The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1926, Page 3

.@News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politics DEPOSE HEAD OF C.L.U. IN KANSAS CITY Nelson Charged With Blackmail by Union (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo,, Oct. 1-—C. B. Nelson, reactlonary secretary of the K City Central Labor Union was suspended from office, deprived of at- tending the A. F. of L. conveytion and spending about five hundred dollars of the unlon’s money at the conven- tlon with the fat boys In Detroit. An investigation committee charged him with malfeasance in office on two counts and blackmail. Some of this comes from Investigation of Nelson’s methods of getting advertising. N A trial ‘committee of seven was elected to give the deposed secretary a fair trial, and in the meantime Dele- gate Mallet of the carpenters, is tem- porary secretary pending the out- come, The vote to_temporarily oust the secretary was carried by a vote of 86 to 24. |More Charges Coming. The investigation committee brot in charges with three counts against the secretary and reported that this was a partial report. The committee was continued as they say other things. detrimental to the labor move- ment are pending and will be brot in when complete. The expression of the committee and delegates are that there is some- thing rotten in Denmark, and before the movement in Kansas City can de- fend the interests of the workers and grow, they will have to clean house, Other Corruptionists Hunt Their e Holes. The “trial committees ' recommenda- tions will be referred to the council and at the next meeting they look for a good turn-out of the corrupt, crooked crowd who will back their man, Nelson. The size of The DAILY WORKER depends on you. Send a sub. For the Labor Movement For three years “Our Daily” has raised the banner of all militant laber. DAILY WORKER has made a good fight. The Passaic strikers, the furriers, the garment workers, the miners and every unit of the working class that has been in struggle in the last three years—say Daily Worker.” ‘They know “Keep the a THE DAILY: WORKER j ° e ee e¢ ofl Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities CALIFORNIA STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR CONVENTION DEMANDS REPEAL OF “SYNDICALIST” LAW OAKLAND, Cal.—(By Mail)—The California State Federation of Labor convention is holding its annual meeting in Oakland with 400 delegates present from all parts of the state, representing close to 100,000 organized workers of California, One of the first speakers given the floor was the state commander of the American Legion, John F, Slavick, who claimed he wanted to “co-operate” with labor. Backs a Republican. Officials of the federation are in a jubilant mood over the recent victory of C. C, Young in the primaries over his ultra-reactionary opponent, Governor Richardson, for the republican nomination for governor. Young was endorsed by the Political Action, the State Federation officials, the Farmers’ Hducational Co- operative Union, and the - Railroad Brotherhoods, all of whom feel that they will get something when he gets into office after the November elec- tions, ' Tn the report of Paul Scharrenberg, federation secretary for many years, he urged labor to, fight against the proposed law before the state legis- lature requiring) the bible in thé schools of California. Opposes Peonage System. Scharrenberg declaréd his opposi- tion to » system of the Fresno Coun- ty Labor officials who made arrange- ments with the government to import Mexican laborers for a few months of the year, under a virtual system of peonage, and then ship them back to Mexico. This plan does not differ. one iota from the methods used on the Hawaiian sugar plantations to im- port Chinese coolies, and the federa- tion declared it could not allow such &@ policy. y The secretary urged the A. F, of L. to appoint and convene a Joint-Mexi- can-American Commission représent- ing both organizations which would study the entire Mexican situation and consider what the policy of Amer- fean labor should do. The federation re-iterated its stand favoring the complete exclusion of Japanese from California, and de- nounced the Federal Council of Churches which recently went on record*favoring allowing a limited quota of Japanese immigrants to en- ter this country. ‘ The report further denounced at- tempts of California open shop em- ployers to enforce “yellow dog” con- tracts on their employes. Organiza tions like the Industrial Association of San Francisco, against which the carpenters have waged a bitter strug- gle for several months to enforce the closed shop, have raised over two mil- lion dollars to put the American plan into operation in the Bay District. Scharrenberg modestly claims that The the value of The Daily Worker from ex- perience, To those workers for whom it has*strug- gled—and to ALL LABOR—it now ap- peals for funds to be able to continue the fight for another year, Ten thousand dollars must be collected at once—fifty thousand in the next three months. If the campaign is a success we can “Keep the Daily Worker’—FOR THE MILITANT LABOR MOVEMENT. _ Make It a Day’s Pay—TODAY1. THE DAILY WORKER, Here's $.....000m to keep 4 Street 2.00... es ri Keep the Daily Worker _ 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, M. / DURING sei tip cancies Rasegtsnpsiapectaastintaheicrcanes jensenoeessverersesenesoweretsconsesonneeoeseeee sates secmronesheoeseesceseeess CHEY wanrestntnseuminsiinminemmmene StOLO stn The DAILY WORKER. seeenenerenensneeasseasaenese renee Conference for Progresstve¢——————————$$$$$_________ he has been called by his opponents the “outstanding radical of Califor- nia.” A little further, We find on what grounds his radicalism rests; it consists in supporting the “progres- sive” candidate of the Hearst papers for governor, C, C. Young. His success in the primary elec- tions, which was so closely contested that he won by a bare margin, has encouraged labor to continue their “non-partisan” political policy, ignor- ing the sentiment which swept the state two years ago for a labor party. George Kidwell, leading figure who succeeded in knifing the labor party in 1924, is silent on that question to- day. . Progressive Resolutions Introduced, “Resolutions in support of the Brit- ish miners, the Passaic textile work- ers, for the freeing of political pris- oners in the state, for the formation of a state labor party, for a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti, against the Citizens’ Military Training Camps, against the circulating of chamber of commerce literature in the public schools of Los Angeles lauding the open shop, are among those to be considered. Attack Criminal Syndicalism Law. One .of the first resolutions adopt- ed, as this is’ written, was one urging the repeal of the criminal syndicalism law, under wh{ich scores of I, W. W. members are in San Quentin peniten- tiary, for terms ranging from 14 years to life. C. C. Young, republican nominee for governor, addressed the convention Thursday. President R, H, Baker of San Fran- cisco, from latest reports, was defeat- ed for re-election by John F, Dalton, Los Angeles Typographical Union, to head the State Federation of Labor for the coming year. Bauer Cab Drivers Face Injunction to Break Their Strike Chicago lahor faces another injunc- tion, as asked for in a petition before the superior court by.the Bauer Taxi- cab company, to restrain the 750 mem- bers of Local 727 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers from “inter- fering with the business of the com- pany.” There are no Bauer cabs on the streets because the strike was un- animous. It was called when the com- pany cut into the already low wage Teturn of from $22 to $30 per week with an announcement that the chauf- feurs would have to pay five cents a gallon for the gasoline they used while m duty making profits for the com- pany. , Why not a small bundle of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regular- ly to take to your trade union meeting? ey Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism FOOD WORKERS DEFEND TRADE UNION UNITY Adinission of the Soviet Workers Wise Step .. PARIS (By Matl)—The biepnial congress of the International Trans-”" port Workers’ Federation which opened in pt. 15 was attended by many fraternal delegates, among whom was Comirade Wilhelm of the Amsterdam Federation of Food and Drink Workers, . Wilhelm accented trade union unity, nationally and internationally, to fight the employers successfully. In one respect, he said, the food and drink in- ternational was a etep in advance of the Amsterdam International, as it had admitted. the Food Workers’ Union of Soviet Russia. Admitting Russians Wise Step. For this reason, said Wilhelm, his international had been sharply at- tacked by the other international sec- retariats, as well as by the Amster dam International itself, but expe- rience had shown that the step was a wise one, and there had been no rea- son to regret it. They had naturally had their differences of opinion with the Russian organization, but a spirit of open-mindedness now marked all debates. Find Worse Countries Than Russia. The Transport Workers’ Congress protested the action of the Hsthonian government, which forbids the Hstho- nian railway men from joining the by eo Also it “viewed with alarm” the forcible dissolution of the Transport Union of Italy by the fascist govern- ment, This, said the congress, was “fn violation of the right of combina- tion laid down in the peace treaties signed by the Italian government.” Tourist Club “The Friends of Nature.” This Sunday, October 3rd we hike to the Upper Palisades. This is a joint hike with our junior section and all proletarians are urged to send their children between the ages of 13 to 18 years for a day of healthful recreation and exercise. ,Meeting place, Dyck- man St. Ferry; Time 10:00 a. m. Sun- day morning; Fare, 10c.; Walking time, 2 hours; Leader, Fred Meier, | WCFL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting on, a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier. TONIGHT. 6:00 p. m.—Chicago Federation of Labor talks and bulletins. 6:16 to 6:30—Fable Lady—Storles for cee rhe Srevebrt String Tris: Val Sherman, Little Joe Warner, Hickey & Johhson, Clinton Keithley, Vivian Law- **9:00—Alamo ‘Cafe Dance Orchestra. 11:00—Alamo Entertainers. SUNDAY, OCT. 3, 1926. 4:00 p. m.—Wieker Park Cutheran Chuich, Rev. S. P. Long. 7:45—Irving Park Lutheran Church, Rev. J. Oden. DAUGHERTY IN FIGHT TO KEEP OUT OF THE GAN Defense Counsel Waives Opening Address (Special to The Dally Werker) NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—Defense coun- sel in the conspiracy trial of Harry M. Daugherty, former attorney general, and Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custodian, today waived the opening address to Judge Julian Mack in federal court as they plunged into their evidence, The defense promptly summoned George E, Williams, managing director of the alien property custodian’s office under Miller in 1921, to the stand. Williams, about whom much of the government’s case has been woven, is regarded as the star witness for the defense. The Conspiracy Charges. Prior to turning the case over to the defense Judge Mack announced that the conversation between Wil- liams and Richard Merton, German in- dustrialist, whose successful efforts to recover $7,000,000 in property held during the war precipitated the con- spiracy charges, be permitted to go to the jury as given by Merton in testi- mony, The conversation related to Mer- ton’s efforts to obtain from Williams information as to how to go about recovering the property. Defenge counsel yesterday objected to its in- troduction on the ground that Wil- liams was not a conspirator. Judge Mack then repeated his ruling that Williams was not a conspirator and that the jury should consider the con- versation in this light. Anti-Fascist Meet in N. Y. Next Sunday, Oct. 3; All Invited NEW YORK, Oct. 1—Workers of New York ara invited to the big mass meeting at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Bast 4th street, Sunday, October 3, to demand the right of hospitality for political refuges in America, to pro- test the crimes of fascism in America (the Harlem bomb, for example), to protest the new wave of reaction in Italy and commemorate the victims of fascism who fled in the fascist carnage at Florence. ‘The speakers announced are W. W. Weinstone of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn of the Civil Liberties Union; Joseph Schlossberg of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Carlo Tresca, Frank Bellanca, ]‘etro Allegra, Arturo Giovannitti, Luigi Quintiliamo and Arturo Di Pietro, The chairman will be Enea Sormenti. Russian I. L. D. Branch Gives Concert Sunday The Russian Branch of Internation- al Labor Defense will give a concert and dance for Chicago workers to- morrow at Walsh Hall corner of Mil- waukee and Noble Sts. One of the attractions of the evening, aside from performances by accomplished artists, will be the appearance of Chas. Cline, famous class war prisoner who spent thirteen years In a Texas penitentiary after one of the worst frame-ups in the history of the working class move- ment. The concert begins at 6:30 p. m. All proceeds go to the benefit of class. ‘| war prisoners. Make it one day's pay to keep The DAILY WORKER. Workers (Communist) Party mew paper. decisions. Items of interest trom the Membership Meeting PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 1, — This 1s to notify the members of the Pitts- burgh District, that an important membership meeting will be held at the Labor Lyceum,.35 Miller St,, Sun- day, Oct. 3rd, at 2:30 p. m, sharp. The following pressing questions will be taken up: 1—Save The DAILY WORKER campaign, 2—The DAILY WORKER subsorip- tion drt As a party member you are expoct- ed to put everything else aside and be present at the mooting, , “Do not fail, Be on timel aH) nL “The Party Organizer” will appear monthly and sell to party members for only five cents. It will contain organization news, news of party life in the various districts and in the center, campaign instructions, experiences of comrades in the field, news from the shop nuclei, trade union fraction activities, the workings of the Agitprop Department and special party life of the parties in other countries, will be among the features of this paper. All district organizers and active party members who desire to contribute to its columns should submit their articles and news items to Jay Lovestone, Organization Department, 1118 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. ee ee Comrades Hold Basket Held in District 5| Party in Cleveland, O. CLEVELAND, Sept. 80.—For a good time, Cleveland comrades should not miss the social to be given on Sunday, October 8, at the Fretheits Gesangsve- rein Hall, 3614 B. 116th St., at 6 p. m. All nuclei have been asked to bring baskets filled with good things to eat. anemia , Benjamin Gitlow Speaks In Cleveland CLEVELAND — Benjamin Gitlow, the well-known labor leader and orator, candidate of the Workers Com- munist Party for governor of New York, will speak in Cleveland at two meetings, on Monday, October 4. The first meeting will be held at the Good- rich Social] Settlement, 1420 BH. 31st. St., at 7:30 p, m,, the second at the Party Will Publish Organization Newspaper. |¥ gu-= IT SE) Oreanization Department has just announced its plan to publish a DEAR READER OF THE DAILY WORKER— have this splendid daily of the work- ing class of this country— But What About Your Child? Let him also read the paper of the militant youngsters—and have him grin like this-— SUBSCRIBE FOR HIM! Only 50 cents a year, Send your sub to the YOUNG COMRADE 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Hk ile Page Three (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) Bunny took this amazing news home with htm to Dad; ap- parently Paul had been right, and the wicked Bolsheviks had been telling the truth! What did Dad make of it? Dad didn’t know what to make of it; he was much disturbed, and could only say we couldn’t judge, we’d jist have to wait. But the trouble was, the longer we waited, the worse things seemed to get; the more evident it became that our president had done the very thing that Dad had been sure he would never do—he had let himself be “jockeyed.” Like water seeping underneath a dike, a,sutble cur- rent of skepticism was creeping through the freshman classes in Southern Pacific University which were taking “Modern His- tory 14.” Mr. Irving wasn’t supposed to be discussing the peace con- ference at all; he was supposed to be seeing to it that his students meniorized the names of battles and commanding generals in the Franco-Prussian war. But one theme led go easily to the other, and it was so difficult to keep the ‘“‘sore-heads” quiet! This same thing was happening in other class rooms, and in other parts of the United States where men encountered their fellows, and thus became exposed to “dangerous thoughts.” Before long the for- bidden ideas were being voiced in congress, and after that they could not be kept out of the newspapers. It was like a storm that burst over the whole country, a million idealists like Bunny woke up all at once to the cruel fact that their dolly was stuffed with sawdust, Iv Yes, it was a trying time to be alive in the world. All those golden promises that had_been made to us, those bright hopes we had cherished! All the blood of the young men that had been shed, three hundred thousand of them dead or wounded in France —and here, were the allied statesmen, grim, cruel old men, sitting at the council-table and putting the world right back where ft had been before! Perpetuating all the old hatreds, all the old injus- tices—with a thousand new ones to torment the future! Tearmg Germans away from their own land and giving them to French- men, giving Austrians to Italians, Russians to Poles—so on thru a long list of bunders; condemning millions of people to live un- der governments which they feared and despised and thus making certain they would revolt and throw Hurope into uproar again; Men could not realize these things all at once; they got them little by little, as details of the negotiations leaked out. Every country in the world was carrying on its own propaganda, think- ing about its own selfish interests; and President Wilson was in the midst of the mess, being pulled and hauled about, this way and that, quite powerless for the good aims he had proclaimed. As the.picture of this got back to America, there spread over the land such a wave of disgust as had never been known before. And then the president himself came home, to declare that he had achieved a complete victory. In the name of “self-deter- mination of all peoples” he was giving the German Rhineland to France, and German Africa to Britain and the German Tyrol to Italy and a Chinese province to Japan and to the United States a mandate over Armenia! Also he had made a perpetual alliance with France and Britain, whereby we bound ourselves to main- tain thjs brand of self-determination forever! When this program had been thoroughly realized, a tone of hilarious cynicism became the correct thing among the young intellectuals of America; fashionable young matrons took to deceiving their husbands in the name of chastity and college boys began toting hip-pocket flasks out of loyalty tu prohibition. The thing was particularly hard upon Bunny, because he had to go to Paradise every once in a while, and come face te face with Ruth, and explain how self-determination for the people gf Siberia meant that her brother must stay there in peace time and hold a bayonet at their necks. In elucidating this singular situ- atior, Bunny became almost as skillful a trickster as if he had had a regular diplomatic job with extra-territorial immunity. For a month or two he managed it, while the Germans were dragged to Versailles and made to sign an agreement to pay an indem nity so vast that it could not be named. Then one day a letter that made his task all but impossible. It was an innocent-looking letter, written in a crude hand on some sheets of cheap paper, postmarked Seattle, and addressed to “Mr. Bunny Ross, Paradise, California.” “It said: “Dear Mr. Bunny: You dont know me but I am a returned soldier that used to punch cattle in Salinas valley. Paul Wat- kins said I should write you because he cant get no news by the censors. I am invalidded back, have had the Asiatic dissenterry, am bleeding at the bowls three months and you should wash your hands good when you have read this letter, because ft is an easy dissease to catch. I am in issolation and this will be smuggled, for God’s sake dont let on I have wrote it they would sure put me inthe can. But Paul said your father might do something to get us boys out if he knew what a hell it was. Mr. Bunny what are we doing in that place and why do we have to stay? It is forty below zerow most of the winter and big storms a lot of the time and you have to do sentry duty and in summer the muskee- toes is big as flies and where they bite the blood runs. And the Japs take shots at us, they are suppose to be our allies but they are sure grabbing that country. There is supposed to be only. seven thousand but there is seventy and why did we take them in there? Our boys is not allowed to have not side arms and the Japs have got bayonets and we have only fists. We have zones that we are supposed to control but the Japs will not keep out of them and I have saw them put out with machine gung ltned up, and if we have to have a war with them over Siberia there will sure be a lot of our boys massacreed at the startoff. And them Russian refugees and officers that we have orders to help I heard our colonel say, you give them money to start a govern- ment and they go on a bust and that night you have to pull them out of a sporting house. They have got one idea which is to shoot all the workingmen they can get hands on and the women too and they torture them, Mr Bunny I seen things that it would make you sick to read them, From General Graves down our army {s sore on this job and some of them is gone crazy, there has been more than twenty in our regiment, and some has been sent home in a strait jacket. But the people at home is not al- lowed to know nothing, there is boys in our regiment that is not had one line from their folks in half a year and they are crazy. with worry. Why do we have to be there when the war is over, if you know I wish you would tell me. But Paul said not to tell - his sister, because it is not so bad for himself, they move him a lot and he is always busy. It is eas¥ when you have a lot.of car penter work but for some fellers I seen them carry a stack of rail- way ties a hundred yards and then movevthem back to the old place just to keep us working. Please send me some cigarettes that will be a way to say that you have got this letter and if you send two packages I will know that you want me to write some more, Yours respectfully, Jeff Korbitty.” : (To Be Continued.) aah ( anges, PY sepa: i ae