The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 17, 1926, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER ; ee : orate te r= mn EINE RAR SEE TEESE RAR PRA A FE IEEE Later e i» ~ - om | CHINESE LABOR NEARLY ALLOF NaTIOWS WEALTH |EANTON SUDCESS : —/ EVEN REGULAR FORCES MAKING | “Sown'sroxesman sacwo suumPeue GAUSE OF WoRRY [Every Worker Must Join|"p’y pic ricuy SHOW OF POWER : TO NORTHERNERS |!n Swelling the Protest} “\EW TAX PLAN . ~— for Sacco and Vanzetti oH By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. Growth Fear Invasion of the Coolidge to Have Hard Page Two ~ A burden of debt which has already passed the $120,000,000,000 mark is engulfing not only the freedom but also the prosperity of the American of Cantonese people. It is enslaving them to the money-lending class—chiefly the bankers *y . x Strength Feared who are constantly inducing the people to mortgage themselves more heavily. North Soon Sledding This Time | These are the conclusions not of radical theorists but of a conservative By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ' j y J. - i WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—(FP) — | financial writer, who reflects views held by many business men. In a series PEKING, Noy, 15,—Recent victories (Special to The Dally Worker) R China’s workers, savagely repressed jon “What We Owe” in the Chicago+— — ——— = of the Cantonese armies are causing WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Troubles 4 y the northern alliance of Chang /Journal of Commerce W. P. Helm|rapigty approaching the day when |Uch uneasiness In the north, HE Sacco-Vanzett! Bmergency | the A. F. of L. officialdom raises its | multiplied today for the Coolidge-Mel- Tso-lin and Wu Pei-fu, have 80 | says: rahy, aD y The defeat of Marshal Sun Chuang- Committee in New York City re- | hypocritical plea, not to the working |ion plan for a tax rebate at the ap- thrown their weight to the side of | the nationalist government -at Can- | ton that Washington, London, Paris and Tokio are feeling the direct con- sequences. News from Peking that the shadow gévernment in Peking has torn up the expired treaty with Belgium is followed by news that Japan has notified the Peking offic: | steady, full-time employznent bl ial Ph a Nt ped brute jnearly 5,000,000 workmen, or about haps, treated as an equal rather than |ome person gut of every nine gainfully as an inferior. It seems likly that |®"Ployed at tha present time.. To dis- One Third of All Wealth. “The American people are in debt |to the extent of not }$122,000,000,000 or more jare paying annual interest of about ithey can no longer pay interest on| what they owe and gradually retire the principal. We have seemingly less than | reached the point where we are work: than one-|ing on the average one day a week to third of the value of everything they | meet interest own. On this great indebtedness they \ cipal.” payments on the prin- Helm refers to estimates of national $7,500,000,000, a sum sufflofent to give | income running from $65,000,000,000 to to $75,000,000,000 and shows that in- terest on the debt is today absorbing more than half of what remains after paying essential ving expenses and the turn of London and of Washing-|°28™se the .debt the entire nation|taxes. We are paying, he says, more ton is near. | j without deduction for living or other Washington Worried. jexpenses for nearly two years.” At the State Department all tn-} Interest Great, squiries are met with the assurance | ‘The huge indebtedness includes cor- ‘that no foreign nation has offered | cine more than has the United es. On Sept. 3, 1925, the nine fpowers that took part in the Wash- “mgton conference of 1922 sent iden- 0 3 tical notes to Peking, offering to dis $£,000,,000,000; -and about $8,000,000, 000 oustanding on installment sales, ‘cuss the demands made by China In | the matters of tariff revision and the | zatevest-on;, the: Individual onaagel abolition of foreign courts in China, |2®58 alone absorbs the energies of ‘They said that if, after getting full |12,000 men working full time. information thru onferences on| “Thus, the moneylenders appear to these subjects, they could agree with |have the entire nation, corporate and China on new arrangements, they |i2dividual, thoroly and completely would be glad to discuss the situation. | mortgaged,” says Helm. 000,000; national, state and municipal \debt $33,500,000,000; individual debts $25,000,000,000; farm mortgages about The tariff conference and the extra- territoriality or foreign lawcourt con pthe rate of saving is declining. ; would have to apply its full earnings |than six times as much for borrowed money and for debt retirement as we are putting into savings funds and All of which indicates the rapidity with porate debt $50,000,000,000 to $55,000,- | which the country is going into debt and living beyond its means. Blames Bankers, The most important cause of this situation Helm finds in the fact that the money lending class has too many dollars available for lending. He says, “Thus our present heavy debt is un- doubtedly due in some measure to the bankers and others who want us to go in debt in order that new outlets may be found for putting their idle “With na-| funds safely to work.” | tional wealth estimated by the federal | This may soon heavily oppress the |‘ang in Kiangsi and the inability of | |Marshal Wu Pei-fu to make any progress, coupled with the ability of the Cantonese to cause the soldiers of |the northern militarists to mutiny and | join the nationalists are rne source of | | worry, Soon In Yangtse. The Cantonese have made such headway that they are’expected to be in command of the’ entire lower Yangtse basin. This is a strategic po- sition, as from here the southerners can press their campatgn toward the north, Nanking Is Goal. Nanking, junction for two impor- tant railway lines, is fhe goal of the Cantonese. Occupation of Nanking will give the nationalists virtual .con- trol of the situation in the north, Much of the strength that the Can- ton armies have is the solidarity of the ranks, something that the militarists armies lack sadly. The northern ar- mies are continually disturbed by dis- sension and mutiny, Chang In Tientsin. The arrival of Marshall Chang Tso- lin in Tientsin has caused some: ex- citement here. It is believed that this ceived a telegram from John Van- vaernwyck, president of the Massa- chusetts State Federation of Labor, declaring that our two comrades facing the electric chair in Massa- chusetts are “innocent of the crime charged against them.” Copies of the telegram were im- mediately rushed out as important publicity to all the labor press. It was displayed yesterday on the first page of The DAILY WORKER in a two-column box, in big bold-faced type. see Nothing could bettes reveal the lack of support of the fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from being mur- dered in cold blood by America's Tuling class than this incident. It shows that organized labor, espe- cially its ofictaldom, is not in this struggle. When the president of one state federation of labor is won for this court battle against the predatory shoe and textile interests of New England, it is heralded as a great achievement. And it no doubt is. But that, is not, of course, as it. should be. class, but to the mythical “honor and fairness of the American peo- ple” that does not exist. It is the capitalist class “justice of the greatest exploiters. of labor that 1s hungry for the Hves of Sacco and Vanzetti, The profit takers do not fear “the American people.” They do fear the American working class, dreading the day of its awakening, ees It was in the A. F. of L. conven- tion at Atlantic City the following year (1925) that Vice-President Mat- thew Woll, reporting for the resolu- tions committee, declared that the officialdom resented having the Sac- co-Vanzetti issue injected into every recurring annual convention. Woll declared the A. F, of L. was on record for a‘new trial and it was not necessary to reiterate this stand each year. This year, however, at Detroit, the labor reaction was faced with the avalanche of affidavits poured in- to Judge Webster Thayer's court room at Dedham, Mass., especially the affidavit of Celestino Madeiros, absolutely absolying Sacco and Van- zetti from any part in the South proaching short session of. congress. So formidable has the opposition now become, and so widespread the criticism, not only among the demo- crats and insurgents in congress, but among administration regulars as well, that it seemed certain that unless some heroic compromising 1s done the whole project will have some ez tremely rough sailing. * Can Be Killed Easlly. It won't take many squalls to ef fectually kill it, either thru outright defeat or negation, because the con- gress that convenes here three weeks hence has but ten weeks to live. There are few who believe a controversial measure of this sort can be jammed thru a recalcitrant congress in @ny- thing like that time. Representative Green, republican of Towa, chairman of the powerful ways and means committee, which has a life-and-death control of all revenue legislation, is the latest administra tion wheel-horse to question the ad- visability of what President Coolidge has proposed and Secretary Mellon has qualifiedly endorsed, “Unsatisfactory,” in many respects is Green's summary of the scheme, Manchurian war lord intends to come or mera Braintree crime, and the confes- |“The plan of making a reduction in jtrade commission at about $353,000! country’s workers for it Gan be met to Peking and make a clean sweep of 000,000, apparently the moneylenders have loans oustanding to the extent of ference were duly launched in Peking last winter. A report was agreed upon by the conference deal- ing with foreign courts. It has not yet been made public, but is known to be unfavorable to abolishing these ‘courts at present. The tariff confer- ence was indefinitely suspended be- cause no Chinese delegate could be persuaded to remain in it. Chinese | public feeling was strongly against | any further debate of Chinese cus- |jatest toms control with foreigners. | Fear Boycott. The United States does not ask | the Japanase to wait and discuss | jointly with the other foreign powers i the terms of the treaty by which it| (Continued from page 1) may surrender its courts in China.| the close of the anthracite strike. It is watching carefully, however, to Condemns Bosses. see how far it must give up its own “Since the strike ended prices for special privileges in China in order|rock removal have been cut; again to retain its share of the trade of |day men are laid off after only five, the country. China has no military |six and seven hours’ work and com- power that western nation need fear,! pelled to speed-up next morning to but its power of boycott, as prac-|catch up. Men are arbitrarily dis- ticed upon the British in the past |ch’rged. And what is worse, the open two years, is as effective as a block-|shop is being established. The Hud- worth,” Debt Menacing. This debt is increasing by more than $7,000,000,000°a year. In the last three years it increased from $100,- 000,000 to $122,000,000,000. ade. son Coal Co. says that under the “Washington and London know | agreement it has the right to keep or- that the shadow government in| ganizers away. % Peking is king annulment of the No Square. Dealing. old unequal treaties because the workers’ ggvernment in the south is steadily inereasing its sway to- the northward, and may reach Peking within a few months. With every advance of the Canton or Kuomintang troops the trade unions are revived, the militarist reactionaries are | driven out, and the new (hina, based On co-operation of worker and peas- ant and small merchant classes, is stven political organisation to misla-| sis ict and national union. Our tick- sain the new regime. Washington | et stands for that policy. may within a year be negotiating | oat a ideas < workers’ ee | are protected in their rights these lo- which will have the sympathy of the | °#! strikes will become unnecessary. Tits intense ardaiad the world. | We stand also for the abolition of the a contract system that plays one set of miners off against the rest. We stand REND INA CUB TODAY: for organization of the non-union bi- ee tuminous fields and for a labor party +and nationalization of the coal indus- ~“If President Cappellini and the international officers would fight those | interpretations the men would have a |chance. Not getting relief thru their {higher union officer the men resort |to inhumerable local strikes. the men get a new deal in their union these strikes will get’much worse. Need Aggressive Policy. “The only hope of the miners lies in a more aggressive policy by the SCOT I NEARING ‘try and for the reinstatement of men | unjustly expelled or suspended such speaks in |as Alexander Howat.” } Howat Speaks. Howat comes to the anthracite this week to champion the causes of John Brophy, president of the central Pennsylvania miners, and candidate for international president against | John Lewis, of William Stevenson, in- jternational board member for Mi¢ht- | gan, who {fs opposing Philip Murray |}for international “vice-president, of | Brennan, ‘candidate for international |secretary-treasurer against’ Thomas Kennedy of Hazleton. Played Dramatic Role. Brennan is helping to arrange the Los Angeles November 22 to 27 LINCOLN HALL, Watker Auditorium Bldg. 720 South Grand Ave. 8 O'Clock Each Evening on Monday, Nov. 22, “Rise of Cap- italist Imperialism.” . Tuesday, Nov. 24, “Russian Re- construction.” Thursday, Nov. 25, “League Nations or Soviet Union?” Friday, Nov. 26, ‘Trade Union Unity.” Course tickets will be sold for $2.00 each; they will be limited to 500, the m capacity of the hall. Single admissions fits —provided there are any » Kach afternoon at 5:1 Mr. Nearing will ale in wy hall on “Post-War of WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED FROM ENGLAND A LIMITED NUM- BER OF about 35 per cent of our present | Unless | If the men} treating the subject after this man- ner: ‘ nday, Nov. 22, centration—Wages, Debts.’ Tuesday, Nov. 23, ‘World Strug- gle for Raw Materials,” Wednesday, Nov. 24, “Unem- ployment and the Return of Hard Times.” Thuraday, Nov, 25, "The Rise of Organized Labor,” iday, Nov, 26, “Labor Parties ond the Labor State.” “Wealth Con- Income and Ticket for ‘Whole Series of Lectures $1.00 WORKERS’ BOOK SHOP 322 West Second St., Los Angeles, Cal. Call Metropolitan $265 Communist Work in the Factories The Work of Factory Groups An indispensible little booklet to every member of the Amer- ican Communist movement. 5 Cents a Copy (8 cents in bundle lots) DAILY WORKER PUB. Co,, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. | living. only by a very material increase in prosperity and spending power or by lowering the American standard of The bankers have brought things to the point where they can exact a day’s work a week as inter- est tribute from every worker in the country, If they go much further Brennan Predicts More Mine Strikes there won't be enough of the working “The American people,” Helm con- | week left to produce the goods and tinues, “are going into debt so fast, | services essential to the American figures indicate, that they are | plane of living. Howat meetings. Howat has played | a dramatic role among the miners. Twenty years president of the Kansas district he won national attention by the strike against Governor Allen's Industrial Court law _ outlawing strikes. President Lewis, -opposing Howat's methods, fought the strike and had Howat expelled. He is again a member of the union and candidate for president in District 14 in the coming elections. Monday he speaks in Edwardsville. Tuesday he goes to Shamokin wher? he speaks in the large Moose Audi- the politicians, reform the government and set up himself as head. Judges Decide Who - Will Preside at the McPherson Trial LOS ANGHLDS, Nov. 15.—Either presiding Judge Albert Stephens ot superior Judge McLucas will hear the | Aimee McPherson conspiracy trial, | it was learned today, If the trial. begins before the first | of the year, Judge Stephens declared that Judge McLucas would handle the case; if after Jan. 1, then Stephens himself will preside, Death seems ready to strike for the | fifth time among the ranks of persons connected with the case. Today H, C, Benedict, owner of the Carmel cottage where Mrs. McPher. son and Kenneth Ormj?ten are alleged by the prosecution to have spent ien days, is said to be near death from ill- ness. Mystery Surrounds Slaying of Chicago torilum at 7:00 p. m., Shenandoah the 17th and Hazleton 18th in Rose land Hall, 134 N. Pine St. at 7:00 p. m. : At all these meetings speakers in Polish, Italian, Slavic, Lithuanian and other languages wil speak with How- at, additional to Brennan and other we]l known anthracite figures. Immediately following Howat, C Frank Kenney of Charleston, West Virginia, for years leader of the West Virginia miners and at present editor of the “Coal Miner,” official Brophy organ will tour the region. Investigate Graft of U. S. Officials Among Indian Tribes WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—A survey of the educational, social and medical activities maintained among the Amer- can Indians, as well as their persona! rights and their gekeral economic con- ditions, is to be made ‘by the Institute for Government Research, at the re- quest of the secretary of the interior, Hubert Work. This Institute for Gov- ernment Research is a private organ- ization financed by Robert Brook- ings of St. Louis, and is directed by Prof. W. F. Willoughby. ‘The latter hag organized a special staff for the Indian survey, which will require a year to make the study and report. Secretary Work has been persuaded to invite this study of his Indian ad- ministration because of the’ vigorous criticism raised against his handling of the properties and the civil rights of the Indian in recent years. Last spring there was formed in Washing- ton a federation of many Indian tribes for the purpose of joint action in resisting graft and oppression from Work’s subordinates and their favored j friends. . Two Banks Close In . * * Minnesota During Week DETROIT, Mich. Noy, 15.—-The closing of the Security State Bank marks the second bank failure here within a week. The First National Bank, the largest in Becker county, closed its doors on Monday. The Se- curity, which closed following a run, had deposits of $750,000, L. J, Norby, president of the Se curity, is a brother of W. J, Norby of Lake Park, one of the two bankers found shot in the State Bank of Calla- way, Tuesday, It is, not known whether there is a connection betwee! the failures and the shooting, . High School Girl Authorities today were seeking to fathom the mystery surrounding the death of Victoria Delemata, pretty 16- year-old high school girl, who was shot last night within two blocks of her home in Chicago Heights. The girl was returning home from | the studio of her violin instructor, F. | J. Schneider, A single shot, fired from the rear, penetrated her head, killing her instantly, A woman neighbor, who heard the shot, found the body a few minutes later. The girl's violin case was clasped tightly in her arms. Illinois Power Co. Wants to Cut Peoria, ‘Trolley Car Service SPRINGFIELD, Ml., Nov. 15.—The Mlinois Power and Light company filed application with the Illinois Commerce Commission today for per- mission to discontinue certain street railway service, and to remove its tracks and trolley wire from certain streets, known as the Glendale line in Peoria. " Concurrently with the discontinu- ance of street railway service the petition asks permission to establish or reroute certain motor bus service in the city, ' Send The DAILY WORKER for one month to you shop-mate. No greater indictment could be re- turned against the whole officialdom of the American organized labor movement, than the fact that this endorsement by one official is ac- cepted as something unusual. Such support should be so common that only those labor officials exercising extraordinary energy in this life-and- death struggle would stand out from the mass. Since this afd is not forthcoming at this moment, one of the big efforts to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the government's legalized assassination must be the awakening of the American working class on a broad scale. The case of John Vanvaerenwyck, president of the Massachusetts State Federation of Labor, must become the rule and not remain the excep- tion. ee. This task will not be an easy one. The huge obstacles raised against labor in its fight for Sacco and Van- zetti have all seemed insurmount- able. But the high precipices of cap- italist opposition have been scaled one by one until today it is the American ruling class tyranny that is on the defensive. Capitalism that oppresses labor has been forced on trial. It must be declared guilty be- fore the whole American working class. In order to achieve this result all who toil must be stirred by the employers’ deliberate, carefully plan- ned frame-up to,send Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti to death. Labor must be stirred to action, to struggle. The American Federation of La- bor has not led this fight as it should. It has been literally dragged into it, insofar as it is involved .at the present time. Its annual con- ventions have adopted weak-kneed resolutfons calling for a new trial. These resolutions have been intro- duced by progressive elements but watered down by the official resolu- tions committee. Instead of helping to intensify and broaden the Sacco- Vanzetti campaign, the A. F, of L. has tended to cripple and hamstring it. ““Tnstead of stimulating all labor to an appreciation of its class in- terests, the A: F. of L., as it did in its convention at El Paso, Texas, November 1924,-reiterated its de- mand for a new trial “for these de- fenseless victims of race and na- tional prejudice and class hatred, to the end that the honor and fairness of the American people may be Preserved untarnished before the eyes of the civilized world.” Defenseless indeed! They surely are without labor supporting them, Defenseless indeed! Especially when sions of the department of justice agents admitting the government’s frame-up. Instead of seizing this opportunity to arouse all labor, how- ever, the A. F. of L, convention meekly accepted the recommenda- tion of the officialdom that congress be asked to conduct an investiga- tion of this judicial outrage. Con- gress is not in session, There is no opportunity to press this demand. In the meantime no other action is taken. see This failure of organized labor to Tally for Sacco and Vanzetti is the concern of all workers. There can be no exceptions. The least that any worker can do is to get literature for distribu- tion in his own locality. This can be secured from the International Labor Defense, 23 South Lincoln street, Chicago, Illinois, or from the various Sacco-Vanzetti committees. Unorganized workers can join in’ the local committees. Organized workers can bring this jssue up for action in their trade unions. They can write about the case to their union journals and continually bombard the officialdom with de- mands for effective action. All workers can help raise the issue even in their local capitalist press. Mass meetings can bée and must be held. No effort is so small that it does not help add to the growing protest over the land and over the world. Sacco and Van- zetti must not die, Only labor can stop this murder. Slovenese Aroused by Persecution of Their Peoples by Fascists BELGRADE, Noy, 15,—News of per- secution of Italian-Slovenes in Italy by the fascisti is causing much ex- citement in parliamentary circles, Statements against the fascists were cheered frequently by members of the Skupshtina. Reports of the arrest of Signor Wil- fan, Itallan-Slovene deputy in Rome, and fascist threats to kill: Signor Besednajak, another Italian-Slovene deputy, have aroused intense feefing. McKinley Sinking, MARTINSVILLE,~ Ind., Nov. 15.— The condition of Senator William B. McKinley, republican, of Illinois, re- mained unchanged today. He passed @ restless night and his breathing dif- ficulties have increased, said Dr, Rob- ert H, Egbert. He has been confined with neuritis payments for next year, either on the personal income tax or that of corpo rations, is workable.” Claims Court Denies Farmers Reimbursement for State Destruction SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Nov. 15.—Jos. Maze and 95 other Madison county farmers, seeking $7,589 reimburse- ment from the state for straw de- stroyed several years ago by the de to eradicate flag smut near Edwards- ville, have been denied a rehearing by the estate court of claims, The case was dismissed by: the court originally on the grounds that these farmers had been reimbursed previously for money spent person- ally in the campaign. A claim of $10,000 was dented by J. 8. Neighbors, administrator of the estate of Elsie Neighbors, who died at her home in Galatia, Saline county, after she had contracted tuberculosis at the state hospital at Peoria. Grant- ing of such a claim, the court held, would create a precedent almost equal to state health Insurance. The court will hold its next regular session in this city next January. Anti-Vivisectionist Urges Music as Cows Are Slaughtered Here Soft violin music should be played for the benefit of Mrs. Cow and Mr. Bull while they await their fate be- fore slaughtering time, the Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon declared to- day. * Cattle endure great anguish worry- ing over their destiny in the strange quarters of the Chicago stockyards and this fretting causes a form of physical poisonfhg, the duchess said. Lady Hamilton is touring America, speaking against vivisection. Family of Eight Is . . Poisoned by Placing Pex of Arsenic in Flour BALLINGER, Tex., Nov. 15.—Of- ficers here today searched for a man believed to have attempted to poison the eight members of the W. H. Ash- ton family, three miles north of here, by mixing arsenic powder with wheat flour, Five members of the family are in a critical condition from eating bread made from the poisoned flour, A chemist here analyzed the flour and pulmonary congestion since Aug.|and said the poison was similar to 18. that used to spray cottone Royalty Meets The Daily Worker partment of agriculture in the fight - “BLOODY MARIN,” Queen of Roumania, has made the acquaint: ance of Tun Damx Worker. No frock-coated flunkies made the introduction. No silk-hatted plutocrats performed the ceremony. No, indeed. The queen met Tun Darry Worker, as all representa- tives of the ruling class, will some day meet those whom they enslave, The queen met Tus Dairy Worker and turned pale. The queen met Tire Darty Worker with fear and trembling, for there amid the gold-braided, bejewelled sycophants of American capitalism, it stood out as the single challenging voice. There it was, borne by the willing hands of thousands of workers, flinging its fearless mes- sage in the face of this powerful monarch. “What of Cotzofanesti?” it cried and the Queen’s face blanched. “What of brother Tkachenko?” and her terror stricken Highhess abashed into the soft cushions of her limousine. Shall this fearless voice of challenge now be crushed? Shall tyrants and exploiters have their way and ‘Tum Dairy Worker be Tar Daiy Wor must will be shrank silent? No! { it be kept and strengthened until ‘ul enough to strike ae Me are nn ’ day when it ur murdered | fear in the hearts of all tyrants, when it will be powerful enough to rally all the exploited and oppressed for the abolition of the entire system of exploitation and the establishment of a new system of society—and a workers’ and farmers’ republic. To that end Tun Darry Worker needs help at once—needs it urgently—needs it NOW, Send in your donations toward the $50,000 fund and help to Keep Tur Datty Worker, DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1118 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, \ Enclosed you Will find weiss Golars andes to Keep THE DAILY WORKER. BROT G ssosecescriesbonssstseee 2