The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1926, Page 2

Page Two rT RAIL UNIONS TRAPPED INTO ARBITRATION Demands Sidetracked by Mediation Board NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—The federal mediation board, created by the Watson-Parker rail labor law and ap-| pointed by Coolidge, has announced | thru Colonel Samuei E, Winslow, that an agreement to arbitrate thelr wage demands has been signed by the Broth- erhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors with the | representatives of fifty eastern rall- way companies. | According to Winslow, the arbitra-| tion agreement leaves the mediation | board ont of the case, except for aid-| ing in the arbitration board being _ established, | ‘ D, 1, Coase of Cleveland, editor of the Prainmen’s Journal, and B. F. Ourtis of Cedar Rapids, general secre- | , bery of the Conductors, will represent | the two unions on the board of arbi- tration. The railway companies will @o0n name two representatives and the four will name a fifth member of the arbitration board. If they cannot agree on the fifth member, the federal mediation board will name him, The arbitration agreement was signed by W. G. Lee, president of the B. of R. T., L. B. Sheppard, president of the O. of R. O., and John G, Walber, vice-president of the New York Cen- tral and chairman of the conference board of eastern railroads, “All parties interested,” says Wins- low, “willimgly agreed at the request of the board of mediation, to arbitra- tion proceedings as provided by law. Arbitration proceedings will be in New York at @ time and place to be here- after determined,” ———— U. S. Planes to Circle South America In Preparation for Future War Flights atataovVg route. service. SouTH AMERICA shar essseesememsionereseessee The chief purpose of the expedition of the United States army planes to South Amreica Is to chart alr-ways for future guidance of ships of the alr. In view of the large holdings and interests of United States capitalists in Latin America this does not seem strange at all. The map shows the probable Inset ig of Major General Mason Patrick, chief of the U. S. army air It Is also Interesting to note in this connection that E. Trubee Davison, the War Department assistant In charge of air service, is a well- known member of the House of Morgan, I. L. D. Issues Agenda for Anaual bmw Defense Conference on September 15 (Continued from page 1) 6. Manifesto of capference, 7. Elections. Organization Confertmce—Second Day 1. Organization prpblems and fu- ture tasks. a. Significance aml role of perma- nent organjzation fer Labor Defense b, Organization of branches. ¢. Affiliation of sympathetic organ- izations. @..” -smbership campaign. @ Conducting united front activi- ties. f. Organization of campaigns. 8. Initiation fees and dues. h. New literature. 2. Local organization problems: a. Activities and functions of local secretaries and executive commit- tees, b. Activities of branches. ¢. Affiliation of sympathetic organ- izations. a. Raising funds, e. Defense of local cases. f. Building up local lists. g. Charters for branches, h. Organizing and advertising meetings. i, Literature agents— Circulation of the Labor Defender. J. Local reports and picturs for La- bor Defender. 8. The language problem and forms and methods of organization, 4. Financial accounting and con- trol. 5. Organization bulletin. 6. Constitution. BROOKLYN WORKERS CELEBRATE SEVENTH YEAR OF PARTY LIFE Brooklyn section (No. 6) of the Workers (Communist) Party will cele brate the seventh anniversary of our party at a mass meting which will take place on Friday, Sept. 3, 8 p. m., at Royal Palace Hall, 16 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Ben Gitlow will munist Party in the class struggle. There also will be a musical program: Mandolin orchestra, violinist and a famous singer. deliver a lecture on the role of the Com- Workers of Brooklyn are Invited to attend this mass meeting and Join hands In the celebration of the seventh of the proletariat. Remember September 3! SSS anniversary of the revolutionary party SSS EVERYBODY TO THE GARDEN CITY GROVE Sunday, August 29 at the LADIES’ GARMENT WORKERS’ PIC Baseball Game and and other Amusements that you like. Nic Charleston Contest Music by the Melody Syncopators Admission—In Advance 35c At the Gate 50c Auspices, Chicago Joint Board of the I. L. G. W. U. SSS SSS SS SESSA SENSES SES TESST TSA SSS ST ST TSS RUE L SIXTH ANNUAL LABOR DAY Harry M. Daugherty Faces Trial Again For Teapot Dome HARRY M. DAUGHERTY. The former leader of the Gang” and attorney general Harding cabinet Is slated to stand trial on Sept. 7 on charges of “defraud- ing the government of its rights and “Ohio in the functions.” The “Tea Pot Dome Scan- dal” was soon hushed up by very pow- erful forces who are Interested, per- haps for the same reason, In seeing to it that Harry doesn’t suffer enough to do too much talking. Youth Dance to Aid British Coal Miners A dance to raise funds for the Brit- ish striking miners arranged by the youth committee for British Miners’ Relief will be held on Saturday, Aug. the 28th, 8 p. m. at the Douglas Park Refectory. The next meeting of this committee will be held on Monday, August the 30th at 8 p. m. at 3322 Douglas Blvd. 8 p.m. All youth organizations are invited to send delegates, SECRETARIES, ATTENTION! When making returns to the National Office for the special assessment will you give number of invoice or give name and address of the com- rade who received and was per- sonally charged for the stamps in May? Unless you do so we cannot give proper credit on our books. District organizers, please comply. To give unit identification is not enough. Accounts and Supplies Dept. stamps—particularly the secretaries from District 2— HE DAILY WORKER FURRIERS’ BOOKS TURNED OVER TO | HOSTILE PROBERS (Continued from page 1) was taken because the situation with- in the union is extraordinary. Gold asks in what respect is it so extraordi- nary that the A. F. of L. departs from its traditional policy of international union autonomy when the union con- stitution provides necessary machin- ery for consideration of any inter- nal union situation, . Proud of Strike Victory. “We are proud of out achieve- ments” in the strike “that ‘won mate- rial gains for the workers, strength- ened the control of the union over the industry and established the 40-hour week,” Gold tells Green. “The vic- tory was won at a time when wage cutting, speeding up, the’institution of company unionism, etc., were the or- der of the day as far‘as the open- shoppers were concerned,” We have nothing to be ashamed of as far as our record is concerned. We desire to record for the benefit of the entire labor movement the strategy em- ployed and the methods used that brought us such a notable victory.” Hostile Investigators. Green says that the investigating committee cannot be enlarged, as the present one has already been proceed- ing with the work, The committee is: Matthew Woll, A. F. of L, vice-pres- ident, chairman; Hugh Frayne, A. F. of L, general organizer; Edward F. McGrady, A. F. of L, organizer and [égislative agent; John Sullivan, pres- ident New York State Federation of Labor, and Joseph Ryan, president New York City central labor body. Woll is a member of the National Civic Federation headed by the red- baiting Ralph Easley. Woll himself has led attacks upon left wing and progressive delegates and measures at A, F, of L. conventions. Other com- mittee members are known conserva- tives. Frayne is particularly objec- tionable to the joint board because he tried to have the strikers accept the “eight points” compromise agree- ment which gave the workers less than their final settlement. Gold men- tions Frayne’s activities to Green and insists that the committee cannot be impartial with him included. Aimed at Progressive Leaders. “After the most careful and deliber. ate consideration of all the issues in volved in the investigation, we have come to the conclusion that the in vestigation is directed against the mil- itant and progressive leadership which conducted a splendid . strike,” Gold tells Green. “It would be an out- rageous proceeding, ayrocedure to he condemned by the ‘e organized labor movement, if this ‘investigation is prompted by a desire to punish and discredit this militant leadership on account of their success in this re- spect.” WIIL Appeal Star Chamber Action. Appeal will be taken by the joint board to the A. F. of»L, convention, Gold states. The full correspondence between Green and Gold is being cir- culated among unions thruout the coun- try and sent to the labor press. The joint board asked Green to make the committee’s investigation public in- stead of “star chamber.” The letter of New York fur shop chairmen to Green is included in the correspond- ence, The shop chairmen’s letter tells briefly of old and new conditions in the union and approve the joint board action. The resolution passed by a mass meeting of fur workers endors- ing their joint board is appended. A. F. of L. Heads Debate Jurisdiction Problems (Continued from page 1) character, so ft comes under their jurisdiction, Federation spokesmen admit that this single case is only a symptom of @ pressing problem of, great impor- tance, brought on by the revolution- ary changes in industry. in the last 20 years, and the council fears to bring in hasty decisions in view of the in- creasing jurisdictional conflicts flow- ing from changes in the labor struc- ture of industry, in whigh the present craft demarcation of the federation structure cannot fit without serious conflict, Travel In Army: Cars. The council finally said farewell to its hosts of the United States Army. Colonel C. B. Ross, it Artillery Corps, brought Pre: it William Green and his associates from Platts- burg, N. Y., in gover ent cars to Montreal. They were)escorted by State Troopers Vaine and Moller of the Troy (N. Y.) troop, who were spec- jally assigned by Governor Smith and have accompanied the labor leaders ever since their val in New York state to accept the invitation of Secre- aT Two Killed in Two workers wer! probably fatally inj of the Union Cold building here collap! were at work on the PICNIC TO BE HELD SUNDAY, SEPT. 5th At Stickney Park Grove Sports — Re’ Dancin 330 to8:30P.M. | A a ashen ne A on Communism in America, After Seven Years Is More Defiant Than Ever By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ESDAY, Sept. 1, Commu- nists in the United States, cheered by the comradely greet- ings of Communists the world over, will celebrate the Seventh Anniver- sary of the unfolding of the Com- munist International's standards in this country. It was on Sept. 1, 1919, with the breaking away of the left wing from the socialist party, that the American section of the world Communist movement plant- ed the banner of Leninism at Chi- cago, in the center of Wall Street's empire, and called on all labor to rally for the revolutionary struggle that will usher in workers’ rule to supplant the social order of the Morgans and Rockefellers, the Mel- lons and the Fords, snr @ HE pseudo-Marxists of the social- ist party claimed there was no room for a Communist Party in the United States. “Ship or shoot!” the Communists, was the slogan of the master class spokesmen, who sensed that Com- munism could get a foothold even on American soil. Therefore, they must find some effective way for its elimination. So they recommended the weapons of deportation or the firing squad. “Drive them out of the unions!” was the edict of the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor, that was adopted later by the an- archo-syndicalist officialdom of the Industrial Workers of the World. > 2 8 The enemies of Communism in America go into eclipse but the Communist movement grows ever stronger. Ever since the day that the Communist elements left the socialist party, that organization of Berger-Hillquit social-democrats has continued to fade and gradually disappear, J. Mitchell Palmer, the attorney general in Wilson's cabi- net, who launched the “red raids” against the Communists in January, 1920, is heard of no more, along with Chicago’s former state’s attor- ney, Maclay Hoyne, whom the ex- ploiters paid $60,000 to drive the Communists out of the nation’s sec- ond largest city. Harry M. Daugh- erty, the attorney general who fol- lowed Palmer in the republican re- gime of Warren G. Harding, has disappeared engulfed in disgrace. Even his capitalist masters had no more use for him, following expo- sures of wholesale graft and corrup- tion in his department of the gov- ernment. With him went the star sleuth of the Daugherty red-baiting crew, William J. Burns, himself, best known in his stellar role of frame-up artist and successor of the Pinkertons in the employers’ war upon America’s workers. By way of epilogue, one might just barely mention Jacob Spolansky, ally of Burns in the raids upon the Com- munist Party convention at Bridge- man, Mich., in the summer of 1922, but who now seeks to hide his in- significant identity as a stoolpigeon of the struck textile mill owners of Passaic, New Jersey. Sam Gompers, who during the closing years of his life sought to extend his attack on the Communists in the American Federation of Labor to the Mexican and the Pan-American Federations of Labor, is gone. William H. John- ston, who used his position as presi- dent of the International Associa- tion of Machinists in an attempt to drive the Communists out of the union, has himself surrendered his position, following Benjamin Schle- singer, once president of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union into a similar and much de- served retirement. Ce Be | Tt was nearly two years after the November, 1917, Bolshevik revolu- tion in Russia that the party of Communism sprang into life in the United States, The Communist In- ternational had already come into existence at its first congress held in March, 1919, in Moscow. The socialists in the United States, as in other lands, still held desper- ately to the hope that Soviet rule would somehow crumble and the Communist parties in the various lands with the Communist Interna- tional would wither away. Thus Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jew- ish socialist daily, The Forward, re- turned in those days from one of his numerous trips to Burope and predicted especially the collapse of the German Communist Party. Since all their predictions and pro- phecies came to naught, the social ists grew frantic in their despera- tion and turned their attack against every agency that sought to ald the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union in their work of reconstruc- tion, Thus The Forward with its ally, The New York Call, later the New Leader, directed repeated and malicious onslaughts against the Friends of Soviet Russia during the famine period 1921-22 in the hope of discrediting the Communists and Communism in this country. Later they developed their campaign into vicious expulsion policies in those unions where they were in power. eee Similarly the government seized upon the occasion of the shopmen’s strike on the railroads in August, 1922, —to launch its reid against the Communist Party convention at Bridgeman, Mich,, arresting many and returning indictments against scores of the party’s representative spokesmen. The government offi- cials heralded this raid as the final Official act in stamping out Commu- nism in America, The Communist Party, however, wrecked the self-complacency of the government by courageously ending its own illegal existence, that dated from the Palmer raids of January, two years before, and establishing the open Workers Party as the or- ganized expression of Communism in the United States. The party showed its virility by raising sufficient funds, in addition to all the other heavy demands placed upon it, to start the first English language Communist daily, The DAILY WORKER, that came into being January 13, 1923, less than half a year after the Bridgeman raid, and that is now rapidly ap- proaching its fourth annivensary. oe a The party has been intensely ac- tive in the parliamentary cam- paigns. Practically alone it has waged the struggle for independent Political action, carrying the bur- den when the socialists and so-call- ed farmer-laborites deserted prac- tically en masse to the LaFollette bourgeois third party campaign in 1924, It was in 1924 that the Ameri- can Communist movement for the first time had national candidates, for president and vice-president in the fleld, just as this year it strives to enter the congressional elections on as large a scale as possible with an election program stating the ‘Communist attitude on all the vital Problems of the day. see The Communists not only retain their foothold in the unions, but their numbers and their influence is rapidly growing in the ranks of or- ganized labor, The socialists raised the issue of Communism in the re- cent successful strike of the Fur- niers in New York City. The attack on the Communists has been re- peated in the present struggle of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in New York City. The socialists joined the mill own- ers, the government and the reac- tionary officials of the American Federation of Labor, in raising the Communist issue in the strike of the Passaic textile workers. This is only a reflection of the growing admission that Communists are gaining influence over larger mass- es of the American working class, not only over those organized in the trade unions, but over the un- organized as well, an increasing threat to the rule of reaction. ES ah Thus Communism develops in the rich soil of the world’s greatest im- perialist power, Its organized ex- pression, the Workers (Communist) Party, develops in the common struggle with the Communist Parties leading the workers in oth- er countries for the overthrow of capitalism. It grows as it fights for imperialism’s subject and semi- subject colonial peoples. It becomes the mass party of American labor ag it wins the broadest influence over labor engaged in the bitter class struggle in the home country, right here in the United States, eee Seven glorious chapters, record- ing great sacrifice and brilliant progress for American Communism, have been written in this country during the seven years’ existence of the American Communist move- ment. Another glorious chapter will be «written during the coming year with the American party emerging successfully from its re- organization on the street and shop nucleus basis which will gradually develop closer contacts for it among wider masses of workers accepting its leadership and direction in their struggle for emancipation. Speaker: REBECCA GRECHT Organizer for Passalo Strikers’ Relief, Rain or shine a good time. Plenty of tables. A large shady grove—an ideal on wi alll i for a rr a. | |agent, and she is a whopper, CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) nationally known theosophist, who has arrived in this country with a hand- some young sheik who may take Val- entino’s place in the affections of the love-lorn if he hag the will and « good manager. Annie is his press What made Krishnamurti famous was the theory expounded by Mrs. Besant that his body was about to be occupied by christ, who is somewhat disappointed over the results of his former ten- ancy of the body of Jesus. he ae RS. BESANT does not claim that — christ has already entered her young Hindoo’s body. But she claims that he is Hable to take the jump any moment. The tenement is now ready for occupancy, When christ enters Krishnamurti will take a walk for him- self or, in other words, will disappear. What will strut around looking’ for all the world like Krish will be christ. Mrs, Besant holds that Jesus was not born of a virgin thru the instrumen- tality of christ disguised as a dove, but that christ entered him when he was thirty years old, having a clean, pure body, something as rare then as now. oe 8 e ui Napa theory beats christian science to the ropes. Christian scientists tell you quite coolly that there is no such thing as life or death, time or sickness, Matter has no existence for them. Yet they consume. their share of whatever food is produced and do not spurn such material things as clothes. I was present at a trial in Massachusetts some years ago where two groups of “scientists” bat- tled for possession of valuable chris- tian sclence property. Mrs. Mary (Mother) Eddy, had the attention of a good physician during hef last illness, and she lived very well materially during her life at the expense of the more sapheaded “scientists.” see | entice on board the Majestic ‘which took Krishnamurti to this country say that the incipient christ displayed as many characteristics of normal humanity as less toted young gods and goddesses aboard, Under the romantic influence of a summer moonlight the handsome Hindoo acted more like the god of love than a new edition of the frigid Nazarene, But perhaps we have been mistaken about Jesus. According to Bruce Barton, he was as jolly as a rotarian at an Blk stagg party. Electrocute a Miner But Claim Death Due to Collapse of Heart- —_ (Special to The Dally Worker) AVELLA, Pa,, Aug. 27, — One Com tanzi, owner of a mine near Wheeling ton, W. Va., deliberately concealed the tact that one of his workers, Giovanno Perricci, was killed by electric power thru the fault of the mine manage- ment on August 18, and did not merely die of heart disease, as was officially stated, say the investigating commit. tee, composed of the dead man’s cousin, Angelo Anguillo, and two non- relatives, Geiouechino Lombardi of Wheeling and Santy Galiano of Avella, Pa, Perrict was buried August 21 Galiano had charge of the funeral. He was suspicious of the method of death and the investigation in which he took part discovered that Perrict did not die outside the mine of heart failure, as the company announced, but was seen by workers going along the gallery to leave the mine at the end of the shift. When he was about 150 feet from the entrance a motor passed him with a string of empty cars, and the mine is so narrow here that he had to stand against the wall, and there brushed the elestric wire. ‘The motorman saw him fall, stopped. the train, put him on it and carried aim outside, Perrici had been working for the company for two years and the em- ployer had no complaints to make. He did not, however, on that account allow any of the men to take a day off and attend the funeral, ‘The mine owner refuses to pay any compensation, WRITE AS YOU FIGHTI INTERESTING LECTURES BY PITTSBURGH NUCLEUS Pittsburgh, Pa. Street Nucleus No, 2 Is arranging to hold seve educational meetings with the» lowing schedule: August 31, A, Jakira will on “The Religious War in Mexico.” <caeat, 11, D. E. Barly on’ “The Les sons of the British General Strike.” Sept. 21, J, Mankin on “One Hun- dred and Fifty Years of American Inpendence,.” Oct. 5, 8. Gueakoff on “Obstacles to the Worid Revolution,” Admission is free to all of these lectures, and the public Is Invitedi They will be held at the Labor Ly- coum, 35 Miller street, Tickets 50¢ Children Free — HOW TO GET THERE—Take 22nd Street car to end of line, then take Lyons-Berwyn car to Ogden and Hare __lem Avenues. Walk five pisotes soutin, eared %