The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Rw ———— 5 PP Vol. Ill. No. 8 ' AF mn > ARGLES3 Guisine Chicago by see BEE yeas, =~ / You, @ - ————. iny > a k " , GREEN PRAISt3 .#7”” ®\/ TRAINING ASHE AND THE A. F. us. ~. COUNCIL ARE RECEIVED BY OFFICERS AT PLATTSBURG (Special to The Dally Worker) PLATTSBURG, N. Y., Aug. 23.—President William Green of the Amer- lean Federation of Labor, accompanied by prominent members of the Exe- cutive Council of the A. F. of L. was the guest of Maj. General Summerall on # visit of inspection at the Citizens’ Military Training Camp at Plattsburg @n invitation of Dwight F. Davis, secretary of war. After a review of the 1,600 young men being trained in regular army style, President Green mounted a platform and spoke to the student sol- dlers: “Speaking for myself and for my associates, the members of the Execu- tlva Council of the American Federation of Labor, f can scarcely hope to convey In words the very deep impression made by this brief visit. We have been much interested in the great movement represented here at Piatts- burg. | think I can truthfully say there has been a wrong impression pre- vailing in aome quarters as to the work, training, purposes and objectives of the military training camps. | think the American Federation of Labor, thru (Continued on page 3) Sano Fen% || CHRISTIANSON By THOMAS J. O’FLAHERTY HE latest Chicago murder, or, to be exact, the latest outstanding mur- der has produced the usual crop of idiotic predictions from the police de- Dartment, which seems to be quite in- capable of anything in the line of erlme prevention or detection. It ap- Dears that the police, in every part of the country display either efficiency or zeal only when called on to break strikes or in other ways help the em- Ployers suppress the workers. Tho the memberg of the foree come from the working class only on rare occa- sions do they show the least sympa- thy for the! struggles of their own people to improve their conditions. NOTHER Chicago gangster bit the dust.. He was engaged in the alco- hol racket. It is also reported that he was originally imported from Italy to play the role of professional killer for one of the city’s. most notorious murder gangs. However, as we have this information only on police author- ity it can be taken for what it is worth. In all probability the slain man who went under the rather ro- mantic pseudonym of “Cavallerro,” was an underworld gangster . who made his living in a profession that depends on the gun for results. IVAL gangsters gotehim, and he is no more. The police, in their ab- normal thirst for publicity, talk in- cessantly and arrest innocent people, who are immediately charged with the murder, only to be almost. imme- diately released. The state's attorney, when he deigns to notice such an inci- dent, babbles about “a perfect hang- ing case,” and the farce goes on. Mayor Dever appears before a cham- Ger of commerce audience and boasts that he has dried up the city. In the same issue of the néwspapers that carry the mayor’s boast there ia a story of one of the mayor's policemen caught, sleeves rolled up, in the act of rolling barrels of real beer onto a truck in a brewery yard. IORRUPTION, graft and hypocrisy. Nobody believes anything a police official or a capitalist politician says owadays, except morons. -This type we admit is not rare. Police arrest unoffending citizens who walk along the street, bent on no unlawful mis- sion, Workers returning to their homes in humble flivvers are held up by police squads, armed with revolv- ers, machine guns and tear bombs, and threatened with instant death if they move an eyelid. The real crimi- nals escape because the police dare not get fresh with them. RDERLY workers standing on a street corner are jumped on by police in. civilian clothes and inso- Jently told to move. Naturally they resent sich interference’ by’ strangers who may be ordinary hoodlums for al! anybody can tell.. Their thuggish ap- pearance does not alley, this suspi- efon. Without taking the trouble to reveal their identity the police heat . the workers arn ¥ fake’ th to 9 eel], where additiona ckineht i (Continued from 3) -R. R. Detective Who _ Killed Herrin’ Man ._ Held to Grand Jury (Special to The Dally Worker) Jones o Beardstown, special agent for the C. B. & Q, railroad was today held for the action of the grand jury follow- ing a verdict of a coroner's jury last night that Clarence Ingram came to hig death at the hands of Jones. One of the chief witnesses at the inquest was Leo Campbell, companion of Ingram, who was wounded in the shooting which resulted in Jones’ death, Jones ;admitted shooting In- gram ater thé two Herrin boys had yroken into two box cars containing merchandise in the Burlington yards. WHAT IS THE C. M. , 60? | The second of a series on Ameri- ean Milltariam running every day in The DAILY WORKER will be found ‘on page 3. j ty : x TO WAGE WAR ON SAM'S TWINS Labor Leaders Worry; They Support One Illinois labor leaders, formerly as- sociated with the Farmer-Labor Party and close friends of Parley Parker Christianson, former candidate of the presidency on the FL. ticket were considerably agitated last week when word came from London that Mr. Christianson was returning from a Euronean trip to enter the Illinois po- litical marathon next fall as candidate for the senate on a progressive ticket. Fear Slush Exposure. What particularly worried the Fitz- patrick-Olander triumvirate was Chris- tianson’s announcement that he would make the welkins ring with a savage attack on the “Insullated” candidates Smith and Brennan. The labor lead- ers have committed themselves to Smith, In view of Christianson’s long as- sociation-with the trede-union m6ve- ment and his popularity among wide sections of organiznd labor it Is be- lfeved that the labor leaders who de- serted the workingclass standard on the political fleld will have some dif- ficulty in explaining their deflation to the masses, if Christianson speaks without regard to diplomatic reserva- tions. Class Program Needed. Should Christianson decide to head a labor ticket in the Illinois elections and make a campaign on a class pro- gram interwoven with an exposure of corruption, bribery and the proven ownership of both capitalist candi dates by the employers as shown by the slush fund quiz, many political ob- servers are of the opinion that such a campaign might well be the means of reviving the drooping enthusiasm of farmer-laborites and encourage a united front of all sections of the workingclass movement against the capitalist parties in the fall elections. William Green Picks Elihu Root to. Settle Union Labor Affairs ' (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 23.—Fol- lowing his visit to Plattsburg, William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor has announced that Elihu Root, former secretary of state and one of the old guard, hard-boiled republican party leaders of well-known dispute between the Plasterers’ union ‘ahd the Bricklayers’ union. The other two members will be named by the head of the two unions involved, The tribunat was provided for in the Afiantic City convention of the A, F. of .L.,last year. Both unions will hold their conven- tions before, the arbitrators pass on the dispute,...Green praises Root's “eagerness to help.” | NEW YORK EDITION Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, IMlinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, MEXICO CLERGY FOR PEACE; ASK PAPAL SANCTION Vatican Urges War to Knife Against Calles Have Access To Courts, MEXICO CITY, Aug. 23. — Rumors that the episcopate is divided over its attitude towards the religious decrees were partially confirmed today when the bishops held a meeting to frame a message to Pope Pius XI, with a view to securing papal consent for a modifi- cation of the policy hitherto followed by the episcopate in its struggle with the government over its promulgation of the latest decrees on religion. Pope Is Intransigent. The pope continues to urge the Mex- ican hierarchy to continue the fight against the Calles administration to the bitter end.. A section of the clergy is said to favor this course while an- other section desires to conform to the law, which calls for the registra- tion of priests, The Mexican press today almost un- animously predicts that religious serv- ices in the Roman catholic churches will be resumed, and that the religious struggle between the episcopate and the government will be terminated as a@ result of the conference between President Calles and the two prelates, Archibishop Ruiz and Bishop Diaz, Calles Was Frank. Bishop Diaz, acting as spokesman for the prelates in a conversation with an American correspondent, said the optimism of the newspapers was only partly justified, in view of what trans- pired at the conference. He said that President Calles spoke with the ut- most frankness himself, and invited the prelates to do likewise. As a ré- sult of this frank exchange of views, Bishop Diaz said, each side to the con- troversy had gained a better under- standing of the other party’s position. The discussion lasted for more than an hour, during which all phases of the dispute were examined. The pres- ident and the prelates agreed that the episcopate should present at. least one, and. possibly more, legislative projects to the federal congress when it con- venes for its regular session; also that the episcopate should have free ac- cess. to thé-courts for a ruling on the constitutionality of the government's religious regulations, President Calles did not ask for, and the prelates did not Offer:a renewal of religious serv- ices in the churches in the immediate future, € o-9 Pope Against Surrender. ROME, Aug. 23. — “The holy see will not permit the catholic episcopate of Mexteo to take any action which could be construed as a recognition of the Calles religious laws,” declared Monsignor Bergonicini of the vatican chancellory today, when questioned concerning the attitude of the Pope towards reports that the cult might be renewed in Mexico, as the result of a compromise, 70 Men For One Job. DENVER, Col., Aug. 23. — More than seventy old men, cripples, ex- soldiers, some young, many with pinched and depressed faces, came to 2136 15th Street this morning, in pur- sult of a job on a poultry farm at $40.00 a month, advertised in the Denver Post yesterday. FIRST WEEK OF RELIEF CAMPAIGN FOR MINERS GOT $100,000 IN U. S. NEW YORK, Aug, 23.—According to Ben Tillett, representative of the British Trade Union Congress to American labor for gathering relief funds for the British mine strikers, at the end of the first week in the United States about $100,000 had been pledged to the relief fund by the American trade unionists. Frank Morrison, secretary of the A. F. of L., is handling the money and had not given. Tillett any later figures, according to Tillett's ement, SECOND WORKERS’ DELEGATION FROM GERMANY NOW IN MOSCOW (By Inprecor Te! graph Agency) MOSCOW, August 23.—The second German workers’ delegation arrived in Moscow August 4. The de! sentatives of the trade unions and by workers who filled the station and the Morning papers bring artic! written in German expressing pl ation was received enthusiastically by repre- numerous deputations of the Moscow surrounding streets. sure at the arrival of the German workers and pointing out that the German prole- tariat has shown by sending this secon id delegation to the Soviet Union, that it is continuing to consolidate the unity of the trade union movement and that it, rejects the advice of the soci, jal-democratic te: ers. The di Koerber,, Ulmann and Gertrud Rausch declared’ in speeches of thanks for their reception that what they had 80 f: far seen inthe Soviet Union had given them the impression that the toiling masses ofttie Soviet Union were really sapabje get merely of retaining power inthe state but also of completing the E shop policies, has accepted Green's request to act as one of the three arbitrators in the jurisdictional orkerg goclalist reconstruction, ai i! aod sothay tate ' WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1926 MEXICO MAY ASK U. S. TO SEND BACK EXILED REBEL, DE LA HUERTA DE LA HUERTA Claiming that while he was provi- sional president of Mexico he mis- appropriated government funds, the Mexican government is expected to ask the United States to extradite him. He is» mow living in Los Angeles. He led a revolt against Obregon in- 1924 in which he openly represented the interests of the church and: other reactionary forces atter having been hailed for years as a genuine revolutionist. CREDENTIALS POURING IN FOR LL. D. MEETING Thousands of Workers to Betepresented Credentials announcing the election of delegates to the second annual con- ference of International Labor Defense in Chicago on September 5 and 6 are 2ouring in to the national office from scores of working class organizations, abor unions, and sections of I. L. D. From Chicago, the following unions and labor organizations have already elected delegates and forwarded their credentials: Credential Forwarding. International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union joint board, two delegates, locals 100 and 5 are to send one each, and local 181 of the same union send- ing two. Boiler Makers’ Union No. 626, one; Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, No. 1367 is sending two; the Omladina Gymnastic and Drama- tic Society is sending one, as are the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Society No. 66, the Touristen-Verein “Natur-Freunde” of Chicago, and the Lake View Lodge No, 124 Ladies Auxiliary of the International Asso- elation of Machinists. Thousands of workers are represented by these or- ganizations and it is known that many unions have already elected delegates and the credentials are on their way. Will Send Delegates. Besides these; the organizations al- ready affiliated with Local Chicago, [, L. D, will send delegates. These in- clude forty-five branches of the I. L. D. locally, with some 1800 members who will send some 55 delegates, In addi- tion, the following will send represen- tatives: InternationalAssociation of Machin- ists, Lodges No. 337 and 390 with two aplece and No, 84 with one; Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America, Local 39 with two; Painters’ Local No, 275 with two; I. L. G, W. U. Local 104 with one; Bakers’ Union No. 237 with two; Workmen’s Circle branches No, 129 and 328: with one each; Inde- that such reports are false. demands with the union. Such | stories are merely capitalisi propaganda meant to discour- age the strikers and those who give relief, says MacKenna in an interview with a DAILY WORK- ER reporter. * Union Statement on Conference. LONDON, Aug. 23. — A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, in an official statement, explains the union’s viewpoint of why the recent conference between the union and the mine owners broke down. He says: Owners Demand Surrender, “It is evident from the coal owners statement that they consider them- selves victors in this struggle; that during the progress of the stoppage they have learned nothing and for- gotten nothing; that the only way, in ther opinion, that the country can be supplied with coal is by direct sur- render of the men to the original terms laid down by the coal owners. Determined to Fight it Out. “We have no alternative, therefore except to urge upon all our members the necessity of stiffening their resist- ance to these terms, which, if ac- cepted, would mean abject poverty for our people and a scandalous lowering of their standard of living for at least a generation, ,. “We again appeal to the public of this country for their continued sup- port in aid of the miners and their wives and children, * No. further nego- jtiations with theseoal owners are pos- | sible.” Secretary Cook ;added that the fed- eration had not asked the government to meet the miners’ executive. Pursuant to the union policy of stiffening resistanee ‘for a further struggle, the Miners’ ‘Federation is sending out speakers to all important centers to explain the union stand and urge the rank and file to hold their lines firmly awaiting a national agree- ment, Few Desertions Not Decisive. A careful survey indicates that only a few thousand individual miners, out of the million and. more on strike, have returned to work in spite of the tricky maneuver of the owners, who, having failed to get anybody back on the basis of the so-called “eight-hour” law passed by the tory parliament majority, have offered a compromise of seven-and-a-half hours, The union states that these few miners who return make no appreciable effect on the stoppage, but add that the situation as a whole demands more help to the strikers from the rest of labor both at home and abroad. Coal Owning Lord Admits Much. Lord Londonderry, a big coal owner, has issued a statement declaring that Premier Baldwin was right when he tried to prevent relief funds being gathered from America. sails Ramsay MacDonald's belated re- futation of Baldwin's claims, and in- sists that miners’ families in the coal |flelds are faring splendidly. In fact, tin this effort to stop support to the }miners’ wives and children, Lord Lon- |donderry makes the following signi- ficant admission: “The children are looking better and in most cases are better fed than they were when their fathers were working.” Pre-Strike Wage Insufficient, If this is so, then even the insuf- The lord as-; pendent Workmen's Circle branch No, | ficient relief work afforded by strike 87 with one; .American Lithuanian | relief funds, is apparently better than Workers Literary Society, District One| the wages pald the miners for work- with two delegates; Lithuanian Wo-|ing. Yet the owners are insistent on men’s Progressive Alliance, District | cutting the wages previously paid the Three, with twodelegates; Workmen’s| miners as well as lengthening the Sick and Death Benefit Fund, branch | hours, The so-called “eight hour law” No, 282, with 2 delegates; Social Turn|in reality requiring eight and a half Verein with two; Workmen's Sick and | hours underground. Death Benefit Fund branch No. 194, with two; Lithuanian Proletarian Dra- matic Association, with two; Lithua- nian Working Women’s Alliance No. 48, with one; A. L. W..L. S, branch No, 92, with one; Slovak Workers’ So- clety Branches 16 and 65 with one and two delegates respectively; Workers Sport and Athletic Alllance with one; German-Hungarian Sick and Death Benefit Society of Chicago, with one; Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL SS Price 3 Cent: MacKenna Refutes Story of British Mine Strike Breakdown by Desertion Refuting the claims sent out by capitalist press agencies that several thousands of British coal miners are “breaking away” and going back to work on tetms made by the mine owners pro-~ viding for an increase of one-half an hour in the work day, Paul McKenna, delegate to America from the British Miners’ Federation now gathering relief funds in the Chicago district, declares There have been no separate district agreesignificant compared to the 1,000,000 and more And a few individuals who have gone back are inments made, MacKenna says, and none is likely. out and standing firmly for their+ “SACRIFICE EVERYTHING! RUSH RELIEF AND STOP SCAB COAL,” CALL OF REVOLUTIONARY MINERS The Revolutionary Miners’ International Committee of Action and Pro paganda, connécted with the of Great Britain reads as follows: Red International of 1 dressed an appeal to ail coal miners to support the 1,200,000 This appeal, over the signature of G. Slutsky, sec bor riking TO ALL MINERS! The heroic struggle of the British miners has All the forces of the bourgeoisie three and a half months. against them. Parliament has passed the been going on now for are mob bill. introducing a longer day.. The country is in a “state of emergency.” But the miners are not giving way. just demands—“Not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the d eda ments on 4 national scale!” Starvation. The bourgeoisie have given up hope of a speedy termination of the strike. Therefore they are drawing the noose of hunger tighter round the miners’ necks. They are reducing and stopping relief to their wives and chil- dren. By threatening them with death by starvation the capitalists hope to force the miners back to work. The bourgeoisie are trying to demoralize the ranks of the miners, They are telling them that they are not being supported. The General Council of Trade Un- ions not only does nothing to support the miners but is continually hitting them in the back. They bétrayed the general strike which the British wérk- ers jcarried out to help the striking min}rs. The general council is ex- erting. all its strength to smash the strike and discredit its leaders. On no account do they want to interfere with: the loading and transhipment of coal which may help to defeat the miners’ just struggle. Betrayal by Reformist Leaders. The reformists of all countries and creeds are intensifying their aid to the bosses. The social-democrats are advising the miners to throw up the fight as hopeless. The Amsterdam In- ternational is withholding all assist- ance. The reformist unions are free- ly shipping and importing coal into Great Britain. The Miners’ International and all its affiliated organizations are ignom- inously selling the British miners’ strike, They are limiting themselves to petty contributions as support for the miners. But they are doing noth- ing to call an international strike of solidarity. The reformist. leaders of (Continued on page 2) They are firmly holding on to their MCKENNA 10 APPEPL TO THESE UNIONS FOR BRITISH STRIKE RELIEF Tuesday, August 24th. Hod Carriers, No. 6, 814 W. Har rison St. (German.) Meat Cutters, No. 546, 175 West Washington St. Plumbers, No, 130, 47-49 North Ogden Ave. Brick ers, Monroe St. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, No. 144, 1654 N. oRbey St. Painters, No, 521, 3437 Ave. (Jewish.) Painters, No. 184, 6414 8. Halsted Street. Wednesday, August 25th. Painters, No. 194, 8 N. California Avenue. Painters, No, 637, Vicking School and Sheffield Ave. Machinist, No, 126, 112 S. Ashland Ave. Carpenters, No, 106. Biva. Carpenters, Ashland Ave. Thursday, Aug. 26th. No, 21, 910 West Ogden Hall, 12 W. Garfield No. 242, 5443 South Carpenters, No, 13, 113 S, Ash- land Ave. Carpenters, No. 504, Ogden and Kedzie. (Jewish.) Carpenters, No. 578, 30 N. Wells St. Friday, August 27th. al Work No. 9 2S Sunday, August 29th. Typographical Union, No, 16, $14 W. Harrison St. COOK AND HICKS ISSUE URGENT APPEAL FOR HELP TO THE MINERS (Sepcial to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Ang. 23.—The following urgent appeal to the work- ‘ers in the British trade union movement has been made by A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, and George Hicks, secretary of the Amalgamaied Union of Building Trades Oper- atives, a member of the General Council of the British Trade Union Congress and delegate of that body to the next) convention of the American Feceration of Labor—an appeal tl ganized workers’ world over: To the Trade Unionists of Great Britain. “Comrades—The government is pro- ceeding to any lengths to grind the miners into submission. It is using every means to surround them, and their wives and children, with a cor- don of sheer starvation, “Never at any time—during times of industrial struggle in any country —has a prime minister sunk so low, been so malicious and despicably mean, as Mr. Baldwin in his state- ment issued to the American press aiming at discouraging generous (Continued on page 2) GOVERNMENT STARVING CHILDREN, SAYS BRITISH UNIONS’ APPEAL LONDON, Aug. 23.—The General Council of the Trade Union Congress and the Miners’ Federation have isseud a joint manifesto, in which they say: “Actual starvation has invaded the miners’ homes. The women and chil- dren are suffering thru the action of the Poorlaw authorities, with the con- Workmen's Sick Benefit and Educa-| nivance of the government, in cutting down the scale of relief and thru the tional Federation No, 11 with one; | curtailment of school meals. In trying to bring the miners Into subjection Frauen Kranken Unterstutzungs Ve- the government has not scrupled to endeavor to check the generous impulses rein with one; Jewish Workers Marx. jan Youth Alliance with one; Frejholt ers’ Club with one; and the national Croatian Society! No, 287 with two delogator ican Federation of Labor, it is miners from defeat by starvatio of the public in voluntarily subscribing to the relief funds by which the worst Jugend Club with one; Finnish Work. | S°Msequences of the teagedy Jn the coal fi “The struggle has mow reached a o! have been partially alleviated. when, in the words of the Amer- ssary to give until it hurté, to relieve the a movement: thd? sa t also goes for the or- pean TRAIN DERAILED: DAWES PLAN CUT RAILROAD STAFF (Special to. The Daily Worker) BERLIN, , August 23. — Die Rote Fahne, organ of the Communist Party of Germany, flatly accuses the Dawes plan for the. derailing of the Berlin- Cologne express last week. Twenty- one lives were lost and many passen- gers were injured in the wreck, The engineer was killed, Herr Dorpmuller, director-general of railways, immediately after the wreck, issued a statement that the spikes were pulled from the rails by some ertminal, and that the cutting down of the number of employes recently had nothing to do with it. Die Rote Fahne polnis out” that when the force of Workers was re- duced under thé terms of the Dawes plan, a8 one of the economies demand- ed by Germany's new masters, the American: . bankers, such accidonts were. made inevitable, either thru mere lack of work on thé roadbeds or because not enough men Were em. ployed to properly guard the against criminal activities, %