The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1926, Page 2

Page TWO ~~ —____.- eerie in Ps THE DAILY WORKER MEXICAN LABOR TO DEMONSTRATE AGAINST CHURCH Clergy Inciting Women to Violate Laws (Continued from page 1) would take place next Sunday thruout the republic, Obliged to Take Measures. Speakers will be sent ont all over the country from Mexico City who will explain the reasons why the gov- ernment was obliged to take drastic measures against the counter-revolu- tionary priests. The boycott declared by the church has not hurt business seriously tho un- doubtedly some dislocation of trade has taken place. Reports that mil- Yona were being withdrawn from the banks are not confirmed, even the re- attionary bankers being compelled to admit that the withdrawals were neg- ligibie, With The Government, Stories of disorders are greatly ex- aggerated. Tho great majority of the population is with the government and there is no doubt about the ability of the administration to hold the sitna- tton in hand. The Only sertous dan- ger ts from the American side in view of the strong catholic agitation carried on by the chmrch and its anxillary or- gmmivations in the United States. Another Priest Gives Up. Another defection in the Catholic ranks was reported today when the government announced that Father Jose Marin of the St. Ines Templo at Puedla had announced his willingness to abide bythe government's religious Tegulations. President Calles immedi- ately ordered thet St. Inez Temple be turned over to Father Marin. Thirty-two American protestant min- Isters, who are Investigating religious conditions in Mexico, today called at the Catholic Episcopate and discussed the situation with Bishop Pascul Diaz. Dr. Alva W. Taylor, spokesman for the Americans, sald they were ex- tremely anxious to get the Catholic viewpoint in order that they might form a more intelligent opinion. Fire Destroys Village. QUEBEC, Aug. 6. — Eighty houses of a total of ninety-two were destroy- ed when fire almost completely razed the village of St. Come De Kennebec. Total damage was estimated at five hundred thousand dollars. The American Worker Correspond- lean Worker Correspondent !s only 50 cents per year. Are you a subscriber? DVN nEUE gn eongrn cern asenec eT New Books THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE “The General Sirike— _ And the General Betrayal” By John Pepper. A brilliant booklet, most in- teresting and important for an understanding of the great Brit- ish demonstration of working class power. On the greatest event since the Russian revolution, read this new book just off the press! 25 CENTS Postpaid. READ ALSO: The British General Strike—its Back- ground, Its Lessons By William F. Dunne... 10 Cents British Labor Bids for Power By Scott Nearin, 0 Cents Whither England? By Leon Trotsky Clothbound $1.75 DAILY WORKER HOW PASSAIC STRIKE To Make It 100% THs little editorial is being written to promote the effi- ciency of the party organization. It should be a matter of pride for every party member and every party functionary to do his or her utmost to make the party ma- chinery work effectively. The party is facing the fact that only three hundred out of eleven hundred party function- aries have worked efficiently in carrying out a simple party task —the collection of the United Labor Ticket Assessment of fifty cents from the members of the party. There is still an opportunity for those secretaries of party nuclei who have not attended to this work to “make good.” ‘The period for the payment of the assessment has been extended to August 15. That will make three months which will have elapsed from the time the stamps were sent to the secretaries. During the ten days which remain the sec- retaries who have not carried out their duties in regard to this assessment can secure a 100% return, IF THEY MAKE A REAL EFFORT. The units of the party today are smaller than before the reorgan- ization. It is a comparatively simple matter for the secretary of those nuclei which have not paid the assessment to call upon the members during the ten days re- maining between now and August 15th. We ask these secretaries to make a real effort to secure a 100% collection. This is how to do it. Make a list of those members of the nucleus who have not paid the assessment. The list will prob- ably not contain more than five or six or at most ten names. The secretary should call at the home of each one of these mem- bers. Tell them of the importance of paying thé assessment to keep in good standing in the party; that a 100% collection of fifty cents from each member will create a fund to help the party drive forward in its work of developing a united labor ticket and independent political action by the workers, Collect the assessment. Remit the payments of the mem- bers of the nucleus to the Na- tional Office. If the nucleus is large another member or two can be drafted to help in making the rounds of those who have not paid. The visiting of the members of the nucleus will not only secure a 100% collection of the assess- ment. It can be made the means of drawing inactive members back into the party work. It will help es build a better party organiza- on. This is not a big job which we are suggesting. Every party nucleus secretary can carry it thru without any great sacrifice. But it is thru the efficient ewecu- tion of such little jobs that the party organization is strengthen- ed and built up. Make it 100%. eat Ia iN Te! Saree ad as = Ik OE SER A sce SO I eS 5 Bi The DAILY WORKER needs your five dollars—you need The DAILY WORKER. Send five for a year's sub before August 15! eee tal Ee kB ts terre nace aR ce ae SEE Ach Sie ae RELIEF SHOULD BE CONTINUED Battle Is Not Yet Over, Warns Relief Head (Special to The Dally Worker) PASSAIC, N, J. Aug. 6.—Alfred Wagenknecht, chairman of the Gen- eral Relief Committee of the textile strikers of Passaic and vicinity, In a statement urges labor unlons and other organizations sympathetic to the Passaic textile strikers to continue re- lief contributions until the strike is definitely settled. He pointed out the danger of being led, by settlement talk, to discontinue or slow down on relief, and stressed the increasing demands iv? relief. The strike is now in its twenty-eighth week. “Reports of the settlement negotia- tions now going on, under the auspices of Senator Borah, should not be per mitted to slow up relief,” declared Wagenknecht. “These negotiations are likely to drag thru several weeks. In the meantime, the work of feeding the children and families of the strik- ers must continue, if the fruits of vic- tory are not to be lost at the very mo- ment when prospects are brightest. “Without the generous aid of or ganized labor and sympathetic organ- izations, the strike could not have been brought to the present promising stage. It was this aid that defeatea the textile bosses’ starvation offensive and their barbarous attempt to break the strike with the cries of hungry children. In the period of negotiations before us, organized labor must con- tinue to support relief. To slow up on relief would be to play into the hands of the textile bosses, who all along have been trying to isolate us and cut off essential relief. “Even if settlement negotiations take less time than is anticipated, the General Relief Committee will be com- pelled to issue relief cards for sev- eral weeks after the workers have re- turned victorious to the mills. The workers will not receive a pay en- velope until the expiration of two weeks, and for these two weeks they must be supported by us, “Furthermore, the work of building up the sickly, puny bodies of the strikers’ children must be continued even after the strike is over. These victims of the mill bosses’ inhuman- ity will need our assistance just. as long as we can give it. “Every labor union, conference and sympathetic organization is asked to carry thru to success every activity at present planned and to plan as many new activities as posstble.” CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. ee (Continued from page 1) nois primaries to buy nominations for candidates for political office. Most of the money was contributed by mil- lionaire public utility owners. The outstanding fact brought out at the inquiry is that Samuel Insull, power magnate, contributed impartially to the campaign funds of the various as- pirants, regardless of what party label they carried or what they were for or against. Evidently Sam was of the opinion they would be for him, oe. @ oer of the Hungarian no- bility are collecting a fund for the support of the former empress Zita and her family. Times do change. Before the war the empress did not need the services of an army of pan- handlers to keep her in funds, She had plenty to spare. And yet things have changed more in form than in essence. The same paper that car- ries the story of Zita’s financial dif- ficulties also tells us that two promi- nent Hungarian Communists were sen- tenced to long terms of imprisonment for attempting to organize the work- ing class. Tho the Austrian mon- archy ‘was overthrown by the workers, monarchists are given money and workers get jail. PSN Se Re RS TST TEEN ESTES TTT TEESE TT ENJOY YOURSELF AS NEVER BEFORE at the Picnic and Outing | of the Workers (Commu at Avondale Garden, CLEVE nist) Party, District Six Sunday, August 15 LAND Games—Tug of War—Baseball Game—Dancing—Refreshments Beginning a {11 A. M. BRING YOUR FAMILY AND ALL YOUR FRIENDS HOW TO GET THERE—Take the Kinsman Ave. car to the 154th St. terminal. Bus will take you to Stop 26 from 164th St. terminal. the grounds, If in auto, drive to — ‘CLOSE THE ARGUMENT’ BY SAYING MELLON HAS MISREPRESENTED DEBTS LONDON, Aug. 6. —Controversies over the merits of the Anglo-Amer- ican war debt settlement were de clased officially closed today by the foreign office, The statement made In the house of Commons by Sir Austen Chamber- lain, foreign minister, represents Great Britaln’s last word, It was stated by the foreign office and it is believed that Sir Austen’s state- ment of policy will be that of all future governments. Sir Austen, after supporting Win- ston Churchill and declaring that Secretary of the Treasury Mellon’s statement on war debts had misrep- resented the situation, sald that Great Britain would not ask for a revision of the debt settlement. re ia Won't Pay Blockade Bill, LONDON, Aug. 6. — Great Britain will not consider American claims growing out of the British blockade prior to the United States’ entry to the war, it was stated today when it was announced that a conference on war claims between American and British representatives had been ar- ranged to be held in London in the late autumn. The British government, it was stat- ed, is anxious to arrange for a settle ment of thousands of commercial claims which are still outstanding. Jewish Forward Tries to Whitewash Scabs (Continued from page 1) strike of the furriers these same strikebreakers aided the bosses in their unsuccessful attempt to defeat the strike, A number of New York fur workers were shot at by these scabs and many were brutally slugged. Millstein then sent a wire to President Schactman of the Fur Workers’ International Union asking whether scabs were be- ing sent to Chicago from New York. Schachtman in wire declared thaw few scabs had left, denying Gold’s statement that a goodly number were on the way. Meet Strikebreakers. A small number of union members met these professional strikebreakers at the station. They were unable to get near the scabs. Detectives and police that had been waiting had them get into a motor bus that drove them to the Savoy Hotel, 30th and Michigan boulevard. Picket Hote} All Night. Union pickets, hearing that 28 scabs had arrived in the city, began to gather. about the hotel. A picket line was thrown about the place. The union members then told the manager of the hotel that he was quartering strikebreakers. The hotel keeper de- clared that he did not want to quarter any scabs and pointed out that they had entered his hotel telling him that they were delegates to a convention. He was about to turn them out when objections were made by police. He was told that he must let them stay at least until morning, since he had al- lowed them to enter the hotel, Picket lines were kept at the hotel all thru the night. Attempts were made to get into communication with these strikebreakers, At about 3 o'clock in the morning a conference was arranged. Millstein then told the other members of the union to leave the hotel while he confered with the strikebreakers. After a secret confer- ence that lasted for some time, Mill- stein called in the members of the union. “We are not strikebreakers,” de- clared one of the scabs. “We could not get working cards in New York. That is why we are here.” One of the pickets then asked him why he couldn’t get a card and also mentioned the fact that they had aided the bosses in New York in their attempt to smash the union organiza- tion, Admit Aiding Bosses, ‘Oh, some of us were strikebreakers there. Not all of us,” declared the strikebreaker, reluctantly. “We got to make a living. The union in New York fined us $1,500, $1,800 apiece and would not give us any cards,” “You must have done something against the interests of the union df you were fined,” pointed out the union picket. Millstein then told the hotelkeeper to let them stay for the night. The hotelkeeper raised objections to their presence, and again declared he did not want any scabs in the place, The business agent of the union told the pickets to go home as “everything was all right.” A.number refused to listen to the orders of the business agent and remained. At noon a bus called for the strike- breakers and brought them to the East End Hotel on the north side. Millstein then wired Gold as to what he should do, Gold wired back that in view of the critical situation in Chi- cago he was willing to give these strikebreakers working cards if they returnéd to New York and thus re- move that menace to the Chicago union, The Chicago union then bought rail- rad tickets for these strikebreakers and shipped them back to New York, Send a sub now and get the spe- cial rate of five dollars for a year’s subscription and the pleasure of Nelo Oe Date tase, i OOO 08 8a American Workers Must Aid Mexican Labor Rid Land | of By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, * (i! All Profiteers oviye | N which side are you? Workers and farmers in the United States may have some dif- ficulty in deciding that question for themselves as they view the strug- gle between the Calles government and the catholic church in Mexico. se e@ It would not be difficult for them to decide if they thoroly understood the facts: foreign oll interests, rub- ber corporations, great landholders, and international bankers using the cloak of religion to advance their predatory designs against the Mex- ican masses, That view is withheld from them by the daily press that caters to the power in Rome. Both the presg and the church battle in defense of the same profit-taking interests. “ee Let labor on this side of the Rio Grande, however, take one look at the names of the “score of captains of industry, educators and men high in political life,” as the Chicago Daily News puts it, that have been invited by the Chicago lawyer, Jay J. McCarthy, to proceed to Mexico and protest against the Calles gov- ernment’s attack on the church. The Mist includes some of the most out- standing bandits of big business and sworn foes of labor in the United States. Let them pass in review: Julius Rosenwald—Head of Sears- Roebuck & Co., exploiter of child labor in its great mail order plants. Foe of labor unions. Reaps great profits by sending cheap goods at high prices to the farmers. H. S. Firestone—Head of the Fire- stone Rubber company. Admits that he is trying to tighten his grip on 35,000 acres of rubber land in Chiapas, Mexico. He is also trying to get the United States government to aid him in a similar venture in the Philippines, were his agents are playing the mohammedan against the christian religions to gain their own ends. Maintains “open shop” in great rubber plants at Akron, O., and elsewhere, Henry and Edsel Ford—Also in- terested in rubber for his flivver tires. Trade unions not tolerated by “the Ford System” of slavery. Sec- ond richest family in the world, J. Pierpont Morgan—International financier. Head of the House of Morgan, money lenders, with the United States army and navy as its debt collectors, Samuel Insull—Multi-millionaire public utility magnate, Hero of the recent slush fund investigation in Chicago, in which it was shswn that he gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to competing candidates for the United States senatorship from Illinois. E. H. Gary—Head of the anti- union United States Steel corpora- tion. Champion of the 12-hour day and the seven-day week that didn’t ini ta itinerant pneenatteeeanCtae even allow religiously inclined work- ers a chance to go to church. Charles H. Markman—Head of the bitterly antiunion Illinois Central Ratlroad. Federal Judge James H. Wilker- son—He granted the injunction that was used as a terrific weapon against the striking railroad shop- men in 1922. Edward J. Brundage—aAs attorney general of Illinois he led the legal attack of the Illinois “open shop” interests against the coal miners at Herrin, Williamson County. Stuyvesant Peabody—Head of the ‘Consumers’ company, another great foe of trade unionism in Chicago. Hx-Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis—He won an unenviable rec- ord for judicial infamy by using the war hysteria to cover up his attacks on workers and workers’ organiza- tions. Bie The list also includes the heads of the exclusive goosestep Harvard and Yale universtties. The section devoted to politicians is graced by Governor Al Smith and Mayor James L. Walker, the lackeys of Tammany Hall in New York City and state. It will be seen that the catholics are carefully interspersed with non- catholics, many of them representa- tive protestants. But nowhere in the whole list is to be found a single individual that might lay claim to the slightest pre- tense to speak for the workers and farmers of the United States. Even the most loyal catholic labor official is barred. eee It might be well for American labor to consider sending a delega- tion of its own to Mexico, not to protest against the acts of Calles’ government, but to uphold it in all that it does to protect Mexican labor against the aggressions of the im- perialist invaders. American labor knows the Mor- gans, the Firestones, the Fords, the Rosenwalds, the Insulls, the Garys, the Markhams,,the Wilkersons and Brundages. Labor knows that this crowd supports only the enemies of the working class. Thus the decision as to the stand of American labor in the present Mexican crisis can easily be made. The workers and farmers in the U. S. can only fight for themselves by fighting against the imperialist ene- mies of the Mexican revolution, in- cluding the catholic church. They must support the Mexican revolution until every profiteer, native and alien, is driven from "Mexico and real workers’ rule established. The present struggle tends in that direc- tion. It must therefore be crowned with victory. Labor north of the Rio Grande can aid achieve that victory. Leaders’ Errors in British Strike Told T. U.E. L. by Bedacht How even the alleged “left wing” leaders of the General Council of the British trade unions became victims to the “folded arms” strike theory of the Thomases and McDonalds in the great general strike was told by Max Bedacht, editor of the Workers Month- ly, at this month’s regular meeting of the Trade Union Educational League in the Northwest Hall. An hour of in- teresting discussion followed the lec- ture. Bedacht’s analysis brought out the disastrous contradictions between the theory of passivity of the General Council and the enforcement of the emergency powers act by the govern- ment, “The real reason for the break- off of the strike was the leaders’ real- ization that they could no longer force the rank and file to accept their inter- pretation of a strike—that it is merely an economic weapon and that only economic means should be used to win it.” He showed how the leaders’ denial of the strike’s political char- acter was the source of its betrayal. What should be the attitude of mili- tant workers toward Purcell, who ylelded to the defeatist policy of Thomas? In answer to this question, Bedacht pointed out the danger of repudiating Purcell, declaring that he is still a “bridge’ for reaching thou- sands of workers, “We must con- demn his mistakes and explain them,” he said, “but guard ourselves against inclination toward the grave error of isolation, as would have resulted, for instance, if labor’s left wing had moved to abandon the Anglo-Russian committee for trade union unity.” SORE Hammond Picnic for oak * British Miners Sunday HAMMOND, Ind., Aug. 6.—A picnic by the International Workers’ Aid for the benefit of the striking British coal miners will be held at Wickers Park on Ridge Road, Sunday, August 8. Busses leave Kenwood Ave. at 11 a. LS —— EVERY NUCLEUS MUST SEND DELEGATES T0 THE NOMINATION CONFERENCE Candidates for the senate, con- gress and state legislature and county offices will be nominated Tuesday night, Aug. 10, at the nomi- nation conference to be held at the North Side Turner Hall, 820 North Clark St. Every street and shop nucleus Is instructed to send two delegates to the conference. At the conference campaign committees will be se- lected and a program for the coming elections drawn up. Every delegate should be present at the conference on time. The conference will open at 7 o'clock. | 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, Chicago Federation of La- 6 to 7 p. me bor Talks ai jetins. to 7: Moneak’s Quintette, chamber musi 7:30 to 8:30-—Tula Mill songs and piano; Weyer Duo, songs, accordion and cornet; Jack Egan, Irish or. 8:30 to 9:00-—-WCFL Ensemble, 9 9:30—Clinton Keithley, Melen Rh ind A, Olman in song joday, sic, i 8 30 to 1Q-—Request hour—popular mu- 10 to 11—Dance music from the Mun. icipal Pier Auditorium, Charles Cook's Orchestra, SUNDAY, AUGUST 8. 3 to 5 p. m.—Band concert from the Municipal Pier Auditorium, J, Bramhall and his band, Boy Siays Mother, SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Aug. 6.—Mrs, Yred A. Bearse, middle-aged wife of the treasurer of Hampden county, was shot and killed in her home to- day by her son, Richard Bearse, 22 years old, After killing his mother with six bullets, the young man, with hig fin- Gers tore out her eyes and heart, ace amine nnee. et ae DEERING WORKS _ COLUMN, Edited by International Har- vester Company Workers “Deering Worker’ Is __. Welcomed in Big ° North Side Plant The workers of the Deering Works of the International Harvester Co., north gide of Chicago, are still talking about the first number of the Worker, shop bulletin of the WcQrer: ed by the workers as their own, Has The Dopa. A The bulletin fs ¢ pages, 8 by 10%’ inches, neatly printed. Workers go over to another asking, “Did you the paper? A fine dig they got in Barney” (Barney is one of the for men, who {s one of the worst im his, treatment of the men). Or another would say: “Gee, I don’t know how: they got it, but they certainly got the dope.” When you ask someone how he liked the paper, they all say: “Great stuff.” : Demands In Bulletin, The bulletin hit on the many eril¢ the workers suffer from, snug! remedies, and called on the represent- atives in the Works Council to de- mand these things at the next meeting of the Council The demtands sre as follows: 1. Pay at day work rates for ali set-ups. No free set-ups for the com~ pany in the men’s time. { FeBs ‘ 3 3 : i Rg 4. An eight-hour day and the same, pay. Cea Pe Huge Company Profits. } The profits of the company Inst being cut, to keep wages low. down The company slogan of Safety First, is shown to be a fake, the Clysourne, warehouse being shown to be & men- ace to the life of the workers. ployed there. Workers’ Vacation Up at Works Council Meeting Friday, By JIM LOWRIE (Worker Correspondent) According to information supplied by those who know, at yesterday's meeting of the Deering Works Coun- cil, the question was to come up of @ one week’s vacation with pay for all who had worked for the International Harvester Co. for ten years. Workers in the shop with whom we took up this matter were doubtful about the Proposition being carried. They said) that the company would bring up hard luck story about its losses om some machine which did not turn out right, and so the whole thing would go to smash. ‘The old timers we spoke to were very much interested in this question, and want to see some action, What Was Action, If Any? We are not able to tell yet what action the Works Council took pe end matter, or if it even came up at-tha meeting. But if not, we should de mand why not. For almost all of us who work in the Deering Works, the first time we find out what happened’ at a Works Council meeting is when the printed minutes are given out a few weeks after the meeting, and these tell us almost nothing. Let Them Know. The Works Council meeting has thken place. The representatives have already had a chance to show their colors, In the Deering Worker, we called on those elected by the workers to stand for the workers’ demands, which are given in the article above, What have they done? Have they raised these matters, or have they act- ed like dumb animals, like meek agents of the bosses? See them, an“ ask them what they have done, A’ tell them what you think about tr who are elected to represent the ers, and then act in the interest company. The representatives fight for the workers, or else re from the council, to make room those who will fight. See your representative—Mo. morning. Girl Conquers Channel. DOVER, England, Aug. 6.—Gertrude Ederle has conquered the English Channel—the first woman to ever swim that turgid body of water which has thwarted the efforts of many men, and has only been conquered by five men in all history. Miss Ederle swam the channel in 14 hours and 32 minutes. The best previous record was that of Tirabes+ chi, the Argentinian, who swam the channel in 16 hours and 83 minutes, Get an autographed copy of Red Cartoons by Fred Ellia and F Minor, een a re aes