The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1926, Page 1

| | | | “eisttrié hobby horse = oy The DAILY WORKER Rr wer the Standard for a Wor’ and Farmers’ Governmm Vol, Il. No. 221. Subscription - . In ‘Chicago, by mail, $8.00 3% Outside Chicago,-by mail, Baud por Watered at Second-class matter September 21, <peenee meeenemnatn —_ ber year, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1926 ; 1923, at th@ Post Office at Chicago, dilinols, under the Act of March & 1878. EB 290 Published Pou except 8) PUBLISHING CO. lua Ww. by THE DAILY WORKER ‘ashington Bivd., Ciicago, ill. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents ENTOMBED MINERS FOUND ALIVE By T. J. O'FLAHERTY N alien . property custodian who did not steal: money trom the gov- ernment or accept graft, is as rare as a skinny brewery driver. We have followed the trial of Col, Miller, who with our old friend Harry Daugherty ig being prosecuted for sharing in a “honorarium” of $441,000 for rushing thru a claim for a German magnate. Now, A. Mitchel Palmer, he of the red raids and the super-heated patrict- ism, is made co-defendant with a Joseph Guffey of Pittsburgh in a suit to regover over five million dollars from the sale of the Bosch Magneto company. . oe ie HO got the “German gold”~that wag supposed to be distributed so lavishly by the agents of the kaiser during the war? Every time a group of workers went on strike, the strike leaders were accused of getting their palms greased. with German money. When a well intentioned body of citi- wens took steps in favor of peace the press shrieked for their heads and looked for the mark under the heel. But one does not have to read many columns of the capitalists press now- adays to learn the secret. The boys who got the German gold were the lads who shrieked loudest from a safe piace for the kaiser’s head. + * ENTLEMEN may prefer blondes but Coolidge prefers undertakers —to morticians. , This is how it came to bé told. A delegation of body plant- ers visited Cal, to offer him their sup- port, Being used to dead bodies, the undertakers ignored the doorman and walked right by Cal’s desk. There were over one hundred of them there and as the first of the procession passed, Cal asked his messenger boy what they were. The lad did not know, so he went higher-up for informatio The stable boy who m: Cal ther messenger that the delegates were morticiane. By the time the lad got back to Cal he had the morticians transfermed into “bricklayers.” So Cal may be expecting a heavy labor vote next election but he may get political embalming fluid instead. ee CATHOLIC weekly published in Belleville, [linois, comes to hand and strange to relate carries the fol- lowing editorial comment from an. ex- change: “It is not safe to conclude, as a catholic news agency does, from the present condition of socialism among us, that there is no chance for so- cialism in America, True, the so- alist party is almost dead from in- anition, but in its place there is arising a radical socialism (Com- munism), which is a much greater, danger. When once our laboring classes perceive that there is no hope for them under the present (Dontianet On meee on page 2) FINNISH SH WHITE GUARD BUTCHER NABBED IN WEST Keikko Sippola Under Arrest in Frisco During the white terror in Finland in 1918, after the overthrow of the Socialist Workers’ Government, there was one man who excelled everyone ‘in Dlood-thirsty cruelty. “. His name was Veikko Sippolg. Some time af- tor, strong pressur@ from the workers gompelled the “white” “government, established under the auspices of the German kaiser—to open procedure against him. This was of course a joke. The man himself had already disappeared. Now word comes from San Fran- cisco that a Finn, arrested there for iMlegal entrance into this country and calling himself Jalo Anttila, is Veikict Sippola, the man who was charged-in Finland, with the murder of worke: Under the circumstances, it, was too cruel even for the white guard gov- ernment and they have been forced to take ps against him. Ho established himself in San Fran- cisco, married (altho already married in Finland), and kept close connec- tions with the “respectable” Finnish bourgeois colony there, aécording to information. It is understood that he intends to fight against deportation and deliver. ance to Finnish officials, who of course, would be embarrassed to have one of thelr’ “heroes” delivered to BRUTAL POLICE | METHODS USED IN BOMB’ PLOT) Freed Prisoner Tells of Violent Threats iar ys (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N, J., Sept. 29.—Details of the latest crude bombing frame-up which the police of the Passaic tex- tile strike area have tried to perpes trate recently on the gtriking mem-/| bers of Local 1603 of the United Tex- tile Workers of America, are gradual- ly coming to light, Michael Elasik, a member of the general strike committee and a picket lieutenant, who was arrested Wed- nesday morning without a warrant, was released yesterday on $2,000 ‘bail, Held five days practically incom- municado, lasik was forced by violent threats to sign a Statement which he repudiated at once as soog as he was released. Blasik said he was shown @ group of strike prison- ers whose faces were black and blue and swollen, and told that he would get worse if he did hot confess to the charge of assaulting two mill fore- men whom he had never seen, Bloody Threat. He was also shown a_ bloody stretcher as he was being taken to 4 cell in the basement of the Clifton jail where he was kept for 24 hours jail. It was hinted to him that he might come to know the use of this stretcher if he did not come. across with the desired confession. After trying in vain to implicate him in the b6nvbing frame-up, the police contented themselves with wresting a false confession from him ‘Of assaalt “ou “ote” Of “the “two” fore- men said to have~ been attacked last week near Randolph street and Acker- man avenue. He was released on} $2,000 bail. Seven Held in Passaic. In the Passaic county,.jail at Pater- son, seven union strikers, arrested during the early part of the week are | still being held on.exorbitant.. bail. Two of them are held. without bail| and for the other five 350,000 is de- manded. Tony Pochno, charged with being implicated in four bombings is held on $100,000, ~ Joseph Bellene, Paul Ozneck and Alex Costomacha are held on $75,000 each, and Charles Current for $25,000, No bail on the bombing charges has been set for the other two, Tom Win- nik @nd William Sikora, Five In Bergen. In the Bergen county jail at Hacken- sack, five more men are being held without bail on the framed-up bomb- ing charges. These are Joseph Toth, Tom Regan, Nicholas’ Shilladi, Adolph Wisnefski and Paul Kovasch, Attorneys for the defense, Henry Hunt, formerly a member of the rail- road labor board, J. L. Hughes, of the American Civil Liberties Union, Joseph Brodsky, of New York, and Sigmond Unger, Passaic lawyer, ha’ been working on the strikers’ cas ‘ Make It a Day’s Pay TODAY Keep the Daily Worker edition to appear under the dat Ford i or is imply using a new method after his removal from the Passaic |, SPECIAL FORD NUMBER HE announcement that Ford is GIVING his workers a\fiveday week with six days pay has become the talk not only of the bosses thruout the country but is a topic of conversation among the workers. Just what is it all about? Is Ford generous? Is he actually GIVING the work: The DAILY WORKER will answer these questions in a special of Thursday, October 7. Working- i class writers will analyze this new departure and explain whether actuated by a desire to improve the standards of the workers sequently more profits out of his wage slaves. “Forged in Swindling Manner” (Stalin's Reply to. Leader Lie dome Stalin has nailed another Ameri an newspaper lie. The general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has personally replied to this latest of many falsehoods | not because it Was spread by capitalist new: ers, Hearst's to be exact, but because a “quasi-soclalist weekly,” the New Leader | of New York, echoed the lie. WORKER branding the New Leader story as “a most complete and ignorant forgery.” The Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party had called the New Leader to account at the time | the bogus story was printed and made known.a cable from the! Communist International branding the story a8 a lie. An insolent | reply was received from the editor of the New Leader. The latter then sent a cable to Stalin which demanded a yes or no answer on the authenticity of the story which, by the way, the New Leader stole from the Hearst service. Stalin did not reply to the New Leader. His cable to The DAILY WORKER said that he did not consider it possible for him to enter into correspondence “with an organ which itself forged in a swindling manner ‘remarks’ from my speech, and now has the audacity to ask me, with the appearance of innocence, about the genuineness of these remarks.” Stalin’s cablegram follows: Moscow, September 28. To the Editorial Board of the Central Organ of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party of America, THE DAILY bolton Dear ‘Comrades: Editor: \ Kindly insert the following statement in your paper: On August 14th the New York quasi-socialist weekly, the “New Leader” printed, without Indicating the source, falsified concluding re- marks from an alleged and falsified version of a speech of mine at the plenum of the Central Gommittee of the Communiét Party of the Soviet Union. | have neither the possibility mor the desire to read all the in- ventions of the bourgeois and semi-bourgeols papers concerning Soviet public men, and would not have paid attention to thie usual falsehood of the capitalist press and their underlings. However, a month after printing @ falsified remarks the “New Leader” sent me a telegram In which it asked me to “affirm all July severe criticism of Zinoviey attributed to you in American papers report proceed| } central sommittee Russian Communist Party.” Not considering it possible to enter into correspondence with an organ which itself forged in a swindling manner “rémarks” from my Speech, and now has the audacity to ask me, with the appearance of in- nocence, about the genuineness of these “remarks,” | ask you to allow me to state thru your paper that the report on the) “remarks of Stalin,” pub- lished In. the “New Leader” of August 14, 1926, had absolutely nothing in common with my speech at the plenum of the Central Committee, either in content or in form or in tone, and that this ’report is thus a most complete and ignorant forgery. With Communist greetings, / —s- STALIN. INDIANA KLAN LEADER SERVING LIFE TERM FOR MURDER, INJURED (Special te The Daily Worker) MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Sept. 29.—D. C. Stephenson, former Indiana kian leader serving a life sentence in the Indiana state prison, is back on his job in the chair factory today nursing minor injuries as a result of a fall suffered Monday while walking down the stairs leading from the main floor to the second cell tier, Stephenson slipped and fel! four steps to the cement floor. PHILADELPHIA BUILDING TRADES NEED ALL COMBINED UNIONS FOR FIGHT ON OPEN SHOP INJUNCTION By ALEX BAIL. (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Sept, 29.—The granting by Judge)McDevitt of an ifi- junction to plumbing contractor Daniel Keating against the unions of the Building Trades Council, is attracting wide attention in union circles here. | lt is well understood that the issue involved is one of primary importance in which the very life of the union is concerned. Starts Open Shop Drive, One must be quite naive to believe that Mr, Keating:stands alone in his efforts to destroy the council. The attendance in court’ef Mr. Anderson, one of the largest contractors in this city, is quite significant, The decision in ; Keating’s favor will be the signal for many more large contractors to enter Dlea for similar injunctions. If the Building Trades Gouncil is to retain its control overithe building industry in PhiladelpMa.and to maintain un- {on standards arit:union conditions it must rally all ite forces in an effort to defeat the beginning of a huge open shop drivetin the industry. The injunction is very far reaching in scope and might be used not only in Philedalphia but also in any other part of the state. Plainly Open Shop. The injunction prohibits the Butld- ing Trades Council: “a. From combining or conspiring in any way for the purpose of com- pelling or coercing plaintiff to dis- charge non-union men in his employ ! (Continued on page 2) ers something for nothing? to Squeeze more work id con- Stalin has abled The DAILY | TRADES UNION CONGRESS SEES sion of Betrayal By ALLEN HUTT. (Special to The Daily Worker) BOURNEMOUTH, | Trades Union Cong is over. It | met under more historic clroumstances How jthan any congress previously. | has it faced up to its task? Let us make no bones about it: this the General Council, serried phalanx of officialdom, simply refused to lay the ghost. The contrast with Scarborough has been remarkable: at Bournemouth all the right wing elements have dis- played a united front that has been admirable in its solidarity—while the left wing that was so prominent last year has softly and silently vanished away. This is not to say that the general body of delegates had moved to the right, Nothing of the kind. The most striking proof of this was the spirited way in which delegates from all parts of the hall spontaneously supported the miners on Thursday in their his- the General Council's provocative ap- pointment of Bromley to second the resolution on the lockout. Willing to Respond. T have noticed the same readiness to hogar: in a less spectacular degree, | Of course, to a left wing lead whenever it has been given. in. the sharp questioning of the Gen- eral Council (arisingout of its report) on amalgamations, the failure to give any effect to the Scarborough resolu- tion on factory committees, its failure | to de the most that could be done to} develop the trades councils. It was equally the case with the keen discus- ion of the powers of the General Botnet its right to refuse discussion the general strike at congress, the plea for workers’ defense on the weakly: liberal resolution on E. P. A., jand the fight whjch won the resolution in favor of industrial unionism. The Scarborough Temper. It was the small group of delegates who are supporters of the minority movement who gave the lead on these and many other points. They were aided by left wing fighters like Ellen Wilkinson and John Jagger (N. U. D. A. W.). But of other left wing leader- ship, as I said, there was not even a smell left. Why, it may be asked, was not more achieved by the leftwing opposition, if the temper of the congress was not fundamentally different from Scar- borough? For a very simple reason: the spirit of trade union discipline ts very strong, and delegations have yet an uncanny habit of doing what their general secretary, with the votes in his hand, tells them to do. Equally a left winger may be alone or in a minority on his delegation—and while he speaks one way, the votes of his society perforce go another. Cold Feet. It was the cold feet of the general secretaries which—after the heavy ar- tillery of Bevin, Clynes and Cramp-— (Cortinued on page 2.) TURN YOUR EYES Michigan. STALKING GHOST Leaders Dods ge Discas- | Engiand. — The | congress was haunted—haunted by | the-memory of the general strike—and | backed by the | toric demonstration of protest against | BRITISH MILLS HIT BY COAL FAMINE AS MINE UNION MEETS LONDON, Sept. 29.—Four hun- dred mills In the Lancashire dis- trict engaged In the spinning of American cotton today announce: that they had decided to operate only one week in every three be- cause high coal prices make run- ning expenses much too high. The decision gives a concrete ex- ample of the paralyzing effects of the long coal strike. | Miners’ delegates today assem- bled for a conference in Kinks way Hall to discuss the govern- ment’s proposal that they proceed with district settlements of the strike demands. This action follows the passage yesterday by the house of commons of a motion continuing the “state of re for another month. ‘INJURED MINERS GET NO SUPPORT IN DISTRICT ONE. Officials Reluctant Fight Cases ARTICLE IV. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Sept. 29. Not a single doctor is employed by District One to look after the welfare jof the members of the United Mine to IMPRISONED FOR A WEEK, 43 ARE NEAR TO RESCUE | (Special to The Daily Worker) | IRONWOOD, Mich., Sept, 29.—The |43 miners, imprisoned in the G. Pabst | mine‘here singe Friday, are alive. This {was determined unexpectedly this | afternoon when a gang of rescue work- ers, on the twentieth level, struck a passage-way leading directly to the | underground prison. | “Hello, up there! How are ‘the rescue party called | “and down the ec | the opening \right and al Only Time Question. The opening t sufficiently you?” sing faintly alive.” i the | miners but re: Ie only a que ‘i of those imprisoned would be brought out it safely. s long as we can communicate with them and know are all [wih one rescue leade comes only a r of ‘Anything they need in the v tood or supplies we so there's ey Must Crawl 200 Feet. Despite the smallness of the open ing and the perils attendant upon at- tempts to negotiate the ascent from the twentieth level to the eighth level, Workers here who may be, and who.| where the men are trapped, four mem- jconstantly-are, being injured in their} bers of the rescue party volunteered |dangerous work. to make an effort to crawl up the 200 | Practically every doctor in the dis- | feet. This was the case | trict is either on the payroll of the coal companies or under their jpftu- ence. - The anthracite miners come under the Pennsylvania compensation law but in President Cappelini’s district |the law is administered by company lawyers, the company officials and |company doctors. A Recent Instance. A recent “instance of the lack of union control over the administration |of a law which was considered an or- ganized labor measure when it was passed is that of a miner who had {his index finger broken by a falling rock. The finger was set carelessly by the company doctor and when it heal- ed stuck out rigidly, being worse than no finger at ail as it was in the way. Tt must be amputated in order that the miner can be able to work again at his trade. No Aid From Officials. Properly cared for the finger should have been practically as good as ever and one doctor, whom the miner | consulted, was honest enuf to say so. The miner was offered a settlement by the company but refused it as it} in no way compensated him for his injury and loss of wages. He took (Continued on page 2) RETURN THE PETITIONS! All comrades in the Chicago dis- trict who have been petitioning to put the Workers (Communist) Party candidates on the ticket in the state elections are requested to return the signed petitions to the district office, 19 S$. Lincoln St., at oni ¥ TOWARD DETROIT! EXT MONDAY morning the annual convention of the American Federa- tlon of Labor convenes in the capital city of the auto industry, Detroit, cA It wil be an important gathering#mot only for the organized workers of this country, but for the whole American working clases, All labor must turn Its eyes toward Detroit during the two weeks that follow and carefully watch the A. F. of L. at work, It can only do this thru the columns of The DAILY WORKER. No other daily newspaper in the thie convention that the rank and file ind, in the English language, will give the story of of labor must have in order to become STRIKE FIFTH “AVENUE SHOPS IN NEW YORK Ladies’ Tellers Out for Union Control (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—A large and qnthusiastic mass meeting of workers in the dress shops employed in the exclusive establishments in the 57th street and Fifth avenue district filled yant Hall to overflowing to pledge their enthusiastic support of the of ficers of the Ladies’ Tailors and Cus- jtom Dressmakers’ Union, Local No. |38, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, in the call for a gen- {eral strike thruout the custom dress jindustry which began on Tuesday | Septémber 28. Among the prominent shops in- jvolved in the general strike are | Henri Bendel, Bergdorf & Goodman, |Stein & Blaine, Thurn, Frances T Tappe, Hickson, \Milgrim, and many others catering to very tomers. wealthy ‘cus- Negotiations Resumed. Conferences between the Couturier’s Association and the Ladies’ Tailors’ Union have been held for the past | week and are now being resumed after la temporary failure to reach a settle | ment, | The union is demanding a 40-hour week, 10 to 20 per cent increase in wages, ree4riction of overtime, and guarantee Of 44 weeks’ work a year For Union Shops, In addition, according to a state- ment issued today by the unton, the organized workers in these shops are determined to establish full union con- trol of the shops. Furthermore, the union states that the great numberof unorganized. workers in this trade, particularly women workers, endan- gers all of the standards already ¢s- tablished by the union and threatens to demoralize the industry. The ‘campaign of the Ladies’ Téil- ors’ Union has attracted much atten- tion, Automobiles decked with ban- acquainted with ite own problems. That story will be carried in The DAILY | "ers and signs calling upon the work- WORKER, from day to day, while the convention is in session. J, Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, who was at the ers to organize and calling attention to the union demends, have paraded the Fifth avenue district. Street Atlantle City convention of the A. F. of L. last year, will be in Detroit this | meetings have been held at the noon year, inding the news and comment direct from the convention floor, An hour on 67th street, which have increased number of workers should read The DAILY WORKER during | created keen intere: these two weeks. “Our Daily.” W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, til. If they do, they will surely subscribe and continue reading Order a daily bundle now from The DAILY WORKER, 1113 | tablished at the Central Opera House, P THE DAILY WORKER / TLE RIALP WEE NaS PNP a =a Ue ayer Strike headquarters have been @s- 57th street and Third avenue. Meet ings are held daily, Printing Presamen Get More Pay. NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—New York printing pressmen are getting $1 a week more pay from Oct. 1, according to the decision »worked out het’