The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1926, Page 2

EEE Page Two I) THE DAI b¥=WORKER QUIZ EXPOSES KLAN DEAL TO ELECT WATSON Hoosier Senator » Goes Deeper Into’ Soup (Continued from page 1) ed organization had ordered the en- dorsemént of the Indiana senator be cause “the klan was under an obliga- tion to him.” Meyers also drew the name of Wil- liam F. Zumbrunn, general counsel of the klan, into the inquiry, Zumbrunn’s duties in Washington, he said, con- sisted partly of exacting legislation favorable to the klan and “partly in seating senators,” To Consult Wizard. Another amazing story of klan ac tivities was told by James V. Bolen, former klan secretary of thé state of Indiana, who declared a delegation of klansmen took the mayors of Indian- apolis and Evansville to Washington to get the approval of Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans on local appoint ments, The trip was taken on klan funds, he added, chiefly to get Eva to approve the appointment of Charl J. Orbison, a democrat, as corporation counsel of Indianapolis by Mayor John L, Duvall, a republican. Duvall yas one of the party. The same trip also was described by Meyers, who said the klansmen met in the office of Senator Watson while in Washington. Bolen told of a second visit to Wash- ington by Indiana ktlan leaders for the purpose of ousting Walter F. Bossert as grand dragon because the latter “would not go down the line for Wat- son.” The witness confirmed the tes- timony of Ralph B. Bradford, a former Crown Point, Ind., kKlansman, that Watson had attended a session of Klan leaders at Washington, over the oust- ing of Bradford. Meyers, now attached to the office of the secretary of state in Indiana, said he worked as an organizer for the klan in Indiana and Minnesota. He was a “knighthawk” and “trouble- shooter” for the Klan. TWO SHOWINGS OF PASSAIC STRIKE PICTURE TONIGHT Coming to Chicago after many show- ings in eastern cities, the film story of the Passaic textile strike will be shown at Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren Sts., topight. The ex- hibition of this gfaphic and’ stirring picture of the brave battle of the New Jersey mill workers has attracted much interest among Chicago work- ers. The film will be in the city but one day. There will be two showings this evening, one at 7 p. m. and the other at 9 p. m. All the proceeds of the performance will go to the milk and ‘read fund of the strikers. The ad- mission charge is 50 cents. DETROIT! MEMORIAL JAMES P. ‘FRANK Editor, The Det Auspices: at the ARMORY Brush and Larned Streets SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1926, at 8 P. M. WITH Secretary, International Labor Defense President, Detroit Federation of Labor _ DENNIS BATT MAURICE SUGAR, Chairman INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE bee EVENTS| » By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) for authentic foreign news should have his head examined, oe 8 I Df stano was a free tag day in Chi- cago yesterday Girls nattily g away navy-day ‘als, rear-admirals (so- called because they are usually to be found sitting in swivel chaits), boasted of the strength of the navy before ro- tary clubs and chambers of commerce. Excessively enthusiastic big-navy men railed against the Washington confe ence and pulled the British lion’s tail and the Mikado’s mustache, Americhn navy was crippled by Brit- ish diplomacy, they said. eee ND William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor did his bit to help the ‘big navy populari- zation plan of the American imperial- ists. The keel of a new cruiser was laid in honor of “Teddy” Roosevelt yesterday, the anniversary of “terribie Teddy’s” birthday. Green agreed to drive thé first rivet into the’ keel. When will the American working class drive a spike into Green’s political reer? American labor is officially | na united front with the most reac- ionary section of Américan capital- ism, HERE are some people, well-inten- tioned liberals, who believe that the officials of tiie A..F, of L, formu- late national and international policies independently of any consideration of the policies of the government which is the executive committee of the American capitalist class as a whole, with particular regard for the—at the time—dominant wing. The Mexican juestion is a case in point. Gompers, ostentatiously, took the Mexican labor movement under his wing at the same time that American capitalism substi- tuted a policy of cautious diplomacy for the mailed fist. ‘ALL, STREET was out for hege- mony over South America and the function of the A. F. of L, was to act as an auxiliary to Wall Street. Gompers coddled the Mexican labor leaders, got them to denounce Com- munists and to expel a few Commu- nists frem the federation. But some- how or other Wall Street did not fare as well as it expected. There was trouble over the mineral and land laws. ‘Trouble developed with the church, The U, 8. government re- sumed its threatening attitude and now we find the A, F. of L. looking coldly on the Mexican government and unofficially threatening to with- draw from the Pan-American Federa- tion of Labor, of which the Mexican labor movement fs the second biggest chunk. hy ‘OW that our estate department is unofficially charging Calles with trying to organize a Latin-American bloc against American imperialism, ali those signs are worthy of serious con- sideration, Intervention in Mexico is not out of the question, And with William Green, driving the first rivet in an American warship there is little hope that the A. F, of L. bureaucracy will raise any serious objection to a southern march of American troops and navies, DETROIT! 4 : é Ss € ° y : MEETING CANNON MARTEL roit Labor News The | Fight Obstacles to Contact With Masses Moving to Leftward (Continued from page 1) day ultra-left is unlike’ the left of 1921 who, as pointedly put by Lenin, were distinguished by their revolution- ary impatience, Today, on the con- trary, the ultraleft is distinguished by its defeatist lack of faith in the |might of the proletarian revolution. These ultra-left tendencies must be crushed since their activity prevents the Communist parties from finding contact with the leftward moving masses of workers. « Losovsky stressed the huge part played by Amer in the breakdown of European capitalism, remarking | upon the role played by Germany as America’s agent. In contrast to Amer- | lica the official labor movement in the Pacific countries, for ‘instance in Australia, is being revolutionized, It is no, mere chance that the question of calling a Pacific trade union congress was brought up by the Australian trade unions. The new labor move- ment developing in the semi-colonial countries makes acute the question of the unity of the labor movement and the creation of a -new inter- national. To ensure the stabilization of s0- cialism in the U.,S. S. R. he pointed out, it is first of all necessary to en- sure the stabilization of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union, Raskolnikoff pointed to the im- mensé world importance of the events in China. After Bukharin’s concluding speech, emphasizing the importance of carry- ing on a struggle against bourgeois pacifism, the necesstty of carrying on work within the trade unions, and the | concentration of energy in the strug: | gle against trust capital, the confer-| ence unanimously, with no abstaining votes, passed a resolution approving the principles of the policy of the | delegation of the All-Union Commu- nist Party and its work within the Communist International, binding the delegates to continue the resolute ideological struggle againSt anti- Leninist tendencies within the Com- intern whose protagonists, being in a larger or smaller measure at one with the opposition in the Communist Par- ty of the Soviet Union, have, in the persons of the more consistent groups, already clearly passed towards the counter-revolutionary camp, instruct- ing the delegation of the All-Union Communist Party to carry on within the Comintern such a line towards the further bolshevization of the Commu- nist parties as to preclude the theory and practice of the so-called freedom of fractions and groupings, resolutely condemning the factional anti-Lenin- ist work of the opposition in the All- COOLIDGEMAY Union Communist Party within the Comintern, fully adhering to the deci- sions of the brother parties and the Plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control] Commission on relieving Zinoviey of work in the Communist International. The Conference also adopted an ad- dress in reply to yesterday’s address of greeting from the Central Commit- tee of the Communist Party of Ger- many wherein the conference pointed out that the defeatist ideology that has appeared and taken shape among separate groups of Communists fs but a small passing episode in the victor- ious development of the Communist International. Canadian Plutes Bo to Royalty As More - Protests Mar Journey MONTREAL, Que., Oct. 28—Much the same pomp attended Queen Ma- rie’s reception in Montreal that has been accorded her in other cities of America, marred, however, by Prince Nicholas’ thoughtlessness in becom-| ing preoccupied with the railroad yards to such an extent as to miss an important function at which he was to have been presented with a gold- headed cane. WINNIPEG, Mah., Oct. 28—The Ukrainian community of Manitoba has lodged a vigorous protest with the provincial government against official preparations going forward to wel- come Queen Marie to Winnipeg. Last Hike of Season for N. Y. Young Worker The last hike of the season arranged by the Young Workers’ League will take place Sunday, October 31, at 10 o'clock sharp, All will meet at 108 Rast 17th street and from there will go to Palham Bay Park, There a dis- cussion will be had on Frank Little, and the open fir will be enjoyed. TONIGHT—S E E—IN CHICAGO A Stirring, Thrilling, Thought-Provoking Movie of the Long Battle of the Exploited Textile Workers for a Living Wage and a Union FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1926 Two Performances beginning with 7 and 9 P. M., at the ASHLAND BOULEVARD AUDITORIUM—Van Buren & Ashland Tonight ADMISSION 50 CENTS) > LOSE HIS GRIP ON U.S. SENATE Booze and Slush Are Main Issues (Continued from page 1) rel of pickled herring. Booze has sup- plied the motive power in this battle for “personal Nberty” provided liberty 1s taken to mean only the right of the free ‘Asmertoarhe zen to guazle his | boeze without probability of a stoolpigeon hold! thim up for ran- som and confiscating his liquor to} boot. Free speegh, “free press or a| free right to strike has nothing to do with liberty! = “Republicanism ,and Prosperity” is the slogan of the,pepublicans, but the} democrats are equally positive that | the goddess of plenty is at least as| much at home with a democratic ad- ministration as wil @ republican one. The democrats are “viewing ith alarm” the rather odoriferous record of the republican party since the elec- tion of Harding while Coolidge came out at the tenth hour with a speech in favor of maintaining wages” at the | Present high level” in an effort to catch the vote of the better paid skiil-| ed workers. G. 0. P. Hit Hard. The republicans have been hit hard by. the slush fund investigations, Ili- nois and Pennsylvania are outstanding political cesspools in the matter of slush funds. The senate slush in- vestigation committee was under the chairmanship of Senator James R.| Reed of Missouri and he made good| use of his powers, so much so that in| all probability he is a likely candidate} for the presidential nomination on the democratic ticket, particularly if for- tune favors the democrats next Tues- day. Reed i wet, middle westerner and almost a southerner, a protestant who is on good t is with the cath- olics, He is not friendly to labor, yet makes his attacks ton “big business” acid and frequent enough to fool the gullible working class into the belief that Reed must be their friend be- cause he attacks the Wall Street demon, In all probability Frank L. Smith will be eleoted in Hlinois, tho entirely surrounded by slugh,and is a dry supported by wets. But even Insull slush funds are no barrier to election provided the boys “go down the line” for the regular candidate as the klan boys say. The mative sons of south- ern Illinois will‘ vote for Smith be- cause he is not a catholic and be- cause they believé™ihat the stuff they manufacture in the kitchen has anything that conld,be gotten out of a regular distillery beaten by several stews’ j Two Insull, Pets. ' George E. Brennan, an Insull pet, will most likely pull the vote in the industrial sections.;, Brennan” is the favorite of big business in Illinois since they know there is no chance of electing Magill, the dry gentleman who is supported by Julius Rosen- wald, multimillionaire mail-order mag: nate. Brennan is a more disciplined tool of big business than Frank L. Smith. The latter is in with the gang of political burglars headed by Len Small that the big fellows have been trying to get rid of for several years. In all probability Smith will be elected, but it is not at all likey that he will be seated. But his machine will not lose. Small can appoint an- other member of the gang to take Smith’s place, or he can resign the governorship and take the seat for himself. Lost by The Wayside. Parley Parker Chirstianson’s can- didacy on some sort of progressive platform has apparently fallen by the wayside, Tho Christianson had close connection with the “labor move- ment and was once candidate for na- tional president on the Farmer-Labor Party ticket the officials of the Illi- nois and Chicago erations of La- bor endorsed ‘L. Smith, the Insull candidate ama ignored Chris- tianson. Then the latter made the mistake of not raising any working- class issues but undertook to purity politics, a task which Hugh Magill, the mailorder candidate is pe.ter fitted for. The working class have no interest in “purifying” the stinking cesspool of capitalism. Let the cap- italists hire their own scavengers. And ambitious reformers should not make the mistake of being too respec- table. 7 So much for Tlinois, except to say that the labor fakers are either sup- porting Brennan or Smith. Slush Without End, In Pennsylvania Vare is almost cer- tain to be elected "but almost certain not to be seated. Vare spent about $600,000 to win in the primaries, Senator Pepper, one of his opponents spent twice as much and the dry hypocritical reformer, Pinchot spent half as much as Vare. William B. Wilson, scab-mine own- er, former secretary of labor and red baiter, is running on the democratic ticket against Vare, Wiison has been endorsed by the officials of the Penn- sylvania Federation of Labor of which the socialist, James Maurer, ia president. iG The only workingelass ticket in the field in Pennsylvatia are the candi- dates of the We (Communist) Party. The wor of the greatest industrial gtate re country will 4 i <= Officials of Labor Show Their First Concern Is with Old Party Politics ‘By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. HE present congressional cam- paign has again revealed many outstanding officials of labor as be- ing old party politicians first, and secondly, or, not at all, concerned with the actual problems of the working class, This is the only explanation for the fact that President William Green, head of the American Fed- eration of Labor, shouts democrat, while the heads of the various rail- road brotherhoods are yelling re- publican in the present senatorial struggle in Ohio, * * * Under the tufelage of Samuel Gompers, the A, F. of L. always trailed the donkey in its political aspirations, The demowratic middle class politicians were willing to listen to Gompers. at greater length than the politicians of great capitalism in the republican na- tional conventions, that Gompers Ohio democrat. Instead of develop- ing the independent political power of the workers, as he was repeated- ly ordered to do by numerous con- ventions of the United Mine Work- ers of America, in which he rose to the position of international secre- tary-treasurer, Green kept glued to the donkey’s tail, had himself elect- ed democratic state senator from his home town of Coshocton, and so loyal were his services on be- half of the ruling class of the state that he was “lifted” to the presi- dency of the state senate, Green, therefore, in order to maintainhis Political allidnces in Ohio, issues a letter endorsing the candidacy. of Atlee Pomerene, the democratic candidate for United States sen- ator. This Pomerene, who has an anti- labor record already in the United States senate, is denounced by the railroad brotherhoods as “positive- ly dangerous.” The railroad officials ask how afy worker can vote for a man whose prejudices against the labor movement are so intense and personal as Pomerene’s seem to be. In the senate, Pomerene was just as loyal to the railroad’ corporation in- terests as Kellogg and Poindexter, the formér now secretary of state in Coolidge’s cabinet, A . Woke But the railroad brotherhoods offer in place of Pomerene, none other than the republican, Senator Frank B. Willis, candidate for re-~ election, who is attacked by the A. F, of L. officials, The railroad outfit is closely tied up to the republican crowd, The infamqus Watson-Parker bill was sponsored jointly in the house and senate by these two reactionary re- publicans, Senator Watson and Re- have an opportunity to express their protest against the capitalist system by voting for the Workers (Commu- nist) Party. The workers of the greatest industrial state in the coun- try will have an opportunity to ex- press their protest against the capt talist system by voting for the Work- ers (Communist) Party candidates. Smith and Mills. In New York, the contest between Al Smith and Ogden Mills for gov- ernor holds the center of the stage. In all probability Smith will carry the state by the biggest majority he ever received in any election. Wil- liam Randolph Hearst, officially a democrat, is supporting the million- aire Republican, Mills. Hearst has sometimes been regarded as a sort of perennial leader of third party movements on the eastern seaboard, but if leopards don’t change their spots politicians sometimes » Hearst is a loyal supporter of Calvin Coolidge, Henry Ford and all that is biggest in capitalism. But so is Al Smith for that matter. A struggle between ambitious politicians, each supported by different groups of cap- italist interests but ready to serve capitalism as a whole! Smith is a loyal tool of capitalism and moro useful than Millé for the very good reason that Al shouted “fish for sale” in his youth while Mills had ‘his fish served to him by a braided flunkey. The senatorial race is between Wadsworth and Wagner, republican and democrat respectively. Odds in favor of Wadsworth, tho Smith may carry Wagner along with him, Al are wet. There is rumor of a deal between Smith and Wadsworth, but it can be discounted. Wagner is a Tammany judge and iikes himself fairly well. Carries Labor Banner, The workingclass panner {n this state is carried by the Workers (Com munist) Party, which has a state ticket in the fleld. Another contest that is attracting nation-wide attention 1s the strugg!: between William M. Butler, repub: lican and mill magnate and ‘Davia ils Nid paises ie lawyer. Butler only’ ¢andidate SP a) habitually attended, William Green has the additional incentive, how- ever, of having’ always been an do | presentative Parker, W. N. Doak, legislative agent in Washington of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men, likes Willis, because it is claimed he is a White House favor- ite, which means that he stands in well with the Coolidge gang. Senator Willis is denounced by the A, F, of L, officials because of his, héstility to the Ohio Workmen's Compensation Law. As Ohio gover- nor he signed the Gallagher Bill, which repealed the mine run law which the Ohio miners advocated and for which they had fought for 25 years. So that’s Willis, so 8 Thus the nonpartisan policy of the American Federation of Labor, clashing with the nonpartisan policy of the railroad brotherhoods, ef- feetively cancel each other, Labor's yote is thus neutralized on the ad- vice of the old party politicians in leading places in the labor move- ment, No greater service could be rendered the anti-labor capitalist interests. But this isn’t all, Laurence Todd, the Federated Press correspondent at Washington, reports that the In- ternational Association of Machin- ists has refused to take sides as between the “two bad political eggs in Ohio, and that President Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen was. likewise loath to find any difference be- tween them.” Yet these same neu- trality politicians become highly in- dignant at the indifferent attitude that wofkers display toward the electoral struggle. They do not come out for labor’s own party. They are just a dead weight in the class fight. oss Great masses of workers in Ohio will not be deceived. by this “non- partisan” spectacle presented to them by the officialdom as workers’ political action, They must inevi- tably come to the conclusion that all so-called “friends” as well as “enemies” in the employers’ polit- ical organizations are equally black foes of the workingclass, Evidence of the awakening of Ohio labor is seen in the renewed efforts in that state toward the building of the Labor Party. The struggle for independent po- litical action in Ohio, developing during this campaign in spite of the betrayal of the officialdom, must be redoubled after the election day has passed, when the §o-called “non- partisanism,” no matter which way the election goes, will be thoroly discredited, Ke es Ohio labor, thruout the great in- dustries of that state, can well set. an example to the workers of the land in the crystallization of the demand for independent political action of the workers thru their own Labor Party. % $$ in the field that Coolidge issued an appeal in his behalf. Butler is as reactionary a candidate as ever stood on the senate floor. Walsh is.a con servative catholic and a willing tool of Cardinal O’Connell, the man who was chiefly fesponsible for defeating the anti-child labor law in Massachu: sets. Walsh has a sporting chance but the odds are in favor of Butler. K. K. K. in Jndiana. In Indiana the odium attached to the Ku Klux Klan may dynamite the two repubilcan senators out of office and give the democrats their chance, The Reed investigation may help some. Political veterans are not opti mistic. They know that Jim Watson has a goodly crop of ballot counters and feel that he would be an awful fool if he did not advise his help to count right. No section of labor has a ticket in the field in the Hoosier state. In Minnesota the prospects for the farmer-labor candidate Magnus John: son are gloomy. The reactionary fakers who gained control of the or- ganization have been busy making deals with the republicans and demo. crats. The official organ of the party has accepted advertisements from both capitalist parties. The state campaign manager, William Mo Ewen is a chamber of commerce man and big business booster. Others of like ilk are now running the Farmer- Labor Association, They have no more business in a workingclass or wanfzation than has Judge Elbert H Gary. The Minneapolis Tribune carried a sensational story last week of a deal between Congressman 0. J. Kvale, of the seventh district and the state democratic committee, which would give democratic support to farmer: labor candidates provided they sup- ported the program of the democrats in the house. Kvale is said to have urged his associates on the ticket to follow his example, but only Kvale committed himself in writing, accor ing to the Tribune which publishes have been written by Kvale to C. A. excerpts from a letter alleged to Quist, chairman of the democratic state committes, Mh Mr. Kvale, in his letter to Quist, CHICAGO LABOR TO HONOR DEBS’ MEMORY OCT, 30 I. L. D. Holds Memorials Thruout Country Wide interest is being aroused among the workers of Chicago, who hailed Debs scores of years agq after the great Pullman strike, and who have cheered him at dozens of meet- ings, in the Debs memorial meeting which will be held at the Temple Hall, Marshfield and Van. Buren, on Satur- day, October 30, 1926; at 8 p. m,, to pay tribute to: the departed labor fighter and revolutionary. At this meeting the role of Eugene V. Debs in the American labor move- ment, his work in shaping its course and destiny and traditions will be spoken of by the speakers who were his friends and who worked with him in the labor movement when ’Gene Debs was at the height of his powers. Cannon and Chaplin to Talk. James P. Cannon, secretary of In- trenational Labor Defense, on the na- tional committee of which Debs serv- ed since the inception of the organiza- tion, will be the main speaker. Ralph Chaplin, who serfed his term in Leavenworth as a Class war prisoner, and is famous as the I. W. W. poet, will also speak. Hyman Schneid, gen- eral organizer of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, will speak, as will Carl Haessler, who is editor of the Federated Press and former class war prisoner. Matilda Kalousek, secretary of. the Czecho- Slovak section of I. L. D., will speak in her native tongue. \ Admission to this meeting will be free, and, it is intended to start off the I. L. D. “Debs Enrollment Cam- paign” of organization at this meeting. ee Boston Pays Tribute. BOSTON, Oct. 28.— The militant workers of Boston will gather to pay tribute to, the rebel life of Eugene V Debs, Nov, 4, at 8 o’clock in Tremont Temple, Lorimer Hall. The meeting is being held under the auspices of Inter- national Labor Defense and will be addressed by James P. Cannon, secre- tary of the I. L, D., who is touring the east in a series of meetings arranged for the memory of Gene Debs. In addi- tion to Cannon, there will be a num- ber of local speakers from various or- ganizations. who will join in paying their respects to the deceased warrior, Admission is free. © - eee Detroit Debs Meetlng. DETROIT, Oct. 28—The Armory, at Brush and Larned streets, one of the largest assembly halls in the city, will be the scene of an impressive Debs memorial meeting arranged by International Labor Defense. James P. Cannon, secretary of I. L. D.; Frank Martel, president of the Detroit Fed- eration of Labor; Dennis Batt, editor of the Detroit Labor News, will speak on the life and work of Debs under the chairmanship of Maurice Sugar, the noted labor attorney. The meeting takes place Sunday, October 31, at 8p. m. . said in part: “I want in this letter to assure you and the democratic stato central committee of my coopera- tion in every way possible. That co-operation will receive its inspira- tion from the common cause, which we espouse. You know #Mat for all these years I have. fought the repub- lican machine as consistently and persistently as the truest democrat, to say the least. You know that that opposition will continue, and we poth know that in the seventh dis- trict our joint efforts have been suc- cessful against that machine up to this time. I am hoping that it cau continue and be strengthened by a closer co-partnership.” Non-Partisans Join Dems. “Mr. Oldfield has told you,” the letter continued, “how closely I have been identified with the democratic organization and its work in Wash- ington. If re-elected, I look to con- finue that as the most effective pro- test against the party policies of the republican party. I shall be glad to co-operate in every posible way in the election of anti-republican candidates tq congress, who espouse progressive principles, regardless of the tecimical label under which they r@&. It is principles that matter.” _ Replying to Kvale, Quist reminds him that the Non-Partisan league, which has been “mainly rsponsible for your election to congress, has formally expressed mm with the democratic party in Minnesota.” Halloween Ball Will * Be Given in Buffalo BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 28.—A great Halloween ball is to be held by the Workers’ Party local, Buffalo, in Cairo Hall, Teck Theater building, on Sat- urday, October 30, at 8 p. m, Spectacular costumes and masked sroups, enjoyable dancing to the mu- sic of the best procurable union or- chestra, delicious refreshments, and congenial company all make this an occasion not to be missed by any worker of radical living within riding distance of Buffalo, ‘ |)