The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER U.S. BOASTS OF PROFIT IN ‘BLACK’ COAL 700,000 Tons from One| Port in One Week The weekly Diamond, published in Chicago, gives some intsresting statistics on the movement of American coal used to break the British miners’ strike. It Says that from Hampton Roads alone 700,000 tons were shipped last week and shipments continue heavy. Constantly Increase. Railwa figures shows expor rom Hampton R 1 of 1925. Exports from r ports from Jan were 8, 16 ton tons ; tons st ye; ar’s tons in e but a small part of coal production this domestic industrial pt. 11, American sof d 374,753,000 tons, y the same period 48,645,000 tons, amount of the Non-Union Mines Lead. Virginia app ears to be getting export business sh strike. Produc- inion state for the Labor Day ),000, 3,110,000, 2,972,000, 1 1,777,000 tons. The drop k was due to the influence endin; weeks the production of 1,280,000, 1,320,- 000, and 1,218,000 zo Illinois and ing neck and ist at present, was irginia w tonnage. 2 the duction of the Illinois mines is a fea- ture of the coal trade, Illinois, which long sagged below non-union Kentucky, has again taken the lead over that state, In the five weeks production race Kentucky's ton- nage was 1,147,000, 1,205,000, 1,168,000, 1,148,000, and $14,000, Illinois leading every week. Oldest Jail Bird to Speak Here Sunday, Oct. 3, at Walsh Hall Charles Cline, for 13 years 4 prison- er in a Texas jail will tell his ex- periences at the affair of the Russian branch of the International Labor De- tense this Sunday, Oct, 3, at Walsh Hall, cor. Milwaukee Ave and Noble street. A concert will be given in which some of the best talent of the Russian and Ukrainian colonies of Chicago will participate, a perform- ance and a dance will follow. The well-known Russian actress Miss Sviet, and Mrs. Maller, dramatic sop- Tano, are among those who will parti- cipate in the program, The names of some of the participants cannot be ad- vertised for certain reasons. A sur- prize is promised to those who will attend the affair. The Russian Work- ers Singing Society, the Mandolin Orchestra and many others will par- ticipate. The 170 members of the Rus- sian branch are working hard to make the affair a moral and financial suc- cess. You can also help by coming to the affair and inviting your friends, Remember the date and place: Sun- day, October 3, at 6:30 p. m. at Walsh Hall, cor. Milwaukee and Noble. Gen. Hines !s Demoted. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, who willbe succeeded by Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall as chief of staff of the army, will assume ot! the ninth corps area at Ban Francisco on November 20, the war department announced today. Summerall will be installedas chiet of staff on November 21. | trade paper Black | industria] and social system—-which awakening is inevitable sooner or 1 they will turn to the most radical of Bolshevism, and we shall witn revolution compared ‘with which at which has taken place in Russ will appear as child’s play. Qui vivra verra!” Not so bad! | ae (eaasby ANCE handicaps a man in life but is no handicap to a catholic | better grasp of principles, and be bet- ants who are industrial workers or | peasants, or whose early environment |did not give them a chance to grow | |of regarding crime is frowned on by | vas, by | | | press.” | CURRENT NT EVENTS| | i | | By T. J. OF O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) who concerned with nothing else except getting to heaven. A learned I is as incapable of understand- | » dogmas and mysteries of the | catholic faith an ignorant catholic. We have the authority of a catholic on for this. And we defy any ent reader to make either head il of the following question and | answer: | nificant, se 0 IS there not a vast difference | Q. between the faith of a learned | and an ignorant catholic? A. Both | e the same, inasmuch as both e on the authority of god reveal- as witnessed to infallibly by a 2», authoritive teacher, speaking name of Jesus Christ—the church. The trained theolo- may know more facts, have a the atholic ter ale to defend catholic doctrine than the average catholic; still, the self-same dogmas must be believed by both under penalty of ex-communica- tion.”. Now your tell one! Ge RIME is on the increase in Russia, according to a sfory in a capitalist news service. Various causes are giv- en for this alleged condition, includ- ing “the high cost of living and un- | employment” but perhaps the cause considered most responsible is the leniency of Russian courts to defend- up normally. This humanitarian way our christian capitalist apologists. Cee F course the most ardent support- er of the Soviet government will not claim that all crime vanished within twenty four hours after the Red Flag was raised over the Kremlin, | The population that was brutalized un- } der the czarist regime is still there. | And the economic conditions that are | largely responsible for crime and |. criminals are only in the process of being eliminated. As I am writing this a headline in a Chicago afternoon paper catches my eye. It reads: “Twelve murder trials on docket for October court.” That’s not so bad. It has been worse. American news- papers hunting for crime records need not go beyond their own doorsteps. ea ECENTLY while having a cup of coffee in a restaurant with two acquaintances, the latter began to argue violently over some trifling mat- ter. What they were disputing could not be proven without recourse to an atlas or map. But still the battle raged, I was reading a newspaper at my leisure and happened to light on the following: “Usually the only man that is sure of a fact is tlie man who knows only one thing about the sub- ject. People argue most over things they know least about.” This stopped | the beys for a while but one of them, wiser and younger than the other after thinking severely retorted: “You should know enough not to believe anything you read in the capitalist Loss of Life Due to Mexican Hurricane Is Now Reduced to Two VERA CRUZ, Sept. 29—A check-up after yesterday's hurricane showed late today that only one woman and one child had been reported killed in the city of Vera Cruz. Communication with the surround- ing territory was cut off and it was therefore impossible to ascertain au- thoritatively the amount of damage or possible loss of Ife. No foreigners have been reported killed or injured.. Extensive property damage was caused both in the city and in the surrounding country. Send us the name and address of »/ mon action a burning necessity, progressive wi send a sample WORKER, ipy of The DAILY. | taree-quarter million against it, but a jready familiar ground that its respon- jence of executives will be held go |knows when—it will never be held | responsible. |not too strong—the T. U. C. as the |to employ union men. TRADES UNION CONGRESS SEES STALKING GHOST Leaders Dodge Discus- sion of Betrayal (Continue from Page 1) brought the superficially’ overwhelm. ing defeat of the proposals for more powers to the General Council. I think, it is worth while to’ empha- ze here the fact that, on the first time the minority movement has in any way come up for a vote by the T. U. C,, it secured nearly three-quar- ters of a million votes. Certainly there were nearly two and comparison of the votes it received with the nunibers of workers repre- sented at minority movement confer- |ences is close enough to be very sig- Refuse to Discuss Betrayal. A fine point needs to be stressed— and to be stressed in the strongest manner possible, That is the sinister precedent that has been established by the General Council's refusal to discuss the general strike on the al- sibility lies on the conference of exec- utives. The General Council main- ined its point, in spite of determined position. The protests came, not alone from the left wing, but from so extreme a right winger as Mr. Naylor (L. 8. C.) who pointed out with perfect .truth that the General Council was elected by the T. U, C. and was responsible to it for all its activities, and not to the conference of executives. Further, that since the present General Coun- cil retires this week—and the confer- The General Council, bluntly, has taken a long step ir the direction of superseding—the word is to put it supreme body in the trade union move- ment. Building Trades in Philadelphia Fight Open Shop Injunction (Continue from Page 1) or for the purpose of compelling him “bd. From committing any and all acts in any way calculated to preju- flice any person or corporation now under contract with plaintiff against maintaining or establishing contract- ual relations with the plaintiff be cause of the failure of the plaintiff to comply with the demands of the de- fendants (the Building Trades Coun- til—A, B.) “c. From ordering, directing or Dersuading any person or persons to strike or refuse to work upon any building or structure in the city of Philadelphia. and vicinity or else- where by reason of the fact that the plaintiff's employes are engaged in work thereon.” Council Must be Strengthened, Union control in the building in- dustry or for that matter in any oth- er industry can be maintained not thru the good will of the contractors but thru the organized power of the | workers in the industry, Mr. Keating in his complaint, said: “The members of the unton are very numerous and when concerted action is obtained thru tke: agency of the council make the rules, Penal- ties and demands of the council and its affiliated unions. If the same be permitted a powerful instrument for the oppression of the members of the unions, employers and others.” A Lesson In It, The building trades men should realize that there ig a valuable les- son to be learned from the above Paragraph. It is the combined forces of the various unions to which Mr. Keating objects. It is this very in- strument—The Building Trades Coun- cil—which must be broadened and strengthened. There are powerful unions in the Industry in Philadelphia which are hot yet affiliated with the council. The carpenters, bricklayers and oth- ers are outside of the council and must be urged to join. The interests of the various crafts in the industry are so interlocked as to make com- The ir to whom we can/Keating affair is a case in point: ‘The plumbers would have been help- less were it not for the solidarity Shown by the hoisting engineers. The Building Trades Council must take the initiative in the campaign for the unification of all forces in the industry. Petty jurisdictional friction must be forgotten in face of the com- mon danger. Organization the Answer, BUILDING TRADES OF PHILADELPHIA STRUCK BY COURT INJUNCTION PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29—Judge Harry S. McDevitt granted an in- junction against the Building Trades Council of Philadelphia on the plea of Plumbing Contractor Daniel Keating. The terms of the injunction are 80 sweeping as to make Impossible any effort of any of the unions of the council—in the direction of or- ganization or the maintenance of a living wage and fit working condi- tions, Officials of the council stated that the following councl] meeting to be held shortly will determine their attitude. DEAD AROSE AT ELLER'S ORDERS AND CAST VOTES Even the Grave Gives Up Its Secrets Dead men may tell no tales but they are darned good voters if they can get away with it. This is the political philosophy of Morris Eller, the popular ‘boss of the 20th ward, stalwart member of the Crowe-Bar- rett-Galpin wing of the G. O. P. and monarch of all he surveys in the Max- ‘well street district. ‘When Morris makes up his mind to turn his ward over to a candidate he makes his bailiwack stand up, lie down or roll over at will. Morris is proud of his ability to deliver and divers relatives and retainers are also happy because Morris puts them on some friendly payroll with everything eliminated except the salary. A Fine Machine, “This is how 1 build my machine, and it’s a darned good one,” admit- ted Mr. Eller proudly at the slush fund inquiry. Such horiesty was‘so novel that the hardboiled Missoufi senator, Jim Reed, almost swallowed his cigar. County Judge Edmund K. Jarecki spilled the dirt on ‘Eller for the good reason that Eller did not line up his voting cemeteries for the judge, Mor- ris made them live, work and vote for State’s Attorney. Crowe's man, Savage. Here le the Story. ‘The following its. were reveal- ed by an inv of ten pre- cincts: Two hundred thirty-nine persons did not vote, but are recorded as hay- ing voted. Eighty-four voted from non-existant addresses. Nine voted from yacant lots. Seventy-six “voted from vacant buildings. One hundred and three voted twice. One voted three times. Five hundred and twenty-nine per- sons voted, but moved before the pri- mary. Fifteen hundred and thrée names on the poll books were unknown at the addresses given. Twelve died before primary day, altho the books show they voted. Five mames were those of children. Fourteen outside of the precinct. One is serving a life term in the penitentiary. Recapitulation shows . 2,630 fraudu- lent votes were cast. The recount shows 21,245 votes were falsely can- vassed. : * Injured Miners Get No Support : Fitna in District No. 1 (Continued from page 1) the case up with the district officials and, after considerable difficulty in getting a hearing, was informed that he had better settle as the district office did not want any trouble on this i Miners Lose Compensation. Knowing that the (listrict office wil? not make a fight for miners who are maimed by careless treatment, or who are allowed compensation far below that which should be paid, the coal companies systematically make it un- pleasant for a miner who contests their offers of settlement. The result is that thousands of dol- lars which the injured miners are en- titled to remain in the coffers of the coal companies. All of this tends/ to weaken the confidence of the {niners in. their union and the total result is not con fined to a money gain for the op erators but results in strengthening of their position as against the union, “Guilty!” Charge Hurled | Against U.S. ‘Government in Sacco-Vanzetti Case By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, N the night of Nove 18, 1925, a runner in the Dedham jail at. Dedham, Mass, by the name of Miller, handed a magazine thru the bars of the cell of Nicola Sacco, known the world over as one of the many class war prisoners of Amer- ican greed. Miller told Sacco the magazine was from a fellow prisoner, Cele- stino Madeiros, and that’-he (Sacco) should look inside. Sacco found within the magazine a slip of paper containing the following: “I hereby confess to being In the South Braintree shoe company crime, and Sacco and Vanzetti were not In said crime. (Signed) Cele- stino Madeiros.” see Thus the actual assassins appear five and one-half years after the payroll holdup at South Braintree, Mass., with its resulting murders, which the United States govern- ment in common with the Massa- chusetts’ prosecutors have deliber- ately used as a means with which to send the two workers, Sacco and Vanzetti, to death in the electric chair. The little slip of paper with the admission by Madeiros is the key- stone in the bridge across which it is hoped to return both Sacco and Vanzetti from capitalism’s - death chamber to freedom and the working class. It ought to be one of the clinching arguments in the demand for a new trial. But will it? Judge Webster Thayer thru the trial of the whole case has shown himself a willing tool of the capitalist class. He has been loyal to the employers’ interests all thru the more than six years that the case has dragged thru the exploit- ers’ courts. eee It was previous to Noy. 18, 1925, that Madeiros said to Sacco: “Nick, I know who did the South Braintrée job." The note in the magazine, which has been presented in open court and is now in the possession of Sacco’s lawyer, William G. Thompson, came later, a piercing ray_of sunlight into the pitch-black dungeon gloom of Dedham jail. Thus the frame-up of the govern- ment is effectually blasted in the minds of all thinking workers. Or, it should be. In the frame-up of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, in Califor- nia, the witnesses one by one, as years .passed, confessed that they had perjured themselves on the wit-, ness stand. The jurors, -pondering these admissions of perjury, joined in the demand for a new trial. But those actually involved in the 1916 Preparedness Day bomb blast in San Francisco have never come for- ward and confessed to the crime. This is what has actually taken place in the Sacco-Vanzetti case thru the admissions of Madeiros corroborated by others in numer- ous supporting affidavits. The affidavit of Madeiros, secur- ed by Attorney Thompson, was but one of 63 presented in open court. ‘Two of these affidavits were signed ‘by Fred J, Weyand and Lawrence Letherman, former agents of the department of justice, who claimed that all the department of justice agents knew that Sacco and Van- zetti were not highway robbers, and had nothing to do with the South Braintree crime, but that the gov- ernment wanted “to dispose of them.” Judge Thayer at this hour, the second week after the reading of the affidavits and the hearing of the arguments in open court, still has the case “under consideration.” He is reading the affidavits and study- ing the record, at least that is what he said he was going to do, and declared it would take him several ‘weeks if not months to do it. Attorney Thompson told Judge ‘Thayer, in view of the fact that the prosecution had not refuted the vi- tal matters presented in the affi- davits offered on behalf of Sacco and Vanzettl, that it shouldn't re- quite five minutes to render a de+ INVITATION TO ANNUAL cision ordering a new trial. \ ee But the court continues to delay. “While the judge is “considering” what his decision shall be, The DAILY WORKER, from day to day, will present to its readers the dam- aging facts brought forward in the 63 affidavits and the arguments made in their favor. The whole American working class must be made familiar with these new de- velopments that show the United States government deliberately framed up two workers and tried to put them to death when its agents were fully aware of their in- nocence, .® Dedham, Mass., where this his- toric labor case is being enacted, that ought to shake the very found- ations of capitalism in this country, dates back in American colonial history nearly three centuries to 1635. According to the census of 1900 its population totalled 7,457 with less than one-third, or 2,186 foreign-born, A free school, one of the first in America to be supported by direct taxation was established in Ded- ham in 1645. It did not get a pub- lic: library, however, until 1854. It is not the typical New England fac- tory town, with a huge foreign-born population, but contents itself with the manufacture on a small scale of carpets, hatidkerchiefs and wool- en goods, The atmosphere here is saturated with the familiarly reactionary New England pride, bitterly hostile to foreigners. Unlike every other court room 1 have ever been in, this Dedham courtroom in the Norfolk county court house has a great steel cage to the right of the judge’s chair, the kind of cage*that is used to house animals in the zoo. It is painted a sickly yellow. The judge, a diminutive specimen of humanity, full of self-assurance and selfim- portance, struts about in a flowing black robe that drags the floor as he walks. Not a very imposing hangman of the working class. * eee Tt was into this atmosphere that the two Italian workers, Nicola Sac- co and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were brought six years ago to fight for their lives, confined like wild ani- mals in the courtroom cage, while guards and militiamen, heavily armed, hovered everywhere about during the entire trial that resulted in their conviction and sentence to death. It was a drama well staged by the fuling class. During the hear- ings two weeks.ago Sacco and Van- zetti were not in the courtroom. The cage was empty. ore But the last act has not yet been played. The red-baiting of the year 1920, has passed to a very great extent and America’s workers should now be able to consider the Sacco-Vanzetti case without preju- dice. Labor is im a better position now than ever before to take up the fight for Sacco-Vanzetti as its fight. For it is the struggle of the American working class against the American capitalist class and its lackey, the capitalist government. The 63 affidavits put American capi; talism on trial. In the minds of America’s workers the capitalist government must be declared “Guilty!” “ee Tomorrow: The affidavit of Cele- stino Madeiros, Aimee’s Divorce Went Thru by Collusion in ‘Rhode Island “Mill” (Special to The Dally Worker) PROVIDENCE, R. 1, Sept, 29.— Pacific coast evangelist, was divorced by her husband, Harold 8. McPherson of Bast Providence in April, 1921, tliru the efforts of Leonard W. Horton, who is Aimee Semple McPhergon, serving two years in prison for com- plicity in the Rhole Island “divorce | Cartoons by Ellis, Jerger, Vose, mill,” it was learned today, / GERMANY WILL MEET PAYMENTS, SAYS SCHURMAN U.S. Ambassador Notes . Franco-German Amity, (Spectal. to. The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Germany will meet her reparations payment of 1,500,000,000 marks just as she paid to the last cent the 1,200,000,000 marks during the year just closed, Jacob Gould Schurman, American ambassa- dor to Berlin, predicted today follow- ing a call on President Coolidge. The ambassador is taking a two months’ yacation in thig country. Schurman reported conditions in Germany to be excellent. The only real problem, he said, is the 1,500,000 of unemployed. The most amazing thing, the am- bassador said, is the change in the relations ‘between Germany and France, Where fifteen months ago a bitter and open hatred existed be- tween the two countries, he said this has been now virtually wiped out. We will send sample copies of The DAILY WORKDR to your friends—send us name and ad- dress, A. F. OF L. CONVENTION SATURDAY OCTOBER 2 Wm. Z. Foster- writes on the ‘problems and pro® able outcome of the convention. ‘With photograph, . oe A Trade Unionist - of Detroit describes the pre-con- vention attitude of Detroit labor. With photograph, Facts and Figures on the organization of the unorgan- ized, in a splendid article by THURBER LEWIS. Photograph of the Executive Counci! of the A.F, of L * Other Features: ats SPENCER— A story by Kurt Klaeber, Ilustra- tion by Adolph Dehn, THE JEWISH THEATRE IN MOSCOW— By Ruth Kennel, EDUCATING YOUNG WORKERS— HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH— By Manuel Gomez. . Hay Bales and others, SATURDAY, AUTUMN FESTIVAL AND BALL OCTOBER Welcoming BEN GOLD and WM. Z, FOSTER Saturday, October 2, at 8 p. m. NEW FINNISH LABOR TEMPLE BALL ROOM 6969 14th St., near McG ) DETROIT, MICH. Auspices Workers (Communist) Party, Dist. 7. The unions in the building indus- try must not stand by idly during this injunction fight, The open shop cam- paign must be answered by a gen- THE GREAT STRATEGIST Sete SS CLASS WAR eral organization drive in the indus- —~ By Aloowoushyy —|o. ciectet tn overy. unioh and tha LENIN, LIEBKNECHT, of the Sounell, It nocusstiip’tne’ bar tiation fees should be lowered to By Max Shachtman, make effective organization work pos- Operators Aggressive. Since the acceptance of the 6-year anthracite agreement with arbitration and the surrender of the check-off by the Lewis-Cappelini machine the operators are more hard-boiled than ever in their administration of the compensation law. On this one issue alone the anthra- cite miners can be rallied for the na- tional ticket headed by Brophy, Stev- LENIN AND THE TRADE A. F. OF L. UNION MOVEMENT. By A. Losovsky, | i EACH sible. enson, ae operators” ‘which is pledged Stronger upions in the industry|to abolish operato Anfluence in the —— $$ _ Pp =a _ ‘able _ nts Tha ualcY wonKER Tits W. Washington Bivas |204 & codnott pion all the sabes union, Dancing Short Tableaux SSfipeinte Pp hig: q ‘antee against in- sili Y ul sisi : a Junctio shop drives by Send The D. WORKER i : nti bea ey for, one month t shop-mate. )