The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1926, Page 6

peed Page Six TH THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 ————— SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mall (outsids of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months j $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months | $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Hilnols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL \ WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J, LO. Business Manager —_—— Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi cago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879, <ai> 290 Advertising rates on application. a Britain Has Cause to Worry Thanks to the right wing labor leaders, Downing Street is reason ably assured that the miners’ strike which has been so damaging to the country’s commercial life will not develop into a serious political crisis for the government. What in ordinary times would keep government officials awake nights is now left to the mercies of the labor fakers who can be depended on to club the miners into surrender if they possibly can. Internationally the prospects are black for the empire. A Lon- don dispatch tells us that Downing Street is alarmed over the grow- ing influence of the Soviet Union in the Orient and at its success in extending neutrality pacts with the Great Britain tried to isolate the Soviet Union by drawing a cordon of hostile puppet states along her western border from Fin- land to the Black Sea. But the Soviet Union has made a breach in the western wall and in the east Great Britain is decidedly on the defensive. Yesterday’s dispatches indicate that Britain has intervened in China with arms, on a considerable scale. It is also interesting to learn that in the first serious clash with the Cantonese the British were repulsed with heavy losses. Wu Pei Fu, the British tool, has suffered several defeats and his armies are on the point of surrender- ing en masse. When the Cantonese succeed in making contact with the na- tional armies under General Feng, the unification of China will be in sight as the only other serious obstacle to unity is General Chang- Tso-Lin, the Japanese puppet. The armies of the people will be in a position to dispose of Chang when Wu Pei-Fu’s military power is destroyed. All this is bad news for Brttain. The revenues derived from China by the British have been enormous. It all probability they will move heaven and earth to retain some footing there. It looks now as if they would not be suc cessful. Neither the United States nor Japan cares to pull any Brit- ish chestnuts out of the Chinese fire. The United States least of any. The fall of British influence in China will have far-reaching political consequences in the Orient and particularly in those two tountries where British power is so vulnerable: Infdia and Egypt. Of course, Britain blames all her misfortunes on the Soviet Union. It is true that Soviet policy is one of peace and aid to the struggling subject and semi-subject peoples of the world and it happens that British policy is quite the opposite. Naturally there are clashes. The people involved have little difficulty in recognizing a friend in the Soviet Union and an implacable foe in the government of the robber empire. countries bordering on The Careful Stepper Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, declared in a Labor Day speech that “the trade unions accept the charge that they are a step-at-a-time movement. This is the law of social development, as against the proposal of short cuts that in- variably bring bitter disillusion to those who accept the alluring doctrine.” Is it the law of social development? Morrison stated a half- truth, which is the most vicious kind of a lie. It is true that evolu- tion is a gradual process but every so often, human society finds the pace too slow. Then there is a grand burst and revolution is on. A Frank Morrison, who looks at the world thru rose-colored glasses, does not relish those grand smash-ups. But they come. If Morrison takes a look into his history he will note the fact that all outstanding social changes were ushered in by revolution. This may be regrettable but it appears to be inevitable. The trouble with the “step-at-a-time” policy is that it serves the present bosses of society. There can be no guaranteed improve- ment of the conditions of the working class under capitalism. Only when the workers become the masters of their own fate wiJl they have security and the right to map out the future. The step-at-a- time policy has proven its futility in Europe. It hag left the work- ers saddled with capitalist militarism, long hours of labor and a low standard of living. As the capitalist system progressively decays in Europe we find the capitalists insisting on their luxuries at the expe: of the workers. This means that the capitalists live on their former grand scale while they reduce the miserable living standards of the producers. We have on the other hand the example of the Soviet Union. There the workers seized power while the seizing was good, and despite the most appalling difficulties they have raised the workers standard higher than what obtained during the ime. They have succeeded in restoring industry to its pre-war standard and agri- culture above the pre-war level. They have done this without any considerable help from abroad. In fact even since the capitalist powers decided to call off their war dogs they have been busy in- triguing the Soviet Union. Against the step-at-a-time policy of the social-democrats of Europe we set up the revolutionary policy of the Communists. Let the facts speak for themselves. The standard of living of the work- ers and peasants in the Soviet Union is rising. That of the work- ers in the rest of Europe is descending. This pudding talks, General Lincoln C. Andrews, assistant secretary in charge of prohibition enforcement, is again about to resign. The general returned recently from England and boasted of having negotiated a rum treaty with the British government. There sas nothing to that, but the general got some publicity by soaking his pancakes in cham- pagne on board the ship that brought him back from Burope. If the foreign war debts to the United States were concelled international bankers could see visions of greater profits from loans to foreign’ interests. We bet dollars to zlotys that those generous bankers will not agitate for the cancellation of the half billion Rus- al ADD 10,000: NEW ‘MEMBERS, LABOR DEFENSE PLAN Elizabeth Gurley Flynn to Tour Country “Ten thousand new members by the first of the year!” was the slogan adopted at the first meeting of the national committee of International Labor Defense following Its successful second annual conference just con- cluded here, Detailed plans for an intensive or- ganization drive during which speak- ers of national reputation will tour the length and breadth of the country and a great amount of popular. propa- ganda literature be issued were adopt- ed at this meeting. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the newly-elected chairman of the I. L. D, is to make a tour of the country from coast to coast immediate: ly after election day and the response from various sections of the country to the proposed tour is indicative of the popularity that will attend it, Cannon to Tour, In addition, James P. Cannon, re- elected secretary of the organization, will follow Miss Flynn to tighten up the organizational lines and to con- sult and advise with local sections op the broadening and improvement of the activity. Membership meetings will be held in most of the large cit- ies for this purpose. The enthusiasm of the delegates who attended the conference is one of the guarantees of a new spirit of work and activity in the ranks of the or- ganization. Membership meetings of I. L, D, are already being planned in numerous cities so tat the confer- ence delegates may be able to report back to their constituencies and lay plang locally for the carrying into ef- fect of the decisions adopted at the national gathering. In addition, many cities will organize their own confer- ences on a local scale to draw up a program of work in consonance with the national conference decisions. Other Campaigns. Proposals for various other cam- paigns were discussed at the meeting of the national committee and a new executive committee elected to carry them out. The new executive commit ‘tee includes all those on the commit: tee last, year, with some additions. The full committee now stands as fol- lows:| Edward C, Wentworth, Eliza- beth Gurley Flynn, James P. Cannon, Fred Mann. Ralph Chaplin, George Maurer, Rose Karsner, D. J. Bentall, John Edenstrom, Harrison George, Henry Corbishley, Charles Gray and Cc. E. Ruthenberg. Miss Flynn is now chairman, with E. C, Wentworth re- elected vice-chairman and James P Cannon secretary. Prevent Milstein from Appointing Tellers in Fur Workers’ Election By a Worker Correspondent. At Tuesday's meeting of the execu- tive board of the Fur Workers’ Union the Progressives were able to head off an attempt by Milstein and his reac- |tionary machine to throw all but his own candidates off the ballot. The meeting was attended by the members of the board, the present in- cumbents in office, and the nominees who should go on the ballot as a re- |sult of the nominations meeting held jlast week after being once broken up by Milstein’s gang. Milstein’s program was to have the ecutive board deny J. Sonnenschein, nominee for recording secretary, and Robert Goldstein, nominee for vice- president, a place on the ballot, be- cause of technical objections. But the best part of his scheme was to do away with the procedure of elections found satisfactory in recent years, and which consists of having tellers to count the votes appointed at a meeting of the members. Mil- stein proposed to have his machine, thru the executive board, appoint the tellers, and not to have any member- ship meeting. This plan to steal the , {election outright was successfully de- feated. Chairman Goldberg of Local 45 forced Milstein to abide by the.con- stitution of the union, but the latter retaliated by breaking up the meet- ing. The election is next Tuesday. Begin Abyssinian Expedition, NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—Five natural history scientists headed “by Dr. Wil- tred H, Q@sgood of the Field Museum of Natural History of Chicago, sailed today on the Mauretania for an unlim- ited stay in the wilds of Abyssinia. They will search for fossils of extinct mammals. We will send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER to your friends— send us name and address, (Special to The ate miners and tholr families during and pointing out that work or alms to “Buy Ohio Governor Vic Donahey:today issued a Coal Nowe E DAILY WQRKER sia Women and Children Aid Miners in W. Va. Coal Strike Aa the photos show, women and children are playing important parts in the long drawn-out strike of the miners decent working conditions, Above, women at work in one of the gardens of walking from thelr barracks to the picket SPAIN SEETHES WITH REBELLION AGAINST DICTATOR; COMMUNISTS POINT TO SOCIALIST TREACHERY By a Spanish Worker. MADRID (Bp Majl)—Immediately on discovery of the recent plot of in the controlled press, to the effect that severe“punishment would be meted out to the leaders of: the movement. Some days later, the feeling of the military dictatorship was entirely different, and Primo “de Rivera influenced the military judge who tried the case, lesser importance to it; and, according to this plan, General Aguilera, the chief of the revolutionary movement, was imprisoned for*‘only 20 days, while civilian leaders at liberty. a Only the Communists were excepted. At present only six’ officers of the army and four intelle¢tual republicans are kept in jail. Military Rebellion Increa The rebellion is ¢ontinuously in- creasing and the hostility against Primo de Rivera is more acute every day. A big part ofthe army stands by the old policy that.mever accepted the military dictatorship, The artillery on account of professional questions is even more serious if the increasing number of republican officers is con- sidered. Since the beginning’ of the century the army has always been a part of any political struggle. Conspiracies against the government are planned and openly organized in the court yards of regimental quarters. And the present government, which is not strong enough to stop them, is very much upset at the new republican feel- ing that is invading the army. Socialists and Government. The “neutral” position taken by the socialist party from the very first day of Primo de Rivera’s coup d'etat, is maintaining the military dictatorship. This friendly attitude is being recom- pensed by the government. Conse- quently, in the last plot, militants of any political party were imprisoned, democrats, republicans, anarchists and Communists—but the socialists. The socialists were excepted and not one member of their party was distrusted. The Spanish working class points out sharply this treason of the social democrats. Not only the proletarian is hostile to the oobies. the intel- lectuals, democrats and all the Spunish middle class are constantly accusing the socialist party being in .con- nection with the dictatorship. Socialist Party Doomed. This will mean the immediate con- demnation of the socialist party as soon as government should will not be able to e were also soon ist Party each day in spite of the pi The working class clearly sees that the Communists always fight in the front line, “The Economic Crisis, The military rebellion coiricides with a very difficult and general econ- omic situation that. comprises the a ng COAL MINERS IN OHIO ARE FACING STARVATION, SAYS GOV. DONAHEY Daily Worker) COLUMBUS, O., Sept, 8.—Visualizing “virtual starvation of the unfortun- the cold months which confront us,” must be given coal Whiners now idle, proclamation asking Ohio coal users of West Virginia for closed shop and a barracks village near Fairmont. Below, men, women and child= IIne outside the mines, the army officers, Primo de Rivera's government made public declarationg | so far as to give an air ‘of+ whole country. As the peseta falls.in value and the government does not know what the solution is of the prob- lem, Primo de Rivera constantly makes public declarations of progper- ity to gain the confidence of the cap- italists. But everybody knows that a severe crisis exists in the industrial districts. Forty per cent of the metal workers and thirty per cent of the textile work- ers are unemployed in Barcelona. The crisis in Viscaye is the severest ever known. The colonization of the country by foreign firms makes the problem still more serious, A great competition is going on between the big American and English capitalist groups, Send us the name and address of @ progressive worker to whom we can send a sample copy of The DAILY WORKER. BRITISH TRADE UNION LEADER APES A. F. OF L. (Continued from page 1) forsake the theory of class struggle, to divert organized labor into class collaboration and refuse to follow the class struggle to its conclusion, the overthrowal of capitalism and the rule of the workers. Ne, Tomsky Points To Lesson, MOSCOW, Sept. 8. — Barred from visiting the British Trade Union Con- gress by the decree of the British goy- ernment, Michael Tomsky, head of the Soviet Labor Union delegation which has thus been denied entrance to Eng- land, declared that the British govern- ment is seeking every means to isolate the miners of Britain from those who have proven to be their greatest friends, the Russian workers. Had not the General Council issued orders calling off the General Strike, says Tomsky, Great Britain might al- ready have had “no government of lords and mine owners to refuse ad- mission to the Soviet delegates, but a workmen’s government to give a cordial welcome to their fellow work- ers from the Soviet Union.” Tomsky adds that it is now plain that the General Council made & great mistake by proclaming that the strike was purely economic and not political. MUSICIANS MAY CALL NATIONAL STRIKE IN SUPPORT OF CHICAGO (Continued from page 1) . cago Federation of Musicians, whose several conferences with theatre owners’ representatives have ended in deadlocks. Theater Crowds Slim. A spokesman for the union told The DAILY WORKER at Musicians’ Un- ion headquarters, 175 W, Washington St., that “despite the statements ap- pearing in the daily press, the movie theaters, especially in the loop, are not doing good business, The attend- ance is very slim indeed and the theaters are suffering losses despite their very slight reduction in prices,” A Tour of the Loop Theaters Verified This. The spirit of the union men, hun- dreds of whom were jammed into the large hall in which the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor meets in the same building as the union offices, was of a high order and jthey were confident that the owners ‘would be brot to time. Several members assured The DAILY WORKER the theaters were losing money and that patrons were extremely dissatisfied with the music- less programs being offered in the 400 struck movie houses. Union officials believe it will be unnecessary to resort to picketing since ‘the strike has received wide- spread publicity and the absence of the music in the theaters is a suffi- cient reminder of the fact that the musicians are making demands. (Mr, Petrillo reiterated today the stand of the union on the question of the duration of contract and the use of at least four musicians in the smaller houses, both questions at is- sue between the men and the own- ers. He said that in 1920 the hous raised the price-of admission 60 per cent with the assurance that more music would be, ied with the pro- grams. Now, Fr\ aid, ‘they wish to dispense with some. of the musicians HILLMAN SUSPENDS TWO PROGRESSIVE MEMBERS OF ROCHESTER A. C. W. (Spectal to The Daily Worker) ROCHESTER, N. Y. Sept. 8— Several executive board members of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers’ Union appeared here suddenly from New York City and without due notice to the membership called a special, meeting at which the se- tive nature of the gathering was apparent at first glance, President Sidney Hillman deliver. ed a speech In which he attacked the progressive members of the union and declared members Teem and Sugarman suspended from the union, These two members have been leaders of the progressive forces in the Rochester locals of the union. They were both active mem- bers of the Amalgamated for many years and were neither tried nor given a chance to defend them- selves. It is understood that the large lo- cals numbers 200 and 227 of Roches- ter are. to be reorganized by the general executive board. admission prices, which showed the insincerity of the owners’ actions, Other altied theatrical unions had nothing further to say regarding the probability of. thelr coming out with the musiciang, An official of the stagehands sald day that they were ready to go out pi call if the LANE BEATS pOOUIDGE MAN BY SLIM MARGIN LaFollette Slate Loses: Gabernatorial Fight — (Continued from page 1) fore long, but the patronage from two senators should go a long way to atone for the loss of the governorship to Fred L. Zimmerman, who defeated Attorney General Herman L, Bkern, on the LaFoliette slate. Zimmerman made his campaign slogan the defeat of the “Madison ring,” a ringing name for the present Blaine-LaFollette lead- ership. Break Helped Lenroot, Undoubtedly Zimmerman’s break with the LaFollette family helped Lenroot make such a good showing. Rumors have been flying around that Philip LaFollette would run for gov- ernor in the finals against Zimmerman but others are of the opinion that the Blaine-LaFollette forces will negotiate a peace agreement with the guberna- torial nominee and patch up the creak- ing machine, Lenroot’s defeat is a serious blow to the administration and to the world court and prohibition causes, Zimmerman Beats Ekern, According to vote tabulations tn 1,761 precincts out of a total of 2,788, Blaine got 143,067 and Lenroot, 182," 206. It was not believed the senator would be able to overcome this lead. Zimmerman’s total from 1,340 pre cincts was 96,634 with 80,102 for Bkern, * ee To Attack Vare and Smith, WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 — The: democrats are to lose no time-dn chal- lenging the right of Wm. 8, Vara of | Pennsylvania, and Col. Frank lL. Smith of Illinois, to sit as members , of the senate following thetr elections in November. This was made certain today by the announcement of Senator Ashaurst, | democrat of Arizona, that he will chal- lenge their right even to take the oath of office, thus the fight to unseat Vare and Smith will begin on the opentng day of the seventieth congress, ee. Hunt Wins In Arizona, PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept.. 8.—Gov. G. W. P. Hunt, democratic gubernatorial candidate who campaigned on an anti- boulder dam platform, apparently had won his sixth consecutive pomination today. i SEPTEMBER New lesue of the WORKERS MONTHLY Seven Years of the Communist Pai of America, by C. E. Ruthenberg. What Do the Elections Mean to Us? By Max Bedacht. The Catholic Rebellion in Mexico, by Manuel Gomez. 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