The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1926, Page 1

i] The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers' Government By THOMAS J, O’FLAHERTY HE job of a “bona fide” labor leader is not to be sneezed at nowadays. According to the Illinois State Federa- tion of Labor news letter, Mf. John H. Walker receives a weekly salary of $104.17 and Victor Olander a simi- lar amount. Now we don’t want to make it look as if we are picking on John any more than on other. labor leaders who receive nice salaries, but it may be in order to observe that $100 a week is something most work- ers would be willing to weep for. ps on the slightest pretext. bees yet perhaps a man of Walker's ability would now be president of a railway, a bank or head of a_public| utility, like Sam Insull-and others, if he had not thrown in his lot with} trade unionism. And - perhaps not.| But, we are willing to give a man the benefit of every reasomable doubt. William G, Beird, president of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, described as & rugged specimen of “four-square nanhood,” whatever that is, started | fe from the bottom. Most people do. j'ven Jesus, who was not conceived in te usual manner, was only a child when he firet saw the light. eas TR. BEIRD started to work as a ~'* compton laborer. He was not sat- isfled. He studied, burned the mid- night ofi and advanced step by step until he got to where he is today. “In ail my life,” said Mr, Beird, “when I was offered a new position, I never asked ‘what's. the salary?” And 1 never asked for an increase.” What a heaven this country would be for the capitalists Mf all the workers were like little Willie Bsird?. Now, haw. Mr. Beird been a union man. like Mr. Walker, for instance, he would prob- In Chicago, by m Outside Chicago, CHURCH vEFEATED I MEXICAN WAR Calles Ignores Peace Whine of Bishops (Special to The Dally Worker) © MEXICO CITY, August, 19—Presi- dent Calles gave every indication of turning a deaf ear to the peace plea of the episcopate which he considers a confession of impotence and loss ‘of morale due to the refusal of the United States to intervene on the demand of the Knights of Columbus, and the failure of the abortive con- spiracy of General Estrada who was arrested by United States agents in California with all his men and mules. The church is beaten, In a long letter to the president the episco- pate. stresses its paeific intentions) and ‘with true jesuit cunning argues that one is not violating a law by re- fusing to obey it. Worth Next To Nothing. Government officials declare that the most unreliable thing in the world. Accustomed as the Mexican masses are to jesuit sophistry they are amaz- ed that the clergy would have the impudence to claim pacific. inten- tions after having instigated a boy- cott designed to paralyze industry and make it possible during the expected chaos for the ever-ready reactionary militarists to overthrow the revolu- tiqnary government, Breaking With Rome, 2 bly be now. receiving only a miserable ‘tlance of one hundred dollars a) week, eae ae TYAROLD F. McCORMICK. was un- able to recover a mythical $5; 000,000 estate for an equally mythical sultan’s daughter, but his millions have made Ganna Walska sing accord- ing.to the papers It. was said that McCormick was astounded. at his wite's sudden development in singing. This looks suspicious. Ganna may bave mutilated a nightingale and -set the bird's gland to work. If so, bird- ists have a. bright future ahead “of? them, if they only know how “to: go about it. sae a ESSRS. Doheny, Fall and Sinclair ph are yet unjailed. This is not news. It is only comment on’ the news. Those gentlemen have been (Continued on page 2) | In all probability the Calles admin-| istration will proceed to finish the job of putting the church where it belongs. It.is expected that within the near future hundreds of native priests will accept the government's decrees. Those who comply with the law are given possession of their churches. If a considerable number of clergy: follow the. example of those who have already accomodated them- selves to the. new order of’ things a situation ‘somewhat similar to that which obtained in«Russia-after the revolution will exist in Mexico, . > Plilar of Czarism. hal, In Russia as in Mexico the orthodox church was the strongest pillar of| Czarism. As in Mexico it fleeced the people and kept them in ignoratice. Naturally they ran into trouble nn the workers and peasants cainé Bho | their own. Many of the younger éler- (Continued on page 2) HARRY JENSEN, LOCAL CARPENTERS’. HEAD, RE-ELECTED BY MEANS OF BALLOTS STOLEN FROM LOCAL 1786 BY A PROGRESS! The investigation into the loss of IVE CARPENTER. the ballots cast by members of Local nail, $8.00 per year, by mail, $6.00 p year. Stop Seab Goal Ships VERY pound of coal destined ter whether it is mined and transported by union men, and all mine, railroad and marine transport workers should refuse to haul any coal that may go to break the strike of the British miners. The great bulk of coal shipments are going from Norfolk, Baltimore and Hampton Roads ports, and the Balti- more branch of the Marine Transport Workers of the I, W. W. has shown a splendid example of class solidarity by laying down a boycott against coal ships to Britain. All transport work- | Paul McKenna, British miners’ President John Fitzpatrick will Labor. for the meeting. ers are asked to follow this example. | Stop scab coal to Britain! And send in additions to the following list of scab coal movements: Oriole Lines—U. S. Shipping Board To Manchester and Glasgow Leaving: From Baltimore: Artigus . Bannak Clairton Sept. 8 To Cork and Cadiff, Dublin and Londonderry | Vittorio Emmanuelli ...............8ept. 23 Furness Lines (British) | To Liverpool and Glasgow {Savannah .... August 24 | Cunard and Anchor Lines (British) To London S. S. Mahseer Sept. 1 American Merchant Line To London, Leith and Dundee City of Flint | Lehigh’ Chickasaw Bristol City Line Leaving Norfolk: S. S. Boston City . August 23 8. S. New York City Sept. 4 Halifax Scab Coal Movements S. S. Roman Prince, sailed Aug 16. | S.-S. Persian Prince, sailed Aug. 13. SATURDAY, AU 1786 he y t! ple q of the carpenters brotherhood in the last election for officers of the | Both above loaded coal at Norfolk district cotineil has convinced the investigators that Harry Jensen was re- elected president of the council by corrupt means and his election is appealed to International President William Hut cheson, jpound for England. Laid up for storm {damage repair at Halifax. | S$. S. Astoli Mendle (Spanish), Who got the missing ballots or where they are now rfbbody suspected of | bound to Norfolk from Antwerp to load being connected with their disappearance will admit. The local cast 510 ballots, 159 of which were given to Jensen and 351 for Fred Bobzin who ran for Jensen's office. Stranger at the Gate. A man giving his name as Jack McCormack representing himself as a member of the tabulating committee appeared at the home of the secretary ct Local 1786 the morning after the ballots were cast and said he was (Continued on page 5) For a The Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) with mak ballot in ten or twelve states “and” congress. A wide-spread mpaign announcement of the campaign of DAILY WORKER in a few gays, ‘T HE capitalist class of this country secured a continuation of its con- trol of the government through the victory of Coolidge in the 1924 clec- tlons, It has used its power to strengthen its position as-againat the masses ‘of workers and farmers, which it exploits, and to increase its profits at the expense of the standard of life of the workers and fanmers, has been provi J trations, that the government,, w: a republican, or dei ‘atic \kes public the program af the party for the congressidnal elec- tions this year. The party will have candidates for state offices on the ‘ be organized by the party during the election. campaign,, Speakers will be routed to visit hundreds of ‘cities and the campaign’ i phrty will be distributed in the hundreds of thousands of copies. The Party here- ‘some forty or fifty cahdidates for of agitation and props Janda will fete of the the party will be made in The he program follows: the interests of the capitalist class and against the workers and farmers, The only difference between the Coolidge administration and its pre- dec rs of both old parties is that it shows more clearly the growing ab- solutism of the big capitalists and that it has more openly and aggres- sively aided the capitalist class in its exploitation of the workers and farm: ers.) Spd i ‘The workers and tarthers of this niry can Ee Reutaiete f from the r of th ve Y 4 4, | coal. Slush Senator Enters Sanitarium. MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 19.— Senator W. B. McKinley of Illinois. was undergoing treatmetn in a sani- tarium here today. The senator e tered the sanitarium upon his arrivai jhere from Washington last evening. ination and control of the government, wrench the governmental power from the control ‘of the capitalists and establish a workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment which will use that power to abolish the) exploitation by the cap- italists and to create the conditions which will give the workers and farm- ers a higher standard of life, The workers and farmers are nat- ural allies in this struggle. They are fighting, against the same enemy. They are exploited by the same capitalist class. They must unite their strength to establish, in place of the present capitalist government, a workers’ and farmers’ government, The Workers (Communist) Party makes the following analysis of the vecord of the government under the control of Coolitige and Morgan and with it presents its program to guide the struggles of the workers and farm- ers against the capitalist class and its government, AILY WOR Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office-at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, HERRIOT GETS SUPPORT UPON “SPLIT OF LEFT England is scab, regardiess ot| Blames Socialists; But Defends Poincare (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, Aug. 19—Edouard Herriot, minister of education in the cabinex of the reactionary Poincare, has ap- peared at Lyons, before the radical party, of which he is the chief, to justify hle own actions which have led up to the complete collapse of the left bloc. Defende Attack on Caillaux. The first charge made against him CHICAGO WORKERS, SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY WITH THE BRITISH || MINERS AT MASS MEETING TONIGHT! delegate now In Chieago gathering relief for the striking miners of Great Britain, will address a mass meet- the: word of a Mexican bishop is about | ing called by the United Hebrew Trades and the City Committee of the , Workmen's Circle at the Workmen's Circle Lyceum, formerly Park Auditorium, corner South Kedzie and Ogden Aves. Douglas represent the Chicago Federation of There ‘will also be speakers representing the United Hebrew Trades and the City Committee of the Workmen's Circle. Every worker in Chicago that realizes the importance of the battle In Great Britain and the urgent need to support the British miners in this hour of need should attend this meeting. The meeting has been called on a four-day notice. It was not possible to get the proper publicity out Every reader of The DAILY WORKER in Chicago is urged to attend this meeting and demonstrate hig or her solidarity with the striking miners of the British Isles, was that he had deliberately brought about the defeat of the Briand-Cait laux cabinet in order to take its places. M. Herriot replied that the full pow- ers M. Caillaux sought would havo permitted the American and English debts setlements to become law ana that this was one of the principal rea: sons for his forsaking the president of the chamber, taking his seat as a plain deputy and making the speech which shatter Caillaux's» hopes for financial dictatorship. Excuses Blét with Poincare. He described’ the early fall of his own cabinet as due to failure to ob- tain socialist collaboration and a vio lent campaign against him “which went as far assa:formal invitation to assassinate me.” In reply to charges that he had ac cepted a portfolio in the Poincare cabinet without consulting the parlia mentary group ef his party—which ac- tion the radicals‘are least able to for- give—M. Herribt said the dangerous condition of thé'finances forced him to give M. Poincare an immediate an- swer and he therefore took the respoy sibility on his‘own shoulders. Defends Poincare’s Policy. M. Herriot then alluded to the poli- cies M. Poincare had pursued and found satisfaction in the fact that the ‘cabinet relied on national effort for salvation instead of foreign crea- its, “Assuredly when we decided not to become indebted by loans,” M. Herriot said, “when we decided not to en- slave ourselves thru new externat debts beyond those strictly necessary for stabilization, there was only ons outlet—taxation.” M. Herriot concluded: by likening his position to «that of the socialis: Vandervelde, whose party was critical (Continued on Page 3.) aires of the payment ‘ot hundreds of millions of dollars, The Coolidge ad- ministration manipulated the tariff on sugar so as to give higher profits to the sugar trust. The government main- tains the high protective tariff for the benefit of the big corporations and trusts compelling the workers and farmers to pay “higher prices. In the after-war periédd, the capitalist coun- tries generally \find, it necessary to build high protective tariff walls in the interests of their capitalists because of the sharp competition for markets. All the legislation and manipulation of taxation and tariff have been for the purpose of increasing the burdens on the workers and farmers and to create greater profits for the capitalists. 1, The Workers (Communist) Party proposes a struggle by the GUST 21, 1926 NEW YORK EDITION Sra ae ee nee y except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER , 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ll. cto 290 British Miners Continue Strike When Mine Owners Ask Complete Surrender (Sepclal Cable to The Dally Worker) Price 3 Cent, ONDON, August 19.—Efforts by the Miners’ Federation executives to reach an agreement on a new basis authorized by this week's delegate conference, have failed. The meeting was with the coal mine owners, the first of such meetings in two months. Because the owners feel that, with the weakness and treachery of the General Council of Trade Unions, the miners are isolated ahd on the defensive, the owners are refusing anything but complete surrender and are pressing on in an effort to break up the union. x The meeting of delegates authorized the miners’ executive to negotiate with a free hand on the terms of settlement, with the exception that any agreement must be on a national scale and not by districts, and with the additional understanding that there must not be any concession on the longer work day. The delegates believed that an agreement could be reached by con- ceding only a wage reduction— half of the slogan “Nota penny! | STRIKERS’ DELEGATE CONFERENCE off the pay; not a minute on the day” thus being dropped. || OFFICIALLY REFUTES BALDWIN LIES The South Wales miners stood adamant against any compro- IN MESSAGE SENT AMERICAN LABOR mise whatever, and were out- voted only by a nine per cent (Sepcial to The Daily Worker) majority on the whole question LONDON, Aug. 19.—The delegate conference of the Miners’ Federa- of giving a free hand to the tlon of Great Britain has authorized the following message to America, executive, which was pleaded for by in. refutation of the message sent by Premier Stanley Baldwin, who A. J. Cook, federation secretary. Nom- claimed that distress In the coal miners’ families was “exaggerated” and inally, his pleading carried. But| who tried to prevent Americans from sending strike relief. The miners there was deep opposition because of say: the executive’s previous action in ap- “The conference emphatically protests against the action of the prime proving the proposal of the bishops, yd a compromise proposal injurious to| ™inister In sending an untrue communication to the American press timed the miners and which they votea| te reach America when the Miners’ Federation delegation landed In that down in a referendum. country. This was done obviously with the effect of preventing, as far as The executive was also empowered he possibly could, the American trade unionists and general public from to negotiate with the governmet' as} subscribing to the fund for the relief of the wives and children of the well as the owners, and it is Dre! British miners, who are the principal sufferers thru the lockout of the sumed that Prencder Baldwia ie be miners by the coal owners, sis ethic abe hepa ats ie “This affords further evidence that the government has definitely worked hand in glove with the mine| decided to assist the mine owners to defeat the miners by starvation.” owners who have today rejected any-| —_ thing but a surrender from the inin- be AMERICAN LEFT WING UNIONISTS Phe ence also authorizcd the exmecomernce usiaum.t| GREET BRITISH WORKERS THRU to all foreign unions which have aidea the miners, the leading foreign unfuns NATIONAL MINORITY CONFERENCE which have contributed most being aerators ites the trade unions of the Union of So- The third annual conference of the National Minority Movement of clalist Soviet Republics. Great Britain's trade unions, whith is to be held August 28 and 29 in big AO can aA London, has been sent the following letter of greeting from the left Workers Is Electrocuted. wing trade union organization of the United States, the Trade Unien\ CLEVELAND, “Aug. 19. — George] ~aucational League: Ross, 41, and Robert Megus, 30, were Bee Bee oN electrocuted today while workinging Dear Comrades: The militant trade unionists of the United States gath- on a high tension transformer at Bay| ered in and around the Trade Union Educational League, convey their Village. (Continued from page 3) Te APPEAL of Chicago labor for an embargo on scab coal shipments to Great Britain went out yesterday to the whole organized labor movement thru this week's issue of the Fed- eration News, the official organ of the Chicago Federation of Labor. The American Federation of Labor is especially urged to aid in placing an embargo on all-coal intended to be used in break- * ing the British coal miners’ strike. The motion, unanimously adopted by the Chicago Federation of Labor, jal minutes reads as follows: “Motion that the American Federation of Labor be urged to do all pos- sible to prevent the shipment of coal to Great Britain during the strike was as it appears in the offi made and adopted.” This action of the Chicago Federation of Labor is an invitation to other city central labor bodies, local unions, state federations of labor and international unions that are now meeting or will soon be meeting in conventi jon to take similar position. Every ton of coal that goes to Eng- land means that the British miners must fight that much harder to win their struggle against the bosses. The Chicago Federation of Labor thru adopting the motion demanding that all shipments of coal to England be stopped for the duration of the strike shows that it realizes the need. of labor all over the world to help the miners in their fight to maintain and better their conditions. placed the burden on the workers and farmers. | Relief for the Farmers | HE agricultural crisis which is driv- ing millions of farmers from the land, bringing bankruptcy to other millions, increasing mortgages and tenantry, and which has made it im- possible for millions of farmers to secure a decent livelihood from their toil, has its origin in the contradiction between highly developed mass ma- chine production in industry and the less developed individual production upon the farms which exists under the capitalist system. We have monopoly and centralized production in industry with a dictation of prices, while agri- culture is unorganized and decentral- workers and farmers to increase the sur-taxes on the incomes of the great corporations and multi-millionaire capitalists. for increase of the in- heritance and gift taxes on the for- tunes, of the) capitalists, for down- ward revisiow of the tariff on the ne: iF ‘ Maal fazed, The crisis growing out of this funda- mental contradiction is intensified by the bitter exploitation to which the farmer is subjected thru the railroads, marketing organizations, food dis. tributing trusts; bankers and so forth, h tedly erent Workers’ and Farmers’ Government | PROGRAM OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY IN THE 1926 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS — self be insufficient to improve radical- ly their conditions, is a measur@ ithe interests of certain sections of farm- ers, and was therefore defeated by the capitalist parties. The big capital- ists Who dominate the government and exploit; the farmers as well as the workers are against relief measures tor thé farmers because the cost would come out-of their swollen profits: The farmers must ally themselves. with the workers to secure the enactment of the following measures for farm relief: Nationalization of railroads, eleva- tors, superpower industry, food trusts, etc. A five year moratorium on the debts of the farmers. The land to belong to the users, Anti-Labor Legislation— Laws Against Foreign- Born Workers ONGRESS has been particularly ac- tive in the field of anti-labor legis- lation. The Watson-Parker bill which was passed by congress, thru a series of boards of arbitration, investigation and mediation, practically denies the workers on the railroads the right to strike and is an ontstanding example of this legislation, Legislation is pend- ing to extend this law to the coal in- dustry, This is the entering wedge to rob the workers of their right to strike and thus to take from them an effect- ive weapén in their struggle for a higher standard of life, 2. Immediate passage of legisla- tion giving effect to the basic prop- ositions of the McNary-Haugen bill and to other relief demands of the farmer organizations to include all sections of agriculture in need of re- lief. This to be supplemented by the immediate appropriation of a halt billion dollars by the government to be used in establishing co-operative marketing organizatio. The con trol of the use of this appropriation” to be placed in the hands of the farmers’ organizations democratical- Be Bare sete the masses of workers in Po bcidthy'g oer a This law is against thé interests ot