The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government } Vol. ll. No. By T. J. FLAHERTY én beiclae FORD 1s not going to worry about a wolf at the door because be hag decided to give some of his em- ata six days’ pay for five’ days’ ‘ork. When the) announcement was rst made by Henry’s press agent there was considerable chuckling in rtain sections of the trade union vement and equally vigorous fur- owing of brows in certain capitalist riers. But Henry knew his onions even tho he does not encourage ie odor of garlic in his factory, when e computes his yearly earnings he Quite satisfied that anything he has iven away for nothing can be pawned or little money, ee ‘N-an interview with Carrol Binder of the Chicago Daily Ngws, Ford ankly admitted that before any of is workers receives his pay check Phat worker must line Henry's pocket, fo that Henry can afford to spend half million dollars on the queen of oumeania or enjoy the luxury of prov- & that most of the ills that American | jesh is heir to can be attributed to bhe Hebrews. Which is equal to say- ‘mg that Henry is giving nothing of Bis own away. On the contrary, the Workers are giving of thetr sweat 0d sinew to Henry, Henry being wise @nough to know how to pull off the brick, oe HERE is quite a strong movement on in England to ‘convince the orking clafises that the cause of their Fressi is the shortsightedness of the ritish workers. There is a so0- ®alled labor mission in this’ cougtry ight now from England, with the ob- fe: of finding out how the American epitalists manage to manage their Wage slaves. One member of the ission is no other than Ernest Bevin, ho was the “Napoleon” of the British eneral strike. Bevin ig hobnobbing Fin & couple of “sirs”, and those ‘sirs” are using Bevin as a fig-leaf cover their capitalist nakedness. hey believe that Bevin will be able “® convinee the British workers that frard work will mean prosperity for them. s+ @ $ it surprising that the British min- ers are fighting an almost lone bat- He, supported to any appreciable ex- ee only by the Russian workers? Srnest Bevin was the outstanding | leader of the British general strike. (Continued on page 2) 0 @ Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party held ® threo days’ session here last week | fo consider the situation in the Unit- fd States economically and politically wad draw a program for the party ‘work for the coming six months. The conclusions the committee | ame to in regard to the general sttu- wtion was that in spite of the capital- Bat “prosperity” and the effects of con- tessions to certain sections of the eristocracy of labor by American im- ‘ertalism, there were great opportunt- ties for the growth and development of the Workers (Communist) Party thru work among the highly exploited, ‘norganized workers in the great ma- ehinedndustry of this country, The sessions of the central com- tnittee opened on Wednesday, Nov. 1}... There were present at the meet- fog, the members of the committee, the heads of the party organization in members of the Chicago district committee and the: students a@t the national school of the Young | ‘Workers’ Lsague, the latter being in- vited, to be present in order to add to-their theorotical studies the knowl erige.to be guined thru listening to the 1 debates on the actual ‘work of the party. of the political committee — ©, B. Ruthenborg, general sec. The discussion of the report and reaolution centered about the pesat Peco which had mado itself apparent cortain sections of the party in re- gard to the opportunities for build- \ ‘the the party and tts influence among » Whe masses in the present period of BPward development of American im- . The report of Comrade uthenberg and the resolution of the {Neate committoe categorically repu- 262. Subscription Rates: i 180, WORKERS Ai GARY MINERS TD ACT ON NEW TERNS OF GOVERNMENT Delegate Conference in Close Vote (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Nov. 16. — “They are the most abominable terms ever put be- fore a body of men, They could not possibly be worse,” A. J, Cook, sec- retary of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain told the members of the delegate: conference of the union meet- ing In London to consider the last government proposals, With the Welsh and Yorkshire dis- tricts talking and voting against the government proposals under the lead- ership of Cook, a vote of 432,000 against 352,000 carried a motion refer- ring the question to a vote of the dis- tricts and a recommendation to accept the government’s basis of settlement. The government proposals are briefly: * ry District settlements involving longer hours, Standard district agreements for three. years. A national tribune to accept and decide on appeals from either side. The owners’ portion of mine profits to be not more than 15 per cent and not less than 13 per cent. Close Division. The delegates who spoke in favor of referring the matter to the miners argued that they were doubtless the best terms possible under the circum- stances and that the miners are grow- ing weaker all the time, The South Wales and Yorkshire delegates were in favor of continuing the fight. They pointed out that the acceptance of this settlement would mean the surrender of the national agreement, one ot. issues.of. the struggle, and would force the union to divide its forces in a strug- sle against the nationally united own- ers, backed by the govefnment. Last Word With Miners It is of importance that the vote was not taken on an individual basis, but by districts, thus eliminating a very large minority in the bigger dis- (Continued on page 2) 4G wall, 38.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. clase matter September 21, 1918, at the Post Qmoe at Chicago, Tihmets, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1926 | SCIENTISTS PROPOSE MAKING OLD NEPTUNE SCAB ON COAL BARONS (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Nov. 16.—(Ins) — The tireless energy of the ocean may be harnessed and made to produce motive power, by the. utilization of the difference In temperature be- tween the surface of the sea and the lower depths, according to an announcement made before the Academy of Sciences here by Georges Claude, inventor of liquid air, and Paul Boucheret, a well- known scientist, The theory of these men is that the tepid surface water of the ocean might be boiled in a vacuum and the cooler water-of the depths used for condensation, thus produc- ing steam. They claim that the sea could be made to produce 400,000 kilowatts of electrical en- ergy per 1,000 cubic meters of wa- ter per second. CUBA SEVERS ITS RELATIONS WITH URUGUAY (Special to The Daily Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, Noy. 16.—Diplo- matic relations between Cuba and Uruguay have been broken at the com- mand of Presideut Machado of Cuba, Who has ordered the Cuban minister jto Uruguay to return to Havana and ithe legation at Monteviedo closed. The break was said to have been caused by the refusal of Uruguay to explain the remarks made by its dele- gate to the league of nations in objec- ting to Cuba becoming a member. The delogate declared before the jleague that Cuba was a dependency of the United States under the exist- ing Platt amendment. President Machado issued an. ultimatum to Uruguay aud when there was no reply forthcoming. he recalled Cuba's min- ister to that country and closed the legation. Seek Murderer of Two. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Nov, 16.— Authorities today were searching the countryside ten miles north of ‘Scot- land, 8, D., 70 miles northwest of here, for the person or persons who last night murdered two and wounded three people at 4 farm near Scotland. rogram of Work for Our Party Outlined Central Committee Makes “Organization of Unorganized!” “A Labor Party in the 1928 Elec- \ tions!” and “Work in the Trade Unions!” the Major Tasks of the Party. diated that there was any basis for such a pessimistic outlook. The re- Solution recognized the developments towards the right of the American Federation of Labor, but at the same time stressed the great opportunities for building the party influence by work among the unorganized work- ers in*the great machine, industries, as illustrated in the Passsic strike, and that. the party could by active work among these workers, while not neglecting the struggle among the or- sanized workers, strengthen itself and extend its influence. The resolution THE main resolution of the «mittee is printed on page DAILY WORKER, members of the p from day to, day in makes -the following declaration on this question: 2 “With correct tacties the party can stimulate and lead stfuggles of the workers against the capitalists and become a popular party of the workers in times of ‘capitalist pros- perity’ and ‘stabilization’ as well as during periods of ‘hard times’ and crisia. In these struggles the party can hasten the proc of revoh tionization of the working class.” Summarizing the achievements of the party during the last year the resolution, has this to say: “In spite of the period of capital- ist prosperity, the party is break- ing its isolation and succeeded in broadening its influence and in- creasing its prestige among the masses of the workers. Resolutions Adopted by the Central Committee. and should: be carefully studied by all -“ Other resolutions will appear he DAILY WORKER. it has made these gains and in taking up of its immediate program to build the party and extend its influence among the masses. Such a mobilization will bring even greater gains than recorded for the past year.” “A Labor Party in the 1928 Elections.” i ial resolution of the Central Committee places the work of organizing the unorganized workers in the forefront of the party work, to which major attention must be de- voted. It throws out the slogan of “A Labor Party in the 1928 Blec- plenum of the Central Com- four of this issue of The tiqns” and gives the crete program for t! & con- tion of this program. These two campaigns with the work in the trade unions representing the most important work before the party. While some shadings of opinion in regard to the present situation devel Oped during the discussion the Cen- tral Committee unanimously adopted the resolution and the viewpoint it expressed, The Organization Question. The situation of the party organi- aationally after the reorganization was dealt with in detail in the resolu- tion and was discussed at length. The resolution established the great gains for the party as a result of the reor- wanization, and categorically rejected the idea that’ tfe reorganization was _“The party must mobilize for talk er use of its strength in applying the polities and tactlos thrn which 4 mistake; whil at the sate time recognising thé nesses which ex- fated in the of the reor amg Oe ¢ re _—— i under the Act of March 4%, 18t), eee SE" Published Datiy except Sunday by THE DAILY es ea French Fear Results of ‘ +, =6 Open Trial a (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Nov. 16, — Colonel Ricciotti Garibaldi, nephew ‘of the great Itafan Nberator, and aeéused of being an agent of fascism fomenting false plots against italy on French: soil while posing as a leader of the anti-fascist movement, has been sent to Sante prison to await @rial tor. secreting arms and ammu! in France, With him and gh the same charge goes Colonel Macia, leader of the Ca- Movement dgainst Rivera. The two a the French SECT Police. Garibaldi was abashed as he confronted Colonel Macta, The latter calmly smoked a cigarette and refused to speak to the Italian, who looked atthe floor. . Macia’s Denial, Macia denies Garibaldi and connection with s.. that the plot against the Spanigh directorate that was nipped by French police way of hig own making, But the police seem to have gathered cient evidence to show that the I ins who were in- volved in’ the alan attempt, were inspired by pcs a himself alleged to be acting under orders of Italian fascisti. é Serious Affairs. The French cabinet looks upon the trial of Garibaldi as a very serioug affair of state, The fascisti have fail- Monday Chicago $299.43 106 Members Failed to Help Keep The Daily Worker Marie Is By C. E. RUTHENBERG, Gen. Sec’y. Workers (Communist) Party One hundred and sixty-six party members must complete their sale of Keep The DAILY WORKER certifi- | ticates daily in ogder to raise the weekly contributions to the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund to $5,000. On Monday the contributions to the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund) were $299.43, which is $5.00 from sixty Party members, 106 less than required to raise the $5,000 weekly during the remainder of the campaign. Each Party mémber ‘has received a $6.00 book of the Keep The DAILY Queen Marie was getting her face masseuse. While the cream was buildings AND ABOUT THE Gets Flat Welcome by Slaves of Steel (Special to The Daily Worker) PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill nn OLD SHOULDER In her palatial 24 room suite at the Lake Shore Drive H the queen chatted of this and that, of the terrifi “RED” GREETED HER WHEN SHE ARRIVED IN CHICAGO NEW YORK EDITION WORKER _, Price 3 Cents QUEEN Tribune Says Marie’s Visit Aid to Huge Loan Worried te! massaged by Miss Nancy Sawyer, being rubbed into the roya! pores, heat of Chic RATION THAT DEMONS Money Bags Busy at All Royal Functions “It is certain that Queen M WORKER certificates. Each Party member has been asked to pay for these certificates, if he can do so and thus give the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund a big boost, or to sell the coupons and turn in the $5.00 thus raised, , by GARY, ‘Ind., Nov. 16—The nervous [her tour, has substantially aided any enthusiasm with which the scions of |N¢s°tiations which may be in ress for a $100,000,000 loan to Roumania hicago’ Chicago's Gold Coast waited their turn from the U.S. A.” in line to be “presented” to Maria von | This in a leading artic] Hohenzollern at the fashionable Drake | day's ed to satisfactorily prove that Gari- baldi was not inspired: by the fascisti iy hatching plots against the life of Mi imi from French soil. The French pret apntinues to dealare eels v ‘the pay of the fascisti and fomented the plots, the details of which were known to Italian police, for the purpose of stirring up discord , between France and Italy. This attempt is explained on the ground that Mussolini and his fascist party are anxious: to foment a war spirit to save themselves from a pol- itical debacle in thelr own country by (Continued on page 2) ganized party. The resolution demands of the par- ty that at least half of the energies of the party must go into organization work for the next six months and out- lines a concrete program to strength- en the party organization. This pro- gram calls for a “Party Mobilization Campaign” to include a campaign to draw back members who dropped out of the party during the reorganiza- tion, a recruiting campaign, classes for party functionaries, training the shop nuclei and street nuclei how to function, agenda for discussion at the meetings of the shop and street nu* clei to draw the members closer to the party leadership and mobilize greater atrength in the party cam- paigns. The language problem was discussed in detail and measures tak- en to enable those.comrades who do not understand English to function in the reorganized party. The proposals in the resolution, particularly the need of directing the party attention to the organizational problems were approved by all the speakers and this) phase of the reso lution was also approved unanimously. Trade Union Work. W. Z. Foster reported on the trade unfon work of the party, pointing out that the political committee has suc- ceeded in Mquidating the differences in regard to party policy in this field and that the party had a united policy for its work. He discussed in detail the work in the various indus- tries the achievements of the past six months. The report and the poli- cles outlined were discussed during a ‘s session and the report adopt- janimously. Other questions taken up in the ses- fons of the Central Committee wero, @ situation in the Communist Party the Soviet Union, on which Com- rade Max Bedacht reported, the Anti- Imperialist work ofithe party, report- ed on by Comrade Gomez, The DAILY » Teportéd on by Comrade (Continuedon page 6) The Keep The DAILY WORKER certificates have now been in circula- tion for more than six weeks. Every Party member has had the opportunity to secure contributions among his friends and shopmates for that length of time, Those members who have made earnest efforts have had suf- ficient time to raise the $5,000 which Is the quota they have been assessed to raise for the Keep The DAILY WORK- ER Fund, About three thousand members have turned In $5.00 to the Keep The DAILY WORKER Pund. THERE ARE STILL SEVEN THOUSAND TO BE HEARD FROM, The question we have to face in re- lation to the completion of the $50,000 fund, is WHETHER WE CAN. STIR THESE SEVEN THOUSAND MEM- BERS INTO ACTION TO RAISE $8.00 EACH DURING THE NEXT FIVE WEEKS, Is The DAILY WORKER Important enough In the eyes of these members ag a weapon of our movement in the class struggle to Induce them to make a real effort to raise their quota for the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund? We have told these members frank- ly the situation of The DAILY WORK- , the Importance of completing the 0,000 fund, if we are to Keep The Flat Welcome. “(Tiere was no show of enthusiasm, hardly one of recognition. There was no cheering and waving of greasy work caps as the Steel Corporation dukes in, the. glass-covered cars. an- Helpated. Aboard the car in which the queen sat there was a feeling of flat failure. The president of the IIli- nois Steel Co. shifted nervously in his seat. A high lord of.the Elgin, Joliet &,Eastern showed that he felt the tenseness created by the damp wel come. The queen felt tt As the little white cars crept be- tween the smelters past the furnaces and thru the yards, thousands of work- ers saw. majority, came from the Balkans, | where Marie is known as the “mother- AILY WORKER. Will these seven |inJaw of kings.” There, too, were jousand members join with the three (Continued on page 6) jousand who have already loyally | —_ wie upported The DAILY WORKER and push the campaign forward to victory? CAN WE DEPEND UPON ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX PARTY MEMBERS TO SEND IN FIVE DOL- LARS EACH DAY TO RAISE FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS A WEEK? | (Special to The Daity Worker) We ask those members who have! BERLIN, Nov. 16. —- Prosident Hin rot supported the Keep The DAILY |denburg plans to offer his resignation WORKER Fund to answer these ques- Jas head of the German republic on the Rumor Hindenburg to Resign Next October; Term Expires in 1930 tlon by sending in thelr contributions. | occasion of his eightieth birthday next WE ASK EVERY ONE OF THESE | October, according to the newspaper SEVEN THOUSAND MEMBERS TO |“Die Welt.” IMMEDIATELY RALLY TO THE SUPPORT OF THE KEEP THE DAILY WORKER FUND. WE ASK ONE. HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX MEMBERS TO RESPOND TO THIS CALL EACH DAY. We will record the answer in The DAILY WORKER each day. The newspaper states, however, that it is believed that his friends will per- suade him to remain in office, President Hindenburg was elected president of the German republic in 1925, his five-year term expiring in April, 1930, STALIN'S SPEECH AT CONFERENCE OF THE C. P. OF THE SOVIET UNION Assails Opposition as Anti-Leninists . By JOHN PEPPER (Special Cable fe The Dally Worker) ° MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R., Nov. 16.—Joseph Stalin, secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was.the last-speaker as the special party conférence came to a close after voting unanimous sup- port to the Central Committee and setting thetime for the regular party congress next autumn, Following is a. summary of Stalin’s speech on the question of the opposition bloc led by Trotsky, Zinoviey and Kamenev whose pro- posals were beaten overwhelmingly by the assembled delegates ; STALIN’S SPEECH Stalin pointed out tliat the well-known thesis of Engels, given out in 1840, in the last century, declaring that the proletariat is unable to triumph in a single country, was true at that time, but owing to the present development of imperialism, this muat be re placed by Lenin’s formula stating that the victory of socialism in single countries is quite possible, and probable under the new con- ditions of developing . capitalism+————--——-----— and proletarian claga, struggle. Zinoviev {a in thix case following in ‘The social-democraty,are holding to |the path of the social-democrats, he old formula of Engeis ,precisely | similar case {4 the r the purpose of making easier their truggie against the Communists. problem of the proletarian dictatorship jn the imper- (Continued on page 2) / ‘Many of them, perhaps a | A. Chicago Tribur Hotel was entirely lacking in the toll- | metropolitan newspaper ers of Gary’s steel mills when her |!Self to indulge in such pl majesty rode thru the yards and shops |!"*, With regard to fi nh in a special white observation car cov- |Plications of Marie’s visit rtp ered with glass. june goes further, It's well known gtat Tt wasn't that the workers didn't » Oscar Hewitt was en the want to know who was there to look |J°b of computing the amount of money at them. Roumanian flags flew froin n came i et with the tops of the buildings and they | 4 engageme: with money were told in advance of the coming |»@8 in @ score of wealthy American of the queen to “inspect” them. They | “ites. looked up from their heavy toil and | Tribune Opposes Loan. saw the narrow-guage royal special go Incidentally, it may be pointed out slowly by. They saw the queen. And |that the Tribune is against a loan to they gave her the gold shoulder. Roumania because it is against foreign loans in general. The paper, specifi jcally the mouth organ of McCormack’s International. Harvester Co. erally, the spokesman of larg< west industrial capital that finds itself in disagreement with the international money. .transsetions of Wall. Straat. That is why it can speak so plainly. Once on the job, Oscar Hewitt made a complete analysis that led off with the sentence quoted above. After say- jing the queen has made many friends, Hewitt goes on:. “A large percentage lof these friends who have come in | closest. contact with her have good American dollars in large quantities.” Wealth Galore. Then the figures. At one affair im |New York there was 43 men and women present whose wealth aggre- gated $1,551,000,000, When the queen | was feted by the Bankers’ Club in New fYork all the major financial institu- |tions of Wall Street were well repre |sented. The resources of these banks lis $7,350,000,000. | That same day she dined with Chas. |M. Schwab and Judge E. H. Gary, | who, between them, more or less con- trol the Bethlehem Stee! Co. and the | United States Steel Corporation. In |Philadelphia the lady was the house guest of Edward Stotesbury, a Morgan partner, who controls rich Drexel & Co. The Packers, The royal entertainers in Chicago were the big beef and iron families The Roumanian consul general, Ira Nelson Morris, is a son of the original Morris, whose company is one of the big five’. The head of the reception committee in Chicago was Arthur Meeker, vice-president of Armour & Co., with resources of over $231,000, 000, In Minneapolis, St. Paul, Kansas City and. Seattle her majesty came into the closest contact with all the big flour, lumber and railroad families, whose fortunes run into many miil- Mons, The real money was in New York. And it was trom New York that the negotiations for the loan were con- | ducted. But Oscar Hewitt's figures on |the rest of the country are none the | less enlightening, because New York is the financial capital of the nation and the provincial millionaires have their fingers in the Wall Street pie in devious ways, A Little Irony: The Tribune statistician indulges in the irony that the freedom of his pa- per on this question allows him by finishing his study in the following manner: “If, following her tour of this coun- |try, it develops that Roumania ac- | tually has applied for a loan, it is eer: jtain that she—perhaps without any thought of the joan~-has made friendly acquaintances in # fertile field.” Worker Killed, ROOKFORD, Ill, Nov, 15.—John D'Angelo,. 36, was killed {nstantly to- day when the boom of a huge crane jused in a scrap iron yard, collapsed and fell directly on him. Two other workmen jumped to safety,