The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1926, Page 3

STRIKE FINDS MINERS STRONG Hodges, Reactionary, Is Asked to Quit * By BILL ROSS, Federated Press. LONDON—(FP)—Far from break- + fe down, the resistance of the Brit- ‘Yeh miners in the 7th month of the @ockout assumes new strength. Workers’ Exodus from Palestine to Russia. Starts on Big Scale (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Noy, ..+~ A big party of re-emigrants arrived to Odessa from Palestine, High cost of living in the latter country, heavy taxation and constant struggle with Arabs make gonditions of work in Palestine very hard. Hundreds of disappointed colon- ists are returning to the Soviet Union, Poland and many are leaving for America, Lately there has been orm ganized aspecial Society, 3¢ Repatria- tion to Motherland which is opposed Y WORKER The Seat of the It ‘alian Government | ustralian Government Page Three Spends 56% of Money on Military Program MELBOURND, Australia, Noy. 11.— | The federal government's budgeted | expenditure for the current years will be $302,598,095, equal to more than $50 per head of population, Of this amount no less than $170,099,530 (56 per cent) is to be spent on war ser- vices and defense. This huge amount—more than half the total revenue—will be an ever- recurring charge against revenue for many years to come, and the net re sult to the people is practically nil ZEALAND SCABS ADMIT THAT IT DOES NOT PAY They Are: Sorry They Scabbed Now (Special to The Daily Worker) WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Novy. 11.—An echo of last year's strike of British seamen in New Zealand was heard in the New Zealand parliament No satisfactory explanation {s made as {during the first week of September, The miners executive has consti-|only by few fanatics—zionists, In to why this enormous amount should | When John Coutts and 24 other non- fated itself into a council of war, iM aberrcops py reopersalpartac ; be budgeted for war services, untonists petitioned the government doning the national office in Lon- — a dl "The people of Australia, like those |f0F Brant of money as compensation erisis, Numerous cases of bankruptcy against pecuniary loss incurred by for movable headquarters in the were registered, The labor movement of all other countries under capitalist | ae , Rae ; pat ‘weaker coalfiélds for the duration of |;, soreading, and the number of re- rule, afe certainly paying « mighty |fiem when they voluntecred as strike: the struggle. Members of the exect-| . i terants Bane from: Palestine is staggering price to provide a Roman | re@kers to do work on the steamer five pleading with men to abandon the pits succeed in getting out thou- ®ands every day. The 40 minér M. P.’s have been con- weripted by their union and sent into quickly growing. LABOR SWEEPS holiday for war bond holders, arma. | ment makers and militarists, | | | PROGRESS HAS ‘Arawa” during the strike Admit Strike Justice. It seems that despite the plausible assurances of the ship owners that he work was “easy” and the wages the coalfields to get the men out “high,” their sufferings wefe “excru- again. Acoording to capitalist sources jctating.” The work they had to do 00,000 miners out of 1,000,000 have was “most disagreeable” and “oyr peturned to work but. the vigorous ‘ strenuous,” with the result that some @ampaign of the union has. checked IN FLECTIONS of them were broken health at’the ‘@he breakaway. It is becoming evident A end of four months. The men Were ‘@o the government and employers, Seomercc ae, eno to A! nes hard pressed by the econgmic repres- + 161 New Seats in bere F convi he Br sh be walon, that the miners are still a long Wins Councils Threaten Students with a cai striking against 4 defeat ou : way trom defeat e ' Execution Coutts and his workers afd i they acted as sakers for” 112 “gras. announced the government sent By BILL ROSS, Federated Press. : ake mpecial police on its heels, At the} LONDON—(FP)—In the municipal By ANNA ROCHESTER. days and the € amount” of same time the Tory papers attacked |elections Nov. 1 the British Labor PEKIN, China—(FP)—Ten of the | Wages received by m for that time Secy. A. J. Cook of the miners. urging | Party demonstrated its strength na- ¢. 88 students arrested In Pekin at a wae $2,760. 3 To take on work to is arrest. They seized on his state-| tionally for the first time since the meeting of the Progressive Society of | ‘stand by the tish empi during ment that the miners must win. “law/general strike. It gained 161 city Students from Shensi Province are | the strike they had sacrificed fobs for or no law,” as an excuse. seats and lost 21. The liberals gained threatened with execution, The son | Which their wages would have aggre- ‘That Cook’s safety is in danger was lent the first day he started on new campaign. When he arrived ‘@t the hotel, 40 young British fas- @ists were in hiding to attack him. -keeper t olies in ff national measures and The controlling policies in Pekin Treated Like Dogs, rad agar aeaMied yon ey ahaone In many towns H H are wholly reactionary, Nationalist | They said that when they ap-, ‘The opposition to the policy of the | where workers employed by the mu- nw i l A 0 mp H] | leaders are in hiding. Labor leaders | Proached the ship owners and pointed ners Federation has been ctushed |nicipalities joined the general strike , have left temporarily. Thirty North /OUt the injustice that had been dealt Be rank and file. Frank Hodges, | the tory council fred them. In many ete ot At’ Gémpany Mercy. ascending the ladders of the shaft, |China editors who sympathized with | out to them they’ were well-nigh Rigked |: k's reactionary predecessor, was tasked by his lodge in Warwickshire to sign his union membership. He re sed, G, Ac Spencer, M. P, has been ed out by his lodge and will not permitted to run for parliament on Jabor ticket again. He is suing the nm in the oourts. Frank Varley, P., 16 again supporting Cook’s Cy. “We could get a settlement tomor Pow if we agreed to longer hours,” ook sald, “but neither my colleagues ‘por myself will ever voluntarily be ‘parties, whatever the consequences, ‘bo an agreement embodyihg a longer ay for the miner’ Soviets at Pre-War Production Level ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, — Its pre- war level of production of wealth has been reached by the Soviet Union, gays the Russian information bureau in Washington in an economic .sum- mary issued on the ninth anniversary 8 but lost 53. _ but lost 78. While the municipal officers are not so important in Britain as in America, they can help or hinder in the admin- The ‘tories gained 15 cases obstacles were put in the way of collecting funds for locked-out min- ers. Although 97,423 houses have been built by the municipalities as the fe- sult of the late Labor government's housing act, many more would ‘have been put up if the local authorities were manned by labor councilors. Municipal office carries no pay in Britain, so workers cannot enter con- tests. Only a limited number can stay away from work and giv their time free. The Labor party proposes wages for municipal office holders as a way out, Antilabor forces throughout the country had united regardless of po- litical affiliation, Under the camou- flage of citizens’ leagues they sought to retain their hold on municipal of- fices, The Labor Party always scores @ larger national than local vote, but with the’ awakened interest in labor politics it hopes to further strengthen its yote in Jocal elections. ‘It we are going to have a Labor government,” sald E. P. ‘Wake, na- tional organizer of the Labor Party, “our local authorities should be staffed (Continued from page 1) the power of the iron companies, are beginning @ move for a federal investi- gation of the conditions in the iron mine fields that result in such fre- quent catastrophes and loss of life. Efforts are also being made to interest the Micltigan State Federation of La- bor and the American Federation of Labor from the point of view of the necessity for and the opportunities for organizing these highly exploited miners. i Make Affidavits. Six of the twenty-four miners who have decided to take the question of compensation to court have made affi- davits which prove conclusively that the cavein which entombed them for 181 hours and placed them for that long in the very shadow of death was preventable, The sole reason for the collapse of the shaft was the uncared for timbering and lack of adequate in- spection, To replace timbers costs money, To save this money the com- pany ran its mine day in and day out Several Gotations from the affida- vits made before an lronwo6d notary public follow, The names of the sign- ers cannot Be ‘used. Until the case is presented im court and becomes a mat- ter of court record, the miners making the affidavits are at the mercy of the companies. As‘it is, the men are tak- ing a risk, The entire destiny of the mining camps of Michigan and Minne- sota is ruled by the companies, The fact that these victims of company greed-are takihg united action against the compahyis one more indication .that the irom miners are desperate and are realizing that in organization against the company is their only way out, 194 One miner Swears to the following: The county mining inspector claimed after the disaster that he had inspected the shaft six weeks before the cave-in occurred and that the shaft was in A No. 1 condition. ‘I do not know on what grounds Mr. Michael Collins, the inspector, made this statement. | never saw him —By Wm. Gropper, The only times | have seen him In the shaft he was riding the cage like all the other men, fast, and with the lights out, When the cave-In took place, | was on the elghteenth level. There “Was a sudden strong alr pressure, dust and small rooke flew and tm- mediately after a roar of falling rocks could be heard. 1! was at the shaft and | ran quickly Into the drift. 1 tried to telephone to all levels. The only reply was from the elghth level. The shift boss of that level informed me that the shaft was caving in from above that level. That afternoon, the men from the eighth level came down to the eighteenth and later on we climbed down to the twentieth, Here we found the shaft caved In and we could get no farther. We were trap- ped. i The same afternoon J—— S—— and | tried to ‘penetrate along the tunnel to C Shaft. This is an old drift partly caved in. The trip was risky, we had to erawi on our hands of Ohang Tso-lin, now in command at Pekin, has promised the 9 government schools a chance to talk with him about the case before the students are beheaded. the Kuomintang or National People’s party have been executed. The only Nationalist paper that survives in Pekin is published in English from the home of American sympathizers, The northern generals are doing their utmost to retain foreign sympa- thy by calling their campaign against that have pene- valley a cam- paign against bolshevism. When mar- shal Sun of Shanghai took Kiu Kiang he had 60 students executed for pos- ion of “red” propaganda material. Nationalists in Pekin were unani- mous in declaring to The Federated Press that the most important service their friends in America can render is to combat this deliberate confusion of the Chinese mationalist movement with bolshevism. They have turned to the Soviet Union, the one power | which voluntarily abrogated {ts un- | equal treaties with China, as the only foreign power they can trust. The Communist party in China is or- ganized quite separately from the Kuo- mintang, they maintain. The work of gated at least $17.50 per week, or an aggregate of $7,750 for the 112 days. Their strikebreaking venture thus left them $5,000 out of pocket besides ruin ing their health. | out of the shipping boss’ office. The ship owners told them they had been paid the current rate of wages for the work, and if they now complained they were simply a lot of “Bolsheviks.” The New Zealand government, being sympathetic with the ship owners, turned a deaf ear to the petition, and left the men te slowly realize that it doesn’t pay to engage in strikebreak- ing these days. External Trade of Russia Shows Big Increase Over ’25 MOSCOW, Nov. 11. — According to statistical data of the People’s Com- missariat for Trade, the general turn- over of the external trade with other countries across the European frontier during the eleven months of the eur- rent operative year amounted to 1,166 million roubles as against 1,105 mil- lions in last year. The export during 1925-26 amounted to 542 million roubles and in the last knowing the m we onsta: the latter is focused on building up of the founding of the Soviet republic, @ men were in constant and knees. We came to the old C year to 438 millions. The correspond- o- | by. sympathetic representativ 80 | danger of being killed by a cave-in or a united China and the breaking down | jng figures of import trad 6 Mdiaely Besies ot ratiaiie Pode that the full benefit of social legisla-/_ series of cave-ins. It was only a AN ITALIAN AF FAIR ahath; Bate we found: the share furl of the imperialist control of China by geil o Oram thon, it says, show a steady gain, For {hé fiscal year which ended September $0 the value of industrial production ‘was 41 per cent greater than in the ‘previous fiscal year, State industry yielded # net profit for the past year of $21,760,000, Reports of the harvest thas far ind!- ‘eate that the grain crop will be about ‘25,000,000 bus more than last tion may be secured.” Sacco-Vanzetti Issue In conjunetion with the big mass meeting to be held In New York City at Madison Square Garden on Nov, 17th protesting againet the miracle that saved the men from death. The aMfdavits show that while the men were entombed in the eighth level, the highest they could reach up the ladder to the point where the coi- lapsed shaft closed in completely, they themselves repaired the timbering to avoid further collapse, This resulted FOR MARCH 5, 1927 Under the auspices of I] Lavora- tore, our Itallan weekly published in New York City, a great affair is be- Ing arranged for Saturday, March 5, 1927. Watch for further announce- of rocks, Thru the negligence of the company, the only way out of our imprisonment was blocked. Another worker testifies, after re- lating his knowledge of the bad repair in which he knew the mine timbering to be: The shaft was blocked below. We had to ascend back to the eighteenth the western powers. Carpenters Earn $9 a Month | PEKIN, China—(FP)—Skilled car- | penters in Pekin are earning $9 a | month, American money. Almost | three-fourths of this total goes for food, about one-eighth for cotton cloth | millions and 567 millions. The first ‘place in the foreign trade of the U_ 8. 8. R. belongs to England, its turnover amounting to 289 million roubles, Standard Oil Talks Softly HONGKONG—(FP)—labor trouble experienced by Standard Oil in China is indicated by a letter written by its level and the shift boss commenced | for home-made garments, and the re-|general manager at Hongkong, im ‘Year, and ts about the average for pre- || denial of a new trial for Sacco and || in an estimated saving to the company | ments as to the program and hall. | ¢o holler about the blocking of the | maining one-eighth for rent and all which the Canton revolutionary ana ‘way years in the same territory, Cot-|] Vanzettl, The DAILY WORKER of || of some $70,000 that would have been| All branches, sections of the par ‘ton and sugar beets were not go go, 88 last year, but potatoes, flax, oil ‘seeds, eto, were better than the pre- ‘war average, STRIKE STRATEGY picketing in the face of police terror, mass violations of ‘fnjunctions, free speech fights, fptketn may be accomplished in many ways,.such as mass marches such as those of ‘the Kansas and West Virginia miners, spectacular expos. ‘ure of the workers’ poyerty and the employers’ riches, mili- tant resistance to violence, transfer of strikers’ children from the strike district, nation-wide relief campaigns, na- that date wilj carry epeolal fea- tures devoted to the Sacco and Vanzett! case, expended jf the miners had not taken this precaution, even over the protests of the mine boss who, by chance, was entrapped with them, in the industry. ‘The actual legislative business of the conference we could haye transacted, had we been so minded, effect In acquainting the steel workers with what was going on and in rallying them into the struggle. Just another example from the 1917 campaign to organize the packing workers; The campaign, in its carly stages, had come to a halt, It threatened to collapse, |The workers, discouraged from long years of oppression and union misleadership, refused to respond to ordinary organ- ty and fraternal and sympathetic organizations are asked not to ar- range any other 8 for that night—The Committee, necessities, f The strike committee, whether the regular executive board or a special body, ig the general staff of the strike and it must be properly organized to carry on {ta work, It must be divided into sub-seetions to correspond with its yarious tasks, If the strike ts national in scope the strike committee must contain variong departments, Finance, shaft at the elghth level, tho we by this time saved the company six hundred feet of the shaft from des truction that would have meant a loss of $70,000, Bs the attacks of the employers who, preferring always to work in silence and darkness in crushing therevolts of their other expenses. Prices have risen | steadily during recent years and al- | though wages have also been som what increased the meager standard | of living is now seriously threatened: in the organization of its fighters among the workers. ernment is thanked for assistance in ttling a strike. The company hopes iso that it may be able to do buat- ness “profitably and smooth!¥" under the revolutionary regime. —- The left wing will do well, picketing, to beware of employing and reduce it to a state of impotent legalism. news of the strike is fund the information of the w ity must be maintained The publicity committee is very vital. To give ont the amentally important, not only for orkers at large, whose support is wanted, but also for the strikers themselves, whose solidar- . Yet in almost every ‘strike, in 10 minutes in committee, But we advértised’ the confer- | workers, usually shrink back from the blaze of publicity, | professional gangsters, The right wing leadership } By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER ence so widely that the workers of all the industry had unless they are of the most powerful capitalist poerst id thoroly discredited this provi The cogehiel od bay thelr-eyes focused tpon it, It dramatized their hopes |ttons, Strike dnamatization is a necessary feature of our | tend to move in and capture the unions after the strike is ARTICLE XIIT and aspirations in the struggle, It had a splendid orgam |sirike sirategy. over, but they poison it to the heart with their very pres Dramatizina run Srevcers izing effect, Sraixe Srratnox ence. They are a constant source of corruption, ‘ An essential of good strike strategy under present day , Srienina tou Masses Tt is not within the province of this booklet to outline The legal committee is also essential, but the left wing conditions in the United States is to lend a dramatic char- Likewise, when we came to decide on the question of |a complete system of the special organization machinery |must always be careful to hold the lawyers in clieck. They acter to strike and organization campaigns, especially those | strike, which we could also have done in committee, we | necessary for the cafrying on of strikes successfully, Never- |have a rather fatal habit, once they are engaged, of trying sy jamong unorganized workers, These seo in a dramatic strike | did it dramatically by taking a spectacular mass strike | theless it {s timely to state a few of the general principles |to run the whole strike as well as their leval department. \ a living strike, and they are not far wrong, This drama- |yote all over the country, This exercised an enormous | of organization and to indleate some of the more urgent | If they succeed in this they soon strip it of all militaney whether conducted by rights or lefts, the publicity arrange ; Reliet, Legal, Publicity, ete, The local strike committees | mente are primitive and inadequate in the extreme, must have sub-committees on Policy, Picketing, Publicity, ‘ Discrpune hy Defense, Halle, Speakers, Finance, ete, Good discipline is as necessary in a strike as in a In the case of unorgantsed workers every effort must |battle, It is the task of the strike committee to maiAtain — be made to establish a real basis of trade unlon organiza: | this discipline, To do this it must carry on its work in a ton, Too often the only organtention of the masses must |apirit of firmness, decision, and resolution, It must give be brought into the active strike meetings, Thig is a mistake, | careful attention to detail work as well as general policies, — Tt gives them a sense of responsibility and a feeling that | Violations of instructions and failures in duty must be- the strike {8 really thelr own, To thus draw them in, the | swiftly punished, Incompetent corruptionists, and weak. — numeroous committees should be bullt on a broad scale, | lings must be pushed from official positions, ; T, U, B, L, formations of yarious sorts may also be used The whole strike organization must be shot through 6 to actively enlist the livest elements tn the conduct of the |with @ spirit of determination and seriousness, B bi ad strike. * |atrikers, scabs, and all others connected with the strike» Me Cmaracrer of Commrvrenrs directly ov indirectly must be given to understand unequiy- The picket committee, in mogt industries, ts the very |ocally that they have to deal with a real body of fighters, « heart of the strike, It is the cutting edge of the workers’ |Then the vital necessary discipline will preyail among the | organiadtion, It is the first line: of defense and attack, |sirikers, The workers will respect thelr leaders and follow It must be developed to the h degree of militancy | their instructions in the battle, $ ks and efficiency, “It should be made np of the very best (To be continued) * . ‘ / i at v * f * \. A oe i | tional’ and local protest meetings, state investigations, pa- ‘yades, pageants, tag-days, ete., ete, Good strike dramatization 1s closely related to militant fighting on ‘the offensive, Olassical examples of dramati¢ strikes were those of the steel workers in Homestead in / 1892, of the Colorado coal miners and Lawrence Textile ‘workers in 1912, and the present struggle in Passaic, ¥ . Dramatisation is equally as ‘effective in organising f as in strikes, Often it can be strikingly ac- es 0 expedient of transacting with a iaing methods, They wanted a definite sign from ug that wo had some power and that we meant business, ‘We sensed this, and in response announced the holding of & national conference of packing house workers in the near future to formulate demands to be presented to the packers, Thig was blagoned in the capitalist press as presaging a national general strike in the Industry, The effect, upon the workers of thls dramatic maneuver was electrical, They poured into the unions in tens of thous: ands, It wag the turning point, the,thing that made this historlo campaign a success, This was also a good example of effective offensive tactles, Strike dramatisation, when skillfully carried out and not of a character which merely provokes capitalist counter- attacks, iy highly beneficial in many ways, 1t enormously stimulates the morale of the strikers, Iv tends tayrally masses of other