The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1926, Page 1

on (Special Cable to The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Oct. 28.—-An optimistic picture of Soviet industry was painted by Alexis Rykoff, chairman of the All-Soviet Council. of Commis- gars, rendering a report on the economic condition of Soviet Russia be- | i a The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 246 fg as <cription Rates: By T. J, O'FLAHERTY bh much perfume spoiled the mar- ital relations of the Countess Cow- formerly an* American actress. Perhaps the count rabbed it on thick, as a unter move against halitosis, and perhaps if he forgot his pride ciently to make a clean mouth of it to the countess he might not be as he is today, On the other hand, a witness stated that the countess’ gen- 1 n friend followed a bottle of y as the little lamb used to fol- propositions. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by’ mail, $6.00 per year: DENOUNCE ULTRA-LEFT TENDENCIES AS OBSTACLE TO CONTACT WITH THE LEFTWARD MOVING MASSES OF LABOR By JOHN PEPPER (Special Cablegram to The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R., Oct. 28—In the discussion following Nicolai Bukharin’s report, in which Manuilsky, Losovsky and Pepper took part, emphasis was laid upon the foll agreement with the reporters’ fundamental RYKOFF GIVES OPTIMISTIC REPORT TO COMMUNIST P THE DAILY Intered at Second-ciitss imytcer reer Manuilsky pointed out that the main task of the Comintern was the struggle to destroy the pacifist illusions. Pepper, analyzing the ultra-left currents that have arisen within the labor movement since the existence of the Comintern, pointed out that the present (Continued on page 2.) ry. Allin all, the doings of the hn aristogracy have not lost any- g in pungéncy with the passing of vturies, oe Me excitement and indignation ‘i veigned in the house of coramons n a@ labor member charged that facilities in the house were ect that honorable members resist the temptation to Honorable members of were exelted and a unani- whitewashed the august Still none dared “call” the 7 o could» not overindulg' all part ous vote sembly. saceuser, for the very good reason that : Main Issues he was speaking the truth. oe * ERHAPS the house of commons is | the only place in Great Britain where bootlegging is indulged in. The liquor laws compel establishinents that engage in the sale of spirituous bever- ; to close between the hours of p. m, and § or 5:30 p. m., depending on chesditttiet. Butsinsthe: houseof commons an honorable member can have his little nip in a coffee cup dur- ine the prohibited hours and nobody seemed to care unti) this particular member got excited over it, How a tectotaler managed to get elected to the British parliament is one of the mysteries of-modern times! se F\ONALD DAY, the Chicago Trib- une’s chief liar on the continent of Burope, had machine guns turned on the delegates to the Russian Com- munist Party conference in some Mos- cow theatér. Junius Wood, the re- liable Chicago Daily News reporter, sonds a different story. The conter- is several times more orderly than any capitalist convention held in the United States and Wood is able to send a story of the congress as he sees it. The Tribune man is in Riga digging in the counter-revolutionary rat holes@er his misinformation. Any- (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 28—As the day on which the great American voter casts his ballot for his repres- entatives, if he is a capitalist, and for his misrepresentatives if he is a worker, approaches, there is consider- able: ~of--opinion Goolidge will have a safe majority in the senate for the remaining two years of his term. The original issues that differenti- ated democrats from republicans’ are fast disappearmg so that in this elec- tion campaign we find a perfect mulli- gan with large chunks of democracy in the elephant’s stall and equally large chunks’ of republicanism sustain- ing the jackass. Little has been heard of the tariff in this campaign, except that the repub- licans have rendered lip service to ‘their old standby. Party lines are |down more than ever and outside of the solid south it is a wise democrat or republican that can tell his own em- |blem. In the south the chronic party- ites die, but they never surrender their political views.’ They haven't any. The Spiritual Revival. But for the liquor issue the present body who reads the Chicago. Tribune jeampaign would be as dead as a bar- (Continued on page. 2)...0.% (Continued on page 2) Siop Deportation of Sormenti! The arrest of Enean Sormenti, secretary of the Antl-Faecist! Alilance ef North America, for deportation to Italy brings sharply into the fore- ground again an issue of tremendous and growing importance—the right of asylum for politloal refugees from the White Terror governments of Europe. ’ ‘ Turning tts back on the traditional policy of America, the Coolldge administration has been following a systematic policy of rounding up Itallan workers who have fied to America from the bloody Mussolini regime and instituting deportation proceedings against them. Acting In ‘ partnership with the representatives of the Fascist government, and on information furnished by them, the Department of Justice has been — arresting the active workers in the AntiFaecisti movement amongst the Italian population In America. The American partners of Mussolini hope to deal a death blow to this powerful movement by delivering Comrade Sormenti up to the vengeance of the Italian murder regime. This is no ordinary case of deportation. The deportation of an an tagonist of Fascism to Mussolini’s Italy means a deliberate sentence to death. . International Labor Defense declares full solidarity with Sormenti and the other figuree against Fascism in America, and summons all class conscious workers to the fight to preserve for them the right of asylum in America. The tseues involved in this case are a matter of partjou- larly great concern to organized labor. The dictatorship of Mussolinl has destroyed the organized workers’ movement of Italy by violence and | murder, The deportation of those who have escaped from Italy to carry on the struggle against Fasciem abroad and to expose it before the world, Is a dirset blow against the right of labor organizations in every country, The organized workers of America must demand that the Coolidge government shall halt these deportation plans and cease to act as the bloodhound of Mussolini, Legal and moral support for Sormenti and his co-workers is support for the elementary rights and printiples of the la- | bor movement and should be put on the agenda of all workera’ meetings. Legal support reinforced by the most wide-spread agitation in thie case jg a pressing duty of the labor movement, Stop the deportation of Sormenti! Defend tae right of esylum: for political refugews? INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE i9de COOLIDGE MAY [HAPGOOD MAKES LOSE HIS GRIP | HOT REPLY TO QNULS.SENATE, JOHNL. LEWIS Booze and Slush Are Never Received Letter Lewis Stole (Federated Press) GALLITZIN, Pa. Oct. 28—In a statement issued here and sent to the press, Powers Hapgood, member of Local Union 1056, United Mine Work- ers of America, candidate for dele- gate to the American Federation of ‘Labor, replies to the statements by President Lewis at the A. F. of L. convention during the course of which he read a letter from Albert Coyle, editor of the Locomotive Engineers’ Journal to Hapgood. Hapgood’s statement cites the fact that he never received such a letter and raises the question of how Lewis secured possession of it. He also deals with the problems of the United Mine Workers’ Union and offers to debate any official or member of the union on the questions at issue In the present election campaign, in the union, The letter follows: Gallitzin, Pa., Oct. 20, 1926. To the Officers and Members of District 2, United Mine Workers of America. Dear Brothers: During the” past two weeks the capitalist newspapers have. been printing long articles pertaining to an alleged “Red Plot’ to capture the United Mine Workers of America and the American trade union movement in/ general, Inasmuch as my name has figured somewhat in this publicity f account of a letter gddressed to e which was published in full in certain papers and referred to in hers and because this has caused 4 friends of mine to be severely ticized, I take this “opportunity to wer the various charges made inst us and to explain the whole ituation. In the first place, the letter which been the cause of all this publici- has never reached me, The frat Kkhew of its existence was when it 's made public by President Lewis Detroit and then I saw it published full in the New York Times, “I do ot know whether President Lewis “ot this letter by theft, or by getting pmeone else to steal it, or whether just found it, but I am told that he L. openly boasted at Detroit, that he the original copy of this letter ich I have never seen and he has de no attempt to turn it over to me. 2 fesues in the Union, | “As far as the contents of this letter pe concerned, | have nothing to hide, ‘he only harm that can come of hav- ng it made public is when President wis and the editors of capitalist wned papers talk about certain hrases of it and. purposely give an ntruthful impression of jt, This let- ler was written to me by Albert Coyle, he editor of the Locomotive Engin- ers’ Journal, because we are personal riends, and, as personal friends usu- lly do, we have always talked frankly bout things in which We are inter- sted, His interests are not just con- ned.to the Engineers’ Journal but wide range in the’ co-opera- | t i ver 21, PROVER HEMBER KUKLOX KLAN Hoosier Is Hooked Up With Imperial Office kiux klan for the .vice-presidential nomination in 1924 and hailed as its potential candid: for the presidency in 1928, Senator James E. “Watson, | republican of Indiana, was identified | this afternoon ag a sworn member of | the secret Imperial Council of the In- visible Hmpire in a new sensation de- veloping at the slush fund inquiry into | Indiana’s senatorial campaign. This testimony was given Senator James A. Reed, democrat of Missouri, by Wm. M, Rogers, ‘of Indianapolis, who declared Watson had shown him a card of membership in the klan’s highest and most secretive organiza- tion, Rogers ore he, too, was a member of the Imperial Council and ‘hat Watson’s card matched his own. This came imi‘the fact of Watson’s industries of the (American Labor Will Not Surrender Strike Weapon |THE text of the supreme court decision in the Dorchy case shows that the American labor movement has not won the) right to strike. 5 recent denial of membership in the «lan, but Rogews explained that this imperial order of thé. masters’ organi- zien was: ained. solely for im- wito “te sired’ that» their klan membership should be kept:secret. i see FEDERAL BUILDING, ST. LOUIS, M6., Oct, 28.—A new story of a po- litical deal by which the ku klux klan of Indjana endorséd Senator James E. Watson, republican of Indiana, for the vice-presidency ‘in 1924 because the Hoosier senator had aided the klan to seat Senator Earle B, Mayfield, demo- crat of Texas, was told today by George Meyers, ‘former klan organ- izer, before Senator James A. Reed, democrat of Missouri, at the resump tion of the slush fund inquiry into the Indiana senatorial campaign. Deeper into the Mire. Sweeping Watson deeper than ever into the political machinations of the khan, Meyers said leaders of the hood- (Continued on page 2) CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT OF SOVIET INDUSTRY fore the Communist Party conference. The Union made a profit of 500,000,000 roubles ($250,060,000) during the fis- cal year just closed, Rykoff declared. The report of Rykoff may have a direct bearing on discussions regarding recognition of the Soviet Union ence, Soviet =] 2 aon by the United States, if this question is brought up in the party confer- In the light of the optimistic report it is not anticipated that those who favor concessions to secure the, recognition of the. United States will make a great deal of headway. 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ilinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, SATURDAY, OGTOBER 30, 1926 Published Daily except Scutay by ‘THE DAILY. a” It gives the courts, or such other bodies as may be set up from time to time, the power to determine what strikes are justi- fied and what strikes are criminal offenses. The far-reaching effects of this decision upoh the whole la-| bor movement may be gathered from one of its paragraphs which | states: The right to carry on a business—be it called liberty or property— , has value. | To interfere with this right without jist cause is unlawful. The fact that the injury was inflicted by a strike is sometimes a justifi- cation. But a strike may be illegal because of its purpose, however or- derly the manner tn which it is conducted. The question of violence on the part of the strikers does not enter into the matter, says Judge Brandies, the pet of the) liberal elements, who wrote the decision. great value to the enemies of labor who hitherto have generally | based their case against strikes and strikers upon alleged acts| right to punish August Dorchy, vice- of violence for which some form of proof had to be submitted. a This is, of course, of he capitalists of America have forged a new weapon with It is interesting and instructive to note that the workers who made the fight against the Kansas Industrial Court—Alex Howat | ‘h¢ and August Dorchy—were expelled from the United Miné Work- ers’ Union by President John L. Lewis because he, too, claimed that the strike was “illegal.” President Lewis finds himself in complete agreement with the supreme court and the enemies of labor, whose instrument it is. What must the answer ofthe labor movement be to the threat to its elementary rights contained in the Dorchy decision? It must state in uncompromising terms that it will not recog- nize.such a decision and will not obey any legislation enacted or any special bodies set up to cafry out this decision. The American trade union movement and the whole work- ingelass must recognize that an attempt is being made to wrest the strike weapon from its grasp and determine resolutely to keep it, use it and broaden its. purposes to include such political objec- tives as the nullification of the Dorchy decision. INDICTMENTS CHARGING MURDER MADE AGAINST FRISCO UNIONISTS SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28-—The grand jury early today returned indict- ments charging murder against eight men, including Archibald Mooney, vice- president and Pacific coast organizer of the United Brotherhood of Carpen- ters and Joiners of America, and Paul Clifford, business agent of Local No. 483, Carpenters’ Union. The indictments were the outgrowth of the death of Campbell, scab car- penter. The carpenters’ strike in San Francisco has been a long drawn out strug-| gle with the strikers standing firm against armies of scabs and strikebreak-| ers imported by the builders’ association. MEMORIES OF HOME! | bbe Pe ee be BeBe PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washingt Bivd., Chicago, Ul. > NEW YORK EDITION WORKER Price 3 Cents i a Industrial Court Law of Kansas Upheld By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. America has no right to strike, says ses federal supreme court. Neither the common faw nor the fourteenth amendment to the constitution con- fers such a right upon the workers. Therefore the courts of Kansas had a 8.—Labor | president of District 14 | United Mine | Workers of America, for calling an which to strike at labor. The right to strike becomes now a mat- |illegal strike against the George H. ter of “justification” and the capitalist courts are empowered to determine this question. Mackie Fuel! Co, Justice Brandeis reading the Inasmuch as Brandeis and He members of the who most often the side workers, opinion has much surp) s set fo opinion, the he two court f the his created h by Dorchy Brandeis in his case was this Alex. Howat and Dorchy, as district president and vice-president regpec- y, acting under authority of their executive board, celled\a strike on Feb. 3, 1921, at the Mackie mine in order to foree the company to pay © a upion “nember, formerly em- ployed there, the sum of $180 which he claimed to be due him in increased rate of pay The wage scale at the mine re- quired an increase of $1.35 a. day after a miner passed the age of 19. This man, Mishm n by nan claimed the higher » by prod evidence of his age, while the company of- {fered conflicting evidence that he was a year younger than he stated Industrial Court Forbids Strike. The state industria] court forbade the union to call a rike for collec. !tion of the disputed im.’ “After the strike took plac F and the union offic and convicted of strike. Orderly Strikes Illegal. “The rig to carry on business— be it called lib or property—has value,” says Br To interfere with this right without just cause is unlawful, The tact ne injury was inflicted by a is some times a justificat rike may be illegal beca pose, how- Iver orderly t in which it is eonducted, ‘To collect a stale claim due to a@ fellow member of the union who was formerly employed in t not a permissable purpose. In the absence of a valid @ rt to the contrary h Dp disputed élaim may iusist th rmined ohly by a court. To enforce payment by & strike is certainly coercion, Strikes Are Crimes. “The legislature may make such actfon punishable criminally ex- tortion or otherwise, And it may sub- ject to punishnient him who uses the power or influence incident to his “|office.in a union to order the strike.” The walkout in this case was or dered only after the district execu- tive, board of the union announced that the Mishmash claim has* been approved by the joint board of min- ers and operators, and that the com- pany had refused to pay. Brandeis states that there was no evidence that the claim bad been submitted to arbitration or that any contract ex: isted under which it could be #0 set tled, It was two years old when the strike occurred, A Threat Against All Unions, By its latest action the federal sa preme court has given & shock to American Federation of Labor officials who believed that the Kansas Indus trial Cougt law was dead. The decision in the Dorchy case not only fixes a fine and imprisonment upon the coal miners’ leader but it revives the im duvtrial court as a thréat to the right of the workers to withhold their labor power, Ss aw » business is | reas