The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1926, Page 3

| ] U.S, BATTLESHIPS SUPPORT DIAZ AS NICARAGUA HEAD {Attempt inenuididcn on Liberals \ s MANAGDA, hwnile official congratulations from the fUnited States were being extended to dolfo Diaz, newly inaugurated reac: mary president of Nicaragua, United States battleships are patrolling the ‘harbors as a warning to liberals to “keep hands off.” The long arm of Washington was ‘plainly visthle in the election of Diaz, enchman #f Chamorro. / Would Intimidate Mexloo. Yesterday the American cruiser #Oalifornia left Corinto for the Gulf of (Wonesca, primarily to let Mexico, who piss has ships in the district, know at the United States is Packing the sent yegime. The U, S. 8S, Roches- - is patrolling the east coast, At the inauguration dinner Law- mce Dennis, charge d’affaires for the nited States, proposed a toast to \Piaz, assuring him of the support of United States. Little enthusiasm was, shown by e people by: Diaz’ inauguration, de- ite the fact that those that wit- sed the ceremony were supposed to his supporters, Declare Huge Dividends. WILMINGTON, Del. Nov, 16—Di- rectors of the H. I. du Pont de Ne- ours Company here have declared a @ividend on common stock totaling | $16,801,715, said to be the largest ever | declared by the company. BOSTON International PRESS BALL x Friday, Nov. 26, "26 JACQUES RENARD'S ORCHESTRA STATE BALL ROOM Mass. Avé., Boston Gents 75c Ladies 40c At Door: Gents $1; Ladies 50c ‘ ‘ International ‘Press Ball for the benefit of the following Papers: The Daily Worker sEnglish Daily ‘The Young Worker ig Youth Bi-weekly ‘Armenian Weekly Finnish Daily Italian Weekly Jewish Daily wanian Daily Lithuanian Daily -Russian Weekly Scandinavian Weekly Daily News .... Ukrainian. Daily +++ NOVEMBER 26 Friday, Dec. 3 at 9 p.m. Nicaragua, Nov. 16— WORKER WHO ACCEPTED CHALLENGE = — OF LADY ASTOR TO GO TO RUSSIA ‘. WRITES OF EXPERIENCES HE FINDS The following is a letter from James Morton, London worker, who ac- .|vepted the challenge of Lay Astor to take his family to Russia to live for a period. Lady Astor didn’t think any one would accept her “daring chal- lpnge,” but Morton did, This letter was sent to a workér in Los Angeles. Dear Comrades: I have so many organize my friends into groups. No. who will pass all correspondence on can be sent to the comrades in the United States. to write to that I will be compelled to 1 Group consists of London comrades, to Liverpool. From Liverpool, letters So, now then, comrades altho I address you all in the aggregate I am thinking of you all individually and will be very pleased to have letters from you all. We landed in Leningrad on Friday, + August 27, and were met at the boat by a deputation from the Supreme Economic Council, who whizzed us away in an auto.to the Hotel Buropa. We were asked to stay as their guests for a few days, but just arranged to stay long enough to allow Alan, who had been sick during the whole sen. voyage, to recover a bit, We left on Saturday night at 11, had & bed each in a sleeping car, had a good night’s sleep and: reached Mos- tow at 10:30 on Sunday morning. Here we were met'by another delega- tion, which took us into a car and drove us to the’Bolshoi Hotel. Sur- rounded by eastern luxury, we had a good time. We meta few old com- rades and had.very’ soon decided that we had reached the promised Jand, On Monday I had’ an’interview with Comrade Lepsi, the chairman of the Metal Workers’ Union, who advised us to return to Leningrad, as it was a much better place for engineering workers, and also because {t was much easier to get housing accommodation. Meets Metal Workers. After spending two days in Moscow, we returned to Leningrad, where we were met by a delegation of the Metal Workers’ Union and taken to the Hotel D’Angleterre. We are still there and likely to be for a few weeks, until we get a permanent address. Lots of Work. To find work in Leningrad at engi- neering trades is very easy, but it is difficult to find work in a place where English workers can he understood. There is a tremendous activity here. Ship building, ship repairs, éngineer- ing, building, street repairs and other activities too. numerous to mention. The place is agog with work. Recon- struction on a grand scale. It is a real’ eye-opener to a foreign worker. It seems almost impossible, Sees Big Factories. I was taken to the Metalichesky works, a huge plant employing many thousands of workers. There they were making boilers, building cranes, Deisel engines and turbine machinery, Everything on a big scale. It was like being at Armstrong-Whitworth’s. The workers here are all Russians, and the works committee, altho they welcomed me, and the director offered me work if I liked to start, thought it advisable that I should not be in a hurry and perhaps in a few days a job. could be found for me where one worker at least spoke English. The next day I was taken to the great Putiloy Engine Works—Red. Putilov it is called now. Gets Job. Here my lick was in: The’ assist- ant superintendent in thé foundry speaks a little English and is anxious to learn more. He was delighted at the idea of me starting there, but no more: than I was. He Bafd I would teach him English and he would learn me Russian. Everything was fixed up IN PHILADELPHIA There are only two places to eat— HOME AND AT Hartung’s Restaurant 610 Spring Garden St. Home Open from 6. a. m. NEW MASSES Workers’ and Peasants’, . | Costume Ball Cooking. to 7 p.m. Webster Hall 119 E..11th St. Tickets in ‘Advance $1.50 At the Door $3.00 , CARPETS * RUGS ~- 1600 W. Roosevelt Rd. 1618 W. Chicago Avenue 2408 W, North Avenue The Best Pade | to ey Your asi OSCAR |. BARKUN'S 5 STORES "Send Check _ New Masses ‘39 W, 8th St. LINOLEUM FURNITURE Phone Seeley 7722 Phone Monroe 6264 Phone Humboldt 4983 ,and I start to work tomorrow, Sept. 6, at the, biggest plant in all Russia, There are over 3,000 members of the Communist Party working at the Red Putilov Pabrik. Down, the road from where I work is the Marti ship yard, called after the French Communist. All. the works ate called after working-class leaders, We have had a great reception here. Everyone is greatly amused at the Astor affair. We have been chased by Photographers and story writers, Today: Sept. 5, great demonstra- tions have been held alt over Russia to collect funds for the Hnglish min- ers. North, south, east and west the children, youths, soldiers, sailors, work- ers and peasants have been marching and collecting. What enthusiasm! What a display of working-class soli- darity! It’ would be worth while liv- ing on dry bread to be here, Leningrad from an early hour this gaiety. Thousands of people of all ages marching. The police, military, naval sections, all marching with the workers and singing revolutionary songg. (I’m afraid my poor pen can- not give justice to it all.) On they march, column after column. Mary and Alan beaming with joy, mareh- ing with the Young Pioneers, Tab- leaux in galore. Here a huge wooden figure (bust and head) representing.q capitalist, top hat, eyeglasses and cigar complete, and a young Commu- nist (very much Alive) knocking hell out of him with an axe. It is estimated that in Leningrad alene over $25,000 would be collected today. The activities here on behalf of the English miners make one ashamed and disgusted with that bunch of fakers who run the labor movement in England. I have met Mrs. Cook and the other miners‘ wives, also the other dele- gates, Iattended a great meeting in the Uritsky Palace (formerly the Duma) where they were met by the workers’ delegates of Leningrad at a meeting organized by the trades council of tlis city. They got a magnificent re- ception. I wrote a report of the meet- ing and sent it' to the Daily Herald. It is getting late and I have been writing a number of letters today, so I will now conclude this one with fra- ternal greetings. James Morton, Pan-Pacific Workers’ Conference Given Up Because of No Interest SYDNEY, Australia, Nov. 16.—The Pan-Pacific Labor Conference. which was to have been held at Honolulu last July and was then postponed till November is now to be abandoned altogether. The rpason for this is the lack of support given by the, workers of Australia and the fact that other nations surrounding the Pacific signi- fled théy would not put in an appear- ance. The money collected in Austra- lia to finance the conference is being returned to the unions concerned, Labor councils in Australia feel very sore at the abandonment of the con- ference and characterize the lack of interest taken in the matter as a dis- grace to the labor movement of Aus- tralia, A resolution has been carried by the labor councils deploring the aban- donment of the conference and urging the workers of Australia to try and arrange @ conference at some future date. ‘NOTE:—This item refers to the Pan-Pacific Conference called by the Australian, Labor Party in opposition to the conference of the All-Australian Trade Union Congress, The latter conference {is being energetically push- ed. It will-be held at Canton, China, May, 1; 1927. Come Loaded! to the merry Boston Package Party ~ arranged for The Daily Worker and for a joyous lot of fun for everyone attending. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24 at 93 STANFORD ST. BOSTON 4 Section 1 of the Workers (Com- munist) Party is in charge of the festivities. ate DON'D. MISS THE FUN or the opportunity to do The Dally morning has been a blaze of color and, HE ‘DAILY WORKER EXPLOBE BOSS PROPERTY BUNK IN AUSTRALIA Workers Short of Food and Clothing By W. FRANCIS AHERN. SYDNEY—(FP)—<According to Na- pier Thompson, ex-president of the Australian Metal Trade Employers Assn., Australia is “ a nation of capi- talists,” where wealth is widely dis- tributed, where everybody is prosper- ous and where there are no poor. A clipping of this staternent from the N, ¥, Times of July 20 reached the Australian bureau of The’ Feder- ated Press’ when a: commission was hearing evidence for a higher mini- mum wage. Some of the evidence was heart-moving, telling of the grim strug- gle to make 6nds meet. : The evidence by various witnesses is typical of thousands of workers in the city of Sydney alone, and is a striking answer to the allegations that in Australia ‘all are prosperous and none are poor, , A family Of 5 was forced to live on $21 weekly, Of which $8 had to be paid fpr rent. They were short of food and clothing. There was no milk for the three young children. Christ- mag toys for the children were un- known, A mother with 7 children, eldest aged 12, said her husband earned $22.50 weekly, out of which she paid $5.50 for rent for a %-room house. They went short of food and clothing, + Many similar stories were told—all showing that the minimum wage was not sufficient to provide a decent liv- ing, The majority of the Australian people (85% of whom are workers) are worse off than before the war. Soviet, Delegation to Study Oil Industry Goes Back to Russia NEW YORK, Nov. 16. — Delegates sent here by the Soviet oil trust, Gros- neft, to investigate American methods of producing’ and refining oil, have sailed back to Russia, after spending four months in the United States. Revival of Russian petroleum indus try will not mean an oil price.war, de- clared S$. M. Ganshin, vice-president of the trust and a member of the dele- gation. The consumption of Hurope and the rest of the world is more than sufficient to absorb the Russian and American output, he said. Orders fel a million dollars worth of oil equipment will be placed in the United States thru the Amtorg Trad- ing Corporation, buying egency for the Soviet government, Machado Threatens Dictatorship Over Cuba,: “If Necessary” HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. #6.—President Machado threatened in an Armistice Day speech here that if he did not get the co-operation of congress he would establish @ diétatorship, if necessary. “Ifa dittdtorship is necessary to keep alive the memory of those heroes whe died on the battlefield, I, with ‘hose who are willing to follow me, wi.l be enough to attain that end,” he raid. Mine Strike Cripples Many British Industries LO! INDON, Noy. 16. — Absolute ruin ent upon a cheap fuel supply, says a review of recent developments in the coal lockout by the British corre- spondent of the International Federa- tion of Trade Unions. In every part of the kingdom there are idle ship yards, damped furnaces, or closed tex- tile mills, The Daily Herald, organswof labor, finds that of the 85 blast furnace: which were in operation in the west of Scotland last April all have been closed down, The Scottish fron and steel trade has been peralyzed for months past, In the Middlesborough district only 5,000 men are working, of the norm@l force of 25,000 mea. Arthur Pughg secretary of the Iron and Steel jes Federation, says that only five of the 470 blast fur- naces of the metal industry are still working. Lack of coal is likewise forcing some of the French furnaces to shut down, while there is"arising in Germany a demand that Coal exports be curtailed in order to reduce the rising cost of fuel to German manufacturers. Ger- man mine owners are Working to se- cure longterm, contracts to supply oal to former buyers of British coal. Belgian manufacturers are suffering from. the fuel famine, and in the heavy industries the condition is described as alarming. Russian Women Will Give Affair Dec. 5 A performance concert and dango ‘will be given by the Russian Progres- sive wenn Mutual Aid Socloty, Sunday, Dec, 6, at Shoenhoffen Hall, oor Mil ane Ashland Aves, j ns are re- te Tw to arrange other eiaire oa te is faced by British industries depend- | By Worker Page Three 1000 WORKER. CORRESPOND: NTS BY JANUARY 13 1927 To comply with the request of many workers who want to become mem- bers of the Chicago class in worker correspondence the hour of the class meeting has been changed to 6:30 p. m, from 8 p. m. This change is made to enable ‘workers who have other meetings on Friday night to at- tend the class in workers’ journalism from 6:80 to:8.o’clock.and thus be able to go to their other meetings after class, The change will take effect this Friday night. All members of the class and those who have not yet joined, but intend to this. week, are requested to bein the editorial rooms of The DAILY “WORKER, 1113 W, Washington Blvd., at 6:30 sharp, so that no time will be lost. Registration Still Open, Registration for the class is ‘Still open and all workers who are inter- JOURNALISM CLASS NOW MEETS AT 6:30 P. M. TO ENABLE WORKERS WITH MEETINGS ON SAME NIGHT TO JOIN ested in learning how to write news stories are invited to join. A course of study has been outlined this year which is designed to develop real labor | Journalists out of the members. Every phase of journalism will be taken up, from the writing of-a:single news story to the more complicated features of journalism. Special lecturers will give instruc- tion on special phases of labor journal- ism, Class Is Popular, The class is becoming more popifar each week, and new students are reg- istering at) each session. It ig ex- pected that with the change in the hour more. workers will be able to join than before. Members of the class are requested to bring with them on Friday night a short story of some happening that they have seen or | heard about, as these specimen stories form the basis for class criticism, MOVIE WORKERS PRESENT DEMAND FOR RECOGNITION Los Angeles Unions Are Ready to Strike By WM. SCHNEIDERMAN, (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Noy. 16.—The four unions making up the Studio Em- ployes’ Alliance have presented de- mands to the Los Angeles film execu- tives for recognition of union condi- tions, failing which a general strike will be called here Dec. 1, as well as in the New York section of the in- dustry. Delegates to the Central Labor the organization drive in preparation for the strike. Cc. L. C, Backs Move, The Central Labor Council assures complete support to the strike if it takes place. They are anxious to make some kind of a showing before the next convention of the A. F, of L., which takes place in this elty in 1927. Other Drives Loom, Organization drives in other indus- tries may soon get under way for the same reason. It is interesting to note that most of the officials of the council were against inviting the next A. F. of L. convention here, because of the issue of organization campaign raised by progressive delegates in this con- nection, However, the opihion of Frank L. Johnston, reactionary president was overwhelmingly defeated by a vote of the delegates, who Will be spurred on to strengthen the labor movement now in this open-shop city. SCOTT NEARING speaks in Los Angeles’ November 22 to 27 LINCOLN ‘HALL, Walker Auditorium Blidg., 730, South Grand Ave. 8 O'Clock Each Evening on « Monday, Nov. 22, “Rise of Cap+ italist Imperialism.” Tuesday, Nov. 24,- construction.” Thursday, Nov. 25, “League of 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 seating capacity of the hall, Single admissions fifty cents —provided there are any seats left. Each afternoon at 5:15 o'clock Mr. Nearing will speak in the same hail on .“Post-War Economics,” tentine the subject after this man- eMonday, Nov, 22, "Wealth Con~ centration~-Wagea, Income and Debts.” Tuesday, Nov. 23, “World Strug- gle for RaW Materials.” Wednesday, Nov. 24, “Unom- ployment and the Return of Hard Times.” + bameat ey 25, "The Rise of nl or. ai tee and the Labor Sta ‘Russian Re- Ticket for Whole Series of Lectures $1.00 WORKERS’ BOOK SHOP 322 West Second St., Los Angeles, Cal. Cajl Metropolitan 3265 GINSBERGS Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Bropklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. Council report hundreds of applica- | tions are coming into the union offices | for membership since the opening of | IRON MOULDERS STRIKE AGAINST WAGE SLASHES, Y.W.L. INSPIRES WORKERS By a Worker Correspondent. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16.—In the midst of an organization campaign carried on by the Young Workers’ League at the O'Keefe & Merrit stove factory, fifty moulders in the foundry rooms walked out against a wage cut, and are now under the direction of the moulders’ union, Two strike issues of the “Stove Worker,” bulletin of the Young Workers’ League, have already been distributed. Attempts have been made to use scabs, but five workers who were transferred to the foun- dry refused to scab, and were fired. The league bulletin urges the young stove workers to refuse to scab on their fellowworkers who are striking, and warns of a threag- ened lockout, for which they must be prepared. The bo are attempting to scare the workers by spreading rumors of laying off the entire force and clos- Ing down the factory because of the “slack sence Sao NefETMBYHA Vomuaa fa3ema-KypHan Uykarckoro omaena a3. .HOBbIM..MUP™ The next meeting of the ‘Chicago Novy Mir worker correspondents will be held Wednesday, Nov. 17, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. All must be present to get ready for the next issue of Prolet-Tribune which will be out next Saturday night at the Workers’ House. OUR MOTTO 3 Q's Quality - Quantity - Quickness U-EAT Restaurant and Lunch Room 1232 W. MADISON ST. “The pen is mightier than the sword,” provided you know how to use {t. Come down and learn how In the worker correspondent’s classes. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! tionary youth. This pamphlet tells Workers League is and why young Distribute 25,000! The Young Workers (Communist) Enclosed find $. lenge of Youth” to Name . The Cl GIRL, 12, JAILED. FOR AIDING IN. PASSAIC RELIEF Jersey Police Threaten Young Pioneers By a Worker Correspondent ROSSELLE, N. J., Nov. 16.—Mary Kortnowsky, 12-year-old member of the Young Pioneers, was arrested here for selling bread cards for the relief of the Passaic.textile strikers’ chil- dren. The little girl was dragged from the house where she was trying. to sell a card by a member of: the local po lice and thrown into a foul c@jbin po- lice headquarters. She was held there for over six hours before her parents were able to get her release, Given Rough Treatment. During the six hours she was held in jail the little child was subjected to the most brutal treatment and. ques tioning. The police questioned her at length regarding the Young Pioneers, and Mary told them what the Pioneerg were—an.. org tion of working class children fighting for the working class. The police told her parents that they would certainly have detectives om hand at the next meeting of the Pioneers. They intimated that the Pioneer group in Rosselle would be broken up by force if it were found as radical as Mary’s reply indicated. Another Pioneer Grilled. This is not the first occurrence of this kind in Rosselle. A few weeks ago Herbie Axel, an 11-year-old Pion- eer, showed his teacher a copy of the Young Comrade. The teacher w: horrified. She took Herbie to the principal of the school, who, after questioning him, evidently found he needed help to curb this infant “red menace,” and called the police depart ment, A detective was sent over to the schoo] and Herbie’s mothem wast also called into conference. Mrs. Axel said that she knew Herbie belonged |to the Pioneers and that she entirely approved of their program. The prin- cipal then threatened to expel’ Herbie from school unless he left the Pioneers, His mother replied that her son would continue to be a member of the Pioneers ag all costs, as she thought something was needed to counteract the poisonous capitalist propaganda of the public schools, Rvevew eww eee w wee eee] A Treat of a Lifetime! IN NEW YORK Freiheit Gesangs Verein with the assistance of members of New York Symphony Orchestra will sing “Messiah, Son of Joseph” Dramatic poem by Bainush Steinman, Music by our own Jacob Shaefer, SATURDAY, NOV. 20, 1926 _ CARNEGIE HALL, 57th St. and 7th Ave, New York City” Tickets 750 to $2.00 at the. Fretheit, 30 Union Square. New York City. Challenge of Youth Why Every Young Worker Should Join the Young Workers (Communist) League By SAM DARCY IS JUST OFF THE PRESS! It’s something new and vitally necessary in the work of revolu- in simple language what the Young workers shoujd join it, It analyzes the condition of the working youth of this country and deals with thelr problems as no other book or pamphlet has done up to now. Order a Bundle Now! 15c a copy; 10c a copy in bundles of 5 or more. Send your order with a cash remittance, : —~ — USE THIS BLANK League of America, 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ill, < Send .. copies of “The Chal