The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1926, Page 3

CUBA GOVERNED BY MURDER; ALL UNIONS CRUSHED Labor Leaders Killed or Disappear (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—Labor organ- izations and the entire labor press of Cuba have been suppressed by the “liberal” Machado government, crea- ture of U. S. imperialism, as a sequel to the disastrous railway workers’ strike of this summer. The once powerful yellow semt-so- cialist “Hermandad Ferroviaria (Rail- an ex treme right-wing organization which always preached collaboration with the government, and recently negoti- ated with the American Federation of Labor for tts entrance into the Pan- American Federation of Labor, has been reduced to absolute impotence, way Workers Brotherhood), and to a shadowy existence. Unions Destnoyed, Papers Suppressed. The syndicalist organization—"Sin- dicate Fabril” and almost all other of Cuba have been suppressed, and the few which survived have had ‘their num- trade union organizations bers, decimated. No labor paper, efther soclalist, an- archist or Communist is published in If they were for eigners of naturalized citizens they were deported. With thé native lead- ers the government took less trouble. Government by Murder. Following the system of the Span- ish dictator Primo de Rivera, the Cu- ban labor leaders are being extermi- nated without legal formalities. They are being murdered in the streets or in their homes by “unidentified men.” One of the first to be killed was En- rique Varona, an organizer of the He was ar- rested and imprisoned. The day af- ter his release, on his way to the theager with his wife and daughter} he was shot in the back and instantly killed. Of course no trace of the mur derer has been found. This was fol- lowed by the killing of Thomas Grant, Railway Brother- hood, who was shot down on the rail- way station in full daylight, by @ po- Another treasurer of the Railway Brotherhood, Baldomero Du- menigo was shot as he was entering Cuba any more, Railway Brotherhood. treasurer of the | iceman, the house. Dozens Dead or Vanished. Seventeen workers are known to have been killed in this way so far. But there are many who have disap- peared and whose fate is not known, such as Alfredo Lopez, the active rer ani more recently two active union mem- bers from Camaguey and one from retary Of the Labor Santi’ Spiritu. In addition there are frequent ar- Many of the arrested menare brought to the gumboat “Maximo Go- mez” anchored in the Havana Har- vor, which has been transformed into Rumors persist among the workers that those who have disappeared were taken out of the harbor and thrown into the sea, rests. a floating prison. White Terror. © Every liberal or labor paper which ) mentioned the murders of the work- ' ers and the mysterious dissappear- ances was immediately suppressed. Never ‘was the Cuban working class as much oppressed and persecuted un- ‘der any of the former conservative governments, as under the present regime, elected as a liberal and cratic government. demo- BRITISH MINE STRIKE CAUSES COAL SHORTAGE ON BRAZIL RAILWAYS (Special to The Dally Worker) RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 12.—A serious coal shortage has developed here as a result of the prolonged coal strike In England, from where most of the coal supplies come, The Central Brazil Railway has announced a suspension of all frelght tralns, except those neces- sary to .transport food to Rlo de Janelro, The Brazilian coal mines do not produce nearly enough coal for local consumption, and the result- ing famine Is already working un- told InJury\to commerce and agrl- culture because of the Inability te move cropa promptly. U.S, REPORTS A TRADE SLUMP IN FOUR COUNTRIE : Severe Depression WASHINGTON, Oct, 12.—Commerce department cables from Italy, Czecho- Slovakia, Norway and Denmark dat- ed Oct. 6, tell of business depression and a gloomy outlook. Fascist Italy Slumps. “The present situation,” says the Rome dispatch, “is characterized by heavy liquidation of securities, in- creased money stringency and uncer- tainty regarding the future. Business communities are avoiding all unne- cessary commitments pending a clear! ing up of the situation. Further im- provement of Italian exchange is gen- erally believed to be possible only thru a betterment of the situation as regards international payments . . . Imports continue to exceed exports.” Unemployment in Czecho-Slovakia. In Czecho-Slovakia the economic situation is reported unsatisfactory and with no prospect of immediate im- provement. Depression in the cotton textile industry -is more acute, tho woolen mills are employing more peo- ple. (The government has begun a road building program to absorb the unemployed. Norway Badly > Off. Norway has “generally -unsatisfac- tory” economic conditions. Farm crop prices are low, fishing has had a bad season, and shipping is in difficulties despite the carrying of strikebréaking coal to England. A strike has tied up the pulp and paper mills, Denmark in Crisis, Denmark's government is. trying to vestore commercial activity by an American export credit loan. Crops have been a failure and many farm- ers face bankruptcy because of a suc- cession of bad years. Soviet Tries Solving Row With Gen. Chang ‘Over Dual-Owned R. R. MOSCOW (By Mail)—In an inter- view with a “Tass” representative, Mr. Pudzutak, the people’s commissary for ways of communication, said: “We are sorry and surprised at the turn of the latest developments on the Chinese Eastern Railway. The Soviet Union is carrying on a peaceful policy Department of Justice [in china. Our administration on the i railway took, and is taking, all steps on Trail of Harvester to regulate outstanding questions by Trust In Renewed Suit meeting half-way and making conces- sions to the Chinese side, especially Fascist Italy Feeling 4°xP°n°** as she promised. You will THE DAILY WORKER _« Accepted Lady Astor’s Challenge | John Morton, with his wife and chi Idren, In Moscow. Lady Astor Welshed Dear Comrade Editor: In your issue of Sept. 18th, you have a news ttem from London, with the headline “British Toiler Accepts Nancy Astor’s Defy.” Since I have in my possession the whole of the correspondence that pas- sed between J. Morton and Lady Astor I should like to correct the statement that Lady Astor paid his traveling readily see that this sentence as it stands will give the readers of the Daily Worker en entirely erroneous idea of Lady Astor's beneficence, For this reason I believe it neces- sary to place before you the facts, so that your readers may judge for them- selves the extent of her generosity. Lady Astor issued her challenge in Decembgr, 1925. J. Morton immedi- ately al@ipted. The correspondence that followed between them, until March of this year dealt mainly with the question of passports and other details. On-the 22nd of March, J. Morton wrote té Lady Astor: “Now that I have got permission from the Russian government to go to that country, I will ask the British govern- ment for a passport, but before doing so it will be just as well that I should know what expenses you intend to allow. me to cover the cost of the journey. It will”no doubt be pretty obvious to you that a pennyless work- man can hardly undertake a journey from Liverpool to Moscow with his wife and two children and nothing in his pocket but a passport and a ticket from the steamship company. “The ordinary expenses of such a journey would entail the purchase of traveling trunks and clothing for my wife and two children, also incidental expenses at this end before leaving. “I would be glad if you would let me know just what you meant by “Hx- pences to Russia”. If your conditions do not make it impossible for me, I will at once apply for passport.” To which Ledy Astor’s secretary re plied: “If you will refer to her original letter, you will see that she offered to pay the passage money to Russia of any socialist and his family prepared to go there for two years. This was definitely specified as providing the passage money from London to Lenin- grad. She is afraid that the payment of other expences was never con- templated nor covered by her offer.” During the entire correspondence that followed Lady Astor refused to budge one hair’s breath from the post- tion she had taken, refusing to pay rail- road fares from Liverpool to London, also from Leningrad to Moscow where Morton had an offer of work. No doubt she meant to make it impossible for him to leave for Russia under her conditions, If she did, she mistook the caliber of our comrade for he wrote to me: “Rather than allow Lady Astor to state publicly that her chal- lenge has not been accepted and there- by make political capital for the Con- servative party, it is my intention de- spite all difficulties to carry on.” I think I have now placed the mat- ter in the right prospective and your readers will now know that Lady As- tor did not pay any traveling expences outside the baré fares from London to Leningrad, and that far from being generous she showed her despicable meanness in ‘compelling an ailing woman and two young children, 7 and 8 years old, to suffer the severe cold of a Russian winter without suitable clothing. Fraternally yours, rker Correspondent. Keep It And Make It Grow! By J. W. JOHNSTONE ANY important developments havs been and are taking place in the trade union movement. Some are struggles within the union against the bureaucracy, others against wage cuts or for higher standards of living, the shorter workday, etc, The significance in these struggles that brings them onto a higher plane than those of years ago, is that work- ers in America as Communists appear in the role of active participants; and in cases such as the New -York Furriers successful strike and the present textile and I. L. G. W. U. Strikes, take a leading part in directing these struggles, while in the forefront, pushing these struggles in behalf of the workers and supporting every militant struggle, stands The DAILY WORKER, Hagens is a reason why the A. F. of L. executive is investigating the furriers’ strike. That reason is that under left wing leaders, support- ed by The DAILY WORKER and the Communist press generally, the fur- anthracite minéts of the betrayal that Lewis waé leading them into. OW the struggle against the Lewis machine is taking on weight. The progressives are straightening and strengthening their line to give battle to Lewis in the’coming national elec- tion and The DAILY WORKER will play a very important role in this struggle. Keep The DAILY WORKER, of course! What else can we do? It is ing movement in America without our Daily. “% EEP The DAILY WORKER is not enough, The left wing movement would have been much stronger if we would have been able to put a DAILY WORKER in the hands of every striker, in the Furriers, Textile and Ladies’ Garment Workers’ strikes. The smashing of the Lewis reac- tionary machine will be a certainty if we can put The DAILY WORKAR into @very coal mining town in the country. EEP The DAILY WORKER. Yes. Insure its continuancé by increas- FIGHT MONOPOLY OF BOSSES. OVER WINDOW WASHING Union Opposes. Demand for Air-tight Trust NEW YORK, Oct, 12, — New York window cleaners in the Window Cleaners’ Protective Union are fight- ing in their strike the efforts of the Window Cleaning Employer’ Associa- tion to force a secret monopoly agree- ment or the open shop alternative of- fered. The employers’ organization wants the union to sign an agreement only with the association, setting up a secret joint committee which will rule whether or not the union can settle with any independeat contractor and demanding that the union ask exorbi- tant security from independents as the price of settlement. Union Subject to Bosses’ Interest. “This would ‘mean virtual sub- jection of the union to the employ- ers,” asserts Union President Dark, “and we cannot permit that.” Have Auxiliary Monopoly. The same employers who constitute the association are also in contro] of the Empire State Mutual Insurance Company, which provides them com- pensation insurance. The irresponsi- bility of window cleaning contractors in failing to pay for insurance made the state fund, Travelers Insurance, London Guaranty, Manufacturers’ Lia- bility and other regular firms cut them off, Since the window cleaning employ- ers’ association did not employ the required 2,500 workers necesssary for a mutual insurance organization, the contractors secured employers from other industries to round out the quota, Freeze-Out Game. Now the Empire State Mutual In- surance Company—in other words the Window Cleaning Employers’ Associa- tion—cuts off the compensation of any employer who settles with the union, Eleven independents have al- ready signed the union terms and given the nominal security required to insure enforcement—$100 or $200. Meanwhile the employers are keep- ing thugs to guard strike-breakers and are encouraging police to make as many arrests as possible of pick- ets. At least eight strikers have been sent to the workhouse for varying terms and others are being held on high bail for later hearings. se Strike of Window Washers Progressing; Now in Second Week The second week of the strike of the Chicago Window Washers’ Union, Local 40, finds the situation satisfac- tory, union officials report. The strike is gaining strength, they report, with new members being added fo the union regularly, Efforts of the bosses to break the strike by using sluggers and police have failed and several of the compa- nies have already made peace with the union. Spanish Cyclone Destructive. GRANADA, Spain, Oct. 12.—The vil- lage of Melvizar has been destroyed by a cyclone, according to a report received here. Communication with Melvizar has been cut off, and it is feared that there has been loss of life. The gov- ernor of Granada has dispatched aid to the stricken village. Floods and storms are causing heavy damage in Malaga. One work- Rewarded for Rolling Tom Moore’s Logs; and Paddy, Too, Cared for OTTAWA, Canada, Oct, 12.—James Simpson, for a score of years the prin- cipal “log-roller” in the Canadian la-| bor movement, has received his re- ward for supporting President Tom Moore of the Canadian Trade and La- bor Congress put thru his program at the recent annual convention in Montreal. Simpson, a vice-president of the congress, is on his way to Geneva, Switzerland, to represent Moore at the sessions of the labor section of the league of nations. | “Paddy” Draper, who was re-elected secretary-treasurer of the Trades and Labor Congress at the convention in| Montreal, is also head of the Canadian | government's printing plant, where he receives a large salary as boss over scores of wage workers. MOVIE OPERATORS STRIKE IN HARLEM FOR RECOGNITION Union Principle Involved Makes Move Important (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 12—A small strike in point of numbers, but one important in principle to Negro work- ers, is the fight of two colored mo- tion picture machine operators for the union shop in the Lafayette Thea- ter in Harlem district, The colored unionists say the fight is only part of one waged by the union against the Brecher manage- ment in fhis and other theaters. Union musicians in these theaters have been called out in support of the operators. The colored operators were only re- cently admitted to the union, so that some of their erstwhile supporters outside labor-ranks are not so eager now to encourage the strikers, fearing @ possible betrayal by the union. The colored unionists have remained staunch, however, even in the face of an Offer by the manager of the La- fayette Theater to settle with them altho the Brecher interests would not settle with the union for all struck theaters, including those where white workers are out. Richard Moore, organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress, was found guilty, but given suspended sen- tence, on a charge of obstructing traffic. Moore addressed a street meeting of workers in behalf of the colored operators’ strike. The La- fayette Theater manager had Moore arrested under an injunction obtained against the union, but when it was found that Moore had no connection but his sympathy with the union, that charge was dismissed. Hughes Now Attorney for Packers After a Case for Rockefeller WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.— (FP) cael Charles E. Hughes, former republi- | can presidential nominee, supreme | court justice and secretary of state, | appeared before the court of appeals | of the District of Columbia on Oct. 4 as attorney for the Armour and Swift meat packing concerns which now constitute the beef trust. | Hughes quit his cabinet job to make money as a corporation law- yer. Some months ago he appeared in Washington as counsel for the Pe-| troleum Institute of America, dom- inated by Standard Oil of New Jer-! eS Ee Page Threa CLINE, MEXICAN REBEL HERO, T0 TOUR COUNTRY Was Held Prisoner in Texas 13 Years Charles Cline, whose release from thirteen years of imprisonment in Texas for participation in a Mexican rebel expedition was enthusiastically welcomed by American and Mexican labor, will tour the EF arn part of the country for International gLabor De- fense beginning the middle of October, Was Under Fire. Cline, the only American in a band of Mexican revolutionaries organized in Texas to proceed to Mexico to ald in the o hrow 6f despotic rule there, wa sted with his comrades led by Captain Jose M. Rangel on their way the border. A posse opened © encampment of the rebe urn the latter held some of them prisoners so as to insure their safe conduct to the border line into Mexico, During the of the possemen waa nknown hand. mocent of any crime, Cline, Rangel and more than a halt dozen of comrades were im prisoned. mber of them died in prison a frightful con- ditions and pers 3 there. Arrest Flagrant. So flagrant their arrest, trial and sentence, t scores of labor amd progressiv: nizations in both countries protested c tantly againet the continued imprisonment of the men. Conventions. of the American Federation of ican Confedera abor and of the Mexz- on of Labor repeated- ly went on record for their release. Only after thirteen years of im- prisonment, when their case had aroused international interest and sympathy did Governor Ferguson finally grant them a pardon which tacitly admitted that the men had committed no crime. Cline was Te- leased on the eve of the second an- nual conference of International Labor Defense at which he appeared and was greeted with tumultous ap- plause and cheering. Hundreds of workers later gathered in mass meet- ing to welcome him back into the labor movement in which he was for- merly go active, Will Visit 35 Cities. In response to the numerous re- quests fram cities in all parts of the country, a tour has been arranged for Cline from Chicago to New York dur ing which he will speak in some thir- ty-five cities. Tentative dates have already been arranged for these cities and numbers of them are already pro- ceeding with the necessary prepara- tions, Opens in Indiana. All indications point to successful meetings in all the cities of the tour. The steel mill towns of Hammond and |Gary, Ind., will see the opening of the tour on Oct, 16 and 17 respective- ly. Cline will proceed East from those points. Grand Rapids, Cleve- land, Youngstown, Pittsburgh, Phila- delphia, Detroit. Boston, New York, Buffalo and Perth Amboy will be among the cities visited. Some Dates Open. The meetings will be in the form of Cline receptions, banquets, dances and similar gatherings and labor in all of these cities will be enabled to gather to welcome Charles Cline back into active work in the movement and hear him recite the absorbing story of his case. Considerable advertising material is being issued and big meet- ings are assured during the entire course of the tour. It is announced that a number of dates are still open man has been killed by lightning, and can be secured for Cline meet ing its circulation, this is the real mye > eAnerRcaee cad way of keeping The DAILY WORKER, when, . according to the Chinese authorities, the interests of China are affected. - / “As to the right of navigation of WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.— Further dissolution of the International Har-, vester Company is demanded by the riers stood out against the compro- mising betrayals-of the right wing in which President Green became per- sey. Thus he has two of the most); " t my |ings if asked for within the next few Bowapal censa in Atheri<e, pee The National Office of Inter For the meat packers Hughes ar- national Labor Defense is in ch Send In a sub today! gued that the so-called consent de- | department of justice in a brief filed sonally involved, and in spite of this f a § ‘eohajy {Of thé tour, All requests; must be in he supreme court today in its suit |thg Cer River fleet on the Sungarian,| pressure the union scored a signa’ COOLIDGE NOT INTERESTED IN pial alo PBeh No meee. fecha | uae there tmmediately if) they are brought under the Sherman anti-trust |as well as of education and other ques- | victory. , on y & ‘al, properly taken care of, LOSS’ OF MINERS’ LIVES; SAYS |j2 nachos is 1029 was wry ie PROBING CAUSE NOT HIS AFFAIR} < | hat worker next door to you j may not have anything to do te night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. tions, all this ought. to be submitted for consideration at the Mukden con- ference, which was by mutual consent temporarily postponed. The Soviet government all the time desired this conference to be resumed. The uni- latoral actions and demands like those which took place Jately on the Cer are absolutely not acceptable for us, and The DAILY WORKER played a very important part in keeping up the morale of the strikers and stood out as the only English-speaking daily that exposed the treachery of the right wing, and urged the workers to resist any attempts of-the bureaucracy to confuse the e. The DAILY WORK- ER urged the strikers to stand solidly law. ’ «The government contends a partial digsolution in 1918 did not restore competitive conditions in the farm machinery industry and demands sep- aration of the McCormick and -Deer- ing Mines of the company. ai be By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—(F'P)—Twenty-nine coal miners are entombed and presumably dead from gas fumes in a mine disaster at Rockwood, Tenn., and the White House “spokesman” is asked whether a federal investigation German General Who Urged Kaiser Resign Is Given High Post The DAILY WORKER. public, Moke it one day’s pay to keep RUSSIA RUSSIAN WORKERS AND WORKSHOPS IN 1926 By WM. Z. FOSTER This phlet is a report of a visit the mines, mills and factories of the Soviet Union— an authentic and most interest ing picture of conditions as fownd by the author on a recent to the first Workers’ Re- they cause the greatest harm to the friendship between China and the So- viet Union.” , U. S. Gives Intended Victim of Fascist Three Months’ Grace WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, — Three months is the additional period .of tempdrary residence in the United States that has been granted by the U, 8, Bureau of Immigration to Vin- cenzo Vacirea, foi socialist mem- ber of the Italian parliament, whose Italian citizenship and property have been taken away by Mussolini, + Vactrea was recently notified, that his appeal to Washington for the Nght of political refuge in thie country bad with their left wing leaders, 'N the present textile strike The DAILY WOR: was invaluable. The pressure brought to bear in con- gress for an investigation of the bru- talities in the strike, in the A, F. of L, for admittance of the strikers into the union, in fact the whole campaign in the’ textile industry would have greatly weakened if The DAILY WORKER had not been in the field. N the I. L. G. W. U. strike The DAILY WORKER plays an import- ant role, It can be safely said that in all these etrikes The DAILY WORKER occupied the position of the unofficial spokesman of the rank and file, and as far as @ newspaper can be, was a leader in these struggles. In the many struggles that have taken place against the Lewié-Farring- ton machine in the miners’ union, The will be made. They get one of those unpleasant shocks that have come more and more frequently in press interviews at the White House in the past three years. Not Constitutional to Be Interested, ¢———————_________ They are told, almost eagerly, that the spokesman of Coolidge is assured by legal authority that the federal gov- ernment has no constitutional right to regulate the process of mining. ‘There- fore the spokesman is sure that the federal government has no right to investigate a mine disaster. Those are matters exclusively in the power of the states. No Pity for Labor’s Dead. It 1s not so much the’ statement made as the tone In which it is de livered that chills"the press visitors, There is not a syllable or a shading of tone that would indicate pity for the industrial victims or an inclination to promote inquiry as to how another many annual reports, could be averted by rock-dusting the surface of the mine shafts. The rock dust prevents ignition of coal dust in the air, ¢Mine managers have been very slow to adopt this measure of safeguarding life and property because it entails some expense, as Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor pointed out bitterly to the Industrial Accident Conference held by the de- partment of labor some months ago. But none of the coal companies have dared in recent years to refuse per- mission to the federal experts to in- vestigate the cause of any accident in which lives were lost. Blood on the coal had to be explained. BERLIN, Oct. 12.—President Von Hindenburg has appointed General Heye as chief of the Reichswehr to succeed General Von Seeckt, who re- signed as a result of the tremendous protest over ghe admission of Prince Frederick Hilhelm, son of the former crown prince, to the army. Heye was a general staff officer dur- ing the war, and it was be who on November 9, 1918, just before the kai- ser’s abdication, canvassed the opin- jon of regimental commanders on the west front and messaged Von Hin- denburg; “Orderly retreat of the army cannot be guaranteed unless the kaiser abdi- cates.” Magill to Open His Senatorial Campaign UUS ILM DAILY WORKER UNITED Dance & Entertainment Saturday, Oct., 16, 1926 at 8 P.M, Ambassador Hall 219 East 124th Street New York City 1. Speakers: English ‘and ~ #5 SARI St i WW DIARY © been granted for a short time, in|DAILY WORKER gave the fullest | such holocaust may be avotded. What Esthonian A mperg roo view of the fast that he could’ not | publicity and support to the prosres-|!,, expressed in a politician's reltet With Slus hCharges} 2. Musical Entertainment warn return to Italy. He entered this coun-|sfves. : ‘chat be can claim that no responsi- TS 8.» Recitation i This book, dealing with dif- [’ was The DAILY WORKER that (piitty for mixing in an embarrassing SPRINGFIELD, Ill,’ Oct, 12.—Hugh| 4, Prize Bowling Contest. g ferent phases of Soviet life, first exposed Farrington ag a toot jacident is his. ! S. Magill, independent republican can- ag of the coal interests, It printed the Bureau ef Mines Silent. letters written between Lewis and| Mine bureau‘officials declined to " where they accused each |express any view as to the probable other Of’ taking money from the coal | cause of this explosion and sacrifice of Tr forme another addition to the literature on Russia—essentia to understand what is happen a! ing there “for the first time in didate for United States senator will open his state-wide campaign with an address in this city tonight. Magill, ft 1s expected, discuss political REFRESHMENTS : Every worker who understands the aim of the Working Class Press muet Qiks Read st today end every day In The . miners’ lives. Avlarge proportion of | DAILY WORKER. It»uppears today|oorruption in Tiinols which he has|°° Present atothis affair, RRS, Maton. wae x i Cath, $1.00 [/ Mie, BA WOREER warned 0 (sng marth ne pointed got f'n vase Bre ral | charged th statements, Admission'50 Conta