The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1926, Page 4

‘ waving a lantern he attracted the at- Page Four ~ i THE DAILY WORKER ™ Workers Communist) Party WORKERS PARTY IN MICHIGAN'S STATE ELECTION Reynolds Is Filed for Governor DETROIT, he Workers {Communist filed nomina- jon petitions containing more than 5,000 signatures nominating William Reynolds as the candidate for gov- arnor of Michigan for the Workers *(Communist) , and he has been vertified as a candidate, ‘ t For Congress. + Nomination deen filed for Har diam Mollenhaue petitions have Kishner and V candidates for con- gress in the 1st and 13th districts, which are included in the city of De- jtroit, and D. C. Holden, candidate for fongress in the 9th con, itrict, which i State Convention Soon. Under the Michigan state law nomi- ‘nations for the other state offices for § will be on the ballot y of state, torney general and ‘state treasurer, will be made by a state convention which is to be held in the near futur Dist. 3, Philadelphia, ; Will Picnic Sunday | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. Ti District 3 of the Workers (Commu- ‘nist) Party of America will fittingly | ‘celebrate the seventh anniversary of the organization of the party with a ‘large summer festival-picni ‘event will take place at New Maple Grove Park, Rising Sun and Olney avenues, Sunday, August 22. The following noted speakers will be present: Ben Gitlow, candidate for governor of New Yor! Ben Gold, leader of the victorious furriers’ strike in New York, and Anton Bimba, de- fendant in the famous Massachusetts heresy trial. The music for the occasion will be furnished by the Young Workers’ Man- dolin Orchestra. Save Aged Watchman. An aged watchman was_ rescued from almost certain death by fire- men here today, when fire broke out in tha, 7, M. Weil Tannery. Sydney] Love, 7@ taraed in the alarm when he discovered the blaze, but was un- able to escape from the bnilding. By tention of the firemen when they ar- rived. = What Others Say About Vv. F, CALVERTON— Editor of “The Modern Quarter- ly,” author of “The Newer Spirit.” “In dealing with RED CAR- TOONS one is immediately im- pressed with the subject matter as well as with the skillfulness of line and ingenuity of conception. Here are proletarian cartoons, conceived in the spirit of the class struggle and devoted to the definite purpose of class propaganda. And so RED CARTOONS satirizes with a pur- pose that ig as social as it is sig- nificant.” ALBERT COYLE— Editor, Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers’ Journal. “Ellis, Minor, Gropper and Art Young are enough to give distinc- tion to the cartoons of any publica- tion. There is a grip and force to their work that is inescapable, even though one does not always agree 100% with their interpretation.” Cowdery Offers Some Suggestions For Winning New Readers on a Large Scale for The Daily Worker Des Comrades: My experience convinces me that any canvasser who will work diligently and stead- ily one year can develop 500 new subscribers to The DAILY WORK- ER from whom he will have collect- 00. At 20 cents a week he ed $ (or she) would collect an average of. $5.00 from each. The second year he could maintain the list at 500 and collect $5,000. Canvassers wages at $5.00 a day for 300 days would be $1,500, Carrier delivery at 1c. a copy would be $750 the first year and $1,500 the second year. The routes would net the DAILY WORKER $250 the first year and $2,000 the second year. Another source of income could be a DAILY WORKER pamphlet at 10 cents, including a copy of the Daily. Twenty of these ld be easily sold each day the fir year to prospect- ive subscribers, This would yield $600 additional. Collections would have to be made by the carrier boy, after the first month or so, or else made by the canvasser monthly. By substituting mail delivery for carrier, and collecting quarterly, half-yearly or yearly, a very great saving in time and money would be made. A canvasser could easily handle 1,000 subscribers. OUGHLY estimating, 500 sub- scribers will be developed in a territory two miles square (4 square miles), sixteen to a mile of street, counting both sides. To deliver 40 “se one must travel 24% miles. If Chicago has 200 square miles of working class residence district (10- x20 miles area) this estimate would develop 25,000, subscribers. At one subscriber to each 25 families which I am now getting) this would mean 625,000 families, or fully 3,000,0000 population. Fifty canvass- ers working one year could (and would, without the slightest doubt, if they worked one year) develop 25,000 DAILY WORKER subscrib- ers. Have we fifty persons in Chicago who will tackle this little job? Are there fifty centers of population with enough true working class comrade- ship and hospitality to welcome The DAILY WORKER and its agent on such a mission? Can lodging and meals be contributed to such a per- son, perhaps on the country school district plan of having the teachers for a week or a month in turn at various homes? Can a little money be raised to subsidize such a pro- ject? Enough money from some ST TTT TILL LLL LLL THE BOOK OF OF THE NTU LLU LLLLLLLLL CLL LLL LLL Ore THE BEST WORK OF Robert Minor, Fred Ellis, Dehn, William Gropper, Ly: Preval, others, Over seventy cartoons on heavy drawing paper, bound in brown art-board c CARL SANDBURG— Famous American Poet and Writ- er. Author of “Chicago Poems,” “Rootabaga Stories,” “Abraham Lincoln,” ete. “RED CARTOONS!’ eets the high mark of cartoons voleing radical- ism or revolution, The old-fashion- ed figure of Labor wearing a square paper cap is not here nor the familiar little man who represents the public, the people, or the ultimate consumer, The working class is set forth as powerful, awakening, and aspiring, the cap- italist class as brutal, cunning, greedy, ignorant and a big-mouthed bird whose one prolonged utterance is ‘Blah!’ It is safe to say that ‘Red Cartoons’ is the simplest, most vivid and terrible presenta- tion in pen and ink, black and white lines of hostility to the present or- der of civilization that we have ever seen in this country.” O'Zim, K. A. Suvanto, Hay Bales and source would have to go to The DAILY WORKER to pay actual cost of paper and printing. The first few weeks would be the hardest and after six months each route would be self-sustaining. F there are 25 locations where such work can be started, or even 10, let us get at it. I know this can be done, for I am doing it, and ‘keep- ing very easily within the estimates I have given. Any other city is is good, or better, than Chicago. In Chicago the mail delivery costs one cent'for each paper. Outside of Chi- cago (city of publication) mail deli- very is about one-tenth of a cent, according to zone. Now, comrades, let’s get action. Who will volunteer? Write us in regard to this matter. P. B. COWDERY, % The DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago Ruthenberg to Speak at Statewide Meeting of Connecticut Party NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 17.—A statewide membership meeting for Connecticut will be held by the Work- ers’ Party in New Haven on next Saturday, Aug. 21 with C. E, Ruthen- berg, general-secretary of the party as the principal speaker. The meeting will be held at the Labor Lyceum, 38 Howe St., at 8 p. m. Members from most of the branches in Connecticut will be able to attend with little inconvenience. Admittance will be by membership card only. Party Units, Look Out for N. Paley BROOKLYN, N. Y., Aug 17.—N. Paley, 1278 Union avenue, Bronx, N. Y., nucleus organizer of 11th subsec- tion 1 A, deserted his group without notifying the sub-section organizer or any of the Sub-Section executive com- mittee. He failed to refund to the f- nancial secretary of S. S. I. A. money collected for membership dues ana Lenin memorial tickets. Nucleus IF should suspend N. Paley from the party till he straightens out bis account with the paity and give: a good reason for deserting his unit. Get an autographed copy of Red Cartoons by Fred Ellis and Robert Minor, YEAR Art Young, Adolph dia Gibson, Juanita overs, Postpaid $ 1 .00 CARL HAESSLER— Editor of “The Federated Press.” “Astonishing vigor by the artists and commendable restraint by the editor mark the volume of RED CARTOONS. Savage bitterness, sardonic contempt even for certain labor dead, pity for the shackled worker and the child slave, virile picturing of the hope of revolution- ary emancipation, are blazoned forth in black and white in these beautiful pages,” CHICAGO TRIBUNE— “Stunning.” Z, C. MERSHON, San Francisco. “Being a bill-board artist I can justly appreciate the revolutionary message and artistic merit of RED CARTOONS.” ee UNEARTH PLOT TO OVERTHROW CALLES GOVT, Plans Camouflaged as Catholic Agitation (Continued from page 1) policy, has aroused the anger of the people. Made Veiled Threat. An editorial in El Excelsior says: “Mr, Sheffield, before leaving Mex- Ico, launched a veiled threat that he would continue to place , diplomatic difficulties in our path, This we will not and cannot stand for. When Mex- ico was involved in’ a national con- flict with passions running high, when a tempest was sweeping the United States against the Calles regime and the United States press was unusual- ly bitter against us, Mr. Sheffield seized the moment to state unreser- vedly that he was returning home to advocate reconsideration of the fun- damental laws of our constitution re- lative to petroleum and land.” Knights Are Rebuked. The rebuke given the Knights of Columbus by the United States gov- ernment has had a salutary effect on the warlike psychology of the clergy. They are today in a more humble at- titude than they have been at any time since the religious conflict flared out. U. S. federal agents have received orders from Washington to redouble their vigilance on the border and pre- vent the smuggling of arms into Mex- ico. The plotters against the peace of Mexico arrested on the border will be prosecuted in United States courts. Green Evades the Furriers’ Demands (Continued from page 1) to all central labor bodies and affi- lated internationals of the “A. F. of L., the joint board asked to be inform- ed who initiated the charges against them and exactly what these charges are, and under what right the A, F. of L. executive council intervenes in the interna] affairs of a regularly affi- liated international union. Green is silent on the charges and ignores the request for information as to-what right the A. F. of L, executive council has proceeded under in the interference with the internal affairs of the inter- national . Board Wanted Workers to Hear. The joint board letter also demands an open hearing, in a half Which will permit a large number of’ the union members to hear the proceedings and the. attendance of press fepresenta- tives, and proposes that three members of the joint board be added to the in- vestigating committee appointed by the A. F. of L. executive council. Green is silent on these demands, also. The investigation committee ap- pointed by Green includes Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L., Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the A. F. of L. in New York, ‘Edward F. McGrady, general organizer of the A. F, of L., John Sullivan, president of the New York State Federation of La- bor, and Joseph Ryan, president of the New York City Central Labor Union. The letter of the joint board, signed by Ben Gold, manager, tells of the sweeping victory won in the 17-week strike, and argues that the proposal to investigate is unusual and unwar- ranted. Chicago T. U. E. L. to Hold Picnic Sept. 5, at Stickney Grove The Chicago Trade Union Educa- its annual Labor Day picnic this year on the day before Labor Day, that is to say Arrange- menis are being made to hold an all day affair, and provide for fun and food whether it rains or shines, at the Stickney Park Grove, Lyons, Ill, tional League will hold on September 5, Sunday. in the southwest suburbs. CATHOLIC PLEA FOR MEXICAN WAR REFUSED). |Knights’ Charges Wes False, Says Kellogg (Continued from page 1) people against the feudal-religious Roman political machine. To Make Direct Appeal. Flaherty will appeal directly to the president in view of his rebuff from the state department, There is little probability that Coolidge will alter his position, Unless Ambassador Sheffield who is on his way from Mexico will succeed in changing the Coolidge policy there is good grounds for believing that the Calles administration will be able to proceed with greater vigor towards a solution of the religious question, The prospects are brighter just now than at any time since the latest anti-cleri- cal decrees were promulgated, Reasons For Action. There are various explanations of the president's decision to,rebuke the interventionists. One 1s fear of losing the anti-catholic vote, Politicians say that even protestants who are reason- ably free from religious bigotry would resent the government going to war with Mexico or any other country in an obvious defense of papal interests. It is believed that the great majority of the masses would take this position and the hands of the oil and mining barons are too soiled to warrant them expecting success in a move to po- pularize intervention among the people at large. May Try To Force Concessions. Another explanation is that the canny Coolidge expects to force con- cessions from the Calles administra- tion by a promise of neutrality in Mex- ica’s struggle against the church. Calles is secure unless the arms em- bargo is lifted and he is well able to take care of any flurry that may de- velop out of the present imbroglio. The insurrectionary plan of Gen- eral Estrada, frustrated by United States authorities in California, and the counter-revolutionary plot discov- ered in Mexico City were separate plots and had no connection, it was stated today. A statement issued on behalf of President Calles declared that thse plot of General Estrada and a group of reactionaries has been known to Mexican officials for two months and that the authorities were awaiting arrival of the plotters in Mexican ter- ritory before attacking them. Seven Prisoners Caught in Jail Break at Cook County Jail Seven prisoners in Cook county jail attempted a break. They had sawed the bars and their plans were frustrat- ed by a guard at the. jail who called help while the men were pushing themselves thru the bars. A riot squad rushed to his assistance. The three ting leaders were rushed to solitary confinement cells, where they were stripped of their clothing. A Word of Cheer by a Young Miner By STEVE. Young Passaic Striker. PASSAIC, N. J.—After the many weeks of our strike we are still con- tinuing our struggle against these tex- tile barons. The main reason for this struggle is that we have got our minds set on one point and that is a big textile union, After. we succeed in organizing the textile workers in Pas- saic and vicinity it will open the way for organizing Lawrence, Philadelphia and a million other exploited textile workers. We, the workers, realize now that by organizing and standing unitedly we will better our conditions. Also by organization we will break the stubbornness of these textile barons. ie ay MI THEY sCONDUCTED -BY Ti WORKERS WING WORKERS LEAGUE ~~ CAVALRY DIVISION OF RED ARMY = TELLS AMERICAN YOUTH ITS LIFE (An American young Communist the Red Army in the Soviet Union, him is printed for the first time In the MOSCOW, June 30.—We are that not so much these bare lines will tell you how we live and ‘how our studies are ,Prowrpeel under conditions of camp life, It is already nearly two months since .we left our. quarters and were transferred to object of reinforcing our theoretical knowledge in practice., you visited us we have remained just as full of life and vigor as when you saw us. Every day we become more and more interested in the work we are now doing. Training Worker Fighters. Here we all—both the commanders and-the political instructors—try to obtain the greatest possible knowledge of military and other sciences. We go thru practical firing courses on the training grounds where every fighter is given wide scope in the way of ob- taining military knowledge. We al- ready know how to act in battle, how to adapt ourselves to localities and how to observe the enemy. Our eyes have become very vigilant, We fully realize that the camp training has given us a great deal. We are now quite prepared and can stand in defense of the toilers of the U. S. S. R. without a tremor, if there be any attempts at an attack on the part of the bourgeoisie. The threats of the British lords, who, in connec- tion with the strike, accused and threatened our Soviet Union for its contact with the toilers of other coun- tries, will not frighten us now. Besides acquiring military knowl- edge, we also do not neglect the gen- eral educational subjects. Circles for. political education and other subjects are formed in eyery battery. Red Army men are endeavoring to obtain as much knowledge as possible. Be- sides learning ourselves, we conduct cultural work among the toilers of the villages in the vicinity of the camp. Here our unit along with others con- ducts work amongst the village masses. In this manner we have ar- ranged cultural support to and con- tact with the masses. Having. come soso Sot a Visited the 10th Cavalry Divisfon ‘ The following letter transmitted-;thry DAILY WORKER youth Column.) ; writing to you full of confidencd as the fervent sentiment In tl the Leningrad province with th into the Red Army and belrig sent a district fae away from home, ea. now are, we see in the pensants’ same fathers, and we feel im, homes the same as in the home family we have left, ~ gi oll Army of Reconstruction, él ‘The toiling masses are fully vinced that on this training the Red Army will train fighters in spirit quite different to that of the olg order. The masses say that in se ing their children into thefranks o the Red Army they do nof ‘bem their fate, as they are convinced the Red Army is the best school, We must tell you that our wm here greatly interests us, and all thoughts are directed towards emergy ing from the army fully educated, an@ to devoting our lives to the recony struction of society on socialist fous» dations. { You ask us to send you the photey graphs that were taken together with you. In this respect we may tel you that they were left behind in Lishakh and that without a minute delay wa will obtain them from there and sen@ them to you as soon as possible. ‘We are extremely glad that you re- ceived our collective Red Army opin- ion as to the work of the American Young Workers League. We are all glad that this work has touched posi+ tive results. We hope that this tetter will be the commencement of systematic contact thru you with the American Young Workers’ League. Wishing you success in your work, With Communist greetings, - Liaison Commission, 10th Cavalry Army Division. Boston Youth Collect Money for British Miners BOSTON, Mass.—The street nucleus A of the Young Workers’ League of Boston opened its “Stand By the Brit- ish Miners” campaign with a success- ful open-air meeting on August 10. This was the first of the series of meetings planned by the nucleus. The workers listened with interest to Com- rade Winokour, who explained the events and significance of the general strike and that of the miners’ strike. They also listened eagerly to Com- rade Sack drawing a parallel between the workers’ struggle in England and the class struggle in America. The speaker emphasized the fact that the onslaught on the British miners will inevitably affect their own pay enve- lope. Comrade Nat Kay then drew up the lessons of the strike and pointed out what every worker is expected to do, At the end Comrade Daum, who acted as chairman, made an appeal for volunteers for the house-to-house col- lection of the miners’ relief. The meeting closed amidst the hearty ap- Plause of the workers. Serious Oil Fire Threatens. WARREN, Pa., Aug. 17.— Another serious oil fire, the third in a month, was threatened here this afternoon when lightning struck the United Re- finery plant near here. shattering an 800-barrel tank of erude oil. The grove is fine and large with plenty of tables provided for families to bring their own baskets, ‘All are invited to attend and any worker who wishes to help the affairis urged to get in touch with the T. U. E, L, com- mittee. Tickets and information may be obtained at the T. U. EB. L, office, 156 West Washington, at the Work- ers’ Book Store, 19 So, Lincoln, the Daily Worker office, and at the South Slavic book store, 1806 South Racine, made on the relief comimttee for aid. organized July 8, plans an intense Youngstown Workers’ Club to Hold Picnic YOUNGSTOWN, 0.—The Workers’ Clubs of Youngtown and vicinity will hold a picnic and outing, August 22na, at Stop 28, Sharon street car line, I, Amter of Cleveland, O,, will speaa, A tug of war and other sports will be on the program. All readers of Tho DAILY WORKER are cordially in vited to attend. by the conference, for $500. August 21, and Sunday, August 22, U, S. Gunboat in Distress. workers and seeks to aid them in their WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—The navy] fight for a union and for better living department was without advices to-| conditions should report at the follow- day concerning the gunboat| ing stations Saturday, August 21, and after| Sunday, Aughist 22: in Chinese| Workers’ Lyeéum, formerly Douglas a ctew| Park Auditorium, Kedzie and Ogden. What has been done in Chicago is not yet enough, More must be done. The Chicago Conference for Relief of Passaic Textile Strikers plans an in- tense fund-raising drive for Saturday, Every man, woman and youth must ald on these two days, Everyone who has sympathy for the striking textile _ Ukrainian National Home, 1532 W. CHICAGO CONFERENCE TO AID PASSAIC STRIKERS NEEDS YOUR HELP THIS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY The strike of the Passaic textile workers has now entered its eight month, Relief is needed more than ever. More and more calls are being The Chicago Conference for Relief of Passaic Textile Strikers, which was money-raising campaign for Chicago. Unions, fraternal societies and other organizations have been approached| Chicago avenue. They have all responded well, The Plasterers’Union, Local 5, sent the conference a check Ausros Knygynas, 10900 S, Michigan Boulevard, American Negro Labor Congress, 3451 South Michigan Blvd, Imperial Hall, 2409 N, Halsted St. Workers’ Sport Alliance, 453 West North avenue. Freiheit Gesangs Verein, 3837 West Roosevelt Rd. Russian Technical School, 1902 W, Division street, Folkets Hus, 2738 Hirsch Blvd, 19 South Lincotn street. Workmen's Circle Hall, 1047 West 61st street, Englewood, Workmen's Circle Hall, 130 Madison St., Maywood, Ill,” Mrs. Matilda Kalousek's home, 2306 West 58th Court. tacheobtan Ps Press, eae 8. Halsted street, CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) to finance England’s war effort. Yet those fellows were patriots while men and women who told the truth about the war were sent to jail. ses ‘OHN CLAYTON, staff correspond- ent of the Chicago Tribune return- ed after a month’s investigation of con- ditions in Mexico. The investigation must have been conducted in the arch- bishop’s palace judging from the simi- larity between Clayton’s stories and the lies peddled by the Knights of Columbus. This kind of manufactured atrocity is considered necessary in order to prepare the public mind for war. The workers must be “hopped up” so they will forget their own trou- bles and don the armor of the cru- sader, eee 'VIDENTLY Clayton and the “Trib” suddenly learned that manufactur- ed atrocity tales were not as popular as they might. Clayton's article in yesterday’s Tribune confined itself to praising the work of American capital- ism in Mexico, how it benefited the peons and much more, In the same issue there appeared an article by Arthur Sears Henning, Tribune cor- respondent assigned to the White House which stated that the atrocity yarns were just yarns and practically labelling those who published them as liars. eee NE of the most brazen lies cfr- culated by church publicity agen- cies in the United States against Mex ico is a story with a St. Louis date to the effect that children between 14 and 15 years of age under the jurisdic- tion of nuns in Mexico were placed in immoral institutions by Mexican of- ficials, Those shameless liars expect to win the sympathies of the American workers for their cause but they have not yet learned that the best of liars are those who do not “rub it on too thick.” YOUNG WORKER MEETING DISCUSS BRITISH STRIKE An important meeting of the Down- town Street Nucleus of the Y. W, will be held #n Friday, August 20, 1926, at 1902 W. Division street, Com- rade Morris Yusem will speak on the British strike, All members are re- quested to bring membership cards and be prepared to settle for tickets, etc, Wh Wine Not Become a y