The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1926, Page 1

} | yo — Brits. *:,, The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government 196. Subscription Rates: Aik. i Sey 8 Vol. Ill. 7"~ -- Outside "*nority Yeet Invicates Labor Turns Left (By EARL R. BROWDER.) (Special Cable to The Daily Worker.) LONDON, Aug. 29.—The Third Annual Conference of the National Minority Movement, the left wing of British trade unions Opened at Battersea town hall yesterday with 793 delegates rep- resenting over 900,000 members present, and more arriving from < en the provinces. This tremendous in the British labor movement. turnout signifies deep changes The conference adopted an open letter to the Trades Union Congress, due to meet September 6, at Bournemouth, demanding that the trade unions put an embargo upon coal and give the utmost financial help to the British miners. re Lanory Sten By T. J. O'}FLAHERTY ‘HEN thieves fall on each other, honest men should rejoice and keep their eyes and ears open., The Chicago Tribune, for the second time in two years angered the Chicago Daily News by casting reflection on | the authenticity of that paper's dis- | patehes from the Soyiet Union, The Trib, claimed credit for exploding a story emanating from Riga to the ef- ject that Russia was about to dump 600,000,000 bushels of wheat on the world market, last year. Canadian farmers were about to sell their grain at disastrously low prices when the ‘Tribune stepped in with the “facts” | and saved them money. Now Canadian | jarmers are alleged to have thanked | the Tribune for the “facts.” | "pe oe HE Tribune, which prints more ob- vious lies about Russia than all other Chicago papers combined, at- tributed its ability to save the Cana- dian farmers money to its decision not to assign any more correspond- | ents to Moscow until the: Soviet cen- sorship ig raised, on the ground that | only the unvarnished truth appears in its column, elie ® f Bess angered the Daily News which keeps-the public fairly -well -in- formed about doings in Russia® thra ilg representative Mr, Junius B, Wood. ‘The News says that its correspondent is never required to change his text or sent out adulterated ne The censorship is a mere formality and has not been exercised since Lenin’s death, when the government announ- ced that it wished the news to ,be first made public thru its representa- iives in foreign capitals, ee HE News further states that mis- information about conditions. in the Soviet Union rarely comes. from Russia but is concocted in border states, The most mendacious of those lie factories is situated in Riga, says the News, taking a direct slap at the Tribune and at Donald Day the cham- pion prevaricator of them all. The yarn about the 600,000,000 bushels of wheat did not come out of Russia, the News insists but from one of those hotbeds of anti-Soviet propaganda on the border. The News publishes fairly reliable news about Russia not be- cause it likes the Soviet Union any | better than the Trib, but because it is a better. newspaper. ‘8 R. KRISHNAMUIRTI went ‘and + A resolution on the. general strike was adopted, condemn- ing the capitulators, both right and left and declaring to remove the bankrupt leadership of the general council. a‘ The conference received a .letter from A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation, declaring that the miners can win if they are supported by the Trade Union Congress, and calling on the Minority Conference to demand action. Great enthusiasm greeted the news that the safety men had been with- drawn from the mines of the Derby- shire district. Fraternal delegates are present at the conference from the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions, from Ger- many, France and Caecho-Slovakia. eee “If It’s War They Want. . .” LONDON, Aug. 29.—A great clamor is coming from the rank and file of the’ miners, in view of the open un- ion-smashing stand of the mine own- ers and the government, for a with- drawal] of the safety men from the mine properties. A. J. Cook, secretary of the miners, declares that the conduct of Winston Churchill during the negotiations the miners’ executive had with the cabi- net, was as openly insulting as that of the mine owners in the recent con- ference. Government to Send Troops. Cod declares” that he has infor- mation that the government is deter- mined to send troops into the mining fields to reinforce the swarms of spe- tial police previously sent to break the strike and intimidate the’ union pickets. These police have clashed with the miners at several points and several miners have been wounded, while ar- rests are made wholesale in an unsuc- cessful effort to bréak the strikers’ mass picketing. : A. F. of L. Executive Drafts Report; Hope to Settle Three Disputes Montreal, Quebec, Aug. 29.—The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor in session here, is considerably .oceupied in drafting its report to the federation convention which is to be held in Detroit begin- uing October 4, Much of the report deals with the Swarm of jurisdiction al disputes), some “settled” and others in the pro- cess of adjudication. Though the Sheet Metal Workers have yet to ac- gobbled one quarter of an’ egg, but he apologises for the guzzle giv- cept the award made in the dispute jover metal trim with the Carpenters, ing ag his reason the frigidity of the |e council will “point with pride” to climate here compared to that of hi: native’ land. Nothing like a hard- 5 | this settlement. The several years’ dispute over tool polled egg to produce heat, The young | Sharpeners between the Tunnel and christ container is on his way west:'Subway Workers International and If he meets with Aimee McPherson, |the Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and we fear that his ¢hapéron,*:Mrs. Besant will be looking for another god, Aime has knocked the devil: out “of 80 many men on the west!.coast that she ‘is not likely to” find much trouble in ferreting out a hidden ‘christ, in a such a frail and handsome: person as Krishnamurti. ‘ Oy" ERE is an example of cold-blooded cruelty taken from an article in by its London correspondent: ' mine owner from Nottingham: | rhose men agreed to return, is. for the following: Before: re empty, spreading.” Now read id LS Be ‘R. J. H. Thomas, pol retary of the National railwaymen, and dominant pei in the British Trade Union Co: decided that this was a good time to Helpers, is settled, it’ announced, “with satisfaction to» Both sides.” The dispute between the Bricklay- ers and Plasterers, President Green ‘iss “hopeful” of.settloment by Green’s appointment of Elihu Root, one of the most notorious of the “old guard” of republican politicians, as chairman of a board of adjustment together with representatives from.both unions in- volved. wor -- Jailer of Cook County Threatens Harsh Rule Edward J. Forgarty, for 14 years In my] warden of Indiana state penitentiary y Cooks cannot hold|@nd a non-resident of Cook county, ‘as starvation ie| has been made jailer of its county jail . next para-| by Sheriff Hoffman on recommenda- tion of the citizen's advisory commit- tee. Forgarty while still in charge of the ion of | Indiana prison was decorated by the ality| pope with the Military Order of the ress | Holy Sepulchre. When notified of his appolutment a visit to Canada. You mas®™ | to the Cook County jail, Forgarty said, momber that Thomas jeft England|“Prisioners are in jail to be treated after he helped defeat the miners jn jas such and not fondled or caressed.” 1921, and visited the United States. Many, charges of graft have been At that time he was met on the pier| made againat. his predecessors, and by a delegation of seamen, firemen!the amount of bootlegging which and members of the Irish American | takes place in the Cook county: jail| are teohnically against the use of non- (Continued on page 2)... + ¥ has become.a national scandal, ‘ eR) TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1926 W Entered as Second-class + we September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Chicago, by mall, $6.00 per year, A << —_———— When 46 Met Death in Mine Blast Families Wait at Clymer Shaft to Claim Their Dead 4 These photos, taken Thursday Clymer, Mine of the, Clearfield Bituminous Coal the day before and but 10 escaped accounted for. Upper photo shows,the mouth of the bodies. Lower photo shows the sorrowing crow dicates location of Clymer and the mine, and rushed the scene to this paper, show scenes at the mouth of the ‘poration at Clymer, Pa., down which 56 men went to work alive in an @kplosion that wrecked the mine. Forty-six bodies ‘have been mine ‘thru which rescue crews came and went. in. removing on the “hillside waiting to claim their loved ones. Map in- Must Choose Between Peasantry and Freedom Says Farm Union Head STREATOR, Jil., Ang. 29. — (FP)— “The difference between the Farmers’ Union program of cost of production for’ the producers of farm products and the program offered the farmers by the financiers js the difference be- tween the hope of independence thru intelligent organization on the one hand’and economic slavery and peas- antry on the other,” Pres. Milo Reno, Farmers’ Union of Iowa, told Illinois farmers at Indian Acres park near Streator. CALL STRIKE ON ANOTHER LANDIS AWARD BUILDING Council’ May Stop All Non-Union Jobs The Chicago Building Trades Coun- cil Saturday called out on strike all union craftsmen employed on - the $12,000,000 Jewelers’ building on Wacker Drive. This is the second strike within a week on Landis award construction. Nearly all the structural ironwork is up on the Jewelers’ building, but the ornamental ironworkers will interfere somewhat with its completion by join- ing in the strike. All the plasterers, cement finishers, tile setters, pipe coverers, electricians and lathers have quit. Will Bricklayers Strike? The carpenters do not belong to the Building Trades Council and may con- tinue at work. The attitude of the bricklayers can not be ascertained un- til working hours Monday, but union bricklayers remained at work when the Landis award job at Monroe and Clark St. was struck by the council on August 23. At that time Delegate Haley of the Bricklayers and Stone Masions’ Union told a representative of The DAILY WORKER that he “didn't know a thing about the strike. So far as the bricklayers are concern- ed, there is no strike.” f More Strikes Coming, It is freely rumored that more Lan- dis award construction will be struck Wednesday, following a meeting of the Building. Trades Council Tuesday. The Landis award contractors held a meeting Friday after which they 1s- sued a statement that they were doing 41 per cent of buflding construction work in Chicago, which contradicts their statement last. week that they.do five per cent, Building trades’ officials state that they do not regard the Landis award seriously any longer, and take the at- titude that the strikes now going on "(Continued on page 2.) 'Telegraphers’ Strike | In Soviet Union Hits | British Concessionary Sas ERG AEN RAISE RAN ON ’ MOSCOW, Aug. 29.—-The strike of the operators at the 22 stations of the Indo-European Telegraph. company 4 |continues, London, ig using the lines lof the Eastern Telegraph company in | jthe emergency, paying, an excess jcharge of 500 pounds daily to evade . | P > jthe Soviet Union route and the wage Sheffield Urges More |demands of the Soviet trade union. lcessionaries a total. Joss of 25,000 pounds sterling. The salary raise de- BULLETIN. manded by the strikers would have MEXICO CITY, Aug. 29.—The Mex-jamounted to only 1,350 pounds per ican government is contemplating a| year. that yet displayed toward the clergy should the Catholic leaders continue AN their present defiant attitude, it was (Special to The Daily Worker) r PAUL SMITHS, New York, Aug. 29. —That Coolidge is planning more half of the oil and mining interests Indignant Membership was foreshadowed in an unofficial re Mil * statement issued to newspaper men ensures stein mer White House after Secretary of} Reactionaries belonging to the Mil- State Kellogg conveyed Ambassador | stein machine called in two detectives Sheffield’s views on Mexico to thefof the Chicago police force and with It was strongly hinted that one of] Fur Workers’ Union held Friday at 30 the demands. made by the Knights of }south Wells St. Columbus, namely, a lifting of the Most of the members present were with just as*soon as Coolidge feels |hail and adopted a severe vote of cen- that the antlcatholic section of the voting public ‘has forgotten about the catholic machine in the United States for intervention in’ Mexico, To Use More Subtle Methods, an overt act against the southern re- public, He hopes to gain his ends by diplomative means and thru the ex- bankers. Econcmic strangulation he believes is a more effective means of forcing the Calies, administration to than armed intervention, The rich pickings tn the south American market that are now? falling into the lap of go elsewhere if the United States un- dertook the task of carrying the stars and stripes from the Rio Grande to Enable Catholics To Arm. On the other hand, the lifting of the embargo would» enable the catholics themselves, Th) tne present govern- ment is gtrong, repeated rebellions would seriously, weaken its power. Drastic Action | The five-day strike has cost the con- policy of even greater severity than stated today:by an official spokes- T0 END MEETING man. + * drastic action against Mexico in be- by the official spokesman at the sum- baer ad president. their ald broke up a meeting of the arms embargo, would be complied Jso indignant that they. went to another active campaign waged by the Roman Coolidge cautiously wishes to avert ercise of pressure by the Wall Street agree to the oil magnates’ demands American conmmercial interests would the Panama canal. and - reactionary agrarians to arm The policy of e administration in be one of benevglent neutrality to the | counter-revolutiOnists, according to in- formation gleaned from quarters close to the state d ment, A one-hour ste by all union work- ers thruout theefederal district, which (Continnmd on wage 2). the 9vent of a serious uprising would | sure, demanding that Milstein be pro- hibited from speaking at the next meeting. Deliberate Obstruction. The trouble started just as the sec retary began to read the minutes. A Milstein gangster, Abe Rosen, de- nounced the presence of Max Mendel- |son and Chas. Grosman, both of them |technically under charges filed by their opponents in the right wing. The hall rang with cheers as speak- er after speaker of the progressive group arose and argued for a motion to permit all members under charges to remain. After full discussion the cry went up for @ vote, and Milstein, seeing that he was beaten, sent a call for the po- lice, - Two officers entered and threat- ened to arrest everybody, and also or- dered the hall clearéd. The room was | Jammed to the doors, and in the midst jof a discussion over an announcement that the meetrng should go to a larger hall, Milstein declared {t adjourned, to ‘reconvene Tuesday, Goldberg Speaks, Nearly all of the crowd thus ejected |went directly to the Freiheit Hall at Kedzie and Roosevelt and there held another meeting, This hall was jam- |med. with fur workers, and addresses were delivered by. Goldberg and left wingers, who described. the under. handed methods used: by the right wing to get rid of all wash on band and demoralize the union during the fiwilee WHEE Ey RB Da be tin Na RE RKER. | Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IIL ask you to come home immediately NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents Farrington Signs $25,000 Contract By T. J. O'FLAHERTY, Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois Miners’ Union, left for Europe to represent the American Federation of Labor as fraternal delegate to the British Trade Union Congress with a long-term contract with the Peabody Coal Company, at a sal- ary of $25,000 a year, in his pocket. This, the most sensational many years came to ight whe Lewis, head of the internation- al union and Farrington, his old enemy flared up anew. Largest Coal Mining Company. The Peabody Coal company is the | largest coal mining corporation in Illi- jnois. There + season to believe that Farrington |.as been on the payroll of {this company for the lost ten years. |He admitted that he was offered a $25,000 a year job with the company ten years ago. The charges of the radicals in the union that Farrington was in the employ of the coal owners are now verified with a vengeance. Secured the Evidence. John L. Lew!s, thru his inside con- nections in the coal operators’ organ- zation in Ilinois, secured a copy of the contract between Farrington and the Peabody company, also a copy of a cablegram and letter from Farring- ton to Peabody. As Lewis is trying to have his man Sneed elected presi- dent of District 12, in the hope that he may be able to carry the district in the next election for international president, he decided this was the op- portunity of a lifetime to get rid of Farrington. Lewis Exhumes the Axe. Lewis invited Walter Nesbit, secre- tary-treasurer of the Illinols Miners’ Union to Indianapolis and showed him the evidence against Farrington. The international president urged Nesbit to take immediate action. Farrington was in Paris seeing the sights preparatory to leaving for Eng- land to attend the trade union y gress on Sept. 6. With William Hutcheson, president of the corpen- ters’. brotherhood, Farrington had vis- ited Geneva where they had made ar- rangements to furnish a room in the headquarters of the labor annex to the league of nations in honor of Sam Gompers. A Cable to Paris. On instructions from Lewis Nesbit sent Farrington ‘the following tele- gram: The contract signed by Jack Peabody and yourself and a cable- 3ram and letter from you.to Mr. Pea- body are in the hands of John L. Lewis, international president. The same will be brought to the attention of the district board. I am instructed to defend yourself or to tender your resignation as president. Cable me your intentions to Springfield.” Get It Coming and Going. In the meantime things were moving in Springfield, Illinois, where the head- quarters of District 12 are located. Farrington lives in Indianapolis tho his office is in Springfield. Lewis lives in Springfield tho his office is in Indianapolis. Both charge the union for the expense of traveling to and from their homes to their offices which they do quite frequently. Far- rington has now built a splendid man sion in Springfield, to which he will undoubtedly move since he has openly decided to work for Peabody. Coal Company Denials. While the officials of District 12, acting on instructions from Lewis were communicating with Farrington, the officials of the Peabody Coal com- pany were busy denying that Farring- ton was in their employ. They did not deny that he had signed a contract with them. They stated emphatically that the labor leader was not now and never\was in their employ. It is-re- ported that Jack Peabody, who négo- tiated the contract with Farrington, cabled to Paris: for permission to make the matter. public. The Jig Was Up. When both realized that the deal could no longer be kept a secret Fi rington and the coal company admit- ted the facts, Farrington and the Peabodys expected to keep the con- tract a secret so that Farrington with the aid of the Len Small machine, the assistance of John H. Walker, presi- dent of the Illinois Federation of La- bor and his own corps of paid disor- ganizers jn the district office, could succeed himself as district president. He would then be in a position to turn the Ilnois organization into a gigan- tie company union, chiefly in the in- terest of the Peabodys. A Brazen Labor Faker. When Farrington received Nesbit's cablegram he sent the following reply: “IT have a profound regard for the members of the district board but T deny them the right to command me to return to defend myself or to de- mand my resignation. I have done nothing to warrant either and I cer. tainly have @ right to°change my em- loyment at my convenience and after (Continued on page 2) Rt tee exposure of labor treachery in n the old feud between John L. 'DHIO MINERS FACE AN OPEN SHOP BATTLE Operators to Open on the 1917 Scale (Special to The Daily Worker) COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 29,—‘The Ohio Coal Operators’ Association has met in this clty and unanimously de- cided to open their mines on the 1917 scale. Union men who today get $7.50 a day will be offered jobs at $5 a day. This is the offer to the 30,000 miners who have been fdie in this state for months or years, The operators decided that there |was nothing to negotiate, since the | district office of the United Mine Workers refused to send any repre sentatives to confer with them. Attacked by Sections. The mines at present operating un- der the Jacksonville agreement will be regarded as in the “favorably lo- cated districts.” Whether an attempt will be made to tamper with the wage scale there immediately in conformity with the decision, hes not been stat- ed. Probably they will be allowed to continue on the present scale for a time, until the 30,000 miners have been put to work on the 1917 scale and then the fight will begin, to aug duce them. The coal operators accuse the min- ers of breaking the agreement. They say that the miners have migrated to fields where the union rate is not in force, thereby breaking the agree- ment with the operators. First the operators close down the mines, and starve out the men. The men in self- protection are forced to go to Weat Virginia and Kentucky to get work. Once there, they are accused of break- ing the agreement. The miners of Ohio face a battle. MCKENNA ASKING INDIANA STATE FEDERATION AlD Chicago Carpenters Give a Thousand Dollars Paul McKenna, of the delegation of British labor leaders now in America o secure financial aid for the strik- ing British coal miners, is traveling fast and talking much, meeting many engagements in the induvtrial and mining towns of Illinois and Indiana. Anton Johannsen, chairman of the organization committee of the Chica- go Federation of Labor and in charge of McKenna’s tour im this part of the country, revealed that the British miners’ spokesman was yesterday making a flying trip to Vincennes, In- diana, to address the Indiana State Federation of Labor. Dates have been arranged for him on the way, before and after his speech at Vincennes. He speaks at union meetings in St. Louis, and on Friday addressed a miners’ mass meeting in Gillespie. McKenna fs himself a miner, and came directly from the working face of a coal mine to office in his union. He is now the agent of the Seottish Miners’ Federa- tion and a member of the executive committee of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, and therefore ts quite at home in a crowd of coal dig- gers. McKenna is expected in Chicage again this morning, as he has twe meetings to address tonight, He starts then for New York, to sail with the rest of the delegation which must reach England in time to attend the British Labor Congress and importan: conferences of the miners’ unions. Friday night Carpenters’ Loca] Un- fon No, 13 of Chicago voted a thou- sand dollars for British miners’ re- lief, and last Wednesday night Ma- chinists’ Local Union No, 126 voted $200, and Machinists’ Local No, 830 raised $25 for the same purpose. It ie expected now that Chicago unions will be able to contribute altogethe: something over $26,000, we a amen f fn at ‘8