The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1926, Page 3

SPANISH KING AND DICTATOR IN OPEN CLASH Alfonso May Abdicate or Force Rivera Out Lage (Special to The Daily Worker) MADRID, Sept. 21.—A full cabinet meeting with King Alfonso at San Sebastian Is in session today with the gravest possibilities in prospect. These Include an open break betwen the king and the dictator, Primo de Rivera, This may result In forcing de Rivera out or.the abdication of the king, May Change Form of Government. Even the conservative papers are warning of a governmental crisis, one stating: ‘“We are in a political moment of transcendental importance, one in which nothing less than a new organ- ization of the basis of state power is seen.” The hostility between de Rivera and Alfonso has long been hidden beneath the surface, but the king has seen a competitor in de Rivera that may threaten his own monarchial power, and for this reason has secretly aided the army officers in their plans for revolt against the dictator. Two Demands of Rivera. De Rivera is going to the council to demand the king sign two decrees, One for a fake parliament of mere consulative nature, on the strength of the recent “plebiscite” vote, and the other a decree calling for complete reorganization of the army in such 4 way as to eliminate de Rivera’s enemies among the powerful but un- official officers’ groups. TWO AMERICAS TO HAVE REPS AT BRUSSELS Delegates Attend Anti- Imperialist Conference (Special te The Dally Worker) BHPRLIN, Sept. 21.—Besides an of- ficial delegate of the Mexican govern- ment as promised by President Plu- tarco Calles, the Brussels conference calle?.by the League Against Colonial Suppression for the middle of Novem- der, the two American continents will have representatives from Cuba, Porto Rico, Argentinia, Chile, Venezuela, Central American countries and labor and antiimperialist organizations in the United States. Address U. 8, League. A communication has been ad- dressed by the All-America Anti-Im- jPerialist League (United States Sec- ftion), the organization in the United States cooperating with the Berlin International Committee, to the Na- tional Association for tha Advance- ment of Colored People, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and other Negro organizations calling on them to send delegates to Brussels. Co-operation. “It has been our opinion,” says the letter of the league to above organ- izations, “that a getting together in conference of oppressed races and na tionalities on a world-wide scale must raise the status of all and evolve a basis of mutual co-operation in what is fundamentally a common struggle. As an anti-imperialist organization we maintain the point of view that the evils of imperialism are manifested . not only in fasoff lands such as Haiti, Africa, etc,, Sut also by oppressed SARE Sipe Cae Sony oe GINSBERG'S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. ment. Meat Market Senate ay dees ines Child, Famous Tout . for Fascism, Changes is Mind on Divorce STROUDSBURG, Pa., Sept. 21, — Riohard Washburn Child, former Un- ited States ambassador to Italy, today withdrew his sult for divorce trom Mrs. Maud Porker Child, well-known writer, The suit had been filed in common pleas court of Monroe county here, June 26, last, Child is a famous boost- er of fascism. GOVERNMENT OF SPAIN UTTERLY BROKE; MAY FALL Has No Funds and Owes an Enormous Debt (By a Spanish Worker.) MADRID (By Matl).—The critical situation of the treasury is at present the subject of gravest concern to the Spanish government, In spite of hav- ing taken mo part in the world war, the treasury is in such a crisis that it may well cause the fall of the present government, if not cause even graver consequences, should a remedy, which is difficult, be not immediately found. The total Spanish debt is 17,109,042,- 754 pesetas (a peseta at par is worth about 16 cents). Of this the state has consolidated 12,283,943,294 pesetas, and the remainder, some 4,829,499,800 pesetas, is issued in treasury bonds issued during the directorate (Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship). ‘Fiiese bonds reach maturity on the following dates: 1098 millions on Feb- ruary 4, 1927; 700 millions in April, 1928; 1,278 millions on November 4, 1928; 1,288 millions January 1, 1929, and 800 millions on July 5, 1930. Spain acquired this debt in her Mo- toccan war, since in this undertaking Spain spent around 900 millions each ATTENTION— NEW YORK COMRADES! Make no engagement for Monday night, October 25th. An important event will take place. W BROOKLYN, N. Y, ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER. Bakery deliveries made to your home. | FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc. year, approximately the same quantity which her deficit reaches. The ex- penditure last year in the Moroccan war was 827,899,647 pesetas. The Spanish budget (which has not been revised since the beginning of the directorate), is 3,671,428,280 pese- tas, of which 900 millions have to be paid in interest and 900 millions set aside for the Moroccan war, as I stated above. Thus only 1,120 mil- lions remain, out of which one-half goes to the army and navy, leaving only 600 millions for public works and education. This will give some idea of the backward state of these. two last departments. Robbed the Budget for War. We must also take.into considera- tion that perhaps the directorate has not even spent this insignificant amount in public works and educa tion, because one of the first acts of the dictatorship established on Sep tember 13, 1923, was to suspend the law governing the keeping of public accounts, which prohibited transfer- ring ,credits from one section of the budget to another, From this it follows that the expen- ditures in the army, navy and for Mo- roccan war may be even greater than above indicated, and to the detriment of the budget for public works and education, Government Flat Broke, At the present moment the govern- ment’s current account in the “Banco de Espana” is zero; so to meet its payments the government will not in any way be able to avoid making use of the right it has to borrow up to the limit of 380 millions of pesetas from the Banco de Espana, without interest. . The situation is absolutely unprece- dented in Spain since the Restoration. Commonwealth School | Shows Good Progress MBNA, Ark., Sept. 21.—(FP)—The erection of a cottage for a faculty |member brings the number of build- ings on the Commonwealth College campus to 15, The school provides education for workers on a self-sup- porting basis. Its work hag attracted the hostile attention of the Arkansas American legion, Why not a emall bundie of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regular- ly to take to your trade union meeting? atch for announce- Restaurant THE DAILY WORKER By ROBERT DUNN. HH) need for a labor party to unite the workers must be apparent to anyone who has observed the work- ings of the Tammany machine in New York City and its relation to the’ lead- ers of certain labor unions. The ob- | ject of this article is merely to sketch some of the incidents in this relation- ship. The reader can judge for him- self what the effects of it must be upon the trade union leaders and upon the general problem of trade union political unity, To barter the “labor vote” for polit- {eal preference has ‘been one of the favorite parlor tricks of the trade union leadership almost since the days when unions were first organized in this state. The labor leaders have always taken part in politics of the most partisan character, tho, of course, professing publicly that they were interested in the game only as “non-partisans,” ND the labor leaders have for de- cades been more or less strenu- ously opposed by the socialists and soctalist-laborites, who have claimed that the trading of votes for personal jobs was not the way to get labor ahead in the political field. One of the most militant and articu- late exposers of the labor leader in this role was Daniel De Leon, who de- clared in season and out of season that the trade union leadership was betraying the workers at every elec- tion, In the national, state and local councils of labor the socialists carried on the same constant attack upon the “fat boys” who were feathering their nests by trading the labor vote for business and political jobs. To down the lists of the important officers of the New York State Federation of Labor, for example, and you find a goodly number of them who found their way into happy politi- cal positions thru these methods. Even before the days of the State Federation, when the state body was known as the Workingmen’s Asseth- bly, we find the first president, Jim Connolly of the Practical Painters’ Union, ending up as a state factory inspector. He was followed by W. N. Thayer of the Typographical Union, who was later president of the common council of Troy and the warden of Dannemora Prison. The next president, Tom Dowling, a blacksmith’s official, was rewarded by the position of state com- missioner of labor statistics. After him came Bill O’Brien of the granite cutters, who wag later the sheriff of New York county. Mf bacco with the formation of the State Federation of Labor, we find Jim Lavery, a typographical man, the first president. He was later appoint- ed to the state eivil service commis- sion, Martin Murphy of the molders, followed Lavery. He, in turn, became a civil service commissioner in Buf- talo and then went into business. The next executive was John Pallas of the pattern makers, who became park commissioner of Greater New York, while the next in line, W. O. Jones, graduated into the job of build- ing inspector at Utica. Finally we come to Jim Holland, the present in- cumbent, who has held several ap- pointive tho apparently not so lucra- tive offices from the state while still in labor office. He is now on the board of standards and appeals. J ge! Press on February 4 announced Holland’s appointment by Mayor Walker as a “lay member” of this board at a salary of $7,500. The New York Times says: “He formerly held the same position at a per diem rate of $10 for each session . . . but was dropped by Mayor Hylan after he came out in favor of Walker for mayer in the last campaign.” It Mr. Holland retains his $5,000 position as head of the New York State Federation of Labor the two jobs will together net him a tidy in- come from salaries alone of $12,500. The average factory worker in the state, it may be well to remember, earns annually, if employe full time, approximately $1,250, or one-tenth of this amount, Wi rai same evolution of labor leaders could be followed thru all the Qther offices of the state federation, Among the secretaries and treasurers, vice-presidents and legislative agents who later held public offices were Alexander Troup, later a collector of federal customs under President Cleveland; Richard Curran, now a member of the state industrial board; Hdward Bates, later deputy secretary of state: John Williams, later a state labor commissioner; Patrick Doyle, later with the state railroad commis- sion; Jim Lynch, now head of the In- ternational Typographical Union and once head of the state industrial com- mission; Jim Hooley, appointed as state factory inspector; Jim McManus, & mediator in the state department of labor; Tom Fit#%erald, deputy com- pensation law commissioner in the Albany district; John Bogart, license commissioner of Greater New York, and Herman Rébinson, also a license commissioner, following Bogart. HE above list is only a hint of the graduations which have taken | place, of labor officials stepping out into substantial state and city offices, As John O'Hanlon, the present secre- tary of the State Federation of Labor, “The long list of vice-presidents and Associate officers, accumulated during th ixty years, contain many of annals and of many now occupying prominent Places in business, profes- sional and governmental circles” (em- phasis ours). The above are but a few examples out of the historical rec- ords of this state, (0 come down to more recent days, a look at the current shakings of the plum tree will convince the most skeptical that the labor officials have not been elighted in return for their services in the field of “non-partisan politics.” Take first the state depart- ment of labor, where labor men would most naturally be’ found. Some 28 are DOW on the roll and eix of these belong to”: class exempt from the civil service examinations, These six are Mr. Curran, referred to above: ‘Mr, Gernon, Mr, Deering, M, Gompefs and M. Jacksonr. Mr. Donahue, Who {s a director of the bu- reau of ‘workmen's eompensation, probably athleved office because as an official of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers he had organized and acted as chairman of the “Railroad Men’s Non-Partisan League of Greater New York,” supporting Governor Smith, The other five appointees were apparently deserving democrats. HEN we must not forget some of the present day luminaries in the local and state labor movement, men- tioning firat Mr. Peter J. Brady, a former official of the photo-engravers and the Allied Printing Trades Coun- cil. He was for many years the su- pervisor of the City Record, the daily official publication of the City of New York. The modest salary accompany- ing this office is $6,500. Mr. Brady within the last year turned over this office to a friend and now devotes his time to banking, being the president of the Federation Bank of New York. Mr. Stephen Kelley, former presi- dent of the Allied Printing Trades Council, was very glad to pick up Mr. Brady's job with the City Record. It is understood that in addition to the $6,500 the job carries with & a emall amount of patronage. HEN we have Mr. John Sullivan, president of the New York Trades and Labor Council, a former official of the Brewery Workers’ Union. Since 1921 Mr. Sullivan has held a $65.000 position as director of the Industrial Aid Bureaiti of the city. Mr. James F. Costello, of the executive council of the Central Trades and Labor Council, is assistant director of the same bu- reau, receiving $3,000 per annum in addition td his income from the Metal Polishers’ @id Buffers’ Union. Other lator officials who now hold honorary, or $10-a-session, positions in thé city*or state government are such wellmown figures as Hugh Frayne, Jerome B. Keating, John Mun- holland, Join K. Hallett and several others, Alderman Kenneally, pal of Brinéell anda power in Tammany cir- cles, is stfll ‘an official of the Steam- fitters’ Union, Ae considering this list, one cannot. be astonished af the eleventh-hour developments tn the presidential campaign of 1924 when’ the executive council of the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York City ‘swung from LaFollette to Davis, accompanied by the officials of the Allied Printing Trades Council of the city and the State Federation it- self in thé person of Jim Holland. The Tammany Tiger had only to swish its tail and these gentlemen walked away from their LaFollette pledges and delivered in a body to the Tammany candidate. One must remember also that the “Al Smith socialists” In the neédle trades deserted their candidate, Dr. Thomas, and lined up with Al. Just what the considerations were Is not known to this writer. Dr, Thomas opines it was “rum, race and reli- gion” that provided the issues on which Al could amble away with the socialist vote. Whatever there may be in this, one cannot overlook the close political relations of the needle trades leaders and certain democratic politicians who had per- formed substantial favors for the trade union bureaucrats in their struggles against the left wing and the Communists, F course the labor leaders have been systematically “sold” to Smith for a good many terms. Al's plat- forms have reeked with civic right- eousness and social reform. On the vital issues, however, and in the criti- cal moments he has not delivered. Take, for example, two of the hardy perennials among the resolutions passed yearly by the New York State Federation of Labor—child labor and the injunction. Al was, of course, pledged to smite them both. But the first he evaded when he saw that the catholic chufeh was anti-labor. So he forgot his pledge, knowing that labor, as usual, would forget his forgetting when it came time for another elec- tion. HEN the injunction evil, Labor had always come out strongly against it, But the state democratic platform in 1924 slid over the issue and a few months later a labor-sup- ported justice, Churchill, was handing out injunctions against labor on be- half of the International Tailoring Company. These are but typical examples of “labor's reward” in the way of pro- tective legislation for dancing to the tune of t mmany gangsters, But the labor 1 should worry, They get something more Reidueck a dan por- iy BO On sonal than 1 endorsing = pasty candidates Tammany Hall and the Trade Unions 1925, with both a Workers’ Party and a socialist lidate on the ballot, the non-partisan political com- mittee of the Central Trades and La- bor Council, annex of Tammany Hall, endorsed democratic candidates for mayor, president of the Borough of Manhattan, judges, aldermen and so on down the line. Of course, in th aries the labor leaders some Witness Jim H ) je out for Hylan. But tho ing Trades Council made him write a letter repu- diating his action and telling Tam- many his followers would back Walker, Tammany’s choice. Witness also Hylan trying to discipline his former labor friends by ts a quar- ter of a milli dollars of the city's money from deposit at the Federation Bank, And Jimmie. Walker putting it right back in again the minute he becomes mayor thru the support of the labor bankers, ]\HH workers’ rank and file should also take note of the mutual com- pliments and back slaps exchanged between the “big” labor boys and the politicians around election time. The spectacle is interesting and informing. Says Senator Walker, for example, ad- dressing a Labor Day audience on Governor’s Island in 1925: » + My congratulations to you (he was talking to the masses) for the great leaders you have picked out, who have come into official bod- jes with sober mind and strong “hearts, with great intelligence and with @ manifest understanding of what they were doing” et cetera, et cetera—ad nauseum. ND finally Calvin Coolidge himself, addressing Peter Brady on the cel- ebration of the second anniversary of the Federation Bank in 1925: “We are now at the dawn of a new day for labor, and we firmly be- eve as a result of our experience and influence, also the dawn of a new era between the wage earners and their employers, between capi- tal and labor.” Strikebreaker Cal’s idea of the dawn, the new era and the millenium will have been fully reached when every labor skate and every worker eats out of the bipartisan pot. The purpose of a Labor Party is to keep this dawn from ever breaking. COOLIDGE IN NEW ATTACK UPON MEXICO Starts New Offensive for Oil Companies (Speoiat to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Bullying of the, Callies: government in Mexico on behalf of American oil companies that seek to avoid payment of taxes to Mexico has been resumed in Wash- ington, under the slight pretext of the killing of an American citizen in Mexico by bandits. Utterly disconnected as the oil dis- pute and the bandit crime are, the Coolidge administration has seized the occasion of the murder of Rosen- thal to suggest that it wili vigorously uphold the right of Amer n ofl men to enjoy profits that the Mexican con- stitution and laws do not permit them to take from the subsoil of that coun- try. Resume Oil Attack, Armed intervention in Mexico by the United States is not within the possibilities of the situation, but Sec- retary Kellogg and Ambassador Shef- field have launched upon a new cycle of notesending and scowling at the less powerful republic below the Rio Grande, This program has been in- terrupted by the struggle in Mexico between church and state. That contest appears to be virtual- ly over as a result of the rallying of the Mexican nation to the side of the government. Now Kellogg is about to resume that Mexico recognize the title of the of] companies to the oil de- posits to which they secured claims in violation of the Mexican constitution, Bakers Push Milwaukee Organization Campaign. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 21. — (FP) — Assistance from the Bakery & Con- fectionery Workers’ International Un- ion is helping the Milwaukee local to push an energetic campaign against scab bread, COLONEL FORBES GETS TURNED DOWN ON PLEA FOR PAROLE FROM PEN (Special to The Daily Worker) LEAVENWORTH, Kans. Sept. 21.—Col. Charles R. Forbes, former director of the United States Vet- erans’ Bureau, an inmate’ of the federal prison here since March, 1926, was refused a parole at the session of the parole board which came to a close today, it was learned today. Forbos was one of 497 inmates before the Septemb meeting of the board. He is serving a two- year sentence in connection with defrauding the government in the construction of héepitals for dix abl Seidler . National Defense to Gain by 600 Planes for Commercial Use (Bpeclal to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, ~— A pre- diction that 600 commercial airplanes will be in service within six months was made by Secretary of Commerce Hoover today, The plants to produce this equipment, will be a valuable ad- dition to America's national defense, he said, SHANGHAI UNION LABOR PROTESTS AGAINST BOSSES Strike Ageindt Long Hours and Low Wages (8pectal to The Dally Worker) SHANGHAI, Sept. 21—In a mani- festo to the public the Shanghai Gen eral Labor Union declares that a work. man cannot maintain his family on $12 a month, which is the average wage in the factories. Working hours are between 12 and 16 a day and ho recess or stoppage for dinner is per- mitted. There is no day of rest. San- Wary accommodations are not pro- vided. Persecution Added. “It is well known,” says the state- ment, “that the cost of living in Shanghai is the highest in China. Whenever we requested a raise in wages or betterment in treatment our demands have been flatly rejected by the factory owners. They dismiss our representatives and ask the police to arrest the ‘ringleaders’ of the work- ers. Our patience has reached a limit. That is the reason there are many strikes.” 150,000 Strike. Both European, Japanese and Chi- nese factory owners have resisted these demands of the workers so stub- bornly that during July there were 100 strikes, involving some 160,000 workers. They were accused of radi- cal tendencies, but this they denied, saying that all they were asking was a chance to feed their families and maintain health while at work. Fane Thres MOROS OF JOLO VOTE TO FREE ISLES FROM U.S, Also Condemn the Bacon Bill (Special to The Dally Worker) JOLO, P. L, Sept, 21—On motion of. Councilor Mujul and seconded by Councilor Maharan, both Mohamme- dan Filipinos (Moros), the Jolo ma nicipal council recently passed a ree olution protesting against the Bacon bill, The resolution demanded the unity of the Philippines and called for independence from United States rule. Jolo Included. Jolo Island is in the territory sought lu group so that American rubber trusts m override the Philippine ng holdings to 2,500 Firestone’s Plane. Firestone has declared that he % willing to undertake the cultivation of 500,000 acres if the Philippine land laws are abrogated. The Bacon dill is an indirect attempt to nulify the land laws. The Jolo resolution fa the official expression ofthe Moros in this island on the questfon of the Bacon bill and also expressed the unified wish for independence. oe Recall Slaughter of Moros by General Pershing. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept, M— William » Simms, Daily News foreign editof, in an article attacking the’ Bacon bill, points‘out that the Moros suffered more under United States rule than any time in their his- tory. He points out that the Moros were literally slaugh d under the mifli- jtary dictator »s of Generals Wood, Bliss and Pers z, In the years 1908- 1913, “General Pershing’s reputation ap to the World War was won chiefy fighting the M , and it was not until 1913, on the little mountain of Bagsak in the Sulus, that he finally broke the back of their reststance.” 20,000 More Signatures Needed in New York (Continued from page 1) 14th Cong. Dist. N. Y., Blmer T. Allison, 1,700. 8rd Assem. Dist., Bronx, Elias | Marks, 1,250. 4th Assem. Dftst., Bronx, Isidore Steinzer, 1,150. 5th Assem. Dist., Bronx, Charles Zimmerman, 1,275. 7th Assem, Dist., Bronx, Joseph Bo- ruchowitz, 1,300. 20th Cong. Dist., Olgin, 1,700, 6th Assem. Dist., Primoff, 1,050. 14th Assem. Dist., Nesin, 900. 23rd Assem. Dist., Kings, Fannie Warshafsky, 875. 10th Cong. Dist., Wolfe, 1,700. 7th Sen, Dist., 1,700. The time for the filing of-the signa- tures is almost at hand and we are still short almost 20,000 signatures. All comrades are instructed by the district executive committee to imme- Bronx, Moissaye J. Kings, George Kings, Samuel Kings, Bertram D. 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