The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government i a 3 “90 ee By T. J, O'FLAHERTY “e HAT there is not always some- thing in a name was again proven when an auditing commission ap- pointed by the Chicago chamber of commerce went over the books of the Cook county sanitary district and found everything but a financially hy- gienic situation. If names mean any- thing at all, the sanitary commisison has something to do with sewage and public health. But the auditors found that everything was a sideline with the sanitary boys, except padding the payroll with deserving ward heelers and Yegal luminaries who find loop- holes in the law for the political crooks to escape thru. see ‘ENRY Kittredge Norton, writing in the Contemporary Review dwells on the benefits of American im- perialism to those happy peoples Incky enough to come under its bene- ficient rule, Cuba is a perplexing problem he admits in a rather puz- zled manner, Despite the Platt amendment Cuban politicians succeed din lining their pockets from the pub- lic till and Mr. Kittredge shudders to think of what those generous souls would do but for the purifying influ- ence of American interference, Kit- tredge had better keep silent about the opportunities in Cuba. Harry Daugherty, A. B. Fall, Frank L. Smith, Len Small, Frank Farrington and countless others would take the next boat to Havana, ee. ROFESSOR Ripley of... Harvard threw a bombshell into Wall Street last week when an article written by the Harvard economist came to the attention of the nation’s financial capital. Ripley demanded that more light be thrown on corporations and their condition for the better protec- tion of small investors who are usu- ally decoyed by the doctored reports of stock selling agencies and insiders who stand to make profit on fluctua- tions in stock. The professor might as well save his ink. The corpora- tions will do pretty much as they ‘please as long as democrats and re- publicans run the political machine for them. Let's hope the professor got well paid for the article. pa eee HETHER Pola was ‘to wed Rudy or not the world may never know as the facts are buried: with Rudy. Pola has been about to commit her- self so often that even .a-patient pab- re Me is beginning to Jose. faith im’ her. | “lb never fall in love again” wailed the noted expert in the: portrayal ,ot passion on the screen. Pola’s mex Picture should have a-wide vogué aS they say, unless Rudy's admirers are faithless. Pola is no-slouch in the publicity business. . Every: timecshe fainted from grief, thousands of news; papers, flashed an eight column line} on the’ front page so Pola kept om fainting until she bore a hole in the sidewalk. Finally, the headline artists got cramps and Pola stopped faint- ing. se WO thousand'theosophists sat down last night to a meatless and fish- Jess feast and after reading the menu T can see fourteen good reasons why a person should be a vegetarian pro- vided one has the money and uniim- ited time, Of the fourteen attractions on the mehu I believe thé’ most, ap- propriate item was nuts. “Still, Mf, ‘eth- ical scruples were considéred .. eggs, should be excluded. ‘The thousands pf eges that were serambled to appease. the theosophical, hunger,.mean 80 many thousand chickens ie in the world, , oe 8 B heard something about “animal crackers” in the movies recently. but looking over the paper for inapira- tion thé following headline compels /Attention: “Buddhists will pray for the ‘souls of 20,000 dead pets.” Read~ ing the text we learn that in Tokio, Japan, there is a big dog and cat:com* etery Mass” is celebrated. This is w tong step forward frém the days (6r nights) vhen a council of catholic bishdps discussed the question: “Has woman a soul?” “The woman won her soul (Continued on page 4) ANOTHER ARTICLE WHAT AND HOW TO READ (“The Control of Wages") by Arthur W. Cathoun of Brookwood Labor College } IN : NEXT SATURDAY'S ISSUE OF THE (5 New Magazine Supplem t il To be followed by some’ “ ce MORKERS IN Outside Chicago, by mail, "NOT DOWN MILL STRIKE Open Shop ‘Uses Gas, Guns and Clubs BULLETIN In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. 2 SS a aoa etc ae SAE Vol. Ill. No. 199. Subscription Rates: HE DALY Wo Entered as Second-class ¥ ger September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ilnols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. $6.00 per year. MANVILLE, R. |., Sept. 1.—With na- | tional guard soldiers, armed with | rifles, barring the public highway | bridge to the ManvilleJenckes mill, | with barbed wire entanglements , thrown up and with leaders of the 1,700 textile strikers protesting that they will demand redress; for the fir- ing by state troopers and deputy sheriffs in which 14 persons were injured, the strike situation today was at fever heat. The protest was carried to the gov- ernor of the state who announced that he had not sanctioned the calling out of the troops but was investigat- ing the battle at the bridge. Crowds gathered near the barred entanglements today and were evi- dently In an angry mood over the cosing of a public highway. eee at’ Which an anntal’“‘dfilmat4: (Special to The Daily Worker) MANVILLE, R, Sept. 1.—Riot guns, revolvers and tear gas bombs were used by state police and deputy sheriffs against strikers of the Man- ville-Jenckes cotton mill, with the re- sult that five strikers were seriously wounded, a boy bystander’s face torn by a revolver bullet and one deputy and ‘one state policeman were wound- ed by reckless shooting of the guns of their own men. An Open Shop Attack. The strike began on August 18, when the company started an open shop campaign and lengthened the hours. It brought in non-union loom fixers to work at the mill in place of restoring union men it had laid off. The workers struck, being joined by the workers in the Globe mill at Woonsocket and the Social mill, mak- ing some 3,000 strikers in all. On Sunday night the strikers began to picket the mill when scabs were Jearned to be. arriving, brought in with beds and-stoves and quartered in the mill, A force of forty state constabu- laty and deputy sheriffs had been posted at the head of the Blackstone river bridge to guard the plant, tho. the bridge is public property. Provoke Reprisal, The brutal behavior of the police and the appearance of scabs in the mill windows resulted in a rain of stones. The mill superintendent, ‘A. Sweet, advanced on the crowd of strik» ers, waving a revolver and threaten- tng to shoot. The crowd, thus pro- voked, closed in-on him and gave him a severe beating. The police then used their clubs with increased bru- ‘ality. The trouble increased by this. . Last night the crowd at the bridge had grown to nearly 1,800. When a man tried to cross the bridge a state po- liceman knocked him down with a club, The crowd. charged, but was met with tear gas bombs and a brutal clubbing. Shoot Workers Down. Then when Colonel E. S. J. Chaffe of the state police withdrew them away from the bridge the crowd thought that crossing it was allowed, but when they advanced they were suddenly and without warning: fired upon by police riot guns and revoly- ers. Five strikers and sympathizers went down, one . very perioanly wounded. The wanton nature of, the shooting is seen in the fact that.even after this the police’ fired a: her volley without warning, and lafet ‘on still an- other. Colonel Chaffe-had meantime called for troops, and soon after mid- night a national guard, detachment of 35 arrived on the scene,in motor trucks, Union Charges, Provocation. Strike leaders make the direct accu- ‘sation that Colonel ( ¥ police in- efted and provoked the crowd by bru- tal attacks and fired without. warning. One of the bystanders, Aram Auck- lair, a boy of 18 and mayor of Woonsoc the jaw by a stray police, bullet. pana DaS Bandits Rob Power Co. SPRINGFIELD, I, Sept. 1.—Two masked bandits shortly before noon today held up the general offices of the Illinois Power Company, located in the heart of the downtown business district here and escaped with $3,000. Starvation holds the British Miners In. Its deadly OUSTED MINERS OPEN FIGHT FOR REINSTATEMENT Reikingion W Will Ignore Board Decree is Report (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Sept. 1. — On the heels of Frank Farrington’s sus- pension from the presidency of the INinois Miners’ Union for having sign- ed a contract with the Peabody Coal company at a salary of $25,000 a year, a movement has developed having for its object the reinstatement of those members who were expelled from the union by Farrington because of their radical views and their refusal to allow the operators to break contracts with the union at will. Local unions will pass resolutions demanding the reinstatement of the ousted thilitants. Farrington’s fall has put new spirit into the progressive miners who had their best efforts so often frustrated by the machinations of Farrington and his corrupt ma- chine, Miners To Act Quickly. With Farrington now exposed to the whole membership as a paid agent of the Peabody Coal company, the local unions are expected to act quickly without fear of having their charters lifted on the slightest pretext. It is not considered. likely that the Fish- wick-Nesbit crowd will be in a hurry to ape the methods of boss Farrington, this side of the elections, To Defy Decision, According to reports in circulation here Farrington has notified the dis- trict office that, he has no intention of permitting the executive board or Lewis to force his resignation, If true, this is unpleasant news for Farring- ton’s closest cronies who hoped he would take his medicine and say no- thing, Ke elements are so closely tied up aN the suspended president and their! péfitical hands are so soiled with corruption that they dare not oppose Farrington and to openly espouse his cause would be to commit political suicide, They now sit be- (Continued on page 4) ENJOY THE Woops THIS SUNDAY Soccer Games by Red Star Club Sports’ \ Plenty to Hat—Hungarian ,. Watermelon Feast “YOUNG PIONEERS MARCH Armenian Schlapnik—American Goulash, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1926 HELP! W. Madison St., Chicago. The Shady of Frank Farrington HE following sketch of Frank Farrington’s career ‘In’ the United Mine Workers of America is a summary of a series of articles that appeared in The DAILY’WORKER in October 1924, under the title, “Ona Labor Faker’s Se" ip. Send donations to the International Workers’ Aid, 1553 Record Trail.” Farrington’s latest exploit in accepting a $25,000 a year salary from the Peabody Coal company, while still president of the flinois Miners’ Union, makes it impossible for even his closest friends to condone his action. He now stands suspended from office by action of the district executive board. John L, Lewis and his cronies and the bureaucracy of the IIlinois Miners’ Union are equally responsible with Farrington for the shady actions of the past years committed under Farrington’s leadership in Illinois. The DAILY WORKER does not confine itself to publishing facts unpalatable to the reac- tionaries and sometimes considered scandalous by the liberals. It goes further and urges the workers to take action, get rid of the reactionaries by organizing their forces and replacing them with leaders who will serve the workers and not the employers. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” and the rank and file must be always on guard, because it often happens that the radical of'today is the reactionary of tomorrow. The interests of an individual leader can be harmonized with the interests of those he is elected to fight, but the interests of the masses can never be in common with their exploiters. guard of honest leadership. 8 8 ARTICLE I VETERAN member of the Illinois Miners’ Union once informed the writer that “all the coal Frank Far- rington ever dug would not keep a gas heater from freezing to death.” The speaker may have used poetic license in order to emphasize that Farring- ton’s relations with the miners of IIli- nois have mostly been as a bleeder of union funds: and a willing ally of the coal operators in extracting as much profit as he possibly could out of the bone and sinew of the coal dig gers, but it is true that his life as a coal digger was very short, The purpose of the following sketch of Farrington’s career is to expose him to the members of the Illinois Miners’ Union «in his true colors so that they may‘have the necessary evi- dence at their:disposal for forming an opinion as to his real character when they cast thelr ballots in the ap- proaching election for the officers of District 12, tor the next two years. So long as Farrington and his gang re- main at the head of District 12, just so long will it/be impossible for the union to make any progress or func- tion in the interests of its members. The following brief sketch will show that Farrington started in to feather his own nest since he first joined the DAILY WORKER PICNIC SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH EDENWALD PARK, Rank and file activity, intelligently directed is the only safe- + union and that he grew wealthy by forming a united front with the coal operators against the coal diggers. Farrington first. made his acquain- tance with coal mining in Streator, Ulinois. After considerable “ups and downs” he got to be secretary of Local Union 800, but in a very short time he had trouble with the union over his carelessness in handling the funds. This incident did not stagger his ambition, and shortly afterwards, we find him at a sub-district conven- tion at LaSalle,-where he figured in the proceedings by attacking the sub- district president for squandering the funds, because the official in question charged one dollar a day for hotel ex- pense, In 1909 Farrington ran for p dent of the Illinois Miners’ Union and was defeated. His friend, John H. Walker, ran for International presi- dent against T. L, Lewis and met the same fate. The two defeated candi- dates did the next best thing under the circumstances. Walker got a job for Farrington on the payroll of the Illinois State Federation of Labor while Walker was placed at the pap of the Illinois Miners’ Union. It was about this time. that Farring- ton first blossomed out as a capitalist politician, A certain Judge Hadley (Continued on page 4) PUBLISHING CO., Directions: to 138rd St. or Lexington Avenue Ex- press to East 10th Street; Westchester R. R. to Dyre Avenue, (Fare 7c). Published Datly except Sunday by. THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W, Washington Bivd., Chicago, Dl. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents WOMEN OF BRITISH COAL STRIKE ARRIVE IN MOSCOW GETTING BIG OVATION FROM SOVIET WORKERS (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R., Sept. 1—The first group of the British miners’ delegation, including the m of A. J. Cook, secretary of the Mine iners’ wives, among these the wife rs’ Federation, arrived here today, and. were greeted by a tremendous demonstration for the unity of the English and the Russian labor movement and of sympathy of the toiling masses of the Soviet Union for the heroic struggle of the Brit: ish miners. Annie Cook, speaking to the g! to thank the Russian workers for their help. two million children require immed merely on bread. Several cases o haustion have been registered in a is the need now felt because of the of winter.” reat crowds, declared: “We came A million women and iate aid. Many families are living f the death of mothers from. ex- number of districts. Particularly coming of autumn and the rigors Andreyev Urges Greater Support Chairman Andreyev of the Soviet Labor Union delegation to the Anglo- Russian committee, reported in the pres to the Central Council of the Labor Uni of the conference of the committee. ence of the British miners’ delegation, ions of the U. S. S. R., on the course Andreyev pointed out that the Soviet delegation suggested concrete steps to increase the material support of the miners on the part of the Anglo- Russian committee and the General Council as well, also that the Soviet dele- gation had introduced measures against the importation of fuel into Bngland. The Central Council unanimously approved the action of the Soviet dele- coming congress of the British trade labor unions of the Soviet Union are¢—— ready to give the utmost further material support to the heroic struggle fof the British miners, Assess Ali Militant Labor, At the same time the Central Coun- cil, In an appeal to the labor unions of the U. S. S. R., invites them to aid the British miners by levying a one per cent assessment upon the salary of | all members. Simultaneously, the Cen- tral Council is notifying ‘the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions that: it offers to conduct a campaign for a similar levy among all org: jations affiiiated to the Red Internatiohaf! HARLEM FIRE TRAP KILLS 6 3 ARE DYING Negro F. ainailins Wiped Outin Tenement Fire | (Special to The Daily Worker) | NEW YORK, Sept. 1. — Six persons { were burned to death and three others | who leaped to the street are dying following a three-alarm fire in a five- story tenement in Harlem today, None of the dead, all of whom were Negroes, have been identified. The | bodies were found in apartments on the fourth and fifth floors. Two Motners Leap. Two women, one with a baby in her arms, leaped to the street and are dying in Harlem Hospitai. They are Mrs. Mamie Rambo, 47, Negress, who | jumped with her two year old daughter Devilina, from 2 window of the fifth story apartment, fracturing their skulls, and Mary Ellen, 27, who jumped from a fourth-story window into the subway excavation in front of the tenement. Her right leg was amputa- ted at the hospital Subway Strikers Talk With Union Heads; Say I. R. T. Shadows Them NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—Leaders of the New York subway strike have con- ferred with officials of the Amalga- mated Association of Street and Elec- tric Railway Employes’ Union affil- fated with the American Federation of Labor. Edward P. Lavin, Joseph A. Phelan and James F. Walsh, strike leaders, who were not taken back by the Interborough Rapid Transit. Co, were in the conference. Their unsuccessful strike was di- rected against the company union. The men claim they are constahtly shadowed by I. R. T. agents, Lavin say that he has been hindered in his new employment by 4 letter Inter- borough officials sent to the insurance company, claiming that he was using his job to organize subway workers. Take Third Avenue “L” then Walk three blocks West. | you are now forced to belong. | Mrs, Josephine Poole Knox, ‘gation, and further adopted a resolution entrusting its delegates to the forth- unions to declare decisively that the TRACTION UNICN ORGAN APPEARS INN. Y. BARNS Continue the Fight on Company Union (Special te The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 1. — “The Trac- tion Workers’ Bulletin” has made its appearance at the shops and barns of the various New York traction sys- tems as the organ of the Traction Workers of Greater New York, the union that conducted the recent un- successful strike against the company union of the Interborough Rapid Transit company and for better work- ing conditions. The bulletin seeks to rally the trac- tion workers of New York, and par ticularly the workers of the I. R. T. to conduct the struggle for a real union, not only by organization from the outside but by working from with- in the so-called “Brotherhood,” Frank Hedley's-I.-R.-T. company union, Unity Slogans. Here are a few of the slogans: Every Traction Worker a Union Man! You want a real union instead of the reptile Brotherhood to which But there are many ways to attain the same end. If you are wise you will remember the following suggestions }as to how to fight inside the Brother. hood as well as on the outside, in order that you may more quickly have your own union. 4. Attend All Meetings! The com- pany has very cunningly succeeded in disgusting you with the way the Bro- therhood meetings have been conduct- ed in the past. Their purpose is to enable their own few paid henchman to conduct all the work. Fool them at this game! Your duty is to attend each and all meetings 100% strong. 2. Fight the Fake Delegates! You must oppose the fake delegates, Fight against them! They are not working in your own interest but in the in- terest of the company. 3. ers! Do not fight alone. Begin to take careful note who else is fighting with you. Be careful with company spies but approach your honest brothers and talk things over with them. Lay yo plans for your local meetings. together! Fight as one! 4. Demand Meetings Off Company Property! Start the agitation for meetings away from the company’s property, You will succeed in this de mand if you keep up the fight, Unite for the fight for a real union! Warns of Spies. The bulletin warns the workers to be wary of company spies and exposes the methods of the company union and the tools of the management who are placed in charge of the fake union, |. Secretary’s Son in Altercation, WASHINGTON, Sept, 1.—Philan C. Knox, son of the late secretary state, was recovering in Casualty pital today from a severed ai suffered, according to the polic port, in an altercation with his Unite the Forces of the Work- |