The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 11, 1926, Page 3

, water to be shipped as “black” coal THE UNEMPLOYED. COAL MINERS NOW AT WORK ose I> . British’ Strike Booms ° ° * Bituminous Field it By ART SHIELDS ty (Federated Press) PITTSBURGH, Now 8—The miners’ anton In three hard-pressed bituminous detricts le getting a breathing spell at Whe expense of the British strikers, tm Ohio, western and central Pennsyl- Ywanla, it Is estimated that more than $5,000 unemployed union men are feck In the pits In answer to the de- id of the former customers of the ish mine owners. Mm fairness to the local miners it Some Stays Here. And not all of this coal goes to tide- ® the British isles and colonies, tho @ good part of ft does, Some of the foal remains in north-state American higher prices at Hampton the northern mines are get- ba back their.old trade for the dura- of the strike, Sesond Strike Boom. ’ fs the second strike boom of Last winter the anthracite cansed part-time bituminous i now been explained. go on full and idle mines to take advantage of the high for anthracite substitytes. Next there may be another short- doom when industrialists and operators begin stocking up for bituminous strike generally ex- here in April when the Jack- contract expires. Nothing worse could be said of the industry than this: that it only at the expense of strikers. “too many mines and too ‘many miners” for more than half time ee ee rt ef Why not a small butidie of The PAILY WORKER sent te you,regular. fy to take to your trade union meeting? the most daring _ and damning exposure of Queen Marie’ of Roumania. that has yet been published {n the United States Saturday, Nov. 13 The DAILY WORKER will pre- sent facts in an original article which has just been received ‘Cotzofanesti’ Exposes the bloody queen of Roumania in a true light for the world to judge her on facts! Get the Issue of Saturday, November 13! Order a bundle—3%y0c a copy —By Wm. Gropper. The truly remarkable manner in which Mussolini: ffirts with bombs has He always knows when they are going off, WAX FIGURE OF MRS, MILLS TO “TEST NERVES’ Evidence Tightens on Willie Stevens COURT HOUSE, SOMPRVILLE, N. J., Nov. 9—A wax effigy of the late Mrs, Bleanor Mills will be dragged into the courtroom in the Hall-Mills murder trial before the eyes of the complacent defendants, Mrs.- Frances Stevens Hall and her two brothers, Henry and Willie Stevens, it was learned today as the defense lawyers were centering a savage cross-exami- nation on two fingerprint experts. It 1s to be the ever-spectacular Prosecutor Alexander Simpson’s new- est “surprise move.” To Show Wound., The effigy purports to show how the choir singer’s throat was cut. In a glass case the throat of the dead woman will be. exhibited to the jury in wax form. It will be one of the strangest ex- hibits ever shown at a murder trial. Wii! Test Nerves. It is expected to afford a severe test to the nerves of the defendants, particularly Mrs. Hall, whose view was blocked by her lawyers the other day when they brought in the effects of her slain husband and his quara- «| mour, Detroit to Show Rassalc Film Dec. 1. DETROIT, Nov. 9—‘“The Passaic Textile Strike,” motion picture story of the etruggle of the 16,000 textile workers of Passaic and vicinity, will be shown in Detroit, Wednesday eve- ning, Dec. 1, at Majestic Theater, ‘Woodward near Willis. Musical en- tertainment is also being arranged. All friendly organizations are urged not to arrange conflicting affairs for that date. Tickets are now available MILLION DOLLAR SLANDER SUIT IS FILED AGAINST AIMEE BY WRONG ‘MRS. X’ LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9—Process servers will meet Aimee Semple McPherson as she steps from the platform at Angelus Temple tonight to serve her with | papers In the million dollar damage sult filed against her by Mrs. Virla Kimball, attorney 8. S. Hahn announced to- day. Hahn ,sald process servers had thus far been unable to reach the evangelist and her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy. Mrs. Kimball, sister of Mrs. Lor- raine Wiseman-Seilaff, “confessed perpetrator of the alleged “Miss X” hoax, filed the suit against the pas- tor because of Mrs. McPherson’s alleged efforts to have her identified as the woman who spent ten days with Kenneth Ormiston in the Ben- edict cottage at Carmel. Youngstown Sheet Co. to Build Huge Coke Plant in So. Chicago YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Nov. 9,—The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co, will build a by-product. coke plant at an estimated cost of $5,000,000 at its South Chicago works, it was an’, nounced today by James A. Campbell, president of the company. It will in- clude 120 ovens, The plant will be built along the lake front and contracts have been let to fill 15 acres for the site. Express to Take the Air. NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—The Ameri- can Railway Express is going to take to the air, according to Robert Cowie, president of the company. Cowle ai nounced a contract has been made with the National Air Transport. Inc., to carry packages over the New York- Chicago and Chicago-Dallas air routes, which will be service to intermediate at 1967 Grand River avenue, points on both lines, S STRIKE STRATEGY among the troops, their morale, is a factor of decisive weight. Hence, during wars, strategists devote the closest attentidn to this matter, ——— +, CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued trom page 1.) private and swat the rosy visage at the polls, eee OW then, why did Calvis dust off the old political Stetson? Was he thinking, first of Morgan, or first of little silent Cal? It doegn’t matter much but it 1s always in order to swat a delusion, Of course if Calvin did not consider the interests of Morgan, the latter would devise ways and means of giving him a free ride to Vermont. But the animation between the presi- dential ears on this occasion was en- gendered by the desire on the part of | Calvin to keep away from bill-collect- ing, rather than to drop $250,000 into the pockets of the already rich. se 6 UN CHUAN FANG, one of the Chinese tuchuns, is not seeing the ‘world thru rose-colored glasses and his prospects are anything but bright, despite the suggestion of warmth in the name. The trouble is that the Cantonese are making it rather hot for Sun, There is nothing now be- tween the Cantonese and Wu Pet Fu except a few provinces but at the rate Wu ts travelling, by the time the Cantonese catch up with him he may have doubled back on his original burrow. The fact that the Cantonese troops are “red” does not seem to hurt their eyes. ee i Bac areé*serious in Italy for the Fascist regime. Mussolini made a serious mistake in tickling the French military heel. Italy wants the French coloniés 1n north Africa and Benito was going about it nicely, de- veloping am excuse for inciting the Italian people against France so that he could grab some colontes, and kill off a few hundred thousand superfiu- ous Italians, Sometimes it is not well to be too clever. Mussolini read Mac- chiavelli but the French intelligence service also had a copy. So Mussolini was caught with the goods, organizing plots against bis ally Spain on French soil, In order to embroil Spain with France and secure the former's assist- ance such ag it is worth—in a war with Frante, a ‘HH return of the Condyllis sup- porters in the recent Greek elec- tions is another slap in the face to Mussolini amd a victory for French imperialism against the British brand. The monarchists were snowed under heavily. The capitalist news agencies failed to report the labor vote, tho the workers candidates in the fleld. The Greek’ trade unions are revolu- tlonary ani er the influence of the Communi ‘ Big Profits of Penn Railroad Raise Rate of Stock Dividends NEW YORK, Noy. 17.—Increased profits of the Pennsylvania Railroad has prompted’ the directors to increase the dividend rate from 6 per cent to 7 per cent, it is announced. It is expected that 17 or 17% per cent will be earned on the road's stock this year, which is $600,000,000. Last year the road earned 12 per cent. The new dividend rate is the high- est paid by the road since 1907. Army Pilots Killed. GETTYSBURG, Pa., Nov. 9.—Army officials were expected here today to take gharge of the bodies of Lieut. Kenyon M. Hegardt and Lieut. H. W. Downing, army avViators, who were killed 15 miles west of here yester- day when their plane crashed in the mountains, er a | New Coal Company. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Nov, 9.—The French Coal company, route 5, Strea- tor, was granted a charter here today, $5,000 incorporators: John Fink, Ju- lius O, Remy, John McNeil mine and deal in. coal. understanding. DAILY WORKER Page Three Struggle to Free Political Prisoners in Poland By EMiL iL STAWSKI. RA.—Poland resounds with the call for the Mberation of the political prisoners. For a long time there had been no mass demonstration of love and solidarity for the best fighters of the class struggle who suffer in chaing in the prisons, When in parliament the land own- ers and bourgeois representatives elected their president, from those benches, from where the struggle for the Polish workers and peasants is lead, sounded the call: “Lanzuzki!” Moscicki Interrupted. When under the clumsy pillars of the royal palace in Warsaw the new clown of the Polish bourgeoisie, Pres- ident Moscicki, gave his oath of alle- giance to the “people,” his words were interrupted by the calls for amnesty. The representatives of the workers were attacked, were dragged from the hall; among them also Comrade Var- ski, but their voices became awaken- ing call for tens of thousands of people inthe country. DAY there is not a single village in Poland where one does not hear the slogans of the amnesty cam- paign. Recently not a single meeting of the workers of Warsaw, Lods, Dom- brova and Lublin was held without an approval of the amnesty campaign, We participated in a social demo- cratic meeting in the country. The usual agenda of the social-democratic party. The local party bureaucracy repeated again and again its program, This was done with the typical “pre caution” and “reserve,” and in a way as if nothing had happened, as if everything was in the best order in the Poland of the capitalists and land owners, as if no blood had been shed in the streets of Kalish, Strij and War- But suddenly, to the greatest surprise of the chairman and the sec- retary, voices made themselves heard: “We demand the liberation of the prisoners!” ANDS were lifted, hundreds of voices called. It was a surprise also for the “Robitnik,” the organ of the P. P. S., which published not a word about the resolution for amnesty which was adopted. saw. “Amnesty!” Is Slogan. In Upper Silesia—in all large shops —the same ploture, even in the moet- ings of the so-called National Work- ers’ Party, whose leader organized in 1905 the notorious murders against the Warsaw and Lods workers, the slogan of amnesty is raised, From a bench in the background somewhere the magio word sounds: =~ ‘ “Amnesty!” And immediately life comes into the meeting. The leaders would like to disappear, they would like to establish silence again. Perhaps they succeed for a moment. But after an instant the call sounds again, and the ques- tion is raised from all parts of the hall: “And what about the amnesty?” The resolution ig adopted: “We de mand the release of the political pris oners.” But the yellow leaders are in a hurry with their own resolution “Long live Pilsudsky!” Also their resolution ts adopted. The masses are already conscious of the powerful idea of class solidar. ity, but. they are not yet ripe for rev- oluttonary thinking and action ag@inst the party bureaucracy, Pollee Panicky. HE! police have lost their heads. They arrest right and left. They Warsaw was followed by the proy- inces, ne the governmental decrees to the whole country, in hundreds of thousands of copies in all villages and towns received the “visum” of the Pol- ish working class: Appeal for the struggle to liberate the prisoners of capital, Some days ago the police were again surprised. The relations of the pplitical prisoners formed a special committee and addressed themselves in-a long appeal to the workers. In he appeal they described the situation of the prisoners, The committee was a perfectly legal undertaking, but hardly had the first news about its srganization been published in the press when the police searched the house of the five orga! of the ommittee, all wives of political pris- rs. A gang of brutal policemen ed their way into the houses and isulted the defenseless women and ildren Holds Good Meeting, Pp tats spirit, Sochénid, M. P magnificent mee Poland. to the held a ing for amnesty in Poland, the kers and peasants wer by Pilsudsky conq imprison popular trade union officials jand his c € illusiong on (among them the famous leader of | “democra hich gained the building workers, Sypula), disband | ground among sses during the workers’ organizations, undertake | overthrow, was ally followed by searches during the night in the su-|deop depression began to real- burbs of the towns in the houses of |ize the true n. Behind the the workers, and—despite all the | back of Pilsud egin to see houses and doorways are covered with | the grimace of innumerable posters and appeals, one | dictatorship. In here and one there—fnd on the tele- | dom and work, graph poles red flags and posters are | lets, as thi t in Hoatia- fastened. nin, [ nd other towns. One morning Warsaw awoke and The economic crisis intensifies found that all governmental and “pa- | daily, and the d tr fact, con triotic” posters in the town were coy-|vince the masses that eve ered by the following little slip of | mains as before, or that it paper: worse. “Freedom for the political prison- The m es challenge the bloody erst” rulers of re E Poland, and the “Unknown persons” had the insol-|first steps, the first sound of this ence to cover with this damned slogan | struggle, is dev 1 to the bravest of all publications of the ministry of the | ‘he braye fighte of the Polish work- interior on the extension of the work-]ing Glass—the imprisoned fighters for of the court martials, the Polish Soviet Republic Soviet Throngs Hail Bolshevik Revolution (Continued from page 1.) army is 660,000 strong, a reduction of 90% since 1919. “Even this small army,” he said, “constitutes a heavy financial drain on the country. But with the ever. present danger of intervention, we. cannot afford to reduce it further. So long as we are surrounded by enemy capitalist countries who give us no time to” work quietly in peaceful pursuits, this is impossible.” Fee Omaha Has Big Celebration. OMAHA, Neb.—Strengthen the Workers (Communist) Party, keep The DAILY WORKER, build the Dower of the workers and farmers against the forces of capitalism, was the message that J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, brought to Omaha to the spirited gath- ering of labor that turned out to-cele- brate the Ninth Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. “The Bolshevik Revolution is the revolution of the workers and farmers } of Omaha and Nebraska, just as much ®s it is the revolution of the workers and farmers of the Union of Soviet Republics,” said Engdabl. “It is your revolution, part of the world-wide struggle in the transition from capi- talism Yo Communism. You must study it, learn its lessons, profit by its experiences, so that you, in common with all oppressed labor in the United States, may achieve the American Bol- shevik Revolution.” Engdahl explained the role of the Communist Party in the Russian revo- lution and showed the necessity of building the American section of the Communist International and its press. But more is necessary. The whole strike strategy must be so calculated as to infuse. the strikers with courage and an indomitable fighting spirit. It Is only eight short years since the last shot was fired in the great “war for democracy.” Here we see U. S, Vice Admiral Wells, reviewing Ger- man sailors In the battleship “Eisass” in Kiel harbor. The sudden friendly spirit shown by the naval machinery and persone! of the two former enemies is explained in a large part by the Dawes Plan—the fact that Wall! Street bankers have so much money Invested and have loaned so much gold to Germany that friendship is the better part of discretion for both, for the time being, at least. SEEN of backing up before their attacks. They. fight on the de By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER \ ARTICLE, XI Tue Sraixn Srrvacte sper present conditions in the United® States satrikes are the very heart.of the class struggle. They are bru- ‘Pal and open fights between exploiters and exploited. It is in strikes that the conflicting interests of the two classes fre most manifest. The employer in his limitless greed and desire to exploit the workers even more intensely than the present unexampled rate, seeks to break. their spirit and ‘to force them to work upon his terms. To this end je em- ploys a formidable array of weapons: hunger, terrorism, duplicity, illusory concessions, On their side, the workers have as their great weapon tthe cutting off of the employer’s supply of labor-power. They seek to keep his plants shut down until his greed for profits, or the pressure from other capitalists who need his products, compels him to come to terms. But in order to do this they must be able to maintain an unbroken sol- idarity in the face of all the employer's many attacks, open and insidious. This is the chief objective of strike strategy during the heat of the open struggle. Tux Question or Morary _ In all situations where the fighting qualities of human beings are called into play the question of morale assumes great importance. Military leaders understand this thoroly. (hey know that the strength of an army is not to be meas- BN nred simply by its numbers, or even by its favorable stra- situation. — ann he ace dal as, ee tagllageilsnny tn tn Nevergwas this better illustrated than during the world war when, not to mention the oceans of propaganda that were poured out, whole military campaigns were carried through with the special plan of improving the morale of the respective armies and home populations and of weak- ening that of the enemy. The leaders knew that if the fighting morale was gone the war would be Jost. Strike strategy, no less than military strategy, must give close concern to the question of morale. ‘This is be- cause strikes, like military campaigns though in a lesser degree, are tests of the courage and endurance of their par- ticipawts. The, tenacity, durability, discipline, and general effectiveness of a strike largely depend upon the morale of the workers involved. The power of resistance of a body of strikers, like.that of an army in the field, can be measured pretty much by the state of their morale, The question of morale is especially important among inexperienced, unorganized workers where the discipline bred of trade union experience is weak. “Soulless” strikes such as conservative leaders conduct among the organized erafts, when morale is at a low ebb and chiefly the organ- ization sense of the workers holds them together, would be absolutely fatal among’ the great masses of unskilled now unorganized, The question of morale is, therefore, a fundamental one in stgike strategy. Our problem is how to create and maintain it, This determines the whole character of pur strike strategy. Propaganda is not enough. True it isa very bona means ‘to give the workers hope, inspiration, and 9 staat wmernnn thing that tends to make the strike effective tends also to raise the spirits of the strikers. A good morale is not a thing by itself; it is the product of a generally successful strike strategy. FicHtTine on THE Derensive For the building of a strong strike morale we must base our strike strategy upon the theory of fighting upon the offensive. We must attack alw. rays, or at the worst be preparing to attack, This theory is just as applicable to the class war in industry as it is to military war on ahe battlefield. The workers, like soldiers, (and they are the) same human beings and subject to the same psychological laws) fight best on the offensive. They are then fired with | a sense of power and victory; defensive fighting demoralizes them and fills them with defeatism. Fyvery good general and strike leader must take this basic fact into considera- tion. ‘This contention that workers fight best on the offensive is no contradiction to the statement previously made that most of the desperate strikes in American labor history have been to ward off attacks of the employers. The aim of the war or strike as a whole may be defensive, such as a defense of the homeland or against a wage reduction (when soldiers and workers both fight the best) but the tactics in the struggle itself must be based upon the theory of the offensive. Conservative labor leaders habitually follow the wrong Moin of surrendering the initiativésiovthe employers and fensive. Their cowardly retreat in the British general Every-| strike was a classical example of this false strategy. A real strike strategy must pursue the policy of the offensive. When the employers take the initiative from us we must take it bA¢k with a counter-offensive. If they force a jock- out upon us we must turn it into a strike, placing counter. demands and involving more workers, Tempo or Counrer-Arrack * The offensive does not mean a reckless attack, but a calculated increase in our fighting tempo apd a sharp as- sault upon the enemy’s weakest point. It may take many forms, such as a strike of additional workers, and intensi- fication of picketing, a greater stimulation of support from the labor movement at large, aggressive publicity maneu- vers, calling out of maintenance men in coal strikes, ete, based upon whatever means are in hand and what oppor- tunities are present. The nature of the offensive will change with the varying conditions in the «trike. An offensive by the workers in Passaic now, after nine months of bitter struggle and when they are so much weakened, is:a very different thing than it wag in the opening months of the historic struggle when they had their full resources in hand, But the theory? of the offensive is just.as valid now in Passai¢ as it ever was. From time to time our forces will be so defeated that we will be confronted with little Brest-Litovsks, But we must understand them as Lenin did his, as offering breath- ing spells during which we shall rally our shattered vat tallions for the next offensive, (To be continued) *- . Maneatis nd