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Page Two Ww é a NAVAL POWERS BUILDING FOR ANOTHER WAR Subs France’s Special- ty; Britain for Cruisers (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 26.— Rumors that another naval disarma- ment parley is being considered by the state department sent statistical sharks hunting for figures on the naval-building accomplishments of the powers that participated in the Wash- ington conference, Since that time Great Britain’ has built or is building eighteen cruisers, ten submarines and two destroyers. Her naval budget for the past three years amounts to the enormous total of $871,500,000, Fears Submarines. British diplomacy considers cruis- ers as defensive vessels, but brands submarines defensive. The reason for this jockeying with terms is Britain's vulnerability because of her heavy shipping interests and the ease with which her food supply could be cut off by undersea boats, England is worried lest her two rtyals in the Mediterrarean should in- erease their naval strength to the danger point. * Big Naval Program. PARIS, Aug. 26.—Since the Wash- imgton conference France has built or started to build 36 submarines in ad- dition to several light cruisers and destroyers. The naval appropriations for the past four years have amounted to 4,792,140,000 trancs, ff © dapan’s Large Budget. TOKYO, Aug. 26.—Japan has spent $355,000,000 on naval construction dur- ing the past three years. In addition to this huge sum the navy department is asking another allotment of $320,- 900,000 for replacement purposes, Heavy Drain on Purse. The naval budget is a heavy drain on Japanese resources, but the coun- try’s policy is imperialistic and it is felt that a strong navy is needed for the expected clash with the United States. The imperialists also need a strong sea force to use as a constant threat against China, *« Sn, Mussolini Secretive, * = “dite, Aug. 26.—Mussolini refused to divulge the figures on naval build- dng since the Washington conference. He made it quite clear, however, that Ttaly would build as many destroyers and submarines as she could afford or build on borrowed money, STILL NO STEEL RAISED IN LOOP BUILDING STRIKE (Continued from page 1) union workers in trades where unions have contracts. Bven the Landis award contracts do not compel organized craftsmen to as- seciate on the job with nonunionists in their own trade, except under spec- jal circumstances, shortage of labor, failure of the union to provide suffici- “ent men, and 48 hours’ notice. Officials of the citizens’ committee to enforce the Landis award announc- ed Saturday that they were ready to furnish nonunion building workers. They expect to receive such notice on breakers to finish both the Jewelers’ building and the job at Monroe and Clark St., and were only waiting word from Starrett-Dilks, the contractors, before sending them down to work. They expect to receive such notice on Tuesday. ee) Steel Work Stops Tiling for the floors is being accum- ulated in the 22-story office building at 100 West Monroe street, on which the Chicago Building Trades Council has called a strike. Some of the til- ing is going into the floors. The brick- layers are still at work, But the hoisting boom at the top of the structure is pulled up and lashed to its standard, the slings are idle, no structural iron workers are in evi- dence. About all that can be done without iron wer‘:ors, apparently, is to build the walls up to the height at _ which the steel frame stands, No Publicity, "None of the parties concerned have anything to say for publication. The iy. Chicago Building Trades Council just "mow adopts a policy of silence, and the contractors aren't talking to labor pers, ") One of the armed guards who yes- terday told a representative of The DAILY WORKDER that he was hired by the Citizens’ Committee for the Enforcement of the Landis Award was in a less talkative mood when approached by the same reporter to- day. He scowled, waved his arms, and announced that there must be “no There are still about a dozen guards fm plain clothes, and an additional unt- formed city policeman is on duty at the entrance to the half-finished bulld- FARRINGTON T ‘AKES $25,000 JOB FROM PEABODY COAL COMPANY, (Continued from page 1) nearly ten years of careful considera> tion I have decided to do so, A pnoper announcement will be made at the proper time.” Admitted Signing Contract. Farrington then admitted that he had a contract with the Peabody Coai company in his pocket. “Jack Peabody and I signed the contract in New York City on July 2nd, the day before I sailed for Europe,” said Farrington to a newspaper interviewer. “I had an offer about ten years ago practically identical with the present one, from Frank S. Peabody. Must Think of Family. “I have been working for the4min- ers for more than 20 years now’ and have been president of the Illinois) dis- trict for 12 years. I am getting a}sal- ary of $5,000 a year. I am 53 years old and have a wife and three chil- dren, the youngest of whom is two years old. Naturally I must consider’ my family and the future. “However, my accepting the execu- tive position with the Peabody ‘Coal any, in which my duties will be chiefly concerned with relationships with the miners and their problems, I firmly intend and expect to be able to continue by efforts to ameliorate the Position of the workers and to pro- mote a clear understanding and good will between the men and the own- ers.” Blames John L. Lewis. Farrington lays the blame for the Present exposure on the shoulders of John L. Lewis, international president, tho it was Lewis that saved Farring- ton from being ousted by the member- ship of district 12. About two years ago District 8 of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, published a pamphlet entitled, “On a Labor Faker’s Trail” which exposed Farrington’s connec- tions with the Peabody Coal Company, with Frank L. Smith, now under fire for accepting election bribes to the tune of $150,000 from Samuel Insull, and Farrington’s expulsion of local unions for coming out on strike to save Tom Mooney from the gallows in 1919. Threatened Loca! Unions. This pamphlet was circulated among the bituminous coal fields and in the election that took place in De- cember 1925, Farrington threatened to lift the charter of any local caught distribu‘'ng the pamphlet. Farrinston in a public statement to reporters in his luxurious quarters in a Paris hotel declared that wages of the American miners were too high. This $25,000 a year company tool, and $5,000 a year union official thinks the miners could accept a cut of $2.50 a day, so that the union operators would be in a position to compete with the non-union operators. Iili- nois coal miners now know ‘what to expect from their deatly beloved pres- ident when he openly appears as “la- bor reconciliator” for the Peabody Coal company. Will Spill More Beans. That Farrington will tell more of the truth about Lewis is beyond doubt. Lewis sold out the miners in the So- merset, Pennsylvania coke fields in 1921. He has wrecked the interna- tional union, until there is little left of ft now. By attagking Farrington now, he expects to dodge responsibili- ty for his own treason. He believes that the miners will be so outraged against the treason of Farrington that they will forget about the man who had Alex Howat, James B. MacLach- lan, Duncan MacDonald and other courageous leaders expelled from the union and the districts they had build wp either wrecked or turned over to company stoolpigeons. Farrington Betrayed Howat, Farrington who once aided Howat, but merely as a move in his own fight on Lewis, supported the latter in re- fusing Howat a voice at the last min- ers’ convention in Indianapolis. And when William F. Dunne, then editor of the Butte Bulletin, and de- legate from the Silver Bow Trades Council to the Portland convention ex- posed Farrington from the floor, it was William Green, secretary-treas- urer of the miners’ union who paced the platform while delivering a ra- bid speech against Dunne that ended in the latter’s expulsion from the con- vention for telling the truth about revealed in letters exchanged between the pair. Says Lewis Is Coward. In his statement issued in Parifs, Farrington declares that Lewis his not the courage to tell the miners that their wages are too high. But Levis with Farrington declares that (the mines are overdeveloped, that thjare are two miners in the industry; to every one needed, If Farrington sold out to the’ Pea- body Coal Company, Lewis has allow- ed former union mines in West /Virgi- nia to run open shop without ofpposi- tion. Lewis wrecked the West: Vir- ginia district and forced the former leadership of that district out. Van Bittner, one of Lewis’ most ‘willing tools is now in charge of that ‘district under a provisional administraition. Getting Out From Undeir, Acting-president Fishwick of the Il- linois Miners Union, who was ‘implicat- ed with Farrington in the latter's war on the progressives during; recent years stated that he would Wring Far- rington’s cable message before the district board today. Fishwich issued a statement deploring factional strife and urging unity. All the labor crooks that Farrington was surround- ed by are now trying to ged. out from under. They hope by separating themselves from Farrington. to escape the wrath of the betrayed miners, Peabody Confirms S$ tory. Stuyvesant Peabody, yesterday con- ‘firmed that Farrington was} under con- ‘tract with the company alt a $25,000 a year salary. Peabody idsued a flat denial of the story on the previous day. When Farrington learmed that a copy of his contract with Peabody wis made public he cabledi to William Green, president of the A. F. of L. offering his resignation as fraternal delegate to the British Trade Union congress. Hutcheson, the other dele- gate,jis just, as crooked as (Farrington, Wanted To Secedo. During the 1921 bituminbus strike Farrington attempted to make a se- parajte agreement with thie Ilinois operitors and secede from the inter- natianal union.. This attempt was frustnated by the Communists and the radicals. Later on Lewis, who then denounced Farrington, lined. up with the latter in expelling the leaders who helped save the union from dis- integration. ‘Term Expires In April, Feveington’s term of office expires next April. The district elections which ave held biennally will take place in December of this year. According to J. W. James, member |tdof the miners’ legislative’committee at Washingjton, Farrington had asked the Peabody Coal Company to keep the contract a secret and that he felt he could best serve the miners’ inter- ests if he continued as president of the state union. When Farrington} married John L. Lewis’ stenographer, the Peabody Coal company gave the couple valu- able wedding gifts. Framed Zeigler Miners. Early in the year Farrington plac- ed the finances and legal staff of the district office at the disposal of the prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, Illinois, when; the coal opera- tors of Zeigler, the Ku Klux Klan and the sub-district officials decided to get rid of Henry Corbishly, progressive mine leader and president of local $92, which was a thornyin Farrington’s side. When a K. K, K. gunman killed a progressive miner and a sub-district official was hurt in the subsequent rioting, the prosecutors charged the progressive miners with the trouble and succeeded in convicting Corbish- ly and several others. Abd-el-Krim to Exile. CASA BLANCA, Morocco, Aug. 28. —Abd-el-Krim today will leave Mor- occo forever. He is bound for per- petual exile on Reunion Island. He and a party of 24 are aboard ship Abda which will bear them to Marseilles: this afternoon. Forest Fires In Spain. SAN FERNANDO, Spain, Aug. 29. —Forest fires which are raging in the pine forests of this vicinity, due to the prolonged drought, are menac- the two fakirs, Farrington and Lewis,|ing several small villages. HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT — OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY TO BE PRESENTED AT CHICAGO MEETINGS Sept. 1, 1919 is the 8th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party and the Communist Labor Party, which were the first expressions of the organized Communist movement in the United States. the scene of the struggle of the left wing of the Socialist Chicago wi Party, which resulted in the formation of the Communist Party. Cc. E. Ruthenberg will deliver a lecture on the events leading up to the formation of the Communist Party, in 1919 and the history of the develop- ment of the party during the past seven years at Freiheit Singing Society Hall, 3837 W. Roosevelt Rd. on Wednesday, Sept. 1 at 8 P. M, Comrade Ruthenberg was a member of the Left Wing Council which lead the fight for the Communist party and was lected national executive secretary of the Communist Party of America at its first convention, The meeting Wednesday will be under the auspices of Section 4 of the Chicago organization of the Workers (Communist) Party, which is the successor of the Communist parties organized Sept. 1, 1919, thru which the Communist forces in the United States were united. The meeting is open to the membership of the party and those sympathiz- ing workers who wish to know the struggle principles upon which the Com- munist Party was built and the development of the policies of the party during the seven yeare it has carried ere’ struggle in the United S on the fight for a revolutionary work- THE DAILY WORKER So aroma UY Gunboats Steam to Protect Wall Street’s Nicaraguan Interests pens frequently. Wall Street intrigue and maneuver in Central America begin revolutions aid offer the excuse to send U. 8. battleships to protect “American life and property.” Presi- dent Chamorro, above, Is a creature of United States capitalism. ed in Tilinois by Len COOLIDGE MAY RAISE BAN ON ARMS TO MEXICO (Continued from, page 1) will tie up all transportation and in- dustries, has been ordered by the ex- ecutives of the Federasfr of Unions, The strike will take pjace when the supreme court decides*the question Placed before it by the Mexican Match Company as to whether the supreme court or workmen’s arbitration boards constitute the highest) tribunal in Mexico in Icbor disputes. The match company is a subsidiary of the International Match Corpora- tion of New York, Workmen Are Fired. The question ‘arose over a strike in the match company’s plant, called be- cause of the discharge: of workmen. The company obtained decisions and injunctions against the: strikers, but the workmen's arbitration boards con- tinued to issue contrary rulings. It is expected that, the supreme court will rule in favor of the match company, The frequency of labor disputes is indicated by a statement in the local newspapers that there are 2,400 appli- cations for injunctions pending in the courts against arbitration board deci- sions in the federal district. The size of The DAILY WORKER depends on you, Send a sub. CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) Labor League who carried placards branding him as a Judas, eo ¢ 0. HOMAS is now in Canada but re- fuses to discuss either the general strike or the miners’ strike. He was willing to talk about the damage done to the British coal mining industry by the reparations burden forced on Ger- many, All Thomas is concerned with are his own personal ihterests which are bound up with the interests of the empire. He is a mill stone around the neck of British labor, ee oh WwW: have not heard that the officials of the New York State Federation of Labor bothered mselves with the Passaic strike or the problem of aiding the British miners but they did not forget to put in a good word for citizen military training, forgetting no doubt that the soldiering they en- courage will be used to break strikes as well as defend the gold of the House of Morgan against foreign ‘foes. ese HE United States has no mandate over Persia or over Hungary, Yet American finance governs both coun- tries. In Persia Mr. A. ©. Millspaugh and his fourteen American assistants have been running the shah’s realm for over three years\ while Jeremiah Smith is holding the for Horthy in Hungary, With 6,04) employes on his staff in Persia, Mi be in a position to b a political machino as ‘ . AGM TTIR RO HCA Two U. S. warships have been sta- tloned at the two Nicaraguan ports, Bluefields and Corinto (indicated on map above). This performance hap- (Special to The Daily Worker) ERRILL, Wise., —(By Mail)— The state and county fairs are holding the center of the stage in Wisconsin this week and then next Tuesday, Sept. 7, comes the primary election, Perhaps the outstanding feature of the primary campaign is the dis- integration it has exposed with- in the LaFollette forces, This decay set in shortly after the ori- ginal “Bob” LaFollete died and the struggle developed for his place in the sun. It is declared that a pact was made even before LaFollette’s re- mains were put underground, that LaFollette, Jr., was to be the candi- date for the unexpired term of his father, the Governor John J, Blaine was this year to contest the seat held by U. 8S. Senator Irvine L, Len- root, while Attorney General Her- man L. Ekern, who superintended the placing of the elder LaFollette’s name on the ballot as presidential candidate in 1924, was to make the race for governor, From every indi- cation the pact has been carried out to the letter up to the present time. La Follette, the son, was sent to the senate to take his father’s seat. Blaine is now battling for Lenroot’s place and Ekern is the contender for the governor's chair that Blaine wi)! vacate in order to go to Washing- ton. In the meantime, however, the La- Follotte, Jr. Blaine-Ekern outfit is being denounced by the more radi- cal wing of the late LaFollette moye- ment as “the Madison ring” (state capitol) and is being opposed in the primaries by the candidates of this faction. eee Thus Fred R. Zimmerman, secre- tary of state, who styles himself a “LaFollette pregressive,” is battling the LaFollette conservative Ekern for the governorship. One of Zim- merman’s campaign cries against Ekern is for an investigation by the 1927 state legislature into ‘the alleged LaFollette, Jr.-Blaine-Ekern appeal to rich road building contrac- tors for campaign donations and their support of Ekern for governor in return for Ekern’s continuance, if elected governor, of a road policy “which fattens the purses of the road building contractors.” Ekern returns the attack by de- claring that Zimmerman’s proposals for raising money for road building would “loot the highway fund of be- tween $2,000,000 and $2,500,000,” stressing tue charge that Zimmer- man “would charge the millionaire owner the same on his expensive car that the workers and farmers pay on their cheap cars.” Thus the tug-of-war proceeds, all claiming to be the only true and Wisconsin Primaries to Register Swing to Left in Ballotting Sept. 7th By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ee anointed followers of the late La- Follette. An echo of late alliance between the railroad brotherhoods of the now defunct Conference for Progressive Political Action and the LaFollette “progressives” is heard in the clash between Congressman John OC. Shafer and D, B. Robertson, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Firemen and Enginemen. Rob- ertson has withdrawn his endorse- ment of the LaFollette congressman for re-election declaring that Schafer “had repudiated the progressive policy of Wisconsin and had joined the reactionary stalwart republicans in an effort to defeat Governor John J. Blaine for the United States senate.” Congressman Shafer, delivers him- self of the following hot rejoinder in reply: “The Madison ring (LaFollette, Jr.-Blaine-Ekern) slate of candidates has repudiated the government own- ership plank of the presidential plat- form of the late Senator LaFollette. Do you construe my standing now where the senator and I stood in 1924 for government ownership of railroads, and my showing the voters of Wisconsin that the Madison ring candidates have cast aside that plank and have pledged themselves on national railroad legislation to a policy of returning the control of transportation rates to state rail- road commissions, as a repudiation of progressive principles. In this connection I would suggest that you inform yourself upon the policies and actions of the present railroad rate commission of Wisconsin, which has generally increased pub- lic utility rates in Wisconsin, and has not decreased them. “This present railroad commission was appointed entirely by Gov. Blaine, now candidate for the sen- ate, and the Madison ring lauds its actions and promises a continuance of its present work.” ee 8 The primary elections will reveal just how deep-seated these divisions among the late LaFollette leaders have permeated to the masses of LaFollette voters. A swing to the left of large numbers of former La- Follette followers would indicate a growing basis for independent po- litical action in Wisconsin and the formation of a labor party. They will show whether the masses reflect the thunder of huge motor trucks carrying prize cattle and produce to the state and county fairs for exhibition, or whether they respond to the appeal of thousands of bankrupt ard tens of thousantls of mortgages farmers, many of whom are being driven off the farms and into the crowded industries in the great cities. My prediction is that the Wisconsin primaries will register a swing to the left. BOSS CLEANERS WILLIAM TAFT DISAGREE OVER | DISCOURSES ON STRIKE ENDING) LAW AND JUDGES Union Rejects Terms ;|Fat Boy Would Give One Case of Violence (Special to The Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., August 29.—A division of opinion between the Retail Clean- ers’ Association and the Master Clean- ers and Dyers, which complicates a condition of discord among the master cleaners themselves, is the most recent development in the cleaning and dye- ing strike covering all Lake county, Indiana, The Retail Cleaners are meeting to- day to discuss grievances with the union and also with the master cleaners. The Master Cleaners met with the union representatives August 27 in the Indiana Hotel, Hammond, and of- fered their terms; No recognition of the union, right to lay off men at will, straight time on Saturday, and the 44- hour week without extra pay for over time, The union rejected them. There was dissension among the employers at the meeting. Against Long Hours. The strikers’ chief grievance is long hours. They are determined to strike until such conditions as exist, for example, in the “Sanitary” clean- ing and dye works are abolished, Leo Osling, owner of this plant, occasion-' ally kids his workers along with a Uttle gift of thirty cents to make them forget that for a wage of $30 per week in some cases they work from 7 a. m. to 2 a, m. The girls in his plant are also compelled to work iwelve or thir- teen hours a day, Manager Assaults Worker. BE, C. Wilfong .was hired to solicit for the “Progressive” Dye Works in Gary, and when he objected to an in- sult directed against the union just before the strike started, he was struck by the manager, The same manager was afterwards arrested carrying conoealed weapons, igi i jaa Courts More Power (Special to The Daily Worker) POINT AU PIC, Murray Bay, Que- bec, Aug. 29.—William Howard Taft, chief justice of the United States su- preme court and pensioner of the Car- negie es declared in an interview that serious defects existed in the ad- ministrative machinery of American criminal law, but that he was pleased to note an awakening of public inte: est in this particular sphere of gov- ernmental activity, Would Give Them More Power. The burly ex-presifent would have the judges clothed with more auto- cratic powers. It is not well, he thinks, that those suspected of crime should be protected by so many con- stitutional shields, Convict them first and try them afterwards. That would be Mr, Taft's ideal procedure, i Taft admitted that the American people did not hold the law in very high esteem, He blamed this on our mixed population. The English are bred to respect law, as was demon- strated in the general strike, If such a thing occurred in the United States Taft declared there would be much bloodshed, Partial to Business, The Carnegie pensioner did not at- tribute some of the contempt which the masses in the United States have for law to the obvious partiality of the lawmakers and the judges to the side which butters their bread, tho this side does not produce either the bread of the butter. Judges who accept pensions from the blood-stained hands of steel man- ufacturers cannot be expected to ex- cite the confidence of the masses in the fairness of their judgments. We will send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER to your friende— sond us name and address, — CHICAGO LABOR CHEERS MEXICO AT MASS MEET Mexican Consul is Given Great Ovation North Side Turner Hall echoed with applause last Friday night when Luis G. Lupian, Mexican consul in Chicago, rose to speak at a meeting, called un- der the auspices of the All-America Antidmperialist League to demand “Hands off Mexico!” The meeting con- vened at almost the very moment when Secretary of State Kellogg was announcing to capitalist newspapers that James R. Sheffield, U. 8, ambas- sador to Mexico, is soon to discuss with President Coolidge proposed gov- ernment action against Mexico's. ofl and land laws, It was a spontaneous tribute to the nation south of the Rio Grande, which for so many years has stood like a rock against the onrush of U. 8. im- perialism, and which is now rallying so unmistakably to the defense of its great revolutionary achievements of 1910-20, in the face of reactionary re- bellion initiated by the Roman cathol- ic church, Resolution Sent to Calles, A resolution of greeting to the Calles government, proposed from the floor, was carried unanimously, the resolution pledging support to Presi- dent Calles against Wall Street and Washington, and expressing complete solidarity with the Mexican govern- ment in its firm stand against the present clerical rebellion, The meeting also authorized its chairman, Manuel Gomez of the All- America Anti-Imperialist League, to wire President Calles in its name, as follows: Mass meeting of Chicago workers called by United St: section of All-America Anti-Imperialist League, expresses to you Its unanimous ap- probation of your government in sternly resisting catholic rebellion. We are confident that intransigence on part of yourself and Mexican masses will completely defeat re- actionary catholic attempt to split national revolutionary ranks and thus weaken Mexico In face of American imperialism, * Working Class Gathering, It-was a working class crowd that gathered at North Side Turner Hall tay hear Senor Lupian and the other speakers appearing with him on the platform of the All-America Anti-Ime perfalist League. These speakers like» wise represented working class ore ganizations; they included Murray B, King, managing editor of thy “Arzore ican Appeal (sccialist party organ); William F, Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER (Workers [Com- munist] Party); and Carl Haessler, director of the Federated Press (Am erican labor’s only dafly news ser- vice.) Dominated By Few. “Under the dictatorship of Porfiria Diaz,” he declared, “all Mexico was dominated by a handful of landed aris- tocrats, while the great mass of the people lived In peonage. The entire state of Morelos, one of the richest in the republic, was owned by seven families, The church was part and parcel of this semi-fendal system and was itself one of the richest landlords, despite the constitution of 1857 and the reform laws, which had been allowed to lapse. “When the old regime was finally overthrown by the people, and the re- volutionary constitution of 1917 adopt- ed, it was only natural that there should be a settling of accounts with the church, The constitution does not touch upon the question of religion as much but only legislates against the church as a political institution, as well as denying it the right to hotd Property and to build up a hierarchy of foreign priests.” Catholic Defeated. ‘The consul went on to say that the catholic revolt has already met deci- sive defeat, thanks to the energetic attitude of the government and the strong support of the workers, intel- lectuals and all progressive elements in Mexico, “Reports of riots and other disturbances in Mexico,” he said, “are for the most part brazen fairly tales. Mexico 1s perfectly quiet.” . The League (United States section), which has headquarters at 106 N. La Salle street, Chicago announces its inten-, tion of continuing its Hands-off Mex-~, ico campaign, The league stands f independence for all U. 8S. colon and semi-colonies, withdrawal American troops from f abrogation of special of Negroes with whites in States, etc, In addition to the campaign, the lei is at presen scant meses inf campaign for tnasatinne, absolute a: mplete independence for the Phi¥ppine islands, ’ stove, explosion late today burned es ane rim, Kootela, 38, and her son, |, 80 badly are; expected to die, idee Spanish Typhus Epidemic. SARAGOSSA, Spain, Aug. 29.~An epidemic of typhus has broken out ¢n. a number of villages ¥ } i 4