The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Go ment Vol. Ill. Ne 20€ Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, aX Entered as Second-class r ser September 21, _ In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, by mail, $6.00 per year. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1926 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Mllnota, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Pinon ics 290 PUBLISHING CO., Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Tl. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents SOLDIERS PATROL RHODE ISLAND MILL TOWN Lunrorp Srenk O’'FLAHERTY d ‘OW that Mussolini has abolished elections, our bourgeois admirers of the great man may alter their hitherto exalted opinion of him. Ex- cepting old Art Brisbane who would excuse Benito for any act of Rinadey ad except suicide, The American cap: italists can get along very nicely Avith: out a dictatorship yet. And even those that would like it now, find too many obstacles in the way. As long as Mus- solini confined. himself to crucifying the working class he was-a brilliant statesman, But the goddess of capital ist democracy must not be defiled tho willing to be teased, a ee 'D story of Mussolint’s latest daily edict came’ on the heels of a story of a workman who was given ten months in prison for participating in a strike. Being used to work on the outside the fascist Judges gave him hard labor on the inside. We observe right here that William Green, presi- dent of the A. F. of L. has not urged the Coolidge administration to ‘with- draw recognition from the Mussolini - government on the ground that it is a dictatorship. Oh no! Wall Street is getting along very nicely with Mus- solin And William Green is gettting along very nicely with Wall Street. ee 'HILE on this subject it may be in order to call attention to the grow- By T. J. ing coolness of the A. F. of L. chiefs |) .06q towards Mexico. This changed attitude must not be entirely attributed to the influence of the catholic church in A. F. of L. councils. Rather should we look for an explanation to the disap- pointment of Wall Street. with the Calles admintstration. The high hopes i once entértained of Calles by the |). House of Morgan have been badly bent, and William Green follows the general orientation of the House of Morgan as a tail follows his dog. * WEISBORD TO SPEAK AT I. L. D. RALLY HYMAN SPEAKS OUT AGAINST ARBITRATION) Warns Bosses, Direct. Dealing or Nothing (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 2. — A bitter reply was made last night by Louis Hyman, chairman of the general committee of 40,000 striking cloak- makers, to attacks by Henry Finder, chairman of the Manufacturers’ Indus- trial Council, on the eve of a series of conferences called by Governor Smith to end the two months’ tie-up of the garment industry. Won't Fall into Trap, Hyman charged Finder, in state- ments yesterday in the press, with in- terpreting Smith’s calling of these con- ferences as a foredoomed failure, which would be welcome to the Indus- trial Council as paving the way to en- arbitration. Hyman again re- iterated the union’s position that it will not refer its demands in the present controversy to arbitration. His statement follows: “Finder's attacks which he makes against the union just prior to going uto conference called by Raymond V. ngersoll at the request of Governor Smith, serves to indicate that Indus- trial Counci] leaders will participate without the object of reaching an un- derstanding with the union, stubborn- ly insisting upon accepting not one of N° doubt Wall Street expected the | the union’s demands, ‘Pan-America Federation to be. very useful in {ts plan to subjugate ‘the South American working class and successfully inoculate them with the virus of class-collaboration, which in simpler and more.effective lahguage , is the theory that the best interests of the workers can be served by a policy of helping the boss extract the max- imum ‘profit out, of his business, so that he can afford to give the worker higher wages.. That might work out alright in some future era when tigers shed their stripes and their claws and Pole-cats exude eau de cologne in- stead of something else. eee HOSE things have not come to _“These “manufacturers take | this. position because they infer from Governor Smith’s letter that, when they disagree with us on every point and the conferences break up, the govergor will compel us to refer the > entire dispute to arbitration. “From this viewpoint, the gover sé or’s letter is a hindrance instead,of.. a help in reaching some sort of an understanding. The union will not refer our demands to arbitration.: “We would like the leaders of the Industrial Council to know this: be fore the conference begin.” Finder Lies, “Finder’s accusation that the union in six strikes, worked hand« in ‘sion of Independence, is as follows: ‘18 a part Of the entirs scheme of the ‘away—with the smell of rubber al- , bass. The Calles adminis{ration {s] as, fighting on two fronts, against the} hand with jobbers against inside catholic church in Mexico: and against | Manufacturers, is absolutely false and American imperialism, It is a power-| Without foundation. We have, on sev- ful combination. The A. F. of L.| @val occasions, and we want to ip 2 sepia being committed to the| this here, stated that'the majority of icy of heiping the boss become the present jobbers were manufac- 2 ér at the expense of the toilers| turers, many of them were members does not like this-situation in Mexico|0f the Protective Association which, i and fears that its influence over the| Since reorganized, is now the Indus- workers south of the Rio Grande is| trial Council. It was then that the almost nil. The Mexican workers are | Protective Association, as now the In- socialistically inclined and craw-| dustrial Council, which fought against Reaettaarea eat daee on page 3) the union and attempted thru every means to lower workers’ standards. Recawse thru the system of jobbing Bu} UAN DENI DENIES and stb-contracting, they are able to bring ‘these evil conditions about, the ‘Tl system was developed. Ff PINOS PAY “The same procedure 1s still. em- ployed. We see no difference between FOR MORO HELP the jobbers and the Industrial Council ‘Abe responsible for the ¢onditions of Isl r ers A the'workers. They work hand in hand All ander: nxious t and are fighting to defeat the jinion Wi Fre dc iad and thereby ‘render the workers de- an ae (Continued on. page 3) } WASHINGTON, Sep Sept. 2 — A state- ment by V, G. Buntan, héad, of the Washington office, Philippine commis- when’ the unton demands that jobbers “The report appearing in the press that Senate President Quezon. is ex ploying money to win, over the Moros OF SOUTHERN enemies of Philippine independence to to defeat the Filipino cause, “Nhe charge is as untrue as it is iNegal because the Moros, themselves, the majority of them, of their own volition, are with the Fillpinos in the PRESIDENT OF CHICAG “AND OILERS SEES ROUMARIA BEGS ITALY TO RATIFY PACT THAT CEDED HER BESSARABIA Bessarabia, originally Russian. pro- perty, was ceded to Roumania by a treaty signed by allied powers, Only Britain and France have fatified the treaty and it is necessary for another large power to do so. Premier Ave- rescu, above, is now in Rome dioker- ing for Mussolini’s favor.’ Map shows ae ee LABOR UNION OF VENEZUELA CABLES CALLES. Supports Mexico in Fight With Church (Special to The’ Daily Worker) BROOKLYN, N. Y., Sept 2. — The | Venezuelan* Labor Union, which has its headquarters in Brooklyn at 4 Wil- low street, owing to the white terror of the present government of Vene- zuela, which is united to the catholic church, and crushes the labor unions with prison and death, has published! in its organ, Obrero Libre (Free La- bor), the following announcement con- cerning its stand in support of the Mexican government: “Concerning the patriotic and sen- sible attitude observed by General Plutarco Elias Calles, president of Mexico, in enforcing in an admirable manner the respect due to the funda- mental-laws of the nation, the exe- cutive committee of the Venezuelan Labor Union, in its reguiar assembly voted unanimously to send to the head of the Mexican government the follow- | ing cablegram: “‘Pyesident Plutarco Elias Calles, | Mexico, D. F.-The Venezuelan Labor Union applauds your. energetic atti- tude in defense of the laws of the na- tion.-Signed, M. Flores Cabrera, President.’” FIREMEN. GANIZATION NEGRO IMPERATIVE President Morton of the Chicago lo¢al of the Fiemew and Oilers’ Union ‘hafog the issue of independence and psees the organization of: the:Negro workers of the sduwth aé°an essential move in the near future of the American labor movement, « “One of two things will happen,” said Morton, in an interview with a rep resentative of The DAILY WORKER, Mason and Dixon's line will remain unorganized as at present, or they will] WORKER for one month to the “either the colored workers below demand for independence. They, as | »® organized by campaigns undertaken thru the unions, well as their christian brethren of the | North, realize that the two, together, form one racial, ethnic and geographic group, and they prefer thus to join hands rather than to being cut one from the other and ruled permanently by: another people of different race, customs and tradition, 10,000 milés Soccer Games b Sports’ Club ways putrifying the atmosphere of re- Inti¢’ (whip. ps wnate President Quezon yesterday floor of the Philippine senate t ly denied the charge and the Philippine legislature has: adopted a resolution demanding an iagestiestian of the whole affair,” Plenty to Eat—Hungarian f ‘ Watérifelon Feast Hour ENJOY THE WOODS THIS SUNDAY Red Star YOUNG PIONEERS MARCH Armenian ‘Schlapnik—American Come early—Something Doing Every (Continued on Page 3.) Goulash, STRIKE LEADER LL.D. MEETING Annual Conference to Open Sunday Morning Albert Weisbord, leader of the Pas- saic textile strike, will attend the second annual conference of Interna- tional Labor Defense and speak at the mass meeting in Ashland Auditorium on Monday, September 6. A telegram to this effect was received from Weis- bord by the national office of I. L. D. | today. Indicted Several Times, For over seven months, Albert Weis- bord served the Passaic textile work- ers as their leader and organizer, im- parting to them -his enthusiasm and fortitude in the face of brutal persecu- tion by the police and the bosses’ judiciary, t Because of his unflinching determi- nation to lead the textile workers to victory, Weisbord was singled out for more arrests and indictments on fake charges than any of the other strike organizers. He is even now at liberty only on bail running into tens of thous- ands of dollars and has a number of indictments hanging over his head. The name of Weisbord is now well known thruout the entire land and his presence at the conference and the mass meeting which follows it on the evening of September 6, at the Ash- land Auditorjum, will be an event of great interest, Cline to Speak. The mass ting on Septomber 6 will also sed by other well- known figures'in the labor movement. Charles Cline, for whose freedom from a Texas prison hundreds of Americar | labor organizations haye taken a fa- vorable -stand,, is coming from the South whence he was just released after serving a thirteen-year term with the other Texas martyrs, to speak at ithe conference-and the mass meeting. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who has fought in the front ranks of the labor movement for years, and who took a leading part in-organizing the Passaic textile strike, will also speak at the conference and' mass meeting. James P, Cannon, secretary of International | Labor Defence, C. E. Ruthenberg, sec- |retary of the’ Workers (Communist) Party, himself awaiting a supreme court decision on his case, and Dr. J. J. Peters, third assistant president- general of the Universal Negro Im- provement Association, complete the ‘list of speakers. The conference is to open promptly at 10 o'clock Sunday morning, Sept. 5 and there is already every indication that it will be a successful one, and certain to stimulate the work of anited labor defense in the coming period. The national office of International La- bor Defense expects an attendance of between two and three hundred dele- gates at the conference. Cannon to Report. The first day’s session will be taken | up with a thorovand detailed report on the past work and future tasks of I. |L. D. by its secretary, James P. Can- non, Weisbord, Cline, Flynn, Ruthen- berg, Peters and others will address the conference on that day. The second'day of the conference will be occupied with detailed discus- sion’ of the experiences of the past year and the drafting of plans for fu- ture organizational work. Local sec- \retaries from all parts of the country | will aceupy the floor at the second | day's session with discussion of ex- periences and ‘plans for the practical work of the next year. The mass meeting for Weisbord, Flynn, Cline, Ruthenberg, Cannon and Peters takes place in the same build- ing, the Ashland Auditorium, at eight in the evening: of Sept. 6, A subscription to The DAILY members of your union is a good way. Try it. Bring the RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS AND MARINE TRANSPORT UNIONS OF U. S. TO AID BRITISH MINERS (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—Bearing the written pledge of support of the 21 standard American railroad and marine transportation unions, Ben Tillett, British transport leader and member of parliament, sailed for home on the Berengeria after a month’s tour of American labor centers as chairman of | The text of the resolution of | the visiting British Miners’ Relief Committee. support and the appeal for funds that the American railroad unions signed to- gether was made public by Tillett. It reads as follows: TO THE RAILROAD WORKERS OF AMERICA: A million British coal miners, with their backs to the wall, are heroically fighting for a living wage and decent working conditions. They have been locked out for 16 weeks. During ali that time they have withstood the assaults of the mine owners backed by a reactionary govern- ment which seems determined to scrap many of the rights and privileges en- joyed by Englishmen since Magna Charta. A finer exhibition of pluck and bulldog determination to resist injustice is not recorded in the history of the labor movement. The union’s treasury empty; the miners’ savings wiped out; their credit exhausted. They and their wives and little ones are facing starvation, but they refuse to quit. These marvelous coal diggers know how to die but they do not know how to surrender. Their fellow workers in Britaif’ have given to the limit of their resources, but as a result of the’ recent general strike, their financial] condition is pre- The trades-unionists of Continental Europe have contributed gener- ously of their meager earnings, every penny representing genuine sacrifice. It is clear, however, that if the miners are to win, America must come forward with substantial sums. Therefore, as executives of Associated Rail- road Labor Organizations, we are issuing this appeal to our members in the United States and Canada. We hope you will give as generously as your circumstances will permit. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Order of ‘Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths and Helpers of America. International Association of Machi International Brotherhood of Silaninanek: Iron. Shipbuilders and Helpers of America, Sheet Metal Workers’ international Association, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America. Switehmen’s Union of North America. Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees. Order of Railroad Telegraphers. United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Laborers. Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen. Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen and Oilers. Railway Employes’ Department, A. F. of L. Order of Sleeping Car Conductors. American Train Dispatchers’ Association. National Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association. International Longshoremen's Association. is carious. Passaic Union to Get 8,000 Under Charter; Withdraw Mill Police (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept, 2.—Charter for Local 1603, United Textile Workers of America, has been turned over by the | union to the Passaic local formed by striking wool textile workers. Already 3,400 signed applications from strik- ers have been accepted by the U. T. W. and. 4,000 more are being certt fied as signed. Thomas F, McMahon, VU. T. W. president, has agreed to preside at the demonstration in Passaic over the ad- mission of the strikers to the Ameri- (Special to The Dally Worker) MADISON, Wis., Sept. 2.—Charac- | terizing “foolishly false” Senator Len- root's statement that the recent edi- tion of Labor circulated in Wisconsin | asking for his defeat, had cost $30,090, | Edward Keating, manager of the pub- lication, today wired Senator Reed of Missouri, to immediately convene the senatorial investigating committee “to refute the canard,” “He said the edition had cost less | $700 a week. |AUSTRALIAN REFERENDUM WOULD than $5,000 and that the entire ex- pense had beeu contributed by the “organized railway workers.” can Federation of Labor union. Spe- cial police guarding Garfield mills are to.be removed by the city council. The council informed the mill owners that the ‘cost of the service to them was The size of The DAILY WORK- ER depends on you, Send a sub. GRANT ANTI-LABOR GOVERNMENT rit CHANCE TO RUN UNION OFFICES By W. FRANCIS AHERN, Feder: Press Staff Correspondent. SYDNEY, Australia—The Australian labor party and the organized in- dustrial workers in Australia are engaged in a hot campaign against the veferendum proposals put forward by the federal anti-labor government to secure a closer control over the unions. The first of the two proposals is that the government should have, among other things, power to create, regulate, control and dissolve corporations, (Continued on page 3) SS DAILY WORKER PICNIC SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH EDENWALD PARK, (NEAR DYRE AVENUE, NEW YORK) No:Admission oe Directions: Take Third Avenue “L” to 138rd St. or Lexington Avenue Ex- press to East 10th Street; then Westchester R. R. to Dyre Avenue, (Fare 7c). Walk three blocks West. Whole Family |SHOT WITHOUT WARNING UPON MIXED CROWDS R. I. Federation Backs | Manville Strikers (Speciat to The Daily Worker) MANVILLE, R. |., Sept. 2.—Little signs of peace in the textile strike in |this district were visible todey white |100 national guardsmen continued tu |quard the bridge on the public high- |way near the Manvilie-Jenckes mill, |scene of the murderous attacks by | state troopers and deputy sheriffs up- on strikers, sympathizers and by- standers. Barbed wire entanglements and m2- chine guns commanded the ap- proaches to the thorofare and sentries were posted beneath the bridge as fraudulent reports were spread that an attempt was to be made to dyna- mite the structure, War Moves Against Labor. Guardsmen with steel helmets, rifies jand ammunition patrol the town and rolling kitchens have been brought up to cook food for the troops. In addt- tion to the entanglements at the bridge approaches, four parapets have been erected out of cotton bales and machine guns have been mounted on each, two at either end of the bridge and two in the center. Soldiers are constantly on duty at each parapet. ee MANVILLE, R. L, Sept. 2— With national guardsmen of the 103rd fleld artillery throwing up barbed wire en- tanglements and barricades on the public highway over the Blackstone river bridge near the Manville-Jenckes cotton mill, the resentment of the pop- ulation, not to speak of the mill strik- shooting of state troopers and depu- (Continued on page 4) TURN TO PAGE FIVE. The second instaliment of Frank Farrington’s record in the tabor movement appears today on page five in our “Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities” section. Today's installment tells the story of Far rington’s relations with Col. Frank L. Smith, hero of the siush fund in- vestigation, sixteen years ago. Then Smith was the donor and Farrington the receiver. In the year of our lord 1926 Smith is the receiver. Far rington is getting his from the Pea- body Coal company. LENROOT THINKS REED’S PROBE SHOULD BE TWO WAY PROPOSITION; SUSPECTS SLUSH IN WISCONSIN JFORCE FIFTEEN GUARDSMEN 10 SUMMER BRILL Baltimore ye Waxes Indignant (Special to The Daily Worker) BALTIMORE, Md,, Sept. 2.—Fifteen members of the 110th Field Artillery, | Maryland National Guard, who refused |to heed orders to report for the sum- |mer encampment, were foreibly deliv~ ered there by members of the militia. The Baltimore Evening Sun, edito- | rially objecting to publicity in such matters, altho it does not condemn dragging unwilling men to miltia camps, declares: “It doesn’t attract recruits to ad- vertise to the world that officers in charge of the camp are proceeding upon the assumption that unwilling volunteers shall be forced into obe dience,” Indignant Major. William D, Tipton, major of the alr service of the National Guard, in an indignant letter, makes this reply; “In the first place, a suggestion that the military should let down the bars of discipline to attract recruits sounds like the talk of a Sunday school teacher. To tamper with the discipline of a military or- ganization is to strike at its very roots. In any organization there ex- ists a percentage of bad actors, As commanding officer of a National Guard organization, I have never seen an enlisted man who was forced to do his duty come out of the so-called ordeal other than @ better man.” BUILD THE DAILY WITH A\SUB ers, is open and frank at the wanton _ . f