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taxes. For some mysterious reason it also appeals to those who can-, Page Four $e OPH E DAILY WORKER Li Y R HE CAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO: | 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd,, Chicago, Mllnols Ss J. LOUIS ENGDAHL avevon Editors WILLIAM F, DUNNE ; MORITZ J. LOEB.... Business Manager | | SSE A ARRAS SI Ein ESR Entered as second-class mail September 21, 19238, at the post-office at Cnt. | cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. | -_ Advertising rates on application. | Church Offensive in Washington | Intervention in Mexico is asked by the Knights of Columbus (the | most powerful and militant of the auxiliary organizations of the| catholic church) on the-part of the American government. | The catholic church.understands very well the full implications of such a request and it is therefore willing to precipitate a religious war between the United States and Mexico. It asks that the armed forces of the American government be placed: at the disposal of the) catholic church. ' There is no question but that Wall Street is seeking an excuse | for intervention but powerful as is its propaganda agency in Mexico | —the catholic church—the controversy has taken on too much of a religious character with the church playing the leading role te make | intervention in behalf of the church a popular issue in America. Some other excuse will have to be found and President Coolidge already has given a hint as to what will he considered adequate | provocation by mentioning his anxiety over the’“lives and property | of Americans in Mexico.” i %, 2 The campaign of the catholic church and its agencies since the Eucharist Congress, both in the United States and Mexico, has been | of the most outrageous character and it is surprising even in backward | America that it has not aroused more popular indignation. James J. Flaherty, spokesman for the Knights of Columbus and head of the order who requested intervention of Secretary of State Kellogg, is nothing more or less than an American emissary of the vatican. He paid a visit to Rome last year, was knighted by the pope and his recent activity undoubtedly entitles him to receive the highest papal decorations. The American people (we include in this classification all of that group commonly described as “the man in the street”) are not polit- ieally conscious. The majority of them vote the tickets of the demo-} crat and republican capitalists, they are afraid of atheism and Com-} munism, but we do not believe that they can be won for catholicism, or for the campaigns of catholicism. ‘ | Catholicism is feudalism (in the United States it bides its time | and makes certain concessions to capitalist industry and capitalist | democracy) and in Mexico it still dreams of-feudal power. We believe that the time is ripe to build in support of the separa- | tion of church and state in Mexico, a broad movement in the United | States which will be powerful enough to stop the counter-revolution- | ary drive of the catholic church against the right of the Mexican, masses to enforce the constitution which strips the church of its power by dividing its huge estates among the peasantry. This is the crux of the question for the catholic church. Only by control of educational institutions based on its landed wealth can it perpetuate itself as a ruler in Mexico. Its anxiety for the spiri- tual salvation of the Mexican peasantry is in direct ratio to the ex- tent to which the superstition of the peons can be used to protect the wealth and power of the church. The Mexican labor movement and the Mexican government are trying to force the church out of polities in México. In the United States the auxiliary organizations of the vatican engage in political demonstrations in support of the feudal Mexican church. They should be told, especially by the labor movement, with which they interfere constantly and seek to dominate, that they are to get out of polities in the United States and’stay out. They will not do this, of course, because essentially they are) ley to pay for a subscription. DAILY WORKER N.Y. SPECIAL WELL RECEIVED Subway Workers Like Strike Bulletin NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—As the only publication that at all times fought on the side of the striking transit workers The DAILY WORKHR has established itself among elements for- merly out of touch with the vanguard of the labor movement. The Greater New York Strike Bulletin of The DAILY WORKER has. served to intro- duce the daily to tens of thousands of workers who formerly did not know of its existence and has won lasting friends as is evidenced by the fol- lowing letter received from one of the motormen who went on strike against the Interborough and its com- pany union. Letter From Worker. The DAILY WORKER, Dear Sirs: T received a copy of your paper this date and I appreciate the fact that your paper gives the workers @ square deal which most of the papers do not. We, of course, lost our short fight due to the unloyalty of some of our fellow members. Altho I was one of Mr. Lavin’s loyal fighters and still am, I am also very much interested in your paper, but due to unavoidable financial circum- stances I am not able just now to subscribe, ‘but in the near. future I will be a subscriber, Yours sincerely, The name and address of this work- er is withheld because the tyrannical company would instantly discharge him if they learned his name. The DAILY WORKER New York office will place his name on the subscrip- tion list even tho he hasn’t the mon- If there are any workers with money who de- sire to pay the subscriptions of this worker and others similarly situated they may do so. Youth Trapped in High Voltage Wires Is Now in Hospital Tasimir Burek, 17, who was rescued by the combined effort of linemen, fire- men and police, after he was caught in wires carrying 44,000 volts of elec- tricity, is in St. Anthonys’ hospital. He is badly burned but expected to live. He came in contact with the wires wher he climbed a pole at South Cali- fornia Ave, and West 34th St. Munitions Plant in Hungary Explodes; 80 Dead, 500 Injured (Special to. The Daily Worker) LONDON, Aug. 13, — Eighty are dead, 500 are seriously injured, and more than a thousand are missing as the result of the explosion in the Hun- garian munitions plant at Budapest, according to a dispatch to the Central News. The surrounding country-side for forty kilometers has been devast- political and not religious organizations, but the effect on their work- ing class membership may be good. We Told You So! Prophets are rarely honored in their own country or generation. But not so with us for the very good reason that we are a committee of one to see to it that our good works are not honored on the wrong side of the grave. Not later than two days ago we predicted that the capitalist press would not cease recording rebellions in Soviet Russia because of such a little thing as positive proof that the political situation was normal in the Soviet Unton was published in the capitalist press. The proof was not produced by radical sources. It was the result of Piet Comma by the Associated Press, which cannot be charged Communist contamination. | ' Among the papers that published the refutation of fake stories of revolts, murders and wholesale political arrests was the Chicago _ Yet in the Tribune of August 13 we find: a story with the cap- ‘tion: “Reds Reinforce Kremlin Fort as Mutiny Grows,” and: “Use of Russian Language Forbidden in the Ukraine.” The story carries a Riga date. line under the.name of Donald Day, the most persistent and unashamed liar on the foreign staff of the Tribune and that is! seying a mouthful. - | When will the capitalist press stop lying about the Soviet Union? Not until the last capitalist sheet is fed to the flames. | Coolidge Economy Calvin Coolidge slashed the budget estimate for the current year 1928, $100,000,000 reducing the government expenditures to $3,270,-| 000,000, thereby paving the way for a probable tax reduction in that | the navy and war departments, we are informed, have the largest expenditures and will suffer a reduction in estimates tho appropria- tions for aviation will not suffer. 7 Ts it merely a coincidence that Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor company; had a conference with the president recently on the subject of aviation? A cut in the aviation appropriation might not | inerease Coolidge’s favor with the Fords or with Arthur Brisbane | and the Hearst newspaper syndicate! President Coolidge is pulling the old reliable election stunt of | tax reduction. This appeals strongly to those who can afford to pay | not. What is kept in the pockets of the rich ed. Two More Arrests in Hall-Mills Murder (Special to The Daily Worker) SOMERVILLE, N..J., Aug. 13, — Following their arrest, charged with the dual Hall-Mills slayings, Henry De La B. Carpender, wealthy broker, and Willie Stevens were arraigned this afternoon. The Wall Street broker, a cousin of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the Rev. Edward W. Hall, murdered clergyman, and her dull-witted brother spent-the night in the Somerset coun- ty jail, Bail was denied by County Judge Frank L, Cleary, acting as com- mitting magistrate. Negro Killed by . an Arkansas Mob LEWISVILLE, Ark., Aug. 13. Judge Powell, Negro, who killed Deputy Sheriff James Dooley, was tak- en from the two deputies that were guarding him and riddled with bullets by a mob of 500. The deputies were rushing this Negro to Lewisville when | the mob that had been hunting him in the dense thickets overtook him, FOR when the nts LADIES’ GARMENT WORKERS’ PICNIC Don’t Make Any Appoi will be taken out of the | hides of the poor—the workers NG i Ir “SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 By C. E. RUTHENBERG “\. General Secretary Workérs (Communist) Party. HE party has not, in the past, taken advantage to a sufficient degree of the opportunity offered by election campaigns to mobilize the workers against the capitalist class and the capitalist government, While we have participated in election campaigns it thusiasm and with a clear understanding period of heightened pol sciousness creates the most favorable conditions to reach the working masses and to broaden the influence of the party, : This deficiency in the work of the party was the result of the anti-par- liamentary traditions among its mem- bers, traditions which have their basis in the bitter experiences with reform- ist. election campaigns, which made of these campaigns a chase after of- fice, rather than a means of mobilizing the workers for the struggle against capitalism. The party is outgrowing these tradi- tions. It is learning that active par- ticipation in the electién campaigns can be made the means of winning the masses for the party program of a rev- olutionary struggle against the capital- ist class and its government. . The Party and This Year's Elections. NSTRUCTIONS for the state and congressional elections this year were sent to all party units during the month of May. The party policy was outlined in these instructions—to support the farmer-labor parties or la- bor parties where such were organized and functioning, to aid in the initiation of a united front conference and the nomination of a united labor ticket, where no such parties existed, and, if this could not be achieved, to place Workers (Communist) . Party candi- dates on the ballot and wage a cam- paign for these candidates... In some states and localities it is not yet definite whether:a united labor ticket will be on the baljot, or whether the party will nominate its own candi- dates, but the lines have developed “sufficiently to give a general picture of the forms under which the party will participate in the elections: In Massachusetts there is a fairly strong movement for a united labor ticket, which the party will support if it erystallizes in the nomination of NEARING T0 60 TO CONGRESS OF BRITISH UNIONS) Will Speak for Workers’ School on Return - (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Aug. 13. — The British Trade Union Congress, scheduled’ for the first week in Septei Tr, promises to be the most momentots in the his- tory of British labor in)qwhich the ex- periences of the first British general strike will be summed up; the leader- ship that betrayed that Strike will be called to account and the course that the British labor movement is to take for the coming year will be chartered. On that course, in large measure, hangs the fate of the far-flung British empire and of world capitalism. Scott Nearing, recently added to the faculty of the New York Workers’ School is going to Great Britain spe- cially to attend the Trade Union Con- gress and immediately it is over, will return to the United States, scheduled to arrive in New York on September 16 and his first and only lecture date in New Yark will be a lecture on Sunday afternoon, Sep- tember 19, at New Stag Casino, 101 East 107 St., under the allspices of the Workers’ School, t His subject will be “Where is Brit- ain going,” and he will.sum up the last momentous year of development of the British labor movement, the general strike and the pftoceedings of the Trade Union Congress, All progressive trade ‘unionists in New York and vicinity #hould be in- terested in such a legture. Scott Nearing is the author of Various works on the British labor movément includ- ing, “British Labor Bids‘ for Power,” and “The British Genera Strike.” Ad- mission to the lecture Charleston Contest And All Other Amusements GARDEN .CITY GROVE LYONS, ILL. will take place at the In Advance 35¢ _» Auspices, Chicago Joint Board I. L, G. W. U. He is | candidates. Otherwise the party will nominate its own candidates, In Rhode Island and Connecticut the same situation exists. In New York the party has nomi- nated its own ticket and will carry on its campaign for that ticket, probably with a considerable trade union sup- port. In Pennsylvania there is’ a labor party in the field, which has, however, nominated Beidlem and Pinchot, both republicans, for the offices of governor and’ United States senator. This per- version of the labor party has com- pelled the party to nominate its own state ticket. There are spots thruout Pennsylvania where the labor party has nominated and will support work- ers and the party will give these county and congressional tickets of the labor party its support. In Ohio there will be no state ticket which the workers can support. There will be a united labor ticket in Lima and Allen county, which the party. will support. In Cleveland and probably a number of other localities there will be party candidates on the ballot for local and congressional offices. In Michigan the party will have a state ticket on the ballot under its own name. In three counties of the northern peninsula of Michigan farmer- labor parties have been organized which will probably nominate county and congressional candidates. In Indiana there will be no state ticket, but candidates may be nomi- nated in the northwestern counties, which include Gary, Indiana Harbor, etc. In Illinois a state ticket of the party hag been nominated and the party will have candidates in a number of con- gressional districts, In Wisconsin efforts are being made to place a state ticket on the ballot. In Minnesota the party will support the .farmer-labor party candidates. This will also be the case in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington. In all of these states there are farmer-labor parties which are carrying on an-active campaign. In California the effort to call a united front conference to name a united labor ticket is stull under way. If this conference does not materialize the party will name its own candi- dates. Efforts are being made to place con- gressional candidates of the party on “Employment Fairly Satisfactory,” Says Department of Labor as Many Workers Walk Streets Seeking Work WASHINGTON, August 13—(FP)—Employment thruout the United tates in July is reported “fairly satisfactory,” by. Director Jones of..the / Workers (Communist) Party The Party and the Election Campaign the ballot in St, Louis, Kansas City and Denver, The Party Election Campaign. IROM the above it will be seen that the party will have its own candi- dates on the labor ballot or will support | a united labor ticket in the big indus- | trial states and will support the | farmer-labor ‘ticket in the important | agricultural states of the northwest. The party will issue its congres- | Basses ree SMOOT SENDS: SON TO STUDY - SOVIET UNION Secrecy Surrounds Visit. of Youth to Russia (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—(FP)— Arrival in Moscow of Sen, Smoot’s son, who ig confidential secretary to the Utah $tandpat leader, has raised in Washington amimmediate flurry of in- quiry as»to whether this means that sional program outlining the issues of the campaign from the viewpoint of | the class interests of the workers and | of the farmers, which will be printed in leaflet.form, “and which should) reach several million workers during, | the electién campaign. This will be | followed by other leaflets dealing with | special phases of the campaign, | In addition national speakers. will | be toured by the party to. reach each of the fifteen largest cities of the country four times during the.cam,. paign, giving these cities-a big mass meeting every two weeks. Four other speakers will be routed to cover a hundred other cities, giving these cit- ies two mass meetings during the cam- paign. Local speakers will be toured by the district offices and street meet- ings held nightly in all the larger cit- ies, The above program must have the energetic support of every unit of the party. Thru this campaign the party, can-reach hundreds of thousands of workers with the message of class struggle and a fight against the capi- talist exploitation and oppression on the basis of the class struggle. The United Labor Ticket Assessment. HE united labor ticket assessment was made to provide a fund for use of the national organization in carrying on this work. The carrying on of a widespread campaign by the party depends upon the support given by the membership thru the payment of this assessment. | It is because of this that the collec- tion of the assessment has been so strongly emphasized in the appeals to the membership and the nuclei, The party can make good the neg- lect in regard to the collection of this assessment, evidenced by the fact that only a third of the membership have paid it thus far, by devoting the re- maining weeks of the month of August to securing a 100 per cent collection of the assessment and prompt remit- tance to the national office, United States Employment Service, in his analysis of conditions, . issued, August 10. Midsummer slackening of operation in various industries wag declared to be normal, and while the boot and shoe and-textile industries, especially in New England, were on part time schedules, the boot and shoe factories were expected to increase production before the end of August. Farm labor was not in great demand, most the only shortage of men report- ed. was in the hard-rock mining re- gions and adjoining states. Miners Unemployed. Unemployment among the mine workers in the Pennsylvania coal fields is noted, but it is claimed that these men are being absorbed into the machine industries and outdoor work, . Pennsylvania, fairly typical of the industrial situation reported from dis- tricts outside New England, finds “The textile and shoe industries are still undergoing a slight depression; in a number of factories during the latter half of the month. There was a slight falling off in coal mining in the anthracite regions, affecting a large number of mine workers for a temporary ‘period. Operations in the bituminous mines, notably the cen- ‘tral regions, show a slight improve- ment, while in the western tier pro- duction and employment in the bi- tuminous fields continue irregular. Many mines are working part time and others are shut down. “The metal and machine industries are in need of skilled mechanics. Elec- trical plants are running at capacity and taking on additional skilled and semi-skilled workers, A falling off in production and employment was noted in the automobile industry . . . The steam railway lines are empley- ing additional train crews and shop mechanics,” On the Pacific coast, employment in most industries is reported high. Logging, however, is only 60 per cent of normal, Canning factories are tak- ing great numbers of workers from other plants for the rush season. Building construction is especially ac- tive thruout California and Washing- ton, Chicago Workers’ ‘School Will Hold Ball September 18 A worker students’ gala coneert and ball will take place at Temple Hall Septomber 18, It promises to be the biggest and most intere % affair they ever put over, Ce Se Mes eg ” lack of jobs in the wheat fields. Al-+ however, improvement was noticeable | Poor either in the east or the west. REFERENDUM ON PAY FOR UNPAID WORK AN ISSUE | the Coolidge administration is going to negotiate*a:settlement of the Keren- sky debt, °°" * Young Smoot frequently went with his father to,the treasury to attend the meetings of the debt funding com- mission. "He" {s familiar With all the negotiations between this government and.the French, Italians .and others who have’ sigiled agreements to pay. Now-he 4ppears in the capital of the Soviet Union, and is reported as be- ing there to study the economic, finan- cial and social conditions. Kerensky Debt, The more natural explanation of young Smoot’s mission is that he has been sent tolearn precisely what the goyernment ‘of the Soviet Union is ready to do concerning the Kerensky debt and the American property seized during; the; revolution. Senator Smoot, trying to bridge the chasm in policy toward Russia which has op- ened between Senator Borah and the State Department, would like to be , able to tell Coolidge that the Third In- | ternational is.going to quit worrying Secretary Kellogg, and that Herbert Hoover and his British partners are to be paid-at least in part for the gold mining properties they held before the - revolution, Then he would like to be able to: tell Coolidge and Mellon that the Kerensky debt can be setted on the basis of the Soviets’ capacity to pay, Neither the state nor the commerce department admits any knowledge of the purpose of the young man’s visit in Moscow. He is said to have no official ‘credentials of any sort-—just his passport and a form-letter signed by the'secretary of state, asking American consuls and diplomatic offic- rs abroad-to be courteous to him. ~ This form-letter is granted to any American citizen at the request of a senator. Smoot’s son is therefore in Moscow in a strictly private capacity —except that he is agent for his father, who is a member of the debt commission and is one of the most powerful standpatters in the adminis- tration. May Lead to Reorganization, From his journey may come a con- fidential report that will change the attitude of the administration toward a Russian settlement, and bring about recognition ‘by the United States of + the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- Tics. On the other hand, nothing may tome. of it,-as Nothing has come of the earlier Visits of senators and con- gressmen, bankers and editors and professors and -manufacturers, ‘bert Hoover still stands across the Her- crops in the states west of the Mississippi were the reason assigned for a:! recognition path, PULLMAN PORTERS’ UNION TAKES COMPANY UNION; NEW YORK, August 13—(FP)—Pullman porters and maids are asked by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. in. a natiopwide referendum yote whether they want the Pullman Co.’s employe representation plan—com- pany union—or the real labor union—the brotherhood. Twelve questions are on the ballot. Most deal with. conditions of service: “Do you want the pay- ment of a living wage and better working conditions? Do you want pay for preparatory time, terminal time, delays and donbling? Do? you want a simplified time sheet?” Pay For Work, & These queries mean that the Broth- erhood proposes to have Pullman por- ters and maids paid for the hours of. work they do before trains start—~ “preparatory time” which’ is ‘unpaid’ now; paid for time spent ih depots waiting between runs or ‘for assign- ments—“terminal time” now unpaid;. paid conductors’ wages for doing the Pullman conductors’ work in addition, to their own; etc. Company Ignored R. R. Board. . The back pay question on the, re ferendum refers to the war time Rail- road Labor Board award of a wage increase to porters and maids which the Pullman Co, completely disregard: ed and has never recognized, Back pay for the period since the award’ would bring a considerable sum to the pockets of the Pullman porters and maids who got only $67.50 a) month until the appearance of the brotherhood forced the company to raise rates, this spring to $72.50. The brotherhood’s wage scale would make $100 monthly ‘the minimum pay. Future Plans, ‘Conference with the Pullman Co. will be sought when the referendum returns are complete, if the vote is affirmative for the brotherhood, as it undoubtedly will be. It is hardly con- ceivable that the workers will turn, down the brotherhood’s plain propos- als for betterment when over half the 12,000 porters and maids are already in that union, If, however, the referendum should be against the brotherhood, an ex- parte statement will be filed with the new Rallroad Mediation Board. Bro- therhood counsel Frank” P, ‘Walsh, ‘| Donald Richberg.and ©, Francis Strad- ford advised the’ referendum as proper. préliminary’ preparation for the pres- entation of the Pullman porters’ case to the Railroad. Mediation Board, Has Picnic Sunday (Special to’ The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 13, —All class-conscious. workers of Cleveland and yicinity ara mobilizing for the mass picnic'to be held Sunday, Aug. 15, ufider the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party, District Six. /The picnic will be held at Avondale Garden; The garden opens at 11 a. m. On the program for the day will be @ tug-of-war, baseball games, dancing, and refreshments, ? " ~ Avondale “Garden may be reached in the following ways: Take Kinsman Rr—154th St, car to the end of the line. A bus will meet you to take you to the grounds, ‘If you are driving out »| there, go to stop No. 25 from the end of the Kinsman Rd. carline, The ad- mission will be Bbc, Rockford Lineman Loses Life When “¢ Safety Belt Breaks (Special to The Daily Worker) ROCKFORD, Ill, Aug, 13. — Robert Davis, 57, a linéman employed by the Rockford Blectric company, was killed instantly, when his safety belt broke while he was working on a high pole. He fell to the ground and wak dead when fellow workers reached him. Stieretey p |

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