The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 6, 1926, Page 3

. / LABOR ‘LEADERS’ FEEL HONORED IN. DESTROYER RITES. Green Subscribes to the | Warship Program By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. (Special to The Dally Worker) NBDW YORK, Nov, 4,— William Green, president of the American Fod- eration of Labor, and other national and local labor leaders drove the first tivet into the keel of the cruiser Pen- sacola at the Brooklyn navy yard here. | This ceremony was watched by 5,000 people, including fifty “labor leaders,” who were present at the invitation of Rear Admiral Plunkett, who wanted | the officials of the American Federa- | tion of Labor to have the “honor” of Placing the first rivet. Costs $10,000,000. The Pensacola will be of 10,000 tons and will cost $10,000,000. The building | of the ship is expected to take over two years. Within the next few weeks 8,000 men will be at work on the ves- gel, and if it is decided to make it a rush job 2,000 more will be added, The labor leaders were assigned of ficial position as follows: Right-hand niveter, William Green; left-hand riv- eter, John Sullivan, president of the New York State Federation of Labor; holder on, Joseph Ryan) president of the New York Central Trades and La- bor Council; rivet feeder, A. A. Col- field, president of the plumbers’ union; rivet passer, Frank Morrison, secre- tary of the A, F, of L.; standby, Roy Horn, president of the Blacksmiths’ International Union. Mentions Armament Treaty. Admiral ‘Plunkett, in addressing President Green before the ceremony, cited the provisions of Articles’11 and 12 of the imitations armament treaty, and said: “There is no limitation on the num- ber of ships of this class which may be built by any of the contracting powers, Since the conclusion of tke world war the United States has com: pleted ten cruisers of 7,500 tons. Con gress has made appropriations for the gonstruction of five of the Pensacola type. During and since.the war one of the signatories has built, or is THE DAILY WORKE At the Congr ~es of the British Communist Party To the left ts a British artist's Impression of Bob Stewart, acting seo- retary of the British Communist Party reporting on the British General Strike. At the right Is Marry Pollitt telling the 300 delegates aesembled at Battersea Town Hall of the fight the Communist and left wing delegates made at the Margate conference of the Labor Party for full support to the striking miners. This was @ historic congress. The Party has mors than doubled Ite membership In the last year and Increased fhe olroulation of the press 50 per cent. The malin queetion before the congress was assistance to the struggle of the British miners In which the Communist Party Is playing an important role. . EIGHT WOMEN HAVE INCOME OVER | MILLION DOLLARS IN U. S.;.HOW ABOUT THE WOMEN IN PASSAIC? (Special to The Dally Worker.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—Woman’s rise to power in the big money world was graphically illustrated in details of income tax payments for 1925, made public today by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Supremacy in money-grabbing, once dominated By men is slowly being attained ‘by women, aceording to official figures which showed that in 1924, building, 50 cruisers, another 25, and we are building ten, for five of which the money has been appropriated. This is the first of the five whose keel would help to promote understanding and good wili among the nations of the world (by building battleships). Celebrate Navy Day. thronged saw, among other craft, four subma- rines, the S-12, 8-49, S-50 and the P-3, a new type designed to go with the fleet in its maneuvers, Also there were two destroyers, the Brooks and the Barry, end the 8-51, which had been raised from the ocean floor off Block Island. Daily Worker Agents Meet in N. Y. Tonight NBW YORK, Nov. 4—Hvery DAILY WORKER agent in Greater New York is called to meet at 108 East Four- teenth street this Saturday evening, Nov. 6. The meeting will start at 7 o’clock sharp and will close promptly at 8 o’clock, so that those attending will also be able to take in the Vetch- erinka or'the Lettish concert and ball, or any other affair they choose the same evening. Eugene MEMORIAL the last year for which accurate statistics are available, there were eight women with incomes of more than $1,000,000. Women were officially classed 3s+——————________—— the heads of 153,278 American fami-|in 1924, an increase of $78,000,000 from at MUSIC-ART HALL, 233 South Broadway With Mother Bloor, Tom Lewis and prominent fooal speakers—Robert Whitaker, Chairman. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, at 8:00 P. M. les. Returns were filed by other women. $955,000,000, 173,225 of this class hav ing made separate income tax returns. Joint returns of husbands and wives numbered 3,991,550, representing net income of $16,695,378,000. Big Foreign Income. Internal revenue statistics disclos- ed that 3,653 aliens paid taxes amounting to” $5,923,571, Non-resi- dent aliens reported incomes amount- ing. to’ $39,702,000 and foreigners in the Unfted States of $23,596,000. The income of American citizens from foreign sources amounted to $46,264,000, with a tax Mability of $2,- 476,000. Few Farmers Pay.” Agricultural returns for 1924 showed the unsettled condition of the farm in- dustry. Approximately 69,600 farmers made returns, Of this number, 49,584 reported net profits of $90,403,000, while 20,017 reported net losses of $45,631,000. Personal industry accounted for $21,696,873,000, or 73 per cent of the total taxable income. Individual in- comes from business totaled $47,554, $80,000, Manufacturers reported a profit of $380,097,000 and general, trade $1,603,558,000, Taxes other than federal income as- sessments amounted to $1,097,507,000 V. Debs MEETING , California : Auspices: International Labor Defense "(The Shield of the Working Class.) ASHLAND BLVD. AUDITORIUM. SUNDAY, NOV. 7 | . AT8 P.M. ANNIVERSARY ne ‘CELEBRATE THE NINTH the preceding year, Half-Million Corporations. Reports from corporations showed 417,421 returns, of which 236,389 ac- counted for had incomes of $7,586, 652,000, paying @ tax of $881,549,000. New York, with 16 per cent of all tax returns, reported 20 per cent of the total national income and paid 38 per cent of the tax. The average net taxmbdle income in New York state was $4,232, i New Jersey and: Rhode Island tied for second “honors” with average net incomes of $3,925, while Florida was fourth with $3,902. Per capita net income in New York was $194, Rhode Island $137, Delaware $128 and Hawait $119. 53 Miners Drown in Cave-In (Continued from page 1) the great gaping hole left by the cave in. No Warning, No warning accompanied the cave- in, Witnesses said that the largest section of the mine surface, 300 feet long and 200 feet wide, was seen to quiver and then, with a dull sucking, dropped into the workings more than | 250 feet. Engineers say the collapse wrecked the firat level, 600 feet under and that the water and mud inundated the lev- els to a depth of 1,000 feet. Most of the men were working in the first lev- el when the disaster struck. Exits Blooked. All exits were blocked. The only recoveries that have been made are bodies that floated to the surface or were carried out of a side entrance by the rush of muck. The Barnes-Hecker mine, operated by the Cleveland Bluffs Mining Co., is known in this section as a “wet” mine, Such workings are always considered dangerous. A like disaster occurred in Minne- sota several years ago when an under- ground lake inundited a mine in a similar manner. Four years ago forty- one men were drowned under the same circumstances in the Milford mine in this district. One Survivor, There was only one survivor, a boy of 18 who started up the shaft for dinner at the moment the cave-in be- gan and worked his way thru the mud and water to the top. It was his opinion that the men died where they stood, smoking and preparing for dinner, Send In a sub today! OF THE CHAMORRO WILL BE RECOGNIZED BY U. 8,, BELIEF i\Kellogg to Disregard Approved Treaty WASHINGTON, Nov, 4,—Disclosure | that Secretary Kellogg is reconciling | his congcience with the possibility of | recognizing a Chamorrist regime in | Nicaragua, much desired by Wall| Street bankers, is made at the state department at the moment of arrival | of retniforeements trom Mexico for the constitutional party now in rebellion | against Chamorro’s dictatorship, | | ‘Treaty Signed, | | All’ Central American repubdlics | \signed @ treaty, approved by the | United States in a special letter | wherein they agreed to give no recog- nition to a Tegime in Central America based on seizure of power by armed force, or upon any other tan constitu- | tlonal title. | Chamorro, former dictator, defeated in an election held during American military oceupation two years ago, seized the capital by ald of military revolt and expelled the duly elected Uberal administration. Refused recog- nition, he drove from the Nicaraguan congress most of the liberals, placed his own henchmen in their seats, and is now about to have one of his rela- tives or liewtenants “elected” as pres- ident, while he holds command of the army. The liberals are in revolt and have a fair chance of overthrowing his regime within the next few months. Kellogg Fears Mexloo. Secretary Kellogs’s apparent change | of front is thought to be due to fear | of the influence in Latin America of | the help which Mexican liberals are | giving to the Mberal rebels in Nicara- gua, The matter was discussed in the conference’ on Mexican affairs held recently.in the white house between President Coolidge, Kellogg, his as- |sistant, Olds, Ambassador Sheffield and Charles Beecher Warren. Many Refugees From Russian and Armenia Are Now Unemployed WASHINGTON, Noy. 4.—At least 250,000 Armenian and Russian refu- goes are unemployed, according to sta- tistics gathered by a commission of the league of nations and reported to the state-department from Geneva. ‘The total mumber of refugees from these countries now in Europe is esti- mated to be. 1,5000,000. At an intergovernmental conference last May @ form of refugee passport was adopted:in place of the more awk- ward forms’ previously used, and $500,000 was declared to be necessary as a fund with which to assist in the migration of these people. Self-sup- porting refugees are to be taxed $1 a year to create this fund. Twenty-two countries signgd the pact. ‘To date 46 governments have ratl fied it with reference to Russian refu- fees, and 35. with reference to Arme- nians. Paterson, Near Area of Strike, Agog at Picture of Passaic PATERSON, \Nov, 8.—Interest, bor- dering om excitement, has been aroused here by the announcement of the intended showing of the seven-reel motion picture of the Passaic textile |strike in this city on Wednesday night, |November 17, According to present plans, the presentation will be given in the Bast Side High School, Because of Paterson's proximity to the city of Passaic, center of the struggle of textile workers for a liv- ing wage, the entire population, is | deeply interested im the big strike, now in ite tenth month, in that city. Paterson’s leading newspapers and citizens have repeatedly espoused the cause of the strikers, and the picture | is sure to have a large and sympa- thetic audience, Britain Builds Gold Barrier Against U. S. (Continued from page 1) terfere with Britain’s schemes to thwart the United States, | Brains of Scheme. Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, is credited with being the brains of the scheme. The general strike prevented the plan from going into effect already, The move- ment dates from the Genoa economic | conference in 1921, when the Bank of | Pngland was handed the leadership in the crusade, It fs reported that British banks are THE RUSSIAN WORKERS HAVE GIVEN $4,000,000 TO Page Three HELP THE BRITISH MINERS—MORE ON THE WAY SYNDIGALIST LAW INGALIFORNIA RAPPED BY I LD, Palo Alto Times Also for Repeal PALO ALTO, Cal. Oct. 28.—Califor- nia’s criminal, syndicalism law wae given @ scathing arraignment at a meeting here under the auspices of the Palo Alto Housewives’ Union in Russell cafeteria by Edgar Owens, or- gahizer for International Labor De- fense. Reviews Ristory. The speaker reviewed the history of the labor defense organization and summarized the development of sup- pressive labor legislation during and since the world war, and outlined the program of International Labor De- fense in California for the repeal of the criminal syndicalism law and the release of all class war prisoners. Babbit Protests. The announcement of the meeting appeared in the Palo Alto Times. One of the Times’ readers, signing himself ‘Law Respecter,” sent a com- munication to the Times forum de nouncing the meeting and calling on the good people of Palo Alto to prevent It. In his letter he stated that he “had not read the text of the criminal syndicallem law, but had been told that it was against the radicals and the |. W. W. and there- fore must be a good law.” A member of the Housewives’ Union took “Law Respecter’ to a beautiful cleaning, which led the editor of the | Palo Alto Times to devote more than @ column editorial in commenting on the criminal syndicalism law and wherein he declared that “the Times shares the view that the criminal syn- dicalism law of the state should be either repealed or revised in order to prevent injustices that have been com- | mitted thru its enforcement,” Must Work 12 Hours for Construction Co. at Jamestown, N. Y. By ALBERT ESTES (Worker Correspondent) JAMBSTOWN, N. Y., Nov, 3— |Buflding laborers who work for the By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. This week the Russian Soviet Union reaches its 9th milestone and the Brit- ish miners carry on into the 7th month of their great strike to save their union, These two events are united by a bond of interest, although the miners are not revolutionists but trade unionists defending themselves again great odds. Russian trade unionists alone have adequately recognized the importance of supporting the greatest British union against the onslaught of the employing class, The latest trade union bulletin from Russia reports nearly $4,000,000 sent by Russian workers to fill the depleted war chest of the British union. The flow of fraternal contributions will continue, for the Russian trade union} movement is sending 1% of its wages so long as the British coal strike con-| tinues, | As a result bankers, coal operators, | manufacturers, landlords and pss | magnates united have failed to s | the British workers into submission. | The capitalist offensive to establish | slave wages throughout industry has} been held up at the start. | Such a demonstration shows that the growing strength of Russian labor | CURRENT I EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. | (Continued from page 1) ocrat or republican. Those are happy | days for the American ruling classes. MERICAN capitalism like the Coo- lidge myth will have its day. Not 80 long ago the British empire looked rather stable. Today it is slipping | rapidly into the historical abyss. So we see the British working olass yearly growing in strength and tn mil- itancy. We see a general strike, the biggest of ite kind i ‘labor history. A few days ago electidns to the bor ough councils gave Jabor an increased representation.of about 150 over the previous elections. Every social sys- tem bears within itself the germs of its own decay. This. has been stated 2 9th anniversary of its wing strength are inion membership April 1 1926 n of 26.2% over out 90% of all ntry are or- t is weakest bor, which 1s But even 8 been rapid. on of Land & 218,388 and the wages and among t scattered in this fi On April 11 Forest Worke: its agreements c condit more t oceup fon, 2 Railroad W rs Union, with growth to 0,600 members, fe rts progress beyond mere increase numbers. The are in the union 9 mutual ajd societies with a mem- » of the union's d in 1925 was has 603. libra- oscribers and in g libraries, ns 8 r for congratn- lation only Russian work- ers on their anniversary, but alse.te world labor. " i to the j costs. Mussolini has inaugurated # new rei of against the! masses Mussolini wil be sent crisis, but a dictatorship of the few over ghe many is bound to fail, S we expected, the masses were not | sd much by the slush f- It is very doubtful if h wi thru his acceptance of the Insull money. Capitalism is a corrupting im{ fluence that hag reached down to thay They see so much grafting |/ going on around them that they hawe/ accepted it is a normal condition | “Tl get mine any way I can, if I ean. get away with it.” This sentiment so. often expressed epitomizes the standard of large sections of the ulation. So, when one politician at workers, received graft, there is a general Sift hundreds of thousands of times, but it cannot be said too often. 6% ‘HILE the American working class were kidding themselves by vot ing for capitalist’ candidates the fif- teenth conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was taking place in the Kremlin, one of the many palaces of the czars. Now the czars are no more and all his palaces are at the disposal of the workers and peas- ants, Yet in 1914 the czar was sitting pretty, in one of the 1,157 rooms in |the Winter Palace at St Petersburg | (now Leningrad) and it took faith born |of conviction on the part of the Rus- | sian revolutionists to persevere in the | struggle. HERE is nothing in life as con-| stant as change. Workers, smok- ing cigarettes, now saunter thru the gorgeous rooms of the Winter Palace in Leningrad and thru the Kremlin in | Moscow, where once the flower of.the ussian nobility amused themselves. Today the remnants of this nobility | are scattered, all over the world, many of them not knowing where the next meal is coming from. And the work jers and peasants they once treated Itke dogs are governing one-sixth of |the earth’s surface and doing the job well, ILE everything 1 quiet and healthfully peaceful in the Soviet | Union, the same cannot be sald of kind of dictatorship prevails. We made a mistake in The DAILY WORKER a few days ago when we solini’s life was the fifth, It was the sixth, but that does not matter much. Italy, where another but a_ different | had it that the last attempt on Mus- | tacks another on the ground that 4 ing of the eyebrows, as much as |say: “He’s sore because he did not) | set his.” S far as Cook county is concerned!) ~ the vote was a tribute to organiza- |tion, personal popularity and bi-parth | |san deals. The alliances were #0} complicated that an attempt to un- jravel them almost makes one dizzy, | | For instance, Charles Barrett, reprblis can, running for president of the board of review, won by a 100,000 plurality. Patrick Carr, democrat, running for sheriff, won by a 117,000 majority, The Daeneen factjon of the G. O, P. voted ; for Barrett, but knifed Joseph Savage, another Crowe pet Thus it goes. Those local leaders compare unfavor- ably with Chinese tuchuns, who change their allegiance with much less reluctance than they change their an- derwear 7 TI,HE leaders of the American social ist party are screaming like fright- ened hens in a coop because the In ternational Labor Defense of which Eugene V. Debs was an executive member, organized a. nation-wide speaking campeign to tell the story of the real Debs to the workers and not the pacifist caricature that the law- yers.and the mintsterial failures of the socialist party make him ont to be. As the Workers (Comm ) Party state. ment points out Debs was always @t Hloggerheads with the Hillqnit gang. While Hillquit favored the world court and the league of mations Debs was bitterly opposed to those instruments of capitalist imperialism. ¢ | ee F all the carrion crows that are } now croaking over Debs’ grave’ Warren Construction company here /tn ali probability Mussolini will have |Rev, Norman Thomas is the most nau- must work 12 hours a day for straight |t4 hire a special accountant to keep jSeating. Thomas | time or lose their job, A workor who starts at 6 a. m, and wishes to quit at 2 or 4 p. m., is told by the slavedriver to stay until 6, or “get his time.” A committee from the Laborers’ un- fon who went there %o get them into the union, was told by some of the workers that they would have to ask the boss before they could join, | tally ig the marksmen continne to miss |the mark, The many attenipts on the tdictator’s life and the bloodshed whieh \{$ @0 normal in the Italy of today | | show that a cancer is eating at the | country’s heart, and its name is fas- \cism, HE latest reports from Italy inform | us that severe battles are taking No | place between the fascists and their | considering favorably the granting of |@ $150,000,000 thirty-year loan to the | | Soviet Union, } doubt, the slavedriver told them not | to join a unton if they wished to hold their jobs, This 1s tho condition that exists at the Art Metal plant, whero they ere building an addition. SS SESS RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Speakers >—WM. Z. FOSTER, WM. F. DUNNE, SAM DARCY, A. SWABECK, Chairman + * opponents, Many were killed, among | the dead being several black shirts. Mussolini is now convinced that the fascist ranks are honeycombed with members bent on having his life at all Lithuanian Workers Chorus Vocal and Instrumental Musio PIONEER PANTOMIME rould turn Debs in- to a democrat. ugene V, Debs was, almost a romantic believer in demoe racy” ®ays Thomas, “He Was a DAS Sionata devotes of freedom.” So far as we know, Debs never bothered very much about freedom in general, He was concerned only with the free- dom of oppressed peoples, Thor | being a preacher wanta to Paks souls of all classes, and being @ #0 clalist preacher he believes that the capitalists, being the greater sinnere need salvation most, From such as he may the shades of Marx and Lentr save the memory of Debs, PROGRAM SPECIAL FEATURES