The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1926, Page 1

“THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT 1S IN A CRISIS,” — SEE LEFT WING LABOR DAY STATEMENT STARTING ON THIS PAGE | 5 Entered as Second-class ¢ gar September 21, 1923, &t the Post Office at Chicago, Mlinota, under the Act of March 3, 1879, —_—_—— 5 The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ ‘| and Farmers’ Government CC Vol. Ill. No. 201. This Issue Consists of Two Sections. SECTION ONE, es ee Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1926 . SUE AY ee j ption Rates: In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. * Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. Price 5 Cents LEFT WING Larnrert Sends By T. J, O'}FLAHERTY | i { SOUE LA SS OR DAY CALL Cline Arrives for the |. L. D. Conference ———_—_—_-+ OY he nichaapennces of the “meek and 3 ‘ “ lowly Nazarene” are no longer J . g| a a meek nor lowly was again brought to merican poe a e@ nmionm's , Publio attention when the newspapers vee we carried the report of an attempted bs steal of jewelry and bonds valued at $50,000 from the home of Cardinal re) Ww ni ig ir niet We Dougherty of Philadelphia, -Dougher- _ty was one of the fat spiritual boys prominént at the eucharistic congress. Thi ‘ Pt ens ‘ Kae ay 5 e = s His mission in life is to encourage ie Trade Union Educational League,organ of the left wing trade unionists of America,| his sheep to allow themselves to be prow which rally the progressive workersjin the struggle with the employers, has analyzed the| shorn without a murmur so that they « | Conditions and needs of the American. labos movement and, in view of the approaching convention may Lien evan rioke ie iateuad Charter of U. i. W. 1s « ae Servier Federation of Labor, drawn up a program for building the trade unions and for HE DAILY WORKER extends ee ee Here Pe Shee 28. O0b..OF the. |sRonners ° ° uilding the trade unions and for their victorious advance against the present attacks by the em-| i i i : sees frateran! greetings to the second unda ornin alpen learned he has a sharp Delivered at Passaic ploying class. This program has been issued as a leaflet and will be distributed thruout the "cubicky pe betes - the Interna- ‘4 8 bee fepeitcnes oe Sony Ge trade unions of the country. The Special Labor Day Edition of The DAILY WORKER includes it) Aional Labor Defense which opens Charles Cline, one of the famous HB Irish Times, organ of the DrO| Passaic, N. J. Some a ie as one of the most significant declarations of the labor movement. \/ Its sessions tomorrow in Ashland | ciass war prisoners known as the Tex- testant ascendency in that coun-| weisbord, organizer and leader for the : Auditorium. as Martyrs, who was recently pardon- try is quite excited over the religious] past seven months of the spl ald; . Within the short period of one | ed with Captain Jose Range! and four endidl }struggle in Mexico. The Irish catho-| conducted strike of the 16000 textile Program For Building the Trade Unions Jour; this. non-partisan, allaneluslys: [oder Mexicans. by. Governoe . ZC lies look on the Irish Times as anj| workers of Passaic and vicinity, offi- . . working class defense organization erguson of Texas, arrived here yes ‘organ of the devil. Of course the]cially relinquished his jonderenip of Redposals to the A. F. of L. Convention, Detroit, 1926 has accomplished much despite the | terday to attend the bese Reins wealthy catholics care very little} the big strike Thursday night when he H handicaps it encountered, the most | Conference of International Labor De- whether one’s god is Luther or the| delivered his farewell address to a HE American labor movement is in a crisis. Pvery- While capital is thoroly organized, there are only 3,500,-| serious of which was the mutual fense. ‘holy faker in Rome, provided material} ™@8S meeting of strikers and sym-| where the employers are attacking the workers’ ¢on- | 000 organized out of 20,000,000 organizable workers. The| jealousy existing between various It is the first time he has been in i be squared. The Irish| Pathizers held at Belmont Park ditions of labor and standards of living and trying toide- | unions have lost more than a million members in the| sections of the labor movement and | Chicago since 1910 and he remarked accounts can be squared. ie Ir : Mids ‘eteyning- ont “oe ae * gteite stroy the trade unions. In nearly every industry, wages | open shop war. Company unionism is gaining, with over| the several defense organizations | at the office of International Labor De- Fienibe Wea tot tome Fowe for Wap cathy Wilbbeed soil ° | have been cut, either directly by a straight-out reduction, | a million workers bound up in these fake organizations.| that existed to defend their own | fense that it felt good to be out after olie church but it hates the working! § » Welsbord will remain in Pas-| oy by speeding up the workers to a vastly increased pro- peat i 13 ye f Texas prison. It wes in ; saic to fight the mill baron’s att 4 IHE trade unions, weakened by craft divisions and top-| particular victims of class injus- | 15 years o’ as Di 5 class movement more. Therefore on ; $ attempt} duction. Only in relatively few cases have wages been Ae : RA : P ‘ 1913 that Cline, Rangel and the etbers this occasion it kisses the papal toe to railroad him to jail for his services| increased or hours been shortened. In most cases old heavy with an official bureaucracy which refuses to| tice. v1 4 i " . nit 3 < ¢ fight the employers, have retreated almost everywhere were sentenced to life sentences for as obseqiously as a K. of C. bootlegger| f° the workers. Since April 12 he has| gains have been swept away and the long hour day. of under the employers’ attacks. The bureaucrats have| _ !f the International Labor Defense | 1. urder of a deputy sheriff who and hops onto Calles with both feet.|Peen out on $30,000 bail in cases} unorganized industry is threatening the standards ofthe adopted a policy of surrender to and collaboration with| "ad accomplished nothing else Be- | Cin, tor one, never saw, and con- . ote arising out of the attempts of the mill] organized, while every scheme possible is enforced ow or- th tov io e s P th -| sides overcoming this competitive | — rik hi a h i fs of . ie - bosses and their judicial tool: ganized labor to multiply the output of the work day. he employers. For mere “recognition” the bureaucracy ai def cerning whose death no proofs of any » ‘OU won't get heaven when Com- pinnate nin or ke see a ools to déakelleas Gt licalth dr aatece ¥+ | undertakes through such schemes as the B. & O. plan, to] hostility between different defense |. 114 were given by the prosecution. { munism comes in” pipes a reader or his fight on behalf of - “ help employers get more profits out of the workers than} groups it would have justified its ex- But Rangel and Cline and their lit- i who thinks we are a little bit too ‘“narrow-minded” and bitter against everybody who does not wear the Communist badge. Well, who the devil wants a heaven anyhow? If the time + should ever come that all the trouble }makers passed away life would be a j rather dreary purgatory. There is \tittle danger of that, Communism ‘ will not come like a thief in the night fand confront us with a ready-made world the following morning. Things ‘don't change as rapidly as that. ‘ oe 8 UR theory is that the reconstruc- tion of society on a socialist basis }will be a gradual process, after the fworking-class first take hold of the } governmental power, after they be- }come the ruling class, preparatory to jebolishing all classes. This period } will not sprout many wings, and beds ‘of roses for the workingclass will be “conspicuous by the number of thorns tin them. It will be a period of strife fand struggle. We cannot conceive of the capitalist class surrendering their luxuries without a struggle. ‘Look at the society columns in the papers if you want to know the rea- ‘son why. No! Heaven is a long way off but if the road to it is beset with dangers the scenery is splendid. eee EORGE E. BRENNAN is becom- ing the father of a big slice of his country because of his efforts in ‘attempting to slake the thirst of his potential constituency. Brennan is candidate for United States senator (Continued on page 4) REGULARS HIT ~ AT PREFERENCE GIVEN GM. T., “Citizen Soldiers” Get Double Allowance (Special to The Dally Worker) PLATTSBURG, N. Y., Sept. 3— A soldier interviewed here today by @ DAILY WORKER correspondent stat- ed that enlisted men find a partial explanation for their scanty mess al- lowance in the fact that the “citizen soldiers” are allowed about 75 cents a day for food while the regulars get along on less than half of that, Condensed Milk. The soldiers said: (Today's. pa- pers played up the fact that the ©, M. T. ©, rations include a bottle of milk each morning. We get along on the canned condensed variety. That special feed they put on when the president and the labor leaders were here was good publicity. We are fed like that only on New Years, Christ- mas and Thanksgiving Day.” Small Allowance. The subsistence allowance for the regular army totals about $128.67 per year per man, The pay of a private ‘fe $252 annually, less laundry, repair and tailoring expenses which make a big cut the striking textile workers. Deliver Charter. The charter of the United Textile Workers granted to the strikers was delivered by the Lauck Committee at the mass meeting. Gustay Deak, a striker from the Botany Mills and a committee of nine other strikers formaity’ accepted the charter, which was signed-on Monday, ‘Phomas McMahon, president of the U. T, W., will mee* a dplegation of members of New Jersey labor organ- izations to arrange’ a parade and speech-making program - celebrating the entry of the A.’F. of \L. into the situation, The parade will probably take place Sept. 11. The speakers will include. McMahon and possibly Presi- dent William Green of the American Federation of Labor, © Alfred Wagenknecht, strike relief chairman, in a statement issued today, warned organized labor that the Pas- saic strike was not yet over, as the mill barons had so far refused to deal with the United Textile Workers. He declared the strike was a fight against all bosses, as Rockefeller, Gary, Good- year, and all the other bosses, have their eyes on Passaic and are lending encouragement and aid to the textile barons in their savage fight against the workers’ right to organize into real unions which would be able to protect them from the starvation wages and cruel wage cuts meted out by the mills. He urged upon labor the necessity of meeting the united front of the bosses with a united front of the workers, Need More Relief, The relief chairman stressed partic- ularly the pitiful plight of the strikers’ children, all of whom are absolutely dependent for greatly needed milk and other nutritious food upon the soli- darity of the working class whose sup- port has. hitherto saved these tiny tots from the starvation offensives of the mill bosses, Strike relief should be rushed at once to the General Relief Committee, Textile Strikers, 743 Main Avenue, Passaic, N. J. Britain Opposes Any Tangier Mandate For Spanish Government DEB a ABO 2 IE Eile A Brice etic «TS Ee haath and oD te ER Rn Tn nd LONDON, Sept. 8, —- The Spanish proposal to establish a league of na- tions mandate on Tangier will be vigorously opposed at Geneva by Great Britain, it was stated authoritatively in governmental circles here today. Paste This Date in Hat! The employers are combining their forces in constantly more powerful corporations, and super-trusts. sification of exploitation they are wringing enormous and By inten- ever-growing profits from labor. Knitting together the great industrial enterprises, the financial trust rules thru- out industry, dictating the lives of millions, piling up such great wealth that billions are invested in impeérial- ist ventures overseas to get super-profits. ’ HE employers’ combines are ruthless. They eqtrol the. government, buying Jegislators- aid lily Wo 6 their will. Labor is outlawed in’ every effective, action. Injunctions, police and troops are used to beat down-any resistance to capitalist attacks. The open shop is: en- torced by the government, the right to strike is savagely attacked and trade unionism seriously menaced by: com- pany unions, a fraudulent substitute for real unions. Against capital, labor is waging a losing battle when it does fight, tho if united in struggle it would’ win. they can get thru company unions, In polities the bureaucracy trails behind the coat-tails of every capitalist politician of both capitalist parties, seeking “frie s" by “non-partisan” politics, and thus reducing labor’s political power to zero, instead of build- ing up a powerful party of labor alone. To remedy these conditions and to build the trade unions into powerful organizations the following meas- ures are necessary: | 1. Organize the Unorganized Much of the weakness of the labor movement lies in the fact that only about 10 per.cent of the workers are organized, and that these ten per cent are mostly skilled workers and in the light industries. It is therefore im- (Continued on page 2) | Slogan for Labor Day: “No Scab Coal to England” Help the British Mine Strikers Win! Your NEW YORK READERS The Eastern Agency of The DAILY WORKER Daily Worker Concert Sunday, October 10, at 2 P, M, CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE Admission 50 Cents 108 E. 14TH ST.— L. E. KATTERFELD, MOR. Is at your service on all questions: Monthly, Communist International Another Subscriptions, advertising, Workers’ CALL STWYVESANT 6584 a I ee Ee NL Me hake ES: BO 8 A istence. But it has more construc- tive accomplishments to its credit. It has proven by action that it Is the defender of all working class victims of the class struggle regard- less of what section of the labor movement they owe their first alleg- lance to. This is the necessary pre- condition to the. accomplishment or the I. L. D. mission. Among the high lights In the nts- tory of the I. L. D. was the national campaign against the Horthy gov- ernment of Hungary to save Rakosi and Weinberger from the gallows. Horthy was compelled to call off his hangmen, tho he succeeded in send- ing Rakosi to jail for over eight years and his comrades to long terms of imprisonment. Then came the re-arrest of Rich- ard (Blackie) Ford and his trial. The I. L. D. jumped in, rendered as- sistance and organized a _ nation- wide campaign of publicity in be- half of the worker whose life was threatened. Ford was a member of the |. W. W. A jury acquitted Ford. For months the I. .L. D. has moved every ounce of infl®:nce to save Sac- co and Vanzetti from the electric chair in Massachusetts. This fight is still on. As these lines are writ- ten word comes over the wire that Governor Fuller grants a reprieve to a condemned murderer who con- fessed that he committed the crime for which the two Italian workers were convicted. The reprieved mur- derer will testify under oath that he committed the crime. Sacco and Vanzetti are philosopohical anarch- ists. No worker in whose soul the di- vine flame of rebellion has been lighted can fail to give his support which is shield of labor in the United States and stretches out Its hand to aid the persecuted workers in all lands. to the Intermational Labor Defense | tle band had been on the way to Mexico to aid the revolution of Ma- dero against the reactionary govern ment of Diaz, What is more Cline was a member of the Industrial Work ers of the World. Reactionary forces whipped up public sentiment to fever heat against the defendants and after four trials, they were cailroaded prison, Years of Agitation. The pardon of Governor Ferguson follows years of agitation for the re- lease of the prisoners. From all parts of the world, but principally from the labor movement in this coun- try and in Mexico came demands for the release of the Texas Martyrs. Cline will be a guest of honor at the I. L. D. convention and will be one of the speakers at a mass meeting to be held Labor Day evening at Ashland Auditorium. Delegates Arrive. Other delegates are arriving for the conference at which record attend- ance is predicted. Manya Aiross from California, Carl Hacker from Cleve. land and John Stovel from Seattle were among the early arrivals, The conference will open at 10 o'clock Sunday morning at Ashland Auditorium. The first order of busi- ness will be a report on the past year’s work and future tasks by James P. Cannon, national secretary Co aa re FD Organize Is Slogan. Sunday night the national executtve committee will give a party for the delegates at Folkets Hus, 2738 Hirsch Boulevard. Monday will be devoted to an or. ganization conference in which all delegates will participate. “The main slogan of the conference this year ws be organization,” said Cannon. “The sentiment created during the year must be organized on a broad scale.” The size of The DAILY WORK- ER depends on you. Send a sub. LARGE DELEGATIONS COMING TO I. L. D. CONFERENCE FROM OHIO; DETROIT IS WELL REPRESENTED From the city of Detroit, Michigan, will come fifteen or more delegates to the second annual conference of International Labor Defense which will be held here on September 5 and 6 at the Ashland Auditorium. This is the information received by the national office from Cyril Lambkin, secretary of the Detroit local of I. L. D., who will himself represent that section at the conference. Trade unions and fraternal organizations will be represented in NEXT SATURDAY , In the New Magazine Supplement article in the brilliant series on “LABOR AND LITERATURE” by W. F. CALVERTON “THE HELL OF EUROPE” by HENRI BARBUSSE —¢the Detroit delegation In addition to those from Detroit, Grand Rapids will also have its own delegate to the con ference, The nearby state of Ohio will also be well represented at the conference, From mining towns, steel cities, rub- ber conters and metropolitan districts delegates will come in to lay plans for the next year of activity for united labor defense. Yorkville, one of the mining towns in eastern Ohio, will be represented by a young miner. Akron, the home of the rubber tire industry, will have a (Continued on page-4),