The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 2, 1926, Page 3

ae HbR biti. DAILY WORKER Page Thre Ee a fii eer ERENT NETO ST RS rR OBREGON STATES HIS SUPPORT OF CALLES* POLICY U. S, Catholite Should Keep Hands Off MBXICO CITY, . Oct. 3f.—~Arriving in Metioo City for a ten-day visit, Dx- President Alvaro Obregon, announced his’ complete support of the policy of the Galles administration in regard to the church, labor and agrarian prob- lems. Concerning the interference of ca- tholics in the United States in Mex- foan affaits and their aid to the ca- tholic rebellion against the Mexican government, Obregon was very defin- ite. “Our catholics are our own prob- jem.” He added that catholics in the own affairs and not meddle in Mex- ico’s internal affairs, Archbishop * Francisco Orozco’ y Jiminez of Guadalajara, has issued a statement saying that if the govern- ment does not recognize the citizen- ship of the clergy, the clergy is under no obligation to obey the laws of the government, United States should tend to their ing and is supposed to be trying to raise a rebellion. Wintry Blizzards Add to Misery of Armenian Earthquake Survivors LENINAKEN, Oct, 31—A wintry blizzard swept over the wrecked houses and thru the rags of the hungry survivors of the devastating earth- quake that rocked this region last week. Barth shocks continue intermit- tantly end, together with the chill blasts and the snow, beat down the already ,low morale e the homeless refugees. ‘The situation of the shelterless is very desperate. The most pitiful con- dition exists among recent and prospective mothers. ‘The earthquake ushered in seventy-two new babies and many more have besa dorm on the plains where the homéless are en- camped. While the Soviet government agencies and the Near Hast Relief are taxing their energies to bring com- fort and food to the quake victims, the hardship they are enduring are of a kind to break the harditest spirits. Wrong United Front. MONTREAL—(PP)—The Canadian railway presidents practice the unit- ed front but the railway unions do not, complains Pres. Tallon of Div. 4, railway employes department of the American Federation of Labor. In ‘The Canadian Federated Railwayman ‘Tallon writes that whenever the un- ions, whether shop crafts or train and engine service brotherhoods, wanted to negotiate they had to face the solid hostility of the Railway Assn, of .Can- ada, This compriseg 50 roads, though two of them, the Canadian National and the Canadian Pacific, have 90% of the mileage, and one is publicly owned. He then went into hid- | BRITISH AND GERMAN INDUSTRIAL MAGNATES TO HOLD CONFERENCE (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Oct. 31-——The Federa- tion of German. Industries has re- ceived an invitation from the Fed- eration of British Industries to at- tend a series of business parleys in London, the nature of which are un- derstood to be similar to the meet- ings of German and British indus- trialists and financiers at Romsey, England, earlier thls month, It was Just after the close of the Romsey meeting that the interna- tional bankers’ manifesto was an- nounced, causing a stir thruout Europe and America. BALDWIN ASKS SURRENDER 10 MINE OWNERS (Continued ‘om page 1) don from the Nottingham district, and there are reports: that he has received proposals from a committee headed by Lord Derby, Lord Londonderry and Montague Norman, governor of the Bank of England. Cook gave evasive reply as to the truth of this, and some anxiety is felt that he and other miners’ leaders may be weakening. Coal Famine Acute. Meanwhile, the coal famine is be coming acuté, in spite of last foreign imports. Sir Alfred Mond, head of the big chemical trust, has warned the mine owners that they must settle the strike soon or his firm, one‘of the largest coal users, and others as well, will place contracts abroad for coal and leave the mine owners of England without this assured market, No householder can now buy more than 200 pounds of coal each’ two weeks, and no one with more than 500 pounds on hand can buy any more. ty 65 Ba ee European Coal Shortage. PARIS, Oct. 31.—A fuel famine is spreading over Europe as a result of the British coal- miners’ strike. In France the iron-and steel interests near the obast havey been forced to draw on their emergency stocks, Instead of the 10,000,000 tons im- ported from Pngland last year, the flow of coal is now going from Frence to England in,the form of bunker, coal for British ships. Profit of Scabbing Goes to Bosses. German cities are also short. from coal shipments to England and Aus- tria reports that passenger traffic on the railways will have to be cut from lack of coal, while Belgium is also suffering a coal famine. The greed, of European coal dealers for spot cash they can obtain by send- ing scab coal to England, is thus rob- bing the Mome markets of enough to properly supply the demand, and high prices are causing great sufferings among the working class. Co-operative Section | will appear In every Monday's issue of the The DAILY WORKER. CHAMORRO USES. TERROR AGAINST LIBERAL REVOLT U. S. Imperialism Haste to Get Diaz CORINTO, Nicaragua, Oct. 31,—Fol- lowing up their declaration that the constitutional government of Nicara- gua under Bautista Sacasa be re-estab- lished by force of arms against the combined forces of United States im- perialism and the usurper, Emiliano Chamorro, the liberal party general, Beltran Sandoval, has landed a force at Porto Corazo on the west coast and called on all liberals to unite against Chamorro, in In the city of Leon Chamorro 1s ar- |' resting hundreds of liberal party sup- porters, which include most of ¢he population, and carrying on a cam- paign of white. terror, against which the foreign residents find it necessary to protect themselves by flying their national flags. Lawrence Dennis, United States charge d’affairs, fearing that the U. S. scheme to give a veneer to its dom!- nation by having Chamorro resign and his place taken by a confederate of his, Adolfo Diaz, may fall thru if hasty action is not taken; has called of- ficially on the Chamorro government, demanding that Chamorro resign and his present hand-picked congress be called to name Diaz as successor, Mexico Bars Negroes From Entry; Influx From B. W. I. Reason MEXICO CITY, Oct, 31—An influx of Negroes from the West Indies, sus- pected as having been brought in by employers to lower labor standards because of their backwardness and ig- norance of unionism, has led to an of- ficial bar against them by the Mexican government. All will be stopped at port: and border points. Many of the West Indian Negroes are suffering terrible unemployment, pitifully low wages and brutal op Pression of British imperialism, and fro the most part are entirely unac- quianted with unionism, even when the strict British rule permits them to exist. In many cases such unions as exist are controlled by traitors of their own race, and do little to ad- vance standards, Rumor Wu Pei-Fu Will Try to’ Recapture the City of Hankow, China SHANGHAI, Oct. 31—Resumption of warfare in the central Yangtze province appeared imminent today when reports were received from Han- kow that Wu Pei-Fu, north China war lord, was planning a comeback against the| victorious Cantonese, who two weeks ago captured Hupeh province from Sun Feng-Chang, Wu's principal ally. NEWS AND COMMENT Co-operation and Trade Unionism. By JOHN HAN HAMILTON, _ Cooperative Disputes. "The cooperators of 1860 upheld cooperation as superior to trade un- fonism altogether. In the co-operative era strikes and lockouts and unions of labor against capital were to be weap- But, the conditions ganization of capitalist society decide D. A, W. with the C. W. Zune 28, 1923), is a strik- point, The matters in were finally arbitrated upon Joint Committees of the T. U. the Co-operative Union, and the result, according etreuhitine ward gives the it asked for.” believes that “this ves, against the evidence, lower rates of being paid by any country, will con- that it is no use justice trom the Joint ." (Altogether during 1923, Council of the T. U. ©. called upon to deal with six- ag%ag ee i i i dispute has not been without ite results on Co«op- erative opinion, as tho Central Board of the Co-operative Union passed the following resolution on September 22, 1923; “That the time has arrived when the Cooperative Movement to the N. U. D.' held at Nottingham, at Whitsuntide, 1924, took a serious decision on this matter of wages to its employes; the following resolution being endorsed: “Any variation in trade board, indus- trial council, or interim reconstruc- tion council's rates may be applied unless such variations are the subject of negotiation between the employ- ers and the trade unions concerned but such megotiations shall not pre vent the employers from putting into operation such variation at the ex- piration of feurteen days . . .° In the case of any body of workers for whom there js more than one rate available, the societies shall always pay the higher rate unless an agree- ment has been given authorizing a lower rate. Where Trade Union agreements (either .n&gional or dis- trict) have been made by represent- ative bodies of employers and work- ers, the same rates should apply to Cooperative employes employed in the area covered by the agreement » « » (This Congress) declares that no scheme (for the settlement of dis- putes) which fails to conform to this principle will be acceptable to the Co- operative Congress.” , vi This re-affirms the “proviso,” one of the chief causes of the 1923 dispute, and one which was vigorously oppos- ed by the Trade Untontst members of the Joint Committee of Trade cane: ists and Co-operators. An even more dangerous move, however, is the stipulation that agree- ments with private traders and trades shall apply also to Cooperative So- cleties. This destroys the Trade Un- seriously consider the question far the worker should have industry and what share given ant the ‘management. tter be referred to OS Firing fon contention that Cooperative ‘wages and conditions should be ter than those in private employment. On this last point the Labor Adviser stated that the craft unions concern: ed were in agreoment—thereby imply: ing that the N. U. D, A. W. was not. The ©. W. | had anothor connection with Labor. the coming social changes, the Move- courts of arbitration, but this was withdrawn. The Attitude of N. U. D. A, W. The Easter, 1924, Annual Delegate Conference of N. U. D, A. W. declin- ed to submit disputes to the Joint Committee of Trade Unionists and Co- operators until there is a re-organ- ization of that body so as to provide “direct and equal representation of the Unions involved in thé dispute.” The Conference refused to accept on any.account the principle of compul- sory arbitration. There wais consi- derable criticism of the Joint Commit- tee, geome sections requesting the T. U, ©, to dissolve it, and to negotiate with @he Co-operative Movement for more satisfactory machinery. The ap- parent diffleulty being the desire of the C. W. S. to apply any variation in Trade Board and other rates auto- matically without consulation with the Unions concerned (to the com- mercial and dividend minded type of Cooperator the minimum rate is the maximum), The N. U. D, A. W. has put for- ward new comprehensive wage claims 80 that altogether the labor problem ts assuming very serious dimensions. On the question of wages and condi; tions of employment, as in the case of the proposed Co-operative daily, the regrettable tact emerges that the Co- operative Movement {s tending to draw away from, rather than have a closer In view of ment will have to face the fact of the determination of the workers‘ to secure @ real voice in the control of workehop conditions, The British Movemeny is sadly Ingging behind the continental movement in this connec- tion, ‘The Swiss Consumers’ Union ae WAKE LODGE SAGCO-VANZETTI PROTEST WITH AMERICAN EMBASSY (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, Oct. 31——Headed by the Communist Deputy Andre Berthon, a delegation of French workers called on the United States em- bassy and lodged a vigorous pro- test against the execution of sen- tence upon Sacco and Vanzetti whom they declared were victims of an Insidious frame-up engineered against the two Italian workers be- cause of ‘thelr workingclass activ- itles. PROTEST STORM FROM EUROPE IS WORRYING U. S, (Continued from page 1) sense of realities the accusing finger of, responsibility is directed at the government in Washington led by Calvin Coolidge, ° Europe knows that Coolidge was governor of Massachusetts when Sac- co and Vanzetti were arrested, and that when president of the United States and seeking re-election he chose Butler, chief of the textile ba- rons of Massachusetts, to manage his campaign, Herrick Protests In Vain. In spite of Ambassador Herrick’s in- sistence that the Washington govern- ‘ment has had nothing to do with this case, which Europe has come to re- gard as © parallel to the persecution of Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the French army a generation ago, Euro- pean liberals and workers do not be- lieve him, Recently they have been justified by the disclosure in affidavits by former department of justice agents that they were active in pre- judicing the fate of the two prison- ers, during the trial. Attorney general Sargent’s failure to permit the defense to look at the files of the Boston offiee of the department has ripened'the suspicion that the fed- eral government was behind the case because these two Italian workmen were radicals and it wanted to get rid of radicals by any convenient means, e 6s BAY STATE OPINION SHIFTS. BOSTON, Oct. 31.—Massachusetts, or at least Boston, opinion seems to be \shifting somewhat from its hostile attitude toward Sacco and Vanzetti reaped potion that there must 2 som. in the workers’ claims of innocence after all. The conservative republican Boston Herald contributes an editorial en- titled, “We Submit ——~.” It begins: “In our jopinion Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti ought not to be executed on the warrant of the ver- dict returned by a jury on July 14, 1921, We do not know whether these men are guilty or not.” And it re- iterates its. lack of sympathy with their political and economic views, continuing: “But as months have merged into years and the great de- bate over, this case has continued, our doubts have solidified slowly into convictions, and reluctantly we have found ourselves compelled to reverse our original judgment, We hope the supreme judicial court will grant a new trial on the basis of new evidence not yet examined in open court... . “We hope, im case our supreme bench finds itself unable legally to jauthorize @ new trial, that our gover- nor will call to his aid a commission of disinterested ‘men of the highest intelligence and character to make an independent: investigation in hls be- half, and that the governor himself at first hand will participate in that examination, if, a4 8 last resort, it beng be undertaken.” Lloyd George Paints Dark Future in Reply to “Whither England?” LONDON, Oct, 31.—Lloyd George, speaking at'@ meeting in Wales, said England was passing thru a crisis and facing ruin, a condition to a realiza- tion of which he walk “determined to rouse the nation”—to support Lloyd George. “We are passing, with the coal strike, the ‘greatest crisis since the |war,” said the former premier, “and one of the most dangerous perhaps in our industrial history.” George said that the trade balance |was declining until this year, when it |will be entifely vanished. “Then we will be foreéd to finance ourselves on | foreign credit, We who were once the, richest country in the world, will be walking up to the offices of money lenders.” Japanese Ship Grounded, TOKIO, Oct. 31,—Efforts to float the steamer Tenyo Maru, which grounded two miles off Tsurmi, near Yokahama were unsuccessful, It is not believed the vessel ts badly damaged. Passengers have been taken off the ship. Bandits Kill New Orleans Man. NEW 0: 8, Oot. 31, peor) down James’ Nelson, an employe of the Chef-Mente Bag Company, two bandits ped with a $12,000 payroll, 's gondition wae be SOCIALISTS HEAR GERMAN WOMAN: RELATE ‘SUCCESS’; Reich Member Talks to Cleveland ‘Old Guard’ By SADIE AMTER (Special to The Dally Worker) CLEVELAND, 0O., Oct, 31.—Miss | Tony Sender, woman socialist member | of the German Reichstag, spoke in| Cleveland), Oct, * to the scattered ; forces and defunct membership of a one time thriving party. An audience of about fiftygeur people occupied the first few rows in Moose Hall, all that is left of the Socialist party in Cleve- land. Monirchists Join Hands. She said that after the revolution that changed Germany from a mon- archy to a republic there was no re- sistance at all on the part of the war generals and upholders of monarchy but that on the contrary they showed every desire to join hands with the socialists. “The socialists,” she said “were against the submarine warfare knowing that that would bring Ameri- ca into the battle and that Germany would ‘thereby lose. And when the war was ended with a defeated Ger- many, the revolution took place and the great task of the Socialist Germa- ny was to bring back and give empjoy- ment to millions of men and to do it as quickly as possible in order to avoid the greatest disaster of the world.” Miss Sender did not’ say what dis- aster that would have been but from her talk I gathered that the same thing would have happened to the socialist regime that happened to the Kerensky government in November of 1917, and it appears that every move of the So- cialist Party of Germafy from that time to thg present was made for the sole purpose of heading off too much movement toward rebellion of the workingclass and an overwhelming turn toward the left Germans Sentimental. Speaking of the election of, Hinden- burg, Miss Sender declared that it was not a triumph for monarchy as many believed but merely a sentimental feel- ing on thé part of the German people “for the old generfi who had fought so.well during the war.” Miss Sender went on to say that she did not think it was fair that the families of the | princes of Germany should be allowed | such enormous incomes when mil- lions of the people are near starva- tion. She said that 22 families of the hobility use millions of dollars in in- comes and, of course, the socialists are fighting this. It was astonishingly clear listening to Miss Sender that the socialist par- ty of Germany, where it is in the majority, offers no hope to the ex- ploited workingclass and that the so- called social gains of Germany were not worth fighting for. It is clear that what Germany achieved was a revolu tion changing it from a monarchy te a republic and that it is no nearer to the goal of a victorious workingclass than is* America or France or Eng- land at the present time. Praises Dawes Plan. Miss Sender in her last sentence said that the German socialists look forward to a free and happy world but she said not one word of how this is to be brought about. It may be that she believes the Dawes plan is going to lead Germany to her goal for she said, “The Dawes plan is making ip possible for Germany to pay repa- rations and also made a new repdra- tions basis which it is possible for the German people to accept.” Cleveland Business Is Urged to Resume Trading W With Russia CLEVELAND, Oct. Oct. 31.—~The cham- ber of commerce of this city is hold- ing special sessions in order to dis- cuss ways and means of increasing the foreign trade of manufacturers of this section of the country. About 2Q0 manufacturers are attending the sessions and a lively interest is being taken in the question of Russian trade, Is it worth while dealing with Soviet Russia or is that vast country further to be avoided? H, Parker Wills, professor of bank- ing at Columbia University, who re- cently returned from a trip to Soviet Russia, is an advocate of trade with, Soviet Russia. Mr. Willis pointed out that last year America stood first in the foreign trade of Soviet Russia, but this year has dropped to second place. “Last year we had 80 per cent of their trade and first place in it. This year we shall have second place | and there are some who think it will not run higher than 20 per cent.” Professor Willis gave as the reason the refusal of American bankers and manufacturers to grant credit, “Under proper conditions and under suitable safoguatds the Russian trade fleld of- fers one of those new and almost un- limited opportunities for development which are only occasionally pre- sented.” Rev, BE. A, Walsh, who spent two yoars in Hoover's relief expedition, was the second spéaker on trade with Soviet Russia, He pointed out that the Soviet government confiscated all private property at the time of the revolution and that therefore “bus!- ness men who seek to trade with the RBuasians do so at theip ow Tighe” SATU ov 6 RDAY A Special Russian Revolution Anniversary Number of 12 Pages pages. 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