The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1926, Page 1

_ The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government a! Vol. Il. No. '217. Subscription Rates: f ” Cp8 &y Sy ry! N - ie Sy O° £4 y 90 oS + / a ‘ee > By T. J, OFLAHERTY © doubt the readers of The DAILY WORKER will welcome a rest from my exhortations for a day, And here comes the relief, A laborer in the proletarian vineyard who attended the Streator convention thought he would throw me off the McPherson case for a while and lead this column on the road to higher and better things. As a thesis on the Streator convention I recommend it to research workers and others who are compel- led to explain current phenomena: ‘2 8 ae really is too bad you didn’t attend the IMinois State Federation of La- bor convention, You see I feel that intellectuals like US need a close con- tact with the aims and aspirations of labor and see as often as we can at close range its devotion to the cause of the world’s masses. I think we need to be stimulated now and then to spur us on in this noble struggle with labor’s banner afloat. And since you could not be there, let me pass on to you a few impressions. Second- handed as they may be, perhaps you can catch the inspiration anyhow, ne R. Mr. Olander and Mr, Walker certainly are wasting away to a mere 300 pounds each in their terrific struggle for labor. It is certain that the rank and file of delegates do not fully appreciate the devotion of these ' two stalwart leaders—since they only increased their salary $1,500 this year of prosperity. How they will manage on their wages of $6,500 I shudder to think. Of course there is their ex- pense accounts but they only take care of the cost of their ving. The one thing, however, that pleased me most was that the announcement of the salary increase was the only oc- casion for a genuine outburst of ap- plause throughout the whole conven- tion. So in their own way, you see, the delegates really do want the right thing do. , Sas way the leadership came to the rescue of humanity and our sacred institutions in a combat with Communism was most encouraging, Would you believe that there were actually two delegates there who ad- mitted Communist affiliation or at least an obvfous sympathy with it? But the way they were put in their place by the heads of labor was a most inspiring indication of the future of labor under their stewardship. **# * THINK Mr. Walker’s report is a masterpiece also. Such a scholar- iy discourse on the most interesting subjects. All about education and our public libraries and other heavy sub- ject matter not to mention a most in- teresting correspondence between Mr. Walker and Senator Caraway who it seoms entertained a most erroneous idea that had to do with our labor leaders accepting money from the dis- credited Mr. Smith. Really I thing Mr. Walker is quite right, it is pre- posterous that our congressmen are permitted to make such ridiculous statements. Naturally it must detract our leaders from their heavy work of organizing the workers into trade unions, ND about organizing. The conven- tion handled that subject with the most thotful tact. Really the subject was hardly mentioned. Of course it will be obvious to you that the omis- sion was mearly a trick—not to in- form the enemy of our plans. The truth is that there was hardly any sign attached to the convention in any way that would indicate it to be a labor meeting. Which believe me is some tact. The whole thing was done so cleverly that I heard seasoned newspaper men say it wag quite im- possible to make a distinction betweey this convention and a convention of the chamber of commerce. Now isn’t that putting it over in great style. You certainly have to hand it to our loaders. oO: Nw. #8 regards this man Brennan. It seems to be that labor should support him in the coming election. He was the kindest thing and most thotful. I mean as regards, the con- vention. He had a headquarters, in Ottawa, A city 18 miles away from Streator. He was very useful to our leaders. He gave them considerable help and co-operation in running the convention, And not only that but he furnished refreshments as well. The legislative committees and quite a few of your Chicago, leaders hardly had to spend a cent for whisky. Mr. Brennan kept them quite cock-eyed all the time and they had a very good time. It-was quite fortunate that this Was 80 else who knows but what that apes, political question would have been discussed on the convention deel v ea / So 8 25,000 Workers Attend Anti-Injunction Meet CANTON ARMIES BESIEGING THE CITY OF WUCHANG Movement for Break with Britain Is Growing (Speolal to The Dally Worker) PEKING, China, Sept, 24 — The city of Wu Chang, still In the hands of Wu Pel Fu is closely invested by the Cantonese who hope to force sur- render by slege, parleys having fall- ed. The anti-British movement is grow. ing and sentiment is developing for a complete rupture of economic rela- tions between China and the empire, Political sections are now organized in ¢he armies of the Kominchun and the Koumintang to cohsolidate the national forces and educate the per sonnel of the armies. General Fong has been appointed the Koumintang representative of the national armies, Cantonese Near Shanghai. The Cantonese troops are now within 250 miles of Shantung. As the provinces of Fukien and Chekiang with them, the imperialist powers show real alarm and are mobilizing available war vessels on the Chinese coast. Great Britain is rushing war craft from far flung possessions to Chinese waters. There are well-authenticated reports that Japan is in no mood to come to Britain's assistance and the nean fleet, guarding the road to In- dia are today ploughing the Red Sea on the way to the Orient. Chuan Is Hard Pressed. Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, command- ing the lower Yangtze area, is looking for a quiet place to run to. Chuan- fang, is the only “white hope” of im- perialism now left in this China and it is not believed that his 30,000 mercenaries will be able to hold forth against the conquering Cantonese. The revolutionary elements in Shanghai are preparing a big cele- bration for the “army of liberation” as they call the Cantonese, Recently the workers of Shanghai went on a general strike against the imperial- ists, asked for a loan of $250,000 from the Cantonese government and ot it. Marshal Chang Tso-lin is throwing up earthworks around Peking, with one eye to the advance of General Feng, from Kalgan and another on the southern armies. Chang is chop- ping off heads of mutinous soldiers and it is believed here that when either of the two national armies come within gunshot of Chang's troops they will »walk out on him. Nest dtc British Government Worried. LONDON, Sept. 24—Nothing Jess ernment circles over the situation in China. The cotton interests have been bringing. pressure to bear on fered particularly. ation that Japan is preparing for war. In Chicago, by mall, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per yearar. — ApS sae! E POLICE PLOT ON S Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post OMice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, SUN, DAY, SEPTEMBER 26,1926 <q» This Issue Consists of Two Sections. SECTION ONE, Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Caicago, iL TRIKERS 132,000 People Paid $2,000,000 to Sit in a Drenching Rain were preparing to walk into the Can-| ¢¢¢!sion. ; tonese camp, bringing their cutlery | 4t the last minute. Jack Lait Says Jack Lait, famous sport writer, I ing article written for The DAILY WOR! fg f took naiphanueiovtie tea ake tien cnt emwlned judges. Before Jack yy, the ki old, ined: notes dragged his listless and lifeless carcass, half part of 4 | which the proverb says must be served to youth. Jack Dempsey, who, at his worst can always The British claim to have ifiform-|°f refuge in fi And Watch This Farcical Contest Won Only by the Gamblers Here is a ringside photo of the “big fight” transmitted over the wire by telapix, It shows Tunney hugging the weakened Dempsey in one of the ten rounds during which neither man was off his feet. Tunney easily won the way across the soggy ring at was unfit to fight.” But the ones who really cleaned up were the promoters and the gamblers who switched bets to Tunney Gamblers Won Philly Bout Philadelphia bonanza battle in the accompany- few revealing sentences of which are: eree or meticulously chosen the clang of the opening gong, it was a foregone cinch. The man And of Tunney: “The first good heavyweight that meets Tunney will beat him. Munn, Han- son, Persson—not to say Wills—would swallow him like an oyster.” “Anyway, the bookies paid off on him.” . ‘ By JACK LAIT, Special Ringside Correspondent. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24.—The shell of ‘what was once a great champion has paid that toll tell his children’s children that he once was a champion, lost like a dog in the sesqui-centennial stadium Thursday to one Gene Tunney, ,who, tho’ he is the champion, will never be a champion. The heavyweight title, proudly owned by Sullivan, Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Jeffries, has in- deed fallen into a low estate in the stewardship of the intellectual Tunney, At least three men fought in the preliminaries who could INVOKES RIGHT (Report Many |SACCO, VANZETTI (Continued on page 2) lick him the best day of his life, which is today. OF REFUGE FOR | Dead in Race | IN-LAST STAND FASCIST PREY! Biot in Miami) FOR NEW TRIAL Vacirca Faces Death If Deported than consternation prevails in gov-|By LAURENCE TODD, Fed. Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—(FP)— Vincenzo Vacirca, former deputy in the government for more vigorous ac- the Itallan parliament and friend and tion. British trade in China has been | #8s0ciate hit hard by the boycott. Textiles suf-|™Matteoti in the editorship of a news- of the murdered deputy Paper in Italy, has invoked the right America. = Ordered deported from New York This intelligence 1s however, believ-| because his temporary permit to visit ed to be for American consumption, this country has expired, Vacirca has with the object of getting the United |@PPeared with counsel before the States into loggerheads with Tokio board of review of the immigration and forcing the latter into common bureau in Washington and has shown 4th that he is now a man without citi- i Oh Peng egg mer zenship in his native land and likely against China, U. 8. ADMIRAL ACTS AS FORGED ARBITER IN NICARAGUAN WAR (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 24— The government and revolutionary forc- es of Nicaragua yesterday signed a 13-day armistice in order to negoti- ate peace terms, Rear Admiral J, T. Latimer reported to the navy de- partment today, All disputes will be subject to arbitration by Latimer, who was sent to Bluefields to act as pesce- maker. Hostilities tm Nicaragua when>the armistice wae to be murdered by the fascisti at the orders of Mussolini if he is sent back there. His own statement of his situation is: Citizen of No Country. “T have no legal right to go any: where as I do not belong to any country, The United States is con sidered by me as my second coun try. My children, two girls 9 and 10 years old respectively, are native American citizens. In the name of the right that any man has to live somewhere, I ask to be granted the privilege to stay here with my wife and children until a change — will eliminate the present persecutions and @ new government will restore my rights as an Italian citizen.” In the Official Gazette of the Ital- jan government, of April 7, 1926 is . (Continued on page 2), (Special to The Daily Worker) MIAMI, Sept. 24. — At 1:45 o’clock this afternoon, all police and details of militiamen were rushing to the Negro section of Miami, where a race war was re- ported to have broken out. More than 20,000 Negroes live in the section where the trouble was reported. A cordon of police and militiamen was thrown around the northwest section of the city. Authorities declined to reveal the cause of the reported outbreak. Police later reported that two sailors, detailed here an special service, had been shot and wound- ed during the disturbance, having entered the Negro section in viola- tion of restrictions. At two o’cloek the situation was officially reported well in hand, but other unconfirmed advices stated many were killed. Franco-German Pact ’ Approved by Cabinet BERLIN, Sept. 24— The German cabinet, sitting today under Chancel- lor Marx, approved Herr Strese- mann’s negotiations with M. Briand, for a Franco-German rapprochement and named & committee of ministers to carry on the negotiations, The cabinet also unanimously ap- proved the policies adopted by the German delegation at the league as- sembly in Gonewa, Charge Department of Justice Involved (Special to The Dally Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Sept, 24.—Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti have made their final motion for a new trial, Hearing of affidavits and argu- ments on the motion oc original Trial Judge Wel at Dedham courthouse. The judge now has the case under advisement. Department of Justice Disclosure. Besides the confession and support- ing evidence implicating the Morellis as the real criminals, the most start- ling disclosures of the defense were contained in affidavits of former de- partment of justice agents. Fred J. Weyand, now working for Maine's at- torney-general, and Lawrence Lether- man, employed by Beacon Trust Co., both swear that department of justice agents took an important part in fram- ing up Sacco and Vanzetti on the mur- der charge because they could not get sufficient evidence against these two Italian workers as radicals to deport them, Weyand insists that the Boston of- fice of the department of justice has files of correspondence between the then district attorney, Frederick G. Katzmann, and William J, West, fed- eral agent, regarding the Sacco-Van- zetti frame-up. Katzmann was chief prosecutor of the two Italians, He entered no denial of the federal agents’ charge. His assistant, Harold Williams, {8 now United States district attorney, but has made no move to have the Boston files opened to prove @ontinued on page 2) + G00 STRIKERS ARRESTED ON WAY TO HALL 'United Fight Pledged;| Amalgamation Urged | (Special to The Daily Worker) | NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 24. — Twenty-five thousand striking cloak- ‘makers and other workers jammed | | New Madison Square Garden to show | | their opposition to the latest attempt lof the bosses to smash the cloak- | makers strike by means of an injunc- jtion and adopt a defiant resolution | pledging themselves to united strug- ! gle against it. 600 workers were arrested on their | way to the meeting. 400 were nabbed jin one clip at 7th Ave. and 30th St. |They were strikers who had been meeting in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave. Speaker after speaker urged the 40,000 striking cloakmakers to stand solid and continue their struggle in spite of the new means adopted by the bosses to smash the strike. Zimmerman Opens. 1 Charles S. Zimmerman the chair- man, in opening the meeting declared: “We are on strike for twelve weeks and declare today that we will not ac- cept forced arbitration. Only the cloakmakers themselves can improve their conditions,” Zimmerman read a note fromefive jcloakmakers in the tombs prison which read: “Will meet you on the picket line on our release. No sentence will prevent us from fighting for our rights.” Schlossberg Wants Amalgamation. | Joseph Schlossberg, general secre- | tary of the Amalgamated Clothing } Workers’ of America, said in part: “Greetings and congratulations from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers! “You workers are out to win. If the bosses think injunction will help them | to win they have not learned anything trom the history of past strikes. Elect Labor Judges. “I look forward to the day when all organized workers in the needle trades who find themselves in the same boat as far as the bosses are concerned will unite themselves into one big body of needle trades workers, thous- {ands strong to take up their collective problems and deal with them collec- tively and when that day comes, and I hope it comes before long, we will fight together on the industrial and the Political field. Then we will elect la- bor judges instead of bosses’ judges.” Gold Challenges A. C. W. Officials. Ben Goll, manager of the New York Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union, who recently lead the successful strike of 12,000 furriers in New York City said, “If the Amalgamated leaders are so sincere in their statements let the cloakmakers give a call for a general strike and then we will see who will be the first ones to come out. We, the furriers will be the first ones to answer.” Get a copy of tne American Worker Correspondent. It’s only 5 cents, \ By ARNE SWABECK. UR DAILY WORKER has lately shown signs of marked improve- ment. It has assumed more of the character of a mass labor paper. It's importance can perhaps now not fully be recognized by its supporters and sympathizers. However, should it fail, the rejoicing in the enemy’s camp would strike this fact home with ter- rible effect, Yet as long as the importance of our Daily Paper is propertly appre- ciated, it will succeed, it will strength- en itself and it will grow in influence, The improvement of our DAILY is there. The next step is for the sup porters to take it up and build. The DAILY WORKER js becoming the center of the movement which ex- presses militancy in the class strug- gle. The American labor movement it- self has a militant tradition. There are signs that this tradition will re- aWakon and then The DAILY WORK- ER will tully come into its own. No other place in the country does a paper appear in the Bnglish lan- guage consistently taking the position swinerlarigbleathy, | Garfield. Price 5 Cents PASSAIC POLICE FRAME UPON U.T. W. LEADERS Arrest and Torture Strike Officials (Local 1, U. T. W., Press Service) PASSAIC, N. J., Sept. 24. — Ac cusing the police in the strike area of starting another reign of terror in their efforts to break the big textile strike, the strike committee of Pas- saic Local No. 1,603, U. T. W. of A. issued the following statement today: “This morning the police effort was concentrated against our leaders. That |the police are using the arrest of a |non-striker charged with throwing bombs, and the third degree contes- sion extorted from him in their re- newed efforts to break the strike is broven by the unwarranted arrests this morning of Gustay Deak, chair- man of the strike committee of the local, and others connected with the leadership of the strike. “Yesterday the police arrested three picket line leaders: Joseph Bellani, Tom Regan and Tom Winick. These men were brutally beaten up before and after they were bundled into the patrol wagon. Bellani was later charg- ed with being implicated in the third degree confession wrung from the non- striker arrested yesterday morning on the charge of having thrown a bomb in Clifton. “Teddy Timachko, a 17-year old striker was beaten up this morning. Beat Woman—Frame Strikers. “Monday morning Peter Idez, of 73 Hope Avenue, Passaic, while on his way to the picket line was assaulted and beaten up by Special Officer Mil- ler and Officer Zober, the son of Police Chief Zober. “On this same day Garfield police beat up Anna Soyko, 116 Ray Street; When she was released her arms and legs were blue and swollen from the beating she received. n “Peter Maksontz, 148 Ray Street, ; Garfield, was arrested and beaten up Saturday while standing on the corner of Morris and Jewell Street, Garfield. The police held him on the “identifi- cation” of one girl, and beat him up again at the station. “In each casé, the arrested strik- ers were threatened with further beatings unless they went back to work, “The union strenuously protests these.police efforts to frame the strike leaders and break our strike. The union emphatically denies that any of its.members had any part what- soever in the bomb outrage, All im- partial observers and investigators are agreed that the violence in the strike has been on the part of the police. Brave Druse Women Inspire Countrymen JERUSALEM, Sept. 24.—Surround- ed by women who fight beside her with as much effectiveness as men, Umholo Haider, 50-year-old mother of one of the rebel Druse leaders, is causing French troops much trowbie because of her power to rally the tribesmen together. While the moth- er heads her band of women fighters, her son is in charge of another group of rebels fighting in the mountains near Baalbek. KEEP IT AND BUILD IT! of fighting for all the interests of the rank and file workers. To those who are bitterly exploited im the shops of the heavy industries and today remain unorganized, as well as those who have enrolled in the ranks of the trade unions, The DAILY WORKER can become much more of a center when it is brought to the attention of all those workers that it is the only paper that expresses their desires and fights for their needs, All the workers who are now ac- quainted with The DAILY WORKER should more than in the past submit their grievances thru the columns of the Daily, express their aspirations and let it become a center not only for the movement in general, but also of their struggles in their particular shops, That means to dontribute to its columns, to order bundles to dis. tribute amongst the workers and #0 _ gradually extend the circles around the center established. Proceeding this way, we will not only keep The DAILY WORKER, but we will build it, This is our most tmportant.and most pressing task, rt rr