The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1926, Page 2

Page Two i THE DAILY WORKER es NONPARTISANISM | OF DETROIT LABOR OFFICIALS FAILS Groesbeck Defeat Bares | Shady Deals Governor Groesbeck went down to | ignominious defeat in the pears | election today and with him crashed ley of class-collaboration whi | of Frank Ma leadersh been pursuing Le Altho the Di labor movement | was strong for independent political action in 1920, even running a candi- date for governor, the results were too | »se in control who felt that | it was expedient to sell the labor movement than to build {t politically The first b trading was in local | and petty appointive | which M 21 ~demon- practicability of the policy ish Second Venture, | venture was in the sup. ster Smith for Mayor e labor movement outdid ing before this capitalist j he district council of the even adjourning its meet- a rally in his behalf. leaders had lost all 2nd any arguments on inciples and decency slow fe sufficientl to er any opposition, of Denn Batt, the self-appointed represen ve of the Communist In- ternational, winning on the republican ballot in the primaries and coming in 34th—a slight slip-up of practicability. “Practical Politics.” In this period also Dennis E. Batt and John T. Taylor, a former social- ist, as delegates: to the Michigan Fed- eration of Labor supported a motion to recommend rai: the salary of the governor to $15,000 per year while they approved a maximum of $14 per week compensation for the in- jured workers and defended such treachery on the floor of the Detroit Federation of Labor. During the,last.few months a strug- gle between the jitney drivers and the city has found Martel as ever ready to champion the cause of petty owners‘with the res:dt that.he has had a sharp break wit. the street car. men’s organization and with Mayor Smith. This development seriously weakened the position of Martel and he bet all his: chips «nu Groesbeck and @ support of the jitmeys hoping to humble Mayor Smith and pay his houckmen with patronage which Groesbeckemight «swing his way. The returns of today constitute a “practical” repudiation of everything that Marte?'’s policy includes. The la- bor movement is bitterly divided over issues which should never confront it and the consciousness of the workers is decidedly below what it was in 1920 after the firstyfarmer-labor cam- paign. But the consequences of this policy extend much further. Petty political influence shields many shady actions and the political “prestige” of Martel et al has aided “allies” to run blind pigs and gambling dens in and near the labor halls including one in the official home offthe Detroit Federation of Labor. Martel has been censured by a friendly judge for attempting to use influence:in other than labor cases. The organization policy of the De- troit Federation of Labor has not escaped the‘ blight of this mistaken policy either. Instead of initiating a policy of organizing the workers in the basic industries where, as the ex- perience of'Passaic indicates, the for- ces of the state, police, judges, state constabulary, etc. must be openly fought, Martel has chosen ‘to center his efforts om master barbers, hand laundry owners, cleaners amd dyers, waitresses, etc., where slippery tactics pass as methods: of class struggle. Martel’s powertand policy rests up on the least impprtant and least basic of the workers. He knows that even the active participation of even the few workers ofthe more*basic indus- tries now organized would send him into a deserved oblivion. Martel works like those whom he ousted, to feather his nest and pre- pare a political roost when the work- ers get wise to him. The needs of the workers will only become the basis of the Federation policy when Martel joins Groesbeck on the: scrap heap. Martel’s role is the same as Far- rington’s except that the workers do not recognize scabbing on the politi- cal fleld as readily at present. When they do Martel will take his pay open- ly and direct. Get a copy of the American Worker Correspondent. It’s only 5 cents, WCEL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting on a 191,56 wave length from the Municipal Pier. TONIGHT, 6:00 p. m.—-Chicago Federation of Labor talks and bullet: 6 to 6:30—Fable Lady—Stories for Florentino String } Harold Groissant, Theders, baritone; le Orchestra. Warner, gloom harmony songs} 10 00 a. m—Alamo Cafe Orches- ad entertainers rm REAL ELECTION C HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 16.—Wit | J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, and a liteftature distribu- | tion in the heart of Hartford’s factory district, the state and congressional | j campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party got under way here today in earnest. Petitions are being circulated tion that all the candidates will get on t CONNECTICUT PARTY UNITS START AMPAIGN ACTIVITY h an open air meeting addressed by thruout the state with every indica- he ballot for the November election. CASHIER IS CHOSEN QUEEN OF WORKING GIRLS IN WICHITA = Central Presa, Photog In a new kind of beauty contest conducted in Wichita, Kans., Miss Ruth Hess, shown above, was chosen Queen of the city’s working girls. She is a cashier for Western Union. MEXICAN TROOPS AMBUSHED WHILE PURSUING YAQUIS Jail Catholic Bishop for Fighting Laws (Special to The Dally Worker) MEXICO. CITY, Sept. 16.—Reports from the state of Sonora say that the Yaqui Indians have ambushed a bat- talion of pursuing Mexican infantry near the village of Vicam, killing many troops and forcing the remainder to retreat. The Yaquis are supposed to have been incited by catholic op- ponents to the Calles government. Bishop Issues Illegal Leaflet, A catholic bishop, Jesus Mario Echeverria, has been sent from the state of Coahuila to Mexico City un- der arrest for publishing a leaflet for- bidding catholic children to attend the government schools. The catholics are holding religious ceremonies in homes, to take the place of church services, the priests con- tinuing their strike against services in the churches. Priests are hearing confessions in private homes and col- lecting fees for these and other services outside the churches, Government After Bandits. The government troops are still in pursuit of the bandits who on Septem- ber 12 held up an automobile party of Americans at Cuernavaca and kid- napped Jacob Rosenthal,,62, a retired merchant of Long Island, N, Y. He is being held for ransom, and fears are felt that because of his age and ex- posure he may be ill. The kidnappers also threaten to kill the captive if pursued. Demands Reinstatement; PARRY, VICTIM OF FARRINGTON, APPEALS CASE Flays Traitor (Special to The Dally Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. 16. — Thomas Parry, former vice-president of Sub-district No, 4 of the Illinois Miners’ Union, who was _ expelled from the U. M. W. of A. for six months for alleged slander of Frank Farring- ton, deposed president of the union, district executive board and was in- executive board demanding reinstate- ment to his former office. Expelled by Illegal Court, Parry states that he was expelled from the union for six months by an illegal court without being given a chance to defend himself. Farrington supervised the trial which convicted Barry without permitting the latter to be present. Parry appealed the expulsion to the district executive board and wis in- structed by Secretary-treasurer Nes- bit to make his appeal to board mem- ver Young, despite the precedent set <7 ‘he board in acting on similar cases without taking the position thai they should go to a board member. From Peter to Paul. Parry wrote to Nesbit asking the latter to file his appeal. Nesbit re- plied, advising Parry to file his appeal with board member ‘Haywood. Bui when Parry's appeal reached Hay wood, it was declared the time limit for such action had expired by 24 hours. “In view of the recent developments in which Farrington has been caught with the goods” writes Parry “and exposed as a 100 per cent traitor to the workingclass in general, the board should recognize that my removal from office was at the dictates of the coal operators.” Old Trade Union Member. Parry carried a card in the British Miners’ Federation for nine years, in the Provincial Workman’s Association of Canada for two years and in the U. M. W. of A. for 19 years. “My membership has never lapsed a day,” he says, “until I was expelled for slandering Farrington, the arci enemy of the miners and co-worker of the operators.” For Progressive Program. Parry stands for the progressive miners’ program: a shorter workday, nationalization with democratic mar. agement of the mines, in short “The Mines For the Miners,” Amalgamation on the industrial field and a Labor Party on the political field. Parry was forced out of the coal mining industry by Farrington and |was obliged to leave the district to earn a living. He now lives in | Highland Park, Mich. RIOT, SUICIDE AND HYSTERIA FOLLOW AIMEE Stirs Christinta to a Fa-| natic Fury (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16.—Dr-R, W. Waters, implicated by the confession of Mrs, Lorraine Wiseman in her im- personation of Aimee Semple McPher- son to furnish an alibi against the charge that the evangelist had spent ten days in a love spree at a beach cottage at Carmel insteadj of being “kidnapped,” as she had @aimed after her disappearance, hag fommitted suicide, Dr. Waters took potapn following the revelation made by Mrs, Wiseman that he had aided in producing an alibi for Aimee McPherson, Faithful Stage a Riot. Meanwhile the 35,000 followers of the female evangelist were stirred up to the point of rioting by her dramatic pulpiteering at the Angelus temple. “They are hounding: me to my grave,” she declared as she entered the pulpit. This and similar emotional appeals so roused her fanatic follow- ers that the milling thousands which filled the church to overflowing and pressed around the building seemed on a point of riot thru religious hysteria, Christians a hotguns. The police were cdfled out to guard against riot, squads of detectives and deputy sheriffs armed with shotguns having trouble to reach the temple around which for blocks the streets were packed with excited people. The police did not arrest Aimee, tho she stirred up the congregation with the sentimental appeal that she “expected to be arrested at any moment.” The crowd finally dispersed when it saw that nobody was going to arrest the woman, Another development of the day was the deposition of a Miss Morris, private secretary of the late R. A. McKinley, a lawyer connected with Mrs. McPherson. Miss Morris tells of arrangements sought to have been made to produce men who could be claimed to be the “kidnappers,” who would be immune from prosecution because Aimee would not prosecute them. Aimee also wanted a shack pro- duced to serve as the place where she was supposed to have been held by the “kidnappers.” Mysterious Shack Sought. “Mrs, McPherson said I must be sure that it had not been occupied for a long time. She said she would hate for them to produce a shack and find out afterwards thate family with ten kids had lived in it during the time she was supposed to be a captive there.” Complaints against five persons in the case, including Kenneth G. Ormis- ton, the alleged lover of Aimee in her escapade, are being drawn up by the district attorney. Ormiston Seeks Immunity. At the same time the attorney for Mrs. Wiseman says he has been ap- proached by a “mystery man” who of- fers to produce Ormiston within a few hours if Ormiston is given the privi- lege of immunity. Ormiston may be liable on a charge of perjury for mak- ing an affidavit saying Mrs. McPherson was not the woman who shared his embraces at the cottage by the sea. COOLIDGE EMBARGO ON ARMS TO NICARAGUA AIDS CHAMORRO REGIME WHITE PINE CAMP, N. Y., Sept. 16.—An embargo on shipment of arms and ammufiltion to Nicaragua was ordered by President Coolidge today be- cause of revolutionary conditions In the Central American republic, The proclamation was issued effective today and will remain in force until order has been restored, regime. The embargo is aimed to help the reactionary Chamorro League of Nations Meets in Seventh Assembly The convocation of the seventh assembly of the league of nations, shown above, finds the league! less united than when it was founded, Created to te do this but has, of itself, given ris 7 to many rivalries in the struggle settee ttle disputes at issue between capitalist nations, it has not only failed ‘a balance of power in & \Gouggeniselte Are Striving ||OHI0 MINERS to Put Toledo, Ohio, on Map for Working Class By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. j (Special to The Daily Worker) OLEDO, Ohio—(By Mail)—When the traveler gets off his train here at the New York Central Sta- tion he is greeted by an unusual broadside of billboards, The loudest blare comes from one display declar- ing this to be: “Toledo—The Home of Overland and Willys-Knight,” It is taken for granted that every- one knows that “Overland” and “Willys-Knight” are the names of two makes of automobiles, just as the names Valentino, Dempsey, “Trudie” Ederle and “Babe” Ruth are supposed to be recognized with- out any additional description. “*#* Elsewhere over the city one finds other displays proclaiming “Big Price Reductions” in these same makes of automobiles. Henry Ford, in his alleged auto- biography, declares that the only time he cuts the price of his flivvers is when business is slack and he wants to encourage buyers, so that he can keep his flivver factories going, it being cheaper to continue running at a small loss than to close down completely, So I concluded that the advertisements proclaiming big price reductions for the Over- land and the Willys-Knight cars meant that business was not good here in Toledo. This was borne out by the facts. I found that where 15,000 workers are usually employed turning out the Overland and Willys-Knight ma- chines, only about half that number are now on the job, with some de- partments knocking off work at three o’clock in the afternoon. It was between five and six o’clock toward evening when I arrived in Toledo, There were no rushing homeward throngs. No crowds pour- ing out of the office buildings. It was easy to get a seat in the street cars. The stores were almost empty. Busi- ness isn’t good in Toledo. a ee The water isn’t deep in the Maumee River and the Maumee Bay into which it flows, If it had been deep the story of Toledo might have been different. It might have been a great metropolis like Cleveland, not far away, like Buffalo, at the other end of Lake Erie, or Detroit, to the north, that harbor the great freight ships of the inland seas, But the river is shallow and the government refuses to deepen it, with the result that the popula- tion of Toledo stands at a mere quarter of a million, while its sister cities are rapidly striding toward the million mark, ee It was in 1794, some years after the revolutionary war, that General “Mad Anthony” Wayne was fighting Indians along the shores of Lake Erie. He came to the’ mouth of Swan Creek and the Maumee River where he ordered the building of a stockade. It was built so rapidly that he called it “Fort Industry,” an indication of what was expected from Toledo workers in the century ahead, One of the aids of “Mad Anthony” was Lieutenant William Henry Harrison, later to become the ninth president of the United States. Toledo was successively under the colonial rule of Spain, France and Great Britain, and when it became a part of the United States, the states of Ohio, Michigan and In- diana, not yet a part of a consolida- ted federal government, fought for it, Michigan finally got the rich iron and copper ore territory of its northern peninsula while Toledo CHICAGO LABOR GREETS RELEASED [, L. 6. W, PICKETS Tomorrow night a reception is be- ing given at the Walsha Hall, corner Noble and Emma, to those members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union that were thrown into jail by “Injunction Judge” Denis 3B. Sullivan for their participation in the 1924 garment strike. The reception has been arranged by a joint committee of the Polish locals of the Machinists’ Union, the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ union, carpenters’ union, painters’ union, the carmen’s union and the Polish Workers’ Educational Club, which initiated the arranging of this reception. The reception starts at 8 in the eve- ning. Besides dancing there will be solo and choir signing, violin solos and addre: by t rikers and the representatives of the organizations that united to make this affair pos- sible. Tickets are being sold at 75 cents each, All profits the affair are to be turned over to Chicago Con. ference for Passaic Textile Strikers’ Relief, which has { ers at 328 West Van Buren street. All workers are urged this at fale ona demons' | went to Ohio and the dove of peace settled over the great lakes, Toledo is named after the famous Castillian capitol of the same name on the other side of the Atlantic. But it bears no resemblance to Toledo, Spain. By 1846 its popula- tion had grown to only 2,000, altho this was an advance over the fewer than 100 that it had ten years be- fore in 1886. It does not boast of any role that it played in the civil war, just as the war in 1812, be- tween the United States and Great Britain, that witnessed some import- ant battles on Lake Brie, passed it by. a) A brick plant was one of its first boasts. Then came a saw mill, later a foundry, in 1839 a grist mill, and in 1853, the first car works. When the bicycle was in favor, however, Toledo began getting on the inter. national map, claiming to have sent this product of its shops “over the seven seas.” The bicycle business later grew into the manufacture of the Pope-Toledo automobile that held the stage for a time. When the Pope-Toledo corporation failed it was taken over by John N. Willys, called “one of the geniuses of the automobile world.” Willys is now trying to keep Toledo on the map as the home of his Overland and Willys-Knight. ee The glare of publicity was turned on Toledo for a time when it came under the rule of “Golden Rule” Samuel M, Jones as mayor. “Golden Rule” Jones failed to be elected as governor of Ohio and then he died in his fourth term, in 1904, and now he is forgotten, During the war, after he had been ousted from the University of Penn- sylvania for writing “Anthracite,” an attack on the hard coal industry, Scott Nearing came this way to teach at the allegedly liberal Uni- versity of Toledo. But he was no more fortunate here, He was soon ousted from this university also be- cause of his unorthodox views. ee ©£ But the spirit of unrest flames anew, This fall the Workers (Com- munist) Party has a congressional candidate in the field. Bruce T. Smith, a railrogd worker, is the Communist standard bearer. The local election commissioners are trying to find some excuse for ruling him off the ballot. So far they have not succeeded, The workers, accord- ing to present indications, will have an opportunity to vote for him. This is the ninth (Ohio) congres- sional district that kept Issac R. Sherwood, the civil war veteran who opposed participation by this nation in the world war, in congress for a number of years. The present con- gressman is W. W. Chalmers, re- publican, unheard of, and therefore the best tool of the predatory in- terests. .-e-¢ The labor unions in Toledo are not active. Union meetings are featured by small attendances. All semblance of any socialist party organization has disappeared. It is in this environment that the Workers (Communist) Party calls to the workers to make new and greater efforts. Several mass meet- ings with representative party speakers will be held in the weeks ahead, There will be an increased distribution of literature, New mem- bers will be brought into the party and present passive members stirred to action, The Workers (Commun- ist) Party will put Toledo, Ohio, on the map again. J. Louis Engdahl to Speak in Detroit on Tuesday Evening DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 16.—J. Louis Engdah!, editor of The DAILY WARKER, will speak on “The Work- ers and the Old Parties” Tuesday evening Sept. 21 at the Finnish La- bor Temple, 5969 Fourteenth St. near McGraw. This will be an especially interest- ing talk after the defeat of the so- called “Labor Ticket” at the primar. jes, The Detroit Federation of Labor shamelessly endorsed a batch of re- Publican party politicians and label led them “The Labor Ticket.” The workers of Detroit failed to respond to a fake “Labor ticket.” The Workers (Communist) Party campaign calls on all honest workers who stand for a labor party and the labor ticket to register their protest against the political alliances of the Detroit Federation of Labor and the republican party. The Workers (Communist) Party its campaign for a labor party invited the Detroit Federation of Labor to in- itlate a conference to launch a United Labor Ticket. The Detroit Federa- tion of Labor sneeringly ignored this invitation. During the coming election campaign the Workers (Communist) Party calls on the workers of Detroit and the state of Michigan to support its candidates as a demonstration of wrowing desire for a a party DISPLAY GRIM DETERMINATION: $7.50 a Day or Nothing, Is Slogan NOTE—This article on Ohio min ing conditions is the second of a comprehensive series by various labor writ released by The Fed- erated Press in the next few weeks, dealing with the actual situation’ in the various districts of the United Mine Workers, Frank Farrington’s sell-out in Illinois, the many Lewis betrayals, the openshop inroads in other bituminous districts and the uncertainty as to what Is to follow the expiration of the 3-year Jackson- ville agreement in April, 1927 make the series both timely and important. ** 8 By HARVEY O'CONNOR, Fed. Press. BELLAIRE, O.—(FP)—$7.50 a day or nothing.” That summarizes the bulldog determination of 17,000 union | miners In the Bellaire subdistrict of the Ohio Miners’ Union, Known as Sub-District 5 of District 6, they are by far the strongest unit In the te, and comparatively better off than their brothers in Hocking valley. 6,000 are working, “Why should a miner work in the damp dark of a deep mine, surrounded by the dangers of rock falls and ex- plosions, for less than $7.50 a day, the Jacksonville scale?” they ask. “We'll quit mining before we'll throw away the union and its protection.” Low Wages Nearby. There’s another good reason why the miners won’t quit their union. That is West Virginia. Just across the Ohio river, at Wheeling, Warwood, Wellsburg, Moundsville and Benwood, a score of big West Virginia mines are operating at wages varying from $4 to $6 a day. The silvery line of the river, cleav- ing union Ohio from nonunion West Virginia, is the trench between war- ring forces in the biggest battle being waged on the American continent for industrial freedom. Mine owners, , with heavy interests on both sides of the river, are anxiously awaiting the day when they can bring Ohio men down to the low wage levels and work- ing conditions suffered by the serfs across the river. Many Left Mines, Many of the 9,000 union miners who have been unable to get work at the pits have found employment in the steel mills of Bellaire, Wheeling and Benwood and in other industries in this thickly populated section of the Ohio valley, Tension has also been relieved by the recent opening of several big mines on the Jacksonville scale, The Powhatan mine, employing 500 men, is operating steadily for the Canadian Pacific railway, while several big Ma- her mines supplying the Canadian: Na- tional railway are giving work to 1,300 miners. The Rail & River Com- pany’s mines, whose management has been distinctly antagonistic to the union, are down. New Pittsburgh Coal Co., leader of the bitter forces among the operators, and notorious for nonunion operations in Pomeroy Bend, Ohio, and in West Virginia, posted notice of reopening under the 1917 scale, but not a man responded. Youghiogheny & Ohio, whose presi- dent, S. H. Robbins, heads the new Ohio Coal Operators Assn., organized to beat down the Ohio Miners union, has tried nonunion conditions, but to no avail, Destitution Threatens. Many miners in the score of camps jaround Bellaire own their homes. With vegetables and fruits in their back yards, they do not experience keen privation in summer months, even if unable to find work in the steel mills, When winter comes a different picture will present itself, and should the steel industry expe- rience a slump destitution aplenty will dog the little homes of thousands of the coal diggers. The lucky miner who happens to be working is knocking out about $100 a month, of which about 8% goes into various union funds for dues and re- Nef. This average, however, lumps the men who are working 6 days a week and those working but 1, Thou- sands are receiving not more than $50 a month, while at least 1,500 in this vicinity have no work of any kind. When Contracts Expire. ‘The subdistrict is buoyed up by long contracts with the Canadian railroads, but when they run out and are shifted to West Virginja—as may happen— Bellaire’s plight may become as bad as Hocking valley's, These miners have given gener- ousl; Russian famme relief, to the Passaic strikers, fo the British miners, When the present British coal lockout is settled and the demand for Amert- can coal lulls, they may find them- selves fighting with their backs to the wall against the sinister hand of non- unionism, watchfully waiting to leap over from the West Virginia side of the Ohio river to extend industrial feudalism, Then they will need the vigorous support of American labor if unionism ig to be saved along the Ohio. CHICAGO—(FP)—The first instal ment of $5,000 is on its way to New York from the Chicago joint board, Intl, Ladies Garment Workers union. It will be used in the bitter strike a the New York locals for better tions and against the jobbing eee |