The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1926, Page 3

|. THE DAILY WORKER Page Thres | MEXICAN CHURCH WANTS TO CEASE LOSING STRUGGLE Consul Says Cl Clergy Have Slight Hold “I am convinced that the catholic hierarchy in Mexico meant to give up their attempt to prevent the enforce- ment against them of the national constitution a few days ago,” said Luis G, Lupian, Mexican consul in Chicago, to a representative of The DAILY WORKDR, “Of course the reason they did not is hard to tell for certain, but easy to guess. They were probably overruled by their superiors in Rome, who do not understand the situation as well, Bishops Have Plenty. “The bishops in Mexico know now,” said Senor Lupian, “that they have made a mistake. The refusal of the priests to perform the services in the churches is. causing the population of the country to get out of the habit of going to church. Most of the people in the country have gone to church merely as a custom. The churches @re supported largely by contributions and donations. Without the services they will begin to lose, “The churches of Mexico are, many of them, adorned with precious met- als, But there is no way in which the clergy can use this wealth, pre- served there since the time of Span- ish domination to finance their fight.” It’s a Habit. Senor Lupian stated that in his opinion not more than 10 per cent of the population of the rural districts was seriously concerned or worried about the ending of the services. The people of even the country villages easily give up their religious prac- tices when they come to the United States and fall into a different envir- onment. The church has no real grip on them, and as it continues to make blunders in its struggle with the Mex- jean government it will continue to lose prestige. The consul does not believe that the so-called ‘League of Religious Toleration” in Mexico has any mass support. It is certainly: not powerful, and its reported activity in distribut- ing millions of pro-church leaflets is probably largely imaginary, Marx Chides Germans for Lack of Respect for State Authority (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Aug. 26.—Censure against those who “lack real» democratic spirit” marked the address of Chan- cellor Marx at the Catholic congress at Breslau, where the chancellor acts as chairman. A reflection of the de cay of state authority is given in his words. “How little we find of the spirit of real citizenship among our people. The spirit of individualism reigns too much among our people—individual- ism which stifles and kills all sense of collaboration. Enemies of the re- public persistently and mockingly cri- ticize and slander the existing author- ity, but refuse to put their hands to work restoring state authority.” Party Anniversary Detroit Meeting to Be Held Saturday (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich. Aug. 26.— Jay Lovestone, the author of “The Govern- ment Strikebreaker” and the organiza- tion secretary of the Workers Com- munist Party, will be the main speaker at the big Detroit meeting in celebra- tion of the Seventh Anniversary of the organization of the Communist Party of America, The meeting will be held on Saturday, August 28, 1926, 8 p. m., at Workers Hall, 1343 E. Ferry St. Besides Jay Lovestone, there will be R. Baker of Philadelphia and a musi- cal program. The admission is only 10¢, NEW YORK, ATTENTION! MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE. AND SYMPHONY CONCERT Proceeds go to buy MILK AND BREAD for the children of the Passaic textile strikers, Wagner-Tchaikowsky Program David Mendoza, of Capitol Theatre, Conductor. us Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakoff by Alexis Kosloff of the Metropolitan Opera. conus OF 250 VOICES led by Jacob Schaefer. SATURDAY EVENING, AUG. 28, 8 P. M. at CONEY ISLAND STADIUM | CHINESE LIBERATION MOVEMENT SWEEPING NORTHWARD TO OUST IMPERIALISM’S NATIVE AGENTS (Special to The Dally Worker) CANTON, China, August 26.—A full week's holiday has been declared by the Canton government in celebration of the start of actual fighting between the northward marching Cantonese army and the troops of Wu Pel-ful, who 4 is allied with Sun Chuan-fang to prevent the Cantonese wiping out the northern militarists, The holiday is also serving the purpose of reinforcing the boycott against the British, and particularly against the British settle- ment at Hong-kong. Part of Antl-Imperialist Movement. The campaign against Wu Pei-fu and the swarm of lesser northern mil- itarists, is declared by Cantonese to be merely a part of the anti-imperial- ist drive of the liberation forces against British and Japanese imperial- isms which subsidize the militarists to uphold their special interests, Heavy fighting» ia ropotted between the Cantonese armies and the troops of Wu Pei-fu in northern Hunan prov- ince, where the Canton troops are fore. ing their way toward Hankow, the headquarters of. Marshall Wu. This reactionary general is hastening rein- forcements southward along the Peking-Hankow railway. Serious de- fections aomng Wu's troops and form- er supporters are reported, The sol- diery in Szechwan are turning from Wu to support of Canton’s liberation armies, Wu In Shaky Position. On the lower Yangtze, Sun Chuan- fang, who has held a measure of oon- trol in the Shanghai area, is com- mandering ships to transport troops to Kiangsu province to stop the north- ward drive of the Cantonese and aid the perilous position of Wu Pel-fu, whose alliance with Chang Tso-lin for Joint control of the Peking govern- ment is becoming ever more shaky, and the government at Peking wholly ignored by everyone both foreign and Chinese, An interesting example of how the United States continues to support the mythical Peking government and refuses to recognize the strongest power in China, the Canton govern- ment, is seen in the letters exchanged between the American Consul General at Canton, and the Canton govern- ment’s minister of foreign affairs, ‘The consul had need to make some request of the Canton government con- cerning some American hospital pro- perty, but in his note stated specific- ally that it was not to be. understood that the note constituted any sort of recognition of the Canton government. It was answered by Hugene Chen of the Canton government, Chen being an able Chinese liberationist who had recently been imprisoned at Tientsin by the northern militarists. Chen comes back at the American imperial- ist representative as follows: Canton’s-Pointed Remarks, “I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of June 30 in which you explain—what has already | ——————————WuUW been quite clear and obvious to me— that recognition is not implied in your dispatch of ‘June 16, acknowledging my note of June 4, notifying you of the abolition of the office of commis- sioner of foreign affairs, ahd the de- cision of the ministry of foreign af- fairs to deal with all international cases in the future,” It should be understood that at each important point of contact with for- eign nations the Peking government has an official termed commissioner of foreign affairs, who is the local intermediary for foreign relations. It is that representative of the Peking government in Canton to whom Mr. Chen refers. Chen’s note continues: “Though in ordinary circumstances your letter might call for no specific reply, I believe the best interests of the American people and of the Chi- nese people, as represented by my government, would be served if I make a categorical statement that while my government (which has stabilized an independent political regime founded here nearly ten years ago and has unified a group of terri- tories larger in area than France and Italy combined, with a population of 60,000,000) demands that it be treated with respect, it neither desires nor ex- pects from America and other foreign Powers the sort of recognition which even considerations of political real- ism and international dignity have not prevented them from granting to phan- tom governments successively set up in Peking by mandarin squeezers, mil- itary plunderers and ex-bandit chiefs, “The foreign powers have not yet realized that it is today but an organ of exploitation and plunder in the hands of the mandarins and northern militarists, “As long as this fundamental fact remains ungrasped by the foreign powers the state of China must neces- sarily become worse and some of the ominous possibilities of the situation may become realities.” Mr. Chen's reference to the Peking government’s status as an “organ of exploitation” not yet being “realized” by foreign powers, can be taken as a diplomatic euphemism, since the basic reason why these foreign ithperialists continue to deal with Peking is exact- ly because they do realize it repres- ents an organ of exploitation, with | these foreign governments being thé exploiters, N. Y. Daily Worker Builders to Have Outing September 5 New York DAILY WORKER Build- ers will celebrate the seventh anni- versary of the Communist and Com- munist labor parties with an old-fash- ioned picnic at Edenwald, near the Dyer avenue station on the Westches- ter Railroad on Sunday, September 5. The affair is under the auspices of the DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club and will take the place of The DAILY WORKER excursion which had been announced some time ago for Stony Point. No admission is charged and all friends of The DAILY WORKER are welcome. There will be music and games galore, and a grand and glorious time is promised all. Pro- ceeds will go to The DAILY WORKER. Every reader should make note of the directions: Take Third avenue “L” to 133rd street, Bronx, and trans- fer to Westchester Railroad, or Lex- ington avenue express subway to 180th street, Bronx, and transfer to West- chester Railroad there. Tickets for Dyer avenue costs only 7 cents, so even grandpa and the babies can come without causing famfly bankruptcy. Guides at Dyer avenue will point the way to the woods nearby. SPAIN GETS ITS TANGIER DEMAND IN SECRET DEA PARIS, Aug. 26.—Backstairs diplo- macy has again accomplished a terri- torial trade among the imperialist powers in the agreement between England and Italy to give to Spain the territory of Tangier and the zone back of it on the African mainland which now is ruled as an international area. Secret dealings have been going on between London, Madrid and Rome over Tangier, and the outcome is flatly contrary to the interests of France, which is ambitious for control of Tan- gier and a share of Gibralter’s com- manding position over the Mediter- ranean and the orient. The United States, which also was one of the signatories of the conven- tion of Algeciras that made Tangier into an international zone, is ignored in the secret dicker, on the ground that the United States took no part in the recent conference which revised the statutes of the international zone, British Make Trade. PORTO RICAN CIGAR MAKERS IN WALKOUT Increase Wages By J. NAVARES SAGER Secretary All-America Anti-imperlalist League, Porto Rican Section. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Aug. 12— (By Mail).—Highteen hundred cigar makers are out on strike thruout the island against the American Tobacco company, the trust whjch is one of the principal beneficiaries of Amer- {ean imperialist rule in Porto Rico. The workers are demanding wage agreements and recognition of sho: committees, Leadership of the strike is in the hands of the shop committees, Altho the members of these committees are nearly all members of the Cigar Makers’ Union and the Porto Rican Federation of Labor, these organiza- tions are apparently taking no part in the struggle. Iglesias Silent. Santiago Iglesias, head of the Porto Rican Federation of Labor, has not indicated in any way that he will back the strike. (Iglesias is an official of the so-called Pan-American Federation the A. F, of L. in Latin-American.) Nevertheless, spontaneous support for the strike is manifesting itself in many of the unions affiliated with the Federation which are demanding that the Federation take official action. Pointing out the imperialist role of the American Tobacco company in Porto Rico, the All-American Anti- Imperialist League (Porto Rican sec- tion), is giving full support to the strikers. The San Juan sub-section of the league has issued a manifesto, published in “La Democracia” which has aroused much comment among the strikers, CLEANERS AND DYERS STRIKE IN GARY, IND. Demand 8-Hour Day and Uniform Wage Scale By B, BORISOFF. * (Specialto The Daily Worker) GARY, Ipd., Aug, 26. — Members of the Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Union number 17868 comprising Lake county, {nd. have been on strike since Wed- near morning 10:30 at which time he Master Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Asso- ation refused to give recognition to eh and hour demands made by the 100% Walk-Out. Brother McKendrick, president of the union declared the strike was 100 per cent thruout Lake county which includes, Whiting, Hammond, Gary, Indiana Harbor and South Chitago, He said the demands of the union were for an 8-hour day, a 44-hour week and a uniform wage-scale. Regarding the future of the strug- gle, President McKendrick only said, “We are ready io negotiate.” To date, however, the masters’ association has refused to talk to the union about a settlement, The struggle is therefore reminiscent of the recent fight of the cleaners and dyers of Los Angeles, who, however, won their strike hands down after several weeks of picketing. Try For Open Shop. It is plain that the Master Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Association are intent upon smashing the union and declaring an open shop in their establishments in Lake county. But the workers in the union are determined to stand out against this attack and to force the employers association not only to re- cognize the union but to grant their demands as well. ¢ Land Jumper Charged The British granted the African port] with Indian Death Is to Spain on the understanding that Spain would withdraw its demand for & permanent seat in the council of the league of nations and would cease Favored by Deadlock GUTHRIE, Okla, Aug. 26, — The to press its claim for Spanish control | jury which has considered evidence of Gibralter. submitted at the trial of W. K. Hale, It is expected that France will seek | “King of the Osage Hills,” and John aid from the United States to oppose | Ramsey, his cohort, since last Friday the Tangier cession to Spain, and a| Was dismissed here today by federal merry fight among imperialists is most certain to result, German Censors Fear Black Sea Sea Fleet Play BERLIN, ‘Aug. 300: 26.—The Rusi moving picture play, Potemkin,” is still, fighting its way thru the movie censors of Germany. The Berlin censors approved of the play if certain portions were cut, The authorities in some other parts of the ment of the minister of defense that the witnessing of this portrayal of the temporary successful revolt of the Black Sea fleet “is calculated to shake the respect for constituted govern- Judge John J. Cotteral, The dismissal came at the request of Roy St, Lewis, U. S. attorney. St. Lewis charged in open court that some of the jurymen were “friends of Bill Hale” and there seems to be no chance for them to agree.” Hale and in| Ramsey were tried for the death of ‘Armored Cruiser | Henry Roan, rich osage Indian. SECRETARIES, ATTENTION! When making returns to the country agree with the published state-| National Office for the special sment stamps—particularly the secretaries from District 2— will you give number of invoice or give name and address of the com- Demand American Trust jot bloody terror but by the perman- of Labor and the right-hand man of | ry a Poland--The Land of sl ha White Terra The Methods of the Terror. nchoraneee Poland is that country which more than any other country has made its white ter- Tor a system and does not shock us by temporary sensational outbursts ence and machine-like routine work of {ts hangmen, White terror in Poland can be compared with a gradually spreading epidemic which demands innumerable victims, but towards which public opinion remains indif- ferent. The Communist Party of Poland Completely Illegal. IHE main object against which the persecutions of the all-powerful Political police, the so-called “De- |fensive” are directed, is naturally the ommunist Party of Poland. It is quite illegal and a person who joins it is guilty of high treason and sen- tenced to long terms of hard labor. As a proof of membership to the Communist Party a Communist leaflet, found in the house, a denunctation, the statement of a spy or agent pro- vocateur are sufficient. The Communist Party has no right to participate in elections. The present Communist fraction in parliament was formed by two Communists who were elected on the list of the legal organ- ization, “League of the Proletariat in Town and Village”; for further mem- bers of the Communist fraction were former members of the Ukrainian so- clalist party and developed into Com- munists only after their election and joined the fraction. Also the alleged parliamentary im- munity does not protect the Commun- ist members of parliament from per- secutions. Under the shiniest pre- tenses they are delivered to the courts and sentenced for high treason to long terms of imprisonment. This was the fate in 1922 of Comrade Dombal and in 1925 of Comrade Lanzuzki. The lat- ter was sentenced for “incitement to class hatred” in two trials to six years hard labor and at present a new trial is being prepared against him for an appeal which he signed in 1923, The Old Imperial Codes Are Applied. OR the persecution of the labor movement the Polish bourgeoisie uses the old imperial codes of the Rus- sian, German and Austrian pre-war rule, These reactionary penal codes which in their old form are at present in use neither in Germany nor in Austria—not to mention Russia!—are fully applied in present-day Poland, they have even been still intensified! Paragraphs on high treason which were no more applied before the war (as for instance the Austrian para- graph 58, which provides only death sentence) are again in force. The material gathered in this serles of eight articles on the barbarous white terror in Poland Is sent to The DAILY WORKER from a committee composed of workers’ organizations in that militaristic and blood-stained land. The suppression of trade unlons, the shooting down of un- employed, the torture of im- prisoned workers told in this ac- count Is enough to rouse the In- dignation of even those unsym- pathetic to the workers’ cause, —_——$_ Thus it happened that a young com- rade for the transport of illegal liter- ature was sentenced to death in Lem- berg and another comrade for posting up stickers-on sentenced to ten years hard labor. The police acts according to the principle that all elements suspected of Communism must be locked up; if also many “innocent” persons, i. e., Persons who have nothing to do with Communism, are robbed of their free- dom, maltreated, sentenced and tor- tured to death, one has to put up with it. In the time from April 1925 to February 1926, 11,000 persons were ar- rested on suspicion of Communism During the time from June 1925 to February 1926, 1,400 political trials took place in which sentences totalling 3,000 years of hard labor were passed. Terror Against Trade Unions and Cultural Organizations. A Mates proletarian trade unions and cultural organizations are the Permanent pressure of terror. Every attempt to develop an inde- pendent proletarian activity, every at- tempt of liberation from the guardian- ship of social-democracy (Polish so- clalist party) which apart from the nationalist labor parties has the monopoly (granted by the state) for “defense of the workers,” is punished by brutal suppression. All labor organizations which are Politically not as mild as the Polish government wants it, are declared “Communistic” and delivered to the “Defensive.” The organizations are disbanded, their property and locali- ties confiscated, their offices trans- formed into police stations and the “responsible persons” ‘trrested. The list of the trade unions, cultural organizations, labor colleges, etc., which were destroyed like this, is im- mensely long. We mention here some Prohibited organizations, arranging them in the succession in which the prohibitions took place: On the Suppression List. 1, Council of the Class Trade Un- fons in Warsaw. under N.Y, FEDERATION /MINE GUARDS OF LABOR BEGINS | BEAT UP PA, ITS CONVENTION By HERBERT BENJAMIN (Special to The Daily Worker) NIAGARA FALLS, Aug. 26.— The New York State Federation of Labor convention opened here with the us- ual ceremonies and invocations. President Sullivan's report made no effort to analyze the conditions of organized and unorganized workers of the state, but was devoted to a very apparent effort to jockey the conyen- tion into the Tammany Tiger’s den. The report shows that the repub- licans have betrayed their pre-election pledges, and proposes the organization of “local non-partisan committees for the election of friends and defeat of enemies of labor.” Very Few “Friends” “An appended record of votes cast in legislature this year on labor bills shows that of fifty-one senators only nine voted in favor of all the measures supported by labor, thirty-seven of one hundred and fifty in the lower house. Quite a number who voted for some bills were conveniently absent when their vote was needed to decide the fate of a measure. The report speaks in the most laud- atory manner of the work of the ex- ecutives and administrators of state departments and paves the road for an endorsement of Tammafy candidates, Fight For Office, A fight 1s expected for the presi- dency of the federation, John Sullivan the present incumbent, succeeded to the office after Mayor Walker pres- ented Jas. P. Holland with a soft job that gave more promise of easy money, The struggle will be between three groups who have as yet maintained a judicious silence, Where “Friendship” Pays, An interesting section of the presi- dent's report is the sectlen dealing with labor banks, After boosting the Federation Bank of New York, the re- port sounds a warning against efforts along the some line being made else- where, The Federation Bank should be no criterion because the success of that institution due to the wide range of acquaintanceship in the fi- nancial and business world and if they could not obtain their advice and UNION MINER By a Worker Correspondent, WASHINGTON, Pa., Aug. 26.—Mine guards in District 5 of the United Mine Workers are aiding in the open shop drive by clubbing union miners. John Pernaby, a union mine black- smith, while passing by the Bulger Block Coal Company’s mine, asked one of the mine guards how many scabs were working. Beat Up Union Miner. The guard’s reply was an order to “Move on or get arrested and beaten up.” Pernaby’s answer was that he had been a union man all his life and thought that no one should help the coal operators to break up the United Mine Workers. The mine guards then arrested Per- naby and beat him up, breaking two ribs and beating him so brutally on the head and back that he became un- conscious. While in this condition the guards drove him to Midway, two miles away, secured the keys to the borough jail from the wife of the justice of the peace, and threw Pernaby in jail locked him up and drove away, re- gardless of his condition, Pernaby’s screams being heard by a man named Gillis, a butcher of Mid- way, Gillis called the people of Mid- way together and they broke the jail doors down, finding Pernaby uncon- scious and covered with blood. They secured a doctor for him and thus Probably saved his life. The United Mine Workers has ob- tained an attorney for Pernaby, who was taken to Washington, Pennsyl- vania, to be tried for “abusing the guards.” The company guards know where to take a union miner to get the kind of a verdict they want. So the open shop drive against the union goes on, with no powerful labor party yet formed to check the abuses and violence of capitalists. Plan Welcome for “Trudy.” NEW YORK, Aug, 26.—A welcome home demonstration will greet Ger- trude Ederle, when she arrives on the Berengaria on Friday. To the shriek of whistles in the harbor and a “water salute” from a battery of fire boats, “Trudy” will be escorted 2. Trade Union of the Workers the Sugar Indu y Trade Union of the Wood Wo) ers, 4, Trade Union of the Glass Wo ers, 5. Trade Unions of the Tobar Workers. 6. Trade U1 the Domet Workers in W: 7. Warsaw Branch of the Jew Unio of Leather Workers, 8 ‘Frade Union of the Build Workers in Warsaw. 9. Trade Union of Leather Work: in Warseny. 10. Trade Union of Chemical Wo ers in Warsaw. 11. Trade Wnion of Wood Work in Lods. 12. Trade Uaion of Leather Wo ers in Lods. 13. Lemberg Branch of the Fe Workers’ Union, 14. Lods Branch of the Me Workers’ Union. 15. Jewish Unionsgof the Bakers Warsaw. 16. Jewish Unions of the Pay Workers in Warsaw. 17. Trade Union of the Tobee Workers in W: arsaw. 18. Trade Workers in 19. Trade. Unions ot the Unqualifi Workers in Warsaw. 20, Trade Union of the Bufldt Workers in Warsaw. 21. Trade Union of the Offies & merce Employes. Jewish Wood Workers’ Onion saw. 23, Union of Metal Workers4n ‘We 24. Union of Textile Workers Warsaw. 4 u le of Leather Workers 26. The Branches of the Clothh Workers’ Union in Baranovieza, Br ezev, Kovel. 27. The Trade Union Federation Radom with all its affiliated unions, 28. The Branches of the Railwa men’s Union in Lublin, Bialystok, ef 29. The Union of the Building Wor’ ers in Warsaw, etc., etc., etc, This is only an attempt to make summary for one year. By far tt greatest number of prohibitions in tt provinces are missing. Besides, tt cases mentioned only refer to dire’ disbandment of unions. Far more fr quent than those are arrests of tl responsible leaders and secretarie closing of the union halls, their co, fiscation for “needs of the authorities, arrests of whole trade union meeting. ete. wn The suppression of the trade toy movement does not only damage.ox- economic interests of the’ workir,’ class. It has also a very serious effec? on the cultural life of the worker, because it hinders or prevents con. pletely the cultural work which is sis Ported as far as possible by the tra¢) unions. 8 Besides the authorities carry on |- continuous struggle against the pureh cultural organizations of the workin class, which even before in Polat were not very numerous. A numbe of labor colleges in Warsaw, Pose Lods, Plotzk, ete., were closed; prolt- tarian cultural and enlightenment ov ganizations, libraries and reading halt- are hardly any more existing in Polan‘- at present. e (Continued tomorrow.) (ARABRAOAARARADAARRDRARERD Russian Workers Workshops in 19: By WM, Z. FOSTER. The latest and most Interesting of a trip from which the author just returned. 25 cents, Glimpses of the Republic By SCOTT NEARING, — Another birds-eye view of Russia recent trip. 10 cents, fy Russia Turns By SCOTT NEARING. What Russia is doing in Asia. A of a new diplomacy. 10 cents, Russia a Today! Official Report of the British Union Delegation to Soviet The standard of all informati first workers’ government as ments everywhete.” rade who received and was per- The respect of the Russian workers sonally charged for the stamps in Babee, 1 Fir anaee | at, Dmiage 4%, Go 00 s08 Comet |, TONG S'caye. Very few Seah anf flo hak ere fo . le Paris ee credit on our books. a 8 can be seen among the over by the showing of the District ers, please comply. ’ r the country, so those i, th ficat la vot six hundred present. it are pointing out that| 70 give list governments| enough. » tance, conditions would not be so prosperous. ashore by a mayor's committee of wel- come and paraded proudly up Broad- way to city hall to be officially greet- ed and felicitated by Mayor Walker, day, Durofiex Bound, §1,25, . Surf Ave. and W. 6th St. General Admission $1.00 — Reserved Seats $2.00 Tickets for sale at the Daily Worker Office and 799 Broadway, Room 512. The Romance of Russia By MAGDALEINE A most colorful account of Russia by the weil. it, Cloth, “The pen Is mightler than the sword,” provided you know how to use SEND i A SUB TODAY TO THE| it. Come down and learn how in the —