The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a ~“rkers’ and Farmers’ Go # 6 ih abiaaceiclicaithincetbmath : on f Ae -_—_——————_____. o fe™. Vol. HI. No. 190. ¢° °? ~~» Rates: is mnie Pg ones rk 9 Soy Sek \\ By THOMAS J, O’FLAHERTY HAT the miners’ strike in Great Britain is in a ¢ritical condition is obvious, Due to the treachery of the T. U. ©, Jeaders the minets. were left to fight the battle alone. Not’even that but they. had to fight the Thom- ases, MacDonalds, Snowdens and ‘the rest of his majesty’s socialists. Now that the owners feel they. have the up- Per hand they refuse to display com- mon civility to Smith and Cook, ‘mine leaders. The owners say. they will deal with the miners over the heads of the leaders. oe f T is at this critical moment that the workers of the United - States should determine to Jeave no stone unturned to provide the sinews of.war to their comrades in Britain, If the strikers can secure enuf food to keep their wives. and children and them- selves ‘from starving they; will be able to hold out until the operators are forced to. come:to terms. . The rais- ing of funds. to-help the British min- ers is now a first charge on the class loyalty of the American workers, eo ATEST reports from Mexico indi- cate that. the struggle which has raged there for a month between the church and the state is about ‘to end in a victory for the government. See- ing all hope for American interven- tion vanish, the canny clericals made Peace overtures to the ‘president. Calles suggested that the episcopate could avail itself of avenues: provided by the constitution for a campaign to modify the religious decrees ‘tho he hinted that such ¢fforts would be fu- tile. In all probability thig brings. the inibroglio to an end for she’ time be- ing. Unless the church is completely erushe2 it will. abide its time and Seize on a more favorable occasion to make another drive for -tempora} power. ad * #0 HE anti-Japanese movement in China has again assumed ‘the form of mass demonstrations.~ In Shanghai, Chinese workers. in Japanese mills struck in protest against the killing of a Chinese hawker on board a Japanese freighter. A national: boycott against - Japanese goods is threatened and-the strikers| have applied to the’ Canton government for financial assistance. in the meantime the capitalist press features stories of defeats “for the Kominchun _ troops, The wish is father to the thot. oe HE Poincare, government has Placed France on.. war. , rations. Bakers. are urged to sell.only bread that has become stale on,the theory that the people will consume less of it in this state than fresh, from the oven, Restaurant service will be cur- tailed. The first step to, abolish rep- resentative municipal géyernment was foreshadowed when the government announced it would introduce bills to suppress municipal bodies “except those necessary to the country’s every- day life.” This is what the French get for winning the war, LADY correspondent.of the New York Times waxes lyrical in Praise of Mussolini’s .. accomplish- ments. . She admits that the workers are forced to toil below what is con- sidered “sweated labor" hut. isn’t better they should work for low wages than not work at all? This is the old familiar bunk. Despite those lit- (Continued on. page .2) , American ae ‘United States war department's summer military training? program {6 in full swing. Some 50,000 of the nation’s youth have been luréd”to 40 military training camps in almost as many states. The regular army of ficers of the nine army corps areas in the United States are on: reaching jingoism along. wit “ments of modern science to unsuspect- lads who have. gone. to the” a good time, (2) to ining, (3) to learn ‘ood \gitizens.” In the cs series of articles. on military 2 it will become clear why we have used the terms “lured” and “unsus- pecting.” f Why, after the United.States has emerged the sole victor in the world’s most gigantic armed conflict, are there civilian training camps? Why ig there military training in the eol- leges and high schools? None in 1916, In 1916 there were no such organi zations as citizen’s military training corps and reserve officers’ training corps. Now there: are more men trained in these “supplementary” mil- itary organizations than in the entire standing army of the country, What does this mean? ; rays It means several things: Imperialism Triumphant, */(Q) The winning of the. ‘Pepid industrial growth of the country . ‘ , * u 1 the ele- |. “the | thaE “OT10N IN CHINA LOSES AS IT WINS Nankow Pass Is Taken, But with Heavy Loss (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, Aug. 22, — The alliance between the two outstanding reaction. ary Chinese militarists is none to se- cure, since the empty and costly “vic- tory” of the alliance in taking the Nankow Pass from the Kuominchun or |people’s army. Chang's troops suf- fered enormous losses and Wu Pei-fu, the other party to the alllance, also lost heavily and is being hard pressed by the Cantonese troops marching north into central China, where the next conflict between the reactionaries and the liberation forces may take place. It is noted that Chang’s case is so bad that the money speculators are raiding Chang’s currency in a “bear” movement and are getting away with it, in spite of his decree “fixing” the value of his “yuan” or silver dollar. A Losing Victory. An inspection of the Kuominchun (national army) positions, abandoned Saturday after. withstanding a siege of 112 days, reveals a hollow victory for the Manchurian army of Marshal | Chang Tso-lin, which was organized | by Feng Yu-hsiang, the christian gen- eral. The Kuominchun withdrew in- tact, in perfect order, over.a period of several weeks, leaving a brigade at the mountain pass, while guns on the mountains swept the Manchurian and Shantung troops approaching in pha- lanxes for ten days, A five-mile arc before Nankow pass is littered with Manchurian ‘dead. Thruout the siege the Kuominchun losses were comparatively slight, be- cause of their sheltered positions. Secure Defense Lines. The Kuominchun lines are now east of Kalgan, indicating that their pur- pose is to remain in Suiyuan and Mon- golia while preventing. pursuit by aerial and cavalry, raids upon any ex- peditiqns- organized to follow thru the pags to the plateau. ~~ ~~~ The final success of the Manchurian assault was due to the utilization of a regiment with eight-inch howitzers. People’s Army Modern, Foreign military observers described the defensive works at the entrance of Nankow pass as demonstrating the highest technical skill. Trenches were protected by electrically “charged wires, and had entanglements to'with- stand the fiercest assault, fi SOVIET UNIONS PLEDGE $100,000 A MONTH FOR BRITISH: ASK MEETING (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 22.— The Russian Central Council of trade Unions has notified Messrs. Cook, Smith and Richardson, repre- ; senting the British Miners’ Federa- tion, that it is forwarding a monthly ribution of $100,000 collected from Soviet workers on behalf of the. striking English coal miners. The telegram suggests that a meet- ing to consider measures to assist the strikers be held in Berlin, Aug. | 20, N this first article of a the war department, assi developing a system of civillan mi into every workshop and school in the country and growing more menacing every year the writer tells of the strides forward that have been made im the holy cause of militarism, There is being built up a military bureaucracy at the head of a ciVilian war machine that constitutes a Perennial danger not ment but to the golonial and semi-c pines, Haiti, China, Central Ameri “economic Welicaues ie here nim) article will deal specifically with the Citizens! Military Training Camps —the institution thru which the jingoes work to spread the armed Power and war propaganda which “national defense.” and the decay of capitalism abroad have combined to make the United States the leading capitalist Power of the world. The foreign investments of the United States are of such huge proportions that, taken together with the fabulous sums involved in foreign loans, guarantee almost a mortgage on every other capitalist nation, The worldwide ramifications of American business have created spheres of eco- } nomic influente for Wail. Street in ‘every part of the globe. The United Sta is. “Mother Country” to far flung, colonios and semi-colonies that fre perennially suppressed by armed In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. Ed 2480 PROGRESS IN SOVIETS; MILITARISM IN U. S— DAILY WORKER FEATURES Beginning in today’s issue ‘of The DAILY WORKER two series of great Interest will begin pub- lication. | They are: “Life and Work in the Soviet Union,” by Anna Louise Strong, we!l known Ameri- can author and journalist now spend- ing her fifth year in the Soviet Union and a series of eight articles on the recent development of mili- tarism in the United States with par- ticular reference to civilian military training. The latter has been pre- pared by a staff member of The DAILY WORKER after a thoro in- vestigation of the subject and will be profusely illustrated. Both of these features will be well worth watching for this week. GETTING. RID OF DE RIVERA MUCH FUN IN SPAIN Last Plot ‘Clever But It Wouldn’t Work (Special to The Daily Worker) MADRID, Aug. 22.—General De Ri- vera’s frustration of the attempted re- volt of June 24, has not discouraged General Francisco Aguilera, admitted leader of the plan, who in an inter- view intimated that he hopes yet to TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1926 RANGEL, CLIE AND COMRADES ARE PARDONED Texas Martyrs Freed by Goo. Ferguson The six Texas martyrs, in prison for the last thirteen years for their activi- | ties in behalf of Mexican freedom, | have just received a full and uncondi- |tlonal pardon from governor Mirian | Ferguson, according to telegraphic in- formation just received from Texas by the national office of international La- bor Defense. The freed men, Captain Jesus M. Rangel, Charles Cline, Abram Cisne- ros, Jesus Gonzales, Leonardo M. Vas- quez and Pedro Paroles, are the last of the twelve Mexicans and one Amer- | ican sentenced more than a decade ago in an atmosphere of intense anti- Mexican prejudice. Of the original number, twq had previously been dis- charged, one pardoned, one killed in jail, and two ped, Hi: 'y of Case. The Mexicam& involved were fight- ers for the i and its liberatia pendence of Mexico from tyrannical rule, most of them mbers.of the famous Partido Liber Mexicano whose slo- gan was Th y Libertad (Land and Liberty,) fight to free their land from the.d ism of Diaz. Captain 1, at that time station- |ed in Waco, Texas, had been one of {the leading spirits in organizing his exiled countrymen for the struggle against tyranny in Mexico. At the | ; lead successful action against the dic-| ‘ime of his arrest he had concentrated Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of, March 3, 1879. tator and his government. ;& number of Mpxicans with arms, am- General Aguilera, who admits an ac- | ™Unition and provision for the pur- tion which might have once been pun. | POS¢ of going to Mexico aud joining ished by death or years of imprison-| the Tevolutioniits; they met for. this Publi SEED 290 EX-BRITISH OFFICER SENDS HOME $50 AID ; 10 STRIKING MINERS By L. P. RINDAL (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal—A British ex-soldier, who years ago was com- missioned as a second lieutenant in the English army—and in that ca- Pacity served the king of England on nearly every front during the world war—has just sent $50 to the strug- gling miners of his fatherland. This man, by the way, is working with yours truly every day. A couple of days ago he said: “I am going to send $150 more before Christmas..” This is an example for others to fol- low, One of the latest attacks on A. J. Cook, leader of the British miners, was made in the Hearst papers the other day by Arthur Brisbane in his “Brisbunk” column, “Today.” Robert Whitaker of the International :La- bor Defense is responsible for this new word which fully characterizes the writings of Brisbane—the ren- egade socialist and chief adviser to stock gamblers and real estate sharks, etc. { 10,000 CHEER = WEISBORD SLAP AT WILL HEAD PUBLISHING CO,, 1113°W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Dl. {the miners NEW YORK EDITION ER shed Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents MCKENNA IN DRAMATIC APPEAL TO SAVE BRITISH COAL UNION, TNJURY TO US, INURY TO YOU “You workers of America must respond to the appeal of the {British miners now on strike, or you will find your own mine owners.using low wages and long hours in England to crush down | your ‘wages here and lengthen the work day.” That was the keynote of the speech delivered by Paul Mo- Kenna, representative of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, before an enthusiastic audience at Workmen's Circle Lyceum. It was: also the point most emphasized by President John Fitzpatrick, of the Chicago Federation of Labor, in an intro- ductory address, McKenna made it clear that the miners have a right to all the product of their labor: “I. would take all the land and its minerals from the present owners, whose title is based only on robbery,” he said, ‘“‘and use it for the good of the workers.” After pointing out that the forces arrayed against the present strike are trying to crush out unionism altogether, and that the tory party, now ruling in England and the employers are one and LANDHOLDERS IN NEW PARTY This official, most antagonistic to Represents “Better Ele- Baldwin’s Ltd. “How can he be fair?” asked McKenna, “when his interests are all against us?” Royal Commission. The present struggle began in 1919 when Lloyd George refused to put in- to operation the recommendations of the Sankey commission to nationalize the mines and abolish the agents, or middlemen, whose main purpose seems Strikers Decry Stand of Botany Owner (Special to The Daily Worker) while. pretending to be ments,” Says Bishop neutral in the strike, is a member of to be to conceal the enormous profits of the operators. During the last ten years, rents, royalties and profits in (Special to The Daily Worker) : First Article of Series ries exposing the insidious manner in which led by capitalist and ‘banker jingoe ment, has received only a sentence of one month imprisonment and a fing of 200,000 pesetas, but he was easily | available to a correspondent who saw him in a mansion in the most aristo- cratic section of Madrid. Something Slipped. “Just one small detail went wrong,” said General Aguilera, explainingthe failure of his movement, “Like a per-| fectly constructed machine, in which one little cog gets broken, thus de-| stroying the whole machine, one single point failed us, ruining the whole movement.. But this will not happen again. .The next time we are going to prepare things more thor- oughly.” Plot Was Nipped. At a given moment a manifesto was to have been issued, signed by Gen- eral Aguilera and General Weyler, the general said, ‘tin order to make clear that. the army was not back of the} present dictatorship. “Once the manifesto was made pub- lic, the presidents of the old cortes (parliament), Count Romanones, sen- ate president, and Don Melquiades Al- varez, president of the congress, were to go to the palace and demand full re-establishment of the constitutional government, of the king. “The government was to consist of four military men, besides those min- istries occupied by civilians who are not known in political circles and have never had to do with politics.” “Say it with your pen in the worker correspondent page of The DAILY WORKER." Jingoism Leaps litary training that is penetrating only to the working class move- olonial pedple ine ‘Cuba, the Philip- ca and ail in. which the | perialism (penetrates. Tomorrow's — masquerades under the name of forces to maintain economic control for American capitalists, This condi- tion places the United States in the position, first, of having a chip on the shoulder that may at any minute be knocked off and precipitate hostilities with a contesting power; second, of becoming so drunk with this unprece- dented “place in the sun” as to en- gage in an offensive for the purpose of enlarging the imperialist domain. Such a sftualfon offers the excuse tor the creation’ 6f’a large and powerful military’ machine and has already been explolterk to the extent of placing 160,000 qyen, yyuler military training in he PASSAIC, N. J., Aug, 22. — Albert Weisbord, head of the United Front | Durpose at Carrizo Springs, Texas. Pursued by Sheriff. | coal have amounted to a billion and a half of dollars. McKenna explained that the profit is difficult to trace, as it does not show on the books of the coal operators, but is spread over various industries, particularly iron and steel, owned by The sheriff Minniat couity, hav- | Committee of textile workers, was the ling been’ inf ed of ‘their expedition | Principle speaker to a crowd of 10,000 | started in pursiit, dividing his fates’ | Striking textile workers in Belmont Park, Garfield. As Weisbord came in- | to view, workers grabbed him and, ‘raising him to their shoulders, carried A deputy sheriff named Buck and a Mexican spy called Ortoz, acting as deputy, came mn Rangel’s company | the same capitalists who sell the coal to them. The miners’ wages, calcula’ ed on the profits of the coal ¢ons"} panies, is therefore small; 47 per cent | MEXICO CITY, Aug. 22, — The clerical and landlord groups, defeated in their attempts to secure a repeal of the land and educational clauses of the Mexican constitution by boyeott and conspiracy, are now busy organ- izing a new political party to carry on the struggle. Under the name “social liberty par- y” it is planned to organize the vari- ous reactionary political groups whose and were . mpeisoners. Captain Rangel Stated: that they were taken prisoners ‘to prevent them from divulg- ing any information about the expedi- tion, him to the platform, In his talk, Weisbord gave par- ticular attention to the statemént of Col. Chas. F. Johnson of the Botany | Mill that even the new union beffi¢ | of the mine workers get'$2.25 per day, |power was broken by the revolution. na the rest average-about $1.97. That.the new. party will represent. the, } Same forces participating in and back- Subsidy Hit Germany. jing th® recent movement is shown by The . $115,000,000 given the owners |the statement of Bishop Diaz, who told as subsidy after the threat of a gen- | American press representatives that J mentary. citizen training on a large |organized in Passaic by the A, F. of |L, to, take the place of the United Front Committee will not be ‘dealt with by the millowners. Ortiz was later found dead. Deputy Buck was unhurt, There was no eyi- | dence. to prove» who killed Ortiz or | how he came to his death. U. S.Cavairy Sent. Upon the appeal of the sheriff, a company of United States cavalry was sent in pursuit. Rangel and his com- Panions surrendered immediately upon sight of the American flag. Those eaptured were tried in the district | court of Sant Antonio for the death of Ortiz and all of them were sen- tenced to life Imprisonment. Charles Cline, the only American in the case, was convicted altho he had accompanied Captain Range! and his colleagues merely as an investigator of Mexican conditions and the de- fense, at the trial, proved that he was nowhere in the vicinity of the death of the spy Ortiz, Nevertheless he was sentenced along with the rest, Death Accidental. It was shown that at the worst the men had merely violated the United States Neutrality laws, and that the death of Ortiz was accidental. Viola- (Continued on page 2) Ahea No Argument Left. Weisbord said, “We are on the road to victory and the bosses have no {good argument, not even those of | Weisbord and Communism, left. . The strikers are standing together’ and |be fooled, especially by such a state: | (Continued on page 2) bare necessaries of life. the relief committees. Neither the ting one square meal a week."—Ben Washington, D. C. in appealing to t' camps: and schools. “ & Military Bureaucracy, (2) In the United States there is being built up a military bureaucracy of ‘larger proportions than is ‘ordi- narily supposed, Receiving the hearty support and co-operation of the financial and large industrial elements in the country, the Jingo forces, launched by the war, have grown apace. Being unable to impose a system of universal military training on the: nation, ‘the next best thing has been: resorted to: ‘supple- Militarizing the Nation. (3) Summer training in camps and training in schools and ‘colleges is part. of a consistent program for the militarization of the country. The United States has become an empire. The very fact that the country is em- barked upon an imperialist career creates the conditions necessary for ‘the building up of what may event- ually become a military caste, Summed up, civilian and scholastic military training means preparation for an imperialist war. Later we will devote special atten tion to facts pertaining to the Citizen's Military Trainiag Corps (C. M, T, C.) and Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (R. 0. T, C.). For the present we are interested tb show how these two organizations ft into the scheme otf . (Continued on page 4) Here is a 7 ne at a Citizens’ Mili from regular United $ they may sooner or |: ownership and exploitation, | showing true loyalty to labor, Doni tional organizations. have 2,000,000 CHILDREN HUNGER o's MILLION children under 14 years of age are in need of the | These little ones together with the wives | of 750,000 coal miners, are wholly dependent on the ald furnished by | annual conference of the Associated Railroad Labor organizations in instruct its affiliated bodies to aid the striking British, miners. represents the British Trade Union Congress in the delegation now touring the United States seeking relief funds. Why Civilian Training Camps? army. officers how to operate machine guns. ler be called upon to turn these Instruments of whole: in this country,’ not to speak of colonial or semi-colonial eral strike last year did not go to the } miners as wages. It was spent by the | coal. companies. in cutthroat. compe- | tition on the continent for the double purpose of increasing German repara- tions in coal, for reparations are| figured on the lowest price in Europe, and of showing the British miners) that coal was more cheaply produced... abroad. Miners thru their interna-| discovered | that all capitalists everywhere argue | (Continued on page 2) 1 miners nor their families are get- Tillett of the Dockers’ Union at the hat body to indorse the strike and Tillett itary Training Camp showing lads people who may be “Behind the movement is the bet- ter element of the Mexican people, which has allowed the so-called revolutionary element to govern the country for seven years. If the party Sticceeds it will mean the rise te Power of the middie and upper clases and the relegation to the background of the illiterate ele- ments which practically have dom- inated the governments of the towns and villages.” American Support Seen. It is believed here that the new par- ty will have the support of powerful American financial and industrial groups whose oppos n to the lands nationalization measures is just asd uncompromising as olic episcopate, t of the cath- In a reply to th «the church was involved in a spread counter-revolutionary the episcopate complains a aud detention cf women of “highi (Continued on page 2) The Founding of the C. M. T. C. and the R. O. T. C.—“Camp Life” Publicity—Pershing’s Tribute - Civilians Being Trained to Use Machine Guns between 17 and 24 years of age learning Most of these lads do not realize thag je slaughter on striking worker@ raining under the yoke of American, ) t