The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1926, Page 1

| h The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government ‘ rit Se Vol. Il. No. 194. 7 £0, puRe AERA ERA By THOMAS J, O’FLAHERTY OMEN screamed and clawed at each other in an effort to view the remains of Rudolph Valentino, screen idol who died young, because he leved too well and ate none too wisely, according to moralists and chiropractors. It is rumored that the “sheik” was fed on poison but the rumor is not authenticated. The. chi- ropractors don't care anyhow, There 1g no doubt that Valentino was given @ dose of ham and eggs. That's enuf to kill anybody. We still cling to the belief that a paucity of ham an’— rather than a superfluity, is the more fatal of the two evils to the working- claas. se Ra thoughtful of John Doe to bring his co-makers along when he repaired to a Pittsburgh, Pa. bank to make a two-thousand-lollar touch. John—his real name i# gone up in amoke—wrapped a neat Httle bomb under his arm and when the clerk in- dicated that he would not hand over the required sum without a little in- vestigation the borrower, as borrow- ers will, got peeved. oe H® dropped the black bag in which the bomb rested on the floor, then gave it a vicious kick. The rest is history. So are the borrower and a special policeman. The only explqnation that can be made of the strange action ts, that Mr. Doe may have mistaken the bank for the head- quarters of a republican senatorial candidate and himself for a register ed voter. se ‘PVHIS great city of ours, which we must like whether we like it or not, ig becoming famous for the grand manner, A Briton who has been vis- iting this country decided to augment his Income by reflecting. in print on our comportment. New York. Who would, after smell- ing the odors of Chicago? in the big eastern city, the people are nervous, excitable and rude. Here, it is quite possible to get popped off. by a bored gunmen, but he will offer to light your cigarette before relieving you of a a dreary existence. That’s the differ- ence between the culture of the new- ty-rich of the husky west and the jj, ~ gxwougghop-worngentility of east: [lke Fort. $1 - * the effete: * - NEVER needed a whiff of ammonia eo badly as after reading: “Behind the Scenes of the Great Strike’ by Hamilton Fyfe, editor of the» London Daily Herald, official organ ofthe Bri- tish Trade Union Congress... A’ more nauseating concoction. never emerged | from a printing press. Space. does not perinit me to delouse the-abortion from cover to.cover, but here is a cmple from the hokum.case: '\ On ne morning of May 5th, when. the frst issue of the British Gazette ap- peared, a worker anxious {0.R¢@ some- hing done by the T. U. C. in.the way f counter-propaganda, called at fyfe’s house at five o'clock in the morning with a copy of the Gazette. ee ‘THE august editor's anger can be 4 {magined Wetter than described. Here was the first number of the firat exclusively official organ ever published by the British government, brought to his door by a worker who had no official position, but rendered what he was thinking a service to the workingclass movement by bringing | the paper to the attention of one hej felt was in a position to influence action. e+ * ET this intellectual ‘potboy shut the door on the worker and went back to bed cursing his disturber. quote Mr, Fyfe: “I suppose it was ul ‘done out of enthusiasm for the cause, but the ASS might have given us credit for knowing about» the Ga- zette and making preparations’'to op- pose it.” Is it any wonder thé general (Contitiued on page 2) He does not like | To! "aig . In Chicago, by il, $8. vi ER fig, ng Ratese Gutauctthicecs tor teh hee ke yack es ae Legs ate anh ue + AF. OF L. HEAD SEES AND LAUDS SCHOOL FOR WAR C.M.T.C. Makes Troops, and Strikebreakers By T. P. LEWIS, FORT SHERIDAN, Ill., Aug. 26.—! When President Green and other mem-| bers of the executive council of the, American Federation of Labor visited fattsburg, N. Y., a week ago for a five-day stay at the invitation of the secretary of war, they saw a military camp in which hundreds of lads be- tween 17 and 24 years old were being Grilled in regular army style with reg-| ular equipment and under the com) mand of regular army officers. | At least that is what the writer is seeing today and he is at the mo-| ment of writing looking out on a| city of army tents exactly like that at Plattsburg Camp. The guns are! the same, there is the same martial) air about the environment, the same! heavy army boots. It is bona fide training for war and no mistake. And jall these things the leaders of the praised in the highest terms. More than that, they have pledged them- selves to aid the spread of these train- ing grounds for cannon fodder and strikebreakers. Like Lost War Days. They are nothing less than that. It {was strange indeed that President |Green after being conducted on-sever- }al tours of inspection at Plattsburg |by Major General Summeral himself | (he may succeed Gen. Hines as chief jof staff of. the army) overlooked this |fact. Perhaps it was concealed or per- | haps the brother was momentarily blind, But: if Plattsburg is anything n, ere is. no, ise, then Brother Green watched lads in train- jing wit halmost as much intensity as the last war. 1,668 Boys, jbe over 17 years old. I saw dozens | today who were certainly younger jthan that. T got the impression -that. the vast majority of the so-called \“citizen soldiers” are not Citizens, that is, they are not yet at the voting: jage. A few I was able to snateha word with were high schoo} students, They are organized into companies. Their tents are laid out in. streets, with a company to a street, just as in a regular army camp. Their equip- {ment is identical with that of in- fantrymen. This was not only patent to look at them, but the bulletin board of every company contains a printed Ust of articles that each boy should ‘possess. This includes everything \from hat-band to cartridges. Different Classes. There are various classes, It de- pends on how many summers you \have attended camp which company lyou are assigned to, And the amount lof special military training you get, |also depends on this. There are four, classes, Basic, Red, White and Blue, corresponding to consecutive years of the four-year course. As you get | along In your training you get less and less “physical training” and les- sons in “Citizenship and*more “mil- itary tactics” and drill. When you have (Continued ‘on page 2) CHICAGO TO HEAR STORY OF © | .C. B. Ruthenberg, generat” secre- r of the Workers (Communist), pty will tell the story of the organ- and the seven years’ ‘strugel? munist Party in the United & speech at Fretheit: Sink: Hall, 3837 West Roqse- “Wednesday, September 1, th® seventh. \nniversary of the organ- ization of tht{1fommunist Party. The conventio.g in which the Com- munist movement took organizational form in this country were held in Mhicaco beginning Aug. 31, and Sept. 1, On August 31, that part of the left wing of the socialist party which was still within that organiza: tion split away and organized the Communist Labor Party. (n Sept. 1 rhe conyention of the Communist Party of America opened in. the “Smolny Institute’ on Blue Island ‘Ave. Those two conventtons Perty of whieh the Workers (Conmyy, nist) ‘Party fs the successor, © ba tnark the birth of the organized Communist SEVEN-YEAR COMMUNIST STRUGGLE C, EB. Ruthenberg was elected the national executive secretary of the Communist Party of America by its first convention. He..was previously | one of the leaders .of,the left wing within the socialist. party. . Comrade Ruthenberg knows the life and strug- gle of the party from intimate con- tact and participation in all its phases, “Seven years of the Communist! Party of America” will be the sub-| ject of Ruthenberg’s speech, which | will not only cover the facts about the history of the party, but the de- velopment of.its policies and its inner progress in becoming really a Com- munist Party. The meeting will be held under the | auspices of Section 4, of the Chicago | organization. It will be made the means, not only of bringing the his- tory of the party before the members pnd) ccowlkers: “cenéraliy, but also to wally back to the:party those who have not registered in the reorganization and to win new members, ro jtea States,seckion) will be chairman Entered as Second-class r _we September 21, 1923, _at the Post Office at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act of March 8, 1879. _ SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1926 Em 290 t Pres. Green Saw at Plattsburg Green and Colleagues Inspecting Plattsburg Here we see from left to right, William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, James Wlison, sharp commands ring out and there | seventh vice-president of the A..F. of L. and president of the Pattern Makers’ Union, and Major Peter J. Brady, ie bie here Sy bag of hundreds of] an officer in the New York national guard and former president of the Allied Printing Trades Council of New York ‘ooky feet shod for the first time in| any now president of the Federation Bank, inspecting the Citizens’ Military Training Camp at Plattsburg, N. Y., on the invitation of Secretary of War Davis. Green and his colleagues of the A. F. of L. executive council expressed themselves as being entirely pleased with the milftary training that lads between 17 and 24 years of age under- | American Federation of Labor have] 9° in these camps and pledged themselves to work for the spread of these institutions, Learn the Truth About Mexico Tonight MEXICAN CONSUL TO ANSWER POPE AT TURNER HALL' Labor. Party Congress Will Defy Rome Chicago workera will tonight hea he must have seen them in his ‘own'/from the lips of President Calles’ con state at Chillecothe, O., training for|sular representative in this city. the “tl atiswer of the’ Mexican governmient to “°"l\the latest papal letter ‘calling upor There are 1,668 lads in training at’|catholies in Mexico to ‘continue th Fort Sheridan. They are supposed to | rebellion. North Side Turner’ Hall, 820 Nov‘ of boys with guns on their shoulderailiyark Street, where the Mexican ¢~ sul’ will speak to a Hands-Off: Mexi . mass ‘meeting under the auspices the All-America Anti-Imperia} League, will open its doors at. 7 ; m. “-Consul Luis Lupian gives the lie newspaper reports that Preside Calles has in any way conceeded the demands of the church. “The clergy knows it is. defeated, says Senor Lupian. “That is the mean- ing of its recent maneuvers. Presi- dent Calles, however, mierely"told the clericals that there were no terms to be had for them but uiconditionalsur- render. He told them they mist obey the law and that all they’ conid do about it was to appeal 'to the Mexican congress for an amendment to the re- volutionary constitution of 1917, under which the’ anti-clerical regulations have ~been issued.” The make-up of the Mexican; con- gress to which any petition for amend- ment of the constitution would -have to be submitted is not» generally~ap- preciated in the United States. Elec: ‘tions to the lower and- upper house were held a few monihs ago with the result ‘that the labor party and its allies scored an overwhelming victory, {Inasmuch as these elements, dominant |now in the’ Mexican congress, have proclaimed themselves solidly against the church in the’ present struggle there is not “the “slightest likelthood that there will be’ any change in the cons{itution. President Calles — has merely told the ‘¢lerics they might appeal from the revolution to the re- volution. ~ A representative of the All-America Anti-Imperialist "League declared yesterdaf thaj the conference between Secretary of State Kellogg and Ambas- sador James. K.. Sheffield, recently re- turned from Mexico, gives particular significance to Mexico mass meeting, “Unless,” he declared, “American workers are alive to the multiform dangers of the situation they may soon find their country in diplomatic controversy again with Mexico—a con- troversy which could be. nothing else but a direct assault against the sov- ereignty of our Latin neighbor.” On the platform tonight with Senor Lupian will be Murray B, King, man- aging editor of the American Appeal; Carl Haessler, director of the. Fed- erated Press, and William F. Dunne, editor of* Phe’ DAILY WORKER. Manuel Gontez; “secretary of the All- America Anti-lmtperialist League (U; , tonight's Hands-Off |: PRESIDENT GREEN'S HOST AT PLATTSBURG MAY BE NEW ARMY CHIEF-OF-STAFF } j E. Summerall. . President Green of the American Federation’ of Labor and members of the executive council of that body were the guests of Major General Summerall of the United States Army when they visited Plattsburg training camp to in- spect the Citizens’ Military Train- ing Camp:in operation there. He is mentioned to succeed General. Hines as chief-of-staff of the United States Army when the latter retires soon. Fine Newsboys. “LOS ANGELES, Aug: 26—Four Los Angeles newsboys today must pay @ fine of $100 for’ selling a San Diego newspaper containing an allegedly ob- scene editorial dealing with the disap- pearance of Aimee Semple McPherson and her story of having been kid- happed for $500,000 ransom, Liner Loses Propeller. PARIS, Aug.’ 26.—The Ferrel liner Bspagne, bound from Havana to Hav- re, which went on the rocks off Corum- na, Spain, today, and lost a propeller is now being towed to dry dock, None of 1,000. passengers aboard suffered injury. CANTONESE ARMY CLOSE TO. WU PEI-FU'S BASE AND PRESSING ONWARD (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Aug. 26.—It is re- ported that the Cantonese armies of national liberation are making continuous progress against the al- lied army. of Wu Pei-fu who is being closely pressed in the Yangtze val- ley. The Cantonese, commanded by Tang Seng-chi, has captured Yo- -echow and is advancing on Wuchang, ,0n the-southenm bank of the Yang- otze river acromm from Hankow, the military headquarters of Wu Pei-fu, | W. K. BILLINGS GREETS I, L. D. 2ND CONFERENCE Mooney’s Partner Sends Message from Prison The first letter of greetings to the coming, second annual conference of International Labor Defense to be held jin this city on September 5 and 6 | has just been received from a world | known, class war prisoner, Warren. K. Billings, Framed With Mooney. Billings was framed up originally with Tom and Rena Mooney and Israel Weinberg following the San Francisco preparedness day parade bombing, and he and Tom Mooney are now serving life sentences for a crime of which the civilized world. today recognizes they are completely guiltless. Labor Needs |. L. D. Billings writes from prison in Re- presa, Calif.,: Dear Comrades: “The organization a year ago of America’s first representative La- bor Defense. body fulfilled a need that many of us have felt for some time and when I read in The DAILY WORKER of the resolutions that had been passed at that conference I knew that the organization that a few of us had visualized had at last been launched. The. year’s work and the results achieved have more than convinced me that International La- bor Defense is the organization that labor has.always needed and now that we have the organization it is only necessary to continue to live up to the resolutions to which. we are already dedicated and to perfect our organization to its utmost uti- lity. “To do this it is necessary that we should have the entire and solid support of the organized labor and liberal movements and it is my be- lief that itis toward this end that we should constantly strive during the coming year. Every labor union and organized body of the proleta- riat should be kept informed of the work of International Labor Defense and should be invited to participate in the work and to be duly repres- ented in the organization and every liberal thinker, of no matter what philosophy, should be invited to be- come an indjyidual member and an active worker in the cause. “Those of us who are unfortunate- ly in prison and thus restrained from active participation in the work ap- preciate the efforts of International Labor Defense more than I can tell you in these few lines. “Fraternally yours, (Signed) “Warren K. Billings.” Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, lL COAL MINERS URGE NEGOTIATIONS AS STRIKE-BREAKING BY BRITISH MINE OWNERS SUFFERS COLLAPSE (Special Cable to The Daily Worker.) LONDON, August 26.—The striking coal miners’ executive, thru A. J. Cook,, secretary, has sent a request to Sir Arthur Steel- | Maitland, minister of labor in charge of the coal strike situation in the absence of Premier Baldwin, to bring the mine owners and \the miners’ executive together in new negotiations. Sir Arthur is in Scotland, but is expected to reach London in a few hours and arrange a meeting at once. however, is reported to have taken the stand of the mine owners ‘and will demand that the miners’ union bring in concrete pro- posals for settlement which will duced wages. o Strikers Do Not Return. LONDON, Aug. 26.—In spite of the full assistance of the government, which has rushed hundreds of special police to Nottingham and Derbyshire districts, the mine owners admit that no miners have returned to work. The police are rushing about looking for “violence,” but can find but little re- motely resembling a sign of what 18 known in the capitalist mind as “dis- orders.” The miners’ union has been doing a thoro job of peaceful mass demonsira- tions by both men and women, mass picketing of all exits and entrances. and a methodic house to house can- vassing to educate the stragglers tha, the trick compromise move of the mine owners means no_ultimate good to the miners, whose only hope lies in solidly standing together. Government as Strike-Breaker. The only violence reported is that of the police, who club isolated pick ets and intimidate small groups of strikers without regard to what the miners are doing or not doing. It is plainly a case of strike-breaking by the government. Yesterday six strik- ets were clubbed by these police at Slapstone. Similar police violence took place at Waswop. In some instances the deserters are made to understand the odium in which they are held by thel® fellew- workers by chalk marks on ‘their houses—“A scab lives here,” and sim- ilar ‘yigns.. Sometimes a rope.is tied to thé seab’s front door and the other end tied firmly to the doorknob of the adjoining neighbor's door, so that the scab finds he has to go out the win- dow if his dark hovel affords such a luxury, or stay inside until someone lets him out. JOSEPH MANLEY EXPIRES FROM INJURIES RECEIVED IN FALL FROM BUILDING (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—Joseph Manley, former member of the Workers (Communist) Party, died yesterday as the result of internal injuries sustained in a fall from a building In Brooklyn August 24, upon which he was employed as an iron: worker, Manley, a former organizer for the Iron Workers’ Union, was secre- tary of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party organized in Chicago in 1923 and for a time was eastern district organizer of the Trade Union Edu- cational League. He ves a wife, Sylvia, and a daughter, Beatrice, 5, The funeral will be held on Sat- urday,; August 28, at 3 p. m. from the Daniel McLain funeral parlors at 57th street and Lexington avenue, FASCIST GUARD WITHDRAWN FROM VALENTINO BIER NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—No longer able to continue with their publicity stunt, New York fascists have been forced, to withdraw the so-callea guard of honor that they chose to watch at the bier of Rudolph Valen- tino, ostensibly on instructions from the fascist council in Italy. The with- drawal of the black-shirted watchers who stood next to the body all day yesterday came after protests poured into the office of George ‘Ullman, Val- entino’s manager who is handling the arrangements for the fune: Rudy Was Anti-Fai It is known that Valentino was de- cidedly anti-fascist, particularly after demonstrations staged against him by (Continued on page 2) SYRIAN REBELS OPEN NEW DRIVE AGAINST FRENCH; HAVE NEW LEADER ramifications. IRUT, Syria; Aug. 26.—The Syrian rebels have opened a new cam- paign against the French protectorate which appears to have wide: ‘The leader of the new revolt is Sultan Atrash, read He has called to his colors all) Syrian tribesmen over twenty years old. against the longer day and re-+7—————— NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents The government, compromise their previous stand AF. OF L. GHIZFS COLD TO WATSON: PARKER BILL Oppose Its Spread to Other Industries (Special to The Dally Worker) PAUL SMITHS, N. Y., Aug. 26. — Organized labor favors a reduction of working hours and is opposed to the extension of the principles of the Rail road Labor Board, with indirect gov- ernment supervision over strikes and labor disputes, according to the lead- ers who had luncheon with President Coolidge a few days agb. | They came from Plattsburg, where they bad been inspecting the Stu- dents’ Military Training Camp pre- Paratory to going to a meeting of the council of the American Federation of Labor in Montreal. Coolidge For It. The administration has advocated the application of the same principles to the anthracite coal industry and to all other industries dealing with pub- Me. necessities: William Green, president of the Federation, while declining to oppose directly the principle for the adjust- ment of disputes in other industries, declared “it is not practicable to ex- tend the system to other industries.” Others in the party asserted that labor was opposed to the plan chiefly because of the government super- vision thru the board, which had power to exert public pressure on the employes. No Agreement Likely, If organized labor continued in this attitude, it was pointed out, there might be no agreement reached by/the operators and miners for the forma tion of a plan similar to the Railroad Board to settle wages and other dis- putes in the hard coal industry, SPEED UP EFFO"T TO RENEW SOVIET- U.S. RELATIONS 8 U. S. Firms Have Been Given Concessions (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—The So viet Union has launched a new cam paign to speed up trade relations with the United States for the purpose, it is said, of convincing business inter- ess they should support a future plea for American recognition, Negotiations Continue, : ‘The Soviet concessions committee, according to information received here today, has announced that negotia- tions are under way to persuade the Aluminum Company of America, in which Secretary of the Treasury Mel- lon is heavily interested, to bitild an aluminum factory in Russia and de- velop bauxite deposits. Eight American firms have been granted concessions in Soviet Russia, American manufacturers also are being warned thru the Russia information bureau that Russian industries are in the hands of a few great state trusts aad the foreign firms which establish a market while these trusts are young will reap the benefit of future expan. sion, Uruguay Recognition, The Soviet Union also is conducting a campaign among South American re- publics for recognition and has alk ready obtained it from Uruguay, : Reports that Soviet officials would soon inform the United States the — Kerensky regime debt will be recog. nized are regurded as without founda- tion here, Instead, officials here bee lieve, Russia is looking forward to the — time when growing commercial rela- _ tions will lead to a mutual desire te resume diplomatic relations, — is