The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government : 3 ates: Gutsi eh “a Ag RANK FAY 2=".200"""€ SUSy ENDED AS HEAD'Wzs “> » MINERS’ BOARD UNION BY THE EXzuuT Nt (Special to The Dally Worker) : : SPRINGFIELD, Iil., Aug. 30.—The executive voard of Dis- trict No. 12, United Mine Workers of America, today voted to notify Frank Farrington, president of the district, th phe is sus- pended at once from the office of president and that he district executive board stands ready at any time to give hima trial in accordance with the laws of the miners’ organization: Harry Fishwick, vice-president, becomes pF peur under the by-laws of the miners’ union to fill Farrington s tem, which expires in March. 5 The two hours’ board meeting, held behind veloped into a bitter struggle among member yote on Farrington’s suspension was not annouw! to have been close. Officials refused to comment due to the fact that it is believed that the vote WO indication of the outcome of the miners’ election” December. cago, by mi ide Chicago, Vol. Ill. No. 197. : cked oors, de- d althugh the sa, it i believed | n theralloting ild bey gtrong o be leld next i ick’s 4 h the Whether the office left vacant by Fishwick’s *s810n§ tO presidency will be filled was not indicated by "ai officials. The board consists of fourteen members and 3 ent officers. District Board Called to president of the Illinois — ouster from office yesterday when the district boat sider the situation arising out of the discovery that a long term contract with the Peabody Coal Compa of $25,000 a year. Farrington's cal Frank Farrington, met toeohe had signed &xec! i acge a, got ble from Paris which versio board they had no right to dictate to him where anaisyrevent angered the board members. . But what nervous was Farrington’s een 3 the miners fi - ion in wages of $2.50 a day.. Fearing t t eas wea pielor them with some of the Farrington slime, +Fishwick, Nesbit and ¢ther sat. sas llsaagbinsealiin, en Larrerp Srenke ellites of Farrington assumed ! ve pt the pose of defenders of the iqe terests of the coal diggy's. Farrington’s Wage Cut Plea Vice-president Fishwig! in public statement dtd njot sa} that the district board disagreed with Farrington’s plea fol & Te duction in wages. What, Fish- wick declared was that duction in wages will. not} solve the “pr “hat € the mining industry. statement in full reads: Fishwick’s Fishy Statemergt By T. J. O'FLAHERTY JHE big news of the day is not the arrival of Krishnamurti, the death Valentino or even the emotional ‘ture of Pola Negri. The Mexican gyuvation is important and so is the r in China. The British miners’ ‘ike has more international signifi- cance but it is almost four montis old, tho. still going strong. Aimee MePherson’s amours with a radio op erator and her telepathic communica- tion with heaven is ancient history. All those happenings have stirred deep layers of population for various reasons. But for the American labor movement the big news is + Frank Farrington’s deal with the Peabody Coal Company. You read the story in yesterday’s Daily Worker. If not, why not? NE of the most interesting con- ceivable sensations is that experi- enced by a prophet. whose prediction happens to bear fruit. So many of them are barren that the delivery of a prophecy is entitled to a headline. Two years ago the Daily Worker told the story of Farrington’s relations with the Peabody Coal Company. The miners listened and a majority of them voted against him but he count- ed the votes and threw out enough hostile ones to insure his election. Now, he is caught with the goods and even the most trusting union coal dig- gers can no longer have any confi- dence in him. T will be interesting to read what John H, Walker, president of the Illinois Federation of Labor will have to say about Farrington’s Peabody deal. And Oscar Ameriger, socialist ‘Vand. editor of Farrington’s Titinois Miner, And John Fitzpatrick, who with Farrington, VAilker, Olander, land other labor bureaucfats have sup- ported Frank L, Smith, for the United States senate even after Smith war exposed as the beneficiary of the In ull millions. HOSE gentlemen have , attackeu the Communists . and. branded thkem as splitters, etc...We are ac (Continued on page 2.) Farrington in Paris that the ought to take a reduction in I would like to say in that re: that the district board of the Ill miners does not believe that a tion in wages will solve the lem that now exists in the mi industry and we will stand by adhere to the policies as set forth| by International President John | L. Lewis when he said that ‘the miners in this country will take no backward step.’ We are of the opinion that overdevelopment of the mining in- dustry is our greatest trouble and un- til there is some restriction of de- yelopment by federal regulations the mining industry can never be a prof- itable one for either the miners or the operators.” Organize the Unorganized. Old and active members of the Illinois Miners’ Union declare that the solution of the mining industry rests in the hands of the miners themselves in conjunction with the rest of the labor movement. The organization of the unorganiz- ed and the nationalization of the mining industry under workers’ con- trol is the. solution, they claim, The leadership of the. Ferringtons and the. Lewises has brought ruin and demoralization to & once powerful union, Lewis’ boast that under his lead- rship the. miners will take no back ward step is put down as a typical niece of effrontery on his part. Mem- vers of. the union point to the fact that former union mines are now With unusiyal features on the American labor movement. ARTICLES by outstanding fig- ures of American labor, The sixth annual Labor Day pi League is scheduled for Sunday, Sept, miss. Bundle Rates 3/4 Ce tertére ‘with’ this picnic. a Copy SUBSCRIBE! paw Farrington, It is now up to the miners to drive Le operating nonunion without any ef- uion to bring them into the union LABOR DAY PICNIC AT BERWYN Among the speakers will be Rebecca Grecht, orga"izer for Passalc tex- the rain; if the day does not turn out fine, To reach Stickney Grove Park, take the Bena st. car take BerwynLyons car to Ogden and # Everybody is invited; children are admittag (ree, oth Entered as Second-class ¢ es September 21, 1923, Rt the Post Office at Chic a nr meme ail, $8.00 per year, by mail, $6.00 per year, THE OPERATORS TOOK FARRINGTON; THE MINERS MUST GET RID OF LEWIS RANK FARRINGTON, president of the Illinois Miners’ Union and one of the most sinister influences in the Amerigan trade union move- ment, must sever his connection with the United Mine Workers of Amer lca, as a result of the exposure of his signature appended to a contract with the Peabody Coal company, at a salary of $25,000 a year. The passing of Farrington as a trade union leader relleves thi bor movement of an incubus. The Illinois miners {n particular will @eaw a breath of relief tho they are not thru with him, Farrington wi! jontinue to help the operators exploit them in his now open role of opt i's agent, But a greater menace than ever Farrington ‘was still exists in the United Mine Workers of America in the person of John L. Lewis, a noterious reactionary, ally of the department oe justice under Harry Daugherty and William J. Burns, in trying to deliver progressive miners into the toils of the capitalist courts. It was Lewis who used thousands of dollars of the union's funds to purchase a fake expose of radicals in the trade union movement furnished by a private detective agency, and published it in the official organ of ‘the miners’ union. It was John L. Lewis who betrayed the coke miners in the Somerset coke fields of Pennsylvania in 1921, after 40,000 of those hitherto unor- ganized workers threw in their lot with the striking union miners and in face of starvation and the persecution of the thugs of the operators fought the coal owners to a standstill and were defeated, only when Lewis re- fused to include them in the general agreement. . Lewis, the wrecker of the U. M. W. of A. is the Iast man in the organization who should pose as a David, out to the Goliath of cor- ruption, in the person of Frank Farrington. It was Lewis who destroyed the splendid organization that Alex Howat built up in Kansas. It was Lewis who gloated with unholy glee over the spectacle of seeing Howat in jail for fighting the Kansas slave law. It was Lewis who tried to destroy Howat as he tried to destroy James B, MacLachian, of Nova Scotia, Duncan MacDonald of Springfield and hosts of leaders who would not become the willing tools of the operators, Today the once powerful United Mine Workers of America Is but a wreck of its former self and there is every Indication that Lewis’ policy is nothing short of a premeditated plan to completely smash the union. Lewis’ signature has not yet been found on a contract with the oper- ators. It took many years to get the goods on Farrington. if Lewis Is doing the operators’ work for nothing he Is scabbing on the Farringtons. Whether he is on the payroll of the operators or hot, trimental to the beet interests of the coal ditched, Lewis must not be allowed to pose as the behind the bedraggled banner of Farrington’s disg! with the same brush. Farrington Is killed politically a union is concerned. Lewis is still a danger. The operators built a golden bridge out of his policy is de- diggers and he should be inification of purity Both are tarred far as the miners’ miners’ union for Wis out of office next December with a hurricane of ballots. if 4 Having succeeded in breaking up the last ™m by thie aid of Chicago detectives, which he did r: nominations of officers to take place, Milstein, is calling another meeting for Tuesday night sent‘out, the nominations will be permitted, ‘According to the same letter, however, no egainst him or her will be allowed to enter ¢ attempt to keep out the progressive opposition against all of whom Mil- stein framed charges before the strike so that he could the better settle it with the bosses and in a way against the desires of the rank and file. Now that the strike has been betrayed, these charges are still allowed to stand in order to prevent any pro- gressives from running for union office. the Chicago Furriers "in than to allow the sent business agent, eccording to a letter who has any charges &. This is simly an nections 3 ends among the uldom of the Chicago File Spirited, wn at the recent meet- hion, however, proves nd file are determined ‘ity from the present and put into office d for progressive poli- with all gangsterism ir chamber settlement over the heads of the Panicky Call For Bulls. . The meeting Friday night was broken up with the able assistance of the police when Milstein saw the strength of the revolt of the member- ship against him. His letter calling the Tuesday meeting attempts te show that this natural rebellion of the rank and file is part of the bosses’ game to destroy the union. This, of course, is only a false argument intended to reduce the confidence of the mem- bers in the progressive group, All Scabs Allowed, Milstein is making no attempt to keep out of the meetings the scabs who have been given cards after the termination of the strike, but wishes ty forbid the presence of the members who have dared to challenge his one- man rule and those who have exposed the machination of the Jewish Daily Forward, The letter calling the meeting states that prominent “leaders” of the labor ives in Chichgo will fol- id example set by the ers; eliminate the last ned On page 2) r Party; So Reactionari insetts Labor Campaign told at the Wells Mem- ton, On Sunday, Aug. amittee with full pow- rord plans for a labor tate. This action was animous vote of dele- ng labor unions thru- fort being made by the inter-| movement will address the meeting, EP itd national union to bring them into The left wing in the furriers’ believes to place a state tick- t Saturda the uion fold. The Jacksonville | nig to mean that Milstein is desper- fs year was frustrat- ex! tf y agreement has been openly repudi-| ately trying every means at his dis- ved Opposition of the ptember 4th ated by several groups..of operators | posal to kee) the power in the hands ates and the official (Continued on page 2) of the reactionary clique and naturally the American Federa- . - xpow”” partisan machine S cl Labor Da stro: themselves as the gic | OE Y | TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE _ {200 9.2 "sour a ‘pendent polotical ac- essives and the Com courageously thruout of a labor ticket this tion, The pr munists foug tor the nami) ionic of the Trade Union Educational | year, . 5, at Stickney Park Grove, Berwyn, III, fe preliminary remarks on, the secretary of \ tile strikers’ relief. ttee, Sylvester J. Me: co at aaa a yan There is a fine dance floor at this park, and go°d music will be fur. wresident of the Boston sate, nished by a union orchestra from 2:30 to 8:39 p.m. !t Will be to the advan- Union was elected SPECIAL FEATURES no mem- tagé of the public, however, to come earlier, for the park will be open In ie credentials i report ber in or out of the organized the early morning, and has a large shady grove for family picnics, There or unionsand 2 politi- labor movement can afford to will be refreshments and games. Th presented, In addition { tables, and cover eee" ° boxttrv dd goad number of the leading nin the Massachusetts at present in an indi- y, out of sheer interest ings. ‘¥ upon the opening of tion, Frank H. Me- as it will not in- come anywa 1) ond of line, then walk five blocke | | Pay fifty cents, Harlem | Aves. an WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1926 hasetts Launches Move for can Federation of ta) BUILD THE DAILY WITH A SuB, NEW YORK EDITION R. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd,, Chicago, Ill, cago, Ilinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. rs a Price 3 Cents Great British Left Wing Conference in Militant Cail on the Labor Party oe (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Aug. 30.—The National Minority Movement Conference, the third annual gath- ering of British Left Wing Unionism, closed yesterday with 892 delegates present, representing. 956,000 workers. i In its closing sessions the conference called upon the Labor Party to withdraw from parlia- ment as a demonstration against the strike-breaking action of the government in the coal industry. A commission was elected to prepare plans for the reorganization of the trade unions. Michel, representing the French United Confederation of Labor; Sturm, representing the German left wing unionists; and Browder, representing the Red International of Labor Unions, addressed the conference, which ended amidst tremendous demonstration for internationalism of labor. > “We are proud of our connection with the revolutionary workers of other lands, particularly of the Soviet Union,” said Chairman Tom Mann, veteran militant of British unionism. The former officers were re-elected by the conference, which attained full success. HAMPTON “4 Ta_| GREAT EVENTS MINERS’ EXECUTIVE TO | SHIPPING FULL STIR BRITISH ; GROWERS — TO CONSIDER SITUATION 25 Ships in Two Days ‘Labor Party Heads in Help Break Strike By GORDON CASCADEN (Special to The Daily Worker) NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 30. — “Large increases in gross and net earnings of the Norfolk and Western Railway featured the July railroad reports is- sued today.” So declares a news item published on the financial pages of New York, Philadelphia and other newspapers. Transportation of “scab” coal to break the British miners’ strike from West Virginia and Virginia mines to this city and Newport News, twin ports of Hampton Roads, is respen- sible. This financial news item continues: #This.road, one of the three chief scft coalers running to Hampton Roads, reported gross receipts of $10,930,854, compared with $8,985,- 809 in July, 1925, and net operating income of $4,260,061, agginst $2,622,- 104 in the like month a, year ago. The surplus after fixed charges in- creased from $2,178,308° to $3,895, 030 for July this year.” An Associated Press dispatch from Roanoke, which boasts that the head offices of the N, and W, ;are in that city, gives this further explanation: “Norfolk and Western Railway earnings reached a new high mark in July, when the road made a net income of $3,895,082, representing an increase of over $850,000 over earnings during June, according to the monthly financial statement made public by the company today. The June net Income was $3,041,538. “The proportion of transportation New Treachery (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Aug. 30—Great events jare stirring British labor. While the lrank and file of miners are standing |firmly In their nineteenth week of |strike, despite their sufferfng, and \the union executive is meting to tdraft new proposals which may of- |fer concessions on the matter of | wages while resisting any attaok on | the work day, the right wing leaders jof the Labor Party, the MacDonald- \ Thomas group, are seeking a new betrayal In a tentative “peace plan.” New Treachery. The plan offered by the yellow leaders of the Labor Party is prac- Heally “what yhe- mine -owners,.c mand: It bases thé “Wage Scale upon the “paying capacity” of the differ- ent districts, and defines the work day by the week instead of by the day, seeking thus to avoid the merely technical form of the longer work- day, and advocates that in some of the districts the longer workday be accepted. This is exactly what the mine own- ers and the tory government, against which the Labor Party is supposed to be in opposition, want. In addition, the MacDonald-Thomas group are making propaganda for the mine owners’ demand that the militant leaders of the miners, Herbert Smith and A. J. Cook, be eliminated from negotiations in order that the new scheme of betrayal be put across. Continue Strikebreaking. Meantime, parliament A. J. COOK | MEET IN LONDON TODAY OF SCAB COAL LABOR UNIONS REDUCE WAGES © is meeting expenses to operating revenues in jtoday and the tory majority will un- July was the lowest the company doubtedly back the _ strikebreaking has ever established—22.8 per cent.” proposal of the Baldwin cabinet to Nor are coupon clippers of railroad {continue the “Emergency Protective bonds whose pockets are bulging with profits received as a result of the de- finite plan of British capitalists, through their government ahd other (Continued on page 2) | Act” which authorizes a form of mar- jtial law, in further efforts to break the miners’ strike by starvation and armed force. Baldwin will not be present, and only enough members of the tory party will be called in to assure a majority, as Baldwin and }the members are enjoying their va Kept In. Town | Seseaes Baldwin being at a French watering place. Migratory workers arriving in. this | town on freight trains cannot leave | From; Cho. Tank. anid fle, comes. @ Railroad “bulls” \demand that the savage attempts to {erush the union be answered by the jwithdrawal of safety men, kept at work to keep the mines in repair pending a settlement. This demand for war to the knife comes up on the eve of the meeting today of the min- By HEINZ SCHROETER (Worker Correspondent) YAKIMA, Wash., Aug, 30.—Efforts | are being made, by the apple growers to furnish a large supply of labor in the Yakima Valley, so that wages can be forced down when the picking starts. cialist Party and es Spike Labor Ticket on freight trains. |ride a short distance out of town, stop the train and chase every one caught! riding back into town. Packer School bor organizer for the New England district, asked for the floor. His speech, altho cloaked in the most po- lite terms, was clearly an effort to in-; ‘The last few years a school has | timidate the delegates against going |peen started to teach the packing ot | 4 ahead. Carefully dodging the issues | apples. This will create a larger sup-|°%* executive, in the form of reso- which labor will have to face in the | ply of packers. As many as 400 have | lutions from both the Lancashire and coming campaign, he warned the dele-| heen taught in 1925. Cheshire districts of the Miners” gates of the dire consequences “to Low Wages |Federation, demanding a national all concerned” if they proceeded with | Wages are Sc a box, and 35¢ an hour | conference to be called to consider the meeting. for picking, Board must be paid ont the action. He made it clear that the American | of this. This {s 3 to 5 cents Jess than Cook Says Men Solid. In issuing a statement for the Fed Federation of Labor was unequivoc-|the prevailing wages around here for ably opposed to the formation of an | common labor. (Continued on page 2.) independent political party of labor and declared that the meeting was not sanctioned by the American Fed- eration of Labor. 44 “I see men and women here prom- inent in the Massachusetts labor movement, in the Boston Central La- bor Union, in the Massachusetts State branch and some who attended the recent state convention of the Amer!- can Federation of Labor,” he remark- od. He pleaded with the delegates to re- sort to official channels with their proposals for independent political ac- tion, McBride, the chairman, ur- banely thanked the speaker for his remarks and the latter was then in vited to remain. He curtly refused this invitation, and departed leaving Harry P, Jennings, the business agent (Continued on Pagé 4.) CELEBRATE THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY C. E. Ruthenberg, General Secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party will speak on “Seven Years of the Communist Party” at Freiheit Singing Society Hall, 3837 W. Roosevelt Rd. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1, 8 P. M. The history of the struggle for the organization of the party and ite developments and fight for the workers will be told at this meeting. Admiasion is 10 cents, ©