The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1926, Page 1

~ men, representing rival powers * countries to begin kissing their wives | _ and sweethearts good-bye and getting Fhe DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Werkers’ and Farmers’ Government Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Iineis, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ee Vol. Ill. No. 230. of Bi ‘ion Rates: Susite"Sictin" 0 Ywe'S yur. ~—=S TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12,1926. <>" o fy ‘2p pag? 2 ey Lam Trends’ Pe *RIKE OUT OF ORDER By T. J. O'PLAHERTY RBAT BRITAIN has recently boon | pressing France to renew te anti-Soviet intriguing which was part | of the foreign policy of that Pore hn. “BRITAIN, sfocmincy SM SNL. | Potsdare We wgneaeivamee, t:ia-0b- UL W. W. Seamen Refase| i thet the British are meeting | with Goat ect tho Briand is sup-) to Man Scab Ships By GORDON CASCADEN. posed to have @ free hand in running | the foreign office. The conclusion of a (Special to The Daily Worker) BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 10.—Mem- Franco-Roumenten treaty in which | France recognizes the theft of Bess- | arabia by Roumania as legal i CON-| bers of Marine Transport Workers’ In- | sidered’ a decidediy unfriendly act by | qustrial Union No. 510 of the Indus- | the Soviet government. |trial Workers of the World arriving | ee |here on ships sailing from the British | TRANGHE tho it may appear to peo-| Isles paint dark pictures of industrial | ple who are 30 naive that they as-| conditions resulting from the deter. | sume-that a reactionary will always | mination of Britain’s industrial czars | follow an objectively _ reactionary | | to starve the striking miners into sub- | policy, foreign minister Stresemann of | Rasen Jermany favors friendly relations with | | “Many great industries are shut | the Soviet Union—for business rea- ;down completely,” a “wobbly” sailor sons. And’ it is reported that when | declared on his arrival here today on Stresemann had his famous oonversa- rere shipping board steam- tion with Briand at ‘Tholry, he. re- ie which carried general: cargo to * and from an English port. “Other in- marked that in his opinion France had dustries are working a few di less to fear from Russia than from) oO eB Me Gaye. England, and that if any particular | country deserved isolation, that coun- | try was Great. Britain. Briand is said | to have listened and\ kept on or ing “his moustache. their orders. Great shipbuilding and i BE | other plants are practically at a RITAIN’S foreign policy in Europe | standstill. is very unsteady. Today ‘she is “Despite the’ dismal, iMrting with Italy; tomorrow with |days of the beastly English climate France. Mussolini, who knows that/ most places are going without fuel. there is a stilletto in many an Italian Government Offices Cold. pocket, hankering for a nice soft’ «ven government offices are with- spot in his anatomy, talks like @/ out it. The strike might cease today combination Nags Gata and de-| yt-England would continue practical- clares that the Mediterranean must ty fuyelless for weeks afterward. be an Italian lake. This kind of; «7° was ill in an hospital where oratory gives England the ‘shivers, so| hospital clothing was changed at least Chamberlain has a tete-atete with! once a week and often twice if visi- Briand. Mussolini turns loose another | tors called to see us. Soon we were yelp and Chamberlain hastens to Rome | {oid that we must wear the same suit% to eonvince Benito that he was only | |for three and four weeks. These hos- plotting against Russia with his friend | | pital had little coal to heat hot water Briand. | to wash clothes, - At first we were per- | mitted to take a bath every day but a. the Babbitt bible tells us that! before I left we considered ourselves honesty is the best policy, and we|lucky if we got that privilege onte-in must admit that it has some merit, | bwo weeks.” dishonesty is the only policy for the | M. T. W. Shows Solidarity. impertal'st powers. , When.two states. omiie-to tte prinotpios, te M. “T, W. ‘°F ig doing all possible to kee; trom compliments on each other, it is time aie one “3 the atic sein poe Yor the cannon-fodder of the respective" .-44, coal boats. In every section of the world its members are spreading the word for all seamen to oe to man boats carrying coal to the British Trade Losses Enormous, ’ “Manufacturers are bewailing the fact that foreign firms are getting their hides in trim for the trench black, foggy | ooties. The chief reason why the cap- italist powers do not open fire on each other today, is financial and moral weakness. ill them off, Another good war would! Isles or to ports of other countries which got their supply from Britain before the strike. An I. W. W. sailor was offered a job on the bridge of the Sudawsonco, the so they hold their chariots, . first United States ship to carry a full cargo of scab coal out of Hamp- ton Roads, the premier scab céal ship- ping port of the world, 1. -W. W. Seamen Won't Scab. Altho this “wobbly” had been out of a job ali summer he indignantly refused to scab when asked to go over to Newark to join the crew that was to man this transmarine liner. Nine I. W. W.’s quit ship which called at Baltimore yesterday follow- ing a rumor that she was to carry scab coal to England. This boat, however, sailed for Cuba with general cargo, after several hours’ delay in which she obtained another full crew. “Wobblies” are quitting many ships * w= correspondents will soon be flocking into Chicago if predic- tions bear fruit. Two rival gangs of bootleggers have declared war on each other and the ordinance departments of both gangs have been stocking up on machine guns. Of course, the good people of the ety don’t want war. Neither does the police department. The latter make an honest dollar now and then out of the gangsters, according to statements made by federal sleuths, . oe pees it is all jealousy. They tell us that when a copper needs money to buy a new dress for his (Continued on uage 2.) MUSSOLINI. PREPARING FOR WAR ON TURKEY SAYS LONDON EXPRESS both here and in Norfolk because they refuse to scab on Britain's miners. LONDON, Oct. 10.—“Premier Mussolini Is preparing for war against Turkey,” says a sensational article appearing in the Dally Express. The article declares the Italian d influence on the coast of Turkey in 1916 by the famous secret pact of L: which had we “to secure a sphere of een promised to Italy ondon which came to light In 1919 to ictator wal trouble the peace delegates at the Versailles conference. The ern rerten. to this pact were Russia, France, Great B General Seoretary, Workers during the past week are not all in, debts due on Monday and save the two weeks to carry The DAILY WO however, hae been slow in getting far has been: Sept. 25—Second week Oct, 26—Third week But this has not put The DAILY WORKER We told the party and the sympathizers with its work at the beginning of the campaign that $10,000 must be raised within Sept, 10—Firet Week overseen ritain and Italy.” (Communist) Party. As this statement ie written the full returns of the appeal to raise $5,000 of the $50,000 Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund: The remittances on Monday | will show how neat to the $6,000 total the contributions ran. We can say now, however, that the response made during the week together with the funds that will reach The DAILY WORKER Monday, have ‘made it possible to meet the urgent situation for another week. of danger. RKER thru. Our campaign, under way. The total thus 4 THE DAIL U a STEEL ‘CORPORATION CALIF. STEEL WORKERS PULL STRIKE ON CUT Call on A. F. of L. for Organization Drive (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Cal., Oct. 10—When the wire drawers at the Pittsburgh plant of the Columbia Steel corpora- tion blew the whistle, all the men in the department shut down the machin- ery in protest against the wage cut of from $1.50 to $2.00 per day the company was trying to force upon them. Wire Drawers Start Strike. Forty wire drawers went out and about 200 men were laid off. The company at once began a cam- paign to break the ‘Strike, evicting nine workers who lived in the com- bo dab hotel when they refused to report for work. ‘Ask A. F. of L. for Organization. There are over 1,200 men in the plant. The other departments re- Seived wage cuts, or “wage adjust- ments” recently. The strikers are calling upon the American Federatiqn of Labor to or- ganize these metal workers. Call For “Ma's” Resignation, AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 10.—The resolu- tion introduced fn the house of the special session of the Texas legisla- ture late yesterday asking the imme- diate resignation of Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, governor of Texas was to be taken up for consideration in the house today. INILED.CLOAKMAKERS SEND LABOR MESSAGE (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—We, the striking cloak makers, having being committed, to the Tombs prison for our just fight. against our oppres- sors, the bosses, desire to express thru our beloved paper, The DAILY WORKER, our protest against the brutality of the New York police and also against the judges that serve so well the interests of the capitalists. We want to tell them that they will not succeed in their attempt to ‘break our ranks and we will fight until victory is with us. Long live the solidarity of the working class! The committed cloak makers in the Tombs prison. ALIEN PROPERTY ‘CUSTODIAN HAD RIGHT TO NIP NEW YORK, Qct. 10.—Upholding ; the property of Thomas W. Miller, for- mer alien property custodian, attend- ing the champagne dinner at the Ritz- Carlton Hotel Oct. 30, 1921, at which he returned checks for the $7,000,000 American Metals claim to Richard Merton, German industrialist, Colonel William Rand, counsel for Miller de- nied the conspiracy charge in continu- ation today of his summation to the The resolution is in-|jury at the trial/of Miller and Harry tended as a concurrent one for action|M. Daugherty, former attorney-gener- al. in both houses. ct. 5—Tuesday ... in 6 Wadhesllay e Oct. 7—Thursday Oct. 8—Friday Oct, Saturday . \ Estimated for Monday, Oct. 11... If Monday's estimate ie fulftffed we will still be short $5,000 of the first $10,000. Because of the slow returns at the begin- ning of the campaign, The DAILY WORKER has been obliged to postpone obligations which were already long overdue. These have now accumulated so that the real crisis for The DAILY WORKER will come during the present week, We cannot postpone meeting the pressing obligations of The DAILY WORKER any longer. We have exhausted the possibilities of doing that, * THIS FRANK STATEMENT OF THE SITUATION OF ER 1S MADE TO THE PARTY MEMBERS | 874.50 508.00 369.00 314.05 265.75 THE $3,838.88 1,500.00 MUST REACH THROUGH. $5,338.88 WORKER fund, THE PARTY, WITH THE HELP OF ITS SYMPATHIZERS, CAN MAKE THE $10,000 MARK BY OCTOBER 18, IF IT GOES TO WORK IN EARNEST, tributions are made must incr Qreater ratio than during last week. Those party units which have not gone into action must take up the work in earnest. Thus far about 10% of the party membership has responded. The remaining 90% must join the fight to rail SHANGHAI NEAR CAPTURE; CANTON ARMY SWEEPS | Intervention (Special to The Daily Worker) | SHANGHAI, Oct. 10.—Chinese stu- dent and labor bodies are preparing a gigantic celebration of the sweeping | victories of the Cantonese national jrevolutionary armies which are ad- | vancing towarf Shanghai down the }Yangtse. The foreign settlements | where are. concentrated the forces of |imperialism, are alarmed at the pros- pects of the capture “of Shanghai, which is feared may be made by local Chinese even before the Cantonese reach the city. Shanghai Chinese May Revolt. The Shanghai Chinese are over- joyed at the reports that Wuchang and Miukiang, even a more important point down the river from Hankow, have fallen before the Cantonese, and the imperialist powers in Shanghai have called out all police reserves and special armed forces in fear of a united labor and student revolt, altho this city is supposed to be controlled by General Sun Chuan-fang, who has been fighting the advance of the Can- |ton troops. Troops Go Over to Cantonese. Reports are that Wuchang, where Wu Pei-fu’s troops were besieged for more than a month, fell to the Can- join the Canton armies. Kiukiang al- go Was evacuated by the troops of Sun Chuan-fang, probably by troop deser- tions. Sun has been unable to control (Continued on page 2.) OCTOBER THE $10,000 MARK Published Daily exeept Sunda: PUBLISHING CO., corpeR ———__| |GREEN SEEKS ALIBI FOR GIVING | | hostile to Forward to the $10, 000 Mark Goal to Keep the By c. E. RUTHENBERG AND SYMPATHIZERS TO SHOW THE NEED OF PUSHING WORK OF COLLECTING THE KEEP THE DAILY WORKER FUND WITH EVEN GREATER ENERGY. The contributions to the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund last week were as large as for the previous three weeks. amount raised during this week must be as large as for the previous four weeks. ON MONDAY, 18, AT THE LATEST, WE IN ORDER TO PULL That means that the pace at which the collections and con- ie during this week at even a The DAILY GPRKREP.. y by THE DAILY 1118 W. ‘ashington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. NEW YORK | EDITION WORKER Price 3 Cents EDDY FLOOR AT A. F. OF L. MEET By J. LOUIS (Special to The ‘LOUIS ENGDAHL. Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 10. — Five officials of the American Federation of Labor were addressing audiences in local churches today, as the guests of dollar-subsidized religion, while the bitter controversy still raged as to whether Dr. Sherwood Eddy, inter- national secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, had broken away from an alleged gag that President Green claims was imposed upon him here last Thursday before he was allowed to take the platform and tell of his recent trip to Europe, which included a visit to the Union of Soviet Republics. Open Shops Relent—A Little Altho the local Y. M. C. A. was closed against President treén, hardboiled capitalism locally relented sufficiently to make it possible for Green, Frank L.. Morrison, secretary of the A. F. of L.; John H. Walker, president of the Illinois Federation of Labor; Robert M. Fechner, of the Machinists’ Union; and James Wilson, of the patternmakers, to* address audiences in churches. Even two addresses by Albert F. Coyle, of the Locomotive Engineer: Journal, before two churches were an- nounced to the A. F. of L., altho the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is not affiliated to that body. The labor addresses were arranged by the Fed- erated Churches of Christ of America, 1 buffer institution between the class- onscious workers and mammonized religion. Free Speech, But Not Too Free! * While enjoying this semblance of free speech at the hands of the em- ployers’ religion, the A. F, of L. offi- vials continue to let loose new at- acks against Eddy'’s attempt to tell the delegates a Jittle of the truth about the Soviet Union. President Green still persists that he merely invited Eddy to address the convention on the @ormer’s ouster trom the Y. M. C. A. because it had received huge sums of money for its building program from open shop in- erests and did not want to endanger these sources of income, Contributions to the Y. M. C, A.| building fund made public today in- | aude the following: Henry Ford, | $700,000; Edsel Ford, $750,000; Fisher Brothers (auto body manufacturers), $500,000; S. S. Kresge (6 and 10 cent story king), $500,000; Mrs. Hannan (Hahnan Real Estate Exchange), $500,000) Other large employers, all union labor, also contributed huge sums. Green’s Alibl Weak. That President Green, however, had Britain Plans Armed | sic reference to his clash with dollar- subsidized Y. M, C. A. is clearly shown by the nature of his remarks RESOLUTION FOR FIVE-DAY PLAN IS WEAK “Progressive Shorten- ing” Sole Demand By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mich. Oct. 10.—Vice Presidents James Duncan and Mat- thew Woll are whipping together the report of the resolutions committee that goes to the American Federation of Labor convention here today as a | special order of businéss at the open- ing of the afternoon's session. Chief among the resolutions are |those demanding recognition of the Union of Soviet Republics, opposing ithe league of nations, the worid court jand the so-called international labor offiee attached to the league, seeking an investigation of the latest develop- ments in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, at- tacking raee discrimination in the unions, opposing Citizena’ - Military Training Camps and rejecting the fas- cist theory of government. “We expect our report to cover at least two days,” announced Chairman Dunean, of the committee, “as there are several very important matters before it.” in presenting Eddy to the convention. These remarks were fully reported n Saturday's issue of The DAILY WORKER, and show that Green boast- ad of the free speech privilege that he The convention adopted the report of the committee on shorter workday, which refused to take a definite stand for the five-day week, instead favor- was according to Dr. Eddy. Surely yr. Eddy needed the enjoyment of no ree speech right to defend Green igainst those who were attacking him. Nevertheless, Green is rallying all his riends to support him in his alibi. Dr. Eddy has wired his version of the whole affair to Detroit as follows: Eddy’s Statement. “I was asked by certain labor lead- ers to go to Detroit and speak at the American Federation of Labor conven- tion on conditions in Russia, Mr. Green, president of the. federation, asked me before the meeting not to sfer to the question of the present government in Russia as it was a con- troversial question before the conyen- ing a “progressive shortening of the work-week.” Cap Makers Demand 5-Day Week. The demand for the five-day week came up in resolutions offered by the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Work- ers’ delegation. Delegate Max Zuckerman spoke tu favor of the resolution and against the report of the committee. He pointed out that the five-day week had already been won in some of the needle trades: 3 Delegate John P. Frey fumished elaborate statistics to show the in- creased per capita production of workers in different industries. The output per man in the General Mo- tors Corporation, for instance, has (Continued on page 2.) (Continued on page 2.) ANOTHER NEGRO FALLS VICTIM TO ROPE AND BULLETS OF WHITE MOB DOVER, Tenn., Oct. 10—Herbert Bell, Negro, was taken from the county jail here shortly after midnight by a mob of seventy-five men, oerried Into the woods three miles from here, hanged to a tree and his body was riddled tonese on terms whereby the troops | with bullets. Bell was held on a charge of murder following the death of Rufus Joy- ner, farmer, of Clarksville, Tenn., several days ago. Yeeterday in court at Clarkeville, Sheriff Ellis was forced to draw his pistol to protect the Negro and his wife from spectators Tn the courtroom. Daily Worker Mobilize every resource of the party. Let every member purchase a $6.00 book of Keep The DAILY WORKER certi- ficates. Sell the coupons among the sympathizers with the party, The campaign to Keep The DAILY WORKER is now really on, The crisis of The DAILY WORKER has’ awakened the party. Carry forward the work with greater energy. LET US WRITE A VICTORY FOR OUR MOVEMENT THRU THE RAISING OF THE FIRST TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. LET US SHOW THAT OUR PARTY IS ALIVE TO ITS RESPONSIBILITIES AND ABLE TO MEET THEM BY PUSHING THE TOTAL TO $10,000 THIS WEEK. THEN WE CAN TAKE A NEW BREATH AND GO FOR- WARD TO THE COMPLETION OF THE $50,000 FUND WITH THE CERTAINTY THAT WE WILL KEEP THE DAILY WORKER. bs WATCH THE REPORT, OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS AS THEY APPEAR IN THE DAILY WORKER FROM DAY TO DAY. THEY WILL SHOW HOW HARD WE MUST PUSH FORWARD TO COMPLETE THE FIRST $10,000 AND MAKE SURE WE WILL KEEP THE DAILY WORKER, The