The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORK ER UNKNOWN SAILOR HERO OF SOVIET RIVER DISASTER 150 Reported Drowned in Boat Collision (Special to The Dally Worker) LENINGRAD, Sept, 1, — An un- known sailor is acclaimed toda hero of the Burevestnik disa some 150 persons were dro the Burevestnik, a Soviet p ship, sank in the Morskoi ( Sunday night after colliding with a Pier in an effort to avoid a collision with the German steamer Greta. Turned Off Steam, This unknown sailor, a member of the crew of the battleship Murat and @ passenger on the Buravestnik, re- turning to his station at Kronstadt from a holiday, ran into the boiler rooms as soon as he realized the Burevestnik was sinking and opened the steam cocks. His action is be- Neved to have prevented an explosion and an even worse disaster. He was Unable to regain the decks, however, and was drowned. Most of those who lost their live afe believed to have been trapped be- low decks, as only nineteen bodies have thus far been recovered. rigid inquiry into the causes of the | disaster and the possible lack of life- saving apparatus on a ship carrying 400 passengers and forty crew is un- der way. Scene of Panlo. The sinking of the vessel was ac- companied by scenes of wild panic, and it is estimated that at least forty women were among those who met death by drowning, Many passengers were thrown into the water and others jumped, saving their lives by clinging to the stone piling of the pier against which the ship crashed. Assistance Futile. The crew of the German steamer Greta lowered a lifeboat, but it was almost immediately swamped by fran- tie persons who insisted upon clinging to it and trying to save their lives. When the boat was swamped those who had already been picked up were thrown into the water and drowned. Wants Prisoners Paid; N. Y. Federation Will Bring in Independents NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Sept. 1— Extension of workmen’s compensation _fo_include inmates of state institu- tions permanently injured by their employment was favored by the Nev. York state federation of labor cor yention. Compensation should b paid upon the prisoners’ release, the convention recommended. John Sullivan, approved as presi- dent of the federation by the conven tion, declared that the organization would attempt to bring into the Amer- ican Federation of Labor ranks as many of the independent unions in New York as possible. He denounced radical organizations. He made no mention of the A. F. of L. investiga tion of the fur union, altho he is a member of the committee appointed to do the work, Soviet Union Buys 700 Horses in Canada CALGARY, Alta., Sept. 1. — Already 700 horses have been ‘purchased for shipra@ent to the Soviet Union in Can- ada. I. D, Durno, a local auctioneer, and Dr. Sunclair, who represents the dominion government as veterinarian, are buying horses in Alberta for ship- ment to Leningrad. The Soviet government intends to purchase 1,090 horses in Canada this year. The horses weigh from 1,000 to 1,200 pounds. They are too light for Alberta demands, but are just the thing needed by the Russian farmers. The dominion government guarantees payment, Movle Operators Gain. NEW ‘YORK, Sept. 1. — Motion pic- ture machine operators of New York gained 10 per cent wage increases from the Vaudeville Managers’ Asso- ciation, Local 306 threatens strikes against the smaller houses if they do not.sign the same agreement. dust Arrived! Attractively bound copies of the INPRECC:: (International Press Correspondence) giving full. proceedings of the , Sixth Session of the Enlarged Executive ' Committee of the Communist In- ternational February-March 1926 Invaluable material for the revolutionary worker, student and especially For All Party Functionaries Only a limited number have en received and all purchases ed in order received. 60 Cents, Postpaid. Ay LEAGUE OF NATIONS MEETS AGAIN; — FRANCE AND ENGLAND HOLD WHIP HAND Palace of the League of Nations at Geneva; the League assembly In session; M. Briand (left Inset), French foreign minister, and Austen Cham- berlain, British forelgn minister, The seventh annual meeting of the league will take place during the early part of September when the struggle for permanent seats on the assembly will be continued with a consequent sharpening of national rivalries—the very thing the league was created to abolish. AN OPEN LETTER BY NEGRO LEADER ON THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT TO THE NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE NEW YORK, Sept. 1.— William Pickens, field secretary National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Colored People, in the following open letter to the New York Herald-Tribune shows conclusively that statements made by one Alexander Lanigr declaring that Negro voters are not discriminated against are absurd pointing out cases of discrimination in various parts of the country: To the E ‘tors of the New York Her- ald-Tribune: The letter from Alexander Sidney Lanier of Washington, D. C., in your issue of August 9 is hopelessly wrong in its implications that there is no discrimination against the Negro as a | voter in the South. But we are not oing to deal with the mere implica- ions;..we are going to challenge the ibsolute truth of two of his state- nents, Fifteenth Amendment. First, he denies emphatically that ‘the Fifteenth Amendment to the Fed- eral Constitution guarantees to every man, ‘without regard to race, color or orevious condition of servitude,’ the ight to vote.” And to prove that it does not, he quotes from the amend- ment: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be de- nied or abridged by the United States or by any state on ®ecount of race, 2olor or previous condition of servi- tude.” That does not seem to Mr. Lanier to guarantee to anybody the “right to vote,” since it does not make voting necessary at all, but simply guaran- tees against race discrimination if and when there is voting. But Mr. Lanier forgets that this provision must be taken together with that earlier pro- vision of the same constitution which says: “The United States shall guar- antee to every state in this union a republican form of government.” Against Race Discrimination, Now everybody knows that no re publican form of government can ex ist without voting, however restricted this voting may be, and the Fifteenth Amendment guarantees to every man that this restriction shall not lie against his race. In brief, the Fit- teenth Amendment only guarantees against race discrimination where vot- ing is allowed at all, and artivle IV of the original constitution, by guar- anteeing a republican form of govern- ment, makes voting necessary, States may restrict but cannot altogether drop popular suffrage—and the restric- tion cannot lie against race. ‘Hence the guarantee. If an idiot or an ig- noramus is denied the right to vote on account of his idiocy or ignorance, still this idiot or ignoramus ds guar- anteed the right to vote “without re- gard to race,” In the sarié letter Mr. Lanier also says with emphasis: “At present there is absolutely nothing in the con- stitutions or laws of any southern state that infringes or in any way vio- lates this amendment—the ignorant and prejudiced charges that are con- stantly being made to the contrary notwithstanding.” A Good Example. This statement is so absolute, uni- versal and unconditional that to re- fute it will require only one. example to the contrary. Here it is, from the latest revised constitution of Texas: “In no event shall a Negro be eligible to participate in a democratic party primary election held, in the state of Texas, and should a Negro vote in a democratic primary election, such bal- lot shall be yold and election officials are herein directed to throw out such ballot and not count the game,” This is from the’ constitution of ASR) ai Texas, We will not stop to quote uno! i + NAMES SEVENTEENTH CHILD IN HONOR OF TWO FAMOUS LEADERS CANONSBURG, Pa, Sept. 1. — Andy Harmison, noted militant miner of Canonsburg, has named his seventeenth child, a boy, William Z, Foster Alexander Howat Harmi- son, in honor of these two famous leaders. Andy swears that if the boy lives up, even a little bit, to the character of those for whom he is named, Andy will be able to die In peace, Andy showed two years ago that he isa man of courage to id by his convictions. When he was ap- plying for citizenship papers the ku klux klan framed up the judge to ask Harmison what he thought of Lenin, Trotsky and the Russian rev- olution, “Lenin! Trotsky! Two of the most brilliant men that ever lived!” said Andy. “About the revolution? Good for the Russians! The sooner we have one here the sooner we workers will get what is coming to us.” Andy didn’t get his papers. from the laws based on this constitu- jonal discrimination. In this case ne swallow makes a summer. And now one word as to the impli- ations that there is no discrimina- ion: Even in Southern states where he letter of the law avoids a plain statement of discrimination, so as to ivoid technical conflict with the Fif- eenth Amendment, the law is made e’th the plain intention, as the words of the lawmakers show, to enable the administration of the law to discrimt- nate against Negroes, For example, the law will require educational “fit- ness” of candidates for registration, and then authorize only white regis- trars to judge of the Negro’s “fitness.” Such tricks are too numerous to men- tion here, but we would offer to de- bate them thoroly with Mr. Lanier or anybody else, William Pickens, Field Secretary of the National As- sociation of Colored People, One Killed, Score Are Hurt in Suburban Crash One man was killed, another was probably fatally injured and nearly a score of passengers were seriously hurt early today when a crowded Rock Island suburban train crashed headon into a Pennsylvania freight train near Beverly Hills station, The dead man was John Risberg, fireman of the Rock Island train, Sev- eral passengers were so seriously in- jured their recovery is doubtful. All of them are residents of Chicago and suburbs, Hear Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Sept. 6 (Labor Day), 8 p. my at Ashland Bivd, Auditorium, ALLMATERIAL PREPARED FOR LANDIS SCABS Extension of Strike May Circumvent Them Piles of building materials, floor tile, pipe fittings, electric conduit tubes, etc., were being accumulated on the ground level of the De Wolf build- ing at 100 West Monroe. street Tues- day, This job was striick on Aug. 23 by the Chicago Building Trades Coun- cil because of the use of non-union workers in the same trade with union men, At the same time the interior build- ing material was being: stored on this job, the Citizens’ Committee for the BEnforcement of the Landis Award was issuing a statement that it had coming from Milwaukee, Detroft and New York fifty-three iron workers, six steamfitters and a number of elec- triclans as well as other mechanics to be used in breaking the strike here and also on the Jewelers’ building, from which union men were called last Saturday by the council for the same teason, i Ready for Scabs. The imported strike breakers will find several weeks’ material stacked in the building in which they are ex- pected to work and may put in all the overtime their scabby frames can stand without fear of getting ahead of the job, Laborers on the De Wolf building, also strike breakers, during a moment when the guards provided by the Citi- zens’ Committee had assembled in an- other corner to listen to a private joke, told a representative of ‘The DAILY WORKER that there were about forty men in their trade at work there and that they were getting 80 cents per hour, without bonus. They claimed they did not like the work, but were forced into it by untoward circumstances, etc,, the usual scab's line of talk. 4 Union bricklayers are ‘still at work on the walls, now up‘ fo the eighth floor. us Extend the Strike! The Chicago Building Trades Coun- cil was in session Tuesday to decide whether or not to strike fifteen or twenty more Landis award jobs on the grounds that they are using non- union workers in trades where union contracts have been made. One argu- ment for striking these buildings has always been that increasing the size of the strike will be the best way to prevent the Citizens’ Committee from bringing in enough scam to finish the buildings on which construction has already been stopped. © Armour Tries Bonus System to Speed Up Packing House Labor Having given the old age pension system a black eye as an incentive to employes to work hard at lower than market wages, Armour’’& Co, are in- stituting a wage bonus scheme with- out any of the philanthropic trim- mings that made the morning after so bitter to the workers. *The packer is selecting the employes that stand speeding up better than the rest and giving them, 7,000 in number, an aver- age bonus of about $70 for a 6-month period, “There is nothing of philanthropy or charity in our plan,” an Armour of- ficial is quoted. “We e found that cash rewards encourage faster and bet- ter production, It simply js a question of substituting a bulge in the pocket- book for the former pat on the back.” The metaphorical pat on the back was the elaborate old age pension of Morris & Co., the packing concern ab- sorbed by Armour in 1925. When the absorption was over the employes found that there was no more pension, Armour had absorbed everything ex- cept that obligation. McAndrew Claims Right to Make Teachers Work On Day and Night Shift ‘William McAndrew, superintendent of schools in Chicago is fighting the attempt of the administration commit- tee of the schoo] board to prevent him from assigning double duty to certain school teachers. The board seeks to prevent the appointment of day school teachers to teach also in night schools, and McAndrew insist’ on technical grounds that he has the right to do this, Superintendent McAndrew has been very active in introducing all manner of time clock methods, platoon sys- tems, and other schemes for decreas- ing the teaching force in Chicago while piling extra work on the indivi- dual instructors, Mine Workers’ Pay Day Collection f or Sacco And Vanzetti is $86.66 AVELLA, Pa., Sept, 1, ~ When pay day came around at the P. & W, mine in Avella, Pietro Blasini and Citto Querino made a voluntary collection of members of Lo 1855 of the United Mine Workers of America for the defense of Sacco amd Vanzett!, ‘Tho workers gave ajtotal of $86.66 to the defense fund, Send The DAILY RKER for one month to y nop. elec vain All Unorganized Farmers Stand in Great Need of Being Thoroly Organized By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. j (Special to The Daily Worker) LOOMVILLE, Wis, (By Mail).— The nightshirted ku kluxer, who was once a power hereabouts, has disappeared. The klansmen, in all their regalia, at one time held their great open air initiations here, as in other parts of the state and na- tion. Crowds of curiosity seekers came to witness the performance. One of these initiations.was given added zest by an event not on the regular program. This is a country where dynamiting stumps out of ex- istence is one of the major duties of the farmer, just as the New England farmer picks rocks before he can raise his crops, At one of the klan ceremonies several farmer boys placed huge charges of dynamite under a great pine stump, blowing it into the sky along with masses of stone and dirt. Farmers hereabouts call it “a miracle” that no one was killed or injured. It is one of the tales that is repeated about the ku klux klan, as if that organization were some- thing of the faded past. ro wt | ‘When the Nonpartisan League was at the height of its power in North Dakota it also swept into this state. It won many farmers in this section to its standards. They sent their representatives to the gather- ing at Madison, the state capitol, that was to plan and carry out the millenium for the farmers inside the old capitalist parties, thru the use of the primaries. But the last ves- tige of “The League” has disap- peared. It also is a memory. The Farmers’ Equity Co-operative Exchange, commonly known as “The Equity,” has also departed into the limbo of the dead past. se “The farmers hereabouts, there- fore, have no organization of any kind thru which to struggle even for the slightest demands?” I asked. “None at all,” came the reply, “ex- cept that creamery down there.” Just a few steps down the road was the plant of the Ideal Butter and Cheese Co-operative. I visited it and had a talk with the manager. Everything was spick and span, The machinery was of the latest type. Everything was moving along satis- factorily. Last year the gross busi- ness was $100,000, There were am- bitious plans for improvements, the installation of a refrigerator plant, beautifying the surrounding grounds, ete., etc, But it seemed to me as if the farmers who brought their cream to the dairy to be made into butter to be shipped on to the big cities, even as far away as Chicago, couldn't see beyond the boundaries of the lit- tle patch on which their own co- operative creamery stood, er) I was told that no effort had been made to develop connections with the creameries of other farmers, even inthe immediate neighborhood, in an effort to develop the market- ing of their own product, independ- ent of the great distributing agen- cies. All that they knew was that sev- eral other dairies were not so suc- cessful. Some co-operative dairies had, in fact, been put completely out of business when some capitalists came along from New York City with $800,000 and built a condens- ery at Merrill for turning: out con- denced milk, This condensery sent its trucks out along the country roads to buy up the milk at good prices, The result was that the farmers deserted thair own co-opera- tives that offered lower prices for the milk and cream necessary for the making of butter and cheese, ee This creamery at Bloomville had successfully withstood the coming of the condensery. Its successful op- eration permitted it to pay good prices, both to members and non- members, It returned to the farmer the byproducts from the manufac- ture of butter, as an added induce- ment, So it keeps going. But it is doubtful whether the farmers understand even the sim- plest rudiments of co-operation, The plant manager, brought in from an- other section of the state, also is the business manager, The execu- tive committee meets seldom, There is supposed to be a membership meeting once a year, but it is a per- functory gathering. Yet this is the only tile that binds the farmers to- gether for the protection of their own economic interests, oe 8 Great interest was shown by those in attendance at our mecting at the Town Hall in Schley Township when I pointed out the great interest of the Communist movement in the de- velopment of the co-operatives, The farmers here had never heard of the role played by the co-operatives in the Russian bolshevik revolution. It brought the Workers (Communist) Party closer to them, the only party of the exploited that had come to them when all the other organiza- tions were gone, Our Communist Party can win the farmers as well as the industrial workers in the cities, IRISH WORKERS TRY TO SAVE OF CLEVELAND TO HOLD MEET . Connolly Society Plans To Aid British Miners (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Sept. 1—The James Connolly Branch of the Irish Workers’ Alliance of this city is planning an entertainment and dance, the proceeds to go to the aid of the striking miners. A meeting of the alliance to complete arrangements for the affair will be held at the new permanent headquar- ters of the organization at Garden Square Market Hall, Room 15, on Friday, Sept, 3, 8 p. m. For Complete Embargo. ‘The Irish Workers’ Alliance favors an immediate embargo on coal ship- ments from the United States to Great Britain during the general strike ac- cording to a statement issued by Danie] Sheehan, secretary, and John M. Gallagher, organizer, The organ- {zation supports the revolutionary wing of the Irish republican movement and states that only a workers’ and peasants’ government can solve the Irish question. The officers of the society are ap- Dealing to Irish workers in Cleveland thru the columns of The DAILY WORKER to visit their headquarters and become acquainted with their aims, WCFL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier, TONIGHT, 00 to 7:00-—Chicago Federation of La- per talks and bulletins; Instrumental solos, 7:00 to 7:30—The Florentine String Trio, 7:30 t :30—Clase Hour: Egan, Irish tenor; Thora Martens, 8:30 to 10:00—Hazel Nyman, baritone, the Li Jimme Eggert, popular songs Pate dinner m Jack contralto, Warner, character songs}. Nick 8m Muniel Ore! WITNESS FOR SACO TRIAL Condemned Man Who Confessed, Needed (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Sept. 1.—In an effort to save Celestino Madeiros alive for pos- sible testifying at the Sacco-Vanagtti new trial motion hearing, Defense *:- torney William G. Thompson has ap- pealed to Governor Alvan Fuller to delay execution of Madeiros. Madeiros has confessed that he and the Morelli gang of Providence com- mitted the payroll robbery and mur- der for which Sacco and Vanzetti have spent over six years imprisoned, Madeiros lost the appeal for a new wial on exception from his second con- victions on the charge of murdering a Wrentham bank clerk. His attorney has applied for commutation. Sacco-Vanzetti’s Attorney Thompson hopes to have Madeiros support his written confessions by verbal testi- mony when Judge Webster Thayer re- covers enough to hear the new mo- tion, Thayer has given an informal promise that he will be in court again in September. a MONTREAL — (FP) — Nothing will be done for two years about the 8-hour day for seamen, reports the represen- tative of the Canadian Federation of Ship Owners, returning from the inter- national labor conference at Geneva under the league of nations, An & hour day was one of the prospects held out to British seamen during the war years, The size of The DAILY WORKER depends on you, Send a sub. at park, BY AUTO, UNITED WORKERS’ PRESS PICNIC LOS ANGELES, CAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1926, at ROS. HILL PARK Good Amusements, Sports and Games. Tickets, Incl. dancing; 60c Leave your lunch home. We will serve a plate lunch and refreshments, ; J DIRBOTIONS: Take Red Sierra Vista car (Main Street Station), stops , take Mission Road to Huntington Drive, fol- low Huntington Drive to park, SMITH SCOLDS GARMENT UNION FOR REJECTION Expects Union to Come To Arbitration (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 1.—Gov- ernor Al Smith has taken advantage of the nice words used by the officials of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union complementary of the commission which took two years to tell the union it was opposed to the union demands, The union’s letter declining the gov- ernor’s proposal to arbitrate was so full of praise of the governor and his commission that he has promptly re- plied by a query as to why the union did not accept the commission’s recom- mendations, Profita From Advantage Given. In addition, the governor, after agreeing with the union that his mo- tives are the highest and ‘concerned only with the welfare of the workers, proposes on that ground that the union accept his advice and arbitrate. In fact he attacks them for not arbi trating, and upholds the Industrial Council of manufacturers, who stand in need of backing in view of the de- termination of the rank and file of the union to continue the struggle to victory. “As you indicate in your letter,” \says the governor's reply, “the com- mission has shown keen appreciation of the complexities of the industry and have directed their efforts toward ‘|basic and permanent improvements, These recommendations were accepted by the manufacturers’ but rejected by the union, More “High-Minded Devotion.” “For eight weeks the strike has been going on and the height of your short season is here, Because of the deadlock I proposed a speedy and final arbitration, Usually it is the employ- ers who hesitate to accept arbitra- tion, but this time it is the union. In urging this plan upon your leaders, I had fully in mind the welfare ot cloak and suit workers. While 1 ap preciate much that you say in your letter, I regret that you have not given 4 favorable reply.” Will Ask Conferences, As the union had suggested that conferences be arranged in which the jobbers be, called upon to negotiate, the governor ends by saying: “I shall communicate with the sey eral parties, asking them to take part in such conferences, I shall also re- quest the “impartial chairman” int your. industry to co-operate by renew- ing meetings. Should this line of ef- fort not prove successful, I shall exe Pect you to consider again the ques- tion of arbitration,” Lawyers Victory Evaporates, The temporary injunction, recently vacated by Supreme Court Justice Crain, which vacation was hailed by the union lawyers as of enormous value to the workers, has now been reinstated by decree of Supreme Court Justice Black, Prohibiting the officers and members of the I. L. G. W. from “molesting” members of the take union or “Designers’ Mutual Aid As- sociation of America.” The bosseg are backing this as a scab outit, Rail Media tion Board Fails of an Agreement . 5 In its First Big Case NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—Mediation failing, the demands of conductors, brakemen and switchmen on eastern Tallroads are going to arbitration in- stead. The new rail mediation board provided by the Watson-Parker act has been unable in a month of closed hearings to bring agreement between - the heads of the train service brother- hoods and officials of railroads east of Chicago and north of the Ohio river, D, L, Cease, editor Railroad Train- men, and E. F, Curtis, general secre- tary Order Railway Conductors, are the two arbitrators chosen for tho! unions. The railroads will name two and the four will choose two other supposedly neutral, arbitrators. to! make a board of six, John G, Walber, New York Cen vice-president, signed the arbitration agreement for the eastern railroads’ conference hoard. W. G. Lee, presi- dent Railway Trainmen, and L. E.| Shepard, president conductors, signed for the unions. Lee says that “futuro arbitration by. the trainmen will de- pend largely on the degree of Justice | we receive by this agreement to ar- bitra He says the trainmen have not always been given due considera- tion in past negotiations. Conductors in freight service get $6.44 a day for eight hours, bra! n $484, The trainmen and conductors are seeking wage increases of $1 to $1.64 per day, BUILD THE DAILY WITH A SUB, e } Yue