The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1926, Page 1

Let Us Make It $15,000 by Election Day To Keep The DAILY WORKER By JAY LOVESTONE. N the last few days the funds to Keep The DAILY WORKER haven’t been coming in as rapidly as previously, We are not speaking of the fact that the funds haven’t been coming in on the minimum satisfactory rate to Keep The DAILY WORKER. Of course, we understand that the same break-neck pace In rushing funds cannot be maintained all the time but we must emphasize the fact that we cannot efforts. of getting maximum results in the shortest possible time. means that we can afford no postponement, no delay, no hesi- ~ible resources and energies to Keep tation in mobilizing all The DAILY WORKEF # ‘ 8 Chicago is appr’ , Ox Sy The whole campaign has been planned with the idea approaching the $1,500 line. date sent In about $700 each. delphia well. afford to slow down In our This ™1 mark in its collections. i New York has col? Pd ate Sr is rapidly Keg Fe” et iy The DAILY WORKER Raw. #? the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 245. Subscription Rates: og ee By T. J. O}FLAHERTY Ge Chinese provinces are now in the hands of the Cantonese, according to reports appearing in the capitalist press. Only a few short months ago the same papers gleefully admitted that the Cantonese were licked. So it is not safe to believe everything you vead in the capitalist press, Except when they admit something in favor of an enemy. We also learn that the Cantonese are playing more havoc with propaganda than with arms. _But the best propaganda is the conduct of the Cantonese troops, which compares so favorably with that of the armies of Wu-Pei-Fu and Chang-Tso-Lin that the people who have experienced both do not stop to ask any more questions. se 6 HE territory now occupied by the the Cantonese covers over 600,000 square miles and has a population of 179,000,000. The Cantonese troops do not make a point of raping and rob- bing the population qs do the armies of the imperialist tuchuns, So that their conduct is even more convincing than their propaganda. Of course the imperialist press is very sorry that the Cantonese are winning, even tho they have to admit that the Chinese masses are not. And they have to admit that Soviet Russia is friendly to the Cantonese, i ons 8 HE Cantonese stand for the unity of China. Their program calls for free organizational expression of the needs of the workers and peasants of China. Where Wu-Pei-Fu and Chang- Tso-Lin use the gallows, the Canton- ese come with a helping hand. “China for the Chinese!” is their slogan. And the Chinese mean the Chinese masses, not those lickspittles who are in the pay of the foreign imperialists and are living in luxury at the expense of the people, Pee ok '(DE-AWAKE labor fakers are hav- ing their open political season just now, Locals are endorsing one or the other of the capitalist candi- dates. We have seen a letter from the secretary of the Milk Wagon Driv- ers’ Union urging the local members to support. Charles Barrett of the Crowe-Barrett faction of the G. O. P. for office. In all probability this labor jeader did not consult his membership. And if he did the members would not gare. They are concerned with the payments on the piano, the filvver or the cottage. But the time will arrive in America when the rank and file of the labor unions will have to bother about their economic interests on the political and industrial fields, ee HE Y, M. C. A. is not at all sorry that its Moscow representative was expelled. The report of Sher- wood Eddy lost many thousands of good dollars in contributions to the “Y." Eddy’s speech at the A. F. of L. convention meant the loss of many more thousands. Now the “Y” can go ‘to the big butter and egg men and say that the expulsion of its man Ander- son by the Soviet authorities is proof sufficient that the organization is on the right path, . e,37 ¢ FTSR listening to Morris Hillquit, Norman Thomas and others pic- ture Eugene V. Debs as the “perfect lover” in Terre Haute last Saturday I made up my mind to read everything I could get hold of on Debs, not what has been written about him by senti- (Continued on page 2.) BILL HAYWOOD SENDS MESSAGE OF RESPECT TO GENE DEBS’ MEMORY William D, Haywood, famous American working clase leader now in Moscow, sent the following cable to The DAILY WORKER Jn memory of Eugene V. Debs: “My respects to the memory of an old follow fighter In the class struggle. Thru the revolutionary. Workers (Communist) Party and the proletarian dictatorship alone can the dream of Debs be realized. ¢ ‘ +? i a QUAKE VICTIMS FACE WINTER IN THE OPEN FIELDS Homeless Thousands of Leninkan Suffer BULLETIN. MOSCOW, Oct. 27.—Soviet offi- cials and near east relief workers at Leningrad were stil! toiling today to save victims of the recent Ar- menian earthquakes. Official reports reveal that thé catastrophe was worse than the first estimates and It is now stated that there are 365 | Identified dead and 8,000 homeless and the damage amounts to more than $100,000,000. * The successive earthquakes over @ period of four hours drove many into a frenzy of fear that has re- sulted in madness. Twenty per sons are reported to’ have died of heart failure. *_* © Population Homeless. NEW YORK, Oct. 27—The entire population of Leninakan is sleeping in the-fields.and relief measures are ur- Bently necessary” ft order to prevent widespread suffering in earthquake stricken Armenia, according to «a cable received by the Near East,,re- lief from Dr. Joseph. Beach, director general of the Near Hast relief in Ar- menia. Dr. Beach said that unless the Ar- menian refugees are housed by early November there will be many deaths from exposure. The walled city of Kars is reported to have suffered heayy damage and the rural districts continue to report casualties in increasing numbers. “In the Leninakan district 12° vil- lages were totally destroyed and 23 were partially destroyed,” the cable said. “In the city of Leninakan 600 houses were completely destroyed. “American workers have visited six villages in which not a single house |remains habitable. In four of these villages there were 152 dead and 185 injured. All of the peasants’ posses- sions and food supplies were buried under tons of debris from the col- lapsed houses. There were also heavy casualties among their livestock, “The dead and injured in the vil- lages include many Near Kast reliet orphans who had been placed in na- tive families under American super- vision. “In the same four villages, 5,560 in- habitants are now camping on the bleak hillsides, anxiously watching the skies for the first winter's snow, which is due within a week. The villagers ate without bedding or suf- ficient clothing. Tariff Manifesto Only Applies to European Countries Says Sec’y. The tariff manifesto urging a break down of the barriers between coun- tries, made last week by interna- tional bankers, applies only to Bue ropean countries and not the United States, Barpard B. Winston, under secretary of the treasury told the In- stitute of American Packers here yes terday. The differences in money, language and present difficulty of commerce in Burope , because of the national “walls” each has built arothd itself strangles trade, he said. It was only these “walls” the bankers were seek- ing to remove when the manifesto ‘;was issued, he believed. Passenger Agent Killed, MILWAUKEE, Wis, Oct, 27.— Charles Hoffmeister,. 41, passenger agent of the Chicago Northwestern Railroad, wag killed yesterday when amautomobile in which he was riding collided with a truck west of Pewau- kee, Wis. James Higgins, theater Manager liere, suffered several frac- ‘fared ribs and one of his lungs is. “(Signed) HAYWOOD” — } juncture ‘ ‘a its i: onus ’ lected about 45 per cent of its full quota. In this respect, Detroit is at present the banner district. New York will have to do some tall hustling to catch up, for at present it has collected only about 16 per cent of Its quota of $15,000. All in all, we have collected to date from eleven to twelve This means that we have up to October 26, collected 22 per cent of the total of $50,000 which we must have within the next few weeks in order to Keep The DAILY WORKER. Not every member of the Workers (Communist) Party has yet sent in his minimum $5 contribution. carrying thru only this phase of our plan, then we will have much more than $50,000 collected. thousand dollars. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. California and Detroit has o: In the rate of getting funds. Detroit E DAILY Entered at Second-class matter Septeni FR THREE MINERS KILLED AT WORK; TWO Iii ONE PIT, ONE IN ANOTHER SHAMOKIN, Pa., Oct, 27.—Two miners were suffocated when caught in a rush of coal at Scott colliery here. They were cutting a hole in the top to place a prop when the coal rush buried them, ee 3 MAYFIELD, Pa., Oct. 27,—One miner, John Benzer, was killed and three others seriously injured in the Powderly mine of the Hudson Coal Company at Mayfield when caught by a fall of roofing. According to the hospital reports, the three in- jured will recover. REED DECIDES T0 REOPEN K.K. K. INDIANA QUIZ Watson’s Evasions Got Missourian’s Goat (Special to The Dally Worker) ST. LOUIS, Oct. 27—Senator James A. Reed, chairman and only working member of the senate slush investiga- tion committee, worked up consider- able democratic indignation over the denial of Senator Watson, republican, of Indiana, of the story that he. sat in at a K. K. K. meeting in Washing- ton at which political questions were discussed and decided insofar as the klan had the power of decision. Reed is convinced that Watson was present at the meeting and this gives him ground, not only for indignation but it also provides him with an ex: cuse to reopen the quiz into the do- ings of the Indiana politicians. Reed Incensed. The Missouri senator was some- what insensed at the statement az- tributed to Watson that tho he was willing to give Reed any kind of an affidavit he was not going “to rush out and hunt him up and stick it un- der his nose.” Later Watson denied that he made such a statement. { The grand jury investigation that is | alleged to be investigating K. K. K.| irregularities seems to be under klan and republican control. As a counter | move fo the Reed investigation, Judge James Collins, the presiding of- ficer, urged the jurors to trace klan efforts to control the democratic party. % S 2. '¢ Plenty of Slush. SEATTLE, Oct. 27.—The state of Washington senatorial slush fund in- vestigation had been terminated to- day, the probe lasting but three days. Immediately after the investigation was adjourned, Senator McNary en- trained for Portland, where the Ore- gon slush fund is slated for an inves- tigation. MeNary would not make any com- ment other than to say, “we have heard all the evidence obtainable, and the public can now draw its own con- clusions,” Your nefghbor will appreciate the favor—gtve him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. PRESIDERT GREEN OF A. F. OF L. CHAMPIONS “STRONG U, S, NAVY” NEW YORK, Oct. 27—The American Federation of Labor fa- vors a strong navy in Instrument to promote the peace of the world,” William L. Green, president of this big labor organization, declared In a speech before 3,000 persons in Brooklyn navy yard today. Green drove the first rivet in the keel plate of the light cruiser Pen- sacola, as part of the national cele- of “Navy Day.” > This is doing very If we succeed In Boston have t utetripped Phila has alréady col- tions. came in, } the fund. These er 21, 1923, at BIRKENHEAD 1S AGITATING FOR SOVIET RUPTURE South Affican Premier Is Making ‘ Trouble (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, O¢t. 27.—Lord Birken- head continues his efforts to make opposition to the Soviet Union the main subject of discussion at the em- pire conferences, He has already or- ganized his caudus and Is sald to have secured the support of Australia, Newfoundland and a Hindoo prince, who does not even represent India unofficially, However, the cabinet is for going slow as the empire has enough trouble on her hands pow without borrowing more from the Soviet Union which is credited with being able to make trouble in proportion to her size, and likes nothing better than to bedevil John Bull’s sleeping hours. General Hertzog, of South Africa, is said to be a disturbing factor in the | conference. oe old Boer: leader is bristling with independence and never misses an opportunity to talk, inside or outside the conference. For a sec- ret conference @- considerable amount of information is leaking out and it is said that Scotland Yard is at its wit’s end to plug the hole, Reports and Rumors. McKenzie King, Canadian liberal premier, is reported to have deserted Hertzog, and it is said that the Free State representatives will remain neu- tral. How much credence can be given to those reports is a question. The constituencies of King and the Irish delegates are both anti-British and the political lives of both politi- cians will be made more or less miser- able for them should they participate (Continued on page 2.) PASSAIC COPS TRY CLUBS ON CIGAR WORKERS Boss and Police Chief Start Terrorism (Speciat to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N..J., Oct. 27.—In pro- test against the failure of their em- ployers to live up to an agreement, the workers of the E. M. Klein Cigar Factory, 220 Seeond street, are out on strike. The cigar strikers had their first experience the next morning with the local boss-serving police Cossacks, whose brutal tactics in connection with the big strike of textile workers in this city have made them notor- fous thruout the world. Upon the appearance of a picket line, the boss summoned Chief Zober {nto his presence: Shortly after\ Zo- ber had been closeted with the boss, he gave orders to his police to break up the picket line, which was done with their customary violence. Where- upon Zober, constituting himself tho official strikebreaker of this region, ordered the strikers to appear at his office to meet their employers. This, the strikers refused to do. Their leaders issued a statement scoring the malicious propaganda of the bosses and declaring that “all the false statements that have been given out by the bosses will not bring the workers back to work, but we gtand willing to return to work on the basis of the agreement, as prom: ised by the firm. Our cause is a just one, and what we have done is the}; their present strike was voted, practically unanimously, only honorable means left us by the agreement-violating bosses. We mean picket lines andmo intimidation can [ing in the history of the Chi stop ua” ready to give substantial WORKER. These organizations up to the friends and supporters of The DAILY WORKER to put the case and the needs of the only militant, English, labor daily in the United States before these proletarian organiza- do better than even this. Surely, it ls true that not all of us have to date visited and solicited the various labor organizations in behalf of the Keep The DAILY WORKER Campaign. There are many local unions thruout the country that are support to The DAILY must be approached. It is financial Our minimum possible budget requires that we have at least $15,000 collected in the campaign by election day. is not asking too much. There have been days in the campaign which show that the army of DAILY WORKER builders can We have had days on which $2,000 We have had days in which at least $1,000 came to These were simply red- i { Post Office at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act ot March 3, 1879. IDAY, oc TOBER 29, 1926 were not accidental. eres 290 PUBLISHING CO., we are not speculating. about our calculations, difficult situation. letter days in the campaign. banner days must be repeated with increasing frequency. Other- wise, the campaign will collapse. can mean only the collapse of The DAILY WORKER. When we speak of the collapse of The DAILY WORKER There is nothing abstract or panicky We have to face the hard facts of the It costs quite some money to run any paper, especially a labor paper and particularly a workers’ paper fear Such days can be repeated. Such The collapse of the campaign lessly defending the interests of the workers as a class. This DAILY WORKER agoing. The DAILY WORKER. 1118 W. 'SOMIET UNION COMMUNIST PARTY | OPENS 15TH PARTY CONFERENCE By JOHN PEPPER (Special Cable to The Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Oct. 27.—The Fifteenth Conference of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Republics opened yesterday at Andrew's Hall in the big Kremlin palace, which was filled to capacity. There were present 817 delegates, with 194 deci ve and 634 consultative votes, the latter including 36 representatives of sections of the Communist Interna- tional. After standing in honor to the memory of Comrade Dzerjinsky, the conference unanimously chose a presidium of 37 members, including Com- rades Stalin, Bukharin, Molotoff, Tomsky, Kalinin, Voroshiloff, and Kui- bysheff. Bukharin met a tremendous ovation when he reported on the interna- tional situation. In the beginning of his report on the question of the stabilization of capitalism, Bukharin dwelt on three signs of this sta- bilization: the growth in world production of pig-iron and steel, the restoration of the world foreign trade turnover, the improvement of the currencies of the various countries. HRU an analysis of the pertinent statistics Bukharin showed that capitalism is nearing the end of the restoration period. Another typl- cal feature of stabilization, he pointed out, is a certain overproduction, finding expression on the one hand, in an energetic search for markets and on the other hand in rationdliaation. As a definite success of capi- talism we must also consider the concentration of capital as seen in the growth of trustification whereof the newly organized Continental Steel Trust Is a striking example. Bukharin further pointed out that the events in China confirm Lenin's observation at the Second Congrees of the Communist International re- garding the ‘possibility of a peculiarly rapid development of -the oriental countries. The abnormal burden of taxation aggravated by economic and political oppression on the part of foreign imperialists is leading to the pauperization of huge masses of Chinese people and is driving them to- wards the revolutionary struggle. ‘The prospects of the Chinese revolu- tion are at present the most favorable. Following up his analysis, the reporter refuted the social-democratic theory on a supposedly new phase or era of capitalist development. He presented an estimate of the present German imperialism and pointed out the next tasks of the German Communist Party and the Comintern. He touched upon several questions In reference to the international situ- ation of the U. S. S. R. Before the close of today’s session there was read the address of the German Communist Party bringing up some details of the common fac- tlonal work of the leaders of the opposition within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and of the ultra-left elements of the German party. The address recorded satisfaction opposition. at the victory of Leninism over the WHITE STUDENTS FIGHT ACTION OF N, Y. SCHOOL BOARD ON NEGRO TEACHER (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—Students at the New York evening high school have vigorously protested the ac- tion of the board of education in transferring J. Juggins, Negro teacher, trom that schoo| to Ja- maic: The students, most of them white, feel that Huggins was transferred because of his race, and that the board felt he would resign if placed at Jamaica school, Huggins is a graduate of Columbia and Oxford and is now studying for his doctor of philosophy degree at Fordham University. He teaches civics and modern European and American history. The student committee In charge of the protest includes Irving Wag- ner, Max Hoffenbach, A. Leshner and Sol Blita. Strike Strategy By Wm. Z. Foster First Article Tomorrow Watch for It, INJUNCTION AND FRAME-UP MARK FRISCO STRIKE Carpenters Objects of Boss Conspiracy (Special to The Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27.—The In- junction was the latest weapon to be brought’ into play against the car- penters’ strike in progress here. Following the arrest of ten men, eight of them charged with murder, Superior Judge Walter Herzinger is- sued an injunction restraining union officials and members from “interfer- ing with building operations” going on here under the American plan. New Frame-Up. Archibald Mooney, pacific coast organizer of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Paul Clifford, business agent of Car- penters’ Local 483, and six others have been held without bail on mur- der charges, The men were arrested following }of the armistice eight the death of an open-shop carpenter here several days ago, CHICAGO GARMENT WORKERS VOTE DAY’S PAY FOR NEW YORK STRIKE AT HUGE MEMBERSHIP MASS MEET A full day's wages for immediate relief of the New York garment workers That means that if you mean business, you must Keep The Just now there is one way to Keep The DAILY WORKER. This way is to give, give generously and quickly. local union, get whatever labor organization of which you are a member to fall in line and carry us over the top to Keep Get your | NEW YORK Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Washingtcu Bivd., Chicago, IL | | EDITION Price 3 Cents GERMAN PARTY MOVES TO SAVE SACCO-VANZETT Communist Deputies to Call on U. S. Embassy (Special to The Daily Worker) “BERLIN, Oct 27.—According to the Communist paper Rote Fahne, two Communist deputies today called on the American embassy and on behalf of the Communist Party protested to Councillor Poole of the embassy against the “judicial murder” of Nico- la Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, un- der sentence of death in Massachu- setts, Call This Yankee’s Bluff. The deputies were told that the United States government was well aware of the German workers’ inter est in the case. Councillor Poole also assured the deputation that there was no danger of immediate execution of the two men, citing the possibility that they may be pardoned, Reports to the contrary he said were “incor- rect.” The newspaper, commenting on the conversation, intimated that the American councillor’s assurances were “mere bluff,” and urged the German workers to renew their protests of the scheduled executions. ee JUDGE THAYER READY TO KILL SACCO AND VANZETTI (By Federated Press) BOSTON, Oct. 27.—Judge Webster Thayer is ready to pronounce sen- tence of death by electrocution on Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van zetti, The judge who five times be fore refused the two Italian workers a new trial has again denied them the Spportunity of proving on new evidence their innocence to a jury Defense counsel William G. Thomp- son ig taking exceptions from Thay er's denial to the Massachusetts su- preme court, which will give the ap- parently doomed workers life at least until January, unless the supreme court makes a special effort to hear exceptions sooner Thayer mainly cks the character of Celestino Made whose confes- sion to participation in the South Braintree crime and exoneration of Sacco and Vanzetti was the basis of the new trial motion. “Only Evidence.” The judge suggests that Madeiros was influenced in confessing by kpow- ing that almost $300,000 had been (Continued on page 2.) iros, NOW MORE ARMY OFFICERS IN US Hines Reveals Huge Mil- itary Horde (Special to The Daily Werke NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 27.—The te serve corps of the army today con- tains more offivers available for mili- tary service than were included in the entire overseas strength at the time years ago, Maj. Gen, John L, Hines, chief of staff, today told the fifth annual con- vention of the Reserve Officers’ Asso- ciation in session here On November 11, 1918, there were in the American expeditionary forces 62 major generals, 197 brigadiers, 778 colonels, 1,848 lieutenant colonels, 4,995 majors, 17,255 captains, 27,314 first Hentenants and 31,059 second lieutenants, A total of 86,006 The present reserve officer strength Tuesday night bY | cals 128,276, including 62 major gan: members of all of the Chicago locals of the International Ladies’ Garment | .raig, 227 brigadiers, 1,814 colonels, to stand firm, and keep up our| Workers’ Union. What IWdader say was the largest mass membership meet-|4 241 lieutenant colonels, 13,271: ma Boutinued on page 20 organization was held at Schoenhoten Hall | jors, 28,994 captains, 31,269 first Heu- (enants and 48,397 second Hew THAN DURING WAR