The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1926, Page 1

— The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Fariners’ poxernment ———_ Vol. WNol “of ioten SS aneiaienemmen’ on OFRG, F burrory Sten By THOMAS J, O'FLAHERTY — LBERT F, COYLE, editor of the Locomotive Engineers’ Jourtal, ‘writing for the Federated Press on the Mexican situation, says: “No one but an ignorant religious bigot would condemn the catholic church as such for the present conflict with the gov- ernment. The same difficulties would have arisen if the baptist church or the presbyterian had been put in its place.” No doubt in the world. And nobody but an ignorant fanatic would blame a burglar for stealing the wid- ow's mite, because it is quite obvious that any other burglar in the same position would do exactly the same thing. If this is not the essence of hokum, it is something else. o* 8 HE ratcatcher may not have any particular animus against the ro- dents he sets out to destroy. The irri- tated slumberer never had any pre- vious altercation with the bed louse that makes his period of repose every- thing but reposeful. Yet both do not hesitate to staughter the vermin that interfere with the general or partic- ular happiness, in cold blood and without malice aforethought. If one adopts Mr. Coyle’s attitude nobody is to blame for anything, therefore the working class should pay no heed to those who urge them to struggle against the capitalists because, for- sooth, the poor capitalists, like the bedbugs and the catholic church in Mexico, do what they do because they can’t help it. * © R. COYLE is not a catholic, tho he seems to be quite spiritual. Like all spiritualists, he mistakes the chaff for the wheat. Behind the re- ligious war in Mexico is the ventrilo- quist voice of Wall Street. Not that Rome has not a good deal to gain or lose in the battle. It has. What has taken place is a united front between Rome and Wall Street for the purpose of looting Mexico. This is quite ob- vious in the action of Ambassador Sheffield handing a protest note to Calles about the Mextcan petroleum laws at the moment when thé catholic chureh {s actually in rebellion against j the government. 6% FTER Mr. Coyle clearly and cor- rectly states the reasons why the , ae! THE DAILY Entered at Second-class matter September 2%, 1923, at thé Post Office at Chicago, Njnois, under the Act of March 3, 187%. In Chica ‘o” Rates: Susiss rFIELD 10 URGE U.S. BREAK WITH MEXICO Catholics "Threaten to Shut Down Schools (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Aug. 9.—Predictions of a diplomatic break between the United States and Mexico are hinted at here on the eve of Amabassador Sheffield’s return to the United States. Attaches of the U. S. embassy say that the delivery of the latest note on the petroleum laws at this time does not foreshadow any interference from Washington in the religious struggle which is considered.a purely domestic affair. This disavowal is meaningle The public will only see in Sheffield’ note indications of a harmonious pol- icy between Rome and Wall Séfeet. Threat to Close Schools. The latest catholic threat is one to shut down the schools. The govern- = ment is prepared to take more drastic # action should the clergy continue in rebellion. The clergy are appealing to foreign governments to intervene in their behalf. The announced intention of the governmem to nationyfze the protestant schools may give other gov- ernments an excuse to interfere. It is reported that the British government has already made representations but this report is denied from London. oe * Cal Denies Another Report, LUDLOW, Vermont, August 9, President Coolidge denied a report that he had a long convergation with President Calles of México on the telephone, relative to the religious question, eee MEXICO CITY, Aug. 9. — James R. Sheffield, United States ambassador to Mexico is leaving here within a few days. Sheffield who is a bitter foe of Mexico will tell President Coolidge that the Calles administration has not observed the terms of the Warren- Obregon terms that paved the way for recognition, Mexican. govertment is compelled to}—The ~-Mexican.... government, has fight the church he winds up with the following twaddle: “When the. pres- ent heat cools down, I am confident that many of the regulations. impos- ing a hardship on the church or in- fringing the religious liberty of the | individual citizen will be modified by the government, especially ~if ’ the church secures a few socially-iinded religious statesmen like John A. Ryan of Washington to conduct its negotia- tions.” As if the Rev. John A. Ryan Was not as willing a tool of the church as the most blatant bishop that ever wore red. The least that might be expected of well-informed persons like Coyle is that they keep their peace on delicate issues they do not teel at liberty to speak frankly about. ‘8 E this Mexican struggle one must take either one side or the other. you are for black reaction, you will support the church. Those who Are in favor of human progress will support the Mexican government, even tho the Calles administration has sinned grievously against the work- ing class. But his educational policy alone entitles him to the support of every revolutionist. Ignorance is the ehfef ally of reaction. Calles is blast- ing ignorance out of Mexico, where it has been entrenched for centuries. There is a good deal at stake in the present Mexican struggle. It is likely to be a long-drawn-out and bitter struggle. see HAT Tut-ankh-Amen used cosmet- ies is the astounding statement made by a professor speaking before the annual meeting of tle British As- sociation for the Advancement of Selence. This is good.news for the cosmeticians. Until now a-Cake eater required all his guts to powder his nasal appendage in publi¢, but with old Tut setting the fashion in. lip- sticks the manly art of self-decoration should become as popular as chew- ing gum. The drug store ‘cowboy is coming into his own. " ‘Y organization is simply wonder- ful, senator,” testified | Morris Eller, a Chicago politician, while on the witness stand at the slush fund hearings. He was telling it to James A. Reed, of Missouri. In reply to a question he admitted that this beau- tiful organization was composed of job holders, Without the patronage that goes with public office none of the politicians could hold their own for any length of time. Even in Wis- consin, where purity is the watchword of the heirs of LaFollette's political state, the machine is held intact with the ald of patronage. * MPVHIS system is universally applied wherever the capitalist psycholo- gist prevails.. Even in the labor move. ment men are ‘induced to favor this aroused the ire of the foreign oil magnates because it has refused to violate its own laws to suit the greed of’ the American exploiters, Sheffield is expected to exert his influence, on Coolidge in favor of a diplomatic break with Mexico. Here in Mexico the great majority of American business men believe the Washington atiminis- tration should maintain strict neutral- ity in the struggle between the church and the state, To Regulate Production, Under a new decree issued by Pres- ident Calles, the government reserves the right to regulate the production of oil wells. Political observers see in this move a feeling on the part of the government that the oil men might take advantage of the present crisis to support another adventurer who (Continued on page 2) by mail, hicago, by’ mail, $8.00 per year, $6.00 per year, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1926 THE STRIKE OF UNORGANIZED SILK WORKERS IN LOWELL, MASS., MILLS The following story is published in this department because of the valuable information it gives concerning the causes of strikes of unor- ganized workers, their attitude toward the bosses, their knowledge of organizational principles or the lac! trade unions with these workers—the general problems of organization work in unorganized industries. Articles of this kind are of great give the information on which must organization campaigns. * » Woe weeks ago one evening a a Let us have more of them. k of it, the lack of contact of the value to the.labor Movement as they be based the strategy and tactics of (Editor's Note.) textile worker from Lowell came into our office in Lawrence, and informed us that all the weavers of the Lowell Silk mill in which he worked had walked out on strike. It was a spontaneous outburst. T tion among these workers. Not more to a union or ever been in a real strike to do now that they were out. we come in and organize the fight? Of course. We would be there in the morning. “But tell us,” we in- quired of our fellow worker, “how did you all come to act as a body, did you have a meeting before you walked out?” “No,” answered the Lowell striker, “there was a little talk among a few of us in the mill, and then we MASSACHUSETTS LABOR TO ENTER FALL ELECTIONS To Decide on Ticket at Conference Aug. 22 BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 9— Massa- chusetts labor is taking a determined step towards placing a labor ticket in the elections this fall. A call has been sent out to labor organizations thruout the state by the Massachu- setts Labor Campaign committee urg- ing them to send delegates to the State Labor Campaign convention to be held in Wells Memorial Hail, Sun- day morning, August 22 at 11 o'clock. Labor organizations are urged to send two delegates to this convention which jis, to place in the field a labor ticket against the two old parties! that are ¢ontrofled by the moneyed interests of this country. : . Among those signing the call Tor the convention are Thomas J. Con- roy, secretary of the Worcester Cen- tral Labor Union; G. H. Crispin, sec- retary of the Somerville Central La- bor Union; Herman Koster, secretary of the Cambridge Central Labor Un- ion; - Sylvester J. McBride, former president of the Boston Typographi- cal Union; John McLaren of the Brick and Stone Masons’ Union; B. J. Seamen of the Elevator Construct- ors’ Union and Mary G. Thompson, preSident of the Boston Trade Union League. Would + here was not a semblance of organiza- tan three of them*had ever belonged » before. They were at Sea as to what just walked out. ‘I don’t know how it come. Everybody just felt, I suppose, that it was not An individual matter but a general thing, and we acted to- gether.” “What are the immediate causes?” “Moré Jooms and reduction of the piece rates,” “Now tell us sin- (Continued on page 2.) Jailed Congressman’s Wife Wins Kentucky Congressional Primary | PIRSVILD, Ky., Aug. 9.—Mrs. ley, wife of former Con- soa ere @f Kentucky, who is now serving @ sentence in the At- lanta prison for lation of the prohi- | bition law, won @m the congressional primary held in Kentucky, She was nomfmated on the repub- lican ticket in the “tenth district for| the seat formerly held by her hus- band. The nom ation is stiulvitient| to election. H | Mrs, Langley was nominated by! about 6,000 majority. AUSTRIANS BAR RUSSIANS. FROM EDUCATION MEET Has , Soviet MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Aug: 9.—Just before they depanted for Vienna to attend and International congress of educators, three representatives of the Educational Workers’ Union of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lics, were notified by the Austrian gov- ernment that they. would not be per- mitted to enter the country. The delegates were Alexander Ko-| rosteley, president of the union; | Mikhael Apletin, secretary, and Prof. Albert Pinkevitch of the University) Vises > caer months preparing:a report to the con-| gress comprising a complete study of) { ea CLEMENCEAU NOTE RILES GOVERNMENTS Poincare and Coolidge. Resent Interference (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Aug. 9.—The Poincare gov-) ernment, that has clearly had a secret agreement to put over the ratification of the Mellon-Berenger debt agree- ment, is angry but silent about the let- ter sent Coolidge by George Clemen- ceau, which letter made very point-) edly sarcastic reference to the debt agreement as a blow at France's sov- ereignty by her so-called “friends.” Poincare, it is said, will have to let the heat produced by Clemenceau’s letter cool before the government can raise the issue of debts being ratt fied. | Tiger Spills the Beans. “There will be no discussion of debts before the parliament recon- venes in October,” says a member of the cabinet. “The question now re- poses in the hands of the commission] on foreign affairs and finance.” Some consider that Clemenceau has deliberately tried to put the regime of Poincare in a fix. Some of the papers come back at the so-called “tiger” by saying he should have spoken long ago if he didn’t like the reparations laid down by the Versailles treaty which he now admits are “mythical.” Le Petit Parisien says, “All that remains now is for Clemenceau to concede— ‘It’s all) my fault.’” Anyhow, Clemenceau may be the cause of further delay in ratification, and Frankin Bouillon, president of the foreign affairs commission of the chamber, announces that the return or Ambassador Berenger to the United States is “indefinitely postponed.” This occurred after Bouillon had a conference with Poincare. e-* U. S. Officials Peeved, WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—In the ab sence of Secretary Mellon, the U. 8. treasury officials were loathe to com- ment on the letter sent President Com lidge by Poincare. _ Privately, -how- ever, some of these officials did not hide their resentment oversthe method used of “appealing outside official channels.” Acting Secretary Winston wouldinot be quoted officially, but reiterated that the debt question was a “closed book” and no reply would be made to Clemenceau. eae “Who's Clemenceau?” Says Cal. WOODSTOCK, Vt., Aug. 9.—No_di- rect comment would come from .Coo- lidge when he received the aciduous letter of Clemenceau. Unofficially, it Women’s] of Moscow. They had worked many | is understood that Coolidge will pay no attention to the letter, on the grounds that it is an informal com- Get an autographed copy of Red the educational system of the Soviet| munication from a citizen of France Cartoons by Fred Ellis and Robert Minor, Ford Invades Air with New “Flivver” The latest Ford product Is a tiny monoplane that its designers Intend Shall do for, the air what the “flivver” did for the roads in the’ matter of cheap transportation, to create this novelty. It was very easy for the Ford Mililions and resources \f it becomes a success workél's will engage in its side or the other for a consideration, _preduation with the same degree of monotonous exploltition that goes with .., (ontinued on page 2) 7 “making “flivvers."" . to Union. Delegates to the congress, among| them a number of Americans who| had seen the reports, expressed dis-| appointment at the action of the Aus- trian authorities and said that the congress lost one of its most inter- esting features when the vises were denied to the Russian delegates, Last year the Austrian government refused to admit Russian delegates to an international Esperanto confer- ence and more recently denied pass- ports to groups of Russian students who desired to tramp thru the Tyrol. Lansbury in Moscow Aids Soviet Relief for British Miners MOSCOW, July. 26.—(By Mail.)— George Lansbury arrived today in Mos cow. In an interview with representa tives of the press; he stated that he was travelling to the Caucasus for his health and that he would confer with Stalin, Kalinin, Chitcherin, Trotsky, as well as with a number of trade union leaders, upon his: return, The “Childrensof Coal,” the special newspaper issued: with the collabora- tion of Lansbury*for the benefit of the families of the striking British miners, was sold in hundreds of thousands of copies in a single day, Thirteen Killed by Savage Tribes in Philippines MANILA, P. L, Aug, 9.--Thirteen persons were killed in a settlement in} northern Luzon, when members of the savage Kalinga tribe swooped down on the village, killing, burning and rob bing, according to word received here. French aed) Heavy In Syria. LONDON, Aug. 9 — The French force, defending Gouta from attacks by Druso rebels,chave lost 700 dead and wounded, according to messages received here today from rebel sources, 4 is given a (Continued on page 4) PUBLISHING CO,, Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1112 W, Washington Bivd., To Aid NEW YORK | EDITION | Price 3 Cents Cidcago, til ‘American Labor British, Green Promises MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., August 9.—According to the figures of the chief bookkeeper of the Central Council of Trade Unions of the Soviet Union, a total of 4,900,000 roubles ($2,450,000) were received for the relief fund for the support of the striking the first twenty days of July. . * British miners during May, June and * * WASHINGTON, ,D. C., August 9.—Thru their own delega- tion, the 1,200,000 striking miners of England put the question to William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, of what the American labor movement, particularly Green him- self, could and would do to aid ren of the strikers and thereby help the strike. in feeding the women and child- The meeting was held Saturday in the office of the A. F. of L. “We can assure you and the other trade unions in England,” Green replied after the delegatic American Federation of Labor assistance in soliciting funds for the miners’ We feel i strike is a challenge to the whole world-wide movement and has You haye our full support. as its object a breakdown of the workers’ standard of living. Give Till It Hurts, “We want to help in every way pos-| sible. We urge our people to give until it hurts and to give cheerfully and generously. We urge all public spirited citizens to join in this cause.” Green stated that he would give the delegation members personal creden- tials to all affiliated national and state organizations and would draw up an itinerary for the delegates to follow. He states that the printing trades and the building trades could afford to be most generous, also the anthracite miners. The bituminous miners, conceded, were not in such good circumstances because of unemploy- ment. The Delegation. Joseph Jones, general secretary of the Yorkshire Miners’ Association and members of the executive board of the British Miners’ Federation, led the plea, He was backed by James Rob- son, president of the Durham Miners’ Association; Paul McKenna, agent of the Scottish Miners; Oliver’ Harris, treasurer of the South Wales Miners’ Federation; Ren Tillett, secretary of the Transport Workers and délegate from the general council of the Brit- ish Trades Unton Congress, and Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M. P., who is gen- eral chairman of the Women’s Relief Committee. Tillett, as the veteran and the member of the party most familiar with American labor condi- tions, was prominent in th® discus-} sion. A. A. Purcell, who first was re-, ported coming with the delegation, was detained in Engiand. 5,000,000 to Feed. They came to the president of the A, F. of L. with a frank statement of the needs of the strikers’. families. British pbor-law relief, which is now the main reliance of the bulk of the (Conainued on page-2) The “Sultan of Morocco” at least for the summer. The reason Patronizes Puppet Sultan but who keep up the fight. shown above finds it healthier to live in Paris, is that most of his subjects would dearly love to make mince meat of ‘him because he acts as traitor to his own people. It has been under the guise of supporting his rule that France and Spain have waged. war against the Moors, who suffered a heavy loss when Abd-el Krim surrendere: the “sultan” signing fat concessions, France brought him to Paris, where he jood time” and his vanity tickled by being alidwed to sit on Napoleon's chair in the palace of Ve ‘sallies, as we In exchange for above. he; on had stated the case, “that the will give the delegation every wives and children. the British miner that Poe Edis RISE ARES ENGahatY NEW DELEGATION FROM GERMANY IN THE U.$.5.R. 68 Socialist Workers Go Despite S. D. (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 27 (By Mail).—To- day the second German workers’ dele- gation arrived in Leningrad sixty- | eight strong, and were received enthu- siastically by the representatives of the Trade Union Council and numer- ous delegations from the factories and trade unions with banners and bands of music. Comrade Ugaroff, chairman of the provincial Trade Union Counci vited the members of the delegation to inspect everything in the Soviet Union which might interest the dele- gation and to report the truth about the Soviet Union to the workers of Germany objectively and comradely. For Unity of Labor. in his reply, the chairman of the delegation, the Social Democrat Kor- ber, expressed his warm thanks for | the cordial reception and pointed out that the delegation would attentively study conditions in the Soviet Union in order to report truthfully upon its return to Germany. “It is our duty to create a united labor front and to \eet it against the capitalist front,” concludes Korber in a storm of ap- plause. Great enthusiasm was awakened by the appearance of the woman dele- gate, Rausch, on the tribune to receive a red shawl. Urhard spoke on behalf of the young workers of Germany. Several work ing men and women also greeted the delegation, after which the delegation and all hose present marched to the | palace of labor singing the Interna tionale, where the delegation paid a brief visit ‘o the museum of the trade union movement, German Socialist Party Heads Oppose. In an interview with a representa- tive of the “Tass” news agency, the chairman of the second German work- ers’ delegation, the Social Democrat KoPber, and the Social Democrat Bes- ser, member of the presidium of the delegation, underscored the hostile at- titude of the official social democratic party organizations towards the jour. neying of social democrats to the So- viet Union. They mentioned a number of cases in Which the district executives of the party warned the participants in the trip to the Soviet Union of their event- ual expulsion from the party, which warnings were endorsed by the supe- rior authorities of the party. Like Russians—Want Unity. “Our first impression, of the Soviet Union,” said Korber, “is overwhelm- ing as a result of the moving cordial- ity and hospitality of the Russian workers towards their foreign com- rades.” It is one of the tasks of the delegation, according to Korber, to promote as much as possible to com- ing together of the trade union move- ments of Germany and the Soviet Union. The Social Democrat Lenz, member of presidium of the delegation clared that he is especially interes in studying the orranization of the physical culthre movement jn the So- viet Union. The delegation will spend a week in eer — ——— t paul Plot Reported. JERUSALEM, Aug. 9—-A Bedouin plot for the massacre of all christians and Arabs in Trans-Jordania has been discovered and frusttdted. The Brit- ish have sent out aeropidhes to scat. ter warnings to the tribes not to molest christians —