The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1926, Page 2

Sage Two 3RITISH AND U.S, ENVOYS IN MEXICO CONFER’ Plans for Concerted Ac- tion Discussed (Continued from page 1) lescription, It is below the intellec ual level of Voodoo Worship. The hurch generously donates each vil- | age a patron Any action of the } uthori the cunn priests 3 labelled a sult to th . Those aints are usually of emale sex. fhis saint will punish the whole vil- insult to her according to e@ wreaks vengeance of who offers her | on all regardl imbrage. Thus the clergy have the wperstitious people frightened into 1 state of panic. Priests In Open Rebellion. That ther re method than madness in of the clergy | 8 indicatec issued by 4 catho: ency in Mexico. The we ts who are now church duties, gover: The 1gainst the roadside hat “M a to expr its he uprising against e and a half ago.” much Porfirio Diaz a deca The cl will have as trouble convincing the peasants that Diaz was their friend as the Ru n »migres have in inducing the Russian peasants to fight for the restoration of czarism. The women of the wealthy classes even condescending to move g the poor and inviting them to ight against the govern- re made that “four women have forsaken society and are doing volunteer work ioe the churel lar stories were rpread in England during the general ¥eike then lords, dukes and knights were rewenicd running trains and doing other inds of strikebreaking duty, are ment. . score catholic Silver Is Discounted. Some apprehension has been caused. by the fact that silver is now dis- counted at four percent, in contrast to the rate of one per cent which has prevailed for several months. Altho merchants are alarmed at this situa- tion bankers declared today that the gradually increasing discount of the silver peso during recent weeks is due to the withdrawal of approximately 70,000,000 gold pesos from circulation for the creation of a gold reserve in the recently established government banks. The gold has been replaced to a small degree by paper issues and to a larger degree by silver, thus disturb- ing the ratio between gold and silver. 2. Suspicion Aroused. WASHINGTON, D. C. August 10, — While the state department denies any intention to intervene in, the struggle between the Mexican gowernment and the catholic church there is a general feeling that Sheffield’s, return may produce a different atmosphere. It is pointed out that the adminis- tration spokesmen have’ not disavowed the rumors of intended interference in the matter of oil and, anti-alien land laws. i. Depression Accentuated. The department of commerce is in- formed by its Mexican agent that business depression has been accent- uated hy the catholic: boycott. Mex- ican representatives here however say that reports of commercial decline have been greatly exaggerated. Cath- olics are not going to cut off their noses to spitestheir/pocketbooks, they assert, no maitter how willing they may be to give lip loyalty to Rome. es Te German Catholics For Reaction. BERLIN, Aug. 10, — German cath- Olic societies have promised moral support to the Mexican clergy in their rebellion againstsjthe government. Chileans Support Calles. SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 10. — Chile- an workers and inkellectual radicals in a monster mass meeting held here, un- animously voted jto support Calles in the government’s struggle against the catholic church. The vast crowd listen- ed attentively to rdo Hays, Mex- fean minister, tell the story of the con- flict and its histonical background. The Mexican dlerical revolt may cause a revival of' anti-catholic prop- agande thruout the/southern republics. Battered/Steamers In Port. HALIFAX, N. 8., Aug. 10. — Two steamers, victims of the recent hur- ricane arrived here today for repairs. They are the Roman Prince, and the Baluchistan. Two of the crew of tho latter were removed to a hospital when the vessel docked, POINCARE GOVERNMENT REPRESENTS UNITY OF BIG AND SMALL CAPITAL el Frantic over the state of financial collapse enveloping France all the right parties have combined under the leadership of the county’s foremost militarist and Imperialist, Poincare, the “war president,” in an effort to Stave off total destruction. The only solution that the premier, shown above, has to offer is a financial dic- tatorship, which he is now occupied in putting over at a meeting of the na- tional assembly at Versailles, RED-BAITING HERALD-TRIBUNE GETS HARD RAP NEW YORK, Aug. 10—The New York World in the following editorial of Aug. 5 takes issue with the “find- ings” of the Herald Tribune which oublished an article attacking Victory Playground as a Red training ground: Red Menace at Passaic. “In the hest fee-fifo-fum style a staff correspondent prints in the Her- ald Tribung a description of the hor rendous red activities among the Pas+ saic school |children. Stripped of ad- Jectiyes and innuendoes, the fact ap- pears as follows: A Victory Play- ground has been organized for chil dren by the strikers’ United Front Committee, The avowed object is ‘to keep the youngsters out of the strike area and give them wholesome lunches. There are councilors of rad- ical aspect about—one girl wears knickerbockers and bobbed hair! The youngsters have the unspeakable wickedness to act as if they sympa- thized with their parents in the hard- fought battle, “Now, this is calculated to send a thrill of horror down all 100 per cent American spines. But to the ordinary thoughtful citizen, satisfied to be a 99.44 per-center, it is not quite so con- vincing and raises certain questions. Which does more to manufacture reds —a Weisbord, or an industry which Pays adult workers $14, $16, $20 or $22 a week? Which converts the more people to radicalism—inflamma- tory literature, or mills which take immigrant mothers and work them at machines all night after they have done. housework most of the day? “Just how much patriotism is in- spired by city and county govern- ments which deny workers the right to free speech and free assemblage and attempt by wholesale arrests to break down their strike? Does a com- munity which never lifted a finger to supply free playgrounds, supervised Dlay and nourishing lunches to the pa- thetic children of the Passaic tene- ments have any right to yell “Red” when the strikers furnish these bene- fits themselves? In short, what is Americanism, anyway?” Family Is Wiped Out by Lightening Fire UNIONTOWN, Pa., Aug. 10, — Fire caused by a bolt of lightning wiped out a family of five at Clifton Mills, W. Va., @ remote settlement in the mountains 20 miles south of here, ac- cording to word received here today. We Mourn the Untimely Death of Comrade Felix Dzerzhinsky Street Nucleus 202, Workers (Communist) Party, 881 Broadway, Buffalo, N. Y. S. Holzman, Sec’y. AQ THE DAILY WORKE T : Fh 'WORKERS PARTY PLEDGES SUP TO CALLES IN FIGHT ON CHURCH The Workers Party of America today addressed the folfowing telegram to President Calles of Mexico: Plutarco E. Calles, President of the Republic, National Palace, Mexico City, Mexico. Workers (Communist) Party pledges wholehearted support In struggle against combined offensive of Rome and Wall Street. Latest note regarding oll and land laws clearly reveals imperialist maneuver. | rallroad workers’ demands permitting unified revolutionary resistence to | Mexico's enemies. We are firmly convinced that guarantee for sucoess of | struggle against reaction and imperialism Is In organization and activity of We will do all In our power to rally Ameri- Mexican workers and peasants. can workers to Mexico’s support, We urge acceptance Central Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party, Cc, E, RUTHENBERG, General Secretary. Lloyd George Feared the British Workers, Kerensky Reveals (Continued from page 1) |takes on the appearance of the wish being father to the thot: . “Courageous bands of exiles have infiltrated into Russia and have been steadily rousing the people, who are now about to speak out loudly and boldly.” The Kronstadt Sailors. For in the next breath, Kerensky said, “The recent reports of revolts have been greatly exaggerated. The sailors at Kronstadt are always nour- ishing some resentment and they are in perpetual ferment, so their revolt must be greatly discounted.” Kerensky is competent to speak about the sailors of Kronstadt. It was they who constituted the shock troops of the revolution in November, 1917, that forced him to flee and placed power in the hands of the work- ers and peasants, Hope Cools. Like all emigres, Kerensky is hope- ful. But it is no longer the hope of the swashbuckling days of counter- revolutionary invasions when the ar- mies of Yudenitch, Kolchak and Wran- gel were in the field. It is much more mild mannered. These days the emi- gres, at least those of the Kerensky type, like to talk about some sort of vague alliance with “moderate ele- ments” of Communism, This is their last straw. As Keren- sky put it in today’s interview, “The nonarchy is gone forever, because szarism to every peasant means aban- lonment of his land and property to the descendants of Nicholas. No grand duke is popular in Russia. What will succeed Communism: will be, in my opinion, an alliance between the most moderate elements of Commun- ism, now silent, and the popular or social revolutionary element.” Tolstoi Is Patron Saint. When asked about his’ particular brand of “socialism,” Kerensky was quick to say: “I don’t represent the Marxist element of socialism: If we have a patron saint it is Tolstoi.” And so, with that, this “leader,” whose followers are to be found only in handfuls in Paris cafes and Lon- don tea rooms, turned silent to speak next when enterprising news agencies shall again decide to circulate a siz- zling story about the collapse of the soviets, Pols Point with Pride to Powwowing Pythians The thirty-fourth biennial conven- tion of the Knights of Pythias opened here today with 20,000 members from many parts of the United States and Canada in attendance. The delegates were welcomed to Chicago by Mayor William Dever and U. S. Senator Charles S. Deneen, following which routine business occupied the con- vention. “Ma” Ferguson Tosses Chapeau in Ring for Governorship Campaign DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 10—Her agree- ment that she would resign follow- ing the primary “If Dan Moody beats me by one vote” apparently forgotten, Mrs. Mirlam (Ma) Ferguson today plunged into an intens{¥e campaign aimed at winning the run-off primary which is to be held within three weeks. The runoff was ordered when the official count showed that Moody had failed to poll the required ma- jority by 1,170 votes, Rhode Island Town Gets Shaken Down But Can’t Collect a Dime BRISTOL, R. I, Aug. 10—The Bris- tol town countil went into session to- day to investigate the explosion of the Bristol Fireworks Company’s plant, which killed four persons, injured twelve, wrecked two other buildings and shook the town. Householders cannot collect insur- ance for the thousands of dollars dam- age done and the town faces civil suit. Pump Breaks, Impedes Rescue of Spar Miners SALEM, Ky., Aug. 10.—Rescue op- erations were impeded again today when the stand pump being used to clear teh level where fivo men were entombed in the Zine and Spar com- pany mine near here, was temporarily put out of order. An airplane was bringing new parts from Memphis and it was hoped to get the pump in working grder again by late this afternoon.’ 4 five men have been entombed more than five, days. WCEL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting on a 491.6 wave length from the Municipal Pier. TONIGHT. 6:00 to 7:00—Chicago Federation of La- bor talks and bulletins, 7:00 to 7:30-—-WCFL Studio Ensemble, Elena Moneak, director. 7:30 to 8:30—Aurthur Biliquist, bari- tone; Catherina Flathers, contralto; May Wehr, accordianist. 8:30 to 9:00—Elena Moneak and her orchestra. 9:00 to 9:30—Flo and Ray, popular songs; Harry Anderson, tenor, 9:30 to 10:00—-WCFL Studlo .Synco- pators. 10:00 to 11:00—Dance music ‘from the Municipal Pier Auditorium by Chai Cook's Orchestra. EY ASSESSMENT PAYMENT LIST GROWS Ae, list of the nuclei which have reported their collection of the United Labor Ticket Assessment is still going upward. A few more lists Iike that which follows will raise the number of nuclel which have reported up to the 50 per cent mark. The following nuclei sent in thelr settlement during the past few days: Bronx, N. Y.—Intl. Branch No. Brooklyn, N. Y—Shop Nucleus No. Long Island City, N, C.—Intl. Branch No. 1. Philadelphia, Pa.—Street Nucleus No, New York, N. Y.—2A F2. Newark, N. J.—Street Nucle: Utica, N. ¥Y.—Street Nucleus No. 1. West Brownsville, Pa—Shop Nucleus No, 1.. Pittsburgh. Pa.—Shop Nucleus No, 7. Toledo, Ohio—Street Nucleus No. 401. Yorkville, Ohio—Shop Nucleus No. 101 Detroit, Mich.—Street Nucleus No. 4. Detroit, Mich.—Shop Nucleus No. 5. Detroit, Mich—-Street Nucleus No. 1 Chicago, Ill—Street Nucleus No. 23. Kenosha, Wis.—Shop Nucleus No. 2. Kenosha, Wis.—Shop Nucleus No, 2. Kenosha, Wis.—Street Nucleus No, 1 Chicago, IIl.—Shop Nucleus No, 20. Chicago, Ili—Street Nucleus No. 32. West Allis, Wis.—Shop Nucleus No, Hurigy, Wis—intl, Branch No. 1 Oakland, C Berkeley, Cal.—Street Nucleus 1-4B, Street Nucleus No, 2. Boston, Mass.—Intl. Branch No. 2 1. $10.00 4.00 No. 2. 3.60 A 50 per cent settlement by the nuclei Is not enough. The'list must grow faster. The goal is @ 100 per cent settlement by August 15) Every nuclei which received the stamps must insist that the secretary — this job during the present week and make his remittance to the | That is the only kind of work for a Communist Party. d f ational Office. * My - The Disorders Are All Outside Soviet Borders, Truth Finally Reveals By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. j “QUMMER fiction!” That is the way that Moscow has finally disposed of the “mali- olous fakes” manufactured and pub- Ushed by the capitalist press over the world these past few days con- cerning alleged “disorders” within the borders of the Workers’ Repub- lie. Moscow hit upon a phrase that will be understood in our backward America, American fiction is lHght and frothy at the best, even in the coldest winter. The most intel- lectually laggard mind must have his brain tickled at’ all seasons of the year. But there must be a thrill to it, or many thrills, the more the better. This must especially be true of “summer fiction,” a major national necessity right now. Evidently the kept press editors had concluded that “sex appeal” had lost its punch, that the detective story was becoming too blase, and that other fiction forms were lack- ing sufficient kick, “Trudie” Ederle, swimming the channel, was the sen- sation of but one day. The tale of “Who is going to fight Jack Demp- sey?” has been worn threadbare. The baseball season ig going stale. Sen. Reed’s slush fund investigation has Played itself out. No excitement on the whole monotonous horizon. A new wrinkle had to be put into America’s “summer fiction” for the season of 1926. So the editors final- ly hit upon another Bolshevik scare as their only salvation. They had used it before. They joined in the common acclaim, “Try it again!” There is some significance to the fact that the wildest tales were man- ufactured and given elaborate space, with scare headlines, in the Hearst press. It shrieked so loudly that the rest of the employers’ press, even some sections that try to cling to a semblance of truth, began screaming along with it. It became the wildest sort of orgie. ee But the storm is over, The thous- ands of miles of newsprint, streak- ing thru hungry rotary presses like sheet lightning, have spread their wierd tales for nothing. Rivers of cloudy ink have flowed in vain. The atmosphere clears once more. The sun shines again and according to the headlines themselves, “Russia 1s Serene!” It may be that the kept press automatically lived up to its usual traditions in furnishing the usual “happy ending.” In this case it was inevitable. No other ending was possible, as has already been Pointed out in these columns, for there was never anything unusual transpiring in the Union of Soviet Republics. The last chapter, as the Associated Press was forced to send it out to its clients, with the head- line as it appeared in one of the Chi- cago Heart sheets, is published herewith, Hardly any additional comment is necessary. It is a con- tession of'error that workers will do well to. remember. **#e But that isn’t all.. As the cable trom John Pepper, at Moscow, pub- lished on another page points out, the disorders were and are outside and not within the Soviet borders. It was under cover of the “Bolshe- vik scare,” which the American press used for its own purposes, that reaction was seeking to carry for- ward its evil designs in Eastern Europe. The clash between Poland and Lithuania is ,becoming more acute, England is trying to advange ehr interests along the shores of the Baltic, At the same time the war drums beat in the Balkans, as has already been pointed out. Roumania. of the white terror, in addition to Joining with Yugo-Slavia and Greece against Bulgaria, concentrates her troops against restless Bessarabia. These are facts that cannot be hid- den bepind any Anti-Soviet barrage, no matter how carefully it is laid down, eee We repeat again, the disorders are not within the Union of Soviet Re- publics. There the workers and peas- ants are busier than ever building the new social order. All the dan- gers are from without. The danger to Soviet Rule is right here in the United States, among workers lulled into deep slumber by the narcotic influence of “summer fiction,” whe- ther it deals with fake tales of alleged industrial prosperity at home or the “justice” of Wall Street's policies abroad. The attack on Soviet Rule originates in cap- italist countries. It is the duty of workers and farmers in all coun- tries, especially in the United States, to overcome this attack and elimin- ate its source by establishing work- ors’ rule everywhere, Six Lose Lives in Fated British Sub LONDON, Aug. 10.—Six lives were lost when the submarine H-29 sunk in Devenport r yesterday, the ad- miralty announced today. Salvaging of the eubmarine is progressing, ‘ i Note.—Herewith Is republished In full, headline and all, the admission by the Chicago Herald-Examiner (Hearst) that all the reports about disorders within the Soviet Union, published during the last few days, were brazen lies. The Hearst sheet extended Itself In Its fabrication of ut ind then confessed to it. Here is the confession: ole ee (Chicago Herald-Examiner, Aug. 10.) Reports of Soviet Revolution False; Russia is Serene Stalin Retains Party Grip; Trotzky Calm and Busy; isitors Safe. MOSCOW, Aug. 9.—(AP)—All re- ports abroad that M. Stalin, general secretary of the Communist Party, has béen murdered, that Trotsky has fled, that Gregory Zinoviev has been exiled and that the Russian army and navy have mutinied are summer fiction, An investigation conducted by a correspondent for the Associated Press shows that peace and order reign thruout Russia. Stalln Holds Grip. M. Stalin continues to direct af- fairs of state from his sanctum in the Kremlin; Trotsky, who occupies a smal] apartment near that of M. Stalin, is engrossed in literary pursuits and work for the concessions commit- tee, while Zinoviev is taking a much needed period of rest in the Caucasus after his stormy recent innings with the central executive committee of the Communist Party, There has been no mobilization of Soviet troops as reported abroad nor has there been the slightest Indica- tion of any uprising within the army. Soviet leaders long have been in the custom of giving the army the best of everything, bestowing special at- tention on their welfare, contentment and recreation, thus winning their loyalty, Moscow is as quiet as any Amer- ican efty on Sunday morning. Half the population is away in the coun- try and the tide of life runs sluggish- ly thru the old capital. Ernest Smoot, son of Senator Smoot of Utah, arrived in Moscow to- day. He will investigate social, polit- ical and economic conditions in Rus- sia for his father. Smoot has creden- tials from Secretary of State Kellogg and other American officials. Moscow Peaceful. Twenty American college professors, publicists and social workers, who came here recently, have been pleasantly surprised to find Moscow one of the most peaceful and safe towns in the world, altho not the cleanest or most orderly. Some of them have gone off on excursions to the Volga or Caucasus, while others are dividing their time in Moscow be- tween sightseeing, investigations of so- eial conditions and interviews with various Soviet commissars, Liké the resident American corre- spondents, they have been flooded with anxious queries from home concern- ing their safety. They are as safe here as they would be on Main street. Issue Denial, LONDON, Aug. 9.—(AP)—The Tass agency, official news disseminator of the Russian Soviet government, in a Message to the Associated Press from Moscow today said: “Reports of M. Stalin’s assassina- tion, military revolts, mobilization and disturbances on the Black Sea are ab- solute nonsense, Everybody laughs at them.” NEBRASKANS IN HOT BATTLE FOR AND AGAINST RUM Ku Klux Klan Leads for ’ “White Mule” OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 10.—Nebras- kans cast their votes today to show their sentiments toward the two is+ sues which have made of the present primary campaign one of the bitter- est in the political history of the state—the Ku Klux\Klan and prohibi- tion. Practically all the candidates are lined up either with the klan and pro- hibition or else out and out wets and klan enemies. Ex-governor Charley. Bryan and Vice-presidential nominee in 1924 has no opposition on the democratte ticket. Governor Adam McMullen, re- publican, was regarded as almost cer- tain to be re-nominated. ** * Ohio Goes to Polls, CLEVELAND, ©.; Aug. 10—Witn the county greatly interested in the outcome, Ohio voters today went to the polls in one of the quietest primar. ies in many years. Despite perfect weather the vote was expected to be light. The elector- ate has shown nothing but apathy dur- ing the campaign. Greater interest was manifested in purely local contests, in Cleveland the race for the republican nomination for sheriff overshadowing even the Allen-Pomerene democratic senatoriat battle. ‘ The Codfish State Battle. BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 10.—One of the most bitterly contested senatorial fights to be waged in the near future will be the Massachusetts campaign with Senator W. M. Butler, leading the republicans and David I. Walsh, the democrats, While there is little to choose he tween the two as far as the working. class are concerned, Walsh is more popular. Butler is the candidate of big business. He is a wealthy mill owner and one of Calvin Coolidge’é chief backers. It is conceded that if Butler loses in Massachusetts Coolidge’s chances for winning the republican nomination will go a glimmering. David I. Walsh, former senator, is a reactionary Roman catholic. ere Struggling for Position. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 10.—Re- publicans, “insurgent” republicans and democrats are quietly struggling for control of the important commtt- tee on privileges and elections which will have jurisdiction over the inves- tigation into the question of the eligt- bility of Frank H, Smith of Illinote and William 8, Vare of Pennsylvanta to take their seats in the senate should they be elected at the Novem- ber polls. The Big Task. The platform of the progressive party of Illinois calls for the elimina- tion of the “boss system” whatever that means. The progressives dwelt sorrowfully on the moral turpitude so common today in political life, regret the activities of “selfish utility inter ests” who seek favors from politicians and decry the conduct of politicat bosses who employ gunmen to carry elections under threat of the pen, the next time said gunmen get into trouble. How the progressive party hopes to do this little job of political scavang- ing without doing away with the eco- nomic system on which this political turpitude bases itself is not made clear, There is nothing progressive about the progressive party except its name, {t leaves untouched the essential face tors in modern society. U, S. Is Big Clothes Dea’ WASHINGTON, Ang. 10. — The United States bought and sold cloth- ing and other textile products valned at $2,165,000,100, during the year end- ing June 30, the department of com- merce announced today, “I DON’T LIKE JAIL BUT I HAVE NO FEAR OF GOING TO JAIL AGAIN” —MRS. SADLOWSKI ON HER RELEASE “Sixty days in jail has not broken [don’t like jail, but I also have no fear my spirit,” declared Mrs, Bleanor Sad- {Ff going to jail.” lowski as she left Cook county jail after serving her sentence for defy. ing “Injunction” Judge Denis BE. Sul livan’s anti-picketing edict. “The food and the air in that jail are rot- ten. I'm glad to get out and get some fresh air, But anything this union calls on me to help in another strike to fight another injunction I'll be ready to answer the union’s call, 1 Delegations representing the Inter. national Ladies’ Garment Workers* Union, the John Reed branch of the Young Pioneers, the Northwest Side Mothers’ League, the Chicago Brancn of the International Labor Defense and her 10-year old son, David, greeted Mrs. Sadlowski with wild cheers and bouquets of beautiful flowers the warden let her thru the doors of the prison, SCANDINAVIAN COUNCIL FOR PROTECTION OF FOREIGN-BORN WILL MEET MONDAY, AUGUST 30 The third conference of the Scandinavian Council for the Protection of Foreign-born to which fifty Chicago Scandinavian organizations are affiliate ed, will be held Monday, Aug. 30, 8 p. m. at the Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Bive Teopenenent een * ’ \ f