General Leonard A. Wood's cabled report to the war de- partment here, Exports were $141,044,430, an in- crease of about $1,000,000 over the pl ing year, while Imports total- ed $117,637,112, a decrease of about $500,000, Exports for 1926 Increased in all commodities except sugar, which had a decrease of about~$5,000,000, representing a quantity drop of about 9,000 long tons. Imports of American goods were valued at $69,957,871 and amounted to about 60 per cent of all goods Im- ported Into the islands. Exports to the United States gain- ed $1,576,669 over last year and rep- resented about 73 per cent of all the exports of the islands, New Campaign for Aid to British Stirs All Soviet Labor to Act MOSCOW, July 17 (By Mail).—In the Soviet Union new collections for the British miners have begun every- where. The donations of the Lenin- grad and Moscow workers already ex- ceed one million roubl The central committee of the Metal Workers’ Union have informed Cook of the transfer of 25,000 roubles, The second collection campaign is Just as successful ag the first. Par- ticularly energetic work is being done by the working women’s relief com- mittee, which has issued an appeal to, all working women to donate a day's wages for the children of the British farmers has secured a small foot- hold, is “the next step.” If Iowa labor wants to be betrayed again it will blindfold itself and walk sheep- ishly along the path laid out for it by republican bosses, which in this case means the support of their can- didate, Brookhart. Of course, Brook- hart may deny all this, but Brook- hart is still in the republican party, ‘he controls and uses the republican party organization, and at the pres- ent writing he has the good wishes of the republican bosses. They have adopted him as their own, v.29, @ Brookhart may make a radical- sounding speech, in the campaign forum or on the senate rostrum. All of the Brookharts before him, no matter what their real names, have done that, But in the final analysis, they all support the capitalist re- gime, that lives and thrives thru the plundering of the workers, whether on the land or in industry, Farmers and city workers cannot feed their families with speeches. Phrases do not pay rent or buy clothes. In other words, the profiteer continues to do business just the same. As conservatism grips Brook- hart, following in the footsteps of Cummins, some new insurgent will rise. That is already taking place in Wisconsin, where there are those elements within the republican party rebelling against the gradual sur- render of LaFollette, Jr, to the forces of reaction. The voters are being asked to “try others” within the republican party. Thus Congressman John C. Schae- fer, of Milwaukee, turns against La- Follette’s candidate, Blaine, claim- ing: “Tam opposed to the Madison ring —a self-perpetuating oligarchy— the principal plank of whose plat- form is, ‘Keep us in office, even tho it means repudiation of the life work of the late Senator LaFollette!” But Schaefer has his own repub- lican candidate in the primaries for the U, S, senatorship. eee Labor's interests are promoted only thru the class war waged against all the political expressions of the present capitalist class, La- bor deludes only itself if it thinks it is making progress by deserting the political forces of the great cap- italists, only to surrender them- selves to the camp of the smaller, middle class capitalist interests, or even to content itself with remain- ing a small insurging wing within a “radical” section of that middle class, Labor has its own class in- terests to conserve and promote. It must form its own labor party. It must fight as a class, in Jowa and everywhere else, a Instead of experimenting with past, present and future renegades, let the workers remain loyal to themselves by organizing as a class. BRITISH BOSSES TO LEARN TRICK OF U.S. CAPITAL Sending Delegation to Learn Collaboration LONDON, Aug. 3.—Another delega- tion from Great Britain is to be sent to the United States in September. But this is not a labor delegation to collect relief for the striking miners, It is an expedition to gather data on how American employers bamboozle American workers with company un- fons, class collaboration with regular trade unions by corruption of the union officials, and other sorts of sim- ilar ideas, _ British business is filled with admi- ration at the way the American em- ployer can sweat blood out of the workers and get away with it. Great Britain has need for such a procedure to bolster up its fading capitalist economy. The plan for a delegation originated with Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland who is minister of labor in the Baldwin cabi- net, who {s anxious that British em- ployers adopt the American plan of welfare, bonuses, company unions and class collaboration which he thinks acounts for the prosperity of American capitalists, So the plan is already adopted for sending @ mixed delogation of em- pPloyers and hand-picked labor repre- sentatives to find out how it is done, The house of commons will appoint the commission at once, Four Die In Balloon. LONDON, Aug. 8, — Four persons were killed today when the basket of 4 captive balloon, at a fete at Kemp- ston, near Bedford, broke lose from the balloon and went hurtling to the ground, carrying with it the pilot and JENSEN FAVORS STAND OF LABOR IN MEXICAN WAR Carpenters’ Head Backs Calles Government “So far as I am concerned, I stand with the Mexican Labor movement in the present fight in Mexico,” said Harry Jensen, president of the Chica- go District Council of Carpenters when asked for an expression of opinion on the war between the church and state in Mexico in which the latter is being supported by the Mexican Federation of Labor. The question was put with particu- lar reference to a letter sent to Presi- dent Green of the American Federa- tion of Labor by Samuel P. Luzzo, a vice-president of the Chicago Building Trades Council in which he urged a protest be lodged with the Mexican government in “the name of American labor” on behalf of what he termed the “persecuted church.” Disagrees With Luzzo. Jensen said further that he was not in sympathy with Luzzo’s letter and that he was of the opinion Luzzo’s connection with the Catholic church was responsible for it. Nor was he, he said, in sympathy with Michael J. Kelly, head. of the Chicago Meat Cutters’ Union who ’ call- ed a meeting of his union to which other labor officials were invited, Jen- sen thought that Kelly's membership in the Catholic church likewise influ- enced his action. Fitz Is Silent, President Fitzpatrick of the Chica- go Federation of Labor refused to make a statement to The DAILY WORKER regarding the question, but Ed. Nockels, secretary of the Federa- tion said that, personally, he was in- clined to agree with the stand of the Mexican government. The secretary of the Chicago Build- ing Trades Council was asked to state his private position with regard to the Mexican situation and altho he declined, he said that Luzzo’s action was taken wholly upon his personal initiative and had no connection with any action the council had taken or anticipated taking. Printers’ Head Mum, Robert Hedger, president of Typo- graphical Union 16, declared he did not wish to express himself on the Mexican question. Peter Daly, of the Machinists’ district council said he would make a statement in a day or two. Officers of the Painters’ district council, the metal polishers’ union, the furriers’ union and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ union could not be reached yesterday by phone. CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. — (Continued from page 1) Party, which will be held in October. In the meantime enjoy the fun, keep cool, and read The DAILY WORKER for facts. eee A Aracmige ALBERT B, CUMMINS of Iowa passed away and the usual paens are going up in memory of the well-known reactionary. Even Sena-' tor Brookhart, who is as fond of Cum- mins as Cummins was of a boll weevil, joined the chorus. There is no more reason to lie because a man happens to die than there is while he is Hving. This is typical of bourgeois hypocrisy. Brookhart has two pictures hung in his office he says—one of Lincoln and the other of Cummins. If he held the late G, O, P. stalwart in equal esteem with the so-called “emancipator,” why: quarrel with him? = 2 *s Ww: lost one subscriber because of the way we handled the Aimee McPherson confidence game stunt. It was quite obvious from the start that Aimee was out to rob her faithful, moronic flock and also to have a little innocent amusement of the kind the devil is supposed to snare the unwary with. In other words, Aimee, being obliged to rein in on herself, so to speak, while in the vicinity of Los Angeles, thought she could kill two birds with one stone while her flock was doing the worrying and the con- tributing, ef (CONTINENCE is one of the best talking points of the go-getting evangelists, This form of self-chas- tisement appeals to the unfortunate people who live in such misery under capitalism that a world beyond the grave peopled by enuchs of both sexes is their only consolation for their pres- ent misery and in revenge on those who are not fettered by conventional chains, Aimee fed them on this kind of pap. Then she took a jaunt with her radio expert. There is nothing un. common about that, certainly not for evangelists. Since strong advocates of total abstinence frequently disguise themselves in a clean shirt and leave town for a spree, and fanatical vege- tarian doctors sometimes shut up the factory and fill up on pork shanks and sauerkraut, why should not the fasoi- nating Aimee snap her fingers at the devil and show him something new in the line of real devilment? Send a sub now and cial rate of five dollars subsoription and the help 0 get the epe- for a year’s Pleasure of ‘ A