The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government THE DAIL Vol. Ill. No. 215. Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, Zw Bax |CANTON MAY x By T. J, O'FLAHERTY kg RTHUR BRISBANE stopy ing Florida real estate hurricane time to pass by. vestor in real estate shoula cited, says Arthur, who has iny?. a considerable sum of money in Fil 7 ida, Tho Arthur regrets the loss of life, he consoles himself with the thought that millions were killed in the world war afd the survivors for- got about it mighty quick. Now for the greatest airplane fleet in the world and Brisbane will be happy. Murder by airplanes is more scientific than murder by heavy artillery. . eee HESTER WRIGHT sees another wave of Soviet Russia propaganda coming. Who is Chester Wright? Chester was once upon a time a social- ist and now he is not even that. He edited the defunct New York Call for a time and later on went on Sam Gompers’ payroll. After Sam went to his reward—to the worms—Chester got the bright idea that he would like to be an oil magnate. Chester is oily enough, but the suckers would not buy his stock. He made the mistake of canvassing the labor fakers, and they know each other, se @ O Chester dropped his fake oil stock and hiked to Washington, William Green, being a foxy Baptist, took Wright in and gave him a job attack- ing radicals and hurling his poisoned sarrows at the Soviet Union. Perhaps ‘Chester had some oil in his system when he penned the following, or per- haps it was something else. Here it ds: It is now recognition or ruin, and the gamblers of Moscow, circling madly in the same bloody } trail trod by Lenin and kept freshly yoaked by the sneaking, bludgeoning, }murdering cheka, are planning to bend every-effort to win on the throw ‘of the dice.” Ve, Lb a * 8 CLEVER Har will not over-exag- - gerate. He will not water his \stock excessively. The main consid. jeration of a propagandist is to get the ‘public to believe what he serves up, fand, of course, to reach as wide a tcircle as possible. People blinded by kprejudice allow their emotions to con- rquer their judgment. This is wh: "Wrights diatribe agalibt Rudelé eax be turned into a boomerang. Let any jsane worker read the above except and what will he think? He will say: “That guy is nutty.” Wright hates #he Soviet leaders as any traitor will hate those who remain true to prin- ciples he deserted. “* 6 HE reactionary officials of the American Federation of Labor and their hired scribblers have reason to hate the revolutionary movement. The leaders are making out pretty well just now. They are sharers in capi- talist prosperity. Salaries of $150 a week are not to be sneered at. And jthere is a general suspicion that the {financial paws of the fakers are not ag free from taint as the morals of Ca.u1’s wife. Recognition of the Soviet Union is desired by groups of American capitalists for purely busi- ness reasons.* But recognition will also help the Soviet Union and thus ihasten the day of labor's victory, se 6 (CYNE of. the most disgraceful inet- dents in the annals of the Ameri- can labor movement is the speech de- livered by Thomas MacMahon, prest- dent of the United Textile Workers’ Union, at the mass demonstration in Passaic to celebrate the entrance of several thousand mill workers into ‘the American Federation of Labor. MacMahon had no word of criticism for the employers. He spent most of his time denouncing the strikers. Sev- eral thousand members haye beer? added to the U. M. W. of A. without any effort on MacMahon’s part. Judg- ing by his talk, they have a worse enemy in MacMahon than in the po- lice that smashed their heads during the strike. 4 » Ah lt Barton ae of his extravagance Count Franz Esterhazy, Jr., of Hungary has been turned over the custody of ‘his wife, The count had a 28,000-acre éstate which he mismanaged, In addi- ‘tion to many other money-spending devices, the count had 3,000 suits of clothes. The count was unlucky that the workers’ revolution did not suc- coed in Hungary. In that case he would not have to look after 3,000 suits of clothes, and not having any property, it is quite likely that the countess would not volunteer to treat ‘him as a prisoner of war, eee ’ MAY reasonably intelligent people who read the sport pages of the capitalist press are worked up to a high pitch of excitement over the Kearns-Dempsey quarrel. How much of It is real we do not know, but Tex Rickard, the boxing promoter, is not doing any worrying. The people are swallowing his publicity, and that ig what he wants, with your pen in the worker % > GET BRITISH e eae me a 4, 0 “£> OF . og! “COGNITION r ° “ins Trade; t Divided (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Sept. 22.—The British cabinet is serigusly Gebating a re- versal of British policy in China which - a de facto government any real Inde- inces, but since Canton is the strong- est, It implies a practical recognition of Canton and repudiation of Peking. Die-Hards Oppose. By this means it is hoped to make some sort of compromise with the rising nationalist revolutionary goy- ernment of Canton, This is, of course, bitterly opposed by ‘the die-hard im- Perialist elements both in the London cabinet and those ruling in the Brit- ish settlements in China, particularly Hongkong. Hongkong has suffered, and British trade has suffered enormous losses by the boycott laid against Hongkong by the Cantonese. The Canton govern- ment now offers to withdraw the boy- cott in return for certain extra taxes to be given to the Canton authority. Hongkong Wants intervention. The die-hard element at Hongkong is bitterly opposed to any agreement with Canton and really wants armed intervention on a big scale to crush Canton in the old fashion, But all ea is in revolt and the London diplomats are afraid that if the boy- cott is continued worse results will ensue than by reaching an agreement with Canton on customs taxes. The British director of Chinese | customs tariffs, Mr. Agley, is also op- |posing any yielding to Canton, even on the part of duties. After subtract- ing most of the duty income for for- eign loans forced upon China, the customs director has given the rest 10 Peking j= <o-mee nt, ioatighng se @ Strawn Admits Defeat, OKIO, Sept. 22..— Silas Strawn, American delegate to the judiciary commission of foreign powers that at- tempted to “settle” China has arrived at Tokio plainly showing disappoint- ment with the result of the commis- sion’s efforts. Instead of the imperialists making concessions to China’s demand for abolition of the extra-territorial rights of foreign powers, the Chinese na- tional revolution is rapidly consolidat- ing its forces to abolish these un- equal treaty rights by force. The powers were Yealing with the Peking government, which hag turned out to hoe a myth, powerless to control China. As. to the customs conference, Strawn admits it is “up in the air, the Chinese having run out on us.” 150,000 OF WU PEI-FU'S ARMY REVOLT soa : Imperialist Agent Is in . Serious Situation (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Sept. 22. — Two of Marshal Wu Pei-fu’s supporters, gen- erals Tien Wei Chin and Chin Yu Nao, have revolted, according to word received here today from Hankow. The revolt was sald to have been pre- cipitated by the execution of General Tien Wel Chin’s chief brigadier gen- eral, Mare than 150,000 troops are in- volved In the revolt, it Is reported. General Sun Chuan Fang, with 40,000 troops, arrived at Kiukiang to- day and will probably move into the battl) area shortly, rts reaching here today from Wu ( ang stated that F. E. Shepherd and wife, two of the 21 Americans facing starvation in that besieged city, had left the city which is be- sieged by the Cantonese, Canton afr- Planes are dropping pro nda to win troops in the ofty offering them inducements to revoit. pica E Sia Heald Get a copy of the American Worker Correspondent. it’s only & cents, Hear the Communist Candidate for Governor IN Benjamin In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. At ’ ay € j he { Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, @t the Post Office at Chicago, Ilnois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. by mail, $6.00 per year. IDENTIFICATION i o will provide for recognition ‘of the | Canton government and a practical | ignoring of the fiction of a government | at Peking. The pian is to recognize as. Pendent power in the various prov- | | 6 L.THUMS | e | | R.FORE L.FoRE ea. R.MIDDLE = LMIDOLE Now figuring in a $391,000 gentleman is a notorious Communist hater, BRITISH MIN UNION REFUSES TO SURRENDER King Continues State of Emergency (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Sept. 22.—King George the Fifth this afternoon issued a royal proclamation entending the “state of emergency” or practical martial law, |for another month. The government | has had emergency powers since May 1, the beginning of the coal strike. Figures show that the loss to British industry has been nearly $2,500,000 | since the strike began. Miners Refuse to Surrender. The latest efforts of Premier Bald- surrender to district agree: ; a note ‘to the premier, the miners inti- mate strongly that Baldwin is plainly on the side of the mine owners. He actually is a mine owner himself. Baldwin proposed first that the min- ers go back to work before any ‘set- tlement; second, that district settle- ments be made without regard to op- position of the union to longer hours and a pay reduction; third, that the anion accepts, in Meu of its own judg- ment, the decree of an arbitration sourt to be elected by the Tory par- iament to decide on any appeal from the district settlements. A Flat Rejection. The miners’ reply is a flat rejection of the scheme on the ground that it completely abolishes the national in- terests of the miners and the powers of the national union. It points out that the union has done its tull Part in trying to reach a settlement, but that the government had refused to live up to its promises made to them by Winston Churchill. This has produced a crisis in the cabinet, Churchill declaring that Bald- win has turned him down and inti- mating that he may resign. New Conference Called. Following receipt of thee note a meeting of several cabinet members, together with the miners’ leaders was called ‘by Baldwin. Important devel- opments are expected from this con- ference. It is clear that if the miners can hold out some time longer, the capi- talists of Great Britain will have reached an inner crisis that may atl to victory of their demands, or at least concessions to them now bitter- win to force the miners to accept FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1926 Tagged Again! bribe trial in New York. Soviet Labor to Give $2,500,000 Monthly to Aid British Strikers MOSCOW, Sept. 2 (By Mail) —Ac- cording to Central Council of Soviet Labor Unions, the 1 per cent leyy which ig introduced in all the labor uni of the U. S.S. R. will produce approximately 6,000,000 or $2,500,000 @ month for the British min- ers. Z DAUGHERTY WILL SOON BE HOGTIED, SAYS PROSECUTOR Received Share of Bribe for Allowing Claim (Speciat to. The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 22—Announce- ment was by the government to- Richard Merton, Gerinan financier, al- leged he paid to have the $7,000,000 assets of the American Metals com- pany returned ‘to their foreign own- ers “will be traced Within the next few days to the possession of the de- fendants. Introduced to King. Merton had testified he met the late | S0Tously condemns the present admin-| use the ignoble-method of injunction John T. King, Connecticut politician, who introduced ‘him to Jesse Smith, close friend of Daugherty, and that later he was placed in touch with Miller. He testified they gave King a “retainer” of $50,000 and also the $391,000 in Liberty bonds. The government's was made by Kenneth Simpson, as- sistant district;attorney, while Sam- uel Rosehband, employed by Goldman, Sachs and company, brokers, of New York, was on the stand testifying re- garding the bonds, NEW YORK LEADS OFF CAMPAIGN WITH BIG MEET NEW YORK GITY, Sept. 21.—A rousing mass rally in the Central Op-| WORKER, and Eleanor Massey, After being eee 290 Pub PU IDENTIFICATION ComOR.....4A¢Z-... AGE .... Leu? WEIGHT. HEIGHT. HAIR TEETH Last implicated in Tea Pot Dome. The labor union buster—and a patriot. WISCONSIN I STIL IN GRIP _ OF LAFOLLETTE |Ekern Supporters Car- ry Convention (Special to The Daily Worker) MADISON, Wis., Sept. 22.—Wiscon- sin had additional fuei for its politi-| cal furnace today as alignments, set up in the recent primary election, broke away in the face of the Sweep- ing victory of the old-time LaFollette regime in yesterday's state republican convention, | Ekern Strong. It was a matter of record today that the LaFollette forces, who supported Herman. L, Ekern, defeated guberna- torial candidate, in the recent pri- vention. They #lécted Henry A. Hu- ber, lieutenant-governor, chairman by | &@ majority of one vote, had their plat- form adopted by a vote of 50 to 39, and succeeded in making John B. Chase party chairman by a margin of hed Dally except Sunday by THE I AILY WORKER HING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Ciicago, iil Greek Mutineers on Trial Call 300 to Testify for Defense ATHENS, Sept, 22—The “repub- lican guards,” headed by Colonels Zeras and Dertilis, formed by former Dictator Pangalos to insure his safety, are on®trial for mutiny by the gov- ernment of Kondylis, They refused to disband after the overthrow of Pangalos and on Septem- ber 9 tried to enter the city of Athens and seize control, After a short fight | they were forced to surrender, When the trial began the charges | were read, but adjournment was taken. | @rectly thereafter. The mutineers| e called 300 witnesses to testify in| their defense, | | NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents HORROR LIES IN WAKE OF WIND, FLOOD ‘Death Toll ‘Is Heaviest Among Negroes (Pictures on page 3) (Special to The Daily Worker) MOOREHAVEN, Fla, Sept. 22. — This was a city of the dead today, deserted by all but a few desolate souls stranded in high bulldings. Many of those who have left here 23 votes. \ The LaFollette platform, which vi-} istration as “the most reactionary in| history, unfriendly to agriculture and labor, and violator of the mandate of | the American people, by dragging us into the world court,” was adopted in| the face of protests of Senator Harry | Daggett, Milwaukee, that it crucified | announcement | Fred L. Zimmerman, the party’s gu- | September 13-16, 1926, do hereby un- bernatorial candidate. MIGHTY FORD MILLIONS STUNG TO FURY BY DISTRIBUTION OF THE FORD WORKER, SHOP PAPER By J. LOUIS (Special to The DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 22.—Communist activity among the automobile workers on the one hand, and the migh own interests, clashed again here today at Fordson, on the River Rouge, re- sulting in the arrest of two distributors of The Ford Worker, five issues of which have stung the great Ford croporation to fury. POLICE AND jon relief trains said they never wished ” |to\ see the scene where their loved COURTS WAR jones met death, and it may be this again, Words can scarcely describe the ON STRIKERS ssc the sorrow and needs of this former little thriving city of 1,400 which now has but 800 of its |tels, churches and private homes In |Sebring and vicinity are housing * {these 800 homeless mothers, fathers in Brave Struggle (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 22.— At the customary mass picketing.demon- stration held every Monday in the gar- many strike leaders, were arrested for “obstruction of traffic.” Vice-President Joseph Boruchowitz, Isidor Stenzor, S. Weiss and others received workhouse sentences of a day apiece. by the police commissioner many weeks ago seems to have vanished in the class struggle, wherein the po- lice are playing their historic role. The same is true of the courts, and workers is rousing all New York un- ions. The joint board of Cloak, Suit, Skirt & Dress Unions made public the fol- lowing resolution received from the ers in support of the fight upon ithe injunction: Resolution adopted by the general executive board of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ International “Whereas 40,000 cloak makers in the city of New York are engaged in &@ great struggle to protect their live- Whood and existence and | “Whereas an attempt is new made, jbarren town will never be inhabited ens |former population accounted for. Ho- N. Y. Garment Workers ment zone, 200 pickets, including The supposed “neutrality” promised the injunction against the garment Cloth, Hat, Cap and Millinery Work- union on September 16, 1926: without the slightest justification, te | to disrupt and crush the ranks of the | strikers, therefore be it | Courts Back Employers. “Resolved that we, the general ex-| ecutive board of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ International | Union, at our semi-annual meeting of | (Continued on page 2) ENGDAHL. Daily Worker) ty Ford millions fighting to protect its a shop paper, Those arrested were Sarah Victor, the Detroit agent of The DAILY era House at which al! of its main | released. candidates will speak is to formally The arrests were made by the Ford open the election campaign of the |“‘police’ on the ground that The Ford Workers (Communist) York on Friday, Sept. 24. 1926, Candidates to Speak. Benjamin Gitlow, ty of New | Worker was being sold on Ford prop- erty. Previous arrests at the same place former vice-/ by the local polite had resulted in the ly opposed by th vernment and the |Presidential candidate, and now the |chief of police admitting to Sarah id dana ci Communist candidate for governor of | Victor that she had a perfect right t the state, is announced as the main |sell The Ford Worker, that there was owners. Former Prosecutor’s Son Charged with Bank Failure Fraud speaker. Wiliam»F. Dunne, editor of |no law against it. An investigation The DAILY WORKDR, who is run-|will be made immediately to discover ning for senator from the state | whether the latest arrests actually against the reactionaries, Wadsworth |took place on Ford property, and Wagner, will speak with Git- low. Workers cheered the two Com- In additions Juliet Stuart Poy-|munist women as they were being CARBONDALE, Ills., Sept. 22, — ntz, candidate »for comptroller-gen- | taken away, About $18,000 may be involved in the confidence game charges made against Clarence Rose, son of the late Sec- eral, William W. Weinstone, district secretary of the Workers nist) Party, who is running for con- “Ti back tomorrow,” Sarah (Commu:- | Victor called to ‘the workers. So threatening was the attitude of retary of State James A. Rose, state's |gress, will speak ito the workers on |the automobile workers that the Ford Attorney Searing charged here today, A mass meeting and concert cele- ‘brating International Youth Day will be held at 160 Mercer St., Ukrainian Home, Jersey City, N. J., Sunday, Gitlow ony on. ° the issues of the” cam; sented by the Communists. Stachel, district organizing secretary, will preside. as pre-| detectives also shouted back, “She'll Jack |be back tomorrow.” The next issue, for October, of The Ford Worker will reach an edition of 20,000, It is sold at one cent per copy. We will send sample copies of The| Similar shop papers are also being bile 26, 8 p. m., under the auspices|DAILY WORKER to your friende—|issued at the Packard, Dodge and 1 send us name and address, Dunne, for U. S. Senator Wm. Weinstone, for Congress 20th Dist. Juliet Stuart Poyntz, for Comptroller Fisher Body plants. Friday, September 24th, 1926, 8 P. M. Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave. "ADMISSION held for some time, they were Hike and Picnic This Sunday, Sept, 26, Hunters Island, Bronx, A hike and picnic has been arranged to take place on Hunters Island this Sunday, Sept. 26, under the auspices of The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club of New York, There will be a Program of athletic sports and various entertainments to assure a good time fo all. The inner man will be taken care of by. experts at making Hun- garian goulash and Armenian shishlik, All the Workers Party candidates in New York are expected to attend, leav- ing their dignity at home. The Young Pioneers will stage a march, No admission is charged, and there is free bathing, but you must bring your own bathing suit, The start will be made at eleven o'clock sharp from the end of the Pelham Bay Park subway on West- chester avenue, Bronx, and the hike is about three miles, Those that do not care to hike can go by bus from the same place, So bring the whole family, Srandpa as well as the “kids. and children, many the last of large families. A conservative estimate of the dead Is 65. In water to their knees, undertak- ers are preparing the bodies of the dead on floating boxes, on counters of former stores projecting out of the water and on hastily prepared tables. The water here was up to nine feet when the dikes of the Okeechobee broke but now is approximately two feet deep. Upon the arrival of the first relief train in Sebring, relief workers did all that was possible to rescue the living. Water Waist Deep. Food and dry clothing and blankets were carried to the last of the rail- road tracks and then the few boats there were filled with provisions, fresh water and medicine to slowly be pushed or dragged to the scene of devastation. Water was even then above the waistline and hiking miles in the water with arms full of provis- ions not knowing where there might be deep washouts in the fotmer road- hed, the relief workers hed on (Continued on ) REVIVAL SIGNS EVIDENT IN K. C, LABOR MOVEMENT Editor’s Note.—The story below is the first of a series of reports on conditions among the workers and farmers of the western United States to be sent in by Bertram D. Wolfe, who is tourlng the country for the electoral campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party. Com- rade Wolfe is an experienced news- paper correspondent and will report for The DAILY WORKER on the condition of the labor movement in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and other western towne, eee By BERTRAM D. WOLFE, KANSAS CITY, Mo, (By Mail). — There are definite signs of revival in the Kansas City labor movement after having reached its lowest ebb during the past year. The breakdown of the steel and packinghouse organizing campaigns in 1919-20, the defeat of the railroad shop crafts in 1922 and various local defeats left Kansas City pretty much a non-union town except for some of the building trades and various miscellaneous trades, In the basic trades-—the big rail- road center of Kansas City and the packing houses—company unions hold sway and company spies terrorize the workers. Nevertheless, the Workers’ Party has succeeded in forming a nu- cleus in the railroad shops and nuclei in the Armour and Swift plants, which nuclei elude the vigilance of the com- pany detectives. In the organized la- bor movement also there are signs of a fresh breeze beginning to blow, Various progressives and left-wingers are beginning to lead a fight for a more militant policy and an unofficial rank and file committee has been formed to aid the offictal organizing committee of the Central Labor Coun- ell fi organization drive to organ- ize th® unorganized trades and regain the lost ground once held by the Kan- sas City labor movement. Discontent runs high among the farmers too, and democratic and re- publican politicians mouth radical phrases in an effort to hold on to them. But Senator Williams, who is running for re-election, will have a hard time convinciyg the farmers here that he will do any better next time than he did during his short term ae appointee to fill a vacancy. The farm- ers are laughing at his claim that he 25 CENTS. ‘Auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party, District 2. supported the McNary-Haugen bill, be- cause the congressional record reveals — that he denounced it as “w +. cal, unsound, and paternalistic,” i (Continued on page 6)