The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 23, 1926, Page 6

a Wage Six — THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER ORNER KUN Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington RBlvd., Chicago, I By mall (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months ——— n. Phone Monroe 4711| SUBSCRIPTION RATES _ : | By mail (outside of Chicago): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months 1 $2.00 three months “Address all mail and THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. make out checks to . Washington Blvd. Chicago, tt. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE f MORITZ J. LOEB..... .. Editors Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi cago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. <a 290 FREE TRADE NOT FOR U.S. SAY BANKERS Meant to Help Europe; Press Comments Plan (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Oct, 20—Removal of | tariff and other restrictions on European trade, as advocated by In- ternational bankers in a signed state- ment made public In New York and European capitals, does not contem- plate any change In American tariff laws, bankers, expressed today. Not For the U. S. New York international bankers poznt out that the idea is primarily Buropean, and that the American sig: natories were solicited by Buropean bankers to lend moral force to their plans, rather than to commit the Americans to a definite program. The American bankers, desirous of aiding European trade rehabilitation, signed the plea for the elimination of trade barriers only to show their good faith, one ker said today. Won't Talk. Albert H. Wiggin, one of the Amer ican bankers whose name appeared on the plea, and chairman of the board of directors of the Chase, National Bank, was interviewed on-the matter but declined to comment further than to say it was self-explanatory. 78 British Press Comment. LONDON, Oct. 20.—The internation- al bankers’ freetrade manifesto evoked little praise from British news- papers today, except from othe free- trade section of the liberal press. The Daily News, a consistent free- trade advocate, characterized the manifesto as “the most impressive declaration for free-trade ever present- ed to the civilized world.” The Morning Post, the only con- servative paper commenting editorial- ty, said the document, in view of the eminence of its signatories, must com- mand respectful attention and exami- nation by the business world. But, so the paper asserts, the signatories, how- ever powerful in the financial and in- dustrial world, are “without executive In the opinion of American! Advertising rates on application, RUSE ENABLES CANTONESE TO NEAR SHANGHAI Flank Movement Opens Road fo Great Port (Spectal to Tee Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Oct. 20.—Evading the |troops sent southward from Shanghai by Sun Chuan-fang’s local commanders to block thelr way toward capture of this clty, the *mutinous ‘Chekiang sol- diers took to boats and, sailing down the Whangpoo river, established them- selves between Sun's troops and the |elty they were supposed to defend. These Chekiang troops, supposed to) have gone over to the Cantonese, are | close to Shanghai's suburbs. | Shanghai May Fall. | Cut off and isolated by this flank movement, Sun’s forces are in a dan- gerous situation, and Shanghai itself may be captured, as frantic appeals for reinforcements made to Sun’s cap- ital at Nanking and Soochow have brought no aid. The forces left in the Shanghai district are too weak to re |sist any strong drive to capture the |city. Of course, there are foreign war- ships of many imperialist nations in {the port, and the imperialists have |strong armed forces to guard the for- eign concessions, taken from China by | force. Chang Has His Own Plans. In the Shanghai foreign press it is |Teported that Marshal Chang Tso-lin is sending troops south, but not to aid Sun Chuan-fang. On the contrary Chang aims to replace Sun’s fading control by his own, before. the Can- |tonese, the enemy of both these rival militarists, can capture the city and consolidate their power. Chang Tso-lin’s Shantung troops en- tered northern, Kiangsu, sq this re- port states, on their way to the south in hope of reaching Shanghai before the Cantonese. |\Carpet Co. Walk-out Is Going Strong (Continue from Page i) power politically, and cannot do more |‘he scabs, So suspicious are the than to make suggestions,” Try to Stabilize Capitalism, The Daily Herald, labor organ, re-|@nd many of them have eft. | bosses that they take no traitors and |thieves, Even the scabs resent this gards the issuance of the manifesto |™0st efficient one who was’ used by as evidence that “this 1s international- ism of international finance seeking | new means for stabilizing capitalism. | oes World Chamber of Commerce Joins In. PARIS,, Oct, 20—A new voice to|Cheer as they march along, the protest against trade barriers was | heard today, The council of the inter. |‘hem every day, Talk of wage cuts | national chambers of commerce adopt-|488 made all the ed the report of the trade barrier’s committee, which echoes the interna- tional bankers’ manifesto published the boss to teach the new recruits quit her job yesterday, An average of 125 pickets are on the line morning and afternoon, and now they have begun to sing and Many workers in neighboring shops join members of the union feel that this strike {s not limited to one shop, but must be won as a protection to all the other work- today, jers in the carpet industry, For Removal of Restrictions, The international report demands the abolition of compulsory visas, uni- form laws for foreigners in all coun- tries, the abolition of export duties and abolition of restrictions upon the export of raw materials, The report condemns ad valorem duties and sud- den changes of tariffs by decree, Trade manifesto attracted only pass- | ing comment here, and it was indi- Strike Benefits, All strikers are now getting $10 a week strike benefit. The entire union membership has been assessed +15% of its wages tor support the fight in |the Philadelphia Carpet company fac- tory, When The DAILY WORKER was handed out to the strikers it was snapped up like hot cakes, The ar- ticles that hava already appeared cated that the French government about the strike were read and every does not intend to hasten to consider copy passed on til it was worn ont, the manifesto offictally. European Scientists Hampered by Poverty, Says Vernon Kellogg (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct, {1—Dr, Vernon Kellogy, secretary of ‘the National Research Council and close associate of Herbert Hooyer, has returned from # summer in Surope with the report that science on that continent has received a serious sethack because of post-war poverty jentifie research is at a low ebb because Germany, France and other countries that for generations have led the world in the study of pure selence and selentifie vesearch have no money for other thun immediate necessities, Kellogg says that the United States, whieh has profited greatly by the work of Kiropean students, must now provide its own faciities for research, especially in’ the field of pure science which ie at thé basis of applied science j 4 SALEM 42M AAS RN Several of the strikers remarked that The DAILY WORKER is the only ,baper that mentions the side of the workers in this conflict, “Surely we cannot expect the Inquirer, the Ledger or the other capitalist sheets to sup- port us,” said one of the pickets, Pleased With Daily Worker. The union offictals and the strike committee are working enthustastic- ally together and they, too, expressed their pleasure at the help The DAILY WORKER is giving, The strike ts stronger than ever and the union ts a hundred per cent efficient in han- dling the situation, Women Can Smoke in Barber Shops. Women's indulgence in cigarets while waiting the-call of “Next” tn so-called male barber shops was given | the official okay of the Barber Supply Men's Assoclation today. Aviators Discuss Meet. Plans for a national aviation meet, the “largest of ite kind in bistory, along the take front tn Chicago, were dipgatwed here today at a meeting of more than 60 professional aviators, The’ CYCLOPS BARE =" KKK SECRETS Democrats Expect to Profit From Quiz By T. J. O'F. One of the most amazing and amusing stories ever told from a wit- ness stand was sprung last Wednes- day afternoon on the audience attend- ing the investigation Intocorrupt ex- |penditures for political purposes con- ducted by Senator Reed of Missourl In the federal bullding, when Hugh Pat Emmons, former grand cyclops of the South Bend, Indiana, klan, blew off his mouth and spilled the klan beans far and wide. Half of the audience was composed of reporters, some of them hoary with jage and others unseasoned. Yet old and young they laughed until the tears came from their eyes as the double- DANISH PAPER ST OPPED FOR CALLING 0 1 FINNISH PRESIDENT “BLOODHOUND” of the Royal Theater. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) . COPENHAGEN, Denmark, (By Mail.)—Because it published an article about the visiting Finnish President Relander, in which he was characterized as a “Bloodhound,” the Copenhagen “Arbeiderblatt,” official organ of the Communist Party of Denmark, has been ‘held up by the authorities. paper charged Relander with being a tool of foreign interests and an enemy of the workers and peasants of Finland. hagen, a demonstration. was staged against him when he appeared in a box The During Relander’s visit to Copen- about 27,000 today, The orders of the dragons no longer make the suck- ers tremble at the knees. The klan is dead as a mass, organization and the politicians are trying to get out from under, . It now appears likely that Senator Reed will dig deeply into klan politics, It would be good forthe democrats in | Indiana. In telling of the klan’s plan to make Jim Watson their presidential ‘candt- | date in 1928, Emmons said he had | met Evans in Chicago several weeks | ago. re : “Evans asked me how things were going for Jim,” the witness testified. “He meant Jim Watson. I asked him why it was that we. were having Watson jammed down our. throats chinned witness told of the antics of the klan leaders and how they col- gee the dollars from the good folks of Indiana, | | To Protect Womanhood. | Senator Reed is a good showman, but he never had a better. subject than this man Emmons. His friends call him Pat and everybody, at one |time or other seems to have been a |friend of his. Emmons joined the klan | because he thought it-was organized to protect the .virtue of American womanhood. But after half a dozen cases of rape, committed by klansmen, Emmons began to grow skeptical and he also worried about the fate of his |two daughters whom he admitted were |fine girls, Age and a Bank Account, | Emmons filled a chair to overflow- | ng. His hair is gray around. the jedges and a few inches beyond his forehead. This fact was noted by a |klan leader, higher in klancraft that |) was Emmons, This leader suggested that Emmons was getting old and should begin to think of the future. How would a little bank balance of |$10,000 look to a, man just beginning |to get gray around the temples? Em- ;mons asked questions and his com- panion came out with the informa- | tion that if Emmons swung his klavern |to Senator James E. Watson, the $10,- 000 would be his. Naturally, Emmons spurned the proposition indignantly. This brought one of. the healthiest laughs of the afternoon, A Good Comedian. The story told. by. Emmons reads like a fable but it has the advantage of being true. This man would make @ fortune on the stage,with an act such as he put on last. Wednesday. He used a language that is immortal- | ized in Sinclair’s Lewis's Babbit. Here jare some samples: “We had went jthere.” And “We went down the line jfor him,” and “He could match cards,” which meant in klan language that he was a member of the order. Emmons No Sucker. | Was proved when he testified that he | was the organizer of the Valley Taber- jRacle Association, disgruntled kluxers, he admitted. But Emmons ig not the kind of a fellow who would. join the | Klan merely for the thrill of sticking |his head into a pillow case. Indeed {he was on good terms with D. C. Stephenson, now serving time for rape |and murder, and with imperial wizard |Evans who acted “girlishly” towards the portly Emmons, throwing his arms around his neck and gurgling in a |most unnatural manner, as Evans wished to convince Emmons that the latter should support James B. Watson for the United States senator ship, Emmons was not a very big gun in the klan. But he was quite a Diece of artillery, The klan was out to control In- diana and Emmons admitted that they got away with a good deal of it, but the democrats are now making their hay while the sun is shining. on the klan and this is the secret of the pres- ent investigation, « Watson Secret Member. Emmons would not say outright that James HE, Watson was « member of the order, but the impression he created was that the senator was a secret member, paying hig dues to the “Imperial Palace,” the office of the wizard, In fact Emmons was told that Wat- son carried a “red card” in the hooded order, All klansmen did not carry red cards. Those were reserved for the high and mighty. When Emmons was offered $10,000 as a bribe in return for his support of Watson, he suggested to the bene- volent donor that his putting such a large sum in the bank all of a sudden might arouse saspicious, “Bury it,” adyised the donor, “Then 1 couldn't sleep,” retorted Emmons. What could be done with a fellow with such a con- | sclence? Democrats Hopeful, While the comedy was proceeding fhe chairman of the democratic cam- palgn committee of Indlana was an (aerention Spectator and may also be an acta | There is # chance for the democ’ to win in Indlana proy- ded they c@#f ¥lap the hood on Watson and jig ne. The Klan member loosier state has drop 000 two years ago to , | That Emmons is a_ hopeless joiner | when it wasn’t proven that he was a klansman. He said: ~ | Debt to Watson. “‘Now, Pat, Senator Watson 1s a| Personal friend of mine, but I am not injecting personalities into this cam- paign. I want you.to know the ku klux klan is a debtor to your United States senator.’” “I said: ‘Well, that's news to me,’ and he replied, ‘Well, I'll draw this picture for -you and leave it to you what to do with your boys down in South Bend. It was my influence with Watson that got to Senator Moses and got one of our best klansmen, Earle B, Mayfield of Texas, seated in the United States senate.’.” “That was all Greek to me and I told Dr. Evans so. | said: ‘We may owe him something,-but I don’t un- derstand it.’ He said: ‘Senator Watson is favorable to the klan an@ he al- ways goes down the; line for us, whether he is a member or not.’” “He acted real. girlish,” Emmons added, while the. crowd laughed, “He loved me up and said, ‘If Watson goes over in 1928, we will,send Bill Zum- brunn down to,Mexieo as the Ameri- can ambassador.’ ”” Deeply Indebted. Evans also told* him, Emmons declared, that the Klan was “deeply” indebted to Watson because the In- diana republican had arranged for the seating of Senator Earle B. Mayfield, democrat of Texas, in1922. In this senate contest, Emmons said Evans told him, Watson had alao interested Senator George H. Moses, (Rep. N. H.) in behalf of Mayfield. Mayfield was a. klangman, Em- mons said. ah A Big Deorease; The membership of the klan thruout the United States two years ago, Em-| mons said, was “a little over 5,000,-; 000," but it has fallen off since. This figure was given him, .he added, by Hiram W. Evans, imperial Wizard of |the klan. | The witness figured too that the membership paid $7,000,000 a ear in- to the imperial treasury at Washing- ton at the height of the klan’s power, entirely aside from their local state dues. oa Emmons created. another sensation when he handed a klan document to! Reed, on which the-word “rape” had | been written after the name of a |srand titan, R.-F. McNay, until re-| jcently one of the Indiana klan’s high | officers. | “McNay was convicted of rape on a/ 14-year-old girl and he was father of | 12 children,” Emmons testified. “The | evidence of his guilt was so strong | against him that he. was convicted even with three klansmen on the jury. Despite this, he was kept on the klan Payroll, I demanded; that he be dis- charged at once, |. said that if the! klan stood for the purity of .woman- hood and the chastity of the home, he should be taken off the klan payroll, | but they kept him on for three montlis. “Later on, McNay told me himself that he was fined.$500 and given a suspended prison gentence and Dr. Evans gave him the money to pay the fine.” ’ “The Adding Machine” Is Almost Here (Continued trom page 1). . cago radical circles, William F, Dun- ne’s name as toastmaster has appealed to all except the poor devils that will | be called upon bee ‘ A | When the last If mile of spa- |ghett! disappears down the gullet of the last hungry Italian, and the Greek baklava has gone the,way of the Hun- Sarian goulash, and when the Scandi- navians begin to unhitch their snuff boxes and the Germans have shed |thelr lasi tear over the. vanished sauerkraut, the tables will be cleared of plates and the order to proceed to the dance floor will be given, The Grand Climax, Then indeed will come the climax to a day of fun, Sclentific, First, the head is catered to by the Studto Players, Next, the stomach Is taken care of under the direction of Bill Dunne, and last but not least the feet, If this Is not enongh to bring thou- sands of 50 cel jeces to Douglas Park Auditorium Sunday, people are not what they Ped to be, CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty, (Continued from page 1) tory. This means the.nification of China under a national government for the first time in geherations. This development bodes illsfor the impe- rialist powers, particularly .for Eng- land.. English trade has dwindled to almost zero in south and west China. during the past year. The British lion growled as of yore, but the! Chinese, instead of yawning, as good China- men are supposed to, turned their rifles on the lion and made him whine, HALMILTON FYFE OF LONDON IS STILL SCABBING Herein Chicago, He At- tacks Strikers Mr. Hamilton Fyfe, fonmer editor of the London Daily Herald, and prev- ious to his employment with the Her- ald, an employe of Lord Northcliffe, is in Chicago on his way around the world. Mr. Fyfe is a man of means, else he could not afford the luxury of such a trip. _ In an interview to a local’ newspa- per Mr. Fyfe had some things to say about the recent general strike that will bear an&lysis. He predicted that there will never be another general strike in , Great Britain and that this is the ‘view of the present members of the general council of the Trade Union Congress. Just now he has his tail between his legs. * 8 8 F course the Soviet Union as a government cannot take any part in the present civil war ’in China. But it is admitted by all that Russia has steadfastly stood for the principle of “China for the Chinese.” Surely no American, whether he be a Jefferson- ian or Lincolnian, can object to that principle. The people of China should own their country, and it seems that they are on the warpath. How Chi- nese pacifism used to be blessed by our™ pacifist imperialists! ‘But it seems that the sword is sometimes mightier than the pigtail. oes FTER so much serious matter. we may get a little frivolous. A Lon- don dispatch informs us that Liberian cannibals refuse to eat women, Their flesh is too bitter. This is startling. In our ignorance of feminity we thought it was the other way around But you cannot ignore the opinion of persons who make such a thoro inves- tigation as the Liberian cannibals are supposed to have made... Not that they sampled male and female flesh in the interests of science. In all probability they were hungry. But no doubt they discovered that, the girls smoke too many cigarettes, 8 HE FEDERATED’ PRESS informs * us that communications “are pour- into the office from religious organiza- tions with the object of ‘éréating the impression that the action of the chris- tlan churches of Detroit in refusing to t pulpit space to William Green “land other leaders of thé A. F. of L. during the convention was’ ‘fot repre- sentative of the attitude of the churches towards organized labor. What the protests are most concerned with, it seems, is that the action of the Detroit churches will help to con- firm the belief already: prevalent among the workers that the churches are tools of capitalism, If this idea sinks in we cannot express our thanks to the churches of Detroit in suf- ficiently vigorous terms, Report Recapture of Town by Sun’s Army LONDON, Oct. 21.—The troops sub- ordinate to General Sun Chuan-fang have recaptured Kashing from the Chekiang farces, according to a dis- patch from Shanghai. Youth Goes to Trial in Cleveland. CLEVELAND, O., Oct, 21.—The jury which will decide the fate of Ermil Balanescu, medical student, charged with manslaughter, in connection with the death of his sweetheart, Do- rothy Kirk, began its deliberations here at 11 o'clock today. EMMA GOLDMAN, ENEMY OF SOVIET UNION, IS RE- PORTED: IN MONTREAL NEW YORK, Oct. 21. — Word reaching here from Montreal relates that Emma Goldman has arrived in the Canadian city with an English Passport bearing the name of Mrs. dames Colton. The former leader of anarchist thought tn ‘the United States and now one of the bitterest enemies and maligners of the Soviet Union, was deported In 1919 to Soviet Russia on the famous “ark,” the Buford, After a stay of several years there, where she enjoyed the same privileges accorded all revolution. ists and given opportunities to work for the revolution, Emma Gold- man left the country and wrote vicious stories for the capitalist Press against the workers’ and peas- ante’ regime, For the la three yoars she has been In England where her living was made writing and lecturing to the English bour- geolsie against the Russian revolu- tion, Her recently Pye rad band, James Colton, a Beotch miner, i ye Hicks Says “Yes.” Against this view of Mr. Fyfe’s we place the opinion of Mr, George Hicks, now president of the Trade Union Congress, who declared while attend- ing the Detroit convention of the A. F. of L. that. there would be_ bigger and better general strikes in the fu- ture. Unless Mr. Fyfe was mis- quoted by the reporter, he strongly suggested that Mr. Hicks was guilty of misrepresentation, quite a serious charge for such an aristocratic gen- tleman to make. Mr. Fyfe, as befits a gentleman of leisure who partook of the North- cliffe. fleshpots does not believe in strikes. A strike.is a confession of milure, he says. The very fact that there should be such a thing proves that teh right men’‘are not/in office! This may work out alright for Mr. Fyfe who does not have to worry about his food supply. But what about the exploited workers? They éannot afford to take a trip around the world after being fired from a job. : Strikebreaking Sheet. Mr. Fyfe wrote;a book on the gen- eral strike, and in doing so threw much light on Mr. Fyfe’s character, One would: think«that this was nota labor editor writing but some official back-scratcher for King George. WM. F. DUNNE Editor of The Daily Worker | will be A 4 C TOASTMASTER at the unusually staged DAILY WORKER BANQUET EVERYONE of prominence in the radical la- bor movement in Chicago and vicinity will be present. There will be DUNNE “ speeches, good fun and a special dinner of splendid food. Banquet at 7 p.m. SUNDAY OCTOBER 24th, 1926 AT DOUGLAS PARK AUDITORIUM 3202 S. Ogden Ave. “(At Kedzie) He tells of a worker coming to his | -wewweeweeweee ewww rwwrery house in the early hours of the morning, om the day following the declaration .of: the general strike, with the information that the gov- ernment was getting out a strike- breaking paper. The worker sug- gested. that. the. Trade Union Con: gress publish a bulletin. Fyfe ing editor of labor's daily, the poor worker thot he would be a good man to make the. suggestion to. But Mr. Fyfe was so indignant at having to go to the door in his shirt tails that he branded the worker as an ass and slammed the door on him. “My word,’ shouted the indignant ex-employe. of Northcliffe, chow dare you approach me at such a: beastly hour?” or words to that effect. Had Mr. Fyfe his monocle in position he might ‘have annihilated his inconsid- erate visitor with a glare. A Cowardly Sheet. + Fyfe was editor of the British Worker during the strike and a mere snivelling, soulless cowardly sheet was never gotten out to voice the needs of workers in a strike. It de- voted all its space to apologizing to the British government for the strike. When the general council betrayed the miners by calling off the general strike Fyfe was one the hap piest mortals in London. He took a leading part in reviling the miners’ leaders because they did not accept the coal owners’ terms and he is stfll at the same game. He does not blame the capitalists or their government for the continuation of the strike. accepting the owners’ terms. “The Adding Machine” An unusual play of the Adventures of a White-Collar Slave ‘ on Earth—in Heaven—in Hell! will be presented at 4 P.M. by the STUDIO PLAYERS He blames the miners’ leaders for not] Bring your wife and children— Mr. Fyfe tell us, while he is in Chi-}(@ke your neighbors, to see the ago, why he accepted an advertise- play— (Admission 50 Cents) ‘ators ment from the scab coal o were on strike? Why, even in the United States the labor editor who would do such a thing would be run out of town on @ rall. e Miners Denounced Fyfe. It may also be of interest to our readers to know that a delegation of miners’ representatives who ‘were meeting at Kinsway Hall, after read- ing a scurrilous attack on A. J. Cook, their secretary, written by Fyfe, threw all reserve to the winds and marched down to Fyfe’s office and called him a@ gentleman, in reverse English, Fyfe quit his Job a few days after wards. . Pehaps Mr. Fyfe did not lose finan- cially by Mis despicable conduct to- wards the striking miners whose while the mine! wives and children are starving, those miners who have been helping to pay Fyfe’s generous salary while he was employed in the Dafly Herald. Kerosene Fire is Fatal, KINCAID, fll, Oct, 21.—Mre Mike Conrad, 40, mother of ten children 1s believed dying at a Taylorville hos- pital where she was taken after belng terribly burned in an explosion today when she thraw kerosene on, fire in the stove at ber home hore. Her husband is a miner, eR The size of The DAILY depends on you. Send ‘STAY FOR THE BANQUET (at 7 p. m.) é i and enjoy the DANCING beginning at 9 p. m. Spend the afternoon and evening EAT, DANCE AND ENJOY YOURSELF * ON SUNDAY j at the i f ‘DOUGLAS PARK AUDITORIUM