The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 26, 1926, Page 2

ai ad Page Two MEXICO’S CONSUL MEXICAN CONSUL IN WILL SPEAK AT MASS MEETING Will Present Position of Calles Government (Special to The Daily Worker) Presenting the point of view of the Calles government regarding the} Catholic rebellion that has challenged Mexico, Luis Lupian G., Mexican con- sul in Chicago, will address a Hands- Off-Mexico mass meeting at North| Side Turner Hall, 820 N. Clark St.,| Friday, Aug. 27, at 8 p. m., under the| auspices of the All-America Anti-Im- | perialist League. Boycott @ Failure, Senor Lupian.declares that the boy- cott on luxuries, initiated by wealthy Mexican lead of the so-called League for Religious Defense, is a complete failure. The Mexican labor Movement has apparently dealt a final blow to the boycott by a coun- ter-move threatening a rent strike of ail workers who are tenants of land- lords involved in the Catholic rebel- lon. The rebellion has already failed of its object and it cannot continue much longer unless it receives stimu- lus from the outside. Other speakers at the meeting will be Carl Haessler, director of the Fed- erated Press; Murray BE. King, man- aging editor of the American Appeal; William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER, and Manuel Go- mez, secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League (United States section). Note Not Yet Public. Im the announcements being sent to ail labor publications, the anti-impe- tialist organization calls attention to the fact that the latest U. S. govern- ment note to Mexico, presented to Foreign Minister Saenz by Ambassa- dor Sheffield before the latter’s re- turn to this country a few days ago, has not yet been made public. Intimations from the state depart- ment are that the note makes fur-| ther demands wpon Mexico regarding U. S. ownership rights under the re- cently promulgated oil and land laws. Such demands would open up the en- tire controversy that was apparently concluded last spring. Threatening Note. “President Coolidge,” points out the league's announcement, “has declar- ed that the United States will not in- tervene on behalf of the Catholic church in Mexico.” Nevertheless, he has sent a threatening note to the Mexican government precisely at a time when the Catholic rebellion is being crushed by the united opposi- fion of all the national-revolutionary forces of the neighboring republic. “This offensive against the Mexican |ter what excuses the bishops give as SURE CALLES DIDN’T YIELD; REACTIONARY PARTY TO FAIL | Luis G. Lupian, Mexican consul in Chicago, in an exclusive interview | with The DAILY WORKER yesterday stated that if the press reports of an agreement between the Calles government and the catholic church are of japy significance, they mean that the government has won. The reports reaching Chicago from Mexico City were to the effect that the bishops’ representatives had called been cordially received, had been assured that the " abpedpeieas did not wish to interfere in the conduct of the church, and reg CHICAGO on President Calles, and after having rded the registration of the priests as a purely lay matter.+ The bishops, on being made aware of this, signified that the registration | might proceed, and the boycott be} stopped, churches opened and the| priests returned to their services. “All the government has asked,” said Lupian, “is that the Catholic clergy observe the law. If, as this seems to indicate, they are going to do so, the trouble is over. The gov- ernment has won. It does not mat- to their reasons for proceeding with the registration and other » require- ments.” Commenting on the possibility of a/ huge reactionary party under church| domination being organized, Senor| Lupian pointed out that the clergy is forbidden to take part in politics. case it tries to subtly influence or lead a reactionary party, Lupian be-| lieves the whole plan will fail. | “Our people and our government are liberal,” said the consul, “and all our history shows it. If a ‘secret re- actionary movement is started, the common people will know it intuitive- ly on account of the experiences they have had, and will recognize reaction, whatever its disguise.” The consul stated that it did not seem reasonable to believe that any attempts would be made by private armies to enter Mexico thru the Unit- ed States, as has been rumored. Pope Fails to Force Calles Change Policy (Continued from page 1) declared their intention to continue the boycott. Hits Catholics Hardest. The boycott has only been effective | in communities where the church dom- | inates the population. But the irony} of the situation is that where the boycott is most successful is in the very place where it hits the catholic} merchan:; heaviest. Catholic busi-| ness men ave been bringing pressure to bear on the church to modify the boycott. Labor Takee a Hand. The Mexican Federation of Labor has now taken a hand in the boycott) game and union printers have been instructed not to do any printing for} catholic concerns, that are supporting the clerical side of the struggle. The result of Ambassador Shef- field’s report to the state department and to Coolidge is anxiously awaited by the clergy. Sheffield is bitterly anti-Mexican and it is no secret that In| pest: | the intentions of the govrenment. The} government, however it may be dis- guised, must not be allowed to go any further. American workers can add their voice to the protest already heard among the Mexican people, by being present at the Hands-Off-Mexico mass meeting on Friday night.” Every reader around New York should attend the Daily Worker |he would-be able to induce Washing-| ton to withdraw the arms embargo. | “8 Border Is Airtight. The most rigid enforcement of the new immigration law at the American border which has made the border virtually air-tight since the arrest of General Enrique Estrada and his alleged mercenary band near San Di- ego last week, has dealt the tourist tyaffic from the United States a severe blow. Another Vatican Denial. ROME, Aug. 24.—The Vatican today issued a denial of reports that it has entered into negotiations with Presi- dent Walles of Mexico for the settle- ment of the religious controversy in Picnic SUNDAY, SEPT. 5 Edenwald Park, New York (No admission charge) Mexico. ff @ Knights Now Apologetic, WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 24.— The Knights of Columbus which howl- ed for intervention in Mexico a few weeks ago now declared its position was grossly exaggerated, according to a statement issued a few days ago by James A. Flaherty, supreme grand knight of the organization. This is a right-about face due to the failure of the K. of C. to prevail Take Third Ave. “L” to 138rd Street jon the administration to take the de- or Lexington Ave. Subway to 180th }sired action. Political observers con- Street. Transfer to Westchester Rail-|sider the rebuff to the powerful cath- road. Get off at Dyer Ave. (Fare 7c.) Auspices: Daily Worker Build- ers’ Club, 108 East 14th Street, New York City IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER, Bakery deliveries made to your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc, (Workers organized as consumers) | : Meat Market 1 4301 8th Avenue BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY olic body the most serious reverse it has received since its inception. Sheffield Arrives, Ambassador Sheffield arrived here today to make his.report to the state department on the differences be tween the two governments over the anti-alien land and oil laws. | { Restaurant | Brooklyn, N. Y. LENIN ON ORGANIZATION The most important publication for workers issued in many years. ‘on the fundamental question Writings and speeches of a great leader of organization, No work- er’s library can be complete without this invaluable work. Cloth, $1.50 MOSCOW PRESS HAILS RAKOSI TRIAL DEFENSE Isvestia and the Pravda Analyse Case (Continued from page 1) Writers, the Authors’ Union and the! Union of Peasant Authors of the So-| viet Union have dispatched the follow-| ing telegram to the high court in Buda- “The undersigned organizations protest energetically in the name of 6,000 authors in the Soviet Union| against the process which is being car-| ried on against the Hungarian authors | Weinberger and Hajdu, whose only ‘crime’ is that they did not conceal their political convictions.” The authors’ organizations of the Soviet Union called upon the authors’ organ- izations of other countries to join in this protest action. Ra, ae Hungarian Mass Party. MOSCOW, Russia.—aAn article of John Pepper in the Pravda declares: “The great process in Budapest was nothing more than a process for the legality of the Communist Party. This circumstance gives the process a great significance not only for the Hungarian proletariat but also for all the 25 sections of the Comintern which are today forced to exist in illegality. “The Hungarian government had two aims: First of all it wishes to make the agitation and propaganda of the Hungarian Communist Party com- pletely impossible, and secondly it wished to destroy the legal existence | of the left wing socialist workers’ par-| ty. The process, however, turned out in all respects exactly the opposite to result of the process is that today the Communist idea is the central theme of discussion for the whole proletariat of Hungary. The socialist workers’ party, which has previously suffered the most brutal persecutions on the part of the gendarmery, has been even recognized by the judg- ment of the court to be a legal party. This process opens up a new phase in the history of the Hungarian working class movement. The process showed indubitably that the Communist Party of Hungary is no longer a sect but a | revolutionary party which is bound up | with the broad masses of the prole- | tariat to the death. The counter-revo- | lutionary tribunal was transformed by | Rakosi and his comrades into a revo- lutionary tribune. For weeks during the process the court stood in con- stant and direct connection with the masses. It is no longer a secret that | the workers organized a secret system | of reporting so that the working class |Teceived all news concerning the pro- cess on the same day. The process has clearly shown that the Communist Party of Hungary no longer consists of a group of emigrants but that it has THE DAILY WORKER ™ McKENNA KILLS CANARD ABOUT Deliberate Falsehood to Halt Relief The American newspapers and Bris- bane may indulge themselves In wild stories sbout breaks in the ranks of the English miners, but Paul Mc- Kenna, of the British Miners’ Federa- tlon delegation to America does not believe one word of it. In an exclusive interview with The DAILY WORKER yesterday, he told why. “You know what sort of people we have to fight,” he-said. “They hesitate at no He intended to injure us. Look at Baldwin, how he pub- lished that there were no starving women and children in the mine fields. That was intended to cripple our relief campaign in America, and it failed. “Now this is undoubtedly another story of the same sort, It is meant to discourage the American unionists we are asking to contribute to the feeding of the British striking miners, It will fail too.” McKenna illustrated-Baldwin’s du- | Dlicity further by comparing two dif- ferent statements he had made, dur- ing the progress of this strike. The first was a plain announcement of neutrality, and im the course of it Baldwin said he would not fight to lower standards of living for the miners, Coming from one of the big stockholders in Baldwin’s Ltd., an iron, steel and coal company, this is sufficiently worth doubting. When later, Baldwin announced that before certain negotiations could be carried out, the miners would have to under- take to accept a reduction in wages— the contradiction is obvious. And as is well known, Baldwin has jammed through Commons his eight hour act, which really ,rovides for about nine and a half hours’ work for the miners, only they will not get paid for the hour and a half used in going from the pit mouth to the working place. McKenna quoted from the reports of the Samuels commission and the San- key commission to show that the ex- perts agree there should be no in- crease in hours of work, The chief objection from the economists’ point of view is that the extra amount of coal produced would actually put out of employment at least 130,000 work- ers, It would make the working day for miners longer thangjmy on the gon- tinent. “I am confident that in spite of all the deliberate lies the enemies of the miners put out, American labor will continue its support,” said McKenna. “The money collected will go thru Frank Morrison of the A. F. of L. to England, where it will be allocated to the districts, Each little village and | hamlet has a big soup boiler, and the | workers and their families, everybody | taking part in the fight will come up | to get their daily rations of soup. The spirit and morale of the British miners is splendid, and I am sure their ranks are unbroken. Only starvation will force them back, and it is even then doubtful whether they will go, as the conditions are such that they would starve on the job if they did go to work without a victory.” Contradictory Reports. The American press has been carry- ing news stories under London date lines stating that a number of miners, variously estimated at from eight hundred to thirteen thousand have broken away from the union and re- forced its groups deep into the masses of the working class,” (Continued from page 1) making industry in Chicago is now thoroly unionized. The present cam- paign is to unionize the dress making shops. Thousands In Industry, There are hundreds of small non- union shops in Chicago in which most of the 8,000 dress makers work, There are, however, a few outstanding large open shops, chief of which are: M. Mitchel, at Adams and Market; Francin Frock Co. at Wells and Adams; Arthur Weiss, at Franklin and Adams; Riback’s, at Market and Jack- son; and Lipson Bros., at 225 Adams street, Lipson Bros, is perhaps the worst of the lot. It is there that the institu- tion known as the “immigration floor’ is uged. The shop is on three floors, one of which is the “immigration floor,” reserved for learners, kickers, and a few old, reliable company men. There is a very high turnover here, Besides this arrangemént by floors, the workers are divided into depart- ments: men, white female and colored female, The employer decides which garments should be priced well and which should be priced badly. The men get the money making garments, the white women are favored next and. the colored get whatever is hardest and cheapest paid. In the same way the “immigration floor” is discrimina- ted against, It is possible for men to make from $30 to $40 a week, for white women to make from $25 to $32 (mostly the lower figure) and for colored women to make from $12 to $18 (with a very few getting as much as $30). ‘The “im- migrants” get as low as $8 per weok. The power fe om at Lipson’s from 7:80") Ae basal nates a= aap Organize Workers in Dress Shops turned to work on the operators’ terms, a. m, right thru to 9 p, m,, and all are encouraged to work without stopping. The company serves hot coffee; the workers say they paid so little they cannot afford to buy pie to eat with the coff t Union Scale Best. ‘The union scale calls for a minimum of 90 cents per hour and a 44-hour week, This makes it possible to earn from $42 to $44 for ordinary skilled work, Union cutters get from $45 to $55 per week, non-union cutters get usually about $34 or $36, very few as much as $45. t The union demands the right to set- tle the pricing of a garment by con- ference thru the union price commit- tee, and will not let employer de- cide by himself. The situation where @ worker raises a because of the low wage paid for particular gar- ment and is answered by the boss that hereafter a better garment will be of- fered, some other worker getting the badly priced one, is impossible in a union shop, There no grades, or dis- crimination {8 allowed, The union also prevents arbitrary discharge of workers, It the worker is not producing rapidly enough to suit the boss, he has to come directly to the union and is not allowed to personally reprimand the worker, Union Stops Child Slavery. There is always some child labor in non-union shops, The union puts a stop to that. Tuberculosis is a scourge in the ladies’ garment industry; and especially under non-union conditions with longer exposurg to coloring mat- ters, longer herding together of work: MINERS’ RETURN Rudolph Valentino Was Creature of Bourgeois America As It Is Today By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. IRONT page head line, full inside pages of type interspersed with pictures, and then a full page of pic- tures for good measure, Thus the daily press records the passing of Rudolph Valentino as “Millions of Women Weep” for “The Greatest Lover of the Screen” as the headlines tell the story. © ace There is no doubt that not another death of an individual in the United States at this time would have re- ceived as much attention, Cal Coo- lidge, Jack Dempsey, or Babe Ruth couldn’t have done as well. Charles W. Elliot, president emeritus of Harvard University, passed away al- most at the same time that Valen- tino died, but his going was almost unnoticed. This in spite of the fact that Elliot had been one of the most widely quoted spokesmen of capital- ism, and thru his writings and speeches had managed to keep con- tinually in the public eye, But it was only the “cultured” bourgeoisie that “Five-Foot” Elliot really reach- ed with his appeal. Elliot measured bourgeois culture by the number of inches one covered in reading his five-foot shelf of selected books. But few workers even remember that Elliot declared, “A scab is the highest type of American citizen.” se * Valentino made a well-nigh all- inclusive appeal. When Valentino died no one turned to ask, “Who is Valentino?” Everybody knew him, or had heard of him, especially the mil- lions of the working class, upon both sexes of which the screen sheik exerted an extremely soporific in- fluence insofar as their own class interests were concerned. Douglas Fairbanks may have gain- ed some pleasure out of portraying the rebellious spirit of “Robin Hood.” Charley Chaplin is known to have contributed to radical causes. No one ever heard that Valentino ever wavered by even the width of a sleek, jet black hair from the line that would win the greatest applause from the largest number. The pictures in which he appeared always stressed the “sex and blood” appeal that is supposed to approach the ursversal. In “Monsieur Beau- caire,” “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” “The /Sainted Devil,” “The Eagle,” “The Sheik,” “The Young Rajah,” “The Son of the Sheik” and all the rest, Valentino portrays the role that, according to Ashton Stevens, the Hearst dramatic critic, “made spinsters forget their years and old women remember their youth.” And again, “I have seen women stand in the rain, wet to their noses, to crash a Valentino film.” il i ad Thus the shop girl or the factory girl, touched by the “flesh and blood” of a Valentino film, forgets for the moment her drudgery and agony on the job, much as the weary worker seeks surcease from toil in drink, It thus becomes the best propaganda for the employers’ inter- ests. Valentino, the original sheik, set the pace for whole strata of the youth of the American population. He was seriously mimicked by large numbers of the young men of the working class, who tried to ape as best they could the impression that Valentino had made upon their wo- ee sense son and the committee of five hundred representing each shop have little doubt of success. They are busily en- gaged in circulating interesting, illus- trated leaflets among the unorganized, and in personal talks with them, In the near future a bulletin will appear periodically, under the editorship of the joint board, and will be devoted largely to the organization campaign. Mass Meeting Soon. ‘All members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union are supposed to be at a mass meeting to be held August 25 for the principle purpose of discussing the strike in New York, and of voting on the resolu- tion adopted at the meeting of all shop chairmen held last week. The resolu- tion endorses the recommendation of the Chicago joint board that every worker contribute a day's pay to the 40,000 Ladies Garment Workers on strike in New York. Faces Charge of Killing Two. CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 24.—Joseph Rotonda, 34, formerly of Camden, N. J., was arrested here today on murder charges growing out of the deaths of Mrs, Catherine Audig, 47, and her seven-year-old son, John, in Camden a year ago. The mother and child were hacked to death with an axe. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! ton Bivd, an man folk, This problem for the working class youth became greater and obliterated any working class problem that might engage their at- tention. «ee Stevens wrote before Valentino's death, “Men envy him with green hearts. Perhaps they tried to see themselves as Valentinos—and their imagination buckled, Man is a mas- querading creature who- loves to wear a fez or a badge, or a uni- form...” So one finds the men of the middle class, who belong to the Elks or some similar fraternal organization, strutting about in public with sheik trousers and the Valentino sideburn, trying in vain to escape from their humdrum social surroundings, But they are all Babbits still. Serer There will be other sheiks of the screen, Valentino's place will be filled as long as there is a demand for that sort of stuff. The Valentino films doubtless would create but little impression in the Soviet Union. “Monsieur Beau- caire,” where a noble is supposed to degrade himself by masquerading as a barber, would be hooted out of the Workers’ Republic, where all nobles have been eliminated and nothing considered nobler than being a worker, Labor realizing its own interests in time in the United States will de- mand something better from the screen, leaving the hogwash of “sex and blood” to a decaying bour- geoisie, There will be a greater de- mand for the films coming out of the Union of Soviet Republics that Douglas Fairbanks praised so highly during his recent visit there. Now, with Valentino the sheik of the screen, the American movie cen- sors bar “Potemkin,” the Soviet film that was recently given a private showing and privately lauded for its excellence in New York City. It was never allowed a public showing. No protest came from the American working class. It never knew, except that section of it that reads the Communist press. see The early trials of Valentino hunt- ing jobs in New York City almost parallel similar experiences of Bar- tolomeo Vanzetti, another Italian. They both went hungry on the streets of the great city. Valentino, however, won his way into the good graces of the class that rules, that lionized him and now slobbers over his memory. Vanzetti took the hard road, He fought for his class against the class fth ANNIVERSARY Special Issue SATURDAY, AUG. 28 Celebrating the seven years growth of the American Com- munist movement since the birth of the Workers (Com- munist) Party The New Magazine Supplement will contain these features: A History of the Com- munist Movement in America with statements of the Amers ican leaders and art work by the leading proletarian artists. A Splendid Feature for All Annle versary Meetings Especially. “The American Peasant- Pioneer” By Harry Gannes. A splendid article on the ploe neers who helped to develop early America. “RUSSIA IN 1926” By Jessica Smith. An interesting account of the first workers’ republic as it is today. With photographs. “A Chain of Successful Co-operatives” The story of the American co~ CANVASSERS WANTED The DAILY WORKER is in a position to make a position to a limited number of canvassers in C ritory. Permanent position with good income. Telepho' Monroe 4712 or any morning at 10 a. m, 1113 W. Washing- that rules, that sought as a result to crush him. While Valentino was in the limelight, Vanzetti was hidden away in his prison cell, forced to await the workings of the death sentence meted out to him. There he sits still, operatives in the North-West. . “CHRIST ON THE CORNER” By T. J. O'Flaherty. An unusual story by an out- standing writer, “The Railroad in Fiction” Second article in the greag series on “Labor and Literature’ by V. F. Calverton, Fi Cartoons by Hay Bales, Jerger, Vose and rs eee Valentino, the hero of the social order that is passing, won his tem- porary applause, He disappears with the yesterdays. He has typified the days in which we now live in these United States, Vanzetti, with Nicola Sacco, con- demned with him, as heralds of the new social order, will live even in death as the standard bearers of la- bor’s struggle. They will not be for- gotten down thru the years. They are of the tomorrows. Plan First Communist Speech in Lincoln Co., Wisconsin, This Week J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, will speak at two meetings this week-end in Wisconsin, Friday night in Arcadia Hall, at Mer- rill, and Saturday night at the Town of Schley Hall, at Bloomville, Both of these places are in Lincoln county, At Merrill, Engdah! will talk on the question, “Will the United States Gov- ernment Solve the Farmer-Labor Question?” while at Bloomville he will discuss, “Why Farmers and Workers Are Natural Allies.” The population of the county is made up of stump farmers, paper mill workers and lum- berjacks, large numbers of whom are expected to turn out to these meet- ings, which are being held by the local organizations of the Workers Party. This is the first time that a Communist meeting has been held in the county, CANTON, 0,, Aug. 24—A $100,000 damage suit will be filed this after- noon by Mrs. Florence Mellett, widow of Don R. Mellett, slain Canton pub- Usher, in Cleveland federal court against three of the alleged con- spirators in her husband’s death. a MOVIE REVIEWS POEMS ORDER. A Bundle on This Blank - - 3Y_ Cents a Copy THE DAILY WORKER PUB, CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il, BRA ONO Gilbane ssccsinee BOP assansnsarnbansen copies of-the August 28 Special Issue, pro- ter- ne