The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1926, Page 2

’ a“ ~ Page Two MINERS REJECT COMPROMISE IN UNION VOTING BRITISH MINERS “STICK IT OUT” DESPITE UNTOLD HARDSHIPS THEY AND FAMILIES SUFFER IN STRIKE By GORDON CASCADEN (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Noy, 18.—Untold suffering prevails in the mining districts Scotland and So. Wales of England, Scotland and Wales, according to a well-known newspaper man Decide to Stick (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Nov, 18.—Indications on Thursday were that the rejected the terms of the government in the union ballot taken in the mine fields, Reports from the big districts in Scotland and South Wales were that the men had voted down the com- promise proposals recommended by the delegate conference of the British Miners’ Federation that met in Lon- don last week, Final Result Friday, The final results of the referendum will not be known until Friday, The terms of, the government that were miners had voted on were district settlements in- jyolving longer hours, these to run three years, and a national tribunal to be set up to consider appeals from the owners and the union, An ar- Tangement as to distribution of profits vould guarantee the owners from 13 to 15 per cent Cook Opposes. A. J, Cook, the miners’ secretary, took a sharp stand against recom- mending these terms to the miners when the matter was voted on at the delegate conference and the recom- mendation carried by narrow margin. if the results of the vote aré as the |parly returns indicate, for the second jtime the miners from the pits will thave turned down compromise recom- ‘mendations made by the delegate {bedy, which corresponds to a special national convention. ‘Holmes Speaks Susie at West Side Forum The West Town Forum will give the first leettre of the season at the Mid- City Oddfellow Temple 3350 West Jaekson Blvd. on Sunday evening, November 21st. Dr, John Haynes Holmes, minister of the Community Church in New York will speak on the subject of “Race Prejudice, [ts Cause and Cure,” At the conclusion of the leeture, there will be open discussion from the floor. WCEL Radio Program | Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs, It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier. TONIGHT. 6:00 p. m.—Chicago Federation of La- bor Hour. 6:30—The Brevoort Concert Trio: Velia Cook, Gerald Croissaint, Little Joe Warner, Mildred Colucio, Will Rossiter. 9:00—Alamo Cafe Dance Orchestra. 11:30—Alamo Entertainers, who has just returned from the British Isles, where he was employed by one jof the largest American newspaper syndicates. | “The half has not been told,” he declared. “Despite the low standard | of living prevailing before the strike these miners were determined to see it | thru. It was not the wish of the men alone, They received splendid back- ling from their wives and families who+— a ne aw that organized capital was mak-| ime miners, who for 40 and 50 years jing a class war on the working class. |iave stood the brunt of many fights Papers Suppress Truth, with the coal barons, say that the | “We could not-send the whole trpth | present situation is worse than ever |to our papers, for they would not tell | before, These toil-worn workers, bent the whole story of this valiant strug-| with rheumatism, fractured legs or gle against organized greed by hun-jarms, and other scars of the miners’ dreds of thousands of members of the | struggle for a living, curse the mine | British working class, owners as they watch their loved ones “But British newspaper men who |suffer from want of food and clothing |represent Glasgow, Cardiff and other |in England’s penetrating climate. |*provineial’ dailies paint dark pictures No School for Children, | of conditions in those sections. “Tens of thousands of little chil- | “Poor law guardians, officials | dren actually are absent from schools charged with relief of the poor, have |because they have not got shoes to been urged to refuse aid to strikers.| wear. Expectant mothers are without proper bedclothes, while warm un- | But this effort togcoerce has failed. In reality it proved a@ boomerang, for | derclothing is lacking for both moth- ers and their bairns. In many cases | it gave courage to miners on the verge of faltering, In many districts these | these families have pawned their all for food, poor law guardians actually refuse re- lief to wiveg and children of strikers, “The brutality of the mine owners except where they-are sick abed. is apparent to all, for they ‘have had their henchmen stop miners and their Intense Suffering. “From every mining district comes | families from picking coal to combat the cold, wet weather.” the same story—intense suffering, Old- Soviet Wonder Film a spy and endeavor to dig up the hidden booty. Factories Rebullt. “In the meantime, the Russian workers have rebuilt the factory. Katje, now five years older, stands at her father’s loom and does the work he used to do. The perfect re- semblance between the child that first plays the part and the charming Russian girl star is the art of effect many American directors have tried unsuccessfully to achieve. In the village school military maps are also studied but the arrows point the op- posite way, toward the driving out of the White Guardists who would rob the workers of their victory, and “Breaking Chains” (Continued from page 1) ricades, and ig taken by her grand- mother to the little village that had formerly been her home. Side by side with them in the hard boarded train rides another fugitive, a young | counter-revolutionist, the man who had shot down Katje’s father. He is the ‘villian of the play,’ but even in his delineation there is a fine re- straint As he enters his father’s mansion he finds @ committee of | workers demanding the keys to the }factory. Tbe servants have already [told their former master that hence- forth he must cook his own dinner. | | The old parasite wants to end it all | | right there but the son has hopes for for-all fight. “The intensity and high spirit of the free workers is shown in their efforts to electrify the whole loca) industry, an effort about to be crowned with suecess just as the spy returns to the village. His early | successes, even to the extent of win- return for| ning Katje away from her young en as a gay) gineer sweetheart, keep suspense at courtesan proves when she shows/a high pitch. Time after time the the ‘Cross of St. Anthony’ on her| villain almost gets the jewels dug up, garters, and thereby brings to earth| but every time there is an interrup- the newly. decorated financier. Asj tion, often to the grave peril of the | their cash dwindles so do their| unsuspecting interrupter. Finally | boastings over military maps, and! one slip arouses suspicion, and a finally nothing remains but for the| second almost convicts, so in despera- tion to get the swag he blazes a young ‘White’ to re-enter Russia as! trail of assault and murder that ends |‘for three months until the czar will be restored.’ White Officer Returns as Spy. “One sees their high jinks in for- eign capitals as the ‘three months’ drag out into three years, and then five years. Impoverished grand dukes bestow decorations in cash and other favors, —— and all the children have entered tho come in prose and in verse and from all parts of the country. Some of the Slogans Submitted “Something of ‘Vital Interest Every Week''—H. Patmer, Saskatoon, Ca “Weekly Revolutionary Inspiration’ — N. Reichenthal, Los Angeles. “The Workers’ Compass"-—Fellx Uottal. “tt Hurts Only Boss “The Workers’ Life In Black and White’'—Leo Wal wich, Minneapolis, Minn, \ Magazine for Education of Clags- Conscious Workers''—Salvador Ribeiro, Mexico City. A Weekly Protest Against the Dally Struggle’, Strand, Boston, Mass. “fhead, Think And Fight Por the Ideas of the Sunday Worker''-—J, Marous. “The Announcer of the Workers’ Eman- elpation’'—H, T. Ahrens, Spokane, SLOGAN CONTEST CLOSES DECEMBER 1 ONLY TEN DAYS REMAIN Chicago, Ill, in his own death as‘ he runs away. “This would mark the end of an American film, but not so here. Katje | feels deeply her own part in unwit- | tingly contributing to the progress of the spy as she avoids her young | lover and tries to forget in doubly hard work. Then a cloud settles ap- on the whole community as it anx- fously follows the reports on the ill- ness of the beloved leader, Vladimir Ilyitch (Lenin). Even the children show the deep psychic response, and, as in other Russian films, the child actors contribute heavily to the ar- tistic success. The heights of pa- thos are reached when a five-year-old gravely asks that her most cherished possession, a doll, be also given to Lenin as her gift of love. Ride Thru Storm for News of Lenin. “Finally, as the villages are mak- ing ready, despite a raging blizzard, for the anniversary celebration of the 1905 Revolution, a fragmentary phone message indicates that Lenin may have died. Then the wires are down, and the suspense, which communit- cates itself clearly to the audience as it watches the film, will allow no other solution than that someone TODAY! must ride to the city for definite See avaesstive| me A thrilling ride thru the blitz and character of The|#8Td, one horse after another ig rid- or urging interest in it.;den down. The news is found to be Thousands of slogans for The Sunday Worker have been received. In| Many instances the whole family has joined to give the coming Sun- day Worker a_ good battle-cry, In some in- stances father, mother contest. Slogans have SEND YOUR SLOGAN |Seven Prizes Totalling One Hundred| ‘Tue, and is finally relayed to the {crowd that has waited in silence for (six hours. It darkens all with’ a {mantle of poignant grief. But soon {comes the answer, masses to fill up the vacant place of Lenin with thousands of the best ele ments of the proletariat. Dollars Will Be Offered $25 worth of books; jd $5 worth of books each to the next five best slogans, All Slogans Must Be in the Office of | ‘The DAILY WORKER No Later Than Tuesday, November 30, Heroine Joins Party. “Katje hesitates. Should she ask for this treasured membership after she had unwittingly helped the spy’ | But the meeting decides for her, ; She shall be admitted, and her tre mendous joy capped by her recon: ciation with the over-ready engin- eer brings @ lump and a cheer to the "| throats of those who watch. _| “There is nothing trivial. or trite {n the whole film, Not adull moment, THE SUNDAY WORKER, | 1118 W. Washington Bivd., My slogan for The Sunday Worker: The Left Wing Militant’ oa, Denver. | “The Seventh Bourgeoisie” elaco. Day Bogeyman of the Walter Lane, San Fran- or Roading Matter Full of Meat, The Sunday Worker Can't Be Beat" ‘John Owens, Ripley, Cal, Ellis Chrys: | not ® hackneyed sentiment, As tt unfolds it shows us the effect of the revolution on the inside of the Rus- jan people, it reveals their strength }and courage, thelr never failing hu |mor, and their unquenchable will to “\treedom. The pleture took Russia by storm.” Name «. Street ‘ rem rene suits a an argument between two ten-year- | thelr jews 3, bury the om “jold strategists winds up in a free |kitchen floor, and flee the country |, ‘ ? THE DAILY WORKER SAGCO-VANZETTI CONFERENCE IN INTENSIVE DRIVE Big Mass Meeting to Lead. Off Protest Some seventy-five earnest delegates from Chicago unions and other work- | ers’ bodies attended the Sacco-Van-)| sett! conference Monday night at | |Redifer Hall. Brother J. J. Wuert-| |fel of the South Chicago Trades and | | Labor Assembly presided. The execu- | | tive committee report, given by the | | secretary, Brother A. Wechsler, cov- | | ered all preparations to date for the | great protest meeting to be held at | Ashland Auditorium on November 26. | A special report was made on the | status of the case’and a plan made for all possible energies of the dele- gates, and all Chiedgo workers, to be turned toard building a great public protest and demand for a new and fair trial for Saeco and Vanzetti, in Chicago. Warn of Commutation. A warning was sounded against the danger of a mere commutation to life imprisonment (such as happened to} Mooney and Billings); and an appeal} made for all labor to be awake to the need for a powerful mass pro- test, not only to save Sacco and Van- zetti, but also to defend the inter- ests of labor. The secretary announced that 20,- 000 admission tickets had been print-| ed and thousands of posters, which can be obtained at the Machinists’ Building, 113 South Ashland Bilvd., and at other offices of labor bodies and papers, The conference deemed it advisable to charge a small ad- mission of ten cents, Prominent Chicagoans are being invited to “add their voices” at the mass meeting, otherwise to send messages, accord- ing to the conference decision. These | include Jane Addams, Dr, J. A. Lapp, | Clarence Darrow, Prof, P. Douglas, Victor Orlander, Wm. Cunnea, Wm. Z. Foster, Fred Moore, Judges Barasa and Allegretti, Samuel Levine and A, Marimpietri, Mrs, G. BE. Plumb, Ag- nes Nester, ete. Notable Speakers. The principal speakers so far ar- ranged for are: Vincenzo Vacirca, not- ed Italian speaker of New York—a/ labor senator exiled by Mussolini; | John Fitzpatrick, president Chicago} Federation of Labor; Rev, Clayton) Morrison, editor of the widely circu- lated “Christian Century,” Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, famous labor orator and national chairman of the Inter- national Labor . Defnse, and Anton Johannsen, popular labor organizer, chairman, The conference has called upon all labor bodies and all workers to sup- port this meeting and to overflow the Ashland Auditorium in a great de- mand for the life and freedom of| Sacco and Vanzetti. | Display Portrait of Yellowley So Social Lions Will Know Him DANVILLE, UL, Nov. 11.—A large | portrait of E. C. Yellowley, prohibi- | tion enforcement officer for Illinois and vicinity, found hanging on the) walls of the Villa Grove Social Club | when dry agents from the Springfield | office raided the place, will be shipped | to Mr. ¥ellowly at Chicago with the | |raiders’ compliments. i} Yellowley’s portrait was hung there | for the benefit of club members who | did not know the gentleman, Under- neath the picture was the caption, “Look Out For This Man.’ Club officials overlopked the fact that Yellowley usually left his sleuth- ing to his subordinates, Drug-Crazed Worker Runs Amuck, Killed Crazed by drugs, according to po- lice, Frank Swansoon, 60, a laborer, wag shot and killed today after he had run amuck, struck down one fellow- roomer with a club and attacked an- other in hig room. Abraham Squance; the second man attacked, killed Swangon with a single bullet from a revolver, 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 Section 1 of the Workers (Com- munist) Party is in charge of the festivities. DON'T MISS THE FUN or the opportunity to de The Daily Worker a good jturn while en- Joying it! Cleveland Writer Sees Queen Marie Here Like “Alice in Wonderland” By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ILLIAM E. McDERMOTT, feat- ure writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, takes the prize for literary pap fed to the readers of this exploiters’ publication con- cerning the visit to that city of Queen Marie of Roumania. This no doubt results from the fact that the two great neighboring industrial centers, Cleveland and Detroit, are astir more than ever with protest against Marie’s com- ing. The prostitute press is ever at its job of trying to smoothe out the rough spots for its owners and their retinue of parasites. rea ee Peter Witt, member of the Cleve- land city council, for instance, is no Bolshevik. He leads the protest against difficulties, Socialist members of the Cleve- land city council were ousted during the war, Eugene V. Debs got his ten-year sentence to prison from a Cleveland judge. C, E, Ruthenberg, Alfred Wagenknecht and Charles Baker got jail sentences in Cleve land during the war. The statue that stands in the public square de- dicated to Tom Johnson and- “free speech” is a relic of the past, a curiosity for sightseers, Short shrift was therefore made of the effort of Councilman Witt to read to his fellow council members a statement prepared, not by Rus- sians, but a committee of Cleveland Hungarians against the belly-crawl- ing subservience of American offi- cialdom to the visiting Roumanian monarch. It was the Hessian army of Queen Marie that was sent into Hungary to help destroy the Hungarian Soviet Republic and erect the tyranny of the dictator, Horthy, with the bless- ing of the Paris peace conference, and Herbert Hoover, American food administrator in Europe, The Hun- garians like other national minori- ties, restless under the Roumanian lash, protest and suffer the usual punishment, death or imprisonment. Cleveland’s city mayor, city man- eger and the council's clerk de- cided that the document proposed by Witt contained sections that would offend the delicately attuned ears of Cleveland’s do-nothings and their guest, “Romany Marie.” Refer ence to the beating of stripped women was held to be especially in- delicate, Mind you, there was no denying that Queen Marie’s jailers and soldiers had stripped and beaten helpless women, one of the mildest tortures applied to the victims of the Roumanian terror, but it was not the “nice thing” to mention it, It might upset the nerves of the Euclid avenue idlers, who point with pride to the palace of John R. Rocke- feller in their midst. So the Sergeant-atarms was even called in to put the gag on Witt. If Marie had come to town next Monday as planned, she would probably have given the local agents of big busi- ness some lessons on how to deal with obstreperous parliamentarians like Peter Witt. eae The Cleveland Plain Dealer's scribbler, McDermott, however, of- fers the correct thing, in policy and manners, This “Brass Check” press eunuch writes the following: “. ++I am grieved to hear the Roumanian government accused of Sacco and Vanzetti Must Not Die! They must have a NEW and FAIR trial, Life and Freedom, If enough people DEMAND that they live, they WILL LIVE. Their lives and freedom, in a sense, means OUR lives and freedom. Therefore come to the Protest Mass Meeting Ashland Auditorium, Van Buren and Ashland’ Friday, November 26, 1926, 8:15 p. m. An aroused labor movement and public must DEMAND A STATE IN- VESTIGATION, MUST MAKE A GIGANTIC PROTEST. Nationally known speakers will expose the frame-up and the “Ghastly Miscarriage of Justice,” John Fitzpatrick Pres. Chicago Federation of Labor Rev. Clayton Morrison Fadltor “Christian Century” Anton Johannsén, chairman “ Well-known labor organizer How great a percon' make this MAND hope and Tiokats (ndmiraion is 10c) from Ma Bivd. (Tel. Uhimenn, Monroe 4236) from The Dally Wor for your them to be sent to you, Come in Tens of Thousands. r, 1113 W, Washington nization or you to send in for ticket: dealing cruelly with the Hungarian people, : “But I cannot be made to believe that the beautiful Marie has had the slightest thing to do with the beat- ing of helpless women. Even Mr. Witt admits she is a charming woman, and charming women are not usually bloodthirsty, “Why should Marie We made to answer for either the good or the ills of her state, or for the conduct, noble or ignoble, of her individual subjects? “She is not a policy or govern- ment, but a woman, a queen and a guest. We ought to try to be nice to her. “By the way, speaking of this amiable rough house as to who shall be invited to the queen’s party, has anybody thought to ask the queen whom she'd like to have? After all, it’s her party, isn’t?” eos Only the finished product of a capitalist newspaper editorial broth- el could turn out such an “Alice in Wonderland” Yet it is the pap that daily news- paper readers are supposed to feed on, not only on the occasion of Queen Marie's visit, but every day thruout the year. It is true that General Averescu or the Bratiano brothers in turn be- come the power in Roumania’s ter- Tor government. But the queen can escape no blame for the crime com- mitted in her name and in the name of Ferdinand, the doddering king. The active part that ‘the Bloody Marie plays in determining the pol- icies of her government is revealed by the fact that she is now in this country developing those contacts that will result in huge loans being advanced to bulwark her crumbling throne. see To be sure, nit-wits of the kept press, who quickly pass away if they gave birth to an idea of their own, believe that Marie is here on @ friendly visit having “parties” in all the principal cities, wading around in the rain and snow, just for the fun of it. The price that Marie has put on her visit is @ $100,000,000 loan. She has no doubt already received pledges for that amount. Not for pin money. Not for cigarettes. Not cosmetics. Not to decorate herself as queen. But to maintain the tyranny she heads over the peoples of many tongues thrown together under Roumanian rule by the Versailles peace pact. That is why she hasn’t had much time to worry about the king's royal bellyache at home. She has not been in a position until now to rush back to the royal palace at Bucharest to see that Ferdinand does not overeat. It is only now that she is able to cut short her tour at Louisville and rush to New York preparatory to sailing home with her Christmas gift from Ameri- ean finance securely pocketted. Marie has attended to the growing ailments of her royal government, that needs continuous applications of precious gold in order to keep it alive. That gold will be supplied by Wall Street's international bankers because world finance must plug up the leaks in its sinking imperialist ship of state. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn National Secretary, International Labor Defense Vincenzo Vacirca Noted Italian. speaker of New York: an extled Inbor senator, Other Noted Speakers. wy shy the very large Nov, 26, for iniete’ District Offi from many un Wd. If ae 113 S$, Ashland dquartors and ely impossible and posters, phone for Come Early. Bring Others. attitdde toward life... 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