The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1926, Page 5

| [RE tt BRITISH LABOR PARTY PLANS TO BUCK LANDLORDS Trade Union Congress : Joins Move By BILL ROSS, Federated Press. LONDON. — (FP) —The announce- ment that the British Trades Union congress and the Labor party confer- ence will consider within a few weeks an agricultural policy for the labor movement meaus that British labor is about to challenge landlordism and capitalism on a bigger scale than ever before. The executives of both wings of the movement have approved the plan, Until now the Labor party was the only one of the three radical parties without a clearcut policy on the vex- ing agricultural problem, The Conserv- atives have always had their strong- holds in the rural districts. Lloyd George came out with a “solution” of the land question for the Liberal party. Having gained a large propor- tion of industrial constituency, the labor party realizes that it cannot come into power without making a big dent in the rural districts. The draft proposes public owner- ship of land on the basis of compen- sation to the owners. For the farm laborer a higher standard of life will be sought, land made easily available and housing provided. Agriculture is to be revived by reclaiming land and by modern methods. In many ways the agricultural laborer is worse off than the miner. His wage for a 50-hour week is $7.50. The 900,000 agricultural laborers form a@ permanent peasant class, The tra- dition of resentment against the land- lord and ecclesiastical oppressors in- clines the agricultural laborer to sym- pathize with his fellow worker in the town. Many of his immediate rela- tives are miners, metal workers or railwaymen. Rural workers are not well organ- ized, but during the general strike their sympathies were with their fel- lows, Those who visited villages ap- pealing for the miners frequently men- tion the generosity of the impover- Rumor Volstead to Get Job. WASHINGTON, Aug, 18.—Rumors that Brig. Gen. W. E. Rhinow, north- west prohibition director, would re- sign his post October 1, and be suc- ceeded by Andrew Volstead, author of the dry law, were denied today by General Lincoln C. Andrews, head of dry enforcement. May Prosecute Drys. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—A formal request for the criminal prosecution of the Anti-Saloon League of America on charges of alleged violation of the corrupt practices act was before the department of justice today as the latest attack on the national dry. or- ganization. THE DAILY WORKER ; Farben laly OF CHINA,” Dolsen. A new book that makes a splendid addition to every workers’ library, Worker Correspondence PRIZES for stories sent\ in this week to appear in the issue of Friday, August 20 —“OIL IMPERIALISM,” by Louis Fischer, A new book on the story of Oli and the part America plays in this struggle. bound edition, Cloth- Cam te hbtt OSSIP,” Stories of New Russia. Unusual stories by the most significant of the new Russian writers. by Jas, A. Subscribe! year. Published monthly. To the American Worker Correspondent to learn what and how to write. 50 cents a JOHN WALKER FINDS ‘LABOR RECORD’ TO AID INSULL’S MAN SMITH President John H. Walker, Illinois State Federation of Labor, gives the following ba for his indorsement of Samuel Insull’s nominee Frank L. Smith for United States senator: “The federation found, on the basis of American Federation of La- bor records, that Smith while con- gressman had a 100% clear labor record,” Walker says, “Smith as chairman of the Illinois commerce commission issued orders making full crews compulsory for switching In the railroad yards. He ordered the mine washhouse law ex- tended: to all railroad: workers and also ordered shelter for head brake- men. He turned votes in the legis- lature to put thru the injunction limitation bill, to defeat the state constabulary and to force primaries for circuit judges in Cook county, He saved utility consumers $360,006,- 000 a year in reduced rates,” Open Pit That Caused Death of 49 in 1880 STELLERTON, N. S., Aug. 18.—The Foord pit which ‘was’ hermetically sealed since an’ explosion‘ there in 1880, when forty-nine coal “miners were entombed, has begun’ to give up its dead. A shaft has been driven into the old workings and men, braving the’ gases, have entered the interior and: recov- ered the bodies of three of the miners. Husband Runs Amick; 3° Die. MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, Aug, 18.— Mrs. Catherine Davidson Escott, 43, was dead here today, her two. grown sons were at the point of death to- day the result of the husband going on a rampage with a revolver at Mrs. Escott’s home here Sunday, FARRINGTON HAS RIVAL FOR JOB NEXT ELECTION State Senator Sneed of Herrin Is Opponent HERRIN, Ill., Aug. “18.—President Frank Farrington of the Illinois Mine Workers, who announced his candi- dacy for re-election before leaving for Europe, will have William Sneed of Herrin, one of his executive board members, as a rival in the referen- dum election December 14, Farrington In England. Farrington will attend the British Trades Union Congress at Bourne- mouth, England, September 6 as a fra- ternal delegate from the American Federation of Labor. Sneed is a sen- ator in the Illinois legislature and is far from being a progressive. Sneed has been regarded at times as a “Lewis man,” but there are indi- cations that the Lewis forces are not unfriendly to Farrington, giving rise to miner gossip in Illinois that either Farrington or Sneed will withdraw in favor of the other before the ballots are marked, Extradite Chicago Beer Runner for Ind. Murder The long fight that Frank McErlane, reputed beer runner, gangster and gun- man, put up to escape extradition into Indiana ended today when Judge John P. MoGorty ordered him returned. The extradition warrant was signed by Governor Small some months ago. McErlane must stand trial at Crown Point, Ind., for the murder of Thad- deus Rancher, young Crown Point at- torney, who was killed by three ban- dits who held up a roadhouse on May 4, 1924, UNITY, ATTAINED IN TRADE ION MOVEMENT OF BULGARIA; DIVISION ENDED FOR FIGHT ON EXPLOITERS By S. POPOFF, For long years the trade unions of Bulgaria were arrayed against one another, When the reactionary government shot down the Communists, the socialists, with all their influence, rejoiced in the bloodshed of their suffer- ing brothers. Some socialist leaders went so far as to help the reaction. Happiness Short Lived. The worst thing was that the reaction won, and those who were rejoicing over their rival's suffering, were put under the same repression. right to think was denied. are now joining hands, succeed if they get rid of their stiff- necked and ‘proud leaders. Now steps are being taken and unity attained among the majority of the worker8 in the trade unions of Bulgaria upon the basis of the class Struggle. Tere is one war and that war is for betterment of working class conditions and the final triumph of economic and political emancipa- tion, Work ‘of Unity Committee. On July 21, in a great mass meet- ing such as Sofia has not seen for many years, the workers amid great enthusiasm, were told by a joint com- mittee of the two rival organizations, that both were to be united under the name, General Workers’ Union Al- liance of Bulgaria. The following extracts are taken from the program of unity upon which they have united until a conference will take place not more than six months from now: “1, The two existing general work- ers’ unions, the Independent Trade Unions and the Workers’ Societies, are united regardless of the numbers of membership. The unity is based upon equal rights for all members, The rights of the members in each union are to be continued. Blood was Basis of Unity. “2, The unions and the General Workers’ Union Alliance are inde- pendent of ‘any political party. In their ranks ‘they admit wage workers of both sexes, regardless of their po- litical beliefs, race or age. “5, The purpose of the unions and the G. W. U. A. is to protect the working class and advance its cul- tural development. For this purpose they will fight: To apply collective agreement instead of separate ones, to assure a maximum of 6 and 8 hours a day and minimum wage for a stand- ard of living, to get rid of piece work, work on a percentage, etc., to stop night work ‘in all shops possible, for a paid vacation, fight against the high cost of living, unemployment, and fight against exploitation and wage slavery. For Industrial Unionism. “6, To .a@eomplish these purposes the G. W. U. ‘A, will use its organized power, press, assemblage, strikes, boycotts, meetings, demonstrations, lawful means, etc. “J, The united unions tend to be- come mass Organization as they at- tract to their ranks the majority of the workers. They will establish The Furriers’ Strike: Its Outcome and Its Lessons By B. GOLD, Chairman of the New York Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union, ARTICLE I. HE Forward, Vecker, the New Leader and our own sheet, the Fur Worker, which is the organ of the fur- riers’ international, are very busily occupied in proving that the furriers. won nothing in their last strike. It is very interesting to note the statements of these writers: The Communists merely raised a siege which is no victory at all. It was by fear that the fur workers hailed its outcome. The fur workers were so anxious to be absolved from the Com- munist terror that they were happy to go to work under any conditions, Simultaneously these “papers” do not fafl to state the eight points which were accepted for settlement by the president of the Fur Workers’ In- ternational—Schachtman—as a vic- Summer New York. ANTON BiMBA, De Felitor Lithuanian “Lais Dancing SSS sessssssssessrssssssssssssssy Philadelphia, Attention! Celebrate the Seventh Jiiaimeciany of the Organization of the Workers (Communist) Party at the SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1926 NEW MAPLE GROVE PARK tory, but reiterate continually that the Communist leaders forced them into the prolongation of the strike for the Communist Party—that’s all. No one expected the Forward and its co-workers to tell the truth about the gains that the fur workers had ob- tained by their seventeen weeks’ brave fight. Neither did anyone think that the Forward would aid the fur work- ers in their strike for better living con- ditions. It is well known, and for a long while past, that the paper of bunkum socialism has no connections with and does not represent any work- ers. Of course, the Forward and its smaller fry would feel happier had the furriers with their Communist leaders suffered a loss in their fight. Didn’t the Forward, in association with the strike-breaking forces of the Interna- tional, do all in their power to curb it? Didn't the Forward serve the bosses openly thru provocations in their col- umns which surpassed any work done Festival right wing leaders are slowly but surely developing socialism in Amer- by spies or agents of the department of justice? What was the purpose of the For- ward co-workers in entering this senseless league with the view of breaking the strike? What was the object of Abraham Cahan’s “caucuses” with the leaders of the international? Whom did the Forward serve with its wild attacks on the furriers’ leaders in its stupid endeavor to demoralize the striking Hines? It was not the fault of the Forward nor of the inter- national officers that they could not break the strike. They have done all they could to do so. Let that be their only consolation. Of course, the For- ward would feel happiest had the fur workers’ lost, but if the outcome of the furriers’ strike was diametrically different from the one that they had wished, is only a logical result of all laws of their strike-breaking tactics. Now they are all set to prove that the furriers won nothing, that the ones that are at fault for that are the Com munists, If the Right Had Won. T is truly useless to prove that the furriers won, by strike, material gains, which improved their economic conditions. Had these points been won by those of the Forward school it would have been hailed as a revolu- tion. Imagine what would have hap- pened had these advances been made by the now driven-out ex-President Kaufman & Co, instead of by the Com- munists. What wouldn’t the Forward have done to make it popular, of the Forward pen specialists would have been able to deduce that the One ized the furriers’ union in the three years that they were in power. The lefts have only been in power for just one year. They have not only reor- ganized and strengthened the union but led the strike of 1926 with gains for the workers. How They Did It. N 1920, when the Forward boys called a strike, the furriers had a larger treasury and a smaller member- ship—over 7,000 in number. In 1926 the membership of the union was larger, 12,000, and the treasury smaller. In 1920 the strike was called at the very beginning of the season, in the month of May. In 1926 the bosses made a lock-out in February, about three or four months before the advent of the season, In 1920 each worker, without excep- tion, had a saved up capital, because the fur workers had worked five years without rest, due to the war pros- perity, In 1926 there were many work- ers unemployed since the end of No- vember, 1925, and no savings to sup- port them. During 1920 each manu- facturer had a great surplus of furs. The war prices of furs began to drop, The majority of the manufacturers were at the threshold of bankruptcy. The only thing that could save them from entiresruin was the settlement with the union, and to put out on the market ready-made garments, which were yet a marketable product. Many manufacturers saved themselves be- cause they ‘Rave put on the market ready-to-wear garments, Easier’ Then Than Now. 'N 1920 the international office was controlled by the Joint Board. For this reason no scab work could have been made in other cities, like Chi- double-cros: London whispered, “Correct! ers.” treachery and corruption, reigned con- Even the paid for the lesson, but the workers They wil4¢————__________ DICTATOR WOOD VETOES PHILIPPINE PLEBISCITE BILL THE SECOND TIME (Special to The Daily Worker) MANILA, P, L, Aug. 18—Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood vetoed a bill passed by the Philippine legislature providing for a plebiscite on the question of the independence of the Philippines. This is the second time that Wood has vetoed such a bill. His action was based on the ground that only the “sovereign power” could decide such a question. The legislature will probably pass the bill again over his veto and the mat- ter will be referred to President Coolidge. themselves wpon the industrial prin- ciple. Existing unions established on craft lines will reorganize themselves upon industrial lines, “8, The unions will fight for es- tablishment of shop committees. Right of Criticism. “9, Freedom of thought, opinion and criticism is guaranteed to all members of the united unions within the framework of the organization and without any injury to the unity of action. The unions and the G. W. U, A, rest upon the basis of demo- cratic centralization.” The matter of internatonal affilia- tion will be taken up at the coming conference, Attorney Demands Aimee Produce Her Radio Operator LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18.—On the strength of reports that Aimee Semple McPherson has knowledge of the pres- ent whereabouts of Kenneth G. Ormis- ton, former Angelus Temple «radio operator, Milton M. Golden, attorney. for four newsboys charged with sell- ing a San Diego newspaper containing an allegedly obscene ‘story about the evangelist, announced he will request Mrs, McPherson to produce Ormiston at the trial of the news vendors, August 23. SEND IN YOUR SUB TO THE DAILY WORKER! ward were buried there and never came to light. The Forward was then terribly wor- ried why its boys lost their jobs and were driven from the union. Meyer London called a conference of the ac- tive members and pleaded with us, that we again mount the Kaufman gang into the saddle, The strike of 1920 could not have been won, because the strike was led with the aid of a band of hired slug- gers who received $20 per day from the union. The sluggers protected the scabs, received graft from the bosses, stole coats and betrayed the workers at each step. The strikers were kept in fear under the mailed fist. Did the leaders know about it? Of course the Forward knew what was happening in the strike. But the strike leaders, as well as the Forward, were silent and whitewashed all that happened. These are the methods and the tac- tics of the Forward gang. This is their conception of union leadership. The entire hope for support they lay upon the hired strong, in strikes as well as in times of peace. “Membership? Puppies!” HE membership? The rank and file? Puppies! was the descrip- tive term of Meyer London when we spoke to him of the membership of the union, While speaking about the workers, our former president, Mr. Kaufman, said once at a convention in Boston, “Your rank and file are and later Comrade He has well rubbed it into your rank and fil- The strike tactics of the mailed fist, Rising Sun Ave, and Olney Ave. SREAKERS: ; BEN GITLOW, Candidate for Governor of New York BEN GOLD, Leasier of the Victorious Furriers’ Strike in dant in Famous Mass. Hi Refreshments Music by the Young Workers’ Mandolin Orchestra ica. Why, Abraham have based his bunk: such important advan We, the left wingers of the union, would undoubt- edly recognize the victory. If the right wingers could only do it! The trouble is that the rights cannot lead workers on the road of strife and vic- tory.. The Forward’s men are only capable of demoralizing and deteriér- ating unions and breaking strikes; that is, wherever they are successful. Th sy Trial, x ¢ ? ¢ : ¢ é r : ? ? r r ¢ : é ? é ? ; ; : ; ¢ : r r) : r r ? é ? ¢ r ; ; : é ; P 4 ; r) r Singing lose strike, the anon ava ‘The Forward then strikes. cago, Boston, Philadelphia. In 1926 the international was controlled by the officers of the Forward’s group and shops of other cities were not only tinually for three years in the furriers’ union. Since the beginning of 1922 to May, 1925, continually under the lead- p of the Forward and its “boys.” left wingers were persecuted, ex- cluded from union activities, expelled entirely, whereas the right wingers under full protection of the Forward took full commnad, When the facts were discovered it was learned that a manager of the union was caught with the goods, and that the secretary had an agreement with the manager, The entire union absorbed in graft. And yet door Ae Gahan, editor of the Forward, come out with the Communists are BAW © We shall again refer to this subject. The most important thing that we wish to point out here is that in many points the conditions of 1920 were more favorable for the strike than in 1926, Nevertheless, not only did the Forward boys, the then union lead- but they broke not write about the treachery ve CLEVELAND, OHIO, —— Melrose 317w FURNITURE Page Five By Upton Sinclair — (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinciair> WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, son of J. Arnold Ross, California oll operator, is thir- When “Bunny” R teen years old, he goes with Dad to Beach City to sign an oil lease. There he meets Paul Watkins, near his own age who had run away from his father’ Poor ranch in the San Elido Valley because the family were “holy rollers.” H brother Eli is a cripple who has fits and “heals” people. From time to time Bunny hears from Paul and sends money to his family. In the meantime Bunny is learning the oil business with his Dad who, along with other oil operators ie Profiting by the war that had broken out in Europe. Bunny persuades his Dad to go for a quail hunting trip to San Elido Valley. There they meet the Watkins family and Bunny becomes acquainted with Paui’s sister, Ruth, whom he likes. While hunting, they locate oil on the ranch and Dad wheedles it out of old Watkins and also buys adjacent property secretly. In the meantime Bunny starts to high school at Beach City and falls in love with a fellow student, Rose Taintor. When they are ready to drill Bunny and Dad go back to the ranch to dirett the work. They persuade Paul to come to live with them and work as @ carpenter. Paul had been living with a lawyer who took an interest in him and left him a legacy of books when died. Paul and Ruth live in a shack near the well sight. Eventually the well is begun and Eli, now turned proph® and the pet of wealthy adherents to the faith, makes a blessing as the drilling be- gins. Bunny goes back to school and finds himself tiring of Rose Taintor, But Soon the glad news comes that Bunny’s well in the San Elido Valley has struck oil lands. A new field is started. As Bunny and Dad watch the drilling the oil suddenly pours out in a great Jet—and it catches fire. Everyone runs for thelr lives. Dad drives in great haste to town—for dynamite. He returns and the blast is quickly gotten ready. When the charge is set off, the blaze is snuffed out and the well saved. Bunny is a millionaire ten times over. e e - © CHAPTER VII THE STRIKE I A year had passed, and you would hardly have known the town of Paradise, The road was paved, all the way up from the valley, and lined with placards big and little, for sale or lease, and shacks and tents in which the selling and leasing was done. Presently you saw derricks—one right alongside Eli’s church, and another by that_holier of holies, the First National Bank, Somebody would buy a lot and build a house and move in, and*~ the following week they would sell the house, and the purchaser would move it away, and start an oil derrick. A great many never. __ got any farther than the derrick—for subdividers of real estates _ had made the discovery that all the advertising in the world was not equal to the presence of one such structure on the tract. You counted eleven as you drove to the west side of the valley, *'> where the Excelsior gusher had spouted forth; and from the top of the ridge, you could count fifty, belonging to a score of differ- ent companies. Going east, there were a dozen more before you . reached the Ross tract, and now some one was prospecting on the - far side of this tract, along the slide to Roseville, where the Mineral Springs Hotel was being built. The little Watkins arroyo was the site of a village. You counted fourteen derricks here and there on the slopes and big tanks down below, and tool-houses and sheds, and an office. Dad had built the new home of the Watkins family near the entrance to the place; they had sold their goats, and they now irrigated a tract and raised strawberries and garden truck and chickens and eggs for the company mess. In addition to that, they had a little stand by the road-side, and Mrs. Watkins and the girls baked pies and cakes and other goodies, which disap- peared down the throats of oil-workers with incredible rapidity, assisted by “soft drinks” of vivid hues. But you couldn’t buy any “smokes” at the stand, these being contrary to the Third Revelation, and obtainable at the rival stand across the road. The new bunk-house stood a little way back, under the Shelter of some eucalyptus trees. It had six showet-baths, which were generously patronized, but to Bunny’s great sorrow you seldom saw anybody in the reading-room, despite the pretty cur- tains which Ruth had made; the high-brow magazines were rarely smudged by the fingers of oil-workers. Bunny tried to find out why, and Paul told him it was because the men had to work too - long hours; Paul himself, as a carpenter, had an eight hour day, and found time for reading; but the oil-workers were on two -~ shifts twelve hours each, and they worked every day in the year, both Sundays and holidays. When you had put in that much * time handling heavy tools, you wanted nothing but to get your supper and lie down and snore. This was a problem which Dad was too busy to solve just now. Paul was boss-carpenter, having charge of all the buflding operations; quite a responsibility for a fellow not quite of age. So far they had completed forty shacks for the workers’ families, costing about six hundred dollars each, and renting for thirty dollars a month with water, gas and electric light free. No one knew exactly what these latter services cost so Bunny could not determine whether the price was fair or not, and neither could the oil-workers; but Dad said they were glad to get the houses, which was the business man’s way of determining fairness, But there was one point upon which Bunny had interfered with energy; he didn’t see why everything about the oil industry had to be so ugly, and certainly something ought to be done about these shacks. He asked Ruth about it, and they drove to» > a nursery in San Elido, and without saying anything to Dad, incurred a bill for a hundred young acacia trees, each in a tin can, and two hundred climbing roses, each with its roots tled up in a gunny sack. So now at every shack there was a young tree with a stake beside it, and all along the road there were frames made of gas pipe with a rose vine getting ready to climb, It was Ruth’s duty once a month to pull one of the laborers off * his job and make him soak the trees and the vines, and next day cultivate them and dig away the grass and weeds. For this service Ruth was compelled to receive a salary of ten dollats a month, and bore the imposing title of “Superintendent of i- cultural Operations.” Bunny would inspect the growing plants, and sit in his reading room, and persuade himself that he had - - made a start as a social reformer, resolving the disharmonies be- tween capital and labor, about which he was being taught in the “social ethics” class in school, ' (To be continued) E,W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Better Than Ever This Year Six Places H ae ° 169 N. Clark 118 S. Clark { Illinois State Fair |e w. washington | 167 n. Stare : 5 42 W. Harrison 234 S. 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