The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1926, Page 1

| oo The DAILY WORKER Raises Vol. III. No. 186. Subscription Rates. .. all the virtues fit to print. erally, keep near enough to the ground to get within reach of a publishér’s cash a g Gey 84 : pay Por oN | 2 ORK y a the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Sarr Sten By THOMAS J, O’FLAHERTY FUR WORKERS’ MAIN DEMANDS Takes Responsibility for Interference OSTON is not only the hub of American ciilture, but it is also the motherland of Nordicism. Which means that Boston is the repository of Among those virtues is cleanliness, But even cleanliness must step aside in the in- terests of economy. The staid Boston Herald discovered that city hall em- ployes were in the habit of dusting desks and wiping cuspidors with tow- els, The laundry casualty list was one thousand towels a week. New administrations, like new brooms, are supposed to sweep clean, but a new Boston administration, perhaps backed by the Herald, stopped the use of tow- els in the city. Let us hope, only on the cuspidors, abe A N English novelist uses an air- plane for atmosphere for her writ- (Continued from page 1) WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. — When shown the correspondence made pub- lic by the New York joint board of the International Fur Workers’ Union between the board and President Green of the American Federation of Labor, concerning the unprecedented investigation by the A. F. of L. execu- tive council of the recent successful strike in New York which was directed —_—_—_—— fo, by mail, $8.00 per year, chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. by the board, Green said that the in- vestigation had been in progress some weeks and was almost completed. Green Responsible. Green denies that the international officers of the Fur Workers, who be- long to the right wing group, had sug- gested that the executive council of the A. F. of L, intervene. Green says he himself put the matter before the executive council. He adds that he threatened during the strike, that when the strike was over he was “going to find out what the quarrel was about” between the right wing international officers and the New York join board. In their letter of Angust 5, sent out (Continued on page 4) ing. This is going up in the air lit- Most novelists are always there figuratively, tho a few of them box. Sinclair Lewis has to engage a berth on an ocean liner whenever he feels jike turning out a masterpiece. When the telephones are ringing in his office, when curious visitors wan- rin to gaze at the remarkable edito- ¢ riai staff, when somebody sends in a s story without any news in it, we feel like going up in the air and stay- ing there. ene JPRENCH, German and Belgian steel ‘ magnates imbibed champagne at in informal luncheon in a Paris res- Russian Unions Urge Anglo-Russ Unity Committee Push Relief for British Miners; Send More Funds (Special Cable to The Daily Worker.) LONDON, Aug, 17.—Replying to an inquiry from the General Council i} Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, a the Post Office at Chicago, MWinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, JAMES DAVIS PRINTS BOOKS IN ‘RAT’ SHOP (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 17.—(FP) —James J. Davis, secretary of labor in both Harding and Coolidge cabin- ets, has his books published in non- union shops, his publisher admits. Davis’ latest book, Selective Immi- gration, is a plea not only for the quota law but for letting in floods of workers in particular crafts when the department of labor deems it Proper. It was published in St. Paul by the Scott-Mitchell Publishing Co. The company’s president W. E. Scott writes in a letter now in possession of The Federated Press: “Selective Immigration was done FOR MEXICAN WAR REFUSED Knights’ Charges Were False, Says Kellogg (si to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., August 17.— That the peal of the Knights of Columbus for intervention in Mexico based on citles perpetrated on American citi- zens was predicated on false informa- on the American plan or open shop. (tion is the astounding announcement We consider that the firm that did our printing on ‘Selective Immigra- tion puts out the best book work in the Twin Cities.” made by the state department and is responsible for the president’s remark- ably frank) Statement thru an officia! spokesman) that intervention in Mex- Davis has been an invited speaker at many labor conventions of labor tho he has met hostile receptions from the rank and file at some of them. He boasts in his autobiogra- phy in Who’s Who in America that he is a member of the Amalgamated Association Iron Steel & Tin Work- ers’ of America. UNEARTH PLOT TO OVERTHROW CALLES GOVT, Plans Camouflaged as Catholic Agitation (Special to The Daily Worker) ica over the religious controversy is out of the question. This is Said to be the strongest re buke ever issued to such a powerful organization by any administration and politi¢ians are checking up on their diplomatic experience to find a solution Of the incident. Factless Facts, Secretary of State Kellogg is alleged to have informed the president that “facts” submitted to him by supreme grand knight Flaherty of the K. of C. were unvarnished lies, Kellogg declared that he had posi- tive assurance that no Americans suf- tered indignities in Mexico in violation of treaty rights and those who had suffered more or less thru their own fault turned out to be non-Americans. Knights To Stage Comeback. It is Teported that the Knights of Columbus -will rally the whole power of the ehurch in an effort to regain the prestige it has lost thru the fail- ure of the government to respect its wishes. The situation is particularly embarrassing to the church because of the fact that the Masonic order, par- Hteged indignities and atro- | of the British Trade Union Congress about the time and place of the next meeting of the Anglo-Russian trade union committee, the Central Council of the Labor Unions of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics proposes a meeting in Berlin on August 20 for a discussion of relief to the miners. At the last meeting of the committee in Paris the latter part of July MEXICO CITY, August 17—An echo | ticularly the petty-bourgeois wing of of the arrest yesterday of General En-|it, took up the cudgels for Calles, who rique Estrada, former secretary of war | is 4 member of the Masonic order, and for Mexico, and 174 men at San Diego, | the government's attitude will be con- Cal., charged with plotting the over- strued as a victory against Rome by throw of the Mexican government, |the anticatholic protestant organiza- -— j | at which were present Arthur Pugh, A. A, Purcell, A. A. H. Findlay and Walter Critine, for the British Unions, and Andreef, |. Lepse, G. Mel- nitchansky, 1. Schwartz and A, Dogadoff for the Russian unions, the fol- lowing statement was issued on adjournment: The meeting reviewed the international situation in the light of recent events and a further meeting will be held at the end of August. At the Paris gathering, both sides expressed their unshaken confidence of future friendly relations between the British and Russian workers, $100,000 MORE. The central committee of the labor unions of the U, S. S. R. forwarded another 200,000 rubies ($100,000) to the British Miners’ Federation for re- lief collected by the Soviet Labor Unions thruout the country. This brings the total amount transferred to England up to 4,917,000 rubles, or $2,500,000. Coilections are being continued by all unions. INTERSTATE COMMERCE BODY AIDS OPEN-SHOP MINES OF THE SOUTH (Special to The Daily Worker) taurant recently. They had just put the finishing touches to their plan for an international steel trust. . England was invited to come in, but refused. One of the reasons was the refusal of the continental powers to recognize the British dominions as colonies, be- cause each country adhering to the compact forfeits her right to export to other signatories’ colonies, The WASHINGTON, Aug, 17.—Exam- Yrench, Germans and Belgians are] iners of the interstate commerce winning important markets in India] commission today recommended ond South Africa and refused to tie} that the commission hold that freight rates on bituminous coal, in car loads, from lilinois and Indiana mines to the Chicago switching dis- trict and other points, are not un- reasonable or unduly prejudicial, as compared with those from min in western Kentucky and in the so- called inner and outer crescents in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, E: rn Kentucky and Tennessee, The Illinois coal traffic bureau, on behalf of the Iilinois and Indiana operators, complained the present rates were doing them great harm, their hands, ‘ o ese HIS is a very important develop- ment, and one that should produce repercussions in the chancellories of Berlin and Paris. It means the con- solidation of the steel and coal indus- tries of Germany, France and Belgium, and those powerful interests will un- doubtedly be able to exert pressure on their respective ‘governments with the object of establishing such politi- cal conditions as promise to guarantee the maximum of" profits to the ‘steel and coal trust. The agreement bodes no good to Great-Britain, see ie powerful combination will be followed by others in-other indus tries. A copper export trust is about completed. and the dye and textile industries are slated for similar treat, ment. Here we see that two coun- tries that were so.recently engaged in a life and death struggle that took a toll of millions of lives coming to an agreement which in a large degree tends to consolidate the economié, forces of the nations involved. Even before the war German capitalists owned stock in the French Creusot arms and ammunition factories, while French investors owned stock in Krupps and British owned stock in kit 20 @ VERY time a Krupp gun fired a Krupp shell into a group of French or British soldiers the profits made by Krupp on the sale of that shell to the German government was divided be- tween the stockholders. French in- vestors got some and wo did British investors. British capitalists were ac: the chine SEND IN YOUR 8UB TO. THE DAILY WORKER! The following letter, issued by the Trade Union Educational League of America, is addressed to the delega- tion of the British Miners’ Federa- tion to the United States to raise funds to assist the strike of the British miners. The head of the delegation is Ben Tillett of the Eng- lish Dockers’ Union and includes, besides, Ellen Wilkinson, M. P. four officials of the British Miners’ Federation, viii MO. Chicago, Ill, Aug. 17, 1926, IOMRADES—The left wing in the trade union movement, organized in and around the Trade Union Edu- cational League, bids you welcome, We extend greetings and pledge you our most active co-operation. We are now devoting our uw efforts to muster support for the striking Brit and An Open was heard In the capital today when | ‘ions, ; it was announced that government Congress Is Deflated. agents had uncovered a widespr Anothey unpleasant aspect of the revolutionary plot, and had arrested |Nifated ‘iterventionist’ campaign of fifty men and women in connection with the conspiracy. The seditious plot, which had ramifications in six states, as well as in the federal district, was discovered thru an exhaustive search of the houses and living quarters of some of those arrested. Papers and documents thus found disclosed full details of the plot, enabling the government to take the necessary precautionary measures to frustrate the conspiracy. Seized Manifestos. Among the papers seized was a revo- lutionary manifesto signed by General Antonio Vasquez and Colonels Agapito Vasquez and Jose de la Pona. The manifesto contained a call to arms and a disclaimer of allegiance to the Calles government. It bitterly crit- Icized the government's religious pol- icy. General Vasquez and Colonels de la Pona and Vasquez are not active mili- tary officers, having been dropped from the rolls of the army last Decem- ber 15. Leaders Designated. Chiefs of operations were designated in the manifesto to take charge of the! revolutionary movement in the states of Puebla, Moroles, Michoacan, Jalisco and Chihuahua, as well as in the fed- eral district. Police say these desig- nations were dictated by the League for Religious Defense, which is con- ducting the boycott, Bitter attacks on Ambassador Shef- field have appeared in Mexican dailies, The ambassador's avowed intention to urge an anti-Mexican policy on Coo- lidge, who has declared a “hands oft” (Continued on page 4) the K. of ©, is its deflation of the pol- itical value of the eucharistic con- gress. The congress was meant to increase and measure the political power of Rome in the United States but despite the acreage of publicity space that.was given the show by the American press, and the presence at the congress of a cabinet member, the mighty organization that directed it, is publicly challenged on its facts in a most embarrassing manner, Embargo Will Stand. The embargo on the export of arms to Mexico will not be lifted nor will any other steps be taken by the ad- ministration that might be construed as intervention in a domestic strug- gle. Kellogg is expected to make a pub- lic statement in a few days on the ; Mexican situation. A lively exchange of unpleasantries between the Knights of Columbus and the Calles supporters in the Masonia order is now expected. The latter are in a better position because they can lay claim to “upholding the hands of the president” and also arouse the well founded prejudice of the American (Continued on page 4) PAUL MCKENNA WILL SPEAK IN MILWAUKEE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT Paul McKenna, national executive board member of the Miners’ Fed- eration of Great Britain, will speak before the Milwaukee Central Trades and Labor Assembly, Wed- nesday night, August 18. THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1926 GREEN EVADES | |sexenarer vem — ie 290 Published Daily except Sund PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. CATHOLIC PLEA |Almost $100,000 Raised By Unions in East For Striking British Miners (Special to The Daily Worker) : by THE DAILY WORKER hington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. sour NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents — NEW YORK, August 17.—Almost $100,000 has been collected by the British Miners’ Delega- tion in the eastern states after a week of visiting conventions and unions, said Ben Tillett, head of the British Dockers’ Union and leader of the delegation. ‘ Bae: Replying to the recent statement by Prime Minister Baldwin that there was no famine in | the mine fields of Britain Tillett said: ‘ } } “It is with great astonishment that I learn that Premier Baldwin has declared that there | is no famine in the English coal! districts. tells a lie. I would have him vi: sit the southern part of Wales, When Baldwin says this, I must in turn say that he , Northcumberland, Gloucester- , shire, Yorkshire and other places and see the hunger and want with his own eyes.” EASTERN PORTS | FULL OF SCAB COAL SHIPPING Hampton Roads Booms with Strike-Breaking By GORDON CASCADEN. ARTICLE Ill. NORFOLK, Va, Aug. 17. — The Hampton Roads community is experi- encing the greatest business boom of any community east of the Missis- sippi River and of any large center in the United States. “Debits to individual bank accounts in the Norfolk-Portsmouth clearing house territory showed.a total of $21, 961,000 for the week ending Wedn day, August 4, according to figures of the federal reserve board made public yesterday,” a news story broadcast from Norfolk reads, “These figures represent an increase of 52 per cent over the $14,428,000 for the corre- sponding week in 1925. Business Booms. “The showing of business activity as reflected by the bank transactions reveals the largest percentage of gain for any community east of the Missis- sippi River, and for any large city in the whole country. “Newport News, with a total of $3,- 016,000, gained 42 per cent over the same week of a year ago.” Excell Peak Shipments, The reason why is found in this news item from the Norfolk Ledger- Dispatch: “Ships are coming ‘into Hamp- ton Roads in a steady stream with cavernous holds empty for coal with which to feed the fires and industries of Europe. The pilots, tug-boat captains, stevedores and all who are directly connected Sell Furniture. Tillett said ‘ that much of their household goods in order to keep up the struggle. They have even sold their beds and sleep on the floor, he de- clared. “Before the strike,” said Til- lett, “30 miners died in the mines every week as the result of accidents. The official figures available now show no decrease in the number of deaths. They are certainly not caused by mine accidents because the men are not workmg. Those deaths are now due to hunger and want or disease induced by famine.” MASS ARRESTS OF MINERS IN BRITAIN BEGIN Campaign of Police In- timidation (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Aug. 17.—A furious cam- paign of intimidation has been con- ducted by the poligef ‘acting under home office instructions, in the mine districts against the striking coal min- ers. Four hundred arrests are re- ported from the Forest of Dean, 100 in South Wales, 86 in Yorkshire and many more in Warwickshire. In the Forest of Dean, a miner was fined, with a month’s imprisonment for default, for calling a man a “black- leg.” Stand Firm, An attempt was made in that dis trict to open two small pits. When the miners gathered to protest agains this hundreds of police were massed and many well-known union men wers arrested, Before the judge, they were told that if they would agree to go with the water front say that there is more movement in the harbor now than at any time since the peak of shipping in 1919 and 1920. The previous records for coal dumping over the three railway piers in Hampton Roads have been surpassed.” Harbor Congested. So great is the congestion of ships in this spacious harbor that officials have posted the following notice: “Agents of steamers arriving in Hampton Roads for cargoes of coal are not to order their ships to coal piers until space for them to berth is available. Barge mas: ters watching for cargoes are re- quested to keep their craft in shoal waters and leave the chan- nel to sea-going steamers. during this period of unusual activity.” The coal piers of this community set a world’s record in fuel volume dur- ing the month of July. Near 3,000,000 Tons inh July. This news item in the Virginian- (Continued on page 2) back to work they would be set free. Every man refused. Wales Arrests Frequent. In Wales, 50 arrests have been made in Rhondda, 36 in Tylorstown and another 10 in Abertidwr. Forty- eight were committed for trial at Pontypridd for picketing. Use E. P. A. Heavy sentences are often imposed on the miners under the Emergency + the mine workers have long since sold MACDONALD OF REFUSING AID Beware of Lies About Mine Strike Peace (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Aug. 17.— Speaking at. Perth in South Wales, A. J. Cook, sec- retary of the British Miners’ Federa- tion, caused a sensation by saying that the miners, when they iked Ramsay MacDonald to send a message to America contradicting the lies of Premier Baldwin concerning the con- ditions in the mine fields, had refused. Baldwin Lied. Baldwin had cabled to America to the effect that the suffering of the families of the strikers was “exag- gerated” and that ther? really was no suffering and American should not send any relief funds. This is out- rageously false, and clearly an attempt to sabotage the gathering of relief funds for the strikers from American labor, That Ramsay MacDonald should have so openly taken the side of the mine operators and the Tory govern- ment is causing a sensation. But it is a surprising addition to learn that Cook said: “Mr. Lloyd George is going to do so (contradict Baldwin's false- hoods) and he is going to tel] the truth.” Beware of Falsehoods! The government is bending every effort to break the miners’ union and drive the men back to work, and American readers will be well advised to take so-called “peace near” stories and tales about “strike ending” with a grain of salt. These stories are flooding America merely to make American workers believe relief is no longer necessary, and cease giving funds. This sort of British government propaganda should be flatly denied and the relief fund movement inten- sified to the limit, for by enough aid; the miners can win, and American la bor must and can furnish funds to do it. Mine Owners’ Tactics, An example of the mine owners’ tactics is s#n in Warwickshire, where! Powers Act. In Warwickshire, police | ‘BY concentrated om getting the min-| have raided. meetings and even en- tered miner’s homes. SEND IN A SUB TODAY TO THE DAILY WORKER, ST, LOUIS PAINTERS DONATE $309 TO RELIEF OF THE BRITISH MINERS (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. LOUIS, Aug. 17.—The Paint- ers’ Local No. 115 voted to donate $300 for the striking British miners, Letter to the British Miners’ Delegation American labor movement to assist the striking British miners, Support Strike, We are supporting the British min- ers’ strike in the full realization that its successful outcome is of the most tremendous significance to the entire world labor movement. A defeat of the British miners would be a disaster for labor internationally, It must not be allowed to happen, The reaction- ary leadership of the General Council of the British Trades Union Congress betrayed the miners by calling off the magnificent general strike and leaving them to fight the battle alone against: the powerful and jubilant capitalist class. They have continued this be- trayal by refusing to put an embargo upon the hauling and handling of scab coal, But it is our duty to do what- Stop Coal, The organized workers of America are in a position to materially assist the British miners. First, they can check the shipment of scab coal to Great Britain. In Norfolk, Baltimore, and other southern ports, scores of ships are now either loading or have loaded coal designed to break the British strike. You must demand that organized labor use its utmost efforts to prevent the shipment of this coal. The union railroad men must refuse to haul it from the mines to the docks, and the union transport workers must refuse to ship it to England. All those workers who dig coal or trahs- port it to break the English strike are scabs, whether they carry union cards or not. American labor must place an embargo against coal for Great Britain, . list Give Millions, ‘ unionists of this country iP financially, The work- ade unions of the Soviet Union have donated $2,500,000 to as- sist the striking miners, notwithstand- ing that the Soviet Union is» just emerging from a deep-going industrial crisis, the outcome of a dozen. years of war and revolution. The American workers can easily make an even greater contribution. Your problem is to rouse the reactionary leadership to the necessities of the situation. The rank and file stand ready to re- spond if called upon, You must de- mand from the unions, as a starter, an assessment of an amount equal to at least two hours’ pay for each worker, In addition, the unions, many of which have large financial reserves, are in a position to vote you substan- Hal sums from their treasuries. The labor banks, of which there are 40, have amassed resources of $200,000,- 000, These reserves must be drawn n in this crisis—else of what value , they? The labor banks can and’ it be made to lend the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain at leasi ‘ , $3,000,000, Every central labor coun- cil and every local union in the United States must elect special committees to raise funds for the British miners. Break Down Bars, The foregoing financial measures of relief are strictly within the possibili- ties of the American trade union move- ment. The bar in the way is our ultra- reactionary trade union leadership, This bar must be broken down at all costs. American workers must share of their substance with their striking British brothers, The British mine strike must be won, American labor must help to win it. This crisis is a test of the spirit and intelligence of our move- ment. Our slogans must be, AN EMBARGO ON COAL SHIP- MENTS TO GREAT BRITAIN, and EVERY AVAILABLE DOLLAR FO) THE STRIKING BRITISH MIN: Fraternally yours, ‘The Trade Union Educational Wm, Z, Foster, Sec'y, { ers broken in morale. The suffering j{ of the miners there is terrible, and! the owners used the utmost effort f/ get them away from the union, “Red | scare” leaflets were distribyted, paid: owners’ agents visited every miner's hovel, threatening and promising, to get the miners back, The police aided by attacking the miners’ union when it carried on a counter publicity. For a while the owners made some showing, opening a few pits, but Cook came down along with other unjon of- ficials and succeeded in turning the tide with appeals to the miners to stand firm. There is only one pit now operating on a small scale as a result, Use Traitor’s Article, One thing the owners have been quick to use ig the article by John Bromley, secretary of the engineers’ and firemen’s union, attacking the miners’ union in the Locomotive Jour nal. The owners quickly picked this up, reprinted it in hand bills and spread them over the country, trying to discourage the miners and beget a spirit of doubt. The British miners need help, and will win if they get it. AUTHORITIES ‘SEEK’ =| LEADERS OF MOB THAT | LYNCHED VIRGINIA NEGRO (Special to The Oaily Worker) WYTHEVILLE, Va., Aug. 17—Aue thorities were seeking leaders of a masked mob which stormed Wythe county jail and lynched noe mond Bir, a Negro, charged wit! an attack on a young white The Negro was shot to death cell and the body later the scene of the alleged hung to a tree. |