The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1926, Page 1

| ——+ The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 247. Subs é Sy 8, ie a aus, & Cw ° ee, ¥, 6% ee ie ue, % THE PACE SET BY DEVt. « In Chicago, by cription Rates (ENT IN INDUSTRY IN SOVIET UNiON NEVER REACHED IN CAPITALIST COUNTRIES By JOHN PEPPER Special to The DAILY WORKER MOSCOW. U. 8S, S. R., Oct, 29. — “The Soviet Union is entering upon —_— 3 Outside Chicago, by’ mail, a new stage of development with the beginning of the new economic year,” said Alexis Rykoff, chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, in be- ginning his report to the third day's session of epnference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. “The Soviet Union is beginning to reconstruct’ its economy on the basis | of a higher technique. “While the national economy as a whole has reached the preawar level, the ‘restoration of ———————— industry and agriculture was effected By T. J. O’FLAHERTY under quite new social conditions from those of the pre-war period.” racteristics of the new Soviet econo- my, Rykoff pointed out that: First, the restoration of industry went pa- Summarizing the outstanding cha- | Entered at Second-class matter September 2t, 1923, at: the Post Office at Chics mail, $8.00 per year, $6.00 por year. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1926 —-—. OR VICTORY IN BRI Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, Cad 1d, MILL STRIKER DEAD; SUSPECT SCAB. ENEMIES Passaic Picket’s Body Found on Drawbridge (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Oct. 29.—There is one striker less in the Passaic textile mill district this week than there was last. One less in the ranks of the sufferers and one more on the list of victims. HE depths to which official trade unionism has sunk in the state of illinois is amply demonstrated by the support given to Frank L. Smith, re- pulican boodle-snatcher, by the State Federation of Labor politicians and their understrappers thruout Illinois. It was expected that Smith’s connec. |" tion yith the open-shopper Insull ' would at least have the effect of keep- (Continued on page 2), | The broken body of John Hlekes, an jactive Hungarian striker reported SCAB HERDER jmissing a week ago now lies in the . ing those political harpies silent. But no! I have in front of me a copy of | the Vermillion County Star, edited by 1 a former socialist and more recently | a prominent member of the farmer- labor party of Iilnois, now defunct, which is in fact a special issue ta hoost Smith. dep only good feature of the issue is the exposure of George E. Bren- nan, the democratic tool of capitalism, Everything said about Brennan, as far as his antilabor record is con- cerned, is true. But why jump from ;the frying pan into fire? If preference ‘for Smith were due to a naive belief that he is a better man than Brennan, one could keep quite cool about the matter, even tho it would be hard to take such a foolish position calmly. But the pity of it is that those labor leaders who are supporting either Brennan or Smith are doing so for ul- terior motives. They are cigt cals who are selling their among the workers for a consideration of some sort, whether-it be hard cash or jobs for themselves or their rela- tives, é 'N England there 1s possibly not half a dozen labor leaders who would dare endorse a capitalist candidate. Not that the dominant leaders of the British labor movement are any bet- ter morally than our Walkers, Greens and Lewises. J. H. Thomas would {gladly permit his body to be used by ‘the king to.clean the royal shoes on, and Mrs, Ethel Snowden, the socialist lady, would be willing to perform an equally servile task for the queen. J. R. MacDonald, while premier, laid the keels for five cruisers and allowed ‘British planes to bomb Indian vil lages, for king and imperialism. (HO our English ‘labor fakers use the lingo of socialism they are no more in fayor of the overthrow of capitalism than William Green or Frank Farrington, who uphold capi- talism with eloquence and enthusiasm. Then why is J, H. Thomas, privy councillor to King George, a member of the labor party, and why is William Green, the small-town Baptist, a dem- ocrat? For the very good reason that capitalism in England is on the de- cline, while here it is still on the up- grade. The British labor takers find it to the their personal advantage to follow the masses, enriching them- ? (Continued on page 4) | morgue at Union City, N. J. He was | found on the Pennsylvania drawbridge lover the Hackensack river, near Jer- sey City, his body wedged into the mechanism of the bridge. Atcording to the autopsy, Elekes was struck by a train probably while still alive, It js the opinion of the police and others who saw the place where the body : : . Arbitration Hearings Open at New York |strikebreakers* in the nearby mills, (Special to The Dally Worker) {Some time ago he was arrested on NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 29—Edgar| ihe complaint of one of them and E, Clark of Washington, D. C., has | fined by Judge Wallace Leyden of the been chosen chairman of the board of Second District Criminal Court, arbitration to ‘consider the wage de-| Hackensack, He was paying this fine mands -of ‘the railway brotherhoods | off in weekly ‘instaliments, of the conductors and trainmen. The! ‘The striker was last seen alive board also chose Clark as the chair-| Monday, Oct, 18, when he left home man In an organization meeting at. |about four-thirty in the afternoon to the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. | visit his friend, Alexander Sipos, 31 Open hearings have commenced and} Dewey Street, Garfield. The two men will continue until both sides Pre-/ had been friends for more than twenty sent their aaah ayaa a with the unions | years. Sipos watched Elekes from giving their e first. the front porch, as he started up the i d high office in the | street toward his. home. From, ‘the Order al Sonductors, ditt ime “he leit Sipos” home about eight there are. other ings whic which show! 5’eiock Monday evening, until his how much railway unionists should | dead body was found the following rely upon such “impartial” arbitra- | Saturday afternoon, what happened railroad track to-be hit. Whether or not he. was unconscious before he was hit is not known, Active Striker, Elekes was an active striker and | had numerous enemies among the tors, was found, that he was taken to the |* Clark is a lawyer, member of the law firm of Clark and La Roe of St. Louis, and was former chairman of} the Interstate Commerce Commission. Recently he defended the claims of} the railroads for a higher valuation of their property, appearing for the} estate of Adolphus Busch. Clark was made assistant secretary of commerce and labor in 1903! This probably was a reward for his anti-| union activities, asin 1902, when an official of the Order of Railway Con- ductors, he ordered the conductors to scab ‘on striking switchmen. In 1901, during the switchmen’s strike in Denver, Clafk madq an ar- rangement with the railroa of the strikers. In 1894, Clark united with the General Managers’, Associa- tion to break the strike of the Ameri- can Railway Union, led by Debs. Sheppard Presents Case. ~ In the opening of the arbitration hearing, L. M. Sheppard, president of the O. R. C, and advisor of the Train- men in tte case, wherein they ask a 20 per cent raise, declared that the railroads have increased their reve- nue from 18 to 27 peF cent since 1920, yet that since 1921 the trainmen’s wages have been cut three and a halt cents an hour. ‘ SACCO-VANZETTI ATTORNEYS FILE BILL OF EXCEPTIONS FOR NEW TRIAL (oo (Special to The §, 0. LEVINE, Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 29.—Attorneys William G.°Thompson and. Herbert com- pany, for conductors to take the place | Behrmann, counsel! for Nicola Sacco and. Bartolomeo Vanzetti, filed a bill of exceptions in the Norfolk county superior court at Dedham today, appealing from the decision of Judge Thayer of the superior court who denied their defendants a new trial. The documents made a volume a half a foot thick and contained a list of more than 60 affidavits as well as evidence and argu- ments presented six weeks ago at a hearing for a new trial for the two con- victed men. A protest meeting arranged by the Workers (Communist) Party will be held Sunday at 4 p. m. in the Boston Common at Charles St. Mall. Lull in Herrin Gang Warfare as one Leader Visits Sick Brother -HERRIN, IL, Oct. .29,—With. one other, removed from the immediate scene sot recent killings, denying Te deh spouisbility for the actions Of his fol- JAMES P, CANN ae lowers, Communities in this and ad-| , ON RALPH Joining counties today awaited the noxt move fn Southern Mee Mc ADMISSION FREE ‘craig i eer: — HYMAN SCHNEID C. E. RUTHENBERG Auspices: Int'l, Labor Defense | to Elekes isa mystery. N.Y. UNIONS PLAN SECOND CONFERENCE \To Eatend Move Aid to Cloakmakers’ Strike NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 29—For leveling a gun at strike pickets in some of its plant# in Long Branch, New Jersey, A. Sandling and Horn, non-union cloak manufacturers, was arrested and held on $1000 bail on charges of assault. With him, accord- ing to information received by the Cloak Makers’ Joint Board, 130 East 25th street, was arrested an unknown gunman who was held in $2500 bail on the same charges. The alleged gunman threatened to shoot striking cloak makers who succeeded in stop- ping workers at the plant, the union stated. The emergency labor conference, representing 800,000 trade unionists of Greater New York, who are sup- porting’ the strike of 40,000 cloak makers, held a meeting of its execu- tive committee at 3 W. 16th street. J. M. Budish,. secretary of the con- ference proposed another city-wide | conference of unions to be held to obtain additional help for the strike. The conference is expected to be held in the ‘near future. One hundréd thousand dollars were realized for the strike fund of the cloak makers last Saturday when workers jn settled shops contributed a day’s pay to the fund, the union announced after tabulation of the re- turns. 4 series of strike meetings are held daily. CHAPLIN — CARL TRADE oF Un CONGRESS TRIES TO COMPROMISE BRITISH MINE STRIKE LONDON, Oct, 29.—The effort of the Trade Union Congress to re- open negotiations between the min- ers, operators and the government for the settlement of the coal strike attracted wide attention in the press and official ¢lecies today, despite Premier Baldwin's refusal to sum- mon a tri-partite conference. A feeling prévails in responsible circles that the efforts of the Trade Union Gongresg will succeed in the next few days and will lead to ne- gotiations to hd the stoppage. Failing to get full satisfaction from Premler taidwin, because they could not guarantee to have the com- plete backing of the miners, the Trade Union C@ngress was today In touch with the Miners’ executive en- deavoring to €xtract definite pro- posals whjch in be placed before the gov the Drunks (Special to The DAILY WORKER) WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.>-Wild or gies in the Roumanian Legation when Queen Marie visited ‘there, in which pre-Volstead liquor was imbibed free- ly by every one, aitho this is the capi-, tat of a prohibition nation, were re- vealed at the police board trial of a patrolman today. The patrolman, La- fone Starkweather, was so drunk at “the. legation, reported, that he was in a daged ‘condition when pick- ed up. He was fined’$75 after a trial. Thot He Could Stand It. Police Lieutenant Michael Ready testified that hei knew of the carrous- ing at the legation and for that rea- son selected Starkweather, to guard the building, as he “was a sober man and could stand the temptations of the legation.” * But the “t@mptations,” in which ¥ queen figured, were too much, qgeant Burlinghame reported, say- ing he saw Starkweather sitting on a box apparently im a dazed condition,” after the party. ‘| there,” ‘he ‘testified. FRANK MARTEL — JA| DENNIS BATT and MAURICE SUGAR AUSPICHS—INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFFENSE “It was a pretty wild night down Government Worried. BUCHAREST, Oct. 29.—The Rou- manian government is worried over reports cireulated that “family trou- ble” and government intervention will | interfere with Queen Marie's tour. The foreign office has issued a state- ment denying rumors that the govern- ment is displeased with Marie’s wel- come and actions. > OTTAWA, Ont., Oct. 29.— Labor} leaders and war veterans of Ottawa have refused to participate in the functions arranged in the dominion capital to'receive Queeh Marie of Rou- | mania, U.S. STILL MEDDLING MINERS’ LEADER URGES WORKERS 10 MAKE 25 WEEKS’ FIGHT VICTORIOUS 6,000 TRADE UNIONISTS IN by THE DAILY WORKER shingtcu Bivd., Chicago, Ill. ISH ST Fined $75): LABOR PARTY Pennsylvania County to Form Organization (Special to The Daily Worker) BENTLEYVILL, Pa. Oct. 29— (FP)—Washington county workers began the formation of a Labor Party when 200 delegates representing 6,000 | organized trade unionists, mostly min- ers, met at Bentleyville in western Pennsylvania, Steve Douglas of Brownsville was elected labor party secretary and all delegates. agreed, in a resolution passed, to return to their homes and their local unions advocating strongly the building up of the new party of workers. Nationalization of mines was a principal plank in the platform adopted, Unionist Elected Chairman, Harry Wadsworth, president Local 12399, United Mine Workers, of Daisy- town, was elected chairman, In a short address he stated the purpose of the convention and why a labor party was needed in Washington County. Fred Siders, Avella coal miner candidate for president of Dist. U. M. W., pointed out sorte of the main situations in which a labor party of workers is most needed. Paul W. Fuller, educational director of Dist. 2, U. M. W., the main speaker, was received with a great deal of en- thusiasm, He first explained work- ers’ education and its value to work- ers in their fundamental problems, in- cluding political action as well as in- dustrial organization. Expounds Program. He paid tribute to John Brophy, president’ of Dist. 2, U. M. W. and candidate tor international president, by declaring him. the. only district president of the miners who had vi- sion and courage to establish an ed- ucational department in his district. Fuller expounded the nationaliza- Issue Consists of Two Sections, This SECTION ONE. Price 5 Cents BRITISH MINERS PREPARED FOR _ AFINISH FIGHT | Eeecaseae Moves Into Strike Area (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Oct. 29.—The striking British miners WILL win! This statement is not based on out- side opinion but on the expressed de- termination of the rank and file who have refused all overtures and turned | | | | | |down all advice that counselled sur- render. | The entire executive of the miners’ union has moved into Nottingham- shire, the weakest spot in the organ- jization, in order to be, as A. J. Cook | puts it, “at the seat of war.” The government is pouring pglice in- to the mining areas and troops are waiting for orders to entrain for the strike fields. | In the following remarkable inter | view to a representative of The DAILY WORKER, A. J. Cook, fighting secre- tary of the miners, gave out the plans of the miners’ general staff to carry jon the struggle: “The Miners’ Executive, faced with the decision of the districts, which “A. J. COOK. “Your 25 weeks’ struggle must not be in vain,” Arthur Cook, secretary | of the British Miners’ Federation and |COfirmed the resolutions passed at outstanding strike leader, said to the |the conference on May 7 and 8, have battling strikers, “An acceptance of |Set to work in real earnest to carry surrender would mean servitude for |OUt these decisions,” said A. J. Cook.” many years to come. You are entitled | “Arrangements are being made to to a living wage and decent conditions. ;meet the unions of the safety men, Let us fight to secure them.” joutside the Federation, to discuss what aeeenpeennaiipeninaereme jaction we can take with regard to the withdrawal of their men NIU NCTION USE. “Ht has been decided that ‘the i executive should form Itself Into a W. P, CANDIDATES: in the coalfields, and of all those who lare willing to help in this campaign central general staff, or a council of Labor Party ay ts the Only Ito secure rigi@ adherence to the Fed- “It has been further decided that lit should utilize the services of all the pines: M., P.’s and the miners’ leaders | Coolidge in 1924 was “a stab in the war, jeration policy, and to seeure the with- Solution | drawal of, all.the.men who have re- jsumed work. Stop, Outcropping. | “They should.secure the ceasing and | production of outcrop coal; and to form once again a 100 per cent fighting army for the terms and conditions existing ‘before the lockout. Realizing that Nottingham is one of the blackest areas, the whole exe- cutive will meet there to do its bust- ness, and to arrange its campaign right at the seat of war, to use a mill- jtary phrase, to be ever-present in the |firing link. The executive will meet there on Tuesday. Miners Not Beaten, “This is to be an intensified, een- |tralized campaign to win victory. The employers have now recognized that the miners are not beaten, and the general public, who are being ex- ploited by paying high prices for coal, will see clearly the necessity for press- tion of mines’ program in detail, He concluded with the statement that a NEW YORK, Oct. 29.~-Replying to 100% union and a labor party were | § . i f the Emergency Labor | essential, with nationalization, if the !* ees om ee - high Conference to all candidates in refer- ence to the evil of injunctions and the necessity for enactment of an anti- injunction bill, the candidates of the Workers Party declared themselves emphatjcally against injunctions and pointed out that only by labor enter- ing its own candidates and forming a Miss Johnson has been organiz a Party will it forge an instru- miners’ women’s auxiliaries in con-|™7e2t combat the ever-increasing ‘ | persecution of workers on strike. ee a ee eee The communication of the candi- an ae ee Party candi. {ates of the Workers Party follows: date for governor, spoke on the polit SP pag Sy egy air RO ical situation in Pennsylvania, at- | ae ng SECRPEE tha Contgol Gt both repahian | “De Ri, Shay OE In reply to your dene Eis meaittion thet ee | communication of October 23, asking . | (1) Do you or do you not favor the president John L. Lewis’ support of | necking of the evil of injunctions in industrial disputes; (2} Do you or miners ever expected to get a decent living out of coal. Women, Too. Unless the women are organized in co-operation with the men, deqared Fuller’s assistant, Clara Johnson, the labor party would lack the necessary strength to insure ultimate victory eee Joe ae ene Wes much: SE do you not favor the enactment of an pleaded anti-injunction bill by the state legis- lature limiting the power of the courts Two Children Buried. to issue injunctions in trade and labor ELMWOOD, Ind., Oct. 29. — Two/disputes, permit us to reply to these children were burned to death and lhe mother and two other children re- ceived serious burns when fire de- stroyed the Richard Leakey home questions: Favor Abolition. regard the injunction evil as to the existence of union “1, We @ menace here today. The dead were: Richard (Continued on page 4.) IN TACHA-ARIGA, THO. | |tester. 7 montns ola, and Phutye dante Hitt, Seth IT PROMISED TO QuiT WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—An in- formal report on: Tacna Arica was | pre ited to Presi it Coolidge by General William Lassiter, who suc- ceeded General Pershing as head of the Tacna Arica. plebiscitary com- mission, “We are still hopeful of adjust- ment of the problem by negotia- tion,” said Lassiter. oi Altho the s' department order- ed the commission's work abandon- ed, Secretary Kellogg said he stil! was in conference with the repre- sentatives here of Chile and Peru. Memorial Meeting—Detroit ARMORY—Brush & Larned Sts. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31—at 8 p. m. with ES P. CAN garet, four. a neighbor's home for a few minutes. Mrs. eLakey was badly burned in HBERRIN, Ill., Oct. 29.—Another vic- rescuing aCrolyn, 3, and Mary Mar-|tim of Williamson county’s gang feud, The mother had gone to | William B. “Higspockets” McQuay, 24, was found riddled with machine-gun On her return ghe found the house | bullets about three miles east of here on fire. on the Johnston City road, FEDERAL COURTS AGAIN AFFIRM AN INJUNCTION AGAINST U. M. W. RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 29.—The injdnction granted by the federal court in the northern district of West Virginia to prevent the United Mine Work- ers’ Union from “intimidating or interfering” with employes of the West Virginia and Pittsburgh Coal company was affirmed with a modification in the federal court of appeals here today. nA eek Aidasadsenesikcsdis Nov. 5, 1855 EUGENE VICTOR DEBS Oci. 20, 1926 Memorial Meeting—Chicago’ : loader shot for vengeance and the Temple Hall—Marshfield & Van Buren TONITE—SATURDAY, OCT. 30,—8:15 p. m. Other Memorial Meetings BOSTON—Nov. 4, — 8 p. m. Corimer Hall, with J. P. Cannon and others, BUFFALO—Nov, 5. — J. P. Cannon and others. PHILADELPHIA—Nov. 7. — J, P. Cannon and others. — Tremont Temple, NON gad of our claims, and demand that he government secure an equitable settlement or fesign.” Praised Russian Workers. Referring to ‘the return of the miners’ delegation from Russia on the previous day, Cook said that all of them, including his wife, were loud {in the praises of the Russian work- ers, and were expressing thetr disgust at the decisions of the labor party \conference, and the refifsal of the po- litical and trade union leaders to rec- ommend the workers to have a levy for the miners. “As my wife said to me,” went 08 Cook, “Mr, Robert Williams has got his just deserts by being defeated in the election for the labor executive.” “The action of Mr, Frank Hodges and his: confrores on the, Interna- tional,” ‘continued Cook, “in refusing to allow tlie Russians to join has com- pelled us to consider the question of immediately forming an Anglo-Russian Miners’ Committee. We must cement our friendship in a tangible form so that we can.co-operate in the future to cary out the objects we have in view. “We expect our comrades, the rath waymen and dockers, to refuse to blackleg ” rea enen coal.” All DAILY WORKER agents of the party units of District No. 7 are called to attend’a meeting, Monday, Nov. 1, 8 p. m., at 1967 Grand River, Detroit. Vory Important plans for the advance. ment of The DAILY WORKER will be disoussed. Do not fail to be present DAILY WORKER City Agent, 8. Vv, aah ing the government to recognize the «