The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1926, Page 1

ALS @ —— 1 The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government 4 E70. 94. By THOMAS J, ,O'FLAHERTY ROM Berlin by telegraph comes an except from a catholic paper pre- dicting that the Mexican government's anti-clerical policy may cost Calles his political head. Thus the international and-efficient propaganda machine of | work. | the catholic church doés its Nearer home we have the Knights of Columbus convention assessing its membership $1,000,000 for anti-Mexi- can propaganda and very likely more lethal weapons. et immense power wielded by the Roman church in the United States ean be judged from the fact that hardly @ single capitalist paper in the country has the courage to come out and tell the truth editorially of the causes leading up to the present imbroglio. Of course some naive rad- icalg will attribute this cowardice to subserviency to the bankers. But it oftentimes pays publishers to beard the Wall Street lion and play up to the masses. The explanation is not there. It is in the power and dis- cipline of the church machine, with a following of some fifteen millions that has bidden good-bye to its brains. eee HH) church keeps its hands on its subjects from the cradle to the grave. It is unequalled for organiza- tional efficiency. It taxes the mem- bers of the flock when they are bap- tised, when iey get married and ex- act toli when they die. There are so- eleties and solidalities for practically every one of the innumerable saints, virgins, ghosts and saviors that the pope and his aids have dug out of the graveyard of mythology. Not only dogs this system give the church a highly disciplined body of faithful ad- herents, but it trains functionaries for leadership, Of course, the hierarchy has the final say in matters of policy and direction. a7 95 6 gon only reward offered to the rank and file of the church is a promise of heaven beyond the grave, provided they give the priest all that is coming to him, chiefly in money. The more intelligent and better educated of the catholics find the support of organiza- tions, whose members obey the priests withont question, extremely useful in business. - This system 1s used effectively by the Knights of “Columbus as well as by the ku kiux Kian. In fact, the former organiza- tion rarely canvasses for membership, on the basis of spiritual advantages, but for business reasons. 9-8 ANY of the leaders of the Knights of Columbus are not particularly | devoted to religion. Many of them do) not go to church. But they are -hon- ored by the pope, because the organi- vation puts money in his pocket. Re- iigion to the upper strata of the cath-| olics is largely a matter of business. It fs no secret that there is a big fac- tional fight inside the Knights of Co-| lumbus. The present leadership is! charged with being inclined towards agnosticism. which it is supposed to owe allegiance. ISHOP GALLAGHER of Detroit only a few years ago threatened the organization with papal displeas- ure if ¥s leaders continued their atti- tude of independence towards the hierarchy. The bishop pointed out that a similar organization in France was once ex-communicated by the pope because of rebellious conduct. As the Mexican viceconsul in New York pointed out a few days ago, a pope sanctioned the expulsion of the Jesuits from Mexico in 1808. NB of the most amusing charges madé”by the valiant Knights of Columbus against Mexico js that the family is a myth and marriage a degradation to the leaders of the gov- ernment. It is a standing joke in Mexico and in every” country | from there to Cape Horn that the priests honor celigacy more in the breach than in observance. The K.: of C. appeal to the A. F. of. L, to co-operate in. the war against the Mexican gov- ernment in behalf of labor .is also laughter - promoting. — This test should -be referred to, the) Mexican peons. The Mexican workers shed ‘théir blood to break the power of the church: It 1s not likely that they, will now shed more to restore it, | “> It is charged with being | disloyal to the American hierarchy to | 1 In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Vol. Ill. No. 178. Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, “ITED STATES °HING WAR WITH MEXICO Sheffield Hands Calles a New Threat MEXICO CITY, August 8.—United States Ambassador Sheffield selected an opportune moment to reopen the standing quarrel between Wall Street and Mexico over the petroleum laws. When Calles had his hande full with a mansized scrap with the catholic church, Sheffield called at the foreign office and left a note. Then he made arrangements to leave the city for home and an interview with Coolidge. That the ways are greased for a diplomatic break with Mexico there can be no doubt. The action of the Knights of Columbus openly demand- ing a severance of diplomatic relations between Washington and Mexico City is significant. Mellon in Rome, It is also noted here that the pres- ence of Andrew Mellon in Rome bodes no good for the Mexican republic. Mellon is the actual leader of the United States government and rep- resents American “big business” in the Mexican imbroglio. It is believed that Rome did not decide to act against Mexico without the assurance that it would have the backing of Washington. In fact official circles here are confident that Rome is not the leader of the movement, but the agent of Wall Street. Peasants With Government. The governiment is perfectly well able to handle the situation here. The peasants, among whom General Obre- gon is popular, are with the admin- istration. So are the industrial pro- letariat, tho they have no reason to ldve Calles, who is one day for them and another day against them. The insecurity of the governmental basis of power makes it incumbent on Calles to play the role of a political chameleon. He must cater to various elements in order to hold office. Neyer- theless in the ‘striggle against the chur¢h he is sure of the support of the decisive elements in Mexican po- litical life. Engineers Are Murdered, Reports of assassinations are tife. Two engineers are reported murdered by fanatical catholics. An Insane girl went thru the city claiming that she was a “virgin.” The public became so infuriated at the obvious swindle that they stoned her to death. President Calles issued a. long} statement on the religious conflict. The government was not persecuting| the church, he declared, it simply in- sisted that the clergy obey the laws) of the country. ae © Coolidge is Dumb. PLYMOUTH, Vt., August 8.—Presi- dent Coolidge refused to comment for (Continued on page 2) Sen. Howell Prepares to Fight Coolidge on Muscle Shoals Issue WASHINGTON — (FP)—Aug. 8.-- Sen. Howell of Nebraska, who has tak- en a@ leading part in the fight for fea- eral ownership and distribution of hydro-electric power plants, has gone to Canada to study the power siteo along the proposed deep waterway con- necting the Great Lakes with the At lantic, Secretary Mellon’s aluminum trust has acquired some of the more valuable of these power sites, and will be ready to demand a high spec- ulative profit on them’ when the American and Canadian governments agree on development of the St. Law- rence ocean-shipping route; Howell is going to make an inspec tion of the properties of the Ontario Hydroelectric Commission, the world's greatest single hydroelectric power development, which is\ publicly-ownea and operated and whicn pays a sub- stantial profit in the form of low rates for service. ANGLO-RUSSIAN COMMITTEE MEET POSTPONED, TO MEET THIS WEEK ~ © Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, liinois, under the Act of March 3, 187%. TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1926 by mail, $6.00 per year, Publis PUBL Broo 290 Cook County Politics in Limelight ipal, county and senatorial primaries of April 13. SH ZS | | oS os 2 — set Chicago and Cook County politics have been exposed to the limelight thru various investigations of munic-| In these primaries thousands of votes were stolen, ballot boxes stuffed and candidates in both republican and democrat parties bought by Samuel Insull, public utility magnate, | and other illinois open-shop employers. These elections differed little from the previous ones. LONDON, Aug. 8.—-The Trade Union Congress officially announces that the meeting of the Anglo-Russian committee for world trade union unity, scheduled to have met July 26 in Paris, had to be postponed until the second week in August. N ‘The Central Council of Trade Union of the Soviet Union, found it im- possible to gat their delegates to Paris by the date fixed, the T. U. ©, an- nounces. These delegates are five in number, including Melnitchanski, Dog- adov, Andreyeff, Lepse and Schwarz. BROPHY ENTERS RACE FOR HEAD OF ULM. OF A. Platform, Organization and Nationalization CLEARFIELD, Pa., Aug. 8.—(FP)— John Brophy, president of the central Pennsylvania miners, is a candidate for the office of international presi- dent of the United Mine Workers of America, the post that John L. Lewis has held since 1919. His Program. The announcement of his candi- dacy, from the headquarters of Dis- trict No, 2 in Clearfield, gives the two leading issues of his campaign. The first is, organization. Save the union by winning back the great coal fiélds the U. M. W. of A, has lost in the last few years. The second is, nationaliza- tion, public ownershtp of the coal in- | dustry, a program the union is form- ally committed to by its international conventions. Appeals from many parts of the or- ganization brought the decision to go before the union’s'voters in the De- cember election, say Brophy’s friends and supporters. His own statement follows: For Nation-Wide Campaign. “I pledge myself to a national cam- paign to win back the non-union coal fields when I am elected,” said Brophy. “The, United Mine Workers’ Union is imperilled unless it organ- izes the unorganized. In the last few years the union hag suffered disaster. ous losses, It has lost nearly all of the southern territory and part of the northern fields, These areas cannot be won back by a‘ policy of local or district strikes only. The local strike is often crushed by coal from the out- side, frequently from mines owned by the same operator the union is fight- ing, There must be a well-planned national movement that will enlist every possible support. from the rest of the labor movement. For 100 Per Cent Union. “Conditions in the non-union fields have passed from bad to worse, The gunman, the “spotter,” the high-priced company store, the injunction, and the cheating weigh boss all go together, The men now outside our organization (Continued on page 2) DZERZHINSKY AS HEAD . OF ECONOMIC COUNCIL MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 8.— | Viadimir Kuybushev is the succes- | sor of Felix Dzerzhinsky as head of the supreme economic council. Kuy- bushev was chief of the peasant- workers’ inspection corps and in this role was dreaded by all graft- ers In the Soviet Union. He co- operated with Dzerzhinsky in un- earthing corruption and meting out punishment to offenders. TWO MORE FUR SHOPS SETTLE WITH LOGAL 45 lajenctions . Sought by Two Bosses Nathan Seltzer, 58 East Washing ton St. and Downing and Barnett, 20% South Wabash, both members of the Chicago Fur Manufacturers’ Associa {tion, have signed ah agreement with | Local 45, Chicago, Fur Workers’ Union’ | granting the demand of the union, The |24 workers employed in these two | shops return to work this morning. | Kight strikebreakers imported by | the bosses from St. Paul to break the | strike of the fur;workers here for bet- ter conditions have ben sent back. One | of these strikebreakers, before leaving Chicago, told the bosses that he was being threatened by union business | agents and this his life was in dan | ger. | Three union officials were arrested j and are being held on a “kidnapping” charged on the flimsy evidence pre- | sented by this profesional scab. | Miller and Company, 618 South | Michigan and J. Owen McBlroy, 3% | South State St., are seeking injune- tions against the striking fur workers. Twenty-Skx Lose Lives in Shipwreck RIO JANEIRO, Aug. 8. — Twenty- six lives were lost when the Brazilian steamship Bitar was sunk off the coast north of Para, Many of the passangers and crew of the vessel were saved by the steamer Sao Pedro, CHARLESTON, VA. PRINTERS ARE OUT ON STRIKE Strikebreakers Brought from Philadel phia CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug. 8.— The local printers’ union is on strike against the Charleston Daily Mail and the Charleston Gazette. Fifty-two men are on strike. The publishers, after scouring the country for printers willing to take the jobs left vacant, finally engaged the services of the notorious strike- breaker, Flagg, of Philadelphia. This worthy received $5,000 as a retaining “fee for supplying the strikebreakers and the hoodlums he collected are given $10 a day besides hotel and other expenses. Scabs Driven Out. With the aid of those scallaways the Gazette is coming out in a fashion. Public sympathy is with the .strik- vs. The scabs were originally housed at the Holley Hotel, but their pres- ence was so unwelcome to the other guests that the mewcomers were obliged to move, HOPE HELD OUT FOR FIVE MEN IN COAL MINE “SALEM, Ky:, Augy.8. — Holding out the faint hope that five men entombed in a flourspar mine, four miles south of here, are, still alive after being trapped for more than 30 hours, min- ing engipeers and rescue workers to- day begin the slow. task of drilling thru.75 feet of flourspar and mud in an effort to get air and food to the men, The miners were trapped at 10 o'clock Thursday night by a “slide. in” of mud and rock and no communi. cation has been had with them since that time, Five dollars will renew your sub for a year, if you send it in before Auguat 15. NEW YORK EDITION hed Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKEI ISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Cideago, li, British Miners Firm; Delegates Seek Aid in U.S. (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) * LONDON, August 8.—The one hundred day strike of the British miners is as firm as on the first day. In spite of the |pressure of the leaders, a great majority of the Lancashire, | Cheshire and Cumberland miners rejected the so-called church memorandum. The government is increasing its persecution against the | heroic strikers. During the past week there have been 586 new | arrests. The assistance of the international proletariat has reached a | figure of 850,000 pounds sterling, 500,000 of which being collected jin the Union of Soviet Republics. A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation, has declared that Premier Baldwin's “message to America,” alleging that the miners have good living conditions, is an utter falsehood, intended to prevent the miners’ delegation now in America from obtain- ing the financial help America can give and which the miners and their families so badly need to carry on the struggle against Price 3 Cents {longer hours and lower wages. Miners’ Delegation Arrives By ESTHER LOWELL, Federated Press, NEW YORK, Aug. 8. —-(FP)—‘We'd like to cable back quickly that American workers will contribute one or two million dollars—or five—to | the million striking British miners,” declared Joseph Jones, general sec retary Yorkshire Miners’ Association and executive member British Miners’ | Federation, upon the arrival of the British workers’ delegation in the United States. “It is a critical time. We have been out 14 weeks and we need more help from American workers. The Russians, from all their unions, have sent 500,000 pounds ($2,500,000) already and we'll gladly take as much more as they send.” The Delegates, James Robson, president Durham Miners’ Association; Paul McKenna, agent for the Scottish Miners and British Miners Federation executive mem- ber; Oliver Harris, treasurer South Wales Miners Federation; Ben Tillett of the Transport Workers represent- #—- — ——~ ing the British Trades Union Cone] gress on whose genera] council he} pritich. Women’s Relief Committee, sits; and Ellen Wilkinson, labor mem-| who has been raising funds in the ber of parliament and representative | United States, is aiding Miss Wilkin- of the Women’s Relief Committee, | oon comprise the rest of the official dele- tae gation seeking aid for the striking] Dockers Adopt Miners’ Children. British miners. - NEW YORK, Aug. 8. —(FP}—Ben Need Nationalization. haMett, British transport leader, who All of them tell the story of the +34 member of the delegation aaking | miners’ privation and suffering: years| american workers to give big gener- | Harris, “Five years of unemployment} oy, sums to their brothers from the and the breakdown of private capital) coal pits across the sea told the Fed- in management of the industry. “Na-! erated Press about labor solidarity tionalization is the only solution,” ton, American representative of the emphatically asserted McKenna, with the rest agreeing. “Of course if labor had the government ft could tex the’ coal lords out and take control of thé} mines. Labor would sweep in if there} were a general election now.” Baldwin Lies. “If premier Baldwin told an Amer! erican news service that there is no suffering among the British miners;'| all we can say is that he lied,” stated | Harris. “Fve years of unemployment hasn’t given the miners any savings. | The strikers and their families—a | tenth of the population—depend on} relief. They are fighting for their) very lives.” Government Starves Women. “The government refuses to let} Guardians of the Poor pay relief to| any single miner,” added McKenna. | “Only the wives can get a bit. But it’s the women who are bearing the brunt of the fight. The miners’ women somehow managing. They get out and work in the soup kitchens from dawn on, their spirit never better.” A. F. of L. In Charge. The British delegation is placing it- self under the guidance of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and the Un- ited Mine Workers, Arrangements for the delegation’s visit here begun at the International Miners’ Federa- tion meeting at Paris two weeks ago. The delegates hope to take their ap- peal not only to American workers thru the A. F. of L. but to all groups of the population. Miss Wilkinson will try particularly to reach American women's .organizations. Evelyn Pres- over there. “London dockers who have only two days work a week are taking in min- ers’ children,” he said, “one and two to the family, Tens of thousands of children have been adopted for the time of the strike by workers in other industries. The working class of Eng- land is showing more class consctous- ness than ever in its history. British War on Workers. “In nearly fifty years of strike ex- perience,” continued Tillett, “I have Rever seen a more brutal attack on the workers than the employers and the British government is making. Be- fore the reductions were asked the miners were already making less than your colored porters in the south. “The suffering is terrible, especially in the exporting fields of South Wales, Durham and Northumberland. with the additional support we 1 to recei he miners can be saved.” Tillett is a wholesomely plain blunt labor leader whose sihewy body looks as though he had’ kept himself ft by being very much in the fight. Philadelphia and New York to Have Air Mail Service WASHINGTON, Aue. 8—The post office department announced it will operate a special alt’ mail séryice be- tween Philadelphia and Neéw York during the air races at thé Sesquicen- tennial from September 4 to 11, But SOVIET COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN NEWSPAPERS HASN’T BEEN HEARD OF IN SOVIET UNION, SAYS A. P. Regarding the wild stories being featured in the capitalist press of the United States of alleged “revolts, mutinies and uprisings” tn the Soviet Union, the Associated Press Saturday night received a dispatch from its Moscow correspondent as follows: “Reports emanating from Bucharest, Roumania, that there is serious widespread insurrection in Russia, were denied here tonight as ‘shameless fakes.” The same denial is made of reports that Trotsky has fled from Moscow and that there is an uprising in the Ukraine.” Si, ee LONDON, Aug. 8.—Dispatches from Warsaw state that the Soviet am- bassador to Poland is protesting against the publication of “false reports regarding military uproar in Russia,” flatly denying reports emanating from many Buropean capitals that counter-revolutionary activity had broken out in various sections. For the Support of the CE TING : Striking British Miners 67th S T AND L OPERA HOUSE " om ya aac cick orman Thomas, League for Industrial Democrac Louis Hyman, Manager Joint Board, I. L. G. WU. Ben Gitlow, Workers (Communist) Party y Rev. Leon R. Land, Leader, Bronx Free Fellowship ——And Others—— Auspices; INTERNATIONAL WORKERS! of America” 3rd AVENUE “The Workers’ Red Gross 2