The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1926, Page 1

| The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ | and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 232. By T. J. O'FLAHERTY HERE is a fellow by the name of Westbrook Pegter, who reports sporting events for a Chicago news- paper, Recently he commented facet- jously and acidly on a type of human animal that holds all those who live hilariously to be destined for oblivion. But the world series knocked this position for a row of cracked baseball bats. The two biggest bums in base- ball happened to be the two outstand- ing heroes, They are: Babe Ruth and Grover Alexander. Not that liquor did the trick. It just happened that way. And it goes to show that pro- phets are always wrong. eee ui bas queen of Roumania will be popular in America, says a fellow by the name of Vopicka, former American minister to the Balkans. He is trom Chicago which accounts for a good many things. Vopicka has the distinction of having once tickled Marie in the ribs when the poor girl had a fit, saying: “Now, little girl, don’t cry, there will be stars in the sky by and by.” In return for this good service it is said that Marie turned a tearful org on Vopicka, hence the blurb. j ne 6 ODAY’S hot tamale goes to Brother James Oneal, editor of a New York socialist paper. James is a precocious jad, tho born in Indiana, where the pocialists turned kleagles when it be- came evident that the pope was due to live a few years more. Oneal made the mistake of publishing a fake story of an alleged speech delivered by Joseph Stalin and sent out over the Hearst service. The speech threw the hooks into Gregory Zinoviev, but too much, So much so that it was Ld Be DAILY WORKER cabled to Moscow and secured an authoritive @enial of the alleged speech. Then ‘The DAILY WORKER passed the in- formation along to Oneal with the re- quest that he do the right thing by his publication and print the denial. But man to come out and say that he made a fool of himself. So Oneal did not. He stayed put.. Now Jimmy, try- ing to save his face, says that either The DAILY WORKER falsified a cablegram or else Stalin did not tell the truth. What can you do with a fellow like Oneal? He refuses to be- Neve anything unless it appears in the capitalist press. Cy > HE franc continues to fall despite the fact that Po’ ‘e is premier and those who know anything know that Poincare is a reactionary and therefore according to capitalist ex- perts, he should be @ life-sayer for the franc, When he returned to power the papers told us that the. france would become healthy and surprise people. Poincare pulled off several tricks, such as stopping tourists from eating roast duck, with squab on toast—officially, But the franc did not recover. Now, that French poli- tics have ebbed somewhat, Poincare is more or less forgotten but one of these days the franc will again ap- pear in the headlines and Poincare will get another vacation, se @ ‘HE big news of the day is taking place in China, A few days ago we were told that Manchurians were fighting the Japanese, It was a fake story, The DAILY WORKER did not know, but hinted as much. Manchuria is run by Chang Tso-Lin, who is a Japanese agent. If the Manchurians were fighting the Japs it would have r meant that Chang had broken with Tokio and was on some other pay- roll, British or American. Most likely British, In all probability the basis for those stories was a revolt of the Koreans on the Manchurian border against the Japanese, eee OW many times during the past two years have we been told that the revolutionary forces of China were defewted? Yet today, the armies of the Canton government are marching northward and are having a hard time trying to locate the forces of Wu Pet- fu, the favorite of the American im- perialists. An American correspondent tells us that the Cantonese troops who are investing Wuchang, treat non- combatants with courtesy, while Wu Pel-fw’s brigands shoot everything in sight except the enemy. Soviet Rus- gia, the only real friend of the Chi- nese people, of all the powers, is friendly to the Cantonese and ts loek- ed May by the Chinese masses as you sée, it is very hard for a public: WIN WUCTIANG BY STORM ON ANNIVERSARY Heroic Canton Armies Gain Big Victory BULLETIN. SHANGHAI, Oct. 12.—An engage- ment between Cantonese troops and allied forces loomed. today as the victorious Cantonese army was ad- vancing toward the province of Klangsi, according to advises re- ceived from Hankow. Flushed with victory following the capture of Wuchang, the Cantonese were preparing to engage General Sun Chuan Fang, in a battlé which will probable involve the fate of Nanohang, an allled stronghold. ee (Special to The Daity Worker) SHANGHAI, October 12.—Details of the capture of Wuchang by the Can- tonese armies arriving. here cause great_joy among the Chinese ma who are especially joyful at the anti- cipated liberation of their own city by the advancing southerners. Fifteen years from the day on which the first revolution turned China from a feudal monarchy into a republic, and in the same city of Wuchang where that revolution was staged, the Can- tonese national revolutionary troops carried the walled city by storm, aided by soldiery within who had been won over from their reactionary command- ers. For several days the Cantonese “tered at Second-class matter September 21, PRUSSIAN DIET ENDED AS COMMUNISTS STAGE ANTI-ROYALTY BATTLE BERLIN, Oct. 12.— Fist fighting climaxed the breaking up of a meet- ing of the Prussian diet today af- ter the president had been ousted from his chair by Communist dele- gates. The battle royal came as the cul- mination to a day of unruly dis- agreement, marked by flagrant dis- respect to the chair on the part of some of the representatives, KLAN TRIES 0 BLOCK DAMNING PUBLICITY TIDE Stage Fake Grand Jury Investigation INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 12.— Klan! publicity agencies are today working overtime trying to stem the tide of popular revolt against the per- fidies perpetrated by the hooded or- der against the people of Indiana from the time the lewd D, C. Stephen- son organized the night shirt brigade until he came to grief after murder- ing a young girl after a debauch. Those that Stephenson placed in bower are now anxious that he should stay in jail where he cannot do much harm as long as nobody is allowed to spread his words on the printed page. Forced by publicity to do something to save their faces the Jackson ma- chine decided to rig up a grand jury fourth army outside the section of the wall held by troops from Hupeh pro- vince, had been fraternizing with these Wanted Only One Man. On Saturday, airplanes whirred over the city dropping leaflets to the be- sieged soldiers and population which stated: “All the suffering of the populace is due to the ambitions of one man. You who are starving have done nothing. All we want is this one man —General Liu Yu-chun, His soldiers may go free.” The Fruit of Fraternization. During the night of Saturday, the Cantonese fourth army troofs, aided by the Hupeh troops on the wall who had been won over, scaled the wall, and Sunday at 3:30 in the morning they descended from the wall within and rushed the Pagan gate while part of their forces attacked at the same point from outside, A short fight and the gate was opened, whereupon the Cantonese fourth army rushed the two eastern fates and opened them from within and by six o’clock Cantonese troops were entering at all three gates and fighting thru the streets. By noon they reached the river and northern gates and opened them to the eighth Canton army which poured in and aided in the mopping up. Troops Turn Against Generals. The besieged northern troops were in a,panic. Their generals fled for safety from their own men to foreign hospitals and church schools. While his soldiers were tearing off their northern uniforms and joining the Cantonese, General Liu fled to the Episcopal Boone university and hid in the home of Dr. Sherman, the college dean, General Liu Gets. His Reward. Here the Cantonese found him when a sympathetic servant told them of his presence, He was shot by q firing squad that afternoon in the “assis hall of the college, At street corners for the nest twen- ty-four hours the captured troops were being disarmed by detachments of the Canton soldiers and marching them off to quarters where a large share of them joined the Cantonese armies. The Sign of Civil War, By nightfall’ a scene such ag oc- curs only in civil wars was being staged by the civilian populatien, those who had upheld the reactionary troops previous to the capture being thoroly cleaned up by other civilians whose sympathies were for the Can- tonese, So the forty-day siege of Wuchang, which is to beconre the capital when the nationalist revolutionary , overn- ment is moved there from Canton, Was ended New Fire Fighting Scheme. BERLAN, Oet. 12.—The Berlin fire brigade is mew fighting of] and tar fires with lath Soap powder mixed with water, producing a thick lather, has been found effective for this pur- THOUSAND MEMBERS investigation and Stephenson’s asso- clates have been subpoenaed. The jury will convene on Thursday. Prosecutor Remy issued forthwith made public names of only three of them—all once leutenants of D. C, Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Indiana K. K. K., whose charg- es flung from his prison cell at the state prison where he is now serv- ing a life sentence for murder, pre- cipitated the present political em- broglio. The Stephenson henchmen subpoen- aed were: Earl Klench of Evansville, Ind., Earl Gentry and Court Asher of Mun- cle, Ind. ft © INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 12—Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes publisher, today received a telegram from United States Senator William\E, Borah, of Idaho, asking full details of the In- diana political scandal and for copies of newspapers containing accounts of the recent developments. In his reply to Borah, Adams said that “the spotlight is now being thrown on the hold the K, K. K. held on the Indiana government.” The Marion county grand jury to- day received instructions to begin im- mediately a thoro probe of charges of wholesale graft and corruption in In- diana, as aired by Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes publisher, and centering around D. C, Stephenson, depesed and imprisoned ex-grand dragon of the In- diana K. K. K, The First Ten fo Ke By C. E. RUTHENBERG General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party. The units of the party and sympathizers with the cause which The DAILY WORKER fig! quickly and mobilize more power behi to Keep The DAILY WORKER if the to be overcome. The amount of the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund reported on Saturday was $3,838.93. estimated for Monday in answer to the call for prompt assistance was $1,500. In place of $1 was received, making the total of the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund on Monday $4,396.14. That setback puts The DAILY WORKER face to face with a serious situation. There must be redoubled work for The DAILY WORKER Fund if our paper is to con- tinue its services to our movement. . The obligations which The DAILY WORKER has to rmeet make it*essential that every part; party unit, and every sympathizer with the cause of the revolutionary movement in this country come to the aid of The DAILY WORKER immediately. The $4,395 which has been raised thus far does not represent the contribution of even one thousand ofthe ten thousand members of the party. THE OTHER NINE MUST RUSH THEIR CON- pTRIBUTIQNS TO THE DAILY WORKER IMMBDI- AT SEM 1923, at Fhe Post Office at Chicago, Ce under the Act of March 3, 1879, Booed at Margate Labor Party Meet PREJUDICE-FILLED GIRL KILLS NEGRO BOY; NO PROVOCATION FOR ACT BRISTOL, Tenn., Oct, 12. — Be- cause “I don’t want a Negro boy hanging around me,” Bertie Wise, 13-year-old white girl, shot and probably fatally wounded nine-year old Richard Logan, Negro. Witness- es declared the boy was shot with- out provocation while playing in a tree. The girl expressed no regret over the shooting, and her foster- father, R. L, Hall, says: “I can’t do anything with her.” CONFERENCE FOR N. Y. CLOAKMAKER AID HERE OCT. 24 New Chicago Wage Scale Planned Sunday, October 24, is the date set for the conference of representatives from all Chicago labor organizations called by the joint board of Ladies Garment Workérs for the purpose ot making plans for the aiding of the 40,000 cloakmakers who are now on strike in New York. All Labor Invited, The conference will be held at the South Hall, Ashland Auditorium, at 10 o'clock in the morning. Invitations have been sent to every labor union and organization to send delegates. On Wednesday night a special meet- ing of all members of the Chicago gar- ment workers’ unions will be held at Schoenhoffen hall.. The workers then will be asked to give their approval of relief plans to be presented by the board. ‘Forward Charges Refuted. Charges made by the Jewish For- ward that Chicago union garment fac- tories were “scabbing” on the New York workers by producing New York (Continued on page 2.) i » THOMAS LABOR PARTY MEET SCENE OF STRUGGLE (Special to The Dally Worker) MARGATE, England, Oct. 12.—J. H. Thomas and Ramsay MacDonald, lead- addressed. the. Labor Party conference here and were heard only with diffi- The demonstration was significant of the hatred’ felt for these two re- formists whose nefarious work led to the shameful capitulation of the Gen- eral Council of the Trade Union Con- gress and the calling off of the gen- eral strike last May just as it was on the point of victory. Thomas even defended his union's present lack of solidarity with the miners, saying that 45,000 railrosd workers were out of work and 200,000 working only three days a week—giv- ing this as an excuse for the lack even of financial support to the min- ers, who have appealed to-the union to boycott scab coal. More Alibis from Tillett. Ben Tillett, also, of the Transport Workers’ Union, which has also been appealed to by the miners to boycott scab coal, evaded that issue entirely and excused lack of financial support by saying that the union spent $5,000,- 000 during the general strike and is $500,000 in debt, After a bitter debate, the conference adopted a resolution condemning the government for its handling of the coal strike and urged nationalization of the mines as \the solution of the strike dispute, Federation Meets With Negro Women to Give Strike Aid “Officials of the Chicago Federation of Labor and the strike committee of the Negro women who are striking against wage cuts by the Maras stuffed date factory met in conference Tues- day to discuss plans for relief of the strikers. The federation is co-operating with the Negro women workers to help them win their fight for their living standards. More workers are joining the strike each day, it is reported. Strikes in ot®er industries where Negro women are employed are predicted as a re- sult’ of the action taken by: the date stuffers. Financial assistance is needed by the strikers, as they are almost desti- fute because of being on strike for so many days-and because they received such low wages while they were work- ing. Thousand Must be Completed ep the Daily Worker (Just as the above words were written The DAILY WORKER office advices me that a check for $1,000 came in from L, E. Katterfeld, the New York man- ager of The DAILY WORKER.) With other receipts for Tuesday this contribution from District No. 2 raises the total of the fund close to the $6,000 mark. With this big boost and with a big drive by the rest of the party units, the fund oan be inore: to $10,000 by Monday, October 18, THE COMPLETION OF THE FIRST TEN THOU- SAND DOLLARS OF THE KEEP THE DAILY WORKER FUND WILL ENABLE OUR PAPER TO OVERCOME THE IMMEDIATE CRISIS. IT WILL CLEAR THE WAY FOR A GREATER EFFORT TO COMPLETE THE $50,000 KEEP THE DAILY WORKER FUND AND IN- SURE THE APPEARANCE OF OUR PAPER FOR AN- OTHER YEAR, We ask the party units and party sympathizers to fol low the example of the New York comrades and.rush In their contributions to the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund. The $10,000 merk is now within reach. A thousand dollars a day will bring the total by next Monday. PUSH THE KEEP THE WORKER’ FUND UP TO THE TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR MARK AND KEEP THE DAILY WORKER, IS THE SLOGAN UNDER hts for, must act ind the campaign existing crisis Is The ~ receipts 1500 only $556.21 ‘y member, every CER. NEW YORK | — TION > aye Subscription Rates* ay MK thell, $0.00 er. year, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1926 ae" BUREN RG Ez We Washington Bid; Chicago, Ill Price 3 Cents _A.F.OFL.GETS BEHIND PASSAIC STRIKE FEDERATION CONVENTION VOTES SUPPORT TO PASSAIC STRIKERS (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Oct. 12.—An appeal to organized labor thruout the country for immediate financial aid for the Passaic, N. J., and Willimantic, Conn., textile strikers was voted today by the American Federation of Labor. The convention directed President Green to call a conférence at once of the presidents of all international unions to organize the relief movement thru those bodfes. A collection was taken on the convention floor by vote of the delegates, netting a neat sum as a nucleus for Iabor’s contribution. ‘The convention was informed that¢ there is an immediate need for $25,- 000 to carry on the relief work among LABOR PARTY the strikers for the next two weeks until the United Textile Workers’ Un- By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, (Special to The Daily Worker) ion can receive remittances thru its CONVENTION HALL, DETROIT, local unions. Green called the conference of in- Mich., Oct. 12.—Latent enthusiasm for independent politica! action of the ternational union representatives for Tuesday night to formulate the gener- working class, thru a Labor Party, bubbled to the surface and spread a al appeal. real class atmosphere for a few mo- Turn Down Refuge Move. Resolutions asking amendment of ments thru the American Federation of Labor convention here. But there the immigration law to permit admis- sion of political and religious refugees to this country were voted down, was no militant champion of its cause, on the floor of the convention, and the gathering passed quickly on to Attack Daugherty. An attack on Harry M. Daugherty, problems not so heavily freighted with the call to progress. former attorney general, whose trial on a charge of conspiracy to defraud jthe government ended in a jury dis- greement, broke out at today’s ses- Max S. Hayes, delegate of the Typo- graphical Union, had failed to intro- duée a resolution for the Labor Par- ty, but he took the floor when a reso- ion of the American Federation of Labor convention here. President William Green, in open-) ing the session, turned on Daugherty. “The fact seems to be established, ie said, “that while the jury was di- vided, nevertheless, it was quite im-/ possible for the ex-attorney general of the United States to prove his in- nocence. He is the same man who during the railroad shop strike inter- ested himself on behalf of the rail- lution urging the cause of primary road lines, elections as against delegate conven- Obtained Injunction, tions came before the gathering. He “He it was, who. in his officiakca- pacity, obtained the most drastic in- junction ever issued against the work. ing people, He it was who declared that as long as he was attorney gen- eral the closed shop would not be tol- erated and the open door would pre- vail. “He is the man who used his pow- er against the organized workers when they attempted to secure de- cent working conditions. Against Soviet Union, “Your committee sees no reason for recommendation that . the A. F. of L. modify or change its position re- garding the recognition of the auto- cratic Soviet regime in Russia,” stat- ed a report of the resolutions com- “You know where mittee approved by the convention iD | sinyed Hayes. voting down a Soviet recognition re-| solution. The report added: “We regard the Soviet regime in Russia as the most unscrupulous, |most antisocial, most menacing in- stitution in the world today.” 7s ef (Speciat to The Dally Worker) By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. CONVENTION HALL, DETROIT, |Mich., Oct, 12—Gaunt and militant “Passaic” with its nine months’ fight- ling record against the textile mill |barons of New Jersey, stalked into didn’t pay much attention to the pri- maries, but immediately began attack- ing the.old parties.and calling on the, workers to build a political movement of their own, “Hobson’s Choice.” “The workers have come to learn that it is a Hobson’s choice as be- tween the two old political parties,” said Hayes. “In Ohio the workers are confronted with this situation in the contest for Ugited States senator. There is Wilson, the republican, an ultra-reactionary, and Pomerene, the democrat, with his anti-union record. As between these two the workers can certainly not develop any polit- ical enthusiasm. I stand,” con- “I have been connected with practically every movement for independent political action in the his-» tory of our movement, during my time. You may think ft absurd for me to be talking how about a labor party movement. Still Hopeful. “But, I want to say now, that I still have hopes that the so-called leaders of labor, who are really followers merely waiting to see which way the crowd is going, will accomplish some- thing in this direction.” Hayes then told of republican bosses the American Federation of Laborjin Ohio going out and making |Convention here demanding immedi-| speeches for the democrats, and demo- ate and substantjal financial assist-| cratic bosses making spee ance and it got what it asked for. publicans. He said this was In order to get something now, the/true under the so-called manager call from “Paggaic” had to bowl over|form of municipal government. the report of the powerful resolutions “We give of our energy and wes committee, that is hardly ever ques-| sacrifice to build up our indu¥ trial or. tioned. The total action secured as | ganizations,” said Hayes, “and then follows: we realize what a pitiful position we Unanimous. First—The report of the committee calling on the executive council to send out an immediate relief call to all affiliated organizations was ap- proved unanimously. Second—On motion of Delegate Joseph Weber, Musicians’ union, from the floor of the convention, President Green was directed to call into con- ference all the national and interna- tional officials in attendance at the (Continued on page 2.) LENINGRAD WORKERS VOTE FULL SUPPORT TO CENTRAL COMMITTEE By JOHN PEPPER. (Spectal Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 12.—Comrade Gregory Zinoviev, accompanied by some of his adherents, arrived unexpectedly at a meeting of the party nucleus of the Putiloy Works in Leningrad. He demanded permission to speak. Instead of the hour requested, he was permitted fifteen minutes, The meeting by a majority of 1,375 against 23, adopted a resotution declaring full support to the Central Committee of the party and condemning the action of the opposition. Similar resolutions are being adopted ft» all other Leningrad factories and work shops, The Political Committee of the party published a decision to submit the viglations of party discipline by prominent leaders of the opposition to the next plenum of the Central Committee to enforce party discipline on these are in when we go rapping at the doors of the city hall to give volse to our grievances, “If you don’t want to register and vote for the candidates of the old pay- ties, then for god’s sake get out and build up,a movement of your own.” All along, during his talk, the views expressed by Hayes met with con- tinuous applause, spontaneous at first, then developing volume as he went along. Evidently a goodly number, of (Continued on ‘page 6) WHICH EVERY PARTY MEMBER AND‘SY¥YMPATHIZER MUST WORK DYRING THE REMAINDER OF THIS WEEK, WaaTa ers. The political bureau stresses in its resolution the practical un nimity with which the Leningrad Communist workers have aga