The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1926, Page 6

Page Six fHE DAILY WORKE TE J Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. | 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chieago, 11 Phone Monroe 4711} SUBSCRIPTION RATES | By mail (in Chicago only): By mail’ (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $ x months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months | | $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, lil, J, LOUIS INGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE. {. MORITZ J, LOBB.. Pntered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. .Business Manager i 290 Advertising rates on application, Something New—Negro Women Strikers The strike of some 150 or 200 Negro women employed by a Chicago confectionary concern in protest against a wage-cut is one of the encouraging signs of movement among unorganized workers in low-paid and unskilled occupations. The number of workers involved in this struggle is insignifi- cant, but the strike is important first, because it is a strike of Negroes and second, because it is a strike of Negro women workers —the most exploited and harassed section of the Negro. masses. Able to make a maximum of $14 per week only by the most in- tensive and sustained labor at piece-work, an attempt to reduce this miserable wage still further resulted in the strike. Unorganized, these women secured aid from the American Negro Labor Congress, set up a temporary organization and have now the support of the Chicago Federation of Labor and the Women’s Trade Union League. The manner in which the labor movement has responded to the appeal of these workers makes one of the few bright spots in recent labor history here. There are rumors that similar revolts of underpaid Negro women workers may be expected in other lines of industry and there is no reason why, with these workers proving their desire for organization and their will to struggle, the Chicago trade unions should not be able to undertake a successful organizing campaign which would bring thousands of Negro men and women into the ranks of organized labor. The Chicago Federation of Labor unanimously pledged its support at its Sunday meeting and this support must not be allowed to dissipate itself in the passing of resolutions but be expressed in concrete organizational steps. In the meantime financial aid for the present strike is needed and it should be given generously. If it is it will pay huge dividends to the trade union movement in Chicago and result in immense pro- gress towards breaking down the racial bars which still divide the working class in and out of the unions. Chinese Masses on the March In what is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable military movements of all time, the Chinese armies of national. liberation | sweeping down the valley of the Yang-tze, cleaning out the allies of imperialism as they go, consolidating behind the victorious forces | solid trade unions, peasant organizations and units of the Kuoming-| tang, have arrived in front of Shanghai at the mouth of the Yang-tze and the imperialist press can no longer conceal. the fact that in southern and central China there is powerful government backed by the Chinese masses. ‘ The defeat of Wu Pei-fu and the collapse of the. government of Sun Chuan Fang, his ally, in the five provinces he, was supposed to control, the capture of the cities of Hankow, Wuchang and Han- jang—the industrial center of China—all in a petiod of less than three months following the retreat of the northern national army from Pekin, and the capture of Shanghai which will certainly occur unless there is armed intervention on a major scale by the imperial- ist powers, upsets completely the theory that the. Chinese people are constitutionally, and therefore incurably, pacifist. China is a nation in arms, a nation of 440,000,000 people, 400,000,000 of whom are workers and peasants. The weakness of China has been the internal divisions encouraged and capitalized by the would-be conquerors of China. Today the alignment is that of the nationalist movement under the leadership. of the Kuomingtang against Chang Tso-lin—the sole remaining effective military force | opposing the armies of liberation. Sun Chuan Fang has no mass support and must retreat te Shanghai or surrender. i In this manner have all the theories about'the inability of the Chinese people. to understand or maintain national unity been proven fallacious—as all such theories must fail which view history statically and fail to take into account the influence of industrial development and such epoch-marking events as the Russian revolu- tion and the establishment of the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet Union as a beacon light marking for all the oppressed peoples the way they must travel. The Chinese workers have built one of the most militant trade union movements in the world, the peasants now have their organ- izations embracing hundreds of thousands, an army has been or- . ganized and its recent victories are a tribute to its modern efficiency, schools have sprung wp by the hundreds, the peoples party (Kuo- mingtang) co-operating with the Communist Party, leads all the struggles. Most of these great developments have taken place since the strike of the Hongkong seamen in 1922. . What of the “static character of the Chicago civilization’—the favorite phrase of the apologists of imperialism? Jarecki - Assailed Washington Labor to for Denying Vote Back Move to Oust to War Veterans| Anti-Labor Governor SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 18. — The executive council of the Washington State Federation of Labor has decided that the federation will back the recall movement against.Gov, Hartley. The recall was instituted following Hart- |ley’s dismissal of the president of the | University of Washington several weeks ago, Hartley, who is a lr mber “boss,” is notoriously anti-labor, County Judge Edmund H. Jarecki, democratic nominee for re-election, is being assailed by his republican op- ponent, Joseph Savage, for his deci- sion, according to Savage, that wound- ed war veterans at the Speedway Hos- pital here are paupers and hence’ can- not vote. Savage, who was in the army, claims that Jarecki made this ruling to pre vont the soldiers voting’ for “their buddy,” as Savage styles himself. “The county judge has more arbi- trary powerevested in him than any other judicial or executive officer,” Savage told a meeting of veterans Sun- day, “The present judge has never hesitated to use this power to his own advantage,” Rumor Brazil Revolt. BUENOS AIRES, Oct, 18.—A series of cryptic messages received here to- day indicated that there may be grave political Uisorders in Brazil. Altho the 6 were vague and without con d as indicating that a new empted, |the Jersey, strikers On.in some quarters they =| CHICAGO UNIONS BACK RELIEF OF | PASSAIC STRIKE Federation Votes Full) Support to U, T. W.. | The final hour of Sunday’s session | of the Chicago Federation of Labor | was enlivened by an appeal for the | support of the Passaic textile strikers, | made by Rebecca 'Grecht of the United Textile Workers, The speaker told of the marvelous courage of the 16,000 strikers, pre- viously unorganized and of many races, in their nine months of battle | against starvation wages. Bitter Struggle. “Tf,” said the speaker, “you could | have seen firemen, in the bitter cold | of winter, drench crowds of men, | women and children strikers with icy water from their fire hoses; if you could have seen tear gas bombs thrown among the girl pickets, chok- ing and strangling them with its, poi- son fumes; if you could have seen mounted police ride down crowds of | strikers’ children; then you would | know how their struggle must arouse | the sympathy of ev worker who has a spark of humanity in him, A Fight Against Company Unions. “But there is more than a humani- tarian interest at stake,” said Grecht. She told how the fight was not only against cold, hunger and police bru- tality, but was a fight to protect the union, Local 1603 of the United Tex- tile Workers. The mill owners aré trying to destroy this new union, and all trade unionists must protect it from the mill owners’ attempt to force the workers to accept a com- pany union in place of a real trade union, Terror Increased, | Since the A. F. of L, had taken |charge of the strike the mill barons | |had increased their terrorism, Fake | bomb plots have been framed up. Four strikers are held on enormously ; excessive bail. The strikers look to the whole labor movement for sup-| |port. Without it they would never |have been able to stand up so far. Now a strong boost from the labor movement would force the mill own- jers to negotiate and settle on the , union terms. A Unanimous Vote. The speaker suggested that the fed- eration empower the executive to give whatever aid it could. By a unan- imous vote this was approved, with the understanding that credentials will be issued by the executive for so- liciting relief from affiliated unions. Edward N. Nockels announced that arrangements would be made to give a Passaic talk over WCFL, the federa- tion air station. Aids I, L. G. Conference. On request of the Joint Board of the I. L. G. W., a committee was authorized to work with the confer- ence called for next Sunday to work out plans for support of the New York garment strikers, ‘BATTLEFRONT’ OF GANG WAR ACTIVE AGAIN Another Is Slain and Four Arrested The “battlefront” of Chicago's gang war became active again over the week end, with another victim claimed by the gangsters, and four others jailed by police. A man believed to be John Dano, Sicilian, was slain Sunday. His body, punctured by five bullets, was found lying at the edge of the Manheim road, outskirts of the city. The theory is that Dano was taken for a ride, shot to death in the car and then flung from the speeding vehicle, Drueci Taken, The four arrested by police are Vin- cent Drucei, known as “The Schemer,” who was partner of Earl Weiss, also slain; Vincent McErlane, brother of Frank McErlane, the south side gang leader; Julian Kaufman. and Harry Sorg, both of the Weiss-Drucci-Moran combine. Arrest of the quartet was made by the police before the body of the latest victim was discovered. Jersey Trade Unions Fight Weyerhauser on Wages Paid to Laborers PORT NEWARK, N J., Oct. 17—(F, P.)--One hundred workers employed at the construction of Wyerhauser Timber company plant, are striking with the support of the New Jersey State Federation of Labor because the contractor is not paying the pre- vailing union scale of wages thruout. He hired laborers at 37% cents be- low the minimum hourly wage. Car. penters, electricians, crane operators, and steam shovel men walked off. The Weyerhonser company is from Baltimore and claims it will replace with southern non-unionigtes The Wyerhauser in- terests ate aiiong the most powerful in the Ay ber business. . _— [ ‘SILK HAT"LAWYERS | WOULD FOISTODSSACK | TBE Ov wissouRt| ST, LOUIS—(FP)—The Missouri Association for Criminal Justice, composed of silk hat lawyers, has just completed an alleged survey of crime conditions and drafted a program of proposed legislation which will be urged. upon the next state legislature, Sweeping changes in court pro- cedure are recommended, but the one in which labor is most vitally interested is a state constabulary, The Missouri State Federation of Labor is preparing.its Jine of at- tack when the cossack Proposal raises its head in theslegislature. Since the constapulary recom- mendation was made. public, nu- merous new affiliations have been received by the state; federation. ee ANARCHISTS ARE GRANTED: STAY OF DEPORTATION Habeas Corpus Hearing on November 8 (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Oct, 17.— A stay of deportation was today secured by attorneys for International Labor De- fense in the case of the three Fall River anarchist workers, Antonio Per- reira, Diamillo Texeira and Antonio da Costa. Hearings on a writ of habeas corpus will be heard in court on November 8, and bail set for the defendants at six thousand dollars. The three workers, editors of a Portuguese labor paper, “A Luta,” were arrested a few months ago for agitating among their. countrymen in Fall River to organize against the jrotten conditions that prevail in the jtextile mills there. They. were held on a charge of violating the Volstead act, but the case was so flimsy that the prosecution was forced to drop this point early in the game. The prosecution then changed its tack and proceeded to vcharge them with sedition with the threat of de- portation to Portugal. ) International Labor Defense assumed charge of the case, providing attorneys for the de- fense. “These Portuguese « workers are guilty of no crimej” said Robert Zelms, district organizer of Interna- tional Labor Defense for New Eng- land, “unless it be the crime of loy- alty to the working class: They have incurred the enmity of the local re- actionary forces because.of their de- votion to the interests.of labor, and the mill owners have combined with the local Portuguese church interests to have the three agitators deported. “In their activities, these workers have merely fought forthe interests of the shamelessly exploited Portu- guese workers in the textile mills, and in the Cape Cod fishing fleets and on the cranberry bogs and farms. The I. L. D.” continued Zelms,-“will utilize every means at its disposal to pre- vent the persecution of, these three workers and the attempts of the im- migration authorities to;deport them to the reactionary country of Portu- gal.” Work is being carried on actively to secure the money. necessary to maintain the bail in the case and finance the defense. VARE POSES AS LABOR FRIEND ‘IN CAMPAIGN PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18.—William S. Vare, republican candidate for United States senator and central fig- ure in the Pennsylvania graft expose, ig attempting to win the votes of the workers by preaching that unless the tariff goes up wages go down, and that he is “their c’ ion for higher tariff.” Vare is traveling up®and down the state yelling at the top ot his voice his tariff slogan, Attacks Ri s. “Southern democrate’ and western radicals are plotting to tear down owr great protective tariff, wall,” wails Vare to his audiencesie “What would happen if that weresdon he rea- sons, “is shown by what is happening now under a tariff which is not high enough to keep out aood of imports that sell on the American market for less than the cost {production ip Pennsylvania factories.” Vare promised that he is elected he will help put this tariff higher in order to “keep wages untouched.” He did not say that wages would be increased if this happens, or. that he has a very great personal interest in seeing a higher tariff, Perth Amboy to See Picture on Passaic PERTH AMBOY, N, J., Oct. 18.— “The Passaic Textile Strike,” a seven- reel motion pictuyegpof the Passale strike, will be showmin Perth Amboy Thursday evening, Qetober 21, at the Washington Hall, Fayette street, Perth Amboy, N, I> -— a$ A R LAWYERS FIGHT. WITH FISTS AN: ~~ AIMEE'S TRIAL Court in T venanil When Lie is Passed (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Oct, 17.—The air of Judge Blake’s court was still charg- ed with excitement today as the pre- liminary hearing of Mrs. Aimee Sem- ple McPherson, evangelist, her moth- er, Mrs, Minnie Kennedy, and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff, all charged with conspiracy, got under way to- day. Attorneys Fight it Out. After a week of dickering, a fist fight between W. I. Gilbert, chief counsel for Mrs. McPherson, and S. S. Hahn, attorney for Mrs. Sielaft, threw the court into a turmoil yester- day, Gilbert and Hahn exchanged blows when the latter accused Gilbert of telling the press that his client, Mrs. Sielaff was a liar. Gilbert then slapped Hahn across the face h his open hand and Hahn retaliated with a similar blow. Court attaches separated the two men after which Judge Blake admon- ished both of them for their actions. Seek to Remove Juror, Attorneys for the defense again lost a move to have Mrs. Sielaff de- clared incompetent upon the grounds that she was once an inmate of an insane asylum. Her sister has stated that Mrs. Siglaff was placed in a Utah institu- tion a number of years ago, not be- cause she was mentally deranged but because she was incorrigible. Repeats “Miss X” Testimony. Mrs. Sielaff reiterated yesterday that Mrs. McPherson offered her a sum of money to produce a “Miss X” to assume the role of companion to Kenneth G, Ormiston at a cottage at Carmel, and she said the woman she picked to play the role was Miss Ra- chel Wells of Philadelphia. She de- clared she did not know the where- abouts of Miss Wells at present but thot she was in, New Orleans. The prosecution is attempting to prove that Mrs. McPherson was real- ly the companion of her former radio operator, Ormiston, at Carmel, that she conspired to produce false evi- dence in conneetion with the incident and that her story of being\kidnapped and held captive in Mexico, while her followers thot her drowned, was noth- ing but a hoax. Workers in New York Protest the Queen’s Coming (Continued from page 1) 4 your autocracy and feudalism in this country.” “Down with Queen Marie, the op- pressor of Bessarabia.” “Release the Roumanian Political Prisoners.” These were some of the slogans on the banners carried by the demon- strators at the Union Square meet- ing. 1, L. D. Meeting. The mass meeting was arranged by International. Labor Defense. The speakers were Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Bishop Paul Jones, Robt W. Dunn, Forrest Bailey, McAllister Coleman, Capt, Paxton Hibben, Ben Gitlow, Louis Boudin afd Carlo Tresca. All of them scored the blood-thirsty rule of the Roumanian land-owners, the stealing and sacking of the province of Bessarabia, the holding of thou- sands of political prisoners in the jails of Roumania and the murder of hundreds of workers and peasants dur- ing the reign of white terror. Castigate Officials. The huge crowd cheered to the echo when the speakers castigated the city, state and government officials who took part in the shameful welcoming of a queen upon whose dynasty re- sponsibility for so much blood-letting rests, Mayor Walker received the queen and her family at City Hall early in the afternoon and presented her with a medal “as a token of New York's love and esteem.” The queen then read a prepared speech from the bal- cony, in which she referred to the “great people of America.” Police Use Clubs. The trip up lower Broadway from the pier occurred during the lunch hour and of course the streets were jammed with the customary noon crowd in addition to the curious. by- standers who watched the procession, In places the crowd was very dense and members of “New York's finest, who opened the way for the queen's car, were free in using their night sticks on heads, Admiral Chas, Plunket and General Charles P, Summerall rode in full dress uniform, resplendent with gold braid, in Prince Nicholas’ car, Tho royal party left, after their welcome, in a special train for Washington, where the president is to greet her officially tonight. | October 20, 768 W. Van Bi and Seune ntly shibenttay, ey MAX EASTMAN AGAIN ATTACKS — (Continued from page 1) since the time of Judas Iscariot, and Eastman pocketed thousands of pieces of silver for his kiss of betrayal.) Second, to make an attack on the Russian Revolution, sufficiently dis- guised to fool even friends. It is not the first. time that Max Eastman has manipulated with this material. A year and a half ago he was already on the rampage— *“to help Trotsky against the con- spiracy of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.” The thanks he received from Trotsky for this “service” should» have warned him against further campaigns of that sort: But Eastman seems to be very hard up for money and the capitalist press seems to be very hard up for mater- ial against Russia so that both were willing to disregard entirely what Trotsky had said of Eastman’s ma- terial of a year and a half ago. see IROTSKY at that time repudiated Eastman and declared among other things: “Eastman asserts in |several places that the central com- (mittee has ‘concealed’ from the party a large number of documents of extraordinary importance written by Lenin during the last period of his life. (The documents in question are letters on the national question, the famous ‘will,’ etc.e This as a pure slander against the central committee of our party. Eastman’s words con- veyed the impression that ‘these let- ters, which are of an advisory chaz acter and.deal with the party organ- ization, were intended by Lenin for publication. This is not at all in accordance with the facts. . During the time of his illness Lenin repeat- edly addressed letters and proposals to the leading bodies and congresses of the party. It must be definitely stated that all these letters and sug- gestions were invariably delivered to their destination and they were all brought to the knowledge of the dele- gates of the 12th and 13th congresses and have invariably exercised their influence on the decisions of the party.... Cémrade Lenin has not left and ‘will’ The bourgeois and Menshevist press generally under- stands under the designation of ‘will’ one of oCmrade Lenin’s let- be almost illegible) in. which he gives the party some organizational advice. The 13th Party Congress devoted the greatest attention to it, and the other letters, and drew tke conclus- ions corresponding to. the, existing situation. All talk with regard to a concealed or mutilated ‘will’ is noth- ing but a despicable lie, directed against the real will . of,,.Comrade Lenin and against’ the interests of the party created by. him.’; , In another part of Comrade Trot- sky’s refutation of Eastman we find a@ very fitting characterization of Eastman’s present outburst. Comrade Central Delegates of I. L. D. Hear Cline, Progress Reported , Chas. Cline was the invited speaker at the Local Chicago I. L. D. central delegate meeting for October, The body of delegates. were impressed by his enthusiasm for I, L. D. and his spirit after 13 years in prison, He spoke on organizational matters brief- ly, and made a plea for greater zeal in spreading the labor defense mes- sage. He also stressed the importance and meaning to prisoners, of regular monthly relief and frequent corre- spondence. He urged all workingclass organiza- tions to pledge for the: prisoners’ re- Hef fund and to see that every pri- soner gets plenty letters by seeing to it that each organization “takes care of,” in these ways, at least one pri- soner, Growth of the International Labor Defense. The secretary reported that twelve Chicago branches have pledged for specific prisoners—Billings, Schmidt, Mooney, Barnett, House, Dawes, Childs, Nash, Smith, Russell, Drew and Powell (the last nine béing I. W. W. men). The recent affiliation of four, organizations was announced, International Ladies’ Garment. Work- ers’ Union No. 5, Independent Workmen’s Circle Branch No, 96, L. W. W. A, No, 43 (a woman’s organ- ization), and A..L. W. L. 8, No, 104 (a workers’ educational society). Increased Labor Defender circuld- tion was reported, as well as the ad- dition of new members in various branches, and actions on behalf of am- nesty for political class prisoners in Poland and in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti. The central body of this meeting jaid plans for winter activities in the way of affairs, a campaign, to add 8,000 to the circulation in Chicago of the Labor Defender and to increase the membership along with' these other activities, This is to be further- ed by special “organization,” “Labor Defender” and “booster” committees which were elected, and by enlarged | city centra) conferences on November 10 and on the second Wednesdays oi the following months. The 4) 1. ters (which is so much altered as tof Trotsky declares, “that Eastman, has] - THE-RUSSIAN SOVIET REVOLUTION attempted to erect his construction on completely rotten foundation. He seizes upon isolated incidents occur- ring within our party in thecourse of some discussion in order by means of distorting the meaning of the facts and exaggerating the relations in a ridiculous» manner to slander our party and undermine the confidence in it.” see OMRADE. KRUPSKAYA, whose party interest Eastman pretended to defend a year‘and a half ago, and whose interest he is now again pre- tending to defend in an attempt to cover up his real mercenary interests in- the matter, declared of Eastman’s use of Comrade Lenin’s “will:” “Eastman invents various fictions about Lenin’s ‘letters to the party con- gresses — calling them ‘testaments.’ Eastman fails absolutely to under- stand the spirit .of our party... The Teal testament of Lenin is contained in the last articles he wrote and re- lates to fundamental questions of party and Soviet work. All his arti- cles have been published. But Hast- man finds nothing of interest in them. He is too busy helping the enemies of the Russian Communist Party to calumniate and discredit the central committee by alleging that the ‘testa- ment’ has been ‘concealed.’"" Com- rade Krupskaya characterizes Bast- man’s ravings as follows: “The autlor is only concerned to gather up and smack his lips over every scrap of gossip and color it with his petty bourgeois anarchist leanings.’? 6 Nepe capitalist world is hard up for material to slander the Russian Revolution. The facts of revolution- ary reconstruction in Russia speak so loud that the proletariat of the world is gradually becoming convinced that of. all the national groups of working class of Wurope the Rus: workers have selected the best -rc out of the utter economic and pol eal bankruptey into whi the rue ot the bourgeoisie had thrown them. The standard of living of the Russian worker is constantly going up. “The economic security of the Soviet Uni is increasing hoyrly. Even the capi- talist governments themselves had lost all hope of a successful counter revolution. They have reconciled themselveg--to- the existence of a workers’ government. But they can- not reconcile themselves to the fact that such a workers’ government should stand out as a perpetual in- vitation to dissatisfied and rebellious workers of other capitalist countries to overthrow the rule of their bour- geoisie and to take the construction ot a future society into their own hands. ‘Thus, while they carry on relations with the hated soviet goy- ernment they continue belittling and slandering it in the eyes of the work- ers. The need of the bourgeoisie for “evidence” against the Russian Revo- lution brought Eastman the needed money and at the same time satisfied Eastman's desire to attack Russia. the National Chairman of I. L. D. Speaks at Party Here, Nov. 24 ‘The new national chairman of the International Labor Defense, Bliza- beth Gurley Flynn of New York, will be the speaker of the evening at an extraordinary Supper party and enter- tainment on Thanksgiving evening, Wednesday, November 24, for which the fine -Mirror Hall, Western Ave. near Division St., has been engaged. A program of unusual attractiveness is announced. The Chicago I, L, D. will hold a party for the benefit of Political prisoners at Xmas time, a bazaar between the dates of February 17 and March 6, and a Paris Commune commemoration meeting. on March 19th, The I. L. D. has called on all work- ers’ organizations to support these af- fairs, and to avoid conflicts of dates. To adyance the work speakers will visit union meetings; and language groups will bring the [. L; D. message to workers’ organizations of their tongue and also run affairs in their language to help I. L. D. financially and in its organization, —_—-———— Baltimore Republican City Employes Insist on Helping Democrats BALTIMORE, Oct. 8.—(FP)— Inan ironical editorial the Baltimore Sun describes the bleeding of city charwo- men and watchmen to the amount of $2 and 65 respectively by the demo: cratic campaign , committee, on a “voluntary” basis. “What can Howard Bruce, chatr- man of the democratic committee, do in the circumstances?” it asks. “He does not wish these poor people to contribute—even on the easy install. ment plan; more, he insists that he will not countenance such contribu. tions... But the charwomen, and the little republican jobholders, and the aged republican watchmen, are ir- resistible in thelr passion to give to the funds of the democratic party .. . if the collectors should seriously re- vist, doubtless each colleciér would »@ knocked flat on his back by some \0-year-old charwoman who would ‘hen stuff, the money into his pocket.” aT ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,