The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1926, Page 1

Barture for this country, Ce The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 193. By THOMAS J, O'FLAHERTY ‘WO outstanding figures in. Ameri- can life passed out of the picture recently. They are: Rudolph Valen- tino, who in the language of the screen, had a “fadeout”-and- Charles W. Bliot, former president of Harvard University, who made a bid for fame and the gratitude of the. capitalist class when he glorified the scab as the highést type of American, citizen. Capitalist editors ruefully contrast the acres of space given to'the death of Valentino, the movie shiek, with the séeanty attention given to the death of an educator, * oo O indulge in speculation as to which of the two. celebrities ren- dered the greater service to society is rather futile. But there might be some return from an hour consumed appraising the relative uselessness of Eliot and Rudolph. The worst that ean be said about the male sweetheart of Moronia is that he set a standard in amérous technique which the ordin- ary male finds difficult to rise to. He was at worst a negative nuisance, Eliot on the other hand was ‘a’ pos- itive nuisance, in that he devoted his life to'the service of the ruling class. ‘The earth may be benefitted by an ac- cession of dust thru their return to her bosom but the human race has suffered no loss. * os Ll; J. TABE of Columbus, Ohio, vis- ited President Coolidge a few days ago and reported on the agricul- tural situation. Taber is master of the National Grange.. In an inter- view to the press, Taber declared that) the, farmers are drier than ever and in the same breath unconsciously ex- plained why. The average farmer has cider and grape juice, he said. “I went to Europe and sampled some of their wines and there wasn't one I would prefer to Mrs. Taber’s home made unfermented grape juice” de- ehared Taber. Now, these. grape juic- ers who cannot afford a European trip to sample the choice vintages of France might pay a visit to Columbus, Ohio and bid Mrs. Taber the time of day. T took six months ‘to demotish the 4. famous Russian orthodox cathedral. in Warsaw, the capital of catholic. Po- land. Had the wrecking ‘crew. been working on some religious hee in, Soviet Russia, the yells of, imterna- tional clericalism would rend | the heavens... But the act of. vandalism took place in a fascist repi{blié?there- fore the clerical supporters of capital- ism are silent. Tho the Soviet gov- ernment is educating religfous super- stition out of the brains of the masses, it has not touched any church'that has historic significance or‘ can be con- sidered of artistic value. ~ '_* * : ic warding the honeyed words of Sec- retary of State Kellogg, at. the dedication of a monument. fo.an Amer- ican soldier at Plattsburg’a few days ago, which declared that wat between England and the United States..was impossible because of the friendly.ties that bind them, a Berlin dispatch does not give: grounds for so much. opti- mism. This dispatch says,that rumors ofan effort to renew the Anglo-Japan- ese alliance were current. in ‘ Ger- many’s capital. This move, if reports areycorrect, has only one meaning. It means that Britain is not certain that she will not be forced to try conclus- ions with the United States and in (Continued on page’2): Subscription Rates: MEXICAN LERGY SAYS "<< TWINS S ‘¥ < 20%, cw i i ig 2 acted * +o Deny Right o Any Cont, (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Aug. 25.—The epis- copate will not surrender to the gov- ernment what it claims to be the di- vine right of the pope to exercize con- trol over all church property, accord- ing to statements issued from episco- pal quarters today, Should the priests consent to re- gistration—the chief cause of the present flare-up—the- government would have such close contact with the internal affairs of the church that it would be extremely difficult for the episcopate to conduct political ac- uvities inimical to the public ‘welfare without the knowledge of the authori- ties. Looking For Loophole. Nevertheless, the church in looking for a way out of a difficult situation, agrees to the registration provided the government states that this in- novation is for administrative pur- poses and does not mean an intention to exercise authority over questions of religion. The government's claim to owner- ship of all church property is denied by the church which holds that title to all church property is vested in | the pope. Puts Church in Hole. President Calles placed the episco- pate in a nice diplomatic hole when he politiely suggested that they have recourse to legal means in their at- tempt to bring about modification of the “religious laws.” The church has suddenly awakened to a realiza- tion of the fact that it is impossible to find even one person in congress willing to introduce their bills and even if such a person could be found, the bill would have no chance of be- ing passed into law. Want National Plebiscite. The Catholics now express’ them- selves in favor of a national plebis- cite on the. religious. laws. What they aim at is the organization ‘of a Qatho- lic reactionary party and the, event- nal disfranchising of what they p¢all “the lower and. illiterate classes”, meaning the workers and peasants, It is reported here that. Ambassa- (Continued on page’2) + Quezon Says Coolidge Stand on Philippin Will Mean Annex: MANILA, P. 1, Aug. 25.— Quezon, president of the Philippine senate, addressing that body) asserted that the Washington administration had reversed its former policy regard- ing the Philippines and that the cause of independence for the Philippines was facing a real danger. “The Washington administration could not have made clearer its re- versal of policy in the-Philippines than by its failure to counteract the presen- tation recently of reactionary meas- ures in congress,” Senor Quezon asid. “I feel that if the republican. party wins the next presidential election a clause against independence will be added in its platform and that the Philippines will be annexed to the United States, like Hawaii.” GREAT INTEREST IS SHOWN IN _ THE “HANDS OFF MEXICO!” MASS MEETING TO BE HELD FRIDAY Interest_has developed ‘repidly in the announcement. ‘that President Callies, consular representative jin Chicago will address a “Hahds-Off-Mexico” mass meeting Friday: night/under. the pertalist League: The meeting, which” tunity to héar fhe’ real facts condérning the auspices of the All-America ‘Anti-Im- will give Chicago workers an oppor- Kome-encouraged defiance of the revolutionary Mexican constitution by the organized forces. of.catholicism in Mexico, will be held at. North Sid Turner Hall, 820 N. Clark street, - accepting the invitation: to .pres- the official points of view of the “an goyernment in the. catholic rebellion, Senor Luis Lupian (.,.the Mexiy. ul, ig following the pre- cedent, in New York by Consul- General who a few days ago is- sued a publ! ement answering the pro-church ¥; ings of Judge Alfred. J. Talley of the Knights of Columbus. Talley had openly» greed intervention by. the United States, government in behalf of the Mexican clergy, It will be pointed out at Friday night's meeting that there is danger of U, 8S. pressure against President Calles from other ‘than catholic sources, Ambassador Sheffield, who has just returned from Mexico, is to confer with President Coolidge within ® few days, This is clearly related to the latest state department’ hete to Mexico which Sheffield delive) to Foreign Minister Saenz before his, de- Sor Luplan is expected to’ exploi have emanated from Mexico during the present church conflict. Authorita- tive information reveals that a huge machine has been distorting the facts of the Mexican situation from the first day of the catholic. rebellion. The propaganda emanates from the so-call- ed League of Religious Defense, head- ed by wealthy Mexican reactionartes, The source of much of the clerical Propaganda came to light a short time ago when its volume was suddenly cut down, due to the refusal of the typo- graphical unions to set type for any catholic publicity, The meeting at North: Side Turner Hall will begin at 8 p. m. Admission is free and a large attendance is ex- pected, , In addition to Senor Lupian, the speakers will include Murray B. King, managing editor of the American Ap- peal; William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY: WORKER;: Carl Haessler, Mirector of the Federated Press, and ooqManuel Gomez, secretary of the All- America Anti. Jmperialist League Many of the fake press reports that] (United States Section), f rat Entered as Second-clasy ¢ ee PRES, GREEN AND THE A. F. OF L. EXECUTIVE ARRIVE 1N- MONTREAL (Special to The Daily Worker) MONTREAL, Que. Aug. 25, — President William Green ‘and the members of the Executive Council of the American Federation of La- hor arrived here today after a week’s sojourn at the Plattsburg Citizens’ Military Training Camp as the guest of the secretary of war. The meeting of the executive coun- cil will convene tomorrow and will be the last one'prior to the meeting of the A. F. of L. annual convention at. Detroit in Qetober, Green said that the council would continue its policy of “non-interference” regard- ing the conflict between the church and the government in Mexico, TEAR GAS USED ON WINE WOMEN AND CHILDREN Company Thugs Attack Pickets; Beat Officer By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press. COALPORT, Pa., Aug. 25.—Com- pany. guards hurled a tear gas bomb among the women and children on the picket line at Coalport, Pa. and then beat up and arrested Constable Keith who tried to arrest them. These bru- tal incidents come after several weeks of strike against the Irvona Coal and Coke Co., and Cambria Smokeless Coal Co. The companies began violating the Jacksonville agreement earlier in July and lost no time in importing strike- breakers from their other. mines in the nonunion fields of southern. Penn- sylvania and in hiring some 60 gun- men under the leadership of a noto- rious “captain” Carlton, In Dist. 2, U. MW. of An Coalport lies in the center. of Dis- trict 2,. United Mine Workers of America, at the end, of two branch} lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The union-has been fighting hard to hold this key position. Stiff picket lines haye been out from the begin- ning. The Women’s Auxiliary that was or- ganized by Clara’ Johnson, assistant educational director of the district union, at the ‘close. of the Coalport Labor Chautauqua, has gotten the wo- men out on the ‘line with the men. Throw Tear Gas at Women, A hundred women and ‘their chil- (Continued on page 2) GREECE HAS CHANGE OF DIGTATORSHIPS IN “BLOODLESS REVOLUTION’ Above is. former Ministerof War. Condylis who intrigued so well with the army and navy that while Gen. Pangalos (below) was on his vaca- tion the former declared a revolu- tion and made himself dictator, In fact, it was a struggle between French and British influence in the Balkans: iW’ whith France’ has mo- mentarily gained the victory by the coming to power of one of her tools, Condylis, right, hand man of ex-pre- mier Veniza}ga., RRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1926 —$—$—$. ere September ‘21, .1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act’of March 3, 1879. _ ... In Chicago, by mail, $8200 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, ZS" | Published Dally except Suriday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents POLICE TERROR |[Amglo-Russ Committee to IS RENEWED AT} Discuss Strike Support; PASSAIC MILLS} Strike Breaking Beaten Simultaneous with Mill Bosses’ Statement (Speciai.o The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Aug. 25. — The announcement by the mill owners that they would refuse to treat with any committee, elther the United Front Committee or the new A. F. of L. com- mittee headed by W. Jett Lauck, con- cerning a settlement of the textile strike now in its thirty-second week, was accompanied by a renewal of the police terror that marked the first few weeks of the tong battle and. that aroused a nation-wide protest. As strikers were leaving the picket line headquarters at noon they got no more than twenty-five feet when a police squad hore down on them and swung their Ciubs right and left on the heads of the strikers and their sympathizers many of whom came from New York to assist in the picket- ing. Woman Slugged. It had: been planned to picket the employment office of the “Industrial Council of Wool Manufa¢turers” at the same time the line formed around the Botany Mill, the largest of the struck plants. When the police charged, one woman, Mrs. Samuel Latchuk was beaten sev@rely over the head and be- came hysterical The others were driven back to the headquarters. Se ek Calls Mili Bosses Hypocrites, PASSAIC, N. J., August. 25 — The executive committee of the Associated (Slavic) Societies and Parishes today issued a statement hotly assailing the mill owners for their bourbon and un- democratic titude towards their striking workers and the United Tex- tile Workers, the A. F. of L. union with which the strikers are to be affiliated. in -their gage the ‘ committee calls the bliuff-of the mill bosses in puttiig forward the sham issues of Communism and Weisbord in the at- tWe roalissues Of star- long: hours, child’ labor, -women, etc-: inning of the ‘strike the mills yelled-““Communism and said time and again ‘We cannot dea} with the strikers, because their leaders are Communists.’ Now that difficulty, if it was one, has been removed, The American Federation of Labor has come jin, so now-the mills do an about- face and say that they will deal with operatives at present in their own employ because-they are the only per- sons with the right to. be interested. “Is it not self-evident that the mills’ branding of the strike as Communistic was only a way of befogging the real issue, and. that.had they ever dreamt that the American Federation of La- bor would ever’come to our city, they would never -have done so, but that it. was done for the sole purpose of misrepresenting the situation to the general ‘public? Where is Citizens’ Committee? “The citizens’ committee, at its or- ganization, declared the American Federation of Labor as being the only organization which could help in this strike, and used the name of that or- ganization in its endeavors to break the strike, Since the American Fed- eration of Labor has consented to or- ganize the strikers, not a murmur out of these strikebreakers. The public is interested in knowing the present attitude of thes. citizens committee. Evidently the American Federation of (Continued on page 2) SOVIET UNION LABOR STRIKES A CONCESSION Ties Up British Line for Wage Increase MOSCOW, U.°S. 8. R., Aug. 25.—A strike has beenrdeclared at all of the twenty-two stations of the Indo-Buro- pean Telegraph’ company within the Soviet Union, because the company re- fused to grant a demand of the trade union for twenty per cent wage in- crease, The Indo-European line work in the Soviet Union as a concessionaire, sub- ject to the labor code of the U.S. 8. R., which is ‘agreed upon with the approval of the trade unions, Altho not adhering to the trade unions of the Soviet re- public, even the English staff of the company has ceased work and there is a complete shut-down, The losses of the company are con- siderable, as all the telograms from Great Britain 4 India, Asia and ‘the peastern colonies*are transmitted thru pthe Indo-European cables as the cheap- est and shortest route, (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) LONDON, August 25.—Dispatches from the continent state that at the first sitting of the Anglo-Russian Committee for World Trade Union Unity, the British delegation, after preliminary protests, finally agreed to the demands of the trade union delegation of the Soviet Union, to dis- cuss as the first question on the order of the day, the problem of help to be given to the 1,200,- 000 striking British coal miners. ; 3 The number of miners who actually went back to work in Nottingham and Derbyshire, where the mine owners made intensive efforts to brea union, is admitted to have fallent far short of the number boasted of in the capitalist press over the week end. The same capitalist press now concedes that several thousand miners who at first agreed to resume work in these regions on the tricky compromise of the mine owners to increase the work day only one-half an hour, with wages the same as before the strike, have in fact refused to begin work on that basis. Defeat Mine Owners’ Campaign. The fiying tour of the coal towns of the above regions made by Cook, Var- ley and other union leaders, has de feated the mine° owners and sent thousands of miners into active pick- eting to stop the stray deserters, who generally returned home after en- countering pickets and hearing the speeches of union leaders urging 4 solid front. The government has tried to coun- ter by added police persecution. Great Majority Stand Firmly. Even this much of a defection ex- ists only in Nottingham and Derby: shire. There is not a sign of yielding in Northumberland, Yorkshire and South Wales, tho the mine owners and the Baldwin cabinet ministers cherish hopes that the game tried in the two districts may be more sué cessful in the others. The capitalist press is mystified ‘at{ the utterance of Cook, who is saying, “We've got to make a move, and that move is being made.” Both the mine owners and the government state that infers that-a move is on for evtting off coal shipments to Great Britain | by a strike of coal miners onthe’) continent. h SPEECH DECISION. IS EXPECTED SOON | Supreme Court to Sit on ! IMPORTANT FREE | | Syndicalist Laws | WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 25.— The supreme court of the- United States is expected to hand down decis- | ions in the cases of C. E. Ruthenberg, | general secretary of the Workers| (Communist) Party, Anita Whitney of California and Harold B. Fiske, a member of the I. W. W. who were; convicted under the criminal syndi- calist laws of Michigan, California and Kansas respectively. Violate Constitutional Rights. The appeals to the supreme court challenge the constitutionality of the state statutes under which convic- tions were secured. The appellants hold that the syndicalist laws prohib- iting free speech, free press and free assemblage violate the constitutional prohibition against restriction of the| inalienable. rights of freedom of) speech and asembly. | Ruthenberg was among seventeen | delegates to.a Communist convention | who were. arrested at Bridgeman, Michigan im 1922.. The trial aroused nation-wide’ interest. The jury dis- agreed in the case of William Z. Fos- ter who was tried before Ruthenberg. Two Miners Die, One k the solid ranks of the strikers and destroy the WILKINSON TELLS OF SUFFERING OF MINERS; SAYS SHE PROMISED NOT TO DISCUSS GENERAL STRIKE By ESTHER LOWELL, Federated Press. NEW YORK, Aug. 25—(FP) termined than the million striking men to fight thru to a finish and lengthen hours, Ellen Wilk owners’ attempts to lower wag British miners’ wives seem even more d- ainst coal MP3 on, told a New York Civic Club audience. She appealed for fui r miners’ wives and children in behalf of the British Womens Relief Committee, formed of trade union women, Labor party women and co-operative womed, About $1200 was raised at the club. # a Government Starving Babies. _“*¥ou just can’t go on with wages like they are,’ a miner's wife told me.” Wilkinson said relief is small, but the miners’ Women stretch it as they did the meager wage. Cables received by the British workers’ delegation in the United States tell of “more-and more and more poor guardians forced to cut off relief funds.” The health ministry ‘s interfering and doesn’t allow extra noney for nursing and expectant moth- ws’ milk funds during the strike. Woney for mothers’ milk is even de- lucted from their regular relief. Only One Meai a Day. While visiting mine fields before ~oming to: America, Wilkinson tried o persuade a group of miners’ ehjl- jren waiting in a cold drizzle of rain (Continued.on page 2) JAIL 300 UNION . ‘CONGREGATING’ ‘Court Forced to Free} of the Miners’ Federation met at Them from Charge NEW YORK CITY; Aug. 25.—A vin- dication of the striking cloakmakers’ claim that they are peacefully picket- ing struck shops in the garment zone was seen yesterday by strike leaders lin the dismissal of disorderly conduct charges against 300 pickets arrested in yesterday’s picket demonstration. Magistrate Marsh, sitting in Jefferson Market court, had no alternative but to release the men and women brought before him. They Usually Rave Against Strikers. “These wholesale arrests,” Louis Hyman, strike leader, declared, “are a shame. Our people are seized in batches for no reason at all. It seems to me that Captain Cornelius Carmody of the West 30th street station has a special prejudice against our strikers and orders their wholesale arrest be- cause of this prejudice. We are going to see the higher authorities to have these arrests stopped. They have gone too far.” The police officers who make the arrests, he added, have no evidence against these prisoners and so the cases’ are dismissed. Commenting on exchange of correspondence last week between Police Commissioner Mc- Laughlin and Henry Finer, president | of the manufacturers’ Industrial Coun- | cil, in which McLaughlin declared the magistrates were too lenient with strikers, after Finder complained non- union workers were being intimidated, Hyman declared: Arrested for “Congregating”—Not Violence. “MeLaughlin errs when he says the courts have been too lenient. These wholesale ‘arrests are not for violence Narrowly Escapes in Illinois Mine Cave-in SPRINGFIELD, “Ill.,. Aug. 25.—Two miners, Jules; Del Valley, 36, and Joe Saletti, 33, both of this city, were killed instantly today when crushed under a fall of 500 tons of slate in the Klondyke mine here. One body or intimidation, as pretended by Finder, but for miner charges of loi- tering and congregating. And even on thesé minor charges our men and women cannot be held, because the police have been forced to admit in court that pickets kept moving when- ever instructed by them, There uc tually is no case against them.” Stop Out-of-Town Shops. Five different attempts by cloak has been sighted but not yet recoy- ered from the debris. COOK PRAISES SOVIET WORKERS FOR SUPPORT TO MINE STRIKERS MOSCOW, Aug. 10,.—(By Mail.)—in an appeal directed to the toilers 0: the Soviet Union, A, J, Cook, secretary of the British miners, declares: ‘The British miners enter the fourth month of their struggle with the firm deter mination not te give way to the capitalist class. The British miners hav: drawn new strength from their struggle, thanks to the continuous assistance of the toilers of the Soviet Union who have given a splendid example 0! international working class solidarity,” ; y MicKENA TO APPEAL TO THESE UNIONS FOR BRITISH STRIKE RELIEF Thursday, Aug. 26th. Carpenters, No, 13, 113 S, Ash- land Ave, Carpenters, No. 504, Ogden and Kedzie. (Jewish.) Carpenters, No. 578, 30 N. Wells it, n Friday, August 27th. Electrical Workers, No. 9, 2901 W. Monroe St. Sunday, August 29th. Typographical Union, No. 16, 814 W. Harrison St MORE NEGOTIATIONS IN VIEW; MORE POLICE, 100; ARMY ASKED 10 0 BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 25.—The officials their headquarters in Russell Square this afternoon for the announced Purpose of “preparing the ground for negotiations for the settlement of the coa! dispute.” Following a brief session they left the headquar- ters, without disclosing their desti- nation. The home secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, is sending hundreds of special police into the Notting- ham and = Derbyshire — districts, where constant clashes are occur- ring between mass picket lines and scabs, with the scabs being put to rout and the hopes of the mine own- ers dispelled. Joynson-Hicks, under the “Emerg- ency Powers Act,” has the author. ity to send in the soldiery. Eyvk dently Joynson-Hicks, the most rab- id of reactionaries, thinks the mili- tary is not yet needed, The Communist Party of Great Britain has sent out a general ap peal to all members of the armed forces to donate funds for the re llef of the striking miners, | === jobbers and manufacturers to opel non-union shops out of town proved futile when strike pickets persuaded thelr employes to walk out, Jacob Halperin, chairman of the strikerat out-of-town committee, and P. Oretsky, out-of-town organizer, announced the stoppage of two shops in New He don, Conn. The shop of Gillen, Nadoft and Wolff, of New York, a member of the Industrial Council, was a shor down at Hastings-on-the-Hudson, Dinisco Cloak Company of Mt, Ver hon, working for a New York jobber. closed yesterday. The Jeanne Dregs Shop of Long Island City also closed in the face of picketing, AY Nine more settlements’ with inde. pendent manufacturers were made by thé union's settlement committee, ag cording to Salvatore Nifo, chairman, This brings the total settlements to date to 160, Revolutionary Miners Protest Persecution of British Mine Stri (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, (By Mail) The I ational propaganda committee of @ ‘evolutionary miners which nts over a million members ha sented energetically against: th }inuons attacks of the British against the miners, ‘It demand iediately the release of. all ested during the course of the sig and appeals to the miners ountries to join in this pro!