The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1926, Page 4

Aiton Page Four Cre DAILYYS WORKER ON TO A HALF MILLION! Distribute a half million copies of the pamphlet, ‘The Workers (Communist) Party—What It Stands For, Why Every Worker Should Join” by the end of this year. THE 14,000 MARK REACHED! 13,574 COPIES OF THE PAMPHLET BY C. E. RUTHENBERG The Workers (Communist) Party, What It Stands For, Why Every Worker Should Join HAVE BEEN SOLD IN THE FIRST TWO WEEKS Here’s the List; AWAIT RETURN GARY CARMEN | OF RAIL HEAD By HARRY GANNES Anti-Imperialist Press Service. case passed some time ago, Gov- ernor General Leonard Wood re- Company Refuses to Dis- | fuses either to veto or sign the bill | {for a nation-wide referendum in the Philippines on the question of inde- |pendence, This is the second time this bill has been put thru the Filipino between Local 517 of the Amalgamated | legislature unanimously by the repre- Association of Street Railway Em- | sentatives of the Philippine masses, ployes and the Gary Street Railways | ‘The first time Wood peremptorily Company will be resumed as soon as | threw the law into the waste paper C. W. Chase, president of the railway | basket at a time when it was too late concern, returns from his vacation. | for the legislature to pass it over his All of the officials of the G: Street | veto. The second time the Filipino Railway Company were reluctant to | representatives passed/the bill so that talk about their negotiations with the | plenty of time would be permitted to union over a new agreement. They | Wood to repeat his réactionary step refused to make any statement as to | and still allow leeway fof a re-passage the attitude of the corporation in the | of the act over the general’s veto. negotiations with the union. | Undoubtedly Wood 1s merely usurp- B. H. Weber, superintendent of |ing his authority to the utmost in transportation, informed The DAILY | pigeon-holing the writtén wish of the WORKER reporter that the union men Filipino people to express themselves are still at work under the old con- | on the independence issue. He hopes tract and beseeched the reporter not | thereby not to veto the bill until it is cuss Negotiations GARY, Ind., Aug. 15.—Negotiations Wood Refuses to Permit Filipinos, Sto Register Independence Vote his hope on some backward step by congress restricting the rights of the Filipino legislature, For the past few years it has been the practice of the Filipino legislature at the opening of its sessions to pass a resolution declaring for immediate, absolute and complete independence. This was incumbent upon them, as every political party in the Philippines puts forward as one of its main planks independence. from the United States, The resolution for independence is al- ways unanimously passed. For the last two sessions a bill has been intro- duced to give the people an oppor- tunity to express themselves on the independence: issue. It-was the fear on the part of Wood that this referendum, if submitted to the masses, would result in an over- whelming demand for freedom from the United States that actuated him in his veto. In spite of the insistent request from all the Filipino leaders that he take some action on this bill, Wood keeps himself shut up in Malacaning palace and takes no action on the measure. to publish anything that might “dis- | again too late for the Filipinos to pass District One ...w. turb the friendly relations between the | jt in spite of him. Wood no doubt pins Section Four, Chicago 50 company and the men.” Section 6, Street Nucleus No. 9, Hamtramck, Mich. 100 ‘pany is ty a Campbell, Ohio, Shop Nucleus No. 101 100 Weber referred The DAILY aeration. fe Yu Belted: Bs vapocgh a Pe 4 WORKER reporter to C. W. Gifford, ridgeport, Conn., Street Nucleus No. wegy'y ei Jimmie Higgins’ Book Shop, New York City . 00 general superintendent of the Gary Duluth, Minn. . ¥ 200 | Street Railways Company. District Two... 5,000 f pomend, Na, inti. Br. wes 3 ee ref “Can't say anything,” Gifford de- “sprscubhegnyahethel: abtaiadkid de bepeteen Nat 100 | |¢lared when asked as to the company St. Paul, Minn. Street Nucleus No. 200 | attitude in the negotiations. “See Mr, | Milwaukee, Wis., Street Nucleus No, 280 7 te " * : i Ghicago, til:, Street Nucleus No. 25 224 pocigess Gardner, our publicity man. in| Spokane, Wash., Street Nucleus No. 1 100 | the People’s Light, Gas and Coke Com- | _—- Toledo, Ohio ..... 160 | pany. He will give you all the infor- U 1 7 i S view apace |Unites wit ezon to Chicago, Ill., Street Nucleus Cs 150 mation. You being a Chicago paper— ‘tes Qu Canton, Ohio, Street Nucleus No. Chicago, Ill. "Street Nucleus No. L. 60 Cleveland, Ohio, Street Nucleus No. 34 140 Powhatan Point, Ohio, Street Nucleus No. 201 .. 160 St, Paul, Minn. Street Nucleus No. 4 ... 50 Lawrence, Mass., Street Nucleus No. 1 120 Massillon, Ohio, Street Nucleus No. 402 . 200 Lawrence, Mass., Street Nucleus No. 1. 120 Detroit, Mich., Street Nucleus No. 1. 300 Niagara Falls, N. Y., Street Nucleus 101 and 102 240 Chicago, IIl., Street Nucleus No. 18 80 Superior, Wisc., Street Nucleus No. 1 120 Buffalo, 'N. Y., Street Nucleus No. 204 . 160 Philadelphia, Pa., St. A. Sec. 4 ... 50 Wauwatosa, Wisc., Street Nucleus No. 20, West Ali 100 Workers Book Store, Chicago, Ill. 900 Auburn, Ill, Nucleus iL 40 Kansas City, Kans., Nucleus 100 Erie, Pa., Nucleus ........ 4 Peabody, Mass., Nucleus 2 Milwaukee, Wise. by Individual | Sal 825 THIS IS A FINE RECORD! ee bo MORE PEP will have to be put into the drive if the Half Mil- lion Mark is to be reached! S-P-E-E-D U-P Order from: National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. WORKER CORRESPONDENTS CLASSES ARE UNDER WAY IN LOS ANGELES. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 15.—The third successful worker correspond- ents’ class was held last Thursday with sixteen students present and eight visitors. Comrade Fisher is teacher of the class to be held regularly every + Thursday at the workers (Communist) for a complete j | Party headquarters. DEMAND PROPER ; All departments | weekly publication have been organ- | ized. CONGRESSIONAL a publication in mimeographed every Thursday. “ee REPRESENTATION Form Classes In Connecticut. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 15. — | | Worker correspondents’ classes in all Protest Delay of Reap- 127er cities in Connecticut are being | planned. portionment form League of Nations Wants Sea Strikes Punished As Crime WASHINGTON, Aug, 15.—Andrew Furuseth, president of the Interna- tional Seamen's Union of America, is WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. — (FP) —| Congress is going to hear frequent | protests, in the coming session, | against delay of reapportionment of | representation in the house on the basis of the 1920 census, as required | by the federal] constitution. The house | seats are still allotted to the several | states on the basis of the census of | )@ck at Washington headquarters after 1910, thereby cheating the big cities | * of three months in Europe. He of their fair share of power in the| Pent much of that period in Geneva, house, blocking a proposed provision in the The basis~of representation tn the | the draft convention for a maritime iewer teench 0? con is now one | 2dustrial law which would make it a member for each 211,877. inhabitants, | ‘me for & seaman to leave his yessel ‘ in a safe harbor before completion of If this were applied to the 12 largest as cities, on the 1920 census showing, |e voyage. This scheme 1s a denial they would have 77 representatives in- of the right to strike, supposedly safe- stead of the 58 they now elect. Those hari in American ae the La- 12 cities are New York, Chicago, Phila-| Polette seamen’s act of 1915, deiphia, Detroit, Cleveland, St, Louis, Harvest heine: baplaael Boston, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Pitts- iia ; burgh, San Francisco, and Buffalo, In] ,PREEPORT, IL, Aug. 15.—Explo- 1910 their population was 432, | *1on of a steam engine operating a but fn 1920 it had grown to 16,269,301, | ‘2"eshing outfit on the farm of Oliver New York City elects 22 congress-| Fluesel, near here, today resulted in epen ‘when It should elect 26. Chi vag probable fatal injuries to Fluegel's should have 14 instead of 10, Phi son, Dallas, 9, and serious injury to @elphia should have 9 instead of 7,|"!8 brother, Harold, 4. Boys were Detroit should have 5 instead of 2.) %! Play a short distance from the en- Cleveland and Boston should each | Kine. None of the threshing crew was nurt, 2 Die in Bavarian Wreck. Ellsworth a Millionaire, LANDSHUT, Bavaria, Aug. 15, — NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—-Lincoln Ells-| Twelve persons were killed, seven worth, American flyer, who accom-] seriously injured and twenty slightly | panied Raold Amundsen of the Norge | injured, when a train was derailed to polar flight, is a millionaire today.|day at the Landshut station, {sane late yesterday charged ‘The will of his father, James W. Elis- worth, left $1,207,818 to the son, ie SEND IN A SUB! It is planned to publish such | it is a convenient arrangement.” —_—_| Resist Change Mr, Gardner works for the Midland | Utility Company, the holder of the| Gary Street Railways Company, Conditions, Operators on the small cars, known as dinkies, receive cents an hour. The operators on the} double-truck one-man cars also receive | 76 cents an hour. The company offers these operators 2 cents more an hour. | The union seeks a 10-cent increase | for all conductors, motormen and bus | | drivers. Conductors and motormen on the} double-truck two-men cars receive 71/ ber plantations dashes the hopes that }cents an hour. The drivers on the Shore Motor Lines, a subsidiary of| nel Quezon will engage in a political | duel for leadership in Philippine poli- tics. Such a battle between these two leaders would work towards the ad- | vantage of the American, rubber in- | terests and their tool, Col. Carmi A. Thompson, who is now jn the Philip- pines. MANILA, P, I, Aug. 15.—“We do not feel it necessary that it is neces- sary to amend or change the existing one-man | land laws to bring about the develop- 76| ment of these islands,” declared Sen- ator Sergio Osmena, “I personally have opposed and will continue to oppose any change that would mean a backward step for my people.” proposal that the Philippine legisla- ture grant American and Filipino cor- receive 76 cents an hour. are operated on an 8-hour day All except the extra men receive time and a kalf for overtime. Disagreeable Split Shifts. The 8-hour period is split two ways for -the regular men and three way for extra men. This split shift sys- tem makes life disagreeable for the), workers and they complain very bit-| terly. There is a four-hour wait in between | the split shift for regular workers. | | The men are thus forced to hang | around the barns, as it takes too much | |time to go home and then return to| range from $660 to $720 a.year, accord- work. Hardly any time is left for the| jing to -a tabulation of the custodial men to spend at home with their wives | wage schedule, published by the Fed- and families, | eral Employe, “We have no time to even read a| federation of Federal newspaper at home,” declared a num-| Wages of other classifications in the ber of the conductors and motormen. | custodial service include: Laborer, The extra men have it much more | $1,149 to $1,260; coal passér, $1,140 to disagreeable. They are subject to call) $1,500; marble polisher, |at any hour. $1,500; watchman and elevator con- go eT EET OE, | ductor, Charwomen Getting Miserable Pittance from Unclé Samuel WASHINGTON, Aug, 15.—Wages of charwomen in federal buildings now $1,260 to $1,380; skilled la- WORKERS AIDING | borer, $1,320 to $1,500; fireman with- THEIR PRESS oiler without power plant, $1,320 to $1,500; helpers of carpenter, plumber out plant, oiler with power plant and PGQvATIONS TO THE DAILY WORKER and steamfitter, $1,320 to $1,500; fire- idan’ x Hessvite, ind. sh.~-$26-19| man with plant, $1,500 to §1,620; Jani-| Cleveland, ‘ 2.00| tor, $1,680 to $1,800; clerk, $1,740 to Domini Wari in $1,860; carpenter, steamfitter, plumber, . | electiacian, painter, machinist, fron- | Lithuanian Literatu Angeles, Calif. Bishop W. M. Brown and wife, Galion, Ohio 5.00! worker, $1,680 to $1,860; foreman of 6.00| carpenters and plumbers, $1,860 to e | $2,100; chief engineman without plant, | $2,400 to $2,800; chief engineman with C. E. Ruthenberg | Clyde Shaw, Newton, J. Smith, New York Cit Towa | Harry Leff, New York € .00| plant, $2,600 to $3,000; assistant en- Minkin, Chicago, Tl, 15.00/ gineman without plant, $1,140 to ucleus No. 8, District 1 Francisco, Calif... 1 5.00/ $1,500; assistant engineman with E. Nelson, Cleveland, Ohio 1.00! plant, $2,000 to $2,200; draftsman, L. Levi, St. Paul, Minn, .. Php | $2,400 to $8,000, assistant custodian, $2,400 to $3,000, To Publish Works by Marx and Engels in Recent Translations .00| International Publishers announce 00! for September publication “The P ‘ Eighteenth of Brumaire of Louis Bon- Freiheit to Issue | aparte,” by Karl Marx, a caustic-char- acterization of “Napoleon the Little” a Chicago Edition and his coup d? Mat of 1861, Origl- |nally published in the United States A Chicago edition. of the Jewish) jn 1852, Marx’s essay now appears in Daily Fretheit, Workers Party organ! a new and striking translation from jin New York, will commence publi: the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. cation Oct, 9, it is announced, follow- phe pook is enriched by a chronologi- jing Pledges to raise a $10,000 fund ca) table of events in French revolu- |recently. made by a group of Chi- tionary history from 1789 to 1871. A cago trade unionists, members of the glossary of terms, names and dat Workmen's Circle and various Jewish| yged in the book is ayvaluable addi- fraternal and cultural societies. OfM-| tion, c cers of the Chicago International | Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union are . among those active in promoting the| EX-Senator Lewis Fears Wrath of the European Nations |M. Johnson, St. F Steve Martincek, C Harry Lawrence: Collected by F F. c ephen Batiuk Wm. Greschuk Ukrainian Bran Chas. Gretzenberger, Nome, Jos, Stenglein, Rochester, Wm, Slater, Denver, Colo, M. Leskovitz, Battle Creek, Mich. new edition. | At a banquet held to discuss the| | new project $406 was raised for a} |starter, The Chicago Freiheit has) jalready opened ‘its offices: at 3209 W.| | Roosevelt Road, Chigago. “America has no nation for a | | friend, ” declared ex-Senator J, Hamil- | ton Lewis before the Optomists’ Club Hold Chicago Gunmen, here. “Over this nation hangs a heavy James “Fur” Sammons, who was cloud of hate from Europe. We must arrested some week ago, and later dissolve this black menace or it. will released, in connection with the mur- ‘deluge us financially, commercially der of Assistant State's Attorney Will! and lash us into a military conflict. jam HM. MeSwiggin, and his two booze “Ag a remedy, I wowld suggest that running companiongywas taken into! all debts, princ{pal i with as war debts be po violation of the prohtbhitton law, Ho iv years, allowing the out on bond paalieene at ad “in This stand of Osmena against the) poration larger land holdings for rub-) at this time Osmena and Senator Man-| FILIPINO PRESS DRAWS COOLIDGE LACKEY’S FIRE Philippine Newspapers Expose ‘Thompson Plans MANILA, P. 1, Aug. 15.—Col. Carmi A. Thompson,’ President: Coolidge’s in- vestigator in ‘the: Philippines, in. statement’to. the. press hotly _de- nounced and reviled the native press here which carried a story _ that Thompson was. leaving for. China. The Philippine Herald, published a front page story stating that Thomp: son was planning a seoret investiga- tion for Coolidge in China, Excerpts of the article to which Thompson objected follows: When asked if the work, he, will haye to do in Peking will be. confi- dential Col. Thompson answered in the affirmative. ' It.was intimated: in authoritative circles, however, that the colone]'s investigation may have some- thing to do with the participation of the United States in the extraterritor- ial and customs’ conference.” Mother Killed With Axe. NEW YORK, Aug.'15 — Mrs. Rose Di Palo, 30-years. old, was found slain in bed at her home in Brooklyn today. The body was terribly mutilated, The crime was discovered by her daughter, Delia, nine years old. Police believe the woman was murdered with an axe. organ of the National | Bawloyes. | $1,140 to} | j WITH THEY CONDUCTED - BY TH partment to bring military training into every school and college in the United States, There are over 225 educational in- stitutions in this country where milit- ary instruction is given, thru estab-! lished units’ of the reserve officers training corps. Last year congress ap- propriated four million dollars for the} purpose of training over 125,000 stu-| dents in military drill. For this pur- pose the war department assigned eight hundred officers and over one thousand enlisted army men to carry on training in these schools. In ten years the number of schools with mil- itary instruction. has doubled; of the R. O, Ts. C. institutions, numbering over 225, half of them were of college or university rank, where the students are of age. In the high schools where there is an R. O. T. C. unit, youngsters as low as fourteen years of age drill with rifles and learn the technique of guard duty and patrolling, which comes’ in especially handy during a strike. The objective of the war de- partment is to establish military units in 1200 secondary schools thruout the country, General Pershing has gone even further, with the hope that every public school in America shall intro- duce drill for the students, C.-M, T. C. Aimed at Young Workers. Thus far we have dealt with the students, But the bosses are not sat- isfied with this.. They. want the work- ing youth which will bear the brunt of struggle in case of, war_to “be pre- pared.”, For this purpose was estab- lished, the citizens’ military training camps, to which the young workers as well as students are lured during the hot summer months with tempting promises. Two ‘million dollars was voted by congress last year to estab- lish 28 summer camps. In five years the number attending these camps rose from 10,000 to nearly forty thous- and, and the war department has the final objective in the not distant future of 100,000, By means of the national defense act.adopted by congress in 1920, the war department.has created a sinister machinery to build up a vast military force that could defend the imperialist interests of the United States in col- onial countries. Colleges are offered land grant subsidies to give military training, Students are given cash sub- sidies to take military courses for a “Goose-Step” Militarism in Schools By WM. SCHNEIDERMAN. HE American workers know very little about the actual facts of how the youth of this country is being pre- pared to “do their bit” in future wars in a systematic effort of the war de- definite number of years, Employers are cajoled into offering vacation with pay to any deluded young worker who is willing to join the C. M. T. C. In the schools the strictest provisions are made about military training. A stu- dent who fails to register for same can never graduate, or may be suspended or expelled. Students who protest against military training have been persecuted to the fullest extent, in many cases to the point of expulsion. Only ‘recently a letter came to light from the war department to the col- onel in charge of an R. O. T. ©. unit asking harsh measures to be taken | against any student fighting military training in the schools. Popularizing Capitalist Militarism, There are two methods of appeal to the youth, outside of the material benefits, which the militarists use. One is the claim that it is “training for citizenship,” It is better psychology to call it that than to say it is training for war. That explains Gen. Pershing’s remark to “popularize it by all avail- able methods.” The second is “physi- cal training.” Several prominent physi- cal culture experts have pointed out the falsehood of this claim by tabulating the actual hours used in physical train. ing in the military work; in 4 years of R. 0, T. C. work, there is a total of only 6 hours out of several hundred, devoted to physical training. The rest is either technical military training, or lectures of anti-labor propaganda. The class-conscious young worker who knows the above facts will get some idea of the menace to the Amer- ican youth when war clouds lower on the horizon. We must enlist the sup- port of trade unions and of all youth organizations in an energetic cam- paign to combat this octopus of cap- italist militarism in America, and rally the workers of this country to their class banner. Gov. Small To Hold Special Elections to Fill Judicial Seats SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 15.—Gov. Len Small will call three special elec- tions for Nov. 2 to fill vacancies in the 10th, 16th and 17th judicial circuits. Calls for the convention at which candidates will be chosen must be in the hands of the secretary of state by next Wednesday to conform to the election laws which provide for the filing of the convention calls seventy- five days before the election. Victims of the White Terror in Greece Above .is'shown a group of Communist workers exiled by the Greek military dictatorship in. the Aegean Islands. Siaytas, tobacco worke They bee Left to right, below: Betediatterne longsh oreman; Middle row: Tafirion, office worker; Mountraki studen Lazaridss, baker. Constantina Constantinon, tobacco worke Standing, rear: Berberis, tobacco worker; general worker; Kepatanakis, ection as mayor of Larissa Gatsoupolls, Georglades, baker; Vassiliopouos,, former member of the Workers Party in Chicago, U, s A.; Hadjirocolasu, food worker; LETTER OF GREETINGS FROM GREEK CLASS WAR PRISONERS SHOWN IN PICTURE ABOVE IE Greek’ Communist paper, “Em- pros,” of Chicago has received, the following letter from the group of im. prisoned .Communists shown, . with names given, aboye:. AMORGAS, ’ Greece, “July 17.—On thid first ‘oécasion that we have had a chance to communicate with the out- side world, we write to “EEmpros.” First of all, thru’ this organ’ of’ the working class, we want to thank all our beloved comrade: who, sympathiz* Detenss ‘|other islands, Anafe and Folegandros We want to assure them with all the unshaken strength that our faith in the right of our class gives us that We shall continue our fight unbending before the brutal force of our tyrants, We stand erect and unmoved like mighty rocks against the tempest. We keep our courage and hope un- diminished, The oppression, en- hanced ‘by unbearable taxation and martial Jaw thriout the land, has created among the workers a feeling of such general dissatisfaction that it seems to indicate the ripening of a ‘evolutionary situation in Greece, With the comrades exiled in the we hardly can communicate, On the Island of Anafe there are about 50 exiles and on Folegandros 25, among whom is Comrade Poulispoulos, editor of our suspended daily paper, “Rizos- pastis.” The secretary of the Com- munist Party of Greece, Comrade Max- imos and Comrade Nikolinakos, a member of the central executive com- mittee, are in prison in the Island Aegina. About 150 to 200 other work- ers and members of the party are im- prisoned in state prison: We ask you to raise your voice against ghe white terror in Greece, which has gone so far as ‘to throw into jail even International Workers’ | Aid officials and has far surpassed the notorious crardom in ite Aa ave a_i