The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 26, 1926, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml. Phone Monroe 4733 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By maii (in Chicago only): By mail (outs'de of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per voar $3.50 six months * $2.50 three months $2.00 three months —. Adéress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ilInols Editors Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September £1, 1923, at the post-office at Cnt cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. <@z~ 290 Advertising rates on application. oye ose . Jailing British Miners Under E.P. A. Details of the methods by which the British government is try- ing to break the spirit of the striking miners are available in in- creasing numbers and not even the most credulous’ believer in Brit- ish demoeracy can fail to see that the miners are in-a life and death | struggle with British capitalism and its government. | We haye referred to the emergency powers act, conferring extra- ordinary powers on police and judges, depriving the'aceused work- ers of trial by jury and making them liable to severe prison sen-} tences for actions and utterances which without the B.'P. A. would violate no law. Heber Blankenhorn, now in England, in an article on the strike in The Railroad Telegrapher for August states: First starvation On top of this came the concentrated propaganda of the coal owners, and intimidation, SOME OF THIS HAS GONE LENGTHS I NEVER SAW IN-OUR OWN COALFIELDS. It operates under “EB. P. A.,” the emergency powers act, put on during the general strike, and now renewed from month to month by the tory parliament. ‘Police order the Warwick- shire villagers into their houses as scabs go by. A miner was stopped from clapping his hands derisively in his own door- way. If you say good-day to scabs, plainclothesmen rush up to them saying, “What did he say, what did he say?” But EB. P. A, is not stiff enough. Miners near Tamworth found themselves charged with intimidation, which failed, then with “watching and besetting.” Even the bench was surprised but the police produced a law of 1725 about watching and be- setting. They were fined for “watching and besetting.” Dr. Robert Dunstan, writing in the August Communist Review, says: Needless to say there is no place for trial by jury under this act. Summary jurisdiction is given to the police courts ander the regulations and in the majority of cases the prisoners were brought before an ordinary. bench of magistrates. In the past the “Great Unpaid” (these magistrates serve voluntarily—it is an “honorable” office—Ed.) have been notorious for their severity and partiality where the rights to property have been in question, but in the prosecutions under E. P. A, INNUMER- ABLE WORKING CLASS DEFENDANTS have been “tried,” insulted, fined and imprisoned by their class enemies in a way which will be long remembered by the masses. The Workers Weekly for August 13 tells of the arrest of a woman 69 years old for shouting “blackleg” at a scab. Arrests in the coalfields are taking on a mass character and sentences of one, two and three months at hard labor, quite often accompanied by a stiff fine, are the usual procedure. These facts, and others showing the warlike methods of. British capitalism should be emphasized in all meetings held for collection of relief for the British miners and used to stir the American labor movement to maximum activity in support of these workers who are bearing the whole brunt of the struggle of the British working class against wage cuts and for the life of the labor movement. J, LOUIS ENGDAE WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. Mexican Church Awaits Orders from the Vatican The latest dispatches from Mexico picture the eatholie prelates in a defiant attitude, but the boycott appears to have lost what effectiveness it may have had for the reason that catholic business- men were the chief sufferers and have lost enthusiasm for a measure which ruins them. The catholic prelates reached an agreement with President Calles but when they discovered that they could not claim a victory after) the official statement that “if the priests return to the temples they | must do so subject to the laws,” they are once more breathing threats | of hell and damnation for all who oppose their reactionary demands. | No resumption of religious services is contemplated according to the catholic spokesmen. It is interesting to note that the vatican | Union Leadership in Great Britain The Future Leadership of the Trade Unions. By TOM MANN (London), (Chairman of the Minority Movement.) Mi Nis miners’ fight is being carried on at the time of writing with as much vigor as at the beginning of} the struggle fourteen weeks ago. The total number returned to work apart from safety men and outcrop work- ers does not exceed one thousand, cut of a grand total of one mi three hundred thousand. | The government is reducing the customary allowance to persons who obtain relief from the Poor Law) Guardians to bring pressure upon the miners and their wives to close the} dispute, It is a fine compliment to/ the determined spirit actuating these men and women-that altho the eco- nomic pressure is increasing week by week there is no flinching and the} | women are quite as pugnacious as the men, and aré making light of the} privations they are subjected to, be- ing fully alive to the fact that it is a vital matter that the fight shall be kept up and won to prevent a fur- ther serious drop in their normal con- ditions, HE subscriptions from workers in this country are not as high as} they should be, but it is necessary) to realize that the miners with their families number five millions of peo- ple, whose income has been cut off} for fourteen weeks to date, whilst! three hundred thousand of these had} been out of work for quite a long time prior to the present dispute. Also another two million are unem- ployed besides the miners because of the lack of coal, therefore, their pow- er to contribute to the miners’ assist- ance is cut off and another miilion are on short time as a consequence of the lock out. But great credit is due to many who have regularly subscribed a steady five per cent of their wages. Of course we all hope that the delegation sent by the general council of the T. U. C. ‘to the United States to collect funds for the miners will meet) with good measure of success, T the end of August the annual conference of the National Minor- ity Conference will be held, and here there will be a full and frank declar- ation of the serious lack of militancy as shown by the behavior of the. gen- eral council at the time of the partial general strike. It is fully admitted by those who can sefse the situation that the leadership of the British trade unions is deficient in clearness of vision. The pitiable exhibition of some prominent trade union officials in ad- vising their members to accept con- ditions of a humiliating character im- posed by the bosses, and finding ex- cuses for the bosses instead of stand- ing up manfully against them and on behalf of the men, has‘ caused such a revulsion of feeling that it is now a settled thing that definite steps will be taken to change the personnel of the leadership as soon as may be, HIS, however, cannot be very quickly because of the tangled up methods of election ‘carefully provid- ed by an astute lot of office holders, still, whether it takes a relatively | long or short time, action certainly | will be taken to clear out. officials whose methods are those of collabor- ation with the bosses. Militancy. to- wards the boss class will be an es- sential in the future. Also there will be demanded of them that they shall actively support every movement making for the elimination of section- alism. We have still over eleven hun- dred unions when less than thirty are required. The machinists (engineers) are oc- cupying a most unenviable position. Considerably over two years have passed since they commenced nego- tiations with the bosses for a raise in wages and so far the result is nil. The seagoing men are also in pitiable plight and the only stuff handed out to them by their union officials is to keep on friendly terms with the bosses. HE delegates at the minority con- ference will certainly strike a very different . attitude and prepare the way for action that ‘will make for bettering of the workers’ position now and aim definitely at, the. full control of industry by the workers in the not far away future. Political affairs are such that they cannot be ignored. We know for a certainty that there are four or five members of the British govern- ment working unmistakeably to bring about another big war for the purpose of checkmating the growth of Soviet Russia. | take this. oppor: tunity of saying that | am convinc- ed the workers here will not stand for it. The machinists:(engineers) are suf- fering most seriously for lack of em- ployment which in pre-war days came to this country from Russia. These men are idle and some of them have had no work for several years, yet Russia stands in need of more prod- ucts formerly supplied by this coun- try and’ would willingly give the or- ders to this country ‘but for the hos- tile attitude of the government. T is too late, there is no govern- ment or combination of govern- ments that will be able to overthrow Soviet Russia, tho they may seriously retard her development,.‘and in do- ing so inflict most ‘serious hardships upon the workers! generally and cer- tainly upon the workers of Britain. Another instance of capitalistic governmental fear Of “the " workers showing solidarity is seen in the an- nouncement just made by Winston Churchill on behalf of the govern- ment—that the government has care- fully investigated the. situation and is fully agreed that, it is not in the general interest that workers in the civil service should belong to organ- izations connected with the Trade Union Congress, and that legislation will be introduced to deal with this. This means that it will be déclared an illegal act if the Unions of Pub- lic Servants join up with the T. U. C. Life and Work in the Soviet Union 3. How to Tell a Soviet Town. By ANISE. (Special to The Daily Worker) AMARA, July 22—I had only an hour and a half in Samara while the boat was loading. I rode across town and back again in a street car and talked with no one, Yet for all that, I could have known, easily, with- out mistake, that I was in a Soviet city. I would have known it if I were a traveller newly come from Mars. It is unmistakable. Soviet cities, eve in ‘outward signs, are different from all other: Samare is the city where five years ago I lay in delirium with typhus, while around» me men and women were dropping dead in the streets from starvation.’ The railroad station to which I went today looked strange- ly deserted. For I remember it when ten thousand people were camped in its courtyard, sleeping, hungering, dy- ing, trying to get away. And the trains could not carry half of them, Not Beautiful. T is not a beautiful city, Samara. A long time will pass before it will be either beautiful or clean, True, from a distance along the river, the church domes rise golden and_pic- turesquely to heaven. Even the ug- liest, drabbest Russian village has its church dome, lofty, overtowering the low thatched huts, remnant of the age when the life and development of the common man was nothing, but the symbols of the czar-ruled church were EREWITH Is published the thi is at this time in the Soviet Union there. on the Soviet Union having spent Union. commanding and regardless of cost; s not the cost borne always by the atient peasant. A nearer view of Samara discloses y a more expanded squalor of the Russian village. Shores deep in mire from a river slowly retreating in the summer's heat, You climb @ steep, cobblestoned -path for many blocks till you come,.to. the. city proper, safe on its height from the varying floods of the great river. Only on such heights have cities been able to maintain their hold and grow, Here on top there are bettep buildings, sol- id in brick and stone.,- But here too is the dilapidation of the Asiatic mar- ket-booth, the peddlers. crying their wares, the beggars asking alms. Here too, are still the ravages of civil war, buildings burned out, and not yet repaired, since three of the past five years have been bad harvest. years. None of these signs marked out, Sa- mara as a Soviet city, And in truth, if I were hunting a typical Soviet city I would look elsewhere, at the rapidly growing Novo-Sibirsk,, the Chicago of Siberia, or some of the towns where ON TO A HALF MILLION! - Distribute a half million copies of the pamphlet, “The Workers (Communist) Party—What It Stands For, Why Every Worker Should Join” by the end of this year. Is the Pamphlet BY C. E. RUTHENBERG actually is directing the struggle of the church in Mexieo as:we learn from the following statement by Archbishop Jose y del Rio: The catholics well know that to take such a transcendently important step as the suspension of religious services RE- QUIRED THE NOTIFICATION OF THE POPE. Now no reso- lution for the resumption of religious services CAN BE TAKEN WITHOUT THE APPROBATION OF THE POPE. That the government has liquidated the crisis is shown by the release of those arrested in connection with the church-landlord con- spiracy and the lack of mass support is indicated: by-the fact that society women are the only ones who are distributing the catholic protest circulars. ¢ It is probable that the church wants to keep up its struggle in some form until Ambassador Sheffield has had an“ opportunity to make an open or covert attack on Mexico during his'visit to the United States. PREVENT COAL SHIPMENTS AND: INCREASE FUNDS, ASKS R. I. L. U. MOSCOW, August 11~s(By Mail.)—The executive bureau of the Red In ternational of Labor Unions has addressed the following appeal to the wort ers of all countries: “The struggle of the British miners is now in an extremely critica Stage. The bourgeoisie and its government is staking everything upon ar unconditional capitulation of the strikers. The British bourgeoisie wished to destroy the Miners’ Union, to abolis' the seven-hour day and to force the miners to accept wages which mea hunger for them and for their families. Do not permit this! Don’t leav ‘the British miners who are heroically carrying on a gigantic struggle, in th ‘durch! Their cause is your caus Their defeat will also be your defeat Show that despite the sabotage of the General Council, of the Inte national Federation of Trade Unions and of the International Miners’ [*c ‘eration the term proletarian solidarity is no empty phrase by preventing th transport oF voal to Gre rite © and iner ng your financial assistance. Your support is more necessary now than e' before, All workers must come to the tance of the British miners! { The Workers (Comm unist) Party, What It Stands For, Why Every Worker Should Join Easy to Sell? WHAT A QUESTION!?!?! Read This: Enclosed please The first twenty | sold very easil La Crosse, Wis. find $2.00 for 80 more pamphlets. y. Everybody likes them!—J. E. “EVERYBODY LIKES THEM!” Sell Them to— Every worker in your SHOP Every worker in your NEIGHBORHOOD Every worker in your WORKERS’ CLUB AND FRATERNAL SOCIETY! Distribute half a million copies of the pamphlet! Tell half a million workers what the party stands for! Order from: NATIONAL OFFICE, WORKER’ 4445 W. Washington ve * § PARTY, Bivd., Chicago,atl. 2 EN: specially to The DAILY WORKER by Anne Louise Strong, who Miss Strong, whose pen-name is “Anise” is a credited authority years in that country. She is the author of a book, “First Time in History” and numerous magazine and newspaper stories on the Soviet «| alr service can be rd of a series of stories being sent | making a thoro study of conditions the better part of the past five normal. life, unhindered by famine, came back quickly and creatively after the civil war. Yet even in the slowly recovering Samara, were signs of the new life. “Red Army Street.” I DO not allude to the street signs nor to the red flags; tho it is true that the street I first passed thru was labeled “Red Army Street;” and the next. one had changed its name of “Trinity Street” to an unpronounce- able revolutionary hero of more mod- ern. date than the Trinity. And all thru the city hung red flags, draped with black, for the sudden death of Dzerzhinsky. 5 But these were surface signs. The real signs were deeper. Half a block up from the dock I pass a warehouse labelled: “Farm Implements. Govern- ment Warehouse No, 23.” A little far- ther up a sausage shop, conspicu- ously clean and spacious after the an- cient market booths along the water- front, bears the sign: “The Toiling Collective: of War Invalids, Sausage Shop No. 4.” ; On the next corner is a building oc- cupying half a block: “Labor Tem- ple, Building Workers of Samara.” Anyone who knows how labor unions were forbidden under the czar does not need to be told that here has been a revolution. Across the street a ho- tel bears the name of the Third Inter- national Hotel. Farther down comes the “Club Hall, Tailors Union,’—an- other sign of labor’s omnipresence, Here, as a change, is a newly paint- ed factory, announcing that it has been especially organized “for making over weights and measures’ to the metric system in conformance with government standards.” Around the corner from it an enormous _ stone ‘ynilding bears the name “Agricul- ural Bank: Samara Branch; so 1 now this is the distributing center or peasant credits from the nation’s canty treasury. Not far away a maller building labelled “Sam-Kred- oyus” is puzzled out easily. to mean jamara Credit Union, the smaller, nore intimation co-operative which iraws its funds from the Big. Agri- ee cultural Bank and parcels them out to members, The Co-operatives. ‘ORE and more government and co-operative stores. Scattered be- tween them are many private booths and shops, dingy, forlorn, fighting a losing fight. The big, clean, inviting places are government or co-operat- ive, practically. without exception. And every decent building in town seems to be either a labor union hall or some government enterprise or other. Samara Provincial Co-operative Union is everywhere seen. Here is its Store 32, devoted to books and printing; here’ is {ts big department store; here, eating their way into the old market plate, are a dozen newer, cleaner booths ‘belonging to the co-op- erative. Many also, are the stores of the War Invalids, which I pass on this single trip. ‘Bakery No. 9 of their or- ganization stands across the street from Coffee-honse No. 8. A whole de- partment store, visible down a ‘side street, also bears their sign. Then more: trade union houses: the Workers in People’s Food and Lodg- ng havea corner building, across from the State Medical Stores, Drug Store No. 7, Tun by the Department of Health. Beyond comes more govern- ment stores, this time from far away Moscow: “All Union Leather Syndi- cate, Samara Section.” Children’s Garden, S we near the railroad station I see a little archway between two buildings bearing the words: “City Garden, for children of railway work- ers.” And I know that here is a kin- dergarten and playground maintained by the railway workers’ union. It is this union that is the strongest single foree in Samara, And the sign of it is plain, Across from the station in whose courtyard 10,000 hungry wan- derérs camped only five years ago, rises a new lofty stone structure, not yet finished, with high domes crown- ing its four stories. “It is the new railroad building,” says the conductor. But dominating that beautifully planned construction, 1 frieze of sculptured forms rungs be- ween the pillars of the upper story, as the Greeks also once sculptured figures of the*activities they loved to honor on their temples. These figures show men lifting timbers, laying ties, hewing stone, building the railroads of a continent. Not eyen a railway office building, it.seems, can go up in a Soviet town, without in its archi- tecture paying tribute to labor. WITH THE STAFF Being Things From Here and There Which Have Inspired Us to Folly or Frenzy CALIFORNIA'S TALLEST PEAK Los Angeles, Calif—A crowd of tourists from the East was seen standing on-a street corner the other day talking. One of their number asked the others: “What is the name of the biggest moun- tain in California, anyway?” Before anyone else had a chance to answer, a well-informed news- boy——busily engaged in selling the July. 29 issue of a San Diego paper at an enormous price—said;: “Aimee’s Bluff.” ge Strike Sufferers. Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, minister of labor, has abandoned all hope of a holiday until the coal strike ends. It is now in- evitable that parliament must interrupt its holiday to meet @ week from now in order to con- tinue the Emergency Regula. tions, which, if trouble should develop between the strikers and the men returning to work, will be doubly necessary. As for Premier Baldwin, he will pro- bably manage to get away on a real holiday. Those close to him have become apprehensive re- garding the effect which the continued strain of public affairs may have on him.—(From @ news item.) CURRENT I EVENTS} By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) United States senator on the G, O. P, ticket. I think it was Samson who slinghtarad hundreds of foes with the jawbone of an ass. What could he not have done with a gold-filled ele phant’s tusk? bg ‘VIR since Mr, Joseph Weil, alias the “Yellow Kid,” left Jollet prison on parole with a bible under his arm, and announced that hjs reformation had taken place, and that henceforth he would walk in the ways of the lord, 1 have had my doubts about reformed sinners. Weil wore out the bible throwing it at the cat and continued in the path of James O’Donnell Bennett of the Chi- cago Tribune, in his sketch of historie spots in the middle west, described the Trappist monastery near Dubuque, Towa. Rigid rule of discipline are ob- served by this order. Their slogan ts: “Remember death,” and silence their cardinal virtue. And they shun the company of woman! ‘ET at one time the Trappists were gay lads, so much so that good people dreaded their visitations as much as a chicken farmer would thy presence of a band of gypsies in the neighborhood. The Trappists hafled originally from a little town in Nor- mandy, France, After a short period of good conduct the jolly monks cut loose and went the pace. They won the title of “brigands of La Trappe.” Finally one of their number lost his heart to a woman, who forgot to re- turn it. The heart(less) monk re formed, gave a spiritual purging to his followers and from then on the Trappists have held women as the most dangerous enemies of male vir- tue. Hence the rule in the Trappist monastery at Dubuque, that inside tts walls no woman shall go. We wish the monks luck, but they should keep their payday a deep secret. Of course, if they have no paydays they are reasonably safe from temptation, The combination of the army, navy and commerce departments of the government for co-ordination of the te er with the proposed South, "wn airplane flight as simply one more of the House of M rgany a ir director | war preparations no | ment of Commerce, f Trubee Davison, | savy boparnents er Ing On in the United States. Above War and Navy Combine with Commerce in Air «wl In the in, left to right, W. P. MeCracken of the Depart of the army and E, R. Warner of the Ht