The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1926, Page 1

fj ‘ t | The DAILY WORKER Raises | the Standard for a Workers’ | and Farmers’ Government Vol. III. No. 212. Learere Stent J, O}FLAHERTY By T. CIVIL war veteran walked into this office recently and after chatting with the writer sprung the following question: “Do you think there is any danger of The DAILY WORKER go- And the author of this column assured the visitor that there was a possibility that The DAILY WORKER might stop right in its tracks and refuse to appear again, but that the PROBABILITY was that it. would continue to appear, thereby constituting a first class nuisance in the eyes of the bourgeoisie. sf. * UT of the jeans of the civil war veteran appeared a five dollar bill which the business manager used to purchase postage stamps, said busi- ness manager considering the editor- jal department more or less of a lia- bility. What a blessing it would be if The DAILY WORKER could be pro- duced without an editorial staff. This would mean that three perfectly nor- mal persons would be available for other services. This is a diplomatic way of telling the gentle reader that our staff consists of three persons just now, which may account for a multi- tude of. errors. -_* © 0 reduce the story to minimum pro- portions, the big question that con- fronts The DAILY WORKER is, the proposition that stared Hamlet in the eye, namely: “To be or not to be.” And in my opinion “to be” is the word. Last Friday night I repaired to my nucleus meeting. In plain Eng- lish this means that I attended my branch meeting. What happened? A collection of $37 was taken up to de- fray the expenses of distributing Com- munist propaganda in the mining fields and a considerable sum was pledged to keep The DAILY WORKER alive, ing under?” Re Nyc EMEMBER that our nucleus is a small one. Had every one appear- ed there would not be more than 20 present. But only seven or eight of the 120 showed up. Therefore the seven or eight that did show up devised ways gnd means of getting the laggards to become active. A committee was ap- pointed whose business it was to ‘visit ” She *aiehibers ‘who did not-attend the meeting and convince them that not only was it their duty to get busy but that a lot of fun could be had in the process. * * * F Communists are notorious for one thing more than-ancther it is for frankness. Communists are not wor- shippers of the naked truth for truth’s sake, but it happens. that the working- class cannot get too much of the truth. Ignorance is the greatest foe of the labor movement. Communists are in favor of every effort that tends to dis- pel superstition. Queer contradiction is it not? Capitalism must educate a certain number of wage slaves, @ number sufficient to operate the ma- chinery of production. But this neces- sity also writes the death warrant of the bourgeoisie, that happens to be running that particular institution. The worker who feels that he is on an intelectual level with his master is no longer a slave. see OILED DOWN, the preceding para graph means that The DAILY WORKER needs money. It does. The life. of the paper is. in the hands of our readers. In all probability the daily will continue to appéar. But its appearance depends on YOU. There- fore the first order of business is to send a contribution-to. The DAILY WORKER fund. * bia many years before. the world war England was everything but friendly to Russia, The, “bear that walks like a man” was on every well informed tongue. -Czarist Russia was dangerously close to India:.and, Rud- yard Kipling being a successful novel- jat and poet placed his talents at the disposal\of the empire: “During the world war Kipling was.a Jingo. war 18 over. Germany:is out of the running as a. dangerous rival to Brit- aby for a few more’ years. But the United/States has a bill to collect and John Bull gets his lackeys busy to work up the necessary»propaganda 80 |tq Porto Rico for these workers be- | jn. that those who have something com- ing to. Subscription Rates: The {to Arizona. ~ In Chicago, by Outside ‘BALDWIN MAKES NEW ATTACK ON BRITISH MINERS Arbitration Ruse Used to Break Union (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Sept. 19. — Again play- ing the game of the mine owners against the 1,000,000 miners who have been striking over four and a half months against a wage reduction, lengthening of hours and ¢fh effort to destroy their union, Premier Baldwin has returned from his vacation at a French summer resort to place before the miners’ leaders a new crafty pro- posal to beat the heroic miners into the ground and bring their exploiters out in triumph, The prime minister's proposals are: Baldwin Tries Strikebreaking Move. 1, That the men go back to work and leave everything in the hands of a national arbitration court to be established by act of parliament. 2, That the miners’ union agree to accept district agreements with the mine owners provisionally on the basis of the longer work day, and ap- peal their case to such arbitration court. 3. This arbitration court will have the power to confirm or modify ques- tions of wages made on a district basis, Wants Union Destroyed. This is plainly an attack on the min- ers’ position against district agree- ments, a reduction of wages and lengthening of hours and in addition asks the national union to abdicate its powers to a legalized arbitration court, whose decrees it must obey. This sort of a proposal will be re- cognized by American workers to have a similarity to the infamous “Indus- trial Court Law” of Kansas, where the coal miners also were the objects of attack by the capitalist govern- ment. In that case Alexander Howat and his militant, supporters defied the law and defeated the mine owner.con- trolled government. It can be safely said that although the million miners of Britain are suf- fering the bitterest privation and rely solely on the foreign relief funds so needed to maintain their families against actual starvation, they will probably reject this flagrant proposal to surrender the power of their union into the hands of an arbitration court elected by their enemies, this propo- sal made by the Tory premier, Bald- win, who is himself a mine owner. ee Tom Mann Writes of Strike By TOM MANN, The Miners’ Fight Is Still On. LONDON, Sept. 4, —(By Mail) — Today completes the 18th week of the stoppage in the coal industry. The spirit of the men is real good at the hour of writing, complaints are rare- ly heard, the women and children in many districts are showing signs of lack of nourishment, but even here (Continued on page 3) PORTO RICAN WORKERS 60 TO ARIZONA Poverty - Stricken Men Leave Native Isle (Spectal to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Rafael Alonzo, general secretary of the Free Federation of Workingmen of Porto Ricé; has reported to the Pan-American Federation of Labor the departure of 300 families of laborers from Porto Rico He asks that inquiry be de in Arizona as to whether they are to be used in’ breaking strikes or for Any other purpose hostile to the program of organized labor, Cotton growers in Arizona have sent cause the island employment at hicago, by mail, $6,00 per year. E DAILY WORKER. Entered at Second-class matter Septerber ‘21, 1923, @t the Post-Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. mail, $8.00 per year, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21,1926 <q” Britain and U. S. Join Forces in Attack on China U. S. river gun boats, one of them, the Palo, fired upon dur- Ing the fighting between reac- tionary troops and Cantonese have proceeded up the Yangtse River for action, not against the militarist troops of Wu, but against the nationalist Canto- nese. In this they are Joined by the British who likewise have ordered Admiral Sinclair with his flagship Hawkins to rush to the scene. The U. S. river gun boat Palo and (inset) Admiral Sinclair. SACCO DEFENSE | SAYS EVIDENCE WAS WITHHELD Atty. Thompson Makes Charge Against State By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL (Special to The Daily Worker) DEDHAM, Mass., Norfolk County Court House, Sept. 19. —‘I sincerely believe that Sacco and Vanzetti are innocent and | believe so more than ever today.” This was the declara- tion that Attorney William G. Thomp- son, demanding a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti, hurled into the face of Judge Webster Thayer, at the close of his argument here. Attorney Thompson swept aside the irrevelant arguments, piied up thru “and SpBe ‘ Dudley P. Ranney, assistant district attorney of Norfolk County. He de- clared the court did not need to read the record of the trial. Frame-Up Pact. » Attorney Thompson demanded that the new trial be granted on the un- refuted facts brought out in the af- fidavits of the two ex-agents of the department of justice, who had con- fessed that there was an agreement between the federal government and the.county prosecutor to frame up the two workers, ‘ Denounces Secrecy. Attorney Thompson denounced the attempt of the prosecution and the government to hide the facts that would set Sacco and Vanzetti free. “If this government values its secrets more than the lives of its citizens, then it has become a tyranny, whe- (Continued on page 2.) By JAY LOVESTQNE.. No, capitalist newspaper would have a hard time raising $50,000. The Standard Oil Co,, the Peabody Coal Corp., the American Telephone and Telegraph trust, need only give any employers’ paper a few ads for the ar,.,Then the poisonous peas will continue to pour out theiriovenom against the workers without a stop. The exploiters of the workers and the. poverty-stricken farmers know a good investment when they sée one, The DAILY WORKER is without any reservations against the ruling. class and for the working class pt the | United States, Therefore,,to the loan sharks, financial wizards, real, estate Shylocks and industrial overlords run- ning. and ruining the American masses, DAILY WORKER is.no field for stment, It’s up to the toilers the, mills will forget about it. We | present for only one-third to one-half lang the tillers of the land to.invest should néver lose sight’ of one fact | o¢ jig workers in.a population of 1-|/in ‘the DAILY WORKER because it and that is that whoever wins this | 490,000, Wages in the island are mis-|is the only newspaper in the English diplomatic game the workingclass 18 /orably inadequate to maintain ® de-|janguage that fights unfiinchingly for sure to lose. A subsoription to The DAILY WORKER for one month to the members of your union is @ 9004 | wro live outside the country,” Alonzo significantly small proportion of these way. Try it. NEW FILM, “THE PA TO BE SHOWN go Conference for the The Cl announces the showing here of the film, “The Passaic Striki 15, at Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren, Thore wilf be two Peri orkers’ mind m'the other at 9'p.'m. The conference requests Chi- town, lod a ile Jp manne A formanoes, one at 7° " r organizatio cent living. standard, “The prosperity of Porto Rico is being enjoyed only by half a dozen corporations that derive all the fruits of the island for the benefit of those says. SSAIC STRIKE”, their interests day in and day out. America’s Gigantic Press, Nearly two quadrillion words come off the printing presses of the United States every 4. Today, only an In- words are in behalf of the workers. Almost the whole of the propaganda, books, pamphlets, and advertising material, are either directly or indirectly against the work- HERE OCTOBER 15th ing and farming masse: - : These en billion 1 miles of Relief of the Passaic Textile Strikers | Words enough to go cl on Friday, eds ee ‘ Oct. | *he entire solar system. Here,we:have a powerful chain weighing dowm on nd dragging them deep into the pcb Pocrisy, Hes and e: enone et Millions for UNITED TEXTILE WORKERS’ MEET REVEALS MacMAHON AS AN ENEMY _ OF PROGRESS OF TRADE UN NEW Year, Sept. 16—(By Mail) —The 24th biannual convention of the United Textile Workers which opened on the 13th and at present is still in months in thé organization. In spite of this, an opposition to the MacMahon-Conboy machine has shown some fighting capacity for progressive jneasures, This comes from the. Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers and the Carpet Workers, be- ing led by Holderman and Smith re- spectively. This group shows a fairly militant spirit in fighting for a better organization and defends the Passaic strikers from the attacks and insults of MacM: . Reactionary. MacMahon’ has shamelessly attacked the Passaic strike, just as he did in the mass meeting at Passaic. Here he said it was an “ill-advised” strike and admitted that he took the strik- ers into the union only because he -was forced to do so. He admitted having had emissaries in the strike zone from January 25th onward, and claimed falsely that the U. T. W. of- ;fered to take the strikers in last Ap- ril, but Weisbord refused to withdraw from leadership. He wound up by saying that the present local of the U. T. W. at Pas- |Saic will be scattered within a year. However, now that the strikers had forced their way into the union, we must do everything possible to help them organize and to get relief. Holderman of the Hosiery Workers (Continued on page 2) More than half that comes off the American press is advertising mate- rial, Newspaper and magazine adver- | tisements aré ithe most costly and dan¢ \gerous forms of subsidy to the bour+ geois press being paid at the expense |of the working class. The fact of the |matter is that the American working |men and farmers annually subsidize |the employers* press to the sum vof $847,000,000 thru advertising alone.» Surely we ‘are not making impos sible demands when we ask the Amer- jean workers and farmers to give $50,- |000 to KEEP.-THE DAILY WORKER. of the bourgeoisie newspapers is céfi- sumed in advertising matter. Tho New York Times, the outstanding eap- italist paper ‘in the country, gives away about 75% of its space to direct advertising by bankers, manufacturers and merchants; Of course, the color of the advertising pages is invariably the dominant color of the editorial, literary and news pages. This is true of the best of our employing class sheets. The New York Times does not have to engage in money rais- ing campaigns. It will not ask you for $50,000 to keep itself alive the next year, Whether you know it or not, and whether you want to or not, you are actually spending millions an- nually to enable the New York Times to mobilize the masses of this coun- try daily in behalf of the exploiters. The High Cost of “Newspaper Talk.” Just to show you how much of the surplus value wrung from the exploit- ed workers goes to maintain the poisonous press, let me cite the case of the Saturday Evening Post. This well known bourgeois paper, followed by hundreds of:thousands of workers, ad vertisement insertion, Remember, tit the | ye From forty'to seventy-five per cent’ session is a picture of the resistance of the reactionary labor bureaucracy to any struggle of the workers, tho in this case the MacMahon machine is not wholly Successful. It has been forced to act. Passaic Permitted to Observe. Representation is on the basis of one delegate to 200 members, giving 127 delegatés, but the Passaic local is not allowed even fraternal delegates, being permitted only to seat five observers without voice or vote. were barred from delegation rights on the ground of having not been three + They CHINESE MILITARISTS PREVENT REOPENING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS TIENTSIN, Sept, 19.—Except for two universities, no schoo! in Tient- sin has yet made any preparation for resumption of classes this aut- umn -because the reactionary. mili- tarists have stopped payment of all Salaries of teachers’ and other school employes. A large army of mercenary soldiers remain In the city under orders of Marshal Wu Pei-fu who has been, defeated in the central provinces. The govern- ment law college has been convert- ed into a military hospital. In Kiangsu the conservative Mar- shal Sun Chuang-fang has ordered the abolition of co-education in the middie schools and has established censorship of all reading material while restoring the ancient classics. Laborers Choose New President. QUINCY, Sept. 19. —. Joseph V. Moreschi, of Chicago, today was elec- ted president of the International Building Laborers’ Union to succeed Domenico D'Alessandro who died last week. Moreschi has been vice-presi- dent of the organization for 10 years, THE DAILY WORKER---THE BEST INVESTMENT FOR THE WORKERS erg would contribute for this year the cost of five full page advertisements in the Saturday Evening Post to KEEP THE DAILY WORKER, ‘we would have no difficulties for ‘many months ahead. " We Aren’t Asking Much, Certainly, this is not asking much. There is hardly a workér too poor to invest a few dollars to KEEP THE DAILY WORKER. ‘What we must have and have In a hurry is $50,000, or less than the cost of five full page advertis Saturday Evening Post’ THE DAILY WORKER. ‘This is every worker's job, We know we won't get one cent from the capitalists. The exploiters of the pro- letariat will never “invest in The DAILY WORKDR which they look tpon as a sort of an undertaking estab- lishment to bury them: ©‘ ‘The Workers Will Answer Decisively. ‘Let every worker answer: Is it not worth while and absolutely necessary for himself, his shopmates and friends, to help boost and put over the $50,000 campaign to keep The DAILY WORKER in order to To fight for militant trade unionism, To help the workers win their strikes, To build a labor party, To protect the foreign-born workers. To organize the unorganized, To defend the workers from the capitalist attacks. To abolish capitalism, To establish a workers’ and farm: ‘8’ government. bird We know the answer. ‘The coming weeks will see us well over the top in the drive to KEEP THE DAILY WORKER. iis fe gets $11,000 for every full page ad-| Now, GIVE until it hurts your . AND PROTECTS YOUR owN CLASS avo Published Daily except PUBLISHING CO., 1113 3 Killed, 2 Severely Injured in Fall of Mine Roof in Penn. SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 19.—Three ‘men were killed and two severely injured in a roof fall today at the Red Ash) vein of the Lehigh Valley Coal company mine at Exeter, according to reports received at the company’s of- fice here, The dead: James Loftus, 55, miner, Exeter. David Owens, 60, fire boss, West Pittston. Michael Pedro, 48, miner, Exeter. The night fire boss at the mine on his last round had noticed a roof fall. The miners were set at work repair- | ing the roof when the second fall oc- curred, killing and injuring the men. CALLES FAVORS © ANTI-IMPERIAL Sunday by THE J AILY WORKER ‘W. Washington Blvd., Ciricago, il. NEW YORK EDITION —_— Price 3 Cent: HOCKING VALLEY MINERS’ UNION IN BAD STRAIT But Miners Determined Not to| Take Cut NOTE—The/| article below Is the third In the series on the bituminous districts being distributed by The Federated Press, The Ohio series will be folloyved by articles from other pens on/ Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Oklahoma and the south- west, the Rog ky Mountain districts and the southern fields eant of the Mississippi. eee By HARVEY O'CONNOR, Fecjerated Press. NELSONVIILLE, Ohio —~ (FP) 25,000 workefs in central and south- ern Ohio cizjim coal mining as their BRUSSELS MEET Mexico Will Send a Delegate Pres. Calles has cabled to Henri Barbusse of the International League |dug or londed coal for 3 years. Against Colonial Suppre: ing to send an official representative of the Mexican government to the conference of the league to be held | north, in Brussels, Belgium, the middle of November, Calles’ cable was in response to a | want. occupation, tbut only 5,000 are actually working in t/he mines. Of these a mere fraction work 5 or 6 days a week. At least 4,000 regard themselves fortun- ate to get 1 to 4 days work a week, These fiplds embrace the Hocking Valley and/ Cambridge sub-districts of District 6, United Mine Workers, where thousands of miners have not In ion promis- | probably spo field was suffering more intense lasjt winter, as cold and misery swept dovyn on icy winds from the than in the valleys of the Hocking ub-district. Union relief failed to pave miners’ families from This winter, with relief funds message of support in his fight against |so low thelt even the pitifully small the catholic church wired him by the |$3 a week| payments may be discon- international organization committee | tinued, no \part of America will pres- of the league at Berlin. Bishop Brown Cables, ent a more abject picture of deatitu- tion than the valley where the United Support and pledges to send dele-}Mine Workers of America was born gates is daily being cabled to the In- jand cradled. ternational Committee from all parts of the world. Bishop William M. (Operators Drive. Big operators, union by compulsion Brown, of Galion, Ohio, recently sent | but non-union at the first opportunity, the following message to the head-}have pickell Hocking Valley as the quarters of the league at Berlin: second sub-district where unionism “Big nations are asserting their in- | will fall, Last winter they conspired terest in China. They have no busi- with hunger to drive the union out of ness there, Neither has-America any | Pomeroy Bend and this winter they business in Burope. Success to the league and Brussels’ conference,— Bishop and Mrs. Brown.” Delegates From China, Delegations from the Kuomintang Party of China, as well as from branches thruout the world are as- sured. The Young India Movement will have a delegate at the confer- ence. The nationalist movements of Syria, Dutch East Indies, Philippines, Turkey and many other countries will have delegates at the conference, League At Work Here. The All-America Anti-Imperialist League, co-operating with the interna- tional organizing committee, is endea- voring to insure delegations from the United States, Cuba, Porto Rico, Mex- ico and all South and Central Amer- ican countries. In the United States anti-imperialist, labor and Negro or- ganizations are being circularized with invitations to attend the Brussels conference. The conference will consider im- perialist suppression in the colonies. Reports will be made by speakers from almost every colony now under imperialist domination. Emancipation movements in the colonial and semi-colonial countries and the aid given them by the labor movements of the home tmperialist countries, is one of the main items on the agenda of the Brussels meet. Leading figures in the movement for the liberation of the colonies will speak at the conference. George Lans- bury, British publicist is on the agenda, S. Saklatvala, M. P. will speak on British rule in India. Fimmen of the International Transport workers will also appear at Brussels, as well}! as a number of other prominent lead ers in the world labor movement. BIG CHECKS TO FIGURE IN TRIAL OF DAUGHERTY NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—With court adjourned until Monday in the trial of Harry M. Daugherty, former attor- ney-general and Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custodian, plan_to conquer this field. Al: Pittsburgh eoal, successful at Pome: roy, is opeming one of its Hocking mines. 25 scabs were sneaked into the pit, but the picketing of the union men and women down the county road along which the scabs had to march proved too much and operation ceased —for the time. A second effort was made a week later, but with ne more success. Unlike their brothers around Bel- laire on the Ohio river, where the steel mills take up thousands of job- less miners, the Hocking Valley men have only the brick and Clay plants which dot this section on which to rely for outside employment. Many have thus been absorbed, while road work has taken others, Thousands have left Akron, Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit. Exodus Impossible. But a general exodus is impossible, Most of the men own thefr homes, ut- terly valueless because there is no one to buy them in these isolated in- dustry towns. If they leave for the industrial cities, they must support themselves and send money home to their families. Aside from the cruelty of family separation, they find that it is impossible to make enough to exist this way. Nor can they move their families to the big city, for the meh are penniless. And above all, employ- ment possibilities in the north are limited. Those who get jobs in the tire and auto industries find the close- ly-bossed, monotonous work so galling that they give it up in despair or re- volt, and return to the mining fields to eke out a livelihood in some man- ner. Wont Take Cut, Nevertheless these unfon miners don’t intend to take a ent. “Not a bit of good,” asserts Harry Bishop Jones, who led the Hocking Valley miners in Knights of Labor strikes long before the U. M. W. of A. had been thought of. “Why, back in ‘94 they induced us to take a cut, We ‘co-operated.’ Then forced us to ‘co operate’ some more until we were working for 25 cents a day. Here in Shawnee, where the miners union was first started, we have too many old timers who remember that one cut only means another, Never trust an operator.” Cambridge, with 9,000 union miners, charged with conspiracy in connec- reports but 2,500 working, while tion with the return of war-time seiz-| Hocking Valley, with 11,000 members, ed allen assets, defense counsel were|reports the same number. Pomeroy occupied today in studying the mass/has 200 working out of several thous- of “documentary evidence” submitted | and, Ohio collieries, the biggest opera- by the government, tor, rotates work by running 1 mine The prosecution is attempting to|a month out of 6. Cambridge collieries, show by checks, government expense | with half a dozen mites normally em- vouchers, hotel registry entries and | ploying 1,500, official correspondence the pany. alleged | down. Manhattan, with 7 more, is link between the defendants and John | ning 2 small pits. T. King, late Connecticut) politician, |the only bright spot, with several who was paid $441,000 by Richard | mines going. Work is picking up Merton, German financier, for putting |due to the British situation and the thru the $7,000,000 claim for the So-|opening of fall domestic demand, bu clety Suisse to recover the selzed|the end of the overseas coal property of the American Metals com-| will radically are completely shut Sunday Creek the situation for the a hd 4 t : by