The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER ie UNITED STATES PORTS VOMITING “BLACK” COAL U. S. Workers Help to Defeat Miners By GORDON CASCADEN, (Special to The Daily Worker) 9 KILLED, 21 INJURED IN CRASH OF TWO FLYERS AT BETHLEHEM, PA. BETHLEHEM, Pa., Sept. 27.—Nine persons were killed and twenty-one Injared when the “Binghampton Flyer” of the Central Rallroad of New Jersey crashed Into the Buffalo-to-New York express train of the Lehigh Valley Road here today. The accident occurred at 5:55 a, m. as the Lehigh train was pulling into the station here.” The tracks of both roads convene at a “Y” angle at this point. The “Binghampton Flyer” struck the second coach of the Lehigh Limited square- ly, tossing It, three other Pullman cars and a diner, off the track. All of the dead ‘and injured, with the exception of the engineer of the flyer, were on the Lehigh train, Where Ironwood Miners Are Trapped COMPANY. LIES ABOUT TRAPPED TRON MINERS Steel Trust Agents Be- gin Whitewash (Continue from Page 1) to the 2,000 foot shaft which’ leads only downward, $2 Married. Most of the men tyapped are well along in years. This fact, it is fear- War Between the Czars of Auto Industry Offers Opportunity to Workers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, IVIL war is rapidly developing in the auto industry between the giant Ford Motor corporation and 100,000. ever, the total output of the whole automobile industry showed a big increase. General Motors seems to During this period, how- . OBREGON KEPT FOES GUESSING THEN CUT LOOSE Ingenuity Saved Many, from Massacre (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Sept. 28.—General Obregon’s iron nerve and ingenuity stood him in good stead when the train in which he was traveling was held up by an army of rebelfious In- NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 27.—Tens of ed, combined with thesphysical strain] the new colossus, the General | have gotten its share, During the | “ian catholics at Vicam in the prov- thousands of tons of coal to break Unless one of the four agencies being used to rescue the forty-three|+. which they are subject, may make| Motors corporation. first half of 1925, 418,000 General |!%Ce of Sonora. the British miners’ strike are being | Miners as shown in the above diagram are successful, there will be small|them more susceptible. to madness. During this growing struggle, | Motors machines—Chevrolet, |, General Obregon was warned before shipped from Baltimore and Hampton Roads every day. For months the largest coal loading plers in North America have continued working day and night. Sunday and holiday and ordinary week-day are all alike in this gigantic effort of Premier Stanley Baldwin of the British Empire, com- mandant of the anti-labor army, to deliver a smashing blow to British unionism. Fifty-nine ships passed in and out ot the Virginia Capes inside two days, only one lone schooner being in the ‘Mat, Nearly all are engaged in the effort to supply “scab” coal. During the last week 107 ships en- tered and cleared from Norfolk and hope of finding the men alive after many more hours. Thirty-two families will be fatherless unless this race with time and death can be won. F. AURORA SHAFT Wg a : pects | ST. RESCUE! On the surface are: waiting their wives and their families. Thirty-two of thevmen are married. * 8 e By a Worker Correspondent. IRONWOOD, Mich., Sept. 28,—The United States Steel Corporation is now on the Job applying the white- wash brush In an effort to cover up on the cave-in In the G shaft of the] Pabst mine of the Oliver Mining com. pany properties In which three men went hurtling half a mile to death and 43 others are entombed since 11:30 a, m., Friday, Sept. 24. One of the first mioves of the com- pany was to appoint an anonymous which has been foretold for some time, the hundreds of thousands of workets massed behind these, two powerful industrial giants can do either one of two things: First:—They can remain loyal and obedient to their respective capitalist masters and aid them in their war for control of the industry, the Ford army against the General Motors army, for the victory of Ford profits against General Motors profits, Second:—They can seize upon this excellent opportunity that presents itself to them and, during this hand to throat struggle be- Dodges and HEssex—were sold. The jump was made to 589,000 cars sold tor the first half of this year, It is estimated that Ford's profits dur- ing 1926 totalled $94,560,397. Those of General Motors for the’ same period are reputed to have gone over the $100,000,000 mark. These figures give some indica- tion of the factors involved in the increasing intensity of the war for supremacy in the auto industry. They do not take, into considera- tion the great question that troubles the whole auto industry, which is, where is the point of saturation? boarding the train in Nogales that the Indians were restless, but he decided to make the journey with an escort of 150 ipexperienced soldiers. Another detail of troops was ordered to Buay- mas to await developments. When the train reached Vicam armed Yaquis surrounded the coaches, explaining to General Obregon that Chief Matu de-- ' sired to confer with him regarding the fate of Chief Rivera and 50 Yaquis who had been arrested. General Obre- gon refused, but sent a message to the goyernor of the state asking for information regarding the chief, Delayed Proceedings. For two hours General Obregon ne- y, “spokesman” to give out dope tothe] tween the profiteers of the industry, | How many more automobiles can |#0tiated with the Yaquis, seeking Newport News. This number does PARTY AT TOP newspaper boys, and one of the first} wring better conditions for them- | be sold before the purchasing pub- {every means of delaying the proceed: is gages States ships bound OF CAVESIN things he did was to say: selves from their exploiters. Mc in the United States cries |ings. Women and children aboard the ‘om one erican port to another. : ‘ More than 100 ships are now in Hampton Roads, and only five of them are schooners, A majority of the ships are of Brit- ish registry, altho Norway and Italy are well represented. The ports of ‘ E everybody. s of the industry, then the | ments will be necessary, and a |and were becoming more threatening. - destination, for the most part, are TQ-PENETRATE, | RDA. MORNING oe Shaft Very Old. ‘ anphant re of sradteats will | Plague of unemployment and short- |A message then arrived from the gov- in the British Isles. Several of the DEBRIS TO EN= The G shaft is 40 years old and} be in a better position than ever, | time work will spread thru this\|ernor, indicating that Chief Rivera ships, however, sail for Italy and ED MINERS}: miners state that they have reported] when the war is over, to continue | highly effictent industry, organized | had heen released. The Yaquis were South America, The cargoes, of * course, are alile—coal, coal, coal. The amount of coal exported thru Norfolk during the last week is ¢s- timated at more than 200,000 tons, This figure does not include coast- wise shipments. Newport News also held {ts own in coal shipments during the same period. For the first three weeks of Sep- tember, 65 ships carried 416,487 tons of coal from Baltimore, two-thirds of its going to the British Isles, Large steamship lines are begin- ning to enter the coal carrying trade, the high coal freight charter rate be- ing an inducement. The rate last week was $6.25 a ton with a pros- pect of $6.60 a ton if the strike con- tinues. Time-chartered boats willing to re-let for early October coal to the ldntic Transport Line, one of the largest branches of the International Mercantile Marine, to enter the coal- carrying trade. Pierpont: Morgan and other United States capitalists, along ||? [SECOND RESCUE 4 LEVEL. DIG TO REACH COMRADES mee a | PARTY IN [3 TH. }7 43. MEN HAVE. BEEN GARLAND FUND I$ EXHAUSTED: “I don’t know how you boys feel about it, but I feel Me a drink.” This sounded. good*to the capital- ist news writers, and the result is that the “information” being released by the officials is satisfactory to conditions to the mime captains who have taken them up with the higher- ups. The cave-in came when the sliaft was not sufficiently supported to withstand the heavy rains of the past three weeks. Another He found in the United Press reports was that white-collar- ed clerks and officials were among those engaged in rescue work. Ask the miners if the officials are work- ing underground in the rescue work, and they say bitterly: “Hell.” Fables Circulated. All sorts of storiesabout the good air and water which’ the miners are enjoying in their tomb on the eighth level are being given out by the of- ficials, but the miners state the air and gas damp, There is no explanation of why the safety “dogs” on the cage did not keep the cage from plunging almost half a mile to the bottom of the shaft when the oave-in occurred. by the officials so that no word of it eee If the million auto workers, em- ployed in the different branches of the industry, do not seize the op- portunities offered during this inter- necine struggle on the part of the combatting the organization of the workers, to cut wages and lengthen the workday. It is in this crisis that the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, and especially its metal trades depart- ment, shows very little desire to even atempt the organization of the auto workers. see All the General Motors plants are running strong at the present time. The General Motors stockholders have just pocketed a 50 per cent stock dividend and capitalization is now fixed at $1,800,000,000. It is on this huge capitalization that the General Motors’ labor army ‘is now toiling at break-neck speed, to) pro- duce more profits. the General Motors outfit turns out a host of cars of all makes and prices, in addition to trucks,.motor coaches and taxicabs. Its accessory and parts divisions and companies— bicycles, farm lighting and power “Enough!” The maximum guess so far made is 25,000,000 cars for the United States. This figure is being approached very rapidly. When the high point has been reached, as it soon will be, then only replace- and equipped for mass production on a scale never attempted in any other industry, see Henry Ford is a bitter foe of or- ganized labor. His “$5 per day” looked big in pre-war days. The prevailing “$6 per day” doesn’t loom so large today; with the cost of living nearly doubled. It is hardly Noticeable. Little is heard of “high Ford wages” any more. Instead the “Ford speed-up” is now in the lime- light. This is the “speed-up” that is forcing workers to do in five days what they formerly -<did in six. A Communist was distributing The Ford Worker, a shop paper, to workers going home in the ‘street cars in the Ford section of Detroit. copy to those who do not work at Ford’s.” “Never,” replied the distributor. “You can always pick out a Ford worker in a street car. They all train were placed in upper berths when it became dark and“the troops were distributed to the best advantage around the train. In the meantime the Yaquis had dug trenches on either side of the train not satisfied and requested General Obregon to illuminate the train. He refused and promised to meet any at- tack with machine guns, altho he had no such weapons available. Retired from Trenches, The Indians lined up to attack just as a violent storm broke, causing them to retire to the trenches, which soon were flooded. At 4 a, m, the rain ceased and the Yaquis reoccupied the trenches and were preparing again to attack when another train approached. The Indians supposed it to be Chief Rivera, but the train contained Gen- eral Manzo and reinforcements. A railroad torpedo was exploded by the approaching train and both sides opened fire. o- 2 ® ia) and water and light*and phone con- While the Ford system turns out “But how do you know you are British Isles will ask and get 28 he dl nections are all shattered in the| practically only two cars, the cheap | giving the paper to Ford workers?” are ag i Gm tone ‘ patella Ab Allon cn to cave-in, and that m cannot live | fiivver, the Ford, and th!) much ! tho distributor. was aaked... “You |, MEXICO OF bhatt ati ov mandi i : more experisi Lincoin, pelt Larres 4 This inducement is leading the At- long in the blastin, wder smoke ore expensive car, the , | might make a mistake and give.a terday in the village of Valles, near Tampico. He was charged with con- spiracy to organize a revolt for the purpaese of seizing petroleum lands ig the Huastoca region, Mu fifteen of them—make not only the | look just about dead. They're dif- PJ ] Da utae siecasaa oe We cake 10 SHUT SHOP Hi The cave-in occurred at 11:30 a.| things — into automobiles, but | ferent.. The speed-up makes them Third Degree Used re nad m. on Friday and it was covered up| electric refrigerators, materials for | that way.” The Missouri, one of the largest Hy : Atlantic Transport liners, arrived here a few days ago from Antwerp to load coal for Birkenhead, England. (Spectal to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 28—The Amer- got onto the Associated Press wires at Ironwood which did not close un- plants, washing machines and water pumps, all of which constitutes a The powers back of General Motors constitute some of the most on Passaic Strikers -(Continued from page 1) ican fund for public service which til three o’clock in the afternoon. dovetailing of facilities and | vicious “open shop” interests in the | held this morning with union officials pr * ser Rg td a fone was created out of a gift of $1,674,000 The only official who could be| Strengthening. of the General | land. Wall Street is enthroned on |and lawyers working on the cases of All three have hitherto been used ex- chusively in line service for freight. ‘The Missouri has been laid up for 18 months and the Mississippi for three years. Other ships, with mames familiar to those who follow the sea, are being hurriedly placed in commission to aid Baldwin and international capital to force the children, women and men of Britain's mining sections into sub- méitsion. Seotion No. 4 Membership Meeting. A meeting of all party members ot Section No. 4 will be held on Thurs- day, Sept. 30, at Frefheit Hall, 3209 West Roosevelt Road, at 8 p. m. Comrade Max Bedacht will be the speaker of the evening. There will be a report of the executive commit- tee of the section and discussion by the members. Hvery member should attend this meeting. The Y. W. L. members of Section No. 4 are urged to attend. from Charles Garland, much talked-ot millionaire with a conscience, willbe liquidating its affairs as soon as the balance of the money already pledged to various causes is disposed of. The original contribution of $901,- 555 was inherited by Garland from his father. This sum was almost doub- led in a few years by a rise in the stock of the First National Bank of New York. Turned Down the Money. Because Garland did not approve of the manner in which the money was jaccumulated he ised to accept it for his own personal use but decided to donate it to organizations pur- porting to serve the labor movement. The board gave away $829,000 and $388,000 has been pledged. The bal- ance of $457,000 is outstanding in loans. Greek Opposition in Demand for Ousting of Premier Kondylis CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) the missionaries who are howling for more imperialist warships we say the punishment should fit the crime tho what a fitting punishment should be we are at a loss to say right off the reel, unless it might be reading an interview with Calvin Coolidge. see H: L, MENCKEN is a bright lad * and precocious, His Sunday sermons are considerably more inter- esting than those of many other preachers we could name. Last Sun- day’s Menckenism was an attempted Piece of satire on war, but in his opening paragraph Henry was at a loss how to be amusing, so he pulled a, very old wheeze about the alleged antipathy of members of the 1. W. W. to soap and water. The Wobbly is about the most misunderstood product reached during the night, when ques- tioned about the caye-in, said: “This is a hell of a time to wake a man up.” British Coal Mine Strike Leader Flays Trade Union Congress (Continue from Page 1) cared with over $3,000,000 already do- iated by the Russian ‘workers, is only 0 be characterized as disgraceful, Governments Hate Russ! “The capitalist governments of Europe, especially the Baldwin gov- ernment, will never forgive the Rus- sian workers for the help which they have given the British miners, and the Soviet government will have to suffer for what the Russian workers have done, . “Not only are the Russians being ttacked by capitalist governments, but the T. U. C. General Council are joining in the onslaught. Motors organization, Thus the General Motors offer- ings include the Chevrolets, that have been cutting deeply into the sale of the Ford filvvers, the Pon- tiacs, Oaklands, Oldsmobiles, Buicks and Cadillacs, together with the Chevrolet and Pontiac commercial vehicles, Hertz Drivurself cars, Yel-’ low cabs and trucks and GMC trucks, 2.8, @ The figures show that against the competition of the General Motors corporation, the Ford system is not gaining but losing. It is claimed that the falling off in Ford sales has forced, more than anything else, the institution of the five-day week in the Ford plants. While in St, Paul recently, I was told that the great Ford plant in that city was not working five days per week, but only two, three\and four days per week, and on some of these days | only part time. Figures for the first half of 1925 show that Ford sales were 828,000, its board of directors. It is bank controlled under the direction of Pierre S. DuPont, George F. Baker, Jr., Junius S. Morgan, Jr., and others. The DuPont powder pro- fiteers got in early with the profits taken during the world war. The House of Morgan did the financeer- ing for General Motors just as it created the United States Steel corporation. Under such . direction the workers can expect nothing but the most bitter opposition from Gen- eral Motors against their every effort to organize. But they must defeat this anti-labor power. Organization of the auto industry will bé a great help to the workers in several affiliated industries, espe- cially the rubber workers, surely the steel workers and it ought to give added impetus to organization in the coal industry, where Wall Street is now exerting tremendous efforts to establish the open shop. Labor has a great opportunity presented to it as-a result of the conditions now prevailing in the the strikers arrested recently on charges of alleged bomb throwing. “The police of Passaic, Garfield and Clifton are again attempting to break the textile strike by arresting mem- bers of the union and grilling them in an attempt to implicate them in the recent bombing incidents. They hope by these methods to destroy the morale of the strikers and detract public sympathy from them. 22 Arrested. “Twenty-one men and a boy have been arrested and some of them held incommunicado fo! veral days. The distress of the wives and children of these men confined in jail without lawful warrant and brutally beaten by the police to extort confessions from them, can be imagined. “From the beginning of the strike last January, the police have pursued a continugus policy of lawbreaking, clubbing, unlawful arrests and un- reasonable bail. All this has failed’to provoke the strikers to counter with like violence and lawbreaking. Now of American society. There is more Attack on sky. This fell for the first half of 1926 |. auto industry. Labor must take ad- | when the strike is about to be won, . ATHENS, Sept. 28.—President Kon “what . q m intellectuality and more silk socks in at conclusion we draw| to 714,000 flivvers, a loss of over | van of this opportuni these strange bombings come into the Geen Boonr douriotis today met the leaders of all t 1 5 tage PI ty. Religion the political parties to consider the demands of the anti-Venizelists. These are, first, resignation of Pre- mier Kondylis, second, formation of a strictly service cabinet “divorced one wobbly recruiting union than one could find in the headquarters of the American Federation of labor at Washington, at least more intellec- tuality. It’s hard to maintain @ uni- that there are memberg of the General Council who desire to-see us defeated? “The latest generous gift of the Russian workers of $1,575,000, of and to attend their branch meetings to see that the miners shall not be defeated after such an heroic struggle, SATURDAY, . picture, Coppers “Plant.” “From an examination of the avatl- able evidence of these bomb cases, it " appears highly probable that they are The Profts of Religion, by Uton Sin-|trom politics,” and third, adoption of |formly high standard in literary jazz | Which | we have iy received] ‘The Faker’s Excuse, TOBER the result of @ ‘plant’ by detective clair. Paper, $1.00] tne majority electoral system. without periodical rests but the least 000, causes mi all the more! “It is evident from the attitude of agencies attempting to break the Cloth, 1.50 pels ios ot a aaa we might expect of Mencken is that |t° Tesent the attack upon Tomsky by|the German, French, Belgian, and 9 strike by charging violence against Osara'’ My Nelahber, by Robert Diack; | ‘There’s a blank in this isaue, Clip|he would not pull any loyal order of iron ch American representatives at the Inter. A ; the strikers. It wil be noticed that Communiom ve. Christlaniom, by Bishop| {t out and send In your donation, ‘the Moose wheezes, itis exes tS a nee ‘ryteng oe om Bagel nine seater the bombings have ~been going on’ rown, aper, i" e Russians by since May and that no one has been Foundati f Christianity, by Karl ours would be had not arrived at|'T, U. ©. is being used execu - on ooh "| MILWAUKEE ARRANGES BENEFITS IN |! nator nance wih tn en mo Fag hy or bvonearia wasn stags di BISHOP BROWN’S New Book MY HERESY An Autoblography Cloth, $2.00 * DAILY WORKER PUB, CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd. CHICAGO, ILL. CAMPAIGN FOR THE DAILY WORKER (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Two benefits for The DAILY WORKER are being arranged by the Workers (Communist) Party in Milwaukee as follows: October 9—Vecherinka at Miller's Hall, 802 State Street. November 14—Banquet at the South Side Turner Hall, 471 National Ave. This is part of the campaign of the Milwaukee Communists to raise their quota in support of The DAILY WORKER. eral Council, which) however, was broken “by Bromley without a protest from the General Council. In the light of what has happened I per- sonally regret that this agreement was made, In Defense of Miners, “And yet these same people have the impudence to speak of Tomsky's abuse of courtesy! It wat in defense of the miners that our comrades in Ruésia made to keep the Russian miners out of an all-inclusive International, “The British delegates, however, were emphatic in moving @ resolution in favor of the admission of the Rus sians into the Miners’ International. “It is trae that the International decided to consider strike action on behalf of the British miners, but I have yery little faith in an Interna- tional which allows the importation into Britain of nearly @ million tons of coal per week, while one of their A. F. OF L. CONVENTION SPECIAL ISSUE Order Now-314¢ a Copy, I am informed that some of the men implicated are present workers in the mills. Unless the facts are fully brot out it is probable that these men will be shown to be detectives employed to incite strikers to violence.” Held for Murder is Denied Bail by Judge ! their protest. _ - “It may be that the General Council's reply to Tomsky will be used by reactianary trade union lead- ers in England and ‘on the continent Roy Tagney, former union official, indicted for the slaying of Morris Markowitz, Landis award contractor, was denied freedom on bail pending, tfial in criminal court. here today, of an embargo on coal and a levy on all their members in work. “Theré should be conferences of trades councils galled in every area, sections Is fighting a life and death ANTI-F ASCIST MASS MEETING IN NEW YORK CITY SUNDAY AFTERNOON For Rent: FURNISHED ROOM, nice and light Embargo and a Trade Union Levy. “Despite attacks by the T. U. C. and referable. Eber. in order to sabotag@ the Anglo-Rus-|the futility of the y Interna |@nd I believe that in spite of the at-} Tne trial date was kept at October’ con ae pr ese, by elias + New York, Sept. 28—-An antifasclet mass meeting will be held baa sian joint advisory ébmmittee, tional we would etass titude ofthe General Council there is in altho counsel for Tagney urged, ger, afternoon, October 3, at three o'clock; at Manhattan Lyooum, 66 East Fourth) 1: ts up to the ‘Hank and file to| fle of the British that | enough spirit left in the rank and file that it be sot aboad etter ail had) SeeKKKKKmeEEKeKeeeecxeees:' Street, New York City ne SE thetr Fin the country } It 1 not too tate: to tis plan”) | been refused, “ fey angie! 5. ay MMe x ne SR i , pois ; ” » ‘ ‘t ag