The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 28, 1926, Page 2

Pe) Page Two TRAITORS GIVEN SHORT SHRIFT IN THE MINN. F.-L. P. Quigley and Holmes Enter Discard (Continue from Page 1) charged openly in the current issue of the Farmer-Labor Advocate, the of- ficial campaign publication. It is pointed out that the repub- licans, recognizing the farmer-labor candidates as their real opponents, are making a drive to shift as many farm- erlabor votes as they can to the democratic party, arguing that the democratic party is the party of pro- test and that nothing can be gained by a three-cornered fight thru contin- ating the Farmer-Labor Party in the field. Republicans Reveal Themselves, Thus prominent republicans from fime to time have expressed the hope and the desire, thru their bought Dress, that something could be done to rehabilitate the democratic party as a minority opposition. Paralleled with this desire was the hope that some thing might be done to kill off the Farmer-Labor Party. There are many connecting linkg to show that these wishes and hopes fathered the Quigley “round robin.” Quigley was formerly a non-partisan league organizer and later was active in the campaigns of Charles Lind- bergh, Floyd Olson and Tom Davis, the last of these, it is claimed, hav- ing speut about $50,000 to capture the Farmer-Labor nomination for gov- ernor in the recent pprimaries that gave the nomination to Magnus John- son, The Minnesota Union Advocate, edited by William Mahoney, declares that: Quigley Has Checkered Career. “Quigley has had a checkered career in the progressive movement. At dif- ferent times he has assumed treacher- ous attitudes and sought to profit by undermining the organization he was presumed to represent. He was active in the campaign two years ago but hig simeerity was always questioned. When A. N. Jacobs was arrested for libeling Magnus Johnson, Quigley served as his attorney. This con- firmed the suspicions that during the campaign while working on the state committee he was really supporting Tom Schall, (republican who was elected) against Magnus Johnson for "Benator.” This Jacobs was best known as edi- tor of The Harpoon, a shakedown sheet. He spent his time hanging @round the state capitol when the legislature was in session. Held Out as Balt. Quigley was careful to have a juicy lure for his come-on game. He pointed out to the “lucky 15” who would sign his round robin that they would be the future leaders of the rehabilitated democratic party, which he now ad- mits is nothing more than a corpse. Quigley paints a beautiful picture of democratic success in the 1928 presi- dential elections, which will result in national democratic campaign funds and patronage flowing into the state, he says. Information secured indicates that Quigley was already claiming that among those who had signed his round Tobin were Oscar Brekke, president of the non-partisan league faction of the Sarmer-Labor Party; R. A. Trovat- ten, former member of the state legis- latare from Yellow Medicine county, and @ man named Emil Hallgren and another named Carl Hulltin from Kit- son county. He also claims Sam Wallace of Perham. None of these has any real influence or standing be- yond his own immediate circle. The Minnesota Union Advocate again points out: “It is generally believed that repub- licam money and republican influence 1s back of the Quigley movement. Knowing the latter's sordid and un- scrupulous character, it is not harg to understand bow he could be induced to undertake this act of treachery to the progressive movement.” The Minnesota Union Advocate sur- veys the republican fears as follows: “The republican party recognizes that this is a farmer-labor year. The “state administration has betrayed ag- rigultaral interests and thereby {m- posed continued stagnation on the entire state. The administration of the state government has been a mok- umental joke. Embezzlement aod cor- ruption and inc“iclency have been rampant. The economy claims of the Christianson (republican) administra- tion have been disproven by the in- crease in the cost of the government and the addition of high-priced office holders. The only way in which it is pousible to prevent the defeat of the tepablican party ie to destroy the morale of the farmer-labor supporters and cause a division amongst them if Quigley and bis bunch can take away 20,000 votes {t may mean the success of the republican party, which would be worth a good many thousands of dollars to the special interests. ‘We believe the republl- cans would pay well for this sort of treachery.” Farmer-Labor Party Solidified. H. G, Teigan, secretary of the Farm- @r-Labor Party, points out that the Quigley maneuver can only succeed {po strengthening the farmerlabor It will expose and drive Phinoaie senses out of she er vision superintendent of the service who had been taken into the employ of the Southern Railway as its mail traffic manager, Most of the big railroads have em- ployed ex-officials of the railway mail service as their mail traffic managers. Their job is the getting for their re- spective roads as much of the mail- hauling business as possible. The bureauracy in the government service is not permitted to forget that railway companies will have jobs for them in the future if they throw business in the right direction. Between Chicago and Florida a great increase in mail traffic has taken place in the past three years., The ordinary and shortest route for this haul was over the Chicago & Eastern Mltnois, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis and the Louisville & Nash- ville thru Evansville, Nashville, Chat- tanooga and Atlanta. But General Superintendent Riddell began divert- ing the traffic to the Big Four as far as Cincinnati and then over the South- ern thru to Florida. This gave a long and very profitable haul to the Southern and much pres- tige to his friend, the mail traffic man- ager of the Southern. It hurt the mid- dle western roads that had expected to have the business. They com- plained. The railway mail clerks’ or- ganization, which is always told that the government cannot afford to give them better conditions, joined in show- ing up the game. Postal inspectors investigated and reported. Gross inefficiency in han- dling the mail was indicated. Riddell was also charged with refusal to obey orders from the heads of the depart- ment. Finally he was demoted to the rank of division superintendent, while the division superintendents at Cincin- nati and Atlanta were likewise de- moted. ganization that have long been under suspicion. It is charged, for instance, that Quigley was in close collabora tion with Fred H. Carpenter, of the Carpentc:-Shevlin Lumber company, @ republican boss, in his attacks on the farmer-labor party. “We may lose a few so-called lead- ers,” declares Teigan, but the entire rank and file will remain loyal to the Farmer-Labor Party.” The capitalist Tribune editorializes at great length in an effort to give importance to the Holmes-Quigley in cident. It says: “The fact appears to be indisput- able that there is an extensive feel- ing within the Farmer-Labor Party that the beginning of the end of the third party movement in Minnesota has been passed, and that the deme cratic party is destined to come back, with old school leaders or new ones in control of its fortunes.” Need Militant Elements. The Farmer-Labor Party is, course, the second party in the state, and in the elections of Magnus John- son and Henrik Shipstead became the first party. It was weakened by the great railroad strike in 1922, when many of the railroad unions in this state were practically annihilated. It lost in morale by the attack on the Communists within the party under or conservatives within the movement have never been an energizing infiu- ence. It is felt, however, that the Farmer-Labor movement is on the upgrade in this campaign, that a rea)- ly party spirit is being developec among the workers and farmers ot the state, instead of a mere attempt to win a few places for leading can- didates. will only result in party’s ranks, There is no doubt that the readmis- sion of militant elements that have been attacked and persecuted by the traitors now being exposed, into the Farmer-Labor Party will have the needed, strengthening influence on the drive for independent political ac- tion of the workers and farmers m this state. The attack of the enemy solidifying the THE DAILY WORKER One of POLITICAL POT SIMMERING IN EMPIRE STATE Plute Parties Are Pick- ing Jockeys ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 26—The New York state political pot, which has been sizzling for the last few weeks, started boiling in earnest today. The republican state convention will get under way at Madison Square Garden, New York City on Monday, while the democratic convention will start'the same day at Syracuse. G. 0. P. Picking Candidate. Gov. Al. Smith will be renominated by the democrats and there is every indication that the republicans will pick Representative Ogden L. Mills of New York as their gubernatorial candidate. United States Senator James W. Wadsworth, Jr., will be a candidate for re-election. Supreme Court Jus- tice Robert F. Wagner, of New York, close friend of Gov. Smith, will be nominated by the democrats for United States senator to oppose Wadsworth. To Dodge Liquor. A declaration favoring modification of the Volstead act will be made in the democratic state platform, it was said here today on high authority. It Senator Wadsworth has his way, no mention of prohibition will be made in the republican platform, accord- ing to reports at the capital. UNITED STATES NOT INVITED TO TANGIER MEET France and Britain Are ; the Hosts ~“ MADRID, Spain, Sept. 26. — The United States will be left out in the cold while Great Britain, France, Spain and Italy meet early in No- vember to discuss the future status of the Tangier international zone. This information was conveyed by the Spanish foreign minister who felt sorry for the slight but could do nothing about it. It appears that Spain had extended an invitation to the United States on Sept. lst and the United States ac- cepted. Afterwards Spain was forced to drop claim to Tangier and does not seem to be particularly worried just now, who sits in on the confer: ence. Powers Are Jealous. France and Great Britain are the main instigators of the conference and Spain and Italy are simply tol- erated. Hub Clothing Bosses Sign New Agreement with the Amalgamated BOSTON—(FP)—Twenty-four Bos- ton clothing manufacturers have signed the new agreement drawn up by the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers’ Union. The agreement requires the manufacturers to furnish the un- ion with weekly statements of rec- ords of garments cut, so that compart- son can be made with the records of the garments shipped to contractor shops for finishing. This will enable the union to check up on the con- tract shops and take steps to prevent work being done by nonunion con tractors. { TAMMANY HALL OPS ARREST DICK MOORE, NEGRO LABOR LEADER NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—The ar rest of Richard Moore, Negro leader, has brought much protest from such organizations as the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and others. Moore was arrested as he was speaking at an open air meeting in Negro Harlem = de- nouncing the polley of Harlem theaters in paying less than the union scale to Negro moving pic- ture operators, Police drove an automobile Into the audience; dis- persing the meeting and Moore was taken to the police station, charged with disorderly conduct at the complaint of the proprietor of the Lafayette The The case was postponed. Moore is secretary of the New York council of the American Negro Labor Congress. STRIKE CALLED TO AID ORGANIZE DURANT FACTORY A. F. of be’ Conducts N. J. Drive (Special to The Daily Worker) ELIZABETH N, J., Sept. 26, — An organization drive conducted by the American Federation of Labor to unionize the big plant of the Durant Motor company in Hlizabeth has re- sulted in a walk-out of the entire trim- ming department of several hundred workers thus far. This had been preceded by a lock- out of two days duration after which all but those active for unionization were taken back. Picket lines are being formed at all gates and A. F. of L. organizers are on the job. Mass Picketing. A mass picket demonstration was staged Friday and the strikers’ appeal was well received by the workers still in the plant, Their slogan is, “100 Per Cent Union.” A mass meeting is being arranged by the machinists’ union and is being extensively advertised by a dodger campmign conducted by the strikers. Fascist Head Gunman Insults Mussolini; Lands in Rome Jail ROME, Sept. 26. — Amerigo Dumini, who organized the fascisti in Florence, and was charged with being the organ- izer of the murder of Deputy Matte- otti, was arrested in Rome charged with offenses against the Premier, Mussolini. Dumini, who has been a strong sup- porter of Roberto Farinacci, former faseist political chief, several days ago met a personal opponent of Farinacci in the Piazza Colonna. It is alleged that Dumini insulted Farinacci’s op- ponent and made violent remarks con- cerning Mussolini. Send us the name and address of progres: send a sample copy of The DAILY WORKER. BEN GITLOW TO SPEAK AT CHICAGO ELECTION CAMPAIGN RALLY, OCT. 6 A second election mass meeting to be held under the auspices of Local Chicago of the Workers (Com- munist) Party is to be held at the Emmett Memorial Hall, corner Og- den and Taylor, on Wednesday, October @th, at 8 p. m. The principal speaker of the eve- ning will be Benjamin Gitlow, can- didate for vice-president on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket In the 1924 elections, Gitlow has been tourin, ast In the election campaigns and comes to Chicago to address this meeting on “The Work- ers and the Elections,’” |China, to inquire what American war- WHAT ARE YANK BUNBOATS DOING UP IN HANKOW? Sharp Query Sent to Kellogg (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—News that American marines on board the Pigeon were wounded while the ship patrolled the civil war zone near Hankow on the Yangtze River, China, prompted Dr. Harry F, Ward, chairman of the American Committee for Justice to ships were doing in that vicinity. Ward's wire to Frank Kellogg, United States secretary of state, reads: Question Authority for Acts. “The newspapers report that Ameri- can destroyers are steaming to Han- kow, 600 miles up the Yangtze River in the interior of China, despite in- structions by the Chinese local author- ities for all foreign vessels to move downstream because of the state of civil war about that city. Other units of the United States navy seem to be patrolling the same river about Han- kow and United States marines have been wounded on board the Pigeon and other ships in the civil war zone have been fired upon. We would re- spectfully ask under what clause of what treaty the United States claims the right to patrol Chinese internal waters with its warships and what act of congress authorizes action which is so likely to involye the United States both in the Chinese civil war and in possible conflicts be- tween China and other foreign pow- ers.” Prominent Persons on Committee. On the national committee of the American Committee for Justice to China are, among others, Glenn Frank, president Wisconsin Univer- sity; Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Bishop S. J. McConnell, William Allen White, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, James H. Mauer, president Pennsylvania State Federa- tion of Labor, and a number of other labor and church leaders. ENTRANCE OF U.S, INTO COURT IS A DIM PROBABILITY Geneva Action Puts It in Far Future (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—~Ameri- ca’s actual entrance into the world court has been projected into the dim and misty future, if-it has not been forestalled entirely, by the action of the powers at Geneva in evading the fifth of the senate’s reservations, Concensus of Opinion. This represents the concensus of opinion in Washington, pro-court and anti-court alike. The irreconctlables are elated over the refusal of the pow- ers to accept the fifth reservation, which states that the world court may not render an advisory opinion in any case in which the United States “has ¢ worker to whom we can|or claims to have” an interest, with- out the consent of this government be- ing specifically given. The pro-court forces are correspond- ingly glum, and yet withal rather help- less to remedy it. Can Only Resubmit, If the powers abide by the decision reached at Geneva—and there is every reason to ‘belleve they will—the only way the United States can enter the court is for President Coolidge to re- submit the question to the senate, Soviet Concessionaire Decides to Negotiate With Russ Labor Union MOSCOW, Sept. 5. — (By Mail) — The chief director of the Indo-Buro- pean Telegraph Agency whose em- ployes are on strike has proposed the opening of negotiations to the Post and ‘Telegraphic Workers’ Union which is conducting the strike, The union has accepted the proposal. TELEGRAPHERS ENROLL OVER THREE HUNDRED MEMBERS IN AUGUST ST. LOUIS—(FP)— The Order of Railroad Telegraphers enrolled 374 new members in August. Their total membership is 36,000 accord- ing to the A. F. of L. executive council report. RAIL MEDIATION BOARD MAY SOON GET SHOW DOWN P.R.R. Company Union The Big Issue (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—(FP)— Five members of the board of media- tion provided by the Watson-Parker railway act and appointed by Presi- dent Coolidge to handle disputes aris- ing between rail management and rail labor are busy In various parts of the country, clearing the ground of minor difficulties. The big problems have not been approached closely. No ,Big Issue Settled. In the offices of the rail unions and the railroad companies the labor rep- resentation issue has not been brot to a settlement. Both sides wait for a test case involving the standard rail labor unions and some of the big roads that have fought these unions in past years to come to the board for its “interpretation of the law,” which is the technical name of one of its opinions. Pennsy Keeps Company Union. Union men are looking for a strug- gle involving the Pennsylvania lines, where the company union is still re- ported submissive to President Atter- bury and the company detectives still active in spotting and removing trade union organizers. The Machin- ists’ grand lodge has issued a circu- lar invitation to its membership to send in statements of cases in which union men have been discriminated against by rail bosses for union mem- bership or union activity. When the facts are in hand the Machinists will demand that the com- pany join it in creating a board of adjustment. If the company replies as it is expected to reply—that a ma- jority of its shopmen refuse to af- filiate with the trade union and are Tepresented by the company union— the trade union will appeal to the federal board and that body will, have to give an opinion as to how the trade unionists can protect them- selves when working on the Penn- sylvania. The board will have to investigate and find that the Watson-Parker act means something. Either they will find that it means that trade union membership shall be made safe on hostile roads, or they will find that the law does not protect trade union- ists. In the latter case the law will be just another scrap of paper, and the trade unionists will have done with it, Thus far the board of mediation has received between 60 and 70 dis- putes of all kinds and is scattered from Boston to San Francisco at the job of mediating them. The biggest case—the wage demands of the con- ductors and trainmen on eastern lines—is being handled by Chairman Winslow. Commissioner Hanger is in Boston, Morrow in Chicago and Williams and Davies on the Pacific coast, Queen Coming Despite Ferdie’s Illness, PARIS, Sept. 26. — The illness of King Ferdinand will not prevent Queen Maris of Roumania from sail- ing for the United States on the Leviathan on October 12, according to a telegram received today by Ira Nel- son Morris, former American ambas- sador to Sweden, just prior to his sail- ing on the Aquitania for New York. Recommend Locarno Pacts’ Adoption. GENEVA, Sept. 26. — The league of nations assembly today passed a reso- lution recommending that all states adopt the procedure of conciliation as established at Locarno by mutual se- curity pacts. What the Party Must Do to Keep THE DAILY WORKER (Continued from page 1) not wait for them to be sent. Show your co-operation in the campaign by helping at every point to carry thru the plan of work which has been outlined. Setlements for the certificates sold should be made at every nucleus meet- ing and the money remitted promptly to The DAILY WORKDR. Quick action is point in order to necessary at every KBEP THE DAILY WORKER. [THE sale of the KEEP THE WORKER CERTIFICATES not only be carried on thru the party members in the nuclei, Every language hold a KEEP THA DAILY WORKDR meeting and organize to carry the campaign for contributions into the fraternal and other organizations of which they are members, The fight of The DAILY, WORKER for the protection of the foreign-born workers should be the fraction should basis of this campaign. the direction of conservatives. These | Re Sete alee Saclee ee dine ee ne ty should take up the campaign and car- ry it into the trade unions of which they are menibers, selling the certificates to the members and securing donations from the unions themselves. The fight of The DAILY WORKER for militant trade unionism and support of the workers’ e basis of this phase strikes should be of the campaign. DATLY should WORKER, rtd cholrmantie. of, te | Our 10,000 party members, mobilize their strength and organize for the work, if they make use of every avenue of raising funds can raise the $50,000 needed to KBEP THE DAILY The Organization of Campaign Committees, Keer THE DAILY WORKER CAM- PAIGN COMMITTERS must be or- ganized in every leading committee of the party. Every district committee must or- ganize a special committee, under the the campaign. if they activity 0! le Can which will be responsible for carrying out Every city committee must organize stch a committee. tion and sub-sections KEEP THE DAILY WORKER OAMPAIGN COMMITTEES must be organizett by the section and sub-section committees. TLE leading committees must organize the party speakers and send them to the nuclei, to the language fractions, to the trade union fractions, to mobilize these units of the party and stimulate their activity in support of the campaign, Membership meetings should be called in the smaller cities for the whole eity and in the larger cities by sections at which the campaign is outlined and the nized. EP THE DAILY WORKER. party can keep The DAILY “ WORKER ff {t mobilizes its to achieve that goal, 1p nel 0 1,000 pari FUND. What Where there are sec- Wa Wed PIGHT is Tt te easily within a $50,000 KEEP THE DAILY WORKER is needed, what must be done, is that the party, down to the last mem- ber, is mobilized for this work, that all its strength and enthusiasm is thrown into the campaign, can make the KEEP THE DAILY WORKER CAMPAIGN an impres- sive mobilisation of the party. WE MUST MAKE IT THAT. UST SHOW WHAT THE PAR. CAN DO WHEN IT THROWS ALL ITS STRENGTH INTO THE BALANCE—WHEN IT IS FORCED TO TO KEEP ITS MOST IMPOR. TANT WEAPON IN ITS HANDS. 18 THE KIND OF CAMPAIGN MUST HAVE. THAT IS THE KIND OF A CAMPAIGN WE ASK THE PARTY MEMBERS AND THE LEAD- ING COMMITTEES OF THE PARTY AND—KEER THE HB AMee took ere ee ee eee ee eee Serene seeesenneerecnreenseseneerenesenenenesi se GRAFT IN POST OFFICE EXPOSES SCHEME OF RAILWAY COMPANIES; RIVAL RAILROADS WIN A SHARE WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—FP)— Three of the most hard-boiled enemies of organized labor in the post-office department are in disgrace as a result of disclosure of unfair routing of mail between Chicago and Florida, One of the Ohio Gang. W. H. Riddell was appointed as general superintendent of the railway mail service when the Harding administration took control in 1921. his intimate friends was a former di-4— SCAB CLOTHIER LEFT Chl ONLY TO MEET WORSE Retribution Dodges the Sweater’s Trail By MAUD McCREERY, Federated Press. WAUKEGAN, Il.—(FP)—It ran away from Chicago, away from the power of the union that had wrung decent working conditions and decent pay out of its miserly grasp. It made tracks for Waukegan where the cham- ber of commerce used to welcome any and every exploiter that failed to make good under civilized conditions elsewhere. It established itself, paid starvation wages, violated the chil@ labor law, ignored the sanitary: regn: lations, double-crossed its employes, thought it could laugh at the union from its runaway perch in Waukegan, and now—it is strikebound, sewed up tighter than one of its own coat but- tons, by the walkout of 122 of its 130 workers. Could Not Get Far Enough. The disillusioned runaway is the Granert L. Rothschild coat and over- coat shop, formerly of Chicago, now of Waukegan. Its unsavory record in Waukegan caused the chamber of commerce to regret its invitation, compelled the state’s attorney to prosecute it for violation of the in- dustrial code and brought it to con- fess to a plea of guilty in court. Its slave-driving and bloodsucking labor policy roused its employes to such a ferment that they began to whisper organization, then plan it and finally to shout it in on open meeting. Strike! The public meeting took place Sept. 21. Next day five women and one man, who had been reported by the Granert & Rothschild stools, were dis- charged. The following day three more women and two more men lost their jobs, And then with one accord over 100 others walked out, chose an organization committee and struck the works. Cutters and other key em- ployes joined the semi-skilled. Only eight stayed on. The Old Rough Stuff. The police rushed to the factory in the patrol wagon and began the fa- miliar rough stuff with the girl pick- ets, tho there was no provocation. But organized labor pressure caused @ change in police tactics and the next day the police were begging the girls’ pardon for the previous rowdy- ism in uniform, The only demands of the strikers are that the 11 workers who were victimized be reinstated by the boss and that the firm agree to collective bargaining. The nucleus of a union is under way and when formed it will be a local of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers, who had control of the shop before it ran away from Chi- cago. Philly Bosses Seek Union Smashing Writ (Continued from page 1) Keating’s attempt to smash the Build- ing Trades Council. The officers of the Building Trades Council interpret this move as a direct, attempt to establish the open shop in the building industry in Philadelphia, and are ready to fight for the main- tenance of the union standards and union control in the industry, Names Many Union Officials. The following were named in Mr. Keating’s plea: Joseph W. Allison of the Associated Building Trades of Philadelphia and Vicinity; James A, Kelly of the United Association of Plumbers, Local 123; Charles A. Wills of the United Asso- ciation of Steamfitters and Helpers, Local No, 420; James Cooley of the Hoisting and Portable Engineers, Local No, 506; International Union of Elevator Operators and Starters, Local No. 69; Charles P. Sweeney of the Quaker City District Council Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers; James Mc- Devitt of the Operative Plasterers, Cement Finishers, Asphalt and Com- position Floor Layers, Local No, 592; Arthur Hill and Otto C. Kolb of the District Council No. 1, Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhang- ers, and James Ford of the United Housesmiths and Bridgemen. : Reminded of Naval . War Preparations Capitalist armament continue, we are reminded by the St. Louis Labor. Rear Admiral Moffet, naval air chief, announced plans for expenditure dur- ing the fiscal year of approximately $12,000,000 made available by congress for purchase of new naval airplanes. The program iy expected to add 282 ships to the navy air fleet, 100 of them being fighting planes, 47 obser- vation planes, 61 bombing, torpedo and scouting planes, and 74 training planes, Designs for the new planes will be determined in competitive flight tests, and the navy department expects about 24 airplane manufactur. ing concerns to participate in the com- petition, Thus competitive armament | between the capitalist countries of the world goes on indefinitely and the people's money by the hundreds of millions is used for the purpose of legalized murder en masse and whole On jou ave wutuvas WAIWOREY thing t |