The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government G TH Entered at Second-class matter September 21, i928, Vol. Il. No. 231. | By T.J. O'PLAHERTY I HE drowning mem who expects to survive by grasping at a straw has }no slimmer hold on Mfe than a sorely- pressed_person nowadays who stretch- es out an appealing arm for aid to the ju klux klan. Yesterday's papers in- form us thet Aimee McPherson now blames the pope for her troubles. ‘New, we do not have to insist that this column has not carried many eulogies of bis holiness,.and yet. in this instamee we cannot come to bat for Aimee. For the very good reason that Aimee 4g as willing a faker as the pope, tho her organization is not as effective, ee 7HT, it is not surprising thai an evangelist caught unclothed, so to ‘speak, should fall back onthe klan. Since its formation the K, K. K. has eupplied ninety-nine per cent of ali the rape cases that appeared on the front pages of our papers. And for sexual abberations of leas magnitude the hooded patriots left. about one- half of one per cent to the rest of the pation. Then, why should not Aimee, who expected to make $50,000 out of her adventure with Keaneth Ormis- ton, fall, back om an organization that specializes in lewd and bawdy con- duct? But how any person, even of the degree \of intelligence that is standard in Los Angeles, should con- tinue to believe in Aimee’s integrity 4s inexplicable, except that it throws light on the reason why real estate agents thrive in lower California. eee y Uwilted States Shipping Board, gave Marie, queen of Roumania, a “royal suite” almost free, on its star vessel, the Leviathan. Roumanian schikdren, 3,000,000 of them, can have ‘bread only on Suaday. This is cap- ‘italiet ~eharity, capitalist christianity. This Mttle piece of news br xi the spotlight om a system that lives from And the rulere of our- great, glorious, wealthy republic. shower favers on a parasite queen, who revels in lewxury while her “subjects” starve. ¢ 6 69 HE condition of the Roumanian people is so bad that even capital- ist’correspondents are forced to take cognizance of it. The peasant is foreed to work for the big landed pentry for 25°cents a day and when the “season is over the employer is wble to prove that the peasant owes him money. If the peasant kicks, the catate owner can call on. Queen Ma- rie’s government to put him in jail, provided the boss is too lazy to shoot the peasant in which case the beauti- {ul queen’s government is.saved alot of trouble. oe ® THE suggestion was made in this column a few weeks back, that it wld not be a bad idea for some workingclass organization to meet the eueen of starving, persecuted Rou- mania, at the pier with some banners or placards carrying appropriate signs. “Queen occupies royal suite while her subjects starve.” “U. 5S. government wastes tax payers’ money on parasite queen while Roumanian peasant children can't -haye bread.” Of course Jimmy Walker's tammany police would be on the job to protect the queen, but the news would go forth, oes Hq G. WELLS has written another book. If it is not any better than his other late productions our readers would be well advised to spend their money elaewhere, This man Wells is about the most muddleheaded scribe tbat ever made a fortune out of a dictionary. He turns out thousands of words a day and a public with a stomach .for punishment swallows them. Wells is considered a radical by many, but as a matterof fact he is a conservative and, imperialist at heart. \ : 8 Ps tias vt was rather tough on “William Green and his fellow lackeys of the A. F. of L. council to be refused the privilege of making some clase-colla- porationist speeches in the Detroit churches, owned and operated by the chamber of commerce and its ser- vants, , What fools those capitalist mortals are? What did they have to fear from Green? This baptist, with the physiognomy of a small town dea is one of the best friends of the cwpitalist system. What he would say in the Detrott pulpit would be that the workers and the employers should got together. This ts jist what they are doing now, only too 'well. ~ "Ne POF HE only di! between Green's ‘company wnionim, t# that, under the b NY . eee Ca ne ee eae ee nianty tse aan 800,000 N.Y. WORKERS BACK CLOAKMAKERS Central Bodies, Locals Vote Support By SYLVAN A, POLLACK (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Oct, 11.—Eight hun- dred thousand werkers represented by 162 delegates of ten central labor bodtes and 61 local unions In a con- ference at the national headquarters of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, 8 West 16th St., voted their wholehearted support to the 40,000 striking cloakmakers who have recently been served with a drastic injunction prohibiting picket- ing. They elected an executive commit- free of thirty, whose function will be to carry out the decisions of the con- ference which includes a one dollar tax each week on the members of all the weedle trades in the U. S., a de- monstration to be held at the city hall by all the unions to express to the mayor the protests of the labor movement against the brutalities of the police during the course of the strike, and urging the members of other trade unions to join the cloak- makers on the picket line. Money Represented. Among the unions represented were the following: New York Central Trades and Labor Cowacil, United Hebrew Trades, New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the Furriers’ Joint Board and Intertlational Exeeutive Board, and meny locals of the Cap and Mil- (Continued on page 2.) WINS ENEMIES TO ITS RANKS Soldiers Turn Against Reactionary Generals (Special to The Daity Worker) SHANGHAI, Oot. 11.—Reports from Hankow stated that the fall of the city of Wuchang, after a five weeks’ siege, was due to the opening of the city gates by the Honanese brigade to ad- mit the southern forces. Capture Northern Generals. Several gf the northern generals were captured, including Governor Chen Chi-mo, and a part of the north- ern forces are being incorporated in- to the Cantonese armies. During the course of the evacuation, negotiations suddenly broke down when some of the northern troops tried to take the artillery with them. The Cantonese finally compelled them to leave the artillery behind. Cantonese Protect Foreigners, Foreign missionaries in Wuchang are safe, despite all reports to the contrary spread by the imperialist press, General Chiang Kai-shih, com- mander of the Cantonese, having en- forced the policy of protecting. the lives of foreigners im the war zone. The defeated reactionary troops, how- ever, outside the lines of the Canton armies, have been running wild with Jooting and. killing. The Chinese government dockyards at Shanghai is now the subject of in- ternational Interest on account of the resignation of. the chief superinten- dent, Rebus Bacco Mauchan, The superintendent is resigning be- cause the northern militarists, in- cluding Sun Chuan-fang, are trying to get possession of the huge dockyards fund in order to use it for financing more war against the Cantonese, They have already forced the dockyards commission to give them $1,000,000, Reactionary Generals Want Loot. The dockyard, known as the Ktang- nan dockyards, is capable of extensive ship-building, and the United States navy recently placed a contract with the enterprise for building a new fleet ot gunhoats for use by the navy on the Yangtse River, The United States congress ap- propriated $6,000,000 for this work, and it is felt, that if the reactionary generals succeed in confiscating the dockyamis funds, the possibility of building the hoats accordigg to the contract, will be prevented. Subscription Rates: Susias ices ty S390 verter 8 ARIE dln Sedo RE im a rin Se SS BS AE EE Ee am SI Snr Eos idea nS Ce a ceetneeesesmetesessens- linn cr erences tees eon a tn nL F. OF L. ASKE 2 yi WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13,1926 <>” TO HELP PASSAIC Leads Fight to Expose Indiana Klan THOMAS H. ADAMS, © i Declaring that he has concrete evidence to prove that the ku kiux klan of Indiana ruled the state politically from top to botto) Thos. H. Adams, pub- lisher of the Vincennes, Ind., Commercial, is leading the demand for a com plete probe ofthe activities of the hooded order im the Hoosier state. Prac- tically every official in the state and sweeping charges of graft and political trading. in many counties is implicated in the ‘ Governor Who Is GOV. ED. JACKSON. Governor Jackson has been named by D. C. Stephenson, ex-dragon of the Indiana klan as one of those who took orders from the kiuxers in every political move of importanee from the appointment of senators down. ORGANIZE NEGRO WOMEN WORKERS THRUOUT CITY That the strike of the Negro women workers employed by the Maras date stuffing factory should be made the first step toward organizing all of the industries in’ Chieago which employ Negro women was the keynote of an enthusiastic meeting Sunday ‘after- noon which was held by the strikers. The meeting was held at the Unton Trade ‘Hall, $358 South Michigan Ave., and the liall was packed by the strik- ers and ‘sympathizers, Many Speakers. Speakers included Lovett Fort- Whiteman, of the American Negro Labor Congress,. Dora. Lohse of the International Workers’ Aid, Irene Goins of the Women’s Trade Union League, Isbel of the American Negro Labor Congress, W, Matheson of the Chicago Window Washers’ Local 40, and Mrs. Robert Jones and- Mrs. Bila Smith, two of the strikers who were arrested by police, Used as Pawns, The strikers wore told that only or- ganization could prevent Chicago em- ployers using the Negro women work- ers as pawns to beat down the wage standards of other workers, as well as themselves. They were urged to maintain. thely struggle until the date company would recognize their right to colleoviye. bargaining. This was met with great applause by the etrile ers, bento ae Politicians Stage Fake Inquiry (Special to The Dail.; Worker) BULLETIN, INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 11— The In- diana political controversy took on a wider aspect today when a United States senate investigation of alleged public> corruption was requested of Senator William B. Borah by Thomas H. Adams, chairman of the probe committee of the Indiana Editorial Association, around which the storm rages. eee INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 11.— Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes ‘pub- lieher, will appear before the Marion County grand jury this afternoon to tell hie story of alleged wholesale graft and corruption in Indiana, Coun- ty Prosecutor Will H. Remy, announc- ed just before the grand jury con- vened at 10 a. m. today. Attorney general Arthur L, Gilliom was present in the courtroom when Judge James *J. Collins prepared to instruct the jury. Court Asher, D. C. Stephenson, klan leader and perhaps scores of others whose names have been mentioned in eonnection with the allegations of a wholesale graft corruption in Indiana, may be subpoenaed to appear. To Launch Fake Probe, Decision to launch an immediate grand jury probe into the Stephenson charges was reached after a confer- ence between State’s Attorney Gen- eral Arthur 'L. Gilliom and County Prosecutor William H. Remy. Gilliom offered Remy all the assistance of the state’s attormey general's office. He also asked Governor Ed. Jackson to defer appointing an investigating com- mittee as the governor had promised to do, until after a grand jury had sifted the charges. CAL WON'T CALL EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS FOR COTTON GROWERS WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Presi- dent Coolidge sees no need of an extra session of congress to extend ald to the cotton growers of the south, It was declared at the White House todayy Representative Pou of North Ca- rolina had suggested that Presi- dent Coolisige summon congress back immediately. ; the Post Office at Chicago, Iilimois, under the Act of March 8, 1879. ihington Published Datly except Sontag: by THE DAILY WORKER ‘as PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Bivd., Chicago, Hl. EDITION NEW YORK Price 3 Cents Pleads for Organization of the Textile Industry - jtheir “company union” merel \dred per cent open shop, declare for all possible aid to the of the fundamental industries o “HERRIN’ ISSUE. RAISED BY OPEN SHOPPERS’ RAG Make Insolent Threat to Labor By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. CONVENTION HALL, Detroit, Mich., Oct. 11—Writing r : of the whole textile industry with the charge that the Passaic textile mill owners are clinging to as a weapon to fight organized labor and strengthen the one hun- Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, of the Free Synagogue, New York City, ad- By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The Dally Worker) Passaic strikers. Pleads for Organization. f dressed the American Federation of Labor convention here today. an earnest plea for the organization He urged the delegates to “1 plead with you today,” said Rabbi Wise, “not so much for the Passaic strikers, as to lend your best efforts, for the organization of the workers im the textile industry. The textile is one t the land, employing between.750,000 and 1,000,000 workers. “In the cause of organization, “ + workers in the Passaic textile mills have dared to stand as pioneers. The first weapon used against the Passaic workers was poisoned, namely the charge that they were agents of revo- tution.” Suffer Injustioe. Rabbi Wise declared that the Pas- saic strikers do not know what revo- lution is, nor what Communtsm means, but he charged, “They do know what injustice is, for they have been its uncomphaining victims. “They are workers in an industry which the government subsidizes by imposing an enormons protective tariff, while at the same time the tex- tile workers are shamefully underpaid, (Special to The Daily Worker) Convention Hall, Detroit, Mich.| Oct. 11.—“Will It Be Another Herrin?’ on the first page of the cur- of “The Detroiter,” official publication of the Detroit Board of Commerce, as part of its counter move against the steps taken by the American Federation ¥ Labor for the organization of the auto Industry. This question appears alone with @ from the address of Pre Trades Department of the A. F. of L., in which O'Connell is quoted as saying: : “T have given the situation much thought and I am convinced that if any success {s to be had in organizing automobile mechanics ,it must be of @ general character carried on by the American Federation of Labor thfu its organizing forces. I recommend, therefore, that this convention instruct the delegate trom this department to the A, F. of L. convention to intro- duce a resolution calling attention to the necessity of inaugurating a cam- paign of organization in the automo- bile industry of the country.” Play on Prejudice. “Will It Be Another Herrin?” is the only comment of “The Detroiter,” showing that the editors of this sheet feel that the poisonous of Williamson county, Illinois, has completely prejudiced the Detroit populace against the labor unions. “Herrin” and “Detroit” offer two entirely different problems. At Her rin, Illinois, the coal miners had 100 per cent union. It was the mine owners who sought to smash iners’ union at Herrin thru the most ruthless and careful planned cam- paign of murder. The hope was not only to establish the American plan alias the “open shop” in the mine pits of Williamson county, but to smash the powerful Illinois coal miners’ union, which is the backbone today of the United Mine Workers of America. It has been thru the miners’ union that the Illi- nots coal miners have won what con- ditions, hours and wages they enjoy. Detroit Different, The situation in Detroit is just the opposite. Here the American plan, with its $7.50 per week wages for the slaves of Kreoge's “five and ten cent stores,” 4s in full bloom. The “open shop” devotees everywhere glory in labor's helplessness, $ At Herrin, labor was on its feet, or- ganized in its unions’ fight, for a bet- ter life, and the open shoppers were trying, and failed miserably, to pull it down, In Detroit labor is down, trampled on by its exploiters. It is trying to come up, thru organization. The em- ployers are trying to keep it down. There-can only be a Herrin in De- tro if the employers, strike, bring in their army of thugs and assassins (o shoot down the work- ers. It is the ruling class that pro- yokes violence whether it is in Herrin jor Detroit. Under these conditions it is rather peculiar that the Detroit Saturday Night, another’ “open shop” sheet, pleads for the assistance of President Willtam Green) of the A. F. of L. (Continued on page 2.) ‘ eens ‘amen O'Coniell, of the Metal | HOOSIER COURT propaganda | spread by the reptile press concern-| ing the struggle of the coal miners) the | in the next | Mill Owners Object to Welsbord. “Against their elementary plea for long suffering and for the most part, | HAILS PRIEST BUT CENSORS EDDY SPEECH Ryan Speaks for Class Collaboration By. J.. LOUIS ENGDAHL, (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 11.— Altho \the night to organize and to secure a| the speech of Dr. Sherwood Eddy on ‘ thetr brute power, and they have h for the most part, the co-operation of |the police and the law courts. | nad owners held that they could not |as Americans—heaven save the mark |—deal with the young man who for a time ledthe strike, on the ground of his political views.” amt This reference was to the Com- st “strike “leader, “Albert Weis- bord, Rabbi Wise continued by show- ing that in spite of the fact that the strike had now come under the direc- tion’of the United Textile Workers of America, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor,» “and still the ery is that there will be no dealing with the strikers. In the meantime the strikers have borne themselves with patience, courage and gelf-mastery. |They have left injunctions and vio- lence to the mill owners. ‘ Owners Still Fight Unions. “And now, the attempt is being made to batter and starve into submission workers whose sole offending acts les in their demand that they be free to organize and that theirs be a liv- |ing family wage from the American standpoint. The mill owners have re- fused and they continue to refuse to deal with them. “They offer the company union as (Continued on page 2.) DAUGHERTY JURY ACTING FUNNY; | FIXING HINTED NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Hopelessty deadlocked for 66 hours, the federal Jury in the Daugherty-Miller con- Spiracy case confessed their inabil- ity to agree on a verdict and was dismissed this afternoon by Judge dullan Ws Mack, ‘ The jury had deliberated since last Friday night, continuing over Sunday, establish! duration rec- ord in the annals of New York fed- eral court history, ee ae) NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Refreshed by a night’s sleep, the twelve jurors in the Daugherty-Miller case were to re- sume their deliberations at ten o'clock this morning, 60 hours and 17 minutes after having received the case. This sets a record for length of delibera- tion in the New York federaij district. Accepted Bribe, Nearly ‘twenty hours have been spent in a futile endeavor to deter- mine the guilt or innocence of Harry M. Daugherty, former attorney gen- eral, and Thomas W. Miller, former allen property custodian, charged with accepting part of a $441,000 bribe for passing a $7,000,000 war seizure claim. Jury Deadlocked, With one member near collapse af- ter hours of wrangling in a smoke- filled jury room, the jury was dis- missed at 10:50 o'clock last night un- til this morning by Judge Mack. Altho the jurors declared they were hope- lesmly deadlocked, Judge Mack insisted that they continue their deliberations until a verdict Was reached, is the question in big type that am jiyi e, the mills have pitted | . heft - rth Soa tig of » ai,|Publics stil! remains stricken from his visit to the Union of Soviet Re- the resord, the convention today with- The (out opposition ordered the printing as part of the convention proceedings the sermon delivered yesterday by the Reverend John A. Ryan at the Sta- loysius church, where the Catholic delegates to the convention were cail- ¢@d to worship Sunday. Catholic Church for B. t O. Plan. Reverend Ryan used the encyciieal of Pope Leo XIII on the condition of labor as the basis of his sermon. It is in this encyclical that Pope Leode nounced the idea that class tg natur- ally arrayed against class, claiming that capital and labor each needs the other and commended the practice of mutual agreement. ~ Thus the reverend Ryan dectared, “A conspicuous example of such agreements and arrangements which are in full harmony with Pope Leo's views, is the union management co- operative plan in force on the Balti- more and Ohio and certain other rail- roads.” Reverend Ryan then seized the op portunity afforded him to attack the workers in Europe as follows: Opposes World Labor Units. “All intelligent lovers of their coun- try and all believers in the christian principles of society and civilization should rejoice that in the United States labor is organized according to the spirit and the principles of Amer- lean Federation of Labor. In this respect the contrast between most of the European countries and the Jnited States is striking and pro- found, Across the Atlantic the labor movemeng is to a great extent Com: munistic and socialistic or in some other way hostile to christian prin- ciples. “This should be a cause of rejoic- ing particularly to us catholics: for we realize the great injury that has been wrought to the catholic cause by unfriendly labor organizations in Bu- rope. We are aware, or ought to he aware, of the great advance enjoyed by our catholic wage-earners in hay- ing access to the unions that consti tute the American Federation of La- bor.” Complimented for Reaction, Reverend Ryan did not mention the Mexican situation unless he indireet- ly referred to it when he said: “It this great organization (the A. F. of L.), does not always live up to the high standards that we would set for it, let us at least be charitable enut to recognize the difficulties which are responsible. “And let us be sufficiently just and sufficiently generous to recognize the inealculable good achieved by the fed- eration in keeping the. American la- bor movement free from doctrines and influences which are not only sub. versive of social and public welfare but destructive of the faith and mor als of our own spiritual children.” The catholic delegates are very anxious to have the convention go on record attacking the stand of the Mexican workers against the catholie church, Attempts are being made, and have succeeded so far, tn keeping this question off the convention floor. Inserting Father Ryan's speech in the record, however, is indication of the watchful and active waiting of the vatholic bloe here, a