The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1926, Page 1

¥ Riper doing That's the secret of enjoying life.|, Send Every Dollar Collected — to Keep the Daily Worker By C. E, RUTHENBERG, The next three days will be made of. The party faces the task of struggle its most important organ—The DAILY WORKER. It must, thru energetic work, raise a total of $3,600 and have this amourit in The DAILY WORKER office by Monday, October This Is the balance needed on Thursday night to complete 11. the $5,000 needed to pull The D, mediate crisis in which It finds itself, The amount received toward the $5,000 which the party must raise during the present week and complete by October 11, now stands as follows: Monday, October 4 The DAIL the Ste Y 0 *p, Vol. Il. No. 229. By T. J. O'FLAHERTY HE New York Times is the best capitalist newspaper in the United States. And in its issue of October 2, it wastes two columns trying to prove that England is anxious to see Italy, France and Germany .in a united front to preserve peace in Hurope. It. is awfully hard for us to keep on telling you that this is-all bunk. But for heaven’s sake tell everybody you meet, or at least everybody you are on speaking terms with, that England is a8 sore as a boil over the Franco- German entente and that the confer- ence between Chamberlain and» Mus- solini was directed against, France. ee ee OW glad we would be if we could announce the fact that capitalist governments were conscientiously striving to avoid war. But we cannot | do it. For the very good reason that capitalism can no more avoid war than a dope flend can avoid taking a shot from the needle. The.dope fiend would like nothing better than se develop a hunger for ng eo darn {t, the temptation is too keen. ‘The euatogy ts not perfect -howevar. The capttalists do not want war be- cause they enjoy the spectacle of see- ing guts hanging on wire entangle- ments. But when it comes to the point where the ruling class of Eng- land or the ruling class-of some other country must give way, what of it if a few million human bodies are sacri- fleed? . T the present time we have 4 drive on to keep The DAILY WORKER. It is a serious matter, but 0. are many of our readers fee] that a work- | ingelass paper is always in a crisis, but that somehow or other a miracle happens and it does not go -under. | Now, J have not been asked to incite our readers to send in their contribu- tions to save The DAILY WORKER but incitement is not necessary after reading the capitalist press every day, on Italy, France, Germany, England and particularly Russia. Do you care to be fed on lies or on the truth? vee ALKING to an employe of @ cap- italist newspaper a few days ago, I admitted quite frankly that our paper was not impartial, _We print all the news that is fit to be printed for the benefit of the wonkingclass. The capitalist papers will do the op- posite, They cannot help it. They are class-conscious, They are for the capitalist system and the capitalists are for them. The Chicago Tribune may disagree with the News as to the respective merits of Captain Savago, state’s attorney Crowe's man, or Judge Jareckt, democrat, for coun- ty judge. But in a real crisis both will line up against the workers. a “ee @ - ‘OU have been told this for genera- tions, And it will be told for generations more. It will-be told un- til the American workingclass rise to the top of the heap where they be- jong. There are people, many of them radicals—tired—who seoff at our @x- hortations. They say it fs no use, that the masses are fools, selfish and many other things. Well, what of it? & man who does not belfeve in his policy, even tho the whole world be against him is not wi his weight iu dung. The idealist cares nothing for “practical politics” because “prac- tical » polities” are never practical. Certainly not for the oppressed, e. & C8 HAT is Ute worth living for any- how if,not for a cause? You may have money and commit suicide as many people do, or you may have ‘money and spend your Hfe flitting around the cabarets and night clubs of Broadway, New York. Or you may not have a nickel to spare and enjoy something “useful. Doing something useful. (Continued on page: 2)? eres! a test of what our party is | General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party. | | | js keeping for the revolutionary AILY WORKER thru the im- $136.00 In Chicago, by Pt Rates: + i FACE THE CAN OVER: KLAN MESS Governor Jackson Is in Up to His Ears | (Special to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., October 8.— Grand jury investigation of the | charges of corruption made by Thomas |H.. Adams, Vincennes publisher, | K. K. K. leaders, was intimated today in a statement issued by Arthur L. Gilliom, attorney-general of Indiana. | The attorney-general, while not ‘committing himself on the charges, | | declared that they could not be ig- |nored and were a challenge to honor |and decency, Might Bury Evidence. Prosecutor Will ‘H. Remy, called for evidence with a view to conducting a grand jury investigation of the charges that have rocked Indiana, Adams is anxious that his story should be given to the public, lest it be buried in a pigeon hole by a klan-controlled jury. Tho Remy prosecuted D. C, Stephen- son, the klan leader now serving a life sentence for rape followed by the death of his victim, there is a suspicion that he is a member of the klan wing that is now bent on keeping the ex- dragon in jail. In all probability the governor will ‘be compelled to let Stephenson out of jail long enough to spill the beans on the klan before a yang Jury. Stephen- son is now trying to save his neck and he does Not care how many other heads fall in the process, *< Governor Is Worried, ~ Governor Edward Jackson who was supported’ for office by Stephenson is now trying to keep the condemned murderer in jail, lest he might open his head too wide and tie a political tin can on the governor and on several others. In fact, if the present disturb- ance is nothing more than a political maneuver on the part of the “outs,” (Continued on page 3) THIS SUNDAY OCTOBER 10 tn @ MONDAY. Outside Chicago, by’ mail, $6.00 per year. Plans.are under ideration for a fet ore eta "toni of house- ‘holders and industries, while endeav- against state government officials and | Tuesday, October 5 .... Wednesday, October 6 Thursday, October 7 .... Total .....4... Entered at Second-class matter September 21, mail, $8.00 per year, BRITISH MINER TO PULL OUT SAFETY MEN Strikers to Battle Thra to Victory LONDON, Oct. 8—Fear that the {protracted strike may become even more acute, and may drag out for at | least another two months was expres- sed in government circles today as {the miners’ conference reassembled and bégan drawing up plans for with- idarwing the safety men from the! | mines, | | ‘This action follows the sweeping | jmajority polled against the govern: | |ment’s peace plan providing for eet-| jtlement of the coal dispufe by dis- tricts., The miners’ federation claims to eontrol 65 per cent of the safety men. lors are being made to send in scabs }to..prevent a flooding of the pits in’ case the safety men are withdzawn. TORIES WILL FRAME LAWS 10 CRUSH UNIONS Prapeael ~~ Legislation Would Protect Scabs (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Oct. 8—Prime Minister | Baldwin, the kindly “impartial” gen- | tleman who claims to be equally just to miners and mine owners, thew off his Little Red Riding Hood cloak and appeared as the lion of British capital- ism, even if a somewhat attenuated edition of the old man eater, at a ting of the conservative party, when he announced that the govern- ment was prepared to Introduce legis- lation curbing the power of the trade unions. | Baldwin Praised. . Baldwin's speech followed the pas- sage of a resolution at the tory con- vention calling for law to take the teeth out of trade unionism, Baldwin was praised for his work, but mildly criticized for not showing more de- cision in dealing with labor, The anti-labor resolution demanded immediate legislation to make illegal any strike without a secrbt ballot of | the membership, to increase the se- | curity of scabs, to make picketing illegal and to compel trade unions to submit their accounts to government inspectors. . The coal owners are the heaviest contributors to the tory party’s cam- paign chest? Mexican Catholics Fined. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 8—-A dozen catholic men and women were fined here by the police magistrate charged with holding a religious meeting con- 20 to 60 pesos. Daily Worker Campaign cos 6 §$1,387,00 Our party can meet this emergency and raise the $3,600 stil needed immediately if it harnesses the energy latent in ‘the party membership. TEN THOUSAND PARTY MEMBERS TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER CAN EASILY RAISE $3,600 BY THEY CAN DRIVE THE KEEP THE DAILY WORKER FUND TO THE $10,000 MARK BY FRIDAY, OCT. 15, The Ford Factory Nucleus has shown the party what edn be done by sending $168.00. The Lettish Fraction in Boston has made an equally good showing by sending $100, The .Strect Nucleus at Luzerne, Pa., an anthracite miners’ e SUNDAY, ‘EDDY’S SPEECH ROC The fifth, Paul Kovacs, is not a striker, 374.00 609.00 | nucleus with not more than 25 members, has shown the raising and sending in $100.00, | Our party needs a test of its metal. It needs to f@wakened a new spirit of energetic struggle. greatest importance to our whole movement. aetivizing its whole membership. Lt us mobilize every ten thousand party members. WORK IN THIS SPIRIT WILL AGHIEVE THE GOA MUST REACH IN RAISING THE FUNDS TO. KEEP DAILY WORKER. x ‘the Post Office at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act of March 8, 1879. CTOBER 10, 1926 —>" SA. F. THREE | VEGROES SHOT TO DEATH BY a MOB AFTER “NOT GUILTY” VERDICT | AIKEN, 8. 1923, Publist PUBLI Oct. ec Firks binant Negroes, two men and a woman, were taken | i here today and shot to death by a mob of 400 men. followed a verdict of not guilty returned yesterday against | , held on a murder charge. The other Negroes slain were | wife of Deman Loman, and his brother, Clyde Loman, 18. | Bertha Loman, While the mob wae storming the jail, Jailor W. H. Taylor called Sheriff Charles Robi but when the latter arrived Taylor had been locked in a_ cell, Robinson | was overpowered and locked up. The mob | led the woman and the mento a patch of woods three | miles south AGHT FIGHT T0 LOWER | mites ae where bi shot them to death. nails Muscle Shoals Offer Will Soon Be | Made ‘to Government } FRAMED (Special to The Daily Worker) | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. — A new} | offer for leasing the government’s Muscle Shoals *project will be submit- \ ted tp congress next Fall by a group HLL § IKERS. of New York capitalists and engineers, lit was announced here today by C. Bascom Slemp, former secretary to, Held at to be known as the | the president. The proposal, | farmer\ federated offer, will involve a| ‘fnancial investment by the group of | from $20,000,000 to $80,000,000, Slemp | PASSAIC, Ne Jo Oot. &—John Lar-| said. He added that® the proposal | kin Hughes, attorney for the textile | would involve a better financial return 4 strikére of Locab1603, United Textile to thé government than*any~of those | Workers of America, has been granted | haneentors submitted by Ford and | a> hearing betene hidge* Joseph A. other capitalists and likewise @ larger | guarantee of nitrate production for the | Delaney of the'iPassaic County Court | wnadntnctéve of fertilixed | of Common Pleas, on the question of ‘ ithe reducing the $850,000 bail on which | ENR five strikers, four ef them members of | the union, arecbeing held in jail in| Paterson. These: five men, and one other held without bail, are charged | B F ORGANIZED with being implicated in a series of | speed Pervaticmccit: 3. took place in SAYS RANDOLPH ; Bafly Worker) —" tin Obtained a writ of ha- beas corpus .shortly after the men cee were arrested about two weeks ago, ’ " but Justice Charles C. Black refused 'P ullman Porters’ Union to lower the bail at a hearing last | Is Growing Fast } Saturday, and referred the matter to ph Babe 4 Judge Delaney. (Special to The. Daily Worker) Are Framed-Up! CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 8.— A. Phillip Randolph, organizer for the | Being convinced that these bomb-| colored Pullman porters, spoke here ings were framedup to heJp break the jrecently on organization to ea large strike and discredit the newly formed |audience at the big Zion Baptist Local 1603, the union is making every |church, colored. effort thru ts attorneys, Henry Hunt, | “rhe Pullman porters are entitled | Joseph Brodsky, Sigmond Unger, Pas-|to rea} wages,” Randolph said. Their | saic lawyer and Mr. Hughes, who was | work jg as much social work as any | obtained for the union by the Amer-|other, They do not want to be sand fean Civil Liberties Union, to obtain |gars and dependent for their living | the release of these men as soon a8 /on the ‘tips that are handed to them | the bail is lowered. It stands now at |py travelers. The Pullman porters | the prohibitive’ figure of $100,000 on|must be unionized just as well as all | one man and $75,000 on three others. |the other workers on the ralroads and | Charles Current, not a member of the |i¢ there were a strong union of Pull: | union, 1s held om» $25,000, man porters it would strengthen im- | Five More, measurably the railroad brotherhoods ! and all the unions of the railways. wil Greer bad \ aged Peay hada “The white workers look upon the © monsmen in Hacken- | colored workers lar as scabs, and sack on $80,000." Four of these men “ et this fs due naturally to the fact that are enrolled as members of the union. !since the Negro workers are wnor- ganized they are wanted in times of strikes, as involuntary strike-break- ers. altho his wife is, Mr. Brodsky said today that he hoped to have some of the men, at leamt, out by the end of White and Black Must Join. the week. “The white workers sooner or later will be forced to the realization that | | which must be developed in the whole party membership by » 369.00 veal The danger In which The DAILY WORKER finds itself is a spur to mobilize the whole strength of the party in a struggle which Is of the Let every unit of the party throw itself into the work of of strength and ability to carry on work that ‘exists among our | Green had stipulated that Eddy be silent on this subject. CRAFT LINES | | IT WILL BRING CONTRIBUTIONS THAT WILL’ POUR | INTO THE DAILY WORKER OFFICE AT A RATE WHICH | WILL PRODUCE THE REMAINING $3,600 OF THE URGENT- | LY NEEDED $5,000 BY MONDAY. IT W#LL RAISE THE | BALANCE NECESSARY TO MAKE THE DAILY WORKER | FUND $10,000 B YOCTOBER 15. IT WILL COMPLETE THE $50,000 DAILY WORKER FUND BY THE END OF THE YEAR. To work for the DAILY WORKER and the revolutionary workers movement it represents! Awaken the spirit of struggle and fight! Every member into the campaign to aie ash THE DAILY | WORKER! } Write a record of achievement for the Party in the ald | sent the DAILY WORKER by Monday. spirit have ounce L WE THE This Issue Consists of Two Sections. SECTION ONE. THE DAILY WORKDR Chicago, 11. ned Daily except Sunday by SHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Price 5 Cents OF L. MEET CHALLENGES A. F. OF L. TO SEND , DELEGATION TO SEE FOR ITSELF THAT LABOR RULES SOVIET UNIO" BULLET EN. By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The Daily Worker) CONVENTION HALL, DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 8—Delegates to the American Federation of Labor here received an expurgated edition of the daily proceedings from which the speech of Sherwood Eddy on the Union of Soviet Republics, delivered yesterday, had been entirely omitted. There were merely fourteen lines stating that President William Green had presented Eddy to the convention and that he “gave information in regard to conditions as he saw them in Russia, France, Germany and England, during a visit to those countries last summer.” There were seven blank pages at the end of the thirty-two page pamphlet containing Thursday’s proceedings, looking as if some censor’s hand had been at work after the fashion of press suppression practiced in the old world autocracies. The report did not even mention President Green’s weak reply to Eddy. This is looked upon as an effort by President Green to meet the attack of the die-hard reactionaries here who are highly incensed over the fact first, that Eddy was given the platform at all, and second, because Green did not make a more effective reply to the defense by Eddy of the Soviet Union, The rest of the day’s proceedings was carried in full including four and a half pages given an innocuous speech education by Spencer Miller, Junior, secretary of the Workers’ Education Bureau, The Detroit Free Press, organ of the local open shoppers, that has ordered the American Federation’ of Labor to stay out of the automobile Industry, is carrying scare headlines approving of the anti-Soviet policy of the A. F. of L. . * * By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL (Special to The Daily Worker) CONVENTION HALL, DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 8.—The Union of Soviet Republics has invaded the convention hall here of the American Federation of Labor on the lips of an American speaker, Sherwood Eddy, International Secretary for Asia of the Young Men's Christian Association. There was no plea for Soviet recognition. President William But the dam that Green erected against the question of recognition caused the Soviet invasion to break thru at another point, in the stirring plea that Eddy made instead bo the A. F. of L. delegates them- selves to send a trade union ‘delegation to the Soviet Union to get the truth about conditions in the First Workers’ Republic. +> © and See for Yourselves. It seems that Green had had no agreement with Eddy about jmentioning the trade . union BAR T0 AUTO delegation. The plea by Eddy came naturally at the end of an address in which Eddy had pointed out that he merely went into the Soviet Union with a fact-finding commission of edi- UNION DRIVE By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The Daily Worker) jtors, social workers, lawyers, CONVENTION HALL, peTROIT,| doctors and business men, to Mich, Oct. 8—Refusing to face the actually study the conditions leraft jurisdiction problems that stare there. the American Federation of Labor in| “Why don’t you go and see for your- the face, as it attempts to organize | selves and find out the facts for your- the auto industry, the convention here | selves?” asked Eddy. “The trade un- adopted an innocuous resolution mere- jonists of Great Britain, France, Italy ly Instructing Pres. William Green and Germany have all sent their dele. to call a conference of the officials of gations. Why don't you? national and International unions in- Other Nations’ Labor Unions terested in the unionization of the cet Visit U, S. Ss. R. tion’s automobile plants. “One day we went ta:eee the colles Craft Jurisdiction Obstacle. j tom of the jewels of the deposed czar- The orgahization committee, head- | 4%.” he continued. “We had to wait a condition of 613 on Octoher 1, the have a cotton crop this year of 16,- 627,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, the crep reporting board of the department of tary to law. They were fined from |nounced today. Production last year|correspondent page of The DAILY amounted to 16,108,679 bales. u, ‘8. Cotton Crop. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—®ased on cent of normal nited States will agriculture an- CONCERT Admission 50c, _ CEN TRAL, OPERA MOUSE there can be no real organization in this country while the Negro worker remains on the outside and unorgan- ized. It will be shown that for the benefit of workers white and colored that they must support this move- (Continued on page 2) ed by Delegates Frank Duffy, carpen- ters, and Sarah Conboy, textile work- ers, brought in an amendment to the | resolution introduced by President department, providing that the ques- Uon of jurisdiction be suspended for the time being. The original resolu- tlon specifically provided that the (Continue don page 2) Mandolin Orchestra “Lyra” Elfrieda Bose, Violinist N. Benditzky, Cellist Samuel Jospe, Pianist Raizel Starkman, Contralto George Halprin, Pianist -Edith Segal, Russian Dance | Speaker: Pascal P. Cosgrove “Say It with your pen in the worker WORKER.” 67th Street and 3rd meh New York City James O'Connell, of the Mteal Trades | forthe German trade union delegation that was just ahead of us. Why do you run on second hand propaganda? Instead of working on suspicion and false propaganda, get down to bed- | rock facts. You owe it to yourselves |to do this. You are conservative but you're moving. I hope you'll move |fast, I believe in the truth for noth- |ing else will prevail.” | Sherwood Eddy, who is a small cap. {italist in his own way, and went to the Soviet Union paying his own ex- penses and in no official capacity, pos- sesses all the usual capitalist horror of the capitalist at the proletarian dic- tatorship established by the Russian workers and peasants, he doesn’t like the abridgment of speech for capitalist agencies in the Soviet Union, and he is aghast at the materialist teachings of Communism, and he worries about, ana ae don page 4) ‘iat,