The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 213. By T. J. O'FLAHERTY \TOTHING “quite” as tame as the Streator convention of the Illi- nois State Federation of Labor has taken place on this planet in the mem- ory of the oldest inhabitants. It was so dull that reporters, some of them endowed with reasonable integrity, were at a loss what to put on the wires. Capitalist reporters don’t bother with anything that is not sen- eational, but a wide-awake labor re- porter would find plenty of material for a first-class story on the Streator convention. What is not done is sometimes better news than what is done, bi he beed IPMHE salaries of Walker and Olander were boosted to $7,500 a year. No | im the proposal, backed by the WU. S. mention was made of the sell-out of Frank Farrington, to the Peabody Coal Company. The convention did not go | on record for or- against Frank L. Smith, republican candidate for sen- ator; George E. Brennan, democratic candidate, or Parley Parker Chris- tiansen, progressive. writing could be gotten out of a sit- uation like this, but the labor fakers have succeeded so well in wet-blanket- ing their powwows that the capitalist press does not take the trouble of sending reporters that can write and the radical press cannot afford the ex- pense. oe HE next conference of the All- Union Soviet Congress will be held next spring instead of this fall, as originally planned, accofding to a Moscow dispatch in the New York Times. The Times, quick to draw a conclusion unfavorable to the Soviet regime, immediately attributes the Subscription Rates: LEAGUE PLOTS NEW WAR UPON SOVIET UNION “Peace” in West May Mean War in East (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, Sept. 20. — A new indi- cation of the intention of great im- perialist powers controlling the league of nations to solidify themselves for another effort to destroy the Soviet Union by armed intervention is seen delegation to the preparatory “disarm- ament” committee, to be introduced In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per ir. Outside Chicago, al, $6.00" pe by the Finnish delegation to the seventh assembly of the league. The scheme was proposed. by For- eign Minister Holsti of the white guard Finnish government, and will Lots of good | be brought before the league’s council ;committce Wednesday, after which it may go before the assembly. League Is To Judge. The scheme provides that unlimited financial assistance should be furnish- ed any nation, member of the league, which is “attacked” by another coun- try, with a concurrent shutting. off of all financial assistance and supplies from the “aggressor.” The league of nations, which has proven its com- plete subservience io the exploiting interests of the big impertalist powers, is, of course, to do the deciding as to who is “attacked” and who is the “aggressor.” . The crux of the proposal is that it postponement to dissatisfaction on | follows the policy of the “peace. of the part of the peasantry with the pol- icies of the government. No intelli- gent person will try to prove that Soviet decisions are infallible, Locarno”—a peace based upon an at- tempt tv quiet the rivalries and hos- | tilities between the various capitalist but | powers, but only that a united front every reasonably impartial visitor to | petween them be made against th Russia will admit that it will take a | Soviet Union, gh acseninn aio: ioc of blundering on the part of the | cesses in building up its economic is workers’ and peasants’ government to | pecoming a strong incitement to the conyince the emancipated Russian | workers of western Europe to follow people that they should return to the | the example of the Russian workers, - czarist system. | “For Instance—Russia” see HR Mssiodas, hore. § 2ibéctr. JO | saunas: gpescgatin Oe she pan the Indians of the state of Guanajuato to the revolt which ended in the ex- pulsion of Spanish rule from Mexico, The signal’ for the revolt against Spain was given by a Spanish priest who was executed for hfs trouble by tho Spaniards. Today the Mexican clergy are doing their level best to undo the work of that rebel priest. Here we have the spectacle of Presi- dent Calles, denounced as a “christ- hater” by the catholics, honoring the memory of a rebel priest while the hierarchy is engaged in fostering counter-revolutions in their attempt to wreck an administration that is try- ing to educate the Mexican people. ee ee HERE is an article in number 22 of the Communist International which should receive the attention of every revolutionary worker in the United States. It is an appraisal of James Connolly, the leader of the irish revolt in 1916, and one of the outstanding Marxists of his time. The writer of the article quotes lib- erally trom Connolly’s great work, “Labot in Irish History,” to prove that the Irish revolutionists had the Leuinist conception of the role of the national struggle im the fight against imperialism. ve. e ONNOLLY saw the value of mobil- izing all the forces of discontent against the British empire. Because of this attitude imperialistic British “socialists” branded Connolly as a nationalist, while they went on their way, either hailing the war as a strug- gle against German militarism or giv- ing expression to their irritation over an unpleasant situation by becoming conscientious objectors. 4 ee 'T is well that Connolly's great con- tribution to the working’. class movement is receiving some atten- tion. Connolly has been misunder- stood. Many comrades have mistaken his elastic fighting strategy for oppor- tunism Connolly was no dogmatist, except on the main point. He based his strategy on the fundamental prop- osition that the struggle for Irish free- dom from toreign rule must be coupled with the fight for emancipation from capitalism and that in this struggle the workers must have the lead. Tho writer of the article in the Commuy- International, official organ of the comintern, urges the publication of “Labor in Irish History” in Ger- man and Russian, Now that such an anthoritive publication has dealt thus seriously with Connolly it is likely that some American radicals who have hitherto ignored his work will get on os » Obregon Not Fighting Yaquis. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 20.—Gen. Ob- regon has arrived safely at his home ‘in Cajema and {¢ ‘not in the field fighting the Yaqui Indians, as had been reported po to Gen, uni Whleh they, ring once a year on} yy, has the following. t0_say_ about the” anniversary hia ‘summoning of |) Gractical Workine ode of this pro: posal for “peace” submitted by white guard Finland: “For instance, if Poland should be attacked by Russia, the members of the league would advance financial credits which would enable Poland to buy unlimited supplies of munitions, cannon, and airplanes from Germany, England, France or any other acces- sible market.” Poland A War Camp. When it is understood that Poland is a virtual fascist dictatorship, with Pilsudski holding down the workers only by the most brutal persecution, jailing thousands, dissolving the trade unions, openly preparing for war against both the Soviet Union and Lithuania, and acknowledged by every observer as provoking war under the orders of England and with the aid of the United States, the proposal of the Finnish white guard government, an ally of Poland, can be seen in its truly sinister aspects. This may be also seen in Poland’s treaty signed last week with Yugo- Slavia. But another sign of the “peace” among the capitalist powers is shown in the full admission of Germany into the league council and the rapprochement between Germany and France, signalized at a_ secret meeting last week between Strese- mann, German foreign minister, and Briand, foreign minister of France at the Swiss village of Thoiry. Germany No Longer The Enemy. .There is.no news of what was dis cussed. Only the sémi-official Temps says that all has been said that the public needs to know, The assorption | of. Germany into the imperialist schemes of the league powers can be seen fully as creating a néw’ threat of war against the Soviet Union, Church Punctures New. Economic Heaven Myth} WASHINGTON — (FP) — Employe ownership of stock in Amegjcan in- dastrial corporations ig too slight in amount to have any effect on the so- cial policy of the management, says a press bulletin of the social action de- partment, Natl. Catholic Welfare con- ference, “ly some industries employe owner- sbip is practically nil,” it declares, “In the gas industry less than 1-10 of 1% of the common stockholders are em- ployes of the industry and they own 4-10 of 1% of the stock, 3-10 of 1% of the preferred stockholders are em- ployes and they own less than 1-10 of 1% of the stock,” “All this goes to show,” concludes the bulletin, “how steep a road Ameri can labor must travel to reach the goal where the working people will share proportionately in the ownership of industry. It punctures the myth that has been carefully blown in the United States. American industry is not on ee high road tow mocratization through diffusion ownership." Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, by } $6.00 per year. “Dough” Furnished by Peabody Coal Co. LEWI Lgek how smeared he is! LEGION COMMANDER IN WAR UPON PACIFISM; HIS NAME IS MCRUTT (Special to The Daily Worker) BLOOMINGTON, tnd., Sept. 20.— Apathetic disregard” of the pacifist problem. will eventually leave the United States an unprepared giant at the mercy of any armed and am- bitious nation, says Paul V. McNutt, commander of the Indiana depart- ment of the American Legion. MeNutt has made the combating of pacifism one of the major ob- jectives of his administration of the Indiana Legionnaires. “Most of us assimilate propa- ganda designed to destroy our army and navy without realizing it,” the commander declare. “There are pamphlets and magazines carrying pleas for reduction of armament be- cause of the costs that really are pacifistic in intent.” Japanese Police Seek Thrower of Knife at Prince (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKYO, Japan, Sept, 20.—Altho scores of police are working on the knife-throwing mystery which intrud- ed on the formal serenity of a lunch- eon at the British embassy in honor of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and Princess. Louise of Sweden, no ar- rests have yet been made. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1926 <@B>“° PUBL ( | Fitzpatrick Re-Elected | Head of the Chicago Federation of Labor Daily except Sunday ING CO., 1113 W. c John Fitzpatrick, president of the | Chicago Federation of Labor, was re- | elec ted for his twenty-second term. Other officers re-elected were J Charles Hayman, John Mangan was elected delegate tothe American Federation of Labor | convention to be held in Detroit Octo- | ber 11. CANTON ARMY "SWEEPING ON TO SHANGHA! \Feng’s Forces Ready to Drive Southward (Special to The Daily Worker) the national imperialism and victory for against foreign | offensive against Ghang Tso-lin of the northwest of Peking. Drive for Shanghai. same time, the most At the | Yangtze eastward tre M. P. Pifilp; | al secreta G. Hopp; clerk, | |Hy EB. Seheck; sergeant at arms, PEKING, Sept. 20.—Forerunners of arbitration.” revolution tions, the manufacturers lost no time its|in at once calling upon the governor | native militarist tools are seen in the |for action in line with this threat further retreat of Wu Pei-fu to a point |north of Yellow River in the province |of Honan, and the rallying to a fresh that there is only one thing for the im- |mediate important development is the ‘court as a strikebreaking agency. |drive of the Cantonese down the toward Shanghai, NEW YORK EDITION WORKER iieago, xl. GITLOW CALLS FOR DEFIANCE OF INJUNCTION ‘Accuses Gov. Smith of Strike-Breaking | (Special to The Daily Werker) NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—In a state- |ment issued by Benjamin Gitlow, can- didate for governor of New York state on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket, he condemns the injunction ob- talned by the Industrial Council of Manufacturers against the striking jclothing workers as an attempt to |compel the workers to submit to com- pulsory arbitration, characterizing compulsory arbitration as compulsory | slavery. | Smith Behind Injunction Gitlow declared that Governor ‘smith is behind this injunction. Git |low recalled in the statement that the |governor declared that if the negotia- {tions between the manufacturers, and |the cloakmakers failed “he expected that the cloakmakers would submit to Following the negotia- Price 3 Cents | | | The One Way to Fight, Benjamin Gitlow further declared workers to do in case of injunctions, |Kuominchun army of Feng Yu-hsiang and that is to continue their picketing and ignore the use of this weapon which has been condemned by the en- tire labor movement as a use of the Meeting Sunday. Gitlow will speak on September 24 |the next great city of China at whose at the opening of the campaign to be _ |capture from Sun Chuan-fang, native held at Central Opera House, Friday | militarist tool of foreign imperialists, evening. His main address will be *| multy, PATCHES IN SNEED- Last Word Pronounced to Mean Dough (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ili., Sept. 20—The appointment of William J. Sneed to the vice-presidency of the Illinois Min- ers’ Union, by Harry Fishwick, presi- dent, by virtue of Farrington’s con- tract with the Peabody Coal company, straightens out a troublesome jam in the ranks of the reactionary official- dom of the district organization, John L, Lewis is mainly responsible for the peace treaty. Responsibility is shared by the coal operators who have brought their influence to bear indirectly in favor of peace between Sneed and Fishwick, lest Joseph Tu- the progressive candidate should win out in a three cornered contest. As a matter of fact, even jas the situation stands now, nothing remains between Tumulty and victory | except faulty organization. Both Far- rington and Lewis are so thoroly dis- credited in this district that anybody with an antiLewis or Farrington. la- (Continued on page 2) KEEP THE DAILY WORKER! oy By WM. Z. FOSTER Tha DAILY WORKER is our party's greatest single weapon in the class struggle. It is the sole English daily paper defending the ‘interests of the ‘|workérs, To build it and to strength- en it in every way is a central task of our party. Since The DAILY WQRKER was established, almost three;.years ago, it,has Jed a militant fight against the employers and against’ their agents, the trade union bureaucracy. Despite every obstacle and a systematic cam- paign of persecution, it has made ef- fective warfare against class collabo- ration and against corruption in the unions, It has been an unflinching fighter for the labor party, for the or- ganization of the unorganized, for amalgamation, and for the whole left wing program necessary to build the trade unions into a movement with real power and fighting spirit. By employers and reactionary bureau- crats it is the most hated of all pub- lications, which is its best recommen- dations. Although The DAILY WORKER has already a splendid record of achieve- ment, its usefulness is just beginning. The trade union bureaucracy is moving every more to the right. The employers are placing increased pres- sure upon the work Great fights loom head. In thre “thobilization of ' the masses against the double enemy of employers and reactionary labor leaders, The DAILY WORKER will play a central part. But in order ‘to fulfill its mission, it must be made into a high class Communist paper, with a wide circulation among the masse. ; The history of labor papers that make a real battle against the em ployers, is'a history of struggle and sacrifice, of loyal support by unstint- ing. comrades. The DAILY WORKER ig no exception. The party has had to make the most strenuous efforts to keep it in the field, At times the issue has seemed doubtful, so deep was the crisis. But always the readers and supporters of the paper, realizing its tremendous value in every phase of the class struggle, have rallied and pulled it through, Now it will be ne- cessary to make another big effort. The DAILY WORKER needs assist- ance, This must be given quickly and in the fullest measure. The slogan “Keep The DAILY -WORKER" must be raised in every unit of our party and in every organ- ization where the left wing has a fol- lowing. To translate it into reality by the colldetion of funds and by the neral biilding of the paper must be made atfirst order of business, All DEAD AND DISCOURAGED | BANDITS LEAVE YANKEE TOURISTS ENJOY TRIPS MEXICO CITY, Sept. 20.—Unde- terred by the banditry on the high- . way, to Cuernavaca which resulted in the murder of the American, | Jacob Rosenthal, a week. ago yes- } terday, the foreigners in this city made their usual week-end trips to the near-by resorts. The near-by regions now are safe, being well outlaws. Officials believe that most | of the bandits responsible for the | latest outrage have been killed. HUNDREDS DEAD _ IN WAKE OF BIG FLORIDA WIND ‘Millionaire Playground Wiped Out i (Speclat to The Daily Worker) MIAMI BEACH, Fila., Sept. 20.— Roaring out of the southeast, the | West Indian hurricane that left a grisly trail of death and destruction in Florida continued with undimin- ished vigor today and at noon had struck the gulf coast with a paralyz- ing blow. A wind of a velocity estimated by meterologists at 100 miles an hour | swept up and out of stricken Florida | and in an hour had cut off Mobile and the Cantonese are aiming. devoted to the use of the injunction | The walled city of Wuchang, on the /and violence against the workers and |south bank of the river, enveloped by | suppression of free speech. The other |the Cantonese when Hankow W&S8 |gpeakers will be William F, Dunne, ‘captured, is still under siege, with candidate for United States senator; | Wu's troops certain to be forced to Juliet Stuart Poyntz, candidate for [ultimate surrender, while the next! state comptroller; William W. Wein- |scene of a battle between the Canton-' stone, candidate for congress in the jese and the troops of Sun Chuamfang ‘29th District; Ben Gold, manager of jls expected at Kiukiang. |the joint board of the Furriers’ Union; 4 Troops Desert. Reactionaries. | The desertions of Wu Pei-fu’s | troops continues to such a’ degree that} ;Jack Stachel, chairman. Mobilize Unionists. This meeting will mark the open- jit is doubtful if he-ean recover any of ling gun of the campaign of the Work- /the ground he has lost, altho troops lare leaving Peking to reinforce him. | But if these also desert at the moment covered by soldiers searching for | they engage the Cantonese, as others | {have done, even his present ally, Chang Tso-lin, may lose interest in bothering to save Wu from his fate. Two National Armies to Unite. Chang Tso-lin also has suffered grave losses by desertions, and there is a clear possibility that the Kuomin- chun commanded by Feng may march south, take Peking and continue until a juncture is formed with the Can- tonese marching northward. The result of this inner unity of na tionalist forces would be a tremendous strengthening of the Cantonese gov- ernment and a sweeping advance from Mid-China outward to drive the mili- tarists and imperialist intervention forces into the sea. FRANGE STIRRED AT FASCIST MOB WAR ON CONSULS PARIS, Sept. 20. — Serious compli- jcations may follow the confirmation Pensacola from outside communica. | of news reports fromi Italy.that faecist tion. At noon, more than 24 hours after | ‘Ne hurricane struck America’s play- | ground along the southeast Florida coast, only a general estimate, of the appalling damage wrought in. Florida could be obtained. A Scores of Places Hit. The cities of Mjam{, Miami-Beach, Hollywood, Coral Gables’ and a dozen other winter communities were still | cut off from communication, ‘while special relief trains, airplanes and automobiles sped toward the area with badly-needed supplies.’ ~ The death list is’ variously’ esti- mated at from 500 to 1,000, and those who attempted to check up the dis- aster admitted it may be several days before anything like an accurate count is possible. Buildings Raised. Property damage is so enormous In the wake ft left ruined build- | violence against foreigners has taken ings, stricken ships and death, |the form of black shirt attacks on | French consuls, particularly the con- sul at Florence, where it is reported that a fascist mob stoned the, French consul’s home and attempted to set fire'to it. “Violence Starts Retaliation, “Fascist attacks ‘on the, French in Ttaly have been extremely. violent, and ‘have resulted .in a counter-dem- ongtration in Corsica. -Anti-fascists in this French islam ,.mobbed the. fascist consulate and ,forced., the consul to raise the French fag beside the Italian banner, also. compelling Italian boats in the harbor to raise the French flag, This is retaliation for similar action by Italians. Beat U. S. Vice-Consul. Other attacks in Rome of foreign- ers include the beating up by black shirts of Barl Brennan, an American vice-consul, who Is said to have been that relief agencies and eye-witnesses (Continued on page 2) hands to the task! Every effort must be expendeb to strengthen The DAILY WORKE ‘ Re or ha scotion gang repairing railroad ties set upon and beaten into unconscious- ness and left on the street by a gang. FOUR WORKERS DIE AS EXPRESS — CRASHES INTO SECTION Gila PITTSTOWN, Pa., Sept. 20.—Speeding around a sharp curve near here, in express train of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway today plunged ‘into ' | ooarse grain on a and killed four taborera, ad Be sa ers (Communist) Party in New York state. The Furriers and members of jthe International Ladies’ Garment | (Continued on page 2.) ‘MEXICO ARMY VICTORIOUS IN SHARP BATTLE Dupes of Pope Suffer for Excessive Piety (Special to The Daily Worker) EL PASO, Tex., Sept. 20. — Federal troops have defeated the main body of rebellious Yaqui Indians in Mexico and are driving them out of the valley, General Alvaro Obregon, former presi- dent of Mexico telegraphed Enrique Liekens, Mexican consul-general here today. General Obregon, who has been re- ported wounded, missing and dead for the last several days advised that he was unharmed in skirmishes with the Indians. He now is at his plantation camp at Cajeme, sonora in the Yaqui Delta. General Francisco Manzos and his troop of federals are forcing the Yaquis to retreat, Obregon said. At Corral Junction the Indiangfearried | ‘off the Mexican telegraph operator, |Manuel Encinas, after destroying the | wires. Clean Up on Reactlonarles. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 20.—About) 200 catholics, men and women, were | junhder arrest today. From a meeting \last night under the auspices of the; | League for Defense of Religious Free. | dom they were taken to police head- quarters, The charge is that they were hold- jing a meeting for seditious purposesi eke | t WASHINGTON, Sept. 20,-—-Seere-{ tary of State Kellogg today called upon Governor Ferguson of Texas for a report of the alleged slaying of: Thomas Nunez and two other Mexi-| cans at Raymondsville, Texas. Tho’ Mexican government presented @ pro- test and charged that the trio was! taken from a jail by a mob. WINNIPEG—(FP’)—Officlals of the: Canadian Consolidated Wheat Pool St. Paul, last winter... The Canad: Pool expects.to handle 80% of ‘wheat crops this year and also large scale, will visit Australia, Argentine and the! ‘ | Orient. They will endeavor to arrange) a wheat pool In Argentine and prj pate the way for the International pool discussed at the conference at NES Bite ee