The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1926, Page 2

Page Two ~~~+4-———>---— A. ee ALF. OF L. HEAD SEES AND LAUDS SCHOOL FOR WAR C.M.T.C. Makes Troops and Strikebreakers (Continued from page 1) finished your coursa you become a part of the reserve forces of the} United States army. This, by the way, renders you Hable to call in emergencies. It Is not infrequently that “emergencies” mean strikes. The same lads that 1 am watching today and that Presi- dent Green and his colleagues saw at Plattsburg may, in the not far dis- tant future be called on “in emer- gency” and commanded to fire on strikers organized In the American Federation of Labor, Learning To Shoot. And ‘in four years’ time with thirty days every summer of the kind of} training they get they will be able to shoot with enough accuracy to decimate a picket; line in short order. As I passed a tent today I overheard a conversation. Several lads were sit- ting on their bunks talking over the target practice they had this morning. One of them boasted, “I made a forty on the slow and a twenty-two on the rapid fire today, not bad, eh?” He was not more than sixteen years of age. Here comes a squad. They are first year men. They march a little un- steadily and their guns are not com- fortable on the shoulders. They ap- proach a sentry. He presents arms. The-“officer,” a student perhaps in his second or third year, salutes and steps up to him with a clicking of heels. He gives the command in sharp tones. As the sentry falls into line another lad takes his place and the squad passes on with the “officer” feeling very im- portant and the other lads trying to make themselves feel like real sol- diers. And in time they will succeed. For the first year or so, they play at being soldiers, When they finish the course they are disciplined troops. A Dissenter, Not that all the lads are taken In. For exmaple, a half hour ago | stop- ped to chat with a “sentry.” He was a slender kid who sald he worked in a garage. It is hot today. “This Is a —— of a —— of a job,” he sald. “Up and down, up and down. | want to go swimming.” He rather hinted he might not come to the camp next year, But most of the boys are not Ifke that. And the fact is, the plans of the War Department call for enough sport and sufficient ease of discipline the first year to get as many as pos- sible of them to come again. It is very easy to see the difference in routine and command between the “basic” recruits and the “red” or the “white.” The Army Game. The bugle blows evening inspection. “First platoon out,” cries a rooky non- com. His call is echoed down the “street” and the boys roll out of their bunks, grab their rifles and fall in. The company officer trues the lines, assisted by several rookies. He looks Don’t Miss The Special dad Anniversary (of the American Com- munist movement) = « Issue of The DAILY WORKER WITH UNUSUAL ART WORK AND SPECIAL FEATURES IN The New Magazine Supplement SATURDAY, AUG. 28 ORDER NOW a bundle of the Special Labor Day lssue—Sept, 4th, at 3/ cents a copy. QUEEN OF ROUMANIA MAY | HAVE TO BUM HER WAY ON UNITED STATES TOUR (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Queen Marie of Roumania will be shown all the courtesy due the head of a friendly state during her proposed tour of the United States, but she will pay her own way. Officials who have considered just how the royal visitor should be treated were sald today to have de: cided that no obligation rests upon the government to become an of- ficial host. The Wilson administra- tion would not treat a royal guest this way, it is pointed out, particu- larly a queen. sharply at the rifles, It is getting near the end of the thirty days and they are supposed to have mastered the art of cleaning the weapons. With their left hands they take the magazines. out of the guns. The officer, a second lleuten- ant, passes down the back of the line and looks sharply into the bore of each gun—for dirt, The regular army game from start to finish, I learn that for the past week the “soldiers” have been rehearsing for a rousing fleld day on next Saturday the principle feature of which will be a sham battle. Howitzers will roar, trench mortars will spit fire, and the rat-a-tat of machine guns will sound in chorus with volleys from 1668 rifles in the hands of boys. There will be an “enemy,” the post cavalry and ar- tillery companies will co-operate and the regulars will show the rookies how. Airplanes will fly overhead to direct the artillery fire and silver sabered officers will plot the battle and direct the lines as in Flanders. Heating Them Up. This event will serve two purposes. It will heat up the blood of the lads and it is good publicity. It is im- Dortant not to forget that the Citizens’ Military Training Camps are still in their infancy. They are only six years old. The program of the War Department is far more ambitious than this years’ enrollment of only fifty odd thousand “citizen soldiers” for the entire nine army corps areas would indicate. The appropriations from congress are getting bigger every year and the enrollments and gradua- tions into the reserve forces will get bigger every year. This program pr licity therefore. Hletin board next the or- derly tent of “Citizens’ Company C” 1 saw a letter signed Capt. Patrick Henry, “publicity officer.” It in- structed all officers of the C, M. T. C. to themselves write to their home paper editors telling of “camp ife” and to get ALL the boys to send let- ters to editors. But the latter must be sent to the publicity officer for. forwarding. Perhaps the letters will need a little editing. Remmiscent, As I leave the camp the companies are marching, four abreast, aluminum mess-kits in hand, to their places at the long tables to eat army fare for the third time today. The most out- standing impression I take away with me is my inability to separate the scenes I saw from memories of fhe time, in 1917, when I witnessed com- panies of raw recrafts being whipped hastily into shape for shipment to the big imperialist slaughter, President Green said the camps make men. | am more than ever con- vinoed that they make only sol- dlers. Protests Force Black Shirts to Quit Watch (Continued trom page 1) and boycotting of his pictures au- thorized by fascisti when it became known in Italy that he intended to take out United States naturalization papers, which he did last year. The reason for closing the mortu- ary where Valentino’s body lay was given by Ullman. “I knew it would have been Valentino’s wish that the public be allowed to see him in death. Laughed and Giggled. “But I had no idea the public would act as they did. When I came to the chapel last night, thru the surging crowds, it struck me that the way many of the people were acting was a disgrace. Many women and girls were laughing and giggling. They even giggled as they entered the room where Valentino lay. Some of the men, you would think, were going to a@ picnic or a three-ringed, circus. “It was a shock to me. I couldn't do anything else but stop it.” The funeral services Monday, Ullman said, will be as simple as {it will be possible to make them. He wants no demonstrations, ff he can help it, LANDIS CROWD PLACES GUNMEN IN LOOP STRIKE Bricklayers Continue; Steel Work Stopped The strike on the twenty-two story office building at 100 West Monroe St. shows that there is not sufficient sol- idarity and co-operation on the part of some of the building trades work- ers to thoroly prevent work on jobs which the Chicago Building Trades Council desires to strike. The structural and ornamental iron workers, the electricians, steam fitters and elevator workers are off solid, No steel is going up at all. All building laborers belonging to the union are striking, but there are a couple of dozen non-union laborers observable, trucking material about on the ground floor, and cleaning up, under the “pro- tection” of almost as many police and special guards. The Bricklayers & Stone Masons’ Union is not striking. Union brick- layers are slowly raising the walls, which are now a little above the fifth oflor, Strike Over Plumbers, The carpenters are working but they were not union men to start with, The building was struck not so much on account of the presence of non-union carpenters as because the union plumbers were forced to work along- side of non-union plumbers, There do not seem to be any plumbers at work today; building workers watching the activity of the bricklayers opined that the plumbers’ work was up to the rest of the construction, and further in stallment of plumbing awaited further raising of the walls and interior, The use of non-union plumbers along with unfon plumbers is even a violation of the Landis award model contract, which prohibits strikes in any trade bécause of the use of non- union men in another trade on the same construction, but does not allow the mixing of non-union and union men except under special circum- stances, and then on working cards of the union. Landis Award Faking. The entire Landis award program is largely bluff, according to informa- tion gf workers for small contractors, sub-contractors, etc. If a special part of the construction work is sub-con- tracted, the lesser contractor may operate under the Landis award, whereupon the citizens’ Landis Award committee promptly labels the entire building “Landis Award,” and places all its forces at the disposal of any employer in case of strikers there. The citizens’ committee now claims to-have control of five percent of the building construction now going on in Chicago, but union men say that if due consideration is given to this trick of the eommittee, the percentage will be even much less, Citizens’ Committee Guards. Thomas E, Donnelley, chairman of the citizens’ committee, is boasting in a statement to the press that the job at 100 West Monroe St. will be finish- ed on scheduled time, April 1, and the committee already has its troop of private detectives in all entrances to the building. One large stomached guard admitted to a representative of The DAILY WORKER that he was directly employed by the citizens’ com- mittee to see that no outsiders talked to the workers on the building, whe- ther union or non-union. He claimed to be a deputy sheriff, but would not show his badge. ‘ NEW GOVERNMENT DECREE WINDFALL FOR INFORMERS (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—The ted: eral government has no intention of establishing a paid army of “volun: teer spies” to help enforce the prohi- bition law, it was announced officially at the treasury department today, al- tho it was admitted bonuses will be paid to persons “tipping off” the gov- ernment to liquor smugglers, The bonus will apply only to viola- tions of the custom Jaw, which in- cludes illegal importation of hard li- quors, it was stated at the treasury, but no attempt will be made to apply it to local violations of the dry law. The law itself provides no authority for general bonus payments, it was added, except for information leading to the conviction of smugglers, Hurry up! Send in your subi only 50 cents, It’s DETROIT! Celebration of Seventh Anniversary of the WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1926—8 P. M. Workers Hall, 1343 E. Ferry Avenue Speakers: Jay Lovestone, of Chicago Musical Program R. Baker, of Philadelphia Admission 10¢ : i - ~~ de : THE DAILY! WORKER -x» ; een aera meer | CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) strike developed into a general calam- lty with such profound imbeciles oc- cupying commanding positions? Trai- tors rather than imbeciles! oe T may be termed a spiritual demise. took place when two brothers were drowned in a seventy- five-barrel vat in a secret moonshine plant on the northern boundary of Benton Harbor. There is good rea- son to believe that a considerable chynk of the American population would not turn down such .a happy ending for their fadeout. Right next to this news item was‘a story of an- other fatality, this time of an evan- gelist, who became interested, none too spiritually in his brother-in-law’s wife. The “unwritten law” pleads guilty. As the puzzlés say: Find the killer. eee HAT diplomatic relations between nations help commercial transac- tions is proven by, the jump in trade between Germany and the Soviet Un- jon since last year. This year Rus- sian purchases in the United States are only 67 per cent of what they were last year. This decline is in sharp contrast to the rapid rise in im- ports from Germany. The capitalists of the Teutonic nation do not like the idea of workers’ rule any better than our own parasites, but they need the business, so they grasp the hated pro- letariat by the hand and do business with him. . eee UCH bunk has flowed thru the columns of the capitalist press since newWs of the recent differences among leaders of the Russian Commu- nist Party developed. Rumors of re- volts, assassinations and other amuse- ments were Nfe. Our policy was to take an occasional satirical jibe at the fable mongers and let it go at that. Now that the lars had their wild night of prevarication, some of them are taking the cure. Which means they are getting a’ hear the truth as is possible for them. * 8.8 HE differences in the party were deep and important. The Interna- tional Press Correspondence gives both sides. Zinoviev, Kameneff, and others took the position that socialist economy could not.be developed in Russia without a world revolution. Coupled ‘with this wag their policy of breaking the alliance between the workers, the poor peasants and the middle peasants. The middle peas- ants would be into the arms of the Kulaks or ‘rich peusatits, thus disturbing the equilibrium of the foundation on which the dictatorshfp was based. The demand for tha le- galization of fractions in the party, about completed the list of errons es- poused by Zinoviey and his sup- porters. ee (EN a vote was taken at a joint meeting of the central committee and the Central Control Commission, Zinoviev’s position received only 18 yotes while well over 200 were cast for the position of the central com- mittee. The committee holds that a socialist economy can be built up in the Soviet Union even tho the revo- lution on a world scale is postponed. It’s a tough job and promises to be tougher in the near future, but it can be accomplished. There is a lot more to it and the DAILY WORKER will give the story in full. ‘What I would like to call your attention to is the fact that Zinoviev’s defeat in the con- troversy did not produce a ripple on the surface of political life in Russia and that some of the foreign corre- spondents now stationed in Moscow admit that the government was never stronger among the masses than it is now. Moral: Take your news about Russia in the boss press with a pinch of enuff. o. 2% ILE the textile workers of Pas- saic, New Jersey, are struggling gallantly against tremendous odds, against the greedy mill barons, with the support of thinking trade union- ists everywhere, the executive council of the A. F. of L., that denounced the strike as a Communist adventure is running a scab advertisement from the Botany Mills in the Federation- ist, its official organ, What do you think of that? The average trade un- fonist is not @ revolutionist, but he hates a scab's guts. If this isn’t scab- bery, what the devil is dt? New York Bankers Bid for Chicago Car Lines Juicter pickings for politicians are foreshadowed in the proposal from a group of New York bankers, thru their spokesman, John Maynard Harlan, to take over the atreet car properties of Chicago on a 20-year franchise when the present franchise expires next January, The proposed combination would op- erate buses in addition to street cars. The present managers of the surface lines claim that they cannot float the necessary paper for refinancing the lines, on a 20-year franchise. Lillian Heretein Withdraws, SPRINGFIELD, Ml, Aug. 26—Lil- Man Herstein today notified Secretary of State Emmerson of her withdrawal as progressive candilfite for the state legislative from the nineteenth sena- sible to local trades councils in carry conservatives and all reactionary lead- heads, LaGuardia Now Regular Republican After His 1924 Election as Socialist By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. j EPRESENTATIVE Fiorello H. La Guardia, the republican so- cialist member of congress, who proclaimed to the world. that, “It is better to be right than regular,” has finally decided to be “regular” once more, The republican county committee in New York has again received LaGuardia to its bosom and he will get the party nomination in the 20th congressional distriet unoppos- ed. His re-election is predicted as a “regular republican” without any socialist label. ees This is another concrete instance of the workings of the Coolidge- Mellon-Butler administration ‘policy of roping the “progressives” and tying them in a knot much as the cowboys and the cowgirls do their stunts at the rodeo. nay Bee The cowpunchers take on all com- It will be interesting to read ers, for the delectation of the city | What the soctalists, especially the folk. It does not matter whether | editors of the New Leader, will have the animals to be roped are full | to Say about this latest maneuver of grown or calves, short horn or long their late political bedfellow. It may horn, Similarly the national repub- | be taken for granted that The New lican congressional campaign com- | Yark Times states the situation cor- mittee, in Chicago, has announced | Tectly when it says: hi that it is going to treat all republi- ‘Assurances were given at this can candidates alike, whether it is | meeting (of members of the repub- senatorial candidate, Smith W. lican county committee) that La- Brookhart, in Iowa; the LaFollette- | Guardia had sa{d that he would ac: Blaine outfit in Wisconsin, or last aN gies soe eee bees bales a te Higa arian at sama port the Coolidge administration They are all “regulars” now, If | 824 cane aaa: Loagworth a it was “right” for them to break | Member of the house. with the republican party in 1924 This is the LaGuardia, be rrmerread crty , Ol cena ot ae i aa tis ee would have used as material with thrown overboard. Tt lies moulder- | Which to build a labor party, claim- ing in the grave of the late La- ing that this could be done better Follette, food for the same worms. by: Gadering $0 1 no’ winking: over 5 6 few leaders prominent in the old one political parties. The socialists LaGuardia was a typical republi- | failed to join in an appeal to the can “progressive” in one of those masses of workers and farmers. sections of New York City where | They remained away from th e Farm. radicalism is strong. The socialists | er-Labor gatherings in Chicago and developed the greatest opposition St. Paul, in 1923 and 1924. They to LaGuardia in the days before, | fawned upon the heads of the Con- during and immediately after the ference for Progressive Political war. LaGuardia’s patriotism had Action, who did yeomen service for surpassed that of the socialists in | capitalism by betraying the Farmer- that he had gone abroad as major | Labor movement into the LaFollette in the Aviation Corps during the camp that has now been surrounded world war, Part of his duty as aviator | and completely captured by the reg- was going thru Italy making speech- | ular republican organization, es propagandizing the workers to eee stay in the war and fight for their It is upon this record of absolute masters. political bankruptcy that the social- It was this super-war patriot, radi- | ists come before the workers and cal capitalist politician and clever | farmers seeking support. phrase mongerer, who made every The workers will reply, with the political wind fill the sails of his |. words of a popular saying, “Once, ambitions, that the socialists ac- | but not twice.” s EXPECT BATE | ESO BRITISH UNIONS AT PLATTSBURG CAMP cepted as their own in 1924, placing him upon their own ticket as part of their “duty” to the LafFollette campaign, LaGuardia had tried but failed to get the republican nomina- tion and political fortunes ar e not served well by running “indepen- dent.” So LaGuardia was really elected as a socialist, the capitalist press called him a socialist, he was listed as a socialist in congress, altho he made vehement denial that he was a socialist. ‘This is the kind of politics play- ed by the HillquitCahan-Oneal s0- cialists in New York City in the name of independent political action for the working class. It was their way of campaigning for the labor party on the one hand, while at- tacking the Communists on the other. (Special to The Daily Worker) PLATTSBURG, N, Y., Aug. 26.— Six thousand “citizen soldiers,” whose guests of honor last week were the heads of the American Federation of Labor, were today re- viewed by President Coolidge, who drove over from the summer White House to watch the lads play the game of wi Sweeping past the reviewing stand containing the official party, the boys, most of them in their teens, presented a military picture almost indistinguishable from an array of regular troops. HONEST WARDEN WANTED IN COOK COUNTY JAIL Strange Things May Happen If He Is Found It is rumored that an out-of-tows man may be given the position of war- den in thé county jail. Who he is has not yet been revealed. It is al most as difficult to secure a capable candidate for the ition of warden in the county jail as it is to pick a man honest enough to resist the blan- dishments of bootleggers in the pro- hibition enforcement business. Military Men in Bad Odor, A military man was at first sug- More Power or Less to General Council (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Aug. 26—Fierce discus- sion is expected when the general Trade Union Congress opens its an- nual convention on September 6 over the question of whether or not to grant wider powers to the General Council in calling general strikes, More Power to General Counoll, The General Council has tried and may be successful in sidetracking the discussion desired py the progressive element on the betrayal of the general strike by the General Council, The progressives, however, insist that the General’ Council be given even wider powers than at present in calling a general strike in defense of vital principles atid wish the council to be empowered to give all aid pos- ing out functions of control in such instances. Reaction Seeks to Cripple Council, This view {is supported by the en: gineers (machinists), the laundry and turnishing trades among others. The ers are working feverishly to restrict the powers of the General Council for curtailing its powers “by providing that referendums and like obstacles be put in the way before the council can act in defense of any section of the labor movement attacked by the combined forces of the employers and government, Havelock Wilson, known as the “Gompers” of England, and reaction- ary head of the National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union, supports this view, as does the Plasterers’, Granolithic and Cement Workers’ Association in Philadelphia by 8: “the devildog,” the stoc military have fallen considerably, If @ warden can be. secured wh» will not allow himself to be dom our smoke nuisance will be abated, rape will. become a memory and pro- hibition agents will arrest anybody offering them a bribe. Likewise the police will begin 0 pay restauranteers for their lunche: That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to night. Hand him this copy of the MEXICO CLERGY = * Spore ae! BA er rere IS RETURNING TO CHURCHES Government to Slap New Gyves on Bishops (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Aug. 26—The Mex- ico City municipal government today announced. that the churches Professa and San Hipolito have been returned to the custody of the priests who form- erly were in charge. The action, the announcement asserted, was taken after the priests had declared thelr submission and obedience to the gov- ornment’s religious regulations, More Hostile Attitude, While both sides at this time last week were issuing conciliatory state- ments, the situation now appears to have taken a more non-conciliatory turn. According to reports from reliable sources the government is determined not only to enforce the existing reli- gious regulations but also proposes to submit supplementary regulations to congress, which would curb the influ- ence of the church in temporal affairs, Most of Churches Open, . Foreign Minister Saenz, who has just returned from a visit in the Un- ited States, declares that the religious controversy is not attracting wide at- tention there and that influential radical newspapers are publishing im- partial accounts of the state of affairs, WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Secretary of State Kellogg today denied reports that Ambassador Sheffield would ree sign from his post in Mexico. “Mr. Sheffield is going back to Mex- ico at the expiration of his leave,” Kellogg said. The decision of the administration not to interfere in the religo-political squabble in the southern republic does not indicate a reversal of the hostile policy hitherto followed by the gov- ernment is badgering Mexico in the interests of the oil barons and mining magnates of the United States. Shake-up Threatened. General Francisco Serrano, govern’ of the federal district, will become minister of the interior on September 1 as the first move in @ general cabinet shake-up, it was rumored in political circles here today. Colonel Adalberto Tejeda, present minister of the interior, is said to be desirous of resigning in order to make an extended trip to Europe. CBPAALBAAGAADALDDADIDD EDI . a bate ‘ ON THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE The General Strike and f the General Betrayal By John Pepper. A brilliant and most com- plete book on the great British strike, its back- ground and history. An in- teresting and important publication, 25 Cents . The British Strike—Its, Background, Its a, By Wm. F. Dunne, A brief record of the strike and the events lead- ing to it—informative and simply but splendidly writ- ten. _* 10 Conte British Labor Bids for: Power nated by the Cook county politician’ | | By Scott Nearing. 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