The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1926, Page 4

‘Page Four ~ THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4713 er SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): | By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $8.50 six months $2.60 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ilinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE { MORITZ J. LOEDB...... ———— $$ eee Katered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chit cago, Iil., under the act of March 8, 1879. ye 290 Advertising rates on application. Labor Day We greet Labor Day even tho the official holiday of labor in the United States has been robbed of its revolutionary significance by the reactionary bureaucrats who use the occasion, not for the develop- ment of the spirit of class consciousness among the workers, but to instill into thefe mtinds the pernicious idea that the interests of labor and capital are identical and that the best interests of the working class can be served by co-operating with the employers instead of by fighting against them in order to win more of the products of their toil. It is a rather ironical fact that the initiative for making the ssasmeemeenrorusenerseenseGItOPS eBusiness Manager first of May an international labor holiday should come from the}infringement on the Monroe Doctrine,|son of a b- United States. in the world excepting the United States recognizes May Day as its day. of celebration and reckoning. But the best-laid plans don’t always work out as expected. The organized workers can take advantage of the opportunity to dem- onstrate on Labor Day. They can nullify the propaganda of the labor lieutenants of capitalism by bringing the burning issues of the class struggle in concrete form to the fore. é In the textile regions of New Jersey and New England the slaves of the mill barons are waging a long drawn out battle for better conditions and the right to organize. In New York City the I. L. G. W. U. is on the firing line. The bituminous coal diggers are battling—in a disorganized way—against the contract-breaking operators. The same is true of the anthracite miners. A leader of the Illinois Miners’ Union has been exposed in the act of selling out to the enemy. The entire bureaucracy of th A. F. of L. has gone over to the master class, ideologically at least. | Internationally the biggest.event of the year'and the most mag- nificent gesture on the part:of the proletariat since the successful Russian revolution was the British general strike in: aid of the miners whose gallant struggle still continues. Labor Day speakers must stress the importance of. the British miners’ strike, expose the treachery of the leaders of the Trade Union Congress who deserted the coal diggers and more important| still urge the American workers to continue their assistance to their striking brothers and their needy families. And last but not least class-conscious labor will hail the coming ninth anniversary of the Russian Revolution which today stands stronger than ever as a challenge to world capitalism and a tower of strength to the exploited workers of the world. Labor has suffered defeats during the past year, but in the struggle it has gained experience. The ultimate triumph of labor is inevitable and every labor defeat is only a rehearsal for final victory. Whose Governor Is Al Smith? Jovial Alfred Smith, governor of New York state, who is will- ing to take a foaming glass of not-so-near near beer with the humblest ward heeler in Tammany Hall, back-slapping Al, the be- loved of the drooling sentimentalists, friend of labor fakers and Wall Street bankers, praised by right wing leaders and vacillating centrists of the International: Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, | has finally shown his hand. Governor Smith threw his influence on the side of the manufacturers at a crucial moment of the strike by. throwing the blqme for the continuation of the struggle on the| shoulders of the strike leaders. Under pressure of the left wing workers in the I. L..G, W. the} leaders were forced to reject the governor’s suggestion that the dispute be arbitrated. of the employers. The impartial arbitrator is yet to be born. While the Sigman leadership of the I. L. G. W. U. docilely fol- lowed the genial Al’s suggestions, the genial Al continued to shower praise on the union but nothing more substantial. Now that the left wing has asserted itself and refused to play the poodle to Al, the governor substitutes a frown for a smile and the uniformed thugs of his puppet, Mayor Jimmy Walker, get busy with their clubs. Needless to say there is no police hickory broken on the heads of the manufacturers, Arbitration always plays into the hands|- The representatives of the master class can afford to be pleasant and agreeable as long as the workers are submissive. But when the latter assert themselves the sharp claws of the capitalist tiger emerges from the velvety sheath. Which proyes#that there. can be no lasting solution of the work- CHAMORRO SLAPS AT MEXICO THRU NATIONS’ LEAGUE Nicaraguan Revolution Approaches Bluefields GHNEVA, Sept. 3.—The Nicaraguan government headed by President Chamorra who operates in close touch with the American bankers, has pro- tested to the league of nations against alleged aid by the Mexican navy to revolutionists in Nicaragua. Mexico is not a member of the league but has been sent a copy of the protest. It states that the auxil- jary cruiser Concon of the Mexican navy set sail from Salina Cruz. with the full knowledge of the government officials and “engaged in a freeboot- ing expedition against the peace of Nicaragua,” More particularly, it Is claimed, the ship conveyed arms and ammunition to the rebel army. League Little Use. Almost any positive action the league of nations may take will be an gates and finds Mexico guilty, Nicara gua, which is a member nation, will be permitted by the league to wage war against her powerful neighbor with the full consent of the league, which may also help the attack by a commercial interdict, the so-called, “economic blockade.” see Revolution Gaining. BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua, Sept, 3. The town is under the domination of the United States cruiser Galveston. Bands of revolutionists are operating almost up to the city limits. Con- tinued reports arrive from the cen- ter of the country showing that re- cruits. are flocking to the armies marching against the Chamorra dicta- torship, but that these armies are not yet. sufficiently solidified to do more than make sporadic ratds. “They may take the field in force at any time. ~ Gun-runners approach tha Pacific coast.ports and fight wit the Cham- orra coast guards and American avia- tors. in the government service. CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) on the democrat party ticket in Illi- nois. He led a band of Jeffersonians to Springfield with a donkey-load of petitions carrying 400,000 signatures against the Volstead law. The in- consistency of things is shown when the government tries to tax citizens Druggan and Lake our most popular bootleggers. eee hora Brennan is winttig popular. ity by promising to do something for the thirsty, Messrs. Druggan and Lake are being sued for over half a mil- lion dollars, which is the sum thby owe the government in taxes on their illicit business. It’s a hard life for an honest bootlegger. He is hound- ed by the law for making money by supplying the citizenry with beer and he is hounded by the same law if he does not turn over his illegal profits to the government. eee ANTONOPOLOUS, the Greek merchant who attempted to blow former dictator. Pangalo’s brains out with a revolver was born under a lucky star. Instead of stopping the bullets of a firing squad for his pains, he was given a vote of thanks by a! court dominated -by the new govern- ment. And Pangalos is scratching his head to see if it is still there. It seems that the most constant thing in life is change, ~ 7 i USSOLINI'S happy. Italians must now eat black bread and forego many necessities. in an attempt to keep the lira from hitting the bottom, The Fascist regime has been able to ers’ problem until all capitalists, the smooth-tongued as well as the | do everything except produce prosper- acid-tongued, the “good” as well as the “bad,” are consigned to the |ity by decree and murder. Despite dump heap of history. Wipe Out the Landis Crowd The citizens’ committee for the enforcement of the Landis award | Way down their midriffs. the efforts of American newspapers favorable to the Mussolini dictator- ship, tourist traffic in Italy fell off thirty per cent this year and hotel keepers are cursing the black shirts To mildly has sent a full crew of scabs into Chicago to finish the De Wolf |*tticise the Fasoist government is building. It did not do this without warning. All thru the strike to solicit a speedy demise. Neverthe- less, in spite of persecution and terror it has been threatening to supply strikebreakers, It did furnish | the black shirts have not succeeded in guards on the first day of the strike, Now it is proceeding logically | completely smashing the labor organi- to break the strike, It stands to reason that work cannot be stopped for any lengt! zations, There is reason to believe h that Italy is nearing an economic cris- is which the Fascit magicians cannot of time on two or three buildings when the great aggregation of | survive, capital represented by the citizens’ committee stands ready to sup- port its open shop contractors. Ability to continue the strike on the De Wolf job depends on the readiness of the Chicago Building Trades Council to strike the rest of the thirty million dollars worth of building construction nominally classed’ as “Landis Award.” Even ‘the citizens’ committee cannot find strikebreakers for that/u. ©, There is a chance now to put the infamous Landis|which opens next Monday. The pre- much work. o « 2» HE British government’ has denied M. Tomsky, chairman of the ex- ecutive council of Russian trade un- ions, permission to land in England. Tomski had planned to attend the T. convention in Bournemouth, award crowd out of commission, if the council has the courage and{ece of Tomski, leader of a trade the energy to carry on a fight on a big seale. If they are not willing union movement that has its heel on the neck of capitalism would encour- to do this, the members of the unions concerned must find a way t0]age the British miners in their fight. compel action. It- is thost likely that the British gov- ernment was no more anxious to ex- clude Tomski than the T, U, ©. lead- Now that Frank Farrington is exposed as a high-salaried com-|ers who betrayed the miners by call- any employe, even liberal labor journalists are ready to spank him. |!ng off the general strike. nt Farrington is no more yenal today than he has been ever since he became prominent in the affairs of the United Mine Workers. Send The DAILY WORKER for one month to your, shop-mate, THE DAILY WORKER The o ady Record rank Farrington HE following sketch of Frank Farrington’s career In the United Mine Workers of America Is a summary of a serles of articles that appeared in The DAILY WORKER in October 1924, under the title, “On a Labor Faker’s Trail.” Farrington's latest exploit In accepting a $25,000 a year salary from the Peabody Coal company, while still president of the lillnois Miners’ Union, makes it Impossible for even his closest friends to condone hie action. He new stands suspended from office by action of the district executive board. . * *. . International Youth Day Is Celebrated by Many Mass Meetings i NEW YORK CITY—S REJECTED BY Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd_avenue« Speakers: Lovestone, Stachel, B. Golda Don, Frankfeld. | SUPERIOR, Wis.—Sept. 6. Speakersg ; ; Elsie Beck and A. J. Hayes. BOSTON, Mass,—Sept, 26, Palne Memo- rial Hall, 9 Appleton St. Speakers: Jacki tSachel, N. Kay and others, — . PITTSBURGH, Pa—On Sept. 5 at nett Leaders Get Orders in Entering Conference . 10 at Centrak m., at the Labor Lyoeum, 35 Miller Sam Daroy, speaker, Cleveland, O.—I. Y. D. demonstration) in Public Square, Saturday, Sept. 4, & Pa m. Phil. Shatz, H. Sneider, Abe Har fleld and |. Amter, spea ARTICLE Il. Farrington’s main {function in the Miners’ Union seem p be dragoon- ing the members into; eoments that gave the boss the it side of the bargains, In 1917 when ballots were sent out from the sec) iry-treasurer’s office calling a spect§l)convention to consider the Northerm#filinols machine agreement, Farrington; was very angry. One day he walked into the board room of the district @ffices in Spring- field and inquired if 4t:was true that ballots calling for a sfeclal convention were sent out. He was answered in the affirmative. He then made the following remark: “Ifjeyery God damn inthe organization Today the labor movement of every other country |If the council of the league investi-]Votes for a special ¢ofivention there is not going to be any galled. If these God damn bastards are trying to break up the organization,:1'll break it up for them myself.” # There were present, When this state- ment was made: John L. Lewis, Springfield; James Pitman, Carrier Mills, Jomes Box, Virden; G. J. Frick, Marion and C. S. Stohlberg, Spring- field. When the miners who were tricked into this machine agreement went on strike Farrington again played the role of strikebreaker and brutally in- formed them that he would resort to any method to force them back into the mines, Tn a letter dates Feb. 14, 1917 writ- ten to Peter Grubich, secretary of Lo- cal Union, 620, LaSalle, Illinois, Far- rington threatened 6’ revoke the charters of those locals who were on strike and that in thejevent of any members of the local dying inside of thirty days after the Jocal charters were restored, their 8 would not be entitled to the $250 death indemn- ity provided for in the district consti- tution, ig Uses The Blacklist. The labor lieutenants-of capitalism, always willing to see the boss’ side of an argument, when the latter vio- late wage and working agreements. But with the union members the case is different. Any technical infraction of the rules is severely punished, un- less the rules are violated by the henchmen of the labor fakers, The blacklist, which is the most deadly weapon at the disposatof the employ- ing class for use against ‘workers who have spunk and the rebel spirit, was used by Farrington on many occasions to get rid of progressives in the ranks of the union, But never did this arch faker prove himself a greater Judas, than in 1919 during the period of the so-called outlaw strike. = When the late world War broke out in Europe in 1914, the}coal industry was at a yery low ebb, The war created a market for coal and produc- tion went up quickly.} In 1916 the miners secured a slight Wage increase. Another increase, very small, was granted in 1917, In the;meantime the bosses were making milliong on war contracts, The cost of everything that jthe miners had to buy Went up. But the only commodity, they had to sell, their labor power, remained practical: ly stationery. ; When Woodrow Wilson placed his friend Dr. Henry A, Garfield in charge of the coal industry, this agent of the \coal barons tied up the miners in a new contract, which introduced the “penalty clause” providing for the fining of miners who stopped work, the fines to be collected by the coal operators under threat: of discipline: LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO SUFFER NEW BLOW WITH WITHDRAWAL OF SPAIN GENEVA, Sept. 3. — Spain is ex- pected to make announcement shortly of her withdrawal from the league of nations, It was stated semi- officially here. . The announcem t of withdrawal will probably be ide In Madrid and it is now do ul whether Spain will send ai note to the league, announcing her disinterest in the league. 4 The Spanish noté had been ex- pected as the result pf the refusal of the committee or reorganization of the council of the league of na- tlons to grant Spain’s demand for a permanent seat. > The reorganization committee to- day compl its awork, confident that it ha jolved the problems” of council seats which created the crisis of March. The report of the committee was finally approved and will bé forwarded to the council. International Monday, will No Issues on Sunday and Monday. WING to the Labor Day holidays, The DAILY WORKER plant will not operate on Sunday and Monday, Sept. 5 and 6. This means that there will be no issues dated Monday and Tuesday. The full report of the Second Conference of the bor Defense, meeting in Chicago, Sunday and rin the next issue. The agreement stipulated that if any miner entered suit against any oper- ator in a civil court for the recovery of any fine collected by: the operator the miners’ union shall be obliged to reimburse the operator for the ex- Denses of the litigation. The operators were protected in every way from the coal diggers, The January, 1918, convention of the United Mine Workers meeting in In- dianapolis, accepted the Washington agreement. Dr. Garfield in the mean- time secured an advance of 45 cents Der ton in the price of coal. The living costs of the year 1917 fmcrease and tho the living costs were made the basis for the 1918 wage mounted rapidly no further increases were made until 1920, The miners were told that it was unpatriotic to ask for higher wages while soldiers were killing Germans at the rate of thirty dollars a month. Many capitalists were working in Washington for one dollar a year! It was afterwards shown that they were really “working Washington,” Charley Schwab, the millionaire steel manu- facturer who worked for one dollar a year, was spending $250,000 a month. The fat war contracts paid well, The year 1919 witnessed a slump in the coal industry. The war was over. The coal barons had made their mil- lions and were out for a good time. The coal diggers were left sucking their thumbs. The labor leaders look- ed quite prosperous. Only those who went down in the mines and dug the black diamonds had the dirty end of the deal. President Farrington, instead of helping the miners to secure better working conditions actually took steps to prevent them drawing bonuses above the stipulated wage scale. Tho the war was ended the coal diggers found themselves tied up in a decision which said that tho the war in Burope was officially over, as far as the miners were concerned it would not be over until two years after April 1918, The miners were unable to put up with this state of affairs any longer and the action of the coal operators and the union officials over the Mooney strike brought the rebellion of 1919 to a head. The Mooney Strike. The miners who wént on strike in an effort to save Moohey from the gallows were fined by the operators and this action was sanctioned by Farrington, When the miners struck against this wrong, Farrington got his thugs busy and miners were slugged, arrested and black-listed for the crime of sticking up for their rights as work- ers and for a member of their class whose life was threatened by the ‘gallows. Farrington declared the Mooney fines were penalties Yor “their de- fiance to their accredited leaders.” He authorized his official henchmen to hire scabs to break the strike, A miners committee went to Spring- field to interview Farrington. The members of the committee were slug- ged on Farrington’s orders by the notorious Jack Brown, a boss in the employ of the Peabody Coal company, aided by Edward (Red) Maher and William Wall, also known as “One- Eared Wall.” After the brutal slugging of the Collinsville delegation the movement for calling a special convention to kill the automatic fine clauses grew rapid- ly. The state policy committee issued a call for a special district convention to be held in Springfield, Illinois, Tues- day, August 19, 1919. While the miners thruout the state hed many grievances, they wanted re- dressed, the action of Farrington’'s sluggers fired their anger, Deputy sheriffs were appointed from the ranks of the miners who remained Joyal to Farrington. Gunmen and criminals of all descriptions were or- ganized to terrorize the strikers, charters were revoked and the coal operators on Farrington’s suggestion issued orders to the strikers that un- less they returned to work their jobs would be forfeited. Here were the bosses and the government working hand in hand with strikebreaker Far- rington, (To Be Continued.) Week-End Revolt in Spain Exaggerated; Better News Later (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Sept, 3. —- Reports of disor- ders and political difficulties in Spain would appear to be unfounded, (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept..3—The leaders of the garment strike have en- tered Into conferences and the “in- side manufacturerers,” meeting with Raymond V, Ingersoll, so-called “im- partial chairman” of the Industry. The outcome is not yet known, However, strike leaders were enter- ing the conference with the specific instructions of the union, given thru @ meeting of the shop chairmen a few: hours before the conference opened, to oppose arbitration in‘any. form in the present strike. In addition, the strike committee has decided that the crafty: trick of Governor Smith to force arbitration upon the union will be answered with a letter flatly re- jecting such a proposal. ; Henry H. Finder, head of the “In- dustrial Council” of manufacturers, seeing the Httle game of sabotaging the directing dealing by conference in the hope of getting the machinery of the state government to force arbitra- tion on the workers disappearing, is issuing wild accusations against the union, alleging its demands are “con- fiscatory” and again asking for out- sidde arbitration. Direct dealing be- tween employers and the union Finder terms “trial by combat.” MUSICIANS MAY STRIKE CHICAGO MOVIE PALACES: A strike will start in all Chicago motion picture and vaudeville theaters Sunday night after the performance unless. a satisfactory wage scale is signed before then. James C, Petrillo, president of the Chicago Federation of Musicians, will issue the: orders, Joseph Weber, International presi- dent of the union, has already called a nation-wide strike in all theaters of the Orpheum circuit m all cities ac- cording to reports frum Seattle, Wash. This action was taken in support of a strike in the Orpheum theater in San Francisco. More Pay, More Rest, The union demands in Chicago an increase in pay from $82.50 a week to 386 for performances, with an in- crease in rehearsal rates from $2 to $4. It demands also a rest period of twenty minutes instead of fifteen, and a change of the Sunday séven-hour day to six hours. Pahoma Is just across the staate of mines was advised, here stated. Warning to Our Friends Aarne Bartolomeo Vanzett! pao meee 4 ip P B. B, pepety raming Up On e Rakosl and His Comrade: ‘as. Some Day a Silent Guard 4 q P) George Papoun ts Convicted Ate’ Max Shachtman The Word and the Deed—A Year's Work of feb. Boe Voices From Prison Letters from Edgar Combs, J. Gon- zales, A. Cisneros, ‘Tom Nash and Matt’ Schmidt. , js Send One Dollar to for one year to de- fighters! =” : City Several miners trapped by the explosion made thelr way aafely from the mine, altho they suffered from the effects of afterdamp, reports recelved é In The New ( September ) Issue of THE LABOR DEFENDER Chaplin THE LABOR DI} 28 South’ Lincoln oa ney f iidsroentnsvessoons Ol 0! get a subscription ee es Please " fend labor's * pt NANO | tthe emenommenntip i AQMP O8S cermnmsitme ee: tee ates NEWARK, _N. J.—Sunday afternoon, Sept. 5, 2p, m. Labor Lyceum, 708 8 14th :St., near Springfield A Gi speakers and Ploneer program, SYRACUSE, N, ept. 3 and & pee air demonstrations on the corner ef South Salina and Harrison S Greenberg, S4 Hurowitz will be speak Buffalo, N. Y: jon alr demonstrations Pp on corner of Division and Main 8ts,, Vo 7 and 8 1. Greenberg and Benjaming speakers, PERTH AMBOY, N. J.—l, Y. 0D, date has bene ohanged to Sept. 12, 7:80 p..m.g at Workers’ Home, 308 Elm St. ST. PAUL, Minn.—Sunday, Sept. 12, at 485 Rice St. The district organizers of the perk and Y. W. L. and M. Parm will speakers. s PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Sept. 11, @ De m.. Speakers: Lovestone and Darcy, Large Delegation Coming From Ohio and Detroit, Mich. \ (Continued from page 1) delegate to the conference, Toledo, Ohe of the most active sections of I, L. D,, is sending a representative. Twa delegates will appear from Canton, ans other activity center of labor defense, Youngstown, scene of labor struge gles and home of steel mills, will have a delegate. Cincinnati will be rep- resented by. two delegates. Cleveland will have two delegates, one of whom 1s Carl Hacker, local secretary of I. 1, D. ‘The Ohio delegation is completéd, according to credentials, making thir. teen delegates from the state of Ohio, Another delegate was added to the growing Ist today with the receipt of a credential from Denver, Colorado, for James ‘Ayres who will represent this “western section of International Labor Defense. i Pittsburgh I. L. D. will have Caroling Scollen, its secretary, as delegate te the conference. Dunne to Speak at Detroit on Sept. 7 DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 3—~There will be a huge mass meeting at the G. A. R. Hall, corner Grand River and Cass avenues, Tuesday, Sept. 7, at 8 p. m. Wm. F. Dunne will be the principal speaker of the evening. Additional meetings are arranged for Tuesday, Sept. 21; Thursday, Oct. 6, and Tuesday, Oct. 26. Meeting halis k ’ for these will be announced later. ™ Stage Hands Strike. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8. — Mush cians’ unfon officials state that about one thousand men are on strike here, tying up alt the ‘theaters in the Bay district, 3 i 17 MINERS KILLED IN PEABOD 4 COAL CO. MINE IN OKLAHOMA é, PITTSBURGH, Sept. 3—Seventeen’ miners were killed In an explosion at mine number 29 of the Peabody Coal company at Pahoma, Okla, according to word recelved at the U. S, bureau of mineg here this afternoon, i line from Ft, Smith, Ark., the bureau i ¢ . Regular Contributors: EUGENE V. DEBS ROBERT \W, DUNN RALPH CHAPLIN CHARLOTTE ANITA WHITNEY ROBERT WHITTAKER j and’ all the most prominent figures ‘In the American tabor , Movement, NDER, Chicago, IM, ‘