The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1926, Page 4

i Page Four ne, ee CLEMENCEAU NOTE RILES GOVERNMENTS Poincare and Coolidge Resent Interference (Continued from page 4) who is no way connected with the government. Clemenceau’s letter, which is quite lengthy speaks in part, as follows: Side Swipe at England. “We are debtors, your are creditors. It seems this is regarded as purely a matter for the cashier's department, but are there no other considera tions? Hitherto, England’s European policy has consisted above all in hola ing and playing off one against the other. Today it is towards America that France’s feeling of uneasiness is Principally directed. “You are claiming from us payment | not of a debt of commerce but of war. You know as well as we do that our treasury is empty. Now, it is an open secret that in this affair there are only imaginary dates of payment, which will lead up to a loan with solid security in the shape of our territor- fal possessions, as was the case with Turkey. Such a thing, Mr. President, Iam bound to tell you we shall never accept. Puts “Friends” In Quotations. “France is not for sale, even to her friends. If France disappears under ‘friends,’ there would remain of her a name to be proud of. Raps U. S. on German Treaty. “As Russia did a Brest-Litovsk, America has made a separate peace with Germany without even the slight- est suggestion of an adjustment with her comrades in arms. That was a blood truce with a common enemy. Today, a money peace ‘between the allied and associated powers is being devised. “How did we fail to foresee what is now happening? Why did we not halt under the shells and convoke a board meeting of profiteers to de- cide the question whether it would allow us to continue? Must the myth of German reparations lead up to American cash collections?” Boston Nominates Candidates for Coming Elections BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 8.—District 1 some tlt BEng For the second time within a month lightning strikes among the oil tanks at Warren, Pa. This unusual the blows of her enemies and her | Photo shows the firemen attempting to get the second conflagration under contro! as it threatens to spread thru- out the whole oil field. BALDWIN'S LIE GETS HOT REPLY FROM A. J, COOK MacDonald Reproves It as ‘“Undignified” LONDON, Aug. 9.— The message] sent by Premier Baldwin of the Brit- ish government to America, declar- ing that the wives and children of |the British miners, locked out for 15 {weeks and suffering intense privation but heroically standing out against a wage cut and longer hours, were not suffering at all, and that America should give no money to be sent to the strikers, has produced the deep- est indignation among the British one of the Workers (Communist) Party has placei in nomination for the coming election campaign in the state of Massachusetts the following candidates: . - For United States senator, John J. Ballam; for governor, Lewis Marks; for lieutenant-governor, Albert Oddie; for attorney general, Max Lorner; for State treasurer, Winfield A. Dwyer; for state auditor, John McCarthy; for secretary, Emma P. Hutchins. An active campaign will be waged on -behalf of these candidates on a platform demanding the abolition of injunctions in labor disputes, repeal of the Watson-Parker bill and all similar anti-strike legislation, against infringe- ment of the right of freedom of speech and assembly, for the freedom of po- litical prisoners, nationalization of all large scale industry under workers’ control, immediate reduction of the army and navy, full independence for the Philippines, work on public pro- jects and financial relief for the un- employed, the reduction of present citizenship qualifications for the for- eign-born, abolition of child labor, recognition and defense of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, revision of the tatriff and the taxation laws so as to lower the cost of living and place the burden of taxation upon the employers, and the abolition of all législation discriminating against non- citizens. . A decision was made that this ticket be withdrawn in favor of a bona fide labor ticket, if such a ticket be or liate resumption of work on the bas- ganized. s of conditions-obtaining before the EA SPSS lockout, and for a-settlement on the Lynn Woikers Party . jfour months, Failing of such agree- Demands Right to ment, the disputes would be arbi- Hold Street Meetings | ‘re. Since the proposal also carries a LYNN, Mas Aug. ‘8.—Severa) |Short term subsidy pending reorgan- weeks ago the Workers (Communist) Party apply to Mayor Ralph S. Bauer for permission to hold open air meet ings on the streets of that city. In replying to the request the mayor re- fused. permission on the ground that traffic would be interferred with ana urged the applicant:to “hire a hall. Some days later an item appeared in the “Pilot,” a catholic paper, boasy ing of the wonderful street meetings being held by the catholic organiza tion in the city of Lynn. The Workers (Communist) Party called this fact to the attention of the mayor asked fo, the same rights accorded the catho lies. Seeing that he was caught with | the goods Mr. Bauer revoked the per- mit of all other organizations holding | street meetings including even the Salvation Army, whjch has been op | rating in Lynn for 50 years. This has aroused considerable indig nation, so much so that the city coun- cil passed a resolution authorizing such meetings over the head of the mayor. The American Worker Correspond- lean Worker Correspondent is only 50 cents per year, Are you a subscriber, workers. Apostrophizing _ Baldwin in_ refer- ence to this outrageous falsehood and mean-spirited attempt to shut off this relief funds from America, A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation, said in-a speech: “By such a statement you are mak- ing more rebels in one week than I will ever make in a lifetime. This will be a charter for revolution. This statement will bring Britain’s work- ers nearer to revolution than any speech Cook ever delivered.” Even Ramsay MacDonald, right wing leader of the labor party, was compelled to raise his veice in pro- test, tho it must be said that Mac- Donald seems morgé concerned with the diplomatic etiquette of Baldwin's tactics than with the nature of his attack on the strikers. He declares: Ranisay Wants Decorum in Attacks. “It is inconsistent with the dignity and duty of the Prime Minister to do what Mr. Baldwin has done in writ- ing to America to stop subsgriptions coming into this country to the min- ers’ funds, He might have left that to a subordinate.” The ballot being taken in the min- ers’ union on the question of approv- al or disapproval of the churchmen’s plan for settlement, will probably show a majority for it, is report- sd, altho great groups are staunchly »pposed to it as a backdown, These proposals provide for imme- | basis of a national agreement within | ization of the industry, it is not likely that the effect of the majority vote jot the miners, even df obtained, will jchange anything, since the gévern- ment has refused to consider the plan making the excuse of being opposed | jin principle to any subsidy. | “ Girl Attackers Sought. Police today were seeking three youths, who last night abducted three | young girls and later attacked them in the Forest Preserve district skirting |the Des Plaines river here. One of the youths police identified as “Short ; Burope. The Vestey firm has become Tail” a paroled convict, The mailman delivers my DAILY WORKER to the store next door where |it is read by the tailor and hig wife, Next I get on the job and read it all the way thru, Next comes my chess opponent who looks it over reading excerpts here and there. Then I take it with me to the restaurant where tle Greek waiter reads it thru as I eat my dinner, The Daily Worker as a Traveler THREE ARRESTED WHILE COLLECTING RELIEF FOR BRITISH GOAL MINERS (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Penn., Aug. 9.— Three workers were ‘arrested in Kennywood Park above Homestead while collecting for British strikers. They are held under a $300 bail each. The picnic was held by a Scotch organization. ‘316 3° MEAT PACKERS WILL END TRADE WAR British pa American | Firms Make Peace (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Aug. 9.—Within a short time it is expected that the former arrangement between the Swift, Armour and Vestey packing houses in South America will be renewed and the trade war between the British and the American concerns will be brought to an end. Up to December of last year a work- ing arrangement had been agreed upon by these three big concerns .for uni- | form purchases and shipments from South America to Great Britain and} j very powerful thru amalgamations| with many smaller concerns demand- ed that its shipping quota be in-| creased. The Swift and Armour in- terests opposed the increase. The Vestey interests then began a trade war. The trade’ war has cost the three concerns about $50,000,000, it is said. The three concerns began to ship load after load of meat into England until its price dropped to the point where the’ packing houses were losing 2 cents On every pound, Louis F, Swift arrived in London some time ago and has had numerous conferences with Lord Vestey. It is declared that the two have come to an agreement and that the trade war will be ended. FOREIGN EXCHANGE, Pound sterling, demand 4.85 3-4, ca- bles 4.861-4; French francs, demand 2.91, cables 2.93; Belgium frances, de- mand 2.76, cables 2.79; Swiss francs, demand 19.311-2, cables 19.33; Italy lira, demand 3.331-2, cables 3.36; Sweden krone, demand 26.76, cables 26.77; Norway krone; demand 21,91, cables 21.92; Denmark krone, demand 26.51, cables 26.51; Shanghai taels, de- mand 69. Killed at Crossing, Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 9.—Five men were killed and four injured in a week-end automobile accident here. The Ohio State Limited hit a light sedan in which five men were riding at the Harlem Road “death crossing” near here and terribly mangled their bodies, I bring it back and let the worker across the street have it to read and then give it to a youngster for a local paper. He gives it to his father to read who takes it to a factory for the night watchmen who goes over it be- fore they go homem-By “Jackknife.” Troy, N. Y, ' WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! WORKERS” SCHOOL ASKS FOR BOOK CONTRIBUTION New York Library Seeks Many Needed Volumes NEW YORK, ‘Aug. 9 — The Library of the Workers School at 108 East 14 St. New York City, proved its great ysefulness to the workers during the recent National Summer Training Course of the School. The Library of the Workers School is building up an excellent list of books on aH of the social sciences with special reference to American conditions and problems, ‘There are a few books which the library is trying to secure which are out of print. Read- ers of The Daily Worker are urged to send in these books ag a loan or gift to the Workers School Library. They will be assured that the books will be well taken care of and always available for consultation by the lar- gest number of workers where they will do the most good. The list of books follows: Hillquit — History of, Socialism in the U. S. Sombart—Capitalism, Sombart—The Bourgeoisie. Sombart — Socialism) and Social Movement, Boudin — Socialism and War. Hobson — Imperialism — Evolution of Modern Capitalism. Rabinow — Was Marx’ Wrong? Lloyd — Trade Unionism, Lewis — Introduction to Sociology. Tugwell American Economic Life. : Levy—Primitive Mentality, Buche — Industrial Evolution. Lange — History of Materialism. Cohen — Collapse of Capitalism. Lowie — Primitive Society. Beard edition — Federalist. Jaures—Studies in Socialism. Bernstein — Evolutionary Socialism Hunter — Labor in Politics. Kautsky — Communism in Middle Ages, The Library is also desirous of se- curing the first volume of Common’s History of the American Labor Move- ment, and the first volume of the New York Lusk Report. HOLDOM ISSUES WRIT AGAINST FUR STRIKERS Miller & Co,, 618 Michigan, Elliott Fur company, 17 North State St., and Owen J. McElroy, 38 South State St. have obtained an injunction against Local No, 45, Chicagé Fur Workers’ Union. Judge Jesse Holdom Noaten the injunction. The injunction prohibits the union pickets from picketing the #hop or approaching the strikebreakers to convince them to stop seabbing on the union, Miller & Co, and Owen J, McElroy are members of the Chicago Fur Manufacturers’ Association. These two concerns are the first of the as- sociation members to get an injunc- tion against the union; / Opens His Bank for Bandits. DETROIT, Aug. 9.—Two bandits to- day kidnapped the manager of branch of the Peninsular. State Bank, while he was on his; way to work, forced him to open oth the institu- tion and the vault and escaped with $7,000, ot = te k IL. 6, W. MOPS UP OUT OF TOWN GARMENT SHOPS Flying Sauads of Girl Workers Rout Scabs NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 9.—The Cloakmakers’ Union has struck back at the industrial council of the manu- facturers’ association who threatened to open shops out of town in defiance of the present virtual 100 per cent stoppage. A. Katz & Co. of 38 West $2nd street, a member of the council, attempted to open a non-union shop in Bridgeport, Conn., and it was promptly stopped by striking pickets. Mopping Up. In addition, the strikers’ out-of-town committee stopped four other at- tempts to operate, The Long Island City Cloak Co., 381 Jackson avenue, Long Island City, and the Queens Apparel Cloak Company, Third street, Long Island, City, closed when the workers quit Saturday. The J. Levine Cloak Co., trying to operate at 82 Kingston avenue, Corona, found its efforts futile and shut down. The J. Liebowitz Cloak Company, with offices at 517 Seventh Avenue, tried to have work done in a men’s coat shop in Newark and was stopped. The union was informed that a shop opened by an industrial council member, employ- ing 50 workers in day and night shifts in Sullivan county, was stopped. Release Pickets. Fifty pickets arrested Thursday on Staten Island for disorderly conduct were dismissed in magistrate’s court. Louis Hyman, chairman of the gen- eral strike committee, lightly dis- missed the announced intention of the industrial council to operate out of town. Hyman declared: “Their threat is an idle boast. This is not the first time such a threat has been made. It is made in every strike. But we know these things are not as easily done as said. Manufacturers cannot remove their factories so eas- ily. Further, they must man them with workers, and no members of the international union will scab out of town. Wherever the manufacturers will try to move they will find local unions of the international ready to protect the interests of the strikers. Nonsense, Says Hyman. “The manufacturers’ claim that they are having 75 per cent of their work done out of town is nonsense. We know they are trying to have work done outside New York City, but we also know that the amount is so insig- nificant that they cannot prefend to hope to break our strike.” i Jacob Halpern, speaking for the strikers’ out-of-town committee as chairman, stated that “any industrial council shop opened out of town will be stopped. Flying Squadrons of Girls, “Our pickets, numbering over 500, are on the alert. Tomorrow we ang. ment their number with several hun- dred volunteers who are eager to go from town to town to explain the jus- tice of our cause to the scattered non- union workers who are trying to pro- duce cloaks.” He pointed to a score of young girl pickets, all of American stock, who had been, sent to the offices of the committee, 3 West 16th street, by va- rious out-of-town local unions prePara- tory to being dispatched ‘0 various outside strike centers. The girls, whose number will be increased, are going from town to town to tell the story of the strike, Mr. Halpern de- clared, 2 SENERAL MOTORS STOCK GETS BIG ~ RISE IN MARKET (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Aug. 9, — General Jotors sold at 220 at the opening of he stock exchange today and jumped to 222% in the first period. This con- stitutes a new gain of 5% points over turday’s closing after having made @ spectacular upward dash following an announcement by a J. P. Morgan and Co. official of big dividends on the offing. . The announcement has been proven true todayay an official statement of the company giving earnings ap- Plicable for dividends of over $93,000,- 000 in the first six months of the year. This is equal to $17.33 a share on com- mon stock. It is almost double the in- come and dividend figures of the cor- responding period last year, Others Up Too, The rapid rise of General Motors has been followed by boosts in Du Pont, which went up 5 points today to 309, United States steel and the rail- voads which were very active. While there is every ‘reason to believe the market is professional, the upward trend of stock values is attributed to the statement of corporate earnings of large companies, all of which have been favorable. James Simpson, president of the Marshall Field & Co., sailed on the Samaria for a five weeks’ vacation abroad.. While Simpson is vacation- ing workers in his department stores will swelter in the heat behind the counters in his stores for miserable Wages, 7 Cowderry’s Letter Was the Best #3": Part of Yesterday’s Issue of The DAILY WORKER! Read It Again! NOTE—This is the sixth article in a series reviewing the struggle to develop The DAILY WORKER into a mass organ. This series is written with the purpose of teach- ing and encouraging the readers of “Our Daily” to help develop its in- fluence among the broad masses of the American working class. This article is a comment on a letter written by P, B. Cowdery that ap- peared in yesterday's DAILY WORKER, soe By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, T is no easy task to develop our Communist daily, The DAILY WORKER, into a mass organ. It is no easier than to develop our Workers (Communist) Party into a mass Communist Party, A These two tasks are accomplished only thru difficult, ceaseless work, even when aided by the best of cir- cumstances, It may be said that in no country in the world, not even in the Union of Soviet Republics, is the Commun- ist International satisfied with’ the Influence of its press, It seeks to increase that influence, thru spread- ing the reading circle of our various publications, whether it is the Pravda in Moscow, the Rote Fahne in Berlin, L'Humanite in Paris, or The DAILY WORKER in Chicago. ee The letter published in yesterday's issue of The DAILY WORKER, sent in by P. B. Cowdery, shows how to build, how to develop the mass in- fluence of our paper. It is no ex- aggeration to say that Cowdery’s let- ter was the most important part of this issue, It knocks the props from under those slackers who try to find excuses not to struggle for their cause, rather than to energetically overcome ali difficulties, eee There are many who claim that The DAILY WORKER can be pop ularized to such an extent that the workers will be forced to read it in spite of themselves, That is an easy escape from the hard task of doing the real work of building. It will be found that these advocates of popularization are even willing to sacrifice the Communist character of their paper, in the belief that readers must be secured first and at all costs. Many improvements can be made in The DAILY WORKER. There is no doubt about that. Perfection is far away. Improvements are being made to develop an appeal to larger masses of workers. But those so- called “improvements” must never be permitted to rob our “Daily” of its Communist character, That is something that every DAILY WORKER builder must have in mind as he goes about getting sub- scribers in the same spirit that he seeks recruits for the party, Cow- dery is such a builder. “* If you read Cowdery’s letter you will remember that he is at work building DAILY WORKER routes in Chicago. He places our paper on newstands, canvasses for subscrip- tions, delivers the paper as a carrier, collects for the paper each week and then tries to get renewals. It is in getting renewals that the crucial test comes. Cowdery wrote: “The first week I lost seven out of 14 ‘serves’ I had obtained. I nearly quit. I could sell 40 or 50 papers to those I met for the first time, but it seemed they just would not read it successively, The next week I lost eight out of 21, having obtained 14 new ones, That was still discourag- ing. I commenced to study my meth- od of interview. At the next col- lection, July 24, I had 34 of which I lost seven; July 31, I had 37. and lost only five.” Cowdery found that he had to win his readers by convincing them that The DAILY WORKER is the kind of paper they ought to read, that it is of great value to them in their daily struggles. His method succeeded. He points out: “Once they read it successively @ few times we have them.” oR ied , * There is the half-hearted builder, however, who likes to run away from his job, When every subscriber won will not renew immediately and vol untarily, this type of builder decides that his “Daily” must-be entirely to blame, He finds no fault in himself, He reports with long drawn face te his nucleus, casting gloom where ever he goes. It is an historic event in most nuclei when a special drive is made for “subs.” Usually short term sub- scriptions are secured. The party members, thereupon, in great part, expect the subscribers thus gained to renew without additional effort on their part. As a matter of fact, as Cowdery’s experience shows, their work hag only begun, And there is no end to it, not even with the ar- rival of the social revolution, as shown by the pride that our Russian comrades take even now, nearly nine years after the Bolshevik victory, in increasing the number of readers of the dailies published under the prol- etarian dictatorship, It is a matter of great pride to Communists the world gver that the number of readers of Communist dailies in the Soviet Union at the present time far surpasses the number of capitalist newspaper readers that existed un: der the deposed czarism. cele One of the first methods used by the comrades in New York City to increase the circulation of The DAILY WORKER was to give a short term subscription with an ad- mission to a great demonstration in Madison Square Garden, Large num- bers of “subs” were secured in this way. But again the complaint was made that they did not renew. Iam sure that Comrade Cowdery could have told them why. Since then very good results have been secured in New York City thru the perfection of The DAILY WORKER machinery under the direction of our New York agent, Comrade L. E. Katterfeld, whose un- tiring energy in developing The New York DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club is already well known to our readers. The builders in New York as éverywhere else, that is, those who are really active, can appreciate what Cowdery means when he says: “I can appreciate the advantage of getting right down to where peo- ple live and talk with them about their struggle and the relation to them of a good daily paper which The DAILY WORKER has become.” In closing, it is well to repeat the word picture that Cowdery used in closing his letter, He has started “Johnnie” Tuhy, a Pionéer, carrying a route in Chicago. In the territory that our Pioneer is now covering, “Johnnie's” father was the original and only subscriber. There are now 23 ‘subscribers for The DAILY WORKER in this territory. Cow- dery writes: “Now there are 23 getting the pa- per in the early morning to be,taken by ‘workers. to their sliops and among their brother workers, thus in a measure shutting out the need or inclination to grab a capitalist sheet.” ‘Cowdery’s letter helps point the road to the building of The DAILY WORKER into a mass organ of the American class struggle. All who are anxious to develop their “daily” to become that power should read Cowdery’s letter again, have it read in their party nucleus and then proceed to take measures to follow along the road that it maps out, WITH THEY CONDUCTED - BY TH CONDITIONS OF THE YOUNG COAL MINERS IN PENNSYLVANIA FIELD The conditions of the young miners in the Forbes Road Mine of the Keystone Coal and Coke company mine located near Greensburg, Penn. are typical of those found in the open shop or “American plan” mines of America, Most of the work such as “driving,” “running motor,” “greasing,” “coupling,” “catching empties, “wiremen helpers and trackmen’s helpers" are done by young workers usually from 14 to 18 years of age. These young miners must work from seven in the morning till 5 in the evening without any time off for dinner but must eat their dinner “on the fly,” to use the miners’ expression, The wages of the young workers are very low. They get from $3.85 to $4.00 a day for ten hours of hard work, Those that work on the outside get $2.61 for a 10-hour da; But the miners who have no “pull” with the boss must load coal. This is the heaviest of all jobs in the mines, They get 42 cents a ton--77 cents is the union scale—for the coal that is weighed. And a car that is 9 feet long and 6 feet wide and four feet deep and would weigh four ton on any scale in an “open shop” mine . ~ weights “only two ton.” And if a miner even mentions the word “check- weighman” he is sent lookfng for an- other job. : The young miners working in the field where the union still exists must lead in the fight to build a better! union in the organized fleld and also build the union in the unorganized fleld. It must be the young miners who must lead in organizing such im- portent flelds ax Favette and moreland counties of Pennsylvania, Kansas and West Virginia, Pa ante ; \ anon rnea een emer unneesmemncureehmeme idl!