The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 23, 1926, Page 1

| The DAILY WORKER Raises | the Standard for a Workers’ | and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 240. Subscription Ratés>», , L 80, "So 3 © : ¢ A Ap. (2) o Sp yi ntered at Second-class matcer September 21, 1923, af the Post Office $8.00 per year. mail, $6.00 por year. -_ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1926 HER 290 ORRER: at Chicago, Ulinois, under the Act or March 3, 1879, Published Dally, except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO.,, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. NEW YORK | | EDITION Price 3 Cents HOOSIER REPUBLICAN MACHINE IN PANIC | Eugene V. Debs---Hail and Farewell! A Statement on His Death by the International Labor Defense HE militant an especially heavy loss in the rade Debs, His name is linked bor defense struggle that took place during his life of activity in the labor movement. The prisoner of Woodstock and Atlanta was close kin to all persecuted and imprisoned workers. Comrade Debs was not one of those who shrug shoulders at the imprisonment tho it were a matter of small burned with indignation at every case of Cap- italist persecution and was always in the van- guard of the fight for its victims, whoever they might be and whatever their political views or affiliations, He rose above the narrow Lipps that unity and soli- | darity in the labor defense movement. Althe a member of the socialist party, he had noth- ing in common with these elements represent- seeks to destroy the spirit o ed by the Jewish Daily Forward ambush at thie movement for u fense. disrupt. His consistent stand labor movement, of which the International Labor Defense is a part, mourns tday thé death of Eugene V2 Debs. The cause of the class war prisoners suffers buke to them. International death of Com- with every la- of workers as concern, He Today the heavy indeed, who fire from nited labor de- He helped to build where they try to for unity and a3 soiidarity on this issue is the strongest re- Cormade Debs rendered great service to the Labor Defense, formation as a big st of all forces in the prisoners and became a member of the Na- tional Committee, serving until his death. He responded generously to the many calls made upon him by the International Labor Defense, despite the constant sickness that harassed him, and frequently reiterated his endorsement of its work. His appeal.to the American work- ers in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti, his last public document, was written for the Interna- tional Labor Defense during his last illness. Eugene V. Debs left to the workers’ move- ment a life record of unceasing struggle on the side of the oppressed, of dauntless spirit and careless disregard for personal rewards or hazards. It is a priceless heritage. That heritage belong to the revolutionary workers. Let them-elaim it for their own. He hailed its forward towards unity ight for the class war rief of the militant workers is is not the place for tears, and at his grave we raise begin again the forward march. ut the grave of Comrade Debs He was a warrior a battle cry and International Labor Defense, James P. Cannon, Secretary. Lanrery Sten By T. J. FLAHERTY EECAUSE The DAILY WORKER called Queen Marie of Roumania a “gory bitch” our secretary of state, Mr. Kellogg, called on the postoffice department to take appropriate ac- tion. Now this ts interesting. It is generally known on the continent of ‘Europe that Marie has kept the home tires burning for sev ‘ ing at the oldest profession, in a highly proper and queenly manner. Of cotrse this is nothing. out of the ordi- nary for queens...So much so that the word worked itself into the vernacular in the United States. 8 Bt anyhow itis rather like Kellogg to swallow the queen of Roumania and her reputation yet Tefuse a visa to the - perfectly decent Countess Karoyli on the ground that ‘she was a moral turp. Her turpitude consisted in her opposition to the dictator, Horthy, who was the pet of one of the Vanderbilt girls, who married a Hungarian count without ever count- ing the cost in dollars. So it is not surprising that this hedge diplomat, Kellogg, should feel’ offended because we tell the truth about the parasite (ueen, oe # N imperial] conference is now tak- +X ing place in London. Representa- tives of Canada, South Africa, Ire- land, Australia, New Zealand and In- dia are there. Perhaps more. The important feature of the gathering is that it should take place at all. It shows that the empiré is weakening. The dominions are’ looking for more elbow space and they are going to get it, For the-very good reason that the empire cannot avoid it. oe N all probability the representatives of the rebellious dominions will not push the issues‘at ‘stake. They are what used to be called time-serving politicians, But the people who elect: ed them will have something to say about, it and if they come back clutch- ing empty pockets there will be “the Weuce to pay. England is fast losing her world commercial dominance and her preseut fondling of the dominions can be attaibuted to the necessity for her to make a family commercial af- fair of dominion trade But there are ructions even in families, and people buy where they can get the best bar- gains, 9 ee HE latest news from China indi- cates that the forces of Canton stand on the verge of complete vic- (Ccatinued on page 6) CHINA Has the eyes of the world fixed upon it. Great events are transpiring there. On Saturday a special CHINA ISSUE will bring the story .to you in artloles, apectal features, photo- graphs, and cartoons, Ae sure to get thin issue, October 2 ATURDAY ; et Committee for EUGENE V. DEBS DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS, AGE 70 A. R. U. Strike Veteran Is Mourned by Labor sir ee vba ae Eugene V. Debs, national chairman of the socialist party, is dead as a result of the ravages of a disease of the heart that was Intensified by over two years’ imprisonment in a capital- ist penitentiary. ‘ , Debs, his gaunt frame all but a sha- dow, a faint smile Parting his lips, breathed his last Wednesday evening at Lindlahr Sanitarium, Elmhurst, Ii. Debs had gone to Elmhurst several weeks ago for rest to recuperate from a nervous breakdown caused by a heart illness of long standing and a kidney disease. If he had lived hé would have been 71 years old on November 5. At his bedside when the end came were his wife, Katherine, his faithful) partner and brother, Theodore and two sisters. Messages of condolence began pouring into the bereaved rela- tives from all over the country when benefit the sad news became known, oe e-2 Eugene Victor Debs was born at Terre Haute, Ind... November 5, 1855, a son of Daniel and Marguerite Bette- (Continued from page 3) Mexican Presidents May Serve a Second Term if Law Passes MEXICO CITY, Oct. 21.—A bill be- fore the chaniber of deputies provides that a former president may serve a second time if there is an interval of four years ‘or more between terms. This bill is backed by friends of General Obregon, who has served one term. It would make the present president, Plutarco F. Calles, also elig- |\ ible for re-election in 1932. But the Obregonistas are most active behind the bill, which would counteract the law against re-election of presidents. ‘SAFETY’ CONGRESSES COME AND G0, BUT THE ACCIDENTS INCREASE (Spectal to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 21. —(FP) The A. F. of i; the New York State Federation of Labor; the New York State Medical Society, the Associated Industries and the New York department of Labor will take part in the Tenth Annual Safety Congress that meets at Rochester, November 29, for four days’ sessions, The Congress will be faced with the rise of state industrial accidents to 46,653 I; August, a gain of 10,000 over the preceding August and with the increase of building construction fatalities from 143, the first six months of 1924 to 220, the first six months of 1926. BERNARD SHAW COULDN'T DO BETTER'N THIS Tickets for “The Adding Machine” which will be presented next Sunday at 4 p. m, in the Douglas Park Audi- torium, 3202 So. Ogden Ave., for the of The DAILY WORKER are selling like padded knee breeches at a reception to the queen of Roumania, ‘The opportunity of) seeing a white collar slave in various agonies has caught hold of the radical workers in Chicago as nothing else has done since the presentation of the mass drama, entitled: “Swat Abramovitch,” played to capacity audiences in the loop and elsewhere, ‘ To the Dining Room. ‘No sooner will the Studio Players take the last bow and the hero of the play gets his last kick from Old Nick, than the audience will adjourn to the banqueting board, which will groan in the tried and trusty manner under loads of viands prepared by some of the best culinary experts in the food business, The Orators Groan. While sitting at the festive board, doing justice to the menu the diners will be entertamed by original selec- tions from some of the most spon- This law arose from bitter opposi- taneous after-dinner speakers in Chi- tion to the custom of reactionary President Diaz to have himself re- elected by control of elections. Obre- gon has so far not consented to run, and it. is believed he will favor the candidacy of Franciseo Serrano, former minister of war, now governor of the federal district. Passaic Strikers Ask ' Old Clothes be Sent PASSAIC, N. J., Oct, 21.--The fol- lowing appeal is made to workers in the United States by the General Re- the textile strikers: The textile workers of Passalo who make woolen cloth for the finest sults, ask you to send ‘old clothes that they may be protected from the oold. i B TODAY To THE (Continued on page 6) 150 PICKETS REFUSE FINE: CHOOSE JAIL Fighting Cloakmakers Show Militancy (Special to The Daily Worker) practice of the New York police and courts of herding hundreds of the striking garment workers into courts tant spirit of 450 pickets rounded up by the police. These 150 men and women. refused to pay fines, or to allow the union to pay ther, and ac- cepted the honor of one day in jail as the alternate penalty. Mass meetings of the strikers are being held daily in several halls, and the cloakmakers are demonstrating their determimation to stick to the picket lines until victory. Close Scab Nest. The out-of-town. committee has an- nounced the Glosing of a scab shop in Youngsville, N. Y., run by Reis: man and Cant, doing work for the Arden company, prominent jobbers of New York City. Reisman and Cant conduct two resort hotels at Youngs- ville to board ‘the scabs. The general strike committee yes- terday replied to the Industrial Coun- cil, saying: > 1 Bosses Never Intended to Settle. “Before We came into the confer. ence, we were informed by the medi- ators that tle manufacturers had agreed to certain conditions made by the umion. But they came, as we soon found eut, with no intention of keep- ing to the agreement. The manufac- turers, howéver, went thru the mo- tions in order to keep in line a num- ber of their tiembers, who in place of a general settlement, are threatening to settle with us on their own. As a result of the failure of the conference, we. predict that these manufacturers will soon break away and settle.” Grand Jury Probe Talked Of. In reply to reports that the bosses were trying to get a grand jury in- vestigation of the “illegal activities” of the 40,000 strikers, the strike com- mittee declared: “If there is to be a grand jury in- vestigation of the strike, it may as well inquiry into the underworld ele- ments employed by the manufacturers who beat up our(pickets. Incidentally, it might also inquire into circum: stances under which beds have been fixed up in scab shops, in which men and women sleep in violation of the penal code and in flagrant violation of all conception of decency.” |, R. T. STRIKE LEADERS URGE N. Y. WORKERS 0 REPUDIATE TAMMANYISM (Special to The Dail; Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—An appeal to all workers of New York to repay Tammany Hall for its action during the 1. R. T. strike by shunning Tam- many _ candidates—including Al Smith—was issued by the leaders of the strike, E. P. Lavin and Harry Bark. “The subway strike should be a lesson to all workers that.are sup- porting Tammany Hall,” the state- ment read. “Every worker ought to shun Al Smith and Walker, and the rest of those democrats who pose as friends of labor. Are they?” They recited the attempt of Smith to make the strikers accept a com- promise, the brutal police attacks inspired by Tammany, the failure of Smith or Walker to listen to union- ists’ appeals. Foster to Write for Daily Worker on— STRIKE STRATEGY! HE DAILY WORKER announces that it will soon offer to its readers @ series of articles by William Z. Foster, Union Educational League and famous strike lea subjects most vital and interesting strike strategy. Never before has this subject been cretary of the Trade upon one of the to militant workers, the subject of alt with In a comprehensive manner. In fact it has never been dealt with as a subject in itself in a way to bring home to the leadership of the labor movement, the methods of strike direction which are effective in attack and defense, and in all the manifold circumstances surrounding strikes—the very heart and center of the class struggle. The articles by Foster will be an invaluable contribution to the labor move: argument for subseriptions to those exposition of strike strategy. These articles will beg ’. "| @RPS, ment, and every DAILY WORKER booster should make a special who understand the value of a full In a fow days. ae subscriptions so ae not to miss one of them, * NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 21—The } |and draining the union treasury with | | fines, was met Tuesday by the mili- | wt | of Roumania. | | structed you to investigate material | against our paper.” | us, This we refuse to do, ments from Washington. The Post Office Replies HE postal department is trying very hard to hide the basis on which It is proceeding against The DAILY WORKER. directly how it is carrying out the orders of Secretary of State Kellogg that grounds for the suppression of The DAILY WORKER be found, because of its attitude toward the visit to this country of Queen Marie, It refuses to state When it was learned that Kellogg had ordered the postal depart- ment to proceed against The DAILY WORKER, a telegram was sent to Postmaster General New, at Washington, as follows: “Newspapers here report that Secretary of State Kellogg has in- published in The DAILY WORKER regarding visit to this country by Queen Marie, of Roumania. Wire im- mediately on what basis investigation is being made so that we will be able to take all necessary steps to combat any charges brought In response to this telegram we have received the following: “Editor, DAILY WORKER:—Your telegram of today investigation by | Post Office Department of matter appearing in any publication covers question of mailability under posta! laws. “W. Irving Glover, Acting Postmaster General.” We invite our readers to tranSlate this telegram as best they can. It doubtless means that the tired acting postmaster general wants the editor to go thru all the postal regulations and hunt up our own particular law under which we may guess that the postoffice is proceeding against in the meantime, we await further develop- QUEEN REIGNS AT PLUTE BALL IN HER HONOR Loaded With Jewels, Sits on Throne ~ G@pecial to The Daily Worker) | NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—New York's plutocracy got»its chance to kiss the feet of a queen Wednesday night at a select fete held in the Ritz-Carlton hotel. The huge>baliroom of the ultra-elite hostelry was remodelled after an autumn forest and on a raised dais was an improvised throne upon Which sat Queen Marie, loaded down with priceless jewels and giving her hand to be kissed by the adulating throng of some eight hundred of New York's idle rich, The queen glittered with the most costly of jems, Her dress gave the impression of being made of solid silver and was weighted down with clusters of sapphires and pearls, while the famous czarist tiara of diamonds flashed from her head. As the queen slided across the hall to her throne, ihe society folks fairly-gasped with eagerness and packed into line like 1 subway crowd to be “received by her majesty.” Pershing Bows. An orchestra played the Roumanian national anthem to the strains of which many peasants have been mas- gacred in Bessarabia and the pluto- crats lined up to pay their adulations to the Hohenzollern queen, General John J. Pershing, who led the army which was said to have “fought tor democracy” was one of those who seemed to be glad of the chance to bow before the queen's throne. The queen and her royal party went on Thursday to Philadelphia to visit the sesqui-centennial which was very badly in need of an attraction to swell what have so far been por crowds, es HEARSES, LADEN WITH SCABS ARE USED IN STRIKE By J. 0. BENTALL. (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct, 21.—The funeral wagons furnished at $60 aday to haul scabs to and from the Phila- delphia Carpet company shops, where a strike is on, bumped up against the pickets this morning, when the strik- ers tackled the Heinal Bros., 4437 N. Broad street, who use the funeral busses for scabs and corpses, making it plain to them that their business hereafter would be limited to scabs, dead or alive, and that no decent worker will consent to be hauled in their black busses even to the grave. The sentiment against the burial wagons is growing. The Heinal crew hides the scabs under black covers after they are huddled in and speeds to the shop to unload the miserable tools that help the bosses in their attempt to break the sttike and the union. ~ Sig The spy system in the ship over the scabs js getting on the nerves‘of even _Soattaued on pase ¢) WAR VETS OBJECT 10 MEMORIAL URGING NO MORE WAR IN WORLD (Special to The Daily Worker) PLAINFIELD, N. J., Oct. 21.—The Central Board’ of Veterans and Mil- itary organizations here is up in arms over the design and inscrip- tion on a proposed memorial to the soldiers that died overseas. They charge it is pacific and will have nothing to do with it. The memorial bears the inscrip- tion: “They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks—nation “thal! not lift up sword against nation, neither shali they learn wae any more.” The patriots charge that the memorial is designed in praise for the Prophet Isaiah, and is pacifist propaganda, The city here ap- propriated $50,000 for the stone. PLAN WAR ON SOVIET, SAYS VOROSHILOFF World Capitalism Plots Attacks on U.S. S. R. (Specia! to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct, 21.—Declaring that information in the hands of the Soviet Union shows that the capitalist na- tions are secretly planning for war upon the workers’ and peasants’ re- public, and that this armed attack on a broad scale is set by world cap- italism to begin in the near future, Clementi Voroshiloff, Soviet commis- sar for war, urged 6,000 soldler-work- men graduat from the Red Army academy here “to prepare to meet the future.” “We passionately desire peace,” said Voroshiloff, “but we have no doubt that We are going to be at- tacked, The facts at our disposal prove that the war against us will be started with any small excuse. Imperialist Rivalry a Factor. “If until now we have 'NOT had a direct attack upon our workers’ and peasants’ republic, it can be ex- plained by many reasons; by the existing differences between the im- perialists themselves in general and in especial the differences between England and France on the one hand, and between England and America on the other. An Insufficient Guarantee, “There exists one important factor which hinders the imperialists from warring upon us, This is the work- ers’ movement in the West, strength- ened by the nationalist revolutionary movement in the East, But all that ts an insufficient guarantee against the coming menace of a military conflict. Communist Party United. | “Our enemies say that the Commu- nist Party ts disintegrating and that therefore the Soviet government will not be able to continue to exist, that the crash will come today or tomor- row. There is no necessity to pause long on these false and fantastic ex- pectations, Our party was, is and will remain monolithic and united,” Commissar Voroshiloff praised the Red Army highly, Sad inate DRAGON DUMPED FOR NOT AIDING WATSON'S CROWD Senator Claims That He Is Sick and in Bed The Indiana siush fund hearing will [be transferred to Indianapolis as a re- jsult of a telegraphic appeal from Sen- lator James E, Watson, republican, of Indiana, for a personal hearing to re fute the charges made against him, Senator Reed annou d at the open- ing of yesterday’s afternoon session. Watson’s telegram ed the Indi- ana senator was bed-fast in an Indian- apolis hospital and asked Reed to come to that city even if the hearing had to be held in the hospital. Wat- son and his machine are in a panic over the turn events are taking. Fresh revelations of Ku Klux n's domination of th of In- s influence fonal a ipon 1» ert, former ional klan and former n Indiana. Hugh Patrick Emmons, former clops at South Bend ned stand, as the first s, long nough to hand Reed a of klan locuments The senator then ex- cused the § nd man until he iad time to study the documents. Bossert, a law from Liberty, Ind., asked the ss to be frank. “It has been d here that you were forced out because you would hot support a certain candidate for the senate,” Reed said. “Why not be frank with us?” “I always stood for principles and not individuals,” Bossert evaded. “There was no one in the klan who could force me out, but they could remove me. I wanted to resign in September,.1925, and my resignation was accepted in January.” “Now ‘come on and tell us about it,” Reed pleaded. Bossert then said he had gotten into-a number of disputes over his belief that the klan should only sup- port principles and issues, but not individtals He added that D. € Stephenson, his predece&Ssor as the Indiana grand dragon, had insisted on a policy of supporting famed individ- uals, Watson Made Deal. An interesting story of how “gos- sip” in Washington held that Senator Watson had made a deal with the slan to swpport rl B. May- field, democrat of Texas, in return for the klan’s snupport in his own campaign for re-election was told the committee by Robert W. Lyons, an Indianapolis attorney and former }member of the imperial klan. Lyons said he had discussed this “gossip” with Everett Saunders, sec- jretary to President Coolidge in 1925, {while the latter a member of congress, and that Saunders had de- nounced the rumor as “ridiculous.” An Evasive Witness, Bossert proved an unwilling and evasive witness. Reed spent a long time getting any information from him. Bossert replied he “thought” he had introduced Watson to William EB. }Zumbrunn klan political expert. At the time, he said, Zumbrunn was at- torney for Senator Earl B. Mayfieid, democrat of Texas, whose scat was being contested in the senate. “I think I introduced Senator Wat- son and Weller, republican of Mary- land to Zumbrunn.” Senator Watson was on the senate committee handling the Mayfield case, wasn't he?” “Yes.’ Dragon Now Democrat. Reed developed the fact that the present grand dragon of the Indiana klan, W. Lee Smith, is a democrat. Bossert declared he did not believe that Smith sent out Iterature urging the klan to support Watson. When Reed showed him the documents de- livered by Hugh Pat Emmons, former exalted cyclops, containing instruc- tions to vote for the Watson machine, Bosert had to admit that Smith, the erstwhile democrat was lining up the kluxers for Watson, the republican. Clyde A. Walb, republican state chairman charged that a group of eastern pacifists raised a slush fund of $8,000,000’‘to beat Watson and Robinson. The klan pretends to be against the world court and the league of nations. Walb played on Reed's antipathy to the world court and posed as a bona fide follower of George Washington. He admitted that James A. Patten, the wheat king, sent $5,000 to the Watson-Robinson campaign fund and that Charles Pies, manufacturer and notorious open shopper sent $750.00, Both are from Llinois. Py i ee a