The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1926, Page 6

ze Six FHE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER STRIKERS HAIL _ Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1123 W, Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il, Phone Monroe asl SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): | $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months “ $2.50 three months | $2.00 three months Address all mati and make out check# to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicage, ft, * J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNB MORITZ J. LOEB... — $$$ Entered as second-class mai] September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi cago, Il, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application, Royalism in the United States It has often been stated that the capitalists are only patriotic to the profit system; that the particular country which they profess } love is only a base of operations for them. This is true. When they have a quarrel with the capitalists of other countries they pull out} the flag and dig up the necessary, patriotic hokum in order. to en- courage the fighting spirit of their cannon fodder. They talk..glibly national. holidays about “American traditions” and denounce Communists who Would introduce Marxism and Leninism ils of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.” The flunkeyism displayed by our parasitic class towards the royal bams from Roumania—about as dissolute and bawdy an outfit as ever sprung from the sewers of -monarchism—shows. that there is no essential ‘differénce between the republicanism of our ruling classes and the monarchism, of what is left of the European uristoeracy. The bourgeoisie no Tonger have any quarrel with the aristocracy. They can afford to put them on the payroll. They get a kick out of poosnoe -Hiditors ..Business Manager <i 290 on the iy stead of the ic it. The nor of royalty is used to good advantage by, the British ruling classes to hold the shaky empire together and to dazzle the masses. It is quite evident that our bourgeoisie would give much to have a royal family in the White House instead of a president, provided they could get away with it. Kings nowadays mind their own business and it would be much cheaper to keep a royal family in champagne than to shoulder the cost of electing a couple of senators. In Chicago Communists and radicals of other working class organizations organized demonstrations to bring the terror im posed on the people of Roumania to the attention of the masses. They succeeded and got arrested for their pains. Knowing that the working class have no illusions about royalty politicians who expect to be re-elected held aloof from the queenly kowtowing. But only the revolutionists uphetd the best traditions of the American struggle against royalism and aristocracy, in- the days when the ‘Toilers Enthused Over Breach in Passaic Mills yising American capitalist class’ were the instruments of evolution | in giving the wheel of progress a forward turn. International Labor to the Defense of Sacco and Vanzetti Governor Fuller of Massachisetts is under strong guard in Paris because of the demonstrations carried out there by the French workers as a protest against the threatened death of Sacco and Van- .#etti at the hands of the ruling classes in Massachusetts. Every fresh attempt on the part of the ruling classes to feed led workers that when they reported | those two Italian workers to the electric chair has been met by the | workers with renewed efforts to block the executioner’s hand. Not only in the United States is this determination show The workers of every country in the world have expressed their indignation against the conspiracy aimed at those labor leaders, | a couspiracy designed to make a horrible example of Sacco and Van- zetti and drive fear into the hearts of other members of the labor movement who are shouldering the,responsibility of giv: ing a forward lead to the working elass movement. That the capitalists have failed so far is a tribute to the grow- ing class solidarity of the workers. oars. The late blow in‘the face to the Sacco and Vanzetti defense | was given by Judge Thayer when he refused the victims of capit that justified another trial. napers admitted this. even many conservative capitalist The series of mass meetings and demonstrations now being | organized in the United States to mobilize working class opinion | picture, called out: behind the defense of our comrades should receive the enthusiastic | cheer for the queen?” support of every worker in the country. Marx on Fordism Workers are thinking about Ford’s 5-day week. They are won- dering if there is a catch to it. Beginning in Friday’s issue The DAILY WORKER will run a series of articles telling In a simple way the economics of the Ford system as Karl Marx would have analyzed it. Most workers don’t know that the greatest economist that ever lived, the economist ‘of the workingcelass, figured out the mechanics of Ford's system of explottation before Henry was born. “Kart Marx on Fordism” will run in four daily articles. They are written by Thurber Lewis. bd (Continued from page 4) responding increase in the éffectiveness of the work of the party units. 3. Party Mobilization Campaign. tad order to turn the attention of the party to the work of strengthening the party Organization ‘and the training ofthe new party units in their work, a party mobilization campaign must be initiated’ im- mediately and during the next sfx months a large part of the party. smaller centers, A The drawing back into the party of mem, bers who did not come into the reorganized par- ty, Many members were dropped from the party thru lack of persistent propaganda to win ‘them for the reorganized party and thru a too mechan- feal cutting off of these members from the reor- ganized party, These megnbers can bé ‘drawn back into the party. B. A recruiting campaign to win new mem- bers. Our party has never developed tha neces- sary organization meaguaee wo dra, jwation ts that j start to break the ice, But, we must not rest on our | here?” to her majesty and inclined his head al." be she did hers. ist government a new trial despite the introduction of new evidence | Roumanian for several minutes. |from the Gary steel workers. 25 WORKERS ARE SLAIN BY GOVERNMENT. TROOPS IN NEW JAVA FIGHTING LONDON, Nov. 16.—New upris- ings have becurred in Java, accord- Ing to a Central News dispatch from Batavia. , Five hundred workers attacked troops at Labocan. They were re- pulsed after heavy fighting. Twenty- five were killed, it is claimed. Communications between Labocan and Batavia have been interrupted. The government is sending rein- forcements to aid the troops in put- ting down the workers, The number of casualties In the fighting, which has been intermittent since last week, now runs into the hundreds, it is reported here. SETTLEMENT AS VICTORY SIGN | (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Nov. 16.—“The | {ranks of the mills are broken. The| strikers are more deterrhined today \than ever before to fight the battle to a finish. If it takes another win- ter of suffering, we'll stand firm until the union is recognized.” It was with this challenge that Gustav Deak, young president of the Passaic local Will Seek Amendment of the United Textile Workers Union, leading the long fight against the mall barons, greeted the news of the surrender of the ,Worsted Mills. to union demands, before a huge mass meeting of strikers. The enthusiasm in the ranks of the strikers was never higher: Their | morale has been lifted to an indom- | sion of congress to nullify the supreme itable pitch by the victory ina large Court decision, upholding the right of mill employing 700 workers. Mass |the president to remove civil service meetings were held thruout the | Officials without the consent of the strike area and the Worsted settle-| state, ment hailed as the first step to vie-| The decision approving the dis- tory. missal of Postmaster Myers of Port- U. S. Supreme Court | MADISON, Wis., Nov. 15.—Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin today an- | nounced he would introduce a constitu- tional amendment at the coming ses- to Nullify Decision of | Manager Talks. A special meeting of the strikers affected by the Worsted Mill agree ment was called at their strike head- quarters. Gustav Deak and Interna- tional Vice-president Janfes Starr spoke to the workers. They intro- duced Manager Midly of the Worsted Co. who told the strikes that every- thing would be. done back to work at the ear’ moment and application of the agreement signed put them While the other mills have not of- | recognized the move of the |low the average but extra work and strikers are |care, due to the varying quality, will ficially Worsted officials, the st possible | ‘to create harmonious | land, Ore., “tends to nullify the con- |stitutional limitation on the presi- dent’s appointive power afforded by the clause ‘by and with the advice and consent of the sente,’” said LaFollette. Corn Crop Yield of Illinois Is Far From | SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Nov. 14— Mlinois corn yield is only slightly be- Good, Survey Reveals | confident that the first break will|be required in handling it, according | mean more are settling down to fight |to the November 1 joint report of the | it out until the ranks of the mil /Tilinois and federal departments of | owners weaken, There are rumors of agriculture, the Gera and Botany mills taking The state yield per acre is estim- steps looking towards negotigtions tated at 35 bushels, compared with an | with the union. acreage of 36 bushels and 42 bushels | “Get a Card.” ast year. State production totals | Vice-president Starr told the Worst: | 326,620,000 bushels, Floods, rains and storms have at the gates to take up their jobs |caused great corn loss thruout the again that they must take their union | state, the report states. cards with them. “If you haven’t got | one—get it,” he said. ° aa pea President MacMahon of the U. T. | Sheffield, Anti-Calles W. called the Worsted settlement the | Minister to Mexico. % Has Coolidge Backing first stride towards the vation | of the New Jersey textile industry. Queen Gets Flat WASHINGTON, Nov. i6.—James R. | Sheffield, American ambassador to Mexico, who is retufnifig to his post Welcome in Gary | next week, has the full confidence ani |support of President Coolidge, it was But one would not {declared at the white hotse today. Sheffield favors a “vigorously pol- ” in dealing with Mexico on the oil and land laws controversy. The presidential spokesman .and Secretary of State Kellogg declined to comment on Mexico's reported sug: gestion that the differences between the two governments be referred to the Hague court for adjustment. watnat (Continued from page 1.) many Roumanians. know it. Queen Tries to Break Ice. The situation was becoming unbear, | able. The train came to a halt be- fore a group of some 300 workers. It was the queen herself that made an She called “Are there any Roumanians No answer. She called again. | |One man stepped forth. He went up| \John Haynes Holmes to Speak on Passaic out: He spoke to her in Taking advantage of the break in the ranks, a photographer, who was waiting impatiently for some move- ment that would afford a printable “How about a The big steel |} men in, the car looked daggers at the |men. There was a tone of intimida- | tion to their looks? He Got Picture. | A half-hearted cheer arose, a mean- |ingless, unmeant cheer. And the pho- |tographer got his picture. The white car moved on, The sense of damp- ness was only partially liquidated. Such was the welcome that the repre- sentative of Balkan oppression get John Haynes Hplmes off New. York | will speak at the meeting of the Chi- jcago Forum next Sunday afternoon, | Noy. 21, discussing the significance of “The Passaic Strike.” Mr. Holmes has had active contact with the situation im several ways, particularly in the effort to maintain the rights of free speech. in Passaic. He will deal with the strike as an episode in the progress toward indus- trial democracy in America, Third Kansas City Bank Fails. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov, 15. — The | Boe Di WCE a ESAT Waldo State Bank, in’ the suburb of | DAILY WORKER to your friends— party those workers it wins thru its activities in the class struggle. constant recruiting of new members must ac- company the political and industrial campaigns C. The training of efficient party officials for the shop and street nuclei. For this purpose, training schools for party officials must be estab- Ushed in every large city and comrades must be brought in for week-end lectures from the tees with the nuclei, these committees attending the meetings to give Instructions on how to carry out the party cam- paigns and to train the shop nuclei how to car- ry on ‘their work in ie factories. B” The shop and street nucle! must be fur- nished with agendas for discussion of the party problems, and work under representatives ot che commit of the territory in which they P F. One of the weaknesses of the party organ: the whole. mami b . 5 We will send sample coples of The | Waldo, did not open for business to- day. It was the third Kansag City bank to close within the past four days, | eone us name and address, Send In a sub today! drawn into the party campaigns. The nuclei The party must learn that be trained in the assignment of work to of the work assigned. ‘ G. In connection with, this campaign, dues by all party members, whole strength of the party monthly dues, H. The organizatfon department and with representatives of of these campaigns, 4. The Language Difficulty. mombers and their consequent difficulty in a # adership .of ipating in the work of the new party units, charge nized, | concentrating larger nom ot members fa Hot, | language group in a street at Forum Here Sunday | member with regular reports on the carrying out must be a campaign for systematic payment of 80 as to register the prop department shall work out concrete in- structions for the carrying out of the above recrult new members shall be so developed, as to make the Lenin memorial meetings the climax IAREFUL study must be made of the question of lack of understanding of English by thé party ganization readjustments made to meet this prob- jem. One step to solve cir ot can be made by ‘leus and having regu. New Leader and the Amalgamated Left Wing Ten Important Faia The New Leader Ignored in Its Slanderous Attack Upon the Left Wing in the Trade Unions By BEN GITLOW HE New Leader of November 13 contains an editorial on the meet- \ing held by the Amalgamated Section of the Trade Union Educational |League on Saturday November 6 at |the Central Opera House, New York | City. | Ignoring entirely the issues raised |at the meeting, the editorial concludes jas follows: ‘ “At any rate we are unable to tell where the spy ends and the Commun- ist begins and there is reason for be- lieving that in some cases, both are jemployed by the same paymaster.” The editorial also charges that the | meeting was a mask for the Commun- ist Party. | One. The meeting was called by | the Amalgamated Section of the Trade | Union Educational League, not by the | Communist Party. | Two. The meeting was” called in order to explain how the reactionary |machine in the Amalgamated was helping the Cloakmakers who were out on strike for 19 weeks, Three. The direct cause for the calling of the meeting was the fact that a number of workers were de- | prived of their jobs upon the order of Beckerman, manager of the New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated, be- cause they dared to take up in their shops collections for the striking |cloakmakers. Some of those. dis- charged for this reason were Sam Lip- \zen, A. Nelson, Philip Aronberg. Facts of Meeting. A heaps’ following fatts were brought out at the meeting: —That Beckerman, the manager of the New York Joint Board, during the Cloakmakers’ strike, with the ap- |proval of Hillman, closed a most |shameful agreement with the New | York clothing manufacturers. In the |agreement not a single demand was |won by. the union. At a time when other needle trades unions had won lor were fighting for the 40-hour week, ‘and other demands, the Amalgamated ‘accepted a 44-hour week, and gave further concessions to the manufac, turers, The announcement of th Amalgamated agreement brought for a statement by Mr. Figder, represep ing the cloak bosses, who were mo | bitterly fighting the union, . praising |the agreement and the leaders of the Amalgamated. This agreement ac- \cepted during the early stages of the cloakmakers’ strike, and after the fur- riers had won a notable victory and the 40 hours, was a blow at the cloak- makers and a great aid to the cloak bosses. A. ©. W. Delays. perrha in spite of the fact that Sidney Hillman as president of the Amalgamated at the meeting call- éd at Madison Square Garden to vote in favor of the strike, pledged the whole hearted support of the Amalga- mated to the impending struggle, the ; Amalgamated failed until very late lin the struggle to assist the cloak- | makers, and then in driblets, the total sums amounting to only $27,500, an insignificant amount for an organiza- tion like the Amalgamated. That the Amalgamated is the one union in the needle trades that is in a very good position to financially assist the cloak- makers, —That Abraham Beckerman, the New York Joint Board manager, without the interference of Hillman and the general Executive board dur- ing the course of the strike worked closely with the opposition forces in the cloakmakers and carried on a vicious campaign against the strike and its left wing leaders, —That the decision to tax the mem- bers of the New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated for cloakmakers relief was made after Beckerman had given strict orders that ‘there must be no collections taken for the striking cloakmakers in @he shops, after a | number of workers were discharged for doing so upon the orders of Beck- must every language group be formed. there dertaken. The strengthening and more regular functioning of the language fractions will also help to solve this problem. Hach language bureau must undertake a campaign to place the language fractions on a more agit- Seopa lens ag abies ny ah sa hr a ieee D. Closer contact must be ‘established be phases of the party mobilization campaign, The efficient basis, with regular ees Bs psergheti % party mobilization shall! tween the subsection, section and city commit. campaign to draw back the old members and® | sions. resentatives designated by the partic: and or-|which the fraction is located. 5. tions Sympathetic to of one in the pa * \erman, and. deprived of a livelihood ;of this Tammany governor, who trie¢ and a few days. after the Amalgamaz- | (o force arbitration, whose commission tion Section of the Trade Union Edu- | granted a decision in favor of the cational League had announced pub- | bosses, and whose judges granted a Ucly that it would hold the Central }most severe injunction, Beckerman Opera Honse meeting. jand Hillman remained absolutely Scab Work Done, silent and did not criticise Orlofsky '—-That in. Ama)gamated shops in | for his treacherous endorsement. Newark, with. the knowledge of New Leader Ignores Them, the business een: scab work has HESE facts and many more raised beitig done. , at th e meeting, the New Leader —That the ..Beckerman Hillman | ignores and instead it raises a buga- right wing administration of the |boo about spies and agents of the” Amalgamated was working hand in |)hosses, If anything is proven by these glove with the reactionary right wing | facts, it is that the whole right, wing forces lead by Sigman in the Interna-} machine in the needle. tradeg together tional to sabotage the strike and | with the Jewish Daily orward and its create difficulties for the left wing | envious understudy, The New Leader, leaderships. are the agents of the bosses. That /—That when, the amalgamation | their role is one of treachery to the issue was raised during the strike | workers, One of sabotage against the by the General Strike Committee of | workers’ militant struggles for better the cloakmakers, Hillman who has al- | conditions. ways been taking credit for being in| The meeting held in Central Opera |favor of amalgamation remained as | House was of great significance to the | silent as a clam, | workers in the needle trades. Upon ‘That when delegates representing | the. platform were gathered the mil- the New York Joint Board of the | itant leaders of all the needle trades Amalgamated appeared at the confer- | unions. It was a demonstration of the ence of New York unions called to or-; need of greater unificatiow of the mil- ganize relief, they stated that they came as observers and had no power to commit their organization. Opposed Picket Demonstration. Gott when a degision was made by the conference to march to City Hall to protest before Mayor arrests, declared that the Amalgamated was not officially a part of the conference, cipate in the march and therefore would not take part in the demonstra- Walker against the unjustifiable mass | the breaking up of picket | lines and police brutality, Beckerman | that it had made no decision to parti-| itant forces in the industry to meet the difficulties that have now become very clear to all workers in the needle trades, as a result of the furriers and cloakmakers’ strike, The resolution of the meeting sounded a new note for the needle trades in addition to pro- testing against the sabotage of the cloakmakers’ strike by the Amalga- mated officials and pledging full sup- port to the cloakmakers’ strike. | TT raised the issue of amalgamation and the defeat of the right wing dor its compromising treacherous policy and for the, militant fighting tion, al —That when Philip Orlofsky, manager. of the Cutters’ Local! |No. 4 endorsed Smith for governor. | ‘after the cloakmakers were bitterly | fighting the strikebreaking atrocities | The Program of Work for the Party Continued from Page 1.) Loeb. ‘The. statements of the polfti-} cal. Conimittee on the situation in the | Communist Party of the Soviet Un-! ion were upnanimously approve were the resolutions on the questions mentioned above. The resolution on Th policy of the left wing. The New Leader had better rave. It can offer no constructive proposals against the program of the left wing. It can, like in its editorial, deal only in lies, insinuations and calumny, its influence by building up the elr- culation ‘of the paper. Inner Party Unity. The resolution of the Central Com- | mittee establishes the fact that great @8| progress had been made in uniting her | the membership and leadership of the party. While here and there rem- on AILY | nants of factionalism remained it was WORKER calls for enéfgetic support | agreed that there was less factional- rs the Keep The DAILY WORKER jism in the party work than at any Campaign and a campaign to extend | time in its history. Seek Appropriation for Paying Claims of Americans on Germany |Klan Cleims Right to Operate Despite Contrary State Laws te WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—A definite WASHINGTON, Noy. 16.~—-The right plan for the payment of $200,000,000 | of the ku klux klan of Georgia to oper- of claims of American citizens against | ate in all states of the Union regard- Germany and the return of German | jess of state laws was claimed before property seized by the United States | |.the supreme court today by attorneys lar translations made. This shall not, however, “be permitted to interfere with the development of the shop nuclei nor shall street nuclei composed of one The establishment of English classes for those members who do not, un- derstand or speak English shall be systématically un At these language fraction meetings rep- tees should also give reports and instructions on the party campaigns in the language of the fraction or thru translated speeches, Such discussions of party. questioms in the language sections shall, however, only take place under the leadership of a representa- tive of the leading committee of the territory in Workers’ National Language Federa- HE system of national language federations with- not be rebuilt, The party must during the.war was presented to the | Under Secretary of the Treasury Win- ston. An appropriation by congress of $100,000,000, the value of German ships and radio stations seized by the United States, was the first step pro- posed. Police See Shooting of Former Ball Star WEST PALM BEACH, Noy, 12. — John B. “Sook” Robinson, former ball player .with. the Rochester Interna- tionals and Birmingham in the South- ern League, now a deputy sheriff, was; shot and probably fatally injured here | early today, by J. V. Landes, night | clerk at: the Pennsylvania Hotel, as two policemen Jooked on. Use your brains and your pen to ald the workers ies sie class struggle. The Immediate Program for the Work of the Party be one centrali street nuclei as party in which clubs. in, relation to w! give instruction guage groups to meetings and discus- leading party commit- its program, the exploited it necessary to tion shall also the Party. house ways and means committee by | | the national language federations sympathetic to the necessary step in the case of those language groups in which no mass organizations of workers exist, ‘|The party is supporting the organization of such a federation consisting of the . Finnish workers’ The political committee must study the question whether there are. othe a national federation sympathetic to the party and 6. Party Dues. tha order to draw into the party a larger number of agricultural sections to 25 cents a month, This reduc- apply in cases where husband and wife are both members of the party and the wite 4s not employed and earning an independent livelihood, In such cases the husband shall pay the regular fifty cents dues and Lie iF |for the secret order. Appealing from an ouster order of |the Kansas supreme court, the*klan |counsel invoked the constitutional | privilege of free speech and free press to sustain the claim. The Kansas court held that the klan Had not complied with the state char- ter act for foreign corporations, Fruit Growers Talk About Farm Relief LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16~—The an- nual convention of the California Fruit Growers’ and Farmers’ Association | opened this week in Fullerton. .The most vital problem facing them was |taised in an opening speech by @ rep- resentative of the state department of agriculture on the problem of relief. for |the difficult economic problem facing the farmer. 4 SEND IN A SUB TODAY, zed organization with the shop and its basic units. The organization of the party fractions work may be a language groups hich a similar step is necessary and 4 to the party fraction of such lan- take the initiative in organizing such farmers the Central Committee finds reduce the dues of the party in the the wife, 25 cents monthly, 3 A